Vestibular-evoked myogenic potential triggered by galvanic vestibular stimulation may reveal subclinical alterations in human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1-associated myelopathy.

Ludimila LabancaJúlia Fonseca de Morais CaporaliSirley Alves da Silva CarvalhoJosé Roberto LambertucciAnna Bárbara de Freitas Carneiro ProiettiLuiz Cláudio Ferreira RomanelliPaul AvanFabrice GiraudetBárbara Oliveira SouzaKyonis Rodrigues FlorentinoDenise Utsch Gonçalves

Published in: PloS one (2018)

The worse the galvanic-VEMP response, the more severe the myelopathy. Galvanic-VEMP alteration followed a pattern of alteration and may be a prognostic marker of progression from HTLV-1-asymptomatic carrier to HAM.

Keyphrases

spinal cord
endothelial cells
hearing loss
skeletal muscle
induced pluripotent stem cells
genome wide
early onset
single cell
spinal cord injury
gene expression
dna methylation
drug induced