神经干细胞移植防治骨骼肌失神经肌萎缩的电生理研究

目的探讨采用神经干细胞移植的方法防治骨骼肌失神经萎缩的可行性。方法采用机械分离的方法从孕14～16 d的SD孕鼠中获取神经干细胞,并于神经元限定性培养基中进行传代培养,制备神经干细胞单细胞悬液。采用切断右侧胫神经的方法建立腓肠肌失神经支配的动物(SD大鼠)模型。将108只SD大鼠按注射药物的不同随机分为3组,每组36只大鼠。实验组:将神经干细胞悬液注射到切断的胫神经远端。损伤组:注射等量的生理盐水。对照组:注射等量的细胞培养液。术后8、12周采用HRP逆行示踪技术检测失神经骨骼肌重获神经再支配的情况,并应用肌肉电生理方法对重获神经再支配的骨骼肌进行功能评价。结果术后8、12周实验组用电刺激细胞移植部位的腓肠肌,均可引出肌肉收缩活动;且随着时间的延长,单次收缩的波幅、速度,和强直收缩的时间和强直收缩波幅的恢复率均进一步得到改善。对照组和损伤组均未能引出肌肉活动。结论神经干细胞移植能够实现失神经骨骼肌的神经再支配,并且能够与骨骼肌建立起功能性突触连接,有效预防骨骼肌的萎缩。     

Lumbosacral glioblastoma and leptomeningeal gliomatosis complicating the course of a cervicothoracic astrocytoma WHO grade II

CASE REPORT: The reported female patient underwent sub-total resection of an intra-medullary cervicothoracic astrocytoma classified as WHO grade II in 1984 at the age of 18 months and received local irradiation. In 1989, a local recurrence was diagnosed and a partial resection was performed. Sixteen years later, a small recurrent cervicothoracic tumour was found and spinal seeding to the equine nerve roots and the left cerebellar cortex was apparent on MRI. The patient was implanted with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt for a pseudo-tumour cerebri producing papilloedema, which eventually lead to amaurosis. After an extended biopsy, the invasive lumbosacral tumour was classified as glioblastoma multiforme. Two months later, the patient died after rapid progression of the caudal cranial nerve dysfunction. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Anaplastic progression and dissemination of spinal astrocytomas even two decades after initial diagnosis and treatment are rare. Therapies and diagnostic follow-up strategies are discussed.     

Clinical Observation on Effect of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Optic Atrophy

Opticatrophy,acommondiseasewhichleadstoblindness,respondstofewtreatment.However,acupuncturehasbeenactuallyusedandtheclinicaleffectintreatingthisconditionisratherpreferable.Byusingtheacupunctureformula"Three--EyeNeedling",remarkableclinicaloutcomeisachievedandtheresultoftherelatedelectrophysiologicalparametersfollowingtheacupuncturepracticeintreatingopticatrophyhasbeenobserved.METHODSClinicalD8tsTheclinicalmaterialswerecollectedintheSpecialClinicofOpticAtrophyoftheDepartmentofAcupuncture…     

The differential effect of optic nerve disease on pattern and focal electroretinograms

We studied nine cases of retrobulbar neuritis with confirmed multiple sclerosis and six cases of optic atrophy from other causes. Pattern and focal electroretinograms (macular ERGs) were recorded with high (400 cd/m²) and low (40 cd/m²) intensity stimuli. Contrast sensitivity was also measured with a simple printed test.Luminance was not markedly important. High spatial frequency contrast sensitivity was significantly correlated with pattern ERG amplitude. Pattern and focal ERG amplitude ratio was usually reduced, but the effect was not correlated with contrast sensitivity or large enough to be useful clinically.In optic atrophy the pattern ERG (PERG) was clearly more severely reduced than the focal ERG (FERG). In retrobulbar neuritis both ERGs were equally and more severely reduced even though the visual losses were less. In unilateral cases the PERG increased then decreased after the initial attack, as previously described (Arden et al., 1982). The results suggest that retinal layers beyond the ganglion cells may be affected in retrobulbar neuritis, but proximally generated, pattern-specific ERG components are selectively lost in optic atrophy.     

Reduced genital sensitivity in female patients with multiple system atrophy of parkinsonian type.

According to the consensus statement on the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy (MSA), erectile dysfunction is required for male patients to fulfil the urinary incontinence criterion. However, there is no equivalent item for female patients. We questioned 19 female patients with MSA of the parkinsonian type (MSA-P), 28 female patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), and 27 healthy controls on their genital sensitivity. A total of 47% of the MSA patients but only 4% of the PD patients and 4% of the control group admitted to reduced genital sensitivity, a highly significant difference (P < 0.001). Moreover, the appearance of reduced genital sensitivity in female MSA patients showed a close temporal relation to the onset of the disease. If these preliminary results can be confirmed and further specified in a larger sample, a historical item of reduced genital sensitivity in female patients might become a diagnostic feature for MSA, comparable to erectile dysfunction in male patients.     

小脑萎缩的临床CT诊断

报告手术证实小脑萎缩110例,主要CT表现为小脑半球及(或)蚓部脑沟增多,增宽及不同程度第四脑室、桥前池、桥小脑角池、环池及小脑上池扩大。建议采用后颅窝薄层扫描以减少或避免后颅窝伪影干扰。提出小脑半球或蚓部脑沟在2条以上,小脑半球脑沟宽度超过1mm,蚓部脑沟宽度超过2mm,并有相应的小脑症状及体征,即可诊为小脑萎缩。还讨论了小脑萎缩的原因及其CT表现。     

Conduction studies in peripheral cat nerve using implanted electrodes: III. The effects of prolonged constriction on the distal nerve segment

Electrophysiological properties were monitored in detail in chronically constricted peripheral nerves by implanted, multicontact nerve cuff electrodes and correlated with morphometric histology in selected cases. The physiological and histological responses in nerve to a range of constricting cuffs of standard sizes were readily graded. The initial response to any significant constriction was a transient, focal conduction slowing or block at the constriction, followed by more protracted distal effects; the latter ranged from loss of excitability consistent with "dying-back" degeneration to reductions in conduction velocity consistent with histologically observed atrophy. Smaller myelinated fibers tended to have similar but less pronounced changes than larger diameter fibers. Recordings from ventral and dorsal roots showed that distal degeneration was more pronounced in motor than in sensory fibers of similar caliber. Electronmicroscopical measurements showed that basal laminas were relatively preserved around even the most atrophic and demyelinated axons. Perimeter measurements of the basal lamina could be used to estimate the diameter of the original nerve fiber.     

Andrologische Befunde bei Semikastratio, Fehlen eines Hodens und reduziertem Hodenvolumen/Andrological Findings on Patients with Semicastration or Atrophy of a Testis

In a catamnestic study an analysis of the clinical results as well as of the spermatograms are reported on 545 andrological patients with "atrophy" (that means reduced testis volume) or absence of one testis and a contralaterally normal developed testis. It can be demonstrated that there do not exist any differences concerning the size and consistency of the present testis and with regard to absence or lost of one testis (hemicastration). In case of testicular atrophy exists a more disadvantageous reproductive function. In case of tumor as a reason for hemicastration the teratoma shows better conditions for the quality of the spermatograms and for reproduction. Accordingly the histological findings of the testis after hemicastration/absence are not so large in the present remained testis. In cases of one-sided orchitis the spermatogram quality is better than in one-sided varicocele with atrophy at the same side.     

Congenital infection with human herpesvirus 6 variant B associated with neonatal seizures and poor neurological outcome

Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV 6) has neurotropic and neuroinvasive properties. The virus has been found in the cerebrospinal fluid of many children with aseptic meningoencephalitis. Intrauterine transmission has been documented by HHV 6 DNA detection in cord blood specimens of apparently healthy newborns and in fetuses following spontaneous abortions. A patient is described with early neonatal afebrile seizures resulting from a congenital HHV 6 variant B infection disclosed by repeated detection of viral genome by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in cerebrospinal fluid in the first days of life. At follow-up, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies disclosed hyperintensities in the periventricular white matter and basal ganglia, associated with cerebral atrophy. Further follow-up at 18 months revealed poor neurological outcome with mild neurodevelopmental retardation, strabismus and hypertonia of legs. This report provides evidence of neurological involvement after HHV 6 vertical transmission, and the association with neurological sequelae.