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TitleMicroglial and Neuronal TDP-43 Pathology in Anti-IgLON5-Related Tauopathy.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsCagnin, A, Mariotto, S, Fiorini, M, Gaule, M, Bonetto, N, Tagliapietra, M, Buratti, E, Zanusso, G, Ferrari, S, Monaco, S
JournalJ Alzheimers Dis
Volume59
Issue1
Pagination13-20
Date Published2017
ISSN1875-8908
Abstract

A novel neuronal tauopathy, mainly confined to hypothalamus and brainstem tegmentum, has recently been reported in patients with autoantibodies to the neuronal cell-adhesion molecule IgLON5. We describe a patient with anti-IgLON5 syndrome, who presented with dysautonomia and sleep disorder, followed by subacute dementia. Postmortem brain examination disclosed neuronal tau pathology prevailing in the hippocampus, amygdala, and locus coeruleus, in addition to microglial/neuronal TDP-43 pathology, with overexpression of aberrantly phosphorylated forms and neurotoxic truncated fragments, in basal ganglia, nucleus basalis, thalamus, and midbrain. These findings suggest that neurodegeneration in anti-IgLON5 syndrome might also occur via a microglia-triggered non-cell autonomous pathway.

DOI10.3233/JAD-170189
Alternate JournalJ. Alzheimers Dis.
PubMed ID28550263
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