WHO grade associated downregulation of MHC class I antigen-processing machinery components in human astrocytomas: does it reflect a potential immune escape mechanism?

abstract：:The presence of many neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in the central nervous system is a hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and parkinsonism-dementia complex (PDC) in people living in the Kii peninsula of Japan and in the island of Guam. To determine whether or not ALS and PDC are on a spectrum of a single ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mimuro M,Kokubo Y,Kuzuhara S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a photochemical method silver was demonstrated in the brains of 1-, 14-, and 45-day-old rats which had been exposed to silver on gestational days 18 and 19. In the brain tissue of new-born rats, silver was found in the lysosomes of neurons and astroglia. Minor changes in the anatomic distribution of silver were ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Rungby J,Danscher G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative study was performed on spinal cord lesions in seven patients with X-linked recessive spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. The myelinated fiber density of the lateral corticospinal tracts at the T7 cord level was well preserved for both large and small myelinated fibers. On the other hand, neurons in the ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Terao S,Sobue G,Li M,Hashizume Y,Tanaka F,Mitsuma T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Round granulated body (RGB) and eosinophilic hyaline droplets (EHDs) have been described as cytoplasmic inclusions of certain astrocytic tumors. In the previous literature, however, these inclusions have been described using various terms or regarded as nosologically the same entity. Light microscopically, RGB appeare...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hitotsumatsu T,Iwaki T,Fukui M,Tateishi J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper describes the clinical and morphological features of a congenital neurological disease affecting two in-bred litter-mate kittens. The principal neurological features were ataxia and dysmetria. In one of the kittens light microscopy revealed widespread vacuolation of white and grey matter of the brain and spi...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kelly DF,Gaskell CJ

更新日期：1976-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty necropsy cases of the association of fetal encephalitis with porencephaly, hydranencephaly or polymicrogyria were reviewed including 5 from the authors' material. The latter include a basket brain, a porencephalic necrosis of recent date and a polymicrogyria in the formative state. The supratentorial lesions ar...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Friede RL,Mikolasek J

更新日期：1978-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral administration of N-[4-(3-ethoxy-2-hydropropoxy)phenyl] acrylamide (EHA) induced selective granule cell destruction in the granular layer of the cerebellar cortex together with neurological signs, such as delayed righting reflex, gait or truncal ataxia, and convulsion. Neuropathologically, it caused multifocal gr...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tanaka G,Okeda R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient forebrain ischemia produces a spatially and temporally selective pattern of neuronal degeneration in the hippocampal formation of the Mongolian gerbil. Ischemic neuronal death has been suggested to depend on the activation of excitatory hippocampal pathways that project to the vulnerable neurons. This idea w...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kaplan TM,Lasner TM,Nadler JV,Crain BJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective toxicity of silica dust for macrophages has been used to assess the role of these cells in experimental allergic neuritis (EAN). Inbred Lewis rats were inoculated with bovine dorsal roots in Freund's complete adjuvant (day 0). In two experiments, animals received 200 mg of silica dust in 1 cm3 of saline ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Craggs RI,King RH,Thomas PK

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of advanced glycation endproducts (AGE) in the pathogenesis of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) mutation, we investigated the immunohistochemical localization of N(epsilon)-carboxymethyl-lysine (CML), one of the major AGE structures, in spinal cords ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Shibata N,Hirano A,Kato S,Nagai R,Horiuchi S,Komori T,Umahara T,Asayama K,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis of neurons and glial cells has been shown to occur in the brain of patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and was postulated as contributing to brain atrophy and white matter damage in these patients. Since apoptotic events may be induced by the Fas-Fas ligand (FasL) system, we analyzed...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Elovaara I,Sabri F,Gray F,Alafuzoff I,Chiodi F

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the pathogenetic role of human T lymphocyte virus type I (HTLV-I) in central nervous system disease, a rat model for HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis, designated as HAM rat disease, has been established. Wistar-King-Aptekman-Hokudai strain rats with induced HTLV-I infection deve...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kasai T,Ikeda H,Tomaru U,Yamashita I,Ohya O,Morita K,Wakisaka A,Matsuoka E,Moritoyo T,Hashimoto K,Higuchi I,Izumo S,Osame M,Yoshiki T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 17 year-old male, who was mentally and bodily retarded from the age of 7 years. At the age of 16 years, several neurological signs appeared. Pathologically, there was widespread myelin loss and tissue sponginess in the white matter of the cerebrum and cerebellum, bilaterally and symmetrically. A great many Alzheimer...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Miyakawa T,Murayama E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equine grass sickness (EGS) is an acquired disease of unknown aetiology affecting horses kept at grass. The disease is characterised by postganglionic sympathetic and parasympathetic neuronal pathology and is categorised as a dysautonomia. This study undertook a systematic examination of brain stem cranial nerve nucle...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hahn CN,Mayhew IG,de Lahunta A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onion bulbs are concentric lamellar structures formed by Schwann or perineurial cells, which may be seen in several generalized or localized diseases of the peripheral nerve. There is debate regarding the pathogenesis of localized tumefactions displaying these microscopic structures. We report the fifth case, to our k...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： LaPoint SF,Powers JM,Woodruff JM,MacCollin M,Jacoby LB,Vortmeyer AO,Zhuang Z,Fong CT,Ifthikharuddin SF,Teot L,Coniglio JU,Sullivan RP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions cause scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD); these infectious pathogens are composed largely, if not entirely, of protein molecules. No prion-specific polynucleotide has been identified. Purified preparations of scrapie prions contain high titers (greater than or equal to 10(9.5) ID50/ml), one protein (Pr...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Prusiner SB,Gabizon R,McKinley MP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inappropriate apoptosis has been implicated in the mechanism of neuronal death in Huntington's disease (HD). In this study, we report the expression of apoptotic markers in HD caudate nucleus (grades 1-4) and compare this with controls without neurological disease. Terminal transferase-mediated biotinylated-UTP nick e...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Vis JC,Schipper E,de Boer-van Huizen RT,Verbeek MM,de Waal RM,Wesseling P,ten Donkelaar HJ,Kremer B

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the distribution pattern of pathology and cholinergic deficits in the subnuclei of the amygdaloid complex (AC) in five patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), eight with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and five normal controls. In controls, the basal nucleus contained the highest choline acetyltransferase a...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sahin HA,Emre M,Ziabreva I,Perry E,Celasun B,Perry R

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:Abnormal TDP-43 aggregation is a prominent feature in the neuropathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Mutations in TARDBP, the gene encoding TDP-43, cause some cases of ALS. The normal function of TDP-43 remains incompletely understood. To better understand TDP-43 biolo...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kraemer BC,Schuck T,Wheeler JM,Robinson LC,Trojanowski JQ,Lee VM,Schellenberg GD

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) have been associated with simian virus 40 (SV40), rather than with JC virus (JCV), the polyomavirus originally isolated from PML tissue. PML has, therefore, been defined as a demyelinating syndrome with possible multiple viral etiologies. Tissues from t...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Stoner GL,Ryschkewitsch CF

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cavernous malformations (CVMs) and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) were immunostained for three smooth muscle cell (SMC)-specific protein markers (smooth muscle alpha-actin, SM1 and SM2). Smooth muscle alpha-actin, a widely used marker of SMCs, is reportedly one of the earliest proteins expressed during differentia...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hoya K,Asai A,Sasaki T,Kimura K,Kirino T

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the cytokine, colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1), on neuronal survival in cerebral cortex ischemic lesion was determined. Ischemic lesions were made in C3H/HeJ mice by disrupting blood vessels that penetrate the cerebral cortex from the pial-vascular plexus. Recombinant human colony stimulating factor 1...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Berezovskaya O,Maysinger D,Fedoroff S

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the binding of pathogenic aquaporin-4 (AQP4)-specific autoantibodies to astrocytes may initiate a cascade of events culminating in the destruction of these cells and in the formation of large tissue-destructive lesions typical for patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hillebrand S,Schanda K,Nigritinou M,Tsymala I,Böhm D,Peschl P,Takai Y,Fujihara K,Nakashima I,Misu T,Reindl M,Lassmann H,Bradl M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of DNA fragmentation analysed using the TUNEL technique was evaluated in post-mortem human brain tissue. Twenty-four patients with clinical and histopathological diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and a short post-mortem delay were analysed. We report an increase in the count of TUNEL-labelled cells as t...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Overmyer M,Kraszpulski M,Helisalmi S,Soininen H,Alafuzoff I

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of an elderly woman with a history of headache, vomiting and dizziness while walking. On CT scans a mass was identified in the right cerebellar hemisphere exhibiting radiological characteristics of lipomatous tissue. Surgery revealed a compact lesion consisting of whitish-yellow tissue with a fatty ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Walter A,Dingemans KP,Weinstein HC,Troost D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adenovirus type 12 (Ad 12) was inoculated intraperitoneally, intrapleurally, intramuscularly or subcutaneously into newborn rodents. Tumors developed preferentially in the peritoneal cavities in 93.9% of the hamsters and 82.6% of the mice, but none in rats; in contrast to the high incidence of brain tumors in ra...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Ogawa K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are long-living resident immune cells of the brain, which secure a stable chemical and physical microenvironment necessary for the proper functioning of the central nervous system (CNS). These highly dynamic cells continuously scan their environment for pathogens and possess the ability to react to damage-in...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Dudvarski Stankovic N,Teodorczyk M,Ploen R,Zipp F,Schmidt MHH

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxidase-labeled lectins were used for detection of specific monosaccharide residues in amyloid plaques in brains of scrapie-infected mice. The lectins tested recognize the following residues: beta-D-galactosyl (Ricinus communis agglutinin 120, RCA-1), alpha-D-galactosyl and alpha-D-galactopyranoside (Bandeirea simp...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Szumanska G,Vorbrodt AW,Wisniewski HM

更新日期：1986-01-01 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