abstract：:In the cytoplasm of Schwann cells of a sural nerve biopsy from a 21-year-old female patient with chronic neuropathy we noted numerous unique, usually double membrane-bound, osmiophilic, granular or globular inclusions, approximately 30-600 microm in diameter. Some of these membrane-bound vesicular or tubular structure...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Schröder JM,Wang JF,Sindern E,Malin JP

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenases (COX, prostaglandin endoperoxide synthases, PGG/H synthases) are potent mediators of inflammation. While COX-1 is constitutively expressed in a wide range of tissues, COX-2 is cytokine inducible. Although COX-1 expression is observed in normal tissue, enhanced COX-2 expression has been attributed a key...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Deininger MH,Weller M,Streffer J,Mittelbronn M,Meyermann R

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with mixed gonadal dysgenesis showed glove and stocking-type sensory impairment and slowing of motor and sensory nerve conduction. Sural nerve biopsy revealed minifascicular formation with decreased density of myelinated fibers. As far as we are aware, this is the first report of polyneuropathy with minifasc...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Umehara F,Yamaguchi N,Kodama D,Takenaga S,Kiwaki T,Sonoda Y,Arimura Y,Yamada H,Arimura K,Osame M

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of members of the Jun family of transcription factors was examined by immunohistochemistry, Western blotting, in situ hybridization and Northern blotting in the developing and adult rat brain following colchicine administration. Apoptotic cells, as revealed by their typical morphology and positive stain...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Pozas E,Aguado F,Ferrer I

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread damage to axons in the white matter of the brain is a well-recognised consequence of non-missile head injury. This diffuse axonal injury is characterised by a gradual swelling of the axon associated with an accumulation of cellular organelles and proteins. We have investigated the relationship between the s...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Wilkinson AE,Bridges LR,Sivaloganathan S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colonic enteric nervous system was investigated in autopsy specimens from 12 patients with familial amyloidotic neuropathy (FAP) and 9 controls. The infiltration of amyloid deposits in the enteric nervous system was studied by double staining for amyloid and nerve elements. The myenteric plexus was immunostained f...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Anan I,El-Salhy M,Ando Y,Forsgren S,Nyhlin N,Terazaki H,Sakashita N,Suhr OB

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the total neurone number, glial number, and glial index (ratio glial cells/neurone) in the thalamic mediodorsal nucleus (MD) in seven patients suffering from Huntington's disease (HD; four males, three females, mean age 52.4 +/- 13.6 years) and age- and sex-matched controls (four males, three females, mea...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Heinsen H,Rüb U,Bauer M,Ulmar G,Bethke B,Schüler M,Böcker F,Eisenmenger W,Götz M,Korr H,Schmitz C

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that Cerebrolysin can enhance synaptic function and ameliorate synaptodendritic alterations in animal models of neurodegeneration, suggesting a synaptotrophic effect. We hypothesize that Cerebrolysin might exert this effect, in part, by regulating the expression of amyloid precursor protein (...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mallory M,Honer W,Hsu L,Johnson R,Rockenstein E,Masliah E

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since we reported a case of acute relaxant-steroid myopathy (ARSM) in 1994, we continued histological studies and compared the findings with those in a case of corticosteroid myopathy (CM). It was revealed that (1) dystrophin, spectrin, beta dystroglycan, and sarcoglycans on the cell surface were decreased, (2) regula...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Matsubara S,Kitaguchi T,Isozaki E,Miyamoto K,Hirai S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that glioma cell lines, as well as cells of human malignant gliomas in situ, synthesize tropoelastin. In addition, glioma cells degrade tropoelastin using metalloproteinase(s), and the resulting peptides, incapable of assembling in the extracellular fibers, interact with the 67-kDa cell surface ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Hinek A,Jung S,Rutka JT

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of advanced glycation endproducts (AGE) in the pathogenesis of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1) mutation, we investigated the immunohistochemical localization of N(epsilon)-carboxymethyl-lysine (CML), one of the major AGE structures, in spinal cords ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Shibata N,Hirano A,Kato S,Nagai R,Horiuchi S,Komori T,Umahara T,Asayama K,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixed lymphoblastic T cell lymphoma and gonadotroph cell pituitary adenoma occurred 25 years after first resection of the adenoma. Within 1 year the lymphoma overgrew the adenoma, but was still restricted to the sellar region. Histologically, lymphoma and adenoma components were tightly admixed. Possible pathogeneti...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kuhn D,Buchfelder M,Brabletz T,Paulus W

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hereditary myopathy of the diaphragmatic muscles in Holstein-Friesian cattle, the largest number of acidophilic intracytoplasmic inclusions was found in the myocardium. These inclusions, which were oval and measured 12-15 microm in the transverse sections, were characterized by a dense, amorphous zone, and a relati...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Furuoka H,Murakami A,Doi T,Kobayashi Y,Matsui T,Nakamura N

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the pathogenetic role of human T lymphocyte virus type I (HTLV-I) in central nervous system disease, a rat model for HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis, designated as HAM rat disease, has been established. Wistar-King-Aptekman-Hokudai strain rats with induced HTLV-I infection deve...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kasai T,Ikeda H,Tomaru U,Yamashita I,Ohya O,Morita K,Wakisaka A,Matsuoka E,Moritoyo T,Hashimoto K,Higuchi I,Izumo S,Osame M,Yoshiki T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucosylceramide lipidosis results from a defective lysosomal degradation of this glycolipid. Lipid degradation is controlled by two components, the enzyme beta-glucocerebrosidase and a sphingolipid activator protein. While most Gaucher cases are due to mutations within the gene that codes for the lysosomal enzyme, on...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Pàmpols T,Pineda M,Girós ML,Ferrer I,Cusi V,Chabás A,Sanmarti FX,Vanier MT,Christomanou H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) expression in anterior horn neurons in the cervical and lumbar spinal cords of 19 cases of adult-onset sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) using immunohistochemistry. Specimens from 7 patients without neurological disease served as controls. MAP2 express...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Kikuchi H,Doh-ura K,Kawashima T,Kira J,Iwaki T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study designed to identify the neuropathological features typical of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), we reviewed the sural nerve biopsy findings in 105 patients with this disorder. The patients' mean age at biopsy was 49 years. In 65% of patients the disease had a progressive and in 35% ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Rizzuto N,Morbin M,Cavallaro T,Ferrari S,Fallahi M,Galiazzo Rizzuto S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central pontine myelinolysis (CPM) is an uncommon complication in sick patients with severe underlying disorders such as chronic alcoholism, malignancy, malnutrition and hyponatraemia. We report two patients with advanced HIV infection who developed CPM. In one case the diagnosis was not suspected in life, in the othe...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Miller RF,Harrison MJ,Hall-Craggs MA,Scaravilli F

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of leukocyte apoptosis to the resolution of meningeal inflammation in bacterial meningitis was studied in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and in meningeal infiltrates of humans and rabbits by in situ tailing, flow cytometry, agarose gel electrophoresis, and electron microscopy. In humans, the rate of ap...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Nau R,Zettl U,Gerber J,Trostdorf F,Michel U,Böttcher T,Schmidt H,Adler S,Brück W

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:Neurotrophins regulate the proliferation and differentiation of neurons in the central nervous system via a family of specialized receptors, including TrkA, TrkB, and TrkC. As little is known about their expression or potential role in human glial tissues and glial tumors, we undertook an immunohistochemical analysis ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Wang Y,Hagel C,Hamel W,Müller S,Kluwe L,Westphal M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) have been associated with simian virus 40 (SV40), rather than with JC virus (JCV), the polyomavirus originally isolated from PML tissue. PML has, therefore, been defined as a demyelinating syndrome with possible multiple viral etiologies. Tissues from t...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Stoner GL,Ryschkewitsch CF

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease that causes long-term secondary complications such as neuropathy. The occurrence of diabetic neuropathy has generally been thought of as being associated with hyperglycaemia. However, in a previous light microscopic examination of plantar nerves in dia...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mohseni S,Hildebrand C

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasa vasorum are adventitial vessels that play a role in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, aneurysm, vasculitides, and graft vascular disease. The existence of vasa vasorum in human intracranial arteries is not yet well defined. The specific aims of this study are to determine whether the human intracranial arteries ha...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Aydin F

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:In adult mice, administration of the anticonvulsive drug phenytoin caused focal swellings along the Purkinje cell axon correlated with ataxia and incoordination of movements. In our model, we used murine cerebellar slice cultures to study the influence of phenytoin on postnatal Purkinje cell axon differentiation. Almo...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Tauer U,Knoth R,Volk B

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate whether the apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele (APOE4) affects cortical neuropathology in Parkinson's disease (PD), we determined APOE genotypes and quantified the densities of cortical Lewy bodies (LBs), amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in 22 autopsy-proven PD cases (12 with dementia; 10 without...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Wakabayashi K,Kakita A,Hayashi S,Okuizumi K,Onodera O,Tanaka H,Ishikawa A,Tsuji S,Takahashi H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both tumor specimen and cultured tumor cells, we have studied the differentiation of a pineocytoma by light and electron microscopy (EM) and immunohistochemical demonstration of glial, neuronal and neuroendocrine markers. Only interstitial cells were labeled with anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein and anti-S10...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Fèvre-Montange M,Jouvet A,Privat K,Korf HW,Champier J,Reboul A,Aguera M,Mottolese C

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoreactivity to the free radical-related enzymes, nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), was examined in brain tissue in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). To determine the relationship between the immunoexpression of these enzymes and tau-positive, argyrophilic cytoplasmic inclusions, ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Komori T,Shibata N,Kobayashi M,Sasaki S,Iwata M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive laminar spongiosis was found in the outer part of the dentate gyrus in an 84-year-old patient. An old cavitary infarct in the parahippocampal gyrus disconnected the dentate gyrus from the entorhinal area. This finding prompted us to seek laminar spongiosis in Alzheimer's disease, where the neuronal loss i...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Duyckaerts C,Colle MA,Seilhean D,Hauw JJ

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SNAP-25 (a synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa) has been shown to be involved both in synaptic vesicle exocytosis and in axonal outgrowth. In the present study, we investigated the changes in SNAP-25 immunoreactivity in the hippocampus of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) at different time points afte...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Martí E,Ferrer I,Ballabriga J,Blasi J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of cerebellar neurocytoma with rhabdomyomatous differentiation in a 6-year-old boy is reported. Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural features of the tumour were studied. Abortive synapse formation, the presence of clear vesicles and synaptophysin immunoreactivity of the tumour cells indicated its int...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Pal L,Santosh V,Gayathri N,Das S,Das BS,Jayakumar PN,Shankar SK

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropathological staging model of Alzheimer's disease proposed by Braak and Braak [Acta Neuropathol (1991) 82:259] requires that the evolution of neurofibrillary pathology follows a predictable pattern that can be ordered in a regular regional hierarchy. We have operationalized the neuropathological staging syste...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Gertz HJ,Xuereb J,Huppert F,Brayne C,McGee MA,Paykel E,Harrington C,Mukaetova-Ladinska E,Arendt T,Wischik CM

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:Intracranial cartilaginous tumors are rare lesions, usually arising from the skull base in older individuals. We report the case of a 12-year-old girl with a low-grade type chondrosarcoma arising from the falx cerebri. To our knowledge this is the first such case reported in a child. She was treated with gross total s...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Gerszten PC,Pollack IF,Hamilton RL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe hypoxic-ischemic cerebral damage was produced in 8-day-old rats following permanent bilateral carotid artery occlusion and 15 min of ischemia. Cellular damage consisted of early necrosis and appearance of cells with apoptotic-like morphology (karyorrhectic cells) and cells with granular chromatin degeneration i...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Ferrer I,Pozas E,López E,Ballabriga J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess whether amyloid plaque accumulation in the monkey brain can account for age-related cognitive impairment that begins at about 20 years of age, we measured plaque content in the brains of 14 rhesus monkeys aged 5-30 years. We used immunohistochemistry employing the monoclonal antibody 6E10, which is specific ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Sloane JA,Pietropaolo MF,Rosene DL,Moss MB,Peters A,Kemper T,Abraham CR

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:A human glioma cell line, SA146, was initiated on precoated extracellular matrix from a stereotactic biopsy of a glioblastoma. We report modulation in the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) by SA146 passed in vitro before or after xenogenic transplantation into nude mice. Immunofluorescence data show...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Gomès D,de Néchaud B,Maunoury R,Moura Neto V,Brigaudeau C,Labrousse F,Dupouey P

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify antigenic differences between gliomas and normal brain, we have immunohistochemically studied the expression of lymphocyte adhesion molecules (ICAM-1, ICAM-2, ICAM-3, VCAM-1, E-selectin and CD58), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and extracellular matrix proteins (collagen IV, fibronectin, laminin, ...

journal_title：Acta neuropathologica

authors： Mäenpää A,Kovanen PE,Paetau A,Jäáskeläinen J,Timonen T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00