Brain - Pathology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid and neurodegeneration in Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Progressive neurodegeneration may result in potentially severe cognitive and motor dysfunctions as a complication of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), a suggested IL-17A-associated inflammatory condition. To detect this complication ... Read more...

Bevacizumab as therapy for radiation necrosis in four children with pontine gliomas.

13 Nov 2009 PURPOSE: Diffuse pontine gliomas are a pediatric brain tumor that is fatal in nearly all patients. Given the poor prognosis for patients with this tumor, their quality of life is very important. Radiation therapy provides some palliation, but can ... Read more...

Brain gray matter decrease in chronic pain is the consequence and not the cause of pain.

2 Nov 2009 Recently, local morphologic alterations of the brain in areas ascribable to the transmission of pain were reported in patients suffering from chronic pain. Although some authors discussed these findings as damage or loss of brain gray matter, one of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Brain - Pathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid and neurodegeneration in Langerhans cell histiocytosis. 13 Dec 2009
• Bevacizumab as therapy for radiation necrosis in four children with pontine gliomas. 13 Nov 2009
• Brain gray matter decrease in chronic pain is the consequence and not the cause of pain. 2 Nov 2009
• Deciphering the interaction of the corticotropin-releasing factor and serotonin brain systems in anxiety-related disorders. 2 Nov 2009
• Application of intraoperative high-field magnetic resonance imaging in pediatric neurosurgery. 30 Oct 2009
• Multiple intracranial aneurysms and moyamoya disease associated with microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II: surgical considerations. 30 Oct 2009
• Attenuation of subarachnoid hemorrhage-induced apoptotic cell death with 17 beta-estradiol. Laboratory investigation. 30 Oct 2009
• Blood pressure, aging, vascular disease, and their effects on brain volume. 30 Oct 2009
• Prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in Southeastern Spain: the Ariadna study. 30 Oct 2009
• The heterogeneity of causes and courses of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 30 Oct 2009
• Brain structural abnormalities and mental health sequelae in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived traumatic head injury and torture. 30 Oct 2009
• Cerebral infarction in POEMS syndrome: incidence, risk factors, and imaging characteristics. 18 Oct 2009
• Pearls & Oy-sters: the orbital bruit: a poor man's angiogram. 18 Oct 2009
• Alzheimer's biomarker initiative hits its stride. 14 Oct 2009
• Altered nucleotide receptor expression in a murine model of cerebral malaria. 13 Oct 2009
• Activated actin-depolymerizing factor/cofilin sequesters phosphorylated microtubule-associated protein during the assembly of alzheimer-like neuritic cytoskeletal striations. 12 Oct 2009
• Cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease is associated with selective changes in calcineurin/NFAT signaling. 12 Oct 2009
• Alzheimer's disease affects progenitor cells through aberrant {beta}-catenin signaling. 5 Oct 2009
• SPG15 is the second most common cause of hereditary spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum. 4 Oct 2009
• Calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase and mental retardation. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Brain'

Definition: The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.

Descriptor UI: D001921

Alternative terms: Brain; Brains; Encephalon; Encephalons;

Related Mesh Headings: Cerebral Decortication; Psychosurgery;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; ultrastructure; virology;

Tree Number: A08.186.211;

Online Note: pre-explosion = BRAIN (PX)

History Note: /enzymology was BRAIN ENZYMOLOGY 1964-65; /physiology was BRAIN PHYSIOLOGY 1965; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY was heading 1964-65

Technical Notes: general; /blood supply: consider also CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CRANIAL SINUSES; /cytol: do not routinely convert to NEURONS; /surg: consider specific neurosurgical procedures in Category E4; inflammation = ENCEPHALITIS & its specifics; infarct = CEREBRAL INFARCTION; malacia = ENCEPHALOMALACIA; brain-isolated, encéphale isolé, cerveau isolé: index DECEREBRATE STATE