title: [The research of the pathogen responsible for Pleurocybella porrigens related encephalopathy: investigation of 3-nitropropionic acid hypothesis].
abstract: Pleurocybella porrigens related encephalopathy exhibits consciousness disturbance and convulsion in the patients after taking and patients show bilateral basal ganglia lesion resulted in high mortality rate. This encephalopathy is a very similar to the moldy sugarcane encephalopathy epidemic in China in the past. We investigated the relationship between Pleurocybella porrigens related encephalopathy and 3-nitropropionic acid which had caused the moldy sugarcane encephalopathy. We have tried to detect 3-NPA in the various specimens from patients and Pleurocybella porrigens, but failed. Further examinations for elucidating the causation of Pleurocybella porrigens related encephalopathy are needed.
authors: Department of Neurology, Akita University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Hondo, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
authors: Koji
authors: K
authors: Obara
authors: Hajime
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authors: Muto
authors: Hideaki
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authors: Itoh
authors: Shigeru
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authors: Satoh
authors: Kunio
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authors: Gonmori
authors: Sumio
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authors: Watanabe
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