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Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Issue 1/2014

Content (143 Articles)

Open Access Research

The value of muscle biopsies in Pompe disease: identifying lipofuscin inclusions in juvenile- and adult-onset patients

Erin J Feeney, Stephanie Austin, Yin-Hsiu Chien, Hanna Mandel, Benedikt Schoser, Sean Prater, Wuh-Liang Hwu, Evelyn Ralston, Priya S Kishnani, Nina Raben

Open Access Research

SIRT1 Activating compounds reduce oxidative stress mediated neuronal loss in viral induced CNS demyelinating disease

Reas S Khan, Kimberly Dine, Jayasri Das Sarma, Kenneth S Shindler

Open Access Methodology article

Generation of iPSC lines from archived non-cryoprotected biobanked dura mater

Andrew A Sproul, Lauren B Vensand, Carmen R Dusenberry, Samson Jacob, Jean Paul G Vonsattel, Daniel J Paull, Michael L Shelanski, John F Crary, Scott A Noggle

Open Access Research

A new animal model of spontaneous autoimmune peripheral polyneuropathy: implications for Guillain-Barré syndrome

Mu Yang, Anthony Rainone, Xiang Qun Shi, Sylvie Fournier, Ji Zhang

Open Access Letter to the Editor

Metabolic alterations due to IDH1 mutation in glioma: opening for therapeutic opportunities?

Dana A N Mustafa, Sigrid M Swagemakers, Laura Buise, Peter J van der Spek, Johan M Kros

Open Access Case report

Two cases of multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumour

Istvan Bodi, Olimpia Curran, Richard Selway, Robert Elwes, Juan Burrone, Ross Laxton, Safa Al-Sarraj, Mrinalini Honavar

Open Access Research

Distinct patterns of spread of prion infection in brains of mice expressing anchorless or anchored forms of prion protein

Alejandra Rangel, Brent Race, Katie Phillips, James Striebel, Nancy Kurtz, Bruce Chesebro

Open Access Research

Loss of the neuroprotective factor Sphingosine 1-phosphate early in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis

Timothy A Couttas, Nupur Kain, Benjamin Daniels, Xin Ying Lim, Claire Shepherd, Jillian Kril, Russell Pickford, Hongyun Li, Brett Garner, Anthony S Don

Open Access Research

Reduced sphingosine kinase-1 and enhanced sphingosine 1-phosphate lyase expression demonstrate deregulated sphingosine 1-phosphate signaling in Alzheimer’s disease

Johnatan Ceccom, Najat Loukh, Valérie Lauwers-Cances, Christian Touriol, Yvan Nicaise, Catherine Gentil, Emmanuelle Uro-Coste, Stuart Pitson, Claude Alain Maurage, Charles Duyckaerts, Olivier Cuvillier, Marie-Bernadette Delisle

Open Access Research

Dendritic retraction, but not atrophy, is consistent in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-comparison between Onuf’s neurons and other sacral motor neurons-

Takahiro Takeda, Toshiki Uchihara, Yuki Nakayama, Ayako Nakamura, Shoichi Sasaki, Shinji Kakei, Shinichiro Uchiyama, Charles Duyckaerts, Mari Yoshida

Open Access Research

Neuron-to-neuron wild-type Tau protein transfer through a trans-synaptic mechanism: relevance to sporadic tauopathies

Simon Dujardin, Katia Lécolle, Raphaëlle Caillierez, Séverine Bégard, Nadège Zommer, Cédrick Lachaud, Sébastien Carrier, Noëlle Dufour, Gwennaëlle Aurégan, Joris Winderickx, Philippe Hantraye, Nicole Déglon, Morvane Colin, Luc Buée

Open Access Review

Lipid dysfunction and pathogenesis of multiple system atrophy

Jonathan M Bleasel, Joanna H Wong, Glenda M Halliday, Woojin Scott Kim

Open Access Research

Polycomb group gene BMI1 controls invasion of medulloblastoma cells and inhibits BMP-regulated cell adhesion

Ashirwad Merve, Adrian M Dubuc, Xinyu Zhang, Marc Remke, Patricia A Baxter, Xiao-Nan Li, Michael D Taylor, Silvia Marino

Open Access Research

Posterior fossa and spinal gangliogliomas form two distinct clinicopathologic and molecular subgroups

Kirti Gupta, Wilda Orisme, Julie H Harreld, Ibrahim Qaddoumi, James D Dalton, Chandanamali Punchihewa, Racquel Collins-Underwood, Thomas Robertson, Ruth G Tatevossian, David W Ellison

Open Access Research

Lesion of the subiculum reduces the spread of amyloid beta pathology to interconnected brain regions in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Sonia George, Annica Rönnbäck, Gunnar K Gouras, Géraldine H Petit, Fiona Grueninger, Bengt Winblad, Caroline Graff, Patrik Brundin

Open Access Research

Autophagy-lysosome pathway associated neuropathology and axonal degeneration in the brains of alpha-galactosidase A-deficient mice

Michael P Nelson, Tonia E Tse, Darrel B O’Quinn, Stefanie M Percival, Edgar A Jaimes, David G Warnock, John J Shacka

Open Access Research

D-2-Hydroxyglutarate producing neo-enzymatic activity inversely correlates with frequency of the type of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 mutations found in glioma

Stefan Pusch, Leonille Schweizer, Ann-Christin Beck, Johanna-Marie Lehmler, Susanne Weissert, Jörg Balss, Aubry K Miller, Andreas von Deimling

Open Access Research

The prognostic role of intragenic copy number breakpoints and identification of novel fusion genes in paediatric high grade glioma

Diana Carvalho, Alan Mackay, Lynn Bjerke, Richard G Grundy, Celeste Lopes, Rui M Reis, Chris Jones

Open Access Research

Mechanism of metabolic stroke and spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage in glutaric aciduria type I

William J Zinnanti, Jelena Lazovic, Cathy Housman, David A Antonetti, David M Koeller, James R Connor, Lawrence Steinman

Open Access Research

Phenotypic profile of alternative activation marker CD163 is different in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease

Peixuan Pey, Ronald KB Pearce, Michail E Kalaitzakis, W Sue T Griffin, Steve M Gentleman

Open Access Research

MARK4 and MARK3 associate with early tau phosphorylation in Alzheimer’s disease granulovacuolar degeneration bodies

Harald Lund, Elin Gustafsson, Anne Svensson, Maria Nilsson, Margareta Berg, Dan Sunnemark, Gabriel von Euler

Open Access Research

Critical role of TNF-alpha-TNFR1 signaling in intracranial aneurysm formation

Tomohiro Aoki, Miyuki Fukuda, Masaki Nishimura, Kazuhiko Nozaki, Shuh Narumiya

Open Access Research

Deregulation of subcellular biometal homeostasis through loss of the metal transporter, Zip7, in a childhood neurodegenerative disorder

Alexandra Grubman, Grace E Lidgerwood, Clare Duncan, Laura Bica, Jiang-Li Tan, Sarah J Parker, Aphrodite Caragounis, Jodi Meyerowitz, Irene Volitakis, Diane Moujalled, Jeffrey R Liddell, James L Hickey, Malcolm Horne, Shoshanah Longmuir, Jari Koistinaho, Paul S Donnelly, Peter J Crouch, Imke Tammen, Anthony R White, Katja M Kanninen

Open Access Research

α4-integrins control viral meningoencephalitis through differential recruitment of T helper cell subsets

Veit Rothhammer, Andreas Muschaweckh, Georg Gasteiger, Franziska Petermann, Sylvia Heink, Dirk H Busch, Mathias Heikenwälder, Bernhard Hemmer, Ingo Drexler, Thomas Korn

Open Access Review

Distinct origins of dura mater graft-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: past and future problems

Atsushi Kobayashi, Yuichi Matsuura, Shirou Mohri, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto

Open Access Research

Arsenic trioxide inhibits Hedgehog, Notch and stem cell properties in glioblastoma neurospheres

Dacheng Ding, Kah Suan Lim, Charles G Eberhart

Open Access Research

Neuromyelitis optica MOG-IgG causes reversible lesions in mouse brain

Samira Saadoun, Patrick Waters, Gregory P Owens, Jeffrey L Bennett, Angela Vincent, Marios C Papadopoulos

Open Access Research

Comparative analysis of single and combined APP/APLP knockouts reveals reduced spine density in APP-KO mice that is prevented by APPsα expression

Sascha W Weyer, Marta Zagrebelsky, Ulrike Herrmann, Meike Hick, Lennard Ganss, Julia Gobbert, Morna Gruber, Christine Altmann, Martin Korte, Thomas Deller, Ulrike C Müller

Open Access Research

Golgi fragmentation precedes neuromuscular denervation and is associated with endosome abnormalities in SOD1-ALS mouse motor neurons

Vera van Dis, Marijn Kuijpers, Elize D Haasdijk, Eva Teuling, Scott A Oakes, Casper C Hoogenraad, Dick Jaarsma

Open Access Research

Tau accumulation in the nucleus accumbens in tangle-predominant dementia

Ito Kawakami, Masato Hasegawa, Tetsuaki Arai, Kenji Ikeda, Kenichi Oshima, Kazuhiro Niizato, Naoya Aoki, Katsuse Omi, Shinji Higashi, Masato Hosokawa, Yoshio Hirayasu, Haruhiko Akiyama

Open Access Case report

Experimental treatment of NRAS-mutated neurocutaneous melanocytosis with MEK162, a MEK-inhibitor

Heidi VN Küsters-Vandevelde, Annelieke ECAB Willemsen, Patricia JTA Groenen, Benno Küsters, Martin Lammens, Pieter Wesseling, Melika Djafarihamedani, Jos Rijntjes, Hans Delye, Michel A Willemsen, Carla ML van Herpen, Willeke AM Blokx

Open Access Research

In vivo imaging reveals sigmoidal growth kinetic of β-amyloid plaques

Steffen Burgold, Severin Filser, Mario M Dorostkar, Boris Schmidt, Jochen Herms

Open Access Research

Novel monoclonal antibodies to normal and pathologically altered human TDP-43 proteins

Linda K Kwong, David J Irwin, Adam K Walker, Yan Xu, Dawn M Riddle, John Q Trojanowski, Virginia M Y Lee

Open Access Research

NOTCH ligands JAG1 and JAG2 as critical pro-survival factors in childhood medulloblastoma

Giulio Fiaschetti, Christina Schroeder, Deborah Castelletti, Alexandre Arcaro, Frank Westermann, Martin Baumgartner, Tarek Shalaby, Michael A Grotzer

Open Access Research

Layer-specific gene expression in epileptogenic type II focal cortical dysplasia: normal-looking neurons reveal the presence of a hidden laminar organization

Laura Rossini, Valentina Medici, Laura Tassi, Francesco Cardinale, Giovanni Tringali, Manuela Bramerio, Flavio Villani, Roberto Spreafico, Rita Garbelli

Open Access Research

Oligomer-targeting with a conformational antibody fragment promotes toxicity in Aβ-expressing flies

Jessica Wacker, Raik Rönicke, Martin Westermann, Melanie Wulff, Klaus G Reymann, Christopher M Dobson, Uwe Horn, Damian C Crowther, Leila M Luheshi, Marcus Fändrich

Open Access Research

Diagnostic effectiveness of quantitative [18F]flutemetamol PET imaging for detection of fibrillar amyloid β using cortical biopsy histopathology as the standard of truth in subjects with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

Ville Leinonen, Juha O Rinne, Dean F Wong, David A Wolk, John Q Trojanowski, Paul F Sherwin, Adrian Smith, Kerstin Heurling, Mandy Su, Igor D Grachev

Open Access Research

Muscle histopathology in nebulin-related nemaline myopathy: ultrastrastructural findings correlated to disease severity and genotype

Edoardo Malfatti, Vilma-Lotta Lehtokari, Johann Böhm, Josine M De Winter, Ursula Schäffer, Brigitte Estournet, Susana Quijano-Roy, Soledad Monges, Fabiana Lubieniecki, Remi Bellance, Mai Thao Viou, Angéline Madelaine, Bin Wu, Ana Lía Taratuto, Bruno Eymard, Katarina Pelin, Michel Fardeau, Coen AC Ottenheijm, Carina Wallgren-Pettersson, Jocelyn Laporte, Norma B Romero

Open Access Research

Interaction of transactive response DNA binding protein 43 with nuclear factor κB in mild cognitive impairment with episodic memory deficits

Yasuyuki Ohta, Cyntia Tremblay, Julie A Schneider, David A Bennett, Frederic Calon, Jean-Pierre Julien

Open Access Research

The instability of the BTB-KELCH protein Gigaxonin causes Giant Axonal Neuropathy and constitutes a new penetrant and specific diagnostic test

Alexia Boizot, Yasmina Talmat-Amar, Deborah Morrogh, Nancy L Kuntz, Cecile Halbert, Brigitte Chabrol, Henry Houlden, Tanya Stojkovic, Brenda A Schulman, Bernd Rautenstrauss, Pascale Bomont

Open Access Research

Early white matter changes in CADASIL: evidence of segmental intramyelinic oedema in a pre-clinical mouse model

Emmanuel Cognat, Sabine Cleophax, Valérie Domenga-Denier, Anne Joutel

Open Access Research

Phosphorylation of serine 349 of p62 in Alzheimer’s disease brain

Kunikazu Tanji, Yasuo Miki, Taku Ozaki, Atsushi Maruyama, Hidemi Yoshida, Junsei Mimura, Tomoh Matsumiya, Fumiaki Mori, Tadaatsu Imaizumi, Ken Itoh, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

Open Access Case report

Early and widespread injury of astrocytes in the absence of demyelination in acute haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis

Christopher A Robinson, Reginald C Adiele, Mylyne Tham, Claudia F Lucchinetti, Bogdan FGh Popescu

Open Access Research

Conformational specificity of the C4F6 SOD1 antibody; low frequency of reactivity in sporadic ALS cases

Jacob I Ayers, Guilian Xu, Olga Pletnikova, Juan C Troncoso, P John Hart, David R Borchelt

Open Access Research

Complement activation in multiple sclerosis plaques: an immunohistochemical analysis

Gillian Ingram, Sam Loveless, Owain W Howell, Svetlana Hakobyan, Bethan Dancey, Claire L Harris, Neil P Robertson, James W Neal, B Paul Morgan

Open Access Research

Blocking the apoE/Aβ interaction ameliorates Aβ-related pathology in APOE ε2 and ε4 targeted replacement Alzheimer model mice

Joanna E Pankiewicz, Maitea Guridi, Jungsu Kim, Ayodeji A Asuni, Sandrine Sanchez, Patrick M Sullivan, David M Holtzman, Martin J Sadowski

Open Access Research

Reducing hippocampal extracellular matrix reverses early memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Marlene J Végh, Céline M Heldring, Willem Kamphuis, Sara Hijazi, Arie J Timmerman, Ka Wan Li, Pim van Nierop, Huibert D Mansvelder, Elly M Hol, August B Smit, Ronald E van Kesteren

Open Access Review

A neuronal function of the tumor suppressor protein merlin

Alexander Schulz, Ansgar Zoch, Helen Morrison

Open Access Research

Zebrafish regenerate full thickness optic nerve myelin after demyelination, but this fails with increasing age

Eva Jolanda Münzel, Catherina G Becker, Thomas Becker, Anna Williams

Open Access Research

Possible involvement of lysosomal dysfunction in pathological changes of the brain in aged progranulin-deficient mice

Yoshinori Tanaka, James K Chambers, Takashi Matsuwaki, Keitaro Yamanouchi, Masugi Nishihara

Open Access Research

Altered distribution of the EphA4 kinase in hippocampal brain tissue of patients with Alzheimer’s disease correlates with pathology

Andrea FN Rosenberger, Annemieke JM Rozemuller, Wiesje M van der Flier, Philip Scheltens, Saskia M van der Vies, Jeroen JM Hoozemans

Open Access Research

Neurotrophin receptors expression in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without psychiatric comorbidities and their relation with seizure type and surgical outcome

Ludmyla Kandratavicius, Jaime Eduardo Hallak, Carlos Gilberto Carlotti, Joao Alberto Assirati, Joao Pereira Leite

Open Access Review

Polymicrogyria: pathology, fetal origins and mechanisms

Waney Squier, Anna Jansen

Open Access Review

Angiogenesis in multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Francesco Girolamo, Cristiana Coppola, Domenico Ribatti, Maria Trojano

Open Access Research

Genetic drivers of metastatic dissemination in sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma

Noah C Jenkins, Ricky R Kalra, Adrian Dubuc, Walavan Sivakumar, Carolyn A Pedone, Xiaochong Wu, Michael D Taylor, Daniel W Fults

Open Access Research

Systemic delivery of P42 peptide: a new weapon to fight Huntington’s disease

Yoan Arribat, Yasmina Talmat-Amar, Alexia Paucard, Pierre Lesport, Nathalie Bonneaud, Caroline Bauer, Nicole Bec, Marie-Laure Parmentier, Lorraine Benigno, Christian Larroque, Patrick Maurel, Florence Maschat

Open Access Research

Fetal syringomyelia

Anne Guo, David Chitayat, Susan Blaser, Sarah Keating, Patrick Shannon

Open Access Research

Pathological alpha-synuclein propagates through neural networks

Masami Masuda-Suzukake, Takashi Nonaka, Masato Hosokawa, Maki Kubo, Aki Shimozawa, Haruhiko Akiyama, Masato Hasegawa

Open Access Research

Microglial phenotypes and toll-like receptor 2 in the substantia nigra and hippocampus of incidental Lewy body disease cases and Parkinson’s disease patients

Karlijn J Doorn, Tim Moors, Benjamin Drukarch, Wilma DJ van de Berg, Paul J Lucassen, Anne-Marie van Dam

Open Access Research

Sequestration of latent TGF-β binding protein 1 into CADASIL-related Notch3-ECD deposits

Jessica Kast, Patrizia Hanecker, Nathalie Beaufort, Armin Giese, Anne Joutel, Martin Dichgans, Christian Opherk, Christof Haffner

Open Access Research

Soluble amyloid beta levels are elevated in the white matter of Alzheimer’s patients, independent of cortical plaque severity

Lyndsey E Collins-Praino, Yitshak I Francis, Erica Y Griffith, Anne F Wiegman, Jonathan Urbach, Arlene Lawton, Lawrence S Honig, Etty Cortes, Jean Paul G Vonsattel, Peter D Canoll, James E Goldman, Adam M Brickman

Open Access Research

Discrepancy in CCL2 and CCR2 expression in white versus grey matter hippocampal lesions of Multiple Sclerosis patients

Marloes Prins, Ranjan Dutta, Bart Baselmans, John J P Brevé, John G J M Bol, Sadie A Deckard, Paul van der Valk, Sandra Amor, Bruce D Trapp, Helga E de Vries, Benjamin Drukarch, Anne-Marie van Dam

Open Access Review

Axonal degeneration in multiple sclerosis: can we predict and prevent permanent disability?

Jae Young Lee, Kasra Taghian, Steven Petratos

Open Access Research

Protease-resistant SOD1 aggregates in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis demonstrated by paraffin-embedded tissue (PET) blot

Petra Steinacker, Christian Berner, Dietmar R Thal, Johannes Attems, Albert C Ludolph, Markus Otto

Open Access Research

Amyloid β and Tau Alzheimer’s disease related pathology is reduced by Toll-like receptor 9 stimulation

Henrieta Scholtzova, Peter Chianchiano, Jason Pan, Yanjie Sun, Fernando Goñi, Pankaj D Mehta, Thomas Wisniewski

Open Access Research

Hirano body expression impairs spatial working memory in a novel mouse model

Matthew Furgerson, Jason K. Clark, Jonathon D. Crystal, John J. Wagner, Marcus Fechheimer, Ruth Furukawa

Open Access Research

Integrated multi-cohort transcriptional meta-analysis of neurodegenerative diseases

Matthew D Li, Terry C Burns, Alexander A Morgan, Purvesh Khatri

Open Access Research

Behavioral deficits, early gliosis, dysmyelination and synaptic dysfunction in a mouse model of mucolipidosis IV

Yulia Grishchuk, Sarmi Sri, Nikita Rudinskiy, Weiyuan Ma, Katherine G. Stember, Matthew W. Cottle, Ellen Sapp, Marian Difiglia, Alona Muzikansky, Rebecca A. Betensky, Andrew M. S. Wong, Brian J. Bacskai, Bradley T. Hyman, Raymond J. Kelleher, Jonathan D. Cooper, Susan A. Slaugenhaupt

Open Access Research

MotorPlex provides accurate variant detection across large muscle genes both in single myopathic patients and in pools of DNA samples

Marco Savarese, Giuseppina Di Fruscio, Margherita Mutarelli, Annalaura Torella, Francesca Magri, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Giacomo Pietro Comi, Claudio Bruno, Vincenzo Nigro

Open Access Research

Relocation of p25α/tubulin polymerization promoting protein from the nucleus to the perinuclear cytoplasm in the oligodendroglia of sporadic and COQ2 mutant multiple system atrophy

Kiyobumi Ota, Masato Obayashi, Kokoro Ozaki, Shizuko Ichinose, Akiyoshi Kakita, Mari Tada, Hitoshi Takahashi, Noboru Ando, Yoshinobu Eishi, Hidehiro Mizusawa, Kinya Ishikawa

Open Access Research

New α- and γ-synuclein immunopathological lesions in human brain

Irina Surgucheva, Kathy L. Newell, Jeffrey Burns, Andrei Surguchov

Open Access Case report

Axial mitochondrial myopathy in a patient with rapidly progressive adult-onset scoliosis

Annie Hiniker, Lee-Jun Wong, Sigurd Berven, Cavatina K Truong, Adekunle M Adesina, Marta Margeta

Open Access Methodology article

Categorization of multiple sclerosis relapse subtypes by B cell profiling in the blood

Christopher Hohmann, Bianca Milles, Michael Schinke, Michael Schroeter, Jochen Ulzheimer, Peter Kraft, Christoph Kleinschnitz, Paul V Lehmann, Stefanie Kuerten

Open Access Review

Inconsistencies and Controversies Surrounding the Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease

Gary P Morris, Ian A Clark, Bryce Vissel

Open Access Research

Dystonia type 6 gene product Thap1: identification of a 50 kDa DNA-binding species in neuronal nuclear fractions

Maitane Ortiz-Virumbrales, Marta Ruiz, Eugene Hone, Georgia Dolios, Rong Wang, Andrika Morant, Jessica Kottwitz, Laurie J Ozelius, Sam Gandy, Michelle E Ehrlich

Open Access Research

Stereological study of the neuronal number and volume of 38 brain subdivisions of subjects diagnosed with autism reveals significant alterations restricted to the striatum, amygdala and cerebellum

Jerzy Wegiel, Michael Flory, Izabela Kuchna, Krzysztof Nowicki, Shuang Yong Ma, Humi Imaki, Jarek Wegiel, Ira L Cohen, Eric London, Thomas Wisniewski, William Ted Brown

Open Access Research

β-amyloid induces a dying-back process and remote trans-synaptic alterations in a microfluidic-based reconstructed neuronal network

Bérangére Deleglise, Sebastien Magnifico, Eric Duplus, Pauline Vaur, Vanessa Soubeyre, Morgane Belle, Maeva Vignes, Jean-Louis Viovy, Etienne Jacotot, Jean-Michel Peyrin, Bernard Brugg

Open Access Review

Microglial pathology

Wolfgang J Streit, Qing-Shan Xue, Jasmin Tischer, Ingo Bechmann

Open Access Research

Abundant kif21b is associated with accelerated progression in neurodegenerative diseases

Karim L Kreft, Marjan van Meurs, Annet F Wierenga-Wolf, Marie-Jose Melief, Miriam E van Strien, Elly M Hol, Ben A Oostra, Jon D Laman, Rogier Q Hintzen

Open Access Research

Traumatic brain injury causes selective, CD74-dependent peripheral lymphocyte activation that exacerbates neurodegeneration

Richard P Tobin, Sanjib Mukherjee, Jessica M Kain, Susannah K Rogers, Stephanie K Henderson, Heather L Motal, M Karen Newell Rogers, Lee A Shapiro

Open Access Research

Pax3 expression enhances PDGF-B-induced brainstem gliomagenesis and characterizes a subset of brainstem glioma

Katherine L. Misuraca, Kelly L. Barton, Alexander Chung, Alexander K. Diaz, Simon J. Conway, David L. Corcoran, Suzanne J. Baker, Oren J. Becher

Open Access Research article

Frequent and symmetric deposition of misfolded tau oligomers within presynaptic and postsynaptic terminals in Alzheimer’s disease

Hwan-Ching Tai, Bo Y Wang, Alberto Serrano-Pozo, Matthew P Frosch, Tara L Spires-Jones, Bradley T Hyman

Open Access Research

p38 MAP kinase-mediated NMDA receptor-dependent suppression of hippocampal hypersynchronicity in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Arne A Ittner, Amadeus Gladbach, Josefine Bertz, Lisa S Suh, Lars M Ittner

Open Access Case report

Oncogenic codon 13 NRAS mutation in a primary mesenchymal brain neoplasm and nevus of a child with neurocutaneous melanosis

Francis Shih, Stephen Yip, Patrick J McDonald, Albert E Chudley, Marc R Del Bigio

Open Access Research

The prion protein protease sensitivity, stability and seeding activity in variably protease sensitive prionopathy brain tissue suggests molecular overlaps with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Alexander H Peden, Deep P Sarode, Carl R Mulholland, Marcelo A Barria, Diane L Ritchie, James W Ironside, Mark W Head

Open Access Research

Myofiber HLA-DR expression is a distinctive biomarker for antisynthetase-associated myopathy

Jessie Aouizerate, Marie De Antonio, Guillaume Bassez, Romain K Gherardi, Francis Berenbaum, Loïc Guillevin, Alice Berezne, Dominique Valeyre, Thierry Maisonobe, Odile Dubourg, Anne Cosnes, Olivier Benveniste, François Jérôme Authier

Open Access Letter to the Editor

Decontamination of medical devices from pathological amyloid-β-, tau- and α-synuclein aggregates

Achim Thomzig, Katja Wagenführ, Martin L Daus, Marion Joncic, Walter J Schulz-Schaeffer, Marc Thanheiser, Martin Mielke, Michael Beekes

Open Access Research

Altered lipid levels provide evidence for myelin dysfunction in multiple system atrophy

Anthony S Don, Jen-Hsiang T Hsiao, Jonathan M Bleasel, Timothy A Couttas, Glenda M Halliday, Woojin Scott Kim

Open Access Research

Accumulation of 2-hydroxyglutarate in gliomas correlates with survival: a study by 3.0-tesla magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Manabu Natsumeda, Hironaka Igarashi, Toshiharu Nomura, Ryosuke Ogura, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Hiroshi Aoki, Kouichirou Okamoto, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Tsutomu Nakada, Yukihiko Fujii

Open Access Research

Hippocampal changes produced by overexpression of the human CHRNA5/A3/B4 gene cluster may underlie cognitive deficits rescued by nicotine in transgenic mice

Susanna Molas, Thomas Gener, Jofre Güell, Mairena Martín, Inmaculada Ballesteros-Yáñez, Maria V Sanchez-Vives, Mara Dierssen

Open Access Research

The role of Galectin-3 in α-synuclein-induced microglial activation

Antonio Boza-Serrano, Juan F Reyes, Nolwen L Rey, Hakon Leffler, Luc Bousset, Ulf Nilsson, Patrik Brundin, Jose Luis Venero, Miguel Angel Burguillos, Tomas Deierborg

Open Access Research

Decreased EAAT2 protein expression in the essential tremor cerebellar cortex

Michelle Lee, Melody M Cheng, Chi-Ying Lin, Elan D Louis, Phyllis L Faust, Sheng-Han Kuo

Open Access Research

Neuropathological features of genetically confirmed DYT1 dystonia: investigating disease-specific inclusions

Reema Paudel, Aoife Kiely, Abi Li, Tammaryn Lashley, Rina Bandopadhyay, John Hardy, Hyder A Jinnah, Kailash Bhatia, Henry Houlden, Janice L Holton

Open Access Research

The problem of axonal injury in the brains of veterans with histories of blast exposure

Jiwon Ryu, Iren Horkayne-Szakaly, Leyan Xu, Olga Pletnikova, Francesco Leri, Charles Eberhart, Juan C Troncoso, Vassilis E Koliatsos

Open Access Letter to the Editor

FMRpolyG-positive inclusions in CNS and non-CNS organs of a fragile X premutation carrier with fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome

Ronald AM Buijsen, Chantal Sellier, Lies-Anne WFM Severijnen, Mustapha Oulad-Abdelghani, Rob FM Verhagen, Robert F Berman, Nicolas Charlet-Berguerand, Rob Willemsen, Renate K Hukema

Open Access Research

Treg cells mediate recovery from EAE by controlling effector T cell proliferation and motility in the CNS

Michail Koutrolos, Kerstin Berer, Naoto Kawakami, Hartmut Wekerle, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy

Open Access Research

Germline mutations in RYR1 are associated with foetal akinesia deformation sequence/lethal multiple pterygium syndrome

Arthur B McKie, Atif Alsaedi, Julie Vogt, Kyra E Stuurman, Marjan M Weiss, Hassan Shakeel, Louise Tee, Neil V Morgan, Peter G J Nikkels, Gijs van Haaften, Soo-Mi Park, Jasper J van der Smagt, Marianna Bugiani, Eamonn R Maher

Open Access Research

Immunoreactivity of valosin-containing protein in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and in a case of its novel mutant

Takashi Ayaki, Hidefumi Ito, Hiroko Fukushima, Takeshi Inoue, Takayuki Kondo, Akito Ikemoto, Takeshi Asano, Akemi Shodai, Takuji Fujita, Satoshi Fukui, Hiroyuki Morino, Satoshi Nakano, Hirofumi Kusaka, Hirofumi Yamashita, Masafumi Ihara, Riki Matsumoto, Jun Kawamata, Makoto Urushitani, Hideshi Kawakami, Ryosuke Takahashi

Open Access Research

Astroglial PGC-1alpha increases mitochondrial antioxidant capacity and suppresses inflammation: implications for multiple sclerosis

Philip G Nijland, Maarten E Witte, Bert van het Hof, Susanne van der Pol, Jan Bauer, Hans Lassmann, Paul van der Valk, Helga E de Vries, Jack van Horssen

Open Access Research Article

Transcript profiling of different types of multiple sclerosis lesions yields FGF1 as a promoter of remyelination

Hema Mohan, Anita Friese, Stefanie Albrecht, Markus Krumbholz, Christina L Elliott, Ariel Arthur, Ramesh Menon, Cinthia Farina, Andreas Junker, Christine Stadelmann, Susan C Barnett, Inge Huitinga, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Hans Lassmann, Tanja Kuhlmann, Chris Linington, Edgar Meinl

Open Access Research

Ultrastructural differences in pretangles between Alzheimer disease and corticobasal degeneration revealed by comparative light and electron microscopy

Shinsui Tatsumi, Toshiki Uchihara, Ikuko Aiba, Yasushi Iwasaki, Maya Mimuro, Ryosuke Takahashi, Mari Yoshida

Open Access Letter to the Editor

RETRACTED ARTICLE: A new inducible transgenic mouse model for C9orf72-associated GGGGCC repeat expansion supports a gain-of-function mechanism in C9orf72-associated ALS and FTD

Renate K Hukema, Fréderike W Riemslagh, Shamiram Melhem, Herma C van der Linde, Lies-Anne WFM Severijnen, Dieter Edbauer, Alex Maas, Nicolas Charlet-Berguerand, Rob Willemsen, John C van Swieten

Open Access Review

Models of α-synuclein aggregation in Parkinson’s disease

Rosa María Giráldez-Pérez, Mónica Antolín-Vallespín, María Dolores Muñoz, Amelia Sánchez-Capelo

Open Access Research

Mitochondrial abnormalities and low grade inflammation are present in the skeletal muscle of a minority of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; an observational myopathology study

Safa Al-Sarraj, Andrew King, Matt Cleveland, Pierre-François Pradat, Andrea Corse, Jeffrey D Rothstein, Peter Nigel Leigh, Bams Abila, Stewart Bates, Jens Wurthner, Vincent Meininger

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Analysis of microRNA from archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Koichi Wakabayashi, Fumiaki Mori, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Jun Utsumi, Hidenao Sasaki

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Spontaneous white matter damage, cognitive decline and neuroinflammation in middle-aged hypertensive rats: an animal model of early-stage cerebral small vessel disease

Daniel Kaiser, Gesa Weise, Karoline Möller, Johanna Scheibe, Claudia Pösel, Sebastian Baasch, Matthias Gawlitza, Donald Lobsien, Kai Diederich, Jens Minnerup, Alexander Kranz, Johannes Boltze, Daniel-Christoph Wagner

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Glial cells in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy

Nádia Pereira Gonçalves, Susete Costelha, Maria João Saraiva

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Silencing BMI1 eliminates tumor formation of pediatric glioma CD133+ cells not by affecting known targets but by down-regulating a novel set of core genes

Patricia A Baxter, Qi Lin, Hua Mao, Mari Kogiso, Xiumei Zhao, Zhigang Liu, Yulun Huang, Horatiu Voicu, Sivashankarappa Gurusiddappa, Jack M Su, Adekunle M Adesina, Laszlo Perlaky, Robert C Dauser, Hon-chiu Eastwood Leung, Karin M Muraszko, Jason A Heth, Xing Fan, Ching C Lau, Tsz-Kwong Man, Murali Chintagumpala, Xiao-Nan Li

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Glucose transporter 3 is a rab11-dependent trafficking cargo and its transport to the cell surface is reduced in neurons of CAG140 Huntington’s disease mice

Hollis McClory, Dana Williams, Ellen Sapp, Leah W Gatune, Ping Wang, Marian DiFiglia, Xueyi Li

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TDP-43 pathology in the basal forebrain and hypothalamus of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Matthew D Cykowski, Hidehiro Takei, Paul E Schulz, Stanley H Appel, Suzanne Z Powell

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Sporadic hemangioblastomas are characterized by cryptic VHL inactivation

Ganesh M Shankar, Amaro Taylor-Weiner, Nina Lelic, Robert T Jones, James C Kim, Joshua M Francis, Malak Abedalthagafi, Lawrence F Borges, Jean-Valery Coumans, William T Curry, Brian V Nahed, John H Shin, Sun Ha Paek, Sung-Hye Park, Chip Stewart, Michael S Lawrence, Kristian Cibulskis, Aaron R Thorner, Paul Van Hummelen, Anat O Stemmer-Rachamimov, Tracy T Batchelor, Scott L Carter, Mai P Hoang, Sandro Santagata, David N Louis, Fred G Barker, Matthew Meyerson, Gad Getz, Priscilla K Brastianos, Daniel P Cahill

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WNT activation by lithium abrogates TP53 mutation associated radiation resistance in medulloblastoma

Nataliya Zhukova, Vijay Ramaswamy, Marc Remke, Dianna C Martin, Pedro Castelo-Branco, Cindy H Zhang, Michael Fraser, Ken Tse, Raymond Poon, David JH Shih, Berivan Baskin, Peter N Ray, Eric Bouffet, Peter Dirks, Andre O von Bueren, Elke Pfaff, Andrey Korshunov, David TW Jones, Paul A Northcott, Marcel Kool, Trevor J Pugh, Scott L Pomeroy, Yoon-Jae Cho, Torsten Pietsch, Marco Gessi, Stefan Rutkowski, Laszlo Bognár, Byung-Kyu Cho, Charles G Eberhart, Cecile Faure Conter, Maryam Fouladi, Pim J French, Wieslawa A Grajkowska, Nalin Gupta, Peter Hauser, Nada Jabado, Alexandre Vasiljevic, Shin Jung, Seung-Ki Kim, Almos Klekner, Toshihiro Kumabe, Boleslaw Lach, Jeffrey R Leonard, Linda M Liau, Luca Massimi, Ian F Pollack, Young Shin Ra, Joshua B Rubin, Erwin G Van Meir, Kyu-Chang Wang, William A Weiss, Karel Zitterbart, Robert G Bristow, Benjamin Alman, Cynthia E Hawkins, David Malkin, Steven C Clifford, Stefan M Pfister, Michael D Taylor, Uri Tabori

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Longitudinal testing of hippocampal plasticity reveals the onset and maintenance of endogenous human Aß-induced synaptic dysfunction in individual freely behaving pre-plaque transgenic rats: rapid reversal by anti-Aß agents

Yingjie Qi, Igor Klyubin, Sarah C Harney, NengWei Hu, William K Cullen, Marianne K Grant, Julia Steffen, Edward N Wilson, Sonia Do Carmo, Stefan Remy, Martin Fuhrmann, Karen H Ashe, A Claudio Cuello, Michael J Rowan

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Increased 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and decreased 5-methylcytosine are indicators of global epigenetic dysregulation in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

Sama Ahsan, Eric H Raabe, Michael C Haffner, Ajay Vaghasia, Katherine E Warren, Martha Quezado, Leomar Y Ballester, Javad Nazarian, Charles G Eberhart, Fausto J Rodriguez

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The formation of tau pore-like structures is prevalent and cell specific: possible implications for the disease phenotypes

Cristian A Lasagna-Reeves, Urmi Sengupta, Diana Castillo-Carranza, Julia E Gerson, Marcos Guerrero-Munoz, Juan C Troncoso, George R Jackson, Rakez Kayed

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A new sensitive PCR assay for one-step detection of 12 IDH1/2 mutations in glioma

Aurélie Catteau, Hélène Girardi, Florence Monville, Cécile Poggionovo, Sabrina Carpentier, Véronique Frayssinet, Jesse Voss, Robert Jenkins, Blandine Boisselier, Karima Mokhtari, Marc Sanson, Hélène Peyro-Saint-Paul, Caterina Giannini

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Overcoming multiple drug resistance mechanisms in medulloblastoma

Ramadhan T Othman, Ioanna Kimishi, Tracey D Bradshaw, Lisa CD Storer, Andrey Korshunov, Stefan M Pfister, Richard G Grundy, Ian D Kerr, Beth Coyle

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Intracellular Aβ pathology and early cognitive impairments in a transgenic rat overexpressing human amyloid precursor protein: a multidimensional study

M Florencia Iulita, Simon Allard, Luise Richter, Lisa-Marie Munter, Adriana Ducatenzeiler, Christoph Weise, Sonia Do Carmo, William L Klein, Gerhard Multhaup, A Claudio Cuello

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Adenosine triphosphate drives head and neck cancer pain through P2X2/3 heterotrimers

Yi Ye, Kentaro Ono, Daniel G Bernabé, Chi T Viet, Victoria Pickering, John C Dolan, Markus Hardt, Anthony P Ford, Brian L Schmidt

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Obesity and diabetes cause cognitive dysfunction in the absence of accelerated β-amyloid deposition in a novel murine model of mixed or vascular dementia

Dana M Niedowicz, Valerie L Reeves, Thomas L Platt, Katharina Kohler, Tina L Beckett, David K Powell, Tiffany L Lee, Travis R Sexton, Eun Suk Song, Lawrence D Brewer, Caitlin S Latimer, Susan D Kraner, Kara L Larson, Sabire Ozcan, Christopher M Norris, Louis B Hersh, Nada M Porter, Donna M Wilcock, Michael Paul Murphy

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Characterization of tau oligomeric seeds in progressive supranuclear palsy

Julia E Gerson, Urmi Sengupta, Cristian A Lasagna-Reeves, Marcos J Guerrero-Muñoz, Juan Troncoso, Rakez Kayed

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High-throughput, automated quantification of white matter neurons in mild malformation of cortical development in epilepsy

Joan YW Liu, Matthew Ellis, Hannah Brooke-Ball, Jane de Tisi, Sofia H Eriksson, Sebastian Brandner, Sanjay M Sisodiya, Maria Thom

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Temporal dystrophic remodeling within the intrinsic cardiac nervous system of the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat model

Chantalle E Menard, Melanie Durston, Elena Zherebitskaya, Darrell R Smith, Darren Freed, Gordon W Glazner, Ganghong Tian, Paul Fernyhough, Rakesh C Arora

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Platelets, a reliable source for peripheral Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers?

Michael Veitinger, Balazs Varga, Sheila B Guterres, Maria Zellner

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Brain distribution of dipeptide repeat proteins in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and motor neurone disease associated with expansions in C9ORF72

Yvonne S Davidson, Holly Barker, Andrew C Robinson, Jennifer C Thompson, Jenny Harris, Claire Troakes, Bradley Smith, Safa Al-Saraj, Chris Shaw, Sara Rollinson, Masami Masuda-Suzukake, Masato Hasegawa, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Julie S Snowden, David M Mann

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Prognostic and predictive markers in recurrent high grade glioma; results from the BR12 randomised trial

Vincent Peter Collins, Koichi Ichimura, Ying Di, Danita Pearson, Ray Chan, Lindsay C Thompson, Rhian Gabe, Michael Brada, Sally P Stenning

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Selective vulnerability of the cerebral vasculature to blast injury in a rat model of mild traumatic brain injury

Miguel A Gama Sosa, Rita De Gasperi, Pierce L Janssen, Frank J Yuk, Pamela C Anazodo, Paul E Pricop, Alejandro J Paulino, Bridget Wicinski, Michael C Shaughness, Eric Maudlin-Jeronimo, Aaron A Hall, Dara L Dickstein, Richard M McCarron, Mikulas Chavko, Patrick R Hof, Stephen T Ahlers, Gregory A Elder

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CNS-targeted glucocorticoid reduces pathology in mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Matthew C Evans, Pieter J Gaillard, Marco de Boer, Chantal Appeldoorn, Rick Dorland, Nicola R Sibson, Martin R Turner, Daniel C Anthony, Helen B Stolp

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Tau pathology does not affect experience-driven single-neuron and network-wide Arc/Arg3.1 responses

Nikita Rudinskiy, Jonathan M Hawkes, Susanne Wegmann, Kishore V Kuchibhotla, Alona Muzikansky, Rebecca A Betensky, Tara L Spires-Jones, Bradley T Hyman

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Evidence for mTOR pathway activation in a spectrum of epilepsy-associated pathologies

Joan Liu, Cheryl Reeves, Zuzanna Michalak, Antonietta Coppola, Beate Diehl, Sanjay M Sisodiya, Maria Thom

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Mutations in tubulin genes are frequent causes of various foetal malformations of cortical development including microlissencephaly

Catherine Fallet-Bianco, Annie Laquerrière, Karine Poirier, Ferechte Razavi, Fabien Guimiot, Patricia Dias, Laurence Loeuillet, Karine Lascelles, Cherif Beldjord, Nathalie Carion, Aurélie Toussaint, Nicole Revencu, Marie-Claude Addor, Benoit Lhermitte, Marie Gonzales, Jelena Martinovich, Bettina Bessieres, Maryse Marcy-Bonnière, Frédérique Jossic, Pascale Marcorelles, Philippe Loget, Jamel Chelly, Nadia Bahi-Buisson

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The identification of mitochondrial DNA variants in glioblastoma multiforme

Ka Yu Yeung, Adam Dickinson, Jacqueline F Donoghue, Galina Polekhina, Stefan J White, Dimitris K Grammatopoulos, Matthew McKenzie, Terrance G Johns, Justin C St John

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Caspase-mediated cleavage of actin and tubulin is a common feature and sensitive marker of axonal degeneration in neural development and injury

Jennifer D Sokolowski, Kanchana K Gamage, Daniel S Heffron, Andrea C LeBlanc, Christopher D Deppmann, James W Mandell

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Alpha-synuclein spreading in M83 mice brain revealed by detection of pathological α-synuclein by enhanced ELISA

Dominique Bétemps, Jérémy Verchère, Sébastien Brot, Eric Morignat, Luc Bousset, Damien Gaillard, Latifa Lakhdar, Ronald Melki, Thierry Baron

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Concomitant progressive supranuclear palsy and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a boxer

Helen Ling, Eleanna Kara, Tamas Revesz, Andrew J Lees, Gordon T Plant, Davide Martino, Henry Houlden, John Hardy, Janice L Holton

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Neuronal injury biomarkers and prognosis in ADNI subjects with normal cognition

Jon B Toledo, Michael W Weiner, David A Wolk, Xiao Da, Kewei Chen, Steven E Arnold, William Jagust, Clifford Jack, Eric M Reiman, Christos Davatzikos, Leslie M Shaw, John Q Trojanowski

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Brain-region–specific alterations of the trajectories of neuronal volume growth throughout the lifespan in autism

Jerzy Wegiel, Michael Flory, Izabela Kuchna, Krzysztof Nowicki, Shuang Yong Ma, Humi Imaki, Jarek Wegiel, Ira L Cohen, Eric London, W Ted Brown, Thomas Wisniewski