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On the development of CNS lesions in natural canine distemper encephalomyelitis.

Abstract：

:Acute lesions within spinal cord white matter have been studied by light and electron microscopy in 3 dogs suffering from the acute form of canine distemper encephalomyelitis (CDE). Prominent features of these lesions were viral inclusions, giant cell formation, cellular degeneration, myelin breakdown and phagocytic activity by cells believed to be derived from local glia. The viral inclusions occurred in giant cells, many astrocytes, macrophages and occasional oligodendroglia. Only suggestions of active viral replication from cell membranes were present. On the basis of the above features, these CDE lesions were classed as being acute. Perivascular inflammation and parenchymal invasion by haematogenous cells were lacking. However, older, gliotic, demyelinated lesions were always associated with inflammation. The pattern of demyelination in acute CDE lesions differed from those seen in other conditions, in particular the autoimmune demyelinating diseases. In acute CDE lesions, individual fibres became separated from others by rings of cells, the processes of which systematically stripped the myelin from the outer layers of the sheath inwards until a naked segment of axon remained. Some of the macrophages were recognisable as astroglia. Elsewhere, unequivocal astrocytes containing myelin debris were common. The results suggest that inflammation in acute CDE lesions is not a primary event, and that viral invasion causes breakdown of tissue which is accompanied pari passu by myelin destruction. The latter might be related to the non-specific release of host factors (viz. hydrolytic enzymes) or humoral factors during the cellular degeneration. Local cells appeared to participate in the process of myelin phagocytosis. Overt inflammation and damage by haematogenous cells were features only of chronic lesions and have been described previously in studies on chronic CDE lesions. The results are interpreted in terms of their relevance to the study of human subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, of which CDE is considered the animal analogue, and multiple sclerosis, the paradigm of the human demyelinating diseases.

journal_name

J Neurol Sci

journal_title

Journal of the neurological sciences

authors

Raine CS

doi

10.1016/0022-510x(76)90251-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1976-11-01 00:00:00

pages

13-28

issue

eissn

0022-510X

issn

1878-5883

pii

0022-510X(76)90251-3

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On the development of CNS lesions in natural canine distemper encephalomyelitis.