abstract：:The cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is unknown. In this review clinical and scientific data that are pertinent to understanding this disease are reviewed. There are currently several major controversies concerning the possible role of immunological factors, genetic factors, environmental toxins, and viral infec...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Swash M,Schwartz MS

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated in a rat myotube assay the combined effect of 26 myasthenic (MG) patient sera and a thymic peptide, thymopoietin (Tpo) which had previously been shown to bind Torpedo and human AChR and to compete with alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha-Bgt) binding. Cultures were first exposed to Tpo alone for 3 h (0.3, 7.5, 1...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Eymard B,Aimé C,Cottin C,Morel E,Goldstein G,Bach JF,Berrih-Aknin S

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corpus callosum (CC) atrophy by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a common finding in multiple sclerosis (MS). In order to examine the relationship between CC atrophy and cortical brain metabolism, we compared the cerebral metabolic rates for glucose (CMRglc), measured by positron emission tomography (PET), of 8 MS ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Pozzilli C,Fieschi C,Perani D,Paulesu E,Comi G,Bastianello S,Bernardi S,Bettinardi V,Bozzao L,Canal N

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ageing neuromuscular system is thought to undergo a continual process of reorganization as motoneurones are lost and surviving motor nerves reinnervate neighbouring denervated muscle fibres. However, the extent to which collateral reinnervation is able to compensate for neural deficits in the ageing individual is ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Einsiedel LJ,Luff AR

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the neuronal mechanism of the motor disturbances of the Rolling mouse Nagoya (rolling, genotype rol/rol), an experimental neurologic mutant mouse, we studied the physiological characteristics of neurons of the globus pallidus (GP) in rolling, comparing them with those of the behaviorally normal heterozygo...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tomoda H,Kato M,Sakata S,Shima F

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoclonus epilepsy with ragged-red fibers (MERRF) has been shown to be associated with a specific point mutation at the nucleotide 8344 in the tRNA(Lys) gene of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). We screened 6 patients with clinically diagnosed MERRF and 1 patient with ocular myopathy for point mutations in the tRNA(Lys) gene...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Suomalainen A,Ciafaloni E,Koga Y,Peltonen L,DiMauro S,Schon EA

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials (ERPs) generated during the performance of visual discrimination tasks were studied in 31 patients with Parkinson's disease, 9 patients with Alzheimer's disease, and 37 normal control subjects. Actively and passively evoked P3 components (P3b and P3a) were respectively identified as the compon...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tachibana H,Toda L,Sugita M

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate a possible role of vitamin A in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) we compared serum levels of retinol (vitamin A), measured by HPLC, and the vitamin A/retinol binding protein (RBP) ratio of 42 PD patients (22 males and 20 females, mean age 67.3 +/- 1.34 years) and their respective spouses as co...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jiménez-Jiménez FJ,Molina JA,Fernández-Calle P,Vázquez A,Pondal M,del Ser T,Gómez-Pastor A,Codoceo R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Out of 66 patients who were diagnosed as suffering from polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR; n = 40), temporal arteritis (AT; n = 14) or both (n = 12) in a 6.5 year period (incidence 3.4/100,000 per year), 9 died and 49 were followed up for an average period of 28 months. Exacerbations of the illness (n = 24) and complication...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Berlit P

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to support the concept that a lesion of the thalamus is sufficient to cause a Korsakoff syndrome, we are presenting 5 patients, all of whom developed the syndrome after sustaining a left (dominant) thalamic infarction. Two patients had pure thalamic strokes followed by a permanent Korsakoff syndrome. One of t...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Cole M,Winkelman MD,Morris JC,Simon JE,Boyd TA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare the effects of total catecholamine (CA) or noradrenaline (NA) depletions on cholinergic systems, and the mechanisms of receptor regulation in various brain regions, the regional changes in the levels of acetylcholine (ACh), M1-receptor (M1-R) binding, and M1-R messenger RNA (mRNA) were mainly exami...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Asanuma M,Ogawa N,Haba K,Hirata H,Mori A

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the diameter of the most distal portion of the axonal initial segment, the neuronal size of anterior horn cells, and the length of the axon hillock plus the initial segment (AH+IS) in the lumbar spinal cord in motor neuron disease. Three patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and one with lower ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Sasaki S,Maruyama S

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3',5'-Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) is known to play an important role in the regulation of cyclic nucleotide levels in various tissues including the muscle. Previous studies have estimated the level of this enzyme in several neuromuscular disorders but the results have been variable. Moreover, there was n...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mishra SK,Menon NK,Roman D,Kumar S

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenogenic regions in the acetylcholine receptor (AChR) alpha-subunit were studied in view of the conformation-dependent B-cell epitope expected at beta-turn and the MHC class II-restricted T-cell epitope expected at alpha-helix. Torpedo AChR alpha 67-76 and alpha 107-116 were synthesized as the main immunogenic r...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Takamori M,Hamada T,Okumura S

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta,beta'-Iminodipropionitrile (IDPN) impairs axonal transport of neurofilaments; their accumulation leads to the formation of proximal swellings in motor axons. Similar proximal swellings are a feature of some cases of motor neuron disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Motor units in IDPN-treated anim...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Delio DA,Fiori MG,Lowndes HE

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the electrophysiological responses of endoneurial preparations derived from rat sciatic nerve to acute hypoxia in vitro. Preparations from control rats exhibited a 40% decline in compound action potential (CAP) amplitude after 40 min exposure to medium gassed with 8% O2. In preparations from 4 wee...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Calcutt NA,Carrington AL,Ettlinger CB,Tomlinson DR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predictive validity of evoked potentials (EPs) and event-related potentials (ERPs) in multiple sclerosis (MS) has not yet been fully investigated, as only the sensitivity of these tests has sofar been reported. EPs (short, middle and long latency auditory evoked potentials and visual evoked potentials) and ERPs (v...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： van Dijk JG,Jennekens-Schinkel A,Caekebeke JF,Singh A,Zwinderman AH

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor evoked potentials (MEP) were recorded in 23 patients with definite relapsing multiple sclerosis before and after treatment with a short course of high dose of methylprednisolone. MEP were performed together with clinical examination just before treatment, and 6 and 60 days later. The following results were obser...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Salle JY,Hugon J,Tabaraud F,Boulesteix JM,Vallat JM,Dumas M,Poser CM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-suppressed proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy which has recently shown diagnostic potential in human stroke victims was performed in two patients who had suffered a hemispheric transient ischemic attack. Localized spectra were targeted from routine MR images. In one patient lactate could be observed 8 weeks ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Felber S,Luef G,Aichner F

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of long-term exposure to aluminium on the development of Alzheimer-type neuropathological changes have been studied post-mortem in patients with chronic renal failure who did not have dialysis encephalopathy. Administration of aluminium-containing phosphate binding compounds appears to be a major factor in...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Candy JM,McArthur FK,Oakley AE,Taylor GA,Chen CP,Mountfort SA,Thompson JE,Chalker PR,Bishop HE,Beyreuther K

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of MS has become better understood as a result of recent advances in several areas, particularly in epidemiology and neuro-imaging. A number of epidemiologically based conclusions need to be revised, most importantly the putative direct relationship between prevalence and latitude, and the concept tha...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Poser CM

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the relationship between antibody titers to recombinant HTLV-I p40tax protein and gag-env hybrid protein in serum (by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) and HTLV-I proviral DNA load in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (by a quantitative polymerase chain reaction method) in 18 patients with HTLV-I-assoc...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kira J,Nakamura M,Sawada T,Koyanagi Y,Ohori N,Itoyama Y,Yamamoto N,Sakaki Y,Goto I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) using the [99mTc]-d,l-HMPAO technique with brain dedicated high resolution single photon emission computer tomography (SPECT) in 14 consecutive patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), median age 62 years (45-77). Global CBF, expressed in % relative to the ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Waldemar G,Vorstrup S,Jensen TS,Johnsen A,Boysen G

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study tested aspects of a novel etiological/pathogenetic hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which proposes that alterations in endocrine regulation of peripheral calcium/phosphate (Ca/PO4) homeostasis (e.g., by glucocorticoids, vitamin D, etc.) induce and/or reflect altered calcium homeostasis and neu...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Landfield PW,Applegate MD,Schmitzer-Osborne SE,Naylor CE

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronal images of position emission tomography (PET) by 18F-labelled deoxyglucose reconstructed from interpolated scan in Alzheimer's disease clearly indicated suppression of glucose metabolism in the parietal lobe and lateral part of the temporal lobes, compared to normal controls. The medial part of the temporal lob...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Fukuyama H,Harada K,Yamauchi H,Miyoshi T,Yamaguchi S,Kimura J,Kameyama M,Senda M,Yonekura Y,Konishi J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a 10-year-old patient with high levels of serum IgE and inflammatory myopathy whose muscle fibers exhibit excessive autophagy. Previous studies have demonstrated surface expression of class I MHC antigens on muscle fibers from patients with inflammatory myopathy. The muscle fibers of this patients sho...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Higuchi I,Nerenberg M,Ijichi T,Fukunaga H,Arimura K,Usuki F,Kuriyama M,Osame M

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five French families with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) were found to have either of 2 different point mutations (at codons 178 and 200) in the amyloid precursor gene (PRNP) on chromosome 20. The ancestry of these and other CJD families outside of France suggests that the codon 178 mutation had a northern European o...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Brown P,Goldfarb LG,Cathala F,Vrbovská A,Sulima M,Nieto A,Gibbs CJ Jr,Gajdusek DC

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 50 patients with computed tomography-verified small, deep, lacunar, infarcts from a prospective stroke registry, we studied the lesion site in relationship with the clinical syndromes pure motor stroke, sensorimotor stroke and ataxic hemiparesis. Seventy per cent (95% confidence interval: 57-83%) of the lesions wer...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Boiten J,Lodder J

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive enzyme immunoassay (EIA) micromethod is described which can measure levels of a 14 kDa human brain lectin (HBL) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients submitted to CSF examination. The assay is based on the use of a polyclonal antibody to HBL and the simultaneous application of biotinylated and unlab...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Eloumami H,Caron M,Joubert R,Doinel C,Bladier D

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical data are presented of 63 artificially ventilated Guillain-Barré patients. About half of them had an antecedent event. In 57% the disease was heralded by sensory symptoms. The mean progressive phase lasted 12 days, the plateau 12 days and the recovery phase 568 days. In all patients one or more cranial nerves ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： de Jager AE,Sluiter HJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 40-year-old female suffering from recurrent migrainous strokes is reported. She did not show any muscle weakness or wasting. Ragged red and cytochrome c oxidase negative fibers were present in the muscle biopsy. Muscle mitochondrial DNA analysis showed a 5 kb deletion, without a point mutation at nucleotide pair 324...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Bresolin N,Martinelli P,Barbiroli B,Zaniol P,Ausenda C,Montagna P,Gallanti A,Comi GP,Scarlato G,Lugaresi E

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study, we analysed the presence of monoclonal immunoglobulin (moIg) in the serum from 30 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and 30 matched controls using a sensitive Western blot technique. The incidence of serum moIg was 60% in the ALS group and 13.3% in the control group. Most ALS ser...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Duarte F,Binet S,Lacomblez L,Bouche P,Preud'homme JL,Meininger V

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two ganglionic cell groups, located close together and called the internal carotid ganglion, not described before in man, were demonstrated extradurally on the ventrolateral surface of the human internal carotid artery (ICA), where the greater superficial petrosal nerve is joined by the (greater) deep petrosal nerve t...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Suzuki N,Hardebo JE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single blind randomized study has been conducted in 216 patients with severe or moderate head injury, with the aim of comparing the evolution of those that received only conventional treatment with the evolution of those treated with CDP-choline. Our results indicate that CDP-choline improves the global outcome of p...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Calatayud Maldonado V,Calatayud Pérez JB,Aso Escario J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods for the investigation of oligoclonal immunoglobulin bands in cerebrospinal fluid are compared. Isoelectric focusing (IEF) in agarose gels combined with a highly sensitive affinity immunoblotting proved to be superior to PAGE-IEF and silver staining regarding detection sensitivity and expenditure of labour....

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kaiser R

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postnatal development of the human visual cortex is characterized by an overshooting growth pattern of its volume with a maximum at 8 postnatal months and by loss of a substantial proportion of its neurons. The highest rate of reduction in neuronal numbers is observed in layers II-IVa, with other layers showing a more...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Klekamp J,Riedel A,Harper C,Kretschmann HJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 83-day-old male infant had convulsions, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and lactic acidosis. Cranial computed tomography revealed low-density areas in both parieto-occipital lobes and in the left temporal lobe. Muscle biopsy did not reveal ragged-red fibers, but abnormal mitochondria were found in the capillary endoth...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Fujii T,Okuno T,Ito M,Mutoh K,Horiguchi Y,Tashiro H,Mikawa H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence has suggested that Alzheimer's disease may result from an underlying defect of protein catabolism. In an attempt to identify such a defect, we have determined the levels of Ca(2+)-activated proteinase (principally calpain II) and endogenous inhibitor (calpastatin) activity in normal and Alzheimer's dis...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mantle D,Perry EK

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of class II antigen was studied in sural nerve biopsies from patients with peripheral neuropathies. These included patients with chronic demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), non-immune mediated neuropathies of diverse etiologies and controls without evidence of neuropathy. The major finding in C...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mitchell GW,Williams GS,Bosch EP,Hart MN

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative contributions of two potential pathogenetic factors for cognitive impairments among patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID) are reported. Cognitive test scores were correlated with measures of cerebral hypoperfusion and loss of brain parenchyma. Local cerebral blood flow values were determined utilizing st...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kawamura J,Meyer JS,Terayama Y,Weathers S

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00