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... occurring in the frontal lobes (25.8% of total), temporal lobe (20.1% of total), parietal lobe (14.6% of total) and overlapping lesions of the brain (19.8% of total) were the most common Relative ... type, grade, SEER stage of disease and primary site Size of tumor information was not analyzed because of the large amount of missing data (65.9%) (Table 25.7).The combinations of interest were: race ... National survey of patterns of care for brain-tumor patients J Neurosurg 1989; 71:826-36 11 Mahaley MS Jr, Mettlin C, Natarajan N, Laws ER Jr, Peace BB Analysis of patterns of care of brain tumor...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... present-day neurons of higher animals by the time of the emergence of the Plathelminthes in the evolutionary history The eye of the planarian is one of the most ancestral and primitive types of visual ... 5¢-UTR of 87 bp and followed by the 3¢-UTR of 127 bp and the first 21 nucleotides of the poly(A+) tail (Fig 2) This indicated clearly that planarian PHM is coded in a gene separate from that of PAL ... generate an mRNA of  kb, as found for vertebrate PAMs Deduced amino acid sequence of planarian PHM The deduced amino acid sequence of planarian PHM predicted a protein with a length of 382 residues...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20

... and the abundant expression of a variety of chemokine receptors by cells of monocyte/macrophage lineage is suggestive of a redundancy in the chemokine-mediated control of macrophage function [62] ... evaluation of CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5 mRNA expression in the spinal cord Vertical bars represent mean and standard error of the mean Preparation of radioactively labelled cRNA probes Preparation of radioactively ... used for the detection of macrophages and microglia in various stages of activation Control sections were incubated without primary antibody as control of specificity of the staining Slides were...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... demonstration of the pharmacological identity of receptors In general, pharmacological antagonism of the actions of the pathway and those of the candidate transmitter should be achieved by similar doses of ... inhibitory potency of extracts of these nerves was accounted for by their content of GABA Release of GABA correlated with the frequency of nerve stimulation, and application of GABA and inhibitory ... noradrenergic pathways and a wide variety of target neurons, a number of features of the mode of action of this biogenic amine have complicated the acquisition of convincing evidence In large part,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2014, 20:21

... the leukemia and lymphoma cell lines In addition, sublethal concentrations of the drug were associated with suppression of cell division in clonal assays Systemic treatment with AraC in vivo was ... reduce neurotoxicity [7] Two of the most important of the risk factors are high dose and large volume radiation (craniospinal versus whole brain versus local) radiation The response of investigators ... no longer valid Further evidence of the development of methotrexateinduced leukoencephalopathy in the absence of cranial radiation was shown in a German study of infants with medulloblastoma treated...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... exposure levels Thus, toxicity of 5-FU was not limited to dividing cells Toxicity of 5-FU was not limited to induction of cell death and was also associated with suppression of O-2A/OPC division, ... size of these nuclei resembled those of the microvasculature endothelial cells of the CNS (Figure 11c-e) Double-labeling to visualize expression of Journal of Biology 2008, 7:12 Journal of Biology ... days of clonal growth Analysis of O-2A/OPC function at the clonal level indicated that transient exposure to 0.05 µM 5-FU caused suppression of O-2A/OPC division Examination of the composition of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... weeks after treatment [11] Thus, some of the variability of the results in these studies may be related to the time points of evaluation (acute versus chronic toxicity) , the different agents under ... compared with controls [15] Interestingly, all of the patients had received 5-FU as part of their treatment Journal of Biology 2008, 7:11 Journal of Biology 2008, http://jbiol.com/content/7/4/11 ... development of translational clinical research to protect the nervous system from injury, to better treat injury that has developed as a result of treatment, and to improve the overall quality of life of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... 78 Taekyun Shin et al immunoreactivity of both iNOS and nNOS in the same lesion Materials and Methods Selection of cases Two cases of goats with natural listeriosis (6 months old and ... of nNOS and iNOS in the nonneurological control brain Both nNOS and iNOS immunoreactivity was recognized in the brain of control goats No inflammatory cells were found in the brain sections of ... Magnification A and B, ×66 C and D, ×132 Immunohistochmical study of nitric oxide synthase in the central nervous system of goat Enhanced expression of nNOS and iNOS in L monocytogenes-infected brain At...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:23

... (CFS) samples were collected at the end of operation Concerned of a possible diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a 3-day high-dose (1,000 mg daily) pulse therapy of methylprednisolone was initiated ... diagnosis of IACNS in which he emphasized the importance of cerebral angiography and biopsy based on careful exclusion of other diseases When cerebral angiography shows stenosis or occlusion of the ... publication of this Case report and any accompanying images A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Author details Department of Neurosurgery,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... radiation Schematicin cancer of the time of the central nervous system Figure (CNS) via portals exposing some part course of radiation-induced Schematic concept of the time course of radiation-induced ... addition, antiepileptic drug use was strongly associated with disability in attentional and executive function The risk of toxicity might also increase with age, probably as a result of impaired tissue ... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/2/1/23 cell fate (disruption of the microvascular angiogenesis, activation of microglia) [22] After higher doses of wholebrain radiotherapy (WBRT, fractions of Gy) in rats, cognitive impairment...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... be part of the cascade of neurotoxic processes in HIV infection, and hence can also serve as a biomarker of these processes A practical further aspect of relevance in considering the use of CSF ... level of laboratory detection of 50 copies/mL or to a persistence of immune activation due to some other cause is an important topic of study We have shown elsewhere that these low levels of CSF ... that span a broad range of subjects who have been examined in the context of natural history, treatment and clinical studies Some of these patients have been reported as part of smaller previous...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... inherent genetic susceptibility, drug toxicity, time out of full-time education or particular vulnerability of certain individuals to the impact of chronic illness Page of 12 Pharmacogenomic and genome ... differences of 10 points These results were unchanged when allowing for age at the start of treatment, gender, and the number of previous tests taken Again, analysis of the proportion of patients ... number of important questions not yet reliably answered in the literature i.e 1) In modern treatment protocols (with avoidance of radiotherapy in children under years of age) is the use of cranial...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... analysis of blood chemistry All of these procedures failed to reveal any abnormalities The PET/CT scan showed a slight accumulation of 2-[18F] fluoro-2-deoxyglucose in the original location of the ... allowing access to his right ventricle and the foramen of Monro Due to tumoral expansion, the foramen of Monro was dilated Although analysis of a frozen section was consistent with PCNSL, the tumor ... the physician’s moving index finger The examinations of cerebellar, ganglionic, and corticospinal pathways were all normal The results of all of these neurological examinations were within normal...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... 67% of treated roaches and 78% of untreated roaches alive after two months of treatment which indicates no major impact on the life expectancy of the cockroach for the two-month duration of this ... fluorescence of the tissue Nanoscopic imaging Upon closer inspection of the treated brain tissue, there was evidence of nanoparticle encapsulation Figure 7a Rocha et al Journal of Nanobiotechnology ... http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/9/1/5 Page of Figure TEM of treated and untreated brains Transmission light image of (a) nAuNPs treated dissected cockroach brain and (b) control Darker tissue is a sign of nanoparticles...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... and Ketamine Interactions Drug Information Online [http:// www.drugs.com /drug- interactions/neurontin_d03182_ketamine_d00272 html], Accessed March 2009 Herkowitz HN: A comparison of anterior cervical ... post-operative pain medication requirement To examine the interaction of these drugs, one must further investigate the bioavailability of these drugs Gabapentin elimination half-life is five to seven ... daily up until the morning of his procedure A total of 100 mg of ketamine was administered during his procedure Ketamine was selected because of our patient’s history of asthma and to reduce his...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... other types of brain metastases, on the number of metastases, systemic spread of the disease and the accessibility to surgery We believe that the CNS metastases of MCC are an expression of a hematogenous ... metastases of MCC In addition, inguinal and retroperitoneal metastases were found, but the site of the patient’s primary MCC remained unknown Hitherto, only 18 cases of intracranial metastases of MCC ... been reported, of which 15 cases were reviewed by Feletti et al [7] Table shows the heterogeneity of treatment of MCC brain metastases because there is no evidence-based first choice of treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20

... characterize the TLR profile in the CNS of TMEV-IDD susceptible and resistant strands of mice following infection with the virus In this study, the TLR mRNA expression profiles of the TMEV-IDD susceptible ... weaker response of the pDCs in the resistant strain of mice Interestingly, pDCs are one of the main therapeutic targets for MS[16], and thus the involvement of TLRs in the processing of self-DNA ... The lack of PLP expression is a reliable measure of demyelination in other models of CNS damage used previously[11] http://www.virologyj.com/content/5/1/154 were analyzed using analysis of variance...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... aim of the present study was to investigate CSF MIF levels in 171 patients clinically suspected of having meningitis on admission and to study the use of CSF MIF in the differential diagnosis of ... susceptibility profile of the pathogen The duration of antibiotic therapy was usually to 10 days The third group included patients with lymphocytic meningitis (pleocytosis with a predominance of mononuclear ... was initiated before the lumbar puncture in 23% (7/31) of patients with purulent meningitis of known bacterial aetiology and in 15% (3/20) of those with an unknown bacterial aetiology The initial...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... threshold of 60 mmHg, which was followed by a decrease in all ischemia indicators, irrespective of the presence of even higher IAP Improvement of CNS perfusion was a result of an increase of MAP, ... correlation of the changes of ISP and IL-6 measured in the CSF Marinis et al Critical Care 2010, 14:R31 http://ccforum.com/content/14/2/R31 Page of 10 Figure Diagrammatic presentation of alterations of ... threshold for ischemia of 60 mmHg [24] Paradoxically, further increase of IAP to 45 mmHg was followed by a minor increase of ICP and a decrease of ISP, with a concomitant improvement of perfusion pressures...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21