Pituitary growth hormone cell adenoma with cytoplasmic tubular aggregates in the capillary endothelium.

abstract：:Among the various mechanisms proposed to explain the pathogenesis of cerebral lesions in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-induced encephalitis, a cytokine-mediated action has found most favour. Indeed, elevated expression of cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-1 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), thought to...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： An SF,Ciardi A,Giometto B,Scaravilli T,Gray F,Scaravilli F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article highlights the features that connect prion diseases with other cerebral amyloidoses and how these relate to neurodegeneration, with focus on tau phosphorylation. It also discusses similarities between prion disease and Alzheimer's disease: mechanisms of amyloid formation, neurotoxicity, pathways involved ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Reiniger L,Lukic A,Linehan J,Rudge P,Collinge J,Mead S,Brandner S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2011, genome-wide association studies implicated a polymorphism near CD33 as a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. This finding sparked interest in this member of the sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-type lectin family which is linked to innate immunity. Subsequent studies found that CD33 is expressed in...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Estus S,Shaw BC,Devanney N,Katsumata Y,Press EE,Fardo DW

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroaxonal spheroids became evident microscopically after the autopsy of a 45-year-old woman with pigmentation of the globus pallidus suggesting Hallervorden-Spatz disease. In our opinion the fine floccular pigment seen electron-microscopically in many of the axonal spheroids is melanin, an end product of catecholami...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hartmann HA,White SK,Levine RL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to determine the pathological significance of previously unrecognized intracytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusions (IEIs) in ependymoma. The study group consisted of 58 ependymomas, all of which were pathologically characterized and graded according to the 1993 WHO classification. Electron microscop...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kawano N,Ohba Y,Nagashima K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman of 22 years developed heavy pain in the neck and arms with weakness and paresthesia. She died two days after a myelography which was normal. At autopsy an enterogenous extra- and intra-medullary cyst of the cervical cord (C3, C4) was found. In addition the cervical cord apart from the cyst and the uppermost th...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Pilz P,Fischbach R,Brenneis M

更新日期：1977-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pilocytic astrocytomas are the most common astrocytic tumors of childhood and differ clinically and histopathologically from those astrocytomas that affect adults. Studies of adult astrocytic tumors have revealed allelic losses on chromosomes 10, 17p, 19q and alterations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： von Deimling A,Louis DN,Menon AG,von Ammon K,Petersen I,Ellison D,Wiestler OD,Seizinger BR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of antibody-mediated central nervous system (CNS) demyelination in vivo was studied using rabbit eyes. Injection of anti-galactocerebroside (Gal C) antiserum alone into the normal rabbit vitreous body induced demyelination in the epiretinal myelinated fibers. This activity of the antiserum disappeared af...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Ozawa K,Saida T,Saida K,Nishitani H,Kameyama M

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:We report a 69-year-old female with cerebral and cerebellar symptomatology of 15-month duration. At autopsy, both panencephalopathic Creutzfeldt-Jakob and plaque-predominant Alzheimer diseases were found. Plaque amyloid was exclusively of the beta/A4 type, but abundant abnormal protease-resistant protein was identifie...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Powers JM,Liu Y,Hair LS,Kascsack RJ,Lewis LD,Levy LA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human glioma cell line, SA146, was initiated on precoated extracellular matrix from a stereotactic biopsy of a glioblastoma. We report modulation in the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) by SA146 passed in vitro before or after xenogenic transplantation into nude mice. Immunofluorescence data show...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Gomès D,de Néchaud B,Maunoury R,Moura Neto V,Brigaudeau C,Labrousse F,Dupouey P

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven patients with the typical clinical picture and muscle biopsy findings of classical Werdnig-Hoffmann disease showed Wallerian degeneration in their biopsied sural nerves. In dorsal root ganglia of one patient there were residual nodules and several chromatolytic neurons. By electron microscopy the changes of chro...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Carpenter S,Karpati G,Rothman S,Watters G,Andermann F

更新日期：1978-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningiomas are among the most frequent intracranial tumors. The secretory variant of meningioma is characterized by glandular differentiation, formation of intracellular lumina and pseudopsammoma bodies, expression of a distinct pattern of cytokeratins and clinically by pronounced perifocal brain edema. Here we descr...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Reuss DE,Piro RM,Jones DT,Simon M,Ketter R,Kool M,Becker A,Sahm F,Pusch S,Meyer J,Hagenlocher C,Schweizer L,Capper D,Kickingereder P,Mucha J,Koelsche C,Jäger N,Santarius T,Tarpey PS,Stephens PJ,Andrew Futreal P,

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the ultrastructural nerve study of a patient with sensorimotor neuropathy by a shoe glue containing an association of n-hexane and methylethylketone. Giant axons, distended by microfilamentous proliferation typical of such cases of neuropathy, were found in significant amounts. An unusual histolog...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Vallat JM,Leboutet MJ,Loubet A,Piva C,Dumas M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) is a common hereditary demyelinating neuropathy caused by a duplication of the gene for the myelin protein PMP22, resulting in overexpression of PMP22 in young patients. Although genetically well defined, the pathogenesis of the hereditary demyelinating neuropathy CMT1A is s...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hanemann CO,Gabreëls-Festen AA,Stoll G,Müller HW

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 40-year-old man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with symmetrical degeneration of the thalamus and the substantia nigra is reported. The distribution pattern of the thalamic degeneration in the present case was characteristic in that the Nucleus centralis was the severest affected of the thalamic nuclei...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kosaka K,Mehraein P

更新日期：1978-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of cerebellar medullomyoblastoma in a young boy was investigated by electron microscopy. The neuroectodermal component shows the characteristics of a desmoplastic medulloblastoma. The mesodermal component consists of more or less differentiated cross-striated muscle cells. Undifferentiated muscle cells are very...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Walter GF,Brucher JM

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an experimental model of Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease (CJD) in mice leading to the formation of giant autophagic vacuoles (AV) in neurons of the cerebral cortex. These AV appear at the end of the incubation period (4-6 months postinoculation), together with spongy changes and clinical symptoms. Autophagy, a p...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Boellaard JW,Schlote W,Tateishi J

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Neuropeptides have turned out to be promising new parameters, in addition to the routinely performed histochemical diagnosis, of Hirschsprung's disease (HD). Studies of the peptidergic innervation of the affected intestinal segment of patients with HD have demonstrated a marked reduction in the density of several neur...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Berger A,Kofler B,Santic R,Zipperer E,Sperl W,Hauser-Kronberger C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronmicroscope studies have been performed on the greater splanchnic nerve and the nerve to the medial head of gastrocnemius muscle of control and acrylamide poisoned cats. Degeneration of unmyelinated as well as of myelinated fibres was observed in both nerves. In cats severely poisoned with acrylamide, some very...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Post EJ

更新日期：1978-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant reduction in the myelinated nerve fiber population was observed during quantitative electron-microscopic examination of peripheral nerves in chronic alloxan diabetic rats. Dystrophic axonal abnormalities and regenerating fibers were more numerous in diabetics than age-matched controls. Schwann cells show...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Powell HC,Myers RR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CDLS) is a rare multisystemic malformative syndrome of uncertain etiology characterized by severe psychomotor and mental retardation. Here we report the neuropathological analysis of a 35-year-old patient who displayed the classical clinical symptomatology of CDLS. A congenital dysgenesis o...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Vuilleumier N,Kövari E,Michon A,Hof PR,Mentenopoulos G,Giannakopoulos P,Bouras C

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolfram syndrome or DIDMOAD (diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy as well as diabetes insipidus and deafness in many cases. We report the post-mortem neuropathologic findings of a patient with Wolfram syn...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hilson JB,Merchant SN,Adams JC,Joseph JT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of leukocyte apoptosis to the resolution of meningeal inflammation in bacterial meningitis was studied in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and in meningeal infiltrates of humans and rabbits by in situ tailing, flow cytometry, agarose gel electrophoresis, and electron microscopy. In humans, the rate of ap...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Nau R,Zettl U,Gerber J,Trostdorf F,Michel U,Böttcher T,Schmidt H,Adler S,Brück W

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-mortem diagnosis of lysosomal storage diseases can be confounded by the unavailability of suitable material. Here we report the diagnosis of GM1-gangliosidosis in a cross-bred dog, from which only formalin-fixed brain was available, by a combination of electron microscopy and the detection of elevated levels ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Whitfield P,Johnson AW,Dunn KA,Delauche AJ,Winchester BG,Franklin RJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of oligodendrocytes within astrocytes ("emperipolesis") has been described in demyelinating lesions in cases of multiple sclerosis and also in other non-demyelinating disorders. We found that this finding was common in the cerebral white matter of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Eight con...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Shintaku M,Yutani C

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its tyrosine kinase B (TrkB) receptor, in addition to promoting neuronal survival and differentiation, modulates synaptic transmission by increasing N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor (NMDAR) activity. Overexpression of BDNF may, then, interfere...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Aronica E,Leenstra S,Jansen GH,van Veelen CW,Yankaya B,Troost D

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is presented for the classification of chronic herniations of the cerebellar tonsils in the absence of space-occupying intracranial lesions, based on a survey of the literature and 13 own cases. The Arnold-Chiari malformation in adults typically involves herniation of the cerebellar tonsils instead of herniat...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Friede RL,Roessmann U

更新日期：1976-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the MAPK signaling pathway has been shown to be a unifying molecular feature in pilocytic astrocytoma (PA). Genetically, tandem duplications at chromosome 7q34 resulting in KIAA1549-BRAF fusion genes constitute the most common mechanism identified to date. To elucidate alternative mechanisms of aberrant ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Cin H,Meyer C,Herr R,Janzarik WG,Lambert S,Jones DT,Jacob K,Benner A,Witt H,Remke M,Bender S,Falkenstein F,Van Anh TN,Olbrich H,von Deimling A,Pekrun A,Kulozik AE,Gnekow A,Scheurlen W,Witt O,Omran H,Jabado N,C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00