Abstract:
:In a stereological study of the human substantia nigra (SN), the total number of melanin-positive and melanin-negative neurones from 28 male subjects aged 19-92 years was estimated using a uniform sampling design and optical disectors. There was a significant decrease in the total number of melanin-positive neurones as a function of age (r(2)=0.18, residual-CV=0.35, 2P=0.032). Using the rotator method, the size distribution of the melanin-positive neurones was estimated and showed a significant difference in mean cell volume of melanin-positive neurones between the seven youngest (21,077 microm(3)) and the seven oldest individuals (32,011 microm(3)), 2P=0.022. Using a combination of the total number of melanin-positive neurones and their size distribution, the total perikaryon volume of melanin-positive neurones could be estimated and showed no decrease with increasing age (r(2)=0.01, residual-CV=0.41, 2P=0.62). Age-related decline in dopamine-transporter neurones within the SN might explain the occurrence of extrapyramidal symptoms in many elderly individuals. Although age-related cell hypertrophy is usually considered to be an indication of cell degeneration or necrosis, this might not always be the case. The fact that motor symptoms, although present in many of the elderly, are of a limited nature despite the high percentage of lost neurones could be due to a compensatory increase in the cell body of dopamine-producing SN neurones. Thus, the total amount of cell substance capable of producing the essential transmitters might not be reduced to a critically low level as a result of ageing.
journal_name
Neuropathol Appl Neurobioljournal_title
Neuropathology and applied neurobiologyauthors
Cabello CR,Thune JJ,Pakkenberg H,Pakkenberg Bdoi
10.1046/j.1365-2990.2002.00393.xkeywords:
subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2002-08-01 00:00:00pages
283-91issue
4eissn
0305-1846issn
1365-2990pii
393journal_volume
28pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), which is often associated with intractable epilepsy, is a form of abnormal structure of the cerebral cortex caused by a disorder of normal neocortical development. In such cerebral lesions obtained from four patients (two male, two female; average age 32.3 years at operation), the immun...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1365-2990.1999.00180.x
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Over the last decade, there has been increasing evidence that hyperactivation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway is a hallmark of malformations of cortical development such as focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) or hemimegalencephaly. The mTOR pathway governs protein and lipid synthesis, cell growth and ...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/nan.12463
更新日期:2018-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of congenital amaurotic idiocy, a subgroup of the neurovisceral lipidoses, is described. This is a rare condition of which only five cases have been reported previously. The brain was small and firm with marked neuronal loss and gliosis. Granular material with histochemical properties of the ceroid-lipofuscin g...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1985.tb00041.x
更新日期:1985-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mutation of the LRRK2 gene has been associated with autosomal dominant parkinsonism. An R1441C pathogenic substitution was identified in Family D, a large Western Nebraskan kindred, with four members demonstrating pleomorphic pathology at autopsy. One member of this family displayed tau pathology suggestive of progres...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.2006.00693.x
更新日期:2006-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Secreted protein, acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) is a regulator of cell-matrix interaction and has been associated with tumour stage and patient survival in various malignancies. As no large-scale study has yet been undertaken, we investigated human brain and astrocytomas for SPARC expression and associations...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.2010.01072.x
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Obstructive hydrocephalus was induced in 12-day-old rats by the infusion of kaolin into the cisterna magna. After 7 days, cortical and ependymal lesions were made with thin wire in non-hydrocephalic brains and in hydrocephalic brains. The wounds were allowed to heal for times ranging from 1 day to 10 days post-lesion,...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1992.tb00800.x
更新日期:1992-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Corpora amylacea (CAm) are regarded as a hallmark of brain ageing, but little is known about their role in normal and pathological circumstances. CAm contain, in addition to glucose polymers, ageing-, stress- and proinflammatory proteins. In view of their almost universal occurrence and their cumulation with time, for...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1365-2990.2001.00362.x
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Changes of 5'-nucleotidase (5'-N) activity during subcultivation of C6 clonal rat glioma cells were studied histochemically, cytochemically and biochemically. Two different cell populations were seeded with high or low cell density respectively. 5'-N activity in cultured cells increased continuously in both population...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1985.tb00014.x
更新日期:1985-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::To confirm the intracellular accumulation of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta), we carefully performed immunohistochemistry using brains of cynomolgus monkeys of various ages. Cortical neurones and their large neurites were immunostained with antibodies against Abeta in young monkey brains. In aged monkey brains, intracell...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.2004.00624.x
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::During an electron microscopic study of the white matter in multiple sclerosis (MS), spheroidal reticular particles were found both in MS and in control brains. These particles have previously been described in the brain in MS and in brain-derived cell cultures in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. In both cases the...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1978.tb01347.x
更新日期:1978-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Oxidative damage and an associated DNA damage response (DDR) are evident in mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease, suggesting that neuronal dysfunction resulting from oxidative DNA damage may account for some of the cognitive impairment not fully explained by Alzheimer-type pathology. METHODS:Fr...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/nan.12252
更新日期:2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is characterized by the deposition of granular osmiophilic material in association with vascular smooth muscle cells in many different organs. However, the cause of the subsequent destruction of smooth muscle cells tha...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1365-2990.1998.00087.x
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIM:Recent studies indicate that tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD) does not initially manifest in the cerebral cortex but in selected subcortical nuclei, in particular the locus ceruleus (LC). In this study we correlate both olfactory and brainstem tau pathology with neuritic Braak stages. METHODS:We examined ...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.2011.01244.x
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::We have examined the influence that axons may have on the expression of proteolipid protein (PLP), the major myelin protein of the CNS. Partial transections were made of the optic nerve of adult rats to produce approximately a 50% loss of axons. Twenty-eight days after lesioning, sections of the distal nerves were imm...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1991.tb00725.x
更新日期:1991-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Congenital myopathies are clinically and genetically a heterogeneous group of early onset neuromuscular disorders, characterized by hypotonia and muscle weakness. Clinical severity and age of onset are variable. Many patients are severely affected at birth while others have a milder, moderately progressive or nonprogr...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1111/nan.12369
更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Fibre type differentiation was carried out on 20 biopsies from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) sufferers using the acid-preincubated reaction for myofibrillar ATPase. Fibres, classified as either type 1, type 2 or 2C, were counted and their minimum diameters (least fibre axis) measured. Particular attention was paid...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1985.tb00039.x
更新日期:1985-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cerebral microbleeds (CMB) arise from ferromagnetic haemosiderin iron assumed to derive from extravasation of erythrocytes. Light microscopy of ageing brain frequently reveals foci of haemosiderin from single crystalloids to larger, predominantly perivascular, aggregates. T...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/nan.12062
更新日期:2014-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The role of Schwann cells (SC) in perineurial regeneration after nerve injury has not yet been resolved. It was hypothesized that SC alone are able to induce at least partial morphological restoration of the destroyed orthotopic perineureum (PN). To test the hypothesis, a permanently denervated segment of the rat scia...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1365-2990.2000.00238.x
更新日期:2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a protooncogene that is frequently observed with alterations in late stage gliomas, suggesting an important role of this gene in glial tumorigenesis and progression. In this study we evaluated an antisense EGFR approach as an alternative therapeutic modality for glioblast...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1046/j.1365-2990.1998.00128.x
更新日期:1998-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The cellular distribution of the lysosomal proteinase cathepsin D was studied in a series of 76 neoplasms and 18 non-neoplastic tissues from the human central nervous system, using a well-characterized polyclonal antibody in a peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique. In the normal and developing brain, cathepsin D is conf...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1990.tb00930.x
更新日期:1990-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Serial sections of the brains of two cases with Alzheimer's disease were stained with the standard Bodian, modified Bielschowsky (reformed Gros-Schultze's modification) and thioflavin S methods. The numbers of demonstrated Alzheimer's neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) were different between the two silver stains: from 15...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1986.tb00677.x
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A single dose (19 mg kg-1) of triethyllead given to weanling rats produces necrosis in a small number of hippocampal pyramidal (CA3) and hilar neurons with reversible changes in the remaining neurons of this region. The sequence of events has been studied by light and electron microscopy over a period from 12 h to 14 ...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1989.tb01245.x
更新日期:1989-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Insufficient oligodendroglial differentiation of oligodendroglial progenitor cells (OPCs) is suggested to be responsible for remyelination failure and astroglial scar formation in Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis (TME). The aim of the present study is to identify molecular key regulators of OPC differentiation i...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/nan.12133
更新日期:2015-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIM:The insular cortex consists of a heterogenous cytoarchitecture and diverse connections and is thought to integrate autonomic, cognitive, emotional and interoceptive functions to guide behaviour. In Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), it reveals α-synuclein pathology in advanced stages. The...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/nan.12501
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Sarcoplasmic masses contain disorganized myofibrillar material and are a striking feature of myotonic dystrophy. However their significance is still unclear. Using immunocytochemistry we studied the expression of cytoskeletal proteins (desmin and vimentin), dystrophin, markers of myogenic differentiation (foetal myosi...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.2004.00602.x
更新日期:2005-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Minute amounts of tetanus toxin injected into the hippocampus of rats results in an epileptiform syndrome. When the toxin injection is made unilaterally or bilaterally into the ventral hippocampus, about one-third of animals with seizures show bilateral neuronal loss in dorsal CA1 of the hippocampus after 1 week. In a...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1994.tb00985.x
更新日期:1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIM:To understand the progression of CLN1 disease and develop effective therapies we need to characterize early sites of pathology. Therefore, we performed a comprehensive evaluation of the nature and timing of early CLN1 disease pathology in the spinal cord, which appears especially vulnerable, and how this may affect...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/nan.12658
更新日期:2020-08-25 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Glioblastomas are highly aggressive and treatment resistant. Increasing evidence suggests that tumour-associated macrophages/microglia (TAMs) facilitate tumour progression by acquiring a M2-like phenotype. Our objective was to investigate the prognostic value of TAMs in gliomas using automated quantitative double ...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/nan.12428
更新日期:2018-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Two cases of Aspergillus infection of the nervous system are reported. In the first case it occurred in a healthy individual and presented as a space occupying lesion mimicking a tuberculous granuloma. In the second case it was an opportunistic infection in a patient with predisposing conditions and manifested as chro...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2990.1983.tb00131.x
更新日期:1983-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:AIMS:Although telomere length (TL) and telomere maintenance proteins (shelterins) are markers of cellular senescence and peripheral blood biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD), little information is available on telomeric alterations during the prodromal stage (MCI) of AD. We investigated TL in the default mode networ...
journal_title:Neuropathology and applied neurobiology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/nan.12672
更新日期:2020-10-26 00:00:00