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The Japanese archipelago is a terminal location for human migration, and the contemporary Japanese people represent a unique population whose genomic diversity has been shaped by multiple migrations from Eurasia. We analyzed the genomic characteristics that define the genetic makeup of the modern Japanese population from a population genetics perspective from the genomic data of 9,287 samples obtained by high-coverage whole-genome sequencing (WGS) by the National Center Biobank Network. The dataset comprised populations from the Ryukyu Islands and other parts of the Japanese archipelago (Hondo). The Hondo population underwent two episodes of population decline during the Jomon period, corresponding to the Late Neolithic, and the Edo period, corresponding to the Early Modern era, while the Ryukyu population experienced a population decline during the shell midden period of the Late Neolithic in this region. Haplotype analysis suggested increased allele frequencies for genes related to alcohol and fatty acid metabolism, which were reported as loci that had experienced positive natural selection. Two genes related to alcohol metabolism were found to be 12,500 years out of phase with the time when they began to increase in the allele frequency; this finding indicates that the genomic diversity of Japanese people has been shaped by events closely related to agriculture and food production.
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População do Leste Asiático , Genética Populacional , Humanos , Variação Genética , Japão , Sequenciamento Completo do Genoma , População do Leste Asiático/genéticaRESUMO
Natural selection signatures across Japanese subpopulations are under-explored. Here we conducted genome-wide selection scans with 622,926 single nucleotide polymorphisms for 20,366 Japanese individuals, who were recruited from the main-islands of Japanese Archipelago (Hondo) and the Ryukyu Archipelago (Ryukyu), representing two major Japanese subpopulations. The integrated haplotype score (iHS) analysis identified several signals in one or both subpopulations. We found a novel candidate locus at IKZF2, especially in Ryukyu. Significant signals were observed in the major histocompatibility complex region in both subpopulations. The lead variants differed and demonstrated substantial allele frequency differences between Hondo and Ryukyu. The lead variant in Hondo tags HLA-A*33:03-C*14:03-B*44:03-DRB1*13:02-DQB1*06:04-DPB1*04:01, a haplotype specific to Japanese and Korean. While in Ryukyu, the lead variant tags DRB1*15:01-DQB1*06:02, which had been recognized as a genetic risk factor for narcolepsy. In contrast, it is reported to confer protective effects against type 1 diabetes and human T lymphotropic virus type 1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis. The FastSMC analysis identified 8 loci potentially affected by selection within the past 20-150 generations, including 2 novel candidate loci. The analysis also showed differences in selection patterns of ALDH2 between Hondo and Ryukyu, a gene recognized to be specifically targeted by selection in East Asian. In summary, our study provided insights into the selection signatures within the Japanese and nominated potential sources of selection pressure.
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População do Leste Asiático , Seleção Genética , Humanos , Aldeído-Desidrogenase Mitocondrial/genética , Alelos , Povo Asiático/genética , Frequência do Gene , Haplótipos , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Seleção Genética/genética , JapãoRESUMO
Overcoming resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors is an important issue in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Transcriptome analysis shows that adenocarcinoma can be divided into three molecular subtypes: terminal respiratory unit (TRU), proximal proliferative (PP), and proximal inflammatory (PI), and squamous cell carcinoma (LUSQ) into four. However, the immunological characteristics of these subtypes are not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the immune landscape of NSCLC tissues in molecular subtypes using a multi-omics dataset, including tumor-infiltrating leukocytes (TILs) analyzed using flow cytometry, RNA sequences, whole exome sequences, metabolomic analysis, and clinicopathologic findings. In the PI subtype, the number of TILs increased and the immune response in the tumor microenvironment (TME) was activated, as indicated by high levels of tertiary lymphoid structures, and high cytotoxic marker levels. Patient prognosis was worse in the PP subtype than in other adenocarcinoma subtypes. Glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1) expression levels were upregulated and lactate accumulated in the TME of the PP subtype. This could lead to the formation of an immunosuppressive TME, including the inactivation of antigen-presenting cells. The TRU subtype had low biological malignancy and "cold" tumor-immune phenotypes. Squamous cell carcinoma (LUSQ) did not show distinct immunological characteristics in its respective subtypes. Elucidation of the immune characteristics of molecular subtypes could lead to the development of personalized immune therapy for lung cancer. Immune checkpoint inhibitors could be an effective treatment for the PI subtype. Glycolysis is a potential target for converting an immunosuppressive TME into an antitumorigenic TME in the PP subtype.
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Adenocarcinoma de Pulmão , Transportador de Glucose Tipo 1 , Neoplasias Pulmonares , Linfócitos do Interstício Tumoral , Microambiente Tumoral , Humanos , Microambiente Tumoral/imunologia , Neoplasias Pulmonares/imunologia , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética , Neoplasias Pulmonares/patologia , Adenocarcinoma de Pulmão/imunologia , Adenocarcinoma de Pulmão/patologia , Adenocarcinoma de Pulmão/genética , Linfócitos do Interstício Tumoral/imunologia , Linfócitos do Interstício Tumoral/metabolismo , Transportador de Glucose Tipo 1/genética , Transportador de Glucose Tipo 1/metabolismo , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/imunologia , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/genética , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/patologia , Prognóstico , Carcinoma Pulmonar de Células não Pequenas/imunologia , Carcinoma Pulmonar de Células não Pequenas/genética , Carcinoma Pulmonar de Células não Pequenas/patologia , Masculino , Feminino , Idoso , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Perfilação da Expressão GênicaRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Although frailty is a geriatric syndrome that is associated with disability, hospitalization, and mortality, it can be reversible and preventable with the appropriate interventions. Additionally, as the current diagnostic criteria for frailty include only physical, psychological, cognitive, and social measurements, there is a need for promising blood-based molecular biomarkers to aid in the diagnosis of frailty. METHODS: To identify candidate blood-based biomarkers that can enhance current diagnosis of frailty, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of clinical data, messenger RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq), and aging-related factors using a total of 104 older adults aged 65-90 years (61 frail subjects and 43 robust subjects) in a cross-sectional case-control study. RESULTS: We identified two candidate biomarkers of frailty from the clinical data analysis, nine from the RNA-seq analysis, and six from the aging-related factors analysis. By using combinations of the candidate biomarkers and clinical information, we constructed risk prediction models. The best models used combinations that included skeletal muscle mass index measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (adjusted p = 0.026), GDF15 (adjusted p = 1.46E-03), adiponectin (adjusted p = 0.012), CXCL9 (adjusted p = 0.011), or apelin (adjusted p = 0.020) as the biomarker. These models achieved a high area under the curve of 0.95 in an independent validation cohort (95% confidence interval: 0.79-0.97). Our risk prediction models showed significantly higher areas under the curve than did models constructed using only basic clinical information (Welch's t test p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: All five biomarkers showed statistically significant correlations with components of the frailty diagnostic criteria. We discovered several potential biomarkers for the diagnosis of frailty. Further refinement may lead to their future clinical use.
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Biomarcadores , Idoso Fragilizado , Fragilidade , Humanos , Idoso , Masculino , Feminino , Biomarcadores/sangue , Fragilidade/diagnóstico , Fragilidade/sangue , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Estudos Transversais , Fator 15 de Diferenciação de Crescimento/sangue , Avaliação Geriátrica/métodos , Envelhecimento/sangue , Envelhecimento/genética , Adiponectina/sangue , Absorciometria de Fóton , Apelina/sangueRESUMO
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common multifactorial neurodegenerative disease among elderly people. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been highly successful in identifying genetic risk factors. However, GWAS investigate common variants, which tend to have small effect sizes, and rare variants with potentially larger phenotypic effects have not been sufficiently investigated. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) enables us to detect those rare variants. Here, we performed rare-variant association studies by using WGS data from 140 individuals with probable AD and 798 cognitively normal elder controls (CN), as well as single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping data from an independent large Japanese AD cohort of 1604 AD and 1235 CN subjects. We identified two rare variants as candidates for AD association: a missense variant in OR51G1 (rs146006146, c.815 G > A, p.R272H) and a stop-gain variant in MLKL (rs763812068, c.142 C > T, p.Q48X). Subsequent in vitro functional analysis revealed that the MLKL stop-gain variant can contribute to increases not only in abnormal cells that should die by programmed cell death but do not, but also in the ratio of Aß42 to Aß40. We further detected AD candidate genes through gene-based association tests of rare variants; a network-based meta-analysis using these candidates identified four functionally important hub genes (NCOR2, PLEC, DMD, and NEDD4). Our findings will contribute to the understanding of AD and provide novel insights into its pathogenic mechanisms that can be used in future studies.
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Doença de Alzheimer , Doenças Neurodegenerativas , Idoso , Doença de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Etnicidade , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Humanos , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único/genética , Sequenciamento Completo do GenomaRESUMO
Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the most common form of dementia, and its pathogenesis is multifactorial. We previously reported a rare functional variant of SHARPIN (rs572750141, NP_112236.3:p.Gly186Arg) that was significantly associated with LOAD. In addition, several recent studies have suggested the potential role of SHARPIN in AD pathogenesis. In this study, we sought to identify additional functional variants of SHARPIN in Japanese population. Six highly deleterious variants of SHARPIN, comprising four missense variants, one frameshift variant, and one stop-gain variant were detected from whole-genome sequencing data for 180 patients with LOAD and 184 with mild cognitive impairment. One of these candidate variants (rs77359862, NP_112236.3:p.Arg274Trp) was significantly associated with an increased risk of LOAD in 5043 LOAD cases and 11984 controls (P = 0.0016, odds ratio = 1.43). Furthermore, this variant SHARPIN showed aberrant cellular localization and reduced the activation of NF-κB, a central mediator of inflammatory and immune responses. Further investigation of the physiologic role of SHARPIN may reveal the mechanism of onset of LOAD.
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Doença de Alzheimer , Disfunção Cognitiva , Doença de Alzheimer/genética , Disfunção Cognitiva/genética , Humanos , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso , UbiquitinasRESUMO
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common form of neurodegenerative dementia in elderly people, following Alzheimer's disease. Only three genes, SNCA (α-synuclein), APOE (apolipoprotein E), and GBA (glucosylceramidase), have been convincingly demonstrated to be associated with DLB. Here, we applied whole-genome sequencing to blood samples from 61 DLB patients and 45 cognitively normal controls. We used accumulation of candidate mutations to detect novel DLB-associated genes. Subsequent single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping and association studies in a large number of samples from Japanese individuals revealed novel heterozygous variants in MFSD3 (rs143475431, c.888T>A:p.C296*; n = 5,421, p = 0.00063) and MRPL43 (chr10:102746730, c.241A>C:p.N81H; n = 4,782, p = 0.0029). We further found that the MFSD3 variant increased plasma levels of butyrylcholinesterase (n = 1,206, p = 0.029). We believe that our findings will contribute to the understanding of DLB and provide insight into its pathogenic mechanism for future studies.
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Doença por Corpos de Lewy , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras , Proteínas Mitocondriais , Proteínas Ribossômicas , Idoso , Humanos , Butirilcolinesterase/genética , Etnicidade , Estudos de Associação Genética , Japão , Doença por Corpos de Lewy/etnologia , Doença por Corpos de Lewy/genética , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras/genética , Proteínas Mitocondriais/genética , Metanálise em Rede , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Proteínas Ribossômicas/genéticaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to identify serum miRNAs that discriminate early gastric cancer (EGC) samples from non-cancer controls using a large cohort. METHODS: This retrospective case-control study included 1417 serum samples from patients with EGC (seen at the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo between 2008 and 2012) and 1417 age- and gender-matched non-cancer controls. The samples were randomly assigned to discovery and validation sets and the miRNA expression profiles of whole serum samples were comprehensively evaluated using a highly sensitive DNA chip (3D-Gene®) designed to detect 2565 miRNA sequences. Diagnostic models were constructed using the levels of several miRNAs in the discovery set, and the diagnostic performance of the model was evaluated in the validation set. RESULTS: The discovery set consisted of 708 samples from EGC patients and 709 samples from non-cancer controls, and the validation set consisted of 709 samples from EGC patients and 708 samples from non-cancer controls. The diagnostic EGC index was constructed using four miRNAs (miR-4257, miR-6785-5p, miR-187-5p, and miR-5739). In the discovery set, a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of the EGC index revealed that the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.996 with a sensitivity of 0.983 and a specificity of 0.977. In the validation set, the AUC for the EGC index was 0.998 with a sensitivity of 0.996 and a specificity of 0.953. CONCLUSIONS: A novel combination of four serum miRNAs could be a useful non-invasive diagnostic biomarker to detect EGC with high accuracy. A multicenter prospective study is ongoing to confirm the present observations.
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Detecção Precoce de Câncer/métodos , MicroRNAs/sangue , Análise de Sequência de RNA/estatística & dados numéricos , Neoplasias Gástricas/diagnóstico , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Área Sob a Curva , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Curva ROC , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Estudos Retrospectivos , Adulto JovemRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have demonstrated an association between the gut microbiome and cognitive function. However, the associations between the gut microbiome and brain parenchyma damage, and their underlying mechanisms, remain unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional sub-analysis using data from our prospective cohort study to determine the association between the gut microbiome and cerebral small vessel disease (SVD). We assessed patient demographics, risk factors, cognitive function, brain imaging, voxel-based specific regional analysis system for Alzheimer's Disease (VSRAD, indicating brain atrophy), and the gut microbiome as indicated by enterotypes and faecal microbiome metabolites. We then analysed the associations between total SVD scores, cognitive function, and the gut microbiome. RESULTS: We analysed data from 87 patients without dementia or a history of stroke, 64 of whom exhibited mild cognitive impairment. Higher total SVD scores were associated with cognitive decline and behavioural and psychological symptoms. Compared with all other patients, patients with enterotype I (Bacteroides >30%) were more likely to have cognitive decline (median scores: Mini-Mental State Examination, 25 vs. 27, Pâ¯=â¯0.047; Clinical Dementia Rating-Sum of Boxes, 1.5 vs. 0.5, Pâ¯=â¯0.002) and present with cerebral SVD and high VSRAD scores (1.01 vs. 0.57, Pâ¯=â¯0.012). Furthermore, faecal metabolites were significantly higher in patients with higher total SVD scores compared with those with lower scores. Multivariable logistic regression analyses indicated that certain gut microbiomes may double the risk of white matter hyperintensity. CONCLUSIONS: The gut microbiome is associated with cerebral SVD.
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Bactérias/classificação , Doenças de Pequenos Vasos Cerebrais/microbiologia , Cognição , Disfunção Cognitiva/microbiologia , Microbioma Gastrointestinal , Intestinos/microbiologia , Leucoencefalopatias/microbiologia , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Bactérias/isolamento & purificação , Doenças de Pequenos Vasos Cerebrais/diagnóstico por imagem , Doenças de Pequenos Vasos Cerebrais/psicologia , Disfunção Cognitiva/diagnóstico , Disfunção Cognitiva/psicologia , Estudos Transversais , Imagem de Difusão por Ressonância Magnética , Fezes/microbiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Leucoencefalopatias/diagnóstico por imagem , Leucoencefalopatias/psicologia , Masculino , Testes de Estado Mental e Demência , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Medição de Risco , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
Background and Purpose- Numerous studies have shown that circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) can be used as noninvasive biomarkers of various diseases. This study aimed to identify serum miRNAs that predict the risk of stroke. Methods- The cases were individuals who had been diagnosed with cerebrovascular disorder by brain imaging. The controls were individuals with no history of stroke who had undergone a medical checkup. Serum miRNA profiling was performed for all participants using microarray analysis. Samples were divided into discovery, training, and validation sets. In the discovery set, which consisted of control samples only, serum miRNAs that correlated with the predicted risk of stroke, as calculated using 7 clinical risk factors, were identified by Pearson correlation analysis. In the training set, a discriminant model between cases and controls was constructed using the identified miRNAs, Fisher linear discrimination model with leave-one-out cross-validation and DeLong test. In the validation set, the predictive accuracy of the constructed model was calculated. Results- First, in 1523 control samples (discovery set), we identified 10 miRNAs that correlated with a predicted risk of stroke. Second, in 45 controls and 87 cases (training set), we identified 7 of 10 miRNAs that significantly associated with cerebrovascular disorder (miR-1228-5p, miR-1268a, miR-1268b, miR-4433b-3p, miR-6090, miR-6752-5p, and miR-6803-5p). Third, a 3-miRNA combination model (miR-1268b, miR-4433b-3p, and miR-6803-5p) was constructed in the training set with a sensitivity of 84%, a specificity of 98%, and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.95 (95% CI, 0.92-0.98). Finally, in 45 controls and 86 cases (validation set), the 3-miRNA model achieved a sensitivity of 80%, a specificity of 82%, and an area under the receiver operating characteristic of 0.89 (95% CI, 0.83-0.95) for cerebrovascular disorder. Conclusions- We identified 7 serum miRNAs that could predict the risk of cerebrovascular disorder before the onset of stroke.
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Ácidos Nucleicos Livres/sangue , MicroRNAs/sangue , Modelos Biológicos , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/sangue , Adulto , Idoso , Biomarcadores/sangue , Ácidos Nucleicos Livres/genética , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , MicroRNAs/genética , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Fatores de Risco , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/genéticaRESUMO
Bladder cancer is the 9th leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The major problem in bladder cancer is primarily the high recurrence rate after drug treatment and resection. Although conventional screening methods, such as cystoscopy, urinary cytology and ultrasound sonography, have become widely used in clinical settings, the diagnostic performance of these modalities is unsatisfactory due to low accuracy or high invasiveness. Because circulating micro RNA (miRNA) profiles have recently been reported as an attractive tool for liquid biopsy in cancer screening, here, we performed global miRNA profiling of 392 serum samples of bladder cancer patients with 100 non-cancer samples and 480 samples of other types of cancer as controls. We randomly classified the bladder cancer and control samples into 2 cohorts, a training set (N = 486) and a validation set (N = 486). By comparing both controls, we identified specific miRNA, such as miR-6087, for diagnosing bladder cancer in the training and validation sets. Furthermore, we found that a combination of 7 miRNA (7-miRNA panel: miR-6087, miR-6724-5p, miR-3960, miR-1343-5p, miR-1185-1-3p, miR-6831-5p and miR-4695-5p) could discriminate bladder cancer from non-cancer and other types of tumors with the highest accuracy (AUC: .97; sensitivity: 95%; specificity: 87%). The diagnostic accuracy was high, regardless of the stage and grade of bladder cancer. Our data demonstrated that the 7-miRNA panel could be a biomarker for the specific and early detection of bladder cancer.
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Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Detecção Precoce de Câncer/métodos , MicroRNAs/genética , Neoplasias da Bexiga Urinária/genética , Idoso , Biomarcadores Tumorais/sangue , Estudos de Coortes , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Feminino , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Masculino , MicroRNAs/sangue , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , Neoplasias da Bexiga Urinária/sangue , Neoplasias da Bexiga Urinária/diagnósticoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most common form of dementia, results from complicated interactions among multiple environmental and genetic factors. Despite recent advances in genetic analysis of LOAD, more than half of the heritability for the disease remains unclear. Although genetic studies in Caucasians found rare risk variants for LOAD with large effect sizes, these variants are hardly detectable in the Japanese population. METHODS: To identify rare variants possibly explaining part of the genetic architecture for LOAD in Japanese people, we performed whole-exome sequencing analyses of 202 LOAD individuals without the APOE ε4 risk allele, a major genetic factor for LOAD susceptibility. We also implemented in vitro functional analyses of the variant(s) to reveal possible functions associated with LOAD risk. RESULTS: Via step-by-step selection of whole-exome variants, we found seven candidate risk variants. We then conducted a case-control association study in a large Japanese cohort consisting of 4563 cases and 16,459 controls. We finally identified a rare nonsynonymous variant, rs572750141 (NM_030974.3:p.Gly186Arg), in SHARPIN that was potentially associated with increased risk of LOAD (corrected P = 8.05 × 10- 5, odds ratio = 6.1). The amino acid change in SHARPIN resulted in aberrant cellular localization of the variant protein and attenuated the activation of NF-κB, a central mediator of inflammatory and immune responses. CONCLUSIONS: Our work identified a rare functional SHARPIN variant as a previously unknown genetic risk factor for LOAD. The functional alteration in SHARPIN induced by the rare coding variant is associated with an attenuated inflammatory/immune response that may promote LOAD development.
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Doença de Alzheimer/genética , Doença de Alzheimer/imunologia , Ubiquitinas/genética , Apolipoproteínas E/genética , Povo Asiático/genética , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Exoma/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Genótipo , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , Inflamação/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único/genéticaAssuntos
Doença de Alzheimer , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides , Sistemas CRISPR-Cas , NF-kappa B , Humanos , Doença de Alzheimer/genética , Doença de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Doença de Alzheimer/patologia , NF-kappa B/metabolismo , NF-kappa B/genética , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides/metabolismo , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides/genética , Transdução de Sinais/genética , Técnicas de Introdução de GenesRESUMO
Several lines of evidence suggest that oxidative stress is one of the key pathogenic mechanisms of osteoporosis. We aimed to elucidate the bone protective effects of petunidin, one of the most common anthocyanidins, considering its potent antioxidative activity. Petunidin (>5 µg/mL) significantly inhibited osteoclastogenesis and downregulated c-fos, Nfatc1, Mmp9, Ctsk, and Dc-stamp mRNA expression in RAW264.7 cells. Conversely, petunidin (>16 µg/mL) stimulated mineralized matrix formation and gene expression of Bmp2 and Ocn, whereas it suppressed Mmp13, Mmp2, and Mmp9 mRNA expression and proteolytic activities of MMP13 and MMP9 in MC3T3-E1 cells. Micro-CT and bone histomorphometry analyses of sRANKL-induced osteopenic C57BL/6J mice showed that daily oral administration of petunidin (7.5 mg/kg/day) increased bone volume to tissue volume (BV/TV), trabecular thickness (Tb.Th), trabecular number (Tb.N), the ratio of osteoid volume to tissue volume (OV/TV), osteoid thickness (O.Th), the ratio of osteoid surface to bone surface (OS/BS), the ratio of osteoblast surface to bone surface (Ob.S/BS), and the number of osteoblast per unit of bone surface (N.Ob/BS), and decreased trabecular separation (Tb.Sp), the ratio of eroded surface to bone surface (ES/BS), the ratio of osteoclast surface to bone surface (Oc.S/BS), and number of osteoclast per unit of bone surface (N.Oc/BS), compared to untreated mice. Furthermore, histological sections of the femurs showed that oral administration of petunidin to sRANKL-induced osteopenic mice increased the size of osteoblasts located along the bone surface and the volume of osteoid was consistent with the in vitro osteoblast differentiation and MMP inhibition. These results suggest that petunidin is a promising natural agent to improve sRANKL-induced osteopenia in mice through increased osteoid formation, reflecting accelerated osteoblastogenesis, concomitant with suppressed bone resorption.
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Antocianinas/uso terapêutico , Conservadores da Densidade Óssea/uso terapêutico , Osteoblastos/efeitos dos fármacos , Osteogênese , Osteoporose/tratamento farmacológico , Animais , Antocianinas/farmacologia , Conservadores da Densidade Óssea/farmacologia , Proteína Morfogenética Óssea 2/metabolismo , Osso Esponjoso/efeitos dos fármacos , Osso Esponjoso/metabolismo , Feminino , Metaloproteinases da Matriz/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Osteoblastos/metabolismo , Osteoporose/metabolismo , Ligante RANK/metabolismo , Células RAW 264.7RESUMO
MicroRNA (miRNA), which are stably present in serum, have been reported to be potentially useful for detecting cancer. In the present study, we examined the expression profiles of serum miRNA in several large cohorts to identify novel miRNA that can be used to detect early stage breast cancer. We comprehensively evaluated the serum miRNA expression profiles using highly sensitive microarray analysis. A total of 1280 serum samples of breast cancer patients stored in the National Cancer Center Biobank were used. In addition, 2836 serum samples were obtained from non-cancer controls, 451 from patients with other types of cancers, and 63 from patients with non-breast benign diseases. The samples were divided into a training cohort including non-cancer controls, other cancers and breast cancer, and a test cohort including non-cancer controls and breast cancer. The training cohort was used to identify a combination of miRNA that could detect breast cancer, and the test cohort was used to validate that combination. miRNA expressions were compared between patients with breast cancer and non-breast cancer, and a combination of five miRNA (miR-1246, miR-1307-3p, miR-4634, miR-6861-5p and miR-6875-5p) was found to be able to detect breast cancer. This combination had a sensitivity of 97.3%, specificity of 82.9% and accuracy of 89.7% for breast cancer in the test cohort. In addition, this combination could detect early stage breast cancer (sensitivity of 98.0% for Tis).
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Biomarcadores Tumorais/sangue , Neoplasias da Mama/sangue , MicroRNAs/sangue , Adulto , Biomarcadores Tumorais/genética , Neoplasias da Mama/diagnóstico , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Detecção Precoce de Câncer , Feminino , Expressão Gênica , Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Humanos , Masculino , MicroRNAs/genética , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Curva ROCRESUMO
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a syndromic degenerative spinal disease and is characterized by spinal canal narrowing with subsequent neural compression causing gait disturbances. Although LSS is a major age-related musculoskeletal disease that causes large decreases in the daily living activities of the elderly, its molecular pathology has not been investigated using proteomics. Thus, we used several proteomic technologies to analyze the ligamentum flavum (LF) of individuals with LSS. Using comprehensive proteomics with strong cation exchange fractionation, we detected 1288 proteins in these LF samples. A GO analysis of the comprehensive proteome revealed that more than 30% of the identified proteins were extracellular. Next, we used 2D image converted analysis of LC/MS to compare LF obtained from individuals with LSS to that obtained from individuals with disc herniation (nondegenerative control). We detected 64 781 MS peaks and identified 1675 differentially expressed peptides derived from 286 proteins. We verified four differentially expressed proteins (fibronectin, serine protease HTRA1, tenascin, and asporin) by quantitative proteomics using SRM/MRM. The present proteomic study is the first to identify proteins from degenerated and hypertrophied LF in LSS, which will help in studying LSS.
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Ligamento Amarelo/química , Ligamento Amarelo/patologia , Proteoma/análise , Estenose Espinal/patologia , Adulto , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Deslocamento do Disco Intervertebral/patologia , Masculino , Espectrometria de Massas , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , ProteômicaRESUMO
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common and devastating dementia. Simple and practical biomarkers for AD are urgently required for accurate diagnosis and to facilitate the development of disease-modifying interventions. The subjects for the study were selected on the basis of PiB amyloid imaging by PET. Forty PiB-positive (PiB+) individuals, including cognitively healthy controls (HC), and mild cognitive impairment and AD individuals, and 22 PiB-negative (PiB-) HC participated. Employing our novel highly sensitive immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry, we measured plasma amyloid ß-proteins (Aßs; Aß1-40 and Aß1-42) and Aß-approximate peptides (AßAPs), which were cleaved from amyloid precursor protein (APP). Among the AßAPs, APP669-711 appeared to be a good reference for deciphering pathological change of Aß1-42. We evaluated the performance of the ratio of APP669-711 to Aß1-42 (APP669-711/Aß1-42) as a biomarker. APP669-711/Aß1-42 significantly increased in the PiB+ groups. The sensitivity and specificity to discriminate PiB+ individuals from PiB- individuals were 0.925 and 0.955, respectively. Our plasma biomarker precisely surrogates cerebral amyloid deposition.
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Doença de Alzheimer/sangue , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides/sangue , Biomarcadores/sangue , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Imunoprecipitação , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Espectrometria de Massas , Tomografia por Emissão de Pósitrons , Curva ROC , Reprodutibilidade dos TestesRESUMO
Previous studies have demonstrated associations between enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) and dementias such as Alzheimer's disease. However, an association between EPVS and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) has not yet been clarified. We performed a cross-sectional analysis of our prospective study cohort of 109 participants (16 with DLB). We assessed cognitive function, pulse wave velocity (PWV), and brain magnetic resonance imaging features. The relationships between EPVS and DLB were evaluated using multivariable logistic regression analyses. Compared with the non-dementia group, the DLB group was more likely to have EPVS in the basal ganglia. Compared with participants without EPVS, those with EPVS were older and had cognitive impairment and high PWV. In multivariable analyses, EPVS in the basal ganglia was independently associated with DLB. High PWV was also independently associated with EPVS in both the basal ganglia and centrum semiovale. High PWV may cause cerebrovascular pulsatility, leading to accelerated EPVS in DLB participants.
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Sistema Glinfático , Doença por Corpos de Lewy , Análise de Onda de Pulso , Humanos , Doença por Corpos de Lewy/fisiopatologia , Doença por Corpos de Lewy/diagnóstico por imagem , Doença por Corpos de Lewy/patologia , Feminino , Masculino , Idoso , Sistema Glinfático/diagnóstico por imagem , Sistema Glinfático/fisiopatologia , Sistema Glinfático/patologia , Estudos Transversais , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Estudos Prospectivos , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Gânglios da Base/diagnóstico por imagem , Gânglios da Base/fisiopatologia , Gânglios da Base/patologiaRESUMO
Laboratory rats, like mice, are a type of animal commonly used in scientific investigations as well as in basic aging and geriatric research. The selection of a rat strain is an important first step in the planning and design of an experiment due to physiological, anatomical, and ethological variations in each strain, which may significantly modify the expected results. In the present study, we characterized age-related changes, from 3 months old (mo) to 24 mo, in three male rat strains commonly used in medical research: RccHan®ï¸:WIST (RccHan:WIST), F344/NSlc (F344), and Slc:SD Rat (SD). The body weight, water/food consumption, and survival rate of each strain were physiologically evaluated. Hematological and biochemical values were analyzed every three months. Hematological results showed a decrease in lymphocytes and increases in other leukocytes from 12 mo in F344 and SD rats. The incidence of hematological disorder was 10-15% in F344 and SD rats from 18 mo. Increases in hepatic biochemical parameters (alanine transaminase (GPT/ALT) and aspartate transaminase (GOT/AST)) and cytopathological parameters (creatine phosphokinase (CPK)) were observed in male F344 rats at 12 mo. Triglycerides (TG) serum levels were significantly elevated in the 12 mo RccHan:WIST rats, while Lipase (LIP) levels were significantly reduced in 24 mo. The present results revealed significant variations in hematological and biochemical values in the different laboratory male rat strains due to genetic and nutritional-metabolic factors specific to each strain.
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Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the most common cause of dementia among those older than 65 years. The onset of LOAD is influenced by neuroinflammation. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system is involved in regulating inflammatory responses. Numerous HLA alleles and their haplotypes have shown varying associations with LOAD in diverse populations, yet their impact on the Japanese population remains to be elucidated. Here, we conducted a comprehensive investigation into the associations between LOAD and HLA alleles within the Japanese population. Using whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from 303 LOAD patients and 1717 cognitively normal (CN) controls, we identified four-digit HLA class I alleles (A, B, and C) and class II alleles (DRB1, DQB1, and DPB1). We found a significant association between the HLA-DRB1*09:01-DQB1*03:03 haplotype and LOAD risk in APOE [Formula: see text]4-negative samples (odds ratio = 1.81, 95% confidence interval = 1.38-2.38, P = 2.03[Formula: see text]). These alleles not only showed distinctive frequencies specific to East Asians but demonstrated a high degree of linkage disequilibrium in APOE [Formula: see text]4-negative samples (r2 = 0.88). Because HLA class II molecules interact with T-cell receptors (TCRs), we explored potential disparities in the diversities of TCR α chain (TRA) and ß chain (TRB) repertoires between APOE [Formula: see text]4-negative LOAD and CN samples. Lower diversity of TRA repertoires was associated with LOAD in APOE [Formula: see text]4-negative samples, irrespective of the HLA DRB1*09:01-DQB1*03:03 haplotype. Our study enhances the understanding of the etiology of LOAD in the Japanese population and provides new insights into the underlying mechanisms of its pathogenesis.