abstract：:Severe weakness of lower cranial and girdle muscles has been found in 4 subjects among 20 dialysis patients treated with carnitine in order to correct their high plasma triglyceride level. Neurophysiological investigation showed an impairment of neuromuscular transmission with short-term reduction of evoked muscle res...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： De Grandis D,Mezzina C,Fiaschi A,Pinelli P,Bazzato G,Morachiello M

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited muscular dystrophy of the chicken is an abnormality affecting the normal development and function of fast-twitch skeletal muscles. Several different strains of dystrophic chickens have been developed by selection for high lipid content in the pectoralis muscle and early onset of the disorder or by outcrossin...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Randall WR,Wilson BW

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 6 baboons the deep peroneal nerve was compressed for 1 hr by a weighted cord laid over the leg just above the ankle. The procedure was carried out on both sides in a single experiment. On one side the whole leg was rendered ischaemic by a cuff round the thigh which was maintained for 3 or 4 hr before and during the...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Williams IR,Jefferson D,Gilliatt RW

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a histochemical and histographic analysis of the masticatory muscles obtained from 78 early autopsy samples from subjects from 4 days to 87 years old. Five groups of muscles have been stuied: the temporalis, the medial and lateral pterygoid, the superficial bundle of the masseter and the mylohyoid...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Vignon C,Pellissier JF,Serratrice G

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairment of nervous function and thiamine metabolism were studied in 40 patients suffering from pernicious anaemia, 20 of whom had not been treated and the other 20 were on hydroxocobalamin therapy. Of the untreated patients 13 (65%) showed signs of peripheral nerve dysfunction with reduced conduction velocities, as...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Cox-Klazinga M,Endtz LJ

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of synergist tenotomy have been studied on rat soleus muscles after denervation and after interference with sciatic axoplasmic flow with colchicine. The results suggest that neural, as well as muscular, factors cause compensatory hypertrophy (CH) of soleus. The myogenic factor may be mild depolarization of...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hofmann WW

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropathology of 8 cases of S. Paulo south coast epidemic encephalitis (Rocio flavivirus), a new arbo B virus encephalitis, is described. The topographic pattern of the lesions appears to be almost specific. The gray matter is predominantly affected. Interstitial mononuclear infiltration, microglial proliferation...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Rosemberg S

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human SV-40 transformed brain cell lines derived from Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) and normal fetal cerebra were grown in culture and analyzed for their ganglioside content. Both the TSD and normal cells contained GM3, GM2, and a novel triheoxyl N-acetylglucosamine-containing ganglioside. In order to increase tumorigenicit...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Schneck L,Hoffman LM,Brooks SE,Amsterdam D

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elderly man with relapsing myasthenia gravis was found to have hypergammaglobulinaemia, a monoclonal peak of gamma mobility and paraproteinaemia IgG, type K. Bence-Jones proteinuria, type K was present. This is the fourth report of myasthenia gravis associated with a monoclonal gammopathy. Myasthenia gravis is cons...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Galli M,Landi G,Restelli DL,Scarlato G

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size and the distribution of type I and tye II fibres was determined in the gluteus maximus (21 cases), gluteus medius (56 cases) and tensor faciae latae (27 cases) muscles of patients with osteoarthritis of the hip. The patients were of both sexes, aged between 37 and 64 years (younger group) and between 65 and 7...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Sĭrca A,Susec-Michieli M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for preparative separation of cerebrospinal fluid specific proteins by affinity chromatography and isoelectric focusing is described. It has been tested on CSF from a group of human patients suffering from TIA. The advantage of the method is the production of a protein pattern easy to survey by eye. The sensi...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Wikkelsøo C,Blomstrand C,Rönnbäck L

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligation of either the common and internal iliac or the internal and external iliac arteries produced ischaemic lesions of the sciatic nerve and its branches, as well as direct muscle damage, in 5 out of 6 rabbits. In one animal, ligation of the aorta and of the internal iliac artery on one side produced a similar mix...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Hess K,Eames RA,Darveniza P,Gilliatt RW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcification of the perineurium in sural nerves occurs in human adults. Deposits of calcium salts can be found focally in the middle and outer layers of the perineurium. Evidence indicates that this calcification is related to nerve fibre breakdown and to the local presence of lipids in the perineurium. The origin of...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Van Lis JM,Jennekens FG,Veldman H

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intercellular adhesiveness of skin fibroblasts from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and normal controls has been measured by determining the collision efficencies of cells using the couette viscometer. The collision efficencies for dystrophic cells were significantly lower that those for normal cells (0....

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jones GE,Witkowski JA

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degeneration at the neuromuscular function following cutting the phrenic nerve at the 9th intercostal space differs in red, white and intermediate skeletal muscle fibers. The ultrastructure of the nerve terminal and the muscle fiber between 12 hours and 21 days following denervation suggests that lack of neurotrophic ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Pulliam DL,April EW

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice were inoculated with herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 by gently scraping the skin of the nose with a fine needle. About 80% of the animals developed latent inapparent HSV infections in trigeminal ganglia. Virus was demonstrable for at least 6 months post inoculation (p.i.) by cocultivation of ganglionic tissue w...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kristensson K,Svennerholm B,Persson L,Vahlne A,Lycke E

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using special soft tissue X-ray investigations the authors have found that the increase in volume of the calf musculature in progressive muscular dystrophy does not seem to be in complete accordance with the criteria of pseudohypertrophy. It has been demonstrated that this structural alteration of the musculature does...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Pálvölgyi R,Gallai M

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Finnish family is described with 9 cases of presenile dementia in 3 generations. The mean age at onset was 52 years (range 46--62 years). Progressive dementia, upper motor neuron signs, muscular rigidity, and twitching, irregular tremors were consistent features in the 6 clinically investigated patients and were ass...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Haltia M,Kovanen J,Van Crevel H,Bots GT,Stefanko S

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection of guinea pigs from experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) was attempted using bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from 4 sources. The ability of these LPS to induce DNA synthesis in guinea pig lymph node (LN) cells in vitro was also investigated. It was found that there existed a good correlation bet...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Nagasawa K,Mori R,Kondo S,Hisatsune K

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hitherto published results on the impact of brain atrophy on the neurological and psychopathological sympion of this problem without risk of complications. We investigated 173 parkinsonian patients (89 men, 84 women) aged 37--83 years. Besides CT in all patients a standardized neurological and psychopathological inves...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Schneider E,Fischer PA,Jacobi P,Becker H,Hacker H

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved method for identification of CSF and serum proteins is described, using analytical isoelectric focusing followed by direct immunofixation in polyacrylamide gel. This method offers high sensitivity together with retained resolution after isoelectric focusing and is technically easy to perform. The gamma-tra...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Stibler H

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report the clinical features of a case of clofibrate-induced muscular syndrome, as well as the electromyographic, histochemical, light- and electron-microscopic findings are described. The clinical features are similar to those of previously reported cases. Electromyography was consistent with a myopathy. Hist...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Abourizk N,Khalil BA,Bahuth N,Afifi AK

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement-dependent gliotoxic antibody activity was determined in 22 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 19 normal control persons. Peripheral blood serum was collected from MS patients at about 4-week intervals for one year, and the results of cytotoxicity tests correlated with the course of disease. For 10 MS...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mar P,Gradl T,Dörner C

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the results of a simple and reproducible technique which can be used in semi-routine analysis of peripheral nerve biopsy specimens, so as to have a quantitative analysis of the major lipid classes, i.e. cholesterol, cerebrosides, ethanolamine phospholipids, phosphatidyl-choline, phosphatidyl-serine + ph...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Pollet S,Hauw JJ,Turpin JC,Le Saux F,Escourolle R,Baumann N

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical value and practical application of the electrically induced BC reflex was investigated in 40 patients with traumatic or compressive lesions of the conus medullaris or cauda equina. It was shown that the BC reflex was either absent or delayed depending upon the invovlement of the sacral 2--4 spinal and rad...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Ertekin C,Reel F,Mutlu R,Kerküklü I

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extraction and purification of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) from human fibrillary cerebellar astrocytoma is described. Using an immunoperoxidase method, antisera raised to the protein showed specific staining of astrocytes in normal spinal cord and in tumours of astrocytic origin. A double antibody radio...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Palfreyman JW,Thomas DG,Ratcliffe JG,Graham DI

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data of 2399 brain weights and ages from populations before 1880, 1885 to 1900 and 1966 to 1976 were obtained from German anatomical and pathological institutes, analyzed with non-linear and multiple linear regression analyses and the results compared. The influence of the absolute age (sample period) on brain weights...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kretschmann HJ,Schleicher A,Wingert F,Zilles K,Löblich HJ

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six patients with benign intracranial hypertension (BIH) were reviewed. Follow-up was obtained on 33 patients (91%) after a mean period of 7 1/2 years. Precipitating factors were found in 27 patients (75%). On admission, 5 patients had retro-ocular pain, especially on eye movements, a complaint not yet describe...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Bulens C,De Vries WA,Van Crevel H

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Support for the hypothesis that biogenic amines are involved in the production of muscle diseases comes from a report that rat muscle is damaged by combining distal aortic ligation with serotonin injection. Our studies explore the role of serotonin in the production of the myopathic changes in the aortic ligation-sero...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kelts KA,Kaiser KK

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centronuclear myopathy, like myotonic dystrophy, is characterized by muscle wasting and type 1 fiber atrophy. To determine whether this disorder might include a derangement in carbohydrate metabolism similar to that in myotonic dystrophy, 3 comparably wasted patients with centronuclear myopathy, myotonic dystrophy, an...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Moxley RT 3rd,Griggs RC,Markesbery WR,Vangelder V

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle biopsies of hypotonic children have shown delayed maturation of a fetal type of muscle fibers: subsarcolemmal halo devoid of activity for mitochondrial dehydrogenases, type II predominance and in some cases abnormal dispersion of fiber diameter. Fiber subtypes within group II were also abnormal. One case has de...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Farkas-Bargeton E,Aicardi J,Arsenio-Nunes ML,Wehrle R

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal spinal cord blood flow was measured in the left dorsal column during left sciatic nerve stimulation, and compared to blood flow in the same area during sciatic nerve inactivity. Blood flow was found to be significantly increased during stimulation. It is suggested that this increased blood flow is a reflection o...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Kobrine AI,Evans DE,Rizzoli HV

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of the olivo-cerebellar fibers in the inferior cerebellar peduncle was examined in a patient who showed severe degeneration of the left olivary nucleus due to an old hemorrhagic infarct in the contralateral cerebellum. Other precerebellar nuclei which send their cerebellipetal axons to the inferior ce...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Iwata M,Hirano A

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low levels of muscle carnitine have been found in patients with Duchenne dystrophy, a case possibly of Becker dystrophy, and limb-girdle syndrome as well as in patients with the recently described muscle carnitine deficiency syndrome. Tissues of the mouse, hamster, and chicken were analyzed to determine whether tissue...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Borum PR,Park JH,Law PK,Roelops RI

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-dimensional immunoelectrophoresis on cellulose acetate, already utilized for serum proteins, has been applied to CSF proteins. The technical modifications which allow the use of unconcentrated CSF are described. By utilizing a particularly suitable supporting medium, a good separation of proteins is achieved; ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Baggio G,Bertolotto A,Moretti MG,Palmucci LC

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA and RNA (nucleic) antibodies were found in the CSF of 18 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) (out of 45), 11 with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) (out of 12) and 9 controls (out of 30). Viral (measles and rubella, by HAI) antibodies were present in all SSPE, 23 MS and 11 control patients. A clear corr...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Schuller E,Delasnerie N,Lebon P

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suspension of kaolin was injected into the cisterna magna of 44 rats at 2 weeks of age. Animals killed at intervals from 5--19 weeks of age showed varying degrees of hydrocephalus. Light microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy revealed stretching and flattening of the ependymal cells but no signifi...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Weller RO,Mitchell J,Griffin RL,Gardner MJ

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intravenous infusion of progesterone and Mebumal (ACO, Sweden; penotobarbital, INN) on the frequency and amplitude of the spontaneous interictal spikes from a penicillin focus in the cerebral cortex was investigated in ovariectomized cats anaesthetized with chloralose. The plasma concentration of progest...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Landgren S,Bäckström T,Kalistratov G

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured post-fused human skeletal muscle monolayers exposed to WSN influenza A virus were analyzed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. At 12-14h post-inoculation (p.i.), affected mononuclear cells retracted from the cell surface, but remained anchored to the substrate by taut filar processes. Retraction...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Miranda AF,Gamboa ET,Armstrong CL,Hsu KC

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 40 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease and their age- and sex-matched controls were assayed for immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies against herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1-induced cell surface antigens with the indirect immunofluorescent test. An increased level of HSV antibodies was found among the...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Marttila RJ,Rinne UK

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00