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Cellular localization of cytokeratin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) was examined in two normal choroid plexuses and five choroid plexus papillomas by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) method and double immunofluorescence (IFL) microscopy. Cytokeratin was observed in the majority of epithelial cells in all samples of normal and neoplastic choroid plexuses. On the other hand, GFAP was observed in some of the constituent epithelial cells in two cases of papilloma. Most of these GFAP-positive papilloma cells were simultaneously positive for cytokeratin, as could be seen by the PAP stainings of serial sections and by the double IFL stainings of the same sections. From these findings, it was suggested that normal and neoplastic choroid plexus epithel cells usually express cytokeratin and that some of the neoplastic cells can simultaneously express boty cytokeratin and GFAP.
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Kouno, M., Kumanishi, T., Washiyama, K. et al. An immunohistochemical study of cytokeratin and glial fibrillary acidic protein in chroid plexus papilloma. Acta Neuropathol 75, 317–320 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00690541
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00690541