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Title: | Analyzing the Virchow pioneering report on brain corpora amylacea: shedding light on recurrent controversies |
Author: | Riba Baqués, Marta Romera, Clara Alsina Planelles, Raquel Alsina-Scheer, Gerard Pelegrí i Gabaldà, Carme Vilaplana i Hortensi, Jordi Valle i Macià, Jaume del |
Keywords: | Hipocamp (Cervell) Envelliment cerebral Hippocampus (Brain) Aging brain |
Issue Date: | 26-Jun-2023 |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Abstract: | The frst report of corpora amylacea (CA) is attributed to Morgagni, who described them in the prostate in the eighteenth century. Nearly a hundred years later, and following the lead started by Purkinje, Virchow described them in the brain. He made a detailed description of the most useful techniques to visualize them, but he failed to describe the cause of why CA do appear, why they are mainly linked with the elderly, and which is their clinical signifcance. Although in the last two centuries CA have received little attention, recent data have been able to describe that CA accumulate waste products and that some of them can be found in the cerebrospinal fuid and lymphatic nodes, after being released from the brain. Indeed, CA have been renamed to wasteosomes to underline the waste products they gather and to avoid confusion with the term amyloid used by Virchow, now widely related to certain protein deposits found in the brain. Here, after providing a commented English translation of Virchow's fndings, we provide a recent update on these structures and their connection with the glymphatic system insufciency, for which wasteosomes should be considered a hallmark, and how these bodies could serve as diagnostic or prognostic markers of various brain conditions. |
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It is part of: | Brain Structure and Function, 2023 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/204944 |
ISSN: | 1863-2653 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Bioquímica i Fisiologia) |
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