Evidence from spatial pattern analysis for the anatomical spread of α-synuclein pathology in Parkinson's disease dementia

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine whether there is evidence from quantitative morphometry and spatial pattern analysis to support the hypothesis of anatomical spread of α-synuclein in Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). Hence, clustering of α-synuclein-immunoreactive Lewy bodies (LB), Lewy neurites (LN), and Lewy grains (LG) was studied in α-synuclein-immunolabeled sections of cortical and limbic regions in 12 cases of PDD. The data suggested that: (1) LB, LN, and LG occurred in clusters which in 63% of regions were regularly distributed parallel to the tissue boundary, (2) in approximately 30% of cortical regions, the estimated cluster size of LB, LN, and LG was within the size range of cellular columns associated with the cortico-cortical pathways, (3) regularly distributed clusters were present in anatomically connected regions, and (4) the clustering pattern was similar to that of prion protein (PrPsc) deposits in Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD). The clustering patterns of LB, LN, and LG were similar to those exhibited by cellular inclusions in other synucleinopathies and by PrPsc deposits in prion disease and therefore, anatomical spread of pathogenic α-synuclein could be involved in the pathogenesis of PDD.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/fn.2017.66710
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Optometry > Optometry
College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Optometry > Optometry & Vision Science Research Group (OVSRG)
College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Optometry > Vision, Hearing and Language
College of Health & Life Sciences > Clinical and Systems Neuroscience
Additional Information: © 2017 Mossakowski Medical Research Centre Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Association of Neuropathologists. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
Uncontrolled Keywords: anatomical spread,Lewy body (LB),Lewy grain (lg),Lewy neurite (LN),Parkinson disease dementia (PDD),spatial pattern,synucleinopathy,Pathology and Forensic Medicine,Clinical Neurology
Publication ISSN: 1509-572X
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2024 08:14
Date Deposited: 26 Apr 2017 14:50
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2017-03-27
Accepted Date: 2017-01-17
Authors: Armstrong, Richard A. (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-5046-3199)

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