Carpets with visual cues can improve gait in Parkinson's disease patients: may be independent of executive function.

Background: Gait impairment is common in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, which greatly reduces their quality of life. Executive dysfunction is associated with gait impairment. Compensatory strategies, including visual cues, have been shown to be effective in improving PD gait.

Neck pain and absence of cranial nerve symptom are clues of cervical myelopathy mimicking stroke: Two case reports.

Background: Cervical myelopathy is a potential stroke imitator, for which intravenous thrombolysis would be catastrophic.

Case Summary: We herein present two cases of cervical myelopathy. The first patient presented with acute onset of right hemiparesis and urinary incontinence, and the second patient presented with sudden-onset right leg monoplegia.

Effects of Exogenous Potassium (K) Application on the Antioxidant Enzymes Activities in Leaves of under NaCl Stress.

Saline soil is a worldwide distributed resource that seriously harms plants' growth and development. NaCl is the most widely distributed salt in saline soil. As a typical representative of halophytes, Lcdcb () is commonly grown in salinized soil, and halophytes have different abilities to retain more K under salt stress conditions.

Parkinsonism-Hyperpyrexia Syndrome and Dyskinesia-Hyperpyrexia Syndrome in Parkinson's Disease: Two Cases and Literature Review.

Parkinsonism-hyperpyrexia syndrome (PHS) and dyskinesia-hyperpyrexia syndrome (DHS) are rare but exhibit life-threatening complications in Parkinson's disease (PD). We herein presented two cases of PD patients and performed a comprehensive and comparative literature review for these two syndromes. The first case was diagnosed as PHS with cerebral salt wasting syndrome caused by abrupt withdrawal of antiparkinsonian medication.

Roles of toll-like receptors: From inflammation to lung cancer progression.

Lung cancer is among the most common malignant tumors worldwide, and is characterized by a low survival rate compared with other cancers. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are highly conserved in evolution and widely expressed on immune cells, where they serve an important role in the innate immune system by evoking inflammatory responses. Evasion of immune destruction is an important hallmark in the development of cancer.