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    Basilar arterio-venous pseudoparallelism due to persistence of embryonal venous pattern.

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    A vascular malformation, consisting of a venous vessel bridgeing the right inferior petrosal sinus and the anterior spinal veins, was found in the posterior fossa. The vessel presented a ring-like course around the right trigeminal root, and it was parallel and dorsal to the basilar artery. The malformation was associated with cutaneous and hepatic angiomas and peri-osteal lipomas. It had been clinically silent for 52 years, when it thrombosed causing death. The authors think that, within a general mesenchymopatic state, this is a result of the persistence of an embryonal cerebral venous pattern

    Combined analysis of CSF ßA42 peptide and tau protein and serum antibodies to glycosaminoglycans in Alzheimer's Disease: preliminary data

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    Neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, containing betaA(42) peptide and tau protein, respectively. Amyloid plaques contain also glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Whereas cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of betaA(42) peptide and tau protein have been demonstrated as potential markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD), no data are available for GAGs. We determined (Elisa) tau and betaA(42) CSF levels, as well as serum antibodies to GAGs in 9 AD patients, and the values were analyzed in relation to age and severity of the disease. Beta-A42 and tau CSF levels were significantly reduced and increased, respectively, in AD patients when compared to controls, but they did not correlate with the severity of the disease. Despite their role in amyloidogenesis, we did not find evidence for the use of GAGs as diagnostic marker of AD

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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