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Pilot Feasibility Stud ; 10(1): 51, 2024 Mar 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38521931

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BACKGROUND: Food insecurity is common in the United States, especially in Rhode Island, where it affects up to 33% of residents. Food insecurity is associated with adverse health outcomes and disproportionally affects people from minoritized backgrounds. Produce prescription programs, in which healthcare providers write "prescriptions" for free or reduced cost vegetables, have been used to address food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease. Although there is growing evidence for the effectiveness of produce prescription programs in improving food security and diet quality, there have been few efforts to use implementation science methods to improve the adoption of these programs. METHODS: This two-phase pilot study will examine determinants and preliminary implementation and effectiveness outcomes for an existing produce prescription program. The existing program is funded by an Accountable Care Organization in Rhode Island and delivered in primary care practices. For the first phase, we conducted a formative evaluation, guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research 2.0, to assess barriers, facilitators, and existing implementation strategies for the produce prescription program. Responses from the formative evaluation were analyzed using a rapid qualitative analytic approach to yield a summary of existing barriers and facilitators. In the second phase, we presented our formative evaluation findings to a community advisory board consisting of primary care staff, Accountable Care Organization staff, and staff who source and deliver the vegetables. The community advisory board used this information to identify and refine a set of implementation strategies to support the adoption of the program via an implementation blueprint. Guided by the implementation blueprint, we will conduct a single-arm pilot study to assess implementation antecedents (i.e., feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness, implementation climate, implementation readiness), implementation outcomes (i.e., adoption), and preliminary program effectiveness (i.e., food and nutrition security). The first phase is complete, and the second phase is ongoing. DISCUSSION: This study will advance the existing literature on produce prescription programs by formally assessing implementation determinants and developing a tailored set of implementation strategies to address identified barriers. Results from this study will inform a future fully powered hybrid type 3 study that will use the tailored implementation strategies and assess implementation and effectiveness outcomes for a produce prescription program. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinical trials: NCT05941403 , Registered June 9, 2023.

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J Pers Med ; 12(10)2022 Oct 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36294774

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The measurement of exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath (breathomics) represents an exciting biomarker matrix for airways disease, with early research indicating a sensitivity to airway inflammation. One of the key aspects to analytical validity for any clinical biomarker is an understanding of the short-term repeatability of measures. We collected exhaled breath samples on 5 consecutive days in 14 subjects with severe asthma who had undergone extensive clinical characterisation. Principal component analysis on VOC abundance across all breath samples revealed no variance due to the day of sampling. Samples from the same patients clustered together and there was some separation according to T2 inflammatory markers. The intra-subject and between-subject variability of each VOC was calculated across the 70 samples and identified 30.35% of VOCs to be erratic: variable between subjects but also variable in the same subject. Exclusion of these erratic VOCs from machine learning approaches revealed no apparent loss of structure to the underlying data or loss of relationship with salient clinical characteristics. Moreover, cluster evaluation by the silhouette coefficient indicates more distinct clustering. We are able to describe the short-term repeatability of breath samples in a severe asthma population and corroborate its sensitivity to airway inflammation. We also describe a novel variance-based feature selection tool that, when applied to larger clinical studies, could improve machine learning model predictions.

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J Pers Med ; 12(5)2022 Apr 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35629109

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Difficult asthma describes asthma in which comorbidities, inadequate treatment, suboptimal inhaler technique and/or poor adherence impede good asthma control. The association of anxiety and depression with difficult asthma outcomes (exacerbations, hospital admissions, asthma control, etc.) is unclear. This study assessed the clinical associations of anxiety and depression with difficult asthma outcomes in patients with a specialist diagnosis of difficult asthma. Using real-world data, we retrospectively phenotyped patients from the Wessex Asthma Cohort of Difficult Asthma (N = 441) using clinical diagnoses of anxiety and depression against those without anxiety or depression (controls). Additionally, we stratified patients by severity of psychological distress using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). We found that depression and/or anxiety were reported in 43.1% of subjects and were associated with worse disease-related questionnaire scores. Each psychological comorbidity group showed differential associations with difficult asthma outcomes. Anxiety alone (7.9%) was associated with dysfunctional breathing and more hospitalisations [anxiety, median (IQR): 0 (2) vs. controls: 0 (0)], while depression alone (11.6%) was associated with obesity and obstructive sleep apnoea. The dual anxiety and depression group (23.6%) displayed multimorbidity, worse asthma outcomes, female predominance and earlier asthma onset. Worse HADS-A scores in patients with anxiety were associated with worse subjective outcomes (questionnaire scores), while worse HADS-D scores in patients with depression were associated with worse objective (ICU admissions and maintenance oral corticosteroid requirements) and subjective outcomes. In conclusion, anxiety and depression are common in difficult asthma but exert differential detrimental effects. Difficult asthma patients with dual anxiety and depression experience worse asthma outcomes alongside worse measures of psychological distress. There is a severity-gradient association of HADS scores with worse difficult asthma outcomes. Collectively, our findings highlight the need for holistic, multidisciplinary approaches that promote early identification and management of anxiety and depression in difficult asthma patients.

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Rev Sci Instrum ; 92(7): 073004, 2021 Jul 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34340458

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A digital system for controlling the frequency of a continuous wave (CW) ring laser is described. The system utilizes Doppler-free absorption to steer the laser onto a resonance peak within a vapor cell and can hold the laser at this frequency for long periods of time using active feedback. The vapor cell is immersed in a sinusoidally varying magnetic field that produces a feedback signal by exploiting the Zeeman effect so that the laser frequency does not need to be dithered to achieve lock. A bias field can also be applied to adjust the frequency over several MHz while maintaining lock. This is advantageous for cold atom studies that require the laser to be red-detuned from resonance. Signals from the absorption cell and magnetic field are digitized and fed to a dedicated microcontroller that calculates and produces the feedback signal. The digital control system is described, and measurements are presented where the locked frequency is compared to data obtained from a commercial wavemeter. The locked frequency standard deviations ranged from 250 to 450 kHz within a 1 h period. The Allan deviations of the locked frequency had the best stability at a value of 6 × 10-11 in a 10 s averaging period. The locking system described here has application in experiments that require very stable laser frequency control and can also be used for regular recalibration of wavemeter parameters. The design can easily be adapted to control different CW laser systems and hence can be used for a range of atomic targets.

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Clin Exp Allergy ; 51(8): 1019-1032, 2021 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33866615

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BACKGROUND: Omalizumab and Mepolizumab are biologic drugs with proven efficacy in clinical trials. However, a better understanding of their real-world effectiveness in severe asthma management is needed. OBJECTIVES: To better understand the real-world effectiveness of Omalizumab and Mepolizumab, elucidate the clinical phenotypes of patients treated with these drugs, identify baseline characteristics associated with biologic response and assess the spectrum of responses to these medications. METHODS: Using real-world clinical data, we retrospectively phenotyped biologic naïve patients from the Wessex AsThma CoHort of difficult asthma (N = 478) commenced on Omalizumab (N = 105) or Mepolizumab (N = 62) compared to severe asthma patients not receiving biologics (SNB, N = 178). We also assessed multiple clinical endpoints and identified features associated with response. RESULTS: Compared to SNB, Omalizumab patients were younger, diagnosed with asthma earlier, and more likely to have rhinitis. Conversely, compared to SNB, Mepolizumab patients were predominantly older males, diagnosed with asthma later, and more likely to have nasal polyposis but less dysfunctional breathing. Both treatments reduced exacerbations, Acute Healthcare Encounters [AHE] (emergency department or hospital admissions), maintenance oral corticosteroid dose, and improved Asthma Control Questionnaire 6 (ACQ6) scores. Omalizumab response was independently associated with more baseline exacerbations (p = .024) but fewer AHE (p = .050) and absence of anxiety (p = .008). Lower baseline ACQ6 was independently associated with Mepolizumab response (p = .007). A composite group of non-responders demonstrated significantly more psychopathologies and worse baseline subjective disease compared to responder groups. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: In a difficult asthma cohort, Omalizumab and Mepolizumab were used in distinct clinical phenotypes but were both multidimensionally efficacious. Certain baseline clinical characteristics were associated with poorer biologic responses, such as psychological co-morbidity, which may assist clinicians in biologic selection. These characteristics also emphasize the need for comprehensive approaches to support these patients.


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Antiasmáticos/uso terapéutico , Anticuerpos Monoclonales Humanizados/uso terapéutico , Asma/tratamiento farmacológico , Omalizumab/uso terapéutico , Adulto , Anciano , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Fenotipo , Estudios Retrospectivos , Resultado del Tratamiento
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Clin Exp Allergy ; 51(6): 811-820, 2021 06.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33528864

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BACKGROUND: Blood eosinophil measurement is essential for the phenotypic characterization of patients with difficult asthma and in determining eligibility for anti-IL-5/IL-5Rα biological therapies. However, assessing such measures over limited time spans may not reveal the true underlying eosinophilic phenotype, as treatment, including daily oral corticosteroid therapy, suppresses eosinophilic inflammation and asthma is intrinsically variable. METHODS: We interrogated the electronic healthcare records of patients in the Wessex AsThma CoHort of difficult asthma (WATCH) study (UK). In 501 patients being evaluated in this tertiary care centre for difficult to control asthma, all requested full blood count test results in a 10-year retrospective period from the index WATCH assessment were investigated (n = 11,176). RESULTS: In 235 biological therapy-naïve participants who had 10 or more measures in this time period, 40.3% were eosinophilic (blood eosinophils ≥300 cells/µl) at WATCH enrolment whilst an additional 43.1%, though not eosinophilic at enrolment, demonstrated eosinophilia at least once in the preceding decade. Persistent eosinophilia was associated with worse post-bronchodilator airway obstruction and higher Fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO). In contrast, the 16.6% of patients who never demonstrated eosinophilia at this blood eosinophil threshold showed preserved lung function and lower markers of Type 2 inflammation. CONCLUSIONS: This highlights the central role that type 2 inflammation, as indicated by blood eosinophilia, has in difficult asthma and suggests that longitudinal electronic healthcare record analysis can be an important tool in clinical asthma phenotyping, providing insight that may help understand disease progression and better guide more specific treatment approaches.


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Asma/sangre , Eosinofilia/sangre , Adulto , Antiasmáticos/uso terapéutico , Anticuerpos Monoclonales Humanizados/uso terapéutico , Asma/clasificación , Asma/tratamiento farmacológico , Asma/fisiopatología , Estudios de Cohortes , Registros Electrónicos de Salud , Eosinófilos , Femenino , Volumen Espiratorio Forzado , Prueba de Óxido Nítrico Exhalado Fraccionado , Glucocorticoides/uso terapéutico , Humanos , Inmunoglobulina E/sangre , Recuento de Leucocitos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Omalizumab/uso terapéutico , Selección de Paciente , Esputo/citología , Capacidad Vital
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Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33609786

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BACKGROUND: Though women increasingly make up the majority of medical-school and other science graduates, they remain a minority in academic biomedical settings, where they are less likely to hold leadership positions or be awarded research funding. A major factor is the career breaks that women disproportionately take to see to familial duties. They experience a related, but overlooked, hurdle upon their return: they are often too old to be eligible for 'early-career researcher' grants and 'career-development' awards, which are stepping stones to leadership positions in many institutions and which determine the demographics of their hierarchies for decades to come. Though age limits are imposed to protect young applicants from more experienced seniors, they have an unintended side effect of excluding returning workers, still disproportionately women, from the running. METHODS: In this joint effort by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, the Infectious Disease Society of America, the International Society for Infectious Diseases and the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases, we invited all European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases-affiliated medical societies and funding bodies to participate in a survey on current 'early-career' application restrictions and measures taken to provide protections for career breaks. RECOMMENDATIONS: The following simple consensus recommendations are geared to funding bodies, academic societies and other organizations for the fair handling of eligibility for early-career awards: 1. Apply a professional, not physiological, age limit to applicants. 2. State clearly in the award announcement that career breaks will be factored into applicants' evaluations such that: • Time absent is time extended: for every full-time equivalent of career break taken, the same full-time equivalent will be extended to the professional age limit. • Opportunity costs will also be taken into account: people who take career breaks risk additional opportunity costs, with work that they did before the career break often being forgotten or poorly documented, particularly in bibliometric accounting. Although there is no standardized metric to measure additional opportunity costs, organizations should (a) keep in mind their existence when judging applicants' submissions, and (b) note clearly in the award announcement that opportunity costs of career breaks are also taken into account. 3. State clearly that further considerations can be undertaken, using more individualized criteria that are specific to the applicant population and the award in question. The working group welcomes feedback so that these recommendations can be improved and updated as needed.

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Rev Sci Instrum ; 91(10): 103104, 2020 Oct 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33138571

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A modular, customizable, and low-cost experimental control system for electron spectrometers is described. LabVIEW is used to interface with a suite of Arduino-controlled power supplies, detectors, and stepper motors enabling a variety of different types of measurements to be performed. The structure of the LabVIEW control system and the general design of the Arduino-controlled modules are described. Examples of results from electron scattering and electron impact ionization experiments performed using this control system are presented.

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J Infect ; 81(6): 937-943, 2020 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32998038

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OBJECTIVES: Most reports describing the characteristics of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 lack a comparator group. We compared clinical characteristics, symptoms, and outcomes of adults presenting to hospital during the pandemic first wave, who tested positive and negative for SARS-CoV-2. METHODS: Detailed patient data was obtained from a large, controlled, non-randomised trial of molecular point-of-care testing versus laboratory RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 in adults presenting to a large UK hospital with suspected COVID-19. RESULTS: 1054 patients were included: 352 (33.4%) tested positive and 702 (66.6%) negative. 13.4% (47/352) COVID-19-positive patients had COPD versus 18.7% (131/702) of COVID-19-negative patients (difference=5.3% [95%CI -9.7% to -0.5%], p = 0.0297). 5.7% (20/352) of COVID-19-positive patients were smokers versus 16.5% (116/702) of negative patients (difference=-10.8% [-14.4% to -7.0%], p = 0.0001). 70.5% (248/352) of COVID-19-positive patients were White-British versus 85.5% (600/702) of negative patients (difference=-15.0% [-20.5% to -9.7%], p<0.0001). 20.9% (39/187) of COVID-19-positive patients were healthcare workers versus 5.2% (15/287) of negative patients (p<0.0001). Anosmia was reported in 33.1% (47/142) versus 8.8% (19/216) of COVID-19-positive and negative patients respectively (p<0.0001). Non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory viruses or atypical bacteria were detected in 2.5% (5/197) of COVID-19 patients versus 7.9% (24/302) of COVID-19-negative patients (p = 0.0109). Hospitalisation duration and 30-day-mortality were higher in COVID-19 patients and invasive ventilation was more frequent (11.1% vs 2.8%, p<0.0001), and longer (14.5 vs 4.7 days, p = 0.0015). CONCLUSIONS: There were substantial differences between patients with and without COVID-19 in terms of ethnicity, healthcare worker-status, comorbidities, symptoms, and outcomes. These data can inform healthcare planning for the next phase of the pandemic.


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COVID-19/epidemiología , Hospitalización/estadística & datos numéricos , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Anosmia/epidemiología , COVID-19/mortalidad , COVID-19/terapia , COVID-19/virología , Etnicidad/estadística & datos numéricos , Femenino , Personal de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Hospitales , Humanos , Tiempo de Internación/estadística & datos numéricos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios Prospectivos , Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica/epidemiología , Respiración Artificial/estadística & datos numéricos , Enfermedades Respiratorias/epidemiología , SARS-CoV-2/aislamiento & purificación , Fumadores/estadística & datos numéricos , Resultado del Tratamiento , Reino Unido/epidemiología
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Asthma Res Pract ; 6: 5, 2020.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32537235

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BACKGROUND: Exercise is recommended in guidelines for asthma management and has beneficial effects on symptom control, inflammation and lung function in patients with sub-optimally controlled asthma. Despite this, physical activity levels in patients with difficult asthma are often impaired. Understanding the barriers to exercise in people with difficult asthma is crucial for increasing their activity, and in implementing successful, disease modifying, and holistic approaches to improve their health. METHODS: 62 Patients within the WATCH Difficult Asthma Cohort (Southampton, UK) completed an Exercise Therapy Burden Questionnaire (ETBQ). The results were analyzed with contemporaneous asthma-related data to determine relationships between perceived exercise barriers and asthma and comorbidity characteristics. RESULTS: Patients were reflective of a difficult asthma cohort, 66% were female, and 63% were atopic. They had a high BMI (median [inter-quartile range]) of 29.3 [25.5-36.2], age of 53.5 [38.75, 65.25], impaired spirometry with FEV1 73% predicted [59.5, 86.6%] and FEV/FVC ratio of 72 [56.5, 78.0] and poor symptom control, as defined by an Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ6) result of 2.4 [1.28, 3.2]. A high perceived barriers to exercise score was significantly correlated with increased asthma symptoms (r = 0.452, p < 0.0001), anxiety (r = 0.375, p = 0.005) and depression (r = 0.363, p = 0.008), poor quality of life (r = 0.345, p = 0.015) and number of rescue oral steroid courses in the past 12 months (r = 0.257, p = 0.048). Lung function, blood eosinophil count, FeNO, Njimegen and SNOT22 scores, BMI and hospitalisations in the previous year were not related to exercise perceptions. CONCLUSION: In difficult asthma, perceived barriers to exercise are related to symptom burden and psychological morbidity. Therefore, exercise interventions combined with psychological input such as CBT to restructure thought processes around these perceived barriers may be useful in facilitating adoption of exercise.

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J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract ; 8(10): 3396-3406.e4, 2020.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32544545

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BACKGROUND: Asthma is a diverse condition that differs with age and sex. However, it remains unclear how sex, age of asthma onset, and/or their interaction influence clinical expression of more problematic adult "difficult" asthma. OBJECTIVES: To better understand the clinical features of difficult asthma within a real-world clinical setting using novel phenotypic classification, stratifying subjects by sex and age of asthma onset. METHODS: Participants in a longitudinal difficult asthma clinical cohort study (Wessex AsThma CoHort of difficult asthma; WATCH), United Kingdom (n = 501), were stratified into 4 difficult asthma phenotypes based on sex and age of asthma onset (early <18 years or adult ≥18 years) and characterized in relation to clinical and pathophysiological features. RESULTS: The cohort had more female participants (65%) but had similar proportions of participants with early- or adult-onset disease. Early-onset female disease was commonest (35%), highly atopic, with good spirometry and strong associations with some physical comorbidities but highest psychophysiologic comorbidities. Adult-onset females also had considerable psychophysiologic comorbidities and highest obesity, and were least atopic. Amongst male subjects, proportionately more had adult-onset disease. Early-onset male disease was rarest (14%) but associated with worst lung function, high smoking, atopy, and fungal sensitization. Despite shortest disease duration, adult-onset males had highest use of maintenance oral corticosteroid, poor lung function, and highest fractional exhaled nitrogen oxide in spite of highest smoking prevalence. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that sex, age of asthma onset, and their interactions influence different clinical manifestations of difficult asthma and identifies a greater risk for lung function loss and oral corticosteroid dependence associated with smoking in adult-onset male subjects.


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Asma , Adolescente , Adulto , Asma/epidemiología , Estudios de Cohortes , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Fenotipo , Espirometría , Reino Unido/epidemiología
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J Chem Phys ; 151(19): 194305, 2019 Nov 21.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31757134

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A new study of electron-impact single ionization of the HOMO 1t2 state of CH4 has been conducted at incident electron energies 20 eV and 40 eV above the ionization energy of the state. Triple differential cross sections were measured from a coplanar symmetric geometry, where scattered and ionized electrons were detected at equal angles, through to the perpendicular geometry where the outgoing electrons emerged orthogonal to the incident electron beam. At the lower energy, the electrons were detected with equal energies of 10 eV, whereas at the higher energy, data were obtained for equal energies of 20 eV and for unequal energies of 5 eV and 35 eV. The results are compared to a molecular 3-body distorted wave approximation that used a full averaging procedure to allow for the random orientation of the target, an orientation averaged molecular orbital model that averages the target wavefunction over all orientations prior to the collision, and a distorted wave Born approximation that does not include postcollisional interactions.

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PLoS Biol ; 17(11): e3000516, 2019 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31751328

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Behavior provides important insights into neuronal processes. For example, analysis of reaching movements can give a reliable indication of the degree of impairment in neurological disorders such as stroke, Parkinson disease, or Huntington disease. The analysis of such movement abnormalities is notoriously difficult and requires a trained evaluator. Here, we show that a deep neural network is able to score behavioral impairments with expert accuracy in rodent models of stroke. The same network was also trained to successfully score movements in a variety of other behavioral tasks. The neural network also uncovered novel movement alterations related to stroke, which had higher predictive power of stroke volume than the movement components defined by human experts. Moreover, when the regression network was trained only on categorical information (control = 0; stroke = 1), it generated predictions with intermediate values between 0 and 1 that matched the human expert scores of stroke severity. The network thus offers a new data-driven approach to automatically derive ratings of motor impairments. Altogether, this network can provide a reliable neurological assessment and can assist the design of behavioral indices to diagnose and monitor neurological disorders.


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Procesamiento de Imagen Asistido por Computador , Enfermedades del Sistema Nervioso/fisiopatología , Redes Neurales de la Computación , Animales , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Miembro Anterior , Masculino , Actividad Motora , Trastornos Motores/fisiopatología , Destreza Motora , Movimiento , Ratas , Accidente Cerebrovascular/fisiopatología
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JCI Insight ; 4(12)2019 06 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31145699

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BACKGROUNDDietary changes have led to the growing prevalence of type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. A hallmark of both disorders is hepatic lipid accumulation, derived in part from increased de novo lipogenesis. Despite the popularity of high-protein diets for weight loss, the effect of dietary protein on de novo lipogenesis is poorly studied. We aimed to characterize the effect of dietary protein on de novo lipid synthesis.METHODSWe use a 3-way crossover interventional study in healthy males to determine the effect of high-protein feeding on de novo lipogenesis, combined with in vitro models to determine the lipogenic effects of specific amino acids. The primary outcome was a change in de novo lipogenesis-associated triglycerides in response to protein feeding.RESULTSWe demonstrate that high-protein feeding, rich in glutamate, increases de novo lipogenesis-associated triglycerides in plasma (1.5-fold compared with control; P < 0.0001) and liver-derived very low-density lipoprotein particles (1.8-fold; P < 0.0001) in samples from human subjects (n = 9 per group). In hepatocytes, we show that glutamate-derived carbon is incorporated into triglycerides via palmitate. In addition, supplementation with glutamate, glutamine, and leucine, but not lysine, increased triglyceride synthesis and decreased glucose uptake. Glutamate, glutamine, and leucine increased activation of protein kinase B, suggesting that induction of de novo lipogenesis occurs via the insulin signaling cascade.CONCLUSIONThese findings provide mechanistic insight into how select amino acids induce de novo lipogenesis and insulin resistance, suggesting that high-protein feeding to tackle diabetes and obesity requires greater consideration.FUNDINGThe research was supported by UK Medical Research Council grants MR/P011705/1, MC_UP_A090_1006 and MR/P01836X/1. JLG is supported by the Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).


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Dieta Rica en Proteínas/efectos adversos , Conducta Alimentaria/fisiología , Lipogénesis , Hígado/metabolismo , Triglicéridos/biosíntesis , Administración Oral , Adulto , Aminoácidos/administración & dosificación , Aminoácidos/efectos adversos , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/metabolismo , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/prevención & control , Proteínas en la Dieta/administración & dosificación , Proteínas en la Dieta/efectos adversos , Voluntarios Sanos , Hepatocitos/metabolismo , Humanos , Insulina/metabolismo , Resistencia a la Insulina/fisiología , Hígado/citología , Masculino , Enfermedad del Hígado Graso no Alcohólico/metabolismo , Enfermedad del Hígado Graso no Alcohólico/prevención & control , Obesidad/etiología , Obesidad/metabolismo , Triglicéridos/sangre , Adulto Joven
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J Chem Phys ; 150(19): 194302, 2019 May 21.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31117797

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We report an experimental and theoretical investigation of electron-impact single ionization of the highest occupied molecular orbital 1t2 and the next highest occupied molecular orbital 2a1 states of CH4 at an incident electron energy of 250 eV. Triple differential cross sections measured in two different laboratories were compared with results calculated within the molecular 3-body distorted wave and generalized Sturmian function theoretical models. For ionization of the 1t2 state, the binary peak was observed to have a single maximum near the momentum transfer direction that evolved into a double peak for increasing projectile scattering angles, as has been seen for ionization of atomic p-states. A detailed investigation of this evolution was performed. As expected because of its s-type character, for ionization of the 2a1 state, only a single binary peak was observed. Overall, good agreement was found between experiment and theory.

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J Cheminform ; 9: 4, 2017.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28184255

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The design and use of a metadata-driven data repository for research data management is described. Metadata is collected automatically during the submission process whenever possible and is registered with DataCite in accordance with their current metadata schema, in exchange for a persistent digital object identifier. Two examples of data preview are illustrated, including the demonstration of a method for integration with commercial software that confers rich domain-specific data analytics without introducing customisation into the repository itself.

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J Cheminform ; 7: 43, 2015.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26322133

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BACKGROUND: The desirable curation of 158,122 molecular geometries derived from the NCI set of reference molecules together with associated properties computed using the MOPAC semi-empirical quantum mechanical method and originally deposited in 2005 into the Cambridge DSpace repository as a data collection is reported. RESULTS: The procedures involved in the curation included annotation of the original data using new MOPAC methods, updating the syntax of the CML documents used to express the data to ensure schema conformance and adding new metadata describing the entries together with a XML schema transformation to map the metadata schema to that used by the DataCite organisation. We have adopted a granularity model in which a DataCite persistent identifier (DOI) is created for each individual molecule to enable data discovery and data metrics at this level using DataCite tools. CONCLUSIONS: We recommend that the future research data management (RDM) of the scientific and chemical data components associated with journal articles (the "supporting information") should be conducted in a manner that facilitates automatic periodic curation. Graphical abstractStandards and metadata-based curation of a decade-old digital repository dataset of molecular information.

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J Chem Inf Model ; 55(10): 2200-5, 2015 Oct 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26376295

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Novel bioactive molecules can be rationally designed by growing and linking small fragments. Because fragments are fast and promiscuous, it is common to have contradictory hit results between different experimental screening techniques. Here, we simultaneously determine fragment binding poses, affinities, and kinetics on a focused library of 42 fragments against the serine protease factor Xa using multimillisecond molecular dynamics simulations. We predict experimental poses of 12 over 15 S1 crystal structures, and affinities are recovered for 4 out of 6. A kinetic map of protein cavities is computed in terms of on- and off-rates as well as insights into secondary ligand poses. The results suggest that the approach can be useful to recapitulate discordant fragment screening data.


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Factor Xa/química , Simulación de Dinámica Molecular , Fragmentos de Péptidos/química , Bibliotecas de Moléculas Pequeñas/química , Bioensayo , Dominio Catalítico , Humanos , Unión Proteica , Termodinámica
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