abstract：:Glucose metabolism is depressed in the temporal and parietal regions of the cortex in patients with Alzheimer's disease. We measured the concentrations of two glucose transporters, GLUT1 and GLUT3, in six regions of brains from both control subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease. The concentrations of both tra...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Simpson IA,Chundu KR,Davies-Hill T,Honer WG,Davies P

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nested polymerase chain reaction was used for the detection of Epstein-Barr virus DNA in 1 patient with encephalitis, and in 1 patient with myelitis. Epstein-Barr virus DNA was detected in cerebrospinal fluid samples obtained at the onset of neurological symptoms in both patients, and serological findings indicated ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Landgren M,Kyllerman M,Bergström T,Dotevall L,Ljungström L,Ricksten A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease contain beta-amyloid, encoded by portions of exons 16 and 17 of the amyloid precursor protein. The specific association of rare amyloid precursor protein mutations with some kindreds with early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease suggests that specific abnormalities in amyloid pre...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Peacock ML,Murman DL,Sima AA,Warren JT Jr,Roses AD,Fink JK

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine transporter messenger RNA (mRNA) expression was assessed by in situ hybridization over individual pigmented neurons from the substantia nigra pars compacta in midbrain sections from 7 parkinsonian and 7 age-matched, neurologically normal patients. In the normal control brains, high levels of expression of dop...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Uhl GR,Walther D,Mash D,Faucheux B,Javoy-Agid F

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report FK506-induced neurotoxicity in 14 of 44 consecutive patients following orthoptic liver transplantation. In 10 of these 14 patients, postural hand tremors were found in the first weeks following surgery, transient apraxia of speech in 3, and generalized tonic-clonic seizures were noted in 2 patients. Other ma...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Wijdicks EF,Wiesner RH,Dahlke LJ,Krom RA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with rapidly evolving, severe weakness had an unusual myopathy with virtually complete loss of myosin in 5 to 40% of muscle fibers. Three of the 5 patients began to develop weakness 1 to 2 weeks after lung transplantation. The fourth became weak after a febrile illness. The fifth presented with diabetic ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： al-Lozi MT,Pestronk A,Yee WC,Flaris N,Cooper J

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism whereby dystrophin deficiency leads to excessive fibrosis and muscle degeneration is not known. The absence of dystrophin in skeletal muscle is associated with reduced plasma membrane stability as evidenced by elevated serum levels of the cytoplasmic enzyme creatine kinase. Basic fibroblast growth factor...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： D'Amore PA,Brown RH Jr,Ku PT,Hoffman EP,Watanabe H,Arahata K,Ishihara T,Folkman J

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an immunohistochemical study of the mitochondrial alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGDHC) in the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease. The KGDHC, the three enzyme complex catalyzing the oxidation of alpha-ketoglutarate to succinate through succinic semialdehyde, is the rate-regulating enzyme of ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Mizuno Y,Matuda S,Yoshino H,Mori H,Hattori N,Ikebe S

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inborn errors of urea synthesis can present in the newborn period as a catastrophic illness or later in childhood or adulthood with an indolent course punctuated by hyperammonemic episodes. Because symptoms mimic other neuropsychiatric disorders, it is common for there to be a delay in diagnosis, often with dire conse...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Batshaw ML

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by patchy accumulations of inflammatory cells combined with demyelination. There are mononuclear cells in blood and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with MS that produce interferon-gamma and interleukin-4 in response to myelin basic protein (MBP) and proteolipid protein (PLP). H...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Link J,Fredrikson S,Söderström M,Olsson T,Höjeberg B,Ljungdahl A,Link H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the symptomatic treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) are limited, new approaches have been sought. Anatomical studies of MS lesions show a relative preservation of axons, and clinical studies suggest that some of the neurological impairment in patients with MS is physiological. Electrophysiological studies s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Bever CT Jr

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) has been associated with HLA-DR2 for more than 20 years, and a large number of studies have addressed the relation between MS and the HLA class II genes, which are our major immune-response genes. This has produced a complex and confusing picture that is difficult to interpret. With the advent ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Hillert J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common idiopathic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. The distinction between MS and other benign or fulminant inflammatory demyelinating disorders is based on quantitative, rather than qualitative, differences in chronicity and severity. Primary progressive MS may d...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weinshenker BG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the accuracy of saccades made to seen or remembered visual targets in 3 patients with saccadic dysmetria due to cerebellar lesions. Saccadic dysmetria was worse for saccades to remembered targets and for saccades to flashed targets visible for only 150 msec (i.e., invisible at the time of saccade). Further...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Gaymard B,Rivaud S,Amarenco P,Pierrot-Deseilligny C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain tissue from normal individuals with incidental Lewy bodies and cell loss in pigmented substantia nigra neurons (asymptomatic Parkinson's disease) and age-matched control subjects without nigral Lewy bodies was examined biochemically. There was no difference in dopamine levels or dopamine turnover in the caudate ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Dexter DT,Sian J,Rose S,Hindmarsh JG,Mann VM,Cooper JM,Wells FR,Daniel SE,Lees AJ,Schapira AH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal injury resulting from glutamate receptor-mediated excitotoxicity has been implicated in a wide spectrum of neurological disease states, including ischemia, central nervous system trauma, and some types of neurodegenerative diseases. Excitotoxicity may interact with other pathophysiological processes to enhanc...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Dugan LL,Choi DW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosurgical procedures such as the dorsal root entry zone operation, ganglionectomy, and spinal-cord stimulation have been offered to patients with intractable post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN). Poor efficacy or high morbidity have limited the overall usefulness of these procedures. We recently conducted a preliminary o...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Pappagallo M,Campbell JN

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The site of autonomic deficit was investigated in 4 patients with loss of thermoregulatory flushing and sweating on one side of the face but no associated miosis (harlequin syndrome). In 2 patients the sudomotor deficit included the hand. Signs of postganglionic sympathetic deficit included pathological lacrimal sweat...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Drummond PD,Lance JW

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging is a highly sensitive method for the detection of the lesions of multiple sclerosis and renders possible the study and the evolution of early lesions. Previous reports on magnetic resonance imaging following gadolinium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) injection demonstrated that...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Katz D,Taubenberger JK,Cannella B,McFarlin DE,Raine CS,McFarland HF

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unverricht-Lundborg disease is a clinically recognizable form of progressive myoclonus epilepsy. Recently, in several families of both Finnish and Mediterranean extraction segregating Unverricht-Lundborg disease, the gene for this disease was linked to the same region of the long arm of chromosome 21. We performed lin...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Cochius JI,Figlewicz DA,Kälviäinen R,Nousiainen U,Farrell K,Patry G,Söderfeldt B,Frydman M,Lerman P,Andermann F

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased glutamatergic transmission in the basal ganglia is implicated in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease. However, the mechanisms by which activation of glutamate receptors produce parkinsonism are unknown. Therefore, we examined whether the glutamate agonists N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), alpha-amino-3-hy...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Klockgether T,Turski L

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a young child with tuberous sclerosis and cardiac rhabdomyoma who developed reversible heart block after being placed on carbamazepine treatment for seizures. Patients of any age with known or suspected intrinsic cardiac disease should be monitored for conduction disturbance if they are treated with carbam...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weig SG,Pollack P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striatal 18F-6-fluorodopa (FD) uptake constants were measured by positron emission tomography in (1) normal cynomolgus monkeys and (2) a series of cynomolgus and rhesus monkeys that had received intracarotid infusions of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). After the animals were killed, the number and...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Pate BD,Kawamata T,Yamada T,McGeer EG,Hewitt KA,Snow BJ,Ruth TJ,Calne DB

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect evidence suggests that an autoimmune response to myelin basic protein (MBP) may be involved in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS). In MS, several reports have suggested that restricted T-cell populations respond to MPB, as in inbred rodents with the MS disease model experimental allergic encephalomye...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Joshi N,Usuku K,Hauser SL

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical, imaging, and laboratory features of 8 patients with Devic's neuromyelitis optica. All patients had severe myelopathy and optic neuritis. In no patient was the brain, the brainstem, or the cerebellum affected, even after several years of disease. Various immunosuppressive treatments failed to be...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Mandler RN,Davis LE,Jeffery DR,Kornfeld M

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytological evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an important means of following response to intracavitary chemotherapy for leptomeningeal malignancy. We studied the feasibility of quantitative cytological evaluation by retrospective analysis of serial CSF specimens from 7 patients receiving phase I intracavitar...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Russack V,Kim S,Chamberlain MC

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus magnetic resonance spectra of resting muscle were obtained from 4 patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood. All patients had abnormally high resonance intensities from inorganic phosphate and an abnormally low calculated cytosolic phosphorylation potential. Two of the 4 patients had abnormally low ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Arnold DL,Silver K,Andermann F

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two families with a point mutation in mtDNA associated with myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber disease showed pronounced clinical heterogeneity. The mothers of the two families had adult-onset myopathy with ragged-red fibers, partial deficiency of cytochrome c oxidase, and sensory neuropathy. Members of the first...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Graf WD,Sumi SM,Copass MK,Ojemann LM,Longstreth WT Jr,Shanske S,Lombes A,DiMauro S

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An X-linked recessive disease with, in almost all patients, a fatal course in early childhood, occurring in a five-generation family is described. The 12 affected boys had early-onset floppiness, ataxia, liability to infections especially of the upper respiratory tract, deafness, and later, a flaccid tetraplegia and a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Arts WF,Loonen MC,Sengers RC,Slooff JL

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing spectrum of diseases has been shown to be associated with the human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I), most notably a chronic, progressive myelopathy termed HTLV-I--associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis and adult T-cell leukemia. HTLV-II is a close relative of HTLV-I and is structura...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Jacobson S,Lehky T,Nishimura M,Robinson S,McFarlin DE,Dhib-Jalbut S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between extrapyramidal sign (EPS) severity and cognitive function was investigated in 184 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 301 normal elderly individuals from a community-dwelling cohort in northern Manhattan, New York City. Fifty-six of the patients with PD met criteria for demen...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Richards M,Stern Y,Marder K,Cote L,Mayeux R

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The published information on glutamate levels in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and modifications in neurological disorders is controversial. In the present study, we demonstrated a metabolic instability of glutamate in untreated CSF and a spurious elevation of its levels by the current methods of CSF acidification. These ...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Ferrarese C,Pecora N,Frigo M,Appollonio I,Frattola L

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown bilateral activation of motor pathways and the recruitment of additional motor areas in studies of groups of patients with recovery from motor stroke. We have now developed a new positron emission tomographic technique to measure the changes in regional cerebral blood flow elicited during a mo...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Weiller C,Ramsay SC,Wise RJ,Friston KJ,Frackowiak RS

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies using two seizure paradigms, electroconvulsive shock and kindling, suggested potential sites of endogenous thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) action in specific epileptogenic areas. We studied TRH gene expression and TRH receptors in rat limbic areas using the kindling model of epilepsy. Immunoassaya...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Kubek MJ,Knoblach SM,Sharif NA,Burt DR,Buterbaugh GG,Fuson KS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the role of positron emission tomography (PET) with [18F]deoxyglucose (FDG) (FDG-PET) for planning surgery in 53 patients who had temporal lobectomy for uncontrolled seizures at National Institutes of Health from 1981 to 1990. Investigators blinded to PET data used results of telemetered video-electroence...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Theodore WH,Sato S,Kufta C,Balish MB,Bromfield EB,Leiderman DB

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD) is one form of childhood-onset idiopathic torsion dystonia. Adult-onset parkinsonism has appeared in several previously unaffected members in families with DRD suggesting that this may be an additional phenotypical expression of the disease. We report a family with DRD in which 2 women a...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Nygaard TG,Takahashi H,Heiman GA,Snow BJ,Fahn S,Calne DB

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) and sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) have different causes, with FAD due to a single dominant gene with disease onset before the sixth decade, whereas sporadic AD has a later onset and is not associated with a dominant pattern of inheritance. Gi...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Swearer JM,O'Donnell BF,Drachman DA,Woodward BM

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala and its subnuclei undergo severe volumetric atrophy in Alzheimer's disease (AD). To determine whether this atrophy is due to loss of neuropil, specific neuronal populations, or both, we evaluated the number, size, and packing density of neurons and glia in the cortical and magnocellular basal amygdaloid s...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Scott SA,DeKosky ST,Sparks DL,Knox CA,Scheff SW

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding of the organization and function of a newly identified neuronal messenger molecule, nitric oxide, has progressed rapidly. Nitric oxide synthase has been purified and molecularly cloned from brain. Its localization is exclusively neuronal and endothelial. The catalytic activity of nitric oxide synthase ac...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Dawson TM,Dawson VL,Snyder SH

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Powerful new methods for imaging both brain anatomy and brain function are appearing at an increasing rate. The modern era of minimally invasive, highly informative, neurological diagnostic imaging methods began with the introduction of x-ray computed tomography in the 1970s. More recently, positron emission tomograph...

journal_title：Annals of neurology

authors： Prichard JW,Brass LM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00