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Cell ; 143(4): 628-38, 2010 Nov 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21074052

RESUMEN

Worldwide, acute, and chronic pain affects 20% of the adult population and represents an enormous financial and emotional burden. Using genome-wide neuronal-specific RNAi knockdown in Drosophila, we report a global screen for an innate behavior and identify hundreds of genes implicated in heat nociception, including the α2δ family calcium channel subunit straightjacket (stj). Mice mutant for the stj ortholog CACNA2D3 (α2δ3) also exhibit impaired behavioral heat pain sensitivity. In addition, in humans, α2δ3 SNP variants associate with reduced sensitivity to acute noxious heat and chronic back pain. Functional imaging in α2δ3 mutant mice revealed impaired transmission of thermal pain-evoked signals from the thalamus to higher-order pain centers. Intriguingly, in α2δ3 mutant mice, thermal pain and tactile stimulation triggered strong cross-activation, or synesthesia, of brain regions involved in vision, olfaction, and hearing.


Asunto(s)
Canales de Calcio/genética , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Drosophila/genética , Dolor/genética , Adulto , Animales , Dolor de Espalda/genética , Canales de Calcio/metabolismo , Proteínas de Drosophila/metabolismo , Técnicas de Silenciamiento del Gen , Estudio de Asociación del Genoma Completo , Calor , Humanos , Ratones , Polimorfismo de Nucleótido Simple , Interferencia de ARN
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Cell ; 141(1): 142-53, 2010 Apr 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20371351

RESUMEN

Heart diseases are the most common causes of morbidity and death in humans. Using cardiac-specific RNAi-silencing in Drosophila, we knocked down 7061 evolutionarily conserved genes under conditions of stress. We present a first global roadmap of pathways potentially playing conserved roles in the cardiovascular system. One critical pathway identified was the CCR4-Not complex implicated in transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms. Silencing of CCR4-Not components in adult Drosophila resulted in myofibrillar disarray and dilated cardiomyopathy. Heterozygous not3 knockout mice showed spontaneous impairment of cardiac contractility and increased susceptibility to heart failure. These heart defects were reversed via inhibition of HDACs, suggesting a mechanistic link to epigenetic chromatin remodeling. In humans, we show that a common NOT3 SNP correlates with altered cardiac QT intervals, a known cause of potentially lethal ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Thus, our functional genome-wide screen in Drosophila can identify candidates that directly translate into conserved mammalian genes involved in heart function.


Asunto(s)
Drosophila melanogaster/fisiología , Modelos Animales , Animales , Cardiomiopatías/genética , Cardiomiopatías/fisiopatología , Drosophila melanogaster/embriología , Drosophila melanogaster/genética , Femenino , Estudio de Asociación del Genoma Completo , Corazón/embriología , Corazón/fisiología , Humanos , Masculino , Ratones , Ratones Noqueados , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas , Interferencia de ARN
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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys ; 72(4 Pt 1): 041909, 2005 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16383422

RESUMEN

The cellular Potts model (CPM) is a robust, cell-level methodology for simulation of biological tissues and morphogenesis. Both tissue physiology and morphogenesis depend on diffusion of chemical morphogens in the extra-cellular fluid or matrix (ECM). Standard diffusion solvers applied to the cellular potts model use finite difference methods on the underlying CPM lattice. However, these methods produce a diffusing field tied to the underlying lattice, which is inaccurate in many biological situations in which cell or ECM movement causes advection rapid compared to diffusion. Finite difference schemes suffer numerical instabilities solving the resulting advection-diffusion equations. To circumvent these problems we simulate advection diffusion within the framework of the CPM using off-lattice finite-difference methods. We define a set of generalized fluid particles which detach advection and diffusion from the lattice. Diffusion occurs between neighboring fluid particles by local averaging rules which approximate the Laplacian. Directed spin flips in the CPM handle the advective movement of the fluid particles. A constraint on relative velocities in the fluid explicitly accounts for fluid viscosity. We use the CPM to solve various diffusion examples including multiple instantaneous sources, continuous sources, moving sources, and different boundary geometries and conditions to validate our approximation against analytical and established numerical solutions. We also verify the CPM results for Poiseuille flow and Taylor-Aris dispersion.


Asunto(s)
Fenómenos Fisiológicos Celulares , Proteínas de la Matriz Extracelular/química , Proteínas de la Matriz Extracelular/fisiología , Matriz Extracelular/química , Matriz Extracelular/fisiología , Modelos Biológicos , Morfogénesis/fisiología , Algoritmos , Animales , Transporte Biológico , Simulación por Computador , Difusión , Sustancias de Crecimiento/química , Sustancias de Crecimiento/metabolismo , Humanos , Modelos Químicos
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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys ; 66(4 Pt 1): 041106, 2002 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12443176

RESUMEN

We investigate the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a washboard potential with space dependent friction coefficient. Analytical expressions have been obtained for current and diffusion coefficient. We show that the effective diffusion coefficient can be enhanced or suppressed compared to that of the uniform friction case. The diffusion coefficient is maximum near the critical threshold (F(c)), which is sensitive to temperature and the frictional profile. In some parameter regime, we observe that increase in noise (temperature) decreases the diffusion, which is counterintuitive. This leads to coherent transport with large mean velocity accompanied by small diffusion. This is shown explicitly by analysis of Péclet number, which has been introduced to study coherent or optimal transport. This phenomenon is complementary to giant diffusion.

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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys ; 65(3 Pt 2B): 037105, 2002 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11909316

RESUMEN

We study the efficiency of frictional thermal ratchets driven by a finite frequency driving force and in contact with a heat bath. The efficiency exhibits varied behavior with driving frequency. Both nonmonotonic and monotonic behavior have been observed. In particular, the magnitude of the efficiency in the finite frequency regime may be more than the efficiency in the adiabatic regime. This is our central result for rocked ratchets. We also show that for the simple potential we have chosen, with only spatial asymmetry (homogeneous system) or only a frictional ratchet (symmetric potential profile), the adiabatic efficiency is always more than in the nonadiabatic case.

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