Cognitive performance after carotid angioplasty and stenting with brain protection devices.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a substantial threat to the health of healthcare personnel on the front line of caring for COVID-19 patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services previously announced that all non-essential planned surgeries and procedures should be postpon...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Reed LK,Wen J,Liang B,Wang X,Feng D,Huang JH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The feasibility of high resolution CT imaging for evaluating experimentally-induced brain tumors in rats was assessed. METHODS:The gliosarcoma cell line (9 L/lacZ) was inoculated in 34 male Fischer 344 rats and CT studies were performed prior to and at 4, 7, 9, 12 and 14 days post-tumor cell implantation. Br...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Psarros TG,Mickey B,Giller C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer software program (Seapit) was developed for precise determination of intracranial targets identified by stereotactic computed tomography (CT). This program was added to the software of a GE 8800 CT scanner to perform the following operations: millimetre precise calculation and display of the rectilinear coo...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Lunsford LD,Listerud JA,Rowberg AH,Latchaw RE

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine whether cerebral inflammation in ischemic rats was reduced by a neuroprotective action of pre-ischemic tumor necrosis factor-alpha up-regulation, which down-regulated matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity via extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 phosphorylation. MATERIAL AND METHODS...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Curry A,Guo M,Patel R,Liebelt B,Sprague S,Lai Q,Zwagerman N,Cao FX,Jimenez D,Ding Y

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE: To explore the neural substrates of implicit self-esteem in university students. METHODS: The subjects comprised four females and six males (aged 20-25 years). They were asked to finish the implicit association test (IAT) for implicit self-esteem while brain electrical activity was recorded at 64 scalp site...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Yang J,Zhang Q

更新日期：2009-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) peptide has been demonstrated to exert neuroprotective effects in stroke and some neurodegeneration diseases. In current study, we investigated the protective effects and underlying mechanisms of CART in APP/PS1 mice. METHODS:The protein levels of CART,...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Yin K,Jin J,Zhu X,Yu L,Wang S,Qian L,Han L,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Leptin may be associated with cardiovascular disease. We tested to determine whether leptin is a marker for first-ever acute ischemic stroke (AIS) in a nested case-referent study. METHODS:Consecutive patients with first-ever AIS from May 2017 to December 2017 were included. Referents were matched for sex, ag...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Liu G,Dong M,Ma S,Fu L,Xiao Y,Zhong L,Geng J

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that high plasma levels of tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) and its inhibitor (plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, PAI-1) are markers of an increased risk of atherothrombotic ischemic events such as stroke and myocardial infarction. In this prospective study, we measured tPA antigen, PAI-1...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Zunker P,Schick A,Padró T,Kienast J,Phillips A,Ringelstein EB

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different surgical approaches exist for the treatment of chronic subdural hematoma. None of these approaches is superior to the other, so a minimal-invasive device (a hollow screw) was developed. The system consists of a stable hollow screw of surgical steel with a perforated tip, a hand-drill, screwdriver with guide,...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Emonds N,Hassler WE

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precocious puberty and amenorrhea have been associated with hydrocephalus, but the pathogenesis has not been determined. Approximately 22 cases of amenorrhea, and a few cases of precocious puberty, have been reported in hydrocephalic patients. Shunt treatment leads to initiation and maintenance of normal reproductive ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Abdolvahabi RM,Mitchell JA,Diaz FG,McAllister JP 2nd

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Occipital petalia is an anatomic description where one of the occipital lobes protrudes towards the contralateral side. Transverse sinus (TS) asymmetry might cause diagnostic challenges with regards to thrombotic or compressive pathologies involving these sinuses. In this study, we investigated the associati...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Arsava EY,Arsava EM,Oguz KK,Topcuoglu MA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Disturbances in the hypothalamo-pituitary axis are supposed to modulate activity of multiple sclerosis (MS). We hypothesised that the extent of HYP damage may determine severity of MS and may be associated with the disease evolution. We suggested fatigue and depression may depend on the degree of damage of t...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Kantorová E,Poláček H,Bittšanský M,Baranovičová E,Hnilicová P,Čierny D,Sivák Š,Nosáľ V,Zeleňák K,Kurča E

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of etomidate, ketamine, phenytoin, and phenytoin/midazolam in a mouse model of acute cocaine toxicity. METHODS:We performed a randomized controlled study consisting of five groups (n = 25 each) of rats that received intraperitoneal injections of normal saline solution, 5 mg/kg ketamin...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Erdur B,Degirmenci E,Kortunay S,Yuksel A,Seyit M,Ergin A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of the expression of the chemokine receptor CCR7 was performed in 11 relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) patients during 12 months of interferon-beta (IFNbeta) treatment. The results show increased expression of CCR7 on peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of MS patients receiving IFNbeta tre...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Vallittu AM,Saraste M,Airas L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the migration of neural stem cells as well as neural plastic changes in epileptic brain, spaciotemporal expression of immunoreactive highly polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule (PSA-NCAM) was examined in amygdala kindling development of rat. The neural migration and synaptic remodeling detected ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Sato K,Iwai M,Nagano I,Shoji M,Abe K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatosensory-evoked potentials induced by electrical stimulation of the median nerve were recorded in patients with intracerebral lesions and in normal controls and were studied by means of spectral analysis. The results shown that (1) there is a statistically-significant difference between spectral distributions obt...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Kusske JA,Romiti JA,Porter RW,Verzeano M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelial lining of blood vessels plays an important role in the control of arterial tone by releasing a number of vasoactive factors. Among these, nitric oxide (NO) or a NO containing moiety, some cyclooxygenase products such as prostacyclin (PGl2) and a still hypothetical hyperpolarizing factor may induce dila...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Mackert JL,Parsons AA,Wahl M,Schilling L

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe head injuries tend to be associated with hypermetabolism and hypercatabolism resulting in negative nitrogen balances which may exceed 30 grams day-1. Enteral feeding should begin as soon as the patient is hemodynamically stable, attempting to reach a non-protein caloric intake of at least 30-35 kcal kg-1 day-1 ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Wilson RF,Dente C,Tyburski JG

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemorrhagic transformation (HT) is a common complication of ischemic stroke. We performed this study to determine whether aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ratio (AAR) was related to HT, as well as compare the predictive values of AAR, ALT and AST for HT in patients with isch...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Wang Y,Qiu K,Song Q,Cheng Y,Liu J,Liu M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective Preoperative magnetic resonance (MR) angiography sometimes shows the absence of collateral flow via the circle of Willis. This study examined whether brain temperature (BT) imaging on multi-voxel proton MR spectroscopy after this finding increases the accuracy of predicting hemispheric ischemia during intern...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Tsutsui S,Nanba T,Yoshioka Y,Sasaki M,Fujiwara S,Kobayashi M,Yoshida K,Miyoshi K,Sato S,Ogasawara K

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To assess the neuropsychological status of pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and its relationship with clinical variables in a longitudinal study.Methods: Patients with MS (n = 46) and age- and gender-matched healthy control subjects (HCs, n = 53) were given tests of non-verbal reasoning, attention...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Öztürk Z,Gücüyener K,Soysal Ş,Konuşkan GD,Konuşkan B,Dikmen AU,Anlar B

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether or not NF-kappaB, a factor that regulates expression of the genes that code for pro-inflammatory cytokines, is activated in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cells to investigate the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines by CSF cells in patients with meningitis. Western blotting demonstrated that NF-kap...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Ichiyama T,Isumi H,Yoshitomi T,Nishikawa M,Matsubara T,Furukawa S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Transcranial Doppler (TCD) measures blood flow velocities (BFV) and is an indirect method of assessing cerebral blood flow (CBF). Positron emission tomography (PET) is a direct method to measure CBF. This study evaluates the correlations between TCD and PET findings Methods: Nine patients with a symptomatic c...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Rijbroek A,Boellaard R,Vriens EM,Lammertsma AA,Rauwerda JA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Vascular endothelial growth factor is a potent stimulator of angiogenesis; activation of hypoxia inducible factor-1alpha and p44/42 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways has been associated with vascular endothelial growth factor production. The present study examined if thrombin modulates vascular endoth...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Xu Y,Gu Y,Keep RF,Heth J,Muraszko KM,Xi G,Hua Y

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein is involved in apoptotic death of cultured neuronal cells, but its role in ischemic brain damage remains uncertain. In this study, we investigated change of immunoreactivity for PML protein in rat brain after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion, and compared the results with...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Hayashi T,Sasaki C,Iwai M,Sato K,Zhang WR,Warita H,Abe K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using magnetic resonance imaging, we reviewed 141 infratentorial infarcts in 81 consecutive cases: 65 infarcts were seen in the paramedian pons, while 18 in the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) territory and 17 in the watershed area between PICA and superior cerebellar artery. No comparable sign or symptom ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Yin WM,Nagata K,Satoh Y,Yokoyama E,Watahiki Y,Yuya H,Hirata Y,Ogawa T,Inugami A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of optical spectroscopy for intra-operatively delineating brain tumors has been studied in this paper. The classification of tissue as normal, tumor and boundary is done using the LAMSTAR neural network (NN). The objective is to combine both fluorescence and reflectance as attributes to be used for the...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Sivaramakrishnan A,Graupe D

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) was invented more than 20 years ago, but only gained acceptance recently, thanks to advancements in the computer technology. It can demonstrate areas of arterial stenosis or occlusion with accuracy nearly that of digital subtraction angiography (DSA). It is also able to ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Zubkov AY,Uschmann H,Rabinstein AA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The formula 1/2abc was suitable for the estimation of the epidural, acute subdural, most intracerebral and even some chronic subdural hematoma volume, but its accuracy was prone to be affected by some particular shapes of hematomas. In this study, we aimed to validate a more accurate method for the estimation...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Zhao KJ,Zhang RY,Sun QF,Wang XQ,Gu XY,Qiang Q,Gao C,Shen JK

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in humans, and an abundance of evidence has implicated apoptosis signaling pathways in the neurodegeneration of PD. The purpose of this study was to assess the role of B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2)-associated athanogene 5 (BAG5) protein, whic...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Ma M,Wang X,Ding X,Jing J,Ma Y,Teng J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00