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Cerebrospinal fluid “specific” proteins in various degenerative neurological diseases
Author(s) -
Wikkelsø C.,
Blomstrand C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1982.tb04517.x
Subject(s) - cerebrospinal fluid , chorea , dementia , pathological , degenerative disease , pathology , alzheimer's disease , cerebrospinal fluid proteins , isoelectric point , isoelectric focusing , medicine , antibody , immunology , biology , disease , biochemistry , enzyme
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from patients suffering from various degenerative neurological diseases was fractionated into “CSF‐specific” and antigenically serum‐like proteins, using affinity chromatography with antihuman serum antibodies. The samples were isoelectric focused. Protein patterns were compared to similarly treated CSF from young normal volunteers and age matched controls. Several changes are described and 2 pathological patterns of the CSF‐specific fraction could be identified. One pattern was characteristic for Alzheimer's dementia (AD) and senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT), but also seen in a few other diseases. The other pattern was seen in several of the investigated groups, most prominent in Huntington's chorea.