Motor Neurone Disease
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1. Revelância dos aspectos nutricionais na sobrevida de pacientes com Doença do Neurônio Motor / Relevance of nutrition on survival of patients with Motor Neurone Disease
Stanich P. Relevância dos aspectos nutricionais na sobrevida de pacientes com Doença do Neurônio Motor. São Paulo; 2001. [Tese de Doutorado- Escola Paulista de Medicina Universidade Federal de São Paulo]. Objetivos. Avaliar o efeito dos aspectos nutricionais na sobrevida de pacientes com Doença do Neurônio Motor (DNM) e apresentar as variáveis predit
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 25/05/2011
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2. Carbohydrate metabolism in motor neurone disease.
Eight patients with classical motor neurone disease, and eight control patients with neurological disease and matched for degree of wasting, were studied. Both groups had abnormal glucose tolerance, but the patients with motor neurone disease had a significantly lower insulin response both to oral glucose loading and to intravenous tolbutamide. These results
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3. Motor neurone disease and exposure to lead
Disease of the lower motor neurone is a recognized hazard of lead toxicity, but the importance of contact with lead in the causation of motor neurone disease has not previously been ascertained. In 74 cases of motor neurone disease, 15% had a history of extensive exposure to lead, compared with 5·4% of a control group. The five year survival rate of these p
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4. The central nervous system in motor neurone disease
Forty-five necropsied cases with primary degeneration of lower motor neurones are described and discussed. Of these, 36 are considered to be `typical' cases of motor neurone disease, eight of which showed no upper motor neurone lesions. The relation of the nine `atypical' cases to the remainder is discussed. It is concluded that motor neurone disease constit
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5. Changes in motor unit populations in motor neurone disease.
In motor neurone disease changes in the functional properties of motor units, including the surface voltage, latency, conduction velocity, and response to repetitive stimulation, were investigated. Progression was marked by motor unit loss, increase in the proportion of larger motor unit potentials, and inclusion of motor unit potentials larger than normal i
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6. Motor neurone disease and hyperthyroid Graves' disease: a chance association?
The presentation of a 56-year-old woman with coexisting hyperthyroid Graves' disease and motor neurone disease is described. Circulating immune complexes were detected in the serum of seven patients with motor neurone disease (five cases) or primary lateral sclerosis (two cases), including a man with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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7. Pattern of recruiting human motor units in neuropathies and motor neurone disease
The pattern of recruiting human motor units in the first dorsal interosseous muscle of the hand has been studied in 31 patients with ulnar neuropathies and motor neurone disease. Two years after surgical repair of an unilateral complete severance of the ulnar nerve, the twitch tensions increased to normal size. However, the normal orderly pattern of recruiti
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8. Contractile and electrical properties of human motor units in neuropathies and motor neurone disease
The contractile and electrical properties of motor units in the first dorsal interosseous muscle of the hand have been studied in 26 patients with ulnar neuropathies and motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Among patients with unilateral pressure or entrapment ulnar neuropathies, there was a tendency for the twitch tensions for single motor
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9. A quantitative electrophysiological study of motor neurone disease.
Thirty-two patients with motor neurone disease were investigated using quantitative electrophysiological techniques. Estimates of the number of surviving motor units in the extensor digitorum brevis muscle and measurements of the electrophysiological parameters of these units are present along with the values for motor nerve conduction velocities. The result
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10. Lipid studies in the blood and brain in multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease
The lipid patterns of plasma, red blood cells, and leucocytes from normal controls and from patients with multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease have been studied by thin-layer chromatography. The fatty acid composition of cholesterol esters and lecithin in plasma from normal subjects and from patients with multiple sclerosis are reported. The fatty ac
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11. Incidence of motor neurone disease in the northern region.
The incidence of motor neurone disease in the Northern Region was studied for the year 1981 by means of hospital activity analysis records and questionnaire. The crude incidence rate was 2.2 per 100,000. This was not significantly different from the rate determined by using death certification. The age standardised incidence ratio for the region was 163 usin
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12. Clinical and pathological findings in an unusual infantile motor neurone disease
An unusual motor neurone disease with a characteristic denervation atrophy of muscle is described in an infant. The striking change is a vacuolization of the cytoplasm of the affected ganglion cells in many motor nuclei of spinal cord and brain-stem, and in the claustrum. To our knowledge this disease has not yet been described in man and similar pathologica