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叶 珊, 金 萍, 张 楠, 邬 海, 石 林, 赵 强, 杨 坤, 袁 慧, 樊 东. [Cortical thickness and cognitive impairment in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]. BEIJING DA XUE XUE BAO. YI XUE BAN = JOURNAL OF PEKING UNIVERSITY. HEALTH SCIENCES 2022; 54:1158-1162. [PMID: 36533348 PMCID: PMC9761824 DOI: 10.19723/j.issn.1671-167x.2022.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease with high morbidity and mortality. There are about 5%-15% of ALS patients combining with frontotemporal lobe degeneration (FTLD) at the same time and 50% of patients combing with cognitive function changes. The analysis of cortical thickness based on MRI is an important imaging method to evaluate brain structure. The aim of the study was to explore the changes of brain structure in ALS patients by cortical thickness analysis, and to explore the correlation between the brain structure and cognitive function. METHODS In the study, 18 ALS patients treated in Department of Neurology, Peking University Third Hospital and 18 normal controls (age, gender and education level matched) were included. 3D magnetization prepared rapid gradient echo imaging (MPRAGE) sequence MRI was performed and the cortical thickness was analyzed. At the same time, all the ALS patients took neuropsychology assessments, including: mini-mental state examination (MMSE), verbal fluency test (VFT), Stroop color word test (SCWT), prospective memory (PM), emotional picture perception and recognition, and faux pas story test. RESULTS After cognitive assessment, two ALS patients had cognitive impairment. One was in accordance with ALS-frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis and the other one was in accordance with ALS cognitive impairment (ALSci) diagnosis. In all the 18 ALS patients and 18 normal controls, the cortical thickness of the left medial orbitofrontal lobe and the medial temporal lobe were significantly reduced (P < 0.05) in ALS group by the vertex-wise comparison. Cortical thickness of the left entorhinal cortex, the left inferior temporal gyrus, the left medial orbitofrontal lobe and the left insular lobe was significantly reduced (P < 0.05) by the region-wise comparison. However, when only concluded the 16 ALS non-cognitive impairment patients, there was no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05). There were correlations between the scores of prospective memory, emotional picture perception and recognition, faux pas story test and the cortical thickness of their corresponding regions (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION The cortical thickness of ALS patients are correlated with neuropsychological scores which may reflect the changes of cortical structure corresponding to the cognitive assessment, and may provide help for the early diagnosis of cognitive changes in ALS patients.
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- 珊 叶
- 北京大学第三医院神经内科,北京 100191Department of Neurology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
- 神经退行性疾病生物标志物研究及转化北京市重点实验室,北京 100191Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Biomarker and Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Beijing 100191, China
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- 北京大学第三医院神经内科,北京 100191Department of Neurology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
- 神经退行性疾病生物标志物研究及转化北京市重点实验室,北京 100191Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Biomarker and Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Beijing 100191, China
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- 北京大学第三医院神经内科,北京 100191Department of Neurology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
- 神经退行性疾病生物标志物研究及转化北京市重点实验室,北京 100191Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Biomarker and Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Beijing 100191, China
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- 北京大学第三医院放射科,北京 100191Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
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- 香港中文大学威尔斯亲王医院影像及介入放射学系,中国香港特别行政区 000852Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 000852, China
- 深圳博脑研究院,广东深圳 518000BrainNow Research Institute, Shenzhen 518000, Guangdong, China
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- 北京大学第三医院放射科,北京 100191Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
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- 北京大学第三医院放射科,北京 100191Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
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- 北京大学第三医院放射科,北京 100191Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
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- 北京大学第三医院神经内科,北京 100191Department of Neurology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China
- 神经退行性疾病生物标志物研究及转化北京市重点实验室,北京 100191Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Biomarker and Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, Beijing 100191, China
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Romer SH, Seedle K, Turner SM, Li J, Baccei ML, Crone SA. Accessory respiratory muscles enhance ventilation in ALS model mice and are activated by excitatory V2a neurons. Exp Neurol 2016; 287:192-204. [PMID: 27456268 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2016.05.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Revised: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Inspiratory accessory respiratory muscles (ARMs) enhance ventilation when demands are high, such as during exercise and/or pathological conditions. Despite progressive degeneration of phrenic motor neurons innervating the diaphragm, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients and rodent models are able to maintain ventilation at early stages of disease. In order to assess the contribution of ARMs to respiratory compensation in ALS, we examined the activity of ARMs and ventilation throughout disease progression in SOD1G93A ALS model mice at rest using a combination of electromyography and unrestrained whole body plethysmography. Increased ARM activity, accompanied by increased ventilation, is observed beginning at the onset of symptoms. However, ARM recruitment fails to occur at rest at late stages of disease, even though the same ARMs are used for other behaviors. Using a chemogenetic approach, we demonstrate that a glutamatergic class of neurons in the brainstem and spinal cord, the V2a class, is sufficient to drive increased ARM activity at rest in healthy mice. Additionally, we reveal pathology in the medial reticular formation of the brainstem of SOD1G93A mice using immunohistochemistry and confocal imaging. Both spinal and brainstem V2a neurons degenerate in ALS model mice, accompanied by regional activation of astrocytes and microglia. These results establish inspiratory ARM recruitment as one of the compensatory mechanisms that maintains breathing at early stages of disease and indicate that V2a neuron degeneration may contribute to ARM failure at late stages of disease.
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- Shannon H Romer
- Division of Neurosurgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229
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- Pain Research Center, Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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- Pain Research Center, Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 231 Albert Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229; Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229.
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Dib S, Xiao S, Miletic D, Robertson J. Gene targeting of mouse Tardbp negatively affects Masp2 expression. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95373. [PMID: 24740308 PMCID: PMC3989299 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating adult onset neurodegenerative disease affecting both upper and lower motor neurons. TDP-43, encoded by the TARDBP gene, was identified as a component of motor neuron cytoplasmic inclusions in both familial and sporadic ALS and has become a pathological signature of the disease. TDP-43 is a nuclear protein involved in RNA metabolism, however in ALS, TDP-43 is mislocalized to the cytoplasm of affected motor neurons, suggesting that disease might be caused by TDP-43 loss of function. To investigate this hypothesis, we attempted to generate a mouse conditional knockout of the Tardbp gene using the classical Cre-loxP technology. Even though heterozygote mice for the targeted allele were successfully generated, we were unable to obtain homozygotes. Here we show that although the targeting vector was specifically designed to not overlap with Tardbp adjacent genes, the homologous recombination event affected the expression of a downstream gene, Masp2. This may explain the inability to obtain homozygote mice with targeted Tardbp.
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- Samar Dib
- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Duplan L, Bernard N, Casseron W, Dudley K, Thouvenot E, Honnorat J, Rogemond V, De Bovis B, Aebischer P, Marin P, Raoul C, Henderson CE, Pettmann B. Collapsin response mediator protein 4a (CRMP4a) is upregulated in motoneurons of mutant SOD1 mice and can trigger motoneuron axonal degeneration and cell death. J Neurosci 2010; 30:785-96. [PMID: 20071543 PMCID: PMC6633025 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5411-09.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2009] [Accepted: 11/30/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Embryonic motoneurons from mutant SOD1 (mSOD1) mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but not wild-type motoneurons, can be triggered to die by exposure to nitric oxide (NO), leading to activation of a motoneuron-specific signaling pathway downstream of the death receptor Fas/CD95. To identify effectors of mSOD1-dependent cell death, we performed a proteomic analysis. Treatment of cultured mSOD1 motoneurons with NO led to a 2.5-fold increase in levels of collapsin response mediator protein 4a (CRMP4a). In vivo, the percentage of mSOD1 lumbar motoneurons expressing CRMP4 in mSOD1 mice increased progressively from presymptomatic to early-onset stages, reaching a maximum of 25%. Forced adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated expression of CRMP4a in wild-type motoneurons in vitro triggered a process of axonal degeneration and cell death affecting 60% of motoneurons, whereas silencing of CRMP4a in mSOD1 motoneurons protected them from NO-induced death. In vivo, AAV-mediated overexpression of CRMP4a but not CRMP2 led to the death of 30% of the lumbar motoneurons and an 18% increase in denervation of neuromuscular junctions in the gastrocnemius muscle. Our data identify CRMP4a as a potential early effector in the neurodegenerative process in ALS.
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- Laure Duplan
- Inserm-Avenir Team, Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology, Inmed, 13273 Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Inserm-Avenir Team, Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology, Inmed, 13273 Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences, 13288 Marseille, France
- Service des Pathologies Musculaires, Centre de Référence Maladies du Motoneurone, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Timone, 13005 Marseille, France
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- Inserm-Avenir Team, Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology, Inmed, 13273 Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 5203, Inserm U661, Universités Montpellier I and II, 34094 Montpellier, France
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- Inserm, U842, Université de Lyon 1, UMR S842, 69003 Lyon, France
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- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, CNRS, UMR 6102, Inserm, UMR 631, Université de la Méditerranée, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, and
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- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 5203, Inserm U661, Universités Montpellier I and II, 34094 Montpellier, France
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- Inserm-Avenir Team, Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology, Inmed, 13273 Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Inserm-Avenir Team, Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology, Inmed, 13273 Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté des Sciences, 13288 Marseille, France
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Probst-Cousin S, Bergmann M, Maihöfner C, Neundörfer B, Heuss D. Selective vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: no evidence for a contribution of annexins, a family of calcium binding proteins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 5:180-7. [PMID: 15512907 DOI: 10.1080/14660820410019323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Clinically, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) usually presents as a pure motor system disorder, whereas oculomotor and sphincter muscle control of the anus and the bladder appear to be spared. Previously, a lacking expression of calcium binding proteins (CBPs) was demonstrated in vulnerable motor neurons in contrast to spared neuronal populations, e.g., the motor neurons of the cranial nerve III (NO) and the Onufrowicz nucleus (ON), suggesting a potential role of CBPs in the selective motoneuronal vulnerability in ALS. The annexins comprise a multigene family of CBPs, constituting a significant amount of total cellular protein and presumably involved in calcium-homeostasis and intracellular calcium-regulated pathways. We immunohistochemically investigated the expression patterns of annexins A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, and A7 in spinal cord and midbrain tissues from 24 ALS patients and 5 age-matched controls to test the hypothesis that annexins also contribute to the selective vulnerability in ALS. There was no difference in the expression patterns of ALS cases and normal controls. Annexin A1 was expressed in ependymal cells and motor neurons. Annexin A2 could be detected in ependymal and endothelial cells and motor neurons. Annexins A4 and A5 were found in both ependymal and glial cells, whereas annexin A6 was strongly expressed in motor neurons. Annexin A7 was totally absent from central nervous system tissue. A contribution of annexins to the selective vulnerability in ALS could not be derived from our results.
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- Stefan Probst-Cousin
- Centre of Neuromuscular Disorders, Department of Neurology Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Schwabachanlage 6, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany.
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Piao Y, Wakabayashi K, Kakita A, Yamada M, Hayashi S, Morita T, Ikuta F, Oyanagi K, Takahashi H. Neuropathology with clinical correlations of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: 102 autopsy cases examined between 1962 and 2000. Brain Pathol 2006; 13:10-22. [PMID: 12580541 PMCID: PMC8095891 DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2003.tb00002.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurological disorder affecting adults. We studied the neuropathology and clinical correlations in 102 autopsy cases of ALS. The age at onset of the disease was significantly higher for the bulbaronset form (30 cases) than for the limb-onset form (72 cases). Dementia was confirmed in 7 cases. These 102 cases were divided into 4 pathological subgroups: typical ALS (59 cases), lower-motor-predominant ALS (23 cases), ALS with temporal lesions (18 cases), and ALS with pallido-nigro-luysian degeneration (2 cases). The age at onset was significantly higher for lower-motor-predominant ALS and ALS with temporal lesions than for typical ALS. In the lower motor neurons, Bunina bodies were detected in 88 cases, whereas ubiquitin-immunoreactive skein and/or spherical inclusions were detected in all 102 cases. Of the 100 available cases, 50 and 16 also showed ubiquitin-immunoreactive inclusions in the neostriatal and temporal small neurons, respectively. Ubiquitin-immunoreactive dystrophic neurites were also observed in the neostriatum in 3 of the 50 cases with neostriatal inclusions, and in the temporal cortex in 4 of the 16 cases with temporal inclusions. There was a significant association between the bulbar-onset form, temporal lesions, neostriatal inclusions and temporal inclusions, and between dementia, temporal lesions and temporal inclusions. Neostriatal and temporal dystrophic neurites were associated with dementia and bulbar-onset form through temporal lesions and temporal inclusions. The present findings may be helpful for designing further studies on the mechanisms underlying the development of ALS.
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- Yue‐Shan Piao
- Department of Pathology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan
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- Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Brain Science, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan
- Brain Disease Research Center, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Shinrakuen Hospital, Niigata, Japan
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- Niigata Neurosurgical Hospital and Brain Research Center, Japan
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- Department of Neuropathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan
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Bayline RJ, Dean DM, Booker R. Inhibitors of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis can delay programmed cell death of adult intersegmental muscles in the mothManduca sexta. Dev Dyn 2005; 233:445-55. [PMID: 15778985 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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In the moth Manduca sexta, intersegmental muscles (ISMs) undergo rapid programmed cell death (PCD) within 48 hr of adult emergence. ISM PCD involves ubiquitin-dependent proteasomal degradation accompanied by the down-regulation of expression of actin genes and the up-regulation of degradative gene expression such as ubiquitin. Hemin chloride and N-acetyl-leu-leu-norleucinal (ALLN), both inhibitors of proteasomal activity, administered before adult emergence delayed PCD for up to 5 days in ISMs maintained from the larval stage, such as the dorsal internal medial muscle in abdominal segment 4 (DIM-A4). ISMs that developed during metamorphosis from respecified larval muscles such as the DIM-A2 were less dramatically affected. The increase in polyubiquitinated proteins and the decrease in actin mRNA expression accompanying maintained ISM PCD were delayed after inhibitor application. No changes were detected in respecified ISMs. These results reveal a regulatory role for proteasomal activity in an early stage of maintained ISM cell death.
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- Ronald J Bayline
- Department of Biology, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, USA.
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Maekawa S, Al-Sarraj S, Kibble M, Landau S, Parnavelas J, Cotter D, Everall I, Leigh PN. Cortical selective vulnerability in motor neuron disease: a morphometric study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 127:1237-51. [PMID: 15130949 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have revealed that the primary motor cortex (PMC) and the extramotor cortical areas are functionally abnormal in motor neuron disease (MND, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), but the nature of the cortical lesions that underlie these changes is poorly understood. In particular, there have been few attempts to quantify neuronal loss in the PMC and in other cortical areas in MND. We used SMI-32, an antibody against an epitope on non-phosphorylated neurofilament heavy chain, to analyse the size and density of SMI-32-positive cortical pyramidal neurons in layer V of the PMC, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the supragenual anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in 13 MND and eight control subjects. There was a statistically significant reduction in the density of SMI-32-immunoreactive (IR) pyramidal neurons within cortical layer V in the PMC, the DLPFC and the ACC in MND subjects compared with controls [t (19) = 2.91, P = 0.009; estimated reduction 25%; 95% CI = 8%, 40%]. In addition, we studied the density and size of interneurons immunoreactive for the calcium-binding proteins calbindin-D(28K) (CB), parvalbumin (PV) and calretinin (CR) in the same areas (PMC, DLPFC and ACC). Statistically significant differences in the densities of CB-IR neurons were observed within cortical layers V (P = 0.003) and VI (P = 0.001) in MND cases compared with controls. The densities of CR- and PV-IR neurons were not significantly different between MND and control cases, although there were trends towards reductions of CR-IR neuronal density within the same layers and of PV-IR neuronal density within cortical layer VI. Loss of pyramidal neurons and of GABAergic interneurons is more widespread than has been appreciated and is present in areas associated with neuroimaging and cognitive abnormalities in MND. These findings support the notion that MND should be considered a multisystem disorder.
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- S Maekawa
- Department of Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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He CZ, Hays AP. Expression of peripherin in ubiquinated inclusions of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurol Sci 2004; 217:47-54. [PMID: 14675609 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2003.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We evaluated the expression of the type III intermediate filament (IF) protein, peripherin (PRP), in ubiquinated inclusions of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A previous study showed that overexpression of PRP in transgenic mice induces motor neuron disease with formation of PRP-containing inclusions before onset of symptoms [J. Cell Biol. 147 (3) (1999) 531]. To determine whether PRP inclusions occur in the human disease, we applied doublelabeling immunofluorescence to paraffin sections of the spinal cord obtained by autopsy of 40 ALS patients with sporadic disease and 39 controls. Inclusions that expressed immunoreactive ubiquitin and peripherin were recorded by video camera, and the sections were stained by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) to define morphology. Lewy body-like inclusions (LBLIs) were seen in motor neuron perikarya of 9 of 40 ALS cases and none in controls; all LBLIs expressed peripherin. Skein-like inclusions (SLIs) were identified by ubiquitin, but did not express PRP with rare exceptions. Neither skein-like inclusions nor LBLIs expressed alpha B-crystallin, neurofilament protein (NF-L, NF-M and NF-H subunits), alpha-internexin, actin or alpha-synuclein. Immunoblot of the whole spinal cord exhibited a single 57-kDa band of peripherin in ALS patients and controls. Our data document the expression of peripherin in LBLIs, which may provide a clue to the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration in ALS.
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- Cui Zhen He
- Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, PH 15th Stem, Room 124, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- H Denk
- Department of Pathology, University of Graz School of Medicine, Austria.
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Gredal O, Pakkenberg H, Karlsborg M, Pakkenberg B. Unchanged total number of neurons in motor cortex and neocortex in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a stereological study. J Neurosci Methods 2000; 95:171-6. [PMID: 10752488 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-0270(99)00175-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Modern stereological methods provide precise and reliable estimates of the number of neurons in specific regions of the brain. The total number of neurons in the neocortex and motor cortex from eight patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and nine controls was estimated. No attempt was made to estimate subpopulations of neurons such as the number of giant pyramidal cells of Betz. No difference was found in the average number of neurons in neocortex in ALS and controls, 21.7 and 22.3 x 10(9), respectively, and 1.33 and 1.29 x 10(9) in motor cortex, respectively. In the light of our stereological measurements, results obtained from in-vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS), suggesting neuronal loss in ALS, may instead be due to neuronal metabolic dysfunction and/or alteration in the size or the volume fraction of the neurons.
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- O Gredal
- Research Institute of Biological Psychiatry, H:S St. Hans Mental Hospital, Roskilde, Dennark.
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Pioro EP, Wang Y, Moore JK, Ng TC, Trapp BD, Klinkosz B, Mitsumoto H. Neuronal pathology in the wobbler mouse brain revealed by in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and immunocytochemistry. Neuroreport 1998; 9:3041-6. [PMID: 9804313 DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199809140-00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) was used to measure the in vivo signal of N-acetylaspartate (NAA), a putative neuronal marker, in the brain of the mutant wobbler mouse, a model of motor neuron disease. The ratio of NAA to creatine-phosphocreatine, an internal standard, was significantly lower in five affected wobbler mice (0.79+/-0.05; mean+/-s.d.) than in five unaffected littermates (0.98+/-0.10, p = 0.006). Ubiquitin and phosphorylated heavy neurofilament immunoreactivities were increased in cortical neurons of affected animals. This is the first demonstration of cerebral neuronal pathology in the wobbler mouse, supporting its use as a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In vivo IH-MRS and correlative postmortem study of wobbler mouse brain will allow temporal monitoring of neuronal degeneration and responsiveness to neuroprotective pharmacotherapies.
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- E P Pioro
- Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA
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Bergmann M, Spaar HJ, Ebhard G, Masini T, Edel G, Gullotta F, Meyer H. Primary malignant rhabdoid tumours of the central nervous system: an immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 1997; 139:961-8; discussion 968-9. [PMID: 9401657 DOI: 10.1007/bf01411306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Three cases of primary rhabdoid tumour of the CNS (RT-CNS) are presented. In case 1 a hemispheric tumour developed in a 10.5 months old girl, who survived for 6 months after incomplete resection, radio- and polychemotherapy. Case 2 was a 4 years and 8 months old boy with a large IIIrd ventricle tumour, who died of leptomeningeal tumour dissemination 7 months after diagnosis despite radiotherapy. In case 3 a pineal mass occurring in a 14 month old female was radioresistant and totally exstirpated. The child died due to tumour recurrence two months later. Autopsy examination revealed widespread leptomeningeal dissemination. All three cases fulfilled light and electron microscopic criteria of RT-CNS including abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm, vesicular nuclei with large nucleoli and conspicuous anti-vimentin positive filaments. Extensive immunohistochemical studies showed expression of epithelial (EMA, KL1), macrophage (alpha-1 antichymotrypsin), neuro-ectodermal (GFAP, NSE, beta-tubulin III) and myogenic markers (desmin, actin). Different stress proteins (alpha-B crystallin, HSP70) were also expressed. Tumour cells showed a proliferation (MIB1) index of 28.4% (case 1) and 33.4% (case 2). From our study it can be concluded that RT-CNS reveals significant immuno-morphological heterogeneity thus supporting the view that it is not a specific pathological entity but merely a phenotypic appearance of different neoplasms, some of which are linked to primitive neuro-ectodermal tumours.
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- M Bergmann
- Institute of Clinical Neuropathology, Zentralkrankenhaus Bremen-Ost, Federal Republic of Germany
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Probst-Cousin S, Bergmann M, Kuchelmeister K, Schröder R, Schmid KW. Ubiquitin-positive inclusions in different types of multiple system atrophy: distribution and specificity. Pathol Res Pract 1996; 192:453-61. [PMID: 8832750 DOI: 10.1016/s0344-0338(96)80007-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a neurodegenerative disorder that encompasses different clinicopathological syndromes, either occurring alone or with a variable degree of overlap. Oligodendroglial, intracytoplasmic argyrophilic and ubiquitin-reactive inclusions are regarded as a histologic hallmark. We examined the distribution and specificity of these ubiquitin-reactive inclusions (UBRI) in 20 cases of MSA (7 cases of sporadic adult olivoponto-cerebellar atrophy [OPCA], 1 case of hereditary adult OPCA, 4 cases of infantile OPCA, 2 cases of Shy-Drager-Syndrome [SDS], 4 cases of striatonigral degeneration [SND] and 2 cases of non-classified atrophy of multiple systems) and 93 control cases with various disorders. Antibodies were used against ubiquitin, PGP 9.5, TAU-protein, glutathion-S-transferase (GST) and metallothionein (MT). Oligodendroglial UBRI were detected in all but 2 cases of sporadic adult MSA and 3 controls, whereas they were absent in hereditary and infantile OPCA. They could also be recognized with Gallyas stain and anti-TAU. Immunopositivity was also seen with GST (11 cases), PGP 9.5 (4 cases) and MT (1 case). Distribution of oligodendroglial UBRI, although not showing topographical linkage to neuronal degeneration in all cases, does not seem to occur in a haphazard pattern.
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- S Probst-Cousin
- Institute of Clinical Neuropathology, Zentralkrankenhaus Bremen-Ost, Germany
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Ubiquitin is the most phylogenetically conserved protein known. This 8,500 Da polypeptide can be covalently attached to cellular proteins as a posttranslational modification. In most cases, the addition of multiple ubiquitin adducts to a protein targets it for rapid degradation by a multisubunit protease known as the 26S proteasome. While the ubiquitin/26S proteasome pathway is responsible for the degradation of the bulk of cellular proteins during homeostasis, it may also be responsible for the rapid loss of protein during the programmed death of certain cells, such as skeletal muscle during insect metamorphosis. In addition, alterations in the expression and regulation of ubiquitin may play significant roles in pathological disorders. For example, dramatic increases in ubiquitin and ubiquitin-protein conjugates are observed in a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease. Patients suffering from the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus generate antibodies reacting with ubiquitin and ubiquitinated histones. At present, it is not known whether these changes in ubiquitin expression and regulation initiate pathological changes in these diseases or if they are altered as a consequence of these disorders.
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- S Muller
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UPR 9021 CNRS, Strasbourg, France
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Bergmann M, Völpel M, Kuchelmeister K. Onuf's nucleus is frequently involved in motor neuron disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurol Sci 1995; 129:141-6. [PMID: 7608728 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(94)00263-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Involvement of Onuf's nucleus (ON) in 28 cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (MND/ALS) with different clinical syndromes is reported. Although significant neuronal loss was absent, all cytoskeletal abnormalities typical of alpha-motor neurons in MND/ALS were found in ON. Spheroids were detected in 53.5% of cases; 0.6-4.5% of ON neurons contained Bunina bodies, which were present in 42.8% of cases. Ubiquitin-reactive inclusions (UBRI) of filamentous and hyaline type were found in 57.1% of cases and in 1.2-10.7% of ON neurons. Cases with pyramidal tract involvement (ALS) were involved by UBRI in 76.5%, whereas cases with progressive spinal muscular atrophy revealed the same inclusions in only 27.2%. No similar inclusions were present in sacral parasympathetic intermediolateral nucleus. It can be concluded, therefore, that ON belongs to the somatic motor system and is principally vulnerable to MND/ALS, albeit to a lower degree.
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- M Bergmann
- Institute of Clinical Neuropathology, Zentralkrankenhaus Bremen-Ost, Germany
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Williams TL, Shaw PJ, Lowe J, Bates D, Ince PG. Parkinsonism in motor neuron disease: case report and literature review. Acta Neuropathol 1995; 89:275-83. [PMID: 7754748 DOI: 10.1007/bf00309344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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This report describes a patient who had clinical features of both motor neuron disease and Parkinson's disease. Neuropathological examination and immunocytochemical studies showed that he had motor neuron disease of the progressive muscular atrophy type, and Lewy body Parkinson's disease, with intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies characteristic of both conditions. This is the first detailed description of these two diseases occurring concurrently in the same patient. A review of all previously reported cases of combined motor neuron disease and parkinsonism has led to the following conclusions: (1) that these two neuropathologically defined diseases occur together very infrequently, but (2) that parkinsonism and substantia nigra degeneration are not uncommon as part of the multi-system disease process underlying motor neuron disease.
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- T L Williams
- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Bergmann M, Kuchelmeister K, Kryne-Kubat B, Burwinkel F, Harms K, Gullotta F. Infantile multiple system atrophy with cytoplasmic and intranuclear glioneuronal inclusions. Acta Neuropathol 1994; 87:642-7. [PMID: 8091955 DOI: 10.1007/bf00293326] [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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This report presents a case of infantile multiple system atrophy with probably autosomal recessive inheritance. The female patient developed generalized muscular hypotonia, myoclonias and tonic-clonic seizures at the age of 8 months, followed by gradual development of choreoathetotic hyperkinesia and increasing psychomotor retardation. Metabolic disease was ruled out and the child died of aspiration pneumonia at the age of 5 years. General autopsy was unremarkable, but neuropathological examination showed degeneration of cerebellum, inferior olives, medial thalamus, Clarke's nucleus, anterior horn cells, corticospinal, spinocerebellar tracts, and posterior columns. Immunohistochemically many neurons contained intranuclear and intracytoplasmic ubiquitin-positive inclusions, which did not contain neurofilament or tau epitopes and ultra-structurally consisted of granulofilamentous material. We tentatively classify this case as a form of infantile multiple system atrophy linked to neuronal intranuclear hyaline inclusion disease.
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- M Bergmann
- Institut für Neuropathologie, Universität Münster, Germany
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