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Kato H, Kokunai Y, Dalle C, Kubota T, Madokoro Y, Yuasa H, Uchida Y, Ikeda T, Mochizuki H, Nicole S, Fontaine B, Takahashi MP, Mitake S. A case of non-dystrophic myotonia with concomitant mutations in the SCN4A and CLCN1 genes. J Neurol Sci 2016; 369:254-258. [PMID: 27653901 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.08.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2015] [Revised: 08/11/2016] [Accepted: 08/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Non-dystrophic myotonias are caused by mutations of either the skeletal muscle chloride (CLCN1) or sodium channel (SCN4A) gene. They exhibit several distinct phenotypes, including myotonia congenita, paramyotonia congenita and sodium channel myotonia, and a genotype-phenotype correlation has been established. However, there are atypical cases that do not fit with the standard classification. We report a case of 27-year-old male who had non-dystrophic myotonia with periodic paralysis and two heterozygous mutations, E950K in CLCN1 and F1290L in SCN4A. His mother, who exhibited myotonia without paralytic attack, only harbored E950K, and no mutations were identified in his asymptomatic father. Therefore, the E950K mutation was presumed to be pathogenic, although it was reported as an extremely rare genetic variant. The proband experienced paralytic attacks that lasted for weeks and were less likely to be caused by CLCN1 mutation alone. Functional analysis of the F1290L mutant channel heterologously expressed in cultured cells revealed enhanced activation inducing membrane hyperexcitability. We therefore propose that the two mutations had additive effects on membrane excitability that resulted in more prominent myotonia in the proband. Our case stresses the value of performing genetic analysis of both CLCN1 and SCN4A genes for myotonic patients with an atypical phenotype.
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- Hideki Kato
- Department of Neurology, Tosei General Hospital, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan; INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière - ICM and National Reference Center for Muscular Channelopathies, University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, France
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- INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière - ICM and National Reference Center for Muscular Channelopathies, University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, France
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- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, United States; Department of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Tosei General Hospital, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Tosei General Hospital, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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- INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière - ICM and National Reference Center for Muscular Channelopathies, University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, France
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- INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière - ICM and National Reference Center for Muscular Channelopathies, University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, France
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- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan; Department of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
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Li J, Pacheck A, Sanchez B, Rutkove SB. Single and modeled multifrequency electrical impedance myography parameters and their relationship to force production in the ALS SOD1G93A mouse. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener 2016; 17:397-403. [PMID: 27077943 PMCID: PMC5004347 DOI: 10.3109/21678421.2016.1165258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2015] [Revised: 02/01/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The relationship between muscle force production in ALS SOD1G93A mice and single and modeled multifrequency electrical impedance myography (EIM) parameters is unknown. We evaluated the relationship between multifrequency EIM data and paw grip and in situ force measurements, as well to standard measures including body weight and compound motor action potential (CMAP) amplitude. METHODS Twenty-nine SOD1 G93A mice aged 13-18 weeks (approximately 4-5 per week) and a group of similarly aged wild-type mice (N = 7) were studied with single and multifrequency EIM, CMAP, front and hind-limb paw grip measures, and in situ force measurements of the gastrocnemius. RESULTS Significant differences among WT, presymptomatic, and symptomatic ALS animals were identified for all standard measures and single 50 kHz frequency EIM parameters. Of the modeled multifrequency measures, the center frequency, fc , an index of cell size, showed the strongest relationship to force output. The two other multifrequency parameters corresponding to cell size distribution and cell density showed consistent although mostly non-significant differences. CONCLUSION Reductions in force are reflected in single 50 kHz impedance values and in the fc. These data support the construct validity of EIM as an assessment tool of muscle dysfunction in diseases associated with motor neuron loss.
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- Jia Li
- a From the Department of Neurology , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA 02215 , USA
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- a From the Department of Neurology , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA 02215 , USA
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- a From the Department of Neurology , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA 02215 , USA
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- a From the Department of Neurology , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , MA 02215 , USA
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Ljubisavljevic MR, Javid A, Oommen J, Parekh K, Nagelkerke N, Shehab S, Adrian TE. The Effects of Different Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Protocols on Cortical Gene Expression in a Rat Model of Cerebral Ischemic-Reperfusion Injury. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0139892. [PMID: 26431529 PMCID: PMC4592250 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2014] [Accepted: 09/18/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Although repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in treatment of stroke in humans has been explored over the past decade the data remain controversial in terms of optimal stimulation parameters and the mechanisms of rTMS long-term effects. This study aimed to explore the potential of different rTMS protocols to induce changes in gene expression in rat cortices after acute ischemic-reperfusion brain injury. The stroke was induced by middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) with subsequent reperfusion. Changes in the expression of 96 genes were examined using low-density expression arrays after MCAO alone and after MCAO combined with 1Hz, 5Hz, continuous (cTBS) and intermittent (iTBS) theta-burst rTMS. rTMS over the lesioned hemisphere was given for two weeks (with a 2-day pause) in a single daily session and a total of 2400 pulses. MCAO alone induced significant upregulation in the expression of 44 genes and downregulation in 10. Two weeks of iTBS induced significant increase in the expression of 52 genes. There were no downregulated genes. 1Hz and 5Hz had no significant effects on gene expression, while cTBS effects were negligible. Upregulated genes included those involved in angiogenesis, inflammation, injury response and cellular repair, structural remodeling, neuroprotection, neurotransmission and neuronal plasticity. The results show that long-term rTMS in acute ischemic-reperfusion brain injury induces complex changes in gene expression that span multiple pathways, which generally promote the recovery. They also demonstrate that induced changes primarily depend on the rTMS frequency (1Hz and 5Hz vs. iTBS) and pattern (cTBS vs. iTBS). The results further underlines the premise that one of the benefits of rTMS application in stroke may be to prime the brain, enhancing its potential to cope with the injury and to rewire. This could further augment its potential to favorably respond to rehabilitation, and to restore some of the loss functions.
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- Milos R. Ljubisavljevic
- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
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- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
- Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
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- Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
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- Department of Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
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Pfeffer G, Gorman GS, Griffin H, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Blakely EL, Wilson I, Sitarz K, Moore D, Murphy JL, Alston CL, Pyle A, Coxhead J, Payne B, Gorrie GH, Longman C, Hadjivassiliou M, McConville J, Dick D, Imam I, Hilton D, Norwood F, Baker MR, Jaiser SR, Yu-Wai-Man P, Farrell M, McCarthy A, Lynch T, McFarland R, Schaefer AM, Turnbull DM, Horvath R, Taylor RW, Chinnery PF. Mutations in the SPG7 gene cause chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia through disordered mitochondrial DNA maintenance. Brain 2014; 137:1323-36. [PMID: 24727571 PMCID: PMC3999722 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2013] [Revised: 01/12/2014] [Accepted: 01/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Despite being a canonical presenting feature of mitochondrial disease, the genetic basis of progressive external ophthalmoplegia remains unknown in a large proportion of patients. Here we show that mutations in SPG7 are a novel cause of progressive external ophthalmoplegia associated with multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions. After excluding known causes, whole exome sequencing, targeted Sanger sequencing and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification analysis were used to study 68 adult patients with progressive external ophthalmoplegia either with or without multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions in skeletal muscle. Nine patients (eight probands) were found to carry compound heterozygous SPG7 mutations, including three novel mutations: two missense mutations c.2221G>A; p.(Glu741Lys), c.2224G>A; p.(Asp742Asn), a truncating mutation c.861dupT; p.Asn288*, and seven previously reported mutations. We identified a further six patients with single heterozygous mutations in SPG7, including two further novel mutations: c.184-3C>T (predicted to remove a splice site before exon 2) and c.1067C>T; p.(Thr356Met). The clinical phenotype typically developed in mid-adult life with either progressive external ophthalmoplegia/ptosis and spastic ataxia, or a progressive ataxic disorder. Dysphagia and proximal myopathy were common, but urinary symptoms were rare, despite the spasticity. Functional studies included transcript analysis, proteomics, mitochondrial network analysis, single fibre mitochondrial DNA analysis and deep re-sequencing of mitochondrial DNA. SPG7 mutations caused increased mitochondrial biogenesis in patient muscle, and mitochondrial fusion in patient fibroblasts associated with the clonal expansion of mitochondrial DNA mutations. In conclusion, the SPG7 gene should be screened in patients in whom a disorder of mitochondrial DNA maintenance is suspected when spastic ataxia is prominent. The complex neurological phenotype is likely a result of the clonal expansion of secondary mitochondrial DNA mutations modulating the phenotype, driven by compensatory mitochondrial biogenesis.
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- Gerald Pfeffer
- 1 Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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Baker MR, Fisher KM, Whittaker RG, Griffiths PG, Yu-Wai-Man P, Chinnery PF. Subclinical multisystem neurologic disease in "pure" OPA1 autosomal dominant optic atrophy. Neurology 2011; 77:1309-12. [PMID: 21917770 PMCID: PMC3179647 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e318230a15a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- M R Baker
- Institute of Neuroscience, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK.
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Li Voti P, Conte A, Suppa A, Iezzi E, Bologna M, Aniello MS, Defazio G, Rothwell JC, Berardelli A. Correlation between cortical plasticity, motor learning and BDNF genotype in healthy subjects. Exp Brain Res 2011; 212:91-9. [PMID: 21537966 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2700-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2011] [Accepted: 04/15/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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There is good evidence that synaptic plasticity in human motor cortex is involved in behavioural motor learning; in addition, it is now possible to probe mechanisms of synaptic plasticity using a variety of transcranial brain-stimulation protocols. Interactions between these protocols suggest that they both utilise common mechanisms. The aim of the present experiments was to test how well responsiveness to brain-stimulation protocols and behavioural motor learning correlate with each other in a sample of 21 healthy volunteers. We also examined whether any of these measures were influenced by the presence of a Val66Met polymorphism in the BDNF gene since this is another factor that has been suggested to be able to predict response to tests of synaptic plasticity. In 3 different experimental sessions, volunteers underwent 5-Hz rTMS, intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) and a motor learning task. Blood samples were collected from each subject for BDNF genotyping. As expected, both 5-Hz rTMS and iTBS significantly facilitated MEPs. Similarly, as expected, kinematic variables of finger movement significantly improved during the motor learning task. Although there was a significant correlation between the effect of iTBS and 5-Hz rTMS, there was no relationship in each subject between the amount of TMS-induced plasticity and the increase in kinematic variables during motor learning. Val66Val and Val66Met carriers did not differ in their response to any of the protocols. The present results emphasise that although some TMS measures of cortical plasticity may correlate with each other, they may not always relate directly to measures of behavioural learning. Similarly, presence of the Val66Met BDNF polymorphism also does not reliably predict responsiveness in small groups of individuals. Individual success in behavioural learning is unlikely to be closely related to any single measure of synaptic plasticity.
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- P Li Voti
- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza, University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 30, 00185, Rome, Italy
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Zambelis T, Panas M, Kokotis P, Karadima G, Kararizou E, Karandreas N. Central motor and sensory pathway involvement in an X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth family. Acta Neurol Belg 2008; 108:44-47. [PMID: 18795595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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UNLABELLED The aim of the present study was to investigate the subclinical involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) in an X-linked Charcot-Marie-Toth (CMTX) family. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seven subjects, all members of one family with a C.462T > G connexin 32 (Cx32) mutation were investigated by Blink reflex, Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). There were five clinically symptomatic for CMT neuropathy (four male and one female) and two asymptomatic (female) subjects. RESULTS Subclinical CNS involvement was observed in all, symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects. CONCLUSION This is the largest CMTX neuropathy family investigated for CNS involvement. Electrophysiological involvement of the CNS in every examined member of this family was observed, raising the question of a more systematic involvement of the CNS in CMTX disease.
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- T Zambelis
- EMG Laboratory, Department of Neurology, University of Athens, Aeghinition Hospital, Greece.
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Fedi M, Berkovic SF, Macdonell RAL, Curatolo JM, Marini C, Reutens DC. Intracortical hyperexcitability in humans with a GABAA receptor mutation. Cereb Cortex 2007; 18:664-9. [PMID: 17615250 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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A missense mutation of the gamma2 subunit of the gamma-aminobutyric acid A (GABA(A)) receptor has been linked to an inherited human generalized epilepsy. As synaptic inhibition in the human brain is largely mediated by the GABA(A) receptor, we tested the hypothesis that the GABRG2(R43Q) mutation alters cortical excitability. Fourteen subjects affected by the GABRG2(R43Q) mutation (5 males, mean age: 44 +/- 15 years) and 24 controls (11 males, mean age: 38 +/- 11 years) were studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). To assess the specificity of the effect of the mutation, 4 additional family members unaffected by the GABRG2(R43Q) mutation (2 males, mean age: 41 +/- 16 years) were included. Subjects affected by the GABRG2(R43Q) mutation demonstrated reduced net short-interval intracortical inhibition and increased intracortical facilitation assessed with paired-pulse stimulation. Subjects with the mutation had similar motor thresholds to controls both at rest and with weak voluntary activation. No significant differences were noted between groups in the cortical silent period. Our findings provide in vivo evidence for increased intracortical excitability in subjects affected by the GABRG2(R43Q) mutation. These findings are also likely to represent an important clue to the mechanisms linking this gene defect and the epilepsy phenotype.
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- Marco Fedi
- Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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Kleim JA, Chan S, Pringle E, Schallert K, Procaccio V, Jimenez R, Cramer SC. BDNF val66met polymorphism is associated with modified experience-dependent plasticity in human motor cortex. Nat Neurosci 2006; 9:735-7. [PMID: 16680163 DOI: 10.1038/nn1699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 386] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2006] [Accepted: 04/17/2006] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Motor training can induce profound physiological plasticity within primary motor cortex, including changes in corticospinal output and motor map topography. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation, we show that training-dependent increases in the amplitude of motor-evoked potentials and motor map reorganization are reduced in healthy subjects with a val66met polymorphism in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF), as compared to subjects without the polymorphism. The results suggest that BDNF is involved in mediating experience-dependent plasticity of human motor cortex.
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- Jeffrey A Kleim
- Brain Research Rehabilitation Center, Malcom Randall VA Hospital, 1601 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, Florida 32608, USA.
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De Rosa A, Volpe G, Marcantonio L, Santoro L, Brice A, Filla A, Perretti A, De Michele G. Neurophysiological evidence of corticospinal tract abnormality in patients with Parkin mutations. J Neurol 2006; 253:275-9. [PMID: 16502212 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-006-0096-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2005] [Revised: 07/19/2005] [Accepted: 07/27/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Mutations in the parkin gene (PARK2) are the most frequent cause of autosomal recessive early-onset Parkinson disease. We performed a transcranial magnetic stimulation study in four patients with parkin mutations. Two patients had a prolonged central motor conduction time at both upper and lower limb, one only at the arm and one only at the leg. The MEP threshold was increased in one patient for the arm and in two for the leg. The MEP amplitude was reduced in one and central silent period shortened in two. The findings demonstrate corticospinal dysfunction in these patients and suggest that the extent of central nervous system involvement in parkin disease may be wider that hitherto supposed.
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- Anna De Rosa
- Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Napoli, Italy
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Zéphir H, Stojkovic T, Latour P, Hurtevent JF, Blankaert F, Vermersch P. A family with a novel frameshift mutation in the PMP22 gene (c.433_434insC) causing a phenotype of hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. Neuromuscul Disord 2005; 15:493-7. [PMID: 15955700 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2005.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2005] [Revised: 04/16/2005] [Accepted: 04/28/2005] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies is usually due to PMP22 deletion. Point mutations of PMP22 causing an hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies phenotype are rare. We describe a clinical and electrodiagnostic phenotype of hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies in a 21-year-old woman, which led to our detecting a novel frameshift mutation of PMP22. This mutation was also found in her mother and brother and corresponded to an insertion of one cytidine between nucleotides 433 and 434 in the last coding exon (c.433_434insC). The mutated PMP22 protein lacks the last 15 amino acids and has a modified C terminus lengthened to 221 residues instead of 160 (Leu145fsX222). The mother and the proband had a clinical and electrophysiological hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies phenotype. The brother was asymptomatic, but the results of electrodiagnostic tests were suggestive of hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. This observation of a new mutation mostly leading to a PMP22 haploinsufficiency provides further evidence of the diversity of phenotypes associated with frameshift PMP22 mutations.
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- H Zéphir
- Clinique Neurologique, CHRU de Lille, 59047 Lille Cedex, France.
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Kassubek J, Bretschneider V, Sperfeld AD. Corticospinal tract MRI hyperintensity in X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. J Clin Neurosci 2005; 12:588-9. [PMID: 16051098 DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2004.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2004] [Accepted: 07/30/2004] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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In X-linked hereditary demyelinating neuropathies (CMTX), caused by mutations in Connexin 32, mild subclinical CNS involvement is not unusual. We present a young male patient suffering from genetically proven CMTX who presented with permanent bilateral corticospinal tract hyperintensities in cranial MRI -- a finding previously described to be characteristic for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. MRI seems to be able to visualize corticospinal tract abnormalities, even if subclinical, in CMTX.
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- Jan Kassubek
- Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
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Wawryko P, Ward NL, Whishaw IQ, Ivanco TL. Anesthetized Long Evans rats show similar protein expression and long-term potentiation as Fischer 344 rats but reduced short-term potentiation in motor cortex. Brain Res 2004; 1029:1-10. [PMID: 15533310 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A number of studies describe strain-related differences in the motor behavior of rats. Inbred albino F344 rats are found to be impaired in procedural spatial learning, skilled reaching, and over ground locomotion in relation to pigmented out bred Long Evans (LE) rats. These deficits could be related to the functional differences in the motor cortex of the two strains, and the objective of the present study was to examine this hypothesis. Synaptic transmission was examined in the two rat strains, using long-term potentiation (LTP) and short-term potentiation (STP), two electrophysiological measures of neural function and learning. Field potentials were evoked in the motor cortex of anesthetized Long Evans and Fischer 344 (F344) rats in response to contralateral white matter stimulation. The main findings indicated that (1) baseline-evoked responses in the two strains was similar, indicating similar basal levels of synaptic strength, (2) LTP was induced in both strains of rats, suggesting similar synaptic efficacy in the two strains of rats, and (3) STP was enhanced in the Fischer 344 rats, suggesting differences in synaptic function. Protein expression also revealed that the two strains did not differ with respect to structural or synaptic protein expression. Thus, the two strains exhibit motor skill differences despite a great degree of physiological similarity in motor cortex. The results are discussed in relation to the greater utility of using the Long Evans rat for examining the neural basis of plasticity and models of disease, especially if motor tasks are evaluated.
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- Paul Wawryko
- Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T-2N2
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Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is a serine protease that converts plasminogen to plasmin. It plays an important role in the nervous system, including the processes of neuronal migration, neurite outgrowth, and neuronal plasticity. tPA has also been suggested to have a role in several neuropathological conditions, such as cerebral ischemia, seizures, and demyelinating diseases. To investigate the role of tPA in spinal cord injury, wild-type mice and mice with homozygous tPA deficiency (tPA(-/-) mice) were subjected to spinal cord contusion and the differences of hindlimb function, electrophysiological changes, and histopathological changes were assessed for 6 weeks. Functional recovery was greater in tPA(-/-) mice than in wild-type mice throughout the observation period. The time course of myoelectric motor-evoked potentials supported the hindlimb functional findings. Histological examination showed that injured areas were smaller in tPA(-/-) mice than wild-type mice on Luxol fast blue staining or myelin basic protein and neurofilament protein immunostaining at 6 weeks after contusion. Electron microscopy showed that the white matter was better preserved in tPA(-/-) mice than in wild-type mice. The expression of tPA protein was widespread on the first day after contusion and this expression was detected for at least a week. Activation of microglia/macrophages and apoptotic cell death were significantly reduced in tPA(-/-) mice after contusion. This study shows that neural damage is decreased in tPA(-/-) mice after spinal cord injury. Suppression of tPA production may help to decrease secondary injury after spinal cord contusion.
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- Yumiko Abe
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan.
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Jennum P, Neerup Jensen L, Fenger K, Nielsen JE, Fuglsang-Frederiksen A, Nielsen JE. Motor evoked potentials from the external anal sphincter in patients with autosomal dominant pure spastic paraplegia linked to chromosome 2p. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2001; 71:561-2. [PMID: 11561054 PMCID: PMC1763533 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.71.4.561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Abstract
We investigated motor phenomena during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in 13 patients with group A xeroderma pigmentosum aged from 11 to 39 months, and compared them with those obtained from 12 age-matched controls. At the time of sleep study, they had no abnormality on routine electrophysiological examinations. The amount of REM sleep and the incidence of motor phenomena during REM sleep in patients were similar to those in age-matched controls. However using the newly designated indices, we demonstrated disturbance on both the tonic motor inhibition occurring during the whole REM sleep period and the phasic one acting simultaneously with horizontal rapid eye movements in these patients. Since the motor inhibition during REM sleep is mediated by the subcortical structures, our study indicate that these structures are functionally impaired in group A xeroderma pigmentosum even during the early stage of the illness.
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Affiliation(s)
- J Kohyama
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
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