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ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2021

Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein and Ionized Calcium-Binding Adapter Molecule 1 Immunostaining Score for the Central Nervous System of Horses With Non-suppurative Encephalitis and Encephalopathies.

Gisele Silva Boos, Klaus Failing, Edson Moleta Colodel, David Driemeier, Márcio Botelho de Castro, Daniele Mariath Bassuino, José Diomedes Barbosa, Christiane Herden

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Article in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Gisele Silva BoosDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany.
Klaus FailingUnit of Biomathematics and Data Processing, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany.
Edson Moleta ColodelLaboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil.
David DriemeierDepartment of Veterinary Pathology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Márcio Botelho de CastroLaboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
Daniele Mariath BassuinoLaboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Universidade de Cruz Alta, Cruz Alta, Brazil.
José Diomedes BarbosaVeterinary Diagnostics Center, Veterinary Institute, Universidade Federal do Pará, Castanhal, Brazil.
Christiane HerdenDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany.
University of Giessen · DEUniversidade de Brasília · BRUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso · BRUniversidade Federal do Pará · BRUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BRUniversity of Cruz Alta · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Like humans, horses are susceptible to neurotropic and neuroinvasive pathogens that are not always readily identified in histological sections. Instead, alterations in astrocytes and microglia cells can be used as pathological hallmarks of injured nervous tissue in a variety of infectious and degenerative diseases. On the other hand, equine glial cell alterations are poorly characterized in diseases. Therefore, in this study, we provide a statistically proved score system to classify astrogliosis and microgliosis in the central nervous system (CNS) of horses, based on morphological and quantitative analyses of 35 equine cases of encephalitis and/or encephalopathies and four non-altered CNS as controls. For this system, we used glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1 (Iba1) immunohistochemistry, allied to statistical analysis to confirm that the scores were correctly designated. The scores of alterations ranged from 0 (non-altered) to 3 (severely altered) and provided a helpful method for describing astrocytic and microglial alterations in horses suffering from inflammatory and degenerative lesions. This system could be a template for comparative studies in other animal species and could aid algorithms designed for artificial intelligence methods lacking a defined morphological pattern.

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astrocytesdegenerativeetiologyinfectiousmicrogliascore system

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