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Ikenari T, Kurata H, Satoh T, Hata Y, Mori T. Evaluation of Fluoro-Jade C Staining: Specificity and Application to Damaged Immature Neuronal Cells in the Normal and Injured Mouse Brain. Neuroscience 2020; 425:146-156. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.11.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Saito K, Koike T, Kawashima F, Kurata H, Shibuya T, Satoh T, Hata Y, Yamada H, Mori T. Identification of NeuN immunopositive cells in the adult mouse subventricular zone. J Comp Neurol 2019; 526:1927-1942. [PMID: 29752725 DOI: 10.1002/cne.24463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2018] [Revised: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In the adult rodent subventricular zone (SVZ), there are neural stem cells (NSCs) and the specialized neurogenic niche is critical to maintain their stemness. To date, many cellular and noncellular factors that compose the neurogenic niche and markers to identify subpopulations of Type A cells have been confirmed. In particular, neurotransmitters regulate adult neurogenesis and mature neurons in the SVZ have been only partially analyzed. Moreover, Type A cells, descendants of NSCs, are highly heterogeneous and more molecular markers are still needed to identify them. In the present study, we systematically classified NeuN, commonly used as a marker of mature and immature post-mitotic neurons, immunopositive (+) cells within the adult mouse SVZ. These SVZ-NeuN+ cells (SVZ-Ns) were mainly classified into two types. One was mature SVZ-Ns (M-SVZ-Ns). Neurochemical properties of M-SVZ-Ns were similar to those of striatal neurons, but their birth date and morphology were different. M-SVZ-Ns were generated during embryonic and early postnatal stages with bipolar peaks and extended their processes along the wall of the lateral ventricle. The second type was small SVZ-Ns (S-SVZ-Ns) with features of Type A cells. They expressed not only markers of Type A cells, but also proliferated and migrated from the SVZ to the olfactory bulb. Furthermore, S-SVZ-Ns could be classified into two types by their spatial locations and glutamic acid decarboxylase 67 expression. Our data indicate that M-SVZ-Ns are a new component of the neurogenic niche and S-SVZ-Ns are newly identified subpopulations of Type A cells.
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- Kengo Saito
- Department of Biological Regulation, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Tottori, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Science, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Biological Regulation, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Tottori, Japan
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- Department of Biological Regulation, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Tottori, Japan.,Division of Child Neurology, Department of Brain and Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Tottori, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Bioscience, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Tottori University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Yonago, Japan
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- Division of Neurobiology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University Yonago, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Bioscience, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Tottori University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Yonago, Japan.,Division of Neurobiology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University Yonago, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Science, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Biological Regulation, School of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Tottori, Japan
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Guo X, Zhang S, Lu S, Zheng B, Xie P, Chen J, Li G, Liu C, Wu Q, Cheng H, Sang N. Perfluorododecanoic acid exposure induced developmental neurotoxicity in zebrafish embryos. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2018; 241:1018-1026. [PMID: 30029309 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Perfluorododecanoic acid (PFDoA), an artificial perfluorochemical, has been widely distributed in different ambient media and has been reported to have the potential to cause developmental neurotoxicity. However, the specific mechanism is largely unknown. In the current study, zebrafish embryos were treated with 0, 0.24, 1.2, and 6 mg/L PFDoA for 120 h. Exposure to PFDoA causes serious decreases in hatching delay, body length, as well as decreased locomotor speed in zebrafish larvae. Additionally, the acetylcholine (ACh) content as well as acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity were determined to be significantly downregulated in PFDoA treatment groups. The level of dopamine was upregulated significantly after treating with 1.2 and 6 mg/L of PFDoA. Gene expressions related to the nervous system development were also analyzed, with the exception of the gene mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor (manf), which is upregulated in the 6 mg/L treatment group. All other genes were significantly downregulated in larvae in the PFDoA group in different degrees. In general, the results demonstrated that PFDoA exposure could result in the disruption of the cholinergic system, dopaminergic signaling, and the central nervous system.
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- Xiaochun Guo
- State Environmental Protection Scientific Observation and Research Station for Lake Dongtinghu (SEPSORSLD), National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China.
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- State Environmental Protection Scientific Observation and Research Station for Lake Dongtinghu (SEPSORSLD), National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China; College of Environment and Resource, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China
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- State Environmental Protection Scientific Observation and Research Station for Lake Dongtinghu (SEPSORSLD), National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China.
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- State Environmental Protection Scientific Observation and Research Station for Lake Dongtinghu (SEPSORSLD), National Engineering Laboratory for Lake Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology of China, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology of China, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Environment and Resource, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China
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Autoimmune paraneoplastic syndromes associated to lung cancer: A systematic review of the literature: Part 5: Neurological auto-antibodies, discussion, flow chart, conclusions. Lung Cancer 2017; 111:164-175. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2017.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Robins SC, Trudel E, Rotondi O, Liu X, Djogo T, Kryzskaya D, Bourque CW, Kokoeva MV. Evidence for NG2-glia derived, adult-born functional neurons in the hypothalamus. PLoS One 2013; 8:e78236. [PMID: 24205170 PMCID: PMC3812154 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 09/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Accumulating evidence suggests that the adult murine hypothalamus, a control site of several fundamental homeostatic processes, has neurogenic capacity. Correspondingly, the adult hypothalamus exhibits considerable cell proliferation that is ongoing even in the absence of external stimuli, and some of the newborn cells have been shown to mature into cells that express neuronal fate markers. However, the identity and characteristics of proliferating cells within the hypothalamic parenchyma have yet to be thoroughly investigated. Here we show that a subset of NG2-glia distributed throughout the mediobasal hypothalamus are proliferative and express the stem cell marker Sox2. We tracked the constitutive differentiation of hypothalamic NG2-glia by employing genetic fate mapping based on inducible Cre recombinase expression under the control of the NG2 promoter, demonstrating that adult hypothalamic NG2-glia give rise to substantial numbers of APC+ oligodendrocytes and a smaller population of HuC/D+ or NeuN+ neurons. Labelling with the cell proliferation marker BrdU confirmed that some NG2-derived neurons have proliferated shortly before differentiation. Furthermore, patch-clamp electrophysiology revealed that some NG2-derived cells display an immature neuronal phenotype and appear to receive synaptic input indicative of their electrical integration in local hypothalamic circuits. Together, our studies show that hypothalamic NG2-glia are able to take on neuronal fates and mature into functional neurons, indicating that NG2-glia contribute to the neurogenic capacity of the adult hypothalamus.
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- Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Live imaging of targeted cell ablation in Xenopus: a new model to study demyelination and repair. J Neurosci 2012; 32:12885-95. [PMID: 22973012 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2252-12.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Live imaging studies of the processes of demyelination and remyelination have so far been technically limited in mammals. We have thus generated a Xenopus laevis transgenic line allowing live imaging and conditional ablation of myelinating oligodendrocytes throughout the CNS. In these transgenic pMBP-eGFP-NTR tadpoles the myelin basic protein (MBP) regulatory sequences, specific to mature oligodendrocytes, are used to drive expression of an eGFP (enhanced green fluorescent protein) reporter fused to the Escherichia coli nitroreductase (NTR) selection enzyme. This enzyme converts the innocuous prodrug metronidazole (MTZ) to a cytotoxin. Using two-photon imaging in vivo, we show that pMBP-eGFP-NTR tadpoles display a graded oligodendrocyte ablation in response to MTZ, which depends on the exposure time to MTZ. MTZ-induced cell death was restricted to oligodendrocytes, without detectable axonal damage. After cessation of MTZ treatment, remyelination proceeded spontaneously, but was strongly accelerated by retinoic acid. Altogether, these features establish the Xenopus pMBP-eGFP-NTR line as a novel in vivo model for the study of demyelination/remyelination processes and for large-scale screens of therapeutic agents promoting myelin repair.
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Kyläniemi M, Koskinen M, Karhunen P, Rantala I, Peltola J, Haapasalo H. A novel frozen brain tissue array technique: immunohistochemical detection of neuronal paraneoplastic autoantibodies. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 2003; 30:39-45. [PMID: 14720175 DOI: 10.1046/j.0305-1846.2003.00502.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We introduce a modification of the tissue microarray technique in which several frozen brain tissue specimens are collected to a single frozen brain array block. In the present application, we use it for the detection of neuronal paraneoplastic anti-Hu autoantibodies. Representative samples from 15 different brain regions were collected according to a standard neuropathological autopsy protocol. Cryostat sections from each block were cut and conventionally stained. From representative areas, cylinder tissue samples from each specimen were punched and then arrayed into a recipient array block. Using the cryostat sections of this brain array, autoantibodies from seven anti-Hu-positive patient sera (confirmed by immunoblotting) were screened by immunohistochemistry. Neuronal architecture was well preserved and immunohistochemical staining was comparable to that of conventional cryostat sections. Because of the variable staining pattern in different brain areas, two anti-Hu-positive sera could be detected immunohistochemically by the one brain array. With the present array technique, it is possible to characterize the variable staining patterns of neuronal paraneoplastic autoantibodies in different locations of the human brain. The frozen brain array also allows the detection of RNA and DNA targets involved in neurological diseases.
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- M Kyläniemi
- Department of Pathology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
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Ekström P, Johansson K. Differentiation of ganglion cells and amacrine cells in the rat retina: correlation with expression of HuC/D and GAP-43 proteins. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 2003; 145:1-8. [PMID: 14519488 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-3806(03)00170-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In order to understand the development of retinal cells, we have studied the temporal expression of HuC/D protein in embryonic, postnatal and adult rat retina. During development and in the adult retina, practically all cell somata in the ganglion cell layer and the vast majority of conventional amacrine cells in the inner nuclear layer displayed HuC/D immunoreactivity. Most but not all ganglion cells expressed HuC/D at embryonic day 15, suggesting a delay between final mitosis and the initiation of HuC/D expression. Immunoreactivity for HuC/D was also evident in developing but not mature horizontal cells. Combined immunohistochemical visualization of HuC/D protein and the growth-associated protein (GAP-43) showed a distinct localization of GAP-43 in a specific compartment close to the somato-dendritic region of developing HuC/D-positive cell somata. The localization of GAP-43 immunoreactivity to a specific soma compartment became less evident during maturation. Immunoreactivity for HuC/D and GAP-43 was also discernible in horizontal cells at postnatal day 14. In the adult retina, most GAP-43 immunoreactivity was seen in the inner plexiform layer. Detailed analysis showed that HuC/D and GAP-43 expression is restricted to subsets of retinal neurons during development and in the mature retina. Thus, GAP-43 appears to be correlated with initial steps of differentiation and outgrowth of dendritic processes in HuC/D-positive ganglion and amacrine cells.
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- Peter Ekström
- Department of Zoology, Lund University SE-223 64 Lund, Sweden
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INTRODUCTION Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) refer to a set of neurological disorders associated with neuronal degeneration in some patients with systemic cancers. These disorders are not related to the tumor mass or metastasis. CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND KEY POINTS Evidence argues for an autoimmune reaction against tumor cells which expresses antigens normally present in neurons. A high percentage of patients with PNS harbors high titers of anti-neuronal autoantibodies in their serum and cerebrospinal fluid. In addition to their clinical interest in diagnosis and pathophysiology, these autoantibodies provide a unique opportunity to identify genes encoding previously undiscovered neuronal proteins which are also expressed by tumor cells. These "onconeural" antigens have been classified in four groups: neuromuscular junction proteins, nerve terminal/vesicle-associated proteins, neuronal RNA binding proteins, or neuronal signal transduction proteins. FUTURE PROSPECTS AND PROJECTS All of these proteins would play a major role in the neuronal maturation and homeostasis, and for some of them in cellular proliferation. Better understanding of the exact role of these proteins would in turn permit better understanding of the mechanisms of neuronal degeneration and tumor cell proliferation in PNS.
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- J Honnorat
- Inserm unité 433, service de neurologie B, hôpital Neurologique, Lyon, France
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Clayton GH, Perez GM, Smith RL, Owens GC. Expression of mRNA for the elav-like neural-specific RNA binding protein, HuD, during nervous system development. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1998; 109:271-80. [PMID: 9729424 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-3806(98)00074-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The expression of mRNA for the neuronal antigen HuD (Elavl4) associated with paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis and sensory neuronopathy was evaluated in the developing and adult rat nervous system. Using RNase protection assay and non-radioactive in situ hybridization histochemistry HuD expression was shown to be expressed at high levels at the earliest time point observed (E15), but declined significantly during the first postnatal week to levels which were maintained into adulthood. In the adult, HuD expression became restricted primarily to large pyramidal-like neurons. Exceptions of note were many smaller neurons within a variety of thalamic nuclei. Expression of HuD was observed to be coincident with terminal differentiation of all neuronal structures evaluated regardless of the timing of their development, providing correlative evidence for a role in neuronal differentiation or the maintenance of neuronal phenotype. The marked restriction of HuD mRNA expression with maturity suggests that its functional role in adult neurons varies significantly throughout the CNS.
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- G H Clayton
- Neurology and Pediatrics, Dept. of Neurology, B-182, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 East Ninth Ave., Denver, CO 80262, USA.
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Gultekin SH, Dalmau J, Graus Y, Posner JB, Rosenblum MK. Anti-Hu immunolabeling as an index of neuronal differentiation in human brain tumors: a study of 112 central neuroepithelial neoplasms. Am J Surg Pathol 1998; 22:195-200. [PMID: 9500220 DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199802000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Anti-Hu is a polyclonal immunoglobulin G associated with a syndrome of paraneoplastic sensory neuropathy/encephalomyelitis that principally afflicts patients with small cell lung carcinoma. Anti-Hu antibodies, which identify a family of RNA-binding proteins that are normally neuron restricted and that appear to be integral to neuronal differentiation and maintenance, selectively label the nuclei (and, less strongly, the cytoplasm) of neurons throughout the human neuraxis. Small cell carcinomas of the lung and many neuroblastomas are also labeled. We screened 112 tumors of central neuroepithelial lineage for immunohistochemical evidence of Hu expression with anti-Hu immunoglobulin G that was purified from patient sera and with a recombinant Fab fragment (Fab GLN 495) selected from a patient-derived combinatorial antibody phage display library using a recombinant Hu protein (HuD). Both antibodies uniformly labeled, in addition to native neurons, the nuclei of central neurocytomas (6 of 6) and the neuronal components of "classic" (12 of 12) and desmoplastic infantile (2 of 2) gangliogliomas. Of 33 embryonal tumors, 29 were anti-Hu reactive, including 87% of medulloblastomas (26 of 30). Glial neoplasms (n = 59) were anti-Hu negative save for one "oligodendroglioma" (of 17 oligodendroglial/oligoastrocytic tumors) that may have been an extraventricular neurocytoma. Anti-Hu immunoglobulin G/Fab GLN 495 identifies neoplasms of differentiated neuronal type and embryonal tumors with neuronogenic potential.
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- S H Gultekin
- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Paraneoplastic syndromes (i.e. organ/tissue disorders associated with cancer) affecting the nervous system are thought to be the result of an autoimmune response triggered by specific cancer antigens. Several of these antigens have recently been identified and include the Hu, Yo and Ri proteins, with the Hu antigens being the best studied. Immunization of animals with HuD has been shown to retard the growth of HuD-positive neuroblastomas. In addition, the presence of anti-HuD antibody in humans with small-cell lung cancer predicts the slow growth of the tumor. The associated neurological disorders, however, limit the use of these and other antigens with similar characteristics in cancer vaccines.
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- J B Posner
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Neurology, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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King PH. Cloning the 5' flanking region of neuron-specific Hel-N1: evidence for positive regulatory elements governing cell-specific transcription. Brain Res 1996; 723:141-7. [PMID: 8813391 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00044-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A 5.4 kilobase-pair segment of DNA flanking the 5' end of Hel-N1 was isolated and characterized. Primer extension studies with normal human brain and neuroblastoma cells revealed a major and minor transcription-initiation site. Sequence analysis of the initial 536 bp upstream to the major start site revealed a core promoter (-1 to -181) which contained two CCAAT boxes, a weakly-conserved TATA box, and an SP1 site. This region was also moderately GC-rich (62%). Using a transient luciferase-reporter-gene assay, the core promoter was found to be essential for basal transcription both in neural (PC12) and non-neural (HeLa and glial) cell types. Two positive regulatory elements, however, were identified in the initial 536 bp (-1 to -181 and -182 to -350) which produced a five- to six-fold increase in transcriptional activity in PC12 cells vs. HeLa or glial cells. These elements, therefore, were sufficient to confer cell-specific enhanced transcription and likely contribute to the neuronal specificity of Hel-N1 mRNA expression.
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- P H King
- Department of Neurology, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294-0007, USA.
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Early investigations into the pathogenesis of vision loss in cancer patients noted the higher incidence with small cell carcinoma of the lung (SCCL), a neoplasia with suspected neuroendocrine origins [2-5,12,20,25,56,63,64]. The cause and effect relationship between the cancer and retinal deterioration was recognized, but the processes involved were not understood. Research eventually identified a sub-group of paraneoplastic retinopathy patients who exhibited indications of retinal hypersensitivity through their production of autoantibodies reactive with a single photoreceptor protein. The discovery of a small cell lung cancer culture actively expressing this same retinal autoantigen, provided tangible evidence to define a molecular basis for at least one type of paraneoplastic retinopathy. The identification of this immunologic anomaly illustrates how blindness can occur in some cancer patients, through the serendipitous initiation of ocular hypersensitivity, with vision loss developing as a cancer-induced autoimmune retinopathy.
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- C E Thirkill
- University of California, Davis, Sacramento 95816, USA
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Haendel MA, Bollinger KE, Baas PW. Cytoskeletal changes during neurogenesis in cultures of avain neural crest cells. JOURNAL OF NEUROCYTOLOGY 1996; 25:289-301. [PMID: 8793733 DOI: 10.1007/bf02284803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Neural crest cells are motile and mitotic, whereas their neuronal derivatives are terminally post-mitotic and consist of stationary cell body from which processes grow. The present study documents changes in the cytoskeleton that occur during neurogenesis in cultures of avain neural crest cells. The undifferentiated neural crest cells contain dense bundles of actin filaments throughout their cytoplasm, and a splayed array of microtubules attached to the centrosome. In newly differentiating neurons, the actin bundles are disrupted and most of the remaining actin filaments are reorganized into a cortical layer underlying the plasma membrane of the cell body and processes. Microtubules are more abundant in newly-differentiating neurons than in the undifferentiated cells, and individual microtubules can be seen dissociated from the centrosome. Neuron-specific beta-III tubulin appears in some crest cells prior to cessation of motility and cell division, and expression increases with total microtubule levels during neurogenesis. To investigate how these early cytoskeletal changes might contribute to alterations in morphology during neurogenesis, we have disrupted the cytoskeleton with pharmacologic agents. Microfilament disruption by cytochalasin immediately arrests the movement of neural crest cells and causes them to round-up, but does not significantly change the morphology of the immature neurons. Microtubule depolymerization by nocodazole slows the movement of undifferentiated cells and causes retraction of processes extended by the immature neurons. These results suggest that changes in the actin and microtubule arrays within neural crest cells govern distinct aspects of their morphogenesis into neurons.
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- M A Haendel
- Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53706, USA
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Barami K, Iversen K, Furneaux H, Goldman SA. Hu protein as an early marker of neuronal phenotypic differentiation by subependymal zone cells of the adult songbird forebrain. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 1995; 28:82-101. [PMID: 8586967 DOI: 10.1002/neu.480280108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The avian forebrain exhibits neurogenesis in adulthood, with neuronal production from ependymal/subependymal zone (SZ) precursor cells. To follow the commitment of newborn cells to neuronal lineage, we used their expression of the Hu family of neuronal RNA-binding proteins to identify them before their migration from the SZ. Adult canaries were injected with [3H]thymidine as a marker of DNA replication, sacrificed after varying intervals, stained for Hu, and autoradiographed. We found that Hu was not expressed by premitotic precursor cells, but rather appeared within hours in their neuronal progeny, which did not embark on parenchymal migration until 4 to 7 days later. Hu was expressed by all neurons, but not glia, both in vivo and in vitro, as determined by ultrastructural analysis as well as co-localization of Hu and cell-type selective antigens. In addition, co-staining for Hu and N-cadherin, whose expression is down-regulated on neuronal emigration from the SZ, revealed their initial co-expression by neuronal daughter cells still within the SZ. These results suggest that Hu expression may be used as a very early indicator of neuronal differentiation by SZ cells. Furthermore, the data indicate that in the adult avian brain, neuronal phenotype is established within hours of precursor mitosis, even though the neuronal daughter cells do not initiate parenchymal migration for at least 4 days thereafter, following their down-regulation of N-cadherin.
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- K Barami
- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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Manley GT, Smitt PS, Dalmau J, Posner JB. Hu antigens: reactivity with Hu antibodies, tumor expression, and major immunogenic sites. Ann Neurol 1995; 38:102-10. [PMID: 7541976 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410380117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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HuD, a human neuronal RNA-binding protein, was the first identified member of a family of antigens that also includes HuC and Hel-N1 (Hu antigens). The serum of all patients with anti-Hu-associated paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis and sensory neuronopathy react with HuD and Hel-N1, but the reactivity with HuC is unknown. In the current study we examined (1) the reactivity of anti-Hu sera with HuD, HuC, and Hel-N1; (2) the expression of HuD, HuC, and Hel-N1 messenger RNA in small-cell lung cancer of patients with and those without paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis/sensory neuronopathy; (3) the correlation between anti-Hu serum reactivity with these three Hu antigens and the type of neurological symptoms; and (4) the major immunogenic sites of HuD. Our findings indicate that all anti-Hu sera react with HuD, HuC, and Hel-N1. However, only HuD is expressed in the small-cell lung cancer tumors, indicating that among the three Hu antigens, HuD appears to play a central role in triggering the anti-Hu immune response. No differences were identified regarding the reactivity of the anti-Hu antibodies with HuD, HuC, and Hel-N1 and the spectrum of neurological symptoms presented by the patients. Study of the major immunogenic sites of HuD resulted in the identification of two major immunodominant regions with at least two distinct epitopes recognized by the serum of all patients with anti-Hu-associated paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis/sensory neuronopathy.
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- G T Manley
- Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Ferrer I, Macaya A, Blanco R, Olivé M, Cinós C, Munell F, Planas AM. Evidence of internucleosomal DNA fragmentation and identification of dying cells in X-ray-induced cell death in the developing brain. Int J Dev Neurosci 1995; 13:21-8. [PMID: 7793307 DOI: 10.1016/0736-5748(94)00064-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Newborn Sprague-Dawley rats received a single dose of 2 Gy X-rays and were killed 6 hr later. Dying cells were characterized by extreme chromatin condensation and nuclear fragmentation. Dying cells were distributed in the primary and secondary germinal zones and in other brain regions. Among these latter, dying cells occurred in the cortical layers of the olfactory bulb, layers II-III and VIb of the neocortex, piriform and entorhinal cortex, stratum oriens and pyramidale of the hippocampus, striatum, thalamus, amygdala, brainstem, internal granular layer of the cerebellum, and cerebral and cerebellar white matter. Dying cells were immature cells, neurons and glial cells (including radial glia). In-situ labeling of nuclear DNA fragmentation identified individual cells bearing fragmented DNA. Since the number of cells stained with this method was larger than the number of dying cells, as revealed with current histological techniques, it is suggested that nuclear DNA fragmentation precedes chromatin condensation and nuclear fragmentation in X-ray-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, agarose gel electrophoresis of extracted DNA from irradiated brains showed a "ladder" pattern which is typical of internucleosomal DNA fragmentation and endonuclease activation.
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- I Ferrer
- Unidad Neuropatologia, Hospital Príncipes de España, Universidad Barcelona, Spain
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- J B Posner
- Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Dalmau J, Graus F, Cheung NK, Rosenblum MK, Ho A, Cañete A, Delattre JY, Thompson SJ, Posner JB. Major histocompatibility proteins, anti-Hu antibodies, and paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis in neuroblastoma and small cell lung cancer. Cancer 1995; 75:99-109. [PMID: 7804984 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19950101)75:1<99::aid-cncr2820750117>3.0.co;2-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Patients with neuroendocrine-related tumors and paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis (PEM) or paraneoplastic sensory neuronopathy (PSN) develop high titers of antibodies, called anti-Hu, against neuronal proteins expressed in their tumors, usually small cell lung cancer (SCLC). These tumors appear to be more indolent than those not associated with anti-Hu antibodies. The aims of this study were to determine 1) if patients with neuroblastoma (NB) also have anti-Hu antibodies, 2) the correlation between antibody titer and survival, and 3) if coexpression of Hu antigens and major histocompatibility proteins (MHC) by the tumor correlates with the development of anti-Hu associated PEM/PSN: METHODS Using immunohistochemistry and Western blot analysis, the sera of 109 patients with NB whose neurologic condition was concealed at the time of the study were examined for the presence of anti-Hu antibodies. The expression of Hu antigens and MHC proteins in 50 nonselected NB and 26 SCLC (16 known to be from seropositive and 10 from seronegative patients) was examined using immunohistochemistry. RESULTS Four Stage 4 NB patients were seropositive and had longer survival (median 86 months) than 71 seronegative patients in the same age group and with the same tumor stage (median survival, 28.5 months). Seventy-eight percent of NB and all SCLC expressed Hu antigens. Overall, 17 of 20 tumors from seropositive patients expressed both Hu and MHC Class I proteins, but only 4 of 30 tumors from seronegative patients expressed both proteins (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS 1) Some patients with NB develop anti-Hu antibodies; a search for that type of tumor is indicated in seropositive children, 2) most NBs and SCLCs express Hu antigens but only a few are associated with anti-Hu antibodies, and 3) Class I MHC expressed by some Hu antigen-bearing tumors may play a role in the development of anti-Hu associated PEM/PSN:
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- J Dalmau
- Department of Neurology, Cotzias Laboratory of Neuro-Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021
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Honnorat J, Antoine JC. [Value of the detection of anti-nervous system autoantibodies in neurologic paraneoplastic syndromes]. Rev Med Interne 1994; 15:124-33. [PMID: 8059119 DOI: 10.1016/s0248-8663(05)81186-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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In the last decade, anti-neurons autoantibodies have been found in serum and cerebro spinal fluid of patients suffering from neurological paraneoplastic syndrome. This discovery has made possible to improve the knowledge of these syndromes as well as to characterize some proteins specific to the nervous system, unknown until now. Paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis can manifest together with an ataxic sensitive neuropathy, a limbic encephalitis, a brainstem or cerebellum syndrome. This encephalomyelitis is almost always associated with a small cells lung cancer and auto-antibodies, called anti-Hu, which recognize all the neurons of the nervous system. Patients with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration present an antibody, called anti-Yo, directed against Purkinje cells. In this case, the tumor is a gynecologic cancer. Patients presenting with an opso-myoclonus and a breast cancer have an antineurons anti-body, called anti-Ri, which is absent when the opso-myoclonus is associated with a lung cancer or a neuroblastoma. These three antibodies are the most frequently found and the best studied, but others, rarer, have been described. The genes coding for the proteins recognized by these three antibodies have been cloned. These proteins seem to play a major role in the neuronal maturation and homeostasis. These antibodies prove to be irreplaceable tools to study the phenomenons subtending the neuronal degeneration and the cellular proliferation.
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- J Honnorat
- Service de neuropathologie, INSERM CJF 90-10, CNRS-URA 1195, hôpital neurologique, Lyon, France
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- J B Posner
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021
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Fueyo J, Ferrer I, Valldeoriola F, Graus F. The expression of a neuronal nuclear antigen (Ri) recognized by the human anti-Ri autoantibody in the developing rat nervous system. Neurosci Lett 1993; 162:141-4. [PMID: 8121617 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(93)90580-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Anti-Ri is a human autoantibody that recognizes a neuronal nuclear antigen (Ri) of unknown function. To ascertain the possible role of the Ri antigen in neuronal development, we analysed the pattern of the anti-Ri immunoreactivity in the developing rat nervous system. Neurons of the retina, except the photoreceptors, and central but not peripheral nervous system were anti-Ri-positive. The intensity of the immunoreactivity followed the sequence of neuronal maturation. Germinal cells of the periventricular layer and migrating neuroblasts in the intermediate zone were Ri-negative. These data suggest Ri antigen may play a role in the postmigratory maturation of neurons of the CNS.
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- J Fueyo
- Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
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Ferrer I, Serrano T, Rivera R, Olivé M, Zújar MJ, Graus F. Radiosensitive populations and recovery in X-ray-induced apoptosis in the developing cerebellum. Acta Neuropathol 1993; 86:491-500. [PMID: 7906071 DOI: 10.1007/bf00228585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Sprague-Dawley rats received a single dose of 2 Gy X-rays at the age of 1 or 3 days and were killed at different intervals. Dying cells with the morphological characteristics of apoptosis appeared in the external and internal granular layers (EGL and IGL) and white matter (WM) of the cerebellum, mainly 3-6 h after irradiation, and decreased thereafter to reach normal values between 48 h and 5 days later. This process was curbed by the injection of cycloheximide at a dose of 1 microgram/g body weight. In addition, the number of mitoses in EGL rapidly decreased after irradiation and did not reach normal values until a few days later. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)-immunoreactive cells, which were chiefly found in EGL but also in IGL and WM, dramatically decreased in number from 3 to 48 h after irradiation. PCNA-immunoreactive cells reappeared and reached age-matched values in the following days. Hu (considered as an early neuronal marker) and vimentin immunocytochemistry disclosed that Hu-nonreactive cells in the upper level of EGL, Hu-immunoreactive cells in the inner level of EGL, Bergmann glia and many astrocytes in WM, as well as many non-typified cells in WM, were radiosensitive populations, whereas Purkinje cells were not. The present results indicate that irradiation at P1 or P3 blocks mitosis in EGL and kills sensitive cells mainly in the late G1 and S phases of the cell cycle, probably by apoptosis through a protein synthesis-mediated process. Radiosensitive cells are germinal cells and neuroblasts in EGL, Bergmann glia, astrocytes in WM, and non-typified cells, probably glial cell precursors, in WM. Surviving cells in EGL and PCNA-immunoreactive cells in other cortical layers and white matter reconstitute the cerebellum following a single dose of X-rays.
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- I Ferrer
- Unidad de Neuropatología, Hospital Príncipes de España, Universidad de Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat
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In recent years, antineuronal autoantibodies of varying antigenic specificity have come to be associated with a number of paraneoplastic neurologic disorders. Anti-Hu is a polyclonal complement-fixing IgG directed against a 35 to 40 kilodalton protein concentrated in the nuclei of neurons throughout the central and peripheral neuraxes. Its elaboration at high titer in serum and cerebrospinal fluid is invariably associated with a neurologic syndrome characterized chiefly by subacutely evolving sensory neuropathy and an array of central disturbances that include bulbar and cerebellar dysfunction, limbic encephalitis and motor neuron disease. The manufacture of anti-Hu IgG is triggered in a great majority of cases by underlying small cell carcinomas of pulmonary origin, typically limited in stage and otherwise silent, that aberrantly express the native neuronal antigen or an antigenically indistinguishable epitope. Both neoplastic and diseased neural tissues contain lymphocytes of B and T lineage specifically cognizant of the Hu antigen as well as concentrated anti-Hu IgG bound to tumor cells and neurons, respectively. These observations suggest that an immune response serving initially to limit the growth and spread of its inciting neoplasm comes subsequently to be misdirected against the nervous system of the host, resulting in autoimmunologically-mediated neurologic injury. Clinical, neuropathologic and immunologic data derived from a series of 71 sero-confirmed cases of the anti-Hu-associated paraneoplastic sensory neuronopathy/encephalomyelitis complex are reviewed.
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- M K Rosenblum
- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021
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Lövblad KO, Boucraut J, Bourdenet S, Burger D, Bernard D, Regli F, Steck AJ. Sensory neuronopathy and small cell lung cancer: antineuronal antibody reacting with neuroblastoma cells. J Neurol 1993; 240:327-32. [PMID: 8393093 DOI: 10.1007/bf00839961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The anti-Hu antibody is associated with a paraneoplastic subacute sensory neuronopathy (SSN) described in cases of small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The Hu antigen is a pan-neuronal nuclear antigen with a molecular weight of 35-40 kDa. In this study we demonstrated the presence of the paraneoplastic Hu antigen in different neuroblastoma cell lines. We showed that by indirect immunocytochemistry the serum of patients with SSN and SCLC reacts with the nuclei of neuroblastoma cell lines SKN-SH and LAN-1. Western blot analysis of nuclear extracts from neuroblastoma cell lines SKN-SH, IMR-32 and LAN-1 confirmed the presence of the Hu antigen in these neuroblastoma cell lines. By comparing the immunocytochemical method and the Western blot analysis we were able to determine that the Western blot analysis was a more sensitive test. Screening of the sera of a large population (a total of 122 patients with SCLC, 17 with paraneoplastic disorders as well as 121 controls with other neurological disorders) was performed and showed all 5 of the patients with SSN and SCLC to be positive for the anti-Hu antibody, whereas only 11 of the 122 SCLC patients and none of the controls were positive, thereby suggesting that this test has a very high degree of sensitivity.
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- K O Lövblad
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Ferrer I, Soriano E, del Rio JA, Alcántara S, Auladell C. Cell death and removal in the cerebral cortex during development. Prog Neurobiol 1992; 39:1-43. [PMID: 1589584 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(92)90029-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- I Ferrer
- Depto. Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Príncipes de España
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Ferrer I, Tuñón T, Soriano E, del Rio A, Iraizoz I, Fonseca M, Guionnet N. Calbindin immunoreactivity in normal human temporal neocortex. Brain Res 1992; 572:33-41. [PMID: 1611533 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(92)90447-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Calbindin immunoreactivity in the temporal neocortex was examined in 4 subjects with no neurological, metabolic or malignant disease. The brains were obtained between 1 and 4 h after death and rapidly fixed by perfusion with 4% paraformaldehyde through the carotid arteries, cut into slabs, cryoprotected and stored at -80 degrees C. Sections of the whole left temporal lobe obtained with a freezing microtome were processed free-floating with a well known monoclonal antibody against calbindin according to the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) method. Calbindin-immunoreactive (CaBP-ir) neurons were found to be local-circuit neurons (interneurons) mainly distributed in the upper cortical layers (layers I, II and III), and were categorized as small multipolar neurons with ascending dendrites ramifying in the molecular layer, small bitufted cells, pyramid-like cells in layer II, horizontal neurons in the molecular layer, multipolar neurons with long descending dendrites, and large double-bouquet cells, some of them exhibiting a very long dendrite with claw-shaped terminals in layer V. Less than 10% of all CaBP-ir neurons were localized in the remaining cortical layers. Pyramidal cells were only very weakly or not stained at all. In addition, CaBP-ir fibres formed a dense plexus in the molecular layer, and vertical bundles 8-10 microns thick and 500-600 microns long, separated by blank spaces 20-40 microns wide were distributed in layers III and V/VI.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- I Ferrer
- Depto. Anatomia Patológica, Hospital Principes de España, Facultad de Medicina, Hospitalet de Llobregat
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Del Rio JA, Soriano E, Ferrer I. A transitory population of substance P-like immunoreactive neurones in the developing cerebral cortex of the mouse. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1991; 64:205-11. [PMID: 1723935 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(91)90227-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Immunocytochemical methods were used to investigate the developmental expression of substance P (SP) in mouse cerebral cortex. SP-like-immunoreactive cells were first detected at postnatal day 0 (P0), their numbers being notably increased by P2. Immunopositive cells were especially abundant in layer VIb and in the subjacent future white matter, although they were also present in layer V. Between P5 and P8 the number of SP-like-immunoreactive cells gradually decreased, being almost completely absent by P12. At these stages cells were only observed in the deepest cortical layers. From P16 onwards, the adult pattern of SP-like immunoreactivity emerged with a few immunopositive cells scattered throughout the cortical layers. The present data show a transitory population of SP-like-immunoreactive cells present in the mouse cerebral cortex during the first postnatal week. On the basis of close correlations of SP-like expression with the distribution or transitory populations and the timing of cell death in rodents, we propose that most of the SP-like-immunoreactive cells reported here would probably disappear by cell death.
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- J A Del Rio
- Cell Biology Unit, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain
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The number of neurological disorders in which autoantibodies are thought to play a pathogenic role continues to increase although the strength of the evidence varies. Many of the disorders are tumour associated.
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