Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Ankara Universitesi Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi, cilt.57, sa.2, ss.83-86, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
In the study, it was purposed that detection of apoptotic changes with terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated dUTP-digoxigenin nick end-labelling (TUNEL) method in the cerebellum of 10 dogs (n:3 females, n:7 males), varied 3 months to 2.5 years-old, different breed (1 Husky, 9 Mongrel) and sex (3 females, 7 males) in distemper disease. Histopathologically, acute (n:4) and chronic (n:6) nonpurulent encephalitis, moderate and/or mild demyelination, and intranuclear inclusion bodies were seen. Immunohistochemically distemper virus antigen was also detected in demyelinated white matter, astrocytes, and inclusion bodies in all dogs by using monoclonal canine distemper virus nucleoprotein sera. Morphologically multiple consendations of nuclear chromatin in astrocytes were found with Cresyl violet stain. TUNEL reaction in markedly astrocytes localized surrounding the demyelination areas, rarely inclusion bodies, gemistocytic astrocytes, Gitter cells in white matter and granular layer of cerebellum was demonstrated. The reactions in chronic inflammatory lesions were also detected in perivascular mononuclear cells.