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Mensi S, Chassepot H, Kharroubi D, Plomp L, Abbar B, Kas A, Spano J, Louis-Leonard S, Seilhean D, Edhery S, Benveniste O, Salem J, Allenbach Y. Valeur diagnostique de la TEP-TDM au 18-FDG dans les myosites secondaires aux inhibiteurs de point de contrôle immunitaires. Rev Med Interne 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2021.10.207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Allenbach Y, Mercy G, Deux J, Foissac F, Schoindre Y, Léonard L, Maisonobe T, Seilhean D, Charuel J, Ghillani-Dalbin P, Guy G, Lucidarme O, Cornec D, Abdoul H, Brihaye B, Bienvenu B, Benveniste O. Performances de l’IRM musculaire pour le diagnostic des myopathies auto-immunes : étude prospective multicentrique (DARWIM). Rev Med Interne 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2021.10.205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Frémond ML, Pérot P, Muth E, Cros G, Dumarest M, Mahlaoui N, Seilhean D, Desguerre I, Hébert C, Corre-Catelin N, Neven B, Lecuit M, Blanche S, Picard C, Eloit M. Next-Generation Sequencing for Diagnosis and Tailored Therapy: A Case Report of Astrovirus-Associated Progressive Encephalitis. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc 2015; 4:e53-7. [PMID: 26407445 DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piv040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2015] [Accepted: 06/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A boy with X-linked agammaglobulinemia experienced progressive global motor decline, cerebellar syndrome, and epilepsy. All standard polymerase chain reactions for neurotropic viruses were negative on cerebrospinal fluid and brain biopsy. Next-generation sequencing allowed fast identification of a new astrovirus strain (HAstV-VA1/HMO-C-PA), which led to tailor the patient's treatment, with encouraging clinical monitoring over 1 year.
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- M-L Frémond
- Unité d'Immuno-Hématologie et Rhumatologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1117, Pathogen Discovery Laboratory, Paris, France
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- PathoQuest, Paris, France
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- Unité d'Immuno-Hématologie et Rhumatologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1117, Pathogen Discovery Laboratory, Paris, France
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- Unité d'Immuno-Hématologie et Rhumatologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, France Laboratoire de Génétique Humaine des Maladies Infectieuses, Branche Necker, INSERM U1163, Paris, France Centre de Référence Déficits Immunitaires Héréditaires, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France
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- Département de Neuropathologie, Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpétrière, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Descartes, Unité de Neuropédiatrie, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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- Investigation Clinique et Accès aux Ressources Biologiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Unité d'Immuno-Hématologie et Rhumatologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, France
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- Unité d'Immuno-Hématologie et Rhumatologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Necker-Enfants Malades University Hospital, Institut Imagine, France Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, INSERM U1117, Paris, France
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- Unité d'Immuno-Hématologie et Rhumatologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, France
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- Unité d'Immuno-Hématologie et Rhumatologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France Centre de Référence Déficits Immunitaires Héréditaires, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Biology of Infection Unit, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1117, Pathogen Discovery Laboratory, Paris, France PathoQuest, Paris, France
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Plu I, Sazdovitch V, Duyckaerts C, Seilhean D. Quelle place pour l’autopsie médicale en 2015 ? Réanimation 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s13546-015-1070-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Seilhean D, Bielle F, Plu I, Duyckaerts C. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: Diversity of FTLD lesions. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2013; 169:786-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2013.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2013] [Revised: 07/15/2013] [Accepted: 07/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Moll NM, Hong E, Fauveau M, Naruse M, Kerninon C, Tepavcevic V, Klopstein A, Seilhean D, Chew LJ, Gallo V, Nait Oumesmar B. SOX17 is expressed in regenerating oligodendrocytes in experimental models of demyelination and in multiple sclerosis. Glia 2013; 61:1659-72. [PMID: 23918253 DOI: 10.1002/glia.22547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2013] [Revised: 05/27/2013] [Accepted: 05/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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We have previously demonstrated that Sox17 expression is prominent at developmental stages corresponding to oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) cycle exit and onset of differentiation, and that Sox17 promotes initiation of OPC differentiation. In this study, we examined Sox17 expression and regulation under pathological conditions, particularly in two animal models of demyelination/remyelination and in post-mortem multiple sclerosis (MS) brain lesions. We found that the number of Sox17 expressing cells was significantly increased in lysolecithin (LPC)-induced lesions of the mouse spinal cord between 7 and 30 days post-injection, as compared with controls. Sox17 immunoreactivity was predominantly detected in Olig2(+) and CC1(+) oligodendrocytes and rarely in NG2(+) OPCs. The highest density of Sox17(+) oligodendrocytes was observed at 2 weeks after LPC injection, coinciding with OPC differentiation. Consistent with these findings, in cuprizone-treated mice, Sox17 expression was highest in newly generated and in maturing CC1(+) oligodendrocytes, but low in NG2(+) OPCs during the demyelination and remyelination phases. In MS tissue, Sox17 was primarily detected in actively demyelinating lesions and periplaque white matter. Sox17 immunoreactivity was co-localized with NOGO-A+ post-mitotic oligodendrocytes both in active MS lesions and periplaque white matter. Taken together, our data: (i) demonstrate that Sox17 expression is highest in newly generated oligodendrocytes under pathological conditions and could be used as a marker of oligodendrocyte regeneration, and (ii) are suggestive of Sox17 playing a critical role in oligodendrocyte differentiation and lesion repair.
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- N M Moll
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U.975, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, Paris, France
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Le Ber I, Camuzat A, Guillot-Noel L, Guedj E, Hannequin D, Wargon I, Couratier P, Deramecourt V, Berger E, Viennet G, Pasquier F, Lacomblez Aurousseau L, Salachas F, Martinaud O, Golfier V, Puel M, Vercelletto M, Didic M, Sauvee M, Sellal F, Thomas-Anterion C, Campion D, Michel B, Dubois B, Camu W, Seilhean D, Meininger V, Habert MO, Duyckaerts C, Brice A. Frequency and Phenotypes Associated with C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion in French FTLD and FTLD-ALS Patients (S54.003). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.s54.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Charles P, Mariani LL, Cazeneuve C, Hahn-Barma V, Youssov K, Noel S, Peuvion JN, Seilhean D, Freeman L, Roze E, Bachoud-Levi AC, Durr A. Huntington Disease Like Phenotypes Not Linked to CAG Repeat Expansions in the HTT Gene (S32.002). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.s32.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Le Ber I, Camuzat A, Hannequin D, Lacomblez L, Couratier P, Guillot-Noel L, Habert M, Seilhean D, Golfier V, Puel M, Martinaud O, Deramecourt V, Vercelletto M, Sellal F, Pasquier F, Salachas F, Thomas-Anterion C, Didic M, Pariente J, Wargon I, Blanc F, Michel B, Berger E, Sauvee M, Mondon K, Fleury M, Meininger V, Duyckaerts C, Dubois B, Guedj E, Brice A. Fréquence et phénotypes associés aux mutations du gène c9orf72 dans une cohorte française de patients atteints de DLFT. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2012.01.510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Aebischer J, Moumen A, Sazdovitch V, Seilhean D, Meininger V, Raoul C. Elevated levels of IFNγ and LIGHT in the spinal cord of patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Eur J Neurol 2012; 19:752-9, e45-6. [PMID: 22221541 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2011.03623.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a paralytic and fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by the gradual loss of both upper and lower motoneurons. There is compelling evidence from ALS experimental models that neuroinflammation actively contributes to motoneuron damage. We recently proposed that interferon gamma (IFNγ), a potent proinflammatory cytokine, induces motoneuron death by eliciting the activation of the lymphotoxin beta receptor (LT-βR) through its ligand LIGHT. Here, we explore the pertinence of this non-cell-autonomous mechanism in human ALS. METHODS The levels and expression pattern of IFNγ, LIGHT, and LT-βR were investigated by Western blot and immunohistochemical analysis in spinal cord of patients with sporadic ALS. RESULTS We observed significant increased levels of IFNγ in human ALS spinal cords compared to control cases. We found that large ventral horn neurons as well as glial cells were immunoreactive for IFNγ in sporadic ALS spinal cord. We further observed that LIGHT and LT-βR were expressed mainly by motoneurons in both ALS and control cases, and while LT-βR levels remained constant between ALS and control cases, LIGHT levels were increased in human ALS spinal cords. CONCLUSION These findings in sporadic ALS cases, which are consistent with the observation made in ALS experimental models, propose that the IFNγ-triggered LIGHT/LT-βR-mediated death pathway may contribute to human ALS pathogenesis.
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- J Aebischer
- The Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology, INMED, Marseille, France
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Hauw JJ, Sazdovitch V, Seilhean D, Camilleri S, Lazarini F, Delasnerie-Lauprétre N, Duyckaerts C. The nosology and neuropathology of human conditions related to unconventional infectious agents or prions. Eur J Neurol 2011. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.1996.tb00263.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Millecamps S, Salachas F, Cazeneuve C, Gordon P, Bricka B, Camuzat A, Guillot-Noel L, Russaouen O, Bruneteau G, Pradat PF, Le Forestier N, Vandenberghe N, Danel-Brunaud V, Guy N, Thauvin-Robinet C, Lacomblez L, Couratier P, Hannequin D, Seilhean D, Le Ber I, Corcia P, Camu W, Brice A, Rouleau G, LeGuern E, Meininger V. SOD1, ANG, VAPB, TARDBP, and FUS mutations in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: genotype-phenotype correlations. J Med Genet 2010; 47:554-60. [DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2010.077180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Larrat B, Pernot M, Aubry JF, Dervishi E, Sinkus R, Seilhean D, Marie Y, Boch AL, Fink M, Tanter M. MR-guided transcranial brain HIFU in small animal models. Phys Med Biol 2009; 55:365-88. [PMID: 20019400 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/2/003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Recent studies have demonstrated the feasibility of transcranial high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy in the brain using adaptive focusing techniques. However, the complexity of the procedures imposes provision of accurate targeting, monitoring and control of this emerging therapeutic modality in order to ensure the safety of the treatment and avoid potential damaging effects of ultrasound on healthy tissues. For these purposes, a complete workflow and setup for HIFU treatment under magnetic resonance (MR) guidance is proposed and implemented in rats. For the first time, tissue displacements induced by the acoustic radiation force are detected in vivo in brain tissues and measured quantitatively using motion-sensitive MR sequences. Such a valuable target control prior to treatment assesses the quality of the focusing pattern in situ and enables us to estimate the acoustic intensity at focus. This MR-acoustic radiation force imaging is then correlated with conventional MR-thermometry sequences which are used to follow the temperature changes during the HIFU therapeutic session. Last, pre- and post-treatment magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) datasets are acquired and evaluated as a new potential way to non-invasively control the stiffness changes due to the presence of thermal necrosis. As a proof of concept, MR-guided HIFU is performed in vitro in turkey breast samples and in vivo in transcranial rat brain experiments. The experiments are conducted using a dedicated MR-compatible HIFU setup in a high-field MRI scanner (7 T). Results obtained on rats confirmed that both the MR localization of the US focal point and the pre- and post-HIFU measurement of the tissue stiffness, together with temperature control during HIFU are feasible and valuable techniques for efficient monitoring of HIFU in the brain. Brain elasticity appears to be more sensitive to the presence of oedema than to tissue necrosis.
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- B Larrat
- Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS UMR 7587, INSERM U979, Université Paris VII, Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75 231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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Le Ber I, Camuzat A, Berger E, Hannequin D, Laquerrière A, Golfier V, Seilhean D, Viennet G, Couratier P, Verpillat P, Heath S, Camu W, Martinaud O, Lacomblez L, Vercelletto M, Salachas F, Sellal F, Didic M, Thomas-Anterion C, Puel M, Michel BF, Besse C, Duyckaerts C, Meininger V, Campion D, Dubois B, Brice A. Chromosome 9p-linked families with frontotemporal dementia associated with motor neuron disease. Neurology 2009; 72:1669-76. [PMID: 19433740 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3181a55f1c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- I Le Ber
- CRicm-UMRS975 (formerly INSERM, UMR_S679), France
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Bertrand A, Brandel JP, Grignon Y, Sazdovitch V, Seilhean D, Faucheux B, Privat N, Brault JL, Vital A, Uro-Coste E, Pluot M, Chapon F, Maurage CA, Letournel F, Vespignani H, Place G, Degos CF, Peoc’h K, Haïk S, Hauw JJ. Wernicke encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. J Neurol 2009; 256:904-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5038-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2008] [Revised: 01/07/2009] [Accepted: 01/28/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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De Girolami U, Fèvre-Montange M, Seilhean D, Jouvet A. Pathology of tumors of the pineal region. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2008; 164:882-95. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2007] [Accepted: 01/10/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hauw JJ, Hausser-Hauw C, Hasboun D, Seilhean D. [The neuropathology of sleep in human neurodegenerative diseases]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2008; 164:669-82. [PMID: 18760429 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2008] [Accepted: 07/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The neuropathology of human sleep remains an ill-defined issue. The data concerning the main structures of human brain areas involved, or supposed to be implicated, in sleep organisation are reviewed. Five levels of organisation can be schematically recognized: (i) the ascending arousal system, (ii) the non REM and REM systems (iii) regulated by hypothalamic areas, (iv) and the biological clock, (v) modulated by a number of "allostatic" influences. These are briefly described, with emphasis on the location of structures involved in humans, and on the recently revised concepts. Current knowledge on the topography of lesions associated with the main sleep disorders in degenerative diseases is recalled, including REM sleep behavior disorders, restless legs syndrome and periodic leg movements, sleep apneas, insomnia, excessive daily sleepiness, secondary narcolepsy and disturbed sleep-wake rhythms. The lesions of sleep related structures observed in early and late stages of four degenerative diseases are then reviewed. Two synucleinopathies (Lewy lesions associated disorders, including Parkinson's disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies, and Multiple System Atrophy) and two tauopathies (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Alzheimer's disease) are dealt with. The distribution of lesions usually found in affected patients fit with that expected from the prevalence of different sleep disorders in these diseases. This confirms the current opinion that these disorders depend on the distribution of lesions rather than on their biochemical nature. Further studies might throw insight on the mechanism of normal and pathological sleep in humans, counterpart of the increasing knowledge provided by animal models. Specially designed prospective clinicopathological studies including peculiar attention to sleep are urgently needed.
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- J-J Hauw
- Laboratoire de neuropathologie Raymond-Escourolle, groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris cedex 13, France.
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Dupuis L, Corcia P, Fergani A, Gonzalez De Aguilar JL, Bonnefont-Rousselot D, Bittar R, Seilhean D, Hauw JJ, Lacomblez L, Loeffler JP, Meininger V. Dyslipidemia is a protective factor in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurology 2008; 70:1004-9. [PMID: 18199832 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000285080.70324.27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 381] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most serious form of degenerative motor neuron disease in adults, characterized by upper and lower motor neuron degeneration, skeletal muscle atrophy, paralysis, and death. High prevalence of malnutrition and weight loss adversely affect quality of life. Moreover, two thirds of patients develop a hypermetabolism of unknown cause, leading to increased resting energy expenditure. Inasmuch as lipids are the major source of energy for muscles, we determined the status of lipids in a population of patients with ALS and investigated whether lipid contents may have an impact on disease progression and survival. METHODS Blood concentrations of triglycerides, cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) were measured in a cohort of 369 patients with ALS and compared to a control group of 286 healthy subjects. Postmortem histologic examination was performed on liver specimens from 59 other patients with ALS and 16 patients with Parkinson disease (PD). RESULTS The frequency of hyperlipidemia, as revealed by increased plasma levels of total cholesterol or LDL, was twofold higher in patients with ALS than in control subjects. As a result, steatosis of the liver was more pronounced in patients with ALS than in patients with PD. Correlation studies demonstrated that bearing an abnormally elevated LDL/HDL ratio significantly increased survival by more than 12 months. CONCLUSIONS Hyperlipidemia is a significant prognostic factor for survival of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This finding highlights the importance of nutritional intervention strategies on disease progression and claims our attention when treating these patients with lipid-lowering drugs.
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- L Dupuis
- Fédération des Maladies du Système Nerveux, Centre référent maladie rare SLA, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris, France
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Pernot M, Aubry JF, Tanter M, Marquet F, Montaldo G, Boch AL, Kujas M, Seilhean D, Fink M. High Power Phased Array Prototype for Clinical High Intensity Focused Ultrasound : Applications to Transcostal and Transcranial Therapy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 2007:234-7. [DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2007.4352266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Kinugawa K, Adam J, Denys V, Demeret S, Bolgert F, Seilhean D. H - 10 Une leucoencéphalopathie révélant un lymphome intravasculaire. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/s0035-3787(07)90646-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Andreux F, Marro B, El Khoury N, Seilhean D, Alamowitch S. Reversible encephalopathy associated with cholesterol embolism syndrome: magnetic resonance imaging and pathological findings. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007; 78:180-2. [PMID: 17229746 PMCID: PMC2077650 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.099770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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We describe a patient found to have acute diffuse and reversible encephalopathy on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) associated with cholesterol emboli syndrome (CES). The initial MRI showed extensive white matter, basal ganglia and cortical damage without evidence of brain infarction. Dramatic clinical and MRI improvement was observed with corticosteroids. Pathologically, cholesterol crystal emboli were found in the lumen of skin and brain arteries and were associated with varying degrees of inflammation of the arteriole wall. This case suggests that CES may be responsible for extensive, acute and reversible encephalopathy underlined by an inflammation of brain arteries.
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- F Andreux
- Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Tenon University Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France
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Marquet F, Pernot M, Aubry JF, Montaldo G, Tanter M, Boch AL, Kujas M, Seilhean D, Fink M. Non-Invasive Transcranial Brain Therapy Guided by CT Scans: an In Vivo Monkey Study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2744329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Schmitt A, Bauer M, Heinsen H, Feiden W, Falkai P, Alafuzoff I, Arzberger T, Al-Sarraj S, Bell JE, Bogdanovic N, Brück W, Budka H, Ferrer I, Giaccone G, Kovacs GG, Meyronet D, Palkovits M, Parchi P, Patsouris E, Ravid R, Reynolds R, Riederer P, Roggendorf W, Schwalber A, Seilhean D, Kretzschmar H. How a neuropsychiatric brain bank should be run: a consensus paper of Brainnet Europe II. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2006; 114:527-37. [PMID: 17165101 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-006-0601-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2006] [Accepted: 10/28/2006] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The development of new molecular and neurobiological methods, computer-assisted quantification techniques and neurobiological investigation methods which can be applied to the human brain, all have evoked an increased demand for post-mortem tissue in research. Psychiatric disorders are considered to be of neurobiological origin. Thus far, however, the etiology and pathophysiology of schizophrenia, depression and dementias are not well understood at the cellular and molecular level. The following will outline the consensus of the working group for neuropsychiatric brain banking organized in the Brainnet Europe II, on ethical guidelines for brain banking, clinical diagnostic criteria, the minimal clinical data set of retrospectively analyzed cases as well as neuropathological standard investigations to perform stageing for neurodegenerative disorders in brain tissue. We will list regions of interest for assessments in psychiatric disorder, propose a dissection scheme and describe preservation and storage conditions of tissue. These guidelines may be of value for future implementations of additional neuropsychiatric brain banks world-wide.
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- A Schmitt
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
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Coman I, Aigrot MS, Seilhean D, Reynolds R, Girault JA, Zalc B, Lubetzki C. Nodal, paranodal and juxtaparanodal axonal proteins during demyelination and remyelination in multiple sclerosis. Brain 2006; 129:3186-95. [PMID: 16766541 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Saltatory conduction in myelinated fibres depends on the specific molecular organization of highly specialized axonal domains at the node of Ranvier, the paranodal and the juxtaparanodal regions. Voltage-gated sodium channels (Na(v)) have been shown to be deployed along the naked demyelinated axon in experimental models of CNS demyelination and in multiple sclerosis lesions. Little is known about aggregation of nodal, paranodal and juxtaparanodal constituents during the repair process. We analysed by immunohistochemistry on free-floating sections from multiple sclerosis brains the expression and distribution of nodal (Na(v) channels), paranodal (paranodin/Caspr) and juxtaparanodal (K(v) channels and Caspr2) molecules in demyelinated and remyelinated lesions. Whereas in demyelinated lesions, paranodal and juxtaparanodal proteins are diffusely distributed on denuded axons, the distribution of Na(v) channels is heterogeneous, with a diffuse immunoreactivity but also few broad Na(v) channel aggregates in all demyelinated lesions. In contrast to the demyelinated plaques, all remyelinated lesions are characterized by the detection of aggregates of Na(v) channels, paranodin/Caspr, K(v) channels and Caspr2. Our data suggest that these aggregates precede remyelination, and that Na(v) channel aggregation is the initial event, followed by aggregation of paranodal and then juxtaparanodal axonal proteins. Remyelination takes place in multiple sclerosis tissue but myelin repair is often incomplete, and the reasons for this remyelination deficit are many. We suggest that a defect of Na(v) channel aggregation might be involved in the remyelination failure in demyelinated lesions with spared axons and oligodendroglial cells.
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Béquet D, Obadia M, Seilhean D. [Subacute deterioration of imbalance associated with headaches in an 81-year-old male]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2006; 162:388-94. [PMID: 16585898 DOI: 10.1016/s0035-3787(06)75030-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- D Béquet
- Service de Neurologie, Hôpital du Val de Grâce, Paris
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OBJECTIVE Multiple sclerosis (MS) is by far the most popular diagnosis for patients with multifocal neurological disease. Owing to demyelinating inflammatory non-necrotic plaques of the white matter, MS can give remitting symptoms of virtually every part of the central nervous system. Corticosteroids are usually helpful. Devic's neuromyelitis optica (DNMO) is a neurological disease involving only the optic nerves and the spinal cord, where demyelination evolves towards necrosis and atrophy; the prognosis is poor and no satisfactory treatment is known. The objectives of this study are to describe clinical, biological, pathological and radiological data of patients with DNMO and to differentiate DNMO from MS. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied the files of 14 patients diagnosed with possible DNMO in three French hospitals between 1980 and 1999 and reviewed the literature. RESULTS Nine patients were included as definite DNMO. Five were excluded because they did not fulfil the diagnostic criteria. For the nine patients with definite DNMO, DNMO was either monophasic or multiphasic. The prognosis was generally poor: two patients died and five others developed severe disability such as blindness, para or quadriplegia or both. Cerebrospinal fluid study and neuroimaging were essential to confirm the diagnosis of DNMO. Various immunosuppressive treatments generally failed to benefit the patients. CONCLUSION In the literature (as well as our 14 initial patients) only a few cases of patients described as suffering from DNMO fulfilled the diagnostic criteria. The others showed evidence that another disease like MS was involved. We stress that inclusion and exclusion criteria have to be kept in mind to differentiate clearly DNMO from MS and other central nervous system white matter diseases.
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- L Fardet
- Service de Médecine Interne, pavillon de l'Horloge 2 étage, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint Antoine, Paris, France
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Seilhean D. [Autopsy and religions]. Bull Acad Natl Med 2002; 185:877-87; discussion 888-9. [PMID: 11717846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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Concerns about autopsies may hardly leave behind religious belief. Traditional anthropology conditions the relationship to death. No main religion practiced in the regions where autopsies are performed forbids it definitely. Judaism and Islam accept it as far as its usefulness is demonstrated. Christianity encourages the generosity of donation. Buddhism, which developed a denial of appearances, is finding ways to dialogue with the need of medical practices in the western world. The repulsion induced by the exploration of a corpse takes origin far above dogma and belief, which formulate acceptable limits within a given culture. Because autopsy remains useful, laic society must take into account not only the beliefs of humans, but also their fundamental need of sublimation in front of death.
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- D Seilhean
- Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital-75651 Paris
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Hauw JJ, Zekry D, Seilhean D, Forette B, Gallinari C, Laurent M, Moulias R, Piette F, Sachet A, Duyckaerts C. [Neuropathology of the cerebral vessels of centenarians]. J Mal Vasc 2002; 27 Spec No:S13-8. [PMID: 12587216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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Neuropathological study of brain and brain vessels was performed in two series of 12 and 20 centenarians, focusing on the prevalence of small vessel lesions, infarction, Alzheimer's changes and mental status. These are discussed as a function of vascular risk factors. In the first series (12 cases), there was no correlation between the severity of small vessel lesions: hyalinosis (12/12), mineralisation (10/12), amyloid angiopathy (9/12), vascular risk factors (high blood pressure or diabetes), Alzheimer's lesions. However, there was a tendency for an association between amyloid angiopathy and high density of neurofibrillary tangles. In the second series (20 cases), small infarcts and lacunes were found in 9/20 cases, neurofibrillary tangles and diffuse deposits of A beta peptide were constant, senile plaques were very frequent (19/20). Five patients were demented (one vascular dementia, one Alzheimer dementia, and 3 mixed dementias). These data indicate that: 1) Lesions of the walls of small cerebral vessels do not seem linked to the vascular risk factors observed at the end of the life of centenarians. 2) Cerebral infarcts and lacunes are frequent in these patients, and are responsible, at least in part, for a high proportion of the cognitive dysfunctions. The study of larger series is needed for a better understanding of relationships between vascular and degenerative lesions in the oldest old.
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- J J Hauw
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie R. Escourolle, INSERM U 106 et 360, Association Claude Bernard, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47-83 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris.
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van Welsem ME, Hogenhuis JA, Meininger V, Metsaars WP, Hauw JJ, Seilhean D. The relationship between Bunina bodies, skein-like inclusions and neuronal loss in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Acta Neuropathol 2002; 103:583-9. [PMID: 12012090 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-001-0507-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2001] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Specific pathological hallmarks have been described in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which include motor neuronal loss, Bunina bodies (BBs) and skein like inclusions (SLIs). We investigated the relation between these three lesions in the cervical and lumbar anterior horns and the hypoglossal nuclei of 20 ALS patients and 9 controls using a quantitative light microscopy study. Immunohistochemistry with anti-cystatin C and anti-ubiquitin was used to detect the BBs and SLIs, respectively. A significant relation between the severity of neuronal loss and the proportion of SLI-containing neurons was found in the spinal cord, whereas no relation was found with BBs. We therefore propose that BBs and SLIs participate in two different steps of the cascade leading to neuronal loss.
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- M E van Welsem
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 47 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France
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Valéry CA, Seilhean D, Boyer O, Marro B, Hauw JJ, Kemeny JL, Marsault C, Philippon J, Klatzmann D. Long-term survival after gene therapy for a recurrent glioblastoma. Neurology 2002; 58:1109-12. [PMID: 11940704 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.58.7.1109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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A patient presenting with a recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) survived 3 years after suicide gene therapy and finally died of a disseminated breast cancer with no indication of tumor recurrence on MRI. Postmortem analysis showed no evidence of recurrence of the GBM, neither near the initial tumor localization nor in any other area of the brain. Such an evolution is unusual in the course of this disease and may suggest in this particular case a cure of the GBM.
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- C A Valéry
- Department of Neurosurgery, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- J W Ironside
- Neuropathology Laboratory, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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Seilhean D. [Foundation of the General Hospital: from charity to social order (1656-1666)]. Rev Prat 2001; 51:1053-5. [PMID: 11468902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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- D Seilhean
- Laboratoire de neuropathologie Raymond-Escourolle Groupe hospitalier La Pitié-La Salpêtrière 75651 Paris.
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Arnulf I, Bonnet AM, Damier P, Bejjani BP, Seilhean D, Derenne JP, Agid Y. Hallucinations, REM sleep, and Parkinson's disease: a medical hypothesis. Neurology 2000; 55:281-8. [PMID: 10908906 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.55.2.281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 237] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Patients with PD can have disabling visual hallucinations associated with dopaminergic therapy. Sleep disorders, including vivid dreams and REM sleep with motor behaviors (RBD), are frequent in these patients. METHODS The association of hallucinations and REM sleep both at night and during the day was examined in 10 consecutive nondemented patients with long-standing levodopa-responsive PD and hallucinations. Seven patients presented with paranoia and paranoid delusions. Overnight sleep recordings and standard multiple daytime sleep latency test were performed. The results were compared to those of 10 similar patients with PD not experiencing hallucinations. RESULTS RBD was detected in all 10 patients with hallucinations and in six without. Although nighttime sleep conditions were similar in both groups, hallucinators tended to be sleepier during the day. Delusions following nighttime REM period and daytime REM onsets were observed in three and eight of the hallucinators, and zero and two of the others. Daytime hallucinations, coincident with REM sleep intrusions during periods of wakefulness, were reported only by hallucinators. Postmortem examination of the brain of one patient showed numerous Lewy bodies in neurons of the subcoeruleus nucleus, a region that is involved in REM sleep control. CONCLUSION The visual hallucinations that coincide with daytime episodes of REM sleep in patients who also experience post-REM delusions at night may be dream imagery. Psychosis in patients with PD may therefore reflect a narcolepsy-like REM sleep disorder.
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- I Arnulf
- Centre d'Investigation Clinique, Fédération de Neurologie and INSERM U 289.
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Privat N, Sazdovitch V, Seilhean D, LaPlanche JL, Hauw JJ. PrP immunohistochemistry: different protocols, including a procedure for long formalin fixation, and a proposed schematic classification for deposits in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Microsc Res Tech 2000; 50:26-31. [PMID: 10871545 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0029(20000701)50:1<26::aid-jemt5>3.0.co;2-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The use of immunohistochemistry on formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue has greatly improved the neuropathological diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the other subacute spongiform encephalopathies in human and animals. Two pitfalls of this technique, however, currently exist: low sensitivity after long formalin fixation and difficulties in interpreting some images. Here we review the protocols currently in use for the pretreatment of sections allowing PrP detection by immunohistochemistry. In addition, a technique useful after long formalin fixation is reported: enzymatic digestion with proteinase K (24 degrees C, 1/100 for 8 minutes) was employed in addition to the usual autoclaving (121 degrees C for 10 minutes) followed by formic acid (99% for 5 minutes) and 4M guanidine thiocyanate (4 degrees C for 2 hours). This allowed a substantial increase in the sensitivity of 3F4 immunohistochemistry on paraffin-embedded tissue, especially after prolonged formalin fixation. In addition, we suggest a simple method for classification of PrP immunolabelling in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that would allow easy comparisons.
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- N Privat
- Raymond Escourolle Neuropathology Laboratory, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI University, INSERM U 360, Association Claude Bernard, 75651 Paris, France
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Suarez SV, Stankoff B, Conquy L, Rosenblum O, Seilhean D, Arvanitakis Z, Lazarini F, Bricaire F, Lubetzki C, Hauw JJ, Dubois B. Similar subcortical pattern of cognitive impairment in AIDS patients with and without dementia. Eur J Neurol 2000; 7:151-8. [PMID: 10809935 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-1331.2000.00050.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The aim of this study was to develop a series of neuropsychological tests that define the cortical and subcortical features of cognitive impairment and the characteristics of memory in demented and mildly cognitively impaired AIDS patients. We attempted to establish a usable method to assess and determine the type and degree of cognitive impairment in individual AIDS patients. We examined 53 patients without central nervous system opportunistic infections. A short battery included two scales of global efficiency (the Mattis dementia rating scale and the Mini Mental State Examination), a psychomotor speed test, an executive control assessment and explicit memory evaluation. Patients were categorized into four groups based on their score on both the Mattis dementia rating scale and the DSM-IV criteria: (1) asymptomatic; (2) having AIDS without cognitive impairment; (3) having AIDS with mild cognitive impairment; and (4) having AIDS dementia. Patients with mildly impaired cognition demonstrated slowed thinking, abnormal initiation and conceptualization, and memory impairment. AIDS dementia patients had slower motor activity and memory recall was more severely affected. The short neuropsychological battery was able to characterize modified cognitive performances in both severely and mildly cognitively impaired AIDS patients. The subcortical pattern of the memory disorder was obvious, regardless of the degree of cognitive impairment.
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- S V Suarez
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, INSERM U.3650, Paris, France
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Hauw JJ, Sazdovitch V, Seilhean D, Hogenhuis J, Duyckaerts C. [Research on multiple sclerosis and tissue banks]. Pathol Biol (Paris) 2000; 48:100-3. [PMID: 10815285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Tissue banks are of major importance in research on human tissues, in particular as regards the furthering of our knowledge on multiple sclerosis (MS). Individuals who wish to make a 'donation of their brain' for autopsy, or pathologists in possession of biopsy specimens that have not been utilized for diagnosis provide the necessary material for investigation by research teams. In addition to their technical aspects, brain tissue banks provide information and aid in promoting research. Their functioning, usually supported by patient associations, has encountered certain difficulties. At present, it is challenged by a decrease in the number of autopsies.
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- J J Hauw
- Laboratoire de neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, université Paris VI, Inserm U106, France
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Hauw JJ, Duyckaerts C, Seilhean D, Hogenhuis J, Suarez S, Sazdovitch V, Rancurel G. [Fronto-temporal degenerative dementia. A modern neuropathologic approach]. Bull Acad Natl Med 1999; 183:117-25; discussion 125-8. [PMID: 10371771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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The classification of degenerative dementias with fronto-temporal atrophy has been debated since the description of Pick's disease. The study of a clinico-pathological series of 10 cases using immunohistochemistry lead to the following conclusions: reserving the name of Pick's disease to those cases with argyrophilic inclusions, the most recognisable and characteristic marker at neuropathological examination, allows an easy and reliable diagnosis; keeping on with the splitting of these disorders into various clinico-pathologic entities seems today more useful than grouping them into a single syndrome until new data, based for example on genetic analysis, show that different phenotypes correspond to the same disease.
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- J J Hauw
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie R. Escourolle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), INSERM U 360, Association Claude Bernard, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris
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Hauw JJ, Privat N, Sazdovitch V, Seilhean D. [Biopathology of transmissible subacute spongiform encephalopathies]. Rev Prat 1999; 49:942-7. [PMID: 11865458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Three lesions can be seen in the central nervous system: vacuolation ("spongiform state"), hypertrophy and proliferation of astrocytes ("astrogliosis"), and neuronal loss. These are poorly specific changes. In contrast, amyloid plaques and other deposits of PrPres are very specific lesions. The recent widening of the clinico-pathological spectrum of PrPres-induced disorders has shown that none of these lesions was constantly present. The mechanisms of PrPres occurrence and development, neuronal death, involvement of the central nervous system after peripheral inoculation are still hypothetical. B lymphocytes, monocyte-macrophages, peripheral nerves, central synapses are important. New data will be provided by experimental models (transgenic mice, transplantations), and by a full study of all patients affected by prion diseases, which necessarily involves autopsy.
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- J J Hauw
- Laboratoire de neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle Groupe hospitalier La Pitié-La Salpêtrière, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris VI INSERM U 360, Association Claude-Bernard
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Hauw JJ, Seilhean D, Colle MA, Hogenhuys J, Duyckaerts C. [Neuropathologic markers in degenerative dementias]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 1998; 154 Suppl 2:S50-64. [PMID: 9834544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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The number of neuropathological markers used for the diagnosis of degenerative dementias is rapidly increasing, and this is somewhat confusing: some lesions described a long time ago, such as ballooned cells, proved to be less specific than they were supposed to be; this is also the case for Lewy bodies, that have been recognised in a larger spectrum of disorders than thought a few years ago. On the contrary, for an increasing number of neuropathologists, Pick bodies are now mandatory for the diagnosis of Pick disease, and this contrasts with the prevalent opinions of the late sixties or seventies. There are a number of reasons for the changing significance of neuropathological markers. Three of them can be easily identified: 1) the burst of immunohistochemistry into neuropathology allowed an easier recognition, a better delineation and new pathophysiological approaches to old lesions, and a dramatic increase in the description of new markers, especially in glial cells; 2) in some conditions characterized by the number and distribution of some lesions rather than by their mere presence, such as aging and Alzheimer disease, a better neuroanatomical point of view permitted new insights into the concept of disease versus age-related changes; 3) more accurate clinicopathologic correlations showed clearly the need of grouping or lumping together some entities: for example, obvious relationship aroused between progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration; in contrast, distinguishing different disorders in the frontal lobe dementias grouped together into "Pick disease" was felt necessary. This review summarizes the main criteria for identification, and the presumed meaning of the chief markers indicating the presence of abnormally phosphorylated tau proteins, A beta peptides, and PrP proteins. Abnormally phosphorylated tau proteins can be stored in the neurons, and participate in the constitution of many lesions (neurofibrillary tangles, neuropil threads, abnormal processes of the crown of neuritic senile plaques, Pick bodies, granulo-vacuolar degeneration, argyrophilic grains). When seen in neuroglia, they are the chief constituents of various lesions that affect mainly astrocytes (abnormal tufts of fibres, astrocytic plaques, thorn-shaped astrocytes, spiny astrocytes) and also oligodendrocytes (oligodendroglial threads and coils, glial cytoplasmic inclusions). A beta peptides, in "preamyloid" and amyloid conformations, can be seen in the extracellular space (plaques, of the neuritic or non-neuritic varieties, diffuse, focal and granular deposits) and in the vascular walls (amyloid angiopathies). Some PrP deposits are also of the amyloid variety (kuru type, multicentric or florid plaques), but immunohistochemistry, far more sensitive than conventional studies, revealed a number of other lesions (perivacuolar, neuronal, "synaptic" deposits...). Numerous markers are easily detected by ubiquitin immunohistochemistry. Lewy bodies, Pick bodies, neurofibrillary tangles had already be identified by other methods. In contrast, some ubiquitin-positive inclusions are shown, by this technique only, in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other conditions which were thus related to this disease. Finally, this review deals with two classic markers, ballooned cells ("Pick cells") and spongiosis seen in disorders due to non conventional agents or prions (spongiform encephalopathies).
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- J J Hauw
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie R. Escourolle, INSERM U 360 et 106, Association Claude Bernard, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière
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Seilhean D, Michaud J, Duyckaerts C, Hauw JJ. [Pathophysiology of HIV-1 infection of the nervous system and AIDS- related dementia]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 1998; 154:830-42. [PMID: 9932304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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- D Seilhean
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Duyckaerts C, Colle MA, Seilhean D, Hauw JJ. Laminar spongiosis of the dentate gyrus: a sign of disconnection, present in cases of severe Alzheimer's disease. Acta Neuropathol 1998; 95:413-20. [PMID: 9560020 DOI: 10.1007/s004010050818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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An extensive laminar spongiosis was found in the outer part of the dentate gyrus in an 84-year-old patient. An old cavitary infarct in the parahippocampal gyrus disconnected the dentate gyrus from the entorhinal area. This finding prompted us to seek laminar spongiosis in Alzheimer's disease, where the neuronal loss in the entorhinal cortex might be severe. The dentate gyrus was systematically examined in a series of prospectively assessed cases either intellectually normal or affected by mental impairment of graded severity. Laminar spongiosis was present in the most severely affected patients. The neuritic crown of the senile plaques seen in the laminar band of spongiosis contained only a few tau- and Bodian-positive fibers, a sign that was taken as evidence of "plaque denervation". By contrast, deposits of Abeta peptide remained abundant but lacked a dense core. These data suggest that dendritic and axonal processes are intermingled in the senile plaque and that the amyloid core is at least partially dependent on the presence of the axonal component.
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- C Duyckaerts
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie R. Escourolle, INSERM U 106, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Hauw JJ, Lazarini F, Sazdovitch V, Seilhean D, Suarez S, Colle MA, Boularand S, Delasnerie-Lauprêtre N, Duyckaerts C. [Diseases transmitted by non-conventional agents ("prions"): nosology and diagnosis]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 1998; 154:131-7. [PMID: 9773033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Transmissible non conventional agents are currently called "Prions". This is not a neutral terminology: the attractive Prion hypothesis (the infectious agent being a protein able to replicate in the absence of DNA or RNA) due to Stanley Prusiner is the prevalent one, and has shown to be heuristic, but has not been formally proven and does not easily explain all the data, unless modified and expanded. No simple account has been given for the very unusual physical, chemical, and biological properties of non conventional agents. These infectious agents are associated with degenerative diseases of the nervous system that are either the consequence of a genetic mutation or develop spontaneously in apparently normal individuals, and then can be transmitted to various susceptible hosts, including man. Thus, non conventional agents cannot be considered only as fascinating biological enigmas. They constitute a challenge for public health. The changing characteristics of prion-associated diseases has led to a renewing of their clinical and neuropathological diagnostic criteria. A brief survey of the nosology and neuropathology of prions diseases, with emphasis on new data and on difficulties, is provided. A simple classification based on the familial, sporadic or infectious variety of the disease is suggested. Familial diseases can be named according to the genetic disorder. Sporadic and infectious diseases can be classified following the main clinical symptoms and signs, and the presence or absence of amyloid plaques in the brain, until new tools (analysis of the glycosylation pattern of PrP, strain recognition) allow a more precise nomenclature. The new epidemiology of Prion disorders allowed by these new approaches relies on a full study of Prion diseases affected patients, which necessarily involves their genetic study, and the analysis of brain tissue. This, for practical and ethical reasons, is better achieved by autopsy.
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- J J Hauw
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie R. Escourolle, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, INSERM U 360, Associàtion Claude Bernard
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Seilhean D, Lazarini F, Suarez S, Bricaire F, Hauw JJ. Frequency of Kaposi's sarcoma in European AIDS patients who stayed in Africa. AIDS 1997; 11:1401-2. [PMID: 9302456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Lazarini F, Seilhean D, Rosenblum O, Suarez S, Conquy L, Uchihara T, Sazdovitch V, Mokhtari K, Maisonobe T, Boussin F, Katlama C, Bricaire F, Duyckaerts C, Hauw JJ. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 DNA and RNA load in brains of demented and nondemented patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. J Neurovirol 1997; 3:299-303. [PMID: 9291238 DOI: 10.3109/13550289709029471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The relationship between dementia and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) cerebral load is not clearly understood. We used immunohistochemistry and competitive polymerase chain reaction to evaluate the density ofgp 41 immunostained cells and the amount of HIV-1 DNA and RNA in the midfrontal gyrus of 21 HIV-1 infected patients, nine of whom were demented. The amounts of HIV-1 DNA and RNA, and the density of gp 41-positive cells were significantly linked. In this small series of cases, (1) although as a mean, there was a larger viral load in demented patients than in nondemented, this did not reach the significance level (2) discrepancies appeared in the population under study, some demented patients having low viral loads.
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- F Lazarini
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, INSERM U 360, Association Claude Bernard, Paris, France
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Seilhean D, Dzia-Lepfoundzou A, Sazdovitch V, Cannella B, Raine CS, Katlama C, Bricaire F, Duyckaerts C, Hauw JJ. Astrocytic adhesion molecules are increased in HIV-1-associated cognitive/motor complex. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 1997. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2990.1997.8598085.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Seilhean D, Kobayashi K, He Y, Uchihara T, Rosenblum O, Katlama C, Bricaire F, Duyckaerts C, Hauw JJ. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha, microglia and astrocytes in AIDS dementia complex. Acta Neuropathol 1997; 93:508-17. [PMID: 9144590 DOI: 10.1007/s004010050646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The pathogenesis of HIV-associated cognitive changes is poorly understood. Cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) have been postulated to contribute to the mechanism of the neurological complications of HIV infection. One of the effects of TNF-alpha is to induce astrocyte proliferation in vitro. The purpose of this study was to look for a correlation between the expression of TNF-alpha, astrogliosis and the degree of cognitive impairment in 12 prospectively assessed AIDS cases without focal brain lesion, 8 of whom were demented. They were compared with 6 control patients without neurological disease. Neuropathological examination showed myelin pallor in 5 of the 8 demented patients. TNF-alpha expression was detected by immunohistochemistry in the midfrontal cortex, subcortical and deep white matter, and basal ganglia. Not only perivascular macrophages but also some microglial and endothelial cells were labeled. Most TNF-alpha-positive cells were in close contact with glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive astrocytes. They were more numerous than gp41-positive cells. Their density increased with increasing cognitive impairment and in parallel to the astrogliosis in the frontal cortex, basal ganglia and deep white matter. These findings further support the hypotheses that lesions of the deep white matter, driven by TNF-alpha, are associated with cognitive alteration, and that indirect effects of HIV infection in the brain participate in the development of HIV-associated dementia through a diffuse immune activation, mediated by cytokines.
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- D Seilhean
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie Raymond Escourolle, INSERM U360, Association Claude Bernard, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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A woman with Alzheimer's disease died at the age of 85 years. A left sphenoid meningioma had been removed 27 years earlier. The tumor and the operation had severely altered the white matter of the frontal lobe and of the anterior part of the temporal lobe on the left side and massively disconnected a small piece of frontal cortex. There were numerous senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the limbic and isocortical samples. The white matter lesions, on the operated (left) side, were associated with a lower density of neuritic plaques and of neuropil threads and with a higher density of beta-amyloid (A beta) deposits. The density of tau-positive neuritic plaques, neurofibrillary tangles and neuropil threads was close to zero, whereas the diffuse deposits of A beta were abundant, in the small disconnected piece of cortex. In this area, the white matter was severely damaged, as in the adjoining cortex, but the continuity of the cortical ribbon was also disrupted. These data show that neuritic and A beta pathologies may be dissociated and suggest that the neuritic alterations mainly involved cortico-cortical fibers coursing tangentially in the cortical ribbon.
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- C Duyckaerts
- Laboratoire de Neuropathologie R. Escourolle, INSERM U360, Association Claude Bernard, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Seilhean D, Dzia-Lepfoundzou A, Sazdovitch V, Cannella B, Rainet CS, Katlama C, Bricaire F, Duyckaerts C, Hauw JJ. Astrocytic adhesion molecules are increased in HIV-1-associated cognitive/motor complex. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 1997. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1997.tb01190.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Seilhean D, Dzia-Lepfoundzou A, Sazdovitch V, Cannella B, Raine CS, Katlama C, Bricaire F, Duyckaerts C, Hauw JJ. Astrocytic adhesion molecules are increased in HIV-1-associated cognitive/motor complex. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 1997; 23:83-92. [PMID: 9160893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Half of AIDS dementia cases are associated with HIV-encephalitis or myelin pallor. Another half die with no HIV-related neuropathological changes. Previous observations suggest that cerebral dysfunction may result from more subtle cellular interactions. and that some of them may be mediated by cell adhesion molecules. In the present study the expression by astrocytes and endothelial cells of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) was analysed as a function of the neuropathological diagnosis, the density of astrogliosis and of HIV-1 positive cells, and of the mental status. Twelve AIDS cases, without focal brain lesion, eight of whom were demented, were selected from a prospective study. They were compared with six control cases with multiple sclerosis, and with six control patients without neurological disease. ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expression was localized by immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy. HIV protein gp41 was detected by immunohistochemistry on adjacent sections. Endothelial expression of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 was significantly up-regulated in all AIDS patients. VCAM-1 only was related to myelin pallor. The density of VCAM-1 or ICAM-1 positive astrocytes increased in demented AIDS patients, independently of the neuropathological findings or the density of gp41 positive cells. Expression of cell adhesion molecules, together with other secondary mechanisms such as secretion of cytokines may play a role in the pathogenesis of white matter lesions leading to HIV-1-associated cognitive changes.
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- D Seilhean
- Raymond Escourolle Laboratory of Neuropathology, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
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