C harcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is a motor and sensory neuropathy with clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Patients usually present in the first or second decade of life with distal muscle atrophy in the legs, areflexia, foot deformity (mainly pes cavus), and steppage gait. In most cases, hands are also involved as the disease progresses. CMT is the most frequent inherited neuropathy, with a...

Peculiar brain lesions have been produced in monkeys (Hurst, 1940, 1942), in cats (Ferraro, 1933), and in dogs (Jedlowski, 1937, 1938; Dechaume and Chambon, 1947) by the repeated subcutaneous injection of cyanides. Some have considered these lesions to show features similar to the spontaneous demyelinating diseases occurring in man and possibly in certain other mammalia, such as the monkey, she...

charcot-marie-tooth disease (cmt) is the most common form of inherited peripheral neuropathy. cmt is genetically and clinically heterogenous group of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies characterized by areflexia, distal sensory loss and progressive weakness of the distal limb muscles. the x-linked cmt (cmtx) is the second most frequent form of charcot-marie-tooth disease. the dominant cm...

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic demyelinating disease. The etiology of MS complex and can be associated with many different factors acting simultaneously or in cascade. There ample evidence that latitude, light vitamin D exposure, migration have major influence on the incidence MS. This shows uneven distribution sick population across globe. participation environmental such as bacteria viruses ...

A subset of patients with a demyelinating disease suffer from concurrent cervical spondylotic myelopathy, both of which evince similar symptomatology. Differentiating the cause of these symptoms is challenging, and little research has been done on patients with coexisting diseases. This review explores the current literature on the appropriate surgical management of patients with concurrent mul...

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody associated disease (MOGAD) is an inflammatory demyelinating disorder caused by the development of immunoglobulin G autoantibody targeting MOG, which expressed exclusively on outer surface myelin sheath and plasma membrane oligodendrocyte. MOGAD can present in different clinical spectrum including acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), optic neu...

An important question in neuropathology involves determining the antigens that are targeted during demyelinating disease. Viral infection of the central nervous system (CNS) leads to T-cell responses that can be protective as well as pathogenic. In the Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) model of demyelination it is known that the immune response to the viral capsid protein 2 (VP2) ...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a highly polymorphic disease characterized by different neurologic signs and symptoms. In MS, racial and genetic factors may play an important role in the geographic distribution of this disease. Studies have reported the presence of several protective alleles against the development of autoimmune disorders. In the case of MS, however, they help define MS as a complex...

Autoantibodies are infrequently detected in the sera of patients with the demyelinating form of Guillain-Barré syndrome most commonly encountered in the Western world, despite abundant circumstantial evidence suggesting their existence. We hypothesised that antibody specificities reliant on the cis interactions of neighbouring membrane glycolipids could explain this discrepancy, and would not h...