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Digital pathology workflows in toxicologic pathology rely on whole slide images (WSIs) from histopathology slides. Inconsistent color reproduction by WSI scanners of different models and from different manufacturers can result in different color representations and inter-scanner color variation in the WSIs. Although pathologists can accommodate a range of color variation during their evaluation of WSIs, color variability can degrade the performance of computational applications in digital pathology. In particular, color variability can compromise the generalization of artificial intelligence applications to large volumes of data from diverse sources. To address these challenges, we developed a process that includes two modules: (1) assessing the color reproducibility of our scanners and the color variation among them and (2) applying color correction to WSIs to minimize the color deviation and variation. Our process ensures consistent color reproduction across WSI scanners and enhances color homogeneity in WSIs, and its flexibility enables easy integration as a post-processing step following scanning by WSI scanners of different models and from different manufacturers.
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Inteligencia Artificial , Patólogos , Humanos , Reproducibilidad de los ResultadosRESUMEN
Digitization of histologic slides brings with it the promise of enhanced toxicologic pathology practice through the increased application of computational methods. However, the development of these advanced methods requires access to substrate image data, that is, whole slide images (WSIs). Deep learning methods, in particular, rely on extensive training data to develop robust algorithms. As a result, pharmaceutical companies interested in leveraging computational methods in their digital pathology workflows must first invest in data infrastructure to enable data access for both data scientists and pathologists. The process of building robust image data resources is challenging and includes considerations of generation, curation, and storage of WSI files, and WSI access including via linked metadata. This opinion piece describes the collective experience of building resources for WSI data in the Roche group. We elaborate on the challenges encountered and solutions developed with the goal of providing examples of how to build a data resource for digital pathology analytics in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Algoritmos , Industria FarmacéuticaRESUMEN
Although sexual transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) is well-documented, the viral reservoir(s) in the male reproductive tract remains uncertain in humans and immune-intact animal models. We evaluated the presence of ZIKV in a rhesus macaque pilot study to determine persistence in semen, assess the impact of infection on sperm functional characteristics, and define the viral reservoir in the male reproductive tract. Five adult male rhesus monkeys were inoculated with 105 PFU of Asian-lineage ZIKV isolate PRVABC59, and two males were inoculated with the same dose of African-lineage ZIKV DAKAR41524. Viremia and viral RNA (vRNA) shedding in semen were monitored, and a cohort of animals were necropsied for tissue collection to assess tissue vRNA burden and histopathology. All animals exhibited viremia for limited periods (1-11 days); duration of shedding did not differ significantly between viral isolates. There were sporadic low levels of vRNA in the semen from some, but not all animals. Viral RNA levels in reproductive tract tissues were also modest and present in the epididymis in three of five cases, one case in the vas deferens, but not detected in testis, seminal vesicles or prostate. ZIKV infection did not impact semen motility parameters as assessed by computer-assisted sperm analysis. Despite some evidence of prolonged ZIKV RNA shedding in human semen and high tropism of ZIKV for male reproductive tract tissues in mice deficient in Type 1 interferon signaling, in the rhesus macaques assessed in this pilot study, we did not consistently find ZIKV RNA in the male reproductive tract.
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Epidídimo/virología , Semen/virología , Testículo/virología , Infección por el Virus Zika/virología , Virus Zika/aislamiento & purificación , Animales , Epidídimo/patología , Macaca mulatta , Masculino , Testículo/patología , Esparcimiento de Virus , Infección por el Virus Zika/patologíaRESUMEN
The circadian clock plays a significant role in many aspects of female reproductive biology, including estrous cycling, ovulation, embryonic implantation, onset of puberty, and parturition. In an effort to link cell-specific circadian clocks to their specific roles in female reproduction, we used the promoter that controls expression of Steroidogenic Factor-1 (SF1) to drive Cre-recombinase-mediated deletion of the brain muscle arnt-like 1 (Bmal1) gene, known to encode an essential component of the circadian clock (SF1-Bmal1(-/-)). The resultant SF1-Bmal1(-/-) females display embryonic implantation failure, which is rescued by progesterone supplementation, or bilateral or unilateral transplantation of wild-type ovaries into SF1-Bmal1(-/-) dams. The observation that the central clock, and many other peripheral clocks, are fully functional in this model allows the assignment of the implantation phenotype to the clock in ovarian steroidogenic cells and distinguishes it from more general circadian related systemic pathology (e.g., early onset arthropathy, premature aging, ovulation, late onset of puberty, and abnormal estrous cycle). Our ovarian transcriptome analysis reveals that deletion of ovarian Bmal1 disrupts expression of transcripts associated with the circadian machinery and also genes critical for regulation of progesterone production, such as steroidogenic acute regulatory factor (Star). Overall, these data provide a powerful model to probe the interlocking and synergistic network of the circadian clock and reproductive systems.
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Factores de Transcripción ARNTL/deficiencia , Factores de Transcripción ARNTL/fisiología , Implantación del Embrión/fisiología , Ovario/citología , Ovario/fisiología , Esteroides/biosíntesis , Factores de Transcripción ARNTL/genética , Envejecimiento/genética , Envejecimiento/fisiología , Animales , Ritmo Circadiano/genética , Ritmo Circadiano/fisiología , Implantación del Embrión/efectos de los fármacos , Implantación del Embrión/genética , Estro/genética , Estro/fisiología , Femenino , Perfilación de la Expresión Génica , Masculino , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos C57BL , Ratones Noqueados , Ovario/trasplante , Embarazo , Progesterona/administración & dosificación , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas , Maduración Sexual/genética , Maduración Sexual/fisiología , Factor Esteroidogénico 1/genéticaRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: There is limited availability of context-specific physical activity questionnaires in low and middle income countries. The aim of this study was to develop and examine the validity of a new Indian physical activity questionnaire, the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parent Study Physical Activity Questionnaire (APCAPS-PAQ). METHODS: The current study was conducted with the cohort from the Hyderabad DXA Study (n = 2321), recruited in 2009-2010. Criterion validity (n = 245) was examined by comparing the APCAPS-PAQ to a combined heart rate and motion sensor worn for 8 days. Construct validity (n = 2321) was assessed with linear regression, comparing APCAPS-PAQ against BMI, percent body fat, and pulse rate. RESULTS: The APCAPS-PAQ criterion validity was variable depending on the PA intensity groups (ρ = 0.26, 0.07, 0.39; к = 0.14, 0.04, 0.16 for sedentary, light, moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA) respectively). Sedentary and light intensity activities from the questionnaire were underestimated when compared to the criterion data while MVPA in APCAPS-PAQ was overestimated. Higher time spent in sedentary activity in APCAPS-PAQ was associated with higher BMI and percent body fat, suggesting construct validity. CONCLUSIONS: The APCAPS-PAQ validity is comparable to other physical activity questionnaires. This tool is able to assess sedentary behavior, moderate/vigorous activity and physical activity energy expenditure on a group level with reasonable validity. This new questionnaire may be used for ranking individuals according to their sedentary time and physical activity in southern India.
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Pesos y Medidas Corporales , Ejercicio Físico , Padres , Encuestas y Cuestionarios/normas , Acelerometría , Tejido Adiposo , Adulto , Índice de Masa Corporal , Niño , Estudios Transversales , Femenino , Frecuencia Cardíaca , Humanos , India/epidemiología , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Conducta SedentariaRESUMEN
Intestinal tumors from mice and humans can have a polyclonal origin. Statistical analyses indicate that the best explanation for this source of intratumoral heterogeneity is the presence of interactions among multiple progenitors. We sought to better understand the nature of these interactions. An initial progenitor could recruit others by facilitating the transformation of one or more neighboring cells. Alternatively, two progenitors that are independently initiated could simply cooperate to form a single tumor. These possibilities were tested by analyzing tumors from aggregation chimeras that were generated by fusing together embryos with unequal predispositions to tumor development. Strikingly, numerous polyclonal tumors were observed even when one genetic component was highly, if not completely, resistant to spontaneous tumorigenesis in the intestine. Moreover, the observed number of polyclonal tumors could be explained by the facilitated transformation of a single neighbor within 144 µm of an initial progenitor. These findings strongly support recruitment instead of cooperation. Thus, it is conceivable that these interactions are necessary for tumors to thrive, so blocking them might be a highly effective method for preventing the formation of tumors in the intestine and other tissues.
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Transformación Celular Neoplásica , Neoplasias Intestinales/patología , Animales , Células Epiteliales/patología , Genes APC , Humanos , Neoplasias Intestinales/genética , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos C57BLRESUMEN
Doxycycline (doxy) is used in treating intracellular and extracellular infections. Liposomal (LE) antibiotics allow low-frequency dosing and extended efficacy compared with standard (STD) formulations. We developed a novel sulfuric acid-loading method for doxycycline liposomes (LE-doxy). We hypothesized that a single s.c. injection of LE-doxy would be detectable in serum for at least 2 weeks at concentrations equal to or better than STD-doxy and would be bactericidal in an in vitro Mycobacterium smegmatis infection of J774A.1 macrophage cells. Liposomes were encapsulated by sulfuric acid gradient loading, and release kinetics were performed in vitro and in vivo. LE-doxy made using 8.25 mg/ml doxycycline loaded for 24 hours achieved 97.77% capture in 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) and 43.87% in sphingomyelin (sphing). Rats were injected s.c. with 50 mg/kg LE-doxy or 5 mg/kg STD-doxy, and serial blood samples were collected. Pharmacokinetics were analyzed using high-performance liquid chromatography. Liver and injection site skin samples were collected at euthanasia (4 weeks postinjection). Minimal histologic tissue reactions occurred after injection of STD (nonliposomal), DPPC, or sphing-doxy. DPPC-doxy had slightly faster in vitro leakage than sphing liposomes, although both were detectable at 264 hours. The mean residence time for DPPC was the highest (111.78 hours), followed by sphing (56.00 hours) and STD (6.86 hours). DPPC and sphing-doxy were detectable at 0.2 µg/ml in serum at 336 hours postadministration. LE-doxy was not toxic to J774A.1 cells in vitro and produced inhibition of viable Mycobacterium smegmatis at 24 and 48 hours. LE-doxy will require further testing in in vivo infection models.
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Antibacterianos/administración & dosificación , Doxiciclina/administración & dosificación , Infecciones por Mycobacterium no Tuberculosas/tratamiento farmacológico , 1,2-Dipalmitoilfosfatidilcolina/química , Animales , Antibacterianos/química , Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico , Línea Celular , Química Farmacéutica , Doxiciclina/química , Doxiciclina/uso terapéutico , Composición de Medicamentos , Sistemas de Liberación de Medicamentos , Femenino , Inyecciones Subcutáneas , Liposomas , Masculino , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Infecciones por Mycobacterium no Tuberculosas/metabolismo , Mycobacterium smegmatis/efectos de los fármacos , Tamaño de la Partícula , Ratas , Esfingomielinas/química , Ácidos Sulfúricos/químicaRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Obesity is a growing health problem in India and worldwide, due to changes in lifestyle. This study aimed to explore the independent associations between dietary and physical activity exposure variables and total body fat and distribution in an Indian setting. METHODS: Individuals who had participated in the Indian Migration Study (IMS) or the Andhra Pradesh Children And Parents' Study (APCAPS), were invited to participate in the Hyderabad DXA Study. Total and abdominal body fat of study participants was measured using DXA scans. Diet and physical activity (PA) levels were measured using questionnaires. RESULTS: Data on 2208 participants was available for analysis; mean age was 49 yrs in IMS, 21 yrs in APCAPS. Total energy intake was positively associated with total body fat in the APCAPS sample: a 100 kcal higher energy intake was associated with 45 g higher body fat (95% CI 22, 68). In the IMS sample no association was found with total energy intake, but there was a positive association with percent protein intake (1% higher proportion of energy from protein associated with 509 g (95% CI 138,880) higher total body fat). Broadly the same pattern of associations was found with proportion of fat in the abdominal region as the outcome. PA was inversely associated with total body fat in both populations (in APCAPS, one MET-hour higher activity was associated with 46 g (95% CI 12, 81) less body fat; in the IMS it was associated with 145 g less body fat (95% CI 73, 218)). An inverse association was observed between PA and percentage abdominal fat in the IMS but no association was seen in the APCAPS population. CONCLUSIONS: In this Indian population, there was an inverse association between PA and body fat. Associations between body fat and dietary variables differed between the younger APCAPS population and older IMS population. Further longitudinal research is needed to elucidate causality and directions of these associations across the life course.
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Distribución de la Grasa Corporal/estadística & datos numéricos , Dieta , Ejercicio Físico , Obesidad/epidemiología , Tejido Adiposo , Adolescente , Adulto , Anciano , Índice de Masa Corporal , Niño , Estudios Transversales , Ingestión de Energía , Conducta Alimentaria , Femenino , Humanos , India/epidemiología , Estilo de Vida , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Factores Socioeconómicos , Encuestas y Cuestionarios , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Mutation of tumor suppressor adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) initiates most colorectal cancers and chronic colitis increases risk. APC is a nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling protein, best known for antagonizing Wnt signaling by forming a cytoplasmic complex that marks ß-catenin for degradation. Using our unique mouse model with compromised nuclear Apc import (Apc(mNLS)), we show that Apc(mNLS/mNLS) mice have increased susceptibility to tumorigenesis induced with azoxymethane (AOM) and dextran sodium sulfate (DSS). The AOM-DSS-induced colon adenoma histopathology, proliferation, apoptosis, stem cell number and ß-catenin and Kras mutation spectra were similar in Apc(mNLS/mNLS) and Apc(+/+) mice. However, AOM-DSS-treated Apc(mNLS/mNLS) mice showed more weight loss, more lymphoid follicles and edema, and increased colon shortening than treated Apc(+/+) mice, indicating a colitis predisposition. To test this directly, we induced acute colitis with a 7 day DSS treatment followed by 5 days of recovery. Compared with Apc(+/+) mice, DSS-treated Apc(mNLS/mNLS) mice developed more severe colitis based on clinical grade and histopathology. Apc(mNLS/mNLS) mice also had higher lymphocytic infiltration and reduced expression of stem cell markers, suggesting an increased propensity for chronic inflammation. Moreover, colons from DSS-treated Apc(mNLS/mNLS) mice showed fewer goblet cells and reduced Muc2 expression. Even in untreated Apc(mNLS/mNLS) mice, there were significantly fewer goblet cells in jejuna, and a modest decrease in colonocyte Muc2 expression compared with Apc(+/+) mice. Colonocytes from untreated Apc(mNLS/mNLS) mice also showed increased expression of inflammatory mediators cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) and macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2). These findings reveal novel functions for nuclear Apc in goblet cell differentiation and protection against inflammation-induced colon tumorigenesis.
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Proteína de la Poliposis Adenomatosa del Colon/metabolismo , Núcleo Celular/metabolismo , Transformación Celular Neoplásica/patología , Colitis/complicaciones , Neoplasias Colorrectales/patología , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Inflamación/patología , Proteína de la Poliposis Adenomatosa del Colon/genética , Animales , Apoptosis , Azoximetano/toxicidad , Western Blotting , Carcinógenos/toxicidad , Núcleo Celular/genética , Proliferación Celular , Transformación Celular Neoplásica/metabolismo , Colitis/inducido químicamente , Colitis/patología , Neoplasias Colorrectales/etiología , Neoplasias Colorrectales/metabolismo , Ciclooxigenasa 2 , Sulfato de Dextran/toxicidad , Inflamación/etiología , Inflamación/metabolismo , Ratones , Mutación/genética , ARN Mensajero/genética , Reacción en Cadena en Tiempo Real de la Polimerasa , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa de Transcriptasa Inversa , Transducción de Señal , beta Catenina/genética , beta Catenina/metabolismoRESUMEN
In the present study, we examined the associations of early nutrition with adult lean body mass (LBM) and muscle strength in a birth cohort that was established to assess the long-term impact of a nutrition program. Participants (n = 1,446, 32% female) were born near Hyderabad, India, in 29 villages from 1987 to 1990, during which time only intervention villages (n = 15) had a government program that offered balanced protein-calorie supplementation to pregnant women and children. Participants' LBM and appendicular skeletal muscle mass were measured using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry; grip strength and information on lifestyle indicators, including diet and physical activity level, were also obtained. Ages (mean = 20.3 years) and body mass indexes (weight (kg)/height (m)(2); mean = 19.5) of participants in 2 groups were similar. Current dietary energy intake was higher in the intervention group. Unadjusted LBM and grip strength were similar in 2 groups. After adjustment for potential confounders, the intervention group had lower LBM (ß = -0.75; P = 0.03), appendicular skeletal muscle mass, and grip strength than did controls, but these differences were small in magnitude (<0.1 standard deviation). Multivariable regression analyses showed that current socioeconomic position, energy intake, and physical activity level had a positive association with adult LBM and muscle strength. This study could not detect a "programming" effect of early nutrition supplementation on adult LBM and muscle strength.
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Composición Corporal , Suplementos Dietéticos/estadística & datos numéricos , Ingestión de Energía/fisiología , Fuerza de la Mano/fisiología , Absorciometría de Fotón , Adulto , Índice de Masa Corporal , Fenómenos Fisiológicos Nutricionales Infantiles , Preescolar , Dieta , Ejercicio Físico , Femenino , Conductas Relacionadas con la Salud , Humanos , India , Lactante , Recién Nacido , Masculino , Fuerza Muscular , Embarazo , Fenómenos Fisiologicos de la Nutrición Prenatal , Factores SocioeconómicosRESUMEN
In October 2010, a pathology review of rodent models of intestinal neoplasia was held at The Jackson Laboratory. This review complemented 2 other concurrent events: a workshop on methods of modeling colon cancer in rodents and a conference on current issues in murine and human colon cancer. We summarize the results of the pathology review and the committee's recommendations for tumor nomenclature. A virtual high-resolution image slide box of these models has been developed. This report discusses significant recent developments in rodent modeling of intestinal neoplasia, including the role of stem cells in cancer and the creation of models of metastatic intestinal cancer.
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Neoplasias Colorrectales/patología , Neoplasias Colorrectales/fisiopatología , Guías como Asunto , Informe de Investigación/normas , Animales , Biopsia con Aguja , Neoplasias Colorrectales/terapia , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Educación , Humanos , Inmunohistoquímica , Neoplasias Intestinales/patología , Neoplasias Intestinales/fisiopatología , Neoplasias Intestinales/terapia , Ratones , Invasividad Neoplásica/patología , Estadificación de Neoplasias , Roedores , Muestreo , Especificidad de la Especie , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
The virtual control group (VCG) concept provides a potential opportunity to reduce animal use in drug development by replacing concurrent control groups (CCGs) in nonclinical toxicity studies. This work investigated the feasibility and reliability of using VCGs in place of CCGs. A historical control database (HCD), constructed from Genentech Inc. rat toxicity study data, was reviewed to understand trends and sources of variability in control animals over time, and to identify data curation requirements for assembling VCGs, e.g. alignment of units of measurement. Several endpoints were investigated and stratified against different study design parameters. Sex, route of administration, fasting status, and body weight at study initiation were among the parameters that were indicated as key matching criteria. With a high-level understanding of potential sources of variability, a retrospective proof-of-concept (POC) study was designed, evaluating a historical rat pilot toxicity study for test article-related changes. A masked interpretation of the study was conducted using its CCG, and two unique VCGs that were constructed from individual animal data pulled from our HCD. While the results of the microscopic pathology assessment and most endpoints were similar across the different control groups, the POC revealed the risk of using VCGs to interpret subtle test article-related changes in clinical pathology parameters. Within the context of our POC, it appears the use of a VCG is not completely equivalent to the CCG especially with clinical pathology parameters. Additional work is needed to understand the potential utility, and thus, viability of VCGs in other contexts.
This study explored the use of virtual control groups (VCGs) as a potential method to reduce the number of living control animals in drug development. The process involves replacing concurrent control groups with historical animal data in nonclinical toxicity studies. Several parameters were identified as crucial factors that must be aligned before the construction of VCGs. The VCG concept was tested using a historical rat toxicity study, comparing results against the conventional control group as well as two unique VCGs. Although results were similar in most cases, potential risks in interpreting subtle changes in clinical pathology parameters were identified. Further work is needed to fully elucidate VCGs' potential, and whether it is a viable alternative to current methods. The significance of this work lies in the possibility of reducing the number of animals used in testing, in support of the 3Rs (replace, reduce, and refine).
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Viral illness with wheezing during infancy is associated with the inception of childhood asthma. Small airway dysfunction is a component of childhood asthma, but little is known about how viral illness at an early age may affect the structure and function of small airways. We used a well-characterized rat model of postbronchiolitis chronic airway dysfunction to address how postinfectious small airway lesions affect airway physiological function and if the structure/function correlates persist into maturity. Brown Norway rats were sham- or virus inoculated at 3 to 4 weeks of age and allowed to recover from the acute illness. At 3 to 14 months of age, physiology (respiratory system resistance, Newtonian resistance, tissue damping, and static lung volumes) was assessed in anesthetized, intubated rats. Serial lung sections revealed lesions in the terminal bronchioles that reduced luminal area and interrupted further branching, affecting 26% (range, 13-39%) of the small airways at 3 months of age and 22% (range, 6-40%) at 12 to 14 months of age. At 3 months of age (n = 29 virus; n = 7 sham), small airway lesions correlated with tissue damping (rs = 0.69) but not with Newtonian resistance (rs = 0.23), and Newtonian resistance was not elevated compared with control rats, indicating that distal airways were primarily responsible for the airflow obstruction. Older rats (n = 7 virus; n = 6 sham) had persistent small airway dysfunction and significantly increased Newtonian resistance in the postbronchiolitis group. We conclude that viral airway injury at an early age may induce small airway lesions that are associated quantitatively with small airway physiological dysfunction early on and that these defects persist into maturity.
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Obstrucción de las Vías Aéreas/etiología , Asma/etiología , Bronquiolos/patología , Bronquiolitis Viral/complicaciones , Factores de Edad , Envejecimiento , Obstrucción de las Vías Aéreas/patología , Obstrucción de las Vías Aéreas/fisiopatología , Resistencia de las Vías Respiratorias , Animales , Asma/patología , Asma/fisiopatología , Bronquiolos/crecimiento & desarrollo , Bronquiolos/fisiopatología , Bronquiolitis Viral/patología , Bronquiolitis Viral/fisiopatología , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Mediciones del Volumen Pulmonar , Masculino , Ratas , Ratas Endogámicas BN , Recuperación de la Función , Factores de Riesgo , Factores de TiempoRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Increasing active travel (walking, bicycling, and public transport) is promoted as a key strategy to increase physical activity and reduce the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) globally. Little is known about patterns of active travel or associated cardiovascular health benefits in low- and middle-income countries. This study examines mode and duration of travel to work in rural and urban India and associations between active travel and overweight, hypertension, and diabetes. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Cross-sectional study of 3,902 participants (1,366 rural, 2,536 urban) in the Indian Migration Study. Associations between mode and duration of active travel and cardiovascular risk factors were assessed using random-effect logistic regression models adjusting for age, sex, caste, standard of living, occupation, factory location, leisure time physical activity, daily fat intake, smoking status, and alcohol use. Rural dwellers were significantly more likely to bicycle (68.3% versus 15.9%; p<0.001) to work than urban dwellers. The prevalence of overweight or obesity was 50.0%, 37.6%, 24.2%, 24.9%; hypertension was 17.7%, 11.8%, 6.5%, 9.8%; and diabetes was 10.8%, 7.4%, 3.8%, 7.3% in participants who travelled to work by private transport, public transport, bicycling, and walking, respectively. In the adjusted analysis, those walking (adjusted risk ratio [ARR] 0.72; 95% CI 0.58-0.88) or bicycling to work (ARR 0.66; 95% CI 0.55-0.77) were significantly less likely to be overweight or obese than those travelling by private transport. Those bicycling to work were significantly less likely to have hypertension (ARR 0.51; 95% CI 0.36-0.71) or diabetes (ARR 0.65; 95% CI 0.44-0.95). There was evidence of a dose-response relationship between duration of bicycling to work and being overweight, having hypertension or diabetes. The main limitation of the study is the cross-sectional design, which limits causal inference for the associations found. CONCLUSIONS: Walking and bicycling to work was associated with reduced cardiovascular risk in the Indian population. Efforts to increase active travel in urban areas and halt declines in rural areas should be integral to strategies to maintain healthy weight and prevent NCDs in India. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
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Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiología , Empleo , Hipertensión/epidemiología , Sobrepeso/epidemiología , Viaje/estadística & datos numéricos , Adulto , Ciclismo , Estudios Transversales , Femenino , Humanos , India/epidemiología , Masculino , Obesidad/epidemiología , Factores de Riesgo , CaminataRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: We are using ACI and BN rats, which differ markedly in their susceptibility to 17ß-estradiol (E2)-induced mammary cancer, to identify genetic variants and environmental factors that determine mammary cancer susceptibility. The objective of this study was to characterize the cellular and molecular responses to E2 in the mammary glands of ACI and BN rats to identify qualitative and quantitative phenotypes that associate with and/or may confer differences in susceptibility to mammary cancer. METHODS: Female ACI and BN rats were treated with E2 for 1, 3 or 12 weeks. Mammary gland morphology and histology were examined by whole mount and hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining. Cell proliferation and epithelial density were evaluated by quantitative immunohistochemistry. Apoptosis was evaluated by quantitative western blotting and flow cytometry. Mammary gland differentiation was examined by immunohistochemistry. Gene expression was evaluated by microarray, qRT-PCR and quantitative western blotting assays. Extracellular matrix (ECM) associated collagen was evaluated by Picrosirius Red staining and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) microscopy. RESULTS: The luminal epithelium of ACI rats exhibited a rapid and sustained proliferative response to E2. By contrast, the proliferative response exhibited by the mammary epithelium of BN rats was restrained and transitory. Moreover, the epithelium of BN rats appeared to undergo differentiation in response to E2, as evidenced by production of milk proteins as well as luminal ectasia and associated changes in the ECM. Marked differences in expression of genes that encode proteins with well-defined roles in mammary gland development (Pgr, Wnt4, Tnfsf11, Prlr, Stat5a, Areg, Gata3), differentiation and milk production (Lcn2, Spp1), regulation of extracellular environment (Mmp7, Mmp9), and cell-cell or cell-ECM interactions (Cd44, Cd24, Cd52) were observed. CONCLUSIONS: We propose that these cellular and molecular phenotypes are heritable and may underlie, at least in part, the differences in mammary cancer susceptibility exhibited by ACI and BN rats.
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Susceptibilidad a Enfermedades , Estradiol/administración & dosificación , Glándulas Mamarias Animales/efectos de los fármacos , Glándulas Mamarias Animales/metabolismo , Neoplasias Mamarias Animales/genética , Neoplasias Mamarias Animales/metabolismo , Animales , Apoptosis/efectos de los fármacos , Diferenciación Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Proliferación Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Células Epiteliales/citología , Células Epiteliales/efectos de los fármacos , Células Epiteliales/metabolismo , Células Epiteliales/patología , Matriz Extracelular/efectos de los fármacos , Femenino , Regulación de la Expresión Génica/efectos de los fármacos , Glándulas Mamarias Animales/patología , Neoplasias Mamarias Animales/etiología , Fenotipo , Ratas , Especificidad de la EspecieRESUMEN
Our objective was to develop an automated deep-learning-based method to evaluate cellularity in rat bone marrow hematoxylin and eosin whole slide images for preclinical safety assessment. We trained a shallow CNN for segmenting marrow, 2 Mask R-CNN models for segmenting megakaryocytes (MKCs), and small hematopoietic cells (SHCs), and a SegNet model for segmenting red blood cells. We incorporated the models into a pipeline that identifies and counts MKCs and SHCs in rat bone marrow. We compared cell segmentation and counts that our method generated to those that pathologists generated on 10 slides with a range of cell depletion levels from 10 studies. For SHCs, we compared cell counts that our method generated to counts generated by Cellpose and Stardist. The median Dice and object Dice scores for MKCs using our method vs pathologist consensus and the inter- and intra-pathologist variation were comparable, with overlapping first-third quartile ranges. For SHCs, the median scores were close, with first-third quartile ranges partially overlapping intra-pathologist variation. For SHCs, in comparison to Cellpose and Stardist, counts from our method were closer to pathologist counts, with a smaller 95% limits of agreement range. The performance of the bone marrow analysis pipeline supports its incorporation into routine use as an aid for hematotoxicity assessment by pathologists. The pipeline could help expedite hematotoxicity assessment in preclinical studies and consequently could expedite drug development. The method may enable meta-analysis of rat bone marrow characteristics from future and historical whole slide images and may generate new biological insights from cross-study comparisons.
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects cells in latent or lytic forms, but the role of lytic infection in EBV-induced lymphomas is unclear. Here, we have used a new humanized mouse model, in which both human fetal CD34(+) hematopoietic stem cells and thymus/liver tissue are transplanted, to compare EBV pathogenesis and lymphoma formation following infection with a lytic replication-defective BZLF1-deleted (Z-KO) virus or a lytically active BZLF1(+) control. Both the control and Z-KO viruses established long-term viral latency in all infected animals. The infection appeared well controlled in some animals, but others eventually developed CD20(+) diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCL). Animals infected with the control virus developed tumors more frequently than Z-KO virus-infected animals. Specific immune responses against EBV-infected B cells were generated in mice infected with either the control virus or the Z-KO virus. In both cases, forms of viral latency (type I and type IIB) were observed that are less immunogenic than the highly transforming form (type III) commonly found in tumors of immunocompromised hosts, suggesting that immune pressure contributed to the outcome of the infection. These results point to an important role for lytic EBV infection in the development of B cell lymphomas in the context of an active host immune response.
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Infecciones por Virus de Epstein-Barr/inmunología , Infecciones por Virus de Epstein-Barr/patología , Herpesvirus Humano 4/patogenicidad , Linfoma de Células B/patología , Linfoma de Células B/virología , Proteínas Virales/metabolismo , Animales , Antígenos CD34/metabolismo , Línea Celular , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Infecciones por Virus de Epstein-Barr/virología , Trasplante de Células Madre Hematopoyéticas , Herpesvirus Humano 4/genética , Humanos , Trasplante de Hígado , Linfoma de Células B/inmunología , Ratones , Ratones Noqueados , Linfocitos T/inmunología , Timo/trasplante , Transactivadores/genética , Trasplante Heterólogo , Proteínas Virales/genética , Latencia del VirusRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Socio-cultural differences for country-specific activities are rarely addressed in physical activity questionnaires. We examined the reliability and validity of the Indian Migration Study Physical Activity Questionnaire (IMS-PAQ) in urban and rural groups in India. METHODS: A sub-sample of IMS participants (n = 479) was used to examine short term (≤ 1 month [n = 158]) and long term (> 1 month [n = 321]) IMS-PAQ reliability for levels of total, sedentary, light and moderate/vigorous activity (MVPA) intensity using intraclass correlation (ICC) and kappa coefficients (k). Criterion validity (n = 157) was examined by comparing the IMS-PAQ to a uniaxial accelerometer (ACC) worn ≥ 4 days, via Spearman's rank correlations (ρ) and k, using Bland-Altman plots to check for systematic bias. Construct validity (n = 7,000) was established using linear regression, comparing IMS-PAQ against theoretical constructs associated with physical activity (PA): BMI [kg/m2], percent body fat and pulse rate. RESULTS: IMS-PAQ reliability ranged from ICC 0.42-0.88 and k = 0.37-0.61 (≤ 1 month) and ICC 0.26 to 0.62; kappa 0.17 to 0.45 (> 1 month). Criterion validity was ρ = 0.18-0.48; k = 0.08-0.34. Light activity was underestimated and MVPA consistently and substantially overestimated for the IMS-PAQ vs. the accelerometer. Criterion validity was moderate for total activity and MVPA. Reliability and validity were comparable for urban and rural participants but lower in women than men. Increasing time spent in total activity or MVPA, and decreasing time in sedentary activity were associated with decreasing BMI, percent body fat and pulse rate, thereby demonstrating construct validity. CONCLUSION: IMS-PAQ reliability and validity is similar to comparable self-reported instruments. It is an appropriate tool for ranking PA of individuals in India. Some refinements may be required for sedentary populations and women in India.
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Ejercicio Físico , Conductas Relacionadas con la Salud , Encuestas Epidemiológicas/normas , Conducta Sedentaria , Encuestas y Cuestionarios/normas , Actigrafía , Tejido Adiposo , Adulto , Composición Corporal , Índice de Masa Corporal , Estudios Transversales , Emigración e Inmigración , Femenino , Frecuencia Cardíaca , Humanos , India , Modelos Lineales , Masculino , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Factores Sexuales , Estadísticas no ParamétricasRESUMEN
Single image super-resolution is an important computer vision task with applications including remote sensing, medical imaging, and surveillance. Modern work on super-resolution utilizes deep learning to synthesize high resolution (HR) images from low resolution images (LR). With the increased utilization of digitized whole slide images (WSI) in pathology workflows, digital pathology has emerged as a promising domain for super-resolution. Despite extensive existing research into super-resolution, there remain challenges specific to digital pathology. Here, we investigated image augmentation techniques for hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) WSI super-resolution and model generalizability across diverse tissue types. In addition, we investigated shortcomings with common quality metrics (peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), structure similarity index (SSIM)) by conducting a perceptual quality survey for super-resolved pathology images. High performing deep super-resolution models were used to generate 20X HR images from LR images (5X or 10X equivalent) for 11 different tissues and 30 human evaluators were asked to score the quality of the generated versus the ground truth 20X HR images. The scores given by a human rater and the PSNR or the SSIM were compared to investigate the correlation between model training parameters. We found that models trained on multiple tissues generalized better than those trained on a single tissue type. We also found that PSNR correlated with perceptual quality (Râ¯=â¯0.26) less accurately than did SSIM (Râ¯=â¯0.64), suggesting that the SSIM quality metric is insufficient. The methods proposed in this study can be used to virtually magnify H&E images with better perceptual quality than interpolation methods (i.e., bicubic interpolation) commonly implemented in digital pathology software. The impact of deep SISR methods is more notable when scaling to 4X is needed, such as in the case of super-resolving a low magnification WSI from 10X to 40X.
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Background: Automated anomaly detection is an important tool that has been developed for many real-world applications, including security systems, industrial inspection, and medical diagnostics. Despite extensive use of machine learning for anomaly detection in these varied contexts, it is challenging to generalize and apply these methods to complex tasks such as toxicologic histopathology (TOXPATH) assessment (i.e.,finding abnormalities in organ tissues). In this work, we introduce an anomaly detection method using deep learning that greatly improves model generalizability to TOXPATH data. Methods: We evaluated a one-class classification approach that leverages novel regularization and perceptual techniques within generative adversarial network (GAN) and autoencoder architectures to accurately detect anomalous histopathological findings of varying degrees of complexity. We also utilized multiscale contextual data and conducted a thorough ablation study to demonstrate the efficacy of our method. We trained our models on data from normal whole slide images (WSIs) of rat liver sections and validated on WSIs from three anomalous classes. Anomaly scores are collated into heatmaps to localize anomalies within WSIs and provide human-interpretable results. Results: Our method achieves 0.953 area under the receiver operating characteristic on a real-worldTOXPATH dataset. The model also shows good performance at detecting a wide variety of anomalies demonstrating our method's ability to generalize to TOXPATH data. Conclusion: Anomalies in both TOXPATH histological and non-histological datasets were accurately identified with our method, which was only trained with normal data.