Clinical findings in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease correlate with thalamic pathology

Brain

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2558-2566

  Tschampa, Henriette J ^a   Herms, Jochen W ^b   Schulz Schaeffer, Walter J ^a   Maruschak, Brigitte ^a   Windl, Otto ^b   Jastrow, Ute ^a   Zerr, Inga ^a   Steinhoff, Bernhard J ^c   Poser, Sigrid ^a   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Epilepsy Centre Kork   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Parvalbumin; Periodic sharp wave complexes; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PARVALBUMIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYOCLONUS; NERVE CELL; PACEMAKER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCRAPIE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0036845856     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf253     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Aherne W. Some morphometric methods for the central nervous system. J Neurol Sci 1975; 24: 221-41.
2. Avanzini G, Vergnes M, Spreafico R, Marescaux C. Calcium-dependent regulation of genetically determined spike and waves by the reticular thalamic nucleus of rats. Epilepsia 1993; 34: 1-7.
3. Baimbridge KG, Celio MR, Rogers JH. Calcium-binding proteins in the nervous system. [Review]. Trends Neurosci 1992; 15: 303-8.
4. Bartko JJ. Measures of agreement: A single procedure. Stat Med 1994; 13: 737-45.
5. Belichenko PV, Miklossy J, Belser B, Budka H, Celio MR. Early destruction of the extracellular matrix around parvalbumin-immunoreactive interneurons in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Neurobiol Dis 1999; 6: 269-79.
6. Berchtold MW, Celio MR, Heizmann CW. Parvalbumin in human brain. J Neurochem 1985; 45: 235-9.
7. Brown P, Wolff A, Gajdusek DC. A simple and effective method for inactivating virus infectivity in formalin-fixed tissue samples from patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Neurology 1990; 40: 887-90.
8. Celio MR. Parvalbumin in most gamma-aminobutyric acid-containing neurons of the rat cerebral cortex. Science 1986; 231: 995-7.
9. Contreras D, Steriade M. Cellular basis of EEG slow rhythms: A study of dynamic corticothalamic relationships. J Neurosci 1995; 15: 604-22.
10. Ferrer I, Casas R, Rivera R. Parvalbumin-immunoreactive cortical neurons in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Ann Neurol 1993; 34: 864-6.
11. Guentchev M, Hainfellner JA, Trabattoni GR, Budka H. Distribution of parvalbumin-immunoreactive neurons in brain correlates with hippocampal and temporal cortical pathology in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1997; 56: 1119-24.
12. Guentchev M, Groschup MH, Kordek R, Liberski PP, Budka H. Severe, early and selective loss of a subpopulation of GABAergic inhibitory neurons in experimental transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Brain Pathol 1998; 8: 615-23.
13. Guentchev M, Wanschitz J, Voigtlander T, Flicker H, Budka H. Selective neuronal vulnerability in human prion diseases. Fatal familial insomnia differs from other types of prion diseases. Am J Pathol 1999; 155: 1453-7.
14. Hirai T, Jones EG. A new parcellation of the human thalamus on the basis of histochemical staining. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 1989; 14: 1-34.
15. Huguenard JR. Anatomical and physiological considerations in thalamic rhythm generation. J Sleep Res 1998; 7 (Suppl 1): 24-9.
16. Huntsman MM, Porcello DM, Homanics GE, DeLorey TM, Huguenard JR. Reciprocal inhibitory connections and network synchrony in the mammalian thalamus. Science 1999; 283: 541-3.
17. Jones EG. The Thalamus. New York: Plenum Press; 1985.
18. Jones EG. Viewpoint: the core and matrix of thalamic organization. [Review]. Neuroscience 1998; 85: 331-45.
19. Kretzschmar HA, Ironside JW, DeArmond SJ, Tateishi J. Diagnostic criteria for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Arch Neurol 1996; 53: 913-20.
20. Macchi G, Jones EG. Toward an agreement on terminology of nuclear and subnuclear divisions of the motor thalamus. [Review]. J Neurosurg 1997; 86: 670-85.
21. Macchi G, Rossi G, Abbamondi AL, Giaccone G, Mancia D, Tagliavini F, et al. Diffuse thalamic degeneration in fatal familial insomnia. A morphometric study. Brain Res 1997; 771: 154-8.
22. Mihaly A, Szente M, Dobo E, Por I. Early activation of inhibitory neurons in the thalamic reticular nucleus during focal neocortical seizures. Acta Histochem 1998; 100: 383-93.
23. Munkle MC, Waldvogel HJ, Faull RL. The distribution of calbindin, calretinin and parvalbumin immunoreactivity in the human thalamus. J Chem Neuroanat 2000; 19: 155-73.
24. Parchi P, Castellani R, Capellari S, Ghetti B, Young K, Chen SG, et al. Molecular basis of phenotypic variability in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Ann Neurol 1996; 39: 767-78.
25. Parchi P, Giese A, Capellari S, Brown P, Schulz-Schaeffer W, Windl O, et al. Classification of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease based on molecular and phenotypic analysis of 300 subjects. Ann Neurol 1999; 46: 224-33.
26. Seidenbecher T, Staak R, Pape HC. Relations between cortical and thalamic cellular activities during absence seizures in rats. Eur J Neurosci 1998; 10: 1103-12.
27. Sloviter RS. Calcium-binding protein (calbindin-D28k) and parvalbumin immunocytochemistry: Localization in the rat hippocampus with specific reference to the selective vulnerability of hippocampal neurons to seizure activity. J Comp Neurol 1989; 280: 183-96.
28. Steinhoff BJ, Racker S, Herrendorf G, Poser S, Grosche S, Zerr I, et al. Accuracy and reliability of periodic sharp wave complexes in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Arch Neurol 1996; 53: 162-6.
29. Steriade M, Contreras D. Spike-wave complexes and fast components of cortically generated seizures. I. Role of neocortex and thalamus. J Neurophysiol 1998; 80: 1439-55.
30. Steriade M, Deschenes M, Domich L, Mulle C. Abolition of spindle oscillations in thalamic neurons disconnected from nucleus reticularis thalami. J Neurophysiol 1985; 54: 1473-97.
31. Steriade M, Domich L, Oakson G, Deschenes M. The deafferented reticular thalamic nucleus generates spindle rhythmicity. J Neurophysiol 1987; 57: 260-73.
32. Windl O, Giese A, Schulz-Schaeffer W, Zerr I, Skworc K, Arendt S, et al. Molecular genetics of human prion diseases in Germany. Hum Genet 1999; 105: 244-52.
33. Zerr I, Schulz-Schaeffer WJ, Giese A, Bodemer M, Schroter A, Henkel K, et al. Current clinical diagnosis in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Identification of uncommon variants. Ann Neurol 2000; 48: 323-9.