Relationship between fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) signal intensity and inflammatory mediator's levels in the hippocampus of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and mesial temporal sclerosis

Autor: Pedro Paulo Vasconcellos Varella, Joselita Ferreira Carvalho Santiago, Henrique Carrete Jr., Elisa Mieko Suemitsu Higa, Elza Márcia Targas Yacubian, Ricardo Silva Centeno, Luís Otávio Sales Ferreira Caboclo, Eduardo Ferreira de Castro Neto, Mauro Canzian, Débora Amado, Esper Abrão Cavalheiro, Maria da Graça Naffah- Mazzacoratti
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Vol 69, Iss 1, Pp 91-99 (2011)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1678-4227
0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2011000100018
Popis: We investigated a relationship between the FLAIR signal found in mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS) and inflammation. Twenty nine patients were selected through clinical and MRI analysis and submitted to cortico-amygdalo-hippocampectomy to seizure control. Glutamate, TNFα, IL1, nitric oxide (NO) levels and immunostaining against IL1β and CD45 was performed. Control tissues (n=10) were obtained after autopsy of patients without neurological disorders. The glutamate was decreased in the temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) -MTS group (p
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