abstract：:The frequency of skull metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is increasing together with the recent progress in the management of the primary lesion. Cases are often complicated with poor general conditions or metastasis to the other organs, and not readily indicated for surgery. A direct injection of ethanol...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Isaka T,Yoshimine T,Fujimoto K,Masuzawa M,Maruno M,Hayakawa T,Nakatani S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of arteriovenous malformations depends on the efforts of a multidisciplinary team whose ultimate goal is to achieve better results when compared to the natural history of the pathology. The role of adjuvant treatment modalities such as radiosurgery and endovascular embolization is discussed. Treatment st...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： de Oliveira E,Tedeschi H,Raso J

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:Supraventricular and ventricular tachyarrhythmia are established causes of syncope. We investigated the mean blood flow velocities (Vmean) of the middle cerebral arteries (MCA) during routine cardiac electrophysiologic studies in patients with supraventricular and ventricular tachyarrhythmias in order to evaluate the ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Zunker P,Haase C,Borggrefe M,Georgiadis D,Georgiadis A,Ringelstein EB

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new suction device for microneurosurgery is presented. A surgical cottonoid is covered with a polyethylene film so that vacuum power is maintained throughout the length of the cottonoid. One end is connected to a vacuum pump via a plastic tube. Five to 10 mm of the surgical cottonoid are exposed for suctioning at th...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Sakatani K,Zuo H

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Although neuronal death has been studied in experimental models of ischemia, the precise mechanisms regulating cell death remain unclear. Furthermore, the timing and pattern of neuronal death in human stroke has not been extensively studied. To further our understanding of ischemia-induced neuronal death, we examined ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Guglielmo MA,Chan PT,Cortez S,Stopa EG,McMillan P,Johanson CE,Epstein M,Doberstein CE

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has not yet been validated in the therapy of experimental intracerebral hematomas in a rat model. It is possible to test the effect of local fibrinolysis and aspiration on the clot volume using serial magnetic resonance imaging and different MR-sequences. Experiments were carried...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Deinsberger W,Hartmann M,Vogel J,Jansen O,Kuschinsky W,Sartor K,Böker DK

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The craniocervical regions of seven cadavers (14 sides) injected with silicone rubber were dissected under a Zeiss OPMI surgical microscope. The present study provides a detailed description of the suboccipital segment of the vertebral artery, with particular attention to its loops, branches, supporting osteofibrous s...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Castillo C,Viñas FC,Gutikhonda M,Diaz FG

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In models of middle cerebral artery occlusion using intraluminal suture, the size and the distribution of ischemic injury vary considerably among laboratories. In transcranial models of cerebral ischemia, a more consistent cerebral ischemic lesion is seen in Spontaneously Hypertensive rats (SHR). In the present study,...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Dogan A,Başkaya MK,Rao VL,Rao AM,Dempsey RJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to improve the ability to detect cerebrovascular complications in patients undergoing complicated neurosurgical procedures using on-line monitoring of cerebral pH with in vivo microdialysis. We employed on-line pH monitoring in patients with a variety of neurosurgical procedures includi...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Mendelowitsch A,Sekhar LN,Caputy AJ,Shuaib A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring of regional cerebral oxygen saturation (r. cereb. O2 satn.) was carried out continuously in 12 healthy subjects (mean age 35.2 +/- 4.4 years; range 26-41 years; 4 women, 8 men), prior to, during and following acupuncture. Measurements were obtained with the INVOS 3100 cerebral oximeter (Somanetics Corp., Tr...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Litscher G,Schwarz G,Sandner-Kiesling A,Hadolt I,Eger E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the relationship between brain oxygen supply and demand (O2 balance) in real time, it is necessary to use a multiparametric monitoring approach. Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is a representative parameter of O2 supply. The extracellular level of K+ is a reliable indicator of O2 demand since more than ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Mayevsky A,Meilin S,Manor T,Ornstein E,Zarchin N,Sonn J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Localization of the pathological structures in relation to the surrounding anatomy and understanding of the surgical anatomy are probably the most important keys to successful neurosurgery. Image-guided surgery is an important tool for understanding an individual's anatomy and for precisely locating the lesion. Head r...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Alp MS,Dujovny M,Misra M,Charbel FT,Ausman JI

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute presentation of Type I Chiari malformation in children is distinctly rare. An 11 year old male suffered a trauma to the right temporal-parietal region in a tobogganing accident resulting in an open depressed skull fracture. Radiographic evaluation included a Computed Tomographic scan which also demonstrated a si...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Couldwell WT,Zhang W,Allen R,Arce D,Stillerman CB

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[15O]-water PET was performed on 12 patients with structural lesions for localization of the motor (n = 5), language (receptive and expressive; n = 6), and visual cortex (n = 1). All these patients underwent interactive image-guided surgery using an infrared digitizer and intraoperative electrical stimulation mapping ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Viñas FC,Zamorano L,Mueller RA,Jiang Z,Chugani H,Fuerst D,Muzik O,Mangner TJ,Diaz FG

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion of pedicle screws in the thoracolumbar spine can be challenging. Incorrect placement can lead to a failure of fusion or to significant neurologic morbidity. Recently, techniques utilizing intraoperative monitoring and stereotaxis have been developed to achieve proper screw placement. While these techniques m...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Frank EH,Chamberland DL

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:The normal cerebral circulation has the ability to maintain a stable cerebral blood flow over a wide range of cerebral perfusion pressures and this is known as cerebral autoregulation. This autoregulation may be impaired in the injured brain. Closed head injury was induced in 28 Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 400-450 g....

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Prat R,Markiv V,Dujovny M,Misra M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More reliable prediction of outcome would be helpful for clinicians who treat severely head-injured patients. To determine if neural network modeling would improve outcome prediction compared with standard logistic regression analysis and to determine if data available 24 h after severe head injury allows better predi...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Lang EW,Pitts LH,Damron SL,Rutledge R

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work has suggested that one factor in the etiology of the neuromuscular disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), may be an autoimmune mechanism in which presynaptic voltage-sensitive calcium channels are an antigenic target. We have developed a fluorescence technique to measure rapid Ca2+ influx through pr...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Thomas MM,Dunn SM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to examine the effects of N omega-nitro-L-arginine (LNA) on the early ischemic neuronal damage (EIND). All the experiments were carried out under general anesthesia, maintaining the blood gases and the body temperature within the physiological ranges. The local CBF, the topographically correspo...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Matsui T,Nagafuji T,Mori T,Asano T

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictions from a structured cortical model led us to test the hypothesis that music training enhances young children's spatial-temporal reasoning. Seventy-eight preschool children participated in this study. Thirty-four children received private piano keyboard lessons, 20 children received private computer lessons, ...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Rauscher FH,Shaw GL,Levine LJ,Wright EL,Dennis WR,Newcomb RL

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its possible role as a replacement source in CNS degenerative diseases, neural transplantation may be used to augment the normal production of neuroactive substances. Our laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago has shown, in both acute and chronic pain models, that transplantation of adrenal...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Pappas GD,Lazorthes Y,Bès JC,Tafani M,Winnie AP

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following cerebral ischemia, the extracellular concentration of excitatory amino acids increases, and the excitatory cell death may play an important role contributing to ischemic neuronal damage. Although sequential metabolic changes in permanent local cerebral ischemia have been reported, the effect of reperfusion i...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Liu Y,Mituska S,Hashizume K,Hosaka T,Nukui H

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF) on sleep was studied in conscious rabbits. An intravenous (i.v.) bolus injection of aFGF induced a significant increase in sleep duration in comparison with animals that received vehicle solution. Somnogenic effects were obtained 30 min following i.v. aFGF admini...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Galan JM,Cuevas B,Dujovny N,Giménez-Gallego G,Cuevas P

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin and ticlopidine are two commonly used drugs in the prevention of cerebral embolic ischemic events. No direct comparisons in a cross-over design of the effects of ticlopidine and aspirin on asymptomatic circulating cerebral microemboli are available. We investigated 53 patients with cerebrovascular disease. Twe...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Droste DW,Sonne M,Siemens HJ,Kaps M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of nilvadipine (a dihydropyridine-type calcium entry blocker) on the cerebral circulation, experimental models of cerebral ischemia were used to measure abrupt changes in the cortical cerebral blood flow (CBF) at the 'penumbra' (the boundary region between the...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Tanaka R,Miyasaka Y,Maruyama S,Nagai S,Fujii K

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the pulsation-pressure relationship in an experimental model of aneurysms was analyzed. In addition, we have examined pulsatility of the aneurysmal wall reinforced by Guglielmi Detachable Coils (GDC). Bifurcation (BAn), aneurysms (LAn) and bilobar (BiA) aneurysms were produced in 15 mongrel dogs. The ane...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Novak P,Glikstein R,Mohr G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) in three patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to evaluate the distribution and extent of cortical neuronal damage as demonstrated by decreased N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) levels. We examined primary motor (precentral gyrus) and parietal neocortical...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Giroud M,Walker P,Bernard D,Lemesle M,Martin D,Baudouin N,Brunotte F,Dumas R

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a novel approach for analysing the hemodynamic alterations that result after focal cerebral ischemia. This approach utilizes a temporal correlation analysis of first pass transit data obtained with functional imaging. First pass transits of injected contrast agents are measured with dynamic CT scanning. No...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Lo EH,Rogowska J,Batchelder KF,Wolf GL

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and reproducible method of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was established to detect trinucleotide repeat expansion for Huntington's disease (HD) using a new DNA polymerase and buffer system. The system consists of an extremely heat stable DNA polymerase (Pfu), and a buffer supplemented with ammonium su...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Watanabe M,Abe K,Aoki M,Kameya T,Itoyama Y,Shoji M,Ikeda M,Iizuka T,Hirai S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of stress proteins is thought to be important in the protection of cells from a variety of environmental insults including heat, hypoxia and ischemia. The aim of this study was to compare the mechanism of induction of heat shock protein 72 (HSP72) in primary cultures of murine cortical astrocytes by heat and...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Bergeron M,Mivechi NF,Giaccia AJ,Giffard RG

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) possesses neuroprotective effects on a variety of neurons. Here we report that it delays progression of motor neuron disease (MND) in the wobbler mouse. After initial diagnosis of MND at post-natal age 3-4 weeks, wobbler mice receive either recombinant human bFGF (1 mg kg-1, n = 1...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Ikeda K,Iwasaki Y,Tagaya N,Shiojima T,Kobayashi T,Kinoshita M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation was designed to clarify the chronic effects of cardiogenic emboli on cerebral perfusion and tissue densities within remaining noninfarcted brain. Local cerebral perfusion and tissue densities were measured by xenon-contrasted CT scanning and compared by cross-sectional designs among normal volunteer...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Obara K,Meyer JS,Muramatsu K,Mortel KF

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：: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：:In order to investigate the functional role of endothelium and vasoeffector mechanism in cerebrovascular responses to neuropeptides, the stainless steel cannula inserting method was applied to examine the responses to intraluminally-applied bradykinin, substance P and vasopressin in isolated and perfused canine basila...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Tsuji T,Cook DA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haemodynamic mechanisms responsible for the appearance of paraparetic transient ischaemic attacks in ten patients with childhood moyamoya disease who subsequently underwent bifrontal omental transplantation were investigated. Cerebral perfusion (CP) was measured with 99mTc-hexamethylene-propyleneamine oxime single...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Touho H,Karasawa J,Ohnishi H

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One case of dural arteriovenous malformation in the base of the anterior cranial fossa is reported. It was discovered by means of a PW-Doppler examination of angular branch of the ophthalmic artery in a patient under observation for hypertrophy of a superficial temporal artery. The nidus was located in the region of t...

journal_title：Neurological research

authors： Fiori L,Parenti G,Puglioli M,Padolecchia R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00