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[Specific features of reelin expression in the brain of fetuses and newborns with internal hydrocephalus]
E V Protsenko1, M E Vasilyeva1, L P Peretyatko1
1Laboratory of Pathomorphology and Electron Microscopy, V.N. Gorodkov Ivanovo Research Institute of Maternity and Childhood, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Ivanovo, Russia.
Aim:
to study reelin expression in the neocortex of fetuses and newborns with internal hydrocephalus (HC) and to reveal its features in relation to the etiology of HC.
Material And Methods:
The brains of fetuses and newborn at 22-40 weeks' gestation with internal HC associated with Sylvian aqueduct malformation (n=9), post-inflammatory (n=4) and post-hemorrhagic (n=5) HC were examined. In a comparison group, the fragments of brain tissue with a slit-like lumen of the lateral ventricles were no more than 0.5 cm (n=20). A standard immunohistochemical method was used to reveal reelin expression in the neocortex of the anterior third of the precentral gyrus.
Results:
HC associated with Sylvian aqueduct malformation is characterized by a negative reelin immunoexpression. In postinflammatory HC, the expression of reelin decreases significantly (p=0.025) with respect to the conditional norm and, in posthemorrhagic HC it is comparable with that in the comparison group.
Conclusion:
The features of reelin expression in the brain of fetuses and newborns at 22-40 weeks' gestation with internal HC should be considered as morphological differential and diagnostic criteria for the disease in relation to its etiology.
