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Kanbayashi T, Arii J, Kubota H, Yano T, Kashiwagi M, Yoshikawa S, Tohyama J, Sawaishi Y. [Symptomatic hypersomnia due to orexin deficiency in hypothalamic lesions]. No To Hattatsu 2006; 38:340-5. [PMID: 16986734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Narcolepsy is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), cataplexy and other abnormal manifestations of REM sleep. Recently, it was discovered that the pathophysiology of idiopathic narcolepsy-cataplexy is linked to orexin ligand deficiency in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid. Orexin neurons localize in the posterior hypothalamic area, which was previously described as "waking center" by von Economo in 1920s. Hypersomnia due to orexin ligand deficiency can also occur during the course of other neurological conditions, such as hypothalamic tumor, encephalopathy and demyelinating disorder (i.e. symptomatic hypersomnia). We experienced 8 pediatric cases with symptomatic hypersomnia. These cases were diagnosed as brain tumor (n = 2), head trauma (n = 1), encephalopathy (n = 1), demyelinating disorder (n = 3) and infarction (n = 1). Six pediatric cases with orexin measurements from the literatures were additionally included and total 14 cases were studied. Although it is difficult to rule out the comorbidity of idiopathic narcolepsy in some cases, a review of the case histories reveals numerous unquestionable cases of symptomatic hypersomnia. In these cases, the occurrences of the hypersomnia run parallel with the rise and fall of the causative diseases. Most of symptomatic hypersomnia cases show both extended nocturnal sleep time and EDS consisting of prolonged sleep episodes of NREM sleep. The features of nocturnal sleep and EDS in symptomatic hypersomnia are more similar to idiopathic hypersomnia than to narcolepsy.
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Arii J, Kanbayashi T, Tanabe Y, Sawaishi Y, Kimura S, Watanabe A, Mishima K, Hishikawa Y, Shimizu T, Nishino S. CSF hypocretin-1 (orexin-A) levels in childhood narcolepsy and neurologic disorders. Neurology 2005; 63:2440-2. [PMID: 15623725 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000147328.15956.b4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- J Arii
- Department of Pediatrics, Chiba Rosai Hospital, 2-16 Tatsumidai-Higashi, Ichihara-shi, Chiba 290-0003, Japan.
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Kanbayashi T, Abe M, Fujimoto S, Miyachi T, Takahashi T, Yano T, Sawaishi Y, Arii J, Szilagyi G, Shimizu T. Hypocretin deficiency in niemann-pick type C with cataplexy. Neuropediatrics 2003; 34:52-3. [PMID: 12690569 DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-38619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Arii J, Tanabe Y, Miyake M, Mukai T, Matsuzaki M, Niinomi N, Watanabe H, Yokota Y, Kohno Y, Noda M. Clinical and pathologic characteristics of nontyphoidal salmonella encephalopathy. Neurology 2002; 58:1641-5. [PMID: 12058092 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.58.11.1641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical and pathologic characteristics of primary encephalopathy caused by nontyphoidal salmonellosis (NTS). METHODS Case records of six Japanese hospitals from 1994 to 1999 were reviewed. Eight cases of primary NTS encephalopathy were identified based on strictly defined criteria: 1) encephalopathic feature defined as altered state of consciousness, altered cognition or personality, or seizures; 2) detection of nontyphoidal Salmonella species in stool; 3) absence of other viral or bacterial infection associated with CNS abnormalities; and 4) absence of alternative explanation by underlying neurologic or systemic disease. Three patients died, three had severe sequelae, and two recovered completely. The authors analyzed their clinical course, neurologic symptoms, and histopathologic findings. RESULTS NTS encephalopathy was clinically characterized by diffuse and rapidly progressive brain dysfunction and circulatory failure that developed following enteritis. There was no evidence of severe dehydration or sepsis, and encephalopathy was rarely accompanied by abnormal laboratory data, except elevated CSF opening pressure, brain edema on CT, and slow waves on EEG. Pathologic findings included minimal ischemic damage and mild edema in the brain, microvesicular fatty change of the liver, severe enterocolitis but no evidence of dehydration, and no fatal organ damage including microvasculature and endothelial cells. CONCLUSION Noninfectious encephalopathy associated with nontyphoidal salmonella infection is a distinctive clinical entity that can be differentiated from Reye's syndrome and Ekiri.
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- Junko Arii
- Division of Neurology, Chiba Children's Hospital, Heta-cho 579-1, Midori-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 266-0007, USA.
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Children who develop clinical hypothyroidism in early childhood have various degrees of irreversible brain damage, albeit less severe than cases detected by neonatal screening test for hypothyroidism in the first months of the life. We report three patients with hypothyroidism of childhood onset after a normal neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone screening who showed deceleration in linear growth, spasticity in the lower limbs with deformity, mild intellectual impairment, and multiple calcifications in the basal ganglia and subcortical areas. The neurologic symptoms were not progressive but were irreversible in spite of thyroxine treatment. Motor disturbances commonly observed in postnatal-onset hypothyroidism are similar to those of cerebral palsy. Specific distribution of intracranial calcifications may result from metabolic derangement as a result of hypothyroidism, although the mechanism of calcification is not fully understood. We emphasize the need to re-evaluate thyroid function in diplegic patients with specific intracranial calcifications but normal neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone screening.
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- Junko Arii
- Chiba Rehabilitaiton Center, Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba-shi, Japan.
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Iwamaru Y, Miyake M, Arii J, Tanabe Y, Noda M. An inhibitory factor for cell-free protein synthesis from Salmonella enteritidis exhibits cytopathic activity against Chinese hamster ovary cells. Microb Pathog 2001; 31:283-93. [PMID: 11747376 DOI: 10.1006/mpat.2001.0471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A factor inhibiting cell-free protein synthesis was purified from Salmonella enteritidis cell lysate by sequential ammonium sulfate precipitation, chromatography on anion exchange and hydrophobic interaction columns, and polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis. The purified factor, which was named SIPS (Salmonella inhibitor of protein synthesis), inhibited in vitro protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysate and had a molecular mass of 38 kDa, estimated by PAGE under denaturing conditions. SIPS was also cytopathic for Chinese hamster ovary cells. The N-terminal amino acid sequence (20 residues) of SIPS was found to be identical to that of mature L-asparaginase II of Escherichia coli. Indeed, the purified SIPS exhibited asparaginase activity, E. coli L-asparaginase II had cytopathic activity and inhibited in vitro protein synthesis. The results suggest that at least a part of cytotoxicity and inhibition of cell-free protein synthesis caused by S. enteritidis is a property of the bacterial L-asparaginase.
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- Y Iwamaru
- Department of Molecular Infectiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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The importance of an acute encephalopathy associated with nontyphoidal salmonellosis has recently been recognized, but the disease entity has been poorly established. In this study, we describe two encephalopathic patients associated with nontyphoidal salmonellosis. The patients exhibited a rapid evolution of coma after the onset of lethargy or seizure. Fever and diarrhea due to salmonellosis preceded these events. Secondary factors inducing encephalopathies, such as severe dehydration, sepsis, meningitis, electrolyte or metabolic disturbances, acute renal failure, and multiple organ failure, were excluded in the differential diagnosis at the onset of encephalopathic features. These clinical findings and rapid development of encephalopathic features from localized intestinal infection without any significant abnormalities in a variety of blood tests may suggest a toxic etiology. However, endotoxin was not found in serum from both patients. From these results, we conclude that nontyphoidal salmonellosis can cause a toxic encephalopathy syndrome, like shigellosis or verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli infection.
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- J Arii
- Chiba Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Chiba University School of Medicine, Japan.
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Arii J, Kanbayashi T, Tanabe Y, Ono J, Nishino S, Kohno Y. A hypersomnolent girl with decreased CSF hypocretin level after removal of a hypothalamic tumor. Neurology 2001; 56:1775-6. [PMID: 11425955 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.56.12.1775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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- J Arii
- Division of Child Neurology, Chiba Rehabilitation Center, Japan.
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Inoue K, Osaka H, Imaizumi K, Nezu A, Takanashi JI, Arii J, Murayama K, Ono J, Kikawa Y, Mito T, Shaffer LG, Lupski JR. Proteolipid protein gene duplications causing Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease: Molecular mechanism and phenotypic manifestations. Ann Neurol 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(199905)45:5<624::aid-ana11>3.0.co;2-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Arii J, Tanabe Y. Leigh syndrome: serial MR imaging and clinical follow-up. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2000; 21:1502-9. [PMID: 11003287 PMCID: PMC7974045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy, or Leigh syndrome (LS), is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by symmetrical spongiform lesions in the brain with onset usually in infancy or early childhood. Little is known of the developing process of the brain lesions in LS that are particularly relevant to the occurrence of fatal respiratory failure. Our purpose was to determine whether fatal respiratory failure can be predicted before death on the basis of clinical characteristics or findings on longitudinal MR images of the brain. METHODS Clinical records and serial MR studies of eight patients with LS aged 3 months to 12 years who met the diagnostic criteria for LS were reviewed retrospectively, with special reference to a correlation between loss of respiratory control and MR abnormalities. Both T1- and T2-weighted images were obtained at the onset of disease or when clinical symptoms worsened. RESULTS Serial MR images were divided into three groups on the basis of the following findings: 1) symmetrical basal ganglia lesions before brain stem involvement (n = 4); 2) initial involvement of the brain stem (n = 2); and 3) cerebral white matter lesions followed by brain stem lesions (n = 2). Lesions of the lower brain stem were always present when patients had near fatal respiratory failure. However, upper brain stem lesions were transient and were found in parallel to reversible respiratory disorder. Fatal respiratory failure was unpredictable from clinical or neuroradiologic findings. CONCLUSION Brain stem lesions are associated with the loss of respiratory control in patients with LS, but the time at which fatal respiratory failure will occur is unpredictable.
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- J Arii
- Division of Neurology, Chiba Children's Hospital, Japan
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Inoue K, Osaka H, Imaizumi K, Nezu A, Takanashi J, Arii J, Murayama K, Ono J, Kikawa Y, Mito T, Shaffer LG, Lupski JR. Proteolipid protein gene duplications causing Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease: molecular mechanism and phenotypic manifestations. Ann Neurol 1999; 45:624-32. [PMID: 10319885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is an X-linked disorder characterized by dysmyelination of the central nervous system (CNS) caused by mutations involving the proteolipid protein gene (PLP). In addition to point and frameshift mutations in the coding region, duplications involving the entire PLP have been recognized recently as a major genetic abnormality causing PMD. We devised an interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assay to establish an efficient screening test for PLP duplication. Thirteen patients from 11 Japanese PMD families were determined to have PLP duplications. This molecular diagnostic FISH test also readily detected female carriers. Molecular analysis revealed that the size of the duplication and location of the breakpoints showed striking variation. Fiber FISH demonstrated that the duplication is tandem in nature. Haplotype analysis indicated an intrachromosomal origin for the duplication. These results suggest that an unequal sister chromatid exchange in male meiosis is likely to be the major mechanism leading to the formation of the duplication. Patients with the duplication commonly present with a mild PMD phenotype. Two patients with an exceptionally severe clinical phenotype carried large duplications, suggesting that either the larger duplicated segment incorporates additional dosage-sensitive genes or that the location of the duplication junction may affect the phenotype.
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- K Inoue
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Arii J, Sugita K, Takanashi J, Niimi H. [Two early-childhood cases of optic neuritis]. No To Hattatsu 1996; 28:336-40. [PMID: 8753134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We reported two early-childhood cases suffering from acute optic neuritis (ON). Case 1 was a 3-year-old girl, who had a preceding upper respiratory infection, headache, nausea and subsequent sudden visual disturbance. Cranial MRI revealed multiple T2-elongated lesions in the white matter. She showed two neurological relapses including ON, leading to the diagnosis of clinically probable multiple sclerosis (MS). Case 2 was a 2-year-old boy, who had an acute onset of visual disturbance without any other neurological deficits. MRI with Gd-DTPA enhancement revealed not only a disorder of optic nerves but involvement of the white matter in the acute phase. It has been suggested that there may be a broad spectrum of demyelinating disorders between ON and MS even in early-childhood. Therefore, we should bear in mind to the subsequent progression to MS in childhood ON cases with silent brain lesions.
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- J Arii
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chiba
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