S-100 protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in experimentally induced and spontaneous tumours of peripheral nerves in BDVI rats. Light microscopic and immunohistochemical study.
Twenty-five ethylnitrosourea (ENU) induced and 24 spontaneous tumours of peripheral nerves as well as 28 spontaneous mesenchymal tumours in BDVI rats were studied by light microscopy and immunohistochemically for the presence of S-100 protein (S-100). Early ENU-induced schwannomas*) representing the thickenings of nerves showed weak or negative S-100 immunoreactivity. S-100 positivity (both in the cytoplasm and nucleus) was observed in all large ENU-induced tumours found in animals dying or killed at advanced age. Immunostaining was present in both cystic and solid areas of schwannomas. S-100 positivity was found in 20 of 24 spontaneous schwannomas: 14 of 20 positive tumours contained cysts. Twenty-seven schwannomas (12 ENU-induced and 15 spontaneous) were studied for the presence of glial fibrillar acid protein (GFAP) and 13 were positive (7 had cystic areas). GFAP-positivity was relatively high in 4 tumours (3 ENU-induced and 1 spontaneous); these tumours also showed intense S-100 reactivity. Immunoreactivity for S-100 occurred more frequently and was much more intense than that for GFAP. The incidence of spontaneous peripheral nerve tumours in BDVI males reached 4%, cystic schwannomas being the most frequent type. All spontaneous mesenchymal tumours except lipoma (S-100 positive) were negative for S-100 protein and for GFAP.
Turusov
V S
VS
Cancer Research Centre, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow.
Cabral
J P
JP
D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000737:chemistry; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000737:chemistry; D005038:Ethylnitrosourea / Q000633:toxicity; D005260:Female; D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein / Q000032:analysis*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D008637:Mesenchymoma / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000473:pathology; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000473:pathology; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D009418:S100 Proteins / Q000032:analysis*
D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein; D009418:S100 Proteins; D005038:Ethylnitrosourea