demyelination


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demyelination

[dē‚mī·ə·lə′nā·shən]
(pathology)
Destruction of myelin; loss of myelin from nerve sheaths or nerve tracts.
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Demyelination secondary to chronic nerve compression injury alters Schmidt-Lanterman incisures.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Entrapment Neuropathies
In either of these two CS-treated groups, LFB staining showed significant decrease of demyelination in brain parenchyma compared with control group [Figure 4]a,[Figure 4]b,[Figure 4]c,[Figure 4]d,[Figure 4]e,[Figure 4]f.
Effect of Cordyceps sinensis on the Treatment of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis: A Pilot Study on Mice Model
11) Demyelination can leave a patient with motor and sensory deficits.
Caring for a patient with multiple sclerosis
Psychotic symptoms arise from regional demyelination simultaneously with MS.
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Subcortical white matter lesions in osmotic demyelination syndrome.
Central pontine myelinolysis in patients with inadvertent intravenous fluid therapy: a case report series
Brain biopsy has an importance in the differential diagnosis of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) and inflammatory demyelination while any suspected contrast-enhanced white matter lesion was examined [11].
Occipital Hypometabolism on FDG PET/CT Scan in a Child with Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Demyelination in the cuprizone model is an early observable event without damaging other CNS cell types; besides oligodendrocytes and without provoking the breakdown of the blood brain barrier and subsequently causing the invasion of lymphocytes.
Progesterone enhanced remyelination in the mouse corpus callosum after cuprizone induced demyelination
Most patients note visual disturbances, secondary to optic nerve necrosis or demyelination, as one of the first symptoms3.
BILATERAL PUTAMEN HAEMORRHAGIC NECROSIS DUE TO METHANOL INTOXICATION
Demyelination and inflammation both occur in the current mouse model of MS and result in progressive paralysis beginning in the tail.
Protein May Serve as "Brake" on Inflammation, According to St. Jude Study
The pathological changes in diabetic neuropathy are so complicated, that some studies have cited electrophysiological and pathological evidence of segmental demyelination as the primary lesion.
Usefulness of ratio of motor nerve conduction velocity to F-wave conduction velocity in diabetic neuropathy
1] Increased psychosine levels lead to widespread destruction of oligodendroglia and impaired Schwann cell function in the central and peripheral nervous systems and to subsequent demyelination.
Krabbe disease in a 28 year old adult--a rare case report
Since the early 1990s, bone marrow transplantation has been shown to be effective in halting the central nervous system demyelination, if done at the first signs of demyelination seen on brain imaging prior to presentation of clinical symptoms.
The fight for A national newborn screening For x-linked ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY: In 2005, Dr. Hugo Moser suggested to the national newborn screening committee that ALD be added to the list of disorders that would benefit from newborn screening. However, at that time, there was no test for ALD utilizing the sample collected on all newborns, the heel stick blood spot on filter paper

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