HIV‐lnduced CNS Lesions
HIV‐lnduced CNS Lesions
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HIV 引起的中枢神经系统损伤
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1991
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H. Budka
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C. Wiley;H. Budka
s from the most recent Society for Neurosciences' meeting. While the individual authors were preparing their chapters, a group of investigators were consulted on a glossary for this blossoming field. Deriving a consensus was complicated by the geographical dispersion of the co-authors, and the nature of progress in this field. As would be expected in any symposium undertaking the division of a large topic into individual parcels, overlap between the chapters occur. While some of this has been edited, in many cases the individual authors' perspective on fringes of their field provides a completely different perspective on the issue and thus both perspectives have been retained. The first section by Dr. Price reviews the clinical background of AIDS related neurologic disease. Jwtaposing both past and recommended clinical terminology, Dr. Price emphasizes the issue that clinical neurologic syndromes are not synonymous with HIV infection of the central nervous system (CNS). The second section by Dr. Budka reviews morphological features of HIV-specific or HIV-associated CNS tissue lesions, their possible pathogenesis, and clinical relevance. He points out that HIV encephalitis and HW leukoencephalopathy are consistently associated with local increase of virus production. In addition, he suggests that a second pathogenic pathway, which involves neurotoxicity of HIV or other products, is also supported by neuropathologic investigation. The third section by Drs. Achim, Schrier and Wiley examines the immunopathogenesis of HIV encephalitis. They compare classical CNS viral infections of polioencephalitis in the immune intact individual and PML in the immunocompromised individual to what is known about the immune response that occurs in the CNS of HIV encephalitis. In the context of what is known about these other viral encephalitides, the CNS immune response in HIV encephalitis appears appropriate, however, absence of the effector side of the immune system (in particular CD4 positive helper cells) results in an uncontrolled HIV infection within CNS tissue. Why the CNS becomes a reservoir of HIV infection may be related to trophic cytokines shared between immune and CNS cells that lead to an abundant permissive infection within CNS macrophages/microglia. Many parts of this symposium deal with the ever elusive issue of 'neurotropism". Neurotropism of a virus encompasses neurovirulence, the ability to cause neurological disease; neuroinvasiveness, the ability to enter the nervous system; and virus replication within the proper CNS parenchymal elements (neurons, astrocytes and oligodendroglia). While the first two properties fully apply to HIV, evidence for the third is controversial or lacking, at least in VIvo, as exhaustively discussed in this symposium. It is important to recognize this restricted type of HIV "neurotropism' as one of the most fascinating properties of the virus. Clarification of its cause, in the context of the virus-host interrelation, will provide not only a decisive step in our understanding of HIVassociated neurological disease, but is likely to contribute greatly to our understanding of other viral or immune-mediated diseases of the nervous system. The fourth section by Drs. Chiodi and Fenyo addresses this important issue. Does HIV infection of the 154 C.A. Wiley and H. Budka: HIV-Induced CNS lesions CNS result from failed immune control or the emergence of a viral variant that is neurotropic? While rare individuals will develop diffuse neurologic disease before systemic immunodeficiency, as pointed out by Dr. Price, this is clearly the exception to the rule. Nevertheless, HIV can frequently be recovered from the CNS soon after infection. Numerous investigators have attempted to identify "neurotropic" variants of HIV. Dual-tropic strains that grow in macrophages and T-cells have been discovered, but these strains show no selective CNS cell growth. Whether this is an artifact of our detection technology or a true reflection of the virus is unclear. Drs. Chiodi and Fenyo note that the polymerase chain reaction can detect provirus in various HIV infected CNS cell lines, but no antigen has been detected. Whether this level of viral infection could have biologic effects on CNS cells in vivo is unknown. The fifth section by Dr. Lipton examines the in vitro neurotoxicity associated with HIV infection. As the story unfolds from studies by a limited number of investigators, some factor associated with HIV infected macrophages (or stimulated non-infected macrophages?) leads to neuronal death in vitro. It is unclear what the neurotoxic agent(s) is and what the mechanism(s) of neurotoxicity is (are). Both viral (i.e., gp120) and immune factors (i.e., cytokines) may account for neuronal (and glial?) damage in vitro. The role of calcium influx and the channels and receptors (e.g., NMDA and non-NMDA) involved are only beginning to be understood as new methodology develops that permit analysis of these complex questions. Because presence in the CNS of the CD4 molecule is highly controversial, new CNS specific receptors common to rodent and human nervous systems have been proposed to account for diminished neurotrophic responses. These complex questions offer an exciting outlook for treatment of HIVassociated neurologic disease. In the sixth section, Drs. Lackner, Dandekar and Gardner provide an excellent overview of two important animal models of HIV encephalitis, FIV and SIV. In both animal models immunosuppression and CNS infection are strikingly similar to that seen in AIDS. Viral localization in HIV and SIV are virtually identical. Curiously, early reports of FIV suggest that astrocytes also support productive infection. If this is confirmed, it would add importance to more closely evaluating limited infection of CNS cells by HIV. Both models offer a time scale and sampling capacity to permit studies of the pathogenesis of CNS disease in retroviral infection. Early studies of neurotoxic factors similar to those identified in Dr. Lipton's chapter heighten enthusiasm about these models. In addition to the six symposium articles, a review of the nomenclature of HIV-associated neurological disease is given as the Consensus Report. As supplementation of new clinical terminology proposed by the American Academy of Neurology AIDS Task Force (to be published by Neurology almost simultaneously with this issue of Brain Pathology), a neuropathology based terminology is proposed here, and the novel entities are defined. It is hoped that neuropathologists who do not see many AIDS cases will benefit from these diagnostic guidelines. The final aim is to have neuropathologists adopt a more universal language when examining HIV-associated diseases of the nervous system. Clayton A. Wiley Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurosciences University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0612, U.S.A. Herbert Budka Professor of Neuropathology University of Vienna A-1090 Wien, Austria