[Light microscopic studies of concanavalin A binding in the choroid plexus epithelium and ependymal cells of the cerebral ventricle and human tumors derived from those tissues].

Abstract

Histochemical investigations of human choroid plexus with lectins revealed strong cytoplasmic binding of concanavalin A to plexus epithelium, whereas ependymal cells were unstained or only weakly reactive. A similar but less clear-cut staining pattern by concanavalin A was observed with plexus papillomas and ependymomas. A clear discrimination however, between the two tumor types using this method is not possible.

• Authors: M Kasper, R Goertchen, J Gottschalk
• Journal: Zentralblatt fur allgemeine Pathologie u. pathologische Anatomie (Zentralbl Allg Pathol) Vol. 133 Issue 4 Pg. 331-6 ( 1987) ISSN: 0044-4030 [Print] Germany
• Vernacular Title: Lichtmikroskopische Untersuchungen zur Concanavalin-A-Bindung an den Epithelien der Plexus chorioidei und den Ependymzellen der Hirnventrikel und davon abgeleitete Tumoren des Menschen.
• PMID: 3425012 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Receptors, Concanavalin A

Topics

• Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms (immunology, pathology)
• Cerebral Ventricles (cytology, immunology, pathology)
• Choroid Plexus (cytology, immunology, pathology)
• Ependyma (cytology, immunology, pathology)
• Ependymoma (immunology, pathology)
• Epithelial Cells
• Epithelium (immunology)
• Humans
• Papilloma (immunology, pathology)
• Receptors, Concanavalin A (analysis)