Perry, Elaine K

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Ballooned neurones in the limbic lobe are associated with Alzheimer type pathology and lack diagnostic specificity.

Y Fujino; M W Delucia; P Davies; D W Dickson (Profiled Authors: Dickson, Dennis; Davies, Peter)

Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
Neuropathology and applied neurobiology 2004;30(6):676-82.

Ballooned neurones (BNs) are one of the pathological hallmarks of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Pick's disease, corticobasal degeneration and argyrophilic grain disease (AGD). They have also been described in Alzheimer disease (AD), but the frequency of BNs in AD has not been systematically addressed. In the present study, immunohistochemistry for alphaB-crystallin was used as a sensitive method to detect BNs to determine the frequency of BNs in the limbic lobe in AD. At least a few BNs were detected in the limbic lobe of virtually all AD cases, and their density correlated with Braak stage, as well as the density of neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in the limbic lobe. The density of BN tended to be greater in AD cases with concurrent AGD than in pure AD. Given the high prevalence of AD in brain banks for neurodegenerative disease and the frequent presence of BNs in these areas with alphaB-crystallin immunohistochemistry, the present findings further indicate that BNs confined to the limbic lobe lack specificity in diagnostic neuropathology.

8 Originating Grant

• 1.

  Dickson, Dennis William

  Genetics and Molecular Biology of Parkinsonism

  30 September 1999 - 31 August 2009

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE

  Total Funding: $ 8,904,777

• 2.

  Dickson, Dennis W

  GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PARKINSONISM

  30 September 1999 - 29 September 2004

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE

  Total Funding: $ 2,454,521

• 3.

  Hardy, John A

  GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PARKINSONISM

  30 September 1999 - 31 July 2004

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE

  Total Funding: $ 3,886,270

• 4.

  Dickson, Dennis William

  Tau and Neurodegeneration II: A therapeutic target

  1 September 1999 - 31 May 2010

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

  Total Funding: $ 4,182,608

• 5.

  Hutton, Michael L

  Tau and Neurodegeneration II: A therapeutic target

  1 September 1999 - 31 May 2010

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

  Total Funding: $ 8,997,034

• 6.

  PETERSEN, RONALD C

  Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

  1 May 1999 - 30 April 2014

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

  Total Funding: $ 25,743,859

• 7.

  MUFSON, ELLIOTT JAY

  Neurobiology of Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly

  1 September 1997 - 31 March 2013

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

  Total Funding: $ 20,516,366

• 8.

  KATZMAN, ROBERT

  TEACHING NURSING HOME

  29 September 1982 - 31 August 1987

  NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

  Total Funding: $ 1,614,817

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