Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Kleinert, R.
Immunohistochemical characterization of primitive neuroectodermal tumors and their possible relationship to the stepwise ontogenetic development of the central nervous system. 2. Tumor studies.
Acta Neuropathol (Berl). 1991; 82(6):508-515
Doi: 10.1007/BF00293386
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- Abstract:
- Thirty-five selected intracranial tumors qualifying as primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs) were investigated; these included medulloblastomas, cerebral neuroblastomas, pinealoblastomas, retinoblastomas, polar spongioblastomas, ependymoblastomas. For control purposes 11 tumors, including glioblastomas (small cell, spongioblastic variants), one anaplastic astrocytoma (astroblastic component), anaplastic oligo-astrocytomas, gangliogliomas, one primary melanoblastoma, and one pineal germinoma, were also studied. Six neuronal markers, i.e., synaptophysin, chromogranin A, neuron-specific enolase (NSE), neurofilament protein (NFP) (160 kDa, 200 kDa, 70 and 200 kDa), and six other markers (glial fibrillary acidic protein, S-100 protein, vimentin, myoglobin, desmin, cytokeratin) were investigated immunohistochemically. A certain recapitulation of the ontogenetic development of neuronal differentiation in PNETs is given by the fact that chromogranin A immunoreactivity can regularly be seen already in poorly differentiated neurons and synaptophysin in well-differentiated ones. Immunostaining for NFPs showed different results depending on the subunit investigated. NSE reaction gave different results even within the single tumor groups. This study is, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt to evaluate and compare, by combined morphological and immunohistochemical methods, PNETs without and with different stages of cellular differentiation with the stepwise differentiation of the human embryonic neuroectoderm.
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- Adolescent -
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- Brain Neoplasms - metabolism
- Central Nervous System - embryology
- Child - embryology
- Child, Preschool - embryology
- Embryonic and Fetal Development - embryology
- Female - embryology
- Humans - embryology
- Immunohistochemistry - embryology
- Infant - embryology
- Infant, Newborn - embryology
- Male - embryology
- Middle Aged - embryology
- Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal - metabolism
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- Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors (Pnet)
- Cellular Differentiation
- Immunohistochemistry
- Synaptophysin
- Chromogranin