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Volume 12 (2012) - April 2012

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Case report   Open Access

Aquaporin-4 expression in distal myopathy with rimmed vacuoles

Akihiko Hoshi, Teiji Yamamoto, Saeko Kikuchi, Tomoko Soeda, Keiko Shimizu, Yoshikazu Ugawa BMC Neurology 2012, 12:22 (27 April 2012)

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Research article   Open Access Highly Accessed

Valid and reliable instruments for arm-hand assessment at ICF activity level in persons with hemiplegia: a systematic review

Ryanne JM Lemmens, Annick AA Timmermans, Yvonne JM Janssen-Potten, Rob JEM Smeets, Henk AM Seelen BMC Neurology 2012, 12:21 (12 April 2012)

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Patients with a loss of arm-hand performance, due to a hemiparesis as a result of stroke or cerebral palsy, lack instruments appropriate for use in more than patient population and that are able to assess actual arm-hand performance.

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Dexmedetomidine is neuroprotective in an in vitro model for traumatic brain injury

Marc Schoeler, Philip D Loetscher, Rolf Rossaint, Astrid V Fahlenkamp, Georg Eberhardt, Steffen Rex, Joachim Weis, Mark Coburn BMC Neurology 2012, 12:20 (11 April 2012)

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The α2-adrenoreceptor agonist dexmedetomidine shows a protective effect on traumatically injured mouse hippocampal cells which is partially reversed by administration of an extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK) inhibitor suggesting that ERK activation helps mediate this effect

Study protocol   Open Access Highly Accessed

Pilates based core stability training in ambulant individuals with multiple sclerosis: protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial

Jennifer Freeman, Esther Fox, Margaret Gear, Alan Hough BMC Neurology 2012, 12:19 (5 April 2012)

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