Interleukin-6 is present in early stages of plaque formation and is restricted to the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.

abstract：:Thirty-three rectus superior extraocular muscles from 23 autopsy cases, all over 60 years, were examined. Eosinophilic inclusions (Hirano bodies) were observed in all the muscles; they were stained deep red by Masson's trichrome stain and were positive for protein stain. They consisted of a collection of filamentous s...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tomonaga M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial germ cell tumors (iGCTs) are the second most common brain tumors among children under 14 in Japan. The World Health Organization classification recognizes several subtypes of iGCTs, which are conventionally subclassified into pure germinoma or non-germinomatous GCTs. Recent exhaustive genomic studies show...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Fukushima S,Yamashita S,Kobayashi H,Takami H,Fukuoka K,Nakamura T,Yamasaki K,Matsushita Y,Nakamura H,Totoki Y,Kato M,Suzuki T,Mishima K,Yanagisawa T,Mukasa A,Saito N,Kanamori M,Kumabe T,Tominaga T,Nagane M,Iuchi T

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study concerns an autopsy case of motor neuron disease with dementia (MND-D) that exhibited unusual clinical and neuropathological findings. The patient was a Japanese man without any relevant family history who was 60 years old at the time of death. His clinical manifestation included character change at the age...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sudo S,Fukutani Y,Matsubara R,Sasaki K,Shiozawa M,Wada Y,Naiki H,Isaki K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was earlier shown that bicuculline-induced status epilepticus gives rise to profound acute changes in the rat cerebral cortex, i.e. edema and neuronal alterations. In the present study, we explored to what extent interruption of the seizure activity reverses the changes observed. To that end, status epilepticus of ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Söderfeldt B,Kalimo H,Olsson Y,Siesjö BK

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:In almost all of the earlier reported cases of Kufs' disease, the adult form of ceroid lipofuscinosis, the diagnosis was ascertained by cerebral tissue examination, while peripheral biopsy examination revealed an apparent poor diffusion of specific lipofuscinic deposits, the finger print profiles (FPs). We report the ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Gelot A,Maurage CA,Rodriguez D,Perrier-Pallisson D,Larmande P,Ruchoux MM

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:Numerous families exhibiting both frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been described, and although many of these have been shown to harbour a repeat expansion in C9ORF72, several C9ORF72-negative FTD-ALS families remain. We performed neuropathological and genetic analysis of a la...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Dobson-Stone C,Luty AA,Thompson EM,Blumbergs P,Brooks WS,Short CL,Field CD,Panegyres PK,Hecker J,Solski JA,Blair IP,Fullerton JM,Halliday GM,Schofield PR,Kwok JB

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontotemporal lobar degeneration is the term used to describe the non-Alzheimer clinical syndromes of frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia and progressive non-fluent aphasia, regardless of the underlying neuropathological features. Considerable progress has been made in recent years in our understanding of the ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Pickering-Brown SM

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Ubiquitin-positive Lewy neurites and Lewy bodies are found in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD). We found that, in three patients with PD and one with DLBD, microtubule-associated protein 5 (MAP5) immunostaining was consistently present in both Lewy neurites and Lewy bodies throu...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Gai WP,Blumbergs PC,Blessing WW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytofluorometric analysis was used to determine the distribution of the DNA content in cells from selected areas of normal human brain and in benign and malignant brain tumors. Propidium iodide was employed as DNA fluorochrome and the analysis was carried out on a suspension of single cells. Normal, nonstimulated...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kawamoto K,Herz F,Wolley RC,Hirano A,Kajikawa H,Koss LG

更新日期：1979-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relationship between cerebral amyloid angiopathy and subcortical (lobar) hemorrhage, we examined the severity of amyloid deposition in the leptomeningeal, cortical and subcortical arteries in 28 autopsied elderly patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy with subcortical hemorrhage, deep cerebral he...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Iwamoto N,Ishihara T,Ito H,Uchino F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor dysfunction is frequently noted in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected patients. Until recently, neuropathological changes found in the basal ganglia were advanced as pathogenetic mechanisms. In the present study, further brain structures involved in motor control were analyzed morphometrically....

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Abe H,Mehraein P,Weis S

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment was designed to examine the course of degeneration, phagocytosis, and regeneration in the central nervous system following surgical deafferentation. The anterior cerebellar vermis was ablated in young male rats. The animals were sacrificed by perfusion at postoperative times ranging from 24 hrs to 6 mont...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Johnson JE Jr

更新日期：1975-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Autopsy findings of a patient, with sialidosis type I phenotype carrying V217M/G243R mutations in the lysosomal sialidase gene and biochemically defined isolated sialidase deficiency, who died of intractable lymphoma at the age of 32 years, are described. Perikaryal expansion of cytoplasm was evident, mostly in motor ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Uchihara T,Ohashi K,Kitagawa M,Kurata M,Nakamura A,Hirokawa K,Kasuga T,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following maternal chicken pox in the 14th week of pregnancy, a male infant was born with low birth weight, muscle wasting and limb contractures, hypotonia and areflexia. A rising titre of varicella-zoster-specific IgM (by enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay) confirmed congenital infection, and electromyogram showed w...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Harding B,Baumer JA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysolecithin has been used in many studies to induce demyelination in peripheral nerves. In the present investigation lysolecithin (lysophosphatidyl choline) was injected into rat sciatic nerves at a dose of 2-3 microns of a 10 mg/ml solution in order to study the effects of this lipid on cellular elements other than ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mitchell J,Caren CA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the role of humoral antibodies in the pathogenesis of myelin lesions in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) a combined in vivo and in vitro study was done using rabbits immunized with the purified A1 basic protein. Rabbits injected with whole white matter were used for comparison. Demye...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kristensson K

更新日期：1976-12-21 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：:Nodding syndrome is an epidemic neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming communities of East Africa. We report the neuropathologic findings in five fatal cases (13-18 years of age at death) of nodding syndrome from the Acholi people in northern Uganda. Neuropathologic exami...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Pollanen MS,Onzivua S,Robertson J,McKeever PM,Olawa F,Kitara DL,Fong A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a stress response of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to a disturbance in protein folding. The so-called ER stress sensors PERK, IRE1 and ATF6 play a central role in the initiation and regulation of the UPR. The accumulation of misfolded and aggregated proteins is a common characte...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Scheper W,Hoozemans JJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:The central distal axonopathy induced in dogs by the administration of high doses of clioquinol is contrasted with the central-peripheral distal axonopathy precipitated by intoxication with 2,5-hexanedione. Mature, pure-bred Beagle dogs received a daily oral dose of 400 mg/kg of clioquinol for up to 7 months, or 1 ml ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Krinke G,Schaumburg HH,Spencer PS,Thomann P,Hess R

更新日期：1979-08-01 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：:Evidence of misfolded wild-type superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) has been detected in spinal cords of sporadic ALS (sALS) patients, suggesting an etiological relationship to SOD1-associated familial ALS (fALS). Given that there are currently a number of promising therapies under development that target SOD1, it is of cri...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Ayers JI,Diamond J,Sari A,Fromholt S,Galaleldeen A,Ostrow LW,Glass JD,Hart PJ,Borchelt DR

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of inflammatory demyelination in canine distemper encephalitis (CDE) is uncertain but macrophages are thought to play an important effector role in this lesion. Serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), containing anti-canine distemper virus and anti-myelin antibodies from dogs with CDE were tested for their ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Griot C,Bürge T,Vandevelde M,Peterhans E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A giant-cell glioblastoma was examined by electron microscopy and by the freeze-fracture technique. The cell membranes bordering the extensive extracellular space often showed complicated undulations and peripheral vacuoles as well as occasional microvilli or filopodia. The undulations were mainly composed of plasmale...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tani E,Nakano M,Itagaki T,Fukumori T

更新日期：1978-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the androgen receptor (AR). The mechanism by which expansion of polyglutamine in AR causes muscle atrophy is unknown. Here, we investigated pathological pathways underlying muscle atrophy in SBMA kn...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Rocchi A,Milioto C,Parodi S,Armirotti A,Borgia D,Pellegrini M,Urciuolo A,Molon S,Morbidoni V,Marabita M,Romanello V,Gatto P,Blaauw B,Bonaldo P,Sambataro F,Robins DM,Lieberman AP,Sorarù G,Vergani L,Sandri M,Pennuto

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases are the outcome of pathological alterations of evolutionary conserved molecular and cellular cascades. For this reason, Drosophila and C. elegans serve as useful model systems to study various aspects of neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we introduce the advantageou...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Shemesh OA,Spira ME

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00