[PDF] Top 20 The role of surgery in primary central nervous system lymphomas

... age of patients at the time of presentation was 59 years (range: 25–4 ...Two-thirds of the patients (66%) were men (male/female ratio = ...percent of the patients were ... See full document

... with the above hypothesis, immunosuppressive drugs such as cyclo- sporin, which inhibit the release of various cytokines including IL-2 by activated lym- phocytes (33), should be able to inhibit ... See full document

... onset in a variety of clinical syndromes including progressive encephalopathy or focal neurological ...mimicking primary brain tumor, CNS infection, demyelinating disease and autoimmune or ... See full document

... important role in immune surveillance against tumors. The present work aimed to study the cytotoxic activity of NK cells and T cell subsets in peripheral blood of 13 ... See full document

... represent the most common class of malignant tumors of the central nervous system being the most aggressive, and lethal brain tumors in primary brain ... See full document

... In the last decades, our knowledge on the management of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) has expanded ...like the impact of dose dense chemotherapy, the ... See full document

... studies of AZT in viral lymphomas were conducted in Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type I Adult T Cell Leukemia (HTLV-I ...reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that ... See full document

... Primary Central Nervous System lymphoma (PCNSL) is an extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the brain, leptomeninges, spinal cord or ...eyes. The incidence of PCNSL ... See full document

... understanding the mechanisms by which hormones, neu- rotransmitters, nutrition, growth promoting agents, and environmental and genetic factors influence ...growth. In order to investigate the ... See full document

... sion of CGRP and SP in vivo, it was neces- sary to develop an in vitro model system using primary cultures of DRG ...that in cultured adult DRG neurons, NGF stimulates ... See full document

... Diseases of the Nervous System : Central Nervous System ...Vasculitis. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J and Mazziotta JC ...Neurology in Clinical ... See full document

... 2003). The behaviour of ascidian larva has long been studied illustrating that ascidian larvae present phototactic and geotactic ...responses. The larvae become sensitive to light about 4 hours after ... See full document

... capacity of producing single internodes of myelin around axons of the peripheral nervous ...system. In the ethidium bromide (EB) model of primary ... See full document

... crucial role in the physiology of the central nervous system (CNS) by modulating synaptic activity and ...for the information processing that takes place ... See full document

... revealed the results similar to the recent study. [18] In addition to the induction of ...another role of TGF- β1 during T. gondii infection seems to be the ... See full document

... variant of pilocytic astrocytoma, is a rare primary tumor of the central nervous ...located in the hypothalamic-chiasmatic area, affecting children with a mean age ... See full document

... most of the myelin sheath consists of juxtaposed plasma membranes, myelin also contains cytoplasmic chan- nels, some of which, the paranodal loops and the inner loop, are ... See full document

... (ICU). In addition, health-care associated neurological infections may develop in critically ill patients admitted to an ICU for other ...indications. Central nervous system infections ... See full document

... ry central nervous system lymphomas (PCNSL) are a rare subgroup of lymphomas generally associated with HIV and ...cases of PCNSL, to describe the n e u ... See full document

... though the cellular functions of LCN2 in the CNS remain enigmatic, some new insights have been given by Lee and colleagues that through in vitro studies showed that after inflammatory ... See full document