IMMUNOGENESIS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PLAQUE
IMMUNOGENESIS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PLAQUE
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(71)90052-7
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
LUMSDEN, CE
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作者:
LUMSDEN, CE
That there is a uniqueness in the pathology of the multiple sclerosis (MS) plaque has been frequently asserted. This' unique'quality lies only partly in the selective (ie axon-sparing) nature of the demyelination, associated with oligodendrogliolysis 11 and with an astrocytic reaction which follows closely upon the heels of this demyelination which, as we have shown 1,'switches on'gliofibrillogenesis almost immediately (as though by some mechanism of de-repression). But the point has been more frequently missed that the uniqueness of the MS lesion lies also in the form of the plaque ('oil-drop'or'ink-blot', as it has been variously compared with), in its obligatory venular relationship 15 and, above all, in its centrifugally-spreading character. That an MS plaque does spread or grow at its edges is a detail of enormous importance--the factual validity of which has to be carefully established--because this conclusion, if accepted as true, renders non-tenable all pathogenetic hypotheses along the lines of anoxia or evanescent thrombP 1. Short of the virtually impossible, a visual demonstration of the actual growth of a plaque, extremely careful pathological analysis of plaques is needed to convince oneself of the truth of this conclusion. Precisely this sort of analysis was again undertaken recently 15 and the verdict, already stated earlier 11, substantiated viz. that plaques begin as collars of demyelination round small veins and that they enlarge thereafter, both steadily and episodically. This anatomo-pathological fact (as the writer now takes it to be) is crucial to a proper understanding of the MS plaque as traced out in the present paper--for the reason that whatever the role of autochthonous antimyelin factors within the affected CNS tissues, the bulk of the factor or agency responsible for the demyelinative enlargement of the MS plaque is derived from the central vein or venule (or from the immediate vicinity thereof) and thence is carried or diffused radially outwards. The pathological analysis attempted in the major study just cited 15 is a critical part of the case to be made out in the present paper.