Immunohistochemical evidence for a possible somatostatin-containing amygdalostriatal pathway in normal and Alzheimer's disease brain

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Somatostatin (SOM) immunohistochemistry was used to map SOM-containing fibers, perikarya and terminal-like structures in the human forebrain of 8 control and 8 Alzheimer's diseased patients. Immunohistochemically processed tissue revealed a somatostatin-immunoreactive amygdalostriatal fiber pathway apparently originating from SOM-positive neurons of the central amygdaloid nucleus. This pathway coursed dorsomedially between the optic tract and the internal segment of the globus pallidus within the ansa peduncularis-ventral amygdalofugal fiber system en route to the substantia innominata-nucleus basalis complex, the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, the medial preoptic hypothalamic area, the nucleus accumbens and the olfactory tubercle. Somatostatin fibers associated with this pathway appeared as coarse heavily stained 'wooly fibers'. At the light microscopic level, there was no apparent difference in this somatostatin containing amygdalostriatal pathway between neurologically normal and Alzheimer's diseased brains. © 1988.

Keywords

Alzheimer's disease, Amygdala, Basal forebrain, Human, Immunohistochemistry, Somatostatin

Publication Date

6-21-1988

Publication Title

Brain Research

ISSN

00068993

Volume

453

Issue

1-2

First Page

117

Last Page

128

PubMed ID

2900053

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/0006-8993(88)90149-7

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