| Literature DB >> 14872046 |
Roland Nau1, Joachim Gerber, Stephanie Bunkowski, Wolfgang Brück.
Abstract
The contribution of axonal injury to CNS damage in bacterial meningitis was studied by histology and immunohistochemistry for amyloid-beta precursor protein in humans and experimental rabbits. Axonal injury in the white matter caused predominantly but not exclusively by ischemia was detected in all autopsy cases (n = 5) and in 11 of 15 brains of rabbits 18 to 24 hours after intracisternal infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae. This suggests a substantial contribution of axonal pathology to neurologic sequelae after bacterial meningitis.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 14872046 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000106826.82670.30
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN: 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910