abstract：:Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX), a rare autosomal-recessive lipid storage disease, has been well characterized clinically and biochemically, and recently also from the molecular biological aspect. However, only a very few publications deal with its neuropathology, and views on its pathogenesis vary. Based on a re...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Soffer D,Benharroch D,Berginer V

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study used cocultures of rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) and peritoneal macrophages to define the role of activated complement components during demyelination. The complement cascade was activated in vitro by treatment of the cultures with natural rat serum and lipopolysaccharides. Complement activation was ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Brück W,Brück Y,Diederich U,Piddlesden SJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the muscle biopsy from an asymptomatic patient with high serum creatine kinase values. Subsarcolemmal and intermyofibrillar granular inclusions were seen at the light microscopy level. Ultrastructural observation showed clusters of cylindrical spirals (CS). CS are nonspecific, morphological finding, so far ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Rapuzzi S,Prelle A,Moggio M,Rigoletto C,Ciscato P,Comi G,Francesca F,Scarlato G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6) immunoreactivity has previously been shown in plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and elevated IL-6 concentrations have been measured biochemically in brains of AD patients. In this study, we investigated the appearance of IL-6 immunoreactivity in AD plaques according to the stage of plaque format...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Huell M,Strauss S,Volk B,Berger M,Bauer J

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:This report concerns an immunocytochemical and ultrastructural study of the motor cortices of 11 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Specimens from 12 normal individuals served as controls. Antibodies against phosphorylated neurofilament (PNF; 200 kDa), ubiquitin, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sasaki S,Maruyama S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies directed towards synaptophysin were raised against a synthesised peptide corresponding to amino acids 246 to 260 of the human synaptophysin sequence. The antibodies, when applied for immunocytochemical staining, showed a staining pattern identical to that of the commercially available monoclonal ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Stridsberg M,Lundqvist G,Engström U,Wilander E,Su H,Gobl A,Oberg K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase have been associated with structures undergoing neurofibrillary degeneration, as well as with all types of senile plaques, in non-demented aged and Alzheimer's brains. At the electron microscope level, the reaction product of both enzymes, appeared to decorate paired heli...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Morán MA,Mufson EJ,Gómez-Ramos P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interphase cytogenetics, i.e., in situ hybridization using probes to chromosome-specific DNA, enables histological identification of cells bearing numerical chromosome aberrations and cytogenetic analysis of composite tumors. We studied routinely processed tissues from seven glioblastomas and three gliosarcomas using ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Paulus W,Bayas A,Ott G,Roggendorf W

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of an elderly woman with a history of headache, vomiting and dizziness while walking. On CT scans a mass was identified in the right cerebellar hemisphere exhibiting radiological characteristics of lipomatous tissue. Surgery revealed a compact lesion consisting of whitish-yellow tissue with a fatty ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Walter A,Dingemans KP,Weinstein HC,Troost D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several missense mutations within exons 1, 2, 4 and 5 of the gene for Cu/Zn-binding superoxide dismutase (SOD1) have been discovered to be involved in the development of chromosome 21q-linked familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS). We describe here an autopsied patient with FALS, in whom we have recently identi...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Takahashi H,Makifuchi T,Nakano R,Sato S,Inuzuka T,Sakimura K,Mishina M,Honma Y,Tsuji S,Ikuta F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pick's disease is characterized morphologically by severe atrophy of the frontal and temporal lobes and the presence in the cerebral cortex of degenerative neuronal lesions referred to as Pick bodies. In the present study, we analyzed the regional and laminar distribution of Pick bodies in a series of 16 Pick's diseas...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hof PR,Bouras C,Perl DP,Morrison JH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large series of 116 cortical resections for treatment of medically intractable epilepsy, 10 glial hamartomas and 11 neuronoglial malformative lesions were found. Glial hamartomas were astrocytic in 3 cases, oligodendrocytic in 6 and mixed oligoastrocytic in 1. Neuronoglial lesions corresponded to "focal cortical ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Vital A,Marchal C,Loiseau H,Rougier A,Pedespan JM,Rivel J,Vital C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-brain barrier (BBB) was studied in rats with electrolyte-induced demyelination (EID), an experimental model for central pontine myelinolysis. Intravenously injected peroxidase was extravasated at 3 h post hypertonic saline injection (PHS) into regions frequently involved in EID. Increased pinocytotic activit...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Rojiani AM,Prineas JW,Cho ES

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:N-Methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists cause neuronal vacuolation in the posterior cingulate and retrosplenial cortex of the rat. Because the nature of neuronal pathologic changes due to NMDA antagonists may affect the potential clinical use of this class of drugs, we undertook experiments to define the nature and ti...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Auer RN,Coulter KC

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Round granulated body (RGB) and eosinophilic hyaline droplets (EHDs) have been described as cytoplasmic inclusions of certain astrocytic tumors. In the previous literature, however, these inclusions have been described using various terms or regarded as nosologically the same entity. Light microscopically, RGB appeare...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hitotsumatsu T,Iwaki T,Fukui M,Tateishi J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immune deficiency virus (HIV) disease may be associated, neuropathologically, with significant neuronal loss and clinically with a severe dementia. However, the significance of neuronal loss in the development of dementia has not been established. In this study we have undertaken a stereological determination of...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Everall IP,Glass JD,McArthur J,Spargo E,Lantos P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the distribution of prion protein (PrP) in 14 German patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and compared it with that observed in Japanese patients. Immunohistochemical study revealed diffuse gray matter stainings including synaptic structures in all cases. In addition, 4 patients showe...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Doi-Yi R,Kitamoto T,Ogomori K,Mehraein P,Tateishi J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Immunofluorescence and immunogold labelling were used to localise the 43-kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein (43DAG) of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex in control and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) biopsies. In control muscle 43DAG was localised by immunofluorescence to the periphery of the fibre and, by imm...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Cullen MJ,Walsh J,Nicholson LV

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we evaluated the relationship between polyglucosan bodies and peripheral nerve lesions. The biopsied sural nerve from a patient with late-onset chronic sensori-motor neuropathy showed many intra-axonal polyglucosan bodies and segmental demyelination/remyelination. The formation of Schwann cell hyperplasi...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Matsumuro K,Izumo S,Minauchi Y,Inose M,Higuchi I,Osame M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional distribution of the postsynaptic microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) and the presynaptic marker protein synaptophysin was investigated by immunohistochemistry in brains of rats submitted to 30-min forebrain ischemia by four-vessel occlusion. The following brain temperature profiles during ischemia wer...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Miyazawa T,Bonnekoh P,Hossmann KA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular localization of myoglobin(Mb) mRNA in the skeletal muscles of normal subjects and patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS) was examined by in situ hybridization using a biotin-labeled cDNA probe. In cross sections of normal muscles, Mb mRNA signals were dem...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mitsui T,Kawai H,Naruo T,Nishino H,Saito S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histomorphological and histochemical variability was studied in muscle specimens from 30 patients with congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). We found involvement of the central nervous system in 8 patients (Fukuyama CMD, F-CMD), involvement of the brain and the eyes in 5 patients (muscle, eye and brain disease, MEB-D) ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Leyten QH,ter Laak HJ,Gabreëls FJ,Renier WO,Renkawek K,Sengers RC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colocalization of beta amyloid protein with the enzymes acetyl- and butyrylcholinesterase was assessed using immunocytochemistry for beta amyloid protein and a sensitive histochemical technique for cholinesterases. In non-demented aged and Alzheimer's disease brains, double-stained sections for cholinesterases and...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Morán MA,Mufson EJ,Gómez-Ramos P

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Spinal cord-notochord relationship was analyzed histologically and immunohistochemically in normal human conceptuses between the 4-8 developmental weeks and in a 8-week embryo with double spinal cord. In the early 4-week embryo, the gradual closure of the neural tube along the cranio-caudal body axis was paralleled by...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Saraga-Babić M,Stefanović V,Wartiovaara J,Lehtonen E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding patterns of lectins to normal peripheral nerves were examined. Twelve biotinylated lectins were used in this study; Canavalia ensiformis (Con A), Pisum sativum (PSA), Lens culinaris (LCA), Ricinus communis 1 (RCA-1), Arachis hypogaea (PNA), Glycine max (SBA), Sophora japonica (SJA), Bandeiraea simplicifoli...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Matsumura K,Nakasu S,Nioka H,Handa J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and reproducible method for cryopreservation of brain tissue from patients with Alzheimer's disease is described. Fresh brain slices (1 cm thick) obtained less than 6 h postmortem are placed in sealed plastic bags, sandwiched between 0.3-cm-thick aluminium sheets, and frozen by placing the entire "sandwich" b...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Nochlin D,Mackenzie AP,Bryant EM,Norwood TH,Sumi SM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial patterns of diffuse, primitive, classic (cored) and compact (burnt-out) subtypes of beta/A4 deposits were studied in coronal sections of the frontal lobe and hippocampus, including the adjacent gyri, in nine cases of Alzheimer's disease (AD). If the more mature deposits were derived from the diffuse deposi...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Armstrong RA,Myers D,Smith CU

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of hypothermic circulatory arrest with recovery has been developed in the newborn dog. Eleven puppies were anesthetized with halothane, paralyzed and artificially ventilated with 70% nitrous oxide -30% oxygen to paO2 > 60 mm Hg, paCO2 = 33-42 mm Hg and pHa = 7.35-7.42. Animals were surface cooled to 20 degrees...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mujsce DJ,Towfighi J,Yager JY,Vannucci RC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Foetal rat brain reaggregate cultures have been employed to investigate the morphological changes associated with the neurotoxic action of ethylcholine mustard aziridinium (ECMA). In a companion study we provided evidence for apparent selective cholinergic neurotoxicity. Exposure of 9-day-old cultures to 12.5 microM E...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Jones HB,Pillar AM,Prince AK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed neuropathologic and immunohistologic analysis of a case of serologically and polymerase chain reaction-confirmed human immunodeficiency virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is reported in a 73-year-old North American black woman. In addition to the usual neuropath...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Wu E,Dickson DW,Jacobson S,Raine CS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunoperoxidase technique was used to locate synaptophysin (protein p38), a major integral membrane glycoprotein of synaptic vesicles, in the rat brain. In addition to a diffuse distribution of nerve terminal stainings for synaptophysin appearing as numerous small puncta, the large-sized cells with spindled or pol...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Goto S,Korematsu K,Nagahiro S,Ushio Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 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 present study investigated the expression of c-erbB-2 in 59 meningiomas, including different histological subtypes and anaplastic variants, by immunocytochemistry and molecular biological techniques. Immunohistochemistry using the monoclonal antibody FWP-51 directed against c-erbB-2-encoded oncoprotein gp185 demon...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Schlegel J,Ullrich B,Stumm G,Gass P,Harwerth IM,Hynes NE,Kiessling M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereological estimates of mean volumes, surface areas, and cortical thicknesses were obtained on formalin-fixed brains from 19 men with AIDS and 19 controls. Volumes of neocortex, white matter, central brain nuclei, ventricles and archicortex were estimated using point counting and Cavalieri's unbiased principle for ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Oster S,Christoffersen P,Gundersen HJ,Nielsen JO,Pakkenberg B,Pedersen C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) was induced in normal and irradiated Lewis rats by passively transferring T cells sensitized to SP-26, a peptide fragment of P2 myelin protein. The recipients became sick 4-8 days post transfer and the degree of disability correlated directly with the dose of T cells. Smaller doses...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hahn AF,Feasby TE,Lovgren D,Wilkie L

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uniform neuropathological changes are described in eight cases of the progressive encephalopathy syndrome with edema, hypsarrhythmia and optic atrophy (PEHO syndrome). Two of the autopsied patients were sisters and two other cases were familial. Macroscopically, cerebral and pronounced cerebellar atrophy was seen, the...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Haltia M,Somer M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00