title: Lipofuscin pigment in cerebellar Purkinje neurones and choroid plexus epithelial cells of macaque monkeys with Plasmodium knowlesi cerebral malaria: an electron microscopical observation.
abstract: Experimental infection of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) with a virulent (W1) strain of Plasmodium knowlesi resulted in cerebral malaria. Electron microscopical examination of the brain revealed large numbers of intracytoplasmic lipofuscin pigment deposits in cerebellar Purkinje neurones and choroid plexus epithelium of the lateral ventricle. This lesion may be part of the nervous system response to ischaemic hypoxia.
authors.affiliation: Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh State, India.
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Ibiwoye
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Sibbons
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hasan
authors.forename: C V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Desalu
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Singhal
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van Velzen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002831:Choroid Plexus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D004848:Epithelium / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008062:Lipofuscin / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D016779:Malaria, Cerebral / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D016790:Plasmodium knowlesi; D011689:Purkinje Cells / Q000737:chemistry / Q000648:ultrastructure*
chemical_list: D008062:Lipofuscin