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Guideline for management and treatment of fetal and congenital hydrocephalus: Center Of Excellence—Fetal and Congenital Hydrocephalus Top 10 Japan Guideline 2011
Hydrocephalus does not indicate a single clinical entity, but includes a variety of clinicopathological conditions caused by excessive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) based on the disturbed circulation. Recent progr...
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Genu of corpus callosum in diffuse axonal injury induces a worse 1-year outcome in patients with traumatic brain injury
Previous studies have shown a relationship between diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and unfavorable clinical outcome in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), but it remains unclear whether the type of DAI les...
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Development of an Ultra-micro Sample Injector for Gas Chromatography Using an Ink-jet Microchip
An ultra-micro sample injector for gas chromatography (GC) was developed. An ink-jet microchip, originally used for industrial recorder, was modified at the edge near to an orifice, and fixed into the GC. In o...
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Development of a Surface-Reaction System in a Nanoliter Droplet Made by an Ink-jet Microchip
A surface-reaction system in a nanoliter water pool using an ink-jet microchip was developed. The reaction system in the nanodroplets formed on a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) coated glass slide increased the ...
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NGF, NT-3 and Trk C mRNAs, but not TrkA mRNA, are upregulated in the paraventricular structures in experimental hydrocephalus
Objects: This study was designed to detect possible alterations in the expression of neurotrophins and trks in kaolin-induced hydrocephalus by in situ hybridization. Methods and results: Sixteen ...
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Neuroendoscopic surgery for specific forms of hydrocephalus
Neuroendoscopic surgery was used to treat patients with various forms of hydrocephalus with specific pathophysiology, including long-standing overt ventriculomegaly in adulthood (LOVA), isolated unilateral hy...
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Differential immune responses to fetal intracameral spinal cord and cortex cerebri grafts
While the central nervous system (CNS) has been characterized as an immunologically privileged site, there are also several reports describing immunological reactions within the CNS. A certain degree of immuno...
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Neurovascular developmental interaction: a specific form of vascular maldevelopment in the malformed brain
The process of the development of the intracranial vessels was studied by means of immunohistochemical analysis of factor VIII in normal and exencephalic chick fetuses. The results revealed that the developmen...
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Development of akinetic mutism and hyperphagia after left thalamic and right hypothalamic lesions
A case of childhood post-traumatic akinetic mutism is presented. The patient showed a hyperphagic condition while recovering from akinetic mutism. He had lesions in the left interlaminal nucleus of the thalamu...
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Single photon emission computerized tomography in childhood hydrocephalus
Single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) is now widely used as one of the tools in evaluating cerebral blood flow (CBF). The authors report the CBF changes in childhood hydrocephalus. Five pediat...
