TY - JOUR
T1 - Neural patterns in inflammatory bowel disease
T2 - an immunohistochemical survey.
AU - Strobach, R. S.
AU - Ross, A. H.
AU - Markin, R. S.
AU - Zetterman, R. K.
AU - Linder, J.
PY - 1990/7
Y1 - 1990/7
N2 - The differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease remains a significant diagnostic problem for surgical pathologists. Neural abnormalities, such as hypertrophy of nerve plexi, hyperplasia of ganglion cells, and ultrastructural axonal degeneration have been described in patients with regional enteritis. We performed an immunohistochemical survey of forty cases of regional enteritis, ulcerative colitis, nonspecific colitis, and normal colon. A panel of antibodies, directed against neuron-specific enolase, S-100 protein, synaptophysin, neurofilament protein, and nerve growth factor receptor, was utilized to evaluate the distribution of nerve fibers in paraffin-embedded tissue. Anti-synaptophysin and anti-nerve growth factor receptor highlighted small, arborizing nerve fibers in the mucosa, not apparent in the routinely stained sections. Intense staining of these fibers was observed in regional enteritis with antinerve growth factor receptor. This antibody may aid the discrimination of inflammatory bowel disease from other causes of colonic inflammation and facilitate the identification of regional enteritis in endoscopic biopsies.
AB - The differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease remains a significant diagnostic problem for surgical pathologists. Neural abnormalities, such as hypertrophy of nerve plexi, hyperplasia of ganglion cells, and ultrastructural axonal degeneration have been described in patients with regional enteritis. We performed an immunohistochemical survey of forty cases of regional enteritis, ulcerative colitis, nonspecific colitis, and normal colon. A panel of antibodies, directed against neuron-specific enolase, S-100 protein, synaptophysin, neurofilament protein, and nerve growth factor receptor, was utilized to evaluate the distribution of nerve fibers in paraffin-embedded tissue. Anti-synaptophysin and anti-nerve growth factor receptor highlighted small, arborizing nerve fibers in the mucosa, not apparent in the routinely stained sections. Intense staining of these fibers was observed in regional enteritis with antinerve growth factor receptor. This antibody may aid the discrimination of inflammatory bowel disease from other causes of colonic inflammation and facilitate the identification of regional enteritis in endoscopic biopsies.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 2217153
AN - SCOPUS:0025455110
SN - 0893-3952
VL - 3
SP - 488
EP - 493
JO - Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc
JF - Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc
IS - 4
ER -