Journal
ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA
Volume 116, Issue 5, Pages 561-566Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-008-0425-8
Keywords
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Prion protein; Amyloid plaque; White matter
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- Health Sciences of National Institute of Biomedical Innovation
- Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
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Plaque-type deposition of prion protein (PrP) in the brain has been extremely rare in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients with methionine homozygosity at polymorphic codon 129 of the PrP gene and type 1 abnormal isoform of PrP (sCJD-MM1). Here we report three sCJD-MM1 patients who showed prominent PrP-positive amyloid plaques in the cerebral and cerebellar white matter. All three patients showed clinical courses of long duration (2 years <=), particularly at the end-stage. The white matter of these patients was severely damaged because of the prolonged disease duration. Furthermore, Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein, which accumulates within the axonal swellings under pathological conditions, co-accumulated with the PrP-amyloid plaques. These findings suggest that the axonal damage reflecting the prolonged disease duration causes the deposition of PrP-amyloid plaques in the white matter. The present study shows that PrP-amyloid plaques can occur in the white matter of sCJD-MM1 cases.
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