In 10 male patients, forty-four to seventy-eight years of age, with varying degrees of respiratory insufficiency, blood and cerebrospinal fluid were drawn simultaneously from the brachial artery and ...

PREVIOUS work has shown differences between some of the proteins in cerebrospinal fluid and those found in serum 1–3. Thus paper-electrophoresis of concentrated normal cerebrospinal fluid may show a ...

Twenty-four of 25 patients with bacterial meningitis and nine of 11 with CNS viral infection had increased LDH activity in the CSF. The mean levels were 112.8 units per milliliter in bacterial, 193 ...

It may be possible to identify the presence of an aggressive brain tumor in children by studying their cerebrospinal fluid, according to new research led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center ...

The brain floats in a sea of fluid that cushions it against injury, supplies it with nutrients and carries away waste. Disruptions to the normal ebb and flow of the fluid have been linked to ...

How Is a CSF Glucose Test Done? The most common way to check the glucose in your cerebrospinal fluid is by performing a lumbar puncture, also called a spinal tap. In some cases, your doctor can also ...

If you find it hard to focus after a wakeful night, it’s because your brain is busy trying to catch up on crucial ...

Hydrocephalus is an excess of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain’s ventricles. Surgery is the first-line and most effective treatment. The two primary surgeries are the Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) ...

Plasma tests for Aβ and phospho-tau may have stolen the show at this year’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, held July 14-18 in Los Angeles, but proteomic and synaptic markers were ...