abstract：:Five patients with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and three control patients with lumbar disc herniation were treated with dexamethazone during 14 days. The effect on peripheral blood T-cell subsets and on the proliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to pokeweed mitogen (PWM) an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Salmaggi A,Baldetorp B,Milanese C,Nespolo A,Parma R,Sandberg-Wollheim M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immediate effects of selective sympathetic and somatic blockades on pain and tactile allodynia in 12 patients with long-standing ophthalmic or high cervical postherpetic neuralgia were compared. For the duration of the somatic blockade, pain was completely abolished in 11 patients and allodynia in 8 patients. In c...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nurmikko T,Wells C,Bowsher D

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous system involvement in patients with AIDS is frequent either due to direct infection by the HIV-1 or to opportunistic infections or neoplasms. In the present study we evaluate the epidemiologic characteristics of patients in whom the first AIDS manifestation was an indicative neurologic disease (IND) and the in...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Casabona J,Sánchez E,Graus F,Abós J,Segura A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of L-threo-3,4-dihydroxyphenylserine (L-threo-DOPS), an unnatural norepinephrine precursor, on alpha 2-adrenergic receptors in platelet membranes were investigated in a patient with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, two patients with multiple system atrophy, and two patients with Parkinson's disease. Ea...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Azuma T,Suzuki T,Sakoda S,Mizuno R,Tsujino S,Kobayashi T,Kishimoto S,Hiraga T,Matsubara T,Yoshida S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 20 subjects with asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis (ACAS) and a group of healthy controls were compared as to their cognitive performance. Subjects with ACAS showed substantial deficits on tasks of mental speed, learning, visuospatial abilities, verbal processing and deductive reasoning. The cognitive pr...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Benke T,Neussl D,Aichner F

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One cause of ischemic brain injury is free radical formation during recirculation. Allopurinol inhibits xanthine oxidase, an important source of free oxygen radicals. It is known that allopurinol pre-treatment has a protective action during cerebral ischemia. In the present study we exposed slices from the rat hippoca...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Hegstad E,Berg-Johnsen J,Langmoen IA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcome was studied prospectively in 28 consecutive patients with occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA). They comprise a subgroup of 101 consecutive patients with TIA or stroke less than or equal to 75 years of age, admitted within 72 h after the stroke. Cerebral angiography and CT-scan were performed within 1...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Olsen TS

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence from several laboratories of an increased prevalence of circulating immuno-complexes (CIC) in diabetic patients. It has also been suggested that CIC are pathogenetically related to chronic diabetic complications. The aim of this study was to assess peripheral nerve function in children with Type 1 di...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Fierro B,Modica A,Cardella F,Raimondo D,Triolo G,Meli F

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of intra-operative cortical EEG recordings (ECoG) were assessed in 30 patients with medically refractory complex partial seizures submitted to temporal lobectomy. Interictal spiking was most frequently recorded from mesial temporal lobe structures (amygdaloid-hippocampal region) and from the temporal neoco...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Stefan H,Quesney LF,Abou-Khalil B,Olivier A

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental alcoholic myopathy was induced in rats by a combination of prolonged alcohol intake (mean 15.3 g ethanol/kg/day for up to 10 weeks) and a short fast. In view of literature evidence for impairment of both glycolytic and oxidative metabolism in alcoholic myopathy, we combined histological and histochemical ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Trounce I,Byrne E,Dennett X

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The F response can provide a measure of motoneurone excitability (MNE) and so it may be used to investigate upper motoneurone disorders. This report studies the F-wave configuration in patients with stroke to evaluate the changes of the central excitability of the motoneurones at different times after an acute cerebra...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Fierro B,Raimondo D,Modica A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult mice were injected intramuscularly in the region of the vibrissae muscles on the left side of the nose with a small volume of mercuric chloride dissolved in distilled water. The animals were killed after 1-6 weeks and fixed by whole-body perfusion. Frozen sections were taken from different levels of the brain st...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Arvidson B

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of oxygen-free radicals and their subsequent peroxidative action on membrane unsaturated fatty acids could be enhanced after subarachnoid hemorrhage. High-dose methylprednisolone (30 mg/Kg i.v.) treatment can antagonize acute SAH-induced brain hypoperfusion and protect the ultrastructural integrity of e...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Marzatico F,Gaetani P,Buratti E,Messina AL,Ferlenga P,Rodriguez y Baena R

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 100 MS patients, BAEP and tibial SEP abnormality rates increased significantly with disease duration and clinical disability. VEP correlated non-linearly with disease duration, and median nerve SEP correlated with disability. In multifactorial analysis, however, BAEP correlated significantly only with clinical brai...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sand T,Sulg IA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between angiographically determined cerebral vasospasm following a subarachnoid hemorrhage and regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) was studied in 63 investigations of 45 patients. The CBF was measured using the intra-arterial 133-Xe clearance technique within one hour of angiography. A positive correlation...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Jakobsen M,Overgaard J,Marcussen E,Enevoldsen EM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-seven patients with CT-scan-diagnosed arachnoid cysts in the middle cranial fossa were studied. Five (18%) presented with progressive symptoms related to raised intracranial pressure which had developed after minor trauma and secondary bleeding, 12 (44%) presented with non-progressive symptoms, and 10 (37%) exh...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Passero S,Filosomi G,Cioni R,Venturi C,Volpini B

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:sHLA are secreted by B and T lymphocytes upon activation. These antigens are present in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The establishment of a sHLA index, IH = (CSF sHLA/serum sHLA)/(CSF albumin/serum albumin) helped us to define that values above 9.7 reflect an intrathecal synthesis of these proteins. IH was sig...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Alvarez-Cermeño JC,Casado C,Villar LM,Ferreira A,Varela JM,Dominguez M,Bootello A,Najera R,Gonzalez-Porque P

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of methylprednisolone (MP) on neurologic recovery and spinal cord blood flow (SCBF) was investigated up to 4 days after a spinal cord compression injury in rats. The injury was produced at midthoracic level by applying a load of 35 g on a 2.2 x 5.0 mm compression plate for 5 min, which resulted in transient...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Holtz A,Nyström B,Gerdin B

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-hundred and eighty-one children born with forceps delivery and 372 with normal delivery were followed up for 4-7 years. More children in the forceps group developed seizures than in normal group, i.e. 22:10. This was statistically significant (P less than 0.05). A prolonged follow-up is necessary for further obs...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Maheshwari MC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of variations of therapeutic response (dyskinesia and on-off phenomenon) in Parkinson's disease was conducted on 278 patients treated with levodopa for at least 6 months and hospitalized at National Neurological Institute "C. Besta" of Milan between 1974 and 1984. Variations of therapeutic respon...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Geminiani G,Cesana BM,Scigliano G,Soliveri P,Girotti F,Giovannini P,Caraceni T

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize the CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) lymphocytes in CNS (central nervous system) inflammation, we examined paired samples of CSF and PB (peripheral blood) of 19 patients with acute aseptic meningitis, performing the dual labelling method on flow cytometry. Significantly higher percentages of CD3+ (T ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Uchihara T,Ikeda M,Takahashi H,Yoshida S,Tsukagoshi H

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the blood-brain barrier (BBB function), serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 118 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 50 healthy controls was analyzed with regard to albumin concentrations. For the AD group, clinical vascular factors were also recorded. The CSF/serum albumin ratio was used as ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Blennow K,Wallin A,Fredman P,Karlsson I,Gottfries CG,Svennerholm L

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with HTLV-1 associated myelopathy (HAM) were examined for the presence of HTLV-1 provirus genome by Southern blot analysis of genomic DNA from peripheral blood mononuclear (PBM) cells. Random integration of the provirus was detected in 14 of 16 HAM patients. By contrast, the provirus genome could not ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Nishimura M,Adachi A,Akiguchi I,Shirahata N,Maeda M,Ishimoto A,Mezaki T,Kimura J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG) band patterns were investigated in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 19 patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) in a search for abnormalities indicating central nervous system (CNS) involvement in this disorder. Using the isoelectric focusing (IEF) technique and antiserum immunoblotting against IgG, w...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Mavra M,Apostolski S,Nikolic J,Thompson EJ

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied clinically and electrophysiologically 8 patients affected by orthostatic tremor (OT), which is an unusual movement disorder consisting of shaking movements of the legs and trunk in the standing position. We failed to find any cause in 6 of the 8 cases. In 2 patients OT was clearly secondary to neurologic di...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Gabellini AS,Martinelli P,Gullì MR,Ambrosetto G,Ciucci G,Lugaresi E

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to transcode integers from ideographic to alphabetic script was assessed in patients with dementia of Alzheimer type. Eleven of 13 consecutive patients made characteristic errors of intrusion. We propose that this may be a simple bedside test for dementia. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Tegnér R,Nybäck H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum and CSF from 53 vascular dementia (VD) patients and 50 controls were analysed to investigate the possibility of an intrathecal synthesis of IgG, defined as an elevated IgG index (greater than or equal to 7) and/or presence of oligoclonal IgG in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), but not in serum. Five (9%) patients and ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Wallin A,Blennow K,Fredman P,Gottfries CG,Karlsson I,Svennerholm L

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:Symptoms of acute renal failure were observed in an anorexia patient who had a history of frequent vomiting. The acute renal failure might have resulted from rhabdomyolysis subsequent to a disturbance of electrolyte balance. This acute renal failure might have resulted in death if not treated. We postulate that even a...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Abe K,Mezaki T,Hirono N,Udaka F,Kameyama M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:POEMS or Crow-Fukase syndrome is a multisystemic, clinically malignant disorder of obscure etiology. Peripheral neuropathy and plasma cell dyscrasia are central features. The authors now report 7 Chinese patients with this syndrome in which PCD or paraproteinemia were absent in 6, and 2 had a lymph node histology rese...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Thajeb P,Chee CY,Lo SF,Lee N

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-2-microglobulin (beta 2m) levels were studied in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma of 52 patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) and of 14 with aseptic meningo-encephalitis (AM). Reference values for beta 2m were defined in 72 subjects of different age groups with tension headache (TH). P...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Us O,Lolli F,Baig S,Link H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existence of clinical subgroups among cases of Wilson's disease has long been postulated and various classifications suggested but none statistically tested. This study analyses, by means of pattern recognition techniques, 400 cases from 4 series including our own (n = 195). Factor analysis (to summarise variables) an...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Dening TR,Berrios GE

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to establish the efficacy of the different diagnostic tests, 41 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients at different stages of the disease were studied by means of visual evoked potential (VEP) recording, T-lymphocyte subset determination cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. M...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sola P,Scarpa M,Faglioni P,Sorgato P,Merelli E

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of metabolic abnormalities in the development of diabetic neuropathy is controversial. To investigate the peripheral nerve function and the influence of hyperglycemia on nerve conduction in insulin-dependent diabetes, a one-year neurophysiological study was carried out in 30 type 1 diabetic patients ranging i...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Meli F,Cardella F,Raimondo D,Modica A,Muscarella A,Fierro B

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of seizures on synthesis of the polyadenylic acid (poly(A]-containing messenger RNA (mRNA) isolated from brain polysomes in a genetically seizure-susceptible E1 mouse was studied in vivo. The seizure in the E1 mice was induced by tossed-up stimulation. Immediately after the seizure ceased, the labeled oroti...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Yamagami S,Onishi H,Kawakita Y

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrathecal production (ITP) of the immunoglobulins (Ig) G, A, M and D was examined in untreated patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and controls. Sensitive sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay systems were applied to the determination of IgA, IgM and IgD levels in the cerebrospinal fluid and plasma from a...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Lolli F,Halawa I,Link H

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of 7 mitochondrial enzymes, fumarase, NAD-malate dehydrogenase (MDH), citrate synthase (CS), valine dehydrogenase (VDH), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC) has been measured in platelet preparations from patients affected by Friedreich's ata...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Sorbi S,Piacentini S,Fani C,Tonini S,Marini P,Amaducci L

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Debate about the lesion site in the Miller Fisher syndrome is still going on. We studied a patient with features of the Miller Fisher syndrome in whom arguments for both central and peripheral nervous system dysfunction were found. ...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Taphoorn MJ,Lanting P,Hazenberg GJ,Uitdehaag BJ,Kaiser MC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow (CBF) was studied in 4 patients with acute reversible ischemia (RIND). To test the ischemic areas' vasoreactivity, CBF was measured by the Xenon-133 inhalation method, before and after acetazolamide injected intravenously. At the baseline CBF study, 3 patients presented hypoperfused areas while one...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Di Piero V,Pozzilli C,Pantano P,Grasso MG,Fieschi C

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) family with a manifesting carrier. Proximal muscle weakness, pseudohypertrophy of the calves, significantly elevated serum creatine kinase and dystrophic alterations in the muscle biopsy were the characteristic phenotypical features of this manifesting carrier. The recombin...

journal_title：Acta neurologica Scandinavica

authors： Ionasescu VV,Searby CC,Ionasescu R

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00