Immunochemical Detection of Tissue from the Central Nervous System via Myelin Proteolipid Protein: Adaptation for Food Inspection and Development of Recombinant Bivalent Fab Mini-Antibodies

2010 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 6587-6593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Weigel ◽  
Gesine Schulze ◽  
Monika Pischetsrieder

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (17) ◽  
pp. 7114-7123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Villmann ◽  
Barbara Sandmeier ◽  
Silke Seeber ◽  
Ewald Hannappel ◽  
Monika Pischetsrieder ◽  
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2001 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 871-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Baumann ◽  
Danielle Pham-Dinh

Oligodendrocytes, the myelin-forming cells of the central nervous system (CNS), and astrocytes constitute macroglia. This review deals with the recent progress related to the origin and differentiation of the oligodendrocytes, their relationships to other neural cells, and functional neuroglial interactions under physiological conditions and in demyelinating diseases. One of the problems in studies of the CNS is to find components, i.e., markers, for the identification of the different cells, in intact tissues or cultures. In recent years, specific biochemical, immunological, and molecular markers have been identified. Many components specific to differentiating oligodendrocytes and to myelin are now available to aid their study. Transgenic mice and spontaneous mutants have led to a better understanding of the targets of specific dys- or demyelinating diseases. The best examples are the studies concerning the effects of the mutations affecting the most abundant protein in the central nervous myelin, the proteolipid protein, which lead to dysmyelinating diseases in animals and human (jimpy mutation and Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease or spastic paraplegia, respectively). Oligodendrocytes, as astrocytes, are able to respond to changes in the cellular and extracellular environment, possibly in relation to a glial network. There is also a remarkable plasticity of the oligodendrocyte lineage, even in the adult with a certain potentiality for myelin repair after experimental demyelination or human diseases.





2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia Batelli de Oliveira ◽  
Matheus Vilardo Lóes Moreira ◽  
Willian Henrique de Magalhães Santos ◽  
Líslie Caroline Oliveira Stuart ◽  
Maria Dolors Pi Castro ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT: A three-year-old female African pygmy hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris), born and domiciled in Brazil, presented apathy, prostration, and difficulty to stay standing. Its parents were siblings but did not present clinical signs related to this condition. As its clinical condition worsened, the animal was euthanized and referred for necropsy. No gross lesions were found in the central nervous system (CNS). Histologically, there was vacuolation with axonal degeneration in the white matter of the CNS and in peripheral nervous tissue. The Kluver-Barrera (KB) stain confirmed demyelination in vacuolated areas. Immunohistochemistry using several neural markers confirmed astrocytosis and microgliosis associated with vacuolated areas. In addition, there was a mild decrease in the immuno intensity of myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) in these areas. These results suggest a genetic origin of the present demyelination, which resulted in the wobbly syndrome described in this report.



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