Isolated pyramidal tract impairment in the central nervous system of adult-onset Krabbe disease with novel mutations in the GALC gene

Brain and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 579-581

  Tokushige, Shin Ichi ^a   Sonoo, Tomohiro ^a   Maekawa, Risa ^a   Shirota, Yuichiro ^b   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^b   Terao, Yasuo ^b   Matsumoto, Hideyuki ^b   Hossain, Mohammad Arif ^c   Sakai, Norio ^c   Shiio, Yasushi ^a  

^a TOKYO TEISHIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galactocerebrosidase (GALC); Krabbe disease; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Motor evoked potential (MEP); Pyramidal tract

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLCERAMIDASE;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENE MUTATION; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; LEG; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; PYRAMIDAL TRACT IMPAIRMENT; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA;

BRAIN; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDASE; HUMANS; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 84876809873     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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