Optineurin inclusions occur in ...
Optineurin (OPTN) is a multifunctional protein involved in vesicular trafficking, signal transduction and gene expression. OPTN mutations were descr ...
Clinicopathologic study on an A ...
We investigated a family manifesting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with a heterozygous E478G mutation in the optineurin (OPTN) gene. Clinicall ...
Expression analysis of dopamine ...
Dopaminergic (DA) neuron degeneration is a feature of brain aging but is markedly increased in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Recent data i ...
Glial nuclear aggregates of sup ...
The most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is mutations in superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1). Since there is evidence for the involvem ...
Motor neuron disease clinically ...
Motor neuron disease (MND) may present as an isolated lower motor neuron (LMN) disorder. Although the significance of pathological 43 kDa transactiv ...
Adult grade II diffuse astrocyt ...
Diffuse astrocytomas (WHO grade II) typically present as slow-growing tumours showing significant cellular differentiation, but possessing a tendenc ...
Increased dopaminergic cells an ...
Olfactory dysfunction is a frequent and early feature of patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s ...
Neuropathology underlying clini ...
Abnormal aggregates of the synaptic protein, a-synuclein, are the dominant pathology in syndromes known as the synucleinopathies. The cellular aggre ...
The optic nerve head is the sit ...
The neurodegenerative disease glaucoma is characterised by the progressive death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and structural damage to the optic ...
A novel seven-octapeptide repea ...
Human prion diseases can be sporadic, inherited or acquired by infection and show considerable phenotypic heterogeneity. We describe the clinical, h ...
Qualification of the analytical ...
The close correlation between abnormally low pre-mortem cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of amyloid-b1-42 (Ab1–42) and plaque burden measure ...
Pre- and post-synaptic cortica ...
Amyloid imaging has identified cognitively normal older people with plaques as a group possibly at increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease ...
New ependymal cells are born po ...
A heterogeneous population of ependymal cells lines the brain ventricles. The evidence about the origin and birth dates of these cell populations is ...
Alzheimer’s pathogenesis: is th ...
There is increasing interest in the early phase of Alzheimer’s disease before severe neuronal dysfunction occurs, but it is still not known when or ...
Axonopathy is a compounding fac ...
Loss-of-function of the lysosomal enzyme galactosyl-ceramidase causes the accumulation of the lipid raft-associated sphingolipid psychosine, the dis ...
The neuropathological basis of ...
Multiple sclerosis is the major inflammatory condition affecting the central nervous system (CNS) and is characterised by disseminated focal immune- ...
Glutaminyl cyclase contributes ...
the hippocampal formation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients, both focal and diffuse deposits of Ab peptides appear in a subregion- and layer-spec ...
Pathogenic T cell responses aga ...
Inflammatory lesions in the central nervous system of patients with neuromyelitis optica are characterized by infiltration of T cells and deposition ...
Neuropathological background of ...
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is the umbrella term encompassing a heterogeneous group of pathological disorders. With recent discoveries, ...
Changes in the solubility and p ...
Lewy bodies are made from insoluble, phosphorylated a-synuclein, but the earliest changes that precipitate such pathology still remain conjecture. I ...
Nerve biopsy: requirements for ...
In many instances, nerve biopsy is not necessary in the diagnostic work-up of a peripheral neuropathy. However, histological examination of a tissue ...
Assessment of BRAF V600E mutati ...
Activating mutations of the serine threonine kinase v-RAF murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 (BRAF) are frequent in benign and malignant human ...
Clinicopathological correlates ...
Behavioral and psychological symptoms are commonly observed in a majority of demented patients at some time during the course of their illness. Many ...
Glial dysfunction in the pathog ...
Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) are adult onset neurodegenerative disorders characterise ...
Perivascular drainage of solute ...
The deposition of amyloid-b (Ab) peptides in the walls of leptomeningeal and cortical blood vessels as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is present ...