title: Brain lesions associated with acute toxic hepatopathy in cattle.
abstract: Samples of the liver, telencephalon, brainstem, and cerebellum were obtained from 22 bovids suffering from spontaneous or experimental acute toxic liver disease. Perreyia flavipes larvae, and leaves of Cestrum corymbosum, Cestrum intermedium, Dodonaea viscosa, Trema micrantha, and Xanthium cavanillesii were the causal agents in the disorders studied. Hematoxylin and eosin and periodic acid-Schiff staining, as well as anti-S100 protein (anti-S100), anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (anti-GFAP), and anti-vimentin immunostaining were used to evaluate the brain sections. Astrocytic changes were observed in all samples and were characterized by swollen vesicular nuclei in gray (Alzheimer type II astrocytes) and white matter; and by abundant eosinophilic or vacuolated cytoplasm with pyknotic nuclei in the white matter. These changes were evidenced by anti-S100 and anti-GFAP immunostaining. Our study demonstrates major changes in astrocytes of cattle that died with neurologic clinical signs as the result of acute toxic liver disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (A Wouters, F Wouters, Varaschin).|Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cuiabá University, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Boabaid).|Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Fredo, Watanabe, Driemeier).
authors.forename: Angelica T B
authors.initials: ATB
authors.lastname: Wouters
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (A Wouters, F Wouters, Varaschin).|Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cuiabá University, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Boabaid).|Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Fredo, Watanabe, Driemeier).
authors.forename: Flademir
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wouters
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (A Wouters, F Wouters, Varaschin).|Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cuiabá University, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Boabaid).|Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Fredo, Watanabe, Driemeier).
authors.forename: Fabiana M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Boabaid
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (A Wouters, F Wouters, Varaschin).|Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cuiabá University, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Boabaid).|Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Fredo, Watanabe, Driemeier).
authors.forename: Tatiane T N
authors.initials: TTN
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (A Wouters, F Wouters, Varaschin).|Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cuiabá University, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Boabaid).|Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Fredo, Watanabe, Driemeier).
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fredo
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (A Wouters, F Wouters, Varaschin).|Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cuiabá University, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Boabaid).|Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Fredo, Watanabe, Driemeier).
authors.forename: Mary S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Varaschin
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (A Wouters, F Wouters, Varaschin).|Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cuiabá University, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (Boabaid).|Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Fredo, Watanabe, Driemeier).
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Driemeier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000166:cytology; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000378:metabolism; D056486:Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein / Q000378:metabolism; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000662:veterinary; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D013194:Staining and Labeling
chemical_list: D005904:Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
keywords: Astrocytes; bovids; hepatic encephalopathy; immunohistochemistry; neuropathology