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NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY
卷 29, 期 2, 页码 132-143出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2990.2003.00452.x
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epilepsy; hippocampus; HSP-70; c-Jun; sudden death; SUDEP
Post-mortem and neuropathological examination in sudden and unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) shows no specific lesions and the exact cause and mechanism of death in these cases remains undetermined. There is clinical evidence to support the fact that SUDEP is a seizure-mediated event, and patients with poorly controlled seizures are at higher risk. We aimed to identify any evidence of acute neuronal injury in SUDEP cases at post-mortem to support that a recent seizure had occurred. We analysed the distribution and frequency of heat shock protein (HSP)-70 and c-Jun immunopositive neurones in the hippocampus in 18 SUDEP cases and 22 control cases, both markers being nonspecific but early and reliable indicators of acute neuronal injury. Post-mortem control groups included patients with epilepsy with cause of death other than SUDEP (including status epilepticus and accidental death), and patients with sudden cardiac death without an epilepsy history. An additional surgical control group included patients with refractory epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis who had undergone temporal lobectomy. Semiquantitative analysis of the distribution of HSP-70 staining showed significantly more SUDEP cases with positively labelled neurones in hippocampal subfields compared to epilepsy and cardiac post-mortem controls (P < 0.001) but not compared to the epilepsy surgical controls (P = 0.4). No significant difference in immunostaining patterns between groups was seen in the parahippocampal gyrus with HSP-70 or with c-Jun in either the hippocampus or parahippocampal gyrus regions. The detection of HSP-70 positive neurones in the hippocampus in SUDEP is supportive of ante-mortem neuronal injury including a recent seizure prior to death.
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