Dravet Syndrome in Lebanon: First Report on Cases with SCN1A Mutations
We report 8 Lebanese cases referred for molecular analysis of the ,i,SCN1A,/i, gene. Results were positive in 7 cases and ... At that point, they suffered from prolonged convulsions triggered by fever. Seizures were short in the beginning, lasted for ... a case report," Journal of Medical Case Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 67, 2016. ... Case Reports in Medicine. Journal overview. For authorsFor reviewersFor editorsTable of Contents. Special Issues. ...
Epidemiological Scenario of Dengue in Brazil
... of the dengue reported cases worldwide. This review addresses vector distribution, dengue outbreaks, circulating serotypes and ... Between the years 2000 and 2006, the ratio of DF/SD cases reported in Brazil was 467.7, considerably higher than that reported ... Encephalitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, convulsions, meningoencephalitis, and reduced levels of consciousness were the most ... with 3,220 dengue cases reported. In 2002, DENV-3 caused one of the largest outbreaks ever reported in Brazil (696.472 cases/ ...
The "Natural" History of Medically Treated Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: What Can an Evidence-Based Approach Tell Us?
C. Josephson reports no disclosure. Dr. B. Pohlmann-Eden reports no disclosure. ... Most of these patients had complicated febrile convulsions, followed by meningitis and a diverse array of other conditions. ... The reported frequency of events between cohorts differed considerably with an earlier study reporting an identified risk ... Only one study reported on the duration of seizure freedom. Spooner et al. [5], in their study of childhood onset temporal lobe ...
A Confusing Coincidence: Neonatal Hypoglycemic Seizures and Hyperekplexia
Here we present a case with hypoglycemic convulsions coexisting with hyperekplexia, causing diagnostic difficulty. ... in convulsions with no organic underlying disease or in persistent convulsion-like involuntary movements after treatment of the ... Case Reports in Medicine. Journal overview. For authorsFor reviewersFor editorsTable of Contents. Special Issues. ... and from Crisponi syndrome due to the lack of saliva flow during convulsions, generalized convulsions, and no other additional ...
TRPV1 Antagonism by Capsazepine Modulates Innate Immune Response in Mice Infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA
Reports have shown that capsazepine presents species- and modality-specific activity on TRPV1 and also inhibits acetylcholine ... and convulsions were observed in either capsazepine- or vehicle-infected mice. However, both groups of animals displayed ... This is the first report to our knowledge of their contribution to malaria. However, it was recently suggested in a model of ... The results are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (SD). The percentages of inhibition are reported as mean ± SD of ...
Systematic Review of the Use of Phytochemicals for Management of Pain in Cancer Therapy
no pain outcome reported (. ), not being a phytochemical (. ), or not being a research article (. ), leaving 7 full-text ... and shown to have dose-dependent therapeutic effects in mouse and rat models for the management of convulsions, sedation, and ... A report of the american college of cardiology/american heart association task force on practice guidelines and the european ... D. Moher, A. Liberati, J. Tetzlaff, and D. G. Altman, "Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the ...
GABRG2 C588T Polymorphism Is Associated with Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy but Not with Antiepileptic Drug Resistance in...
Several studies have reported various epilepsy risk variants of ,i,GABRG2,/i, (,i,gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor ... Compared with drug responders, the authors reported an increase in T allele in the drug-resistant group (. , , ) [35]. A higher ... "A splice-site mutation in GABRG2 associated with childhood absence epilepsy and febrile convulsions," Archives of Neurology, ... Several studies have reported various epilepsy risk variants of GABRG2 (gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor subunit gamma2 ...
Anticerebral Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Activity of Synthesized Puerarin Derivatives
The results reported here provide insight into the application and development of puerarin derivatives for the treatment of ... Blood flow in the artery was blocked with a noninvasive arterial clamp for 15 min during which convulsions, slow deep breathing ...
Hepatitis B Response of Premature Infants after Primary and Booster Immunisation with a Diphtheria-Tetanus-Acellular Pertussis...
Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, L. K. Pickering, Ed., pp. 66-68, American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove ... severe neurologic damage or nontreatable convulsions; known or suspected immune dysfunction, HIV positive or hepatitis B ... 27] reported that similar declines in antibody titres are seen in pre-term and full-term babies after primary vaccination, ... Low-birth weight has been reported to be associated with an inadequate immune response to early hepatitis B vaccination in ...
Earthworms Dilong: Ancient, Inexpensive, Noncontroversial Models May Help Clarify Approaches to Integrated Medicine Emphasizing...
Concerning alopecia, or hair loss, earthworm ashes are reported to assist regrowth by applying them on to the scalp with rose ... and unblock and activate those channels where earthworms are commonly used to treat high fever with convulsions, swollen and ... Actually some of the work reported here calls to mind pioneer experiments by Levi-Montalcini and the first discovery of nerve ... report of van Hass, a German marine biologist, who had been offered an earthworm pie in Japan. A Dutch traveler, at the border ...
Clarified Açaí (Euterpe oleracea) Juice as an Anticonvulsant Agent: In Vitro Mechanistic Study of GABAergic Targets
... reduced the duration of clonic-tonic convulsions in a similar way as EO (9.2 ± 1.5 and 8.0 ± 1.12 seconds for diazepam and EO, ... Cell viability was reported as the percentage of reduced MTT compared to the control group. ...
Pathomechanisms of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in ALS
The most substantial of these was a positive correlation between subjective "wellbeing" (as a self-reported phenotype within ... "Effect of vitamin E on blood-brain barrier permeability in aged rats with PTZ-induced convulsions," pp. 349-353, 2011. ... Humans with ALS develop BSCB breakdown which has been reported to cause microvascular spinal-cord lesions [7]. As it stands the ... "GWAS of 89,283 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with self-reporting of being a morning person," Nature ...