Oligoclonal immunoglobulin G in cerebrospinal fluid of myasthenia gravis patients.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is a paucity of regional cerebral blood flow studies in Japanese encephalitis (JE). In this communication we report clinical, radiological and single photon emission computed tomography findings in subacute and chronic JE patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Eight JE patients whose ages ranged between 10 and...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Kalita J,Das BK,Misra UK

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To re-evaluate middle-aged Swedish patients diagnosed with dysequilibrium syndrome (DES) in childhood and to compare their clinical and neuroimaging features to DES with VLDLR gene mutations (DES-VLDR). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Six patients from five families underwent neurological examination and magnetic res...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Melberg A,Orlén H,Raininko R,Entesarian M,Dahlqvist J,Gustavson KH,Dahl N

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we have shown low levels of dystrophin immunoreactivity in muscle from patients with DMD. According to the "frame-shift hypothesis" DMD muscle should not synthesize any dystrophin through to the C-terminus and it has been suggested that the protein detected is not dystrophin, but a related autosomal homolog...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nicholson LV,Johnson MA,Davison K,O'Donnell E,Falkous G,Barron M,Harris JB

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study mathematical deficits in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:Sixty-eight patients with mild AD and 242 normal controls (NC) received a standardized battery (EC 301-R) assessing number processing and calculation abilities. AD patients also received testing for language, memory, visu...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Carlomagno S,Iavarone A,Nolfe G,Bourène G,Martin C,Deloche G

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using organotypic cultures of ICR mouse cerebellum, we studied the effects of TNF-alpha on myelin formation, and its demyelinating effects. Mature, myelinated cultures were resistant to TNF-alpha, even at the highest concentration examined, 1 x 10(4) U/ml. However, when cultures were grown in medium containing TNF-alp...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tsukamoto T,Ishikawa M,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Recognition of stroke symptoms and activation of emergency services are essential in minimizing delay for acute stroke treatments. In this study, we assessed public stroke awareness in Sweden. METHODS:One thousand and five hundred residents aged 18-79 years participated in a telephone survey. Open-...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nordanstig A,Jood K,Rosengren L

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Variants in genes encoding enzymes involved in production, aggregation or degradation of beta-amyloid are potential risk factors for sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:Meta-analyses on AD association with BACE1 exon 5, BACE1 intron 5, FE65 intron 13, CYP46 intron 2, alpha(1)-antichymotrypsine Ala17T...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Llorca J,Rodríguez-Rodríguez E,Dierssen-Sotos T,Delgado-Rodríguez M,Berciano J,Combarros O

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hospital admission in otherwise healthy patients following a first unprovoked seizure is controversial. We aimed to evaluate the influence of admission in a neurology department on the identification of risk factors for seizure recurrence in patients with a first unprovoked seizure. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Goldberg I,Neufeld MY,Auriel E,Gandelman-Marton R

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first epidemiological study of myasthenia gravis (MG) in the area of Belgrade. During the survey period (1983 1992), 124 incidental cases of MG were observed, producing an average annual incidence rate of 7.1 per million population (women, 8.3; men, 5.8). Age and sex specific incidence rates for females de...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Lavrnić D,Jarebinski M,Rakocević-Stojanović V,Stević Z,Lavrnić S,Pavlović S,Trikić R,Tripković I,Nesković V,Apostolski S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a new peripherally acting muscle relaxant drug Dantrium, on spasticity tested on 11 hemiplegic patients. The effect was evaluated both with regular clinical examination and with electromyographic technique. The latter concerned a quantitative analysis of the patients' voluntary control of fine neuromuscu...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jonsson B,Ladd H,Afzelius-Frisk I,Lindberg-Broman AM

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate a psychological therapy program used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and including cognitive/behavioral strategies, relaxation training and physical exercise. MATERIAL AND METHODS:The participants were 29 patients with MS recruited from an outpatient u...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tesar N,Baumhackl U,Kopp M,Günther V

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An EEG study of 64 Danish Turner girls and age-matched controls was made. The characteristic findings in the basic EEG rhythms of Turner girls were: 1) alpha activity of more rapid frequency (10.5+ Hz), lower amplitude (-20 microV, lower amount (-30%) and diffuse areas, 2) beta activity of slower frequency (14-18 Hz),...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tsuboi T,Nielsen J

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether variants in the Slit and Trk-like 1 gene (SLITRK1) are present in American Caucasian population of patients with Tourette syndrome (TS). METHODS:We sequenced the 3'-untranslated region for var321 and the whole coding region in the SLITRK1 gene in 82 Caucasian patients with TS from North ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Deng H,Le WD,Xie WJ,Jankovic J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic investigation of 74 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, resistant to medication, who underwent unilateral temporal lobectomy 1960-1969. Thirty per cent had a positive family history of epilepsy; 49 per cent of other neurological diseases; and 46 per cent of major psychiatric disorders. Neither of the genetic...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen I

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four consecutive patients with familial amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (type 1), who were at different stages of the disease were investigated. The purpose was to report the electrophysiological features and to compare them with those found in other generalized neuropathies; 12 cases were familiar and 12 cases...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Blom S,Steen L,Zetterlund B

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We used an electrical conditioning stimulation followed by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to facilitate the occurrence of long latency potentials (LLPs) in order to study the relationship between primary motor evoked potentials (MEPs) and LLPs in the lower limbs. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The study gro...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Chen JT,Chen CC,Kao KP,Wu ZA,Liao KK

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure-volume compensation may change over time as part of normal ageing, where the resistance to CSF outflow increases and the formation of CSF decreases with age. Is CSF compensation dependent on duration of symptoms in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH)? METHODS:We...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Czosnyka Z,Owler B,Keong N,Santarius T,Baledent O,Pickard JD,Czosnyka M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine content of 199 clinical muscle biopsies was determined and correlated to histometric data of 121 cases. Taurine concentration in muscles was markedly dependent on fiber type distribution, taurine being more abundant in the slow, oxidative type 1 fibers than in the type 2 fibers. Taurine concentration rose slig...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Airaksinen EM,Paljärvi L,Partanen J,Collan Y,Laakso R,Pentikäinen T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To selectively investigate postganglionic sympathetic cardiac neurons in patients with Parkinson's disease and autonomic failure. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) is a pharmacologically inactive analogue of noradrenaline, which is similarly metabolized in noradrenergic neurons. Therefore t...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Braune S,Reinhardt M,Bathmann J,Krause T,Lehmann M,Lücking CH

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological examinations were done on 20 patients aged 40-71 years with recently diagnosed high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. General chemotherapy and intrathecal chemotherapy in order to prevent central nervous system (CNS) involvement were begun. On the first day of chemotherapeutic cycle patients received...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Grzelec H,Fryze C,Nowacki P,Zdziarska B

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current understanding on the historic, epidemiologic, genetic, clinical, neuropathologic, neurochemical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) are revisited. In addition, new research directions are described. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Litvan I

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the changes in the burden of informal caregivers of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) over time. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Short Form-12, Family Strain Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory and Coping Orientations to Problem Experiences were administered. RESULTS:Data collected on 216 ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Covelli V,Sattin D,Giovannetti AM,Scaratti C,Willems M,Leonardi M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG and IgM concentrations in tears of multiple sclerosis patients (n = 38) are increased compared to normal controls (n = 23). The occurrence of oligoclonal tear IgG bands (7.9%)--as determined by immunoblotting--did not differ between groups. Our findings suggest an altered reactivity of the secretory immune system ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Liedtke W,Weller M,Wiethölter H,Dichgans J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous occurrence of blepharospasm and dystonic movements in face muscles, particularly those of the perioral and mandibular regions, has been named as Meige's disease which was first described by Henry Meige in 1910. We report the case of a woman with Meige's syndrome whose symptoms improved with the use of ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Yardimci N,Karatas M,Kilinc M,Benli S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of necrotizing brain stem encephalitis due to listeria monocytogenes is described in a 48-year-old man who had brain stem encephalitis of complicated course and with selective destruction of the vasomotoric and respiratory centers. He developed that very rare Ondine's curse syndrome, being only able to breathe ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jensen TH,Hansen PB,Brodersen P

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of sulfur-containing amino acids (taurine, methionine, cystine, cystathionine, homocystine) in lumbar CSF from patients with consciousness disturbances and controls were measured, and it was investigated whether there was any correlation between the sequential changes of these amino acid concentrati...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Yanai Y,Shibasaki T,Kohno N,Mitsui T,Nakajima H

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify how chronic solvent abuse affects cognitive function using magnetic resonance imaging as an index of brain damage. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A total of 25 chronic solvent abusers underwent magnetic resonance imaging with quantitative neurometry and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales revised. RESULTS:T...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Yamanouchi N,Okada S,Kodama K,Sakamoto T,Sekine H,Hirai S,Murakami A,Komatsu N,Sato T

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beat-to-beat variation (R-R variation) in the electrocardiogram was studied in experimental allergic neuritis in the Sprague-Dawley rat. Reduced R-R variations were found in 2 of 10 animals, probably as a sign of autonomic dysfunction. The vagal nerves from these two animals, studied in vitro, showed disturbed conduct...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Solders G,Persson A,Kristensson K,Hansson S

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The goal of this study was to evaluate the incidence of urological malignancies in MS patients using active screening. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A total of 495 MS patients (141 men, 354 women, age of 42±13.4) were included in the study. The duration of disease was 12.3±11 years, and the EDSS score was 4.3 (±2.5)...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Krhut J,Hradilek P,Nemec D,Tvrdik J,Zapletalova O,Zvara P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study macrosomatognosia and microsomatognosia occurring as migraine aura symptoms. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Topological distribution of these body schema disturbances were assessed in a collection of 562 pictures submitted as entries to the 4 national Migraine Art competitions. RESULTS:The said symptoms wer...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Robinson D,Podoll K

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00