{"title":"Congenital myopathies.","authors":"L K Shield","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A retrospective review of 55 children with the clinical (pre-biopsy) suspicion of a congenital or metabolic myopathy was undertaken. After investigations, 45% remained unclassified. The only statistically significant differences between this unclassified group and the others were that males with a history of progressive disease were more likely to have a definable myopathy, while 'neuropathic' features were more common in the unclassified group.</p>","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"24 Suppl 1 ","pages":"77-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14332746","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":"Lower motoneuron trophic factors and lower motoneuron death: effects and mechanisms.","authors":"T R Raju, M R Bennett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The characterization of trophic factors for the survival of embryonic montoneurons in vitro is described. Current knowledge and experiments in progress are reported. It seems that trophic support for motoneurons is derived from all the cells which they contact during development.</p>","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"24 Suppl 1 ","pages":"48-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14191927","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":"Aspects of peripheral motor system development.","authors":"A H Lamb","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The adult motor system is precisely connected, topographically and functionally. This order is reached during embryonic development through a sequence of mechanisms which increasingly resolve the adult patterns of connectivity. First is axon guidance, which gives rise to a pattern of axon outgrowth leading to an approximation of the adult projections. Second there is a period of motoneuron death, which eliminates motoneurons which have projected to inappropriate regions of the limb, and, it is conjectured, motoneurons which are functionally less well connected in terms of the behaviour of the whole system. Third there is a period of retraction of axon terminals which refines the pattern of connectivity from polyneuronal to mononeuronal innervation of the muscle fibres. The patterns of retraction may be determined by the same functional criteria as are used in the control of motoneuron death.</p>","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"24 Suppl 1 ","pages":"37-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14191984","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":"Non-efficiency of 'dry bed training' of enuretic children.","authors":"O Johnsen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"23 6","pages":"368-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14559682","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":"Australian College of Paediatrics policy statement on soy protein formula.","authors":"D Hill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"23 6","pages":"367-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14559681","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":"Don't cry over spilled lye--drink-proofing containers.","authors":"J N Walterspiel, W N Hill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"23 6","pages":"367"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14559680","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":"Aetiology of the prune belly syndrome.","authors":"J M Hutson, S W Beasley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"23 5","pages":"309-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14564728","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":"Coin rubbing and acute phase reactants.","authors":"J N Walterspiel, J R Rogers, C Kemp","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"23 5","pages":"309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14257411","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":"Maple syrup urine disease in Hong Kong.","authors":"C P Pang, C F Ng","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75574,"journal":{"name":"Australian paediatric journal","volume":"23 3","pages":"205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14783567","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}