Labyrinthine Defects as Shown by Ataxia and Caloric Tests

Labyrinthine defects as shown by ataxia and caloric tests.

Syndrome of cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy and vestibular areflexia: diagnosis by caloric vestibular stimulation.

Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy and vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS) is a recently-described progressive degenerative disease whose exact prevalence remains unknown. This syndrome appears mainly sporadically and occasionally affects siblings. This has led researchers to consider the possibility of a recessive inheritance pattern, but the disease has not yet been linked to changes at a speci...

Metabolic defects in the liver of fasted rats as shown by utilization of C14-labeled glucose and fructose.

It is well established that carbohydrate utilization is impaired in the fasted animal (1, 2). It has also been recently demonstrated that surviving liver slices prepared from fasted rats are incapable of converting C14-labeled glucose to CO2 and fatty acids to the same extent as are slices from livers of non-fasted rats (3). In an attempt to localize the level at which glucose utilization is su...

The Importance of Labyrinthine Examination in the Prognosis and Therapy for Balance in Spinocerebellar Ataxia.

INTRODUCTION Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by the presence of progressive cerebellar ataxia. OBJECTIVE Identify vestibular disorders and demonstrate the importance of labyrinthine examination in the prognosis and therapy for balance in patients with SCAs. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study had a retrospective cross...

Antigenic relationships of Haemophilus pertussis, the parapertussis bacillus, and Brucella bronchiseptica as shown by cross protection tests in mice.

Antigenic relationships among the three organisms, Haemophilu-s pertussi8, the parapertussis bacillus, and Brucella bronchiseptica, have been demonstrated by various workers, using different methods. Ferry and Noble (1918), by means of agglutination tests, and Ferry and Klix (1918), using complement fixation procedures, showed cross reactions between H. pertussis and B. bronchiseptica. In conne...