• These conditions can appear as Neuromyelitis optica (NMO), and its associated "spectrum of disorders" (NMOSD), currently considered a common syndrome for several separated diseases [16] but with some still idiopathic subtypes. (mdwiki.org)
  • Interestingly, neuroprotective effects and decreased disease severity occurred without reduction of inflammation or demyelination, suggesting this therapy may fill an unmet need to limit the neurodegenerative component of MS. (listlabs.com)
  • Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) are characterized by the presence of foci or plaques of demyelination (loss of myelin) in some areas throughout the neuraxis, leaving motor, visual, speech, and bladder control sequelae, affecting independence in basic daily life activities. (cubaheal.com)
  • We provide unequivocal evidence that olfactory bulb/tract demyelination is frequent, can occur early and is highly inflammatory, and is specific to demyelinating disease. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis featured intense inflammation, and perivenular demyelination in 33% of cases. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Expanded neural progenitors derived from regions of human fetal forebrain have been shown to have significant capacity to remyelinate rodent spinal cord upon grafting into areas of focal demyelination [9], and can myelinate host axons in a mouse model Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, which is characterized by severe hypomyelination [10]. (scientificarchives.com)
  • Background Autoantibodies to glial, myelin and neuronal antigens have been reported in a range of central demyelination syndromes and autoimmune encephalopathies in children, but there has not been a systematic evaluation across the range of central nervous system (CNS) autoantibodies in childhood-acquired demyelinating syndromes (ADS). (bmj.com)
  • MOG (35-55) is able to induce autoantibody production and relapsing-remitting neurological disease causing extensive plaque-like demyelination. (anaspec.com)
  • An acute demyelinating disorder characterized by widely scattered small foci of periventricular inflammation and demyelination most frequently associated with antecedent immunization or infection. (studystack.com)
  • Unlike other primates, humans exhibit a unique pattern of postpubertal myelination, which may contribute to the development of psychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases that present in early adulthood and beyond. (wikipedia.org)
  • Quantitative proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a noninvasive analytical technique that has been used to study metabolic changes in brain tumors, strokes, seizure disorders, Alzheimer's disease, depression, and other diseases affecting the brain. (wikipedia.org)
  • Overview of demyelinating disorders. (mayoclinic.org)
  • http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/neurologic_disorders/demyelinating_disorders/overview_of_demyelinating_disorders.html. (mayoclinic.org)
  • He has joined Juan Gonzalez, MD , at HPG-Neurology and diagnoses and treats issues related to the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles, including the treatment of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, seizure disorders, and strokes. (hamiltonhealth.com)
  • Overview of Demyelinating Disorders Most nerve fibers inside and outside the brain are wrapped with many layers of tissue composed of a fat (lipoprotein) called myelin. (msdmanuals.com)
  • and have no known cause are called primary demyelinating disorders. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Sometimes primary demyelinating disorders develop after a viral infection or vaccination against a viral infection. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In Cuba 's health system, specialized institutions treat patients suffering from Parkinson's disease, as well as those suffering from disorders that affect mobility or from degenerative diseases of the central nervous system. (cubaheal.com)
  • [9] A LHON -associated MS [10] has also been reported, and in addition there have been inconclusive reports of TNF-α blockers inducing demyelinating disorders. (mdwiki.org)
  • These findings suggest that α-NETA-based CMKLR1 inhibitors may prove safe and effective in treating demyelinating diseases and potentially other autoimmune disorders. (elsevierpure.com)
  • For a group of muscle-wasting disorders, see Motor neuron diseases . (wikipedia.org)
  • ALS is a motor neuron disease , which is a group of neurological disorders that selectively affect motor neurons , the cells that control voluntary muscles of the body. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dr. Harder was a founding member and is the current Co-Director of the Children's Medical Center Pediatric Demyelinating Diseases Clinic and her primary research focuses on pediatric central nervous system demyelinating disorders. (childrens.com)
  • Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP) is an autoimmune process characterized by progressive areflexic weakness and mild sensory changes. (medscape.com)
  • Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is believed to be caused by an immunologic attack that is directed against myelin components. (medscape.com)
  • Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP) is the most common acquired demyelinating polyneuropathy. (medscape.com)
  • Inflammatory demyelinating diseases (IDDs), sometimes called Idiopathic (IIDDs) due to the unknown etiology of some of them, are a heterogenous group of demyelinating diseases - conditions that cause damage to myelin , the protective sheath of nerve fibers - that occur against the background of an acute or chronic inflammatory process. (mdwiki.org)
  • Acute axonal injury affected 41.4% of cases and correlated with extent of inflammatory activity in each compartment even in cases that died at advanced age with over 20 years of disease duration. (ox.ac.uk)
  • It can be considered the chronic equivalent of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, the most common form of Guillain-Barré syndrome. (medscape.com)
  • Lack of association between CD226 genetic variants and inflammatory demyelinating diseases in Korean population. (nel.edu)
  • This study was conducted to find the possible association between CD226 polymorphisms and inflammatory demyelinating diseases in Korean population. (nel.edu)
  • While prior studies have found CD226 polymorphisms to be significantly associated with inflammatory demyelinating diseases, our results indicate the CD226 polymorphisms to be not associated with the diseases in Korean population. (nel.edu)
  • However, our results suggest that the causal genes for inflammatory demyelinating diseases may vary depending on the population. (nel.edu)
  • A distinct clinical entity from other inflammatory demyelinating diseases. (mdwiki.org)
  • This article is about the neurodegenerative disease. (wikipedia.org)
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ), also known as motor neurone disease ( MND ) or Lou Gehrig's disease , is a rare and terminal neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles . (wikipedia.org)
  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is a paralytic syndrome, causing considerable disability and even death. (nih.gov)
  • The term chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) has been used to identify patients with a chronically progressive or relapsing symmetric sensorimotor disorder with cytoalbuminologic dissociation and interstitial and perivascular endoneurial infiltration by lymphocytes and macrophages. (medscape.com)
  • Electron micrograph of the peripheral nerve of a patient with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. (medscape.com)
  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is presumed to occur because of immunologic antibody-mediated reaction along with interstitial and perivascular infiltration of the endoneurium with inflammatory T cells and macrophages. (medscape.com)
  • Atypical inflammatory demyelinating syndromes of the CNS. (mayoclinic.org)
  • Although these antibodies are clinically relevant when associated with the specific neurological syndromes that have been described, further studies are required to evaluate their roles and clinical relevance in demyelinating diseases. (bmj.com)
  • Langer-Gould A, Zhang JL, Chung J, Yeung Y, Waubant E, Yao J. Incidence of acquired CNS demyelinating syndromes in a multiethnic cohort of children. (medscape.com)
  • Dissemination in space (DIS): Development of lesions in two distinct anatomical locations indicating a multifocal disease process. (nowyouknowneuro.com)
  • In addition to Parkinson's disease, the program benefits patients who have suffered cranial-encephalic traumatisms, traumatic lesions of the spinal cord, damage caused by the cerebral aging, Alzheimer's disease and sequels of cerebral anoxia. (cubaheal.com)
  • The extended period of cortical myelination in humans may allow greater opportunities for disruption in myelination, resulting in the onset of demyelinating disease. (wikipedia.org)
  • The field of neurodegenerative dementias, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD), has been revolutionized by the development of imaging and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and is on the brink of a new development: emerging plasma biomarkers. (medscape.com)
  • Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) used in IgG-index testing and oligoclonal bands (OCB) are common laboratory tests used in the diagnosis of MS. In addition to MS, several other neurologic diseases generate CSF-specific OCB as a humoral immune response, along with 8% of normal individuals. (aacc.org)
  • Inflammation was greater in the demyelinating diseases compared to non-neurologic controls. (ox.ac.uk)
  • A neurologic disease characterized by a history of remissions and exacerbations of at least 2 separate neurologic abnormalities with multiple plaques found on MRI. (studystack.com)
  • A rare inherited progressive neurologic disease with adrenal insufficiency. (studystack.com)
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  • The survey was conducted by the Ambulatory Care Statistics Branch of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Presents with monocular decreased visual acuity, loss of color vision, and an afferent pupillary defect ( APD ) due to a demyelinating lesion of the optic nerve. (nowyouknowneuro.com)
  • What is more, optic nerve involvement in these diseases is often subclinical, with optical coherence tomography demonstrating progressive neuroretinal thinning in absence of optic neuritis. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Limited forms of Devic's disease, such as single or recurrent events of longitudinally extensive myelitis , and bilateral simultaneous or recurrent optic neuritis . (mdwiki.org)
  • Longitudinally extensive myelitis or optic neuritis associated with systemic autoimmune disease. (mdwiki.org)
  • The administration of RNs did not have any effect on clinical manifestation of EAE and did not preserve OKR scores but reduced the intensity of the disease. (listlabs.com)
  • Defined as a monophasic demyelinating episode in someone who otherwise has no clinical history of demyelinating disease. (nowyouknowneuro.com)
  • When diagnosed patients have a 33% chance of having a clinical demyelinating attack over the following two years. (nowyouknowneuro.com)
  • Therefore, one given pathogenic underlying condition can yield several clinical diseases, and one disease can be produced by several pathogenic conditions. (mdwiki.org)
  • This indicates that the clinical experience with these drugs parallels the disease association of rs1800693, and that the MS-associated TNFR1 variant mimics the effect of TNF-blocking drugs. (researchgate.net)
  • Hence, our study demonstrates that clinical practice can be informed by comparing GWAS across common autoimmune diseases and by investigating the functional consequences of the disease-associated genetic variation. (researchgate.net)
  • Correspondingly, the clinical strategies available for the management of the disease have widened. (researchgate.net)
  • Of two predominant Guillain-Barré syndrome subtypes, a demyelinating subtype (AIDP) predominates in the United States and Europe, and axonal subtype (AMAN) is the predominant form in China. (medscape.com)
  • Anti-AQP4 diseases , Anti-MOG and Anti-NF spectrums. (mdwiki.org)
  • [6] [13] About half of these genetic cases are due to disease-causing variants in one of four specific genes . (wikipedia.org)
  • Although there has been much success in identifying genetic variants associated with common diseases using genome-wide association studies (GWAS), it has been difficult to demonstrate which variants are causal and what role they have in disease. (researchgate.net)
  • Moreover, the modest contribution that these variants make to disease risk has raised questions regarding their medical relevance. (researchgate.net)
  • As with many other complex diseases, risk of developing MS is driven by multiple common variants whose biological effects are not immediately clear. (researchgate.net)
  • and identified CMKLR1 small molecule antagonist 2-(α-naphthoyl) ethyltrimethylammonium iodide (α-NETA) that significantly suppressed disease onset in vivo. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Importantly, TNF-blocking drugs can promote onset or exacerbation of MS, but they have proven highly efficacious in the treatment of autoimmune diseases for which there is no association with rs1800693. (researchgate.net)
  • Therefore, the role of the human-specific prolonged period of cortical myelination is an important evolutionary consideration in the pathogenesis of demyelinating disease. (wikipedia.org)
  • Multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) over the past 10 years have uncovered more than 200 loci that independently contribute to disease pathogenesis. (researchgate.net)
  • Various factors can contribute to the development of demyelinating diseases, including genetic predisposition, infectious agents, autoimmune reactions, and other unknown factors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hepatitis B is a disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which is transmitted through percutaneous (i.e., puncture through the skin) or mucosal (i.e., direct contact with mucous membranes) exposure to infectious blood or body fluids. (cdc.gov)
  • Neuropsychological Outcomes of Pediatric Demyelinating Diseases: A Review. (childrens.com)
  • Demyelinated plaques were classified as active based on established criteria. (ox.ac.uk)
  • citation needed] Various methods/techniques are used to diagnose demyelinating diseases: Exclusion of other conditions that have overlapping symptoms Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize internal structures of the body in detail. (wikipedia.org)
  • In other people, the disease may slowly get worse in between clear attacks. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In this current review, AIDP refers to the more common demyelinating form unless otherwise specified. (medscape.com)
  • Patients with chronic MS or other demyelinating conditions tend to have fatigue exacerbated by heat (Uhthoff's phenomenon) that improves with cooler temperatures. (nowyouknowneuro.com)
  • Symptoms and signs that present in demyelinating diseases are different for each condition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Once the clinician has a prioritized differential diagnosis of the brain disease or condition that is probably causing or contributing to the patient's signs and symptoms, they can then select appropriate assessments and tests, typically starting with a laboratory panel and brain MRI . (medscape.com)
  • They do not indicate the underlying disease process and normal findings do not exclude an organic basis for symptoms. (medscape.com)