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  • Denervation atrophy  (3)
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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0533
    Keywords: Skeletal muscle ; Denervation atrophy ; Target fibres ; Analysis of size distribution
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary An analysis of frequency distribution is performed in 250 target and targetoid fibres each from the anterior tibial muscle of a case with rapidly proceeding denervation atrophy. Following plane measurements on cross sections the size data were analysed according to the method of Daeves and Beckel [1] for mixed distributions. Three homogeneous normally distributed populations could thus be extracted from the mixed distributed sample. The largest population represents target fibres with a normal size range, while the second one encloses hypertrophic fibres, and the third and smallest one consists of fibres ranging within atrophic size limits. These findings support the previous presumption that targets predominantly occur in fibres of normal size and can therefore be regarded as manifestations of an early stage of denervation atrophy. The targetoid fibres, on the contrary, are of an atrophic size by 84%, while only a small population of about 15% contains targetoid fibres of a normal size on cross section.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-0533
    Keywords: Thromboangiitis obliterans ; Dementia ; Cortical synaptophysin expression
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The generalized form of von Winiwarter-Buerger's disease (WBD) occasionally involves the brain. However, pure cerebral forms of the disease were also described by Spatz and Lindenberg (“Spatz-Lindenberg's disease”, SLD). Both, the type I, which involves the large basal arteries, and the type II, which results in a sickle-shaped granular atrophy of the cerebral cortex, are often accompanied by (“vascular”) dementia, which Lindenberg and Spatz mainly attributed to the bilateral involvement of the second frontal gyrus by granular atrophy. Recently, synaptic deprivation of the cortical gray matter has been shown to occur in the dementia of Alzheimer type (DAT) and other neurodegenerative disorders. In DAT, the synaptic loss highly correlated with the degree of the mental impairment. We wanted to examine whether similar changes also occurred in dementia of vascular origin, for which SLD, although infrequent, is a typical example. In fact, we found that in three cases of typical SLD type II the synaptophysin immunoreactivity of the cortical neuropil in areas without overt infarcts or scar formation was as much reduced as in Alzheimer's disease. Although it must be taken into account that in the present cases the synapse loss might, at least in part, be due to secondary (Wallerian) degeneration as a result of the neuronal loss in the “watershed” regions of the arterial blood supply, it cannot be excluded that a decline of cortical synaptic contacts in areas without necroses or scars may occur as a primary event, contributing to the pathogenesis of the dementia. Final conclusions can only be expected from investigations into further cases of cerebro-vascular disorders with and without dementia.
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  • 3
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    European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 245 (1995), S. 299-305 
    ISSN: 1433-8491
    Keywords: Frontal lobe degeneration ; Dementia ; Non-Alzheimer type
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract We report six cases of presenile (five) and senile (one) progressive dementia with a mild-to-marked frontal or frontotemporal atrophy and ventricular dilation (Frontal Lobe Degeneration [FLD]). The most prominent microscopic features were layer-dependet neuronal depletion of the cortex, spongiosis, and cortical and subcortical gliosis. Five cases showed additional degeneration of the S. nigra, and two also had motor neuron disease. Despite the absence of Pick cells and bodies, such cases have many features in common with Pick atrophy. Because Pick cells and bodies are inconstantly occurring features in other-wise typical cases of Pick atrophy, they cannot be regarded as inevitable markers of the latter. In our opinion, cases with mild frontal or frontotemporal atrophy as described herein and by others match the grades 1 and 2 in terms of Schneider's classification of Pick atrophy [37]. As long as the etiology of both Pick atrophy and the socalled FLD is unknown, and we finally have to follow morphological criteria for classification, there is apparently no convincing reason to introduce a separate category, such as FLD or FTA, for the cases with moderate or mild frontal atrophy and dementia of frontal lobe type, which can be sufficiently classified with the Pick spectrum of lobar atrophy.
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  • 4
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    Journal of neurology 210 (1975), S. 167-181 
    ISSN: 1432-1459
    Keywords: Denervation atrophy ; Target and targetoid/core fibers ; Pathogenetic relation ; Voluntary muscle ; Muscle pathology
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung Im M. tibialis anterior eines 68 Jahre alt gewordenen Mannes, der 1/2 Jahr vor seinem Tode am Herzinfarkt eine rasch progrediente neurogene Muskelatrophie in den Beinen entwickelte, fanden sich außerordentlich zahlreiche unifokal-konzentrische Muskelfaserveränderungen wie Target-, Targetoid/Core- und Targetoidfasern. Außerdem sah man große vacuolisierte Faserquerschnitte mit multiplen fokalen Veränderungen in der Randzone, die an die früher beschriebenen „cytoplasmic bodies“ erinnerten; im vorliegenden Zusammenhang wurden sie allerdings als Fasern mit multizentrischen Target- und Targetoidformationen interpretiert. Die Targetfasern zeigten eine weitläufige Variation in der äußeren Erscheinungsform, die in der Zusammenschau kontinuierliche Übergänge zu Targetoid/Corefasern (mit dichter Zentralzone) und Targetoidfasern (mit zentraler Auflösung und Vermehrung aquösen Sarkoplasmas mit wenigen fibrillären Strukturen) erkennen ließ. Wenige Fasern mit einer zentralen Verdichtung fibrillären Materials mit oder ohne schmaler Intermediärzone waren Corefasern des Central-Core-Disease auffallend ähnlich; andere glichen mehr dem Typ von Targetoidfasern mit strukturdichtem Zentrum, wie sie in der früheren Literatur beschrieben wurden. Beide Formen wurden wegen ihrer großen Ähnlichkeit von Engel et al. (1966) unter dem Begriff „Targetoid/Core Fibers“ zusammengefaßt. Das gleichzeitige Auftreten der verschiedenen Formen konzentrischer Faserveränderungen in einem Muskel legt die Annahme nahe, daß zwischen allen eine enge Beziehung im Sinne unterschiedlicher Manifestationsstufen des grundsätzlich gleichen pathogenetischen Prozesses besteht. So wäre unter dieser Annahme beispielsweise das Central-Core-Disease eine Erkrankung mit einer Generalisation konzentrischer Faserveränderungen, die im frühesten morphologischen Entwicklungsstadium zum Stillstand gekommen sind.
    Notes: Summary In the m. tibialis anterior of a 68-year-old man with rapidly developing denervation atrophy in the legs since 1/2 year prior to death from heart stroke, abundant unifocal concentric fiber changes, such as target, targetoid/core, and targetoid fibers could be observed. Besides, large vacuolized fibers with multiple changes resembling cytoplasmic bodies in the peripheral zone were present as well; they are interpreted as fibers with multicentric target or targetoid formations. The target fibers displayed a broad variation of their outer appearance suggesting a continuous transition to targetoid/core fibers (with a dense center) and targetoid fibers (with a central change to aquous sarcoplasm showing a paucity of fibrillar structures). Very few fibers with a central densification of fibrillar material with or without a thin intermediate zone were fairly akin to core fibers of central core disease; others were more alike the type of targetoid fibers, previously described in the literature, showing a dense target-like center; both were summarized under the term, inaugurated by Engel et al. (1966), “targetoid/core fibers”. Simultaneous occurence of the different kinds of concentric fiber changes suggested a strong relation between all of them in the sense of representing different developmental stages of the same pathogenetic process. Thus, the central core disease, for instance, might be a disorder with a generalization of concentric fiber changes having come to arrest in the earliest stage of development.
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  • 5
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    Journal of neurology 214 (1977), S. 159-162 
    ISSN: 1432-1459
    Keywords: Voluntary muscle ; Denervation atrophy ; Myopathy ; Target fibers ; Fiber splitting
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Faserspaltungsphänomene an Targetfasern in einem Fall von neurogener Muskelatrophie der Beine mit ausgeprägter Begleitmyopathie werden beschrieben und diskutiert. Erstmals wird das typisch myopathische Phänomen der Faserspaltung an für die neurogene Muskelatrophie als typisch erachteten Targetfasern dargestellt.
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