A simple method of rapid freezing adequately preserves brain tissue for immunocytochemistry, light and electron microscopic examination.

abstract：:A morphometric study of the basal nucleus of Meynert (bnM) has been performed in a 70-year-old man with a 4-year history of pathologically confirmed progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). An important neuronal loss (52%) was demonstrated in the bnM. This finding has not been previously documented with morphometric meth...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tagliavini F,Pilleri G,Gemignani F,Lechi A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural proteins of cultured neurofibromatosis (NF) tumor and skin cells were studied with reference to control skin fibroblasts. In polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE)/fluorography the banding patterns of the cell lysates were markedly similar. NF tumor cells, however, produced a 60 kD band with a stronger a...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Peltonen J,Näntö-Salonen K,Aho HJ,Kouri T,Virtanen I,Penttinen R

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Paediatric high grade glioma (pHGG) (World Health Organisation astrocytoma grades III and IV) remains poor prognosis tumours, with a median survival of only 15 months following diagnosis. Current investigation of anti-angiogenic strategies has focused on adult glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) with phase III trials target...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Smith SJ,Tilly H,Ward JH,Macarthur DC,Lowe J,Coyle B,Grundy RG

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes three brothers belonging to a consanguineous family suffering from a progressive neurological disorder associated with L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria. Clinically this disorder is characterized by childhood onset, pyramidal signs, cerebellar and pseudobulbar syndromes and epilepsy. Pathological exam...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Larnaout A,Hentati F,Belal S,Ben Hamida C,Kaabachi N,Ben Hamida M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wistar rats were given intravenous (i.v.) horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in saline in doses commonly used to study vascular permeability and the blood-brain barrier. Samples of blood were taken from conscious animals via indwelling catheters at intervals up to 6 h after the HRP injection. Plasma concentrations of adreno...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Jezová D,Olsson Y

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medulloblastoma comprises four distinct molecular variants with distinct genetics, transcriptomes, and outcomes. Subgroup affiliation has been previously shown to remain stable at the time of recurrence, which likely reflects their distinct cells of origin. However, a therapeutically relevant question that remains una...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Wang X,Dubuc AM,Ramaswamy V,Mack S,Gendoo DM,Remke M,Wu X,Garzia L,Luu B,Cavalli F,Peacock J,López B,Skowron P,Zagzag D,Lyden D,Hoffman C,Cho YJ,Eberhart C,MacDonald T,Li XN,Van Meter T,Northcott PA,Haibe-Kain

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of the existence and distribution of muscle spindles and tendon organs in the human voluntary anal sphincter muscle in 53 cases of autopsy material from both female and male persons (age: 27th week of gestation to 81 years) brought forward the following results: Similar to animals, muscle spindles are f...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Lassmann G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of calcium in the hippocampal and thalamic vascular endothelium and the perivascular space was detected histochemically by means of the pyroantimonate technique 30, 60 and 120 min after systemic kainic acid administration. An increased number of calcium pyroantimonate deposits was found in the endothe...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sztriha L,Joo F

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：:The alterations in oligodendrocytes in myelin basic protein-induced acute experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in the Lewis rat were studied using the technique of pre-embedding immunolabelling with the Rip monoclonal antibody, which specifically labels the cytoplasm of the cell bodies and processes of olig...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Nguyen KB,Pender MP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that apoptotic cell death mechanisms contribute to muscle fibre loss in dystrophinopathies, but little knowledge about the activators of the final degrading caspase cascade in muscle fibre apoptosis. As mitochondria-related activation of this caspase cascade, through e.g. APAF-1, could not be proven ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tews DS

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:Hyper- and hypothyroidism repercussions on soma, nucleus and cytoplasm increases were studied by electron microscopy on 7-, 14-, 21-, and 35-day-old rats. Adult normal animals were compared with adult ones made hypothyroid until they were 35 days old. Also heat value restriction of food intake effects were compared wi...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Rebière A,Dainat J

更新日期：1978-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe three cases of early- (cases 1-3, 28-39 years) and one of late-onset (case 4, 76 years) Alzheimer's disease (AD) with 'cotton wool' plaques (CWPs) but without a family history indicating autosomal dominant inheritance. The early-onset cases, but not the late-onset case, showed remarkable aggression, disinh...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Yokota O,Terada S,Ishizu H,Ujike H,Ishihara T,Namba M,Hayashi Y,Nishinaka T,Namba R,Nakashima H,Uéda K,Checler F,Kuroda S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe in biopsies from 6 cases of Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, including 2 of the more benign type, the ultrastructural typical aspects of denervation. They compare their findings with those of other workers. The striking points are the great variation in the diameter of the muscle fibres and the myofibril...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Szliwowski HB,Drochmans P

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:This report illustrates a case of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) masquerading as neurofibromatosis due to multifocal enlargements of spinal nerve roots. The patient initially complained of intermittent numbness of the hands and leg weakness at age 62. Nerve conduction velocities were ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Pytel P,Rezania K,Soliven B,Frank J,Wollmann R

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliomatosis cerebri (GC), a rare and deadly CNS neoplasm characterized by involvement of at least three cerebral lobes, predominantly affects adults. While a few small series have reported its occurrence in children, little is known about the molecular characteristics of pediatric GC. We reviewed clinical, radiologica...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Broniscer A,Chamdine O,Hwang S,Lin T,Pounds S,Onar-Thomas A,Shurtleff S,Allen S,Gajjar A,Northcott P,Orr BA

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) are the most common brain tumors in pediatric patients and can cause significant morbidity, including chronic neurological deficiencies. They are characterized by activating alterations in the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway, but little else is known about their development. To ma...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Lambert SR,Witt H,Hovestadt V,Zucknick M,Kool M,Pearson DM,Korshunov A,Ryzhova M,Ichimura K,Jabado N,Fontebasso AM,Lichter P,Pfister SM,Collins VP,Jones DT

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitotoxic stimulation of NMDA receptors results in the activation of a variety of cellular responses. The inducible transcription factor NF-kappaB is known to be involved in excitotoxic responses by neurons. Here, we show that NF-kappaB activation occurs in a biphasic manner in hippocampal slices following a 20-min ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Caba E,Bahr BA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated clinicopathologically pyramidal signs, including hyperreflexia, Babinski sign, and spasticity, and the involvement of the primary motor cortex and pyramidal tract, in eight Japanese autopsy cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with dementia. Pyramidal signs were observed in seven (88%) of the e...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tsuchiya K,Ikeda K,Mimura M,Takahashi M,Miyazaki H,Anno M,Shiotsu H,Akabane H,Niizato K,Uchihara T,Tominaga I,Nakano I

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:Brain slices are used extensively for biochemical, electrophysiological and molecular investigations. However, only the time frame for electrophysiological and biochemical investigations has as yet been defined. The goal of the present study was to investigate the time course of nuclear structure in live brain slices....

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kasischke K,Büchner M,Ludolph AC,Riepe MW

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A woman of 36 was admitted to hospital because of griping abdominal pain which occurred especially during the night when turning in bed. She had a history of constipation and bloating since birth. Irrigoscopy revealed megacolon extending from the middle of the transverse colon to the rectum. A rectal biopsy excluded H...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Lassmann G

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:A limited cortical resection including the rolandic fissure and the pre- and postcentral cortical regions was carried out in a patient suffering from epilepsia partialis continua resistant to antiepileptic drugs. The histological examination revealed several foci of very large neurons distributed with no laminar organ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Ferrer I,Pineda M,Tallada M,Oliver B,Russi A,Oller L,Noboa R,Zújar MJ,Alcántara S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte adhesion molecules to endothelium plays an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases, including HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM)/tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP). To help define the role of adhesion molecules in HAM/TSP, we studied the expression of lymphocyte function-associated antige...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Umehara F,Izumo S,Takeya M,Takahashi K,Sato E,Osame M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unusual inclusions with some of the features of "reducing bodies" were encountered in the skeletal muscle biopsy of a 2.5-year-old boy with childhood-onset acid maltase deficiency. The biopsy revealed a vacuolar myopathy with lysosomal storage of glycogen and eosinophilic refractile inclusions in myofibers, which appe...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Jay V,Christodoulou J,Mercer-Connolly A,McInnes RR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00