Review: Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, focal cortical dysplasia and epilepsy.

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

authors： Sun Y,Lehmbecker A,Kalkuhl A,Deschl U,Sun W,Rohn K,Tzvetanova ID,Nave KA,Baumgärtner W,Ulrich R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus was injected into the vitreous of suckling and adult rabbits. In the suckling rabbits the infection caused an arrested myelination of the strip. Further, the infected strips showed degenerative changes with splitting and distension of myelin sheaths which then disintegrated. Ultrastructurally, her...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Kristensson K,Wiśniewski HM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing techniques have been adapted and it has been possible to demonstrate acid phosphatase (APP) and myelin, lipid or astrocytic fibres in the same histological section. In normal controls APP was demonstrated in neurons, astrocytes, ependyma including choroid plexus epithelium and in pericytes, but not in oligode...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Allen IV,Glover G,McKeown SR,McCormick D

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I), the principal apolipoprotein associated with high-density lipoproteins in the periphery, is also found at high concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid. Previous studies have reported either no impact or vascular-specific effects of apoA-I knockout (KO) on β-amyloid (Aβ) pathology. Ho...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Contu L,Carare RO,Hawkes CA

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tumour xenografts maintained in nude mice are a valuable research tool. The passaging and maintenance of human tumour xenografts in immune-deficient animals are expensive and labour-intensive. This study presents a protocol that permits long-term cryopreservation of viable glioblastoma xenograft tissue pieces in...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Goike HM,Asplund AC,Pettersson EH,Liu L,Ichimura K,Collins VP

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a combined biochemical and histological approach certain conclusions can be drawn as to the origin of the increase in lysosomal enzymes in white matter from MS brains. Firstly, there is a gradient of lysosomal enzyme activity, plaque greater than periplaque greater than macroscopically normal white matter, which...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： McKeown SR,Allen IV

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction leads to oxygen free radical (ROS) generation with consequent oxidative stress and cellular damage. Recently, activation of the cellular antioxidant system and apoptosis were demonstrated in skeletal muscle fibres from patients with mitochondrial diseases, but the underlying mechanisms remain...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Filosto M,Tonin P,Vattemi G,Savio C,Rizzuto N,Tomelleri G

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were given 2,5-hexanediol in their water for more than 5 weeks. The changes in the optic pathways were studied both qualitatively and quantitatively. Increase in 10-nm filaments within axons was noticeable from 10 days onwards in the superior colliculus and in the brachium of the superior colliculus. From then on...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Jones HB,Cavanagh JB

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Brain mural cells (BMC), smooth muscle cells and pericytes, interact closely with endothelial cells and modulate numerous cerebrovascular functions. A loss of BMC function is suspected to play a role in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). METHODS:BMC markers, namely smooth muscle alpha actin (α-SMA) ...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Bourassa P,Tremblay C,Schneider JA,Bennett DA,Calon F

更新日期：2020-08-01 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

authors： Kirk J,Hutchinson WM

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is clinically and pathologically heterogeneous. Although associated with variations in MAPT, GRN and C9ORF72, the pathogenesis of these, and of other nongenetic, forms of FTLD, remains unknown. Epigenetic factors such as histone regulation by histone deacetylases (HDAC) may...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Whitehouse A,Doherty K,Yeh HH,Robinson AC,Rollinson S,Pickering-Brown S,Snowden J,Thompson JC,Davidson YS,Mann DM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferase dUTP nick-end labelling (TUNEL) analysis was used to compare the occurrence of cell death in the cerebral wall of cocaine-exposed and drug-naïve monkey fetuses. The rhesus monkeys providing the drug-exposed fetuses received 10 mg/kg of cocaine orally (in fruit treats) in the morning and in the evening betw...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： He N,Song ZM,Lidow MS

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual inherited progressive distal myopathy of early childhood onset is described in two sisters from a consanguineous Asian family. Motor milestones were normal but gait deteriorated slowly thereafter with development of generalized hypotonia and muscle weakness particularly in the wrist extensors and hand muscl...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Mahon M,Kristmundsdottir F,Cumming WJ,Noronha MJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by degeneration of cholinergic basal forebrain (CBF) neurons in the nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM), which provides the major cholinergic input to the cortical mantle and is related to cognitive decline in patients with AD. Cortical histone deacetylase (HDAC) dysregulatio...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Mahady L,Nadeem M,Malek-Ahmadi M,Chen K,Perez SE,Mufson EJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial abnormalities, in particular the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations, have been proposed as a potential cause of normal ageing. One group of patients with mtDNA disorders have a nuclear DNA defect which accelerates the chronological accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations. These patients prov...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Cottrell DA,Ince PG,Wardell TM,Turnbull DM,Johnson MA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation, mitochondrial impairment and oxidative stress are common to multiple neurodegenerative diseases. Homeostasis is regulated by a balanced set of anabolic and catabolic responses, which govern removal and repair of damaged proteins and organelles. Macroautophagy is an evolutionarily conserved pathway...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Cherra SJ 3rd,Dagda RK,Chu CT

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Human fetal dorsal root ganglia aged from 8 to 12 weeks post-menstrual were grown in vitro for up to 20 days. Outgrowth of Schwann cells, axons and fibroblasts occurred after 4 h. By the 7th day in vitro Schwann cells enclosed bundles of axons and after 10 days some Schwann cells were seen to enclose individual axons....

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Crawford K,Armati-Gulson P

更新日期：1982-11-01 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：:Defects of mitochondrial function have been proposed as a potential mechanism in the development and pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and neuronal apoptosis. Mitochondrial enzyme-deficient pyramidal neurones are found in greater quantities in the hippocampus of AD patients than in age-matched controls. The pre...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Cottrell DA,Borthwick GM,Johnson MA,Ince PG,Turnbull DM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathological findings in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are partly attributed to alterations in calcium-binding protein (CBP) functions. We showed previously that immunoreactivity of secretagogin, a recently cloned CBP, in the human hippocampus is restricted to pyramidal neurones and that the amount of immunoreactive ne...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Attems J,Preusser M,Grosinger-Quass M,Wagner L,Lintner F,Jellinger K

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal devastating neurodegenerative disorder which predominantly affects the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. The death of the motor neurons in ALS causes subsequent muscle atrophy, paralysis and eventual death. Clinical and biological evidence now demonstrates that ...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Smethurst P,Sidle KC,Hardy J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Phosphorylated TDP-43 (pTDP-43) is the pathological protein responsible for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Recently, it has been reported that accumulation of pTDP-43 can occur in the brains of patients with argyrophilic grain disease (AGD), in which phosphorylated 4-repeat...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Soma K,Fu YJ,Wakabayashi K,Onodera O,Kakita A,Takahashi H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhalin and alpha-dystroglycan are two components of a complex of proteins that, in conjunction with dystrophin, provide a link between the subsarcolemmal cytoskeleton and the basal lamina of the extracellular matrix of skeletal muscle. In the absence of dystrophin, in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and the mdx mou...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Cullen MJ,Walsh J,Roberds SL,Campbell KP

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:The causes of most neurological disorders are not fully understood. Inflammation and blood-brain barrier dysfunction appear to play major roles in the pathology of these diseases. Inflammatory insults that occur during brain development may have widespread effects later in life for a spectrum of neurological disorders...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Stolp HB,Dziegielewska KM

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:Over the past few years, the traditional view of brain tumorigenesis has been revolutionized by advances in genomic medicine, molecular biology, stem cell biology and genetically engineered small-animal modelling. We now appreciate that paediatric brain tumours arise following specific genetic mutations in specialized...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Thangarajh M,Gutmann DH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Increasing evidences suggest a similarity in the pathophysiological mechanisms of neuronal cell death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and myofibre degeneration in sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM). The aim of this study is to elucidate the involvement of ALS-causing proteins in the pathophysiological ...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Yamashita S,Kimura E,Tawara N,Sakaguchi H,Nakama T,Maeda Y,Hirano T,Uchino M,Ando Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Neurogenesis in adult humans occurs in at least two areas of the brain, the subventricular zone of the telencephalon and the subgranular layer of the dentate gyrus in the hippocampal formation. We studied dentate gyrus subgranular layer neurogenesis in patients subjected to tailored antero-mesial temporal resectio...

journal_title：Neuropathology and applied neurobiology

authors： Paradisi M,Fernández M,Del Vecchio G,Lizzo G,Marucci G,Giulioni M,Pozzati E,Antonelli T,Lanzoni G,Bagnara GP,Giardino L,Calzà L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00