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Contents Volume 26, Issue 1, 2006 REVIEW ARTICLE Fine structure of neuronal and glial processes in neuropathology A Hirano and J Llena ORIGINAL ARTICLES Histopathological and immunohistochemical study of the enteric innervations among various types of aganglionoses including isolated and syndromic Hirschsprung disease H Matsuda, J Hirato, M Kuroiwa and Y Nakazato Characterization of initiator and effector caspase expressions in dystrophinopathies DS Tews Interleukin-6 attenuates the development of experimental diabetes-related neuropathy FE Andriambeloson, C Bailiet, P-A Vitte,G Garotta, M Dreano and N Callizot Brain stem lesions in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: A histopathological and immunohistochemical study M Shintaku, C Yutani and K Doh-ura Relationship between neuronal loss and tangle formation in neurons and oligodendroglia in progressive supranuclear palsy CJin, S Katayama, M Hiji,C Watanabe, K Noda, S Nakamura and M Matsumoto CASE REPORTS Primary rhabdoid tumor of the brain in an adult T Rezanko, M Tunakan, A Kahraman, HK Sucu, F Gelal and I Akkol Oligodendrocytes within astrocytes (“emperipolesis”) in the cerebral white matter in hepatic and hypoglycemic encephalopathy M Nishie, F Mori, H Houzen, J Yamaguchi, PH Jensen and K Wakabayashi Co-localization of B-peptide and phosphorylated tau in astrocytes in a patient with corticobasal degeneration K Wakabayashi, F Mori, M Hasegawa, T Kusumi, | Yoshimura, H Takahashi and S Kaneko Astroblastoma: [mmunohistochemical and ultrastructural study of distinctive epithelial and probable tanycytic differentiation 7 Kubota, K Sato, H Arishima, H Takeuchi, R Kitai and T Nakagawa Increased asymmetric pulvinar magnetic resonance imaging signals in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with florid plaques following a cadaveric dura mater graft Y Wakisaka, N Santa, K Doh-ura, T Kitamoto, S Ibayashi, M lida and T Iwaki Astrocytoma with pilomyxoid features presenting in an adult RJ Komotar,J Mocco, BE Zacharia, DA Wilson, PY Kim, PD Canoll and RR Goodman NEUROPATHOLOGY EDUCATION A 33-year-old man with multiple ring-enhancing lesions in the brain VS Chandan, RL Schelper, A Shrimpton, RE Hutchison and HT Chang Volume 26, Issue 2, 2006 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Expression patterns of 5-lipoxygenase in human brain with traumatic injury and astrocytoma L Zhang, W-P Zhang, H Hu, M-L Wang, W-W Sheng, H-T Yao, W Ding, Z Chen and E-Q Wei Neurofibrillary tangles and deposition of oxidative products in the brain in cases of myotonic dystrophy R Oyamada, M Hayashi, Y Katoh, K Tsuchiya, T Mizutani, | Tominaga and H Kashima Magnesium deficiency over generations in rats with special references to the pathogenesis of the parkinsonism—dementia complex and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis of Guam K Oyanagi, E Kawakami, K Kikuchi-Horie, K Ohara, K Ogata, S Takahama, M Wada, T Kihira and M Yasui Brain transplantation of human neural stem cells transduced with tyrosine hydroxylase and GTP cyclohydrolase 1 provides functional improvement in animal models of Parkinson disease SU Kim, 1H Park, TH Kim, KS Kim, HB Choi, SH Hong, JH Bang, MA Lee, IS Joo, CS Lee and YS Kim CASE REPORTS Benign osteoblastoma of the occipital bone: Case report and literature review K-S Moon, S Jung, J-H Lee, T-Y Jung, I-Y Kim, S-H Kim and S-S Kang Hypoglycemic encephalopathy with extensive lesions in the cerebral white matter F Mori, M Nishie, H Houzen, J Yamaguchi and K Wakabayashi Contents Pineal parenchymal tumors of intermediate differentiation in adults: Case report and literature review M Pusztaszeri, A Pica and R Janzer NEUROPATHOLOGY EDUCATION Fine structural study of a cerebral tumor characterized by a honeycomb appearance after a 20-year post-mortem interval T Kubota, A Hirano, R Tanaka and H Takahashi ANNOUNCEMENT 2005 Japanese Neuropathology Prize MEETING The 32nd Cliniconeuropathological Meeting of Kansai District 27-28 November 2004 ABSTRACTS The 47th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Neuropathology Volume 26, Issue 3, 2006 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Determination of genomic damage in neuroblastic tumors by arbitrarily primed PCR: MYCN amplification as a marker for genomic instability in neuroblastomas J Mufoz, E Vendrell,G Aiza, M Nistal, A Pestaiia, MA Peinado and JS Castresana TrkA expression is associated with an elevated level of apoptosis in classic medulloblastomas 7 Ohta, T Watanabe, Y Katayama, J Kurihara, A Yoshino, H Nishimoto and H Kishimoto Effects of cotransfection of antisense-EGFR and wild-type PTEN cDNA on human glioblastoma cells }X-X Tian, Y-G Zhang, JD u, W-G Fang, H-K Ng and J Zheng Neuropathology induced by infection with Friend murine leukemia viral clone A8-V depends upon the level of viral antigen expression R Watanabe and S Takase-Yoden Increased neuronal expression of alpha B-crystallin in human olivary hypertrophy K Fukushima, Y Mizuno, M Takatama and K Okamoto CASE REPORTS Aggressive intracranial and extra-cranial epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: A case report and review of the literature AL Fernandes, B Ratilal, M Mafra and C Magalhaes Papillary glioneuronal tumor radiologically mimicking a cavernous hemangioma with hemorrhagic onset AM Buccoliero, F Giordano, F Mussa, A Taddei, L Genitoriand GL Taddei Pineal parenchymal tumor of intermediate differentiation with cytologic pleomorphism A Sasaki, K Horiguchi and Y Nakazato EAST ASIA FRIENDSHIP WORKSHOP Clinico-neuropathological study of a Chinese case of familial adult Leigh syndrome Y-S Piao, G-C Tang, H Yang and D-H Lu Pick’s disease with Pick bodies combined with progressive supranuclear palsy without tuft-shaped astrocytes: A clinical, neuroradiologic and pathological study of an autopsied case L-N Wang, M-W Zhu, Y-Q Feng and J-H Wang Wernicke’s encephalopathy in nonalcoholic patients: Clinical and pathologic features of three cases and literature reviewed Q-P Gui,W-Q Zhao and L-N Wang Bilateral perisylvian ulegyria: Clinicopathological study of patients presenting with pseudobulbar palsy and epilepsy H-I Kim, M-C Lee, J-S Lee, H-S Kim, M-K Kim, Y-J Woo, J-H Kim, S Jung, A Palmini and SU Kim Papillary glioneuronal tumor:A clinicopathological and immunohisiochemical study of two cases _L Chen, Y-S Piao, Q-Z Xu, X-P Yang, H Yangand D-H Lu Histopathological study of five cases with sporadic meningioangiomatosis Y Wang, X Gao, Z-W Yao, H Chen, J-J Zhu, S-X Wang, M-S Gao, L-F Zhou and F-L Zhang Permeability of injured blood brain barrier for exogenous bFGF and protection mechanism of bFGF in rat brain ischemia Y Liu, J-B Lu and Z-R Ye Contents NEUROPATHOLOGY EDUCATION A 62-year-old man with a family history of dementia, showing dementia and parkinsonism, presented with personality change and behavioral abnormality E /seki and T Togo MEETINGS The 3ist Neuropathological Meeting of Joh-shin-etsu District 29 October 2005 The 33rd Cliniconeuropathological Meeting of Kansai District 26-27 November 2005 The 91st Neuropathological Meeting of Kyushu District 17 December 2005 Volume 26, Issue 4, 2006 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Affinity of corpora amylacea for oligonucleotides: Sequence dependency and proteinaceous binding motif /A Balea, P Illes and R Schober Heterogeneous hyperactivity and distribution of ischemic lesions after focal cerebral ischemia in Mongolian gerbils N Katsumata, T Kuroiwa, S Ishibashi, § Li, S Endo and K Ohno Vascular complications in dementia with Lewy bodies: A postmortem study D Isojima, T Togo, K Kosaka, H Fujishiro, H Akatsu, O Katsuse, S Iritani, T Matsumoto and Y Hirayasu Role of endoglin and transforming growth factor-beta in progressive white matter damage after an ischemic stroke D Dziewulska and J Rafatowska Interleukin-18 and transforming growth factor-beta | plasma levels in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia L Malaguarnera, M Motta, M Di Rosa, M Anzaldi and M Malaguarnera CASE REPORTS Autopsy case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with Met/Val heterozygosity at codon 129 and type | protease-resistant prion protein presenting some florid-type plaques and many Kuru plaques in the cerebellum Y Kawauchi, T Kamitani, S Yagishita, T Kitamoto and H Kishida Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma with calcification M Bhardwaj, A Sharma and HK Pal Chronic superior sagittal sinus thrombosis with phlebosclerotic changes of the subarachnoid and intracerebral veins M Shintaku and N Yasui Acute motor and sensory neuronopathy associated with small-cell lung cancer: A clinicopathological study K Nokura, M Nagamatsu, T Inagaki, H Yamamoto, H Koga, K Sugimura, M Yoshida and Y Hashizume SYMPOSIUMT:HE FRONTIER OF SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION Cellular pathology in multiple system atrophy K Wakabayashi and H Takahashi Polyglutamine disease: Recent advances in the neuropathology of dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy M Yamada, M Shimohata, T Sato, S Tsuji and H Takahashi On autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) other than polyglutamine diseases, with special reference to chromosome 16q22.1-linked ADCA = K Ishikawa and H Mizusawa Spinocerebellar ataxia with ocular motor apraxia and DNA repair O Onodera Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay Y Takiyama NEUROPATHOLOGY EDUCATION Predominant motor symptoms in a 74-year-old man with a small elongation in the spinocerebellar atrophy type | gene T Uchihara, T Kobayashi and H Mizusawa LETTER TO THE EDITOR Pacinian corpuscle ina lymph node O Aydin Volume 26, Issue 5, 2006 REVIEW ARTICLE Chaperone and anti-chaperone: Two-faced synuclein as stimulator of synaptic evolution M Fujita, J Wei, M Nakai, E Masliah and M Hashimoto Contents ORIGINAL ARTICLES Quantitative mRNA expression analysis of neurotrophin-receptor TrkC and oncogene c-MYC from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded primitive neuroectodermal tumor samples F Kunz, T Shalaby, D Lang, A von Biiren, JA Hainfellner, I Slave, G Tabatabai and MA Grotzer Olfactory neuroepithelioma: An immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study Y Sugita, K Kusano, O Tokunaga, T Mineta, M Abe, H Harada and M Shigemori Oligonucleotide DNA chips are useful adjuncts in epigenetic studies of glioblastomas B Kim, H Kim, BJ Song, SH Cha, MO Lee and S-H Park Heterogeneous inclusions in neurofilament inclusion disease H Uchikado, A Li, W-L Lin and DW Dickson Expression of cyclo-oxygenase-2 in ependymal tumors AA Roma and RA Prayson CASE REPORTS Report on the first Chinese family with Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease manifesting the codon 102 mutation in the prion protein gene Y Wang, X-Y Qiao, C-B Zhao, X Gao, Z-W Yao, L Qi and C-Z Lu Severe cortical involvement in MV2 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: An autopsy case report K Ishihara, M Sugie, J-i Shiota, M Kawamura, T Kitamoto and I Nakano Rapidly enlarging chordoid meningioma with abundant mucin production S Hasegawa, S Yoshioka, S Urabe and J-i Kuratsu BCR gene disruption in a pilomyxoid astrocytoma B Meléndez, C Fiaho, Y Ruano, JL Hernandez-Moneo, M Mollejo and P Martinez An autopsy case of frontotemporal dementia with severe dysarthria and motor neuron disease showing numerous basophilic inclusions K Ishihara, S Araki, N lhori, J-i Shiota, M Kawamura and I Nakano SYMPOSIUM: TAUOPATHIES: UPDATE AND PERSPECTIVES Tauopathy: An overview T /watsubo Cellular tau pathology and immunohistochemical study of tau isoforms in sporadic tauopathies M Yoshida Neuropathology of familialtauopathy Y Tsuboi Ultrastructural characteristics of tau filaments in tauopathies: Immuno-electron microscopic demonstration of tau filaments in tauopathies K Arima Biochemistry and molecular biology of tauopathies M Hasegawa Animal models of tauopathies M Higuchi, TC Saido and T Suhara NEUROPATHOLOGY EDUCATION An autopsied case of a 10-month-old baby with hepatosplenomegaly, high fever and necrotizing encephalopathy WNA rai, T Takahashi and Y Inayama Volume 26, Issue 6, 2006 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Differential expression of glycans in the hippocampus of rats trained on an inhibitory learning paradigm A Hidalgo, V Burgos, H Viola, J Medina and P Argibay Quantitative analysis of neurofibrillary pathology in a general population to reappraise neuropathological criteria for senile dementia of the neurofibrillary tangle type (tangle-only dementia)T:h e Hisayama study K Noda, K Sasaki, K Fujimi, Y Wakisaka, Y Tanizaki, Y Wakugawa, Y Kiyohara, M lida, H Aizawa and T Iwaki Expression of Ki-67, Topoisomerase Ilo and c-MYC in astrocytic tumors: Correlation with the histopathological grade and proliferative status §MHG Faria, BPA Goncalves, RM do SV do Patrocinio, MO de Moraes-Filho and SHB Rabenhorst Locus ceruleus degeneration is ubiquitous in Alzheimer’s disease: Possible implications for diagnosis and treatment M Haglund, M Sjébeck and E Englund Age-related changes in histogram pattern of anterior horn cells in human cervical spinal cord Y Anamizu, A Seichi, N Tsuzuki and K Nakamura Causes of neuronal heterotopia other than migration disturbances A Hori Mechanism of cerebral fat embolism in subarachnoid hemorrhage: An experimental study MD Aydin, D Kotan, N Aydin, C Gundogdu, A Onder and F Akcay Contents CASE REPORTS Autopsy case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease presenting with signs suggestive of brainstem and spinal cord involvement Y /wasaki, M lijima, S Kimura, M Yoshida, Y Hashizume, M Yamada, T Kitamoto and G Sobue Solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit: Morphological, cytogenetic and molecular features M Cerdé-Nicolas, C Lépez-Gines, R Gil-Benso, R Benito, A Pellin, A Ruiz-Sauri, J Sanchos-Garcia, P Roldan, F Talamantes and J Barbera Low-grade follicular lymphoma in the dura: Rare mimic of meningioma / Low anJ dAll en Corticobasal degeneration as cause of progressive non-fluent aphasia: Clinical, radiological and pathological study of an autopsy case M Takao, K Tsuchiya, M Mimura, S Momoshima, H Kondo, H Akiyama, N Suzuki, B Mihara, Y Takagi and A Koto Autopsy case of neuro-Behcet’s disease with multifocal neutrophilic perivascular inflammation Y Arai, S Kohno, Y Takahashi, Y Miyajima and Y Tsutusi Pathological and biochemical studies on a case of Pick disease with severe white matter atrophy K Yamakawa, M Takanashi, M Watanabe, N Nakamura, T Kobayashi, M Hasegawa, Y Mizuno, S Tanaka and H Mori NEUROPATHOLOGY EDUCATION A 52-year-old man with hypohidrosis J Shimizu, M Hashimoto, S Murayama and S Tsuji ANNOUNCEMENT 2006 Japanese Neuropathology Prize MEETINGS The 40th Neuropathological Meeting of Hokkaido District 3 March 2606 The 92nd Neuropathological Meeting of Kyushu District 22 July 2006 Reviewers