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    Nerve cell loss in the thalamic centromedian-parafascicular complex in patients with Huntington's disease (1996)
    Springer
    Acta neuropathologica 91 (1996), S. 161-168 
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    ISSN: 1432-0533
    Keywords: Key words Huntington's disease ; Human brain ; Thalamus ; Nuclei centromedianus-parafascicularis ; Neurone number
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The centromedian-parafascicular complex represents a nodal point in the neuronal loop comprising striatum – globulus pallidus – thalamus – striatum. Striatal neurone degeneration is a hallmark in Huntington's disease and we were interested in estimating total neurone and glial number in this thalamic nuclear complex. Serial 500-μm-thick gallocyanin-stained frontal sections of the left hemisphere from six cases of Huntington's disease patients (three females, three males) and six age- and sex-matched controls were investigated applying Cavalieri's principle and the optical disector. Mean neurone number in the controls was 646,952 ± 129,668 cells versus 291,763 ± 60,122 in Huntington's disease patients (Mann-Whitney U-test, P 〈 0.001). Total glial cell number (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia, and unclassifiable glial profiles) was higher in controls with 9,544,191 ± 3,028,944 versus 6,961,989 ± 2,241,543 in Huntington's disease patients (Mann-Whitney U-test, P 〈 0.021). Considerable increase of fibrous astroglia within the centromedian-parafascicular complex could be observed after Gallyas' impregnation. Most probably this cell type enhanced the numerical ratio between glial number and neurone number (glial index: Huntington's disease patients = 24.4 ± 8.1; controls = 15.0 ± 5.2; Mann-Whitney U-test, P 〈 0.013). The neurone number in the centromedian-parafascicular complex correlated negatively, although statistically not significantly, with the striatal neurone number. This lack of correlation between an 80% neuronal loss in the striatum and a 55% neurone loss in the centromedian-parafascicular complex points to viable neuronal circuits connecting the centromedian-parafascicular complex with cortical and subcortical regions that are less affected in Huntington's disease.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004010050408
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    Nerve cell loss in the thalamic mediodorsal nucleus in Huntington’s disease (1999)
    Springer
    Acta neuropathologica 97 (1999), S. 613-622 
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    ISSN: 1432-0533
    Keywords: Key words Human brain ; Thalamus ; Myeloarchitectonic ; Nerve cell number ; Optical disector
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract We estimated the total neurone number, glial number, and glial index (ratio glial cells/neurone) in the thalamic mediodorsal nucleus (MD) in seven patients suffering from Huntington’s disease (HD; four males, three females, mean age 52.4 ± 13.6 years) and age- and sex-matched controls (four males, three females, mean age 53.6 ± 12.1 years) by means of a stereological protocol. The mean total neurone number (NT¯) in the MD of controls was 2,985,188 ± 174,710, the mean glial number (GT¯; astrocytes, oligodendrocytes) 21,785,008 ± 2,986,678, and the glial index 7.29 ± 0.88. In HD, the average neurone number was decreased by 23.8% to 2,275,321 ± 247,162 (Mann-Whitney U-test P 〈 0.05), the mean glial number by 29.7 % to 15,318,895 ± 1,722,524 (Mann-Whitney U-test P 〈 0.05), the glial index was slightly reduced to 6.81 ± 1.06. Gallyas’ impregnation for the demonstration of fibrous astroglia gave strongly positive results in all cases with HD and negative results in the controls. The morpho-functional correlation of the results is complicated because individual variability, presence of segregated and parallel neuronal circuits, and plasticity of the adult human CNS must be considered.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004010051037
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