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Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural studies of neuronal and oligodendroglial cytoplasmic inclusions in multiple system atrophy. 1. Neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions.

Neuronal alterations in five cases of multiple system atrophy (MSA) were investigated histologically, immunocytochemically and ultrastructurally. Argentophilic neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions (NCIs) were observed in all cases. They were distributed, in order of decreasing frequency, in the pontine nucleus, striatum, subiculum, amygdala, hippocampus, dentate fascia, substantia nigra and inferior olivary nucleus. Anti-ubiquitin antibodies visualized many thickened neurites in the degenerating gray matter as well as NCIs. Some NCIs were also recognized by anti-phosphorylated neurofilament antibodies. Ultrastructurally, NCIs consisted of a meshwork of granule-associated filaments, the diameter ranging from 18 to 28 nm, that were mixed with neurofilaments. The granule-associated filaments were also present in the axoplasm of myelinated fibers. Our studies demonstrate widespread distribution of NCIs in the central nervous system of MSA. The same pathological process that forms the granule-associated filaments in axons may also be responsible for the formation of ubiquitin-positive thickened neurites. These axonal alterations, as well as neuronal perikaryal changes, may play an important role in the impaired neuronal function in MSA.

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Molecular structures of the inclusion complexes beta-cyclodextrin-1,2-bis(4-aminophenyl)ethane and beta-cyclodextrin-4,4'-diaminobiphenyl; packing of dimeric beta-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes.

The present investigation is part of an ongoing study on the influence of the long end-functonalized guest molecules DBA and BNZ in the crystal packing of beta-cyclodextrin (betaCD) dimeric complexes. The title compounds are 2:2 host:guest complexes showing limited host-guest hydrogen bonding at the primary faces of the betaCD dimers. Within the betaCD cavity the guests exhibit mutual pi...pi interactions and between betaCD dimers perpendicular NH...pi interactions. The DBA guest molecule exhibits one extended and two bent conformations in the complex. The BNZ guest molecule is not planar inside betaCD, in contrast to the structure of BNZ itself, which indicates that the cavity isolates the molecules and forbids the pi...pi stacking of the aromatic rings. NMR spectroscopy studies show that in aqueous solution both DBA and BNZ form strong complexes that have 1:1 stoichiometry and structures similar to the solid state ones. The relative packing of the dimers is the same in both complexes. The axes of two adjacent dimers form an angle close to 20 degrees and have a lateral displacement approximately 2.45 A, both of which characterize the screw-channel mode of packing. Although the betaCD/BNZ complex indeed crystallizes in a space group characterizing the latter mode, the betaCD/DBA complex crystallizes in a space group with novel dimensions not resembling any of the packing modes reported so far. The new lattice is attributed to the three conformations exhibited by the guest in the crystals. However, this lattice can be transformed into another, which is isostructural to that of the betaCD/BNZ inclusion complex, if the conformation of the guest is not taken into account.

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A crystalline inclusion in sieve element nuclei of Amsinckia. I. The inclusion in differentiating cells.

The presence of usually single, elongated, compound crystalloids in nuclei of sieve elements is an outstanding characteristic of the phloem of Amsinckia douglasiana A. DC. (Boraginaceae). The crystalloid consists of two components forming alternating panels, or blocks, that extend through the entire length of the crystalloid and radiate from the centre where one of the components predominates. Three to seven panels for each component were recorded. One component consists of 4-sided tubules closely packed in highly ordered aggregates, the other of wider 6-sided tubules rather loosely arranged in paracrystalline aggregates. The crystalloid arises at the beginning of sieve element differentiation. Aggregates of 4-sided tubules appear first. In plants infected with the curly top virus, the crystalloids do not differ from those in non-infected controls in structure and conformation. But because the phloem in infected plants is hyperplastic, with most of the cells differentiating as sieve elements, the crystalloids are far more abundant in diseased than in healthy plants.

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A crystalline inclusion in sieve element nuclei of Amsinckia. II. The inclusion in maturing cells.

The compounds crystalloids formed in sieve element nuclei of Amsinckia douglasiana A. DC. (Boraginaceae) during differentiation of the cell become disaggregated during the nuclear breakdown characteristic of a maturing sieve element. The phenomenon occurs in both healthy and virus-infected plants. The crystalloid component termed cy, which is loosely aggregated, separates from the densely aggregated component termed cx and disperses. The cx component may become fragmented, or broken into large pieces, or remain intact after the cell matures. After their release from the nucleus both crystalloid components become spatially associated with the dispersed P-protein originating in the cytoplasm, but remain distinguishable from it. The component tubules of P-protein are hexagonal in transections and are somewhat wider than the 6-sided cy tubules. The cx tubules are much narrower than the P-protein or the cy tubules and have square transections. Both the P-protein and the products of disintegrated crystalloids accumulate at sieve plates in sieve elements subjected to sudden release of hydrostatic pressure by cutting the phloem. The question of categorizing the tubular components of the nuclear crystalloid of a sieve element with reference to the concept of P-protein is discussed.

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