A practical approach to diagnosing adult onset leukodystrophies

RM Ahmed, E Murphy, I Davagnanam… - Journal of Neurology …, 2014 - jnnp.bmj.com
The term leukodystrophy refers to a group of conditions that are inherited and involve the
progressive destruction or loss of previously acquired myelin. 1 The most commonly …

Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP): integrating the literature on hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with …

SJ Adams, A Kirk, RN Auer - Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) is a
progressive degenerative white matter disorder. ALSP was previously recognized as two …

CSF1R mutations link POLD and HDLS as a single disease entity

AM Nicholson, MC Baker, NCA Finch, NJ Rutherford… - Neurology, 2013 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: Pigmented orthochromatic leukodystrophy (POLD) and hereditary diffuse
leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids (HDLS) are rare neurodegenerative disorders …

Haploinsufficiency of CSF-1R and clinicopathologic characterization in patients with HDLS

T Konno, M Tada, M Tada, A Koyama, H Nozaki… - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To clarify the genetic, clinicopathologic, and neuroimaging characteristics of
patients with hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS) with the colony …

Primary microglia dysfunction or microgliopathy: A cause of dementias and other neurological or psychiatric disorders

MM Bianchin, Z Snow - Neuroscience, 2022 - Elsevier
Microglia are unique cells in the central nervous system (CNS), being considered a sub-type
of CNS macrophage. These cells monitor nearby micro-regions, having roles that far exceed …

Analysis of frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and other dementia-related genes in 107 Korean patients with frontotemporal dementia

EJ Kim, YE Kim, JH Jang, EH Cho, DL Na, SW Seo… - Neurobiology of …, 2018 - Elsevier
To identify pathogenic variants in 107 Korean patients with sporadic frontotemporal
dementia (FTD), 46 genes related to FTD, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and other …

Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia linked CSF1R mutation: report of four Korean cases

EJ Kim, JH Shin, JH Lee, JH Kim, DL Na, YL Suh… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Elsevier
We describe detailed clinical, biochemical, neuroimaging and neuropathological features in
adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP) …

A case of hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids caused by a de novo mutation in CSF1R masquerading as primary progressive multiple …

B Saitoh, R Yamasaki, S Hayashi… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
We report a sporadic case of hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with axonal spheroids
(HDLS) confirmed by biopsy and colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) sequencing …

Adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids and pigmented glia: report of five cases and a new mutation

K Kleinfeld, B Mobley, P Hedera, A Wegner… - Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
The objective of this work is to report on a series of five patients with adult-onset
leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids and pigmented glia (ALSP). ALSP is a …

Clinical and genetic characterization of adult‐onset leukoencephalopathy caused by CSF1R mutations

PC Tsai, JL Fuh, CC Yang, A Chang… - Annals of Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Mutations in the colony‐stimulating factor 1 receptor gene (CSF1R) were identified
as a cause of adult‐onset inherited leukoencephalopathy. The present study aims at …