meningitis/phosphatase

Twenty-six patients with various brain tumors or carcinomatous meningitis were examined for alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in the cerebrospinal fluid. ALP enzyme levels were compared with the respective levels in control groups of 75 patients with epilepsy, stroke, bacterial and viral meningitis and

Acid phosphatase staining is performed on cerebrospinal fluid cells of 365 samples from 105 patients with various types of meningitis. This enzyme activity is strongly positive in the early samples of bacterial meningitis, as far as the patients had not received a pretreatment with antibiotics for

The authors have modified the method for measuring the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity. Their studies have revealed a considerable increase of CSF AP activity in purulent meningitides whereas in serous meningitides it grows negligibly. It is recommended that purulent

Protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 plays a crucial role in the development of the central nervous system. To explore the expression and possible role of SHP2 during the course of bacterial meningitis, this article reports a juvenile rat bacterial meningitis model established by direct intracisternal

A treatment protocol for long-term anticonvulsant therapy (ACT) in children with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) has been followed depending upon clinical characteristics and EEG/CT scan findings suggestive of the underlying cause of convulsions. Sixty-three children which included all patients with

Cytochemistries were made in 55 patients with meningitides of different etiology to study the functional metabolic activity of neutrophil leukocytes. At the same time consistent and different changes were discovered in the content of glycogen and cationic protein, in the activity of acid and

The activity of the lysosomal enzymes acid phosphatase, beta-glucuronidase, alpha-mannosidase and hexosaminidase were determined in CSF obtained from patients with proven bacterial meningitis and from patients with various other diagnoses. The mean value for CSF beta-glucuronidase from bacterial

Osteopetrosis is a rare genetic bone disease characterized by increased bone density but prone to breakage due to defective osteoclastic function. Among two primary types of autosomal dominant osteopetrosis (ADO), osteopetrosis type II is characterized by sclerosis of bones, predominantly involving