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Redistribution of neurofilaments and accumulation of beta-amyloid protein after brain injury by rotational acceleration of the head.

Abstract：

:Rotational acceleration of the head, as occurs in falls, car crashes, and sport injuries, may result in diffuse brain damage, with acute and chronic neurological and psychiatric symptoms. The present study addresses the effects of rotational trauma on the neuronal cytoskeleton, which stabilizes perikaryal, dendritic and axonal shape and function. The study focuses upon the distribution of (1) the phosphorylated form of the heavy neurofilament subunit, (2) the light neurofilament subunit, and (3) beta-amyloid, a marker for brain injury. While normally restricted to axons, the phosphorylated heavy neurofilament subunits were drastically decreased in the axons after rotational trauma. Instead, they accumulated in the neuronal perikarya, normally devoid of the phosphorylated subunit. This alteration was seen, not only in the cerebral cortex, but also in the hippocampus, the cervical spinal cord, the cerebellum, the cranial nerves and the pyramidal tract. The distribution of the light subunit of neurofilaments was also altered post trauma. Only a weak beta-amyloid immunoreactivity was detected in the brains of control animals. Promptly after the trauma, a large number of beta-amyloid positive neurons appeared. Intensely co-localized immunoreactivity for the light subunit of neurofilaments and of beta-amyloid was seen 3 days after the rotational trauma axons of in the subcortical white matter and in the granule cell layer of the dentate gyrus as well as in neurons of the hypoglossal nucleus. The reported alterations in the central nervous system neurons are similar to those in the human brain after closed head injury and in chronic degenerative diseases. Regions of importance for social behavior, memory and body movement were affected.

journal_name

J Neurotrauma

journal_title

Journal of neurotrauma

authors

Hamberger A,Huang YL,Zhu H,Bao F,Ding M,Blennow K,Olsson A,Hansson HA,Viano D,Haglid KG

doi

10.1089/08977150360547080

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-02-01 00:00:00

pages

169-78

issue

eissn

0897-7151

issn

1557-9042

journal_volume

pub_type

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Redistribution of neurofilaments and accumulation of beta-amyloid protein after brain injury by rotational acceleration of the head.