Increased expression of importin-β, exportin-5 and nuclear transportable proteins in Alzheimer's disease aids anatomic pathologists in its diagnosis.

Understanding the metabolic profile of neurons with the hyperphosphorylated tau protein characteristic of Alzheimer's disease is essential to unraveling new potential therapies and diagnostics for the surgical pathologist. We stratified 75 brain tissues from Alzheimer's disease into hyperphosphorylated tau positive or negative and did co-expression analyses and qRTPCR for importin-β and exportin-5 plus several bcl2 family members and compared the data to controls, Down's dementia and Parkinson's disease. There was a significant increase in the expression of importin-β and exportin-5 in Alzheimer's disease relative to the three other categories (each p value<0.

Diagnostic pathology of Alzheimer's disease from routine microscopy to immunohistochemistry and experimental correlations.

The absence of any histologic correlate for Alzheimer's disease despite its commonness and severe clinical sequelae may offers clues to its etiology. Recent evidence strongly suggests that the central event of this disease is the hyperphosphorylation of neuronal tau protein and not the beta amyloid precipitates. In each case, essential and soluble neuronal proteins derivatives form insoluble aggregates that can readily be detected by immunohistochemistry using antibodies specific for the misfolded proteins.

Enhanced expression of PD L1 in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancers.

Programmed death ligand 1 (PD L1) expression can reduce the immune response in both infectious diseases and cancers. We thus examined PD L1 expression in cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CINs) and cancers since they each reflect infection by human papillomavirus (HPV). PD L1 protein was not evident by immunohistochemistry in histologically normal cervical epithelia (0/55) even when adjacent to CIN or cancer.