{"title":"Targeting the Cancer Stem Cell (CSC) Phenotype: Uprooting the Evil Seed","authors":"H. Lopez-Bertoni, J. Laterra","doi":"10.33696/NEUROL.1.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33696/NEUROL.1.027","url":null,"abstract":"Hernando Lopez-Bertoni1,2*, John Laterra1,2,3,4* 1Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, 707 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD, USA 21205 2Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA 21287 3Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA 21287 4Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, USA 21287","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41320832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alzheimer and It’s Possible Therapy: A Review","authors":"A. Chakraborty, Anil Diwan","doi":"10.33696/NEUROL.1.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33696/NEUROL.1.019","url":null,"abstract":"Alzheimer disease (AD) is recognized by a gradual loss of memory which never returns to normal, called dementia caused due to the death of functional neural cells. Only 10-15% cases are found genetically involved. However, in all the cases of AD, beta amyloid (Aβ) protein forms plaques, and the tau protein forms tangles which disrupts the normal neuronal functions for transporting neurotransmitters, nutrient, and also communication with other neural cells; ultimately develops the disease. We have reviewed here the presently available all the treatment options, and discussed, not only why but how, a better option can be developed for AD treatment.","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44353372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cutaneous Side Effects of First-Second Line Oral Disease - Modifying Treatments in Patients with Multiple Sclero","authors":"Doruk Arslan, A. Tuncer","doi":"10.33696/NEUROL.1.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33696/NEUROL.1.024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":"399 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41263194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can ECT Improve the Motor Symptoms of a Neurological Disease? A Case of Dopa-Responsive Dystonia","authors":"C. Guillet","doi":"10.33696/NEUROL.1.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33696/NEUROL.1.023","url":null,"abstract":"The patient’s brother, who died by suicide, was also diagnosed with DYT5b. He presented symptoms of the disorder from birth, while Ms. M was not diagnosed until adulthood because of the atypical presentation of the disease. She was examined by several neurologists over the years, but they were unable to provide the correct diagnosis. She was even hospitalized several times in a psychiatric ward with a diagnosis of conversion disorder.","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45195430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Ikeno, K. Charlton-Ouw, M. Iafrati, Anand Y. Shah
{"title":"A Commentary on Concomitant Symptomatic Coronary Disease and Carotid Artery Stenosis -The Tufts Medical Center Experience","authors":"Y. Ikeno, K. Charlton-Ouw, M. Iafrati, Anand Y. Shah","doi":"10.33696//NEUROL.1.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33696//NEUROL.1.021","url":null,"abstract":"135 Despite the development of surgical outcomes, acute stroke remain a devastating complication following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) [1]. Coexistent CAD and carotid artery stenosis are prevalent due to their common background of systemic atherosclerosis (20%) [2]. Naylor, et al. [3,4] demonstrated that the risk of stroke associated with CABG is 3.2% in patients with asymptomatic, unilateral severe carotid stenosis, whereas these figures increase to 5.2% in those with bilateral carotid stenosis and 7% to 11.6% in those with carotid occlusion. The management of concomitant CAD and carotid artery disease has been elucidated over time. The combination of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and CABG in the same surgical setting was introduced in the 1980s [5]. Nonetheless, the surgical management, particularly the timing and order of surgical procedures, remains varied across North America. This commentary reflects upon the Tufts Medical Center experience on the current knowledge of the prevention of perioperative stroke in patients with concurrent CAD and carotid artery disease, focusing on simultaneous CEA/CABG.","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45625841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Protocol for the Generation of Treatment-naïve Biopsyderived Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma and Diffuse Midline Glioma Models","authors":"","doi":"10.33696/neurol.1.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33696/neurol.1.025","url":null,"abstract":"Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a universally fatal tumor of the brainstem, most commonly affecting young children. Due to its location, surgical resection is not achievable, but consideration of a biopsy has become standard practice at children’s hospitals with the appropriate neurosurgical expertise. While the decision to obtain a biopsy should be directed by the presence of atypical radiographic features that call the diagnosis of DIPG into question or the requirement of biopsy tissue for clinical trial enrollment, once this precious tissue is available its use for research should be considered. The majority of DIPG and diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27Mmutant (DMG) models are autopsy-derived or genetically-engineered, each of which has limitations for translational studies, so the use of biopsy tissue for laboratory model development provides an opportunity to create unique model systems. Here, we present a detailed laboratory protocol for the generation of treatment-naïve biopsy-derived DIPG/DMG models. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/ Correspondence should be addressed to Nicholas A. Vitanza; nicholas.vitanza@seattlechildrens.org. Authorship MCB, AN, CM, SMM, CAW, FP, JMO, and NAV participated in the design or interpretation of the reported experiments or results. MCB, AN, CM, SMM, CAW, FP, BLC, SRB, and NAV participated in the acquisition or analysis of data. MCB, AN, and NAV wrote the manuscript with revisions and approval from all authors. NAV supervised all aspects of the research. Conflicts of Interest None. HHS Public Access Author manuscript J Exp Neurol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2021 March 24. Published in final edited form as: J Exp Neurol. 2020 December ; 1(4): 158–167. doi:10.33696//Neurol.1.025. A uhor M anscript","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42468937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matt C Biery, Alyssa Noll, Carrie Myers, Shelli M Morris, Conrad A Winter, Fiona Pakiam, Bonnie L Cole, Samuel R Browd, James M Olson, Nicholas A Vitanza
{"title":"A Protocol for the Generation of Treatment-naïve Biopsy-derived Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma and Diffuse Midline Glioma Models.","authors":"Matt C Biery, Alyssa Noll, Carrie Myers, Shelli M Morris, Conrad A Winter, Fiona Pakiam, Bonnie L Cole, Samuel R Browd, James M Olson, Nicholas A Vitanza","doi":"10.33696//Neurol.1.025","DOIUrl":"10.33696//Neurol.1.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a universally fatal tumor of the brainstem, most commonly affecting young children. Due to its location, surgical resection is not achievable, but consideration of a biopsy has become standard practice at children's hospitals with the appropriate neurosurgical expertise. While the decision to obtain a biopsy should be directed by the presence of atypical radiographic features that call the diagnosis of DIPG into question or the requirement of biopsy tissue for clinical trial enrollment, once this precious tissue is available its use for research should be considered. The majority of DIPG and diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27M-mutant (DMG) models are autopsy-derived or genetically-engineered, each of which has limitations for translational studies, so the use of biopsy tissue for laboratory model development provides an opportunity to create unique model systems. Here, we present a detailed laboratory protocol for the generation of treatment-naïve biopsy-derived DIPG/DMG models.</p>","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":"1 4","pages":"158-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7990285/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25517671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pei-Hsin Ku, J. Lambeck, Nai-Chen Yeh, Ray-Yau Wang
{"title":"Commentary to the Newly Rising Aquatic Exercise: Ai Chi","authors":"Pei-Hsin Ku, J. Lambeck, Nai-Chen Yeh, Ray-Yau Wang","doi":"10.33696/neurol.1.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33696/neurol.1.013","url":null,"abstract":"73 As aquatic therapy has become an important rehabilitative option, more exercise programs have emerged. Ai Chi, is one of the therapeutic aquatic exercise concepts with growing potential. In our previous study, both types of aquatic exercise, Ai Chi and conventional exercise, supported the restoration of postural control in people with chronic stroke, whereas Ai Chi seemed to have larger effects [1]. Along with the statistically significant amelioration of weight shifting ability, number of participants who reached clinical fall risk cutoff score was also higher in Ai Chi group than in control group. We have attributed the advantages of Ai Chi to the unique combination of movement characteristics, such as postural challenge, closed-chain movements, and multi-joint involvement.","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48284579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing Acute Urinary Dysfunction for Neurologic Injury Patients","authors":"B. Lucke-Wold","doi":"10.33696/NEUROL.1.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33696/NEUROL.1.008","url":null,"abstract":"The below algorithm serves as a management strategy for tackling urinary dysfunction in the neurologic injury patients:","PeriodicalId":73744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of experimental neurology","volume":"1 1","pages":"40 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43860031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}