The development and current state of the science on pathological and anatomical changes in dorsal tabes

1901 ◽  
Vol IX (2) ◽  
pp. 1-81
Author(s):  
N. N. Stern

In 1882, Strumpell published his famous work: "Die pathologische Anatomie der tabes dorsalis". In the introduction to this work, he says: already the clinical course of a typical dorsal tabes, with a more thorough examination, suggests that pathological changes in this disease, in contrast to many other diseases of the central nervous system, always occupy strictly defined areas of the central nervous system.

1908 ◽  
Vol 54 (226) ◽  
pp. 560-561
Author(s):  
David Orr ◽  
R. G. Rows

At a quarterly meeting of this Association held last year at Nottingham, we showed the results of our experiments with toxins upon the spinal cord and brain of rabbits. Our main conclusion was, that the central nervous system could be infected by toxins passing up along the lymph channels of the perineural sheath. The method we employed in our experiments consisted in placing a celloidin capsule filled with a broth culture of an organism under the sciatic nerve or under the skin of the cheek; and we invariably found a resulting degeneration in the spinal cord or brain, according to the situation of the capsule. These lesions we found to be identical in morphological type and anatomical distribution with those found in the cord of early tabes dorsalis and in the brain and cord of general paralysis of the insane. The conclusion suggested by our work was that these two diseases, if toxic, were most probably infections of lymphogenous origin.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Alice Fernandes Alfieri ◽  
Alexandre Mendes Amude ◽  
Amauri Alcindo Alfier

Canine distemper is a systemic infection, frequently lethal in dogs. The canine distemper virus(CDV) causes a persistent infection within the central nervous system resulting in aprogressive, multifocal demyelinating disease. In dogs, CDV infection may lead togastrointestinal and/or respiratory signs, frequently with central nervous system involvement.Myoclonus has been a common and characteristic sign observed in dogs with distemperencephalomyelitis. However, the nervous form of distemper may occur in the absence ofmyoclonus and systemic involvement. This review will point the clinical course and theneurological signs of nervous distemper, as well the clinical syndromes of CDV infection,neuropathology of acute and chronic demyelination, and diagnostic aids of CDVencephalomyelitis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng-Lan Li ◽  
Wen Wang ◽  
Zi-Bing Jin

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are endogenous single-stranded RNAs characterized by covalently closed loop structures with neither 5′ to 3′ polarity nor poly(A) tails. They are generated most commonly from back-splicing of protein-coding exons. CircRNAs have a tissue-specific distribution and are evolutionarily conserved, and many circRNAs play important biological functions by combining with microRNAs and proteins to regulate protein functions and their own translation. Numerous studies have shown that circRNAs are enriched in the central nervous system (CNS) and play an important role in the development and maintenance of homeostasis. Correspondingly, they also play an important role in the occurrence and progression of CNS diseases. In this review, we highlight the current state of circRNA biogenesis, properties, function and the crucial roles they play in the CNS.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
A. S. Vinokurov ◽  
M. V. Nikiforova ◽  
A. A. Oganesyan ◽  
O. O. Vinokurova ◽  
A. L. Yudin ◽  
...  

Item. To evaluate the features of CT imaging of the liver and the possible causes of pathological changes in COVID-19.Materials and methods. An analysis of the literature and our own data on the features of CT imaging of the liver in combination with biochemical analyzes in patients with COVID-19 was performed. The main possible causes of changes in the liver, as well as symptoms with CT, are examined.Results. The main target of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the respiratory system. But among patients with COVID-19, along with damage to the central nervous system, myocardium, and intestines, cases of liver damage or dysfunction have been reported. This is expressed in an increase in biochemical markers of liver damage, as well as in a diffuse decrease in its density during CT, which is usually observed in the acute stage of the disease.


Viruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1411
Author(s):  
Kristina Jeon ◽  
Jeffrey T. Joseph ◽  
Gerard H. Jansen ◽  
Anne Peterson ◽  
J. David Knox ◽  
...  

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease that can arise spontaneously, genetically, or be acquired through iatrogenic exposure. Most patients die within a year of symptom onset. It is rare, affecting 1–2 per million per year, and the majority of cases are sporadic. Primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) is also rare, affecting 2.4 per million per year. We present a case of an unusually long clinical course of CJD, almost five years, which began with symptoms of apraxia. The patient had biopsy-proven PACNS 16 years prior to clinical presentation, and the site of biopsy was the left parietal lobe. Autopsy revealed multicentric prion plaques in the cerebellum, in the setting of normal genetic testing. The presence of plaques in the cerebellum, and prior neurosurgery, raises the possibility of iatrogenic exposure. We present the details of this case, including pathology from the original biopsy and final autopsy, as well as a review of relevant cases in the literature.


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