abstract：:Further observations on a family with facioscapulohumeral (FSH) muscular dystrophy due to mitochondrial myopathy, and on a case with lipid storage myopathy are reported. One member of the family with FSH muscular dystrophy died due to a viral pneumonia, during which she developed gross hyperlacticacidaemia and acidosi...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Bradley WG,Tomlinson BE,Hardy M

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describe 2 personal observations of peripheral neuropathy with cryoglobulinemia and the 28 cases previously recorded are reviewed. The characteristics of the usually sensorimotor neuropathy are not specific. Nevertheless, the association with purpura, Raynaud's syndrome and leg ulcers and the inconstant agg...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Géraud G,Laclergue JP,Bès A,Géraud J

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that fused human muscle in culture supports neurotropic influenza A viral infection, as demonstrated by viral growth experiments, hemadsorption, observation of cytopathic changes and detection of intracellular viral antigen. The time of peak virion production and the appearance of cytopathic effects in these ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

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

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven spinal cords from subjects between 13 and 95 years of age have been examined; in the majority death occurred suddenly or rapidly from a state of previous good health. The limb motor neurons in the lumbospinal segments have been estimated by counting nucleoli in characeteristic cells in every fifth group of...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tomlinson BE,Irving D

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of clusters of Marchi-positive granules and of Marchi-positive myelinoid bodies at different postnatal developmental stages was examined lightmicroscopically in Vibratome sections from the cervical lateral funiculus of the cat, after perfusion-fixation with glutaraldehyde. The findings show that cluster...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Remahl S,Risling M,Hildebrand C

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron-microscopic X-ray microanalysis has been used to compare elemental concentrations in specific organelles in normal and diseased human muscle. An elevated calcium to phosphorus ratio has been found in both myonuclei and interstitial cell nuclei in diseased muscle compared with controls. Preliminary observation...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Maunder CA,Yarom R,Dubowitz V

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (gamma-GT), a membrane-bound enzyme, was assayed by a sensitive fluorometric method in the brain, heart, kidney, liver, skeletal muscle and serum of normal and dystrophic hamsters and mice. Normal and dystrophic hamsters were of the golden brown and BIO 14.6 line respectiv...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Neerunjun JS,Dubowitz V

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings in a sural nerve biopsy from a patient with rheumatoid neuropathy are reported. Inflammatory changes in different stages were observed in epineurial arterioles. Arterioles with fibrinoid necrosis contained IgG, IgM, rheumatoid factor and complement. The same substances were found at the inner site of the peri...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Van Lis JM,Jennekens FG

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five human brain tumours (3 glioblastomas and 2 astrocytomas) and 5 rat brain tumours induced in Sprague--Dawley animals by systemic administration of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (3 pleomorphic gliomas and 2 mixed gliomas) were studied. The human brain tumours were surgical specimens excised from patients with no cranial s...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Stavrou D,Anzil AP,Weidenbach W,Rodt H

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) was induced in guinea-pigs by intradermal injection of rabbit peripheral nerve emulsified in Freund's adjuvant. Both sciatic nerves were obtained between 12--24 hr after clinical symptoms were evident. Several fascicles from each nerve were isolated for histochemical studies with N...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Martinez A,Blanes A,Ramon y Cajal Junquera S,De Ispizua I,Campo C

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mongolian gerbil, because of the uniqueness of the anatomical features of its circle of Willis, has become an increasingly useful model in the study of cerebrovascular disease. The present work defines acute changes at the ultrastructural level following ischemic insult. The pathomorphological responses include in...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Dodson RF,Chu LW,Welch KM,Achar VS

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathological evidence of demyelination was found in the brain and sciatic nerve of diabetic patients at autopsy. The activity of acid proteinase was somewhat increased in the white matter but decreased in the gray matter of diabetic patients. No increase was observed in the activity of neutral proteinase in diabe...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Palo J,Reske-Nielsen E,Riekkinen P

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the case reported, an overproduction of aldosterone was accompanied by paretic attacks, a decrease in the serum potassium level, and in muscle tone and the deep tendon reflexes. The decrease of serum potassium level was consistent, but moderate, being to just below the normal lower limit. Loading with carbohydrate ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Gallai M

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of histocompatibility antigens was studied in 44 patients with motor neurone disease (MND). An unusually high incidence of HLA antigens A2 and A28 was found, compared to a control population. ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Behan PO,Dick HM,Durward WF

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of demyelinating polyneuropathy is reported which was clinically and pathologically indistinguishable from the Guillain-Barré syndrome, with the exception that the symptoms progressed steadily for 7 months. Pathologically, the peripheral nerves and intraspinal roots showed selective demyelination with axonal sp...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Torvik A,Lundar T

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fingerprint inclusions were identified in the skeletal muscle of a child with severe hypotonia. The mean Z-line and M-line widths from each of 19 muscle fibers containing the fingerprint inclusions were calculated. The mean Z-line widths were 85-99 nm, and the mean M-line widths were 75-101 nm. According to out presen...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Payne CM,Curless RG

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADE) and 4 patients in the terminal stages of multiple sclerosis (MS) were subjected to treatment with Cop 1, a synthetic copolymer of amino acids, which had previously been shown to have a beneficial effect in the treatment of experimental allergic encephalomy...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Abramsky O,Teitelbaum D,Arnon R

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The volume of the lumbar sac measured in 4 subjects was found to be 15.5 ml. Exactly 15 ml of lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (L-CSF) was permitted to flow freely out during a lumbar puncture in 20 neurological patients and small samples of the L-CSF were collected in the beginning (sample 1), at the middle (sample 2), and...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jakupcević M,Lacković Z,Stefoski D,Bulat M

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of carrying out electrophysiological experiments on the mouse spinal cord is described. The conduction velocity in the spinal dorsal roots (DR) of the normal mouse was in the range 10-100 m sec-1 and in the ventral roots (VR) 50-70 m sec-1. In the dystrophic mutant (129 ReJ dy/dy) the conduction velocity for ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Biscoe TJ,Headley PM,Martin MR,Stirling CA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and electrophysiological observations have been carried out on 12 patients with myotonic dystrophy. Neurological examination showed that the tendon reflexes were absent or weak in almost all cases, whereas the cutaneous reflexes were normal. Examination of both deep and superficial sensibility gave normal res...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Messina C,Tonali P,Scoppetta C

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Trembler mouse suffers from a dominantly inherited hypertrophic neuropathy. Electron microscopy, including a quantitative analysis of myelination was performed on the nerves of Trembler mice from birth to senility and compared with the findings in control mice. Axons in adult Trembler nerves were thinly myelinated...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Low PA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute lesions within spinal cord white matter have been studied by light and electron microscopy in 3 dogs suffering from the acute form of canine distemper encephalomyelitis (CDE). Prominent features of these lesions were viral inclusions, giant cell formation, cellular degeneration, myelin breakdown and phagocytic a...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Raine CS

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatiguability is a determining characteristic of different muscle fibre types. An important aspect, indirectly related to fatiguability, gluconeogenesis, was investigated by observing fructose-1,6-diphosphatase (FDP) activity in experimental models prepared in rabbits by cross-reinnervation of the fatigue-resistant m....

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Jöbsis AC,Meijer AE,Vloedman AH

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lead content of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was found to be significantly elevated in 12 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, when compared to 28 control subjects having non-degenerative neurological disorders. The difference could not be explained as being merely secondary to blood-CSF barrier damage. A hyp...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Conradi S,Ronnevi LO,Vesterberg O

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dantrolene sodium, an anti-spasticity drug with a site of action within the muscle fibres, were studied in 19 patients with spastic paresis. Oral doses were successively increased from 100 mg/day to a maximal tolerated level or up to 800 mg/day. Trial periods were 8-13 weeks. The responses of stretch re...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Knutsson E,Martensson A

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the muscle biopsies of 8 patients with myotonia congenita. There were 2 families with autosomal recessive inheritance (5 cases), 1 with autosomal dominant inheritance, and 2 sporadic cases. Mild abnormalities were seen with routine pathological preparations which were nondiagnostic. Histochemical ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Crews J,Kaiser KK,Brooke MH

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural alterations were observed in the sciatic nerve of dystrophic mice. Myelin sheaths were abnormal in shape, abruptly ceased beyond a node of Ranvier, leaving the axon naked. These changes were seen in both afferent and efferent nerve fibres. Apparent embryonal Schwann cells and Schwann cells which were a...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Okada E,Mizuhira V,Nakamura H

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clausen modification of the peripheral blood buffy coat leukocyte migration test was used to test patients with multiple sclerosis, normal subjects and patients with other neurologic diseases for cell-mediated immunity to commercial measles virus, purified nuclear core material from a human neurotropic strain of m...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Ciongoli AK,Lisak RP,Zweiman B,Koprowski H,Waters D

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of specific IgM antibodies and direct electron-microscopic examination of brain biopsies or vesicle fluid was tested as means of raped diagnosis in 6 cases of herpes simplex encephalitis seen consecutively in Montreal. In 2 of 3 biopsies herpes viruses were seen by negative staining of a cell extract within 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Joncas JH,Berthiaume L,McLaughlin B,Granger-Julien M

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Glutamyl transpeptidase, a membrane-bound enzyme playing an important role in the active amino acid transport across cellular membranes, is shown to be elevated in the serum of patients with myotonic muscular dystrophy. No increase of AP, LAP, GOT and GPT activities in the sera of some of the patients studied is...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Alevizos B,Spengos M,Vassilopoulos D,Stefanis C

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary spongiform dystrophy in young children is characterised by macrocephaly with spasticity, convulsions and ultimately a decerebrate state and diffuse electroencephalographic changes. Histological examination of the brain remains essential for its diagnosis. A review of the ultrastructural studies reported by ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Mirimanoff P

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of arterial occlusion and related lesions have been studied in 26 cases with 38 medullary infarcts. In 10 of these cases, only the intracranial vessels were examined. In the 16 other cases, the entire cerebral arterial supply was dissected. Medial infarcts were more often related to occlusion of the verteb...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Escourolle R,Hauw JJ,Agopian PD,Trelles L

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen months after castration of male rats the weight of their soleus muscles was lowered to 82% and their choline acetyltransferase (ChAc) activity to 83% of control values. The administration of testosterone lasting 5 weeks increased the weight of the soleus muscles of castrated animals by 19% and their ChAc acti...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Tucek S,Kŏstírová D,Gutmann E

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical tissue oxygen measured by a platinum cathode, and cerebral blood flow recorded by a hydrogen clearance technique, were measured in 13 baboons before, during and after temporary occlusion of the middle cerebral artery. Mean control pO2 was 23.8 +/- 14 mm Hg and mean flow 51.3 +/- 12 ml/100g/min. During the occ...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Crockard HA,Symon L,Branston NM,Juhasz J

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients with acute, unilateral optic neuritis (ON), where re-examination after a mean observation period of 5 years did not reveal any aetiology, were investigated with regard to laboratory abnormalities frequently observed in multiple sclerosis. Eleven patients had oligoclonal IgG in CSF. In 5 of these a meas...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Stendahl L,Link H,Möller E,Norrby E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord blood flow (SCBF) has been measured in segments of the thoracolumbar cord of dogs using the hydrogen clearance technique. Clearances were recorded and flows calculated from electrodes placed in grey and white matter. The position of the recording electrodes was marked by diathermy and confirmed in each exp...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Griffiths IR,Rowan JO,Crawford RA

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of parabiotic reinnervation has been used to test directly the neurogenic theory of the aetiology of muscular dystrophy in mice. Dystrophic muscles contain significantly fewer muscle fibres than their normal controls; they also have a much broader spectrum of fibre size because of a much higher proportio...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Johnson MA,Montgomery A

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique called parabiotic reinnervation has been developed. This technique consisted of suturing the sectioned peripheral end of the common peroneal nerve of a normal mouse, strain 129 ReJ +/+ to that of the distal stump remaining after sectioning that same nerve in a dystrophic mouse, strain 129 ReJ dy/dy. The an...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Montgomery A

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural changes in cerebral tissue subjected to temporary occlusion on the right middle cerebral artery for intervals of 30 min, 1, 2, 3, and 4 hr were studied after daily injections of 10% glycerol in saline. These changes were compared with previously reported data from untreated animals. The extent of tiss...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Dodson RF,Tagashira Y,Wai-Fong Chu L

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of anatomo-clinical observations were investigated on 776 out of 982 consecutive persons hospitalized at the University Psychiatric Clinic of Geneva. Discriminant function analysis shows that most of the anatomical classes (no dementia, senile dementia, Alzheimerized senile dementia and Alzheimer's pre...

journal_title：Journal of the neurological sciences

authors： Todorov AB,Go RC,Constantinidis J,Elston RC

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00