期刊
NEUROPEDIATRICS
卷 40, 期 1, 页码 6-14出版社
GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1224099
关键词
cobblestone lissencephaly; dystroglycanopathy; Golgi analysis; MRI; POMT1 gene mutation
资金
- Croatian Ministry of Science, Education Sport [0108-1081870-1878, 0108-1081870-1885]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 521]
- European Community [FP6]
We have analyzed the morphology and dendritic development of neocortical neurons in a 2.5-month-old infant with Walker-Warburg syndrome homozygotic for a novel POMT1 gene mutation, by Golgi methods. We found that pyramidal neurons frequently displayed abnormal (oblique, horizontal, or inverted) orientation. A novel finding of this study is that members of the same population of pyramidal neurons display different stages of development of their dendritic arborizations: some neurons had poorly developed dendrites and thus resembled pyramidal neurons of the late fetal cortex: for some neurons, the level of differentiation corresponded to that in the newborn cortex: finally, some neurons had quite elaborate dendritic trees as expected for the cortex of 2.5-month-old infant. In addition, apical dendrites of many pyramidal neurons were conspiciously bent to one side, irrespective to the general orientation of the pyramidal neuron. These findings suggest that Walker-Warburg lissencephaly is characterized by two hitherto unnoticed pathogenetic changes in the cerebral cortex: (a) heterochronic decoupling of dendritic maturation within the same neuronal population (with some members significantly lagging behind the normal maturational schedule) and (b) anisotropically distorted shaping of dendritic trees, probably caused by patchy displacement of molecular guidance cues for dendrites in the malformed cortex.
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