
pmid: 22104014
handle: 2066/108730 , 10533/130944 , 10533/130943 , 10533/130942
To describe excitability of motor pathways in Kufor-Rakeb syndrome (PARK9), an autosomal recessive nigro-striatal-pallidal-pyramidal neurodegeneration caused by a mutation in the ATP13A2 gene, using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).Five members of a Chilean family with an ATP13A2 mutation (one affected mutation carrier (MC) with a compound heterozygous mutation, 4 asymptomatic MC with a single heterozygous mutation) and 11 healthy subjects without mutations were studied. We measured motor evoked potentials (MEP), the contralateral silent period (cSP), short interval intracortical inhibition (SICI), intracortical facilitation (ICF), short latency afferent inhibition (SAI) as markers of intracortical intrahemispheric inhibition/facilitation and the ipsilateral silent period (iSP) and paired-pulse interhemispheric inhibition (IHI) to probe interhemispheric motor interactions.CSP duration was increased in the symptomatic ATP13A2 MC. The iSP measurements revealed increased interhemispheric inhibition in both the compound heterozygous and the heterozygous MC.A compound heterozygous mutation in the ATP13A2 gene is associated with increased intracortical inhibition. In addition, some aspects of interhemispheric inhibition are increased in the presence of a single ATP13A2 mutation.
Family Health, Male, Analysis of Variance, Electromyography, DCN MP - Plasticity and memory, Neural Inhibition, Middle Aged, Evoked Potentials, Motor, Efferent Pathways, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Functional Laterality, Proton-Translocating ATPases, Parkinsonian Disorders, Mutation, Reaction Time, Humans, Female, Chile, Muscle, Skeletal, Aged
Family Health, Male, Analysis of Variance, Electromyography, DCN MP - Plasticity and memory, Neural Inhibition, Middle Aged, Evoked Potentials, Motor, Efferent Pathways, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Functional Laterality, Proton-Translocating ATPases, Parkinsonian Disorders, Mutation, Reaction Time, Humans, Female, Chile, Muscle, Skeletal, Aged
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