Serum leptin is associated with first-ever ischemic stroke, lesion size and stroke severity in a Chinese cohort.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Surgical resection of complex glomus vagale tumors can be complicated by extensive blood loss and might require surgical sacrifice of an encased internal carotid artery. METHODS:A young patient presented with mass effect from glomus valage tumor. Computerized tomography angiography showed an encased interna...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Alaraj A,Pytynia K,Carlson AP,Krishna PH,Charbel FT,Amin-Hanjani S,Aletich V

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the successful use of fetal striatal brain grafting in the restoration of striatal function in rat and nonhuman primate models of Huntington's disease, as well as on the evidence for the clinical potential of fetal brain grafting in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, homotopic fetal striatal homotransplant...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Madrazo I,Franco-Bourland RE,Castrejon H,Cuevas C,Ostrosky-Solis F

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The present study characterized glial cell injury provoked in adult rat chiasm within 24 hours after a single, high-dose irradiation of 20 Gy. METHODS:All chiasmal glial cells in a section were counted, and the percentage of TUNEL-positive glial cells exhibiting apoptotic morphology was defined as the apopt...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Nagayama K,Kurita H,Nakamura M,Kusuda J,Tonari A,Takayama M,Fujioka Y,Shiokawa Y

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic effect of insulin alone or insulin combined with 30 min delayed thrombolytic therapy was investigated in rats embolized in the right hemisphere with a fibrin clot made from autologous blood. Animals were killed seven days after embolization and the infarct volumes were measured in % of the affected hem...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Meden P,Andersen M,Overgaard K,Rasmussen RS,Boysen G

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correlation between the activities of anti-GQ1b IgG antibodies in sera of patients with Miller Fisher syndrome and their clinical manifestations was investigated. The clinical severity was analyzed for 16 patients by scoring their symptoms during the peak of the clinical course and 4 weeks after onset. Serum sampl...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Mizoguchi K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article covers the basis of tethered cord syndrome as a stretch-induced spinal cord disorder, including pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, imaging diagnosis, indication for surgical treatment, and surgical procedures. Anomalies that cause mechanical spinal cord tethering are listed, and the surgical untethering...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Yamada S,Won DJ,Siddiqi J,Yamada SM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-arterial thrombolysis and percutaneous angioplasty is feasible in patients with acute middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion limited to 6 hours post-ictus, but there are some limitations such as reocclusion or hemorrhagic complications. In this report, we describe a stent placement in the treatment of a refracto...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Ahn JY,Han IB,Chung SS,Chung YS,Kim SH,Yoon PH

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional glucose utilization was measured in the rat brain after occlusion of the middle cerebral artery. Normoglycaemic rat had increased glucose use in the cerebral cortex adjacent to the infarct. A fraction of the nerve cells were irreversibly injured in this region. In hyperglycaemic rats, the glucose metabolism r...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Nedergaard M,Gjedde A,Diemer NH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The utility of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values was evaluated for the differential diagnosis of ganglioglioma. METHODS:Ten consecutive patients, five men and five women, aged from 14 to 67 years, with histologically proven supratentorial gangliogliomas, underwent diffusion-weighted magnetic reson...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Kikuchi T,Kumabe T,Higano S,Watanabe M,Tominaga T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study whether Clopidogrel-Aspirin combined treatment for high risk transient ischaemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke results in increased number of lesions associated with anti-thrombotic cerebral haemorrhage or cerebral micro-bleeds (CMB) than aspirin alone treatment. METHODS:The patients recruited in CH...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Wang Z,Xu C,Wang P,Wang Y,Xin H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In conditions with reduced glucose levels/inability of glucose utilization, ketone bodies, especially beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), become a major energy source in the brain. In animal models, BHB infusion shows acute beneficial effects on the hypoxic brain. The present prospective observational study is the f...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Pikija S,Trkulja V,Simundic AM,Vrcek E,Boskovic K,Bacani S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It has been suggested that metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) could predict the onset of cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoidal haemorrhage (SAH). The aim of this study was to analyse, in patients with SAH, the difference between patients with MRI ischaemic infarcts and patients without, and to investigate the rol...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Lago A,Tembl JI,López-Cuevas R,Vallés J,Santos MT,Moscardó A,Parkhutik V

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety percent of cerebral aneurysms were diagnosed after their first rupture with consecutive subarachnoid haemorrhage. In order to detect the aneurysms before rupture investigation by transcranial Doppler sonography was used on the basis of intra-operative evaluation of the normal aneurysmal flow pattern. In 34 pati...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Gilsbach JM,Harders AG

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of motor function following stroke is believed to be supported, at least in part, by functional compensation involving residual neural tissue. The present study used a rodent model of focal ischemia and intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) to examine the behavioral and physiological effects of cortical stimu...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Kleim JA,Bruneau R,VandenBerg P,MacDonald E,Mulrooney R,Pocock D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Venous compression might be the main cause of incomplete decompression and symptom recurrence after microvascular decompression (MVD) in patients with trigeminal neuralgia. Although it can be killed in most cases, cutting the vein sometimes has the potential risk arising from venous congestion. To maneuver th...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Zhong J,Li ST,Xu SQ,Wan L,Wang X

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The STA-MCA (superficial temporal artery-middle cerebral artery) bypass has become increasingly popular in the treatment of cerebral vascular disease. Indication and assessment of postoperative results have been based on clinical grounds and on findings from cerebral angiography (10). In order to obtain objective data...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Gratzl O,Schmiedek P

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid is a high affinity ligand with partial agonist properties at strychnine-insensitive glycine sites associated with the N-methyl-D-aspartate subtype of glutamate receptors. Since occupation of these sites appears required for operation of N-methyl-D-aspartate, receptor coupled cation c...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Fossom LH,Von Lubitz DK,Lin RC,Skolnick P

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are a leading cause of morbidity, mortality, disability and socioeconomic losses in India and other developing countries. Specific topics addressed in this paper include magnitude of the problem, causes, context of injury occurrence, risk factors, severity, outcome and impact of TBIs on...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Gururaj G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess prospectively the significance of sonographic measurements of the median nerve in the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), to look for proper parameters and cutoff values for the sonographic diagnosis, and to correlate with the electrophysiological findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This study ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Guan J,Ji F,Chen W,Chu H,Lu Z

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in neuromodulation techniques offer the promise of new therapeutic interventions for patients with neuropsychiatric maladies. Several complex social, ethical and policy issues will attend developments in this area. In this paper an ethical framework for clinical research in interventional cognitive neuroscien...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Fins JJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were exposed in utero plus 60 days post-partum to either complex music (Mozart Sonata (k. 448)), minimalist music (a Philip Glass composition), white noise or silence, and were then tested for five days, three trials per day, in a multiple T-maze. By Day 3, the rats exposed to the Mozart work completed the maze m...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Rauscher FH,Robinson KD,Jens JJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the degeneration of the dopamine producing neurons projecting from the substantia nigra into the corpus striatum. Current medical therapy is limited and cannot stop or reverse the degeneration. Over the past 30 years, attempts were m...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Roitberg B,Urbaniak K,Emborg M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigated the role of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). METHOD:Sprague-Dawley male rats (n=36) weighing between 250 and 300 g were used. SAH was produced by injecting autologous arterial blood into the pre-chiasmatic cistern. MMP-9 pro...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Guo Z,Sun X,He Z,Jiang Y,Zhang X,Zhang JH

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat is a genetic model of severe hypertension with secondary vascular alterations. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of chronic hypertension and ramipril treatment on the extracellular matrix in the cerebral microvasculature. METHODS:The study c...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Liebetrau M,Burggraf D,Büscher C,Linz W,Hamann GF

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crossed-uncrossed differentials (CUDs) are viewed as surrogates for interhemispheric transfer time (IHTT). Not uncommonly CUDs assume statistically significant negative values (inverted CUDs). This raises doubts of the accepted interpretation of CUDs, i.e. intra- and inter-hemispheric routings of signals in ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Derakhshan I

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) has an increasing incidence and results in high morbidity and mortality. We review here the 10-year experience of a single institution and the literature regarding the treatment and major associations of cSDH. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed all cSDHs surgically treated f...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Balser D,Rodgers SD,Johnson B,Shi C,Tabak E,Samadani U

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied brain temperature and the effect of mild hypothermia in 58 patients after severe head injury (SHI). Brain tissue oxygen tension (ptiO2), carbon dioxide tension (ptiCO2), tissuie pH (pHti) and temperature (T.br) were measured using a multiparameter probe. Microdialysis was performed to measure glucose, lacta...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Soukup J,Zauner A,Doppenberg EM,Menzel M,Gilman C,Bullock R,Young HF

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the use of optical spectroscopy in the near infra-red light range to non-invasively measure regional cerebral haemoglobin oxygen saturation (rSHbO2) in cats during progressive cerebral hypoxia. This technique differs from spectroscopic techniques previously described in that the concentration ratio--percen...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： McCormick PW,Stewart M,Ray P,Lewis G,Dujovny M,Ausman JI

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00