Altered tumor growth factor beta mRNA expression is associated with thymectomy-related clinical remission in myasthenia gravis.

abstract：:Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is the most frequent cause of neuromuscular paralysis in industrialized countries and usually occurs after respiratory and gastrointestinal infections. However, in rare cases GBS is associated with Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD). In the present case we report on a female allogeneic bone...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Thöne J,Lamprecht S,Hohaus A,Erbguth F,Bickel A

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated cortical excitability in nine patients affected by Wilson's disease (WD) using transcranial magnetic (TMS) and electric (TES) cortical stimulation and central silent period (CSP) data. A clinical score was derived from the sum of scores assigned to extrapyramidal, pyramidal and cerebellar signs. All ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Perretti A,Pellecchia MT,Lanzillo B,Campanella G,Santoro L

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcome after aSAH depends on several factors, including the severity of the initial event, perioperative medical management, surgical variables, and the incidence of complications. Cerebral vasospasm (CV) is ure to consistently respond to treatment, emphasizing the need for further research into the underlying mechan...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Komotar RJ,Zacharia BE,Valhora R,Mocco J,Connolly ES Jr

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 40 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and their age- and sex-matched controls were assayed for immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies against herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1-induced cell surface antigens with the indirect immunofluorescent test. An increased level of HSV antibodies was found among the...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Marttila RJ,Rinne UK

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the CSF and plasma levels of glutamate, glutamine, aspartate (only in plasma), asparagine, glutamine, glycine and GABA in 31 patients with Parkinson's disease and in 45 matched controls. We used an ion-exchange chromatography method. When compared to controls, PD patients had similar CSF levels of glutamat...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jiménez-Jiménez FJ,Molina JA,Vargas C,Gómez P,Navarro JA,Benito-León J,Ortí-Pareja M,Gasalla T,Cisneros E,Arenas J

更新日期：1996-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiating Parkinson's disease (PD) from other types of neurodegenerative atypical parkinsonism (AP) can be challenging, especially in early disease stages. Routine brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can show atrophy or signal changes in several parts of the brain with fairly high specificity for particular f...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Meijer FJ,Bloem BR,Mahlknecht P,Seppi K,Goraj B

更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic value of analogue frequency analysis of EMG from patients with neuromuscular disorders has not been convincing. Using fast Fourier transformation it is today possible to obtain the EMG power spectrum on-line and with a better resolution. We examined the power spectrum of the EMG pattern of the brachial ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Rønager J,Christensen H,Fuglsang-Frederiksen A

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral facial spasms (UFS) are frequently caused by hemifacial spasm (HFS), a disorder that usually results from vascular loop compression at the root exit zone of the facial nerve. However, UFS can also be a manifestation of other conditions, including brainstem tumours or demyelination, post-Bell's synkinesis, l...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Sringean J,Dressler D,Bhidayasiri R

更新日期：2019-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to accurately navigate within an environment (known or new) is not fully understood but involves a number of highly complicated cognitive process related to both central and peripheral nervous system structures and neuronal networks. We describe a patient who developed loss of his spatial navigational skil...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Aradillas E,Libon DJ,Schwartzman RJ

更新日期：2011-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Shapiro syndrome is a rare entity, comprising a triad of recurrent hypothermia, hyperhidrosis and congenital agenesis of the corpus callosum. Fewer than 50 cases have been described, almost invariably in patients presenting in childhood or early adulthood. We present a case of an 80 year old woman presenting with recu...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Pazderska A,O'Connell M,Pender N,Gavin C,Murray B,O'Dowd S

更新日期：2013-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although adoption of new clinical criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) leads to an increase in the proportion of patients diagnosed with probable DLB, the sensitivity of clinical diagnostic criteria of DLB is low, and there are no generally accepted clinical or imaging biomarkers to distinguish DLB f...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kim JS,Park HE,Oh YS,Song IU,Yang DW,Park JW,Lee KS

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cranial dystonia is normally considered as a pure movement disorder. Sensory symptoms have not received much attention, but we found ill-defined pain, discomfort, distortion of sensory modalities, 'phantom' kinetic or postural sensations in the orofacial areas subsequently involved by the dyskinesia in all of 11 conse...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Ghika J,Regli F,Growdon JH

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the diagnostic work-up of young stroke patients angiography is still considered as mandatory to identify otherwise undetected causes of stroke. We hypothesized that stroke cause is more heterogeneous among patients with a territorial infarct, whereas in lacunar stroke it is generally small vessel disease....

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： de Jong S,Lodder J,Luijckx GJ

更新日期：2004-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate kinase 5 (AK5) is one member of the AK family and plays a critical role in maintaining cellular homeostasis. Different from the other AKs, AK5 is almost exclusively expressed in the brain. However, its exact biological functions remain unclear. The aim of the present study is to explore the expression patter...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Lai Y,Hu X,Chen G,Wang X,Zhu B

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ophthalmological examination and visual evoked responses (VERs) were repeated at 6-120 (mean 46) months after the first attack of acute optic neuritis in 80 patients who had abnormal VERs in 98 symptomatic eyes at the initial examination. The wide field VER returned to within the normal range in 19/98 (19%) symptomati...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hely MA,McManis PG,Walsh JC,McLeod JG

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirtuin 2 (SIRT2) is a strong protein deacetylase, which is highly expressed in central nervous system. Recently, an association between SIRT2 rs10410544 polymorphism and late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) was found in the APOEε4-negative Caucasian population. To investigate the potential association between the rs...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Xia M,Yu JT,Miao D,Lu RC,Zheng XP,Tan L

更新日期：2014-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligation of either the common and internal iliac or the internal and external iliac arteries produced ischaemic lesions of the sciatic nerve and its branches, as well as direct muscle damage, in 5 out of 6 rabbits. In one animal, ligation of the aorta and of the internal iliac artery on one side produced a similar mix...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hess K,Eames RA,Darveniza P,Gilliatt RW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although single-photon emission computerized tomography of the dopamine transporter (DAT-SPECT) is useful for diagnosing parkinsonian syndrome, its applicability toward the early phase of Parkinson's disease remains unknown. METHODS:We enrolled 32 patients showing parkinsonism with normal cardiac 123I-metai...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Niimi Y,Ito S,Murate K,Hirota S,Hikichi C,Ishikawa T,Maeda T,Nagao R,Shima S,Mizutani Y,Ueda A,Mutoh T

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation (PA) induced by (-)-epinephrine and adenosine diphosphate (ADP) was studied in 16 patients with myotonic dystrophy (MyD) and 14 healthy subjects. Plasma beta-thromboglobulin level (beta-TG), a useful marker of in vivo platelet release reaction, as well as in vitro 5-[14C]hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) r...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Bornstein NM,Zahavi M,Korczyn AD,Zahavi J

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old male presented with right sudden deafness and left isolated limb sensory disturbance following posterior neck pain. An examination revealed a mild degree of right sensory neural hearing loss and decreased pain and thermal sensation in the left side below the L3 level. Brain MRI showed a small lesion in t...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Shibata K,Otuka K,Nishimura Y,Kondo H,Ikeda N,Iwata M

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertensive (HT) patients are at higher risk of cognitive decline than normotensive individuals, because high blood pressure is a risk factor for mild cognitive deterioration. In this study cardio- and cerebrovascular reactivity along with cognitive performance was assessed on newly diagnosed HT patients. ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kovács KR,Szekeres CC,Bajkó Z,Csapó K,Molnár S,Oláh L,Magyar MT,Bereczki D,Kardos L,Soltész P,Bojtor AB,Csiba L

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-beta 2-GPI antibodies (a beta 2-GPI) were found in serum from patients with anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) and/or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Since a beta 2-GPI are often found in patients with anti-cardiolipin antibodies (aCL), their role in thrombosis as well as other central nervous system (CNS) mani...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Caronti B,Pittoni V,Palladini G,Valesini G

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, PRRT2 gene mutations have been identified as a causative factor of paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD). However, evidence is still lacking with respect to the genotype to phenotype correlation in PKD patients. METHODS:We recruited a cohort of PKD patients with or without PRRT2 mutations for th...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mao CY,Shi CH,Song B,Wu J,Ji Y,Qin J,Li YS,Wang JJ,Shang DD,Sun SL,Xu YM

更新日期：2014-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both intra-arterial recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) and stent retrieval are effective for treating acute ischemic stroke. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of stent retrieval combined with intra-arterial rt-PA administration via micro-catheter (called the complex techn...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Yi TY,Chen WH,Wu YM,Zhang MF,Lin DL,Lin XH

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-Yo antibodies are present in the sera and cerebrospinal fluid of some patients with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD), but there is no evidence that the presence of anti-Yo antibodies causes the Purkinje cell loss seen in PCD patients. We examined the level of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) activity agai...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tanaka M,Tanaka K,Tokiguchi S,Shinozawa K,Tsuji S

更新日期：1999-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The progression of cognitive deterioration in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considerably variable. The ability to predict the progression rate is important for clinicians to treat and manage patients with AD. We examined the possible relationship between the rate of cognitive deterior...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hanyu H,Sato T,Hirao K,Kanetaka H,Iwamoto T,Koizumi K

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current American Stroke Association guidelines recommend initiating intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) within 60min of patient arrival, given the benefits of IVT for AIS are time dependent. This study aimed to identify the delaying factors in door-to-needle time (DTN) in the emerg...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mowla A,Doyle J,Lail NS,Rajabzadeh-Oghaz H,Deline C,Shirani P,Ching M,Crumlish A,Steck DA,Janicke D,Levy EI,Sawyer RN

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have shown in a recent paper that survival with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can be increased by the use of non-invasive methods of assisted ventilation (Bipap). However, the progression of muscle weakness was not affected and the quality of life was not positively enhanced. In ALS, reduced physical...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Pinto AC,Alves M,Nogueira A,Evangelista T,Carvalho J,Coelho A,de Carvalho M,Sales-Luís ML

更新日期：1999-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction in the effectiveness of the blood-brain and blood-spinal cord barriers, previously seen in rats at the height of the acute episode of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, has now been measured at various stages in the development of the disease up to 60 days after inoculation with guinea pig spinal c...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Daniel PM,Lam DK,Pratt OE

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myorhythmia, characterized by relatively rhythmic and regular 1- to 3-Hz muscle contractions, may involve isolated limbs or in combination with other various body regions. Isolated facial myorhythmia is rare. We highlight the clinical and electrophysiologic features of a unique case of isolated facial myorhythmia. Ext...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tan EK,Chan LL,Lo YL

更新日期：2007-01-15 00:00:00