Unique astrocytic inclusion in a 2 month-old baby showing Leigh-like brain lesions with lactic acidosis

Brain and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 234-238

  Yamamoto, Tomoko ^a   Armstrong, Dawna ^b   Shibata, Noriyuki ^a   Kato, Yoichiro ^a   Kobayashi, Makio ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytic inclusion; Immunohistochemistry; Lactic acidosis; Leigh like lesions

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYNONENAL; ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; ANTIBODY; CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 5; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; CAPILLARY; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEIGH DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MYELINATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RIBOSOME; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER;

ACIDOSIS, LACTIC; ASTROCYTES; CRYSTALLINS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; INFANT; LEIGH DISEASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; S100 PROTEINS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0034214263     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(00)00117-0     Document Type: Article

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