K Noda, S Katayama, C Watanabe, Y Yamamura, S Nakamura
The physiological functions of the medullary arcuate nucleus are supposed to be involved in autonomic cardioventilatory regulation, but neuropathological studies on neurodegenerative diseases have rarely reported about the arcuate nucleus. We quantitatively examined the neuronal density of the arcuate nucleus in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA, n = 3), Parkinson's disease (PD, n = 3), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, n = 2), and control subjects (n = 6), and statistically compared the findings in each group...
October 3, 1997: Journal of the Neurological Sciences