Cytokines and Mycobacterium leprae induce apoptosis in human Schwann cells.

abstract：:The neurodegenerative synucleinopathies, which include Parkinson disease, multiple-system atrophy, and Lewy body disease, are characterized by the presence of abundant neuronal inclusions called Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites. These disorders remain incurable, and a greater understanding of the pathologic processes is ...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Jones DR,Delenclos M,Baine AT,DeTure M,Murray ME,Dickson DW,McLean PJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether antibody production to antigens arising in the subarachnoid space is depressed acutely after spinal cord injury (SCI), and whether such depression is due to abnormal catecholamine levels. To assess antibody responses, ovalbumin (OVA) was injected into the spinal subarachnoid space (i.t.) of rat...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Vega JL,Ganea D,Jonakait GM

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive astrogliosis is associated with many pathologic processes in the central nervous system, including gliomas. The glycoprotein podoplanin (PDPN) is upregulated in malignant gliomas. Using a syngeneic intracranial glioma mouse model, we show that PDPN is highly expressed in a subset of glial fibrillary acidic pr...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Kolar K,Freitas-Andrade M,Bechberger JF,Krishnan H,Goldberg GS,Naus CC,Sin WC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a neurodegenerative disorder that predominantly affects motor-related neuroanatomic structures. The role of microglia in MSA is unknown. To address this issue, we conducted quantitative image studies on the brains from 13 cases of MSA, comprising 8 cerebellar and 5 parkinsonian variant...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Ishizawa K,Komori T,Sasaki S,Arai N,Mizutani T,Hirose T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysosomal storage disorders constitute a large group of genetic diseases, many of which are characterized by mental retardation and other neurologic symptoms. The mechanisms of neural dysfunction remain poorly understood. Because neural progenitor cells (NPCs) are fundamentally important to normal brain development an...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Walton RM,Wolfe JH

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that oxidative damage plays a major role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but how it contributes to motor neuron degeneration and astrocytic gliosis, two pathologic hallmarks of the disease, is unknown. A few studies have suggested that ALS motor neurons die via apoptosis and show u...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Migheli A,Piva R,Atzori C,Troost D,Schiffer D

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 63 patients with malabsorption syndromes, 16 with congenital biliary atresia (BA) and 47 with cystic fibrosis (CF), axonal dystrophy in the gracile nucleus (ADG) was studied. Of the 16 patients with BA, ADG of considerable severity was observed in all 10 over one year of age. Of the 47 patients with CF, it was obse...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Sung JH,Park SH,Mastri AR,Warwick WJ

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic identities and characterization of neural networks disrupted after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia (HI) in the preterm brain remain to be elucidated. Interruption of the central serotonergic (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) system can lead to numerous functional deficits, many of which match those in human preter...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Wixey JA,Reinebrant HE,Buller KM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Werdnig-Hoffmann disease (WHD) is the most severe clinical type of spinal muscular atrophy characterized by loss of lower motor neurons and paralysis. We examined the hypothesis that disease pathogenesis is based on an inappropriate persistence of normally occurring motor neuron programmed cell death. The diagnosis of...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Simic G,Seso-Simic D,Lucassen PJ,Islam A,Krsnik Z,Cviko A,Jelasic D,Barisic N,Winblad B,Kostovic I,Kruslin B

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human polyomavirus JC (JCV) is the etiologic agent of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a demyelinating disease of the CNS that occurs in immunosuppressed individuals. Because polyomavirus-induced CNS pathology usually occurs as a result of the reactivation of latent virus, little is known about th...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Axthelm MK,Koralnik IJ,Dang X,Wüthrich C,Rohne D,Stillman IE,Letvin NL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue microarrays (TMAs), also known as "tissue chips," are a recently developed method that allows small cores or discs of tissue from dozens or hundreds of (usually paraffin-embedded) specimens to be re-embedded in a tissue block, which can then be further sectioned. The tissue cores can subsequently be studied usi...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Goldstine J,Seligson DB,Beizai P,Miyata H,Vinters HV

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity has been studied in normal, control and denervated muscle of rabbits by electron microscopic-cytochemistry and radiometric assay. A small amount of butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) activity is also found in biochemical assay of unfixed muscle, but it is not demonstrable cytochemically...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Tennyson VM,Kremzner LT,Brzin M

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XPA) and Cockayne syndrome (CS) are hereditary DNA repair disorders complicated by progressive neurodegeneration. Here we immunohistochemically examine the in situ expression of materials that are produced by oxidative stress and glutamate transporters (which can contribute to prevention...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Hayashi M,Itoh M,Araki S,Kumada S,Shioda K,Tamagawa K,Mizutani T,Morimatsu Y,Minagawa M,Oda M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tau deposits found in neurodegenerative diseases are classified based on their isoforms, that is, 3-repeat (3R) tau and 4-repeat (4R) tau. These isoforms are distinguishable using the antibodies RD3 and RD4, respectively, and Gallyas (Gal) and Campbell-Switzer (CS) silver staining methods, respectively. Tau is als...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Ichihara K,Uchihara T,Nakamura A,Suzuki Y,Mizutani T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunofluorescence with laminin antisera revealed a striking change in the localization of this basal membrane glycoprotein in rat sciatic nerve as a result of Wallerian degeneration. The staining was confined to the endoneurium in normal sciatic nerve and during the first days of degeneration. On day 11 endoneurial t...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Bignami A,Chi NH,Dahl D

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 gene (LRRK2) have been recently identified in families with autosomal-dominant late-onset Parkinson disease. We report that by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, the mRNA of LRRK2 is expressed in soluble extracts of human brain, liver, and heart and in cultur...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Miklossy J,Arai T,Guo JP,Klegeris A,Yu S,McGeer EG,McGeer PL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report of an unusual, densely cellular, midcerebellar neoplasm in a seven-year-old boy. Although clinically consistent with a medulloblastoma, immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy demonstrated glial and rhabdomyoblastic differentiation in the tumor. We discuss the differential diagnosis of this tumor...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Dickson DW,Hart MN,Menezes A,Cancilla PA

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of diffuse or primitive senile plaques in the neocortex of cognitively normal elderly at autopsy has been presumed to represent normal aging. Alternatively, these patients may have developed dementia and clinical Alzheimer disease (AD) if they had survived. In this setting, these patients could be subject...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Hulette CM,Welsh-Bohmer KA,Murray MG,Saunders AM,Mash DC,McIntyre LM

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The triplication of the DYRK1A gene encoding proline-directed serine/threonine kinase and located in the critical region of Down syndrome (DS) has been implicated in cognitive deficits and intellectual disability of individuals with DS. We investigated the effect of abnormal levels of this kinase on the cytoskeleton i...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Dowjat K,Adayev T,Kaczmarski W,Wegiel J,Hwang YW

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borna disease virus (BDV) replicates only in cells in the central (CNS) and peripheral (PNS) nervous system in adult rats. Infection of the nervous system is associated with a transient, intense mononuclear meningoencephalitis and immunemediated loss of BDV-infected neurons. The identification of BDV antigen in neuron...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Carbone KM,Trapp BD,Griffin JW,Duchala CS,Narayan O

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease, the concentration of cholesterol increases with age in every tissue except the brain. This study investigates whether accumulation of cholesterol might also occur within the cells of the central nervous system (CNS), but be obscured by the simultaneous loss of sterol from myelin a...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Xie C,Burns DK,Turley SD,Dietschy JM

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) is an important component of neuronal and glial inclusions in brains of patients with several neurodegenerative disorders. Sporadic inclusion-body myositis (s-IBM) is the most common progressive muscle disease of older patients. Its muscle phenotype shows several similarities with Alzheimer...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Askanas V,Engel WK,Alvarez RB,McFerrin J,Broccolini A

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) is the most common glioma of childhood. Despite their relatively high incidence, the molecular mechanisms responsible for tumorigenesis and growth of PA are poorly understood. Previous in vitro studies in our laboratory showed that despite the absence of ErbB1, PA was sensitive to ErbB1 tyro...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Addo-Yobo SO,Straessle J,Anwar A,Donson AM,Kleinschmidt-Demasters BK,Foreman NK

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the pleiotropic cytokine transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) has a regulatory role in the process of tissue repair and remodelling following injury. As reports on these molecules in multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion with different lesional activity are rare, we studied the cellular localization of...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： De Groot CJ,Montagne L,Barten AD,Sminia P,Van Der Valk P

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular dementia (VaD) is cognitive decline linked to reduced cerebral blood perfusion, yet there are few therapeutic options to protect cognitive function following cerebrovascular accidents. The purpose of this study was to profile gene expression changes unique to VaD to identify and characterize disease relevant ...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： McKay EC,Beck JS,Khoo SK,Dykema KJ,Cottingham SL,Winn ME,Paulson HL,Lieberman AP,Counts SE

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological examination by light and electron microscopy of the spinal cords of four dogs rapidly perfusion-fixed after the onset of decompression sickness revealed the presence of numerous non-staining, space-occupying lesions that were absent in similarly prepared sections of control or ischemic spinal cords. We pr...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Francis TJ,Pezeshkpour GH,Dutka AJ,Hallenbeck JM,Flynn ET

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two basic proteins, P1 of molecular weight 14,200 and P2 of molecular weight 12,300, purified from bovine peripheral nerve, were assayed for biological activity. The P1 protein is an exclusively neuritogenic agent, capable of producing clinical signs of experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) and histological abnormaliti...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Abramsky O,Teitelbaum D,Webb C,Arnon R

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is recognized as a barrier to the trafficking of molecules and cellular elements into the central nervous system (CNS). Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) exclusion is used as a measure of BBB integrity. The BBB is altered and becomes permeable during the course of experimental allergic encepha...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Knobler RL,Marini JC,Goldowitz D,Lublin FD

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) shows more severe functional and structural changes in type 1 than in type 2 human and experimental diabetes. We have previously suggested that these differences may be due to insulin and/or C-peptide deficiencies in type 1 diabetes. To further explore these differences between type I and...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Pierson CR,Zhang W,Murakawa Y,Sima AA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridization (ISH) for JC virus (JCV) is generally applied for the diagnosis of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). To explore the usefulness of immunohistochemistry (IHC) for JCV early proteins, 14 paraffin-embedded postmortem brain specimens with histologic features compatible with PML were te...

journal_title：Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology

authors： Muñoz-Mármol AM,Mola G,Fernández-Vasalo A,Vela E,Mate JL,Ariza A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00