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HTLV-1 antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid in tropical spastic paraparesis in Brazil
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1990 HTLV-l antibodies were investigated in serum and in CSF of 150 patients with neurologic disorders mainly myelopathies. The patients were considered into three groups according to the possible relationship of their disease to the presence of HTLV-l ...
A. Spina-França +7 more
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Journal of Tropical Medicine, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Introduction Human T‐lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV‐1) is related to several clinical diseases, including adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma and HTLV‐1‐associated myelopathy. Intrafamilial transmission of HTLV‐1 is rarely reported in Brazil and worldwide. Objective To identify HTLV‐1 family transmissions in Belem, Para, the Amazon region of Brazil.
Cássia Cristine Costa Pereira +9 more
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El Niño-southern oscillations and lathyrism epidemics [PDF]
, 2015 Epidemics of lathyrism, a neurological syndrome of spastic paraparesis, have occurredduring severe droughts in Europe, Asia, and Africa for millenia. Causation is linked toexposure to β-N-oxalyl-L-α,β-diaminopropionic acid (β-L-ODAP), a neurotoxin in ...
Olusegun S. A. Oluwole
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1992 In order to evaluate the prevalence of HTLV-I infection and its association with tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) in Bahia, a Northeastern State of Brazil, CSF and sera from TSP patients and CSF and/or sera from some selected groups of individuals were
O. A. Moreno-Carvalho +3 more
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Expression of alternatively spliced human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 mRNAs is influenced by mitosis and by a novel cis-acting regulatory sequence [PDF]
, 2016 Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) expression depends on the concerted action of Tax, which drives transcription of the viral genome, and Rex, which favors expression of incompletely spliced mRNAs and determines a 2-phase temporal pattern of ...
Bona, Marion K. +9 more
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1995 A 62 year-old white female presented with a 10-year-history of slowly progressive spastic paraparesis, pain and dysesthesia in the lower limbs and sphincter disturbance.
Sônia Regina A. A. Pinheiro +5 more
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1995 HTLV-I associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP/HAM) have been increasingly described in practically all regions of Brazil. Five confirmed and documented cases of patients with TSP/HAM in Rio Grande do Sul are reported; in all of them ...
Márcio Menna-Barreto +3 more
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Alpha interferon restricts human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 and 2 De Novo infection through PKR activation [PDF]
, 2013 International audienceType I interferon (IFN-I) inhibits the replication of different viruses. However, the effect of IFN-I on the human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) viral cycle is controversial.
Alais, Sandrine +7 more
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“HTLV-I Infection” Twenty-Year Research in Neurology Department of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2013 Human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) types 1 and 2 belong to the Oncorna group of retroviridae, a large family of viruses, grouped initially by pathogenic features, but later revised on the basis of genome structure and nucleotide sequence.
Ali Shoeibi +4 more
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