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Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2017 Objective: Botulinum neurotoxin is commonly utilized in neurorehabilitation as a treatment for focal spasticity. Clinical experience has yielded observations of late motor recovery after intramuscular injection of botulinum neurotoxin, that are not ...
Manuel F. Mas +2 more
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Peptide Toxins in Solitary Wasp Venoms
Toxins, 2016 Solitary wasps paralyze insects or spiders with stinging venom and feed the paralyzed preys to their larva. Accordingly, the venoms should contain a variety of constituents acting on nervous systems.
Katsuhiro Konno +2 more
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Short Toxin-like Proteins Attack the Defense Line of Innate Immunity
Toxins, 2013 ClanTox (classifier of animal toxins) was developed for identifying toxin-like candidates from complete proteomes. Searching mammalian proteomes for short toxin-like proteins (coined TOLIPs) revealed a number of overlooked secreted short proteins with an
Tsiona Eliyahu +3 more
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Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox) toxicity in 5 sheep
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2023 Two sheep presented with acute tonic‐clonic seizures, opisthotonos, absent pupillary light reflexes and abnormal vital signs within 18 hours after observed consumption of leaves from an ornamental shrub later identified as wintersweet (Chimonanthus ...
Cambrey Knapp +2 more
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ATP Released by Injured Neurons Activates Schwann Cells [PDF]
, 2016 Injured nerve terminals of neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) can regenerate. This remarkable and complex response is governed by molecular signals that are exchanged among the cellular components of this synapse: motor axon nerve terminal (MAT ...
Cesare eMontecucco +8 more
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Neuroprotective effects of Neurotrophin-3 in MPTP-induced zebrafish Parkinson’s disease model
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 Introduction: Neurotrophin-3 (NT3) is a neuroprotective growth factor that induces the development, maintenance and survival of neurons. This study aims to localize NT3-expressing cells in the adult zebrafish brain and examine the role of NT3 in a ...
Noor Azzizah Omar +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Blinatumomab is a bispecific T‐cell engager approved for the treatment of pediatric B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL). Outpatient home infusion reduces hospitalization burden and optimizes resource utilization, but is logistically challenging.
Angela Parra del Riego +10 more
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Journal of Pediatrics: Clinical PracticeWe present a 5-month-old infant with a 1-day history of poor feeding and sudden progression into generalized weakness including septic shock syndrome after consumption of homemade food. Botulism and sepsis symptoms could be explained by the presence of a
Barbara Schaub, MD +8 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Clostridium botulinum is the causative pathogen of botulism. Laboratory detection of C. botulinum is essential for clinical therapy treatment of botulism due to the difficulty in diagnosis, especially in infant botulism. The extreme toxicity of botulinum
Pengya Gao +10 more
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Cholinergic innervation is necessary to shift reward timing activity in rodent visual cortex [PDF]
, 2011 While the biological analogue of prediction error has been well characterized in the midbrain dopaminergic system, the possibility of other neuromodulatory systems acting as global reinforcers is a topic of much debate.
Emma Roach, Marshall Hussain Shuler
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