A 23-year-old woman with juvenile-onset α-mannosidosis developed an axonal polyneuropathy more than a year following successful unrelated donor (URD) BMT complicated by chronic graft-versus-host ...

What is the recommended approach to managing a patient infected with hepatitis C virus who has been on combination interferon and ribavirin therapy and who has developed peripheral neuropathy?

Neurons of both the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS) are highly polarized complex cellular units. During development, several morphological steps are required for ...

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Suramin and hydrocortisone: determining drug efficacy in androgen-independent prostate cancer. Eight patients developed grade III/IV neurologic motor impairment (predominantly motor axonal ...

As shown in Figure 2, the left peroneal and tibial nerve motor responses were absent, including the left peroneal nerve recorded at the tibialis anterior muscle. In the left arm the median nerve motor ...

"Alterations in axonal membrane and channel function occur early in the disease course, prior to discernable large fibre involvement, and has the potential to be used as an early biomarker of ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Disarm Therapeutics, a biotechnology company creating a new class of disease-modifying therapeutics for patients with axonal degeneration, today announced ...

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