spastic paralysis

The syndrome is characterized by spastic paralysis of the contralateral lower face.

The muscles that would receive signals from these damaged upper motor neurons result in spastic paralysis.

In addition, swelling of the brain and encephalitis can cause spastic paralysis, mental retardation or other neurological disorders.

"Well, Mrs. Loveland - your baby has spastic paralysis.

Tetanus toxin causes violent spastic paralysis by blocking the release of γ-aminobutyric acid.

Spastic paralysis or brain damage: Don't take European mandrake if you have brain damage.

It is characterized by confusion, changes in mental status, headaches, fever, and, less commonly, seizures and spastic paralysis.

Along with the mental deterioration comes a physical decline with fits, incontinence, difficulty with speech, and a degree of spastic paralysis.

They act as nematode specific ACh agonists causing a spastic paralysis and rapid expulsion from the host.

Neurotoxic symptoms after intraperitoneal injection were gasping, excitation, spastic paralysis of the hindlimb and asynergia.

As the condition progresses, paralysis may develop that is associated with increased muscle stiffness (rigidity) and restricted movements (spastic paralysis).

Pyrethroids are direct stimulators of sodium channels in neuronal cells, inducing rapid depolarization and spastic paralysis leading to death.

This is in contrast to an upper motor neuron lesion, which often presents with spastic paralysis - paralysis accompanied by severe hypertonia.

Methyllycaconitine has been explored as a possible therapeutic agent for the treatment of spastic paralyses in man, and it has been shown to have insecticidal properties.

When infection is more severe the person may experience headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, occasional convulsions and spastic paralysis.

CHO) Depolarizes ganglionic block of nicotinic neuromuscular transmission, resulting in spastic paralysis of the worm.

If the infection is passed on by the mother, the baby has a 75 per cent chance of having some neurological disorder, ranging from deafness and blindness to spastic paralysis.

Raventoxin-I and raventoxin-III have both shown excitation, spastic paralysis, gasping, a fast heartbeat and exophthalmos in mice.

The film turns deeply emotional as Jacob Nossell has Spastic Paralysis and North Korea has been accused of disposing of the disabled.

The corticospinal lesion produces spastic paralysis on the same side of the body below the level of the lesion (due to loss of moderation by the UMN).

By inhibiting acetylcholine release, the toxin interferes with nerve impulses and causes flaccid (sagging) paralysis of muscles in botulism, as opposed to the spastic paralysis seen in tetanus.

Named in honour of William Little, the English surgeon who described what became known as 'Little's disease', a spastic paralysis of both lower limbs which then became known as infantile cerebral palsy.

After stroke or spinal cord injury in humans, spastic hypertonus (spastic paresis or spastic paralysis) often develops, whereby the stretch reflex in flexor muscles of the arms and extensor muscles of the legs is overly sensitive.

Group A coxsackieviruses were noted to cause a flaccid paralysis (which was caused by generalized myositis) while group B coxsackieviruses were noted to cause a spastic paralysis (due to focal muscle injury and degeneration of neuronal tissue).

A team of doctors among the inmates, led by Dr. Arthur Kessler of Cernăuţi, reached the conclusion that the disease presented all the symptoms of Lathyrism, a spastic paralysis caused by the oxalyldiaminopropionic acid present in the pea fodder.