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The relationship between extramotor ubiquitin-immunoreactive neuronal inclusions and dementia in motor neuron diseaseIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Avenue, Canada V5Z 1M9
Acta Neuropathol 105:98-102. 2003..Such cases may either represent a subclinical stage of pathology or indicate that cognitive dysfunction is an underrecognized complication of MND...
The neuropathology of frontotemporal lobar degeneration caused by mutations in the progranulin geneIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Vancouver, BC, Canada
Brain 129:3081-90. 2006..These findings suggest that FTD caused by PGRN mutations has a recognizable pathology with the most characteristic feature being ub-ir NII...
Manson's schistosomiasis presenting as a brain tumor. Case reportI R Mackenzie
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Neurosurg 89:1052-4. 1998..This case demonstrates that neuroschistosomiasis should be considered when an individual presenting with an intracerebral mass has lived in a region in which this disease is endemic...
Anti-inflammatory drugs and Alzheimer-type pathology in agingI R Mackenzie
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Canada
Neurology 54:732-4. 2000....
Postmortem studies of the effect of anti-inflammatory drugs on Alzheimer-type pathology and associated inflammationI R Mackenzie
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Neurobiol Aging 22:819-22. 2001..The results of these and future postmortem studies will be invaluable in the development of optimum treatment strategies...
Neuronal intranuclear inclusions distinguish familial FTD-MND type from sporadic casesIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Avenue, V5Z 1M9, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Acta Neuropathol 105:543-8. 2003....
Extrapyramidal features in patients with motor neuron disease and dementia; a clinicopathological correlative studyIan R Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia, 855 West 12th Avenue, V5Z 1M9, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Acta Neuropathol 107:336-40. 2004..This study illustrates the utility of ubiquitin immunohistochemistry in demonstrating the range of pathology in MND and provides a neuropathological correlate for the extrapyramidal features which may occur in MND with dementia...
Neurofilament inclusion body disease with early onset frontotemporal dementia and primary lateral sclerosisI R A Mackenzie
Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Clin Neuropathol 23:183-93. 2004..In addition, it extends the clinical phenotype of NIBD to include PLS and better defines the anatomical distribution and morphology of the pathological lesions...
Neuronal intranuclear inclusions distinguish familial FTD-MND type from sporadic casesIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 17:333-6. 2004....
Progranulin expression in the developing and adult murine brainTerri L Petkau
Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, and Children s and Women s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 4H4
J Comp Neurol 518:3931-47. 2010..Our results suggest that progranulin plays distinct roles in neurons and microglia, both of which likely contribute to overall neuronal health and function...
The molecular genetics and neuropathology of frontotemporal lobar degeneration: recent developmentsIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada
Neurogenetics 8:237-48. 2007..It is anticipated that these discoveries will facilitate the development of new diagnostic tests and therapeutics...
TDP-43 in familial and sporadic frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin inclusionsNigel J Cairns
MRCPath, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8118, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Pathol 171:227-40. 2007....
Neuropathologic diagnostic and nosologic criteria for frontotemporal lobar degeneration: consensus of the Consortium for Frontotemporal Lobar DegenerationNigel J Cairns
Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8118, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO, 63110, USA
Acta Neuropathol 114:5-22. 2007..These criteria will be of value to the practicing neuropathologist and provide a foundation for clinical, clinico-pathologic, mechanistic studies and in vivo models of pathogenesis of FTLD...
Atypical frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive, TDP-43-negative neuronal inclusionsIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 1M9 Canada
Brain 131:1282-93. 2008..Moreover, the existence of such cases indicates that the designations of 'FTLD-U' and 'TDP-43 proteinopathy' should not be considered to be synonymous...
Ubiquitinated pathological lesions in frontotemporal lobar degeneration contain the TAR DNA-binding protein, TDP-43Yvonne Davidson
Clinical Neuroscience Research Group, Division of Medicine and Neuroscience, Greater Manchester Neurosciences Centre, Hope Hospital, University of Manchester, Salford, M6 8HD, UK
Acta Neuropathol 113:521-33. 2007..We conclude that the UBQ-ir lesions of FTLD and MND are defined by the presence of TDP-43, and that these disorders can be subsumed into a single disease entity under the umbrella of TDP-43 proteinopathy...
Mutations in progranulin explain atypical phenotypes with variants in MAPTStuart M Pickering-Brown
Brain 129:3124-6. 2006..Here, we demonstrate that the MAPT variants are almost certainly rare benign polymorphisms as all of these cases harbour mutations in Progranulin (PGRN). Mutations in PGRN were recently shown to cause ubiquitin-positive FTDP-17...
The neuropathology and biochemistry of frontotemporal dementiaDavid G Munoz
Department of Pathology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Ann Neurol 54:S24-8. 2003
Heterogeneity of ubiquitin pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: classification and relation to clinical phenotypeIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, V5Z 1M9, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Acta Neuropathol 112:539-49. 2006....
Dementia lacking distinctive histology (DLDH) revisitedIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 112:551-9. 2006..Hence, we conclude that DLDH is a very rare disorder, and that lack of sensitivity for UBQ immunostaining is likely responsible for the failure to disclose this pathology and to provide a diagnosis of FTLD-U...
Ubiquitin immunohistochemistry suggests classic motor neuron disease, motor neuron disease with dementia, and frontotemporal dementia of the motor neuron disease type represent a clinicopathologic spectrumIan R A Mackenzie
Division of Neuropathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 64:730-9. 2005..The only finding restricted to a specific subgroup of patients was the presence of ub-ir neuronal intranuclear inclusions in some cases of familial FTD...
TDP-43-negative FTLD-U is a significant new clinico-pathological subtype of FTLDSigrun Roeber
Center for Neuropathology and Prion Research, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Feodor Lynen Str 23, 81377, Munich, Germany
Acta Neuropathol 116:147-57. 2008..The highly consistent clinical and neuropathological phenotype supports the concept that TDP-43-negative FTLD-U should be considered as a new clinicopathological FTLD entity...
A reassessment of the neuropathology of frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 3Ida Elisabeth Holm
Department of Pathology, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 66:884-91. 2007....
Clinical presentation of prodromal frontotemporal dementiaBradley J Hallam
Division of Neurology, Geriatric Psychiatry Outreach Team, Vancouver Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 22:456-67. 2007....
The neuropathology of FTD associated With ALSIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital, British Columbia, Canada
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 21:S44-9. 2007..Together, these findings suggest that FTD-ALS is part of a clinicopathologic spectrum of disease, now identified as TDP-43 proteinopathies...
Pathological TDP-43 distinguishes sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with SOD1 mutationsIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ann Neurol 61:427-34. 2007..We recently identified TDP-43 as the major pathological protein in sporadic ALS. In this study, we investigated TDP-43 in a larger series of ALS cases (n = 111), including familial cases with and without SOD1 mutations...
The neuropathology and clinical phenotype of FTD with progranulin mutationsIan R A Mackenzie
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Acta Neuropathol 114:49-54. 2007..This degree of clinical variability makes it difficult to predict which cases of familial FTD will turn out to have a PGRN mutation...
Progranulin in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and neuroinflammationZeshan Ahmed
Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA
J Neuroinflammation 4:7. 2007....
alpha-internexin is present in the pathological inclusions of neuronal intermediate filament inclusion diseaseNigel J Cairns
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 4283, USA
Am J Pathol 164:2153-61. 2004..The discovery of alpha-internexin in the cytoplasmic inclusions implicates novel mechanisms of pathogenesis in NIFID and other neurological diseases with pathological accumulations of IFs...
alpha-Internexin aggregates are abundant in neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease (NIFID) but rare in other neurodegenerative diseasesNigel J Cairns
Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Acta Neuropathol 108:213-23. 2004..The discovery of alpha-internexin in neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions implicates novel mechanisms of pathogenesis in NIFID and other neurological diseases with pathological filamentous neuronal inclusions...
