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Query: UMLS:C0017638 (glioma)
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Literatures showed that cyclic AMP of cultured neoplastic cells of any kind was very low in concentration and also the effect of cyclic AMP and its derivatives on the malignant cells, especially on the malignant glioma, was already reported in vivo or in vitro from several neurosurgical units. The intrinsic content of cyclic AMP of the human cerebrum and the human brain tumors was first reported by authors in 1971. In this presentation the authors intended to confirm that the lower concentration of the cyclic AMP the more histologically malignant cerebral neoplasm, as well as in the cerebrospinal fluid, was observed. Concentration of cyclic AMP in the subcortical white matter, glioma, meningioma and medullobalstoma was much lower than in the gray matter tissue, however, it was not clear that the difference of the cyclic AMP concentration be possibly related to the malignancy of the human brain tumor. Furthermore, the cyclic AMP content of the cerebrospinal fluid of the patients with various brain tumor was not clearly different. The activity of adenyl cyclase was reported the highest in the synaptosome-containing fraction of the rat brain homogenate and this fact was significantly consistent with the finding that the highest concentration of the cyclic AMP was found in the human grey matter tissue. With the human brain gray matter authors determined successfully the activity of the human cerebral phosphodiesterase, which was probably localized in the post-synaptic membrane and was 158 nmole/mg protein/min. Its apparent Km was 0.9 x 10(-4) M. The results reported above have suggested the important participation of the cyclic AMP to cerebral synaptic transmission of nerve impulses, which was studied by light and electron-microscopic autoradiography utilizing the pulse labeling method with 3H-adenine. According to our study the majority of the adenyl cyclase of the human cerebrum was located synaptic structure and the finding obtained was quite compatible, as the first morphological study, with previously reported biochemical analyses. It was indicated that the cyclic AMP in the human brain was concerned to the cerebral synaptic transmission of nerve impulses and this should be very interesting and important to the clinical application for recovering cerebral function of neurosurgical patients.
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PMID:[Studies on cyclic 3', 5'-AMP system in human brain and its clinical application in Neurosurgical practice (author's transl)]. 17 18

Late detection of a cerebral glioma causing convulsions in a 7-year-old girl is reported. Her neurological status was normal but her behaviour deteriorated progressively and her seizures became more frequent and resistant to therapy during the 11/2 years after her first admission to hospital. Computed tomography revealed a zone of low density in the right parietal area which was considered to be due to a cerebrovascular accident affecting the middle cerebral artery. Although it is generally considered that epilepsy beginning in infancy or childhood, even if focal, is only rarely associated with neoplasm, epilepsy which is resistant to treatment and progressive change in a child's behaviour should suggest the possibility of a cerebral neoplasm and further invasive investigations should be performed.
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PMID:Late detection of cerebral glioma causing seizures in childhood. A case report. 730 28

Six cases of amoebic encephalitis admitted to the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases between the years 1994-2010 in Peru are reported. These cases were admitted for clinical suspicion of malignant primary brain tumor and one orbital-nasal sarcoma. All cases came from coastal regions; three were less than 24 years of age and four were male. The most common symptoms were headache and seizures. Three cases had more than one brain lesion. Stereotactic biopsy was performed in three patients and the differential pathological diagnosis in two cases was glioma of high and low grade. It was possible to confirm the diagnosis using molecular techniques in paraffin-embedded samples in three cases. All patients died within 15 days of admission to the institution. Amoebic encephalitis may be erroneously interpreted as a cerebral neoplasm, causing delay in the management of the infection.
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PMID:[Amebiasis of the central nervous system: report of six cases in Peru]. 2658 Sep 45