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Cytopathological Changes in Human and Animals Brains in Prion Diseases

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Studies of histological preparations of the brains of humans and animals with prion diseases showed that neuron vacuolization often starts and develops intensely in the distal segments of dendrites. Two types of neuron body death were noted – cytolysis and pyknosis, the latter usually being associated with vacuolization of dendrites. The involvement of the main types of neuroglia in the pathogenesis of prion diseases was established, which provides grounds for referring to gliosis rather than astrocytosis. Accumulation of phagocytes (microgliocytes, blood macrophages, pericytes) and release of lymphocytes from blood vessels with diffuse infiltration of brain tissues by these cells to form accumulations around degeneratively changed neurons were noted.

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  1. Laboratory for Encephalitis Immunology, M. P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitis, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow

    V. Ya. Karmysheva, V. V. Pogodina & V. M. Roikhel'

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Karmysheva, V.Y., Pogodina, V.V. & Roikhel', V.M. Cytopathological Changes in Human and Animals Brains in Prion Diseases. Neurosci Behav Physiol 34, 509–513 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:NEAB.0000022639.59501.30

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