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G Quattrocolo

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[Antagonism between focal epilepsy and taurine administered by cortical perfusion].

The therapeutic action of taurine cortical perfusion was tested in cats affected with Premarin and cobalt cortical epileptogenic foci. In all animals taurine provoked the disappearance of EEG epileptic abnormalities. In the case of Premarin focus the effect appeared more quickly than in the cobalt one. This different time-course, according to previous reports on the antiepileptic action of the parenteral administration of the amino acid, suggests the hypothesis of a taurine direct inhibitory action against Premarin focus and, on the contrary, a mediated action towards the cobalt's. The latter might be related to the metabolic production of some taurine derivative.

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Neurophysiological study in an Italian family with autosomal dominant late-onset leukodystrophy.

Evoked potentials (EPs) and nerve conduction velocities (NCV) were evaluated in 8 affected and 10 asymptomatic members of a new Italian family with an adult-onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy of uncertain nosography. NCV studies did not show anomalies. Various EPs abnormalities were found in all the symptomatic patients (increase of interpeak latency and/or loss of cortical responses), according with a myelin disorder. Among the asymptomatic subjects 3/10 (30%) showed similar anomalies at auditory brainstem EPs (increase of I-III/I-V/III-V interval). Two of these patients had normal brain MRI. This datum require further confirms (very low penetrance of the disease?), but it remarks the importance of a functional study of SNC in order to obtain elements not usually given from clinical and neuroradiological study.

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