Abstract Details

Title Effects of the CSF from Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis Patient on the Cultured Neurons

Topic Neurotoxicology

Presentation(s) P06 - (-)

Poster/Presentation
Number 201

Objective

Background BACKGROUND: Anti-NMDA receptor autoantibodies (NMDAR-Abs) are thought to relate closely to the pathogenesis of NMDAR encephalitis. The NMDARs have roles on memory, learning, or cognition and the patients with this disease frequently show impairment of these abilities as their major symptom. We had reported that the NMDAR-Ab-positive patient's CSF could reduce the size of long-term potentiation, a model for memory and learning, using mouse hippocampal slices. To understand the further pathomechanisms of this disease, we examined these antibody-effects on cultured neurons.

Design/Methods DESIGN/METHODS: Primary culture of mouse hippocampal neurons were prepared and incubated with the patients' CSF or other controls with or without complement under incubation microscope to see their morphological changes chronologically. We also compared the mRNA expression in these neurons to see the background of the morphological changes.

Results RESULTS: The hippocampal neurons incubated with NMDAR-Ab-positive CSF showed that the neurons form thicker dendrites and connected with nearby neurons extensively than those incubated with antibody-absorbed patient's CSF or antibody-negative control CSF. A set of inflammation related molecules were overexpressed in these neurons.

Conclusions CONCLUSIONS: The CSF from the patients with NMDAR encephalitis effected as extension of neuronal outgrowth that might be related to the favorable long term outcome of this disease.

Authors/Disclosures
Keiko Tanaka, MD, PhD (Kanazawa Medical University) PRESENTER	Keiko Tanaka, MD, PhD has nothing to disclose.
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Makoto Matsui, MD, PhD, FAAN (Houju Memorial Hospital)	No disclosure on file
Masami Tanaka, MD, FAAN (Kyoto Min-iren Chuo Hosp)	Dr. Tanaka has nothing to disclose.
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Steven Galetta, MD, FAAN (NYU Langone Medical Center)	Dr. Galetta has nothing to disclose.

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