ISSN:
1432-0533
Keywords:
Key words Apolipoprotein E
;
Pick’s disease
;
Pick body
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Limbic system
;
Immunohistochemistry
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract We carried out immunohistochemical examination of apolipoprotein E (apoE) in brains from two patients with Pick’s disease. In these cases 1 and 2, the APOE genotypes were ɛ3/4 and ɛ3/3, respectively. In both cases, numerous argyrophilic globular intraneuronal inclusions, Pick bodies (PBs), were distributed widely throughout the brain, and immunohistochemically were occasionally positive for apoE. Interestingly, such apoE-immunoreactive PBs were virtually restricted to neurons in the limbic system; in the dentate gyrus, the proportion of apoE-immunoreactive PBs relative to the total number of argyrophilic PBs was 5.0% in case 1 and 2.7% in case 2, whereas in the frontal and temporal neocortices it was less than 0.1% in both cases. Diffuse cytoplasmic immunoreactivity for apoE was found in only a few limbic system neurons without PBs in both cases. In conclusion, it is considered that apoE may not be positively involved in the process of PB formation and that the preferential distribution of apoE-immunoreactive PBs in the limbic system may reflect the presence of certain regional factors associated with the synthesis or metabolism of apoE in this particular system.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004010050759
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