Predictive Value of Serum Antibodies and Point Mutations of AQP4, AQP1 and MOG in A Cohort of Spanish Patients with Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders [PDF]
The detection of IgG aquaporin-4 antibodies in the serum of patients with Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) has dramatically improved the diagnosis of this disease and its distinction from multiple sclerosis.
Abril-Jaramillo, Javier +14 more
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A Perspective of Coagulation Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis and in Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis [PDF]
A key role of both coagulation and vascular thrombosis has been reported since the first descriptions of multiple sclerosis (MS). Subsequently, the observation of a close concordance between perivascular fibrin(ogen) deposition and the occurrence of ...
Adams +158 more
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Neurofilament phosphoforms: Surrogate markers for axonal injury, degeneration and loss [PDF]
This review on the role of neurofilaments as surrogate markers for axonal degeneration in neurological diseases provides a brief background to protein synthesis, assembly, function and degeneration.
Petzold, A
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HIV positive patient with GBS-like syndrome [PDF]
Introduction. Guillain–Barré Syndrome (GBS) is an acute demyelinating polyneuropathy which can occur post-infection. Criteria of diagnosis of GBS include areflexia with progressive bilateral weakness in arms and legs.
Black, Heather +3 more
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Auditory evoked potentials and vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in evaluation of brainstem lesions in multiple sclerosis [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the roles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), auditory evoked potentials (AEP) and vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) in the evaluation of brainstem involvement in multiple sclerosis (MS). -
Adamec, Ivan +6 more
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Zika virus infection in the returning traveller: what every neurologist should know [PDF]
Zika virus has been associated with a wide range of neurological complications. Neurologists in areas without current active transmission of the virus may be confronted with Zika-associated neurological disease, as a large number of returning travellers ...
Brito Ferreira, Maria Lucia +6 more
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Optic neuritis in various demyelinating diseases
The discovery of antibodies against aquaporin-4 (AQP4) and against myelinoligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) confirmed the existence of two disease entities distinct from multiple sclerosis (MS) — neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) and ...
A. K. Kalashnikova +8 more
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EFFICIENT PROPAGATION OF ARCHETYPE JC POLYOMAVIRUS IN COS-7 CELLS: EVALUATION OF REARRANGEMENTS WITHIN NCCR STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION DURING TRANSFECTION. [PDF]
John Cunningham virus (JCPyV) is an ubiqui-tous human pathogen that causes disease in immunocom-promised patients. The JCPyV genome is composed of an early region and a late region, which are physically sepa-rated by the ...
Anzivino, Elena +7 more
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Neuroprotective therapies for multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases
Damage to the Central Nervous Systems (CNS) in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) seems to be mainly due to chronic inflammation of the CNS with superimposed bouts of inflammatory activity by the adaptive immune system.
P. Villoslada
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