Neuromuscular Junction Diseases — Flashcards

_____ to a site of CNS or PNS axon injury there is retrograde degeneration

Lhermitte Duclos disease is the cerebellar _____ leading to focal enlargement of cerebellum and macrocephaly, cerebellar signs, and seizures

_____ is a sporadic disease that affects several functional systems in the brain which is characterized by primary pathology in the glial/oligodendrocyte cells

_____ Cancer can produce anti-Hu antibodies which can cause both Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration and Paraneoplastic Encephalomyelitis

Enlargement of the nucleus to two to five times the normal size in Schwann cells of the dorsal root ganglia and peripheral nerves, also called as _____ is seen in ataxia-telangiectasia

In response to axon damage, the neuron cell body undergoes _____, which is the swelling of the cell body and dispersion of Nissl substance (chromatolysis)

Canavan disease is characterised by _____

Schizencephaly and Lissencephaly are two types of neuronal _____ defects

_____ has superoxide dismutase type 1 (SOD1) inclusions.

What CNS tumor is seen in the histology slide below? _____