Methotrexate-related multifocal axonopathy. Report of an autopsy case.

abstract：:A total of 66 skin biopsies from persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or Down's syndrome (DS) and from persons without AD were used in this study. The age range was from 7 to 89 years. Positive immunoreactivity of skin biopsies to monoclonal antibody 4G8, which is reactive to amino acid residue 17-24 of synthetic amy...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Wen GY,Wisniewski HM,Blondal H,Benedikz E,Frey H,Pirttila T,Rudelli R,Kim KS

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with repetitive mild impact traumatic brain injury from contact sports. Recently, a consensus panel defined the pathognomonic lesion for CTE as accumulations of abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) in neurons (neurofibrillary tangle...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Shively SB,Edgerton SL,Iacono D,Purohit DP,Qu BX,Haroutunian V,Davis KL,Diaz-Arrastia R,Perl DP

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progression of neuritic dystrophy is a histological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in addition to amyloid deposition and neurofibrillary tangle formation. Dystrophic neurites (DNs) are abnormal neurites, and are closely associated with amyloid deposits. To clarify the process of DN formation, we immunohistochemi...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Noda-Saita K,Terai K,Iwai A,Tsukamoto M,Shitaka Y,Kawabata S,Okada M,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique pathological finding of astrocytes was observed in the brain of a 20-year-old man who had severe physical and mental retardation. The brain was malformed showing micropolygyria in several cortical areas. A large number of hypertrophic astrocytes with eosinophilic granular substances in their cytoplasm were fo...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Minagawa M,Shioda K,Shimizu Y,Isshiki T

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Two young zebra siblings from consecutive pregnancies suffered from neurological disease, characterized by ventral deviation of the neck and tetraparesis which progressed to tetraplegia within a few weeks. On histological examination widespread neuronal degeneration was observed in the ventral horns of the spinal cord...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Higgins RJ,Vandevelde M,Hoff EJ,Jagar JE,Cork LC,Silberman MS

更新日期：1977-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of intranuclear inclusions were described in a brain biopsy from a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The first type of intranculear inclusion was papova virus-like and was observed within 20% of the nuclei of all astrocytes and neurons examined. The particles measured 32 nm in diameter and consisted of...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Payne CM,Sibley WA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurone-centred view of the past disregarded or downplayed the role of astroglia as a primary component in the pathogenesis of neurological diseases. As this concept is changing, so is also the perceived role of astrocytes in the healthy and diseased brain and spinal cord. We have started to unravel the different ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Pekny M,Pekna M,Messing A,Steinhäuser C,Lee JM,Parpura V,Hol EM,Sofroniew MV,Verkhratsky A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of cell-associated Concanavalin A (Con A) in astrocytes of the newborn rat (RNA), the rat glioma (AC), and the human glioblastoma (GB) were studied in vitro by fluorescence and electron microscopy. Con A receptors on the cell surface were seen usually as a continuous thin layer, and Con A accumulations in...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tani E,Kochi N,Nakano M,Yokota M,Sukenaga A,Nakaya Y,Itagaki T

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen cases of mitochondrial myopathy, three cases of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN) VI, and 280 cases of neuropathies of different etiologies were examined by electron microscopy for the presence of mitochondrial abnormalities in the sural nerve. Altered mitochondrial were found in most cases of mit...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Schröder JM,Sommer C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unresolved issue in the study of demyelinating disease is whether blood-brain barrier damage is dependent upon the migration of inflammatory cells into the central nervous system (CNS). In a study of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in rabbits, a freeze-dried, paraffin-embedded tissue technique was e...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Simmons RD,Buzbee TM,Linthicum DS,Mandy WJ,Chen G,Wang C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) with palatal myoclonus occurred in a 64-year-old man. The nucleus olivaris of the medulla oblongata showed high signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images, indicating brainstem tegmental atrophy, which were confirmed as hypertrophy of the nucleus inferior olivar...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Suyama N,Kobayashi S,Isino H,Iijima M,Imaoka K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abuse of the club drugs Methamphetamine (Meth) and Ecstasy (MDMA) is an international problem. The seriousness of this problem is the result of what appears to be programmed cell death (PCD) occurring within the brain following their use. This follow up study focused on determining which cell types, neurons and/or gli...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Warren MW,Larner SF,Kobeissy FH,Brezing CA,Jeung JA,Hayes RL,Gold MS,Wang KK

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation is a major pathological hallmark of many neurodegenerative disorders including polyglutamine diseases. Aggregation of the mutated form of the disease protein ataxin-3 into neuronal nuclear inclusions is well described in the polyglutamine disorder spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3 or Machado-Jose...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Seidel K,den Dunnen WF,Schultz C,Paulson H,Frank S,de Vos RA,Brunt ER,Deller T,Kampinga HH,Rüb U

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported a pathological investigation of peripheral neuropathy in a horse with knuckling. This report describes details of the muscle and peripheral nerve lesions in two additional cases of light horse yearlings with knuckling. The skeletal muscles showed neurogenic atrophy characterized by scattere...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Furuoka H,Okamoto R,Kitayama S,Asou S,Matsui T,Miyahara K

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Disturbance of intracellular trafficking plays a major role in several neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer or Parkinson's disease. The Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS), a life-threatening autosomal recessive disease with frequent mutations in the LYST gene, and its animal model, the beige mouse, are both cha...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Rudelius M,Osanger A,Kohlmann S,Augustin M,Piontek G,Heinzmann U,Jennen G,Russ A,Matiasek K,Stumm G,Schlegel J

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprascapular nerve from 14 horses, which had no clinical evidence of spinatus muscle atrophy, were obtained to determine whether the nerve was sub-clinically compressed at the scapular edge. The nerves were divided into three portions, proximal and distal to the scapular edge and as it reflected around it. In nin...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Duncan ID,Schneider RK,Hammang JP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation indices and mean number of silver-stained nucleolar organizer region-associated proteins (Ag-NORs) are compared in 65 brain tumors, including 34 gliomas, 8 meningiomas, 17 metastatic tumors, and 6 other tumors. Immunocytochemical investigations include labeling with the monoclonal antibody Ki-67 which id...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Maier H,Morimura T,Ofner D,Hallbrucker C,Kitz K,Budka H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histochemical investigations were carried out on skeletal muscle biopsies from ten patients with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia with ragged-red fibers (RRF). In addition to the RRF, mild myopathic change consisting of variation in size of both type 1 and 2 fibers was seen in all patients, as well as neur...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Yamamoto M,Nonaka I

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon brain reperfusion following ischemia, there is widespread inhibition of neuronal protein synthesis that is due to phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha (eIF2alpha), which persists in selectively vulnerable neurons (SVNs) destined to die. Other investigators have shown that expression of mutant eI...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Page AB,Owen CR,Kumar R,Miller JM,Rafols JA,White BC,DeGracia DJ,Krause GS

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy revealed the presence of cytoplasmic tubular aggregates in the capillary endothelium of a sparsely granulated growth hormone cell adenoma removed surgically from a 25-year-old female patient with acromegaly. To our knowledge, this is the second publication describing these structures in hypophysial...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kovacs K,Horvath E,Pritzker KP,Schwartz ML

更新日期：1977-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult white rats were injected daily for 1 month with aluminum chloride and killed. Aluminum was identified, quantitated, and localized in the brains of these rats. The only detectable anomalies were crystals of aluminum and phosphorus in lysosomes and lipofuscin granules in the cytoplasm of neurons. ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Galle P,Berry JP,Duckett S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tenascins (TNs) are a family of extracellular matrix glycoproteins. The first member of this family to be recognized, tenascin-C (TN-C), is known to be expressed in various tumors including human astrocytomas. Tenascin-X (TN-X) is the latest member of the TN family to be reported, and its expression in tumor tissues h...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hasegawa K,Yoshida T,Matsumoto K,Katsuta K,Waga S,Sakakura T

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term survival of oligodendrocytes in the absence of axons in adult animals was studied following Wallerian degeneration of the optic nerves of adult rats for periods up to 22 months. In contrast to the findings in development and in young animals, large numbers of oligodendrocytes survived during this time pe...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Ludwin SK

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work the effect of Piromen is studied on the formation of the glial-mesenchymal scar in the experimentally injuried cortex of hamsters. The uniform effect of the bacterial polysaccharide is suggested in a strong and lasting stimulation of proliferating reactive cells in the traumatic area. The excessive...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： von Cramon D

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the brainstem is affected by the pathologic process of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), with particular attention to brainstem atrophy, neuronal loss, pyramidal tract degeneration, and prion protein (PrP) deposition, in 33 patients with sCJD. Brainstem atrophy, particularly in the pon...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Iwasaki Y,Hashizume Y,Yoshida M,Kitamoto T,Sobue G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histopathological study was carried out on the brains of eight ex-boxers (ages 56 to 83) using conventional histological staining methods and immunocytochemistry with antibodies to amyloid beta-protein and the PHF-related tau protein. All cases showed a large number of tau-immunoreactive neurofibrillary tangles and ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tokuda T,Ikeda S,Yanagisawa N,Ihara Y,Glenner GG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelial cells of three cases of cerebellar capillary hemangioblastoma were studied by means of electron microscopy. Crystalloid bodies, not previously described in the vessels of the central nervous system (CNS), were found in 5%-10% of the endothelial cells, more often in the capillaries with small irregular ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Ho KL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) mutations are frequent in astrocytomas, oligoastrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas. We previously reported the generation of a mutation-specific antibody that specifically detects R132H mutated IDH1 protein (clone H09). Here, we investigate the feasibility of H09 immunohistochemistry to...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Capper D,Reuss D,Schittenhelm J,Hartmann C,Bremer J,Sahm F,Harter PN,Jeibmann A,von Deimling A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00