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Utilization of medical care among children with spina bifida

Authors: M Dahl and G Ahlsten

Detrusor sling bladder neck closure – follow up results

Authors: H Dagash, D Ainsworth, AE MacKinnon and JP Roberts

Exercise tolerance, level of physical activity and muscle strength in independent ambulators with Sacral Myelomeningocele

Authors: MAGC Schoenmakers, PJM Helders, JW Gorter and T Takken

Casey Memorial Lectureship :Adult consequences of spina bifida

Authors: John M Mazur

Differential permeability to horseradish peroxidase in affected and non-affected ventricular walls during postnatal development of normal and hydrocephalic hyh mice

Authors: Patricia Páez, Ruth Roales-Buján, Sara Rodríguez, Federico Bátiz, Antonio J Jiménez, Esteban M Rodríguez and José-Manuel Pérez-Fígares

Neuroepithelial denudation in the hyh mutant mice with congenital hydrocephalus produces agenesis of corpus callosum and alteration in the cerebral cortex

Authors: Patricia Páez, Luis Manuel Rodríguez-Pérez, Ruth Roales-Buján, Antonio J Jiménez, Esteban M Rodríguez and José-Manuel Pérez-Fígares

The ideal approach to back closure; Are we closing the backs properly ? Is laminectomy always necessary?

Authors: Santosh Karmarkar, Alaric Aroojis, Snehal Deshpande and Madhavi Thakur

Skin covered myelomeningoceles do not exist: What are these lesions?

Authors: Hector James

Malformations of the fetal spine using in utero MR imaging

Authors: PD Griffiths, D Connolly, E Widjaja and EH Whitby

The problems of hydrocephalus and CSF shunt in the patients with myelomeningocele in their adolescence and adulthood

Authors: J Yamada, M Nonaka and M Yamasaki

Clinical and neuropathological evolution of the hydrocephalus developed by the mutant mouse hyh

Authors: Federico Bátiz, Patricia Páez, Antonio J Jiménez, Sara Rodrìguez, José Manuel Pérez-Fígares and Esteban M Rodríguez

An alteration of the subcommissural organ (SCO) leads to aqueductal stenosis and hydrocephalus

Authors: Karin Vío, Carolina Wagner, Sara Rodrìguez, Federico Bátiz, Antonio J Jiménez, José Manuel Pérez-Fígares and Esteban M Rodríguez

Dimensions of the posterior fossa in patients symptomatic for Chiari I malformation but without cerebellar tonsillar descent

Chiari I malformation (CMI) is diagnosed by rigid radiographic criteria along with appropriate clinical symptomatology. The aim of this study was to investigate the dimensions of the posterior cranial fossa in...

Authors: Raymond F Sekula Jr, Peter J Jannetta, Kenneth F Casey, Edward M Marchan, L Kathleen Sekula and Christine S McCrady

Memory and selective learning in children with spina bifida-myelomeningocele and shunted hydrocephalus: A preliminary study

Selective learning is the ability to select items of relevance from among less important items. Limited evidence exists regarding the efficiency with which children with spina bifida-myelomeningocele and shunt...

Authors: Behroze Vachha and Richard C Adams

Characterization of cytoskeletal and junctional proteins expressed by cells cultured from human arachnoid granulation tissue

The arachnoid granulations (AGs) are projections of the arachnoid membrane into the dural venous sinuses. They function, along with the extracranial lymphatics, to circulate the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to th...

Authors: David W Holman, Deborah M Grzybowski, Bhavya C Mehta, Steven E Katz and Martin Lubow

The circumventricular organs participate in the immunopathogenesis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

During inflammatory conditions of the central nervous system (CNS), such as in multiple sclerosis or in its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), immune cells migrate from the blood st...

Authors: Martina Schulz and Britta Engelhardt

Cerebrospinal fluid may mediate CNS ischemic injury

The central nervous system (CNS) is extremely vulnerable to ischemic injury. The details underlying this susceptibility are not completely understood. Since the CNS is surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) t...

Authors: Yanming F Wang, Judith K Gwathmey, Guorong Zhang, Sulpicio G Soriano, Shunli He and Yanguang Wang

Integration of the subarachnoid space and lymphatics: Is it time to embrace a new concept of cerebrospinal fluid absorption?

In most tissues and organs, the lymphatic circulation is responsible for the removal of interstitial protein and fluid but the parenchyma of the brain and spinal cord is devoid of lymphatic vessels. On the oth...

Authors: Lena Koh, Andrei Zakharov and Miles Johnston

In normal rat, intraventricularly administered insulin-like growth factor-1 is rapidly cleared from CSF with limited distribution into brain

Putatively active drugs are often intraventricularly administered to gain direct access to brain and circumvent the blood-brain barrier. A few studies on the normal central nervous system (CNS) have shown, how...

Authors: Tavarekere N Nagaraja, Padma Patel, Martin Gorski, Peter D Gorevic, Clifford S Patlak and Joseph D Fenstermacher

Cerebrospinal Fluid Research: The first six months and the introduction of article processing charges

Article processing charges (APCs) have recently been introduced for authors submitting papers to Cerebrospinal Fluid Research. This editorial is to inform readers about the need and use of APCs and about the adva...

Authors: Hazel C Jones

Expansion of antibody reactivity in the cerebrospinal fluid of multiple sclerosis patients – follow-up and clinical implications

An intrathecal polyspecific antibody response is a well known finding in multiple sclerosis. However, little is known about the evolution of intrathecal antibodies over time and their impact on the disease pro...

Authors: Hela-Felicitas Petereit and Dirk Reske

Genetic loci for ventricular dilatation in the LEW/Jms rat with fetal-onset hydrocephalus are influenced by gender and genetic background

The LEW/Jms rat strain has inherited hydrocephalus, with more males affected than females and an overall expression rate of 28%. This study aimed to determine chromosomal positions for genetic loci causing the...

Authors: Hazel C Jones, Crystal F Totten, David A Mayorga, Mei Yue and Barbara J Carter

Blood-Spinal Cord and Brain Barriers in Health and Disease Edited by: Hari Shanker Sharma, Jan Westerman. Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA; 2004.

Authors: Hazel C Jones

Learning efficiency in children with myelomeningocele and shunted hydrocephalus

Authors: B Vachha and R Adams

Preconceptual care for women with spina bifida

Authors: S Christodoulou, M Kamran, J Thorne, M Lewis and S Vause

A prospective, randomised, controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of endoscopic choroid plexus coagulation with third ventriculostomy in the treatment of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus [ISRCTN29863839]

Authors: R Edwards, M Bunnage, D O'Brien, M Luciano and I Pople

Kaolin-induced hydrocephalus in the newborn rat

Authors: M Del Bigio, O Khan, T Enno and L McPhee

Spinal fusion in children with spina bifida: influence on ambulation level and functional abilities

Authors: M Schoenmakers, R Gooskens, J Pruijs and P Helders

Expectation of life and unexpected death in open spina bifida

Authors: GM Hunt and P Oakeshott

Methylenetetrahydrofolate-dehydrogenase 1958G→A polymorphism is a genetic determinant of NTD risk for Italian mothers

Authors: P De Marco, M Grazia Calevo, E Merello, A Moroni, A Raso, S Parodi, A Cama and V Capra

Deliveries of babies with neural tube defects in Omdurman, Sudan

Authors: G Elsheikh, S Ahmed Ibrahim, F Mahgoub, J Thorne and M Lewis

Religious interpretations of suffering by parents of a child with spina bifida

Authors: M van den Heuvel, H Schilderman and J van der Ven

Needs assessment of school-going children and adolescents with spina bifida

Authors: M McGinn, S Dockeray and O Hensey

Neuroradiological criteria of human L1CAM syndrome – report of 24 human L1CAM mutations including 17 noble mutations and clinical evaluation

Authors: M Yamasaki, Y Kanemura, N Okamoto, H Sakamoto and H Kamiguchi

Incomplete reversibility of selective hippocampal response after early and delayed shunting in adult kaolin-hydrocephalus – implications for early shunt treatment

Authors: P Klinge, I Gerkmann, A Samii and T Brinker

Altered expression of sialic acid-bearing glycoconjugates as revealed by lectin binding to choroid plexus in perinatal hydrocephalic rats

Authors: P McMillan, S Flaherty, A Spangenberger, H Jones, J Duncan and C Johanson

Proteomics study of CSF composition in the developing H-Tx rat

Authors: M Nabiyouni, C Storey, J Owen-Lynch and J Miyan

Assessment of antimicrobial shunt and external drain catheters

Authors: R Bayston and W Ashraf

VP shunts – what is the commonest complication?

Authors: T Sri Paran, I Koenigs and R Fitzgerald

Hydrocephalus in children-epidemiology and outcome

Authors: E-K Persson, G Hagberg and P Uvebrant

A short neuropsychological test battery for measuring functional outcome after shunt placement in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus

Authors: P Klinge, N Rückert, T Brinker, L Dörner and M Samii

Probable NPH in patients with clinical AD: further support for the AD-NPH syndrome and CSF circulatory failure

Authors: GD Silverberg, M Mayo, J Fellmann, T Saul and D McGuire

Neuropsychological profile of patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus and Alzheimer's disease

Authors: JL Iddon, C Loveday, L Gelling, DJR Morgan and JD Pickard

John D Holter and his century valve

Authors: A Aschoff

Magnetic motor evoked potentials in newborns with spina bifida

Authors: N Geerdink, J Pasman, N Roeleveld, J Rotteveel and R Mullaart

Abnormal visual functions in children with hydrocephalus

Authors: S Andersson, E-K Persson, E Aring, A-L Hård, P Uvebrant, G Dutton and A Hellström

Neuropsychological assessment of cerebellar malformation in Spina Bifida

Authors: Anja Vinck, Ben Maassen, Reinier Mullaart and Jan Rotteveel

Shunt revision after major abdominal surgery in patients with Spina Bifida

Authors: J Shaw, A Dickson, J Thorne and M Lewis

In-vitro-testing of 1318 hydrocephalus valves. An overview of solved and unsolved problems

Authors: A Aschoff, D Biedermann, J Ludwig, P Kremer and B Hashemi

The enigma of underdrainage in shunting of hydrocephalus

Authors: C Sprung, C Miethke and M Brock