MECHANISM OF ARREST OF NEURONAL MIGRATION IN ZELLWEGER MALFORMATION - HYPOTHESIS BASED UPON CYTOARCHITECTONIC ANALYSIS
MECHANISM OF ARREST OF NEURONAL MIGRATION IN ZELLWEGER MALFORMATION - HYPOTHESIS BASED UPON CYTOARCHITECTONIC ANALYSIS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00689761
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
12.7
通讯作者:
LYON, G
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作者:
EVRARD, P;CAVINESS, VS;LYON, G
The brain from a clinically typical case [human infant] of the Zellweger malformation, dying at 5 wk old, was studied in general histologic preparations and Bielschowsky impregnations. Cytoarchitectonic abnormalities typical of previously described cases and unique to the Zellweger malformation were observed in the cerebral hemispheres, the cerebellum and the inferior olivary complex. Neocortical malformation was associated with neuronal heterotopia. The impediment to neuronal migration principally affected neurons destined for the outer cortical layers. The impediment to migration appeared to be only partially effective in that a portion of neurons destined for cortical layers II and III were in their normal laminar positions, whereas others lay in heterotopic intra-cortical and subcortical positions. The cerebellar cortex in this malformation was distinctive for large Purkinje cell heterotopias, subjacent to intact Purkinje and granule cell cortical laminae. Bielschowsky preparations identified multiple primary dendritic processes extending from the somata of heterotopic Purkinje cells. There were laminar discontinuities, unique to this malformation, in the principal nucleus of the inferior olivary complex. By analogy with the cerebellar cortical malformation in the weaver mutant mouse, the Zellweger cortical malformation may result from incomplete disruption of neuronal migration caused by circulating toxic metabolites.