Discontinuous distribution of senile plaques within striate cortex hypercolumns in Alzheimer's disease

Vision Research
R O Kuljis, R K Tikoo

Abstract

Tangential sections of the primary visual (striate) cerebral cortex from five patients with histopathologically verified Alzheimer's disease were used to study the laminar and tangential disposition of senile plaques. These lesions were visualized with thioflavin S or the modified Bielschowsky method, and classified into four different, purely morphological types: "classical", (predominantly) "neuritic", (primarily amyloid) "core" and "diffuse", which were charted and analyzed using computer-assisted three- and two-dimensional reconstruction and mapping methods. These analyses reveal a tendency for a selective laminar disposition of the lesions (preferentially in layers II/III and V) which is generally consistent with previous reports performed at lower resolution, yet the specific pattern is highly variable among patients, and among plaque subtypes within individual patients. In addition, we observed a clustering of senile plaques in the tangential domain (i.e. parallel to the pial surface) in layers II/III, that suggests a selective involvement of iterated circuits within the "units", "modules", or "hypercolumns" that some believe compose this region of the cortex. These findings also imply an intriguing relative sparing of i...Continue Reading

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