Measles virus isolated from the brain of a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis was injected intracerebrally (ic) into 34 rhesus monkeys. Groups of these animals were injected with measles antigen in Freund's complete adjuvant or treated by schedules used for suppression of the general or cell-mediated immune responsiveness. In another group of animals, experimental allergic encepha...

A measles virus (MV) genome originally derived from brain cells of a subacute sclerosing panencephalitis patient expressed in IP-3-Ca cells an unstable MV matrix protein and was unable to produce virus particles. Transfection of this MV genome into other cell lines did not relieve these defects, showing that they are ultimately encoded by viral mutations. However, these defects were partially r...

Işıkay S. The behavior pattern of parents of patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis concerning alternative medicine. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 288-294. The aim of the study was to examine the attitude of the parents of Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE) patients regarding alternative treatment methods and compare with those of the parents of epilepsy patients. The study compri...

BACKGROUND Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare complication of measles virus infection. The disease is characterized by behavioural abnormalities, intellectual deterioration, motor weakness, and generalized myoclonic jerks progressing to coma and death in one to two years in 80% of the cases. The myoclonic jerks are associated with characteristic generalized slow periodic compl...

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare progressive neurological disorder of early adolescence caused by persistent infection of the measles virus, which remains prevalent worldwide despite an effective vaccine. SSPE is a devastating disease with a characteristic clinical course in subcortical white matter; however, atypical presentations of brainstem involvement may be seen in rar...

A difficult case 289 Hypoactive–hypoalert behaviour and thalamic hypometabolism due to intracranial hypotension S Kearney, P Flynn, S Hughes, W Spence, M O McCarron 293 Chorioretinitis: a potential clue to the early diagnosis of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis V Jeevagan, A Dissanayake 297 Acute segmental poliomyelitis-like flaccid paralysis in an adult in the UK, associated with enteroviru...

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the saliency effect for word beginnings reported in children with dyslexia (Marshall & Van der Lely, 2009) can be found also in typically developing children. Thirty-four typically developing Italian children aged 8-10 years completed two specifically designed tasks: a production task and a perception task. Both tasks used nonwords contain...