Molecular characterization of disseminated pilocytic astrocytomas.

abstract：AIMS:Brain oedema is a major contributing factor to the morbidity and mortality of a variety of brain disorders. Although there has been considerable progress in our understanding of pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms associated with brain oedema so far, more effective treatment is required and is still awaite...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Karmacharya MB,Kim KH,Kim SY,Chung J,Min BH,Park SR,Choi BH

更新日期：2015-06-01 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

authors： Kimura N,Yanagisawa K,Terao K,Ono F,Sakakibara I,Ishii Y,Kyuwa S,Yoshikawa Y

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Professional boxers and other contact sport athletes are exposed to repetitive brain trauma that may affect motor functions, cognitive performance, emotional regulation and social awareness. The term of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was recently introduced to regroup a wide spectrum of symptoms such as cerebe...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Costanza A,Weber K,Gandy S,Bouras C,Hof PR,Giannakopoulos P,Canuto A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrapie is a prion disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of sheep, goats and moufflon. As with its human counterparts, pathology consists of vacuolation, gliosis and accumulations of abnormal forms of a host prion protein (PrPd) in the brain of affected individuals. Immunohistochemical methods can b...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Jeffrey M,González L

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic bodies are frequently found in oligodendrogliomas, particularly in the anaplastic subtype. A range of proteins, such as those of the Bcl family, are implicated in the control of apoptosis. The ratio of antagonists of apoptosis, such as Bcl-2, to agonists, such as Bax, is thought to determine the outcome for ...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Delgado MB,Anderson JR,Whittle IR,Wharton SB

更新日期：1999-10-01 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

authors： Capper D,Mittelbronn M,Goeppert B,Meyermann R,Schittenhelm J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Nishio S,Morioka T,Hamada Y,Hisada K,Fukui M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural studies of spongiform encephalopathy (SE) reveal no very early pathological changes in kuru where membrane lamellation has been reported. This observation is challenged. In the later stages of SE, two main theories are examined--the spiroplasma theory and the prion (6 nm filament) theory. Neither are s...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Gray EG

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of upper and lower motor neurones leading to muscle weakness and paralysis. Despite recent advances in the genetics of ALS, the mechanisms underlying motor neurone degeneration are not fully understood. Mitochondria are know...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Duffy LM,Chapman AL,Shaw PJ,Grierson AJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (JNCL) or juvenile Batten disease is a recessively inherited childhood neurodegenerative disorder resulting from a mutation in CLN3, which encodes a putative lysosomal protein of unknown function. AIM:Recent evidence suggests that a disruption in CLN3 function results...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Chan CH,Ramirez-Montealegre D,Pearce DA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between the degree of cortical prion protein (PrP) deposition, tissue vacuolation and astrocytosis were studied in the frontal cortex of 27 cases of human spongiform encephalopathy, encompassing 13 cases of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), four cases of familial CJD (fCJD) (one owing to E20...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Fraser E,McDonagh AM,Head M,Bishop M,Ironside JW,Mann DM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Productive infection of the central nervous system by HIV predominantly involves the white matter and basal ganglia. Involvement of the cerebral cortex with neuronal loss is also described in AIDS patients but not in asymptomatic HIV-positive patients. The mechanism of neuronal damage is unknown. To enquire whether ne...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Adle-Biassette H,Levy Y,Colombel M,Poron F,Natchev S,Keohane C,Gray F

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) may be implicated in the pathogenetic mechanisms of hepatic encephalopathy. We tested this hypothesis by treating confluent primary cultures of rat astroglial cells with ammonium chloride for various periods and analysing the effect of ammonia on the signalling pathway that regulates...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Bodega G,Suárez I,Almonacid L,Ciordia S,Beloso A,López-Fernández LA,Zaballos A,Fernández B

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative assessment was made of the myogenic capability in vitro of muscle cells from dystrophic (129 Rej dy/dy) and normal mice from birth to 5 months old. Seeding efficiency was increased in dystrophic cells from neonatal and 1-week-old mice compared to age-matched controls. The extent of myogenesis in culture...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Summers PJ,Parsons R

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) is probably a form of the sheep disease, scrapie, introduced by accidentally feeding mink with scrapie-infected sheep tissues. Although no successful transmissions of TME to mice have been achieved previous work has involved various limitations. To maximize the possibility of tr...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Taylor DM,Dickinson AG,Fraser H,Marsh RF

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A demyelinating perivascular condition has been observed in the optic nerves of three cats, the lesions of which included the following features: thinly myelinated and demyelinated axons, few normal oligodendrocytes, astroglial scar tissue, lymphocytes, plasma cells, mononuclear phagocytic cells and lipid-laden cells....

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Cook RD

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of astrocytes in myelinated culture of mouse spinal cord tissue was analysed ultrastructurally and compared with the pattern in vivo. Astrocyte cell bodies and their processes, connected by punctate adhesions and gap junctions, formed a continuous layer around the entire explant. Throughout the parenc...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Kusaka H,Hirano A,Bornstein MB,Raine CS

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Peroxisomes play a key role in lipid metabolism, and peroxisome defects have been associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as X-adrenoleukodystrophy and Alzheimer's disease. This study aims to elucidate the contribution of peroxisomes in lipid alterations of area 8 of the frontal cortex in the spectrum of TD...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Andrés-Benito P,Gelpi E,Jové M,Mota-Martorell N,Obis È,Portero-Otin M,Povedano M,Pujol A,Pamplona R,Ferrer I

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The serotonin 2A receptor (HTR2A) is widely expressed in the brain and involved in the modulation of fear, mood, anxiety and other symptoms. HTR2A and HTR2A gene variations are implicated in depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. To understand HTR2A signalling changes in psychiatric ...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Marinova Z,Monoranu CM,Fetz S,Walitza S,Grünblatt E

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Levels of ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1) are robustly increased in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patient fibroblasts and mouse models. We therefore wanted to establish whether changes in UCHL1 contribute directly to disease pathogenesis, and to assess whether pharmacological inhibition of UCHL1 re...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Powis RA,Mutsaers CA,Wishart TM,Hunter G,Wirth B,Gillingwater TH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Plectin, a universally expressed multi-functional cytolinker protein, is crucial for intermediate filament networking, including crosstalk with actomyosin and microtubules. In addition to its involvement in a number of diseases affecting skin, skeletal muscle, heart, and other stress-exposed tissues, indications f...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Valencia RG,Mihailovska E,Winter L,Bauer K,Fischer I,Walko G,Jorgacevski J,Potokar M,Zorec R,Wiche G

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitin targets proteins for attack by certain proteolytic enzymes, but the ubiquitinated cytoplasmic inclusions seen in some chronic neurodegenerative diseases may indicate the occurrence of reparative rather than destructive metabolic events. We have examined the production of ubiquitin in motor neurons of the rat...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Savedia S,Kiernan JA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases (AD, PD) are among the most common neurodegenerative disorders in adults. Both AD and PD have a complex aetiology, and it is widely considered that genetic factors, acting independently or in concert with other genetic and/or environmental factors, modify the risk of developing the...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Egensperger R,Kösel S,Schnopp NM,Mehraein P,Graeber MB

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brains from human fetuses of 13 to 27 weeks gestation have been examined immunohistologically for the presence of macrophages using the marker alpha-1-anti-chymotrypsin. A preliminary study demonstrated this to be a satisfactory marker of brain macrophages, although macrophages were also weakly positive for the more s...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Gould SJ,Howard S

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain is vulnerable to a number of acute insults, with traumatic brain injury being among the commonest. Neuroinflammation is a common response to acute injury and microglial activation is a key component of the inflammatory response. In the acute and subacute phase it is likely that this response is protective an...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Smith C

更新日期：2013-02-01 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

authors： McPhilemy K,Griffiths IR,Mitchell LS,Kennedy PG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunction of the ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway contributes to progressive accumulation of ubiquitinated protein inclusions in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD). Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1), alternatively designated protein gene product 9.5 (PGP9.5), is a neural de...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Satoh JI,Kuroda Y

更新日期：2001-04-01 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

authors： Sewry CA,Wallgren-Pettersson C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A few nanograms of tetanus toxin injected into a rat hippocampus causes a chronic epileptic syndrome characterized by brief seizures that recur intermittently for about 6 weeks. Cognitive and other behavioural impairments persist after the seizures and other epileptic electrographic activity have remitted, and may be ...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Jefferys JG,Evans BJ,Hughes SA,Williams SF

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we describe the effects of trapidil, a putative platelet-derived growth factor-antagonist, on spontaneously occurring remyelination in rat spinal cord. Demyelination was created in the dorsal funiculus of 6- and 11-week-old female rats by the direct injection of 1.0 microliter of 1% lysolecithin. The ani...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： McKay JS,Blakemore WF,Franklin RJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00