Medulloblastoma: histopathologic and molecular markers of anaplasia and biologic behavior.

abstract：:The spinal cord of 20 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and 5 patients with lower motor neuron disease (LMND) were investigated immunohistochemically using anti-human excitatory amino acid transporter 1 (EAAT1) and EAAT2 antibodies which are the astrocytic transporters. The purpose of the study was to ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sasaki S,Komori T,Iwata M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial patterns of diffuse, primitive, classic (cored) and compact (burnt-out) subtypes of beta/A4 deposits were studied in coronal sections of the frontal lobe and hippocampus, including the adjacent gyri, in nine cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD). If the more mature deposits were derived from the diffuse deposi...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Armstrong RA,Myers D,Smith CU

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly developed in vitro labeling method with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) identifies S phase cells in situ in freshly obtained surgical tissue of human brain tumors which is subsequently fixed and embedded in paraffin for BrdU immunovisualization. For the first time, the BrdU labeling index (LI) is successfully compare...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Morimura T,Kitz K,Budka H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired axonal transport of the fast or slow component has been reported in patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), animal models for ALS, and familial ALS-linked mutant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) transgenic mice. However, little is known about the impairment of axonal transport in mutant S...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sasaki S,Warita H,Abe K,Iwata M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory dysfunction is a frequent and early feature of patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) and is very uncommon in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Mechanisms underlying this clinical manifestation are poorly understood but the premature...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mundiñano IC,Caballero MC,Ordóñez C,Hernandez M,DiCaudo C,Marcilla I,Erro ME,Tuñon MT,Luquin MR

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver-staining methods are helpful for histological identification of pathological deposits. In spite of some ambiguities regarding their mechanism and interpretation, they are widely used for histopathological diagnosis. In this review, four major silver-staining methods, modified Bielschowsky, Bodian, Gallyas (GAL)...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Uchihara T

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of 14-year-old girl is reported in whom an alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma occurred in the soft tissues of the left forearm 4 years prior to death. Despite extensive surgery as well as chemotherapy and radiotherapy the tumor recurred locally and produced extensive metastases including a metastasis to the brain. Cereb...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kleinert R,Beham A,Rosanelli G

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the microscopic features of 137 cases of human cerebral infarct. In each case, the age of the lesion was determined by measuring the time elapsed between initial clinical presentation and date of surgery or death. Multiple microscopic variables were analyzed on hematoxylin and eosin-stained sections. There ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mena H,Cadavid D,Rushing EJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebrovascular lesions of severe chronic hypertension were studied by light microscopy in perfusion-fixed, subserially sectioned brains from stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP). The leakage and spread of plasma proteins were visualized by immunohistochemical detection of extravasated fibrinogen a...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Fredriksson K,Auer RN,Kalimo H,Nordborg C,Olsson Y,Johansson BB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminin alpha2 (merosin)-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) patients show progressive muscle fiber necrosis and ineffective muscle regeneration. This is probably due to decreased formation of multi nucleated myotubes resulting from a myoblast fusion defect. When receiving a mechanical signal from muscle mem...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sakuma K,Nakao R,Inashima S,Hirata M,Kubo T,Yasuhara M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by an expanded trinucleotide CAG repeat in the gene coding for huntingtin. Deregulation of chromatin remodeling is linked to the pathogenesis of HD but the mechanism remains elusive. To identify what genes are deregulated by trimethyla...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Lee J,Hwang YJ,Shin JY,Lee WC,Wie J,Kim KY,Lee MY,Hwang D,Ratan RR,Pae AN,Kowall NW,So I,Kim JI,Ryu H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemizygote of the macular mutant mice, which is clinically and neuropathologically considered to be a model of Menkes kinky hair disease (MKHD), were injected intraperitoneally four times with 10, 20, 20 and 30 micrograms of cupric chloride on days 4, 6, 8 and 10 after birth, respectively. Their cerebral and cereb...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Yamano T,Shimada M,Onaga A,Kawasaki H,Iwane S,Ono K,Nishimura M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunohistochemical distribution of alpha and beta subunits of S-100 protein (S-100 alpha, S-100 beta, respectively) in 138 cases of human brain tumors was investigated by the avidin-biotin immunoperoxidase method. Brain tumors can be divided into four groups: group 1 [S-100 alpha (+) and/or S-100 beta (+)]; astro...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hayashi K,Hoshida Y,Horie Y,Takahashi K,Taguchi K,Sonobe H,Ohtsuki Y,Akagi T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a progressive neurological disorder of captive mule deer, black-tailed deer, hybrids of mule deer and white-tailed deer and Rocky Mountain elk, is characterized neuropathologically by widespread spongiform change of the neuropil, intracytoplasmic vacuolation in neuronal perikarya and ast...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Guiroy DC,Williams ES,Yanagihara R,Gajdusek DC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman of 36 was admitted to hospital because of griping abdominal pain which occurred especially during the night when turning in bed. She had a history of constipation and bloating since birth. Irrigoscopy revealed megacolon extending from the middle of the transverse colon to the rectum. A rectal biopsy excluded H...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Lassmann G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information is available regarding the morphological changes in the mitochondria in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In particular, mitochondrial changes in dorsal root ganglion cells have not yet been examined. We therefore conducted an electron microscopic examination of the mitochondria in dorsal root ga...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sasaki S,Horie Y,Iwata M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of lactic acid on cultured human glioma cell lines expressing glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), vimentin and neuron-specific enolase (NSE). The growth of the cells was inhibited by the lactic acid in a dose-dependent manner. At 56 mM of lactic acid, the surviving cells of the KNS-42-c2 cel...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Takeshita I,Sawa H,Nakamura T,Kuramitsu M,Kitamura K,Fukui M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplification of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene is found in about 40% of glioblastomas (GBMs) but is rarely detected in GBM cell lines. We confirmed that the exceptional SKMG-3 GBM cell line retained amplified EGFR genes in vitro, and found that these sequences were concentrated on extra-chromosomal ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Thomas C,Ely G,James CD,Jenkins R,Kastan M,Jedlicka A,Burger P,Wharen R

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the calcium-binding protein calretinin was investigated by immunohistochemistry in the hippocampus, the subicular areas, and the entorhinal cortex in patients with Alzheimer's disease and in control subjects. By double immunolabelling, the calretinin immunoreactivity was compared to the immunoreact...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Brion JP,Résibois A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rabbits were subjected to 4.5 Gy of whole-blody or brain alone gamma-irradiation, and their hippocampus was examined with the light and electron microscope. Pycnotic cells were found at the base of the granular layer of the dentate gyrus in the so-called subgranular zone, as soon as 3 h after irradiation, and we...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Guéneau G,Drouet J,Privat A,Court L

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An autopsy case of unclassifiable presenil dementia is reported. The outstanding pathological findings were as follows; 1. presence of senile plaques, neurofibrillary changes, Pick bodies, Hirano bodies, granulovacuolar degeneration of neurons, etc. 2. numerous Lewy bodies in the brain stem and diencephalon, 3. peculi...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kosaka K,Oyanagi S,Matsushita M,Hori A

更新日期：1976-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA), a tumor most often presenting superficially over the cerebral hemisphere of young subjects, has certain morphological similarities to fibrous histiocytoma (or fibrous xanthoma) of the meninges and brain, namely the occurrence of lipid-laden neoplastic cells and, frequently, a dense...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kepes JJ,Rubinstein LJ,Ansbacher L,Schreiber DJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six medulloblastomas were studied by electron microscopy. Two features were found which seem to be constant and essential characteristics of medulloblastoma. First, cell junctions are abundant between tumor cells. These are mostly desmosome-like but other, closer junctions, were also seen. Second, the capillary endoth...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hassoun J,Hirano A,Zimmerman HM

更新日期：1975-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine structures of two pineal parenchymal neoplasms has been described. The tumors contained a predominance of small, poorly differentiated cells with prominent nuclei and scanty cytoplasm. These cells were similar to those found in medulloblastomas, primitive cerebral neuroectodermal tumors, and fetal cerebellum ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Markesbery WR,Haugh RM,Young AB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence and topographic analysis of granulovacuolar degeneration (GVD) in the hippocampal cortex of mentally normal controls (75 cases) and patients with Alzheimer's dementia (AD; 17 cases which included Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia of Alzheimer type), multi-infarct dementia (MID; 16 cases), Pick's d...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Xu M,Shibayama H,Kobayashi H,Yamada K,Ishihara R,Zhao P,Takeuchi T,Yoshida K,Inagaki T,Nokura K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and distribution of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were examined in the CNS of two children with severe HIV encephalitis and myelitis. Using polymerase chain reaction-mediated DNA amplification and subsequent Southern analysis, proviral HIV gag sequences were identified in brain tissue of both patient...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Brüstle O,Spiegel H,Leib SL,Finn T,Stein H,Kleihues P,Wiestler OD

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a four-step immunoperoxidase (PAP) method and the monoclonal antibody MAbA9-C6 (MAbA9-C6), which defines an epitope of the retinal S-antigen (S-Ag), we investigated the S-Ag immunoreactivity in human fetal, newborn, infantile and adult pineal glands and in 13 human pineal parenchymal tumors. S-Ag immunoreactivit...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Perentes E,Rubinstein LJ,Herman MM,Donoso LA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial solitary fibrous tumors (SFTs) are typically dural-based, CD34-positive neoplasms of uncertain histogenesis. We examined ten cases of meninges obtained at autopsy from patients with no history of neurological illness, head trauma, or neurosurgical intervention, and ten cases of typical meningiomas with at...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Cummings TJ,Burchette JL,McLendon RE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cytoplasm of Schwann cells of a sural nerve biopsy from a 21-year-old female patient with chronic neuropathy we noted numerous unique, usually double membrane-bound, osmiophilic, granular or globular inclusions, approximately 30-600 microm in diameter. Some of these membrane-bound vesicular or tubular structure...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Schröder JM,Wang JF,Sindern E,Malin JP

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau and Aβ biomarkers over time in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients from prodromal pre-symptomatic to severe stages of dementia have not been clearly defined and recent studies, most of which are cross-sectional, present conflicting findings. To clarify this issue, we analyze...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Toledo JB,Xie SX,Trojanowski JQ,Shaw LM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00