BACKGROUND Aberrant regeneration of the third cranial nerve is most commonly due to its damage by trauma. CASE A ten-month old child presented with the history of a fall from a four-storey building. She developed traumatic third nerve palsy and eventually the clinical features of aberrant regeneration of the third cranial nerve. The adduction of the eye improved over time. She was advised for...

Unilateral reduction in eyelid motility produced two modes of blink adaptation in humans. The first adaptive modification affected both eyelids. Stimulation of the supraorbital branch of the trigeminal nerve (SO) ipsilateral to the upper eyelid with reduced motility evoked bilateral, hyperexcitable reflex blinks, whereas contralateral SO stimulation elicited normally excitable blinks bilaterall...

CASE REPORTS We report two cases of hypertrophic pachymeningitis with ophthalmological disturbances. One patient suffered from hypertrophic pachymeningitis supposedly secondary to a focal neurosarcoidosis and had a sixth nerve paresis. The second patient suffered from a diffuse idiopathic hypertrophic chronic pachymeningitis (a rare form) and displayed disturbances in vision and ocular motility...

A post-mortem vigorous movement of the intestine is a common finding in the rabbit. WARMOES (1925) studied this phenomenon and concluded that the increased intestinal motility would be due to the agony of the intramural nerve plexus, since the enhanced intestinal motility survived after section of both vagi and transection of the mesentery while it was abolished by either cocaine or nicotine. J...

Two- or five-Hz electrical stimulation of the central end of the left pelvic nerve severed from the urinary bladder in rats inhibited bladder contraction induced by intravesical infusion of Tyrode's solution. Inhibition of bladder motility by 2-Hz nerve stimulation appeared after pretreatment with strychnine (0.3 mg/kg, i.v.), naloxone (1 mg/kg, i.v.) and picrotoxin (1 mg/kg, i.v.). Hypogastric...

The formation of neuron networks is a process fundamental importance for understanding the development nervous system and creating biomimetic devices tissue engineering neural repair. basic that controls network growth an axon from cell body its extension towards target neurons. Axonal directed by environmental stimuli include intercellular interactions, biochemical cues, mechanical geometrical...

We previously reported that the activation of water-responsive afferents in the superior laryngeal nerve was responsible for the inhibition of gastric motility. The present study was undertaken to clarify the roles of the vagal preganglionic neurons responsible for laryngeal afferent-mediated inhibition of gastric motility. Intravenous injection of atropine abolished the inhibition of motility ...

Digestive disorders impose a heavy medical and economical burden on society and they represent one of the most common reasons for seeking medical consultation. Acupuncture is one of the procedures available to treat these conditions; however, partly because of the limited scientific evidence as yet obtained, the method has not been widely accepted by the medical community as an evidence-based e...