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写真a

カキタ アキヨシ
柿田 明美
KAKITA Akiyoshi
所属
脳研究所 教授
医歯学総合研究科 生体機能調節医学専攻 教授
職名
教授
外部リンク

学位

  • 医学博士 ( 1993年9月   新潟大学 )

研究分野

  • ライフサイエンス / 神経形態学

経歴

  • 新潟大学   脳研究所 生命科学リソース研究センター 脳疾患標本資源解析学   教授

    2011年10月 - 現在

  • 新潟大学   医歯学総合研究科 医科学専攻   教授

    2011年10月 - 現在

  • 新潟大学   医歯学総合研究科 生体機能調節医学専攻   教授

    2011年10月 - 現在

  • 新潟大学   脳研究所 生命科学リソース研究センター 脳疾患標本資源解析学   准教授

    2002年4月 - 2011年9月

  • 新潟大学   脳研究所   准教授

    2000年10月 - 2002年3月

  • 新潟大学   脳研究所   助手

    1995年11月 - 2000年10月

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論文

  • Chemical Landscape for Tissue Clearing based on Hydrophilic Reagents 査読

    Kazuki Tainaka, Tatsuya C. Murakam, Etsuo A. Susaki, Chika Shimizu, Rie Saito, Kei Takahashi, Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Hiroshi Sekiya, Yasunobu Arima, Satoshi Nojima, Masako Ikemura, Tetsuo Ushiku, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Masaaki Murakami, Kenji F. Tanaka, Masamitsu Iino, Haruo Kasai, Toshikuni Sasaoka, Kazuto Kobayashi, Kohei Miyazono, Eiichi Morii, Tadashi Isa, Masashi Fukayama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroki R. Ueda

    Cell Reports   24 ( 8 )   2196 - 2210   2108年8月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Cell Press  

    We describe a strategy for developing hydrophilic chemical cocktails for tissue delipidation, decoloring, refractive index (RI) matching, and decalcification, based on comprehensive chemical profiling. More than 1,600 chemicals were screened by a high-throughput evaluation system for each chemical process. The chemical profiling revealed important chemical factors: salt-free amine with high octanol/water partition-coefficient (logP) for delipidation, N-alkylimidazole for decoloring, aromatic amide for RI matching, and protonation of phosphate ion for decalcification. The strategic integration of optimal chemical cocktails provided a series of CUBIC (clear, unobstructed brain/body imaging cocktails and computational analysis) protocols, which efficiently clear mouse organs, mouse body including bone, and even large primate and human tissues. The updated CUBIC protocols are scalable and reproducible, and they enable three-dimensional imaging of the mammalian body and large primate and human tissues. This strategy represents a future paradigm for the rational design of hydrophilic clearing cocktails that can be used for large tissues.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.07.056.

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  • SMN2 gene copy number affects the incidence and prognosis of motor neuron diseases in Japan

    Tomohiko Ishihara, Akihide Koyama, Naoki Atsuta, Mari Tada, Saori Toyoda, Kenta Kashiwagi, Sachiko Hirokawa, Yuya Hatano, Akio Yokoseki, Ryoichi Nakamura, Genki Tohnai, Yuishin Izumi, Ryuji Kaji, Mitsuya Morita, Asako Tamura, Osamu Kano, Masashi Aoki, Satoshi Kuwabara, Akiyoshi Kakita, Gen Sobue, Osamu Onodera

    BMC Medical Genomics   17 ( 1 )   2024年11月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Springer Science and Business Media LLC  

    DOI: 10.1186/s12920-024-02026-y

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  • Indications for a brain biopsy in neurological diseases of unknown etiology: The role of magnetic resonance imaging findings and liquid biopsy in yielding definitive pathological diagnoses. 国際誌

    Toshiya Kizaki, Masato Kanazawa, Takanobu Ishiguro, Manabu Natsumeda, Mari Tada, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kouichirou Okamoto, Makoto Oishi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii, Osamu Onodera

    Journal of the neurological sciences   463   123150 - 123150   2024年8月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)  

    Brain biopsies are often considered for patients who cannot be diagnosed with various laboratory test results. However, physicians tend to be hesitant regarding their application in possibly non-neoplastic brain diseases, due to the invasiveness and risks. The aim was to determine the indications for brain biopsies in cases of neurological diseases of unknown etiology. We retrospectively evaluated diagnostic accuracy, laboratory findings (including a liquid biopsy for malignant lymphoma), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics and the post-treatment outcomes of patients undergoing brain biopsies for neurological diseases of unknown etiology. The data of patients who had undergone a brain biopsy during their admission to Niigata University Hospital, between 2011 and 2024, were reviewed. Moreover, the laboratory data and MRI findings between patients with definitive and nonspecific biopsy diagnoses were compared. Twenty-six patients underwent a brain biopsy, and a definitive diagnosis was obtained in 14 patients (53.8%). Even in cases where a nonspecific diagnosis was made, biopsy findings helped rule out malignancy and guide clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions. The liquid biopsy for malignant lymphoma was performed in eight patients, with one yielding a positive result, consistent with primary central nervous system lymphoma. The sensitivity and specificity of liquid biopsy were 0.5 and 1, respectively. Diffusely contrasted cortical lesions and the presence of mass effects on MRI, were significantly associated with a definitive diagnosis, compared to a nonspecific diagnosis. In conclusion, brain MRI and liquid biopsies can assist in determining the appropriate indications for brain biopsies in neurological diseases of unknown etiology.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2024.123150

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  • Primary spinal cord gliomas: Pathologic features associated with prognosis. 国際誌

    Yuki Tanaka, Manabu Natsumeda, Masayuki Ohashi, Rie Saito, Nayuta Higa, Toshiaki Akahane, Hideki Hashidate, Junko Ito, Satoshi Fujii, Atsushi Sasaki, Akihide Tanimoto, Ryosuke Hanaya, Kei Watanabe, Makoto Oishi, Hiroyuki Kawashima, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology   2024年7月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)  

    Primary spinal cord gliomas are rare and are associated with high mortality. Unlike brain tumors, the clinicopathological features of spinal cord gliomas are not well defined. We analyzed clinical, histopathology, and immunohistochemical features and overall survival (OS) of 25 patients with primary spinal cord gliomas treated between 1994 and 2023 at 4 institutions. IDH1 R132H, H3K27M, and p53 were assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC). Four (16%), 5 (20%), 2 (8%), and 13 (52%) patients were diagnosed as having grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 gliomas according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 classification, respectively. One case (4%), with a circumscribed diffuse midline glioma, H3K27-altered, had a rare molecular profile and could not be graded. IHC demonstrated H3K27M positivity, indicative of H3F3A K27M or HIST1H3B K27M mutation, in 9 (36%) patients. H3K27me3-loss was evident in 13 (52%) patients. In one patient with a grade 1 tumor that showed negative staining for H3K27M and H3K27me3 loss, numbers of EZHIP-positive cells were increased, suggesting diffuse midline glioma, H3K27-altered (WHO grade 4). H3K27me3 loss, frequency of p53 positive cells (≥10%), MIB-1 index (≥10%), and high histopathological grades significantly correlated with poor OS. These results indicate the pathological and immunohistochemical characteristics of primary spinal cord gliomas that impact prognosis.

    DOI: 10.1093/jnen/nlae084

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  • Inherited C-terminal TREX1 variants disrupt homology-directed repair to cause senescence and DNA damage phenotypes in Drosophila, mice, and humans

    Samuel D. Chauvin, Shoichiro Ando, Joe A. Holley, Atsushi Sugie, Fang R. Zhao, Subhajit Poddar, Rei Kato, Cathrine A. Miner, Yohei Nitta, Siddharth R. Krishnamurthy, Rie Saito, Yue Ning, Yuya Hatano, Sho Kitahara, Shin Koide, W. Alexander Stinson, Jiayuan Fu, Nehalee Surve, Lindsay Kumble, Wei Qian, Oleksiy Polishchuk, Prabhakar S. Andhey, Cindy Chiang, Guanqun Liu, Ludovic Colombeau, Raphaël Rodriguez, Nicolas Manel, Akiyoshi Kakita, Maxim N. Artyomov, David C. Schultz, P. Toby Coates, Elisha D. O. Roberson, Yasmine Belkaid, Roger A. Greenberg, Sara Cherry, Michaela U. Gack, Tristan Hardy, Osamu Onodera, Taisuke Kato, Jonathan J. Miner

    Nature Communications   15 ( 1 )   2024年6月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Springer Science and Business Media LLC  

    Abstract

    Age-related microangiopathy, also known as small vessel disease (SVD), causes damage to the brain, retina, liver, and kidney. Based on the DNA damage theory of aging, we reasoned that genomic instability may underlie an SVD caused by dominant C-terminal variants in TREX1, the most abundant 3′−5′ DNA exonuclease in mammals. C-terminal TREX1 variants cause an adult-onset SVD known as retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukoencephalopathy (RVCL or RVCL-S). In RVCL, an aberrant, C-terminally truncated TREX1 mislocalizes to the nucleus due to deletion of its ER-anchoring domain. Since RVCL pathology mimics that of radiation injury, we reasoned that nuclear TREX1 would cause DNA damage. Here, we show that RVCL-associated TREX1 variants trigger DNA damage in humans, mice, and Drosophila, and that cells expressing RVCL mutant TREX1 are more vulnerable to DNA damage induced by chemotherapy and cytokines that up-regulate TREX1, leading to depletion of TREX1-high cells in RVCL mice. RVCL-associated TREX1 mutants inhibit homology-directed repair (HDR), causing DNA deletions and vulnerablility to PARP inhibitors. In women with RVCL, we observe early-onset breast cancer, similar to patients with BRCA1/2 variants. Our results provide a mechanistic basis linking aberrant TREX1 activity to the DNA damage theory of aging, premature senescence, and microvascular disease.

    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49066-7

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  • Pharmacological evaluation of E2730, a novel selective uncompetitive GAT1 inhibitor, on epileptiform activities in resected brain tissues from human focal cortical dysplasia ex vivo. 国際誌

    Hiroki Kitaura, Kazuyuki Fukushima, Masafumi Fukuda, Yosuke Ito, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Epilepsy research   202   107364 - 107364   2024年5月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)  

    Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is an important etiology of focal epilepsy in children and adults. However, only a few preclinical models sufficiently reproduce the characteristic histopathologic features of FCD. To improve the success rate of clinical trials for antiseizure medications (ASMs) in patients with FCD, more human-relevant preclinical models are needed, and epileptic foci resected from patients are a powerful tool for this purpose. Here, we conducted ex vivo studies using epileptic foci resected from patients with FCD type II to evaluate the pharmacologic effects of the ASM candidate E2730, a selective uncompetitive inhibitor of γ-aminobutyric acid transporter 1. We used the same ex vivo assay system to assess carbamazepine (CBZ), an ASM often prescribed for focal epilepsy, as a reference. At the higher dose tested (200 µM), both E2730 and CBZ suppressed spontaneous epileptiform activities almost completely. At the lower dose (100 µM), CBZ reduced the area of brain tissue showing epileptiform activity, whereas E2730 significantly decreased the number of epileptiforms. These findings suggest that E2730-both as a single agent and in combination with CBZ-merits evaluation in clinical trials involving patients with FCD.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2024.107364

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  • 頭蓋骨転移した胸部SMARCA4欠損未分化腫瘍の1例

    渋間 啓, 西田 京香, 小倉 良介, 岡田 正康, 棗田 学, 加藤 卓, 梅津 哉, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美

    Brain Tumor Pathology   41 ( Suppl. )   159 - 159   2024年5月

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:日本脳腫瘍病理学会  

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  • Stage-dependent immunity orchestrates AQP4 antibody-guided NMOSD pathology: a role for netting neutrophils with resident memory T cells in situ

    Akihiro Nakajima, Fumihiro Yanagimura, Etsuji Saji, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasuko Toyoshima, Kaori Yanagawa, Musashi Arakawa, Mariko Hokari, Akiko Yokoseki, Takahiro Wakasugi, Kouichirou Okamoto, Hirohide Takebayashi, Chihiro Fujii, Kyoko Itoh, Yo-ichi Takei, Shinji Ohara, Mitsunori Yamada, Hitoshi Takahashi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Hironaka Igarashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Osamu Onodera, Izumi Kawachi

    Acta Neuropathologica   147 ( 1 )   2024年4月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Springer Science and Business Media LLC  

    DOI: 10.1007/s00401-024-02725-x

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  • Recent advances in liquid biopsy of central nervous system lymphomas: case presentations and review of the literature

    Manabu Natsumeda, Satoshi Shibuma, Haruhiko Takahashi, Jotaro On, Yoshihiro Mouri, Kaoru Tomikawa, Hidemoto Fujiwara, Jun Watanabe, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Masayasu Okada, Rui Takeda, Hiroshi Shimizu, Jun Takizawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Makoto Oishi

    Brain Tumor Pathology   41 ( 2 )   85 - 91   2024年4月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Springer Science and Business Media LLC  

    DOI: 10.1007/s10014-024-00483-y

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  • Acute respiratory failure caused by brainstem demyelinating lesions in an older patient with an atypical relapsing autoimmune disorder

    Shoko Hongo, Hiroshi Shimizu, Etsuji Saji, Akihiro Nakajima, Kouichirou Okamoto, Izumi Kawachi, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology   2024年4月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Wiley  

    An 84‐year‐old man presented with somnolence, dysphagia, and right hemiplegia, all occurring within a month, approximately one year after initial admission due to subacute, transient cognitive decline suggestive of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis involving the cerebral white matter. Serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies over that period revealed three high‐intensity signal lesions on fluid‐attenuated inversion recovery images, appearing in chronological order in the left upper and left lower medulla oblongata and left pontine base. Despite some clinical improvement following methylprednisolone pulse therapy, the patient died of respiratory failure. Autopsy revealed four fresh, well‐defined lesions in the brainstem, three of which corresponded to the lesions detected radiologically. The remaining lesion was located in the dorsal medulla oblongata and involved the right solitary nucleus. This might have appeared at a later disease stage, eventually causing respiratory failure. Histologically, all four lesions showed loss of myelin, preservation of axons, and infiltration of lymphocytes, predominantly CD8‐positive T cells, consistent with the histological features of autoimmune demyelinating diseases, particularly the confluent demyelination observed in the early and acute phases of multiple sclerosis (MS). In the cerebral white matter, autoimmune demyelination appeared superimposed on ischemic changes, consistent with the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and MRI findings on initial admission. No anti‐AQP4 or MOG antibodies or those potentially causing autoimmune encephalitis/demyelination were detected in either the serum or CSF. Despite several similarities to MS, such as the relapsing–remitting disease course and lesion histology, the entire clinicopathological picture in the present patient, especially the advanced age at onset and development of brainstem lesions in close proximity within a short time frame, did not fit those of MS or other autoimmune diseases that are currently established. The present results suggest that exceptionally older individuals can be affected by an as yet unknown inflammatory demyelinating disease of the CNS.

    DOI: 10.1111/neup.12976

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  • Availability of individual proteins for quantitative analysis in postmortem brains preserved in two different brain banks

    Atsuko Nagaoka, Mizuki Hino, Ryuta Izumi, Risa Shishido, Miki Ishibashi, Masataka Hatano, Makoto Sainouchi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroaki Tomita, Yasuto Kunii

    Neuropsychopharmacology Reports   2024年4月

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    掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:Wiley  

    Abstract

    Aim

    Postmortem brain research is necessary for elucidating the pathology of schizophrenia; an increasing number of studies require a combination of suitable tissue samples preserved at multiple brain banks. In this study, we examined whether a comparative study of protein expression levels can be conducted using postmortem brain samples preserved in different facilities.

    Methods

    We compared the demographic factors of postmortem brain samples preserved in two institutions and measured and compared the expression levels of glyceraldehyde‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in the prefrontal cortex and superior temporal gyrus. GAPDH is generally used as a loading control for western blotting, and GFAP is considered as an astrocyte marker in the brain.

    Results

    We found significant differences between the two institutions in postmortem interval, age at death, and preservation time. To reduce the effects of these differences on our measurements, the parameters were set as covariates in our analyses of covariance. Subsequently, no differences in GAPDH and GFAP expression were found between institutions.

    Conclusions

    When studies are conducted using brain samples preserved in different brain banks, differences in demographic factors should be carefully considered and taken into account by statistical methods to minimize their impact as much as possible. Since there was no significant difference in the protein expression levels of GAPDH and GFAP in either region between the two institutions that preserved the postmortem brains, we concluded that it is possible to perform protein quantitative analysis assuming that there is no effect of difference between two institutions.

    DOI: 10.1002/npr2.12430

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  • 神経皮膚黒色症剖検例における多領域ゲノム解析

    高橋 陽彦, 棗田 学, 塚本 佳広, 岡田 正康, 原 範和, 小山 哲秀, 宮下 哲典, 結城 明彦, 清水 宏, 柿田 明美, 池内 健, 大石 誠

    小児の脳神経   49 ( 2 )   228 - 228   2024年4月

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:(一社)日本小児神経外科学会  

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  • Successful Multimodal Treatment of Intracranial Growing Teratoma Syndrome with Malignant Features. 国際誌

    Daiken Satake, Manabu Natsumeda, Kaishi Satomi, Mari Tada, Taro Sato, Noritaka Okubo, Keita Kawabe, Haruhiko Takahashi, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Masayasu Okada, Masakazu Sano, Haruko Iwabuchi, Nao Shibata, Masaru Imamura, Chihaya Imai, Hirokazu Takami, Koichi Ichimura, Ryo Nishikawa, Hajime Umezu, Akiyoshi Kakita, Makoto Oishi

    Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)   31 ( 4 )   1831 - 1838   2024年3月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)  

    Molecular analysis of the growing teratoma syndrome has not been extensively studied. Here, we report a 14-year-old boy with a growing mass during treatment for a mixed germ cell tumor of the pineal region. Tumor markers were negative; thus, growing teratoma syndrome was suspected. A radical resection via the occipital transtentorial approach was performed, and histopathological examination revealed a teratoma with malignant features. Methylation classifier analysis confirmed the diagnosis of teratoma, and DMRT1 loss and 12p gain were identified by copy number variation analysis, potentially elucidating the cause of growth and malignant transformation of the teratoma. The patient remains in remission after intense chemoradiation treatment as a high-risk germ cell tumor.

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  • The cycad genotoxin methylazoxymethanol, linked to Guam ALS/PDC, induces transcriptional mutagenesis. 国際誌

    Bert M Verheijen, Claire Chung, Ben Thompson, Hyunjin Kim, Asa Nakahara, Jasper J Anink, James D Mills, Jeong H Lee, Eleonora Aronica, Kiyomitsu Oyanagi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Jean-Francois Gout, Marc Vermulst

    Acta neuropathologica communications   12 ( 1 )   30 - 30   2024年2月

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  • Marked alteration of phosphoinositide signaling‐associated molecules in postmortem prefrontal cortex with bipolar disorder

    Mizuki Hino, Yasuto Kunii, Risa Shishido, Atsuko Nagaoka, Junya Matsumoto, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Yoshio Hashizume, Hideki Hayashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroaki Tomita, Hirooki Yabe

    Neuropsychopharmacology Reports   2024年1月

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    Aim

    The etiology of bipolar disorder (BD) remains unknown; however, lipid abnormalities in BD have received increasing attention in recent years. In this study, we examined the expression levels of enzyme proteins associated with the metabolic pathway of phosphoinositides (PIs) and their downstream effectors, protein kinase B (Akt1) and glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β), which have been assumed to be the targets of mood stabilizers such as lithium, in the postmortem brains of patients with BD.

    Methods

    The protein expression levels of phosphatidylinositol 4‐phosphate 5‐kinase type‐1 gamma (PIP5K1C), phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinase alpha (PIK4CA), phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted from chromosome 10 (PTEN), Akt1, and GSK3β were measured using enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assays and multiplex fluorescent bead‐based immunoassays in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Specifically, PTEN, Akt1, GSK3β, and PIP5K1C were measured in seven BD patients and 48 controls. Additionally, PIK4CA was analyzed in 10 cases and 34 controls.

    Results

    PTEN expression levels were markedly decreased in the PFCs of patients with BD, whereas those of Akt and GSK3β were prominently elevated. Moreover, patients medicated with lithium exhibited higher Akt1 expression levels and lower PTEN expression levels in comparison with the untreated group.

    Conclusion

    Our results suggest that the expression levels of Akt1/GSK3β and its upstream regulator PTEN are considerably altered.

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  • Missense mutation of NRAS is associated with malignant progression in neurocutaneous melanosis. 国際誌

    Haruhiko Takahashi, Manabu Natsumeda, Norikazu Hara, Akihide Koyama, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akinori Miyashita, Daiken Satake, Yoshihiro Mouri, Jun Tsukano, Keita Kawabe, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Masayasu Okada, Ryosuke Ogura, Akihiko Yuki, Hajime Umezu, Akiyoshi Kakita, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Makoto Oishi

    Acta neuropathologica communications   12 ( 1 )   14 - 14   2024年1月

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    Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) is a rare congenital neurocutaneous syndrome characterized by congenital melanocytic nevus of skin and abnormal proliferation of leptomeningeal melanocytes. Early acquisition of post-zygotic somatic mutations has been postulated to underlie the pathogenesis of NCM. The pathogenesis of NCM remains to be fully elucidated, and treatment options have not been established. Here, we report for the first time, multiregional genomic analyses in a 3-year-old autopsied girl with leptomeningeal melanomatosis associated with NCM, in which a ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt was inserted for the treatment of hydrocephalus. The patient expired six months after the onset due to respiratory failure caused by abdominal dissemination via VP shunt. We performed multiregional exome sequencing to identify genomic differences among brain and abdominal tumors, nevus, and normal tissues. A total of 87 somatic mutations were found in 71 genes, with a significantly large number of gene mutations found in the tumor site. The genetic alterations detected in the nevus were only few and not shared with other sites. Three mutations, namely GNAQ R183Q, S1PR3 G89S and NRAS G12V, considered pathogenic, were found, although S1PR3 mutations have not been previously reported in melanocytic tumors. GNAQ and S1PR3 mutations were shared in both tumor and normal sites. Moreover, the mutant allele frequencies of the two mutations were markedly higher in tumor sites than in normal sites, with copy-neutral loss-of-heterozygosity (CN-LOH) occurring in tumor. NRAS mutation was found only in the abdominal tumor and was thought to be responsible for malignant progression in the present case. Multiregional comprehensive genetic analysis may lead to discovering novel driver mutations associated with tumorigenesis and targeted therapy.

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  • Reliable detection of genetic alterations in cyst fluid DNA for the diagnosis of brain tumors. 国際誌

    Jotaro On, Manabu Natsumeda, Haruhiko Takahashi, Akihide Koyama, Satoshi Shibuma, Nao Shibata, Jun Watanabe, Shoji Saito, Yu Kanemaru, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Masayasu Okada, Ryosuke Ogura, Takeyoshi Eda, Mari Tada, Hiroshi Shimizu, Jun-Ichi Adachi, Kazuhiko Mishima, Ryo Nishikawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Makoto Oishi

    Journal of neuro-oncology   2024年1月

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    PURPOSE: Liquid biopsy of cyst fluid in brain tumors has not been extensively studied to date. The present study was performed to see whether diagnostic genetic alterations found in brain tumor tissue DNA could also be detected in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) of cyst fluid in cystic brain tumors. METHODS: Cyst fluid was obtained from 22 patients undergoing surgery for a cystic brain tumor with confirmed genetic alterations in tumor DNA. Pathological diagnoses based on WHO 2021 classification and diagnostic alterations in the tumor DNA, such as IDH1 R132H and TERT promoter mutation for oligodendrogliomas, were detected by Sanger sequencing. The same alterations were analyzed by both droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) and Sanger sequencing in cyst fluid cfDNA. Additionally, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) assays were performed to assess 1p/19q status, presence of CDKN2A loss, PTEN loss and EGFR amplification, to assess whether differentiating between astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas and grading is possible from cyst fluid cfDNA. RESULTS: Twenty-five genetic alterations were found in 22 tumor samples. All (100%) alterations were detected in cyst fluid cfDNA by ddPCR. Twenty of the 25 (80%) alterations were also detected by Sanger sequencing of cyst fluid cfDNA. Variant allele frequency (VAF) in cyst fluid cfDNA was comparable to that of tumor DNA (R = 0.62, Pearson's correlation). MLPA was feasible in 11 out of 17 (65%) diffuse gliomas, with close correlation of results between tumor DNA and cyst fluid cfDNA. CONCLUSION: Cell-free DNA obtained from cyst fluid in cystic brain tumors is a reliable alternative to tumor DNA when diagnosing brain tumors.

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  • Multi-omics analyses of choroid plexus carcinoma cell lines reveal potential targetable pathways and alterations. 国際誌

    Dina Hesham, Jotaro On, Nouran Alshahaby, Nada Amer, Sameh Magdeldin, Masayasu Okada, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Tetsuya Hiraishi, Chihaya Imai, Shujiro Okuda, Toshifumi Wakai, Akiyoshi Kakita, Makoto Oishi, Shahenda El-Naggar, Manabu Natsumeda

    Journal of neuro-oncology   166 ( 1 )   27 - 38   2024年1月

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    PURPOSE: Choroid plexus carcinomas (CPCs) are extremely rare brain tumors and carry a dismal prognosis. Treatment options are limited and there is an urgent need to develop models to further research. In the present study, we established two CPC cell lines and performed multi-omics analyses. These cell lines serve as valuable models to propose new treatments in these rare but deadly brain tumors. METHODS: Multi-omic profiling including, (i) methylation array (EPIC 850 K), (ii) whole genome sequencing (WGS), (iii) CANCERPLEX cancer genome panel testing, (iv) RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), and (v) proteomics analyses were performed in CCHE-45 and NGT131 cell lines. RESULTS: Both cell lines were classified as methylation class B. Both harbored pathogenic TP53 point mutations; CCHE-45 additionally displayed TP53 loss. Furthermore, alterations of the NOTCH and WNT pathways were also detected in both cell lines. Two protein-coding gene fusions, BZW2-URGCP, and CTTNBP2-ERBB4, mutations of two oncodrivers, GBP-4 and KRTAP-12-2, and several copy number alterations were observed in CCHE-45, but not NGT131. Transcriptome and proteome analysis identified shared and unique signatures, suggesting that variability in choroid plexus carcinoma tumors may exist. The discovered difference's importance and implications highlight the possible diversity of choroid plexus carcinoma and call for additional research to fully understand disease pathogenesis. CONCLUSION: Multi-omics analyses revealed that the two choroid plexus carcinoma cell lines shared TP53 mutations and other common pathway alterations and activation of NOTCH and WNT pathways. Noticeable differences were also observed. These cell lines can serve as valuable models to propose new treatments in these rare but deadly brain tumors.

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  • Case report: Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy co-occurring with neurosarcoidosis: early brain biopsy and appropriate therapy for PML resulted in a favorable prognosis. 国際誌

    Qiannan Wang, Shintaro Tsuboguchi, Kouichirou Okamoto, Mari Tada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kazuo Nakamichi, Makoto Oishi, Masato Kanazawa, Osamu Onodera

    Frontiers in immunology   15   1447992 - 1447992   2024年

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    Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare central nervous system disease caused by JC virus (JCV) infection. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is the greatest risk factor for PML. Other immunological diseases, including systemic sarcoidosis, have also been reported as risk factors for PML. Herein, we report a case of PML co-occurring with neurosarcoidosis. Early diagnosis using brain biopsy and appropriate therapeutic interventions achieved favorable outcomes. PML in patients with active intracranial neurosarcoidosis is extremely rare. We believe that it is important to perform brain biopsy at an early stage to allow diagnosis, even for central nervous system involvement with a progressive parenchymal lesion in patients with sarcoidosis, if PML is possible.

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  • Clinicopathologic features of two unrelated autopsied patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease carrying MFN2 gene mutation. 国際誌

    Hideki Hayashi, Rie Saito, Hidetomo Tanaka, Norikazu Hara, Shin Koide, Yosuke Yonemochi, Tetsuo Ozawa, Mariko Hokari, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akinori Miyashita, Osamu Onodera, Kouichirou Okamoto, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Takashi Nakajima, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Acta neuropathologica communications   11 ( 1 )   207 - 207   2023年12月

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  • Tau filaments from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia complex adopt the CTE fold. 国際誌

    Chao Qi, Bert M Verheijen, Yasumasa Kokubo, Yang Shi, Stephan Tetter, Alexey G Murzin, Asa Nakahara, Satoru Morimoto, Marc Vermulst, Ryogen Sasaki, Eleonora Aronica, Yoshifumi Hirokawa, Kiyomitsu Oyanagi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, Mari Yoshida, Masato Hasegawa, Sjors H W Scheres, Michel Goedert

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   120 ( 51 )   e2306767120   2023年12月

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    The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia complex (ALS/PDC) of the island of Guam and the Kii peninsula of Japan is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of unknown cause that is characterized by the presence of abundant filamentous tau inclusions in brains and spinal cords. Here, we used electron cryo-microscopy to determine the structures of tau filaments from the cerebral cortex of three cases of ALS/PDC from Guam and eight cases from Kii, as well as from the spinal cord of two of the Guam cases. Tau filaments had the chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) fold, with variable amounts of Type I and Type II filaments. Paired helical tau filaments were also found in three Kii cases and tau filaments with the corticobasal degeneration fold in one Kii case. We identified a new Type III CTE tau filament, where protofilaments pack against each other in an antiparallel fashion. ALS/PDC is the third known tauopathy with CTE-type filaments and abundant tau inclusions in cortical layers II/III, the others being CTE and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Because these tauopathies are believed to have environmental causes, our findings support the hypothesis that ALS/PDC is caused by exogenous factors.

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  • Marked laterality of olivopontocerebellar pathology in an autopsied patient with MSA: Implications for degeneration and α-synuclein propagation. 国際誌

    Misato Ozawa, Rie Saito, Takuya Konno, Reiji Koide, Shigeru Fujimoto, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry   2023年11月

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  • 緊張型脳実質内気脳症の1例

    大倉 良太, 吉田 至誠, 高橋 陽彦, 小倉 良介, 柿田 明美, 大石 誠, 藤井 幸彦

    脳神経外科速報   33 ( 6 )   e1 - e7   2023年11月

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    症例は33歳男性で、進行性の頭痛と失語症状の増悪を主訴とした。外傷などの既往はなく、頭部MRIで左前頭葉実質内を占拠する嚢胞様腫瘤性病変を認め、腫瘤内部はT1・T2強調画像ともに低信号を呈し空気成分を疑った。腫瘤下端には前頭蓋底部に隣接して造影効果を示す小結節が存在し、CTで骨化所見も認めた。前篩骨洞上壁は菲薄化し、小結節病変が脳内への空気混入と関連している可能性があった。緊張型脳実質内気脳症の診断で左前頭開頭により結節の摘出と硬膜の修復を行った。小結節剥離後の骨面には複数の小孔を認め、硬膜再建には自家骨膜を使用し、前頭蓋底骨面にも有茎側頭筋膜弁を敷き込み小孔を完全被覆した。病理所見で結節の軟性部表面と骨化組織表面には線毛を有した重層扁平上皮および基底膜を認め、副鼻腔粘膜由来の組織と診断した。術後頭痛は速やかに消失し、術後6ヵ月の画像検査で頭蓋内に空気貯留は認めず、術後2年経過して髄液鼻漏は認めていない。

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  • Clinical, imaging, and molecular features of radiation-induced glioblastomas developing more than 20 years after radiation therapy for intracranial germinomatous germ cell tumor: illustrative cases. 国際誌

    Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Manabu Natsumeda, Haruhiko Takahashi, Asuka Ueno, Kiichi Sakai, Kazuki Shida, Hiroki Seto, Taiki Saito, Satoshi Shibuma, Yoko Nakayama, Yuki Tanaka, Toshimichi Nakano, Atsushi Ohta, Katsuya Maruyama, Masayasu Okada, Takeyoshi Eda, Yasuhiro Seki, Yuichirou Yoneoka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kouichirou Okamoto, Akiyoshi Kakita, Makoto Oishi

    Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons   6 ( 16 )   2023年10月

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    BACKGROUND: Germinomatous germ cell tumor is highly sensitive to chemoradiotherapy; patients are expected to survive for decades. Many radiation-induced malignant gliomas (RIMGs) occur >10 years after radiotherapy. Standard therapy for RIMGs has not been established because of the lesion's rarity, the patient's shorter survival period, and the risk of radiation necrosis by repeat radiation. OBSERVATIONS: Two patients, a 32-year-old man and a 50-year-old man, developed glioblastomas more than 20 years after radiation monotherapy for germinoma with or without mature teratoma. The first patient showed a tumor in the left frontotemporal region with disseminated lesions and died 2 months after partial resection of the tumor without responding to the chemotherapy with temozolomide and bevacizumab. Methylation classifier analysis classified the pathology as closest to diffuse pediatric-type high-grade glioma, Rtk1 subtype. The second patient showed a tumor mass in the brainstem and left cerebellar peduncle, which worsened progressively during chemotherapy with temozolomide and bevacizumab. The tumor transiently responded to stereotactic radiotherapy with the CyberKnife. However, the patient died of RIMG recurrence-related aspiration pneumonia 11 months after the biopsy. Methylation classifier analysis classified the pathology as closest to infratentorial pilocytic astrocytoma. LESSONS: Chemoradiotherapy may improve the survival of patients with RIMGs. Furthermore, molecular features may influence the clinical, locoregional, and pathological features of RIMG.

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  • Ethnicity-dependent effect of rs1799971 polymorphism on OPRM1 expression in the postmortem brain and responsiveness to antipsychotics

    Kazusa Miyahara, Mizuki Hino, Risa Shishido, Ryuta Izumi, Atsuko Nagaoka, Hideki Hayashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirooki Yabe, Hiroaki Tomita, Yasuto Kunii

    Journal of Psychiatric Research   166   10 - 16   2023年10月

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  • [An autopsied patient with palatal tremor and fatal bilateral vocal cord abduction paralysis associated with bilateral cerebellar dentate nucleus infarction].

    Tomoe Sato, Rie Saito, Makoto Sainouchi, Naomi Mezaki, Takeshi Miura, Takuya Mashima, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology   2023年8月

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    A 74-year-old male patient developed multiple infarcts of the brainstem and cerebellum, followed 14 months later by palatal tremor and bilateral vocal cord abduction paralysis, resulting in death due to type 2 respiratory failure. Pathologic analysis revealed old infarcts extending from the bilateral cerebellar cortices to the dentate nucleus, being more extensive on the right side, accompanied by Wallerian degeneration involving the left red nucleus, right central tegmentum tract, and inferior cerebellar peduncle, followed by pseudohypertrophy of the bilateral inferior olivary nuclei. These lesions, involving the Guillain-Mollaret triangle, may have been responsible for the palatal tremor. On the other hand, there were no evident causative lesions for the vocal cord abduction, including any in the nucleus ambiguus or posterior cricoarytenoid muscles. In this case it is possible that the dysfunction responsible for the palatal tremor may have affected the pathway from the central tegmentum tract, which is part of the Guillain-Mollaret triangle, to the vagus nerve arising from the nucleus ambiguus, which plays a role in vocal cord abduction, thus affecting the vocal cords and resulting in abduction paralysis.

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  • APOEのレアミスセンスバリアント

    宮下 哲典, 大日方 藍, 他田 真理, 阿部 学, 柿田 明美, 池内 健

    BIO Clinica   38 ( 7 )   602 - 603   2023年7月

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    アルツハイマー病(Alzheimer Disease:AD)の強力な感受性遺伝子であるアポリポプロテインE遺伝子(Apolipoprotein E:APOE)のレアミスセンスバリアントを探索・解析するプロジェクトを進めている。本稿ではその概要と進捗について述べる。先行する海外の研究成果(クライストチャーチバリアント,APOEカスケード仮説,U19プロジェクト)に関しても合わせて言及する。(著者抄録)

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  • Progressive conus medullaris lesions are suggestive of intravascular large B-cell lymphoma. 国際誌

    Sho Kitahara, Masato Kanazawa, Manabu Natsumeda, Aki Sato, Masanori Ishikawa, Kenju Hara, Hiroyuki Tabe, Kunihiko Makino, Kouichirou Okamoto, Nobuya Fujita, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fuji, Osamu Onodera

    European journal of neurology   2023年6月

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    BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Spinal cord lesions are observed in 40% of all central nervous system lesions in intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL). However, because IVLBCL is a very rare disease, its clinical features are not well defined, which may delay appropriate diagnosis and treatment, whilst the acute to subacute course of brain lesions in patients with IVLBCL is well established. Therefore, this study aimed to clarify the clinical features of spinal cord lesions in patients with IVLBCL. METHODS: The medical records of patients with IVLBCL admitted to our hospital between 2010 and 2020 were searched. The inclusion criteria were preceding neurological symptoms without non-neurological symptoms and pathologically confirmed IVLBCL in various organs. Clinical features of spinal cord involvement in patients with IVLBCL were assessed and distinguished from those of brain involvement. RESULTS: Sixteen consecutive patients with IVLBCL were divided into two groups: six patients with spinal involvement (spinal cord type) and 10 patients with brain involvement (brain type). In the spinal cord type, four patients had chronic progression and two had subacute progression. Acute progression (0% vs. 80.0%) and sudden onset (0% vs. 50.0%) occurred significantly less frequently in the spinal cord than in the brain. All spinal cord lesions involved the conus medullaris. CONCLUSIONS: Spinal cord involvement in IVLBCL has a predominantly chronic progressive course that is exclusive to brain involvement. Conus medullaris lesions are suggestive of IVLBCL and are useful for early and accurate diagnosis and treatment.

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  • Phosphorylation of α-synuclein at T64 results in distinct oligomers and exerts toxicity in models of Parkinson's disease. 国際誌

    Hideaki Matsui, Shinji Ito, Hideki Matsui, Junko Ito, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, Mika Hirose, Tomoyuki Yamanaka, Akihide Koyama, Taisuke Kato, Maiko Tanaka, Norihito Uemura, Noriko Matsui, Sachiko Hirokawa, Maki Yoshihama, Aki Shimozawa, Shin-Ichiro Kubo, Kenji Iwasaki, Masato Hasegawa, Ryosuke Takahashi, Keisuke Hirai, Akiyoshi Kakita, Osamu Onodera

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   120 ( 23 )   e2214652120   2023年6月

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    α-Synuclein accumulates in Lewy bodies, and this accumulation is a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). Previous studies have indicated a causal role of α-synuclein in the pathogenesis of PD. However, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of α-synuclein toxicity remain elusive. Here, we describe a novel phosphorylation site of α-synuclein at T64 and the detailed characteristics of this post-translational modification. T64 phosphorylation was enhanced in both PD models and human PD brains. T64D phosphomimetic mutation led to distinct oligomer formation, and the structure of the oligomer was similar to that of α-synuclein oligomer with A53T mutation. Such phosphomimetic mutation induced mitochondrial dysfunction, lysosomal disorder, and cell death in cells and neurodegeneration in vivo, indicating a pathogenic role of α-synuclein phosphorylation at T64 in PD.

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  • V180I genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Severe degeneration of the inferior olivary nucleus in an autopsied patient with identification of the M2T prion strain. 国際誌

    Midori Watanabe, Kosei Nakamura, Rie Saito, Atsuko Takeuchi, Tetsuya Takahashi, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   2023年5月

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    Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (gCJD) with a V180I mutation (V180I gCJD) is the most common type of gCJD in Japan, characterized by an older age at onset, slower progression, and moderate to severe cortical degeneration with spongiform changes and sparing of the brainstem and cerebellum. Degeneration of the inferior olivary nucleus (IO) is rarely observed in patients with CJD but is known to occur in fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and MM2-thalamic-type sporadic CJD (sCJD-MM2T) involving type 2 prion protein (M2T prion). Here we report on an 81-year-old Japanese woman who initially developed depressive symptoms followed by progressive cognitive impairment, myoclonus, and hallucinations and died after a clinical course of 23 months. Insomnia was not evident. Genetic analysis of the prion protein (PrP) identified a V180I mutation with methionine/valine heterozygosity at codon 129. Pathologic analysis demonstrated extensive spongiform degeneration, neuronal loss in the cortices, and weak synaptic-type PrP deposition. Except for IO degeneration, the clinicopathologic features and Western blotting PrP band pattern were compatible with those of previously reported V180I gCJD cases. Quantitative analysis revealed that the neuronal density of the IO, especially in the dorsal area, was considerably reduced to the same extent as that of a patient with sCJD-MM2T but preserved in other patients with V180I gCJD and sCJD-MM1 (this patient, 2.3 ± 0.53/mm2 ; a patient with sCJD-MM2T, 4.2 ± 2; a patient with V180I gCJD, 60.5 ± 9.3; and a patient with sCJD-MM1, 84.5 ± 17.9). Use of the protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) method confirmed the presence of the M2T prion strain, suggesting that the latter might be associated with IO degeneration in V180I gCJD. Autopsy studies are necessary to better understand the nature of CJD, since even if patients present with the common clinical picture, pathologic analysis might provide new insights, as was the case here.

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  • Identification of schizophrenia symptom-related gene modules by postmortem brain transcriptome analysis. 国際誌

    Kazusa Miyahara, Mizuki Hino, Risa Shishido, Atsuko Nagaoka, Ryuta Izumi, Hideki Hayashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirooki Yabe, Hiroaki Tomita, Yasuto Kunii

    Translational psychiatry   13 ( 1 )   144 - 144   2023年5月

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    Schizophrenia is a multifactorial disorder, the genetic architecture of which remains unclear. Although many studies have examined the etiology of schizophrenia, the gene sets that contribute to its symptoms have not been fully investigated. In this study, we aimed to identify each gene set associated with corresponding symptoms of schizophrenia using the postmortem brains of 26 patients with schizophrenia and 51 controls. We classified genes expressed in the prefrontal cortex (analyzed by RNA-seq) into several modules by weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) and examined the correlation between module expression and clinical characteristics. In addition, we calculated the polygenic risk score (PRS) for schizophrenia from Japanese genome-wide association studies, and investigated the association between the identified gene modules and PRS to evaluate whether genetic background affected gene expression. Finally, we conducted pathway analysis and upstream analysis using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis to clarify the functions and upstream regulators of symptom-related gene modules. As a result, three gene modules generated by WGCNA were significantly correlated with clinical characteristics, and one of these showed a significant association with PRS. Genes belonging to the transcriptional module associated with PRS significantly overlapped with signaling pathways of multiple sclerosis, neuroinflammation, and opioid use, suggesting that these pathways may also be profoundly implicated in schizophrenia. Upstream analysis indicated that genes in the detected module were profoundly regulated by lipopolysaccharides and CREB. This study identified schizophrenia symptom-related gene sets and their upstream regulators, revealing aspects of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and identifying potential therapeutic targets.

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  • FGFR3-TACC3 fusionを伴うIDH野生型神経膠腫はCTで石灰化を高率に有する

    高橋 陽彦, 棗田 学, 塚本 佳広, 清水 宏, 岡本 浩一郎, 峰晴 陽平, 荒川 芳輝, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   40 ( Suppl. )   099 - 099   2023年5月

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  • FGFR3-TACC3 fusionを伴うIDH野生型神経膠腫はCTで石灰化を高率に有する

    高橋 陽彦, 棗田 学, 塚本 佳広, 清水 宏, 岡本 浩一郎, 峰晴 陽平, 荒川 芳輝, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   40 ( Suppl. )   099 - 099   2023年5月

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  • 脳腫瘍診断におけるliquid biopsyの可能性 中枢神経再発を来すsystemic diffuse large B cell lymphomaは高率にMYD88変異を有する

    棗田 学, 温 城太郎, 高橋 陽彦, 渡邉 潤, 塚本 佳広, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 瀧澤 淳, 正木 康史, 林 康彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   40 ( Suppl. )   069 - 069   2023年5月

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  • プロラクチン産生下垂体腺腫が頸部に転移したPit-1陽性下垂体がんの一例

    岡田 正康, 植木 雄志, 棗田 学, 大石 誠, 近藤 修平, 梅津 哉, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   40 ( Suppl. )   144 - 144   2023年5月

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  • 胚種治療後20年以上経過後に発症した放射線誘発性膠芽腫の2症例の検討

    塚本 佳広, 高橋 陽彦, 棗田 学, 坂井 貴一, 中山 遥子, 田中 裕貴, 岡本 浩一郎, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   40 ( Suppl. )   113 - 113   2023年5月

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  • Tau Filaments from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex (ALS/PDC) adopt the CTE Fold. 国際誌

    Chao Qi, Bert M Verheijen, Yasumasa Kokubo, Yang Shi, Stephan Tetter, Alexey G Murzin, Asa Nakahara, Satoru Morimoto, Marc Vermulst, Ryogen Sasaki, Eleonora Aronica, Yoshifumi Hirokawa, Kiyomitsu Oyanagi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, Mari Yoshida, Masato Hasegawa, Sjors H W Scheres, Michel Goedert

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    UNLABELLED: The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia complex (ALS/PDC) of the island of Guam and the Kii peninsula of Japan is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of unknown cause that is characterised by the presence of abundant filamentous tau inclusions in brains and spinal cords. Here we used electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the structures of tau filaments from the cerebral cortex of three cases of ALS/PDC from Guam and eight cases from Kii, as well as from the spinal cord of two of the Guam cases. Tau filaments had the chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) fold, with variable amounts of Type I and Type II filaments. Paired helical tau filaments were also found in two Kii cases. We also identified a novel Type III CTE tau filament, where protofilaments pack against each other in an anti-parallel fashion. ALS/PDC is the third known tauopathy with CTE-type filaments and abundant tau inclusions in cortical layers II/III, the others being CTE and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Because these tauopathies are believed to have environmental causes, our findings support the hypothesis that ALS/PDC is caused by exogenous factors. SIGNIFICANCE: A neurodegenerative disease of unknown cause on the island of Guam and the Kii peninsula of Japan has been widely studied, because patients can suffer from the combined symptoms of motor neuron disease, parkinsonism and dementia. Abnormal filamentous inclusions made of tau protein characterise this amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia complex (ALS/PDC) and their formation closely correlates with neurodegeneration. Here we have used electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) to show that tau filaments from ALS/PDC are identical to those from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease caused by repetitive head impacts or blast waves. CTE tau filaments are also found in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which is a rare consequence of measles infection. ALS/PDC may therefore also be caused by environmental factors.

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  • Administration of glucocorticoids prior to liquid biopsy dramatically reduces the detection rate of <i>MYD88 L265P</i> mutation in cerebrospinal fluid of primary CNS lymphoma patients

    Haruhiko Takahashi, Manabu Natsumeda, Jotaro On, Jun Watanabe, Mari Tada, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Masayasu Okada, Makoto Oishi, Jun Takizawa, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Yasufumi Masaki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma   64 ( 6 )   1219 - 1222   2023年4月

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  • 【認知症のゲノム医療】APOEの遺伝型とレアミスセンスバリアント 臨床応用への可能性

    宮下 哲典, 原 範和, 春日 健作, 菊地 正隆, 尾崎 浩一, 新飯田 俊平, 他田 真理, 柿田 明美, 池内 健

    Dementia Japan   37 ( 2 )   239 - 249   2023年4月

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  • 遺伝性痙性対麻痺を呈しGTP cyclohydrolase 1ヘテロ接合性変異を認めた1剖検例

    本郷 祥子, 他田 真理, 池田 哲彦, 小澤 哲夫, 劉 李きん, 宮下 哲典, 池内 健, 小野寺 理, 中島 孝, 柿田 明美

    信州医学雑誌   71 ( 2 )   128 - 129   2023年4月

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  • 遺伝性痙性対麻痺を呈しGTP cyclohydrolase 1ヘテロ接合性変異を認めた1剖検例

    本郷 祥子, 他田 真理, 池田 哲彦, 小澤 哲夫, 劉 李きん, 宮下 哲典, 池内 健, 小野寺 理, 中島 孝, 柿田 明美

    信州医学雑誌   71 ( 2 )   128 - 129   2023年4月

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  • Elevated ratio of C-type lectin-like receptor 2 level and platelet count (C2PAC) aids in the diagnosis of post-operative venous thromboembolism in IDH-wildtype gliomas. 国際誌

    Kazuhiro Ando, Manabu Natsumeda, Masahide Kawamura, Kamon Shirakawa, Masayasu Okada, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Takeyoshi Eda, Jun Watanabe, Shoji Saito, Haruhiko Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Makoto Oishi, Yukihiko Fujii

    Thrombosis research   223   36 - 43   2023年3月

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    INTRODUCTION: Podoplanin (PDPN) is known to induce platelet aggregation via interacting with the C-type lectin-like receptor-2 on platelets and is involved in postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) formation. In this study, we investigate the correlation between soluble C-type lectin-like receptor (sCLEC-2) levels and PDPN expression in patients with high grade gliomas and the relationship between sCLEC-2 levels and the occurrence of VTE. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-four patients harboring high grade gliomas, treated surgically at the Department of Neurosurgery, Niigata University from April 2018 to August 2020, were included. Patients with high grade gliomas were divided into isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)- wildtype and mutant groups, and the presence or absence of VTE and the intensity of PDPN by immunohistochemistry were confirmed. Platelet counts, as well as plasma sCLEC-2 and PDPN were measured in these patients. Furthermore, the levels of sCLEC-2 concentration were divided by the platelet count (C2PAC index) for comparison. RESULTS: IDH-wildtype glioma patients highly expressed PDPN (P < 0.001) compared to IDH-mutant glioma patients. In total, 9 (20.5 %) patients were diagnosed with VTE during the follow-up period, of which 8 patients harbored IDH-wildtype gliomas, and one patient an IDH-mutant glioma. Mean sCLEC-2 levels and C2PAC index in patients with IDH-wildtype gliomas were significantly higher than that of low or no PDPN expression group, which included patients with IDH-mutant gliomas (P = 0.0004, P = 0.0002). In patients with IDH-wildtype gliomas, the C2PAC index in patients with VTE was significantly higher than in patients without VTE (P = 0.0492). The optimal cutoff point of C2PAC for predicting VTE in IDH-wildtype glioma patients was 3.7 with a sensitivity of 87.5 % and specificity of 51.9 %. CONCLUSION: Platelet activation is strongly involved in the development of VTE in patients with IDH-wildtype high grade gliomas, and C2PAC index is a potential marker to detect VTE formation after surgery.

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  • 多数のタウ陽性グリア細胞質内封入体を認めた30年経過の多系統萎縮症の一剖検

    中原 亜紗, 野崎 洋明, 佐藤 晶, 五十嵐 修一, 他田 真理, 柿田 明美, 橋立 英樹

    日本病理学会会誌   112 ( 1 )   318 - 318   2023年3月

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  • Human early-onset dementia caused by DAP12 deficiency reveals a unique signature of dysregulated microglia. 国際誌

    Yingyue Zhou, Mari Tada, Zhangying Cai, Prabhakar S Andhey, Amanda Swain, Kelly R Miller, Susan Gilfillan, Maxim N Artyomov, Masaki Takao, Akiyoshi Kakita, Marco Colonna

    Nature immunology   24 ( 3 )   545 - 557   2023年3月

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    The TREM2-DAP12 receptor complex sustains microglia functions. Heterozygous hypofunctional TREM2 variants impair microglia, accelerating late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Homozygous inactivating variants of TREM2 or TYROBP-encoding DAP12 cause Nasu-Hakola disease (NHD), an early-onset dementia characterized by cerebral atrophy, myelin loss and gliosis. Mechanisms underpinning NHD are unknown. Here, single-nucleus RNA-sequencing analysis of brain specimens from DAP12-deficient NHD individuals revealed a unique microglia signature indicating heightened RUNX1, STAT3 and transforming growth factor-β signaling pathways that mediate repair responses to injuries. This profile correlated with a wound healing signature in astrocytes and impaired myelination in oligodendrocytes, while pericyte profiles indicated vascular abnormalities. Conversely, single-nuclei signatures in mice lacking DAP12 signaling reflected very mild microglial defects that did not recapitulate NHD. We envision that DAP12 signaling in microglia attenuates wound healing pathways that, if left unchecked, interfere with microglial physiological functions, causing pathology in human. The identification of a dysregulated NHD microglia signature sparks potential therapeutic strategies aimed at resetting microglia signaling pathways.

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  • Evidence for increased DNA damage repair in the postmortem brain of the high stress-response group of schizophrenia. 国際誌

    Risa Shishido, Yasuto Kunii, Mizuki Hino, Ryuta Izumi, Atsuko Nagaoka, Hideki Hayashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroaki Tomita, Hirooki Yabe

    Frontiers in psychiatry   14   1183696 - 1183696   2023年

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    BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia (SZ) is a disorder diagnosed by specific symptoms and duration and is highly heterogeneous, clinically and pathologically. Although there are an increasing number of studies on the association between genetic and environmental factors in the development of SZ, the actual distribution of the population with different levels of influence of these factors has not yet been fully elucidated. In this study, we focused on stress as an environmental factor and stratified SZ based on the expression levels of stress-responsive molecules in the postmortem prefrontal cortex. METHODS: We selected the following stress-responsive molecules: interleukin (IL) -1β, IL-6, IL-10, tumor necrosis factor-α, interferon-γ, glucocorticoid receptor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, synaptophysin, S100 calcium-binding protein B, superoxide dismutase, postsynaptic density protein 95, synuclein, apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1), ApoA2, and solute carrier family 6 member 4. We performed RNA sequencing in the prefrontal gray matter of 25 SZ cases and 21 healthy controls and conducted a hierarchical cluster analysis of SZ based on the gene expression levels of stress-responsive molecules, which yielded two clusters. After assessing the validity of the clusters, they were designated as the high stress-response SZ group and the low stress-response SZ group, respectively. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between clusters was performed, and Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining was conducted on four cases each in the high and low stress-response SZ groups to validate DNA damage. RESULTS: We found higher prevalence of family history of SZ in the low stress-response SZ group (0/3 vs. 5/4, p = 0.04). Pathway analysis of DEGs between clusters showed the highest enrichment for DNA double-strand break repair. TUNEL staining showed a trend toward a lower percentage of TUNEL-positive cells in the high stress-response SZ group. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that there are subgroups of SZ with different degrees of stress impact. Furthermore, the pathophysiology of these subgroups may be associated with DNA damage repair. These results provide new insights into the interactions and heterogeneity between genetic and environmental factors.

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  • 口蓋振戦と致死性の両側声帯外転麻痺をきたした両側小脳歯状核梗塞の1剖検例

    Tomoe Sato, Rie Saito, Makoto Sainouchi, Naomi Mezaki, Takeshi Miura, Takuya Mashima, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Rinsho Shinkeigaku   2023年

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  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers and Amyloid-β Elimination from the Brain in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation. 国際誌

    Kenji Sakai, Moeko Noguchi-Shinohara, Hidetomo Tanaka, Tokuhei Ikeda, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Masahito Yamada, Kenjiro Ono

    Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD   91 ( 3 )   1173 - 1183   2023年

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    BACKGROUND: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (CAA-ri) have demonstrated inconsistent results. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the relationship between CSF amyloid-β protein (Aβ) and vascular pathological findings to elucidate the mechanisms of Aβ elimination from the brain in CAA-ri. METHODS: We examined Aβ40 and Aβ42 levels in CSF samples in 15 patients with CAA-ri and 15 patients with Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (AD-CAA) using ELISA as a cross-sectional study. Furthermore, we pathologically examined Aβ40 and Aβ42 depositions on the leptomeningeal blood vessels (arteries, arterioles, and veins) using brain biopsy samples from six patients with acute CAA-ri and brain tissues of two autopsied patients with CAA-ri. RESULTS: The median Aβ40 and Aβ42 levels in the CSF showed no significant difference between pre-treatment CAA-ri (Aβ40, 6837 pg/ml; Aβ42, 324 pg/ml) and AD-CAA (Aβ40, 7669 pg/ml, p = 0.345; Aβ42, 355 pg/ml, p = 0.760). Aβ40 and Aβ42 levels in patients with post-treatment CAA-ri (Aβ40, 1770 pg/ml, p = 0.056; Aβ42, 167 pg/ml, p = 0.006) were lower than those in patients with pre-treatment CAA-ri. Regarding Aβ40 and Aβ42 positive arteries, acute CAA-ri cases showed a higher frequency of partially Aβ-deposited blood vessels than postmortem CAA-ri cases (Aβ40, 20.8% versus 3.9%, p = 0.0714; Aβ42, 27.4% versus 2.0%, p = 0.0714, respectively). CONCLUSION: Lower levels of CSF Aβ40 and Aβ42 could be biomarkers for the cessation of inflammation in CAA-ri reflecting the recovery of the intramural periarterial drainage pathway and vascular function.

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  • <i>SYNE1</i>-ataxia: clinicopathologic features of an autopsied patient with novel compound heterozygous mutations

    Rie Saito, Norikazu Hara, Mari Tada, Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Akinori Miyashita, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Osamu Onodera, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Journal of Neuropathology &amp; Experimental Neurology   2022年12月

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  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 17-digenic TBP/STUB1 disease: neuropathologic features of an autopsied patient

    Rie Saito, Yui Tada, Daisuke Oikawa, Yusuke Sato, Makiko Seto, Akira Satoh, Kodai Kume, Nozomi Ueki, Masahiro Nakashima, Shintaro Hayashi, Yasuko Toyoshima, Fuminori Tokunaga, Hideshi Kawakami, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Acta Neuropathologica Communications   10 ( 1 )   2022年12月

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    Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) type 17-digenic TBP/STUB1 disease (SCA17-DI) has been recently segregated from SCA17, caused by digenic inheritance of two gene mutations – intermediate polyglutamine-encoding CAG/CAA repeat expansions (polyQ) in TBP (TBP<sub>41 − 49</sub>) and STUB1 heterozygosity – the former being associated with SCA17, and the latter with SCA48 and SCAR16 (autosomal recessive). In SCA17, most patients carry intermediate TBP<sub>41 − 49</sub> alleles but show incomplete penetrance, and the missing heritability can be explained by a new entity whereby TBP<sub>41 − 49</sub> requires the STUB1 variant to be symptomatic. The STUB1 gene encodes the chaperone-associated E3 ubiquitin ligase (CHIP) involved in ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal control of protein homeostasis. However, reports of the neuropathology are limited and role of STUB1 mutations in SCA17-DI remain unknown. Here we report the clinicopathologic features of identical twin siblings, one of whom was autopsied and was found to carry an intermediate allele (41 and 38 CAG/CAA repeats) in TBP and a heterozygous missense mutation in STUB1 (p.P243L). These patients developed autosomal recessive Huntington’s disease-like symptoms. Brain MRI showed diffuse atrophy of the cerebellum and T2WI revealed hyperintense lesions in the basal ganglia and periventricular deep white matter. The brain histopathology of the patient shared features characteristic of SCA17, such as degeneration of the cerebellar cortex and caudate nucleus, and presence of 1C2-positive neurons. Here we show that mutant CHIP fails to generate the polyubiquitin chain due to disrupted folding of the entire U box domain, thereby affecting the E3 activity of CHIP. When encountering patients with cerebellar ataxia, especially those with Huntington’s disease-like symptoms, genetic testing for STUB1 as well as TBP should be conducted for diagnosis of SCA17-DI, even in cases of sporadic or autosomal recessive inheritance.

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  • 疾患解析技術の最先端 認知症のトランスクリプトーム解析 ヒト剖検脳のシングル核解析から見えてくるもの

    宮下 哲典, 他田 真理, 原 範和, 長谷川 舞衣, 柿田 明美, 池内 健

    老年精神医学雑誌   33 ( 増刊II )   195 - 195   2022年11月

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  • Epigenetic upregulation of Schlafen11 renders WNT- and SHH- activated medulloblastomas sensitive to cisplatin. 国際誌

    Satoshi Nakata, Junko Murai, Masayasu Okada, Haruhiko Takahashi, Tyler H Findlay, Kristen Malebranche, Akhila Parthasarathy, Satoshi Miyashita, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, Ilan Benkimoun, Sabine Druillennec, Sara Chabi, Eleanor Hawkins, Hiroaki Miyahara, Kensuke Tateishi, Shinji Yamashita, Shiori Yamada, Taiki Saito, Jotaro On, Jun Watanabe, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Junichi Yoshimura, Makoto Oishi, Toshimichi Nakano, Masaru Imamura, Chihaya Imai, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Hideo Takeshima, Atsuo T Sasaki, Fausto J Rodriguez, Sumihito Nobusawa, Pascale Varlet, Celio Pouponnot, Satoru Osuka, Yves Pommier, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii, Eric H Raabe, Charles G Eberhart, Manabu Natsumeda

    Neuro-oncology   25 ( 5 )   899 - 912   2022年10月

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    BACKGROUND: Intensive chemotherapeutic regimens with craniospinal irradiation have greatly improved survival in medulloblastoma patients. However, survival markedly differs among molecular subgroups and their biomarkers are unknown. Through unbiased screening, we found Schlafen family member 11 (SLFN11), which is known to improve response to DNA damaging agents in various cancers, to be one of the top prognostic markers in medulloblastomas. Hence, we explored the expression and functions of SLFN11 in medulloblastoma. METHODS: SLFN11 expression for each subgroup was assessed by immunohistochemistry in 98 medulloblastoma patient samples and by analyzing transcriptomic databases. We genetically or epigenetically modulated SLFN11 expression in medulloblastoma cell lines and determined cytotoxic response to the DNA damaging agents cisplatin and topoisomerase I inhibitor SN-38 in vitro and in vivo. RESULTS: High SLFN11 expressing cases exhibited significantly longer survival than low expressing cases. SLFN11 was highly expressed in the WNT-activated subgroup and in a proportion of the SHH-activated subgroup. While WNT activation was not a direct cause of the high expression of SLFN11, a specific hypomethylation locus on the SLFN11 promoter was significantly correlated with high SLFN11 expression. Overexpression or deletion of SLFN11 made medulloblastoma cells sensitive and resistant to cisplatin and SN-38, respectively. Pharmacological upregulation of SLFN11 by the brain-penetrant histone deacetylase-inhibitor RG2833 markedly increased sensitivity to cisplatin and SN-38 in SLFN11-negative medulloblastoma cells. Intracranial xenograft studies also showed marked sensitivity to cisplatin by SLFN11-overexpression in medulloblastoma cells. CONCLUSIONS: High SLFN11 expression is one factor which renders favorable outcomes in WNT-activated and a subset of SHH-activated medulloblastoma possibly through enhancing response to cisplatin.

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  • SWI by 7T MR Imaging for the Microscopic Imaging Diagnosis of Astrocytic and Oligodendroglial Tumors 査読

    M. Natsumeda, H. Matsuzawa, M. Watanabe, K. Motohashi, R. Gabdulkhaev, Y. Tsukamoto, Y. Kanemaru, J. Watanabe, R. Ogura, M. Okada, S. Kurabe, K. Okamoto, A. Kakita, H. Igarashi, Y. Fujii

    American Journal of Neuroradiology   2022年10月

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  • Involvement of autophagic protein DEF8 in Lewy bodies. 国際誌

    Makoto Timon Tanaka, Yasuo Miki, Conceição Bettencourt, Taku Ozaki, Kunikazu Tanji, Fumiaki Mori, Akiyoshi Kakita, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Biochemical and biophysical research communications   623   170 - 175   2022年10月

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    Dysregulation of autophagy, one of the major processes through which abnormal proteins are degraded, is a cardinal feature of synucleinopathies, including Lewy body diseases [Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)] and multiple system atrophy (MSA), which are characterized by the presence of abnormal α-synuclein in neurons and glial cells. Although several research groups have reported that Rubicon family proteins can regulate autophagosome-lysosome fusion or positioning, little is known about their involvement in synucleinopathies. In the present study, by studying patients with PD (N = 8), DLB (N = 13), and MSA (N = 5) and controls (N = 16), we explored the involvement of Rubicon family proteins [Rubicon, Pacer and differentially expressed in FDCP8 (DEF8)] in synucleinopathies. Immunohistochemical analysis showed that not only brainstem-type Lewy bodies but also cortical Lewy bodies were immunoreactive for DEF8 in Lewy body diseases, whereas Rubicon and Pacer were detectable in only a few brainstem-type Lewy bodies in PD. Glial cytoplasmic inclusions in patients with MSA were not immunoreactive for Rubicon, Pacer or DEF8. Immunoblotting showed significantly increased protein levels of DEF8 in the substantia nigra and putamen of patients with PD and the temporal cortex of patients with DLB. In addition, the smear band of DEF8 appeared in the insoluble fraction where that of phosphorylated α-synuclein was detected. These findings indicate the involvement of DEF8 in the formation of Lewy bodies. Quantitative and qualitative alterations in DEF8 may reflect the dysregulation of autophagy in Lewy body diseases.

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  • Biallelic <i>COX10</i> Mutations and <i>PMP22</i> Deletion in a Family With Leigh Syndrome and Hereditary Neuropathy With Liability to Pressure Palsy

    Yasuko Kuroha, Takanobu Ishiguro, Mari Tada, Norikazu Hara, Kei Murayama, Izumi Kawachi, Kensaku Kasuga, Akinori Miyashita, Arika Hasegawa, Tetsuya Takahashi, Nae Matsubara, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita, Ryoko Koike, Takeshi Ikeuchi

    Neurology Genetics   8 ( 5 )   e200030 - e200030   2022年10月

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    Leigh syndrome is a progressive encephalopathy characterized by symmetrical lesions in brain. This study aimed to investigate the clinicopathologic and genetic characteristics of a family with Leigh syndrome and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP).

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    Data from a Japanese family's clinical features, MRIs, muscle biopsy, and an autopsy were analyzed. A whole-exome sequence was performed, as well as real-time PCR analysis to determine copy number variations and Western blot analyses.

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    The proband and her 2 siblings developed spastic paraplegia and mental retardation during childhood. The proband and her sister had peripheral neuropathy, whereas their father developed compression neuropathy. Leigh encephalopathy was diagnosed neuropathologically. Brain MRI revealed changes in cerebral white matter as well as multiple lesions in the brainstem and cerebellum. Muscle biopsy revealed type 2 fiber uniformity and decreased staining of cytochrome c oxidase. The COX10 missense mutation was identified through whole-exome sequence. A 1.4-Mb genomic deletion extending from intron 5 of COX10 to PMP22 was detected.

    Discussion

    These findings suggest that in this family, Leigh syndrome is associated with a mitochondrial respiratory chain complex IV deficiency caused by biallelic COX10 mutations coexisting with HNPP caused by heterozygous PMP22 deletion.

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  • High‐Contrast Imaging of α‐Synuclein Pathologies in Living Patients with Multiple System Atrophy 国際誌

    Kiwamu Matsuoka, Maiko Ono, Yuhei Takado, Kosei Hirata, Hironobu Endo, Toshiyuki Ohfusa, Taichi Kojima, Takeshi Yamamoto, Tomohiro Onishi, Asumi Orihara, Kenji Tagai, Keisuke Takahata, Chie Seki, Hitoshi Shinotoh, Kazunori Kawamura, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hitoshi Shimada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Ming‐Rong Zhang, Tetsuya Suhara, Makoto Higuchi

    Movement Disorders   37 ( 10 )   2159 - 2161   2022年10月

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  • 疾患解析技術の最先端 認知症のトランスクリプトーム解析 ヒト剖検脳のシングル核解析から見えてくるもの

    宮下 哲典, 他田 真理, 原 範和, 長谷川 舞衣, 柿田 明美, 池内 健

    Dementia Japan   36 ( 4 )   721 - 721   2022年10月

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  • 神経症状で初発する血管内大細胞型B細胞リンパ腫の臨床的特徴と診断方法に関する検討

    北原 匠, 金澤 雅人, 徳武 孝充, 棗田 学, 佐藤 晶, 石川 正典, 原 賢寿, 田部 浩行, 牧野 邦比古, 藤田 信也, 岡本 浩一郎, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦, 小野寺 理

    臨床神経学   62 ( Suppl. )   S272 - S272   2022年10月

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  • The large neuron involvement in the neostriatum in Lewy body diseases. 国際誌

    Kiyomitsu Oyanagi, Hideki Hayashi, Mitsunori Yamada, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   42 ( 5 )   459 - 463   2022年10月

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  • Successful Treatment of Acute Uric Acid Nephropathy with Rasburicase in a Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma Patient Showing a Dramatic Response to Methotrexate—Case Report

    Yoshihiro Mouri, Manabu Natsumeda, Noritaka Okubo, Taro Sato, Taiki Saito, Kohei Shibuya, Shiori Yamada, Jotaro On, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Masayasu Okada, Makoto Oishi, Takeyoshi Eda, Junko Murai, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Journal of Clinical Medicine   11 ( 19 )   5548 - 5548   2022年9月

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    Background: Primary central nervous system lymphomas (PCNSLs) are sensitive to chemotherapy. The standard treatment is high-dose methotrexate (MTX)-based chemotherapy. There are no reports of successful treatment of acute uric acid nephropathy with rasburicase after MTX administration in PCNSLs. Case presentation: A 54-year-old man with a history of gout presented with a change in character and cognitive dysfunction. MRI showed a large enhancing mass spanning the bilateral frontal lobes and the right temporal lobe. After endoscopic biopsy, an MTX, procarbazine, and vincristine (MPV) regimen was initiated for the treatment of the PCNSL. After the initiation of chemotherapy, the patient experienced a gout attack, and blood examination revealed acute renal failure (ARF) and hyperuricemia. The considered causes of ARF included MTX toxicity and acute uric acid nephropathy. As the dramatic effect of MTX was observed, treatment was continued despite ARF, most probably due to acute hyperuricemia due to tumor lysis, which was treated in parallel. After an improvement in renal function, MTX was resumed, and rasburicase was initiated to control hyperuricemia. A complete response was obtained after induction chemotherapy. Hyperuricemia was controlled with rasburicase, and renal function was preserved. Conclusions: Acute uric acid nephropathy should be considered when ARF occurs after the initiation of MTX in PCNSLs, especially in newly diagnosed PCNSL patients with large tumors or hyperuricemia.

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  • Elucidating the multiple genetic alterations involved in the malignant transformation of a KRAS mutant neurenteric cyst. A case report. 国際誌

    Shoji Saito, Manabu Natsumeda, Makoto Sainouchi, Toru Takino, Kohei Shibuya, Jotaro On, Yu Kanemaru, Ryosuke Ogura, Masayasu Okada, Makoto Oishi, Yoshifumi Shimada, Toshifumi Wakai, Shujiro Okuda, Yoichi Ajioka, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   42 ( 6 )   519 - 525   2022年9月

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    Neurenteric cyst (NC) shows benign histopathology and rarely demonstrate malignant transformation. We herein describe a case of NC that exhibited malignant transformation. A 65-year-old female presented with gait disturbance due to compression by a cystic mass on the dorsal surface of the medulla oblongata. Partial resection was performed twice, leading to improvement of her symptoms. Two years after the second surgery, gadolinium-perfused T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging revealed an invasive lesion with contrast enhancement at the trigone of the left lateral ventricle for which partial resection followed by radiotherapy was performed. However, mass regrowth was observed, with the patient eventually succumbing to her disease 11 months after her third surgery. Histopathological analyses of the first and second surgical specimens identified pseudostratified cuboidal epithelial cells, with no nuclear or cellular atypia resembling gastrointestinal mucosa, lining the inner surface of the cystic wall. Based on these findings the lesion was diagnosed as NC. The third surgical specimen exhibited apparent malignant features of the epithelial cells with elongated and hyperchromatic nuclei, several mitotic figures, small necrotic foci, and a patternless or sheet-like arrangement. Based on these findings, the lesion was diagnosed as NC with malignant transformation. Next-generation sequencing revealed KRAS p.G12D mutation in all specimens. Additionally, the third surgical specimen harbored the following 12 de novo gene alterations: ARID1A loss, BAP1 p.F170L, CDKN1B loss, CDKN2A loss, CDKN2B loss, FLCN loss, PTCH1 loss, PTEN loss, PTPRD loss, SUFU loss, TP53 loss, and TSC1 loss. The aforementioned results suggest that KRAS mutation is associated with the development of the NC, and that the additional gene alterations contribute to malignant transformation of the NC.

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  • Phosphorylation of Tau at Threonine 231 in Patients With Multiple System Atrophy and in a Mouse Model

    Makoto T Tanaka, Kunikazu Tanji, Yasuo Miki, Taku Ozaki, Fumiaki Mori, Hideki Hayashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Journal of Neuropathology &amp; Experimental Neurology   2022年9月

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    Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a sporadic neurodegenerative disorder pathologically characterized by the presence of glial cytoplasmic inclusions (GCIs). Some MSA patients exhibit motor deficits with accompanying cognitive impairment. Of note, some patients suffering from MSA with longer disease duration have AT8-positive signals, which correspond to phosphorylated tau (P-tau) at 202/205 (P-tau202/205). However, P-tau sites other than the AT8 antibody epitope antibody are less well studied. Here, we focused on the effect of α-synuclein (Syn) expression on the phosphorylation of tau in MSA model mice. Among the 6 kinds of antibodies against P-tau, we confirmed that antibodies against P-tau at 231 (P-tau231) were phospho-specific and found that P-tau231 level was increased in parallel with disease progression in MSA model mice. Additional studies of human brains revealed that P-tau231 was mainly expressed in the temporal cortex in MSA brains and that its expression level was significantly higher in MSA patients than in controls. Immunohistochemical analysis showed that anti-P-tau231-, but not AT8, antibodies mainly immunolabeled hippocampal CA2/3 pyramidal neurons, and some GCIs in MSA. These data suggest that P-tau231 occurs in MSA differently from P-tau202/205.

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  • Alteration of Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein-Binding Protein B in α-Synuclein Aggregates in Lewy Body Disease. 国際誌

    Fumiaki Mori, Yukino Nakamura, Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Tomoya Kon, Masahiko Tomiyama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology   81 ( 10 )   807 - 815   2022年8月

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    α-Synuclein (α-Syn) binds to vesicle-associated membrane protein-binding protein B (VAPB) in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Recent studies have shown that α-Syn-immunoreactive Lewy pathology is characterized by membrane crowding, including vesicular structures. To elucidate the role of VAPB and vesicular structures in Parkinson's disease (PD) and in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the relationships among VAPB, vesicular structures, and Lewy pathology were investigated by immunohistochemistry and immunoelectron microscopy in 8 PD and 4 DLB autopsy cases. The proportions of VAPB-negative neurons in the substantia nigra in PD and in the temporal cortex in DLB were significantly higher than those in 5 controls. In PD, the incidence of α-Syn inclusions in VAPB-negative neurons was significantly higher (77.4%) than in VAPB-positive neurons (1.6%) in the substantia nigra. In DLB, the incidence of α-Syn inclusions in VAPB-negative neurons was also significantly higher (65.3%) than in VAPB-positive neurons (2.8%) in the temporal cortex. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that α-Syn and VAPB were localized to filamentous structures of Lewy bodies (LBs). However, only a few vesicular structures labeled with anti-α-Syn were observed within LBs. These findings suggest that reduction of VAPB is involved in the disease processes of PD and DLB, although vesicular structures may not directly contribute to the formation of LBs.

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  • Epilepsy surgery without lipoma removal for temporal lobe epilepsy associated with lipoma in the Sylvian fissure. 国際誌

    Kazuki Nomura, Hiroharu Suzuki, Yasushi Iimura, Takumi Mitsuhashi, Samantha Tamrakar, Tetsuya Ueda, Kazuki Nishioka, Keiko Fusegi, Mari Tada, Madoka Nakajima, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hidenori Sugano

    Acta neurochirurgica   165 ( 1 )   265 - 269   2022年8月

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    Epileptic seizure is the common symptom associated with lipomas in the Sylvian fissure (Sylvian lipomas). Removal of these lipomas carries risks of hemorrhage and brain damage. We report a surgical strategy of not removing the lipoma in a case of intractable temporal lobe epilepsy associated with Sylvian lipoma. We performed anterior temporal lobectomy with preservation of the pia mater of the Sylvian fissure and achieved seizure freedom. Focal cortical dysplasia type 1 of the epileptic neocortex adjacent to the Sylvian lipoma was pathologically diagnosed. We recommend our surgical procedure in similar cases to avoid complications and achieve adequate seizure control.

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  • ヒトてんかん焦点組織における興奮・抑制不均衡の病態病理学的基盤

    小笠原 輝, 中島 光子, 才津 浩智, 竹林 浩秀, 福多 真史, 伊藤 陽祐, 柿田 明美, 北浦 弘樹

    てんかん研究   40 ( 2 )   423 - 423   2022年8月

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  • Pathological substrate of memory impairment in multiple system atrophy. 国際誌

    Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Kana Shinnai, Makoto T Tanaka, Firat Altay, Sandrine C Foti, Catherine Strand, Takanori Sasaki, Tomoya Kon, Shuji Shimoyama, Tomonori Furukawa, Haruo Nishijima, Hiromi Yamazaki, Yasmine T Asi, Conceição Bettencourt, Zane Jaunmuktane, Mari Tada, Fumiaki Mori, Hiroki Mizukami, Masahiko Tomiyama, Hilal A Lashuel, Tammaryn Lashley, Akiyoshi Kakita, Helen Ling, Andrew J Lees, Janice L Holton, Thomas T Warner, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Neuropathology and applied neurobiology   48 ( 7 )   e12844   2022年7月

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    AIMS: Synaptic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease is caused by propagation of pathogenic α-synuclein between neurons. Previously, in multiple system atrophy (MSA), pathologically characterised by ectopic deposition of abnormal α-synuclein predominantly in oligodendrocytes, we demonstrated that the occurrence of memory impairment was associated with the number of α-synuclein-positive neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions (NCIs) in the hippocampus. In the present study, we aimed to investigate how abnormal α-synuclein in the hippocampus can lead to memory impairment. METHODS: We performed pathological and biochemical analyses using a mouse model of adult-onset MSA and human cases (MSA, N = 25; Parkinson's disease, N = 3; Alzheimer's disease, N = 2; normal controls, N = 11). In addition, the MSA model mice were examined behaviourally and physiologically. RESULTS: In the MSA model, inducible human α-synuclein was first expressed in oligodendrocytes and subsequently accumulated in the cytoplasm of excitatory hippocampal neurons (NCI-like structures) and their presynaptic nerve terminals with the development of memory impairment. α-Synuclein oligomers increased simultaneously in the hippocampus of the MSA model. Hippocampal dendritic spines also decreased in number, followed by suppression of long-term potentiation. Consistent with these findings obtained in the MSA model, post-mortem analysis of human MSA brain tissues showed that cases of MSA with memory impairment developed more NCIs in excitatory hippocampal neurons along with α-synuclein oligomers than those without. CONCLUSIONS: Our results provide new insights into the role of α-synuclein oligomers as a possible pathological cause of memory impairment in MSA.

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  • Periodic cycles of seizure clustering and suppression in children with epilepsy strongly suggest focal cortical dysplasia

    Yoshihiko Saito, Kenji Sugai, Masaki Iwasaki, Mahito Atobe, Noriko Sato, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yuko Saito, Taisuke Ohtsuki, Masayuki Sasaki

    Developmental Medicine &amp; Child Neurology   2022年7月

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  • 【神経核内封入体病・白質脳症】脳小血管病の病理

    齋藤 理恵, 柿田 明美

    脳神経内科   97 ( 1 )   81 - 90   2022年7月

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  • 【神経核内封入体病・白質脳症】ミクログリア関連疾患の病理(HDLS、NHD、ALD)

    他田 真理, 柿田 明美

    脳神経内科   97 ( 1 )   91 - 100   2022年7月

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  • Praja1 RING-finger E3 ubiquitin ligase is a common suppressor of neurodegenerative disease-associated protein aggregation. 国際誌

    Kazuhiko Watabe, Motoko Niida-Kawaguchi, Mari Tada, Yoichiro Kato, Makiko Murata, Kunikazu Tanji, Koichi Wakabayashi, Mitsunori Yamada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Noriyuki Shibata

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   2022年6月

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    The formation of misfolded protein aggregates is one of the pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases. We have previously demonstrated the cytoplasmic aggregate formation of adenovirally expressed transactivation response DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43), the main constituent of neuronal cytoplasmic aggregates in cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), in cultured neuronal cells under the condition of proteasome inhibition. The TDP-43 aggregate formation was markedly suppressed by co-infection of adenoviruses expressing heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1), a master regulator of heat shock response, and Praja1 RING-finger E3 ubiquitin ligase (PJA1) located downstream of the HSF1 pathway. In the present study, we examined other reportedly known E3 ubiquitin ligases for TDP-43, i.e. Parkin, RNF112 and RNF220, but failed to find their suppressive effects on neuronal cytoplasmic TDP-43 aggregate formation, although they all bind to TDP-43 as verified by co-immunoprecipitation. In contrast, PJA1 also binds to adenovirally expressed wild-type and mutated fused in sarcoma, superoxide dismutase 1, α-synuclein and ataxin-3, and huntingtin polyglutamine proteins in neuronal cultures and suppressed the aggregate formation of these proteins. These results suggest that PJA1 is a common sensing factor for aggregate-prone proteins to counteract their aggregation propensity, and could be a potential therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases that include ALS, FTLD, Parkinson's disease and polyglutamine diseases.

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  • 臨床医のための神経病理再入門 CARASIL

    齋藤 理恵, 小野寺 理, 柿田 明美

    Clinical Neuroscience   40 ( 6 )   700 - 702   2022年6月

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  • 臨床医のための神経病理再入門 CARASIL

    齋藤 理恵, 小野寺 理, 柿田 明美

    Clinical Neuroscience   40 ( 6 )   700 - 702   2022年6月

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  • The neostriatum in polyglutamine diseases: preferential decreases in large neurons in dentatorubral‐pallidoluysian atrophy and <scp>Machado‐Joseph</scp> disease and in small neurons in Huntington disease

    Kiyomitsu Oyanagi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Mitsunori Yamada, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology   2022年5月

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  • 小児・AYA世代のヒストン遺伝子変異びまん性神経膠腫症例の後方視的検討

    塚本 佳広, 高橋 陽彦, 温 城太郎, 小倉 良介, 棗田 学, 岡本 浩一郎, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   39 ( Suppl. )   100 - 100   2022年5月

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  • 脳腫瘍研究のcutting edge-先端画像、実験/分子病理、デジタル病理- 髄芽腫におけるGLI3 single cell RNAシーケンス解析 細胞レベルから見えて来たこと

    棗田 学, 宮下 聡, 宮原 弘明, 高橋 晴彦, 塚本 佳広, 大石 誠, 吉村 淳一, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   39 ( Suppl. )   072 - 072   2022年5月

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  • Elevation of EGR1/zif268, a Neural Activity Marker, in the Auditory Cortex of Patients with Schizophrenia and its Animal Model

    Yuriko Iwakura, Ryoka Kawahara-Miki, Satoshi Kida, Hidekazu Sotoyama, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, Hitoshi Takahashi, Yasuto Kunii, Mizuki Hino, Atsuko Nagaoka, Ryuta Izumi, Risa Shishido, Toshiyuki Someya, Hirooki Yabe, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroyuki Nawa

    Neurochemical Research   2022年4月

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  • Independent distribution between tauopathy secondary to subacute sclerotic panencephalitis and measles virus: An immunohistochemical analysis in autopsy cases including cases treated with aggressive antiviral therapies. 国際誌

    Hiroaki Miyahara, Akio Akagi, Yuichi Riku, Jun Sone, Yasushi Otsuka, Motoko Sakai, Satoshi Kuru, Masato Hasegawa, Mari Yoshida, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yasushi Iwasaki

    Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)   32 ( 6 )   e13069   2022年4月

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    Subacute sclerotic panencephalitis (SSPE) is a refractory neurological disorder after exposure to measles virus. Recently, SSPE cases have been treated with antiviral therapies, but data on the efficacy are inconclusive. Abnormal tau accumulation has been reported in the brain tissue of SSPE cases, but there are few reports in which this is amply discussed. Five autopsied cases diagnosed as definite SSPE were included in this study. The subject age or disease duration ranged from 7.6 to 40.9 years old or from 0.5 to 20.8 years, respectively. Cases 3 and 4 had been treated with antiviral therapies. All evaluated cases showed marked brain atrophy with cerebral ventricle dilatation; additionally, marked demyelination with fibrillary gliosis were observed in the cerebral white matter. The brainstem, cerebellum, and spinal cord were relatively preserved. Immunoreactivity (IR) against measles virus was seen in the brainstem tegmentum, neocortex, and/or limbic cortex of the untreated cases but was rarely seen in the two treated cases. Activated microglia were broadly observed from the cerebrum to the spinal cord and had no meaningful difference among cases. Neurofibrillary tangles characterized by a combination of 3- and 4-repeat tau were observed mainly in the oculomotor nuclei, locus coeruleus, and limbic cortex. IR against phosphorylated tau was seen mainly in the cingulate gyrus, oculomotor nuclei, and pontine tegmentum, and tended to be observed frequently in cases with long disease durations but also tended to decrease along with neuronal loss, as in Case 5, which had the longest disease duration. Since the distribution of phosphorylated tau was independent from that of measles virus, the tauopathy following SSPE was inferred to be the result of diffuse brain inflammation triggered by measles rather than a direct result of measles virus. Moreover, antiviral therapies seemed to suppress measles virus but not the progression of tauopathy.

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  • Brain TDP-43 pathology in corticobasal degeneration: Topographical correlation with neuronal loss. 国際誌

    Makoto Sainouchi, Mari Tada, Yusran Ady Fitrah, Norikazu Hara, Kou Tanaka, Jiro Idezuka, Izumi Aida, Takashi Nakajima, Akinori Miyashita, Kohei Akazawa, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology and applied neurobiology   48 ( 3 )   e12786   2022年4月

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    AIMS: Neuronal and glial inclusions comprising transactive response DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) have been identified in the brains of patients with corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and a possible correlation between the presence of these inclusions and clinical phenotypes has been speculated. However, the significance of TDP-43 pathology in the pathomechanism of CBD has remained unclear. Here, we investigated the topographical relationship between TDP-43 inclusions and neuronal loss in CBD. METHODS: We estimated semi-quantitatively neuronal loss and TDP-43 pathology in the form of neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions (NCIs), astrocytic inclusions (AIs), oligodendroglial cytoplasmic inclusions (GCIs), and dystrophic neurites in 22 CNS regions in 10 patients with CBD. Then, the degree of correlation between the severity of neuronal loss and the quantity of each type of TDP-43 inclusion was assessed. We also investigated tau pathology in a similar manner. RESULTS: TDP-43 pathology was evident in nine patients. The putamen and globus pallidus were the regions most frequently affected (80%). NCIs were the most prominent form, and their quantity was significantly correlated with the severity of neuronal loss in more than half of the regions examined. The quantities of TDP-43 NCIs and tau NCIs were correlated in only a few regions. The number of regions where the quantities of TDP-43 AIs and GCIs were correlated with the severity of neuronal loss was apparently small in comparison with that of NCIs. CONCLUSIONS: TDP-43 alterations in neurons, not closely associated with tau pathology, may be involved in the pathomechanism underlying neuronal loss in CBD. There was a significant topographical correlation between neuronal cytoplasmic aggregation of TDP-43 and neuronal loss in CBD, suggesting that TDP-43 protein aberration might be associated with neuronal degeneration in CBD. There was no close correlation between the burden of TDP-43 and that of tau in neurons.

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  • Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: Histopathological implications of aberrant bone morphogenic protein signalling for CNS dysgenesis

    Hidetomo Tanaka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yosuke Yonemochi, Tetsuo Ozawa, Yasuko Toyoshima, Takashi Nakajima, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology   2022年3月

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  • Endogenous human retrovirus-K is not increased in the affected tissues of Japanese ALS patients. 国際誌

    Tomohiko Ishihara, Akihide Koyama, Yuya Hatano, Ryoko Takeuchi, Yuka Koike, Taisuke Kato, Mari Tada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Osamu Onodera

    Neuroscience research   178   78 - 82   2022年2月

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    Activation of human endogenous retrovirus-K (HERV-K) is one of the proposed risk factors for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The HERV-K envelope protein has been reported to show neurotoxicity, and development of therapy with reverse transcriptase inhibitors is being investigated. On the other hand, some reports have failed to show HERV-K activation in ALS. In this study, we analyzed the expression of HERV-K mRNA in the motor cortex and spinal cord of 15 Japanese patients with sporadic ALS and 19 controls using reverse transcriptase droplet digital PCR. This revealed no significant increase of HERV-K expression in ALS-affected tissues, suggesting that the association between ALS and HERV-K remains questionable.

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  • Burden of seizures and comorbidities in patients with epilepsy: a survey based on the tertiary hospital-based Epilepsy Syndrome Registry in Japan. 国際誌

    Yushi Inoue, Shin-Ichiro Hamano, Masaharu Hayashi, Hiroshi Sakuma, Shinichi Hirose, Atsushi Ishii, Ryoko Honda, Akio Ikeda, Katsumi Imai, Kazutaka Jin, Akiko Kada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Mitsuhiro Kato, Kensuke Kawai, Tamihiro Kawakami, Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Toyojiro Matsuishi, Takeshi Matsuo, Shin Nabatame, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Susumu Ito, Akihisa Okumura, Akiko Saito, Hideaki Shiraishi, Hiroshi Shirozu, Takashi Saito, Hidenori Sugano, Yukitoshi Takahashi, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Tetsuhiro Fukuyama, Ichiro Kuki

    Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape   24 ( 1 )   82 - 94   2022年2月

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    OBJECTIVE: To examine the current medical and psychosocial status of patients with epilepsy, aiming to facilitate appropriate application of the Intractable/Rare Diseases Act of Japan. METHODS: By analysing the cross-sectional data of patients registered in the tertiary hospital-based Epilepsy Syndrome Registry of Japan, we investigated the proportion of patients who met the severity criteria as defined by the Act (seizure frequency of at least once a month, or presence of intellectual/neurological/psychiatric symptoms, or both) and whether there are candidate syndrome/diseases to be added to the existing list in the Act. RESULTS: In total, 2,209 patients were registered. After excluding self-limited/idiopathic epilepsies, 1,851 of 2,110 patients (87.7%) met the severity criteria. The patients were classified into eight main epilepsy syndromes (594 patients), 20 groups based on aetiology (1,078 patients), and three groups without known aetiology (427 patients). Most of the groups classified by syndrome or aetiology had high proportions of patients satisfying the severity criteria (>90%), but some groups had relatively low proportions (<80%) resulting from favourable outcome of surgical therapy. Several small groups with known syndrome/aetiology await detailed analysis based on a sufficiently large enough number of patients registered, some of whom may potentially be added to the list of the Act. SIGNIFICANCE: The registry provides data to examine the usefulness of the severity criteria and list of diseases that are operationally defined by the Act. Most epilepsy patients with various syndromes/diseases and aetiology groups are covered by the Act but some are not, and the list of designated syndromes/diseases should be complemented by further amendments, as suggested by future research.

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  • Sirolimus for epileptic seizures associated with focal cortical dysplasia type II. 国際誌

    Mitsuhiro Kato, Akiko Kada, Hideaki Shiraishi, Jun Tohyama, Eiji Nakagawa, Yukitoshi Takahashi, Tomoyuki Akiyama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Noriko Miyake, Atsushi Fujita, Akiko M Saito, Yushi Inoue

    Annals of clinical and translational neurology   9 ( 2 )   181 - 192   2022年2月

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    OBJECTIVE: To determine whether sirolimus, a mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor, reduces epileptic seizures associated with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type II. METHODS: Sixteen patients (aged 6-57 years) with FCD type II received sirolimus at an initial dose of 1 or 2 mg/day based on body weight (FCDS-01). In 15 patients, the dose was adjusted to achieve target trough ranges of 5-15 ng/mL, followed by a 12-week maintenance therapy period. The primary endpoint was a lower focal seizure frequency during the maintenance therapy period. Further, we also conducted a prospective cohort study (RES-FCD) in which 60 patients with FCD type II were included as an external control group. RESULTS: The focal seizure frequency reduced by 25% in all patients during the maintenance therapy period and by a median value of 17%, 28%, and 23% during the 1-4-, 5-8-, and 9-12-week periods. The response rate was 33%. The focal seizure frequency in the external control group reduced by 0.5%. However, the background characteristics of external and sirolimus-treated groups differed. Adverse events were consistent with those of mTOR inhibitors reported previously. The blood KL-6 level was elevated over time. INTERPRETATION: The reduction of focal seizures did not meet the predetermined level of statistical significance. The safety profile of the drug was tolerable. The potential for a reduction of focal seizures over time merit further investigations.

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  • 臨床医のための神経病理再入門 小脳・脳幹梗塞

    佐藤 朋江, 齊ノ内 信, 齋藤 理恵, 柿田 明美

    Clinical Neuroscience   40 ( 2 )   148 - 150   2022年2月

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  • Familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification with a heterozygous missense variant (c. 902C >T/p. P307L ) in SLC20A2 showing widespread cerebrovascular lesions

    Kenji Sakai, Chiho Ishida, Koji Hayashi, Naotaka Tsuji, Takayuki Kannon, Kazuyoshi Hosomichi, Nobuyuki Takei, Akiyoshi Kakita, Atsushi Tajima, Masahito Yamada

    Neuropathology   2022年1月

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  • USP10 inhibits aberrant cytoplasmic aggregation of TDP-43 by promoting stress granule clearance. 国際誌

    Masahiko Takahashi, Hiroki Kitaura, Akiyoshi Kakita, Taichi Kakihana, Yoshinori Katsuragi, Osamu Onodera, Yuriko Iwakura, Hiroyuki Nawa, Masaaki Komatsu, Masahiro Fujii

    Molecular and cellular biology   42 ( 3 )   MCB0039321   2022年1月

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    TDP-43 is a causative factor of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Cytoplasmic TDP-43 aggregates in neurons are a hallmark pathology of ALS. Under various stress conditions, TDP-43 localizes sequentially to two cytoplasmic protein aggregates: stress granules (SGs) first, and then aggresomes. Accumulating evidence suggests that delayed clearance of TDP-43-positive SGs is associated with pathological TDP-43 aggregates in ALS. We found that USP10 promotes the clearance of TDP-43-positive SGs in cells treated with proteasome inhibitor, thereby promoting the formation of TDP-43-positive aggresomes, and the depletion of USP10 increases the amount of insoluble TDP-35, a cleaved product of TDP-43, in the cytoplasm. TDP-35 interacted with USP10 in an RNA-binding dependent manner; however, impaired RNA-binding of TDP-35 reduced the localization in SGs and aggresomes and induced USP10-negative TDP-35 aggregates. Immunohistochemistry showed that most of the cytoplasmic TDP-43/TDP-35-aggregates in the neurons of ALS patients were USP10-negative. Our findings suggest that USP10 inhibits aberrant aggregation of TDP-43/TDP-35 in the cytoplasm of neuronal cells by promoting the clearance of TDP-43/TDP-35-positive SGs and facilitating the formation of TDP-43/TDP-35-positive aggresomes.

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  • EGF Downregulates Presynaptic Maturation and Suppresses Synapse Formation In Vitro and In Vivo. 国際誌

    Nobuyuki Takei, Daisaku Yokomaku, Takaho Yamada, Tadasato Nagano, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hisaaki Namba, Tatsuo Ushiki, Hitoshi Takahashi, Hiroyuki Nawa

    Neurochemical research   2022年1月

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    Neuronal differentiation, maturation, and synapse formation are regulated by various growth factors. Here we show that epidermal growth factor (EGF) negatively regulates presynaptic maturation and synapse formation. In cortical neurons, EGF maintained axon elongation and reduced the sizes of growth cones in culture. Furthermore, EGF decreased the levels of presynaptic molecules and number of presynaptic puncta, suggesting that EGF inhibits neuronal maturation. The reduction of synaptic sites is confirmed by the decreased frequencies of miniature EPSCs. In vivo analysis revealed that while peripherally administrated EGF decreased the levels of presynaptic molecules and numbers of synaptophysin-positive puncta in the prefrontal cortices of neonatal rats, EGF receptor inhibitors upregulated these indexes, suggesting that endogenous EGF receptor ligands suppress presynaptic maturation. Electron microscopy further revealed that EGF decreased the numbers, but not the sizes, of synaptic structures in vivo. These findings suggest that endogenous EGF and/or other EGF receptor ligands negatively modulates presynaptic maturation and synapse formation.

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  • Meningoencephalocele in the Lateral Sphenoid Sinus Showing Malformation of Cortical Development: A Case Report.

    Taro Sato, Tetsuya Hiraishi, Mari Tada, Manabu Natsumeda, Jotaro On, Haruhiko Takahashi, Taiki Saito, Noritaka Okubo, Makoto Oishi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    NMC case report journal   9   281 - 287   2022年

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    Meningoencephalocele in the lateral sphenoid sinus (SS) has been determined to be a rare entity often detected by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea. To date, the pathology of meningoencephalocele in the lateral SS has remained to be unclear in many cases. In this study, we report on a case of a 72-year-old woman with an arteriovenous malformation who presented with CSF rhinorrhea. Radiologic investigations revealed a left temporal meningoencephalocele in the lateral SS. We removed the meningoencephalocele and performed skull base repair, after which the CSF rhinorrhea resolved. Pathological examination showed congenital cortical abnormalities with dysmorphic neurons in various shapes and acquired chronic tissue alterations including fibrillary gliosis and scattered Rosenthal fibers. These findings may further aid in understanding the etiopathogenesis of meningoencephalocele in the lateral SS.

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  • Cytosolic dsDNA of mitochondrial origin induces cytotoxicity and neurodegeneration in cellular and zebrafish models of Parkinson’s disease

    Hideaki Matsui, Junko Ito, Noriko Matsui, Tamayo Uechi, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Nature Communications   12 ( 1 )   2021年12月

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    <title>Abstract</title>Mitochondrial dysfunction and lysosomal dysfunction have been implicated in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but the links between these dysfunctions in PD pathogenesis are still largely unknown. Here we report that cytosolic dsDNA of mitochondrial origin escaping from lysosomal degradation was shown to induce cytotoxicity in cultured cells and PD phenotypes in vivo. The depletion of PINK1, GBA and/or ATP13A2 causes increases in cytosolic dsDNA of mitochondrial origin and induces type I interferon (IFN) responses and cell death in cultured cell lines. These phenotypes are rescued by the overexpression of DNase II, a lysosomal DNase that degrades discarded mitochondrial DNA, or the depletion of IFI16, which acts as a sensor for cytosolic dsDNA of mitochondrial origin. Reducing the abundance of cytosolic dsDNA by overexpressing human DNase II ameliorates movement disorders and dopaminergic cell loss in gba mutant PD model zebrafish. Furthermore, IFI16 and cytosolic dsDNA puncta of mitochondrial origin accumulate in the brain of patients with PD. These results support a common causative role for the cytosolic leakage of mitochondrial DNA in PD pathogenesis.

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  • 【ブレインバンク/死後脳研究】統合失調症死後脳におけるタンパク定量解析-ALDH4A1とその発現に影響する遺伝子多型

    長岡 敦子, 國井 泰人, 日野 瑞城, 泉 竜太, 宍戸 理紗, 齊ノ内 信, 柿田 明美, 矢部 博興

    日本生物学的精神医学会誌   32 ( 4 )   186 - 190   2021年12月

  • Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism: Clinicopathological discrepancies on diagnosis in three patients. 国際誌

    Yasuko Toyoshima, Hitoshi Takahashi, Shinnichi Katada, Naoyuki Kojima, Mari Tada, Takashi Tani, Ryoko Koike, Takanori Nozawa, Izumi Aida, Takashi Nakajima, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   41 ( 6 )   450 - 456   2021年12月

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    Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders. The cardinal neuropathological features of PD include selective and progressive loss of pigmented neurons in the substantia nigra, deficiencies in dopaminergic signaling in the striatum, and occurrence of phosphorylated α-synuclein-identified Lewy bodies in the nervous system. Parkinsonism, the clinical presentation of movement disorders seen in PD, is a feature shared commonly by other pathologically distinct neurodegenerative diseases, such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), and multiple system atrophy (MSA). Consequently, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish PD from such parkinsonism-related neurological disorders. In addition, parkinsonism is not always a feature of certain neurodegenerative diseases, and it can sometimes develop as a result of various forms of drug intoxication or cerebrovascular disease. Here, we describe the clinicopathological features of three patients (cases 1, 2, and 3) diagnosed as having PSP, MSA, and PD, respectively, in each of whom the postmortem histopathological diagnosis differed from the final clinical diagnosis. Neuropathologically, they had suffered from coexistent disorders: PD, MSA, and argyrophilic grain disease (case 1); PD (case 2); and vascular parkinsonism (case 3). The variety of patients showing features of parkinsonism underlines the importance of careful long-term follow up followed by postmortem neuropathological evaluation.

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  • Deep learning-based diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal sclerosis: An MRI study. 国際誌

    Yosuke Ito, Masafumi Fukuda, Hitoshi Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Masuda, Yu Kobayashi, Naoya Hasegawa, Hiroki Kitaura, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Epilepsy research   178   106815 - 106815   2021年12月

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    PURPOSE: The currently available indicators-sensitivity and specificity of expert radiological evaluation of MRIs-to identify mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) associated with hippocampal sclerosis (HS) are deficient, as they cannot be easily assessed. We developed and investigated the use of a novel convolutional neural network trained on preoperative MRIs to aid diagnosis of these conditions. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We enrolled 141 individuals: 85 with clinically diagnosed mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) and hippocampal sclerosis International League Against Epilepsy (HS ILAE) type 1 who had undergone anterior temporal lobe hippocampectomy were assigned to the MTLE-HS group, and 56 epilepsy clinic outpatients diagnosed as nonepileptic were assigned to the normal group. We fine-tuned a modified CNN (mCNN) to classify the fully connected layers of ImageNet-pretrained VGG16 network models into the MTLE-HS and control groups. MTLE-HS was diagnosed using MRI both by the fine-tuned mCNN and epilepsy specialists. Their performances were compared. RESULTS: The fine-tuned mCNN achieved excellent diagnostic performance, including 91.1% [85%, 96%] mean sensitivity and 83.5% [75%, 91%] mean specificity. The area under the resulting receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.94 [0.90, 0.98] (DeLong's method). Expert interpretation of the same image data achieved a mean sensitivity of 73.1% [65%, 82%] and specificity of 66.3% [50%, 82%]. These confidence intervals were located entirely under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the fine-tuned mCNN. CONCLUSIONS: Deep learning-based diagnosis of MTLE-HS from preoperative MR images using our fine-tuned mCNN achieved a performance superior to the visual interpretation by epilepsy specialists. Our model could serve as a useful preoperative diagnostic tool for ascertaining hippocampal atrophy in patients with MTLE.

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  • 【ブレインバンク/死後脳研究】統合失調症死後脳におけるタンパク定量解析-ALDH4A1とその発現に影響する遺伝子多型

    長岡 敦子, 國井 泰人, 日野 瑞城, 泉 竜太, 宍戸 理紗, 齊ノ内 信, 柿田 明美, 矢部 博興

    日本生物学的精神医学会誌   32 ( 4 )   186 - 190   2021年12月

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    機能分子であるタンパク質の脳における発現解析は,統合失調症の分子病態を解明するうえで不可欠である。死後脳研究には病態以外のさまざまな条件に由来する交絡因子が存在するため,その評価とコントロールは重要である。筆者らは統合失調症死後脳におけるタンパク質発現を中間表現型として,遺伝子多型(SNPs)との関連を解析する研究を行っており,解析には当施設で保管する精神疾患を主とした死後脳と新潟脳研究所に保管されている非精神疾患対照の死後脳を用いて行っている。本稿では,死後脳試料の保管施設の違いという交絡因子によって生じるタンパク質発現への影響について検討した研究と,統合失調症患者死後脳におけるタンパク質発現解析の一例として,aldehyde dehydrogenase 4 family member A1(ALDH4A1)とその発現に影響するSNPsについての研究を取り上げて,それぞれ概説する。(著者抄録)

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  • Detection of 2-Hydroxyglutarate by 3.0-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Gliomas with Rare IDH Mutations: Making Sense of "False-Positive" Cases. 国際誌

    Manabu Natsumeda, Hironaka Igarashi, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, Haruhiko Takahashi, Kunio Motohashi, Ryosuke Ogura, Jun Watanabe, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Kouichirou Okamoto, Akiyoshi Kakita, Tsutomu Nakada, Yukihiko Fujii

    Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)   11 ( 11 )   2021年11月

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    We have previously published a study on the reliable detection of 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG) in lower-grade gliomas by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). In this short article, we re-evaluated five glioma cases originally assessed as isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wildtype, which showed a high accumulation of 2HG, and were thought to be false-positives. A new primer was used for the detection of IDH2 mutation by Sanger sequencing. Adequate tissue for DNA analysis was available in 4 out of 5 cases. We found rare IDH2 mutations in two cases, with IDH2 R172W mutation in one case and IDH2 R172K mutation in another case. Both cases had very small mutant peaks, suggesting that the tumor volume was low in the tumor samples. Thus, the specificity of MRS for detecting IDH1/2 mutations was higher (81.3%) than that originally reported (72.2%). The detection of 2HG by MRS can aid in the diagnosis of rare, non-IDH1-R132H IDH1 and IDH2 mutations in gliomas.

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  • Candesartan prevents arteriopathy progression in cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy model. 査読 国際誌

    Taisuke Kato, Ri-Ichiroh Manabe, Hironaka Igarashi, Fuyuki Kametani, Sachiko Hirokawa, Yumi Sekine, Natsumi Fujita, Satoshi Saito, Yusuke Kawashima, Yuya Hatano, Shoichiro Ando, Hiroaki Nozaki, Akihiro Sugai, Masahiro Uemura, Masaki Fukunaga, Toshiya Sato, Akihide Koyama, Rie Saito, Atsushi Sugie, Yasuko Toyoshima, Hirotoshi Kawata, Shigeo Murayama, Masaki Matsumoto, Akiyoshi Kakita, Masato Hasegawa, Masafumi Ihara, Masato Kanazawa, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Shoji Tsuji, Osamu Onodera

    The Journal of clinical investigation   131 ( 22 )   2021年11月

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    Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) causes dementia and gait disturbance due to arteriopathy. Cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CARASIL) is a hereditary form of CSVD caused by loss of high-temperature requirement A1 (HTRA1) serine protease activity. In CARASIL, arteriopathy causes intimal thickening, smooth muscle cell (SMC) degeneration, elastic lamina splitting, and vasodilation. The molecular mechanisms were proposed to involve the accumulation of matrisome proteins as substrates or abnormalities in transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) signaling. Here, we show that HTRA1-/- mice exhibited features of CARASIL-associated arteriopathy: intimal thickening, abnormal elastic lamina, and vasodilation. In addition, the mice exhibited reduced distensibility of the cerebral arteries and blood flow in the cerebral cortex. In the thickened intima, matrisome proteins, including the hub protein fibronectin (FN) and latent TGF-β binding protein 4 (LTBP-4), which are substrates of HTRA1, accumulated. Candesartan treatment alleviated matrisome protein accumulation and normalized the vascular distensibility and cerebral blood flow. Furthermore, candesartan reduced the mRNA expression of Fn1, Ltbp-4, and Adamtsl2, which are involved in forming the extracellular matrix network. Our results indicate that these accumulated matrisome proteins may be potential therapeutic targets for arteriopathy in CARASIL.

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  • Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy resembling isolated central nervous system lymphomatoid granulomatosis. 国際誌

    Akio Kimura, Shinei Kato, Akira Takekoshi, Nobuaki Yoshikura, Narufumi Yanagida, Hiroshi Kitaguchi, Daisuke Akiyama, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akiyoshi Kakita, Takayoshi Shimohata

    Journal of neuroimmunology   361   577748 - 577748   2021年10月

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    We report two patients with meningoencephalomyelitis without evidence of extra central nervous system (CNS) involvement. Brain MRI showed linear perivascular radial gadolinium enhancement patterns and spinal cord MRI showed longitudinal extensive T2-hyperintensity lesions. Pathological findings from brain biopsies were angiocentric T-cell predominant lymphoid infiltrates that lacked Epstein-Barr virus-positive atypical B cells. The patients were initially suspected to have isolated CNS-lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LYG). Thereafter, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-immunoglobulin G were detected in their cerebrospinal fluid. This finding suggested autoimmune GFAP astrocytopathy. We speculate there is a link between isolated CNS-LYG and autoimmune GFAP astrocytopathy.

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  • 各種タウオパチーにおける線維形成タウの翻訳後修飾の解析

    亀谷 富由樹, 吉田 眞理, 松原 知康, 村山 茂雄, 齊藤 祐子, 河上 緒, 女屋 光基, 田中 英智, 柿田 明美, 長谷川 成人

    Dementia Japan   35 ( 4 )   651 - 651   2021年10月

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  • 認知症のゲノム医療 APOEの遺伝型とミスセンスレアバリアント:臨床応用への可能性

    宮下 哲典, 原 範和, 春日 健作, 菊地 正隆, 尾崎 浩一, 新飯田 俊平, 他田 真理, 柿田 明美, 池内 健

    Dementia Japan   35 ( 4 )   585 - 585   2021年10月

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  • ヒト剖検脳による神経疾患横断的なレアバリアント解析 APOE

    宮下 哲典, 他田 真理, 原 範和, 長谷川 舞衣, 月江 珠緒, Lixin Liu, Bin Zhu, Yusran Ady Fitrah, 春日 健作, 菊地 正隆, 柿田 明美, 池内 健

    Dementia Japan   35 ( 4 )   650 - 650   2021年10月

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  • 加齢と関連したDNA脱メチル化がTDP-43量の自己調節機構を障害する

    小池 佑佳, 須貝 章弘, 原 範和, 伊藤 絢子, 横関 明男, 石原 智彦, 山岸 拓磨, 坪口 晋太朗, 他田 真理, 池内 健, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理

    Dementia Japan   35 ( 4 )   610 - 610   2021年10月

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  • Alzheimer's Aβ assembly binds sodium pump and blocks endothelial NOS activity via ROS-PKC pathway in brain vascular endothelial cells. 国際誌

    Tomoya Sasahara, Kaori Satomura, Mari Tada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Minako Hoshi

    iScience   24 ( 9 )   102936 - 102936   2021年9月

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    Amyloid β-protein (Aβ) may contribute to worsening of Alzheimer's disease (AD) through vascular dysfunction, but the molecular mechanism involved is unknown. Using ex vivo blood vessels and primary endothelial cells from human brain microvessels, we show that patient-derived Aβ assemblies, termed amylospheroids (ASPD), exist on the microvascular surface in patients' brains and inhibit vasorelaxation through binding to the α3 subunit of sodium, potassium-ATPase (NAKα3) in caveolae on endothelial cells. Interestingly, NAKα3 is also the toxic target of ASPD in neurons. ASPD-NAKα3 interaction elicits neurodegeneration through calcium overload in neurons, while the same interaction suppresses vasorelaxation by increasing the inactive form of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) in endothelial cells via mitochondrial ROS and protein kinase C, independently of the physiological relaxation system. Thus, ASPD may contribute to both neuronal and vascular pathologies through binding to NAKα3. Therefore, blocking the ASPD-NAKα3 interaction may be a useful target for AD therapy.

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  • Hemiplegic-type ALS: clinicopathological features of two autopsied patients. 国際誌

    Makoto Sainouchi, Hidetomo Tanaka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Takuya Mashima, Takao Fukushima, Yuya Hatano, Tomohiko Ishihara, Kunihiko Makino, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry   92 ( 9 )   1014 - 1016   2021年9月

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  • Dysregulation of DPYSL2 expression by mTOR signaling in schizophrenia: Multi-level study of postmortem brain

    Ryuta Izumi, Mizuki Hino, Atsuko Nagaoka, Risa Shishido, Akiyoshi Kakita, Mikio Hoshino, Yasuto Kunii, Hirooki Yabe

    Neuroscience Research   2021年9月

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  • Current medico-psycho-social conditions of patients with West syndrome in Japan. 国際誌

    Shinsaku Yoshitomi, Shin-Ichiro Hamano, Masaharu Hayashi, Hiroshi Sakuma, Shinichi Hirose, Atsushi Ishii, Ryoko Honda, Akio Ikeda, Katsumi Imai, Kazutaka Jin, Akiko Kada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Mitsuhiro Kato, Kensuke Kawai, Tamihiro Kawakami, Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Toyojiro Matsuishi, Takeshi Matsuo, Shin Nabatame, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Susumu Ito, Akihisa Okumura, Akiko Saito, Hideaki Shiraishi, Hiroshi Shirozu, Takashi Saito, Hidenori Sugano, Yukitoshi Takahashi, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Tetsuhiro Fukuyama, Ichiro Kuki, Yushi Inoue

    Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape   23 ( 4 )   579 - 589   2021年8月

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    OBJECTIVE: To unveil current medical and psychosocial conditions of patients with West syndrome in Japan. METHODS: A cross-sectional analysis was performed in patients with West syndrome registered in the Rare Epilepsy Syndrome Registry (RES-R) of Japan. Furthermore, new-onset patients registered in the RES-R were observed prospectively and their outcomes after one and two years of follow-up were compared with data at onset. RESULTS: For the cross-sectional study, 303 patients with West syndrome were included. Seizures (such as spasms, tonic seizures and focal seizures) occurred daily in 69.3% of the patients at registration. Seizure frequency of less than one per year was observed in cases of unknown etiology (22.6%), genetic etiology (23.8%) and malformation of cortical development (MCD; 19.1%). Neurological findings were absent in 37.0%, but a high rate of abnormality was seen in patients with Aicardi syndrome, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), genetic etiology and MCD other than focal cortical dysplasia, accompanied by a >50% rate of bedridden patients. Abnormal EEG was found in 96.7%, and CT/MRI was abnormal in 62.7%. Treatments included antiepileptic drug therapy (94.3%), hormonal therapy (72.6%), diet therapy (8.3%) and surgery (15.8%). Intellectual/developmental delay was present in 88.4%, and was more severe in patients with Aicardi syndrome, genetic etiology and HIE. Autism spectrum disorder was found in 13.5%. For the longitudinal study, 27 new-onset West syndrome patients were included. The follow-up study revealed improved seizure status after two years in 66.7%, but worsened developmental status in 55.6%, with overall improvement in 51.9%. SIGNIFICANCE: The study reveals the challenging neurological, physical and developmental aspects, as well as intractable seizures, in patients with West syndrome. More than a half of the children showed developmental delay after onset, even though seizures were reduced during the course of the disease.

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  • Evidence for Altered Phosphoinositide Signaling-Associated Molecules in the Postmortem Prefrontal Cortex of Patients with Schizophrenia. 国際誌

    Yasuto Kunii, Junya Matsumoto, Ryuta Izumi, Atsuko Nagaoka, Mizuki Hino, Risa Shishido, Makoto Sainouchi, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Yoshio Hashizume, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirooki Yabe

    International journal of molecular sciences   22 ( 15 )   2021年7月

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    Phosphoinositides (PIs) play important roles in the structure and function of the brain. Associations between PIs and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia have been studied. However, the significance of the PI metabolic pathway in the pathology of schizophrenia is unknown. We examined the expression of PI signaling-associated proteins in the postmortem brain of schizophrenia patients. Protein expression levels of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase type-1 gamma (PIP5K1C), phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase alpha (PIK4CA, also known as PIK4A), phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted from chromosome 10 (PTEN), protein kinase B (Akt), and glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and multiplex fluorescent bead-based immunoassays of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of postmortem samples from 23 schizophrenia patients and 47 normal controls. We also examined the association between PIK4CA expression and its genetic variants in the same brain samples. PIK4CA expression was lower, whereas Akt expression was higher, in the PFC of schizophrenia patients than in that of controls; PIP5K1C, PTEN, and GSK3β expression was not different. No single-nucleotide polymorphism significantly affected protein expression. We identified molecules involved in the pathology of schizophrenia via this lipid metabolic pathway. These results suggest that PIK4CA is involved in the mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and is a potential novel therapeutic target.

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  • Reactive astrocytes contribute to epileptogenesis in patients with cavernous angioma. 国際誌

    Hiroki Kitaura, Tetsuya Hiraishi, Yosuke Itoh, Makoto Oishi, Yukihiko Fujii, Masafumi Fukuda, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Epilepsy research   176   106732 - 106732   2021年7月

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    OBJECTIVE: Patients with cavernous angioma (CA) often suffer from severe epilepsy, and surgical resection is often performed to attenuate these epileptic seizures. Several studies have suggested that surgical removal of the surrounding hemosiderin-pigmented tissues adjacent to CA achieves better seizure control than restricted lesionectomy. Pathological examination of the resected foci reveals not only hemosiderin pigmentation but also various degrees of inflammatory change, such as hemosiderin-laden macrophages, gliosis and fibrosis. However, there is some controversy regarding the epileptogenic potential of these regions due to the uncertain nature of the mechanisms contributing to these histopathological changes. METHODS: To investigate the correlations between neuron hyperexcitability and evident pathological changes, we performed ex vivo flavoprotein fluorescence imaging using surgically resected epileptogenic foci surrounding CA. The mirror surfaces of the tissues used for the physiological experiment were also subjected to morphological examination. RESULTS: Hemosiderin-laden macrophages and many gemistocytic astrocytes were observed in the area adjacent to CA, where horizontal spreading excitations were detected significantly more frequently. Outside these areas, we found fine granular iron deposits and only a few fibrillary astrocytes, and weakly propagating excitations were detected. Furthermore, areas of enhanced activation were more clearly correlated with the glial proliferation index than with iron deposition. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that the epileptogenesis in patients with CA may be based on a biological process, such as alteration of glial function, rather than direct chemical reactions involving iron deposition.

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  • Role of VAPB and vesicular profiles in α-synuclein aggregates in multiple system atrophy. 国際誌

    Fumiaki Mori, Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Tomoya Kon, Masahiko Tomiyama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)   31 ( 6 )   e13001   2021年7月

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    The pathological hallmark of multiple system atrophy (MSA) is fibrillary aggregates of α-synuclein (α-Syn) in the cytoplasm and nucleus of both oligodendrocytes and neurons. In neurons, α-Syn localizes to the cytosolic and membrane compartments, including the synaptic vesicles, mitochondria, and endoplasmic reticulum (ER). α-Syn binds to vesicle-associated membrane protein-binding protein B (VAPB) in the ER membrane. Overexpression of wild-type and familial Parkinson's disease mutant α-Syn perturbs the association between the ER and mitochondria, leading to ER stress and ultimately neurodegeneration. We examined brains from MSA patients (n = 7) and control subjects (n = 5) using immunohistochemistry and immunoelectron microscopy with antibodies against VAPB and phosphorylated α-Syn. In controls, the cytoplasm of neurons and glial cells was positive for VAPB, whereas in MSA lesions VAPB immunoreactivity was decreased. The proportion of VAPB-negative neurons in the pontine nucleus was significantly higher in MSA (13.6%) than in controls (0.6%). The incidence of cytoplasmic inclusions in VAPB-negative neurons was significantly higher (42.2%) than that in VAPB-positive neurons (3.6%); 67.2% of inclusion-bearing oligodendrocytes and 51.1% of inclusion-containing neurons were negative for VAPB. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that α-Syn and VAPB were localized to granulofilamentous structures in the cytoplasm of oligodendrocytes and neurons. Many vesicular structures labeled with anti-α-Syn were also observed within the granulofilamentous structures in the cytoplasm and nucleus of both oligodendrocytes and neurons. These findings suggest that, in MSA, reduction of VAPB is involved in the disease process and that vesicular structures are associated with inclusion formation.

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  • Predicting BRAF V600E mutation in glioblastoma: utility of radiographic features.

    Manabu Natsumeda, Michael Chang, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, Haruhiko Takahashi, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Yu Kanemaru, Masayasu Okada, Makoto Oishi, Kouichirou Okamoto, Fausto J Rodriguez, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii, Karisa C Schreck

    Brain tumor pathology   38 ( 3 )   228 - 233   2021年7月

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    Detection of BRAF V600E mutation in glioblastomas (GBMs) is important because of potential therapeutic implications. Still, the relative paucity of these mutations makes molecular detection in all GBMs controversial. In the present study, we analyzed clinical, radiographic and pathologic features of 12 BRAF V600E-mutant GBMs and 12 matched controls from 2 institutions. We found that a majority of BRAF V600E-mutant GBMs displayed a combination of well-circumscribed lesions, large cystic components with thin walls and solid cortical component on MRI, but with some overlap with matched BRAF wildtype controls (p = 0.069). BRAF V600E-mutant GBMs were also apt to gross total resection (83% vs 17%, p = 0.016) and morphologically displayed epithelioid features (83% vs 0%, p < 0.0001). Identification of these clinical, radiographic, and pathologic characteristics should prompt testing for BRAF V600E in IDH-wildtype GBM.

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  • Less-invasive diagnosis of disseminated epithelioid glioblastoma harboring BRAF V600E mutation by cerebrospinal fluid analysis-A case report. 国際誌

    Manabu Natsumeda, Yu Kanemaru, Yukie Kawaguchi, Hajime Umezu, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Clinical case reports   9 ( 7 )   e04551   2021年7月

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    Spinal dissemination in epithelioid glioblastoma can be diagnosed by cerebrospinal fluid cytology and liquid biopsy to detect BRAF V600E mutation.

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  • 多系統萎縮症(MSA-P)の臨床経過をとり、病理学的にMSA-OPCA typeとパーキンソン病の合併が示唆された一例

    長谷川 有香, 竹島 明, 中村 航世, 青山 あずさ, 黒羽 泰子, 高橋 哲哉, 松原 奈絵, 他田 真理, 柿田 明美, 小池 亮子

    パーキンソン病・運動障害疾患コングレスプログラム・抄録集   15回   98 - 98   2021年7月

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  • Correction to: A novel splicing variant of ANXA11 in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: histologic and biochemical features. 国際誌

    Makoto Sainouchi, Yuya Hatano, Mari Tada, Tomohiko Ishihara, Shoichiro Ando, Taisuke Kato, Jun Tokunaga, Gaku Ito, Hiroaki Miyahara, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akio Yokoseki, Tetsutaro Ozawa, Kohei Akazawa, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Acta neuropathologica communications   9 ( 1 )   115 - 115   2021年6月

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  • Long Spinal Cord Lesions Caused by Venous Congestive Myelopathy Associated with Intravascular Large B-cell Lymphoma.

    Takeshi Miura, Shoji Saito, Rie Saito, Tomohiro Iwasaki, Naomi Mezaki, Tomoe Sato, Yoichi Ajioka, Akiyoshi Kakita, Takuya Mashima

    Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)   2021年6月

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    Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL) is a subtype of B-cell lymphoma, characterized by lymphoma cell proliferation within small blood vessels. We herein describe a rare case with long spinal cord lesions caused by venous congestive myelopathy associated with IVLBCL. An 81-year-old man presented with paraplegia of the lower limbs and sensory disturbances. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed intramedullary longitudinal T2-hyperintensity lesions in the thoracic cords. The patient died three months after disease onset, and a neuropathological analysis revealed predominantly atypical B-lymphocytes located sparsely in the veins of the spinal cord. IVLBCL should be considered in the differential diagnoses of long spinal cord lesions.

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  • A novel splicing variant of ANXA11 in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: histologic and biochemical features. 国際誌

    Makoto Sainouchi, Yuya Hatano, Mari Tada, Tomohiko Ishihara, Shoichiro Ando, Taisuke Kato, Jun Tokunaga, Gaku Ito, Hiroaki Miyahara, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akio Yokoseki, Tetsutaro Ozawa, Kohei Akazawa, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Acta neuropathologica communications   9 ( 1 )   106 - 106   2021年6月

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  • 小児脳腫瘍の新展開 髄芽腫におけるGLI3発現および役割の解明 完結編

    棗田 学, 宮原 弘明, 吉村 淳一, 塚本 佳広, 大石 誠, エバーハート・チャールズ, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   38 ( Suppl. )   058 - 058   2021年5月

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  • 悪性神経膠腫におけるテモゾロミド療法前後のミスマッチ修復蛋白発現の検討

    山田 史織, 棗田 学, 高橋 陽彦, 安藤 和弘, 温 城太郎, 塚本 佳広, 岡田 正康, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

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  • 脳腫瘍遺伝子異常の画像診断 IDH変異型神経膠腫における3T-MRSを用いた2HGの検出

    棗田 学, 五十嵐 博中, 本橋 邦夫, 塚本 佳広, 小倉 良介, 岡本 浩一郎, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

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  • GH産生下垂体腺腫に対するソマトスタチンアナログの効果とソマトスタチン受容体発現分類の検討

    岡田 正康, 米岡 有一郎, 大石 誠, 平石 哲也, 佐野 正和, 棗田 学, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   38 ( Suppl. )   094 - 094   2021年5月

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  • High grade astrocytomaに準じて治療したprimary anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomaの4症例の検討

    塚本 佳広, 棗田 学, 温 城太郎, 小倉 良介, 清水 宏, 岡本 浩一郎, 大石 誠, 藤井 幸彦, 柿田 明美

    Brain Tumor Pathology   38 ( Suppl. )   078 - 078   2021年5月

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  • 髄膜腫摘出術の7年後に発生した局所浸潤性・再発性fibromatosisの一例

    温 城太郎, 清水 宏, 齋藤 理恵, 渋谷 航平, 棗田 学, 平石 哲也, 佐野 正和, 梅津 哉, 藤井 幸彦, 柿田 明美

    Brain Tumor Pathology   38 ( Suppl. )   121 - 121   2021年5月

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  • Betaine ameliorates schizophrenic traits by functionally compensating for KIF3-based CRMP2 transport. 国際誌

    Shogo Yoshihara, Xuguang Jiang, Momo Morikawa, Tadayuki Ogawa, Sotaro Ichinose, Hirooki Yabe, Akiyoshi Kakita, Manabu Toyoshima, Yasuto Kunii, Takeo Yoshikawa, Yosuke Tanaka, Nobutaka Hirokawa

    Cell reports   35 ( 2 )   108971 - 108971   2021年4月

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    In schizophrenia (SCZ), neurons in the brain tend to undergo gross morphological changes, but the related molecular mechanism remains largely elusive. Using Kif3b+/- mice as a model with SCZ-like behaviors, we found that a high-betaine diet can significantly alleviate schizophrenic traits related to neuronal morphogenesis and behaviors. According to a deficiency in the transport of collapsin response mediator protein 2 (CRMP2) by the KIF3 motor, we identified a significant reduction in lamellipodial dynamics in developing Kif3b+/- neurons as a cause of neurite hyperbranching. Betaine administration significantly decreases CRMP2 carbonylation, which enhances the F-actin bundling needed for proper lamellipodial dynamics and microtubule exclusion and may thus functionally compensate for KIF3 deficiency. Because the KIF3 expression levels tend to be downregulated in the human prefrontal cortex of the postmortem brains of SCZ patients, this mechanism may partly participate in human SCZ pathogenesis, which we hypothesize could be alleviated by betaine administration.

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  • Low Detection Rate of H3K27M Mutations in Cerebrospinal Fluid Obtained from Lumbar Puncture in Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Midline Gliomas. 国際誌

    Jotaro On, Manabu Natsumeda, Jun Watanabe, Shoji Saito, Yu Kanemaru, Hideaki Abe, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Masayasu Okada, Makoto Oishi, Junichi Yoshimura, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)   11 ( 4 )   2021年4月

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    Recent studies have suggested the feasibility of detecting H3K27M mutations in the cerebrospinal fluid of diffuse midline glioma (DMG) patients. However, cerebrospinal fluid from patients in these studies were collected mainly during biopsy, ventriculo-peritoneal shunt procedures or postmortem. We assessed circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) extracted from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma in a series of 12 radiographically suspected and/or pathologically confirmed diffuse midline glioma patients and assessed for H3F3A K27M mutation using digital droplet PCR. In 10 patients, CSF was obtained by lumbar puncture at presentation. A definitive detection of H3F3A K27M mutation was achieved in only one case (10%); H3F3A K27M mutation was suspected in three other cases (30%). H3F3A K27M mutation was detected in two patients in CSF obtained by ventricular tap during a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt for obstructive hydrocephalus. Cases in which a definitive assessment was possible (definite H3F3A K27M or definite H3F3A wildtype) tended to be younger (median 7.5 years vs. 40.5 years; p = 0.07) and have a higher concentration of CSF protein (median 123 mg/dL vs. 27.5 mg/dL; p = 0.21) compared to nondefinite cases. Low proliferation and apoptotic rates seemed to be characteristics of DMG unfavorable for liquid biopsy. More advanced lesions with necrosis and evidence of dissemination were unlikely to be candidates for lumbar puncture due to the fear of exacerbating obstructive hydrocephalus. Methods to safely sample CSF and a more sensitive detection of ctDNA are necessary for reliable liquid biopsy of DMG at presentation.

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  • Topoisomerase IIβ immunoreactivity (IR) co-localizes with neuronal marker-IR but not glial fibrillary acidic protein-IR in GLI3-positive medulloblastomas: an immunohistochemical analysis of 124 medulloblastomas from the Japan Children's Cancer Group.

    Hiroaki Miyahara, Manabu Natsumeda, Yonehiro Kanemura, Kai Yamasaki, Yuichi Riku, Akio Akagi, Wataru Oohashi, Tomoko Shofuda, Ema Yoshioka, Yuya Sato, Takashi Taga, Yuki Naruke, Ryo Ando, Daiichiro Hasegawa, Makiko Yoshida, Tsukasa Sakaida, Naoki Okada, Hiroyoshi Watanabe, Michio Ozeki, Yoshiki Arakawa, Junichi Yoshimura, Yukihiko Fujii, Souichi Suenobu, Kenji Ihara, Junichi Hara, Akiyoshi Kakita, Mari Yoshida, Yasushi Iwasaki

    Brain tumor pathology   38 ( 2 )   109 - 121   2021年4月

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    We previously reported observing GLI3 in medulloblastomas expressing neuronal markers (NM) and/or glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). Furthermore, patients with medulloblastomas expressing NM or GFAP tended to show favorable or poor prognosis, respectively. In the present study, we focused on the role of topoisomerase IIβ (TOP2β) as a possible regulator for neuronal differentiation in medulloblastomas and examined the pathological roles of GLI3, NM, GFAP, and TOP2β expressions in a larger population. We divided 124 medulloblastomas into three groups (NM-/GFAP-, NM +/GFAP-, and GFAP +) based on their immunoreactivity (IR) against NM and GFAP. The relationship among GLI3, NM, GFAP, and TOP2β was evaluated using fluorescent immunostaining and a publicly available single-cell RNA sequencing dataset. In total, 87, 30, and 7 medulloblastomas were classified as NM-/GFAP-, NM + /GFAP-, and GFAP +, and showed intermediate, good, and poor prognoses, respectively. GLI3-IR was frequently observed in NM +/GFAP-  and GFAP + , and TOP2β-IR was frequently observed only in NM +/GFAP-  medulloblastomas. In fluorescent immunostaining, TOP2β-IR was mostly co-localized with NeuN-IR but not with GFAP-IR. In single-cell RNA sequencing, TOP2β expression was elevated in CMAS/DCX-positive, but not in GFAP-positive, cells. NM-IR and GFAP-IR are important for estimating the prognosis of patients with medulloblastoma; hence they should be assessed in clinical practice.

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  • Genetic Variations and Neuropathologic Features of Patients With PRKN Mutations

    Naohiko Seike, Akio Yokoseki, Ryoko Takeuchi, Kento Saito, Hiroaki Miyahara, Akinori Miyashita, Tetsuhiko Ikeda, Izumi Aida, Takashi Nakajima, Masato Kanazawa, Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Yasuko Toyoshima, Hitoshi Takahashi, Riki Matsumoto, Tatsushi Toda, Osamu Onodera, Atsushi Ishikawa, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Movement Disorders   36 ( 7 )   1634 - 1643   2021年2月

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  • 高度な両下肢痙性を呈したレビー小体病の剖検例

    黒羽 泰子, 長谷川 有香, 高橋 哲哉, 松原 奈絵, 石黒 敬信, 田中 英智, 柿田 明美, 小池 亮子

    パーキンソン病・運動障害疾患コングレスプログラム・抄録集   14回   118 - 118   2021年2月

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  • 高齢発症多系統萎縮症の臨床病理学的検討

    荻根沢 真也, 今野 卓哉, 清水 宏, 他田 真理, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理

    パーキンソン病・運動障害疾患コングレスプログラム・抄録集   14回   112 - 112   2021年2月

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  • Novel tankyrase inhibitors suppress TDP-43 aggregate formation. 国際誌

    Kunikazu Tanji, Fumiaki Mori, Fumiyuki Shirai, Takehiro Fukami, Hiroyuki Seimiya, Jun Utsumi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Biochemical and biophysical research communications   537   85 - 92   2021年1月

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    Transactive response DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) abnormally forms aggregates in certain subtypes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) and in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The pathological forms of TDP-43 have reported to be associated with poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR), which regulates the properties of these aggregates. A recent study has indicated that tankyrase, a member of the PAR polymerase (PARP) family, regulates pathological TDP-43 formation under conditions of stress, and tankyrase inhibitors suppress TDP-43 aggregate formation and cytotoxicity. Since we reported the development of tankyrase inhibitors that are more specific than conventional inhibitors, in this study, we examined their effects on the formation of TDP-43 aggregates in cultured cells. Time-lapse imaging showed that TDP-43 aggregates appeared in the nucleus within 30 min of treatment with sodium arsenite. Several tankyrase inhibitors suppressed the formation of aggregates and decreased the levels of the tankyrase protein. Immunohistochemical studies demonstrated that tankyrase was localized to neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions in the spinal cords of patients with ALS. Moreover, the tankyrase protein levels were significantly higher in the brains of patients with FTLD than in the brains of control subjects. These findings suggest that the inhibition of tankyrase activity protects against TDP-43 toxicity. Tankyrase inhibitors may be a potential treatment to suppress the progression of TDP-43 proteinopathies.

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  • GLI3 Is Associated With Neuronal Differentiation in SHH-Activated and WNT-Activated Medulloblastoma. 国際誌

    Manabu Natsumeda, Hiroaki Miyahara, Junichi Yoshimura, Satoshi Nakata, Takanori Nozawa, Junko Ito, Yu Kanemaru, Jun Watanabe, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Masayasu Okada, Makoto Oishi, Junko Hirato, Takafumi Wataya, Sama Ahsan, Kensuke Tateishi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Fausto J Rodriguez, Hitoshi Takahashi, Volker Hovestadt, Mario L Suva, Michael D Taylor, Charles G Eberhart, Yukihiko Fujii, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology   80 ( 2 )   129 - 136   2021年1月

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    Glioma-associated oncogene homolog 3 (GLI3), whose main function is to inhibit GLI1, has been associated with neuronal differentiation in medulloblastoma. However, it is not clear what molecular subtype(s) show increased GLI3 expression. GLI3 levels were assessed by immunohistochemistry in 2 independent cohorts, including a total of 88 cases, and found to be high in both WNT- and SHH-activated medulloblastoma. Analysis of bulk mRNA expression data and single cell RNA sequencing studies confirmed that GLI1 and GLI3 are highly expressed in SHH-activated medulloblastoma, whereas GLI3 but not GLI1 is highly expressed in WNT-activated medulloblastoma. Immunohistochemical analysis has shown that GLI3 is expressed inside the neuronal differentiated nodules of SHH-activated medulloblastoma, whereas GLI1/2 are expressed in desmoplastic areas. In contrast, GLI3 is diffusely expressed in WNT-activated medulloblastoma, whereas GLI1 is suppressed. Our data suggest that GLI3 may be a master regulator of neuronal differentiation and morphology in these subgroups.

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  • Age-related demethylation of the TDP-43 autoregulatory region in the human motor cortex

    Yuka Koike, Akihiro Sugai, Norikazu Hara, Junko Ito, Akio Yokoseki, Tomohiko Ishihara, Takuma Yamagishi, Shintaro Tsuboguchi, Mari Tada, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Osamu Onodera

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    <title>Abstract</title>In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) forms aggregates in the motor cortex of the aging brain. This aggregate formation may be triggered by the increase in TDP-43 levels with aging. However, the amount of TDP-43 is autoregulated by the alternative splicing of the <italic>TARDBP</italic> 3’UTR, and its relationship with aging remains unresolved. Since DNA methylation is altered during aging, we hypothesized that 3’UTR methylation is also altered in the aging motor cortex, disrupting this autoregulatory system and increasing TDP-43 levels. We found that DNA demethylation in the autoregulatory region of TDP-43 reduced alternative splicing and increased TDP-43 expression. Furthermore, in the human motor cortex, we found that this region was demethylated with age and that the expression of TDP-43 increased. The dysregulation of TDP-43 autoregulation by age-related DNA demethylation in the motor cortex may explain the contribution of aging and system selectivity in ALS.

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  • Detailed Postmortem Profiling of Inflammatory Mediators Expression Revealed Post-inflammatory Alternation in the Superior Temporal Gyrus of Schizophrenia. 国際誌

    Ryuta Izumi, Mizuki Hino, Akira Wada, Atsuko Nagaoka, Takashi Kawamura, Tsutomu Mori, Makoto Sainouchi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kiyoto Kasai, Yasuto Kunii, Hirooki Yabe

    Frontiers in psychiatry   12   653821 - 653821   2021年

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    Recent studies have lent support to the possibility that inflammation is associated with the pathology of schizophrenia. In the study of measurement of inflammatory mediators, which are markers of inflammation, elevated inflammatory cytokine levels in the brain and blood have been reported in patients with schizophrenia. Several postmortem brain studies have also reported changes in the expression of inflammatory cytokines. However, it is not clear how these elevated inflammatory cytokines interact with other inflammatory mediators, and their association with the pathology of schizophrenia. We comprehensively investigated the expression of 30 inflammatory mediators in the superior temporal gyrus (STG) of 24 patients with schizophrenia and 26 controls using a multiplex method. Overall, inflammatory mediator expression in the STG was mostly unchanged. However, the expression of interleukin (IL)1-α and interferon-gamma-inducible protein (IP)-10 was decreased [IL-1α, median (IQR), 0.51 (0.37-0.70) vs. 0.87 (0.47-1.23), p = 0.01; IP-10, 13.99 (8.00-36.64) vs. 30.29 (10.23-134.73), p = 0.05], whereas that of IFN-α was increased [2.34 (1.84-4.48) vs. 1.94 (1.39-2.36), p = 0.04] in schizophrenia, although these alterations did not remain significant after multiple testing. Clustering based on inflammatory mediator expression pattern and analysis of upstream transcription factors using pathway analysis revealed that the suppression of IL-1α and IP-10 protein expression may be induced by regulation of a common upstream pathway. Neuroinflammation is important in understanding the biology of schizophrenia. While neuroimaging has been previously used, direct observation to determine the expression of inflammatory mediators is necessary. In this study, we identified protein changes, previously unreported, using comprehensive protein analysis in STG. These results provide insight into post-inflammatory alternation in chronic schizophrenia.

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  • Serotonin/5-HT1A Signaling in the Neurovascular Unit Regulates Endothelial CLDN5 Expression. 国際誌

    Kotaro Sugimoto, Naoki Ichikawa-Tomikawa, Keisuke Nishiura, Yasuto Kunii, Yasuteru Sano, Fumitaka Shimizu, Akiyoshi Kakita, Takashi Kanda, Tetsuya Imura, Hideki Chiba

    International journal of molecular sciences   22 ( 1 )   2020年12月

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    We previously reported that site-selective claudin-5 (CLDN5) breakdown and protein kinase A (PKA) activation are observed in brain microvessels of schizophrenia, but the underlying molecular basis remains unknown. The 5-HT1 receptors decline the intracellular cAMP levels and inactivate the major downstream PKA, and the 5-HT1A receptor is a promising target for schizophrenia. Therefore, we elucidated the involvement of serotonin/5-HT1A signaling in the endothelial CLDN5 expression. We demonstrate, by immunohistochemistry using post-mortem human brain tissue, that the 5-HT1A receptor is expressed in brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMVECs) and mural cells of the normal prefrontal cortex (PFC) gray matter. We also show that PKA is aberrantly activated not only in BMVECs but also in mural cells of the schizophrenic PFC. We subsequently revealed that the endothelial cell-pericyte tube-like structure was formed in a novel two-dimensional co-culture of human primary BMVECs and a human brain-derived pericyte cell line, in both of which the 5-HT1A receptor was expressed. Furthermore, we disclose that the serotonin/5-HT1A signaling enhances endothelial CLDN5 expression in BMVECs under two-dimensional co-culture conditions. Our findings provide novel insights into the physiological and pathological significance of serotonin/5-HT1A signaling in the region-specific regulation of the blood-brain barrier.

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  • Ethnicity-Dependent Effects of Schizophrenia Risk Variants of the OLIG2 Gene on OLIG2 Transcription and White Matter Integrity. 国際誌

    Hiroshi Komatsu, Hikaru Takeuchi, Yoshie Kikuchi, Chiaki Ono, Zhiqian Yu, Kunio Iizuka, Yuji Takano, Yoshihisa Kakuto, Shunichi Funakoshi, Takashi Ono, Junko Ito, Yasuto Kunii, Mizuki Hino, Atsuko Nagaoka, Yasushi Iwasaki, Hidenaga Yamamori, Yuka Yasuda, Michiko Fujimoto, Hirotsugu Azechi, Noriko Kudo, Ryota Hashimoto, Hirooki Yabe, Mari Yoshida, Yuko Saito, Akiyoshi Kakita, Nobuo Fuse, Ryuta Kawashima, Yasuyuki Taki, Hiroaki Tomita

    Schizophrenia bulletin   46 ( 6 )   1619 - 1628   2020年12月

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    Previous studies have indicated associations between several OLIG2 gene single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and susceptibility to schizophrenia among Caucasians. Consistent with these findings, postmortem brain and diffusion tensor imaging studies have indicated that the schizophrenia-risk-associated allele (A) in the OLIG2 SNP rs1059004 predicts lower OLIG2 gene expression in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of schizophrenia patients and reduced white matter (WM) integrity of the corona radiata in normal brains among Caucasians. In an effort to replicate the association between this variant and WM integrity among healthy Japanese, we found that the number of A alleles was positively correlated with WM integrity in some fiber tracts, including the right posterior limb of the internal capsule, and with mean blood flow in a widespread area, including the inferior frontal operculum, orbital area, and triangular gyrus. Because the A allele affected WM integrity in opposite directions in Japanese and Caucasians, we investigated a possible association between the OLIG2 gene SNPs and the expression level of OLIG2 transcripts in postmortem DLPFCs. We evaluated rs1059004 and additional SNPs in the 5' upstream and 3' downstream regions of rs1059004 to cover the broader region of the OLIG2 gene. The 2 SNPs (rs1059004 and rs9653711) had opposite effects on OLIG2 gene expression in the DLPFC in Japanese and Caucasians. These findings suggest ethnicity-dependent opposite effects of OLIG2 gene SNPs on WM integrity and OLIG2 gene expression in the brain, which may partially explain the failures in replicating associations between genetic variants and psychiatric phenotypes among ethnicities.

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  • Proteomic profile differentiating between mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal sclerosis. 国際誌

    Ayako Furukawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yoichi Chiba, Hiroki Kitaura, Yukihiko Fujii, Masafumi Fukuda, Shigeki Kameyama, Atsuyoshi Shimada

    Epilepsy research   168   106502 - 106502   2020年12月

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    Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is the most common neuropathological condition in adults with drug-resistant epilepsy and represents a critical feature in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) syndrome. Although epileptogenic brain tissue is associated with glutamate excitotoxicity leading to oxidative stress, the proteins that are targets of oxidative damage remain to be determined. In the present study we designed comprehensive analyses of changes in protein expression level and protein oxidation status in the hippocampus or neocortex to highlight proteins associated with excitotoxicity by comparing MTLE patients with relatively mild excitotoxicity (MTLE patients without HS, MTLE-non-HS) and those with severe excitotoxicity (MTLE patients with HS, MTLE-HS). We performed 2-dimensional fluorescence difference gel electrophoresis, 2D-oxyblot analysis, and mass spectrometric amino acid sequencing. We identified 16 proteins at 18 spots in which the protein expression levels differed between sclerotic and non-sclerotic hippocampi. In the sclerotic hippocampus, the expression levels of several synaptic proteins were decreased, and those of some glia-associated proteins increased. We confirmed histologically that all MTLE-HS cases examined exhibited severe neuronal cell loss and remarkable astrocytic gliosis in the hippocampi. In all MTLE-non-HS cases examined, neurons were spared and gliosis was unremarkable. Therefore, we consider that decreased synaptic proteins are a manifestation of loss of neuronal cell bodies and dendrites, whereas increased glia-associated proteins are a manifestation of proliferation and hypertrophy of astrocytes. These are considered to be the result of hippocampal sclerosis. In contrast, the expression level of d-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH), an l-serine synthetic enzyme expressed exclusively by astrocytes, was decreased, and that of stathmin 1, a neurite extension-related protein expressed by neurons, was increased in the sclerotic hippocampus. These findings cannot be explained solely as the result of hippocampal sclerosis. Rather, these changes can be involved in the continuation of seizure disorders in MTLE-HS. In addition, the protein carbonylation detection, an indicator of protein oxidation caused by excitotoxicity of multiple seizures and/or status epilepticus, revealed that the carbonyl level of collapsin response mediator protein 2 (CRMP2) increased significantly in the sclerotic hippocampus. In conclusion, protein identification following profiling of protein expression levels and detection of oxidative proteins indicated potential pathognomonic protein changes. The decreased expression of PHGDH, increased expression of stathmin 1, and carbonylation of CRMP2 differentiate between MTLE with and without HS. Therefore, further investigations of PHGDH, stathmin 1 and CRMP2 are promising to study more detailed effects of excitotoxicity on epileptogenic hippocampal tissue.

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  • Astrocytes release glutamate via cystine/glutamate antiporter upregulated in response to increased oxidative stress related to sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 国際誌

    Miku Kazama, Yoichiro Kato, Akiyoshi Kakita, Noriko Noguchi, Yasuomi Urano, Kenta Masui, Motoko Niida-Kawaguchi, Tomoko Yamamoto, Kazuhiko Watabe, Kazuo Kitagawa, Noriyuki Shibata

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   40 ( 6 )   587 - 598   2020年12月

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    A vast body of evidence implicates increased oxidative stress and extracellular glutamate accumulation in the pathomechanism of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Cystine/glutamate antiporter (xCT) carries extracellular cystine uptake and intracellular glutamate release (cystine/glutamate exchange) in the presence of oxidative stress. The aim of the present study was to determine the involvement of xCT in ALS. Immunohistochemical observations in the spinal cord sections demonstrated that xCT was mainly expressed in astrocytes, with staining more intense in 12 sporadic ALS patients as compared to 12 age-matched control individuals. Western blot and densitometric analyses of the spinal cord samples revealed that the relative value of xCT/β-actin optical density ratio was significantly higher in the ALS group as compared to the control group. Next, we conducted cell culture experiments using a human astrocytoma-derived cell line (1321N1) and a mouse motor neuron/neuroblastoma hybrid cell line (NSC34). In 1321N1 cells, the normalized xCT expression levels in cell lysates were significantly increased by H2 O2 treatment. Glutamate concentrations in 1321 N1 cell culture-conditioned media were significantly elevated by H2 O2 treatment, and the H2 O2 -driven elevations were completely canceled by the xCT inhibitor erastin pretreatment. In motor neuron-differentiated NSC34 cells (NSC34d cells), both the normalized xCT expression levels in the cell lysates and glutamate concentrations in the cell-conditioned media were constant with or without H2 O2 treatment. The present results provide in vivo and in vitro evidence that astrocytes upregulate xCT expression to release glutamate in response to increased oxidative stress associated with ALS, contributing to extracellular glutamate accumulation.

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  • 放射線療法併用下でのニボルマブ投与により一定の進行抑制効果を得た小児meningeal malanomatosisの1例

    武居 慎吾, 結城 明彦, 阿部 理一郎, 太田 智慶, 棗田 学, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美

    日本皮膚悪性腫瘍学会学術大会プログラム・抄録集   36回   139 - 139   2020年12月

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  • Longitudinal GluCEST MRI Changes and Cerebral Blood Flow in 5xFAD Mice

    Hironaka Igarashi, Satoshi Ueki, Hiroki Kitaura, Tae Kera, Ken Ohno, Masaki Ohkubo, Mika Terumitsu-Tsujita, Akiyoshi Kakita, Ingrid L Kwee

    Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging   2020   1 - 12   2020年11月

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    Many of the focal neurological symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are due to synaptic loss. Glutamate chemical exchange saturation transfer (GluCEST) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a candidate method to assess synaptic dysfunction. We assessed chronological changes in GluCEST in a 5xFAD mouse model of AD, comparing Glucest effects and regional cerebral blood flow (CBF). GluCEST effects and CBF in 5xFAD mice aged 1–15 months and their littermates (WT) were measured. Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) MRI reflecting dendritic/axonal density was also measured and compared with GluCEST in 7-month-old mice. While regional CBF’s decrease began at 7 months, GluCEST-reduction effects preceded hypoperfusion of the temporal cortex and hippocampus. While longitudinal 5xFAD mouse measurements revealed a correlation between the regional GluCEST effects and CBF, a generalized linear mixed model revealed statistically different correlations in cortical and basal brain regions. Further, NODDI-derived neurite density correlated with GluCEST effects in the parietal cortex, but not in the hippocampus, thereby revealing regional differences in pathophysiological mechanisms. Finally, GluCEST’s effects correlated with regional synaptophysin. These results demonstrate that GluCEST can reflect subtle synaptic changes and may be a potential imaging method for AD diagnosis as well as serve as a biomarker of AD progression.

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  • Progressive supranuclear palsy: Neuropathology of patients with a short disease duration due to unexpected death

    Lu Zhang, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akari Takeshima, Hiroshi Shimizu, Itsuro Tomita, Osamu Onodera, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   41 ( 3 )   174 - 182   2020年11月

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    Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) presents with a wide variety of signs/symptoms, making early initial diagnosis difficult. We investigated the clinical and neuropathological features of five patients with autopsy-proven PSP of short duration, ranging from 11 to 41 months (average, 26.2 months) due to unexpected death, focusing particularly on the distribution and severity of neuronal loss as well as neuronal and glial tau pathology in the affected brain. Clinical features were studied retrospectively through careful review of the medical records, and neuropathological examinations were carried out, along with tau immunohistochemistry using a monoclonal antibody AT8. These patients were diagnosed as having probable PSP (n = 4) and suggestive PSP (n = 1), respectively. In all cases, neuronal loss was evident in the substantia nigra, subthalamic nucleus, globus pallidus, and locus ceruleus. AT8-identified tau lesions, that is, pretangles/neurofibrillary tangles (PTs/NFTs), tufted astrocytes (TAs), and coiled bodies/neuropil threads (CBs/NTs), were distributed widely in the brain regions, especially in patients with longer disease duration. All cases showed variation in the regional tau burden among PTs/NFTs, TAs, and CBs/NTs. There was also a tendency for tau deposition to be more predominant in neuronal cells in the brainstem and cerebellum and in glial cells in the cerebral cortex and subcortical gray matter. These findings suggest that in PSP, the initial signs/symptoms are associated with degeneration and subsequent death of neurons with pathological tau deposition, and that the tau deposition in neuronal cells is independent of that in glial cells.

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  • ALS剖検例に関するテキストマイニングとエキソーム分析を用いたALSの新規候補遺伝子の探索(Search for new candidate genes for ALS by textmining and exome analysis of autopsy cases)

    Hatano Yuya, Ishihara Tomohiko, Yokoseki Akio, Tada Mari, Kakita Akiyoshi, Okuda Shujiro, Onodera Osamu

    臨床神経学   60 ( Suppl. )   S324 - S324   2020年11月

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  • 散発性ALSの137症例における剖検物のエキソーム分析(Exome analysis in 137 autopsied sporadic ALS cases)

    Ishihara Tomohiko, Hatano Yuya, Yokoseki Akio, Tada Mari, Nakajima Takashi, Koike Ryoko, Kakita Akiyoshi, Onodera Osamu

    臨床神経学   60 ( Suppl. )   S309 - S309   2020年11月

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  • Toward allele-specific targeting therapy and pharmacodynamic marker for spinocerebellar ataxia type 3

    Mercedes Prudencio, Hector Garcia-Moreno, Karen R. Jansen-West, Rana Hanna AL-Shaikh, Tania F. Gendron, Michael G. Heckman, Matthew R. Spiegel, Yari Carlomagno, Lillian M. Daughrity, Yuping Song, Judith A. Dunmore, Natalie Byron, Björn Oskarsson, Katharine A. Nicholson, Nathan P. Staff, Sorina Gorcenco, Andreas Puschmann, João Lemos, Cristina Januário, Mark S. LeDoux, Joseph H. Friedman, James Polke, Robin Labrum, Vikram Shakkottai, Hayley S. McLoughlin, Henry L. Paulson, Takuya Konno, Osamu Onodera, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Mari Tada, Akiyoshi Kakita, John D. Fryer, Christin Karremo, Inês Gomes, John N. Caviness, Mark R. Pittelkow, Jan Aasly, Ronald F. Pfeiffer, Venka Veerappan, Eric R. Eggenberger, William D. Freeman, Josephine F. Huang, Ryan J. Uitti, Klaas J. Wierenga, Iris V. Marin Collazo, Philip W. Tipton, Jay A. van Gerpen, Marka van Blitterswijk, Guojun Bu, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Paola Giunti, Leonard Petrucelli

    Science Translational Medicine   12 ( 566 )   2020年10月

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    Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the ataxin-3 gene (ATXN3), is characterized by neuronal polyglutamine (polyQ) ATXN3 protein aggregates. Although there is no cure for SCA3, gene-silencing approaches to reduce toxic polyQ ATXN3 showed promise in preclinical models. However, a major limitation in translating putative treatments for this rare disease to the clinic is the lack of pharmacodynamic markers for use in clinical trials. Here, we developed an immunoassay that readily detects polyQ ATXN3 proteins in human biological fluids and discriminates patients with SCA3 from healthy controls and individuals with other ataxias. We show that polyQ ATXN3 serves as a marker of target engagement in human fibroblasts, which may bode well for its use in clinical trials. Last, we identified a single-nucleotide polymorphism that strongly associates with the expanded allele, thus providing an exciting drug target to abrogate detrimental events initiated by mutant ATXN3. Gene-silencing strategies for several repeat diseases are well under way, and our results are expected to improve clinical trial preparedness for SCA3 therapies.

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  • ANCA関連脊髄肥厚性硬膜炎の臨床免疫病理学的検討

    中島 章博, 佐治 越爾, 清水 宏, 豊島 靖子, 岡本 浩一郎, 若杉 尚宏, 柳村 文寛, 柳川 香織, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理, 河内 泉

    神経免疫学   25 ( 1 )   134 - 134   2020年10月

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  • ヒト死後脳、ヒト培養細胞におけるAPOEの遺伝子発現解析

    Lixin Liu, 宮下 哲典, 村上 涼太, 原 範和, 菊地 正隆, Bin Zhu, 樋口 陽, Yusran Adyfitrah, 月江 珠緒, 長谷川 舞衣, 春日 健作, 赤津 裕康, 橋詰 良夫, 柿田 明美, 村山 繁雄, 池内 健

    Dementia Japan   34 ( 4 )   521 - 521   2020年10月

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  • ヒト死後脳に由来するDNA、RNAの品質管理

    長谷川 舞衣, 宮下 哲典, 春日 健作, 原 範和, 月江 珠緒, 齋藤 祐子, 赤津 裕康, 橋詰 良夫, 柿田 明美, 吉田 眞理, 村山 繁雄, 池内 健

    Dementia Japan   34 ( 4 )   525 - 525   2020年10月

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  • ヒト死後脳に由来するDNA、RNAの品質管理

    長谷川 舞衣, 宮下 哲典, 春日 健作, 原 範和, 月江 珠緒, 齋藤 祐子, 赤津 裕康, 橋詰 良夫, 柿田 明美, 吉田 眞理, 村山 繁雄, 池内 健

    Dementia Japan   34 ( 4 )   525 - 525   2020年10月

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  • Toward allele-specific targeting therapy and pharmacodynamic marker for spinocerebellar ataxia type 3

    Mercedes Prudencio, Hector Garcia-Moreno, Karen R. Jansen-West, Rana Hanna AL-Shaikh, Tania F. Gendron, Michael G. Heckman, Matthew R. Spiegel, Yari Carlomagno, Lillian M. Daughrity, Yuping Song, Judith A. Dunmore, Natalie Byron, Bjorn Oskarsson, Katharine A. Nicholson, Nathan P. Staff, Sorina Gorcenco, Andreas Puschmann, Joao Lemos, Cristina Januario, Mark S. LeDoux, Joseph H. Friedman, James Polke, Robin Labrum, Vikram Shakkottai, Hayley S. McLoughlin, Henry L. Paulson, Takuya Konno, Osamu Onodera, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Mari Tada, Akiyoshi Kakita, John D. Fryer, Christin Karremo, Ines Gomes, John N. Caviness, Mark R. Pittelkow, Jan Aasly, Ronald F. Pfeiffer, Venka Veerappan, Eric R. Eggenberger, William D. Freeman, Josephine F. Huang, Ryan J. Uitti, Klaas J. Wierenga, Iris V. Marin Collazo, Philip W. Tipton, Jay A. van Gerpen, Marka van Blitterswijk, Guojun Bu, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Paola Giunti, Leonard Petrucelli

    SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE   12 ( 566 )   2020年10月

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    Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the ataxin-3 gene (ATXN3), is characterized by neuronal polyglutamine (polyQ) ATXN3 protein aggregates. Although there is no cure for SCA3, gene-silencing approaches to reduce toxic polyQ ATXN3 showed promise in preclinical models. However, a major limitation in translating putative treatments for this rare disease to the clinic is the lack of pharmacodynamic markers for use in clinical trials. Here, we developed an immunoassay that readily detects polyQ ATXN3 proteins in human biological fluids and discriminates patients with SCA3 from healthy controls and individuals with other ataxias. We show that polyQ ATXN3 serves as a marker of target engagement in human fibroblasts, which may bode well for its use in clinical trials. Last, we identified a single-nucleotide polymorphism that strongly associates with the expanded allele, thus providing an exciting drug target to abrogate detrimental events initiated by mutant ATXN3. Gene-silencing strategies for several repeat diseases are well under way, and our results are expected to improve clinical trial preparedness for SCA3 therapies.

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  • ANCA関連脊髄肥厚性硬膜炎の臨床免疫病理学的検討

    中島 章博, 佐治 越爾, 清水 宏, 豊島 靖子, 岡本 浩一郎, 若杉 尚宏, 柳村 文寛, 柳川 香織, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理, 河内 泉

    神経免疫学   25 ( 1 )   134 - 134   2020年10月

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  • 本邦の孤発性ALSにおけるAPOE2の認知症への影響の検討

    畠野 雄也, 石原 智彦, 他田 真理, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理

    Dementia Japan   34 ( 4 )   521 - 521   2020年10月

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  • Methylmercury exposure during the vulnerable window of the cerebrum in postnatal developing rats

    Mineshi Sakamoto, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kazuo Sakai, Satomi Kameo, Megumi Yamamoto, Masaaki Nakamura

    Environmental Research   188   2020年9月

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    The developing brain is known to be sensitive to the toxic effects of methylmercury (MeHg). The effects of toxic levels of MeHg exposure during the most seemingly vulnerable window of the cerebrum are not well studied. In this study, we aimed to examine the specific effects of toxic levels of MeHg on neurobehavior, neurodegeneration, and selenoenzyme activity in the cerebrum of infant rats. Male Wistar rats (n = 8/group) were orally treated with MeHg at an acute toxic dose (8 mg Hg/kg/day) for 10 consecutive days starting on postnatal day 14 (P14). The MeHg-exposed rats showed a significant reduction in body weight after day 8 and severe neurological symptoms similar to dystonia on day 12 (P25). Motor coordination deficits determined using the rotarod performance test and short-term memory impairment determined using the Y-maze task were observed in the MeHg-exposed rats on day 11 (P24). The MeHg-exposed rats sacrificed on day 12 showed severe cerebral neuronal degeneration, reactive astrocytosis, and TUNEL-positive apoptotic nuclei, with the cerebral Hg concentration of 15.0 ± 1.6 μg/g. Furthermore, the activities of glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase in the cerebrum in MeHg-exposed rats were lower than those in control. These results indicate that MeHg exposure to infant rats will be useful to predict the effects of MeHg at the cerebral growth spurt in humans.

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  • 【良性成人型家族性ミオクローヌスてんかん】良性成人型家族性ミオクローヌスてんかんの神経病理

    齊ノ内 信, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, 小野寺 理, 柿田 明美

    脳神経内科   93 ( 3 )   305 - 309   2020年9月

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  • 統合失調症脳病態における脂質シグナル伝達の意義 死後脳研究

    國井 泰人, 松本 純弥, 泉 竜太, 長岡 敦子, 日野 瑞城, 赤津 裕康, 橋詰 良夫, 齊ノ内 信, 柿田 明美

    精神神経学雑誌   ( 2020特別号 )   S307 - S307   2020年9月

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  • 統合失調症脳病態における脂質シグナル伝達の意義 死後脳研究

    國井 泰人, 松本 純弥, 泉 竜太, 長岡 敦子, 日野 瑞城, 赤津 裕康, 橋詰 良夫, 齊ノ内 信, 柿田 明美

    精神神経学雑誌   ( 2020特別号 )   S307 - S307   2020年9月

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  • 【良性成人型家族性ミオクローヌスてんかん】良性成人型家族性ミオクローヌスてんかんの神経病理

    齊ノ内 信, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, 小野寺 理, 柿田 明美

    脳神経内科   93 ( 3 )   305 - 309   2020年9月

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  • Novel CHP1 mutation in autosomal-recessive cerebellar ataxia: autopsy features of two siblings. 査読 国際誌

    Rie Saito, Norikazu Hara, Mari Tada, Yoshiaki Honma, Akinori Miyashita, Osamu Onodera, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Acta neuropathologica communications   8 ( 1 )   134 - 134   2020年8月

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  • 側頭葉に主座を持つH3K27M変異陽性の退形成性星細胞腫の一例

    塚本 佳広, 棗田 学, 大倉 良太, 太田 智慶, 温 城太郎, 齋藤 祥二, 岡本 浩一郎, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   37 ( Suppl. )   134 - 134   2020年8月

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  • 脳腫瘍の遺伝子診断とゲノム医療2 ゲノム医療を想定したBRAF V600E変異を有する脳腫瘍の臨床病理像

    棗田 学, 金丸 優, 齋藤 祥二, 塚本 佳広, 岡田 正康, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   37 ( Suppl. )   076 - 076   2020年8月

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  • Topoisomerase IIβは髄芽腫細胞の神経分化を誘導する

    宮原 弘明, 棗田 学, 吉村 淳一, 藤井 幸彦, 柿田 明美, 岩崎 靖, 吉田 眞理

    Brain Tumor Pathology   37 ( Suppl. )   104 - 104   2020年8月

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  • GHホルモンは頭蓋咽頭腫の増大に寄与したか? GH産生下垂体腺腫と頭蓋咽頭腫が併存した一例から

    岡田 正康, 米岡 有一郎, 棗田 学, 大石 誠, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    Brain Tumor Pathology   37 ( Suppl. )   094 - 094   2020年8月

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  • Praja1 RING-finger E3 ubiquitin ligase suppresses neuronal cytoplasmic TDP-43 aggregate formation. 査読 国際誌

    Kazuhiko Watabe, Yoichiro Kato, Miho Sakuma, Makiko Murata, Motoko Niida-Kawaguchi, Taro Takemura, Nobutaka Hanagata, Mari Tada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Noriyuki Shibata

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   40 ( 6 )   570 - 586   2020年7月

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    Transactivation response DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) is a major constituent of cytoplasmic aggregates in neuronal and glial cells in cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). We have previously shown neuronal cytoplasmic aggregate formation induced by recombinant adenoviruses expressing human wild-type and C-terminal fragment (CTF) TDP-43 under the condition of proteasome inhibition in vitro and in vivo. In the present study, we demonstrated that the formation of the adenoviral TDP-43 aggregates was markedly suppressed in rat neural stem cell-derived neuronal cells by co-infection of an adenovirus expressing heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1), a master regulator of heat shock response. We performed DNA microarray analysis and searched several candidate molecules, located downstream of HSF1, which counteract TDP-43 aggregate formation. Among these, we identified Praja 1 RING-finger E3 ubiquitin ligase (PJA1) as a suppressor of phosphorylation and aggregate formation of TDP-43. Co-immunoprecipitation assay revealed that PJA1 binds to CTF TDP-43 and the E2-conjugating enzyme UBE2E3. PJA1 also suppressed formation of cytoplasmic phosphorylated TDP-43 aggregates in mouse facial motor neurons in vivo. Furthermore, phosphorylated TDP-43 aggregates were detected in PJA1-immunoreactive human ALS motor neurons. These results indicate that PJA1 is one of the principal E3 ubiquitin ligases for TDP-43 to counteract its aggregation propensity and could be a potential therapeutic target for ALS and FTLD.

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  • Clinical and pathological features affecting cardiac sympathetic denervation in autopsy-confirmed dementia with Lewy bodies

    M. Takahashi, T. Uchihara, M. Yoshida, K. Wakabayashi, A. Kakita, H. Takahashi, S. Toru, S. Orimo

    European Journal of Neurology   27 ( 7 )   1155 - 1163   2020年7月

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    Background and purpose: The aim was to clarify the features affecting cardiac sympathetic denervation in autopsy-confirmed dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) patients. Methods: Fifty-four autopsy-confirmed DLB patients were enrolled. Tissue samples of the left ventricular anterior wall were immunostained with anti-tyrosine hydroxylase antibody to identify catecholaminergic nerve axons. Immunostained areas were quantified as residual cardiac sympathetic nerve (CSN) axons and the relationship between the degree of residual CSN axons and clinical and neuropathological features was examined. Results: Virtually all patients showed small amounts of residual CSN axons (0.87%, range 0.02%–9.98%), with 50 patients (92.6%) showing &lt
    2.0% of residual axons. The patients who showed psychological symptoms within the first year of the disease had significantly more residual CSN axons than the remaining patients did (1.50% vs. 0.40%, P &lt
     0.01). Patients with a short disease duration and neocortical-type Lewy body pathology tended to have more preserved CSN axons, although this difference was not statistically significant. Fifty-three patients (98.1%) who had neurofibrillary tangles in the brain and strong concomitant Alzheimer’s disease pathology also had statistically significantly more preserved CSN axons. The patient with the most preserved CSN axons showed different characteristics from the results, except for the first symptom. Conclusion: Psychological symptoms within the first year of the disease, a short disease duration, neocortical-type Lewy body pathology and strong concomitant Alzheimer’s disease pathology may be related to mild CSN degeneration in DLB patients. Thus, DLB patients with broad Lewy body pathology in the brain in the early stages may show mild CSN degeneration.

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  • MicroRNA-5572 Is a Novel MicroRNA-Regulating SLC30A3 in Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. 査読 国際誌

    Hisaka Kurita, Saori Yabe, Tomoyuki Ueda, Masatoshi Inden, Akiyoshi Kakita, Isao Hozumi

    International journal of molecular sciences   21 ( 12 )   2020年6月

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    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive degenerative disease caused by the loss of motor neurons. Although the pathogenesis of sporadic ALS (sALS) remains unclear, it has recently been suggested that disorders of microRNA (miRNA) may be involved in neurodegenerative conditions. The purpose of this study was to investigate miRNA levels in sALS and the target genes of miRNA. Microarray and real-time RT-PCR analyses revealed significantly-decreased levels of miR-139-5p and significantly increased levels of miR-5572 in the spinal cords of sALS patients compared with those in controls. We then focused on miR-5572, which has not been reported in ALS, and determined its target gene. By using TargetScan, we predicted SLC30A3 as the candidate target gene of miR-5572. In a previous study, we found decreased SLC30A3 levels in the spinal cords of sALS patients. We revealed that SLC30A3 was regulated by miR-5572. Taken together, these results demonstrate that the level of novel miRNA miR-5572 is increased in sALS and that SLC30A3 is one of the target genes regulated by miR-5572.

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  • Oculopharyngodistal myopathy with coexisting histology of systemic neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease: Clinicopathologic features of an autopsied patient harboring CGG repeat expansions in LRP12. 査読 国際誌

    Rie Saito, Hiroshi Shimizu, Takeshi Miura, Norikazu Hara, Naomi Mezaki, Yo Higuchi, Akinori Miyashita, Izumi Kawachi, Kazuhiro Sanpei, Yoshiaki Honma, Osamu Onodera, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Acta neuropathologica communications   8 ( 1 )   75 - 75   2020年6月

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  • Expression of the ghrelin/growth hormone secretagogue receptor axis and its functional role in promoting tumor growth in primary central nervous system lymphomas 査読

    Hiroko Muta, Yasuo Sugita, Takuya Furuta, Yuki Shiimura, Koichi Ohshima, Kazutaka Nakashima, Kensaku Sato, Motohiro Morioka, Hideyuki Abe, Takanori Nozawa, Yukihiko Fujii, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology   40 ( 3 )   232 - 239   2020年6月

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  • Author Correction: Human and mouse single-nucleus transcriptomics reveal TREM2-dependent and TREM2-independent cellular responses in Alzheimer's disease. 国際誌

    Yingyue Zhou, Wilbur M Song, Prabhakar S Andhey, Amanda Swain, Tyler Levy, Kelly R Miller, Pietro L Poliani, Manuela Cominelli, Shikha Grover, Susan Gilfillan, Marina Cella, Tyler K Ulland, Konstantin Zaitsev, Akinori Miyashita, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Makoto Sainouchi, Akiyoshi Kakita, David A Bennett, Julie A Schneider, Michael R Nichols, Sean A Beausoleil, Jason D Ulrich, David M Holtzman, Maxim N Artyomov, Marco Colonna

    Nature medicine   26 ( 6 )   981 - 981   2020年6月

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    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

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  • Versatile whole-organ/body staining and imaging based on electrolyte-gel properties of biological tissues. 査読 国際誌

    Etsuo A Susaki, Chika Shimizu, Akihiro Kuno, Kazuki Tainaka, Xiang Li, Kengo Nishi, Ken Morishima, Hiroaki Ono, Koji L Ode, Yuki Saeki, Kazunari Miyamichi, Kaoru Isa, Chihiro Yokoyama, Hiroki Kitaura, Masako Ikemura, Tetsuo Ushiku, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Takashi Saito, Takaomi C Saido, Masashi Fukayama, Hirotaka Onoe, Kazushige Touhara, Tadashi Isa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Mitsuhiro Shibayama, Hiroki R Ueda

    Nature communications   11 ( 1 )   1982 - 1982   2020年4月

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    Whole-organ/body three-dimensional (3D) staining and imaging have been enduring challenges in histology. By dissecting the complex physicochemical environment of the staining system, we developed a highly optimized 3D staining imaging pipeline based on CUBIC. Based on our precise characterization of biological tissues as an electrolyte gel, we experimentally evaluated broad 3D staining conditions by using an artificial tissue-mimicking material. The combination of optimized conditions allows a bottom-up design of a superior 3D staining protocol that can uniformly label whole adult mouse brains, an adult marmoset brain hemisphere, an ~1 cm3 tissue block of a postmortem adult human cerebellum, and an entire infant marmoset body with dozens of antibodies and cell-impermeant nuclear stains. The whole-organ 3D images collected by light-sheet microscopy are used for computational analyses and whole-organ comparison analysis between species. This pipeline, named CUBIC-HistoVIsion, thus offers advanced opportunities for organ- and organism-scale histological analysis of multicellular systems.

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  • 【まれな感染症-ウイルス,細菌,寄生虫,輸入感染症-】脳神経領域のまれな感染症 画像診断のポイント 査読

    岡本 浩一郎, 高橋 陽彦, 鈴木 倫明, 小野寺 理, 柿田 明美, 阿部 博史

    臨床放射線   65 ( 4 )   317 - 324   2020年4月

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  • Soluble iron accumulation induces microglial glutamate release in the spinal cord of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 査読 国際誌

    Motoko Niida-Kawaguchi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Noriko Noguchi, Miku Kazama, Kenta Masui, Yoichiro Kato, Tomoko Yamamoto, Tatsuo Sawada, Kazuo Kitagawa, Kazuhiko Watabe, Noriyuki Shibata

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   40 ( 2 )   152 - 166   2020年4月

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    Previous studies on sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS) demonstrated iron accumulation in the spinal cord and increased glutamate concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid. To clarify the relationship between the two phenomena, we first performed quantitative and morphological analyses of substances related to iron and glutamate metabolism using spinal cords obtained at autopsy from 12 SALS patients and 12 age-matched control subjects. Soluble iron content determined by the Ferrozine method as well as ferritin (Ft) and glutaminase C (GLS-C) expression levels on Western blots were significantly higher in the SALS group than in the control group, while ferroportin (FPN) levels on Western blots were significantly reduced in the SALS group as compared to the control group. There was no significant difference in aconitase 1 (ACO1) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα)-converting enzyme (TACE) levels on Western blots between the two groups. Immunohistochemically, Ft, ACO1, TACE, TNFα, and GLS-C were proven to be selectively expressed in microglia. Immunoreactivities for FPN and hepcidin were localized in neuronal and glial cells. Based on these observations, it is predicted that soluble iron may stimulate microglial glutamate release. To address this issue, cell culture experiments were carried out on a microglial cell line (BV-2). Treatment of BV-2 cells with ferric ammonium citrate (FAC) brought about significant increases in intracellular soluble iron and Ft expression levels and conditioned medium glutamate and TNFα concentrations. Glutamate concentration was also significantly increased in conditioned media of TNFα-treated BV-2 cells. While the FAC-driven increases in glutamate and TNFα release were completely canceled by pretreatment with ACO1 and TACE inhibitors, respectively, the TNFα-driven increase in glutamate release was completely canceled by GLS-C inhibitor pretreatment. Moreover, treatment of BV-2 cells with hepcidin resulted in a significant reduction in FPN expression levels on Western blots of the intracellular total protein extracts. The present results provide in vivo and in vitro evidence that microglial glutamate release in SALS spinal cords is enhanced by intracellular soluble iron accumulation-induced activation of ACO1 and TACE and by increased extracellular TNFα-stimulated GLS-C upregulation, and suggest a positive feedback mechanism to maintain increased intracellular soluble iron levels, involving TNFα, hepcidin, and FPN.

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  • ALDH4A1 expression levels are elevated in postmortem brains of patients with schizophrenia and are associated with genetic variants in enzymes related to proline metabolism

    Atsuko Nagaoka, Yasuto Kunii, Mizuki Hino, Ryuta Izumi, Chisato Nagashima, Akari Takeshima, Makoto Sainouchi, Hiroyuki Nawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirooki Yabe

    Journal of Psychiatric Research   123   119 - 127   2020年4月

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  • 【まれな感染症-ウイルス,細菌,寄生虫,輸入感染症-】脳神経領域のまれな感染症 画像診断のポイント

    岡本 浩一郎, 高橋 陽彦, 鈴木 倫明, 小野寺 理, 柿田 明美, 阿部 博史

    臨床放射線   65 ( 4 )   317 - 324   2020年4月

  • [Amyloid β-related angiitis presenting extensive brain involvement without detection of hemorrhagic lesions: A case report]. 査読

    Yuya Hatano, Akihiro Sugai, Takuma Yamagishi, Akihiro Nakajima, Akiyoshi Kakita, Osamu Onodera

    Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology   60 ( 3 )   187 - 192   2020年3月

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    In amyloid β-related angiitis, cortical or subcortical microbleeding or cortical superficial siderosis supports clinical diagnosis. However, here we present a 75-year-old female case of amyloid β-related angiitis that did not initially show these lesions. The patient developed right homonymous hemianopia and aphasia, and subsequently became comatose. Her brain lesions progressed extensively from the left occipital lobe to the bilateral cerebral hemispheres, with diffused leptomeningeal lesions and scattered DWI high-intensity lesions. After pathological diagnosis, steroid treatment improved her symptoms as well as imaging findings. No hemorrhagic lesions were detected in the T2*-weighted imaging performed before treatment. However, susceptibility-weighted imaging performed after treatment showed a number of lesions with microbleeding. The clinical features of amyloid β-related angiitis that do not show hemorrhagic lesions at onset should be investigated for rapid therapeutic intervention in the future.

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  • A homogeneously enhancing mass evolving into multiple hemorrhagic and necrotic lesions in amoebic encephalitis with necrotizing vasculitis. 国際誌

    Tomoaki Suzuki, Kouichirou Okamoto, Nobuyuki Genkai, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroshi Abe

    Clinical imaging   60 ( 1 )   48 - 52   2020年3月

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    BACKGROUND: Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE) is a rare and mostly fatal disease. Without specific symptoms, laboratory findings, or radiologic characteristics, establishing a correct diagnosis is challenging. In many cases of GAE, multiple ring-enhancing lesions with perifocal edema are observed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); a solitary and homogeneously enhancing mass masquerading as a malignant lymphoma that evolved into multiple hemorrhagic and necrotic lesions has rarely been reported in GAE. CASE DESCRIPTION: An immunocompetent 68-year-old man presented with transient right hemiparesis due to epilepsy. MRI revealed a well- and homogeneously enhancing mass with perifocal edema and restricted diffusion in the left parietal subcortical region. As malignant lymphoma was suspected based on MRI findings and an elevated β2-microglobulin level in the cerebrospinal fluid, an open biopsy was performed; the pathological diagnosis was inconclusive but suggested a granulomatous disease. Although steroid therapy was administrated, subsequently the mass lesion gradually enlarged. After a second surgery for removal of the mass lesion, multiple hemorrhagic and necrotic lesions developed at the primary site and additionally in the brainstem. The patient entered a comatose state and died 3 months after admission. Histopathological examination and polymerase chain reaction analysis of the specimen revealed posthumously GAE caused by Balamuthia mandrillaris with necrotizing vasculitis. CONCLUSION: A solitary mass lesion initially mimicked a malignant lymphoma, and subsequently evolved into multiple hemorrhagic and necrotic lesions detected on T2*-weighted and susceptibility-weighted imaging. Such serial changes noted on MRI seem characteristic and suggestive of necrotizing vasculitis of GAE.

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  • 出血性病変が検出されずに広範な脳病変に至ったアミロイドβ関連血管炎の1例

    畠野 雄也, 須貝 章弘, 山岸 拓磨, 中島 章博, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理

    臨床神経学   60 ( 3 )   187 - 192   2020年3月

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    アミロイドβ関連血管炎(amyloid β-related angiitis)では、皮質や皮質下の微小出血や脳表ヘモジデリンの沈着が、脳MRI上の重要な所見である。我々は、治療前にはこれらの所見を呈さなかったアミロイドβ関連血管炎を提示する。症例は75歳女性。右同名半盲と失語で発症し、昏睡に至った。脳MRIでは、びまん性の軟髄膜造影病変と散在性のDWI高信号病変を認めたが、T2*WIでは微小出血は検出されなかった。病理所見からアミロイドβ関連血管炎と診断した。ステロイド治療により画像所見、臨床症状ともに改善した。治療後のsusceptibility-weighted imaging(SWI)では多数の微小出血を認めた。アミロイドβ関連血管炎の非侵襲的診断のために、微小出血以外の画像の特徴を集積すべきである。(著者抄録)

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  • 胃管潰瘍の左房穿孔による大脳空気塞栓症の一剖検例

    中原 亜紗, 橋立 英樹, 勇 亜衣子, 他田 正義, 佐藤 晶, 柿田 明美, 渋谷 宏行

    日本病理学会会誌   109 ( 1 )   383 - 383   2020年3月

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  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Pallidonigroluysian Degeneration: A Clinicopathological Study. 査読 国際誌

    Junko Ito, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kentaro Ohta, Jiro Idezuka, Hajime Tanaka, Hiroshi Kondo, Takashi Nakajima, Hitoshi Takahashi, Kohei Akazawa, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Annals of neurology   87 ( 2 )   302 - 312   2020年2月

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    OBJECTIVE: The pallidonigroluysian (PNL) system, the primary component of corticosubcortical circuits, is generally spared in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We evaluated the clinicopathological features of an unusual form of ALS with PNL degeneration (PNLD) and assessed whether ALS with PNLD represents a distinct ALS subtype. METHODS: From a cohort of 97 autopsied cases of sporadic ALS with phosphorylated 43kDa TAR DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) inclusions, we selected those with PNLD and analyzed their clinicopathological features. RESULTS: Eleven cases (11%) that showed PNLD were divided into 2 subtypes depending on the lesion distribution: (1) extensive type (n = 6), showing widespread TDP-43 pathology and multisystem degeneration, both involving the PNL system; and (2) limited type (n = 5), showing selective PNL and motor system involvement, thus being unclassifiable in terms of Brettschneider's staging or Nishihira's typing of ALS. The limited type showed a younger age at onset and predominant PNLD that accounted for the early development of extrapyramidal signs. The limited type exhibited the heaviest pathology in the subthalamus and external globus pallidus, suggesting that TDP-43 inclusions propagated via indirect or hyperdirect pathways, unlike ALS without PNLD, where the direct pathway is considered to convey TDP-43 aggregates from the cerebral cortex to the substantia nigra. INTERPRETATION: The PNL system can be involved in the disease process of ALS, either nonselectively as part of multisystem degeneration, or selectively. ALS with selective involvement of the PNL and motor systems exhibits unique clinicopathological features and TDP-43 propagation routes, thus representing a distinct subtype of ALS. ANN NEUROL 2020;87:302-312.

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  • MGMT Expression Contributes to Temozolomide Resistance in H3K27M-Mutant Diffuse Midline Gliomas 査読 国際誌

    Hideaki Abe, Manabu Natsumeda, Masayasu Okada, Jun Watanabe, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Yu Kanemaru, Junichi Yoshimura, Makoto Oishi, Rintaro Hashizume, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Frontiers in Oncology   9   1568 - 1568   2020年1月

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    © Copyright © 2020 Abe, Natsumeda, Okada, Watanabe, Tsukamoto, Kanemaru, Yoshimura, Oishi, Hashizume, Kakita and Fujii. Diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) show resistance to many chemotherapeutic agents including temozolomide (TMZ). Histone gene mutations in DMGs trigger epigenetic changes including DNA hypomethylation, one of which is a frequent lack of O6-methyl-guanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation, resulting in increased MGMT expression. We established the NGT16 cell line with HIST1H3B K27M and ACVR1 G328E gene mutations from a DMG patient and used this cell line and other DMG cell lines with H3F3A gene mutation (SF7761, SF8628, JHH-DIPG1) to analyze MGMT promoter methylation, MGMT protein expression, and response to TMZ. Three out of 4 DMG cell lines (NGT16, SF8628, and JHH-DIPG1) had unmethylated MGMT promoter, increased MGMT expression, and showed resistance to TMZ treatment. SF7761 cells with H3F3A gene mutation showed MGMT promoter methylation, lacked MGMT expression, and sensitivity to TMZ treatment. NGT16 line showed response to ALK2 inhibitor K02288 treatment in vitro. We confirmed in vitro that MGMT expression contributes to TMZ resistance in DMG cell lines. There is an urgent need to develop new strategies to treat TMZ-resistant DMGs.

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  • Skull diploë is rich in aquaporin-4 査読

    Yuji Suzuki, Hiroki Kitaura, Yukimi Nakamura, Akiyoshi Kakita, Vincent J. Huber, Nicholas Capozzoli, Ingrid L. Kwee, Tsutomu Nakada

    Heliyon   6 ( 1 )   e03259 - e03259   2020年1月

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  • Rare Brain Metastasis From a Pancreatobiliary Subtype of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm. 査読 国際誌

    Yoshihisa Arao, Kenya Kamimura, Masatoshi Ikemi, Kazunao Hayashi, Masayuki Takaki, Shunsaku Takahashi, Satoshi Seino, Hiroyuki Abe, Shintaro Tsuboguchi, Yutaka Otsu, Kazuhiro Sanpei, Junji Kohisa, Shuhei Kondo, Yusuke Tani, Junko Ito, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yoichi Ajioka, Shuji Terai

    Pancreas   49 ( 1 )   e8-e11 - e11   2020年1月

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  • Human and mouse single-nucleus transcriptomics reveal TREM2-dependent and TREM2-independent cellular responses in Alzheimer's disease. 査読 国際誌

    Yingyue Zhou, Wilbur M Song, Prabhakar S Andhey, Amanda Swain, Tyler Levy, Kelly R Miller, Pietro L Poliani, Manuela Cominelli, Shikha Grover, Susan Gilfillan, Marina Cella, Tyler K Ulland, Konstantin Zaitsev, Akinori Miyashita, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Makoto Sainouchi, Akiyoshi Kakita, David A Bennett, Julie A Schneider, Michael R Nichols, Sean A Beausoleil, Jason D Ulrich, David M Holtzman, Maxim N Artyomov, Marco Colonna

    Nature medicine   26 ( 1 )   131 - 142   2020年1月

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    Glia have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Variants of the microglia receptor triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) increase AD risk, and activation of disease-associated microglia (DAM) is dependent on TREM2 in mouse models of AD. We surveyed gene-expression changes associated with AD pathology and TREM2 in 5XFAD mice and in human AD by single-nucleus RNA sequencing. We confirmed the presence of Trem2-dependent DAM and identified a previously undiscovered Serpina3n+C4b+ reactive oligodendrocyte population in mice. Interestingly, remarkably different glial phenotypes were evident in human AD. Microglia signature was reminiscent of IRF8-driven reactive microglia in peripheral-nerve injury. Oligodendrocyte signatures suggested impaired axonal myelination and metabolic adaptation to neuronal degeneration. Astrocyte profiles indicated weakened metabolic coordination with neurons. Notably, the reactive phenotype of microglia was less evident in TREM2-R47H and TREM2-R62H carriers than in non-carriers, demonstrating a TREM2 requirement in both mouse and human AD, despite the marked species-specific differences.

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  • Identification of VGF nerve growth factor inducible-producing cells in human spinal cords and expression change in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 査読 国際誌

    Yasuhiro Noda, Miruto Tanaka, Shinsuke Nakamura, Junko Ito, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hideaki Hara, Masamitsu Shimazawa

    International journal of medical sciences   17 ( 4 )   480 - 489   2020年

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    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a serious disease characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons resulting in muscle weakness and paralysis. The neuroendocrine polypeptide VGF is localized in the central nervous system and peripheral endocrine neurons and is cleaved into several polypeptides with multiple functions. Previous studies revealed that VGF was decreased in the cerebrospinal fluid of ALS model mice and sporadic ALS patients. However, it is unknown which cells supply VGF in the spinal cord and a detailed localization is lacking. In this study, we evaluated the VGF-producing cells and protein localization using in situ hybridization and immunostaining in the spinal cords of ALS and control patients. VGF mRNA was localized both in the dorsal and anterior horns of the spinal cords. Moreover, in the anterior horn, VGF mRNA co-localized with a neurofilament heavy chain, which is a motor neuron marker, and VGF mRNA-positive motor neurons were decreased in the spinal cords of ALS patients. We revealed that VGF protein level was decreased in the anterior horn of ALS patients; however, the expression level of VGF protein was not changed in the posterior horn or white matter. Furthermore, the expression level of VGF protein was conserved in ALS patients with long-term survival. These results reveal that VGF is mainly supplied by human motor neurons, and suggest that VGF expression changes may be involved in ALS pathology.

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  • Comparison of Common and Disease-Specific Post-translational Modifications of Pathological Tau Associated With a Wide Range of Tauopathies. 国際誌

    Fuyuki Kametani, Mari Yoshida, Tomoyasu Matsubara, Shigeo Murayama, Yuko Saito, Ito Kawakami, Mitsumoto Onaya, Hidetomo Tanaka, Akiyoshi Kakita, Andrew C Robinson, David M A Mann, Masato Hasegawa

    Frontiers in neuroscience   14   581936 - 581936   2020年

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    Tauopathies are the most common type of neurodegenerative proteinopathy, being characterized by cytoplasmic aggregates of hyperphosphorylated tau protein. The formation and morphologies of these tau inclusions, the distribution of the lesions and related metabolic changes in cytoplasm differ among different tauopathies. The aim of this study was to examine whether there are differences in the post-translational modifications (PTMs) in the pathological tau proteins. We analyzed sarkosyl-insoluble pathological tau proteins prepared from brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, globular glial tauopathy, and frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonisms linked to chromosome 17 with tau inclusions using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. In pathological tau proteins associated with a wide range of tauopathies, 170 PTMs in total were identified including new PTMs. Among them, common PTMs were localized in the N- and C-terminal flanking regions of the microtubule binding repeats and PTMs, which were considered to be disease-specific, were found in microtubule binding repeats forming filament core. These suggested that the differences in PTMs reflected the differences in tau filament core structures in each disease.

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  • Fatal Progressive Meningoencephalitis Diagnosed in Two Members of a Family With X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia. 国際誌

    Yasushi Kasahara, Masaru Imamura, Chansu Shin, Hiroshi Shimizu, Jirou Utsumi, Ryosuke Hosokai, Haruko Iwabuchi, Takayuki Takachi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirokazu Kanegane, Akihiko Saitoh, Chihaya Imai

    Frontiers in pediatrics   8   579 - 579   2020年

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    Chronic enteroviral meningoencephalitis is a well-known complication in patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA). However, progressive neurodegenerative disorders or chronic neuroinflammatory diseases with no causative microorganisms have been recognized as rare central nervous system (CNS) complications in XLA. We herein report a family in which two of three members with XLA had developed progressive meningoencephalitis with an unknown etiology. A 15-month-old male infant presented with left-sided ptosis. Initially, the family denied any family history of inherited diseases, but later disclosed a family history of agammaglobulinemia previously diagnosed in two family members. In the early 1980s, one of the elder brothers of the index patient's mother who had been treated with intramuscular immunoglobulin [or later intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG)] for agammaglobulinemia deceased at 10 years of age after showing progressive neurological deterioration during the last several years of his life. The index patient was diagnosed with XLA caused by Bruton tyrosine kinase deficiency (654delG; Val219Leufs*9), and chronic meningoencephalitis with an unknown infectious etiology. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain demonstrated inflammatory changes in the basal ganglia, hypothalamus, midbrain, and pons, with multiple nodular lesions with ring enhancement, which showed impressive amelioration after the initiation of IVIG replacement therapy. Pleocytosis, which was characterized by an increase in CD4-positive and CD8-positive T cells expressing an activation marker and an elevation in inflammatory cytokines in the cerebrospinal fluid, was identified. No microorganism was identified as a cause of CNS complications. He thereafter developed brain infarction at 19 months of age and fatal status epilepticus at 5 years of age, despite regular IVIG with high trough levels and regular intraventricular immunoglobulin administration. The etiology of this rare CNS complication in XLA is currently unknown. Previous studies have suggested a possible association of IVIG, which was clearly denied in our index case because of the demonstration of his neurological disorder at presentation. In the future, extensive and unbiased molecular methods to detect causative microorganisms, as well as to investigate the possible role of autoimmunity are needed to clarify the etiology of CNS complications.

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  • Reciprocal connectivity between secondary auditory cortical field and amygdala in mice. 査読 国際誌

    Hiroaki Tsukano, Xubin Hou, Masao Horie, Hiroki Kitaura, Nana Nishio, Ryuichi Hishida, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirohide Takebayashi, Sayaka Sugiyama, Katsuei Shibuki

    Scientific reports   9 ( 1 )   19610 - 19610   2019年12月

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    Recent studies have examined the feedback pathway from the amygdala to the auditory cortex in conjunction with the feedforward pathway from the auditory cortex to the amygdala. However, these connections have not been fully characterized. Here, to visualize the comprehensive connectivity between the auditory cortex and amygdala, we injected cholera toxin subunit b (CTB), a bidirectional tracer, into multiple subfields in the mouse auditory cortex after identifying the location of these subfields using flavoprotein fluorescence imaging. After injecting CTB into the secondary auditory field (A2), we found densely innervated CTB-positive axon terminals that were mainly located in the lateral amygdala (La), and slight innervations in other divisions such as the basal amygdala. Moreover, we found a large number of retrogradely-stained CTB-positive neurons in La after injecting CTB into A2. When injecting CTB into the primary auditory cortex (A1), a small number of CTB-positive neurons and axons were visualized in the amygdala. Finally, we found a near complete absence of connections between the other auditory cortical fields and the amygdala. These data suggest that reciprocal connections between A2 and La are main conduits for communication between the auditory cortex and amygdala in mice.

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  • Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder with massive basal ganglia involvement: a case report. 査読

    Ohara S, Miyahira TA, Oguchi K, Takei YI, Yanagimura F, Kawachi I, Oyanagi K, Kakita A

    BMC neurology   19 ( 1 )   351   2019年12月

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  • Excess hydrogen sulfide and polysulfides production underlies a schizophrenia pathophysiology. 国際誌

    Masayuki Ide, Tetsuo Ohnishi, Manabu Toyoshima, Shabeesh Balan, Motoko Maekawa, Chie Shimamoto-Mitsuyama, Yoshimi Iwayama, Hisako Ohba, Akiko Watanabe, Takashi Ishii, Norihiro Shibuya, Yuka Kimura, Yasuko Hisano, Yui Murata, Tomonori Hara, Momo Morikawa, Kenji Hashimoto, Yayoi Nozaki, Tomoko Toyota, Yuina Wada, Yosuke Tanaka, Tadafumi Kato, Akinori Nishi, Shigeyoshi Fujisawa, Hideyuki Okano, Masanari Itokawa, Nobutaka Hirokawa, Yasuto Kunii, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirooki Yabe, Kazuya Iwamoto, Kohji Meno, Takuya Katagiri, Brian Dean, Kazuhiko Uchida, Hideo Kimura, Takeo Yoshikawa

    EMBO molecular medicine   11 ( 12 )   e10695   2019年12月

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    Mice with the C3H background show greater behavioral propensity for schizophrenia, including lower prepulse inhibition (PPI), than C57BL/6 (B6) mice. To characterize as-yet-unknown pathophysiologies of schizophrenia, we undertook proteomics analysis of the brain in these strains, and detected elevated levels of Mpst, a hydrogen sulfide (H2 S)/polysulfide-producing enzyme, and greater sulfide deposition in C3H than B6 mice. Mpst-deficient mice exhibited improved PPI with reduced storage sulfide levels, while Mpst-transgenic (Tg) mice showed deteriorated PPI, suggesting that "sulfide stress" may be linked to PPI impairment. Analysis of human samples demonstrated that the H2 S/polysulfides production system is upregulated in schizophrenia. Mechanistically, the Mpst-Tg brain revealed dampened energy metabolism, while maternal immune activation model mice showed upregulation of genes for H2 S/polysulfides production along with typical antioxidative genes, partly via epigenetic modifications. These results suggest that inflammatory/oxidative insults in early brain development result in upregulated H2 S/polysulfides production as an antioxidative response, which in turn cause deficits in bioenergetic processes. Collectively, this study presents a novel aspect of the neurodevelopmental theory for schizophrenia, unraveling a role of excess H2 S/polysulfides production.

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  • 外科的介入を受けていない症候性もやもや病の1剖検例

    齋藤 祥二, 齋藤 理恵, 中原 亜紗, 長谷川 仁, 田口 貴博, 上村 昌寛, 本多 忠幸, 伊藤 靖, 小野寺 理, 梅津 哉, 藤井 幸彦, 柿田 明美

    新潟医学会雑誌   133 ( 11-12 )   389 - 389   2019年12月

  • 外科的介入を受けていない症候性もやもや病の1剖検例

    齋藤 祥二, 齋藤 理恵, 中原 亜紗, 長谷川 仁, 田口 貴博, 上村 昌寛, 本多 忠幸, 伊藤 靖, 小野寺 理, 梅津 哉, 藤井 幸彦, 柿田 明美

    新潟医学会雑誌   133 ( 11-12 )   389 - 389   2019年12月

  • TAF15が主要に蓄積したFET病理を伴う筋萎縮性側索硬化症 剖検例の臨床病理学的特徴(Amsotrophic lateral sclerosis with TAF15-predominant FET pathology: clinicopathologic features of an autopsied patient)

    Cui Bo, Tada Mari, Hatano Yuya, Takeshima Akari, Ishihara Tomohiko, Sugai Akihiro, Tokutake Takayoshi, Kanazawa Masato, Onodera Osamu, Kakita Akiyoshi

    新潟医学会雑誌   133 ( 11-12 )   391 - 391   2019年12月

  • すべてがわかる白質病変の画像と病理 遺伝性白質脳症 病理から見た病態形成

    他田 真理, 柿田 明美

    臨床神経学   59 ( Suppl. )   S73 - S73   2019年11月

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  • Phosphorylated TDP-43 aggregates in skeletal and cardiac muscle are a marker of myogenic degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and various conditions. 査読 国際誌

    Fumiaki Mori, Mari Tada, Tomoya Kon, Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Hidekachi Kurotaki, Masahiko Tomiyama, Tomohiko Ishihara, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Acta neuropathologica communications   7 ( 1 )   165 - 165   2019年10月

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    BACKGROUND: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized pathologically by the occurrence of phosphorylated TDP-43 (pTDP-43)-immunoreactive neuronal and glial inclusions in the central nervous system. Recent studies have shown that pTDP-43 aggregates also occur in the skeletal muscles in a certain proportion of ALS patients. AIM: The aim of this study was to clarify the distribution and incidence of pTDP-43 aggregates in the skeletal and cardiac muscles of patients with ALS, and also those of patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) and non-NMDs. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Five regions of muscle (tongue, cervical muscle, diaphragm, iliopsoas muscle and heart) were examined histologically and immunohistochemically in patients with ALS (n = 30), NMDs (n = 13) and non-NMDs (n = 7). RESULTS: Two types of pTDP-43 aggregates were distinguishable morphologically: dense filamentous and short linear inclusions. These inclusions were found in at least one of the five muscle regions in all 30 cases of ALS; skeletal muscles in 28 cases and myocardium in 12. pTDP-43 aggregates were also found in 9 of 13 patients with NMDs, including myositis, muscular dystrophy and mitochondrial myopathy, as well as in 3 of 7 patients with non-NMDs. In ALS, pTDP-43 aggregates were most frequent in the diaphragm (19 cases). The mean density of pTDP-43 aggregates in ALS was significantly higher than that in NMDs and non-NMDs. In contiguous sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin and anti-pTDP-43, muscle fibers with dense filamentous inclusions demonstrated single-fiber atrophy with vacuolar degeneration. CONCLUSION: The present findings indicate that pTDP-43 aggregates in skeletal and cardiac muscle are a myogenic pathological marker in multiple diseases including ALS.

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  • Differential protein expression of DARPP-32 versus Calcineurin in the prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. 査読 国際誌

    Yasuto Kunii, Mizuki Hino, Junya Matsumoto, Atsuko Nagaoka, Hiroyuki Nawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Yoshio Hashizume, Hirooki Yabe

    Scientific reports   9 ( 1 )   14877 - 14877   2019年10月

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    Dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein of molecular weight 32 kDa (DARPP-32) integrates dopaminergic signaling into that of several other neurotransmitters. Calcineurin (CaN), located downstream of dopaminergic pathways, inactivates DARPP-32 by dephosphorylation. Despite several studies have examined their expression levels of gene and protein in postmortem patients' brains, they rendered inconsistent results. In this study, protein expression levels of DARPP-32 and CaN were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), and nucleus accumbens (NAc) of 49 postmortem samples from subjects with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and normal controls. We also examined the association between this expression and genetic variants of 8 dopaminergic system-associated molecules for 55 SNPs in the same postmortem samples. In the PFC of patients with schizophrenia, levels of DARPP-32 were significantly decreased, while those of CaN tended to increase. In the NAc, both of DARPP-32 and CaN showed no significant alternations in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Further analysis of the correlation of DARPP-32 and CaN expressions, we found that positive correlations in controls and schizophrenia in PFC, and schizophrenia in NAc. In PFC, the expression ratio of DARPP-32/CaN were significantly lower in schizophrenia than controls. We also found that several of the aforementioned SNPs may predict protein expression, one of which was confirmed in a second independent sample set. This differential expression of DARPP-32 and CaN may reflect potential molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, or differences between these two major psychiatric diseases.

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  • Glial pathology in a novel spontaneous mutant mouse of the Eif2b5 gene: a vanishing white matter disease model. 査読 国際誌

    Mika Terumitsu-Tsujita, Hiroki Kitaura, Ikuo Miura, Yuji Kiyama, Fumiko Goto, Yoshiko Muraki, Shiho Ominato, Norikazu Hara, Anna Simankova, Norihisa Bizen, Kazuhiro Kashiwagi, Takuhiro Ito, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akiyoshi Kakita, Toshiya Manabe, Shigeharu Wakana, Hirohide Takebayashi, Hironaka Igarashi

    Journal of neurochemistry   154 ( 1 )   25 - 40   2019年10月

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    Vanishing white matter disease (VWM) is an autosomal recessive neurological disorder caused by mutation(s) in any subunit of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2B (eIF2B), an activator of translation initiation factor eIF2. VWM occurs with mutation of the genes encoding eIF2B subunits (EIF2B1, EIF2B2, EIF2B3, EIF2B4, and EIF2B5). However, little is known regarding the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms or how to treat patients with VWM. Here we describe the identification and detailed analysis of a new spontaneous mutant mouse harboring a point mutation in the Eif2b5 gene (p.Ile98Met). Homozygous Eif2b5I98M mutant mice exhibited a small body, abnormal gait, male and female infertility, epileptic seizures, and a shortened lifespan. Biochemical analyses indicated that the mutant eIF2B protein with the Eif2b5I98M mutation decreased guanine nucleotide exchange activity on eIF2, and the level of the endoplasmic reticulum stress marker activating transcription factor 4 was elevated in the 1-month-old Eif2b5I98M brain. Histological analyses indicated up-regulated glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity in the astrocytes of the Eif2b5I98M forebrain and translocation of Bergmann glia in the Eif2b5I98M cerebellum, as well as increased mRNA expression of an endoplasmic reticulum stress marker, C/EBP homologous protein. Disruption of myelin and clustering of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells were also indicated in the white matter of the Eif2b5I98M spinal cord at 8 months old. Our data show that Eif2b5I98M mutants are a good model for understanding VWM pathogenesis and therapy development.

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  • ヒト死後脳におけるAPP・APOEの遺伝子発現解析 査読

    Lixin Liu, 宮下 哲典, 村上 涼太, Bin Zhu, 原 範和, 菊地 正隆, 月江 珠緒, 樋口 陽, 春日 健作, 中谷 明弘, 赤津 裕康, 柿田 明美, 村山 繁雄, 池内 健

    Dementia Japan   33 ( 4 )   519 - 519   2019年10月

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  • TΔΠ-43 プロテイノパチー (1) 前頭側頭葉変性症 (FTLD) 査読

    他田 真理, 柿田 明美

    病理と臨床   37 ( 9 )   2019年9月

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  • G3BP1 inhibits ubiquitinated protein aggregations induced by p62 and USP10. 査読 国際誌

    Anisimov S, Takahashi M, Kakihana T, Katsuragi Y, Kitaura H, Zhang L, Kakita A, Fujii M

    Scientific reports   9 ( 1 )   12896 - 12896   2019年9月

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  • Neurite orientation dispersion and density imagingによる皮質形成異常の可視化

    伊藤 陽祐, 松澤 等, 福多 真史, 増田 浩, 白水 洋史, 村井 志乃, 北浦 弘樹, 柿田 明美, 藤井 幸彦

    てんかん研究   37 ( 2 )   617 - 617   2019年9月

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  • Rapid chemical clearing of white matter in post-mortem human brain by 1,2-hexanediol delipidation. 査読

    Bioorganic Medicinal Chem Lett   29 ( 15 )   1886 - 1890   2019年8月

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  • USP10 is a critical factor for Tau-positive stress granule formation in neuronal cells. 査読 国際誌

    Svetlana Piatnitskaia, Masahiko Takahashi, Hiroki Kitaura, Yoshinori Katsuragi, Taichi Kakihana, Lu Zhang, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yuriko Iwakura, Hiroyuki Nawa, Takeshi Miura, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Toshifumi Hara, Masahiro Fujii

    Scientific reports   9 ( 1 )   10591 - 10591   2019年7月

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    Tau aggregates in neurons of brain lesions is a hallmark pathology of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent studies suggest that the RNA-binding protein TIA1 initiates Tau aggregation by inducing the formation of stress granules (SGs) containing Tau. SGs are stress-inducible cytoplasmic protein aggregates containing many RNA-binding proteins that has been implicated as an initial site of multiple pathogenic protein aggregates in several neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we found that ubiquitin-specific protease 10 (USP10) is a critical factor for the formation of Tau/TIA1/USP10-positive SGs. Proteasome inhibition or TIA1-overexpression in HT22 neuronal cells induced the formation of TIA1/Tau-positive SGs, and the formations were severely attenuated by depletion of USP10. In addition, the overexpression of USP10 without stress stimuli in HT22 cells induced TIA1/Tau/USP10-positive SGs in a deubiquitinase-independent manner. In AD brain lesions, USP10 was colocalized with Tau aggregates in the cell body of neurons. The present findings suggest that USP10 plays a key role in the initiation of pathogenic Tau aggregation in AD through SG formation.

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  • A mouse model of adult-onset multiple system atrophy. 査読 国際誌

    Kunikazu Tanji, Yasuo Miki, Fumiaki Mori, Yoshikazu Nikaido, Hidemi Narita, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Neurobiology of disease   127   339 - 349   2019年7月

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    Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is an adult-onset neurodegenerative disorder clinically characterized by autonomic failure in addition to various combinations of symptoms of parkinsonism, cerebellar ataxia, and pyramidal dysfunction. Despite extensive research, the mechanisms underlying the progression of MSA remain unknown. Animal models of human diseases that recapitulate their clinical, biochemical and pathological features are indispensable for increasing our understanding of their underlying molecular mechanisms, which allows preclinical studies to be advanced. Because the onset of MSA occurs in middle age, an animal model that first manifests abnormal protein aggregates in adulthood would be most appropriate. We therefore used the Cre-loxP system to express inducible α-synuclein (Syn), a major component of the pathological hallmark of MSA, to generate a mouse model of MSA. Beginning in adulthood, these MSA model mice express excessive levels of Syn in oligodendrocytes, resulting in abnormal Syn accumulation and modifications similar to those observed in human MSA pathology. Additionally, MSA model mice exhibit some clinical features of MSA, including decreased motor activity. These findings suggest that this new mouse model of MSA represents a useful tool for analyzing the pathophysiological alterations that underlie the progression of this disease.

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  • Dramatic response of BRAF V600E-mutant epithelioid glioblastoma to combination therapy with BRAF and MEK inhibitor: establishment and xenograft of a cell line to predict clinical efficacy. 査読 国際誌

    Kanemaru Y, Natsumeda M, Okada M, Saito R, Kobayashi D, Eda T, Watanabe J, Saito S, Tsukamoto Y, Oishi M, Saito H, Nagahashi M, Sasaki T, Hashizume R, Aoyama H, Wakai T, Kakita A, Fujii Y

    Acta neuropathologica communications   7 ( 1 )   119 - 119   2019年7月

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  • 統合失調症患者における脳内コンドロイチン硫酸鎖の変化

    湯川 尊行, 岩倉 百合子, 武井 延之, 斎藤 摩美, 渡部 雄一郎, 豊岡 和彦, 五十嵐 道弘, 新里 和弘, 大島 健一, 國井 泰人, 矢部 博興, 松本 純弥, 和田 明, 日野 瑞城, 入谷 修司, 丹羽 真一, 竹内 亮子, 高橋 均, 柿田 明美, 染矢 俊幸, 那波 宏之

    精神神経学雑誌   ( 2019特別号 )   S410 - S410   2019年6月

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  • 統合失調症患者の脳内ゲノムにおけるコピー数変異の評価

    坂井 美和子, 渡部 雄一郎, 染矢 俊幸, 荒木 一明, 澁谷 雅子, 新里 和弘, 大島 健一, 國井 泰人, 矢部 博興, 松本 純弥, 和田 明, 日野 瑞城, 橋本 健志, 菱本 明豊, 北村 登, 入谷 修司, 白川 治, 前田 潔, 宮下 哲典, 丹羽 真一, 高橋 均, 柿田 明美, 桑野 良三, 那波 宏之

    精神神経学雑誌   ( 2019特別号 )   S603 - S603   2019年6月

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  • パーキンソン病、筋萎縮性側索硬化症、進行性核上性麻痺の合併を認めた高齢女性剖検例 査読

    田中 英智, 清水 宏, 豊島 靖子, 若林 允甫, 柿田 明美

    The Kitakanto Medical Journal   69 ( 2 )   170 - 170   2019年5月

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  • An autopsy case of peliosis hepatis with X-linked myotubular myopathy. 査読 国際誌

    Kazuhisa Funayama, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hidetomo Tanaka, Izumi Kawachi, Ichizo Nishino, Kou Matsui, Naoya Takahashi, Akihide Koyama, Rieka Katsuragi-Go, Ryoko Higuchi, Takashi Aoyama, Hiraku Watanabe, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hisakazu Takatsuka

    Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)   38   77 - 82   2019年5月

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    This report describes the autopsy case of a 4-year-old boy who died from hepatic hemorrhage and rupture caused by peliosis hepatis with X-linked myotubular myopathy. Peliosis hepatis is characterized by multiple blood-filled cavities of various sizes in the liver, which occurs in chronic wasting disease or with the use of specific drugs. X-linked myotubular myopathy is one of the most serious types of congenital myopathies, in which an affected male infant typically presents with severe hypotonia and respiratory distress immediately after birth. Although each disorder is rare, 12 cases of pediatric peliosis hepatis associated with X-linked myotubular myopathy have been reported, including our case. Peliosis hepatis should be considered as a cause of hepatic hemorrhage despite its low incidence, and it requires adequate gross and histological investigation for correct diagnosis.

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  • 統合失調症として長期入院していた特発性基底核石灰化症 (Fahr病) の臨床病理学的特徴 査読

    伊藤 陽, 吉田浩樹, 清水敬三, 長谷川まこと, 今野公和, 中原亜紗, 原 範和, 宮下哲典, 池内 健, 豊島靖子, 柿田明美

    精神医学   61 ( 5 )   595 - 603   2019年5月

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  • DNTにおけるMLPA法を用いたFGFR1-ITD解析

    松村 望, 信澤 純人, 伊藤 絢子, 柿田 明美, 鈴木 博義, 山崎 達弥, 中里 洋一, 平戸 純子, 横尾 英明

    Brain Tumor Pathology   36 ( Suppl. )   123 - 123   2019年5月

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  • High detection rate of MYD88 mutations in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with central nervous system lymphomas. 査読

    Watanabe J, Matsumeda M, Olada M, Kobayashi D, Kanemaru Y, Tsukamoto Y, Oishi M, Kakita A, Fujii Y

    JCO Precis Oncol,   e1 - e10   2019年4月

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  • Globular glial tauopathy Type II: Clinicopathological study of two autopsy cases. 査読 国際誌

    Hidetomo Tanaka, Shinobu Kawakatsu, Yasuko Toyoshima, Takeshi Miura, Naomi Mezaki, Atsushi Mano, Kazuhiro Sanpei, Ryota Kobayashi, Hiroshi Hayashi, Koichi Otani, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   39 ( 2 )   111 - 119   2019年4月

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    Globular glial tauopathies (GGTs) are four-repeat tauopathies characterized by the presence of two types of tau-positive globular glial inclusions (GGIs): globular oligodendrocytic and astrocytic inclusions (GOIs and GAIs). GGTs are classified into three different neuropathological subtypes: Types I, II and III. We report two patients with GGTs - a 76-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man - in whom the disease duration was 5 and 6 years, respectively. Both patients exhibited upper and lower motor neuron signs and involuntary movements, and the latter also had dementia with frontotemporal cerebral atrophy evident on magnetic resonance imaging. Neuropathologically, in both cases, the precentral gyrus was most severely affected, and at the gray-white matter junction there was almost complete loss of Betz cells and occurrence of GOIs and coiled bodies with numerous neuropil threads. Both patients also showed neuronal loss and GGIs (mostly GOIs) in many other central nervous system regions, including the basal ganglia. Apart from the degree of regional severity, the distribution pattern was essentially the same in both cases. However, GAIs were not conspicuous in any of the affected regions. Based on the morphology and distribution pattern of the GGIs, we diagnosed the present two patients as having GGT Type II. Electron microscopic and biochemical findings in the former were consistent with the diagnosis. Type II cases are reported to be characterized by pyramidal features reflecting predominant motor cortex and corticospinal tract degeneration. The present observations suggest that a variety of neurological features, including dementia, can occur in GGT Type II reflecting widespread degeneration beyond the motor neuron system.

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  • 経過中にBálint症候群を発症し、塩酸メフロキンとミルタザピンの併用療法により改善した進行性多巣性白質脳症の1例. 査読

    竹腰顕, 吉倉延亮, 小澤憲司, 生駒良和, 竹島明, 大槻美佳, 中道一生, 西條政幸, 望月清文, 柿田明美, 下畑享良

    Brain Nerve   71 ( 3 )   281 - 286   2019年3月

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  • [A Patient with Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Who Developed Bálint Syndrome Improved by Combination Therapy Using Mefloquine and Mirtazapine]. 査読

    Takekoshi A, Yoshikura N, Ozawa K, Ikoma Y, Kitagawa J, Takeshima A, Otsuki M, Nakamichi K, Saijo M, Ohe N, Mochizuki K, Kakita A, Shimohata T

    Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo   71 ( 3 )   281 - 286   2019年3月

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  • EGFRvIII is expressed in cellular areas of tumor in a subset of glioblastoma. 査読

    Neurol Med Chir   59 ( 3 )   89 - 97   2019年3月

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    DOI: 10.2176/nmc.oa.2018-0078.

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  • Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification analysis is useful for detecting a copy number gain of the FGFR1 tyrosine kinase domain in dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors. 査読

    Matsumura N, Nobusawa S, Ito J, Kakita A, Suzuki H, Fujii Y, Fukuda M, Iwasaki M, Nakasato N, Yominaga T, Natsume A, Mikami Y, Shinojima N, Yamazaki T, Nakazato Y, Hirato J, Yokoo H

    J Neurooncol   2019年3月

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  • Retinal Vasculopathy With Cerebral Leukodystrophy: Clinicopathologic Features of an Autopsied Patient With a Heterozygous TREX 1 Mutation. 査読 国際誌

    Rie Saito, Hiroaki Nozaki, Taisuke Kato, Yasuko Toyoshima, Hajime Tanaka, Yutaka Tsubata, Tetsuo Morioka, Yoh Horikawa, Kiyomitsu Oyanagi, Takashi Morita, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology   78 ( 2 )   181 - 186   2019年2月

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    Retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukodystrophy (RVCL) is an autosomal-dominant disorder involving the cerebral, retinal, renal, and other systemic microvessels due to frameshift mutations in the TREX1 gene. Under physiological conditions, the TREX1 protein is localized in the cellular cytoplasm and perinuclear area, but translocates into the nucleus in response to oxidative DNA damage. It has been speculated that aberrant localization of the protein may be associated with systemic microangiopathy in patients with RVCL. However, cellular expression of TREX1 in the brain and visceral organs of patients with RVCL has been unclear. Here, we report the clinicopathologic features of an autopsied patient with a heterozygous T249fs mutation in TREX1. The patient showed the clinical phenotype of vasculopathy with retinopathy, nephropathy, and stroke. CT with contrast enhancement demonstrated a tumorous lesion in the subcortical white matter. Histologically, the lesion consisted of confluent foci of necrosis with calcification and fibrous thickening of small vessel walls. TREX1 immunohistochemistry demonstrated positivity in the nuclei of cells in the CNS and visceral organs, indicating aberrant localization of the truncated protein, and the expression was remarkable in oligodendrocytes within the lesion, suggesting possible involvement of the protein in the pathomechanism of vasculopathy leading to white matter degeneration.

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  • Autopsy findings and clinical feature of a mild-type xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group A siblings: 40 years of follow-up 査読

    Masaki T, Tsujimoto M, Kitazawa R, Nakano E, Funasaka Y, Ichihashi M, Kitazawa S, Kakita A, Kanda F, Nishigori C

    J Am Acad Dermatol Case Reports   5 ( 3 )   205 - 208   2019年2月

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2018.04.017.

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  • Sushi repeat-containing protein 1 co-accumulates with cerebrovascular Abeta deposits in cerebral amyloid angiopathy 査読

    Inoue Yasuteru, Ueda Mitsuharu, Tasaki Masayoshi, Takeshima Akari, Misumi Yohei, Kosaka Takayuki, Yamashita Taro, Takahashi Hitoshi, Kakita Akiyoshi, Ando Yukio

    BRAIN PATHOLOGY   29   179 - 180   2019年2月

  • 病理所見を理解する基礎 - 海馬硬化 - 査読

    張 璐, 田中英智, 柿田明美

    てんかん研究   39 ( 3 )   664 - 666   2019年1月

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  • An attempt of non-human primate modeling of schizophrenia with neonatal challenges of epidermal growth factor 査読

    Sakai M, Kashiwahara M, Kakita A, Nawa H

    J Addict Res Ther   2019年

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  • Surgical strategy for focal cortical dysplasia based on the analysis of the spike onset and peak zones on magnetoencephalography. 査読

    Sergei A, Takahashi M, Katsuragi Y, Kakihana T, Kitaura H, Zhang L, Kakita A, Fujii M

    J Neurosurg   2019年

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  • Investigation of betaine as a novel psychotherapyeutic for schizophrenia. 査読

    Ohnishi T, Balan S, Toyoshima M, Maekawa M, Ohba H, Watanabe A, Iwayama Y, Shimamoto C, Nozaki Y, Hisano Y, Esaki K, Mataga N, Hayashi-Takagi A, Kunii Y, Kakita A, Yabe H, Yoshikawa T

    EBioMedicine   2019年

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  • The epileptogenic zone in pharmacy-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy with amygdala enlargement. 査読

    Suzuki H, Sugano H, Nakajima M, Higo T, Iimura Y, Mitsuhashi T, Fusegi K, Kakita A, Otsubo H, Arai H

    Epileptic Disord   2019年

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    DOI: 10.1684/epd.2019.1075.

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  • Morphological characterizeation of glial and neuronal tau pathology in globular glial tauopathy (types II and III). 査読

    Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol   2019年

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  • Epigenome-wide association study of narcolepsy-affected lateral hypothalamic brain and overlapping DNA methylation profiles between narcolepsy and multiple sclerosis. 査読

    Sleep   2019年

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  • Phosphorylated NUB1 distinguishes α-synuclein in Lewy bodies from that in glial cytoplasmic inclusions of multiple system atrophy. 査読

    Tanji K, Miki Y, Mori F, Kon T, Kakita A, Takahashi H, Wakabayashi K

    Brain Pathology   2019年

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  • αシヌクレイノパチー (2) 多系統萎縮症 査読

    齋藤 理恵, 柿田明美

    病理と臨床   2019年

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  • A minimal amount of tissue-based pH measurement to improve quality control in neuropsychiatryic postmortem brain studies. 査読

    Ono C, Yu Z, Kikuchi Y, Kunii Y, Hino M, Matsumoto J, Nagaoka A, Ito J, Iwasaki Y, Hagihara H, Miyakawa T, Yoshida M, Saito Y, Niwa S, Yabe H, Kakita A, Tomita H

    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci   2019年

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  • Comparison of circulating tumor DNA between body fluids in patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma. 査読

    Watanabe J, natsumeda M, kanemaru Y, Okada M, Oishi M, kakita A, Fujii Y

    Leukemia Lymphoma   2019年

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  • Immunoreactivity of myelin-associated oligodendrocytic basic protein in Lewy bodies. 査読

    Kon T, Tanji K, Mori F, Kimura A, Kakita A, Wakabayashi K

    Neuropathology   2019年

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  • Podoplanin expression and IDH-wildtype status predicts venous thrombolism in patients with high-grade gliomas in early postoperative period. 査読

    Watanabe J, Natsumeda M, Okada M, Kanemaru Y, Tsukamoto Y, Oishi M, Kakita A, Fujii Y

    World Neurosurg   2019年

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  • A case of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-type hereditary ATTR amyloidosis with Y69H (p.Y89H) variant displaying transient focal neurological episodes as the main symptom. 査読

    Yamada Y, Fukushima T, Kodama S, Shimizu H, Kakita A, Makino K, Sekijima Y

    Amyloid   2019年

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    DOI: 10.1080/13506129.2019.1632829.

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  • G3BP1 inhibits ubiquitinated protein aggregations by interacting with p62 and USP10. 査読

    Sergei A, Takahashi M, Katsuragi Y, Kakihana T, Kitaura H, Zhang L, Kakita A, Fujii M

    Sci Rep   2019年

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  • Pathologic alterations of chondroitin sulfate moiety in the postmortem hippocampus of patients with schizophrenia. 査読 国際誌

    Yukawa T, Iwakura Y, Takei N, Saito M, Watanabe Y, Toyooka K, Igarashi M, Niizato K, Ohima K, Kunii Y, Yabe H, Matsumoto J, Wada A, Hino M, Iritani S, Niwa S, Takeuchi R, Takahashi H, Kakita A, Someya T, Nawa H

    Psychiatry Res   270   940 - 946   2018年12月

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  • ALS診断におけるAwaji基準の有用性に関する、当科剖検例での後方視的検討

    茂木 崇秀, 石原 智彦, 竹島 明, 他田 真理, 他田 正義, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理

    臨床神経学   58 ( Suppl. )   S265 - S265   2018年12月

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  • COX10変異とPMP22欠失を伴った白質脳症の一家系 臨床病理学的解析

    黒羽 泰子, 石黒 敬信, 長谷川 有香, 谷 卓, 高橋 哲哉, 松原 奈絵, 他田 真理, 河内 泉, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理, 池内 健, 小池 亮子

    臨床神経学   58 ( Suppl. )   S327 - S327   2018年12月

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  • Clinicopathologic Features of Two Patients With Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Who Maintained Communication Ability for Over 30 Years. 査読 国際誌

    Junko Ito, Tetsuro Shimada, Mari Tada, Hiroshi Shimizu, Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Akio Yokoseki, Osamu Onodera, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology   77 ( 11 )   981 - 986   2018年11月

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    We report the clinicopathologic features of 2 unrelated patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS) supported by tracheostomy and invasive ventilation (TIV) who were able to maintain communication ability for more than 30 years after disease onset. In both cases, the age at onset was younger than the mean, initially the progression of muscle weakness was consistent with that in the majority of SALS patients, and TIV became necessary several years after disease onset. Thereafter, however, their neurologic deterioration slowed and the patients were able to operate computers by facial movements for several decades. At autopsy, neuronal loss appeared to be confined to the motor neuron system. Furthermore, while Betz cells and lower motor neurons in the spinal anterior horns and hypoglossal nucleus were severely depleted, other pyramidal neurons in the motor cortex, and lower motor neurons in the other brainstem motor nuclei were retained. Neuronal and glial cytoplasmic inclusions immunoreactive for phosphorylated 43-kDa TAR DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) were evident in the CNS, but in extremely small numbers. The present patients may represent a distinct subgroup of patients with SALS who are able to maintain communication ability for an extremely long period, accompanied by very mild TDP-43 pathology.

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  • Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease showing intranuclear inclusions in renal biopsy 12 years earlier. 査読 国際誌

    Motoki M, Nakajima H, Sato T, Tada M, Kakita A, Arawaka S

    Neurology   91 ( 19 )   884 - 886   2018年11月

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  • USP10 is a driver of ubiquitinated protein aggregation and aggresome formation to inhibit apoptosis. 査読 国際誌

    Takahashi M, Kitaura H, Kakita A, Kakihana T, Katsuragi Y, Nameta M, Zhang L, Iwakura Y, Nawa H, Higuchi M, Komatsu M, Fujii M

    iScience   9   433 - 450   2018年11月

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  • 診断が困難であった進行性核上性麻痺の剖検例 査読

    田中 弘, 田中 英智, 清水 宏, 柿田 明美, 高橋 均

    新潟医学会雑誌   132 ( 10 )   368 - 368   2018年10月

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  • Altered expression of glutamate transporter-1 and water channel protein aquaporin-4 in human temporal cortex with Alzheimer's disease. 査読

    Hoshi A, Tsunoda A, Yamamoto T, Tada M, Kakita A, Ugawa Y

    Neuropathology and applied neurobiology   44 ( 6 )   628 - 638   2018年10月

  • Autophagy mediators (FOXO1, SESN3 and TSC2) in Lewy body disease and aging. 査読 国際誌

    Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Fumiaki Mori, Jun Utsumi, Hidenao Sasaki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Neuroscience letters   684   35 - 41   2018年9月

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    Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are characterized by impairment of autophagy. Cellular survival is dependent on efficient clearance of phosphorylated α-synuclein, which accumulates as fibrils in the neuronal cytoplasm as Lewy bodies (LBs). The forkhead box O 1 (FOXO1) is a member of the FOXO family that functions in various intracellular processes including regulation of autophagy. Transcriptional activation of FOXO1 has been reported to initiate autophagy by inhibiting the expression of Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin (mTOR), mediated by sestrin 3 (SESN3) and tuberous sclerosis complex 2 (TSC2). Although many autophagy-related proteins are known to be incorporated into LBs, no report has documented the involvement of these autophagy modulators (FOXO1, SESN3 and TSC2) in the pathogenesis of PD and DLB. In the present study, we performed immunostaining and Western blot analysis using the brains of normal controls and patients with PD and DLB in order to clarify the involvement of FOXO1, SESN3 and TSC2 in LBs. Our study demonstrated for the first time the presence of FOXO1, SESN3 and TSC2 in brainstem-type LBs. The expression levels of these proteins in the brain did not differ between the normal controls and patients with PD or DLB. We further utilized mice model to investigate the effect of α-synuclein overexpression on these proteins, and found that TSC2 was significantly increased in α-synuclein transgenic mice relative to wild type mice at 9 weeks of age, but not at 30 weeks of age. Together with expression data showing gradual increase of these molecules with age in wild type mice, these findings suggest that autophagy modulators are incorporated into LBs and that the expression of these proteins can be increased by various factors including aging.

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  • Astroblastoma: a distinct tumor entity characterized by alterations of the X chromosome and MN1 rearrangement 査読

    Takanori Hirose, Sumihito Nobusawa, Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Vishwa J. Amatya, Naomi Fujimoto, Atsushi Sasaki, Yoshiki Mikami, Akiyoshi Kakita, Shinya Tanaka, Hideaki Yokoo

    Brain Pathology   28 ( 5 )   684 - 694   2018年9月

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    © 2017 International Society of Neuropathology Astroblastoma is a rare, enigmatic tumor of the central nervous system (CNS) which shares some clinicopathologic aspects with other CNS tumors, especially ependymoma. To further clarify the nature of astroblastoma, we performed clinicopathologic and molecular genetic studies on eight cases of astroblastoma. The median age of the patients was 14.5 years, ranging from 5 to 60 years, and seven of the patients were female. All tumors arose in the cerebral hemisphere and radiologically appeared to be well-bordered, nodular tumors often associated with cystic areas and contrast-enhancement. Six of the seven patients with prognosis data survived without recurrences during the follow-up periods ranging from six to 76 months. One patient had multiple recurrences and died six years later. All tumors exhibited salient microscopic features, such as being well demarcated from the surrounding brain tissue, perivascular arrangement of epithelioid tumor cells (represented by “astroblastic” pseudorosettes, trabecular alignment, and pseudopapillary patterns), and hyalinized blood vessels. Immunoreactivity for GFAP, S-100 protein, Olig2, and EMA was variably demonstrated in all tumors, and IDH1 R132H and L1CAM were negative. Array comparative genomic hybridization revealed numerous heterozygous deletions on chromosome X in the four tumors studied, and break-apart fluorescence in situ hybridization demonstrated rearrangement of MN1 in five tumors with successful testing. The characteristic clinicopathologic and genetic findings support the idea that astroblastoma is distinct from other CNS tumors, in particular, ependymoma. In addition, MN1 rearrangement and aberrations of chromosome X may partly be involved in the pathogenesis of astroblastoma.

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  • 日本ブレインバンクネット(JBBN)の構築とその運用

    森島 真帆, 柿田 明美, 吉田 眞理, 矢部 博興, 國井 泰人, 入谷 修司, 寺田 整司, 横田 修, 大島 健一, 田中 紀子, 井上 悠輔, 村山 繁雄, 齊藤 祐子

    Dementia Japan   32 ( 3 )   450 - 450   2018年9月

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  • てんかんにて発症した海綿状血管腫の周囲脳組織のイメージング解析

    福多 真史, 北浦 弘樹, 増田 浩, 白水 洋史, 伊藤 陽祐, 東島 威史, 大石 誠, 平石 哲也, 藤井 幸彦, 柿田 明美

    てんかん研究   36 ( 2 )   433 - 433   2018年9月

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  • 病理学的に同定した進行性の白質病変を認めた脳アミロイドβ関連血管炎の2症例

    北原 匠, 上村 昌博, 柳村 文博, 畠野 雄也, 須貝 章弘, 河内 泉, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理

    Dementia Japan   32 ( 3 )   482 - 482   2018年9月

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  • 自己免疫性脳炎 Neuromyelitis opticaにおけるTRPM4分子発現動態の解析

    穂苅 万李子, 佐治 越爾, 柳村 文寛, 若杉 尚宏, 柳川 香織, 豊島 靖子, 柿田 明美, 小野寺 理, 西澤 正豊, 河内 泉

    神経免疫学   23 ( 1 )   87 - 87   2018年9月

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  • MS/NMO 視神経脊髄炎におけるmelanoma cell adhesion moleculeの病理学的検討

    柳村 文寛, 佐治 越爾, 若杉 尚宏, 穂苅 万李子, 柳川 香織, 豊島 靖子, 柿田 明美, 高橋 均, 小野寺 理, 河内 泉

    神経免疫学   23 ( 1 )   93 - 93   2018年9月

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  • Chemical Landscape for Tissue Clearing Based on Hydrophilic Reagents. 査読 国際誌

    Kazuki Tainaka, Tatsuya C Murakami, Etsuo A Susaki, Chika Shimizu, Rie Saito, Kei Takahashi, Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Hiroshi Sekiya, Yasunobu Arima, Satoshi Nojima, Masako Ikemura, Tetsuo Ushiku, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Masaaki Murakami, Kenji F Tanaka, Masamitsu Iino, Haruo Kasai, Toshikuni Sasaoka, Kazuto Kobayashi, Kohei Miyazono, Eiichi Morii, Tadashi Isa, Masashi Fukayama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroki R Ueda

    Cell reports   24 ( 8 )   2196 - 2210   2018年8月

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    We describe a strategy for developing hydrophilic chemical cocktails for tissue delipidation, decoloring, refractive index (RI) matching, and decalcification, based on comprehensive chemical profiling. More than 1,600 chemicals were screened by a high-throughput evaluation system for each chemical process. The chemical profiling revealed important chemical factors: salt-free amine with high octanol/water partition-coefficient (logP) for delipidation, N-alkylimidazole for decoloring, aromatic amide for RI matching, and protonation of phosphate ion for decalcification. The strategic integration of optimal chemical cocktails provided a series of CUBIC (clear, unobstructed brain/body imaging cocktails and computational analysis) protocols, which efficiently clear mouse organs, mouse body including bone, and even large primate and human tissues. The updated CUBIC protocols are scalable and reproducible, and they enable three-dimensional imaging of the mammalian body and large primate and human tissues. This strategy represents a future paradigm for the rational design of hydrophilic clearing cocktails that can be used for large tissues.

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  • フラビン蛍光イメージングによるてんかん原性の解析 査読

    北浦弘樹, 柿田明美

    Clin Neurosci   36 ( 8 )   970 - 972   2018年8月

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  • Human-specific features of spatial gene expression and regulation in eight brain regions. 査読

    Xu C, Li Q, Efimova O, He L, Tatsumoto S, Stepanova V, Oishi T, Udono T, Yamaguchi K, Shigenobu S, Kakita A, Nawa H, Khaitovich P, Go Y

    Genome research   28 ( 8 )   1097 - 1110   2018年8月

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  • Aquaporin Positron Emission Tomography Differentiates Between Grade III and IV Human Astrocytoma. 査読 国際誌

    Yuji Suzuki, Yukihiro Nakamura, Kenichi Yamada, Satoshi Kurabe, Kouichirou Okamoto, Hiroshi Aoki, Hiroki Kitaura, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii, Vincent J Huber, Hironaka Igarashi, Ingrid L Kwee, Tsutomu Nakada

    Neurosurgery   82 ( 6 )   842 - 846   2018年6月

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    BACKGROUND: Aquaporin (AQP) water channels play a significant role in mesenchymal microvascular proliferation and infiltrative growth. AQPs are highly expressed in malignant astrocytomas, and a positive correlation is observed between their expression levels and histological tumor grade. OBJECTIVE: To examine the utility of aquaporin positron emission tomography (PET) for differentiating between astrocytoma grade III and grade IV using the AQP radioligand [11C]TGN-020. METHODS: Fifteen astrocytoma patients, grade III (n = 7) and grade IV (n = 8), and 10 healthy volunteers underwent [11C]TGN-020 aquaporin PET imaging. Surgical tissues of astrocytoma patients were examined for histopathological grading using the WHO classification standard and expression of AQP1 and AQP4 immunohistochemically. RESULTS: Mean standardized uptake values of astrocytoma grade III and IV (0.51 ± 0.11 vs 1.50 ± 0.44, respectively) were higher than normal white matter (0.17 ± 0.02, P < .001) for both tumor grades. Importantly, mean standardized uptake values of astrocytoma grade IV were significantly higher than grade III (P < .01). CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated that [11C]TGN-020 aquaporin PET imaging differentiated between astrocytoma grades III and IV. We suggest its clinical application as a noninvasive diagnostic tool would lead to advancements in the management of these malignant brain tumors.

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  • Effects of the −141C insertion/deletion polymorphism in the dopamine D2 receptor gene on the dopamine system in the striatum in patients with schizophrenia 査読

    Junya Matsumoto, Atsuko Nagaoka, Yasuto Kunii, Itaru Miura, Mizuki Hino, Shin-ichi Niwa, Hiroyuki Nawa, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirooki Yabe

    Psychiatry Research   264   116 - 118   2018年6月

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    The relationships between −141C insertion/deletion (Ins/Del) polymorphisms in the dopamine D2 receptor gene and the two dopamine system integrators, i.e., dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein of molecular weight 32 kDa (DARPP-32) and calcineurin (CaN), are still unclear. In this study, we assessed the effect of this polymorphism on DARPP-32 and CaN protein expression in the postmortem striatum of patients with schizophrenia and control individuals. The expression levels of truncated DARPP and CaN were lower in Del allele carriers. These findings provide important insights into the mechanism by which this genotype could result in a poor response to antipsychotic drugs.

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  • Intractable epilepsy due to a rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor with a dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial background. 査読 国際誌

    Noriko Sumitomo, Akihiko Ishiyama, Makoto Shibuya, Eiji Nakagawa, Yu Kaneko, Akio Takahashi, Taisuke Otsuki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yuko Saito, Noriko Sato, Kenji Sugai, Masayuki Sasaki

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   38 ( 3 )   300 - 304   2018年6月

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    A rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor (RGNT) was initially reported as an infratentorial tumor that comprised both small neurocytic rosettes and astrocytic components. However, a few studies have reported supratentorial RGNTs arising in the cerebral hemispheres. Here, we report an unusual case involving a 9-year-old boy with a supratentorial RGNT who presented with intractable epilepsy and behavioral changes. Brain MRI revealed a well-circumscribed space-occupying lesion with septae in the right inferomedial parietal lobe. Electroencephalography showed multifocal spikes over the right frontal, temporal and parietal regions. The seizure frequency decreased dramatically after tumorectomy. Histopathological examination revealed prominent neurocytic rosette formation appearing with the specific glioneuronal element of a dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNT). Although the pathogenesis has not been elucidated, a supratentorial RGNT presenting with epilepsy may exhibit a rosette component, which is the major feature of this tumor, against the background of a specific glioneuronal element mimicking DNT. However, RGNT arising in regions other than the fourth ventricle is rare, and the pathogenesis of epilepsy due to RGNT has not been fully elucidated. Further clinical and histological studies are required to understand the pathology underlying epilepsy caused by RGNT.

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  • Histopathologic features of an autopsied patient with cerebral small vessel disease and a heterozygous HTRA1 mutation. 査読 国際誌

    Junko Ito, Hiroaki Nozaki, Yasuko Toyoshima, Takashi Abe, Aki Sato, Hideki Hashidate, Shuichi Igarashi, Osamu Onodera, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   38 ( 4 )   428 - 432   2018年5月

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    Cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CARASIL) is a hereditary cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations of the high temperature requirement A serine peptidase 1 gene (HTRA1). Affected patients suffer from cognitive impairment, recurrent strokes, lumbago and alopecia. Recently, clinical studies have indicated that some patients with heterozygous mutations in HTRA1 may also suffer CSVD. Here, we report the histopathologic features of an autopsied 55-year-old male patient who had shown cognitive impairment and multiple cerebral infarcts, and was found to have a heterozygous missense mutation (p.R302Q) in the HTRA1 gene. Histologically, small vessels in the brain and spinal cord showed intimal proliferation, splitting of the internal elastic lamina, and degeneration of smooth muscle cells in the tunica media. Thus, although less severe, the features were quite similar to those of patients with CARASIL, indicating that patients with heterozygous mutations develop CSVD through underlying pathomechanisms similar to those of CARASIL.

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  • 前頭側頭葉変性症の組織学的分類 査読

    他田真理, 柿田明美

    Brain Nerve   70 ( 5 )   501 - 516   2018年5月

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    特集:非アルツハイマー型認知症の病理学

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  • 限局性皮質異形成でT1強調高信号を呈した症例の検討 査読

    老谷 嘉樹, 木村 有喜男, 須貝 研司, 齊藤 祐子, 池谷 直樹, 岩崎 真樹, 竹下 絵里, 本橋 裕子, 石山 昭彦, 齋藤 貴志, 小牧 宏文, 中川 栄二, 柿田 明美, 佐藤 典子, 佐々木 征行

    脳と発達   50 ( Suppl. )   S336 - S336   2018年5月

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  • 遺伝性脳血管障害の神経病理 査読

    齋藤理恵, 伊藤慎治, 野崎洋明, 柿田明美

    神経内科   88 ( 5 )   516 - 523   2018年5月

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  • Globular glial tauopathyの神経病理 査読

    田中英智, 豊島靖子, 柿田明美

    神経内科   88 ( 5 )   477 - 482   2018年5月

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  • [Neuropathologic Subtypes of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration]. 査読

    Tada M, Kakita A

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  • Loss of Motor Neurons Innervating Cervical Muscles in Patients With Multiple System Atrophy and Dropped Head. 査読 国際誌

    Rie Saito, Mari Tada, Yasuko Toyoshima, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Osamu Onodera, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology   77 ( 4 )   317 - 324   2018年4月

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    We investigated whether loss of motor neurons innervating the neck muscles contributes to dropped head (DH) in multiple system atrophy (MSA). From 75 patients with autopsy-proven MSA, we retrieved 3 who had DH (MSA-DH), and examined the 4th cervical cord segments. Neurons of the medial and lateral nuclear groups (MNG and LNG) innervate the neck and shoulder muscles, respectively. We measured the area of individual neurons in the MNG and LNG, and created an area-frequency histogram. Neurons were classified as large or small based on their area, and their total numbers in the MNG and LNG were counted. In the MNG, the numbers of both total neurons and large neurons were significantly lower in MSA patients than in the controls (214.2 ± 91.4 vs 521.3 ± 74.8, p = 0.0030, and 26.2 ± 9.1 vs 88.0 ± 34.6, p = 0.020, respectively), and were significantly lower in MSA-DH than in MSA-nonDH (139.7 ± 7.6 vs 288.7 ± 74.6, p = 0.048, and 18.0 ± 4.1 vs 34.3 ± 4.1, p = 0.016, respectively). There were no differences in the LNG neuron counts between the MSA-DH and MSA-nonDH groups. Loss of cervical motor neurons may be responsible for DH in MSA.

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  • The perivascular microenvironment in Epstein–Barr virus positive primary central nervous system lymphoma: The role of programmed cell death 1 and programmed cell death ligand 1 査読

    Yasuo Sugita, Takuya Furuta, Koichi Ohshima, Satoru Komaki, Junko Miyoshi, Motohiro Morioka, Hideyuki Abe, Takanori Nozawa, Yukihiko Fujii, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    Neuropathology   38 ( 2 )   125 - 134   2018年4月

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    It has been shown that high expression of certain immune checkpoint molecules, including those of the programmed death protein 1/programmed death ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) axis, can be utilized to regulate immunosuppression in the microenvironment of malignant neoplasms. For the purpose of clarifying the immune-escape mechanism of primary central nervous system lymphomas (PCNSLs), particularly in Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-positive cases, markers for PD-1, PD-L1, tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in 39 surgical specimens of PCNSLs (17 EBV-positive, 22 EBV-negative) were investigated by immunohistochemistry. Staining for PD-L1 was scored as follows: (−), no staining
    (1+), 0–30% positive cells
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    60% positive cells. In EBV-positive cases, PD-L1 was detected in both lymphoma cells and TAMs in 12/17 cases, and in TAMs only in 4/17 cases. The mean number of PD-1, TIA-1 (a marker for cytotoxic T-cells), and FOXP3 (a marker for regulatory T-cells)-positive TILs in EBV-positive cases was 36.4 ± 45.9, 390 ± 603, and 9.88 ± 15.1, respectively. In EBV-negative cases, PD-L1 was detected in both lymphoma cells and TAMs in 11/22 cases, and in TAMs only in 4/22 cases. The mean of PD-1, TIA-1 and FOXP3-positive lymphocytes in EBV-negative cases was 67.3 ± 82.0, 158 ± 206 and 9.32 ± 17.5, respectively. We found no significant difference in the number of FOXP3-positive, lymphocytes between EBV-positive and negative cases. However, there were significantly higher numbers of PD-1-positive lymphocytes in the former, and significantly higher numbers of TIA-1-positive lymphocytes in the latter (P &lt
    0.05). The combined data indicate that expression of PD-L1 by lymphoma cells and TAMs mediate the trafficking of TILs, which may explain the immune-escape process of PCNSLs. In addition, EBV infection appears to affect the trafficking mechanism of TILs, and may thus play an important role in the microenvironment immunity of these tumors.

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  • Reliable diagnosis of IDH-mutant glioblastoma by 2-hydroxyglutarate detection: a study by 3-T magnetic resonance spectroscopy. 査読 国際誌

    Manabu Natsumeda, Kunio Motohashi, Hironaka Igarashi, Takanori Nozawa, Hideaki Abe, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Ryosuke Ogura, Masayasu Okada, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Hiroshi Aoki, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kouichirou Okamoto, Tsutomu Nakada, Yukihiko Fujii

    Neurosurgical review   41 ( 2 )   641 - 647   2018年4月

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    We have previously reported that reliable detection of 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG) in isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)-mutant WHO grade 2 and 3 gliomas is possible utilizing 3.0-T single-voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy (SVMRS). We set out to determine whether the same method could be applied to detect 2HG in IDH-mutant glioblastoma. Forty-four patients harboring glioblastoma underwent pre-operative MRS evaluation to detect 2HG and other metabolites. Presence of IDH-mutations was determined by IDH1 R132H immunohistochemical analysis and DNA sequencing of surgically obtained tissues. Six out of 44 (13.6%) glioblastomas were IDH-mutant. IDH-mutant glioblastoma exhibited significantly higher accumulation of 2HG (median 3.191 vs. 0.000 mM, p < 0.0001, Mann-Whitney test). A cutoff of 2HG = 0.897 mM achieved high sensitivity (100.0%) and specificity (92.59%) in determining IDH-mutation in glioblastoma. Glioblastoma with high 2HG accumulation did not have significantly longer overall survival than glioblastoma with low 2HG accumulation (p = 0.107, log-rank test). Non-invasive and reliable detection of 2HG in IDH-mutant glioblastoma was possible by 3.0-T SVMRS.

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  • Expansions of intronic TTTCA and TTTTA repeats in benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy 査読

    Hiroyuki Ishiura, Koichiro Doi, Jun Mitsui, Jun Yoshimura, Miho Kawabe Matsukawa, Asao Fujiyama, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Yutaka Suzuki, Sumio Sugano, Wei Qu, Kazuki Ichikawa, Hideaki Yurino, Koichiro Higasa, Shota Shibata, Aki Mitsue, Masaki Tanaka, Yaeko Ichikawa, Yuji Takahashi, Hidetoshi Date, Takashi Matsukawa, Junko Kanda, Fumiko Kusunoki Nakamoto, Mana Higashihara, Koji Abe, Ryoko Koike, Mutsuo Sasagawa, Yasuko Kuroha, Naoya Hasegawa, Norio Kanesawa, Takayuki Kondo, Takefumi Hitomi, Masayoshi Tada, Hiroki Takano, Yutaka Saito, Kazuhiro Sanpei, Osamu Onodera, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Masayuki Nakamura, Takeshi Yasuda, Yoshio Sakiyama, Mieko Otsuka, Akira Ueki, Ken Ichi Kaida, Jun Shimizu, Ritsuko Hanajima, Toshihiro Hayashi, Yasuo Terao, Satomi Inomata-Terada, Masashi Hamada, Yuichiro Shirota, Akatsuki Kubota, Yoshikazu Ugawa, Kishin Koh, Yoshihisa Takiyama, Natsumi Ohsawa-Yoshida, Shoichi Ishiura, Ryo Yamasaki, Akira Tamaoka, Hiroshi Akiyama, Taisuke Otsuki, Akira Sano, Akio Ikeda, Jun Goto, Shinichi Morishita, Shoji Tsuji

    Nature Genetics   50 ( 4 )   581 - 590   2018年4月

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    © 2018 The Author(s). Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, and mutations in genes encoding ion channels or neurotransmitter receptors are frequent causes of monogenic forms of epilepsy. Here we show that abnormal expansions of TTTCA and TTTTA repeats in intron 4 of SAMD12 cause benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy (BAFME). Single-molecule, real-time sequencing of BAC clones and nanopore sequencing of genomic DNA identified two repeat configurations in SAMD12. Intriguingly, in two families with a clinical diagnosis of BAFME in which no repeat expansions in SAMD12 were observed, we identified similar expansions of TTTCA and TTTTA repeats in introns of TNRC6A and RAPGEF2, indicating that expansions of the same repeat motifs are involved in the pathogenesis of BAFME regardless of the genes in which the expanded repeats are located. This discovery that expansions of noncoding repeats lead to neuronal dysfunction responsible for myoclonic tremor and epilepsy extends the understanding of diseases with such repeat expansion.

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  • YOD1 attenuates neurogenic proteotoxicity through its deubiquitinating activity. 査読 国際誌

    Kunikazu Tanji, Fumiaki Mori, Yasuo Miki, Jun Utsumi, Hidenao Sasaki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Neurobiology of disease   112   14 - 23   2018年4月

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    Ubiquitination, a fundamental post-translational modification of intracellular proteins, is enzymatically reversed by deubiquitinase enzymes (deubiquitinases). >90 deubiquitinases have been identified. One of these enzymes, YOD1, possesses deubiquitinase activity and is similar to ovarian tumor domain-containing protein 1, which is associated with regulation of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated degradation pathway. Indeed, YOD1 is reported to be involved in the ER stress response induced by mislocalization of unfolded proteins in mammalian cells. However, it has remained unclear whether YOD1 is associated with pathophysiological conditions such as mitochondrial damage, impaired proteostasis, and neurodegeneration. We demonstrated that YOD1 possesses deubiquitinating activity and exhibits preference for K48- and K63-linked ubiquitin. Furthermore, YOD1 expression levels increased as a result of various stress conditions. We demonstrated that the neurogenic proteins that cause Huntington disease and Parkinson's disease induced upregulation of YOD1 level. We observed that YOD1 reduced disease cytotoxicity through efficient degradation of mutant proteins, whereas this activity was abolished by catalytically inactive YOD1. Additionally, YOD1 localized to Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease patients. Collectively, these data suggest that the deubiquitinase YOD1 contributes to pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disease by decreasing ubiquitination of abnormal proteins and their subsequent degradation.

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  • Pathophysiological Characteristics Associated With Epileptogenesis in Human Hippocampal Sclerosis 査読

    Hiroki Kitaura, Hiroshi Shirozu, Hiroshi Masuda, Masafumi Fukuda, Yukihiko Fujii, Akiyoshi Kakita

    EBioMedicine   29   38 - 46   2018年3月

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    Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) is the most frequent focal epileptic syndrome in adults, and the majority of seizures originate primarily from the hippocampus. The resected hippocampal tissue often shows severe neuronal loss, a condition referred to as hippocampal sclerosis (HS). In order to understand hippocampal epileptogenesis in MTLE, it seems important to clarify any discrepancies between the clinical and pathological features of affected patients. Here we investigated epileptiform activities ex vivo using living hippocampal tissue taken from patients with MTLE. Flavoprotein fluorescence imaging and local field potential recordings revealed that epileptiform activities developed from the subiculum. Moreover, physiological and morphological experiments revealed possible impairment of K+ clearance in the subiculum affected by HS. Stimulation of mossy fibers induced recurrent trans-synaptic activity in the granule cell layer of the dentate gyrus, suggesting that mossy fiber sprouting in HS also contributes to the epileptogenic mechanism. These results indicate that pathophysiological alterations involving the subiculum and dentate gyrus could be responsible for epileptogenesis in patients with MTLE.

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  • Frontoethmoidal Schwannoma with Exertional Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea: Case Report and Review of Literature 査読

    Yuichiro Yoneoka, Katsuhiko Akiyama, Yasuhiro Seki, Go Hasegawa, Akiyoshi Kakita

    World Neurosurgery   111   381 - 385   2018年3月

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    Background: Frontoethmoidal schwannomas are rare. No case manifesting exertional cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea has ever been reported to the best of our knowledge. Case Description: In this report, we describe an extremely rare case of frontoethmoidal schwannoma extending through the olfactory groove with exertional CSF rhinorrhea as the initial symptom. A 50-year-old woman was presented to our clinic for frequent nasal discharge on exertion. A postcontrast computed tomographic scan demonstrated heterogeneously enhanced tumor from the anterior cranial fossa to the anterior ethmoid sinus. A gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance image revealed a well-defined heterogeneously enhanced tumor situated in the midline anterior cranial fossa and anterior ethmoid sinus. After the resection, the defect of the right anterior skull base was reconstructed with a fascia graft and adipose tissue taken from the abdomen, as well as a pedicle periosteum flap. A histologic examination revealed the tumor as schwannoma. Her rhinorrhea completely resolved. She regained her sense of smell and taste 1 month after the operation. Conclusion: According to previous reports, olfactory groove, and paraolfactory groove/periolfactory groove schwannomas can be divided into 4 types: subfrontal, nasoethmoidal, frontoethmoidal, and ethmofrontal. Among them, a frontoethmoidal schwannoma can manifest exertional CSF rhinorrhea as an initial symptom.

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  • ミクログリアの組織学的特徴 査読

    他田真理, 柿田明美

    Clinical Neuroscience   36 ( 3 )   276 - 277   2018年3月

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  • Loss of kallikrein-related peptidase 7 exacerbates amyloid pathology in Alzheimer's disease model mice. 査読 国際誌

    Kiwami Kidana, Takuya Tatebe, Kaori Ito, Norikazu Hara, Akiyoshi Kakita, Takashi Saito, Sho Takatori, Yasuyoshi Ouchi, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Mitsuhiro Makino, Takaomi C Saido, Masahiro Akishita, Takeshi Iwatsubo, Yukiko Hori, Taisuke Tomita

    EMBO molecular medicine   10 ( 3 )   2018年3月

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    Deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) as senile plaques is one of the pathological hallmarks in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. In addition, glial activation has been found in AD brains, although the precise pathological role of astrocytes remains unclear. Here, we identified kallikrein-related peptidase 7 (KLK7) as an astrocyte-derived Aβ degrading enzyme. Expression of KLK7 mRNA was significantly decreased in the brains of AD patients. Ablation of Klk7 exacerbated the thioflavin S-positive Aβ pathology in AD model mice. The expression of Klk7 was upregulated by Aβ treatment in the primary astrocyte, suggesting that Klk7 is homeostatically modulated by Aβ-induced responses. Finally, we found that the Food and Drug Administration-approved anti-dementia drug memantine can increase the expression of Klk7 and Aβ degradation activity specifically in the astrocytes. These data suggest that KLK7 is an important enzyme in the degradation and clearance of deposited Aβ species by astrocytes involved in the pathogenesis of AD.

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  • Biallelic Variants in CNPY3, Encoding an Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone, Cause Early-Onset Epileptic Encephalopathy. 査読 国際誌

    Hiroki Mutoh, Mitsuhiro Kato, Tenpei Akita, Takuma Shibata, Hiroyuki Wakamoto, Hiroko Ikeda, Hiroki Kitaura, Kazushi Aoto, Mitsuko Nakashima, Tianying Wang, Chihiro Ohba, Satoko Miyatake, Noriko Miyake, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kensuke Miyake, Atsuo Fukuda, Naomichi Matsumoto, Hirotomo Saitsu

    American journal of human genetics   102 ( 2 )   321 - 329   2018年2月

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    Early-onset epileptic encephalopathies, including West syndrome (WS), are a group of neurological disorders characterized by developmental impairments and intractable seizures from early infancy. We have now identified biallelic CNPY3 variants in three individuals with WS; these include compound-heterozygous missense and frameshift variants in a family with two affected siblings (individuals 1 and 2) and a homozygous splicing variant in a consanguineous family (individual 3). All three individuals showed hippocampal malrotation. In individuals 1 and 2, electroencephalography (EEG) revealed characteristic fast waves and diffuse sharp- and slow-wave complexes. The fast waves were clinically associated with seizures. CNPY3 encodes a co-chaperone in the endoplasmic reticulum and regulates the subcellular distribution and responses of multiple Toll-like receptors. The amount of CNPY3 in lymphoblastoid cells derived from individuals 1 and 2 was severely lower than that in control cells. Cnpy3-knockout mice exhibited spastic or dystonic features under resting conditions and hyperactivity and anxiolytic behavior during the open field test. Also, their resting EEG showed enhanced activity in the fast beta frequency band (20-35 Hz), which could mimic the fast waves in individuals 1 and 2. These data suggest that CNPY3 and Cnpy3 perform essential roles in brain function in addition to known Toll-like receptor-dependent immune responses.

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  • Biallelic variants in CNPY3, which encodes an endoplasmic reticulum chaperone, cause early-onset epileptic encephalaopathy. 査読

    Mutoh H, Kato M, Akita T, Shibata T, Wakamoto H, Ikeda H, Kitaura H, Aoto K, Nakashima M, Wang T, Ohba C, Miyatake S, Miyake N, Kakita A, Miyake K, Fukuda A, Matsumoto N, Saitsu H

    Am J Hum Genet   102 ( 2 )   321 - 329   2018年2月

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  • CNS high-grade neuroepithelial tumor with BCOR internal tandem duplication(CNS HGNET-BCOR)の1例

    吉田 由佳, 中田 聡, 信澤 純人, 杉田 保雄, 岡田 雅彦, 平戸 純子, 横尾 英明, 柿田 明美

    信州医学雑誌   66 ( 1 )   103 - 104   2018年2月

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    金丸 優, 棗田 学, 齋藤 理恵, 野澤 孝徳, 阿部 英明, 岡本 浩一郎, 大石 誠, 藤井 幸彦, 柿田 明美, 信澤 純人

    信州医学雑誌   66 ( 1 )   104 - 105   2018年2月

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  • 常染色体劣性遺伝性が疑われる若年発症 緩徐進行性小脳失調症の1剖検例

    齋藤 理恵, 他田 真理, 若林 允甫, 小野寺 理, 高橋 均, 池内 健, 柿田 明美, 横尾 英明

    信州医学雑誌   66 ( 1 )   111 - 112   2018年2月

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  • Immunohistochemical localization of exoribonucleases (DIS3L2 and XRN1) in intranuclear inclusion body disease. 査読 国際誌

    Fumiaki Mori, Kunikazu Tanji, Yasuo Miki, Yasuko Toyoshima, Hidenao Sasaki, Mari Yoshida, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    Neuroscience letters   662   389 - 394   2018年1月

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    mRNA turnover controls gene expression under various conditions in aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases and intranuclear inclusion body disease (INIBD) are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the formation of nuclear inclusions. These inclusions are immunopositive for several proteins associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the processing of RNA from gene transcription through degradation (RNA metabolism) has been reported to be altered. We hypothesized that the proteins associated with RNA metabolism are also involved in the formation of nuclear inclusions in polyQ diseases and INIBD. 3'-5' exoribonuclease DIS3L2 and 5'-3' exoribonuclease XRN1 play critical roles in mRNA decay. Using immunohistochemistry with antibodies against DIS3L2 and XRN1, we examined the brains of patients with polyQ diseases and INIBD and normal control subjects. In controls, immunoreactivity for DIS3L2 and XRN1 was found in the neuronal cytoplasm and neuropil, respectively. In INIBD, immunoreactivity for DIS3L2 and XRN1 was present in neuronal and glial nuclear inclusions. Co-localization of ubiquitin and DIS3L2 or XRN1 was demonstrated in these inclusions. In polyQ diseases, however, nuclear inclusions were immunonegative for DIS3L2 and XRN1. These findings suggest that sequestration of exoribonucleases to nuclear inclusions may be related to the pathogenesis of INIBD.

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  • AMBRA1, a novel α-synuclein-binding protein, is implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple system atrophy. 査読 国際誌

    Miki Y, Tanji K, Mori F, Tatara Y, Utsumi J, Sasaki H, Kakita A, Takahashi H, Fimia GM, Wakabayashi K

    Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)   28 ( 1 )   28 - 42   2018年1月

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  • Comprehensive genetic characterization of rosette-forming glioneuronal tumors: independent component analysis by tissue microdissection. 査読 国際誌

    Yohei Kitamura, Takashi Komori, Makoto Shibuya, Kentaro Ohara, Yuko Saito, Saeko Hayashi, Aya Sasaki, Eiji Nakagawa, Ryosuke Tomio, Akiyoshi Kakita, Masashi Nakatsukasa, Kazunari Yoshida, Hikaru Sasaki

    Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)   28 ( 1 )   87 - 93   2018年1月

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    A rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor (RGNT) is a rare mixed neuronal-glial tumor characterized by biphasic architecture of glial and neurocytic components. The number of reports of genetic analyses of RGNTs is few. Additionally, the genetic background of the unique biphasic pathological characteristics of such mixed neuronal-glial tumors remains unclear. To clarify the genetic background of RGNTs, we performed separate comprehensive genetic analyses of glial and neurocytic components of five RGNTs, by tissue microdissection. Two missense mutations in FGFR1 in both components of two cases, and one mutation in PIK3CA in both components of one case, were detected. In the latter case with PIK3CA mutation, the additional FGFR1 mutation was detected only in the glial component. Moreover, the loss of chromosome 13q in only the neurocytic component was observed in one other case. Their results suggested that RGNTs, which are tumors harboring two divergent differentiations that arose from a single clone, have a diverse genetic background. Although previous studies have suggested that RGNTs and pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) represent the same tumor entity, their results confirm that the genetic background of RGNTs is not identical to that of PA.

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  • Ectopic pituitary null cell adenoma arising from the infundibulum in the third ventricle: A successful endonasal transsphenoidal resection after long-term follow-up MR imaging – A technical note 査読

    Yuichiro Yoneoka, Masayasu Okada, Naoto Watanabe, Satoru Aoki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management   10   122 - 125   2017年12月

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    Background Since the origin and growth pattern of third ventricle ectopic pituitary adenoma (ectPA) remain unclear, its optimal surgical approach is debatable. Clinical presentation We present a rare case of null cell pituitary adenoma arising from the pituitary infundibulum with long-term preoperative follow-up images. The tumor was resected gross-totally via an extended transsphenoidal approach. Conclusion To our best knowledge, this is the first case with long-term preoperative follow-up images, which can bridge the knowledge gap in operations of third ventricle ectPA as following: (1) Truly third ventricle ectPA can exist, (2) the third ventricle ectPA extended into the sella turcica along the pituitary stalk, (3) this ectPA can arise from the suprasellar peri-infundibular ectopic pituitary cells or the pars tuberalis of the adenohypophysis, and therefore adhere to the optic chiasm, (4) thus neurosurgeons should take great care in resection of ectPA arising from the infundibulum, and (5) it can be resected through an endoscopic extended transsphenoidal approach.

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  • Third Ventricle Germ Cell Tumor Originating from the Infundibulum with Rapidly Expansive Enlargement 査読

    Yuichiro Yoneoka, Junichi Yoshimura, Masakazu Sano, Masayasu Okada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii

    Pediatric Neurosurgery   53 ( 1 )   49 - 54   2017年12月

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    We present a pediatric case of a rapidly expanding third ventricle germ cell tumor (GCT). A 14-year-old boy suffered from gradual-onset central diabetes insipidus (DI) and received desmopressin treatment. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed nonspecific findings of the pituitary-hypothalamic axis. Nine months after the initial DI diagnosis, he developed progressively worsening headache. MRI demonstrated a third ventricle tumor causing noncommunicating hydrocephalus, although an MRI 16 weeks before admission did not show the lesion. We performed gross total resection (GTR) of the tumor in 2 stages: a translamina terminalis approach and an extended transsphenoidal approach. The lesion was histologically diagnosed as immature teratoma with some germinoma. His noncommunicating hydrocephalus resolved after surgery. Through postoperative radiochemotherapy (whole ventricle: 23.4 Gy/13 fractions, tumor bed: 27.0 Gy/15 fractions, and 3 courses of carboplatin-etoposide), he has was in complete remission at the 3-year follow-up and has continued his high school program. This case suggests the following: (1) a mixed GCT originating from the neurohypophysis/infundibulum can show rapidly expansive growth in a child with central DI
    (2) GTR and adjuvant radiochemotherapy can result in a good therapeutic outcome in rapidly expanding GCT
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  • PKA activation and endothelial claudin-5 breakdown in the schizophrenic prefrontal cortex 査読

    Keisuke Nishiura, Naoki Ichikawa-Tomikawa, Kotaro Sugimoto, Yasuto Kunii, Korehito Kashiwagi, Mizuko Tanaka, Yuichi Yokoyama, Mizuki Hino, Takashi Sugino, Hirooki Yabe, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Tetsuya Imura, Hideki Chiba

    ONCOTARGET   8 ( 55 )   93382 - 93391   2017年11月

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    Schizophrenia is thought to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors; however, its pathogenesis remains largely unknown. Here, we focus on the endothelial tight-junction protein claudin-5 (CLDN5), because the CLDN5 gene is mapped to the schizophrenia-associated 22q11.2 deletion region, and a single nucleotide polymorphism in the CLDN5 locus is also linked to schizophrenia. We show, by RT-qPCR and immunohistochemistry, that the expressions of CLDN5 mRNA and protein are significantly increased and decreased, respectively, in the schizophrenic prefrontal cortex (PFC) compared with control PFC. These changes were not observed in the schizophrenic visual cortex (VC), and neither the density nor diameter of the CD34-positive microvessels was altered in the schizophrenic PFC or VC. Interestingly, protein kinase A (PKA) was activated in the microvascular and perivascular regions of the schizophrenic PFC, and the pPKA-positive microvascular endothelial cells occasionally exhibited focal loss of CLND5. Since we previously demonstrated that cAMP induced CLDN5 mRNA expression and size-selective loosening of the endothelial barrier in PKA-independent and -dependent manners, respectively, a similar mechanism could contribute to the discrepancy between mRNA and protein expression of CLDN5 in the schizophrenic PFC. Taken collectively, these findings provide novel insights into the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

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  • The SMN gene copy number states in Japanese ALS patients

    Ishihara T, Toyoda S, Koyama A, Tada M, Atsuta N, Nakamura R, Tohnai G, Sone J, Izumi Y, Kaji R, Morita M, Taniguchi A, Kakita A, Sobue G, Nishizawa M, Onodera O

    JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   381   211-211   2017年10月

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  • 脳アミロイドアンギオパチーの新規病態関連因子SRPX1の解析 査読

    井上 泰輝, 植田 光晴, 田崎 雅義, 竹島 明, 永利 聡仁, 増田 曜章, 三隅 洋平, 小阪 崇幸, 野村 隼也, 水上 真由美, 松本 紗也加, 山下 太郎, 高橋 均, 柿田 明美, 安東 由喜雄

    Dementia Japan   31 ( 4 )   565 - 565   2017年10月

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  • Sushi repeat-containing protein 1: a novel disease-associated molecule in cerebral amyloid angiopathy 査読

    Yasuteru Inoue, Mitsuharu Ueda, Masayoshi Tasaki, Akari Takeshima, Akihito Nagatoshi, Teruaki Masuda, Yohei Misumi, Takayuki Kosaka, Toshiya Nomura, Mayumi Mizukami, Sayaka Matsumoto, Taro Yamashita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukio Ando

    ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA   134 ( 4 )   605 - 617   2017年10月

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    Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is characterized by cerebrovascular amyloid beta (A beta) deposits and causes cerebral hemorrhage and dementia. The exact molecules that co-accumulate with cerebrovascular A beta deposits are still not fully known. In our study here, we performed proteomic analyses with microdissected leptomeningeal arteries and cerebral neocortical arterioles from 8 cases with severe CAA, 12 cases with mild CAA, and 10 control cases without CAA, and we determined the levels of highly expressed proteins in cerebral blood vessels in CAA. We focused on sushi repeat-containing protein 1 (SRPX1), which is specifically expressed in CAA-affected cerebral blood vessels. Because SRPX1, which is known as a tumor suppressor gene, reportedly induced apoptosis in tumor cells, we hypothesized that SRPX1 may play an important role in A beta-induced apoptosis in CAA. Immunohistochemical studies revealed that SRPX1 co-accumulated with A beta deposits in cerebral blood vessels of all autopsied cases with severe CAA. In contrast, no SRPX1 co-accumulated with A beta deposits in senile plaques. Furthermore, we demonstrated that both A beta 40 and A beta 42 bound to SRPX1 in vitro and enhanced SRPX1 expression in primary cultures of cerebrovascular smooth muscle cells. SRPX1 enhanced caspase activity induced by A beta 40. Knockdown of SRPX1, in contrast, reduced the formation of A beta 40 accumulations and the activity of caspase in cultured cerebrovascular smooth muscle cells. SRPX1 may thus be a novel molecule that is up-regulated in cerebrovascular A beta deposits and that may increase A beta-induced cerebrovascular degeneration in CAA.

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  • Features of amygdala in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis: An MRI volumetric and histopathological study 査読

    Yoko Nakayama, Hiroshi Masuda, Hiroshi Shirozu, Yosuke Ito, Takefumi Higashijima, Hiroki Kitaura, Yukihiko Fujii, Akiyoshi Kakita, Masafumi Fukuda

    EPILEPSY RESEARCH   135   50 - 55   2017年9月

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    Objective: It is well-known that there is a correlation between the neuropathological grade of hippocampal sclerosis (HS) and neuroradiological atrophy of the hippocampus in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) patients. However, there is no strict definition or criterion regarding neuron loss and atrophy of the amygdala neighboring the hippocampus. We examined the relationship between HS and neuronal loss in the amygdala.
    Materials and methods: Nineteen mTLE patients with neuropathological proof of HS were assigned to Group A, while seven mTLE patients without HS were assigned to Group B. We used FreeSurfer software to measure amygdala volume automatically based on pre-operation magnetic resonance images. Neurons observed using Kltiver-Barrera (KB) staining in resected amygdala tissue were counted. and the extent of immunostaining with stress marker antibodies was semiquantitatively evaluated.
    Results: There was no significant difference in amygdala volume between the two groups (Group A: 1.41 +/- 0.24; Group B: 1.41 +/- 0.29 cm(3); p = 0.98), nor in the neuron cellularity of resected amygdala specimens (Group A: 3.98 +/- 0.97; Group B: 3.67 +/- 0.67 10 x (-4) number of neurons/mu m(2); p = 0.40). However, the HSP70 level, representing acute stress against epilepsy, in Group A patients was significantly larger than that in Group B. There was no significant difference in the level of Bcl-2, which is known as a protein that inhibits cell death, between the two groups.
    Conclusions: Neuronal loss and volume loss in the amygdala may not necessarily follow hippocampal sclerosis. From the analysis of stress proteins, epileptic attacks are as likely to damage the amygdala as the hippocampus but do not lead to neuronal death in the amygdala.

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  • GPNMB ameliorates mutant TDP-43-induced motor neuron cell death 査読

    Yuki Nagahara, Masamitsu Shimazawa, Kazuki Ohuchi, Junko Ito, Hitoshi Takahashi, Kazuhiro Tsuruma, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hideaki Hara

    JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH   95 ( 8 )   1647 - 1665   2017年8月

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    Glycoprotein nonmetastatic melanoma protein B (GPNMB) aggregates are observed in the spinal cord of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients, but the detailed localization is still unclear. Mutations of transactive response DNA binding protein 43kDa (TDP-43) are associated with neurodegenerative diseases including ALS. In this study, we evaluated the localization of GPNMB aggregates in the spinal cord of ALS patients and the effect of GPNMB against mutant TDP-43 induced motor neuron cell death. GPNMB aggregates were not localized in the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-positive astrocyte and ionized calcium binding adaptor molecule-1 (Iba1)-positive microglia. GPNMB aggregates were localized in the microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP-2)-positive neuron and neurofilament H non-phosphorylated (SMI-32)-positive neuron, and these were co-localized with TDP-43 aggregates in the spinal cord of ALS patients. Mock or TDP-43 (WT, M337V, and A315T) plasmids were transfected into mouse motor neuron cells (NSC34). The expression level of GPNMB was increased by transfection of mutant TDP-43 plasmids. Recombinant GPNMB ameliorated motor neuron cell death induced by transfection of mutant TDP-43 plasmids and serum-free stress. Furthermore, the expression of phosphorylated ERK1/2 and phosphorylated Akt were decreased by this stress, and these expressions were increased by recombinant GPNMB. These results indicate that GPNMB has protective effects against mutant TDP-43 stress via activating the ERK1/2 and Akt pathways, and GPNMB may be a therapeutic target for TDP-43 proteinopathy in familial and sporadic ALS. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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  • Alteration of mitochondrial protein PDHA1 in Lewy body disease and PARK14 査読

    Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Fumiaki Mori, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS   489 ( 4 )   439 - 444   2017年8月

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    The histopathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the occurrence of insoluble fibrillary aggregates known as Lewy bodies. Mitochondria play a vital role in energy production, and the pathogenesis of PD is associated with altered cellular metabolism due to mitochondrial dysfunction. The pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex provides a primary step in aerobic glucose metabolism by catalyzing the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate to acetyl CoA. Pyruvate dehydrogenase alpha 1 (PDHA1) forms the core structure of the PDH complex. Dysfunction of the PDH complex leads to energy production failure, resulting in various neurological disorders. However, no study has investigated the involvement of PDHA1 in the pathogenesis of PD. In the present study, we performed immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting to clarify the involvement of PDHA1 in idiopathic PD, DLB, PARK14-linked parkinsonism (PARK14; a familial form of PD), and multiple system atrophy, in comparison with normal controls. Here we report PDHA1 as a new component of brainstemtype Lewy bodies in idiopathic PD, DLB and PARK14, the level of PDHA1 protein being significantly decreased in the putamen and substantia nigra of patients with idiopathic PD. Our findings suggest that alteration of glucose metabolism through dysfunction of the PDH complex might occur in the pathogenesis of Lewy body disease and PARK14. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Striatal hypodopamine phenotypes found in transgenic mice that overexpress glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor 査読

    Hidekazu Sotoyama, Yuriko Iwakura, Kanako Oda, Toshikuni Sasaoka, Nobuyuki Takei, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hideki Enomoto, Hiroyuki Nawa

    NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS   654   99 - 106   2017年7月

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    Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) positively regulates the development and maintenance of in vitro dopaminergic neurons. However, the in vivo influences of GDNF signals on the brain dopamine system are controversial and not fully defined. To address this question, we analyzed dopaminergic phenotypes of the transgenic mice that overexpress GDNF under the control of the glial Gfap promoter. Compared with wild-type, the GDNF transgenic mice contained higher levels of GDNF protein and phosphorylated RET receptors in the brain. However, there were reductions in the levels of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), dopamine, and its metabolite homovanillic acid in the striatum of transgenic mice. The TH reduction appeared to occur during postnatal development. Immunohistochemistry revealed that striatal TH density was reduced in transgenic mice with no apparent signs of neurodegeneration. In agreement with these neurochemical traits, basal levels of extracellular dopamine and high K+-induced dopamine efflux were decreased in the striatum of transgenic mice. We also explored the influences of GDNF overexpression on lomomotor behavior. GDNF transgenic mice exhibited lower stereotypy and rearing in a novel environment compared with wild-type mice. These results suggest that chronic overexpression of GDNF in brain astrocytes exerts an opposing influence on nigrostriatal dopamine metabolism and neurotransmission. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors associated with epileptogenesis of hypothalamic hamartoma 査読

    Hiroki Kitaura, Masaki Sonoda, Sayaka Teramoto, Hiroshi Shirozu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Tadashi Kimura, Hiroshi Masuda, Yosuke Ito, Hitoshi Takahashi, Shin Kwak, Shigeki Kameyama, Akiyoshi Kakita

    EPILEPSIA   58 ( 4 )   E59 - E63   2017年4月

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    Hypothalamic hamartoma (HH), composed of neurons and glia without apparent cytologic abnormalities, is a rare developmental malformation in humans. Patients with HH often have characteristic medically refractory gelastic seizures, and intrinsic epileptogenesis within the lesions has been speculated. Herein we provide evidence to suggest that in HH neurons, Ca2+ permeability through -amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors is aberrantly elevated. In needle biopsy specimens of HH tissue, field potential recordings demonstrated spontaneous epileptiform activities similar to those observed in other etiologically distinct epileptogenic tissues. In HH, however, these activities were clearly abolished by application of Joro Spider Toxin (JSTX), a specific inhibitor of the Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptor. Consistent with these physiologic findings, the neuronal nuclei showed disappearance of adenosine deaminase acting on RNA 2 (ADAR2) immunoreactivity. Furthermore, examination of glutamate receptor 2 (GluA2) messenger RNA (mRNA) revealed that editing efficiency at the glutamine/arginine site was significantly low. These results suggest that neurons in HH may bear Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors due to dislocation of ADAR2.

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  • PLA2G6 accumulates in Lewy bodies in PARK14 and idiopathic Parkinson's disease 査読

    Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Fumiaki Mori, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS   645   40 - 45   2017年4月

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    The histopathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the occurrence of insoluble fibrillary aggregates known as Lewy bodies, in which phosphorylated alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) is a major component. To date, familial PD-linked gene products, including a-syn, parkin, PINK-1, DJ-1 and LRRK2, are known to be involved in Lewy body formation. Phospholipase A(2), group VI (PLA2G6) is the causative gene for PARKI4-linked parkinsonism (PARK14), a familial form of juvenile-onset dystonia parkinsonism. Several lines of evidence have suggested that PLA2G6 might play a role in the pathogenesis of not only PARK14, but also idiopathic PD. However, no published studies have investigated the association of PLA2G6 with the formation of Lewy bodies. In the present study, we used immunohistochemistiy and Western blotting to investigate the involvement of PLA2G6 in Lewy body disease (PD and DLB), multiple system atrophy and Alzheimer's disease, in comparison with normal controls. Although cortical Lewy bodies, which lack a definable central core, were unstained with anti-PLA2G6 antibodies, the cores of brainstem-type Lewy bodies from PARK14 and idiopathic PD patients were moderately or intensely immunopositive for PLA2G6. Our results further reinforce the association of PLA2G6 with the pathogenesis of idiopathic PD, in addition to PARK14. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Expression of Aquaporin 1 and Aquaporin 4 in the Temporal Neocortex of Patients with Parkinson's Disease 査読

    Akihiko Hoshi, Ayako Tsunoda, Mari Tada, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Yoshikazu Ugawa, Akiyoshi Kakita

    BRAIN PATHOLOGY   27 ( 2 )   160 - 168   2017年3月

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    The astrocytic water channel proteins aquaporin 1 (AQP1) and aquaporin 4 (AQP4) are known to be altered in brains affected by several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease. However, AQP expression in brains affected by Parkinson's disease (PD) has not been described in detail. Recently, it has been reported that alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn)-immunolabeled astrocytes show preferential distribution in several cerebral regions, including the neocortex, in patients with PD. Here, we investigated whether AQP expression is associated with alpha-syn deposition in the temporal neocortex of PD patients. In accordance with the consensus criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies, the patients were classified into neocortical (PDneo), limbic (PDlim), and brain stem (PDbs) groups. Expressions of alpha-syn, AQP1, and AQP4 in the temporal lobes of the individual PD patients were examined immunohistochemically. Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated more numerous AQP4-positive and AQP1-positive astrocytes in the PDneo group than in the PDbs, PDlim, and control groups. However, in the PDneo cases, these astrocytes were not often observed in alpha-syn-rich areas, and semiquantitative analysis revealed that there was a significant negative correlation between the levels of AQP4 and alpha-syn in layers V-VI, and between those of AQP1 and alpha-syn in layers II-III. These findings suggest that a defined population of AQP4- and AQP1-expressing reactive astrocytes may modify alpha-syn deposition in the neocortex of patients with PD.

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  • Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with an I104F mutation in the SOD1 gene: Multisystem degeneration with neurofilamentous aggregates and SOD1 inclusions 査読

    Haishan Jiang, Hiroshi Shimizu, Atsushi Shiga, Masami Tanaka, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   37 ( 1 )   69 - 77   2017年2月

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    We previously reported familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) of 11years duration in a 57-year-old woman, who received artificial ventilation for 5years prior to death and exhibited widespread multisystem degeneration and neurofilamentous aggregates, so-called conglomerate inclusions (CIs). In the present study, we re-evaluated this autopsied patient (proband) with further immunohistochemical observation as well as mutational analysis of the superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) gene. A review of the clinical features of the proband's family revealed five affected members (including the proband) over two successive generations who showed marked variability in clinical presentation, such as the age at onset. The proband was found to harbor a heterozygous missense mutation in exon 4 (I104F) of the SOD1 gene. In the brain and spinal cord, SOD1-positive neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions (NCIs) were found to be more widely distributed than CIs, the latter being weakly positive for SOD1. No Lewy body-like hyaline inclusions were found. This is considered to be the first description of an autopsy case of FALS with an I104F SOD1 gene mutation, suggesting that combination of marked intra-familial clinical variability and multisystem degeneration with occurrence of CIs and SOD1-positive NCIs is a characteristic feature of FALS with this SOD1 gene mutation.

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  • Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors associated with epileptogenesis of hypothalamic hamartoma. 査読

    Kitaura H, Sonoda M, Teramoto S, Shirozu H, Shimizu H, Kimura T, Masuda H, Ito Y, Takahashi H, Kwak S, Kameyama S, Kakita A

    Epilepsia   58 ( 4 )   e59 - e63   2017年2月

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  • Stable and episodic/bolus patterns of methylmercury exposure on mercury accumulation and histopathologic alterations in the nervous system 査読

    Mineshi Sakamoto, Akiyoshi Kakita, Jose L. Domingo, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Ricardo B. Oliveira, Sandra L. F. Sarrazin, Komyo Eto, Katsuyuki Murata

    ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   152   446 - 453   2017年1月

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    The main purpose of the present study was to compare the blood and brain mercury (Hg) accumulation and neurological alterations in adult male and pregnant female/fetal rats following stable and episodic/bolus patterns of methylmercury (MeHg) exposure. In addition, MeHg accumulation in the human body was estimated by a one-compartment model using three different patterns of MeHg exposure. In the adult male rat experiment, doses of 0.3 and 1.5 mg MeHg/kg/day were orally administered to the stable groups for 5 weeks, while 7-fold higher doses of 2.1 and 10.5 mg MeHg/kg/once a week were administered to the bolus groups. The blood Hg levels increased constantly in the stable groups, but increased with repeated waves in the bolus groups. At completion of the experiment, there were no significant differences in the brain Hg concentrations or neurological alterations between the stable and bolus groups, when the total doses of MeHg were the same. In the pregnant female rat experiment, a dose of 1 mg MeHg/kg/day was administered orally to the stable group for 20 days (until 1 day before expected parturition), while a 5-fold higher dose of 5 mg MeHg/kg/once every 5 days was administered to the bolus group. In the brains of the maternal/fetal rats, there were no significant differences in the Hg concentrations and neurological alterations between the stable and bolus groups. The mean Hg concentrations in the fetal brains were approximately 2-fold higher than those in the maternal brains for both stable and bolus groups. Using the one-compartment model, the Hg accumulation curves in humans at doses of 7 mu g MeHg/day, 48 mu g MeHg/once a week, and 96 mu g MeHg/once every 2 weeks were estimated to be similar, while the bolus groups showed dose-dependent amplitudes of repeated waves. These results suggest that stable and episodic/bolus patterns of MeHg exposure do not cause differences in Hg accumulation in the blood and brain, or in neurological alterations, when the total doses are the same. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis due to oral contraceptive use: Postmortem 3 T-MRI and autopsy findings 査読

    Masahiro Uemura, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Yasuhisa Akaiwa, Masaki Watanabe, Ayako Tazawa, Sou Kasahara, Minoru Endou, Ryosuke Ogura, Kouichirou Okamoto, Yukihiko Fujii, Tsutomu Nakada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Masatoyo Nishizawa

    Human Pathology: Case Reports   6   32 - 36   2016年12月

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    Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is an uncommon form of stroke, and mortality of the acute phase is high. We report the clinical, postmortem 3 T-MRI, and autopsy features of a patient, 20-year-old Japanese woman, with CVST who died shortly after starting to use low-dose estrogen combined hormonal contraceptives (CHCs). A postmortem 3 T-MRI study with our originally developed system revealed abnormal intensities suggestive of thrombi extending throughout the straight sinus and left sigmoid sinus. At autopsy, in accordance with the images, we performed careful preparations of the sinuses. Histological examination revealed an organizing white thrombus occupying the lumen of the left sigmoid sinus, and an acute, red thrombus in the lumen of the left transverse, straight, and tentorial sinuses, and vein of Galen, indicating that the thrombus had developed first in the left sigmoid sinus, then extended retrogradely to the more proximal portion of the sinus system, reaching the vein of Galen. The features of the present CVST patient appear to be informative, when encountering CHC users with neurological symptoms, even in those who begun to use low-dose estrogen CHCs only recently.

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  • Globular Glial Tauopathyの臨床的特徴、自験2例と既報例との比較 査読

    三浦 健, 青木 賢樹, 高嶋 修太郎, 眞野 篤, 堅田 慎一, 目崎 直実, 石黒 敬信, 石黒 舞乃, 畠野 雄也, 相川 あかね, 石澤 伸, 竹内 亮子, 田中 英智, 豊島 靖子, 春日 健作, 三瓶 一弘, 柿田 明美, 高橋 均, 池内 健, 西澤 正豊

    臨床神経学   56 ( Suppl. )   S526 - S526   2016年12月

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  • MicroRNA expression profiles of multiple system atrophy from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples 査読

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

    NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS   635   117 - 122   2016年12月

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    MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that regulate gene expression. Recently, we have shown that informative miRNA data can be derived from archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples from postmortem cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and normal controls. miRNA analysis has now been performed on FFPE samples from affected brain regions in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) and the same areas in neurologically normal controls. We evaluated 50 samples from patients with MSA (n =13) and controls (n=13). Twenty-six samples were selected for miRNA analysis on the basis of the criteria reported previously: (i) a formalin fixation time of less than 4 weeks, (ii) a total RNA yield per sample of more than 500 ng, and (iii) sufficient quality of the RNA electrophoresis pattern. These included 11 cases of MSA and 5 controls. Thus, the success rate for analysis of RNA from FFPE samples was 52% (26 of 50). For MSA, a total of 395 and 383 miRNAs were identified in the pons and cerebellum, respectively; 5 were up-regulated and 33 were down-regulated in the pons and 5 were up-regulated and 18 were down-regulated in the cerebellum. Several miRNAs down-regulated in the pons (miR-129-2-3p and miR-129-5p) and cerebellum (miR-129-2-3p, miR-129-5p and miR-132-3p) had already been identified in frozen cerebellum from MSA patients. These findings suggest that archived FFPE postmortem samples can be a valuable source for miRNA profiling in MSA. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • mTORとてんかん 査読

    北浦弘樹, 武井延之, 中島光子, 松本直通, 柿田明美

    Epilepsy   10 ( 2 )   97 - 102   2016年11月

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  • Decreased VEGFR2 expression and increased phosphorylated Akt1 in the prefrontal cortex of individuals with schizophrenia 査読

    Mizuki Hino, Yasuto Kunii, Junya Matsumoto, Akira Wada, Atsuko Nagaoka, Shin-ichi Niwa, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Yoshio Hashizume, Sakon Yamamoto, Hirooki Yabe

    JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   82   100 - 108   2016年11月

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    The Akt signaling pathway involves various cellular processes and depends on extracellular stimuli. Since Akt signaling participates in cytoprotection, synapse plasticity, axon extension, and neurotransmission in the nervous system, alteration in Akt signaling might be a potential cause of schizophrenia. In this study, we performed multiplex fluorescent bead based immunoassays for members of the Akt signaling pathway in postmortem brains of controls and patients with schizophrenia. Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2/KDR) was significantly decreased in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of patients with schizophrenia, and the expression level of VEGFR2 was inversely correlated with the positive symptom subscale of the Diagnostic Instrument for Brain Studies (DIBS) in patients with schizophrenia. There was also an increase in phosphorylated Akt1 in the PFC in the patients, though the ratio of phospho/total Akt1 is not significantly different. In the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) there was no significant difference in expression and phosphorylation levels of Akt signaling proteins. Genetic analysis revealed a significant correlation of a SNP of KDR (rs7692791) with ERK1/2 and Akt1 phospho/total rates. Since VEGFR2 participates in angiogenesis and neurotrophic activation, either or both functions might be responsible for onset of schizophrenia. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • Biallelic TBCD Mutations Cause Early-Onset Neurodegenerative Encephalopathy. 査読 国際誌

    Noriko Miyake, Ryoko Fukai, Chihiro Ohba, Takahiro Chihara, Masayuki Miura, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akiyoshi Kakita, Eri Imagawa, Masaaki Shiina, Kazuhiro Ogata, Jiu Okuno-Yuguchi, Noboru Fueki, Yoshifumi Ogiso, Hiroshi Suzumura, Yoshiyuki Watabe, George Imataka, Huey Yin Leong, Aviva Fattal-Valevski, Uri Kramer, Satoko Miyatake, Mitsuhiro Kato, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yoshinori Sato, Satomi Mitsuhashi, Ichizo Nishino, Naofumi Kaneko, Akira Nishiyama, Tomohiko Tamura, Takeshi Mizuguchi, Mitsuko Nakashima, Fumiaki Tanaka, Hirotomo Saitsu, Naomichi Matsumoto

    American journal of human genetics   99 ( 4 )   950 - 961   2016年10月

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    We describe four families with affected siblings showing unique clinical features: early-onset (before 1 year of age) progressive diffuse brain atrophy with regression, postnatal microcephaly, postnatal growth retardation, muscle weakness/atrophy, and respiratory failure. By whole-exome sequencing, we identified biallelic TBCD mutations in eight affected individuals from the four families. TBCD encodes TBCD (tubulin folding co-factor D), which is one of five tubulin-specific chaperones playing a pivotal role in microtubule assembly in all cells. A total of seven mutations were found: five missense mutations, one nonsense, and one splice site mutation resulting in a frameshift. In vitro cell experiments revealed the impaired binding between most mutant TBCD proteins and ARL2, TBCE, and β-tubulin. The in vivo experiments using olfactory projection neurons in Drosophila melanogaster indicated that the TBCD mutations caused loss of function. The wide range of clinical severity seen in this neurodegenerative encephalopathy may result from the residual function of mutant TBCD proteins. Furthermore, the autopsied brain from one deceased individual showed characteristic neurodegenerative findings: cactus and somatic sprout formations in the residual Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, which are also seen in some diseases associated with mitochondrial impairment. Defects of microtubule formation caused by TBCD mutations may underlie the pathomechanism of this neurodegenerative encephalopathy.

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  • Characteristic Microglial Features in Patients with Hereditary Diffuse Leukoencephalopathy with Spheroids 査読

    Mari Tada, Takuya Konno, Masayoshi Tada, Toshiyuki Tezuka, Takeshi Miura, Naomi Mezaki, Ken-ichi Okazaki, Musashi Arakawa, Kyoko Itoh, Toru Yamamoto, Hideaki Yokoo, Nobuaki Yoshikura, Kenji Ishihara, Masao Horie, Hirohide Takebayashi, Yasuko Toyoshima, Makoto Naito, Osamu Onodera, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Hitoshi Takahashi, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY   80 ( 4 )   554 - 565   2016年10月

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    Objective: To clarify the histopathological alterations of microglia in the brains of patients with hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS) caused by mutations of the gene encoding the colony stimulating factor-1 receptor (CSF-1R).
    Methods: We examined 5 autopsied brains and 1 biopsy specimen from a total of 6 patients with CSF-1R mutations. Detailed immunohistochemical, biochemical, and ultrastructural features of microglia were examined, and quantitative analyses were performed.
    Results: In layers 3 to 4 of the frontal cortex in HDLS brains, microglia showed relatively uniform and delicate morphology, with thin and winding processes accompanying knotlike structures, and significantly smaller areas of Iba1 immunoreactivity and lower numbers of Iba1-positive cells were evident in comparison with control brains. On the other hand, in layers 5 to 6 and the underlying white matter, microglia were distributed unevenly; that is, in some areas they had accumulated densely, whereas in others they were scattered. Immunoblot analyses of microglia-associated proteins, including CD11b and DAP12, revealed that HDLS brains had significantly lower amounts of these proteins than diseased controls, although Ki-67-positive proliferative microglia were not reduced. Ultrastructurally, the microglial cytoplasm and processes in HDLS showed vesiculation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum and disaggregated polyribosomes, indicating depression of protein synthesis. On the other hand, macrophages were immunonegative for GLUT-5 or P2ry12, indicating that they were derived from bone marrow.
    Interpretation: The pathogenesis of HDLS seems to be associated with microglial vulnerability and morphological alterations.

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  • 脳表ヘモジデリン沈着症 査読

    豊島靖子, 柿田明美

    Clinical Neuroscience   34 ( 9 )   956 - 957   2016年9月

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  • Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis resulting in a totally locked-in state (communication Stage V). 査読

    Hayashi K, Mochizuki Y, Takeuchi R, Shimizu T, Nagao M, Watabe K, Arai N, Oyanagi K, Onodera O, Hayashi M, Takahashi H, Kakita A, Isozaki E

    Acta Neuropathol Commun   4   107   2016年9月

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  • 髄芽腫の予後因子Gli3. 査読

    吉村淳一, 宮原弘明, 棗田 学, 柿田明美, 藤井幸彦

    日本臨床   74 ( 7 )   292 - 297   2016年9月

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    脳腫瘍学 –基礎研究と臨床研究の進歩− Ⅵ.脳腫瘍の予後因子

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  • [Gli3: a favorable prognostic factor for patients with medulloblastoma]. 査読

    Yoshimura J, Miyahara H, Natsumeda M, Kakita A, Fujii Y

    Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine   74 Suppl 7   292 - 297   2016年9月

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  • Primary central nervous system lymphomas and related diseases: Pathological characteristics and discussion of the differential diagnosis 査読

    Yasuo Sugita, Hiroko Muta, Koichi Ohshima, Motohiro Morioka, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   36 ( 4 )   313 - 324   2016年8月

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    Although primary diffuse large B-cell lymphomas of the CNS are designated as primary CNS lymphomas according to the WHO Classification of Tumours of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissue in 2008, a variety of other lymphomas (Burkitt lymphomas, EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly) and related diseases (lymphomatoid granulomatosis) that are also found in the CNS have been spotlighted in recent years. The histopathology of primary CNS Burkitt lymphomasmimics that of primary diffuse large B-cell lymphomas of the CNS after steroid administration. Therefore, for correct diagnosis of the involved lymphoma, comprehensive fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis for c-MYC and BCL2 is recommended in all primary CNS lymphoma cases with aggressive clinical course, multifocal involvement of the CNS, and a high proliferation index. The pathological characteristics of primary CNS EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly have similarities with those of the latency phenotype III, EBV lymphoproliferative disorders that arise in the setting of immunodeficiency. These age-related lymphomas usually occur in elderly immunocompetent patients, and the incidence of this disease was estimated to range from 4.0% to 13.6% of all primary CNS lymphomas. Shorter overall survival has been reported for patients with this disease. Lymphomatoid granulomatosis (LYG) is a systemic, EBV-driven, angiocentric and angiodestructive lymphoproliferative disorder. Primary LYG that shows distinct clinicopathological features compared with systemic LYG was recently reported. Finally, this review focuses on the relationship between primary CNS lymphomas and demyelinating diseases, and the concomitant use of intraoperative cytology and frozen sections that are helpful in rapid intraoperative diagnosis.

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  • Familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification: Histopathologic features of an autopsied patient with an SLC20A2 mutation 査読

    Tadashi Kimura, Takeshi Miura, Kenju Aoki, Shoji Saito, Hiroaki Hondo, Takuya Konno, Akio Uchiyama, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   36 ( 4 )   365 - 371   2016年8月

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    Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC), or Fahr's disease, is a neurological disorder characterized by widespread calcification in the brain. Recently, several causative genes have been identified, but the histopathologic features of the brain lesions and expression of the gene products remain unclear. Here, we report the clinical and autopsy features of a 62-year-old Japanese man with familial IBGC, in whom an SLC20A2 mutation was identified. The patient developed mild cognitive impairment and parkinsonism. A brain CT scan demonstrated abnormal calcification in the bilateral basal ganglia, thalami and cerebellum. An MRI study at this point revealed glioblastoma, and the patient died 6 months later. At autopsy, symmetric calcification in the basal ganglia, thalami, cerebellar white matter and deeper layers of the cerebral cortex was evident. The calcification was observed in the tunica media of small arteries, arterioles and capillaries, but not in veins. Immunohistochemistry using an antibody against type III sodium-dependent phosphate transporter 2 (PiT-2), the SLC20A2 product, demonstrated that astrocytic processes were labeled in several regions in control brains, whereas in the patient, reactivity in astrocytes was apparently weak. Immunoblotting demonstrated a marked decrease of PiT-2 in the patient. There are few autopsy reports of IBGC patients with confirmation of the genetic background. The autopsy features seem informative for better understanding the histogenesis of IBGC lesions.

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  • Spinocerebellar degeneration: Discrepancies between clinical and pathological diagnoses 査読

    Mitsunori Yamada, Yasuko Toyoshima, Takao Makifuchi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   36 ( 4 )   405 - 410   2016年8月

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    To improve the diagnostic accuracy of sporadic spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD), we assessed the clinical and pathological data of 1494 consecutive autopsy cases. The number of patients who received a diagnosis of sporadic SCD (including multiple system atrophy) either clinically or pathologically was 19 (1.3%). We identified six cases with clinical misdiagnoses of SCD that were confirmed pathologically as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP, four cases), basilar artery thrombosis (one case) and unclassified tauopathy (one case). The total number of patients who received a clinical diagnosis of sporadic SCD was 93 and the positive predictive value was 93.5%. We also identified 13 autopsy cases that were pathologically confirmed as SCD, but had been clinically misdiagnosed as having other disorders. Their clinical diagnoses comprised progressive supranuclear palsy (five cases) and Parkinson's disease (PD, four cases), as well as parkinsonism with dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, paraneoplastic syndrome and multiple cerebral infarction (one case each). The results indicate that it is often difficult to distinguish PSP and PD from SCD, because of the atypical combination of symptoms or atypical timing of the appearance of symptoms, such as severe autonomic failure, cognitive impairment, poor L-dopa responsiveness, early cerebellar signs and obvious vertical gaze palsy.

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  • Significant association of cadaveric dura mater grafting with subpial Aβ deposition and meningeal amyloid angiopathy. 査読

    Hamaguchi T, Taniguchi Y, Sakai K, Kitamoto T, Takao M, Murayama S, Iwasaki Y, Yoshida M, Shimizu H, Kakita A, Takahashi H, Suzuki H, Naiki H, Sanjo N, Mizusawa H, Yamada M

    Acta neuropathologica   132 ( 2 )   313 - 315   2016年8月

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  • A case of lymphomatosis cerebri mimicking inflammatory diseases 査読

    Takenobu Murakami, Kenji Yoshida, Mari Segawa, Akioh Yoshihara, Akihiko Hoshi, Koichiro Nakamura, Masahiro Ichikawa, Osamu Suzuki, Yuichi Yokoyama, Yasuko Toyoshima, Yoshihiro Sugiura, Hiroshi Ito, Kiyoshi Saito, Yuko Hashimoto, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Yoshikazu Ugawa

    BMC NEUROLOGY   16   128   2016年8月

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    Background: Lymphomatosis cerebri (LC) is a rare subtype of primary central nervous system malignant lymphoma. The typical features of this disease exhibited on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) without contrast enhancement are similar to those observed with diffuse leukoencephalopathy, mimicking white matter disorders such as encephalitis. Clinical features and examination findings that are suggestive of inflammatory diseases may indeed confound the diagnosis of LC.
    Case presentation: A 66-year-old woman with continuous fever over a two-month period developed left hemiparesis despite presenting in an alert state with normal cognitive function. Sampling tests showed autoantibodies in the serum and inflammatory changes in the cerebrospinal fluid. The results from an MRI demonstrated multiple non-enhanced brain lesions in the splenium of the corpus callosum and deep white matter. Single photon emission computed tomography revealed increases in blood flow in the basal ganglia, thalamus and brainstem. No systemic malignancies were found. The patient was suspected of having a diagnosis of nonvasculitic autoimmune inflammatory meningoencephalitis and treated with intravenous methylprednisolone pulse therapy. Her fever transiently dropped to within the normal range. However, she had a sudden seizure and a second MRI exhibited infiltrative lesions gradually extending throughout the whole brain. We performed a brain biopsy, and LC was histologically diagnosed. The patient received whole-brain radiation therapy, which diminished the fever and seizures. The patient died one year after the initial onset of fever.
    Conclusions: The present case yields an important consideration that brain neoplasms, especially LC, cannot be ruled out, even in cases with clinical characteristics and examinations consistent with inflammatory diseases. Careful follow-up and histological study are vital for the correct diagnosis of LC.

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  • Increased neuronal and astroglial aquaporin-1 immunoreactivity in rat striatum by chemical preconditioning with 3-nitropropionic acid 査読

    Akihiko Hoshi, Ayako Tsunoda, Teiji Yamamoto, Mari Tada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yoshikazu Ugawa

    NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS   626   48 - 53   2016年7月

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    Aquaporin-1 (AQPI) is a water channel expressed in the choroid plexus and participates in forming cerebrospinal fluid. Interestingly, reactive astrocytes also express AQPI in the central nervous system under some pathological conditions. On the other hand, 3-nitropropionic acid (3NP) is a mitochondrial toxin that causes selective degeneration of striatum; however, its chemical preconditioning is neuroprotective against cerebral ischemia. We previously reported that mild 3NP application is accompanied with numerous reactive astrocytes in rat striatum devoid of typical necrotic lesions. Therefore, we studied whether AQPI in the rat striatum could be upregulated with reactive astrocytosis using the 3NP model. Immunohistochemical or immunofluorescence analysis showed that reactive astrocytosis in the striatum, which upregulates glial fibrillary acidic protein and glutamine synthetase, was induced by mild doses of 3NP administration. Intriguingly, after 3NP treatment, AQPI was intensely expressed not only by the subpopulation of astroglia but also by neurons. The AQPI immunoreactivity became more intensified at the early-subtoxic stage (ES: 24-48 h), but not as much in the delayed-subtoxic stage (DS: 96-120 h). In contrast, AQP4 expression in the striatum was downregulated after 3NP treatment, in particular during the ES stage. AQPI upregulation/AQP4 downregulation induced under subtoxic 3NP treatment may play a pivotal role in water homeostasis and cell viability in the striatum. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • Increased cytoplasmic TARDBP mRNA in affected spinal motor neurons in ALS caused by abnormal autoregulation of TDP-43 査読

    Akihide Koyama, Akihiro Sugai, Taisuke Kato, Tomohiko Ishihara, Atsushi Shiga, Yasuko Toyoshima, Misaki Koyama, Takuya Konno, Sachiko Hirokawa, Akio Yokoseki, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Osamu Onodera

    NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH   44 ( 12 )   5820 - 5836   2016年7月

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    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal motor neuron disorder. In motor neurons of ALS, TAR DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43), a nuclear protein encoded by TARDBP, is absent from the nucleus and forms cytoplasmic inclusions. TDP-43 auto-regulates the amount by regulating the TARDBP mRNA, which has three polyadenylation signals (PASs) and three additional alternative introns within the last exon. However, it is still unclear how the autoregulatory mechanism works and how the status of autoregulation in ALS motor neurons without nuclear TDP-43 is. Here we show that TDP-43 inhibits the selection of the most proximal PAS and induces splicing of multiple alternative introns in TARDBP mRNA to decrease the amount of cytoplasmic TARDBP mRNA by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. When TDP-43 is depleted, the TARDBP mRNA uses the most proximal PAS and is increased in the cytoplasm. Finally, we have demonstrated that in ALS motor neurons-especially neurons with mislocalized TDP-43-the amount of TARDBP mRNA is increased in the cytoplasm. Our observations indicate that nuclear TDP-43 contributes to the autoregulation and suggests that the absence of nuclear TDP-43 induces an abnormal autoregulation and increases the amount of TARDBP mRNA. The vicious cycle might accelerate the disease progression of ALS.

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  • Heterogeneity of cerebral TDP-43 pathology in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: evidence for clinic-pathologic subtypes. 査読

    Takeuchi R, Tada M, Shiga A, Toyoshima Y, Konno T, Sato T, Nozaki H, Kato T, Horie M, Shimizu H, Takebayashi H, Onodera O, Nishizawa M, Kakita A, Takahashi H

    Acta Neuropathol Commun   4 ( 1 )   61   2016年6月

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  • α-Synuclein pathology in the cranial and spinal nerves in Lewy body disease. 査読

    Nakamura K, Mori F, Tanji K, Miki Y, Toyoshima Y, Kakita A, Takahashi H, Yamada M, Wakabayashi K

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   36 ( 3 )   262 - 269   2016年6月

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  • Choreaを伴った非典型的ALSと臨床診断された、Tauopathyの一剖検例 査読

    田中 英智, 豊島 靖子, 三浦 健, 三瓶 一弘, 志賀 篤, 柿田 明美, 高橋 均

    The Kitakanto Medical Journal   66 ( 2 )   175 - 175   2016年5月

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  • Alteration of Upstream Autophagy-Related Proteins (ULK1, ULK2, Beclin1, VPS34 and AMBRA1) in Lewy Body Disease 査読

    Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Fumiaki Mori, Jun Utsumi, Hidenao Sasaki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    BRAIN PATHOLOGY   26 ( 3 )   359 - 370   2016年5月

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    Autophagy is associated with the pathogenesis of Lewy body disease, including Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). It is known that several downstream autophagosomal proteins are incorporated into Lewy bodies (LBs). We performed immunostaining and Western blot analysis using a cellular model of PD and human brain samples to investigate the involvement of upstream autophagosomal proteins (ULK1, ULK2, Beclin1, VPS34 and AMBRA1), which initiate autophagy and form autophagosomes. Time course analysis of cultured cells transfected with flag-alpha-synuclein and synphilin-1 revealed upregulation of these upstream proteins with accumulation of LB-like inclusions. In human specimens, only mature LBs were positive for upstream autophagosomal proteins. Western blotting of fractionated brain lysates showed that upstream autophagosomal proteins were detected in the soluble and insoluble fraction in DLB, corresponding to the bands of phosphorylated alpha-synuclein. However, Western blot analysis of total brain lysates in PD and DLB showed that the increase of upstream autophagosomal proteins was only partial. The quantitative, qualitative and locational alteration of upstream autophagosomal proteins in the present study indicates their involvement in the pathogenesis of LB disease. Our data also suggest that misinduction or impairment of upstream autophagy might occur in the disease process of LB disease.

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  • 当科で経験した成人テント上PNETの2例 症例報告

    塚本 佳広, 小倉 良介, 五十川 瑞穂, 青木 洋, 平石 哲也, 高尾 哲郎, 吉村 淳一, 藤井 幸彦, 高橋 均, 柿田 明美

    Brain Tumor Pathology   33 ( Suppl. )   149 - 149   2016年5月

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  • Clinicopathological features in anterior visual pathway in neuromyelitis optica 査読

    Mariko Hokari, Akiko Yokoseki, Musashi Arakawa, Etsuji Saji, Kaori Yanagawa, Fumihiro Yanagimura, Yasuko Toyoshima, Kouichirou Okamoto, Satoshi Ueki, Tetsuhisa Hatase, Riuko Ohashi, Takeo Fukuchi, Kohei Akazawa, Mitsunori Yamada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Izumi Kawachi

    ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY   79 ( 4 )   605 - 624   2016年4月

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    ObjectiveNeuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOsd) is an autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system characterized by aquaporin-4 (AQP4) autoantibodies. The aim of this study was to elucidate the characteristics of involvement of the anterior visual pathway (AVP) and neurodegeneration via glia-neuron interaction in NMOsd.
    MethodsThirty Japanese patients with serologically verified NMOsd were assessed with a neuro-ophthalmological study. Using 27 tissue blocks from 13 other cases of NMOsd, we performed neuropathological analysis of glial and neuroaxonal involvement in the AVP.
    ResultsThe AVP involvement in NMOsd was characterized by the following, compared to multiple sclerosis: (1) longitudinally extensive optic neuritis (ON); (2) more severe visual impairment and worse prognosis for ON; (3) unique AQP4 dynamics, including loss of AQP4 immunoreactivity on astrocytes with complement activation in ON lesions, loss of AQP4 immunoreactivity on Muller cells with no deposition of complement in the retinas, and densely packed AQP4 immunoreactivity on astrocytes in gliosis of secondary anterograde/retrograde degeneration in the optic nerves and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL); and (4) more severe neurodegeneration, including axonal accumulation of degenerative mitochondria and transient receptor potential melastatin 4 channel with complement-dependent astrocyte pathology in ON lesions, mild loss of horizontal cells, and RNFL thinning and loss of ganglion cells with abundance of AQP4(+) astrocytes, indicating secondary retrograde degeneration after ON.
    InterpretationSevere and widespread neuroaxonal damage and unique dynamics of astrocytes/Muller cells with alterations of AQP4 were prominent in the AVP and may be associated with poor visual function and prognosis in NMOsd. Ann Neurol 2016;79:605-624

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  • Accumulation of phosphorylated α-synuclein in subpial and periventricular astrocytes in multiple system atrophy of long duration. 査読

    Nakamura K, Mori F, Kon T, Tanji K, Miki Y, Tomiyama M, Kurotaki H, Toyoshima Y, Kakita A, Takahashi H, Yamada M, Wakabayashi K

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   36 ( 2 )   157 - 167   2016年4月

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  • Pathological and Clinical Spectrum of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: With Special Reference to Astrocytic Tau Pathology 査読

    Yuichi Yokoyama, Yasuko Toyoshima, Atsushi Shiga, Mari Tada, Hideaki Kitamura, Kazuko Hasegawa, Osamu Onodera, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Toshiyuki Someya, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi

    BRAIN PATHOLOGY   26 ( 2 )   155 - 166   2016年3月

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    Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a four-repeat tauopathy with tau-positive, argyrophilic tuft-shaped astrocytes (TAs). We performed a pathological and clinical investigation in 40 consecutive autopsied Japanese patients with pathological diagnoses of PSP or PSP-like disease. Unequivocal TAs were present in 22 cases, all of which were confirmed to be PSP. Such TAs were hardly detected in the other 18 cases, which instead exhibited tau-positive, argyrophilic astrocytes, appearing as comparatively small clusters with central nuclei of irregularly shaped, coarse structures (equivocal TAs). Cluster analysis of the distribution pattern of tau-related pathology for these 18 cases identified two subgroups, pallido-nigro-luysian atrophy (PNLA) Type 1 (n=9) and Type 2 (n=9), the former being distinguished from the latter by the presence of tau-related lesions in the motor cortex, pontine nucleus and cerebellar dentate nucleus in addition to the severely affected PNL system. The duration from symptom onset until becoming wheelchair-bound was significantly longer in PNLAType 1. Immunoblotting of samples from the three disease conditions revealed band patterns of low-molecular-mass tau fragments at approximate to 35kDa. These findings shed further light on the wide pathological and clinical spectrum of four-repeat tauopathy, representing PSP in the broad sense rather than classical PSP.

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  • Nonfunctional intra- and suprasellar tumor in a patient with visual disturbance and panhypopituitarism 査読

    Rie Saito, Shinya Jinguji, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Shigekazu Takeuchi, Kouichirou Okamoto, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   36 ( 1 )   107 - 112   2016年2月

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  • G protein-coupled receptor 26 immunoreactivity in intranuclear inclusions associated with polyglutamine and intranuclear inclusion body diseases 査読

    Fumiaki Mori, Kunikazu Tanji, Yasuo Miki, Yasuko Toyoshima, Mari Yoshida, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Jun Utsumi, Hidenao Sasaki, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   36 ( 1 )   50 - 55   2016年2月

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    G protein-coupled receptor 26 (GPR26) is one of the G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which comprise the largest family of membrane proteins and mediate most of the physiological responses to hormones, neurotransmitters and environmental stimulants. Although GPCRs are considered to play an important role in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders, it is uncertain whether GPR26 is involved in the pathogenesis of polyglutamine and intranuclear inclusion body diseases. We immunohistochemically examined the brain tissues of patients with four polyglutamine diseases (Huntington's disease, dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, and spinocerebellar ataxia types 1 and 3) and intranuclear inclusion body disease, and normal control subjects. In controls, anti-GPR26 antibody immunolabeled the neuronal cytoplasm in a diffuse granular pattern. Neuronal nuclear inclusions in polyglutamine diseases were immunopositive for GPR26. In intranuclear inclusion body disease, GPR26-positive nuclear inclusions were found in both neurons and glial cells. Marinesco bodies in aged control subjects were also positive for GPR26. Double immunofluorescence analysis revealed co-localization of GPR26 with polyglutamine or ubiquitin in these nuclear inclusions. These findings suggest that GPR26 may have a common role in the formation or degradation of intranuclear inclusions in several neurodegenerative diseases.

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  • 新潟大学脳研究所の取り組み:3T MRIを用いたAiと病理解剖 査読

    柿田 明美

    インナービジョン   31 ( 1 )   45 - 47   2016年1月

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  • 病理所見を理解する基礎 査読

    柿田 明美

    てんかん研究   33 ( 3 )   688 - 691   2016年1月

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  • Depression-like episodes in mice harboring mtDNA deletions in paraventricular thalamus 査読

    T. Kasahara, A. Takata, T. M. Kato, M. Kubota-Sakashita, T. Sawada, A. Kakita, H. Mizukami, D. Kaneda, K. Ozawa, T. Kato

    MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY   21 ( 1 )   39 - 48   2016年1月

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    Depression is a common debilitating human disease whose etiology has defied decades of research. A critical bottleneck is the difficulty in modeling depressive episodes in animals. Here, we show that a transgenic mouse with chronic forebrain expression of a dominant negative mutant of Polg1, a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymerase, exhibits lethargic behavioral changes, which are associated with emotional, vegetative and psychomotor disturbances, and response to antidepression drug treatment. The results suggested a symptomatic similarity between the lethargic behavioral change that was recurrently and spontaneously experienced by the mutant mice and major depressive episode as defined by DSM-5. A comprehensive screen of mutant brain revealed a hotspot for mtDNA deletions and mitochondrial dysfunction in the paraventricular thalamic nucleus (PVT) with similar defects observed in postmortem brains of patients with mitochondrial disease with mood symptoms. Remarkably, the genetic inhibition of PVT synaptic output by Cre-loxP-dependent expression of tetanus toxin triggered de novo depression-like episodes. These findings identify a novel preclinical mouse model and brain area for major depressive episodes with mitochondrial dysfunction as its cellular mechanism.

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  • Globular Glial Mixed Four Repeat Tau and TDP-43 Proteinopathy with Motor Neuron Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia 査読

    Ryoko Takeuchi, Yasuko Toyoshima, Mari Tada, Hidetomo Tanaka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Atsushi Shiga, Takeshi Miura, Kenju Aoki, Akane Aikawa, Shin Ishizawa, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi

    BRAIN PATHOLOGY   26 ( 1 )   82 - 94   2016年1月

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    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may be accompanied by frontotemporal dementia (FTD). We report a case of glial mixed tau and TDP-43 proteinopathies in a Japanese patient diagnosed clinically as having ALS-D. Autopsy revealed loss of lower motor neurons and degeneration of the pyramidal tracts in the spinal cord and brain stem. The brain showed frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), the most severe neuronal loss and gliosis being evident in the precentral gyrus. Although less severe, such changes were also observed in other brain regions, including the basal ganglia and substantia nigra. AT8 immunostaining revealed that predominant occurrence of astrocytic tau lesions termed globular astrocytic inclusions (GAIs) was a feature of the affected regions. These GAIs were Gallyas-Braak negative. Neuronal and oligodendrocytic tau lesions were comparatively scarce. pS409/410 immunostaining also revealed similar neuronal and glial TDP-43 lesions. Interestingly, occasional co-localization of tau and TDP-43 was evident in the GAIs. Immunoblot analyses revealed band patterns characteristic of a 4-repeat (4R) tauopathy, corticobasal degeneration and a TDP-43 proteinopathy, ALS/FTLD-TDPTypeB. No mutations were found in the MAPT or TDP-43 genes. We consider that this patient harbored a distinct, sporadic globular glial mixed 4R tau and TDP-43 proteinopathy associated with motor neuron disease and FTD.

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  • Globular Glial Mixed Four Repeat Tau and TDP-43 Proteinopathy with Motor Neuron Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. 査読 国際誌

    Ryoko Takeuchi, Yasuko Toyoshima, Mari Tada, Hidetomo Tanaka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Atsushi Shiga, Takeshi Miura, Kenju Aoki, Akane Aikawa, Shin Ishizawa, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi

    Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland)   26 ( 1 )   82 - 94   2016年1月

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    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may be accompanied by frontotemporal dementia (FTD). We report a case of glial mixed tau and TDP-43 proteinopathies in a Japanese patient diagnosed clinically as having ALS-D. Autopsy revealed loss of lower motor neurons and degeneration of the pyramidal tracts in the spinal cord and brain stem. The brain showed frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), the most severe neuronal loss and gliosis being evident in the precentral gyrus. Although less severe, such changes were also observed in other brain regions, including the basal ganglia and substantia nigra. AT8 immunostaining revealed that predominant occurrence of astrocytic tau lesions termed globular astrocytic inclusions (GAIs) was a feature of the affected regions. These GAIs were Gallyas-Braak negative. Neuronal and oligodendrocytic tau lesions were comparatively scarce. pS409/410 immunostaining also revealed similar neuronal and glial TDP-43 lesions. Interestingly, occasional co-localization of tau and TDP-43 was evident in the GAIs. Immunoblot analyses revealed band patterns characteristic of a 4-repeat (4R) tauopathy, corticobasal degeneration and a TDP-43 proteinopathy, ALS/FTLD-TDP Type B. No mutations were found in the MAPT or TDP-43 genes. We consider that this patient harbored a distinct, sporadic globular glial mixed 4R tau and TDP-43 proteinopathy associated with motor neuron disease and FTD.

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  • Fibromyalgia in a Patient with Cushing's Disease Accompanied by Central Hypothyroidism 査読

    Nobumasa Ohara, Shinichi Katada, Takaho Yamada, Naomi Mezaki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Akiko Suzuki, Osamu Hanyu, Yuichiro Yoneoka, Izumi Kawachi, Takayoshi Shimohata, Akiyoshi Kakita, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Hirohito Sone

    INTERNAL MEDICINE   55 ( 21 )   3185 - 3190   2016年

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    A 39-year-old woman with a 3-year history of a rounded face developed widespread myalgia. Detailed examinations revealed no disorders that could explain the pain other than concomitant Cushing's disease and central hypothyroidism. Both the hypercortisolemia and hypothyroidism completely resolved after the patient underwent surgery to treat Cushing's disease, but she continued to experience unresolved myalgia and met the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia. Few studies have so far investigated patients with fibromyalgia associated with Cushing's syndrome. In our case, the hypothyroidism caused by Cushing's disease probably played an important role in triggering and exacerbating fibromyalgia. This highlights the need to examine the endocrine function in patients with muscle pain.

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  • 成人発症の白質脳症の病理:病態形成におけるグリア細胞の関与

    柿田 明美

    神経治療学   33 ( 5 )   S131 - S131   2016年

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  • Diagnostic performance of positron emission tomography for the presurgical evaluation of patients with non-lesional intractable partial epilepsy: Comparison among 18F-FDG, 11C-Flumazenil, and 11C-Flumazenil binding potential imaging using statistical imaging analysis 査読

    Daisuke Komoto, Koji Iida, Toru Higaki, Yoko Kaichi, Komei Takauchi, Koji Arihiro, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yutaka Hirokawa, Kazuo Awai

    Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences   64 ( 4 )   51 - 57   2015年12月

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    To compare the diagnostic performance of 18F-FDG PET, nC-FMZ PET, and 11C-FMZ BP imaging for the evaluation of patients with intractable partial epilepsy whose MRI findings are normal by using statistical imaging analysis. Ten patients underwent comprehensive presurgical evaluation, including PET studies, to assess the epileptic foci. The extent of cortical resection was based on the results of intracranial video-electroencephalography (IVEEG) monitoring and brain mapping under stimulation. The images of 10 patients and 30 controls were spatially normalized to templates generated in-house by non-rigid registration and the standardized images of the patients and controls were statistically compared. Epileptic focus candidates were visualized on a color map of axial images of each template and the focus site was identified in candidates for lobar location. In patients with Engel I postoperative seizure outcomes we assessed the sensitivity and specificity of the imaging methods for lobar focus localization. We also compared the concordance scores of patients with Engel I and Engel II-IV postoperative seizures. The sensitivity and specificity for lobar focus localization on 18F-FDG PET scans was 90.0% and 84.8%, respectively
    it was 30.0% and 81.4% for 11C-FMZ PET, 40.0% and 66.7% for 11C-FMZ BP images, and 100.0% and 51.4% for 18F-FDG PET/11C-FMZ PET/11C-FMZ BP images. In one patient the epileptic focus not detected on 18F-FDG PET scans was shown on 11C-FMZ BP images. In patients with Engel I post-treatment seizures the concordance scores were significantly higher for 18F-FDG PET than 11C-FMZ PET and 11C-FMZ BP images (p &lt
    0.05). With respect to sensitivity and specificity, 18F-FDG PET was superior to 11C-FMZ PET and 11C-FMZ BP imaging. However, in some patients with normal MRI results, 11C-FMZ BP studies may complement 18F-FDG PET findings in efforts to identify the epileptogenic lobar regions.

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  • Localization of nuclear receptor subfamily 4, group A, member 3 (NR4A3) in Lewy body disease and multiple system atrophy 査読

    Tomoya Kon, Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Fumiaki Mori, Masahiko Tomiyama, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Jun Utsumi, Hidenao Sasaki, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   35 ( 6 )   503 - 509   2015年12月

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    Nuclear receptor subfamily 4, group A, member 3 (NR4A3), also known as neuron-derived orphan receptor-1, is a nuclear receptor which plays key roles in cell cycle, neuronal differentiation, apoptosis and metabolism. These processes may be involved in the pathogenesis of certain neurodegenerative diseases. Previous studies have shown that there are high levels of NR4A3 mRNA in the CNS. Moreover, NR4A2, a transcription factor with homology to NR4A3, has been reported to contribute to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. However, it is uncertain whether NR4A3 is also involved in diseases such as dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy, and other neurodegenerative disorders such as tauopathies, TDP-43 proteinopathies and polyglutamine diseases. In the present study we used immunohistochemistry to examine the brain and spinal cord from patients with various neurodegenerative diseases and normal control subjects using two polyclonal anti-NR4A3 antibodies. In controls, the cytoplasm of neurons and glial cells was faintly immunostained with anti-NR4A3 antibodies. In tissues from patients with neurodegenerative diseases, immunoreactivity for NR4A3 was observed in cortical and brainstem-type Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease and in dementia with Lewy bodies, as well as in neuronal and glial cytoplasmic inclusions in multiple system atrophy. A double-labeled immunofluorescence study showed co-localization of NR4A3 and phosphorylated -synuclein in these inclusions. Neuronal and glial inclusions in other neurodegenerative disorders were NR4A3 negative. These findings suggest that accumulation of NR4A3 is specific to -synucleinopathy.

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  • Spatiotemporal gene expression trajectory in the human and non-human ape brains 査読

    Yasuhiro Go, Shoji Tatsumoto, Li Qian, Takao Oishi, Toshifumi Udono, Shuji Shigenobu, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hiroyuki Nawa, Philipp Khaitovich

    GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS   90 ( 6 )   372 - 372   2015年12月

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  • フラビン蛍光イメージングによるてんかん原性の解析 査読

    北浦弘樹, 柿田明美

    Epilepsy   9 ( 2 )   82 - 84   2015年11月

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  • Sortilin-related receptor CNS expressed 2 (SorCS2) is localized to Bunina bodies in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 査読

    Fumiaki Mori, Yasuo Miki, Kunikazu Tanji, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Jun Utsumi, Hidenao Sasaki, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS   608   6 - 11   2015年11月

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    Sortilin-related receptor CNS expressed 2 (SorCS2) is one of the vacuolar protein sorting 10 family proteins (VPS10Ps) that have pleiotropic roles in protein trafficking and intracellular and intercellular signaling. Bunina bodies (BBs) are specifically detected in the lower motor neurons in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). BBs are immunolabeled with antibodies against cystatin C, transferrin and peripherin and are considered to originate from the endoplasmic reticulum, which is part of the protein sorting pathway. The present study investigated whether VPS10Ps are involved in the formation of BBs in ALS. We immunohistochemically examined the spinal cord from patients with ALS and control subjects using antibodies against VPS10Ps (sortilin, SorLA, SorCS1, SorCS2 and SorCS3). In normal controls, antibodies against VPS10Ps immunolabeled the cytoplasm of anterior horn cells in a fine granular pattern. In ALS, almost all BBs (95.1%) were strongly immunopositive for SorCS2, and immunoreativity for sortilin and SorLA was decreased in anterior horn cells. These findings suggest that VPS10Ps may be involved in the disease process of ALS. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • Characteristic expression of p57/Kip2 in balloon cells in focal cortical dysplasia 査読

    Tadashi Kimura, Hiroki Kitaura, Hiroshi Masuda, Shigeki Kameyama, Yuko Saito, Kenji Sugai, Taisuke Otsuki, Atsuko Nakazawa, Nobuhito Morota, Takamichi Yamamoto, Kouji Iida, Masanori Nakagawa, Toshiki Mizuno, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   35 ( 5 )   401 - 409   2015年10月

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    Balloon cells are a pathognomonic cellular feature of various cortical malformations, including focal cortical dysplasia type IIb (FCD IIb), cortical tubers of tuberous sclerosis (TSC) and hemimegalencephaly (HME). In the present study, we investigated the immunohistochemical expression of p57/Kip2, a member of the Cip/Kip family of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitory proteins, in balloon cells in surgical specimens taken from 26, 17 and six patients with FCD IIb, TSC and HME, respectively. Characteristic dot-like reactivity with a faint, intense, reticular and process-like pattern was confined to the proximal portion of the cytoplasmic processes of the cells. Immunoelectron microscopy revealed the p57/Kip2 reactivity on intermediate filaments in the proximal portion of the processes. The immunohistochemical profile appeared similar to that of CD34; however, a double immunofluorescence study demonstrated that no cells showed reactivity for both p57/Kip2 and CD34. The frequencies of the p57/Kip2-positive cells in FCD IIb and HME were significantly higher than those in TSC, suggesting that the balloon cells may be heterogeneous. These findings suggest some functional significance of the protein on the cytoplasmic processes of balloon cells and appear consistent with the notion that the cells are abnormally differentiated progenitor cells.

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  • Variable expression of microglial DAP12 and TREM2 genes in Nasu-Hakola disease 査読

    Atsushi Sasaki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kunihiro Yoshida, Takuya Konno, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Shintaro Hayashi, Hidenori Matsuo, Kei Shioda

    NEUROGENETICS   16 ( 4 )   265 - 276   2015年10月

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    Nasu-Hakola disease (NHD) is a form of presenile dementia associated with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy and polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia. This extremely rare inherited disease is caused by mutations in either DAP12 or TREM2. The present study was designed to assess the relationship between DAP12/TREM2 genotype, mRNA and protein expression levels by both Western blotting and immunohistochemistry, and the tissue distribution and pathomorphological phenotype of the microglia. Molecular genetic testing performed in three NHD cases confirmed that two cases had mutations in DAP12 and that one case carried a mutation in TREM2. Protein levels were analyzed in four cases. Interestingly, significant DAP12 expression was found in numerous microglia in one NHD case with a homozygous DAP12 single-base substitution, and both real-time PCR and Western blotting confirmed the finding. In contrast, levels of both DAP12 and TREM2, respectively, were much lower in the other cases. Immunohistochemistry using established microglial markers revealed consistently mild activation of microglia in the cerebral white matter although there was no or only little expression of DAP12 in three of the NHD cases. The highly different expression of DAP12 represents the first description of such variable expressivity in NHD microglia. It raises important questions regarding the mechanisms underlying dementia and white matter damage in NHD.

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  • Isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase, a cholesterol synthesizing enzyme, is localized in Lewy bodies 査読

    Keiko Nakamura, Fumiaki Mori, Kunikazu Tanji, Yasuo Miki, Masahito Yamada, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Jun Utsumi, Hidenao Sasaki, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   35 ( 5 )   432 - 440   2015年10月

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    Isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase (IDI) is a cytoplasmic enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids including cholesterols. IDI has two isoforms in humans: IDI1 and IDI2. Since lipids are known to be a component of Lewy bodies (LBs), we investigated the immunohistochemical localization of IDI1 and IDI2 in the brain of patients with LB disease and multiple system atrophy (MSA) and normal control subjects. In normal controls, the cytoplasm of neurons was weakly immunostained with anti-IDI1 and anti-IDI2 antibodies throughout the nervous system. In LB disease, brainstem-type LBs were strongly positive for IDI1 and IDI2, and cortical LBs were unstained or barely immunolabeled. Double immunofluorescence staining revealed co-localization of phosphorylated -synuclein with IDI1 or IDI2. Glial cytoplasmic inclusions in MSA were unstained. Previous studies have shown that levels of cholesterol metabolites are increased in the cerebral cortex of patients with LB disease, and that these metabolites accelerate -synuclein aggregation. The present findings suggest that IDI1 and IDI2 may be associated with the production of cholesterol metabolites in neurons, leading to -synuclein aggregation during the process of LB formation.

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  • Somatic Mutations in the MTOR gene cause focal cortical dysplasia type IIb 査読

    Mitsuko Nakashima, Hirotomo Saitsu, Nobuyuki Takei, Jun Tohyama, Mitsuhiro Kato, Hiroki Kitaura, Masaaki Shiina, Hiroshi Shirozu, Hiroshi Masuda, Keisuke Watanabe, Chihiro Ohba, Yoshinori Tsurusaki, Noriko Miyake, Yingjun Zheng, Tatsuhiro Sato, Hirohide Takebayashi, Kazuhiro Ogata, Shigeki Kameyama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Naomichi Matsumoto

    ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY   78 ( 3 )   375 - 386   2015年9月

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    ObjectiveFocal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type IIb is a cortical malformation characterized by cortical architectural abnormalities, dysmorphic neurons, and balloon cells. It has been suggested that FCDs are caused by somatic mutations in cells in the developing brain. Here, we explore the possible involvement of somatic mutations in FCD type IIb.
    MethodsWe collected a total of 24 blood-brain paired samples with FCD, including 13 individuals with FCD type IIb, 5 with type IIa, and 6 with type I. We performed whole-exome sequencing using paired samples from 9 of the FCD type IIb subjects. Somatic MTOR mutations were identified and further investigated using all 24 paired samples by deep sequencing of the entire gene's coding region. Somatic MTOR mutations were confirmed by droplet digital polymerase chain reaction. The effect of MTOR mutations on mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase signaling was evaluated by immunohistochemistry and Western blotting analyses of brain samples and by in vitro transfection experiments.
    ResultsWe identified four lesion-specific somatic MTOR mutations in 6 of 13 (46%) individuals with FCD type IIb showing mutant allele rates of 1.11% to 9.31%. Functional analyses showed that phosphorylation of ribosomal protein S6 in FCD type IIb brain tissues with MTOR mutations was clearly elevated, compared to control samples. Transfection of any of the four MTOR mutants into HEK293T cells led to elevated phosphorylation of 4EBP, the direct target of mTOR kinase.
    InterpretationWe found low-prevalence somatic mutations in MTOR in FCD type IIb, indicating that activating somatic mutations in MTOR cause FCD type IIb. Ann Neurol 2015;78:375-386

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  • Somatic Mutations in MTOR Cause Focal cortical dysplasia Type IIb 査読

    Nakashima M, Saitsu H, Takei N, Tohyama J, Kato M, Kitaura H, Shiina M, Shirouzu H, Masuda H, Watanabe K, Ohba C, Tsurusaki Y, Miyake N, Zheng YJ, Sato T, Takebayashi H, Ogata K, Kameyama S, Kakita A, Matsumoto N

    Ann. Neurol   78 ( 3 )   375 - 386   2015年9月

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  • Quantitative correlation between cardiac MIBG uptake and remaining axons in the cardiac sympathetic nerve in Lewy body disease 査読

    Makoto Takahashi, Masako Ikemura, Teruaki Oka, Toshiki Uchihara, Koichi Wakabayashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Mari Yoshida, Shuta Toru, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Satoshi Orimo

    JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY   86 ( 9 )   939 - 944   2015年9月

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    Objectives Reduced cardiac meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) uptake and loss of cardiac sympathetic axons, as its possible anatomical substrate, were both recognised in Lewy body disease (LBD), while their direct correlation has so far remained speculative. Increasing availability of autopsy-confirmed cases of LBD prompted us to quantify residual cardiac sympathetic axons to establish their relationship to cardiac MIBG uptake.
    Methods We collected cardiac tissue samples from 23 patients with autopsy-confirmed LBD and two non-LBD control patients who underwent I-123-MIBG cardiac scintigraphy in life. Samples of the left ventricular anterior wall were stained with anti-tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and anti-neurofilament (NF) antibodies as markers of cardiac nerve axons. We quantified the immunolabelled areas and assessed their correlation to standardised heart to mediastinum (H/M) ratios of I-123-MIBG cardiac scintigraphy.
    Results Cardiac MIBG uptake in the early and delayed phases was reduced in 90.9% and 95.7% of patients with LBD, respectively. The area of TH-immunoreactive axons correlated significantly with the H/M ratio in the early (p=0.036) as well as in the delayed (p=0.018) phases. The area of NF-immunoreactive axons also correlated with the H/M ratio in the early (p=0.003) as well as in the delayed (p=0.001) phases.
    Conclusions Tight quantitative correlation between cardiac I-123-MIBG uptake and corresponding loss of sympathetic axons in LBD, as established for the first time by this study, provides a scientific basis to confirm the reliability of MIBG cardiac scintigraphy as a powerful clinical tool to detect loss of these axons as a biomarker for the presence of Lewy body disease.

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  • Inhibitory PAS domain protein is a substrate of PINK1 and Parkin and mediates cell death in a Parkinson's disease model 査読

    S. Kasai, S. Torii, A. Kakita, K. Sogawa

    CELL DEATH & DISEASE   6   e1886   2015年9月

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  • ファール病(家族性特発性基底核石灰化症) 査読

    木村正志, 柿田明美

    Clin Neurosci   33 ( 8 )   862 - 863   2015年8月

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  • Na, K-ATPase α3 is a death target of Alzheimer patient amyloid-β assembly. 査読

    Ohnishi T, Yanazawa M, Sasahara T, Kitamura Y, Hiroaki H, Fukazawa Y, Kii I, Nishiyama T, Kakita A, Takeda H, Takeuchi A, Arai Y, Ito A, Komura H, Hirao H, Satomura K, Inoue M, Muramatsu S, Matsui K, Tada M, Sato M, Saijo E, Shigemitsu Y, Sakai S, Umetsu Y, Goda N, Takino N, Takahashi H, Hagiwara M, Sawasaki T, Iwasaki G, Nakamura Y, Nabeshima Y, Teplow DB, Hoshi M

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   112 ( 32 )   E4465 - E4474   2015年8月

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  • Involvement of inhibitory PAS domain protein in neuronal cell death in Parkinson's disease. 査読

    Torii S, Kasai S, Suzuki A, Todoroki Y, Yokozawa K, Yasumoto KI, Seike N, Kiyonari H, Mukumoto Y, Kakita A, Sogawa K

    Cell death discovery   1   15015   2015年8月

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  • Immunohistochemical profiles of IDH1, MGMT and P53: Practical significance for prognostication of patients with diffuse gliomas 査読

    Ryosuke Ogura, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Manabu Natsumeda, Mizuho Isogawa, Hiroshi Aoki, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Seiichi Yoshida, Kouichiro Okamoto, Hitoshi Takahashi, Yukihiko Fujii, Akiyoshi Kakita

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   35 ( 4 )   324 - 335   2015年8月

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    Genetic and epigenetic status, including mutations of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) and TP53 and methylation of O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), are associated with the development of various types of glioma and are useful for prognostication. Here, using routinely available histology sections from 312 patients with diffuse gliomas, we performed immunohistochemistry using antibodies specific for IDH1 mutation, MGMT methylation status, and aberrant p53 expression to evaluate the possible prognostic significance of these features. With regard to overall survival (OS), univariate analysis indicated that an IDH1-positive profile in patients with glioblastoma (GBM), anaplastic astrocytoma (AA), anaplastic oligoastrocytoma and oligodendroglioma, or a MGMT-negative profile in patients with GBM and AA were significantly associated with a favorable outcome. Multivariate analysis revealed that both profiles were independent factors influencing prognosis. The OS of patients with IDH1-positive/MGMT-negative profiles was significantly longer than that of patients with negative/negative and negative/positive profiles. A p53 profile was not an independent prognostic factor. However, for GBM/AA patients with IDH1-negative/MGMT-negative profiles, p53 overexpression was significantly associated with an unfavorable outcome. Thus, the immunohistochemical profiles of IDH1 and MGMT are of considerable significance in gliomas, and a combination of IDH1, MGMT and p53 profiles may be useful for prognostication of GBM/AA.

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  • Assessment of copy number variations in the brain genome of schizophrenia patients. 査読

    Sakai M, Watanabe Y, Someya T, Araki K, Shibuya M, Niizato K, Oshima K, Kunii Y, Yabe H, Matsumoto J, Wada A, Hino M, Hashimoto T, Hishimoto A, Kitamura N, Iritani S, Shirakawa O, Maeda K, Miyashita A, Niwa S, Takahashi H, Kakita A, Kuwano R, Nawa H

    Mol Cytogenet   8   46   2015年7月

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  • てんかん外科病理に関する最新の国際分類 査読

    柿田 明美

    最新医学   70 ( 6 )   1031 - 1037   2015年6月

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  • Two siblings with cortical dysplasia: Clinico-electroencephalographic features 査読

    Tatsuya Fukasawa, Tetsuo Kubota, Tamiko Negoro, Shinsuke Maruyama, Ryoko Honda, Yuko Saito, Masayuki Itoh, Akiyoshi Kakita, Kenji Sugai, Taisuke Otsuki, Mitsuhiro Kato, Jun Natsume, Kazuyoshi Watanabe

    PEDIATRICS INTERNATIONAL   57 ( 3 )   472 - 475   2015年6月

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    The older of two siblings began to have spasms and partial seizures at 1 month of age. Head magnetic resonance imaging showed an abnormal area in the left temporo-parieto-occipital region. Interictal electroencephalogram (EEG) showed a suppression-burst pattern. Adrenocorticotropic hormone stopped the spasms, but the seizures continued. Clonazepam, carbamazepine, zonisamide, and clobazam were ineffective. She underwent focal resection at age 8 months. Postoperatively, the seizures disappeared. Histopathologically, the lesion appeared to be focal cortical dysplasia type IIa. The younger sibling had spasms from birth. Head magnetic resonance imaging showed left hemi-megalencephaly. Interictal EEG showed a suppression-burst pattern. Phenobarbital, valproic acid, and zonisamide were ineffective. He underwent hemispherotomy at age 2 months and became seizure free. The histopathological features were consistent with those of hemi-megalencephaly. The siblings' EEG and clinical courses had some similarities. These siblings' conditions may have the same genetic background.

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  • Filamentous aggregations of phosphorylated α-synuclein in Schwann cells (Schwann cell cytoplasmic inclusions) in multiple system atrophy. 査読

    Nakamura K, Mori F, Kon T, Tanji K, Miki Y, Tomiyama M, Kurotaki H, Toyoshima Y, Kakita A, Takahashi H, Yamada M, Wakabayashi K

    Acta neuropathologica communications   3 ( 1 )   29   2015年5月

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  • 髄鞘病変を鑑別するポイント 査読

    柿田 明美

    病理と臨床   33 ( 4 )   352 - 358   2015年4月

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  • 胚芽異型成性神経上皮腫瘍 Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor. 査読

    清水 宏, 柿田明美

    病理と臨床   33   334   2015年4月

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  • 頭蓋咽頭腫 Craniopharyngioma 査読

    清水 宏, 柿田明美

    病理と臨床   33   332   2015年4月

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  • Variants associated with Gaucher disease in multiple system atrophy 査読

    Jun Mitsui, Takashi Matsukawa, Hidenao Sasaki, Ichiro Yabe, Masaaki Matsushima, Alexandra Duerr, Alexis Brice, Hiroshi Takashima, Akio Kikuchi, Masashi Aoki, Hiroyuki Ishiura, Tsutomu Yasuda, Hidetoshi Date, Budrul Ahsan, Atsushi Iwata, Jun Goto, Yaeko Ichikawa, Yasuo Nakahara, Yoshio Momose, Yuji Takahashi, Kenju Hara, Akiyoshi Kakita, Mitsunori Yamada, Hitoshi Takahashi, Osamu Onodera, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Hirohisa Watanabe, Mizuki Ito, Gen Sobue, Kinya Ishikawa, Hidehiro Mizusawa, Kazuaki Kanai, Takamichi Hattori, Satoshi Kuwabara, Kimihito Arai, Shigeru Koyano, Yoshiyuki Kuroiwa, Kazuko Hasegawa, Tatsuhiko Yuasa, Kenichi Yasui, Kenji Nakashima, Hijiri Ito, Yuishin Izumi, Ryuji Kaji, Takeo Kato, Susumu Kusunoki, Yasushi Osaki, Masahiro Horiuchi, Tomoyoshi Kondo, Shigeo Murayama, Nobutaka Hattori, Mitsutoshi Yamamoto, Miho Murata, Wataru Satake, Tatsushi Toda, Alessandro Filla, Thomas Klockgether, Ullrich Wuellner, Garth Nicholson, Sid Gilman, Caroline M. Tanner, Walter A. Kukull, Mathew B. Stern, Virginia M. -Y. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski, Eliezer Masliah, Phillip A. Low, Paola Sandroni, Laurie J. Ozelius, Tatiana Foroud, Shoji Tsuji

    ANNALS OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL NEUROLOGY   2 ( 4 )   417 - 426   2015年4月

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    Objective: Glucocerebrosidase gene (GBA) variants that cause Gaucher disease are associated with Parkinson disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). To investigate the role of GBA variants in multiple system atrophy (MSA), we analyzed GBA variants in a large case-control series. Methods: We sequenced coding regions and flanking splice sites of GBA in 969 MSA patients (574 Japanese, 223 European, and 172 North American) and 1509 control subjects (900 Japanese, 315 European, and 294 North American). We focused solely on Gaucher-disease-causing GBA variants. Results: In the Japanese series, we found nine carriers among the MSA patients (1.65%) and eight carriers among the control subjects (0.89%). In the European series, we found three carriers among the MSA patients (1.35%) and two carriers among the control subjects (0.63%). In the North American series, we found five carriers among the MSA patients (2.91%) and one carrier among the control subjects (0.34%). Subjecting each series to a Mantel-Haenszel analysis yielded a pooled odds ratio (OR) of 2.44 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.14-5.21) and a P-value of 0.029 without evidence of significant heterogeneity. Logistic regression analysis yielded similar results, with an adjusted OR of 2.43 (95% CI 1.15-5.37) and a P-value of 0.022. Subtype analysis showed that Gaucher-disease-causing GBA variants are significantly associated with MSA cerebellar subtype (MSA-C) patients (P = 7.3 9 10(-3)). Interpretation: The findings indicate that, as in PD and DLB, Gaucher-disease-causing GBA variants are associated with MSA.

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  • [Hip Fracture--Epidemiology, Management and Liaison Service. Osteoporosis liaison service in Japan]. 査読

    Suzuki A, Sekiguchi-Ueda S, Kakita A

    Clinical calcium   25 ( 4 )   559 - 563   2015年4月

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  • 認知症を主症状とし、大脳皮質に変性が強調された進行性核上性麻痺の一剖検例 査読

    田中 英智, 清水 宏, 豊島 靖子, 田中 弘, 田中 政春, 池内 健, 柿田 明美, 高橋 均

    信州医学雑誌   63 ( 1 )   71 - 72   2015年2月

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  • Zinc Transporters ZnT3 and ZnT6 Are Downregulated in the Spinal Cords of Patients With Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 査読

    Masayuki Kaneko, Takao Noguchi, Saori Ikegami, Takeyuki Sakurai, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yasuko Toyoshima, Taiho Kambe, Mitsunori Yamada, Masatoshi Inden, Hideaki Hara, Kiyomitsu Oyanagi, Takashi Inuzuka, Hitoshi Takahashi, Isao Hozumi

    JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH   93 ( 2 )   370 - 379   2015年2月

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    The loss of homeostasis of essential metals is associated with various diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases. Previous studies have shown that the levels of zinc (Zn) are significantly higher in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Zn transporters and metallothioneins tightly control intracellular and extracellular Zn levels. This study investigated the protein levels of ZnT, a Zn transporter family, in ALS patients and model mice. The mRNA expression of ZnT1, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, and -10 was assessed in the spinal cords of human control subjects. ZnT3 and ZnT6 protein levels were significantly diminished in the spinal cords of sporadic ALS patients compared with controls. Furthermore, immunohistochemical staining demonstrated decreased ZnT3 and ZnT6 immunoreactivity in the ventral horn of the spinal cords in ALS patients. Moreover, immunohistochemical analysis revealed that all ZnTs expressed in the spinal cords were localized in a distinct subset of motor neurons. In addition, ZnT3 and ZnT6 protein levels were not altered in SOD1 (G93A) mutant transgenic mice before or after the onset of ALS symptoms compared with controls. These results suggest that ZnT3 and ZnT6 protein levels are decreased in the spinal cords of sporadic ALS patients; however, this did not occur merely via loss of motor neurons. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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  • ALSにおけるspliceosome異常 査読

    石原智彦, 柿田明美, 高橋 均, 小野寺 理, 西澤正豊

    臨床神経   54 ( 12 )   1155 - 1157   2014年12月

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  • ヒト脳病理切片におけるin situ hybridization法を利用したニューロンおよびグリア細胞の同定 査読

    佐藤和彦, 堀江正男, 竹林浩秀, 高橋 均, 柿田明美

    新潟医学会雑誌   128 ( 12 )   625 - 634   2014年12月

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    in situ hybridization(ISH)法は, 組織内(in situ)で標的核酸配列を, 核酸プローブのハイブリダイゼーションにより検出する染色法である. ISH法は, 組織内の抗原を抗体で検出する免疫染色法と比べると, 標的遺伝子発現を検出するRNAプローブの作製が比較的容易である, すべてのプローブを同一の条件で使用できる, という利点がある. 病理診断分野においては, ヘマトキシリン・エオジン染色など種々の染色法や免疫染色法が主に用いられている. ISH法は, ウイルス感染を調べる, 遺伝子の染色体上の位置を調べることなどに利用されているが, 神経病理分野での利用は限られている. 本研究では, 神経病理学におけるISH法の応用を目指して, 脳の主要構成細胞であるニューロンとグリア細胞(アストロサイト, オリゴデンドロサイト, ミクログリア)の細胞種特異的RNAプローブを作製し, ヒト脳のパラフィン切片においてこれらの遺伝子発現の検出および各々の細胞同定を試みた. ニューロン, アストロサイト, オリゴデンドロサイト, ミクログリアの特異的遺伝子として, ニューロフィラメント(NF), グリア細胞線維性酸性タンパク(GFAP), ミエリン塩基性タンパク(MBP), マクロファージコロニー刺激因子1受容体(CSF1R)を使用した. 3例のヒト側頭葉病理切片を用いてISHを行った結果, 全ての検体においてISHシグナルが観察された. NF陽性細胞は大脳皮質全層において検出され, 錐体細胞の特徴的な形態をもつ興奮性ニューロンを含む細胞群が染まっている事が観察された. また, グリア特異的分子の陽性細胞は, 灰白質そして白質に特徴的なパターンを持って検出された. 退形成性血管周皮腫の周囲組織では非常に強いGFAP発現が検出され, 反応性グリア細胞の存在が示唆された. 以上の結果は, ヒト脳病理切片において, ISH法を用いて脳の主要な構成細胞種が同定可能であることを示している.

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  • ヒトてんかん病巣におけるグリア細胞の病理組織学的所見 査読

    柿田明美

    臨床神経   54 ( 12 )   1136 - 1138   2014年12月

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  • MPO-ANCA関連肥厚性硬膜炎の臨床・免疫・病理学的特徴

    横関 明子, 河内 泉, 佐治 越爾, 荒川 武蔵, 穂苅 万李子, 豊島 靖子, 小阪 崇幸, 岡本 浩一郎, 武田 茂樹, 三瓶 一弘, 菊池 弘敏, 廣畑 俊成, 赤澤 宏平, 柿田 明美, 高橋 均, 西澤 正豊

    臨床神経学   54 ( Suppl. )   S25 - S25   2014年12月

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  • Neuromyelitis optica脊髄炎局所におけるTH1細胞の役割

    穂苅 万李子, 河内 泉, 佐治 越爾, 荒川 武蔵, 横関 明子, 豊島 靖子, 柿田 明美, 高橋 均, 西澤 正豊

    臨床神経学   54 ( Suppl. )   S49 - S49   2014年12月

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  • Histopathologic features of epileptogenic brain lesions in infants and children 査読

    Akiyoshi Kakita

    No To Hattatsu   46 ( 6 )   413 - 417   2014年11月

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    I retrospectively reviewed the histopathologic features of surgical specimens taken consecutively from 600 patients with intractable epilepsy, and showed the scope of variation in lesions responsible for epileptogenesis. The patients were divided into three groups on the basis of age at seizure onset: 94 patients with infantile onset (before 1 year of age), 307 patients with juvenile onset (between 1 and 12 years of age), and 199 patients with adolescent/adult onset (at 13 years of age or beyond). In the infant group, seizure duration was significantly shorter than in the other groups, and malformations caused by abnormalities of cortical development, including focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type II a/b, tuberous sclerosis, hemimegalencephaly, and polymicrogyria were predominant, whereas in the juvenile and adolescent/adult groups, other lesions such as hippocampal sclerosis (HS), tumors, FCD type I, and vascular lesions were frequently observed. FCD type III a was noted in nearly half of patient with HS in both juvenile and adolescent/adult groups. The causative tumors included dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors, gangliogliomas, astrocytomas, and other glioneuronal and glial tumors. Thus, various histopathological entities and types, showing clear predominance depending on the age at seizure onset, were observed in patients with epilepsy. These features appear to provide information on the pathomechanisms of the lesions and their clinical relevance in affected patients.

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  • 結節性硬化症 査読

    北浦弘樹, 柿田明美

    Epilepsy   8 ( 2 )   74 - 76   2014年11月

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  • Disruption of actin-binding domain-containing Dystonin protein causes dystonia musculorum in mice 査読

    Masao Horie, Keisuke Watanabe, Asim K. Bepari, Jun-ichiro Nashimoto, Kimi Araki, Hiromi Sano, Satomi Chiken, Atsushi Nambu, Katsuhiko Ono, Kazuhiro Ikenaka, Akiyoshi Kakita, Ken-ichi Yamamura, Hirohide Takebayashi

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE   40 ( 10 )   3458 - 3471   2014年11月

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    The Dystonin gene (Dst) is responsible for dystonia musculorum (dt), an inherited mouse model of hereditary neuropathy accompanied by progressive motor symptoms such as dystonia and cerebellar ataxia. Dst-a isoforms, which contain actin-binding domains, are predominantly expressed in the nervous system. Although sensory neuron degeneration in the peripheral nervous system during the early postnatal stage is a well-recognised phenotype in dt, the histological characteristics and neuronal circuits in the central nervous system responsible for motor symptoms remain unclear. To analyse the causative neuronal networks and roles of Dst isoforms, we generated novel multipurpose Dst gene trap mice, in which actin-binding domain-containing isoforms are disrupted. Homozygous mice showed typical dt phenotypes with sensory degeneration and progressive motor symptoms. The gene trap allele (Dst(Gt)) encodes a mutant Dystonin-LacZ fusion protein, which is detectable by X-gal (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl--D-galactoside) staining. We observed wide expression of the actin-binding domain-containing Dystonin isoforms in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system. This raised the possibility that not only secondary neuronal defects in the CNS subsequent to peripheral sensory degeneration but also cell-autonomous defects in the CNS contribute to the motor symptoms. Expression analysis of immediate early genes revealed decreased neuronal activity in the cerebellar-thalamo-striatal pathway in the homozygous brain, implying the involvement of this pathway in the dt phenotype. These novel Dst(Gt) mice showed that a loss-of-function mutation in the actin-binding domain-containing Dystonin isoforms led to typical dt phenotypes. Furthermore, this novel multipurpose Dst(Gt) allele offers a unique tool for analysing the causative neuronal networks involved in the dt phenotype.

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  • 小児てんかん原性病巣の外科病理 査読

    柿田明美

    脳と発達   46 ( 6 )   413 - 417   2014年11月

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  • Elevated serum anti-phosphatidylcholine IgG antibodies in patients with influenza vaccination-associated optic neuritis 査読

    Seigo Korematsu, Hiroaki Miyahara, Akiyoshi Kakita, Tatsuro Izumi

    VACCINE   32 ( 48 )   6345 - 6348   2014年11月

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    Introduction: Because the optic nerve is mainly comprised from phospholipids such as phosphatidylcholine, the association between optic neuritis, anti-phospholipids antibodies and vaccination was examined.
    Subjects: Two female pediatric patients suddenly presented bilateral optic neuritis after administration of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine.
    Methods: These two patients and another 11 patients with central nervous system demyelinating diseases were examined these anti-phospholipids antibodies. And immune histopathology was examined using serum derived from a patient with optic neuritis.
    Results: High serum titer of anti-phosphatidylcholine antibody levels were detected during acute phase in patients with optic neuritis. The patient's serum IgG antibodies were found to have stained the capillary endotheliums in the preserved autopsied optic nerve. Patients with optic neuritis had significantly elevated serum levels of anti-phosphatidylcholine antibody in comparison to the other patients without optic neuritis.
    Conclusion: Anti-phosphatidylcholine antibodies may be one of the causes of optic neuritis. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • C9ORF72 repeat-associated non-ATG-translated polypeptides are distributed independently of TDP-43 in a Japanese patient with c9ALS 査読

    T. Konno, M. Tada, A. Shiga, A. Tsujino, H. Eguchi, M. Masuda-Suzukake, M. Hasegawa, M. Nishizawa, O. Onodera, A. Kakita, H. Takahashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY   40 ( 6 )   783 - 788   2014年10月

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  • 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. 査読

    Ota K, Obayashi M, Ozaki K, Ichinose S, Kakita A, Tada M, Takahashi H, Ando N, Eishi Y, Mizusawa H, Ishikawa K

    Acta neuropathologica communications   2 ( 1 )   136   2014年9月

  • 中枢神経系におけるリンパ濾胞構造と自己免疫病態の解析

    穂苅 万季子, 河内 泉, 横関 明子, 佐治 越爾, 柳川 香織, 豊島 靖子, 柿田 明美, 高橋 均, 西澤 正豊

    神経免疫学   19 ( 1 )   136 - 136   2014年9月

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  • Elevated postmortem striatal t-DARPP expression in schizophrenia and associations with DRD2/ANKK1 polymorphism 査読

    Yasuto Kunii, Itaru Miura, Junya Matsumoto, Mizuki Hino, Akira Wada, Shin-ichi Niwa, Hiroyuki Nawa, Miwako Sakai, Toshiyuki Someya, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirooki Yabe

    Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry   53   123 - 128   2014年8月

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    Background: Dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein of molecular weight 32. kDa (DARPP-32) and calcineurin (CaN) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia because they function as molecular integrators of dopamine and glutamate signaling. DARPP-32 and CaN are mainly expressed in the caudate nucleus and putamen
    however, a few postmortem brain studies have focused on DARPP-32 expression in striatum from patients with schizophrenia. Methods: We used immunoblotting techniques and postmortem tissue samples from patients with schizophrenia and from normal control individuals to examine the expression of two major DARPP-32 isoforms, full-length (FL-DARPP) and truncated (t-DARPP), and of CaN in the striatum. We also assessed whether there was any significant correlation between the expression levels of either protein and the A1 allele of Taq1A genotype in the dopamine D2 receptor ( DRD2) gene/ankyrin-repeat containing kinase 1 ( ANKK1) gene. Results: We found that the mean t-DARPP expression level in the caudate was higher in patients with schizophrenia than in control individuals ( P&lt
    . 0.05) and the A1 allele of Taq1A genotype in DRD2/. ANKK1 was significantly associated with elevated expression of t-DARPP in the caudate. Also, the A1 allele was significantly correlated with the total score of antemortem psychiatric symptoms. Conclusion: These results may reflect potential molecular mechanisms important to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. © 2014 Elsevier Inc.

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  • Progressive myoclonus epilepsy: extraneuronal brown pigment deposition and system neurodegeneration in the brains of Japanese patients with novel SCARB2 mutations 査読

    Y. -J. Fu, I. Aida, M. Tada, M. Tada, Y. Toyoshima, S. Takeda, T. Nakajima, H. Naito, M. Nishizawa, O. Onodera, A. Kakita, H. Takahashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY   40 ( 5 )   551 - 563   2014年8月

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    Aims: Mutations in the SCARB2 gene cause a rare autosomal recessive disease, progressive myoclonus epilepsy (PME) with or without renal failure, the former also being designated action myoclonus-renal failure syndrome. Although reported cases have been accumulating, only a few have described its neuropathology. We studied two Japanese patients with PME without renal failure, in whom the ages at onset and disease durations were 45 and 20 years, and 14 and 8.5 years respectively. Methods: Sequencing and restriction analysis of the SCARB2 gene and neuropathological examination with immunohistochemistry were performed. Results: Gene analyses revealed novel homozygous frameshift and nonsense mutations in the SCARB2 gene. Both cases exhibited deposition of brown pigment in the brain, especially the cerebellar and cerebral cortices. Ultrastructurally, the pigment granules were localized in astrocytes. Neuronal loss and gliosis were also evident in the brain, including the pallidoluysian and cerebello-olivary systems. The spinal cord was also affected. Such changes were less severe in one patient with late-onset disease than in the other patient with early-onset disease. In brain and kidney sections, immunostaining with an antibody against the C-terminus of human SCARB2 revealed decreased levels and no expression of the protein respectively. Conclusions: The frameshift mutation detected in the patient with late-onset disease is a hitherto undescribed, unique type of SCARB2 gene mutation. The present two patients are the first reported to have clearly demonstrated both extraneuronal brown pigment deposition and system neurodegeneration as neuropathological features of PME with SCARB2 mutations.

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  • Bunina bodies in motor and non-motor neurons revisited: A pathological study of an ALS patient after long-term survival on a respirator 査読

    Tadashi Kimura, Haishan Jiang, Takuya Konno, Makiko Seto, Keisuke Iwanaga, Mitsuhiro Tsujihata, Akira Satoh, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   34 ( 4 )   392 - 397   2014年8月

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    Bunina bodies (BBs) are small eosinophilic neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions (NCIs) found in the remaining lower motor neurons (LMNs) of patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS), being a specific feature of the cellular pathology. We examined a case of SALS, unassociated with TDP-43 or C9ORF72 mutation, of 12 years duration in a 75-year-old man, who had received artificial respiratory support for 9 years, and showed widespread multisystem degeneration with TDP-43 pathology. Interestingly, in this patient, many NCIs reminiscent of BBs were observed in the oculomotor nucleus, medullary reticular formation and cerebellar dentate nucleus. As BBs in the cerebellar dentate nucleus have not been previously described, we performed ultrastructural and immunohistochemical studies of these NCIs to gain further insight into the nature of BBs. In each region, the ultrastructural features of these NCIs were shown to be identical to those of BBs previously described in LMNs. These three regions and the relatively well preserved sacral anterior horns (S1 and S2) and facial motor nucleus were immunostained with antibodies against cystatin C (CC) and TDP-43. Importantly, it was revealed that BBs exhibiting immunoreactivity for CC were a feature of LMNs, but not of non-motor neurons, and that in the cerebellar dentate nucleus, the ratio of neurons with BBs and TDP-43 inclusions/neurons with BBs was significantly lower than in other regions. These findings suggest that the occurrence of BBs with CC immunoreactivity is intrinsically associated with the particular cellular properties of LMNs, and that the mechanism responsible for the formation of BBs is distinct from that for TDP-43 inclusions.

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  • An autopsy case of incipient Pick's disease: Immunohistochemical profile of early-stage Pick body formation 査読

    Yasuo Miki, Fumiaki Mori, Kunikazu Tanji, Hidekachi Kurotaki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   34 ( 4 )   386 - 391   2014年8月

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    There is little immunohistochemical information about the early stage of Pick body formation, due to the extremely limited opportunities of studying Pick's disease at the incipient or subclinical stage. We report a 62-year-old man without any clinical manifestations of Pick's disease, who died of B-cell lymphoma of the brainstem. Post mortem examination revealed many Pick bodies without obvious neuronal loss mainly in the left frontal and temporal lobes. Three brains of patients with typical Pick's disease (disease duration: 7, 11 and 16 years) were also examined. Pick bodies were immunopositive for phosphorylated tau and 3-repeat tau, and less consistently for p62 in both incipient and typical cases. In the incipient case, borderline positivity for ubiquitin was evident in only a few Pick bodies, whereas in the typical cases many Pick bodies showed obvious positivity for ubiquitin. These findings suggest that Pick bodies are rarely ubiquitinated in the early stage of Pick body formation.

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  • Elevated postmortem striatal t-DARPP expression in schizophrenia and associations with DRD2/ANKK1 polymorphism 査読

    Yasuto Kunii, Itaru Miura, Junya Matsumoto, Mizuki Hino, Akira Wada, Shin-ichi Niwa, Hiroyuki Nawa, Miwako Sakai, Toshiyuki Someya, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hirooki Yabe

    PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY   53   123 - 128   2014年8月

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    Background: Dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein of molecular weight 32 kDa (DARPP-32) and calcineurin (CaN) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia because they function as molecular integrators of dopamine and glutamate signaling. DARPP-32 and CaN are mainly expressed in the caudate nucleus and putamen; however, a few postmortem brain studies have focused on DARPP-32 expression in striatum from patients with schizophrenia.
    Methods: We used immunoblotting techniques and postmortem tissue samples from patients with schizophrenia and from normal control individuals to examine the expression of two major DARPP-32 isoforms, full-length (FL-DARPP) and truncated (t-DARPP), and of CaN in the striatum. We also assessed whether there was any significant correlation between the expression levels of either protein and the A1 allele of Taq1A genotype in the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene/ankyrin-repeat containing kinase 1 (ANICK1) gene.
    Results: We found that the mean t-DARPP expression level in the caudate was higher in patients with schizophrenia than in control individuals (P &lt; 0.05) and the A1 allele of Taq1A genotype in DRD2/ANKK1 was significantly associated with elevated expression of t-DARPP in the caudate. Also, the A1 allele was significantly correlated with the total score of antemortem psychiatric symptoms.
    Conclusion: These results may reflect potential molecular mechanisms important to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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  • Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related leukoencephalopathy: successful steroid treatment for neurological deficits and subcortical white matter lesions partly involving the cortical gray matter 査読

    Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience   2 ( 4 )   119 - 121   2014年7月

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  • びまん性メラニン細胞増殖症,髄膜黒色腫症 査読

    柿田 明美

    別冊日本臨牀 新領域別症候群シリーズ   28   307 - 310   2014年6月

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  • "Gliomatosis encephali" as a novel category of brain tumors by the first autopsy case report of gliomatosis cerebelli 査読

    Asa Nakahara, Toshikazu Yoshida, Masanobu Yazawa, Takashi Ehara, Jun Nakayama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Ryosuke Ogura, Mika Asakawa, Emi Suzuki-Kouyama, Kiyomitsu Oyanagi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   34 ( 3 )   295 - 303   2014年6月

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    Gliomatosis cerebri is a rare diffuse glioma that is neither mass-forming nor necrotic, and does not disrupt existing structures. Gliomatosis occurring in the cerebellum is known as gliomatosis cerebelli, and only three such cases examined by biopsy have been reported. Here we describe the first autopsy findings of a patient who was diagnosed as having gliomatosis in the cerebellum. Neuropathological examination identified the tumor cells as being positive for glial fibrillary acidic protein, vimentin and nestin, with atypical nuclei that were cashew-nut- or dishcloth-gourd-shaped. These tumor cells were dense in the right cerebellum, but also spread broadly throughout the brain including the left cerebrum and optic nerve. Mitotic figures were frequently seen in the cerebellum, brain stem and cerebrum. Scherer's secondary structures were evident not only in the cerebellum but also the cerebrum. No necrosis, microvascular proliferation or destruction of anatomical structures was detected in the whole brain. Differences in the origin of the tumors of the gliomatoses cerbri and cerebelli suggests these tumors are different types of brain tumors. Thus the findings support that the gliomatosis cerebelli is a novel type of brain tumor classification. Furthermore, by the similarities of the histological features among the tumors, it appears appropriate to establish a novel category of gliomatosis encephali which includes both gliomatosis cerebri and gliomatosis cerebelli.

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  • Genes associated with the progression of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease 査読

    A. Miyashita, H. Hatsuta, M. Kikuchi, A. Nakaya, Y. Saito, T. Tsukie, N. Hara, S. Ogishima, N. Kitamura, K. Akazawa, A. Kakita, H. Takahashi, S. Murayama, Y. Ihara, T. Ikeuchi, R. Kuwano

    TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY   4   e396   2014年6月

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    The spreading of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), intraneuronal aggregates of highly phosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau, across the human brain is correlated with the cognitive severity of Alzheimer's disease (AD). To identify genes relevant to NFT expansion defined by the Braak stage, we conducted whole-genome exon array analysis with an exploratory sample set consisting of 213 human post-mortem brain tissue specimens from the entorinal, temporal and frontal cortices of 71 brain-donor subjects: Braak NFT stages 0 (N = 13), I-II (N = 20), III-IV (N = 19) and V-VI (N = 19). We identified eight genes, RELN, PTGS2, MYO5C, TRIL, DCHS2, GRB14, NPAS4 and PHYHD1, associated with the Braak stage. The expression levels of three genes, PHYHD1, MYO5C and GRB14, exhibited reproducible association on real-time quantitative PCR analysis. In another sample set, including control subjects (N = 30), and in patients with late-onset AD (N = 37), dementia with Lewy bodies (N = 17) and Parkinson disease (N = 36), the expression levels of two genes, PHYHD1 and MYO5C, were obviously associated with late-onset AD. Protein-protein interaction network analysis with a public database revealed that PHYHD1 interacts with MYO5C via POT1, and PHYHD1 directly interacts with amyloid beta-peptide 42. It is thus likely that functional failure of PHYHD1 and MYO5C could lead to AD development.

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  • Entrapment of the inferior horns of the lateral ventricle with enlargement of the bilateral choroid plexus 査読

    Ryosuke Ogura, Junichi Yoshimura, Masakazu Sano, Shouichi Kawasaki, Kenichi Nishiyama, Kouichirou Okamoto, Hitoshi Takahashi, Yukihiko Fujii, Akiyoshi Kakita

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   34 ( 2 )   210 - 213   2014年4月

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  • Coexistence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with neuro-Behçet's disease presenting as a longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesion: clinicopathologic features of an autopsied patient. 査読

    Sato T, Ouchi H, Shimbo J, Sato A, Yamazaki M, Hashidate H, Igarashi S, Kakita A

    Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology   34 ( 2 )   185 - 189   2014年4月

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  • Superficial siderosis associated with aceruloplasminemia. Case report 査読

    Akira Matsushima, Toshikazu Yoshida, Kunihiro Yoshida, Shinji Ohara, Yasuko Toyoshima, Akiyoshi Kakita, Shu-ichi Ikeda

    JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   339 ( 1-2 )   231 - 234   2014年4月

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    A 63-year-old woman with a past history of right subdural hematoma (SDH) at the age of 61 years was referred to our hospital under a suspicion of aceruloplasminemia (ACP). A neurological examination revealed very mild cognitive impairment and cerebellar ataxia. Blood chemistry data showed deficient ceruloplasmin (Cp), decreased copper, and increased ferritin. A nonsense mutation (c.2630G &gt; A, p.Trp858Ter) was detected in the Cp gene. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed marked hypointensity at the surface of the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem bilaterally, in addition to the bilateral basal ganglia, thalamus, and dentate nucleus, suggesting the coexistence of ACP and superficial siderosis (SS). The characteristics of SS in ACP have not been examined neuroradiologically or neuropathologically in great detail, while SDH and its curative surgery are known to cause SS. The distribution of the hypointensity areas on MRI was expanded bilaterally to the subtentorial areas of this patient, which was much more widespread than observed in typical SS after SDH. We speculate that the underlying ACP may expand the SS induced by SDH. Cp would accelerate iron export from the brain via the blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier, or CSF-brain barrier when excessive iron is loaded into the subarachnoid space. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Accumulation of the sigma-1 receptor is common to neuronal nuclear inclusions in various neurodegenerative diseases 査読

    Yasuo Miki, Fumiaki Mori, Tomoya Kon, Kunikazu Tanji, Yasuko Toyoshima, Mari Yoshida, Hidenao Sasaki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   34 ( 2 )   148 - 158   2014年4月

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    The sigma-1 receptor (SIGMAR1) is now known to be one of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperones, which participate in the degradation of misfolded proteins in cells via the ER-related degradation machinery linked to the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Mutations of the SIGMAR1 gene are implicated in the pathogenesis of familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration and motor neuron disease. Involvement of ER dysfunction in the formation of inclusion bodies in various neurodegenerative diseases has also become evident. We performed immunohistochemical staining to clarify the localization of SIGMAR1 in the brains of patients with neurodegenerative disorders, including trans-activation response DNA protein 43 (TDP-43) proteinopathy, tauopathy, -synucleinopathy, polyglutamine disease and intranuclear inclusion body disease (INIBD). Double-immunocytofluorescence and Western blot analyses of cultured cells were also performed to investigate the role of SIGMAR1 using a specific exportin 1 inhibitor, leptomycin B and an ER stress inducer, thapsigargin. SIGMAR1 was consistently shown to be co-localized with neuronal nuclear inclusions in TDP-43 proteinopathy, five polyglutamine diseases and INIBD, as well as in intranuclear Marinesco bodies in aged normal controls. Cytoplasmic inclusions in neurons and glial cells were unreactive for SIGMAR1. In cultured cells, immunocytofluorescent study showed that leptomycin B and thapsigargin were shown to sequester SIGMAR1 within the nucleus, acting together with p62. This finding was also supported by immunoblot analysis. These results indicate that SIGMAR1 might shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Neurodegenerative diseases characterized by neuronal nuclear inclusions might utilize the ER-related degradation machinery as a common pathway for the degradation of aberrant proteins.

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  • ALS-associated protein FIG4 is localized in Pick and Lewy bodies, and also neuronal nuclear inclusions, in polyglutamine and intranuclear inclusion body diseases 査読

    Tomoya Kon, Fumiaki Mori, Kunikazu Tanji, Yasuo Miki, Yasuko Toyoshima, Mari Yoshida, Hidenao Sasaki, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   34 ( 1 )   19 - 26   2014年2月

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    FIG4 is a phosphatase that regulates intracellular vesicle trafficking along the endosomal-lysosomal pathway. Mutations of FIG4 lead to the development of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4J and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Moreover, ALS-associated proteins (transactivation response DNA protein 43 (TDP-43), fused in sarcoma (FUS), optineurin, ubiquilin-2, charged mutivesicular body protein 2b (CHMP2B) and valosin-containing protein) are involved in inclusion body formation in several neurodegenerative diseases. Using immunohistochemistry, we examined the brains and spinal cords of patients with various neurodegenerative diseases, including sporadic TDP-43 proteinopathy (ALS and frontotemporal lobar degeneration). TDP-43 proteinopathy demonstrated no FIG4 immunoreactivity in neuronal inclusions. However, FIG4 immunoreactivity was present in Pick bodies in Pick's disease, Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, neuronal nuclear inclusions in polyglutamine and intranuclear inclusion body diseases, and Marinesco and Hirano bodies in aged control subjects. These findings suggest that FIG4 is not incorporated in TDP-43 inclusions and that it may have a common role in the formation or degradation of neuronal cytoplasmic and nuclear inclusions in several neurodegenerative diseases.

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  • Co-localization of Bunina bodies and TDP-43 inclusions in lower motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 査読

    Fumiaki Mori, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Koichi Wakabayashi

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   34 ( 1 )   71 - 76   2014年2月

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    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by motor neuron involvement with Bunina bodies (BBs) and transactivation response DNA protein 43 (TDP-43) inclusions. We examined the spinal cord (n=20), hypoglossal nucleus (n=6) and facial nucleus (n=5) from ALS patients to elucidate the relationship between BBs and TDP-43 inclusions. BBs were found in the anterior horn in 16 of 20 cases, in the hypoglossal nucleus in all six cases and in the facial nucleus in four out of five cases. TDP-43 inclusions were found in each region of all the cases. Co-localization of BBs and TDP-43 inclusions was found in 15.2% of total neurons in the anterior horn, 29.2% in the hypoglossal nucleus and 17.3% in the facial nucleus. The frequency of TDP-43 inclusions was significantly higher in neurons with BBs than in those without in each region. Ultrastructurally, TDP-43-positive filamentous structures were intermingled with BBs. These findings suggest that there is a close relationship in the occurrence between BBs and TDP-43 inclusions.

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  • Hypertrophic pachymeningitis: significance of myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody 査読

    Akiko Yokoseki, Etsuji Saji, Musashi Arakawa, Takayuki Kosaka, Mariko Hokari, Yasuko Toyoshima, Kouichirou Okamoto, Shigeki Takeda, Kazuhiro Sanpei, Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Shunsei Hirohata, Kouhei Akazawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Izumi Kawachi

    BRAIN   137 ( Pt 2 )   520 - 536   2014年2月

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    The aim of this study was to elucidate the characteristics, pathogenesis and treatment strategy of hypertrophic pachymeningitis that is associated with myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA). We retrospectively investigated clinical, radiological, immunological and pathological profiles of 36 patients with immune-mediated or idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis, including 17 patients with myeloperoxidase-ANCA, four patients with proteinase 3-ANCA, six patients with other immune-mediated disorders, and nine patients with 'idiopathic' variety. Myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis was characterized by: (i) an elderly female predominance; (ii) 82% of patients diagnosed with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (previously known as Wegener's granulomatosis) according to Watts' algorithm; (iii) a high frequency of patients with lesions limited to the dura mater and upper airways, developing headaches, chronic sinusitis, otitis media or mastoiditis; (iv) a low frequency of patients with the 'classical or generalized form' of granulomatosis with polyangiitis involving the entire upper and lower airways and kidney, or progressing to generalized disease, in contrast to proteinase 3-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis; (v) less severe neurological damage according to the modified Rankin Scale and low disease activity according to the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score compared with proteinase 3-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis; (vi) increased levels of CXCL10, CXCL8 and interleukin 6 in cerebrospinal fluids, and increased numbers of T cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, plasma cells and monocytes/macrophages in autopsied or biopsied dura mater with pachymeningitis, suggesting T(H)1-predominant granulomatous lesions in hypertrophic pachymeningitis, as previously reported in pulmonary or renal lesions of granulomatosis with polyangiitis; and (vii) greater efficacy of combination therapy with prednisolone and cyclophosphamide compared with monotherapy with prednisolone. Proteinase 3-ANCA may be considered a marker for more severe neurological damage, higher disease activity and a higher frequency of the generalized form compared with myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis. However, categorization into 'granulomatosis with polyangiitis' according to Watts' algorithm and immunological or pathological features were common in both proteinase 3- and myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis. These data indicate that most patients with myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis should be categorized as having the central nervous system-limited form of ANCA-associated vasculitis, consistent with the concept of ophthalmic-, pulmonary- or renal-limited vasculitis.

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  • Neuronal differentiation associated with Gli3 expression predicts favorable outcome for patients with medulloblastoma 査読

    Hiroaki Miyahara, Manabu Natsumeda, Junichi Yoshimura, Ryosuke Ogura, Kenichi Okazaki, Yasuko Toyoshima, Yukihiko Fujii, Hitoshi Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita

    NEUROPATHOLOGY   34 ( 1 )   1 - 10   2014年2月

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    Medulloblastoma (MB) is a malignant cerebellar tumor arising in children, and its ontogenesis is regulated by Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling. No data are available regarding the correlation between expression of Gli3, a protein lying downstream of Shh, and neuronal differentiation of MB cells, or the prognostic significance of these features. We re-evaluated the histopathological features of surgical specimens of MB taken from 32 patients, and defined 15 of them as MB with neuronal differentiation (ND), three as MB with both glial and neuronal differentiation (GD), and 14 as differentiation-free (DF) MB. Gli3-immunoreactivity (IR) was evident as a clear circular stain outlining the nuclei of the tumor cells. The difference in the frequency of IR between the ND+GD (94.4%) and DF (0%) groups was significant (P&lt;0.001). The tumor cells with ND showed IR for both Gli3 and neuronal nuclei. Ultrastructurally, Gli3-IR was observed at the nuclear membrane. The overall survival and event-free survival rates of the patients in the ND group were significantly higher than those in the other groups. The expression profile of Gli3 is of considerable significance, and the association of ND with this feature may be prognostically favorable in patients with MB.

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  • The Kick-In System: A Novel Rapid Knock-In Strategy 査読

    Yuko Tomonoh, Masanobu Deshimaru, Kimi Araki, Yasuhiro Miyazaki, Tomoko Arasaki, Yasuyoshi Tanaka, Haruna Kitamura, Fumiaki Mori, Koichi Wakabayashi, Sayaka Yamashita, Ryo Saito, Masayuki Itoh, Taku Uchida, Junko Yamada, Keisuke Migita, Shinya Ueno, Hiroki Kitaura, Akiyoshi Kakita, Christoph Lossin, Yukio Takano, Shinichi Hirose

    PLOS ONE   9 ( 2 )   e88549   2014年2月

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    Knock-in mouse models have contributed tremendously to our understanding of human disorders. However, generation of knock-in animals requires a significant investment of time and effort. We addressed this problem by developing a novel knock-in system that circumvents several traditional challenges by establishing stem cells with acceptor elements enveloping a particular genomic target. Once established, these acceptor embryonic stem (ES) cells are efficient at directionally incorporating mutated target DNA using modified Cre/lox technology. This is advantageous, because knock-ins are not restricted to one a priori selected variation. Rather, it is possible to generate several mutant animal lines harboring desired alterations in the targeted area. Acceptor ES cell generation is the rate-limiting step, lasting approximately 2 months. Subsequent manipulations toward animal production require an additional 8 weeks, but this delimits the full period from conception of the genetic alteration to its animal incorporation. We call this system a "kick-in'' to emphasize its unique characteristics of speed and convenience. To demonstrate the functionality of the kick-in methodology, we generated two mouse lines with separate mutant versions of the voltage-dependent potassium channel Kv7.2 (Kcnq2): p. Tyr284Cys (Y284C) and p. Ala306Thr (A306T); both variations have been associated with benign familial neonatal epilepsy. Adult mice homozygous for Y284C, heretofore unexamined in animals, presented with spontaneous seizures, whereas A306T homozygotes died early. Heterozygous mice of both lines showed increased sensitivity to pentylenetetrazole, possibly due to a reduction in M-current in CA1 hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Our observations for the A306T animals match those obtained with traditional knock-in technology, demonstrating that the kick-in system can readily generate mice bearing various mutations, making it a suitable feeder technology toward streamlined phenotyping.

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  • An attempt of non-human primate modeling of schizophrenia with neonatal challenges of epidermal growth factor. 査読

    Sakai M, Kashiwahara M, Kakita A, Nawa H

    J Addict Res Ther   5   170   2014年2月

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  • Increased l1 retrotransposition in the neuronal genome in schizophrenia. 査読 国際誌

    Bundo Miki, Toyoshima Manabu, Okada Yohei, Akamatsu Wado, Ueda Junko, Nemoto-Miyauchi Taeko, Sunaga Fumiko, Toritsuka Michihiro, Ikawa Daisuke, Kakita Akiyoshi, Kato Motoichiro, Kasai Kiyoto, Kishimoto Toshifumi, Nawa Hiroyuki, Okano Hideyuki, Yoshikawa Takeo, Kato Tadafumi, Iwamoto Kazuya

    Neuron   81 ( 2 )   306 - 313   2014年1月

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    Recent studies indicate that long interspersed nuclear element-1 (L1) are mobilized in the genome of human neural progenitor cells and enhanced in Rett syndrome and ataxia telangiectasia. However, whether aberrant L1 retrotransposition occurs in mental disorders is unknown. Here, we report high L1 copy number in schizophrenia. Increased L1 was demonstrated in neurons from prefrontal cortex of patients and in induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived neurons containing 22q11 deletions. Whole-genome sequencing revealed brain-specific L1 insertion in patients localized preferentially to synapse- and schizophrenia-related genes. To study the mechanism of L1 transposition, we examined perinatal environmental risk factors for schizophrenia in animal models and observed an increased L1 copy number after immune activation by poly-I:C or epidermal growth factor. These findings suggest that hyperactive retrotransposition of L1 in neurons triggered by environmental and/or genetic risk factors may contribute to the susceptibility and pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

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  • Progressive Neurodegeneration After Experimental Brain Trauma: Association With Chronic Microglial Activation 査読

    Shinsui Tatsumi, Maya Mimuro, Yasushi Iwasaki, Ryosuke Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Mari Yoshida

    JOURNAL OF NEUROPATHOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY   73 ( 1 )   30 - 38   2014年1月

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    Argyrophilic grains are discrete punctate structures that bind to silver stains; they can be observed within the neuropil of the limbic system, particularly in the elderly. It has been reported that argyrophilic grains are more frequent in patients with corticobasal degeneration (CBD) compared with the elderly population in general. To determine the frequency and significance of argyrophilic grains in CBD, we examined the temporal lobes from 35 patients with autopsy-proven CBD (mean age, 69.1 years) and 28 patients with argyrophilic grain disease (mean age, 95.7 years). Grain distributions and densities were evaluated semiquantitatively using Gallyas-Braak stains and immunohistochemistry with AT8 and RD4 antibodies. Argyrophilic grains were observed in all CBD cases (100%) despite a lower average age at death in this population. We also observed the following features that were specific to argyrophilic grains in CBD: 1) grains were likely to be widespread throughout the temporal lobe, 2) grains were consistently found with abundant argyrophilic threads, and 3) the ultrastructure of grains contained paired helical filaments with a periodicity of 120 to 130 nm. In conclusion, we confirm that argyrophilic grains in CBD are specifically related to the 4-repeat tau pathology of CBD and are not simply a result of aging.

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  • Increased l1 retrotransposition in the neuronal genome in schizophrenia. 査読 国際誌

    Bundo M, Toyoshima M, Okada Y, Akamatsu W, Ueda J, Nemoto-Miyauchi T, Sunaga F, Toritsuka M, Ikawa D, Kakita A, Kato M, Kasai K, Kishimoto T, Nawa H, Okano H, Yoshikawa T, Kato T, Iwamoto K

    Neuron   81 ( 2 )   306 - 313   2014年1月

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  • Haploinsufficiency of CSF-1R and clinicopathologic characterization in patients with HDLS 査読

    Takuya Konno, Masayoshi Tada, Mari Tada, Akihide Koyama, Hiroaki Nozaki, Yasuo Harigaya, Jin Nishimiya, Akiko Matsunaga, Nobuaki Yoshikura, Kenji Ishihara, Musashi Arakawa, Aiko Isami, Kenichi Okazaki, Hideaki Yokoo, Kyoko Itoh, Makoto Yoneda, Mitsuru Kawamura, Takashi Inuzuka, Hitoshi Takahashi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Osamu Onodera, Akiyoshi Kakita, Takeshi Ikeuchi

    NEUROLOGY   82 ( 2 )   139 - 148   2014年1月

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    Objective:To clarify the genetic, clinicopathologic, and neuroimaging characteristics of patients with hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS) with the colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF-1R) mutation.Methods:We performed molecular genetic analysis of CSF-1R in patients with HDLS. Detailed clinical and neuroimaging findings were retrospectively investigated. Five patients were examined neuropathologically.Results:We found 6 different CSF-1R mutations in 7 index patients from unrelated Japanese families. The CSF-1R mutations included 3 novel mutations and 1 known missense mutation at evolutionarily conserved amino acids, and 1 novel splice-site mutation. We identified a novel frameshift mutation. Reverse transcription PCR analysis revealed that the frameshift mutation causes nonsense-mediated mRNA decay by generating a premature stop codon, suggesting that haploinsufficiency of CSF-1R is sufficient to cause HDLS. Western blot analysis revealed that the expression level of CSF-1R in the brain from the patients was lower than from control subjects. The characteristic MRI findings were the involvement of the white matter and thinning of the corpus callosum with signal alteration, and sequential analysis revealed that the white matter lesions and cerebral atrophy relentlessly progressed with disease duration. Spotty calcifications in the white matter were frequently observed by CT. Neuropathologic analysis revealed that microglia in the brains of the patients demonstrated distinct morphology and distribution.Conclusions:These findings suggest that patients with HDLS, irrespective of mutation type in CSF-1R, show characteristic clinical and neuroimaging features, and that perturbation of CSF-1R signaling by haploinsufficiency may play a role in microglial dysfunction leading to the pathogenesis of HDLS.

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  • Argyrophilic grains are reliable disease-specific features of corticobasal degeneration 査読

    Shinsui Tatsumi, Maya Mimuro, Yasushi Iwasaki, Ryosuke Takahashi, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Mari Yoshida

    Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology   73 ( 1 )   30 - 38   2014年1月

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    Argyrophilic grains are discrete punctate structures that bind to silver stains
    they can be observed within the neuropil of the limbic system, particularly in the elderly. It has been reported that argyrophilic grains are more frequent in patients with corticobasal degeneration (CBD) compared with the elderly population in general. To determine the frequency and significance of argyrophilic grains in CBD, we examined the temporal lobes from 35 patients with autopsy-proven CBD (mean age, 69.1 years) and 28 patients with argyrophilic grain disease (mean age, 95.7 years). Grain distributions and densities were evaluated semiquantitatively using Gallyas-Braak stains and immunohistochemistry with AT8 and RD4 antibodies. Argyrophilic grains were observed in all CBD cases (100%) despite a lower average age at death in this population. We also observed the following features that were specific to argyrophilic grains in CBD: 1) grains were likely to be widespread throughout the temporal lobe, 2) grains were consistently found with abundant argyrophilic threads, and 3) the ultrastructure of grains contained paired helical filaments with a periodicity of 120 to 130 nm. In conclusion, we confirm that argyrophilic grains in CBD are specifically related to the 4-repeat tau pathology of CBD and are not simply a result of aging. © 2013 by the American Association of Neuropathologists, Inc.

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  • 著明な筋痙攣・線維束性収縮を伴い抗VGKC複合体抗体が高値であった筋萎縮性側索硬化症の1剖検例 査読

    佐藤晶, 酒井直子, 新保淳輔, 橋立英樹, 五十嵐修一, 柿田明美, 山崎元義

    臨床神経   54 ( 1 )   32 - 37   2014年1月

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  • FUS colocalizes with polyglutamine, but not with TDP-43 in neuronal intranuclear inclusions in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 査読

    F. Mori, Y. Toyoshima, K. Tanji, A. Kakita, H. Takahashi, K. Wakabayashi

    Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology   40 ( 3 )   351 - 355   2014年

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  • Histopathologic features of glia in human epileptogenic brain lesions 査読

    Akiyoshi Kakita

    Clinical Neurology   54 ( 12 )   1136 - 1138   2014年

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    Focal cortical dysplasia is a common pathologic background observed in surgical specimens taken from patients with intractable epilepsy, where various types and degrees of dysplastic features were observed in various combinations. Prominent astrocytosis in the cortex and white matter was commonly evident. An ultrastructural investigation revealed dilatation of the postsynaptic dendritic spines and shafts in the cortex and features indicating the occurrence in the white matter of demyelination followed by remyelination. Thus, with regard to the epileptogenic lesions, although dysplastic changes constitute the pathogenetic basis, the overlapping subsequent degenerative process involving synapses, dendrites, and axons might contribute to the development of epileptogenic processes. Glia might also actively participate in the development of the pathogenesis of epilepsy.

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  • Hypertrophic pachymeningitis: Significance of myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody 査読

    Akiko Yokoseki, Etsuji Saji, Musashi Arakawa, Takayuki Kosaka, Mariko Hokari, Yasuko Toyoshima, Kouichirou Okamoto, Shigeki Takeda, Kazuhiro Sanpei, Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Shunsei Hirohata, Kouhei Akazawa, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Izumi Kawachi

    Brain   137 ( 2 )   520 - 536   2014年

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    The aim of this study was to elucidate the characteristics, pathogenesis and treatment strategy of hypertrophic pachymeningitis that is associated with myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA). We retrospectively investigated clinical, radiological, immunological and pathological profiles of 36 patients with immune-mediated or idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis, including 17 patients with myeloperoxidase-ANCA, four patients with proteinase 3-ANCA, six patients with other immune-mediated disorders, and nine patients with 'idiopathic' variety. Myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis was characterized by: (i) an elderly female predominance
    (ii) 82% of patients diagnosed with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (previously known as Wegenervs granulomatosis) according to Watts' algorithm
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    (iv) a low frequency of patients with the 'classical or generalized form' of granulomatosis with polyangiitis involving the entire upper and lower airways and kidney, or progressing to generalized disease, in contrast to proteinase 3-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis
    (v) less severe neurological damage according to the modified Rankin Scale and low disease activity according to the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Score compared with proteinase 3-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis
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    and (vii) greater efficacy of combination therapy with prednisolone and cyclophosphamide compared with monotherapy with prednisolone. Proteinase 3-ANCA may be considered a marker for more severe neurological damage, higher disease activity and a higher frequency of the generalized form compared with myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis. However, categorization into 'granulomatosis with polyangiitis' according to Watts' algorithm and immunological or pathological features were common in both proteinase 3- and myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis. These data indicate that most patients with myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive hypertrophic pachymeningitis should be categorized as having the central nervous system-limited form of ANCA-associated vasculitis, consistent with the concept of ophthalmic-, pulmonary- or renal-limited vasculitis. © 2013 The Author (2013).

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  • Lack of genetic association between TREM2 and late-onset Alzheimer's disease in a Japanese population. 査読 国際誌

    Akinori Miyashita, Yanan Wen, Nobutaka Kitamura, Etsuro Matsubara, Takeshi Kawarabayashi, Mikio Shoji, Naoki Tomita, Katsutoshi Furukawa, Hiroyuki Arai, Takashi Asada, Yasuo Harigaya, Masaki Ikeda, Masakuni Amari, Haruo Hanyu, Susumu Higuchi, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Masaichi Suga, Yasuhiro Kawase, Hiroyasu Akatsu, Masaki Imagawa, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Masahito Yamada, Takashi Morihara, Masatoshi Takeda, Takeo Takao, Kenji Nakata, Ken Sasaki, Ken Watanabe, Kenji Nakashima, Katsuya Urakami, Terumi Ooya, Mitsuo Takahashi, Takefumi Yuzuriha, Kayoko Serikawa, Seishi Yoshimoto, Ryuji Nakagawa, Yuko Saito, Hiroyuki Hatsuta, Shigeo Murayama, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Haruyasu Yamaguchi, Kohei Akazawa, Ichiro Kanazawa, Yasuo Ihara, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Ryozo Kuwano

    Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD   41 ( 4 )   1031 - 8   2014年

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    Rare non-synonymous variants of TREM2 have recently been shown to be associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Caucasians. We here conducted a replication study using a well-characterized Japanese sample set, comprising 2,190 late-onset AD (LOAD) cases and 2,498 controls. We genotyped 10 non-synonymous variants (Q33X, Y38C, R47H, T66M, N68K, D87N, T96K, R98W, H157Y, and L211P) of TREM2 reported by Guerreiro et al. (2013) by means of the TaqMan and dideoxy sequencing methods. Only three variants, R47H, H157Y, and L211P, were polymorphic (range of minor allele frequency [MAF], 0.0002-0.0059); however, no significant association with LOAD was observed in these variants. Considering low MAF of variants examined and our study sample size, further genetic analysis with a larger sample set is needed to firmly evaluate whether or not TREM2 is associated with LOAD in Japanese.

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  • Aberration of the spliceosome in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 査読

    Tomohiko Ishihara, Akiyoshi Kakita, Hitoshi Takahashi, Osamu Onodera, Masatoyo Nishizawa

    Clinical Neurology   54 ( 12 )   1155 - 1157   2014年

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    TDP-43 is a nuclear protein that plays a role in RNA metabolism, and its dysfunction has been implicated in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a typical adult-onset motor neuron disease. We investigated RNA metabolism in relation to TDP-43 function in neuronal tissues affected by ALS, and found a decrease in the number of nuclear GEM bodies, as well as reduced expression of minor spliceosomes, which are functional RNA-protein complexes. Similar features have been reported in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a motor neuron disease affecting infants. These findings, together with those reported in SMA, strongly suggest that reduction of minor spliceosomes has an important role in the pathomechanism underlying the selective degeneration of motor neurons characteristic of both ALS and SMA.

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

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

    ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA COMMUNICATIONS   2 ( 1 )   173   2014年

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    Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are noncoding small RNAs that regulate gene expression. This study investigated whether formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) specimens from postmortem cases of neurodegenerative disorders would be suitable for miRNA profiling.
    Results: Ten FFPE samples from 6 cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and 4 neurologically normal controls were selected for miRNA analysis on the basis of the following criteria for RNA quality: (i) a postmortem interval of less than 6 hours, (ii) a formalin fixation time of less than 4 weeks, (iii) an RNA yield per sample of more than 500 ng, and (iv) sufficient quality of the RNA agarose gel image. An overall RNA extraction success rate was 46.2%. For ALS, a total of 364 miRNAs were identified in the motor cortex, 91 being up-regulated and 233 down-regulated. Target genes were predicted using miRNA bioinformatics software, and the data applied to ontology analysis. This indicated that one of the miRNAs up-regulated in ALS (miR-338-3p) had already been identified in leukocytes, serum, cerebrospinal fluid and frozen spinal cord from ALS patients.
    Conclusion: Although analysis was possible for just under half of the specimens examined, we were able to show that informative miRNA data can be derived from archived FFPE samples from postmortem cases of neurodegenerative disorders.

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

    Manabu Natsumeda, Hironaka Igarashi, Toshiharu Nomura, Ryosuke Ogura, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Hiroshi Aoki, Kouichirou Okamoto, Akiyoshi Kakita,