Lowe J, Aldridge F, Lennox G, Doherty F, Jefferson D, Landon M, Mayer RJ. Inclusion bodies in motor cortex and brainstem of patients with motor neurone disease are detected by immunocytochemical localisation of ubiquitin.
Neurosci Lett 1989;
105:7-13. [PMID:
2484732 DOI:
10.1016/0304-3940(89)90003-7]
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Abstract
Histological sections of cerebral motor cortex, brainstem, and spinal cord from 10 cases of clinically diagnosed motor neurone disease (MND) and 10 control cases were examined by conventional histology and immunocytochemical methods to localise ubiquitin. Intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies were identified in motor neurones of hypoglossal nuclei and appeared specific for MND. Similar inclusions were found in both large pyramidal cells and small neurones in the motor cortex, and were restricted to 4 cases having the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis form of MND with severe degeneration of corticospinal tracts. As reported in earlier studies, cellular inclusion bodies were identified in motor neurones of spinal cord from cases of MND but not in control material. Ubiquitin inclusions in motor neurones appear to be markers for the degenerative process causing neuronal loss in MND and there appears to be a close association between the anatomical location of inclusions and clinical manifestations of disease.
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