[Composition of cerebrospinal fluid protein in children with nervous system diseases according to disc-electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel].

The author studied the fractional content of proteins in the CSF in 105 children with different disorders of the nervous system and 35 children of a control group (aged 2-13 years) with the aid of disc-electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel. The proteins of the CSF were studied in encephalitis, polyradiculoneuritis, cerebral arachnoiditis, brain tumors and epilepsy. The content of total proteins in the CSF in 42% of the studied children did not differ significantly from the usual age norm. More distinct changes were found in proteinogramms of the CSF where 14 protein fractions were singled out. It was established that a change in the content of separate fractions, their intercorrelation depended on the character of the pathological process.