Chronic exposure to a hypoxic environment results in a number of physiological changes such as cardiac arrhythmia and pulmonary edema. We hereby studied the variations in activation of brain areas during simple calculation tasks between individuals originating from different altitudes. Two groups of subjects, one from 1700 m above sea level (lowlanders) and the other one from at least 3000 m ab...

We report a quantitative radioimmunohistochemical method, using [125I]-protein A in combination with a specific antibody to methionine enkephalin (Met-enk), for determination of the content of this peptide in discrete areas of rat brain. After paraformaldehyde fixation, rat brain sections were incubated with a Met-enk polyclonal antibody, followed by incubation with [125I]-protein A. After auto...

Sampling of large-sized brains (eg, dog, primate) for microscopic examination is frequently inadequate to detect localized neurotoxic injury. Furthermore, the examination of H&E-stained sections alone will often be insufficient for the detection of subtle neuropathogic alteration. It is imperative for any pathologist evaluating brain sections to have knowledge of microscopic neuroanatomy and to...

Corpora amylacea (CA) are glycoprotein-based depositions that accumulate in the normal aging brain or consecutively to different neuro-degenerative diseases. Although controversies still exists in what it regards their origins and functions, their morphology is described simply as round basophilic entities based on bi-dimensional observations. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the th...