The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques · 2011
Mitochondrial "hypermetabolic" neurons in paediatric epileptic foci.
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Sarnat Harvey B, Flores-Sarnat Laura, Hader Walter, Bello-Espinosa Luis
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BACKGROUND: Repetitively discharging neurons in epileptic foci have a high energy requirement that might be demonstrated histochemically as increased mitochondrial enzymatic activity in brain resections for epilepsy in children.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Frozen sections were studied histochemically of 10 brain resections from 7 epileptic children, 2 months to 17 years of age. None had mitochondrial disease. Three patients had tuberous sclerosis (TS) or hemimegalencephy (HME). Tissues included hippocampus and neocortex. Oxidative enzymes were studied for respiratory chain complexes I, II, IV, using the muscle biopsy protocol. In addition, immunoreactivities of α-B-crystallin and transmission electron microscopy (EM) were performed.
RESULTS: Oxidative activities were variable in adjacent neurons within a field: a minority were intense, adjacent to neurons with weaker mitochondrial activity exhibiting poor contrast of the soma because of similar oxidative activity in surrounding neuropil. Endothelium of vessels uniformly exhibits strong activity. Alpha-B-crystallin reactivity was strong at these foci. EM confirmed an abundance of neuronal mitochondria with normal cristae. In TS and HME, many dysplastic neurons showed intense activity; balloon cells had sparse activity.
CONCLUSIONS: Histochemistry of mitochondrial oxidative enzymes reveals scattered and clustered neurons with stronger activities than others at epileptic foci. Such intensely staining neurons may be functionally "hypermetabolic" but they do not signify mitochondrial disease. Individual intensely stained neurons might be epileptogenic, but do not denote an epileptogenic field in the same manner as α-B-crystallin, which also was strongly reactive in these foci.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Frozen sections were studied histochemically of 10 brain resections from 7 epileptic children, 2 months to 17 years of age. None had mitochondrial disease. Three patients had tuberous sclerosis (TS) or hemimegalencephy (HME). Tissues included hippocampus and neocortex. Oxidative enzymes were studied for respiratory chain complexes I, II, IV, using the muscle biopsy protocol. In addition, immunoreactivities of α-B-crystallin and transmission electron microscopy (EM) were performed.
RESULTS: Oxidative activities were variable in adjacent neurons within a field: a minority were intense, adjacent to neurons with weaker mitochondrial activity exhibiting poor contrast of the soma because of similar oxidative activity in surrounding neuropil. Endothelium of vessels uniformly exhibits strong activity. Alpha-B-crystallin reactivity was strong at these foci. EM confirmed an abundance of neuronal mitochondria with normal cristae. In TS and HME, many dysplastic neurons showed intense activity; balloon cells had sparse activity.
CONCLUSIONS: Histochemistry of mitochondrial oxidative enzymes reveals scattered and clustered neurons with stronger activities than others at epileptic foci. Such intensely staining neurons may be functionally "hypermetabolic" but they do not signify mitochondrial disease. Individual intensely stained neurons might be epileptogenic, but do not denote an epileptogenic field in the same manner as α-B-crystallin, which also was strongly reactive in these foci.