Sporadic motor neuron disease with Lewy body-like hyaline inclusions.
Lewy body-like hyaline inclusions were immunocytochemically and electron microscopically investigated in a patient with sporadic motor neuron disease. The hyaline inclusions were chiefly observed within the perikarya of both normal-looking and chromatolytic anterior horn cells in the lumbar spinal cord, but some were detected in the axons and dendrites. Usually, a single inclusion was found in the perikaryon, but in rare cases two or more were observed. Immunocytochemically, these inclusions were intensely immunostained with anti-ubiquitin antibody. Ultrastructurally, the hyaline inclusions were chiefly composed of randomly arranged linear structures associated with ribosome-like granules, varying from compactly arranged linear densities to more loosely packed ones. They contained scattered vesicles of various sizes and occasionally a focal accumulation of randomly arranged 10-nm neurofilaments or 13-25-nm filamentous structures.
Sasaki
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Department of Neurology, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan.
Yamane
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Sakuma
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Maruyama
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D000368:Aged; D001369:Axons / Q000473:pathology; D003712:Dendrites / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D002479:Inclusion Bodies / Q000473:pathology*; D007382:Intermediate Filaments / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000473:pathology*; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology*