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In evolving populations where the rate of beneficial mutations is large, subpopulations of individuals with competing beneficial mutations can be maintained over long times. Evolution with this kind of clonal structure is commonly observed in a wide range of microbial and viral populations. However, it can be difficult to completely resolve clonal dynamics in data. This is due to limited read lengths in high-throughput sequencing methods, which are often insufficient to directly measure linkage disequilibrium or determine clonal structure. Here, we develop a method to infer clonal structure using correlated allele frequency changes in time-series sequence data. Simulations show that our method recovers true, underlying clonal structures when they are known and accurately estimate linkage disequilibrium. This information can then be combined with other inference methods to improve estimates of the fitness effects of individual mutations. Applications to data suggest novel clonal structures in an E. coli long-term evolution experiment, and yield improved predictions of the effects of mutations on bacterial fitness and antibiotic resistance. Moreover, our method is computationally efficient, requiring orders of magnitude less run time for large data sets than existing methods. Overall, our method provides a powerful tool to infer clonal structures from data sets where only allele frequencies are available, which can also improve downstream analyses.
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Bactérias , Escherichia coli , Humanos , Escherichia coli/genética , Frequência do Gene , Mutação , Desequilíbrio de Ligação , Seleção GenéticaRESUMO
The use of Monte-Carlo (MC) p $$ p $$ -values when testing the significance of a large number of hypotheses is now commonplace. In large-scale hypothesis testing, we will typically encounter at least some p $$ p $$ -values near the threshold of significance, which require a larger number of MC replicates than p $$ p $$ -values that are far from the threshold. As a result, some incorrect conclusions can be reached due to MC error alone; for hypotheses near the threshold, even a very large number (eg, 1 0 6 $$ 1{0}^6 $$ ) of MC replicates may not be enough to guarantee conclusions reached using MC p $$ p $$ -values. Gandy and Hahn (GH)6-8 have developed the only method that directly addresses this problem. They defined a Monte-Carlo error rate (MCER) to be the probability that any decisions on accepting or rejecting a hypothesis based on MC p $$ p $$ -values are different from decisions based on ideal p $$ p $$ -values; their method then makes decisions by controlling the MCER. Unfortunately, the GH method is frequently very conservative, often making no rejections at all and leaving a large number of hypotheses "undecided". In this article, we propose MERIT, a method for large-scale MC hypothesis testing that also controls the MCER but is more statistically efficient than the GH method. Through extensive simulation studies, we demonstrate that MERIT controls the MCER while making more decisions that agree with the ideal p $$ p $$ -values than GH does. We also illustrate our method by an analysis of gene expression data from a prostate cancer study.
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Projetos de Pesquisa , Humanos , Simulação por Computador , Probabilidade , Método de Monte CarloRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: According to the common disease/rare variant hypothesis, it is important to study the role of rare variants in complex diseases. The association of rare variants with psoriasis has been demonstrated, but the association between rare variants and specific clinical subtypes of psoriasis has not been investigated. METHODS: Gene-based and gene-level meta-analyses were performed on data extracted from our previous study data sets (2,483 patients with guttate psoriasis and 8,292 patients with non-guttate psoriasis) for genotyping. Then, haplotype analysis was performed for rare loss-of-function variants located in MED12L, and protein function prediction was performed for MED12L. Gene-based analysis at each stage had a moderate significance threshold (p < 0.05). A χ2 test was then conducted on the three potential genes, and the merged gene-based analysis was used to confirm the results. We also conducted association analysis and meta-analysis for functional variants located on the identified gene. RESULTS: Through these gene-level analyses, we determined that MED12L is a guttate psoriasis susceptibility gene (p = 9.99 × 10-5), and the single-nucleotide polymorphism with the strongest association was rs199780529 (p_combine = 1 × 10-3, p_meta = 2 × 10-3). CONCLUSIONS: In our study, a guttate psoriasis-specific subtype-associated susceptibility gene was confirmed in a Chinese Han population. These findings contribute to a better genetic understanding of different subtypes of psoriasis.
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Povo Asiático , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Complexo Mediador , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Psoríase , Humanos , Psoríase/genética , Complexo Mediador/genética , Povo Asiático/genética , China , Haplótipos , População do Leste AsiáticoRESUMO
Background: Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with a substantial proportion of patients suffering from concurrent pulmonary infections. Despite advances in treatment modalities, the early diagnosis of lung cancer complicated by pulmonary infection remains challenging, often resulting in delayed intervention and poorer prognosis. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the expression and significance of serum long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) NEAT1 and microRNA-31 in patients with advanced lung cancer complicated by pulmonary infection. Methods: A total of 48 patients diagnosed with lung cancer complicated by pulmonary infection and admitted to the hospital between January 2021 and December 2021 constituted the experimental group, while 48 healthy volunteers recruited during the same period served as the healthy control group. The expression levels of NEAT1 and microRNA-31 in plasma samples obtained from peripheral blood were measured using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), and their differential expression in plasma was compared between the two groups. Results: Significantly elevated levels of serum lncRNA NEAT1 and microRNA-31 were observed in the experimental group compared to the healthy control group. Furthermore, the expression levels of NEAT1 and microRNA-31 showed correlations with patient age and tumor size. Notably, the expression of NEAT1 exhibited no significant association with smoking status, whereas microRNA-31 expression displayed a significant relationship with smoking. Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that lncRNA NEAT1 and microRNA-31 are markedly upregulated in the plasma of patients with advanced lung cancer complicated by pulmonary infection. These molecules hold promise as potential diagnostic markers for advanced lung cancer complicated by pulmonary infection and may provide early auxiliary diagnostic value for lung cancer.
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This study examines the impact of Notoginsenoside R1 (NGR1), a compound from Panax notoginseng, on the maturation of porcine oocytes and their embryonic development, focusing on its effects on antioxidant levels and mitochondrial function. This study demonstrates that supplementing in vitro maturation (IVM) medium with NGR1 significantly enhances several biochemical parameters. These include elevated levels of glutathione (GSH), nuclear factor erythrocyte 2-related factor 2 (NRF2) and mRNA expression of catalase (CAT) and GPX. Concurrently, we observed a decrease in reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels and an increase in JC-1 immunofluorescence, mitochondrial distribution, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator-1α (PGC1α) and nuclear NRF2 mRNA levels. Additionally, there was an increase in ATP production and lipid droplets (LDs) immunofluorescence. These biochemical improvements correlate with enhanced embryonic outcomes, including a higher blastocyst rate, increased total cell count, enhanced proliferative capacity and elevated octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (Oct4) and superoxide dismutase 2 (Sod2) gene expression. Furthermore, NGR1 supplementation resulted in decreased apoptosis, reduced caspase 3 (Cas3) and BCL2-Associated X (Bax) mRNA levels and decreased glucose-regulated protein 78 kD (GRP78) immunofluorescence in porcine oocytes undergoing in vitro maturation. These findings suggest that NGR1 plays a crucial role in promoting porcine oocyte maturation and subsequent embryonic development by providing antioxidant levels and mitochondrial protection.
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Antioxidantes , Desenvolvimento Embrionário , Ginsenosídeos , Técnicas de Maturação in Vitro de Oócitos , Mitocôndrias , Oócitos , Animais , Antioxidantes/farmacologia , Ginsenosídeos/farmacologia , Técnicas de Maturação in Vitro de Oócitos/veterinária , Mitocôndrias/efeitos dos fármacos , Desenvolvimento Embrionário/efeitos dos fármacos , Oócitos/efeitos dos fármacos , Feminino , Suínos , Espécies Reativas de Oxigênio/metabolismo , Técnicas de Cultura Embrionária/veterináriaRESUMO
Herein, a pH-responsive dual cross-linked hydrogel for controlled drug release is presented. The hydrogel was constructed with reversible borate ester bonds and crystalline poly(vinyl alcohol). By changing the environmental pH, its physicochemical characteristics, including rheological properties, mechanical properties, microstructural features, and the biocompatibility of the gels, were evaluated. The gels at tumor acidic conditions exhibited swelling and lower compressive strength and modulus than those in a physiological environment, which was attributed to the pH-responsive borate ester bonds and the protonation of amine groups on the PEI polyelectrolyte. Importantly, the drug-encapsulated biocompatible hydrogel showed sustained and increased release under an acidic environment, and it followed the Fickian diffusion mechanism. Therefore, it exemplifies that borate ester bond-based pH-responsive biomaterials have high promise in biomedical research, especially for drug delivery.
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Boratos , Hidrogéis , Hidrogéis/química , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Ésteres , Liberação Controlada de FármacosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Finding microbiome associations with possibly censored survival times is an important problem, especially as specific taxa could serve as biomarkers for disease prognosis or as targets for therapeutic interventions. The two existing methods for survival outcomes, MiRKAT-S and OMiSA, are restricted to testing associations at the community level and do not provide results at the individual taxon level. An ad hoc approach testing each taxon with a survival outcome using the Cox proportional hazard model may not perform well in the microbiome setting with sparse count data and small sample sizes. METHODS: We have previously developed the linear decomposition model (LDM) for testing continuous or discrete outcomes that unifies community-level and taxon-level tests into one framework. Here we extend the LDM to test survival outcomes. We propose to use the Martingale residuals or the deviance residuals obtained from the Cox model as continuous covariates in the LDM. We further construct tests that combine the results of analyzing each set of residuals separately. Finally, we extend PERMANOVA, the most commonly used distance-based method for testing community-level hypotheses, to handle survival outcomes in a similar manner. RESULTS: Using simulated data, we showed that the LDM-based tests preserved the false discovery rate for testing individual taxa and had good sensitivity. The LDM-based community-level tests and PERMANOVA-based tests had comparable or better power than MiRKAT-S and OMiSA. An analysis of data on the association of the gut microbiome and the time to acute graft-versus-host disease revealed several dozen associated taxa that would not have been achievable by any community-level test, as well as improved community-level tests by the LDM and PERMANOVA over those obtained using MiRKAT-S and OMiSA. CONCLUSIONS: Unlike existing methods, our new methods are capable of discovering individual taxa that are associated with survival times, which could be of important use in clinical settings.
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Microbioma Gastrointestinal , Microbiota , Modelos Lineares , Modelos de Riscos Proporcionais , Tamanho da AmostraRESUMO
A highly efficient gas sensor for the detection of triethylamine based on candy-like WO3/Fe2O3 nanocomposite was prepared. The control of morphology and sensing performance of n-n heterojunction WO3/Fe2O3 nanocomposites were successfully achieved by the modulation of Fe element content. When the ratio of Fe to W is 0.4, the candy-like nanocomposite of WO3/Fe2O3 with great performance is obtained. It is interesting that the candy-like nanocomposite of WO3/Fe2O3 with a large specific surface area exhibits better selectivity and sensitivity for sensing TEA gases at a lower operating temperature (260 °C) compared with the gas sensor prepared by using WO3 alone. To verify the feasibility, the sensing mechanism was investigated and real sample tests were conducted and discussed. Finally, a TEA gas sensor with low limit of detection, short response/recovery time (15/162 s), and high sensitivity was developed. In addition, the prepared gas sensor has satisfactory stability and selectivity and has practical application value.
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To prepare portable and robust sensors for the sensitive and selective detection of small molecules is still a challenge for the study of electroanalytical sensors. Here, we developed a molecularly imprinted electrochemiluminescence sensor (MIECL) for the detection of spiramycin (SPI), a type of multi-component macrolide antibiotic. First, Ni-Co LDH nanoarrays were synthesized by a one-step hydrothermal method and then directly used as a sensing platform. Then, as-synthesized N-Ti3C2 was modified on the nanoarrays. Due to the functional nanomaterial N-Ti3C2 not only serving as a substrate material to enable loading a large amount of perylene tetracarboxylic acid (PTCA) but also acting as a co-reaction promoter to accelerate the decomposition of S2O82- to generate more SO4Ë-, the modified nanoarrays displayed a significantly enhanced electrochemiluminescence (ECL) signal. Finally, the molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) and ECL techniques were combined to greatly improve the selectivity and sensitivity of the sensor. Under the optimal conditions, the easily constructed MIECL sensor showed good selectivity, reproducibility, and stability, and a detection limit of up to 3.14 × 10-13 M. The as-fabricated sensor was further evaluated by applying it to detect SPI in milk samples.
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Técnicas Biossensoriais , Impressão Molecular , Nanoestruturas , Espiramicina , Impressão Molecular/métodos , Medições Luminescentes/métodos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Limite de Detecção , Técnicas Eletroquímicas/métodos , Técnicas Biossensoriais/métodosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Bypass for inpatient care is an event of excessive demand. Though primary care facilities provide inpatient care in China, local residents may choose more distant higher-level hospital for inpatient care services. Given the differences in accessibility of hospitals and socioeconomic development between urban and rural areas, this study aims to estimate the rate of bypass for inpatient care and explore the factors predictive of bypass among rural and urban residents in China. METHODS: The rates of bypass for inpatient care were estimated using data from 1352 hospitalized patients, obtained from the 2018 Sixth National Health Service Survey of Hubei, China. Bypass for inpatient care was identified if the patient was hospitalized in a hospital for a certain disease that should be treated at primary care facilities in accordance with government requirement. Anderson's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use was used as a theoretical framework for determining the factors of bypass. Logistic regression was used to identify the relationship between bypass for inpatient care and predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics for urban and rural residents. RESULTS: The rate of bypass for inpatient care was 73.8%. This rate for inpatient care (91.3%) in cities is higher than that in rural areas (56.2%). Age were associated with bypass for both rural (OR, 0.982; 95% CI, 0.969-0.995) and urban (OR, 0.947; 95% CI, 0.919-0.976) patients. The patients whose closest healthcare facility was hospitals were more likely to have bypass behavior in rural (OR, 26.091; 95% CI, 7.867-86.537) and urban (OR, 8.323; 95% CI, 2.936-23.591) areas than those living closest to township/community health centers. Signing a family doctor was not helpful for retaining patients at primary care facility. Among rural patients, those with circulatory (OR, 2.378; 95% CI, 1.328-4.258), digestive (OR, 2.317; 95% CI, 1.280-4.192), or skin and bone (OR, 1.758; 95% CI, 1.088-2.840) system diseases were more likely to show bypass behavior than those with respiratory diseases. CONCLUSIONS: Bypass for inpatient care is sizable, and urban residents have a higher bypass rate for inpatient care than rural residents in China. More actionable measures in strengthening and leading patients to primary care are needed. Gradual establishment of a referral system is recommended. Inpatient care for circulatory, digestive, or skin and bone system diseases may be prioritized to be improved at primary care facilities in rural China.
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Pacientes Internados , Medicina Estatal , China , Humanos , População Rural , População UrbanaRESUMO
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common malignant tumor with high morbidity and mortality, and significant heterogeneity among patients. In this study, we aimed to explore the role and mechanism of CLK2 in CRC, a kinase that phosphorylates SR proteins involved in splicing. Based on the analysis from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset and tissue microarray, we found that CLK2 was upregulated in CRC tissues and associated with a higher tumor stage and poorer overall survival. Consistent with the bioinformatics analysis, the functional experiments validated that CLK2 acted as a tumor-promoting factor in CRC progression. CLK2 knockdown suppressed aggressive cell proliferation, migration, and invasion in vitro, as well as restrained tumor growth in vivo. In terms of mechanism, we found that the Wnt/ß-catenin signaling pathway was responsible for the CLK2-induced CRC progression, based on the results of pathway enrichment analysis and subsequent experimental validation. Thus, our study, for the first time, identified the role of CLK2 in CRC development and provided a compelling biomarker for targeted therapy in CRC treatment.
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Neoplasias Colorretais , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinases , Proteínas Tirosina Quinases , Via de Sinalização Wnt , Carcinogênese/genética , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Movimento Celular/genética , Proliferação de Células/genética , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. , Neoplasias Colorretais/patologia , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinases/genética , Proteínas Tirosina Quinases/genética , Estados Unidos , Via de Sinalização Wnt/genética , beta Catenina/metabolismoRESUMO
Sonic hedgehog (Shh) plays important roles in developmental of vertebrate animal central nervous system (CNS), and Gli is its downstream signal molecule. Shh signalling is essential for pattern formation, cell-fate specification, axon guidance, proliferation, survival and differentiation of neurons in CNS development. The abnormal signalling pathway of Shh leads to the occurrence of many nervous system diseases. The mechanism of Shh signalling is complex and remains incompletely understood. Nevertheless, studies have revealed that Shh signalling pathway is classified into canonical and non-canonical pathways. Here we review the role of the Shh signalling pathway and its impact in CNS development and related diseases. Specifically, we discuss the role of Shh in the spinal cord and brain development, cell differentiation and proliferation in CNS and related diseases such as brain tumour, Parkinson's diseases, epilepsy, autism, depression and traumatic brain injury. We also highlight future directions of research that could help to clarify the mechanisms and consequences of Shh signalling in the process of CNS development and related diseases. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY: This review summarized the role of Shh signalling pathway in CNS development and related diseases such as brain tumour, Parkinson's diseases, epilepsy, autism, depression and traumatic brain injury. It also presented the author's opinions on the future research direction of Shh signalling pathway.
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Doenças do Sistema Nervoso Central/patologia , Sistema Nervoso Central/metabolismo , Proteínas Hedgehog/metabolismo , Transdução de Sinais , Animais , Encéfalo/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Diferenciação Celular , Sistema Nervoso Central/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Doenças do Sistema Nervoso Central/metabolismo , Medula Espinal/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Medula Espinal/metabolismo , Proteína GLI1 em Dedos de Zinco/metabolismoRESUMO
In this study, we established a mouse model of epilepsy and analysed abnormal neuronal damage and inflammation in the hippocampus of mice with kainic acid (KA)-induced epilepsy to provide the basis for the pathogenesis of epilepsy. C57 mice, aged 4 weeks, were injected intraperitoneally in the KA group with 20 mg/kg of KA and in the sham experimental group with normal saline. The whole brain and hippocampus of mice in the sham experimental group and KA epilepsy model group were collected on days 7, 14, 21 and 28 after injection. The difference in the protein expression in the hippocampus was detected using fluorescence immunohistochemistry. The hippocampal tissue was also collected and frozen to detect protein expression by western blot. The results of the haematoxylin and eosin (HE) and Nissl staining showed that the mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy could be established by intraperitoneal injection of KA, and the success rate of the model was 53.8%. The expression of DCX-, ß-catenin-, GFAP- and Iba-1-labelled glial cells in the KA-induced epilepsy model group were higher than those in the sham group. The results of western blotting showed that the expression of DCX and ß-catenin in the KA-induced epilepsy model group was higher than that in the sham experimental group, while the expression of N-cadherin and Iba-1 on days 14 and 28 was significantly (P < .05) higher than that in the sham experimental group. In KA-induced epilepsy model group, the expression of Bcl-2 was decreased, while the expression of Bad and PUMA was increased.
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Epilepsia/metabolismo , Hipocampo/metabolismo , Inflamação/metabolismo , Neurônios/metabolismo , Animais , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Proteína Duplacortina , Epilepsia/induzido quimicamente , Epilepsia/patologia , Hipocampo/patologia , Inflamação/patologia , Ácido Caínico , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Neurônios/patologiaRESUMO
Heroin dependence is a complex behavioral disease, and a chronic encephalopathy with the important feature of relapse. The purpose of the study was to identify the regulatory mechanism of the nucleus accumbens (NAc) in heroin dependence. We used weighted gene co-expression network analysis to analyze the GSE87823 data package, which included 27 heroin users and 22 controls of human NAc tissue. Modules were correlated with basic information of samples and enrichment analyses used to identify biological function and transcription factors and online tools were used to perform the gene ontology of significant genes. We identified one gene module from the total data (blue) and the male data (turquoise), respectively. The overlap genes of top 10 hub genes in significant modules (PRR11, SLC35E1, LPP, ZNF721, ZNF611, LRRFIP1) were selected to identify as candidate genes in the regulation mechanism of NAc in heroin dependence. Then, we accorded the results to further explore that miRNA-hsa-miR-155-5p in male and total may be a potential marker. The candidate genes may serve as novel prognostic markers and treatment targets. Hsa-miR-155-5p may be a promising regulatory point for the treatment of heroin addiction.
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Biomarcadores/análise , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Dependência de Heroína/genética , Núcleo Accumbens/metabolismo , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Ontologia Genética , Dependência de Heroína/patologia , Humanos , Masculino , MicroRNAs/genéticaRESUMO
DCC netrin 1 receptor (DCC) affects the structure and function of the dopamine circuitry, which in turn affects the susceptibility to developing addiction. In a previous study, we found that single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs12607853 in the 3' untranslated region (3'-UTR) of DCC was significantly associated with heroin addiction. In the current study, we first used bioinformatics prediction to identify the DCC rs12607853 C allele as a potential hsa-miR-422a and hsa-miR-378c target site. We then used vector construction and dual-luciferase reporter assays to investigate the targeting relationship of DCC rs12607853 with hsa-miR-422a and hsa-miR-378c. The dual-luciferase reporter gene assay confirmed that the C allele of rs12607853 in combination with hsa-miR-422a led to repressed dual-luciferase gene expression. Moreover, gene expression assays disclosed that hsa-miR-422a inhibited DCC expression at both the mRNA and protein levels. We also found that morphine inhibited the expression of hsa-miR-422a but increased the expression of DCC mRNA, and this change in the expression of hsa-miR-422a could not be reversed by naloxone, which suggested that the role of DCC in opioid addiction might be regulated by hsa-miR-422a. In summary, this study improves our understanding of the role of hsa-miR-422a and identifies the genetic basis of rs12607853, which might contribute to the discovery of new biomarkers or therapeutic targets for opioid addiction.
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Receptor DCC/genética , Receptor DCC/metabolismo , Regulação para Baixo , Dependência de Heroína/genética , MicroRNAs/genética , Regiões 3' não Traduzidas , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Regulação para Baixo/efeitos dos fármacos , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Morfina/farmacologia , Naloxona/farmacologia , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo ÚnicoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Heroin dependence is a complex disease with multiple phenotypes. Classification of heroin users into more homogeneous subgroups on the basis of these phenotypes could help to identify the involved genetic factors and precise treatments. This study aimed to identify the association between genetic polymorphisms of DA synthesis and metabolism genes, including tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), DOPA decarboxylase (DDC), solute carrier family 6 member 3 (SLC6A3) and DA beta-hydroxylase (DBH), with six important phenotypes of heroin dependence. METHODS: A total of 801 heroin dependent patients were recruited and fourteen potential functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped by SNaPshot. Associations between SNPs with six phenotypes were mainly assessed by binary logistic regression. Generalized multifactor dimensionality reduction was used to analyze the gene-by-gene and gene-by-environment interactions. RESULTS: We found that DBH rs1611114 TT genotype had a protective effect on memory impairment after heroin dependence (P = 0.002, OR = 0.610). We also found that the income-rs12666409-rs129915-rs1611114 interaction yielded the highest testing balance accuracy and cross-validation consistency for memory change after heroin dependence. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the memory change after heroin dependence was a result of a combination of genetics and environment. This finding could lead to a better understanding of heroin dependence and further improve personalized treatment.
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Dopamina/biossíntese , Dopamina/metabolismo , Estudos de Associação Genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Dependência de Heroína/genética , Adulto , Euforia , Feminino , Interação Gene-Ambiente , Heroína/efeitos adversos , Dependência de Heroína/fisiopatologia , Humanos , Masculino , Memória , Metadona/efeitos adversos , Fenótipo , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único/genéticaRESUMO
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with a greater risk of incident hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Inflammation, impaired baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) decreased parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) and overactive sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity are suggested as contributing mechanisms. Increasing severity of PTSD symptoms has been linked to greater cardiovascular risk; however, the impact of PTSD symptom severity on inflammation and autonomic control of blood pressure has not yet been explored. We hypothesized that increasing PTSD symptom severity is linked to higher inflammation, greater SNS activity, lower PNS reactivity and impaired BRS. Seventy Veterans participated in this study: 28 with severe PTSD ((Clinical Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)â¯>â¯60; S-PTSD), 16 with moderate PTSD (CAPSâ¯≥â¯45â¯≤â¯60; M-PTSD) and 26 Controls (CAPSâ¯<â¯45; NO-PTSD). We recorded continuous blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) via EKG, heart rate variability (HRV) markers reflecting PNS and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) at rest, during arterial baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) testing via the modified Oxford technique, and during 3â¯min of mental stress via mental arithmetic. Blood samples were analyzed for 12 biomarkers of systemic and vascular inflammation. While BP was comparable between severity groups, HR tended to be higher (pâ¯=â¯0.055) in S-PTSD (76⯱â¯2 beats/min) than in Controls (67⯱â¯2 beats/min) but comparable to M-PTSD (70⯱â¯3 beats/min). There were no differences in resting HRV and MSNA between groups; however, cardiovagal BRS was blunted (pâ¯=â¯0.021) in S-PTSD (10⯱â¯1â¯ms/mmHg) compared to controls (16⯱â¯3â¯ms/mmHg) but comparable to M-PTSD (12⯱â¯2â¯ms/mmHg). Veterans in the S-PTSD group had a higher (pâ¯<â¯0.001) combined inflammatory score compared to both M-PTSD and NO-PTSD. Likewise, while mental stress induced similar SNS and cardiovascular responses between the groups, there was a greater reduction in HRV in S-PTSD compared to both M-PTSD and NO-PTSD. In summary, individuals with severe PTSD symptoms have higher inflammation, greater impairment of BRS, a trend towards higher resting HR and exaggerated PNS withdrawal at the onset of mental stress that may contribute to cardiovascular risk in severe PTSD.
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Inflamação/fisiopatologia , Transtornos de Estresse Pós-Traumáticos/fisiopatologia , Sistema Nervoso Simpático/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Barorreflexo , Pressão Sanguínea , Feminino , Frequência Cardíaca , Humanos , Masculino , Transtornos de Estresse Pós-Traumáticos/patologiaRESUMO
Sonic hedgehog (SHH) is a vertebrate homologue of the secreted Drosophila protein hedgehog and is expressed by the notochord and floor plate in the developing spinal cord. Sonic hedgehog provides signals relevant for positional information, cell proliferation and possibly cell survival, depending on the time and location of expression. Although the role of SHH in providing positional information in the neural tube has been experimentally proven, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. In this study, in ovo electroporation was employed in the chicken spinal cord during chicken embryo development. Electroporation was conducted at stage 17 (E2.5), after electroporation the embryos were continued incubating to stage 28 (E6) for sampling, tissue fixation with 4% paraformaldehyde and frozen sectioning. Sonic hedgehog and related protein expressions were detected by in situ hybridization and fluorescence immunohistochemistry and the results were analysed after microphotography. Our results indicate that the ectopic expression of SHH leads to ventralization in the spinal cord during chicken embryonic development by inducing abnormalities in the structure of the motor column and motor neuron integration. In addition, ectopic SHH expression inhibits the expression of dorsal transcription factors and commissural axon projections. The correct location of SHH expression is vital to the formation of the motor column. Ectopic expression of SHH in the spinal cord not only affects the positioning of motor neurons, but also induces abnormalities in the structure of the motor column. It leads to ventralization in the spinal cord, resulting in the formation of more ventral neurons forming during neuronal formation.
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Proteínas Aviárias/genética , Desenvolvimento Embrionário/genética , Proteínas Hedgehog/genética , Neurônios Motores/metabolismo , Medula Espinal/metabolismo , Animais , Proteínas Aviárias/metabolismo , Axônios/metabolismo , Diferenciação Celular/genética , Embrião de Galinha , Galinhas , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Proteínas Hedgehog/metabolismo , Medula Espinal/citologia , Medula Espinal/embriologia , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismoRESUMO
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients experience augmented blood pressure (BP) reactivity during exercise that is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. Exaggerated exercise pressor responses in CKD are in part mediated by augmented sympathetic nerve activation due to heightened muscle mechanoreflex. One mechanism that may lead to sensitization of the muscle mechanoreflex in CKD is metabolic acidosis. We hypothesized that CKD patients with low serum [bicarbonate] would exhibit exaggerated increases in arterial BP, greater reductions in muscle interstitial pH, and fatigue earlier during exercise compared with CKD patients with normal serum bicarbonate concentration ([bicarbonate]). Eighteen CKD participants with normal serum [bicarbonate] (≥24 mmol/l, normal-bicarb) and 9 CKD participants with mild metabolic acidosis ([bicarbonate] range 20-22 mmol/l, low-bicarb) performed rhythmic handgrip (RHG) exercise to volitional fatigue at 40% of maximal voluntary contraction. BP, heart rate, and muscle interstitial pH using near infrared spectroscopy were measured continuously. While mean arterial pressure (MAP) increased with exercise in both groups (P ≤ 0.002), CKD with low-bicarb had an exaggerated MAP response compared with CKD with normal-bicarb (+5.9 ± 1.3 mmHg/30 s vs. +2.6 ± 0.5 mmHg/30 s, P = 0.01). The low-bicarb group reached exhaustion earlier than the normal-bicarb group (179 ± 21 vs. 279 ± 19 s, P = 0.003). There were no differences in the change in muscle interstitial pH during exercise between groups (P = 0.31). CKD patients with metabolic acidosis have augmented exercise-induced increases in BP and poorer exercise tolerance. There was no difference in change in muscle interstitial pH between groups, however, suggesting that augmented exercise BP responses in metabolic acidosis are not due to impaired muscle-buffering capacity.
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Acidose/metabolismo , Exercício Físico/fisiologia , Força da Mão/fisiologia , Insuficiência Renal Crônica/fisiopatologia , Barorreflexo/fisiologia , Pressão Sanguínea/fisiologia , Frequência Cardíaca/fisiologia , Humanos , Hipertensão/fisiopatologia , Músculo Esquelético/metabolismo , Sistema Nervoso Simpático/fisiopatologiaRESUMO
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is often complicated by difficult-to-control hypertension, in part due to chronic overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). CKD patients also exhibit a greater increase in arterial blood pressure for a given increase in sympathetic nerve activation, suggesting an augmented vasoconstrictive response to SNS activation (i.e., neurovascular transduction). One potential mechanism of increased sympathetic neurovascular transduction is heightened sensitivity of the vascular α1-adrenergic receptors (α1ARs), the major effectors of vasoconstriction in response to norepinephrine release at the sympathetic nerve terminals. Therefore, we hypothesized that patients with CKD have increased vascular α1AR sensitivity. We studied 32 patients with CKD stages III and IV (age 59.9 ± 1.3 yr) and 19 age-matched controls (CON, age 63.2 ± 1.6 yr). Using a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT), we measured change in venoconstriction in response to exponentially increasing doses of the selective α1AR agonist phenylephrine (PE) administered sequentially into a dorsal hand vein. Individual semilogarithmic PE dose-response curves were constructed for each participant to determine the PE dose at which 50% of maximum venoconstriction occurred (ED50), reflecting α1AR sensitivity. In support of our hypothesis, CKD patients had a lower PE ED50 than CON (CKD = 2.23 ± 0.11 vs. CON = 2.63 ± 0.20, P = 0.023), demonstrating increased vascular α1AR sensitivity. Additionally, CKD patients had a greater venoconstrictive capacity to PE than CON (P = 0.015). Augmented α1AR sensitivity may contribute mechanistically to enhanced neurovascular transduction in CKD and may explain, in part, the greater blood pressure reactivity exhibited in these patients.