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J.Neuropathol.Exp.Neurol.2012Review Flashcards

1
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Although the severity AB plaques may play a key role in AD pathogenesis, the severity of cognitive impairment correlates best with what?

A

The burden of neocortical neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs)

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What is required for a definitive diagnosis of AD?

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Autopsy

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Neurofibrillary pathology comprises what? (5)

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-Aberrant
-Partly Soluble
-Protease-Resistant
-Hyperphosphorylated
TAU AGGREGATES

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Neurofibrillary pathology by Electron Microscopy shows what?

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Paired helical filaments

  • Inside various cellular components OR
  • Extracellular after death of the parent cell
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Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) describes what?

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Neurofibrillary pathology found in cell bodies

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What is a pretangle?

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Contains abnormal hyperphosphorylated TAU in nonfibrillar (partially soluble) and non argyrophilic forms.

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T/F: Pretangles are capable of developing into NFTs.

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True

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8
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What are amyloid plaques that contain the Amyloid Beta peptide (ABPs)?

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  • Extracellular
  • Spherical (roughly) structures
  • Contain AB peptide and other material
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ABPs can be detected histologically with what special stains? (3)

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  • Congo Red
  • Silver Stains
  • Thioflavin-like Molecules
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Diffuse ABPs may be visualized using what?

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Silver stains and anti-AB immunostains

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What are Neuritic AB plaques (NPs)?

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-ABPs that are invested by swollen, degenerating neurites and glial cell processes

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In NPs, what do the swollen neurites contain?

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Filamentous TAU protein aggregates

-Structurally identical to the inclusions with the NFT

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13
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The density of NPs is graded according to what?

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Consortium to Establish A Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD) criteria

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By definition, what do diffuse plaques lack?

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Dystrophic tau-immunoreactive neurites

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Braak stages refer to what?

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Hypothetically predictable progression of NFT-type pathologic features in the brain during the course of Alzheimer disease.

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16
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Braak stages:

-(I-III)

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Early stages

-Medial Temporal lobe structures ONLY

17
Q

Braak stages:

-(IV-VI)

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Later stages

-Progressively affect the neocortex

18
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Medial Temporal Lobe Structures (MTLs) comprise what structures? (4)

A
  • Amygdala
  • Entorhinal Cortex*
  • Cornu Ammonis (CA) fields*
  • Subiculum of the Hippocampus*

*Allocortical structures

19
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MTLs play important role in what?

A

Consolidating short-term memory

20
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Hippocampal pathology is ubiquitous in AD patients but is not relevant for clinicopathologic correlation due to what?

A

Strong “floor-and-ceiling” effects

21
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What is the areas of cerebral cortex outside of allocortical areas refered to as?

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Isocortex/Neocortex

22
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What is the function of the neocortical areas?

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Higher order function

  • Judgement
  • Executive function
23
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T/F: The distinction between the MTL areas and neocortical areas is important in comprehending the predictable, but nonlinear, progression of pathology in AD.

A

True

24
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What are the neuropathologic hallmarks of AD?

A
  • Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs; including pretangles)
  • Amyloid Beta plaques (ABPs; including diffuse and neuritic plaques*)

*also referred to as “senile plaques”

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Q

What are some additional (not pathognomic) changes seen in brains of AD patients? (8)

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  • Amyloid angiopathy
  • Age-related brain atrophy
  • Synaptic pathology
  • White matter rarefaction
  • Granulovaculolar degeneration
  • Neuron loss
  • TDP-43 proteinopathy
  • Neuroinflammation
26
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T/F: Neurofibrillary tangles are not specific for AD.

A

True

“NFTs are found in both controls and dements in the hippocampus, but elsewhere in the cortex was only severe or widespread in the dements…” -Tomlinson et.al (1970)

27
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What are some other conditions were NFTs are found? (9)

*What does this suggest?

A
  • Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration with Tauopathy (FTLD-MAPT)
  • Focal Cortical Dysplasia
  • Myotonic Dystrophy
  • Prion Diseases
  • Metabolic/Storage Diseases
  • Brain Tumors (some)
  • Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
  • Viral Encephalitis
  • Other Brain diseases

*NFTs are, at least under some conditions, a secondary response to injury.

28
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Neurofibrillary degeneration restricted to what anatomical locations are typically subclinical?

A

Subcortical sites

29
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Where are Amyloid Beta plaques located?

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Extracellular

30
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T/F: ABPs are found in a high proportion of ALL elderly persons but are not universal.

A

True

31
Q

What ABP subtype is more likely to be associated with cognitive impairment?
-What is the other subtype?

A 
Neuritic plaques (NPs)
-"diffuse plaques"
32
Q

What are Neuritic Plaques?

A

ABPs surrounded by degenerating axons and dendrites
-Contain hyperphosphorylated TAU aggregates

*Hallmark of the current diagnostic criteria for AD

33
Q

What are the High-Penetrance AD genetic risk alleles? (4)

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  • APOE e4 allele
  • Trisomy 21
  • APP mutations/duplications
  • PSEN1/PSEN2 mutations
34
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What are the high-penetrance AD genetic risk alleles associated with?

A

Increased AB deposition and increased formation of putative toxic AB peptide species

35
Q

Genetic factors confer approximately __% of an individuals risk for AD.

A

70%

36
Q

Dense and extensive neocortical ___ are very consistently associated with dementia and thus, according to new diagnostic criteria, are required to constitue high burden of AD neuropathologic change.

A

NFTs

37
Q

What are the effects of anti-AB immunotherapy in patients with mid- to late-stage AD?

A
  • Partially cleared ABPs
  • No effect on NFT formation
  • Little effect on disease course
38
Q

In most community-based autopsy series, non-AD tauopathies constitute approximately ___% of dementia cases.

A

1%

39
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What are the Non-AD Tauopathies? (6)

A
  • FTLD-MAPT
  • Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  • Corticobasal Degeneration
  • Pick Disease
  • Argyrophilic Grain Disease
  • “Tangle-Only Dementia”

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