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Spaceflight is known to impose changes on human physiology with unknown molecular etiologies. To reveal these causes, we used a multi-omics, systems biology analytical approach using biomedical profiles from fifty-nine astronauts and data from NASA's GeneLab derived from hundreds of samples flown in space to determine transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and epigenetic responses to spaceflight. Overall pathway analyses on the multi-omics datasets showed significant enrichment for mitochondrial processes, as well as innate immunity, chronic inflammation, cell cycle, circadian rhythm, and olfactory functions. Importantly, NASA's Twin Study provided a platform to confirm several of our principal findings. Evidence of altered mitochondrial function and DNA damage was also found in the urine and blood metabolic data compiled from the astronaut cohort and NASA Twin Study data, indicating mitochondrial stress as a consistent phenotype of spaceflight.
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Genômica , Mitocôndrias/patologia , Voo Espacial , Estresse Fisiológico , Animais , Ritmo Circadiano , Matriz Extracelular/metabolismo , Humanos , Imunidade Inata , Metabolismo dos Lipídeos , Análise do Fluxo Metabólico , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Músculos/imunologia , Especificidade de Órgãos , Olfato/fisiologiaRESUMO
Pausing by RNA polymerase (RNAP) during transcription elongation, in which a translocating RNAP uses a "stepping" mechanism, has been studied extensively, but pausing by RNAP during initial transcription, in which a promoter-anchored RNAP uses a "scrunching" mechanism, has not. We report a method that directly defines the RNAP-active-center position relative to DNA with single-nucleotide resolution (XACT-seq; "crosslink-between-active-center-and-template sequencing"). We apply this method to detect and quantify pausing in initial transcription at 411 (â¼4,000,000) promoter sequences in vivo in Escherichia coli. The results show initial-transcription pausing can occur in each nucleotide addition during initial transcription, particularly the first 4 to 5 nucleotide additions. The results further show initial-transcription pausing occurs at sequences that resemble the consensus sequence element for transcription-elongation pausing. Our findings define the positional and sequence determinants for initial-transcription pausing and establish initial-transcription pausing is hard coded by sequence elements similar to those for transcription-elongation pausing.
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DNA Bacteriano/metabolismo , RNA Polimerases Dirigidas por DNA/metabolismo , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Análise de Sequência de DNA/métodos , Domínio Catalítico , Escherichia coli/genética , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Transcrição GênicaRESUMO
Nucleoside-containing metabolites such as NAD+ can be incorporated as 5' caps on RNA by serving as non-canonical initiating nucleotides (NCINs) for transcription initiation by RNA polymerase (RNAP). Here, we report CapZyme-seq, a high-throughput-sequencing method that employs NCIN-decapping enzymes NudC and Rai1 to detect and quantify NCIN-capped RNA. By combining CapZyme-seq with multiplexed transcriptomics, we determine efficiencies of NAD+ capping by Escherichia coli RNAP for â¼16,000 promoter sequences. The results define preferred transcription start site (TSS) positions for NAD+ capping and define a consensus promoter sequence for NAD+ capping: HRRASWW (TSS underlined). By applying CapZyme-seq to E. coli total cellular RNA, we establish that sequence determinants for NCIN capping in vivo match the NAD+-capping consensus defined in vitro, and we identify and quantify NCIN-capped small RNAs (sRNAs). Our findings define the promoter-sequence determinants for NCIN capping with NAD+ and provide a general method for analysis of NCIN capping in vitro and in vivo.
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Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala/métodos , NAD/metabolismo , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Capuzes de RNA/genética , RNA Polimerases Dirigidas por DNA/metabolismo , Endorribonucleases/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/genética , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Expressão Gênica/genética , Nucleotídeos/genética , Sítio de Iniciação de Transcrição/fisiologia , Transcrição Gênica/genética , Transcriptoma/genéticaRESUMO
Recent developments of single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) technologies have led to enormous biological discoveries. As the scale of scRNA-seq studies increases, a major challenge in analysis is batch effects, which are inevitable in studies involving human tissues. Most existing methods remove batch effects in a low-dimensional embedding space. Although useful for clustering, batch effects are still present in the gene expression space, leaving downstream gene-level analysis susceptible to batch effects. Recent studies have shown that batch effect correction in the gene expression space is much harder than in the embedding space. Methods such as Seurat 3.0 rely on the mutual nearest neighbor (MNN) approach to remove batch effects in gene expression, but MNN can only analyze two batches at a time, and it becomes computationally infeasible when the number of batches is large. Here, we present CarDEC, a joint deep learning model that simultaneously clusters and denoises scRNA-seq data while correcting batch effects both in the embedding and the gene expression space. Comprehensive evaluations spanning different species and tissues showed that CarDEC outperforms Scanorama, DCA + Combat, scVI, and MNN. With CarDEC denoising, non-highly variable genes offer as much signal for clustering as the highly variable genes (HVGs), suggesting that CarDEC substantially boosted information content in scRNA-seq. We also showed that trajectory analysis using CarDEC's denoised and batch-corrected expression as input revealed marker genes and transcription factors that are otherwise obscured in the presence of batch effects. CarDEC is computationally fast, making it a desirable tool for large-scale scRNA-seq studies.
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Aprendizado Profundo , Transcriptoma , Algoritmos , Análise por Conglomerados , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/métodos , Análise de Sequência de RNA/métodos , Análise de Célula Única/métodosRESUMO
Most nonconventional luminogens enjoy good water solubility and biocompatibility, showing unique application prospects in fields like biological imaging. Although clustering-triggered emission (CTE) mechanisms have been proposed to explain such emissions, it has not been thoroughly elucidated, which limits their development and application. Herein, the photoluminescence properties of polyacrylamide prepared by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization aqueous solution are utilized to further investigate the effects of changes in concentration, in order to elucidate the emission mechanism through transmission electron microscopy (TEM), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and theoretical calculation. The results showed that the size distribution, morphology, and distance between the polymer clusters formed in the water solution are successfully correlated with the cluster emission centers. The emission mechanism of nonconventional luminogens solutions is more clearly and intuitively elucidated, which has a promoting effect on the emission and application of this field. It provides a strategy a strategy to clarify the CTE mechanism of nonconventional luminogens solution more clearly.
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Nonconventional luminescent polymers have become research hotspots due to their advantages such as persistent room temperature phosphorescence (p-RTP) emission and strong film-forming properties. It is proven that the molecular weight (MW) of such luminescent polymers has a significant impact on their emission over a large range, generally with a red shift as the MW increases. Herein, four controllable MW polyacrylamides are prepared via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT), and their photoluminescence quantum yield and p-RTP lifetimes gradually increase with the increasing MW. The emission of p-RTP gradually shifts blue with increasing MW, which is likely due to the gradually changing interactions between the electron-rich portion in RAFT reagent and the increasing acrylamide (AM) units in the molecular chain. These can be reasonably explained through small angle X-ray scattering, the clustering-triggered emission (CTE) mechanism, and supported by theoretical calculations. Powder with controllable p-RTP capability has the potential for strategic anti-counterfeiting encryption. The above results not only promote the development of the CTE mechanism toward more precise explanations but also provide new ideas for the preparation of nonconventional luminescent polymers with controllable p-RTP emission performance.
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Resinas Acrílicas , Peso Molecular , Cor , Resinas Acrílicas/química , Polimerização , Estrutura Molecular , Análise Espectral Raman , Difração de Raios XRESUMO
Gray matter volume and thickness reductions have been reported in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), whereas cortical gyrification alterations of this disease remain largely unexplored. Using local gyrification index (LGI) and fractional anisotropy (FA) from structural and diffusion MRI data, this study investigated the cortical gyrification alterations as well as their relationship with white matter microstructural abnormalities in patients with SCA3 (n = 61) compared with healthy controls (n = 69). We found widespread reductions in cortical LGI and white matter FA in patients with SCA3 and that changes in these 2 features were also coupled. In the patient group, the LGI of the left middle frontal gyrus, bilateral insula, and superior temporal gyrus was negatively correlated with the severity of depressive symptoms, and the FA of a cluster in the left cerebellum was negatively correlated with the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia scores. Our findings suggest that the gyrification abnormalities observed in this study may account for the clinical heterogeneity in SCA3 and are likely to be mediated by the underlying white matter microstructural abnormalities of this disease.
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Doença de Machado-Joseph , Substância Branca , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Imagem de Difusão por Ressonância Magnética , Cerebelo , Substância CinzentaRESUMO
Chemical modifications of RNA 5'-ends enable "epitranscriptomic" regulation, influencing multiple aspects of RNA fate. In transcription initiation, a large inventory of substrates compete with nucleoside triphosphates for use as initiating entities, providing an ab initio mechanism for altering the RNA 5'-end. In Escherichia coli cells, RNAs with a 5'-end hydroxyl are generated by use of dinucleotide RNAs as primers for transcription initiation, "primer-dependent initiation." Here, we use massively systematic transcript end readout (MASTER) to detect and quantify RNA 5'-ends generated by primer-dependent initiation for â¼410 (â¼1,000,000) promoter sequences in E. coli The results show primer-dependent initiation in E. coli involves any of the 16 possible dinucleotide primers and depends on promoter sequences in, upstream, and downstream of the primer binding site. The results yield a consensus sequence for primer-dependent initiation, YTSS-2NTSS-1NTSSWTSS+1, where TSS is the transcription start site, NTSS-1NTSS is the primer binding site, Y is pyrimidine, and W is A or T. Biochemical and structure-determination studies show that the base pair (nontemplate-strand base:template-strand base) immediately upstream of the primer binding site (Y:RTSS-2, where R is purine) exerts its effect through the base on the DNA template strand (RTSS-2) through interchain base stacking with the RNA primer. Results from analysis of a large set of natural, chromosomally encoded Ecoli promoters support the conclusions from MASTER. Our findings provide a mechanistic and structural description of how TSS-region sequence hard-codes not only the TSS position but also the potential for epitranscriptomic regulation through primer-dependent transcription initiation.
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Primers do DNA/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/genética , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Iniciação da Transcrição Genética , Sequência de Bases , Sítios de Ligação , Cromossomos Bacterianos/genética , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Sítio de Iniciação de TranscriçãoRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be phenotypically divided into behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD), nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA), and semantic variant PPA (svPPA). However, the neural underpinnings of this phenotypic heterogeneity remain elusive. METHODS: Cortical morphology, white matter hyperintensities (WMH), diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space (DTI-ALPS), and their interrelationships were assessed in subtypes of FTD. Neuroimaging-transcriptional analyses on the regional cortical morphological deviances among subtypes were also performed. RESULTS: Changes in cortical thickness, surface area, gyrification, WMH, and DTI-ALPS were subtype-specific in FTD. The three morphologic indices are related to whole-brain WMH volume and cognitive performance, while cortical thickness is related to DTI-ALPS. Neuroimaging-transcriptional analyses identified key biological pathways linked to the formation and/or spread of TDP-43/tau pathologies. DISCUSSION: We found subtype-specific changes in cortical morphology, WMH, and glymphatic function in FTD. Our findings have the potential to contribute to the development of personalized predictions and treatment strategies for this disorder. HIGHLIGHTS: Cortical morphologic changes, white matter hyperintensities (WMH), and glymphatic dysfunction are subtype-specific. Cortical morphologic changes, WMH, and glymphatic dysfunction are inter-correlated. Cortical morphologic changes and WMH burden contribute to cognitive impairments.
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We realized the microenvironment-differential Imaging of demethylated metabolites of methionine and the regional regulation of ferroptosis.
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Ferroptose , Metionina , Fluorescência , Racemetionina , Diagnóstico por Imagem , Microambiente TumoralRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is thought to arise from dysconnectivity among interlinked brain regions resulting in a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. Cortical gyrification, a key morphological feature of human cerebral cortex, has been considered associated with developmental connectivity in early life. Monitoring cortical gyrification alterations may provide new insights into the developmental pathogenesis of OCD. METHODS: Sixty-two medication-naive patients with OCD and 59 healthy controls (HCs) were included in this study. Local gyrification index (LGI) was extracted from T1-weighted MRI data to identify the gyrification changes in OCD. Total distortion (splay, bend, or twist of fibers) was calculated using diffusion-weighted MRI data to examine the changes in white matter microstructure in patients with OCD. RESULTS: Compared with HCs, patients with OCD showed significantly increased LGI in bilateral medial frontal gyrus and the right precuneus, where the mean LGI was positively correlated with anxiety score. Patients with OCD also showed significantly decreased total distortion in the body, genu, and splenium of the corpus callosum (CC), where the average distortion was negatively correlated with anxiety scores. Intriguingly, the mean LGI of the affected cortical regions was significantly correlated with the mean distortion of the affected white matter tracts in patients with OCD. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrated associations among increased LGI, aberrant white matter geometry, and higher anxiety in patients with OCD. Our findings indicate that developmental dysconnectivity-driven alterations in cortical folding are one of the neural substrates underlying the clinical manifestations of OCD.
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We report the development of a next-generation sequencing-based technology that entails construction of a DNA library comprising up to at least 4(7) (â¼ 16,000) barcoded sequences, production of RNA transcripts, and analysis of transcript ends and transcript yields (massively systematic transcript end readout, "MASTER"). Using MASTER, we define full inventories of transcription start sites ("TSSomes") of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase for initiation at a consensus core promoter in vitro and in vivo; we define the TSS-region DNA sequence determinants for TSS selection, reiterative initiation ("slippage synthesis"), and transcript yield; and we define effects of DNA topology and NTP concentration. The results reveal that slippage synthesis occurs from the majority of TSS-region DNA sequences and that TSS-region DNA sequences have profound, up to 100-fold, effects on transcript yield. The results further reveal that TSSomes depend on DNA topology, consistent with the proposal that TSS selection involves transcription-bubble expansion ("scrunching") and transcription-bubble contraction ("anti-scrunching").
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Escherichia coli/genética , Sequenciamento de Nucleotídeos em Larga Escala/métodos , Sítio de Iniciação de Transcrição , Código de Barras de DNA Taxonômico , DNA Bacteriano/análise , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , RNA Bacteriano/análise , Análise de Sequência de DNA/métodos , Análise de Sequência de RNA/métodos , Transcrição GênicaRESUMO
Identifying dynamic changes in biomarkers and clinical profiles is essential for understanding the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The relevant studies have primarily relied on patients with autosomal dominant AD; however, relevant studies in sporadic AD are poorly understood. Here, we analyzed longitudinal data from 665 participants (mean follow-up 4.90 ± 2.83 years). By aligning normal cognition (CN) baseline with a clinical diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or AD, we studied the progression of AD using a linear mixed model to estimate the clinical and biomarker changes from stable CN to MCI to AD. The results showed that the trajectory of hippocampal volume and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) was consistent with the clinical measures in that they did not follow a hypothetical sigmoid curve but rather showed a slow change in the initial stage and accelerated changes in the later stage from MCI conversion to AD. Dramatic hippocampal atrophy and the ADAS13 increase were, respectively, 2.5 and 1 years earlier than the MCI onset. Besides, cognitively normal people with elevated and normal amyloid showed no significant differences in clinical measures, hippocampal volume, or FDG. These results reveal that pre-MCI to pre-AD may be a better time window for future clinical trial design.
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Doença de Alzheimer/fisiopatologia , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Disfunção Cognitiva/fisiopatologia , Hipocampo/diagnóstico por imagem , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico por imagem , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides/metabolismo , Compostos de Anilina , Biomarcadores , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Encéfalo/patologia , Disfunção Cognitiva/diagnóstico por imagem , Progressão da Doença , Etilenoglicóis , Feminino , Fluordesoxiglucose F18 , Hipocampo/patologia , Humanos , Modelos Lineares , Estudos Longitudinais , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Tamanho do Órgão , Tomografia por Emissão de Pósitrons , Compostos RadiofarmacêuticosRESUMO
In single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) experiments, the number of individual cells has increased exponentially, and the sequencing depth of each cell has decreased significantly. As a result, analyzing scRNA-seq data requires extensive considerations of program efficiency and method selection. In order to reduce the complexity of scRNA-seq data analysis, we present scedar, a scalable Python package for scRNA-seq exploratory data analysis. The package provides a convenient and reliable interface for performing visualization, imputation of gene dropouts, detection of rare transcriptomic profiles, and clustering on large-scale scRNA-seq datasets. The analytical methods are efficient, and they also do not assume that the data follow certain statistical distributions. The package is extensible and modular, which would facilitate the further development of functionalities for future requirements with the open-source development community. The scedar package is distributed under the terms of the MIT license at https://pypi.org/project/scedar.
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Biologia Computacional/métodos , RNA-Seq/métodos , Análise de Célula Única/métodos , Software , Algoritmos , Animais , Química Encefálica , Células Cultivadas , Análise por Conglomerados , Humanos , Camundongos , RNA Citoplasmático Pequeno/genética , Transcriptoma/genéticaRESUMO
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of both upper and lower motor neurons. Studies using various magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analytical approaches have consistently identified significant precentral abnormalities in ALS, whereas their structural and functional underpinnings remain poorly understood. METHODS: Using cortical thickness, fractional anisotropy (FA), and effective connectivity, we performed a multimodal MRI study to examine the structural and functional alterations associated with precentral abnormalities in patients with ALS (n = 60) compared with healthy controls (n = 60). RESULTS: Cortical thickness analysis revealed significant cortical thinning in the right precentral gyrus (PCG), superior frontal gyrus, and superior temporal gyrus in patients with ALS. Tractwise white matter microstructure analyses revealed decreased FA in the tracts connected to the PCG cluster in patients with ALS involving the right corticospinal tract and the middle posterior body of the corpus callosum. Additionally, the cortical thickness of the PCG cluster was found to be positively correlated with FA of the tracts connected to the PCG cluster, suggesting that these two structural features are tightly coupled. Using spectral dynamic causal modelling, effective connectivity analysis among the three regions with cortical thinning revealed decreased self-inhibitory influence in the PCG cluster in patients with ALS, which might be an endophenotypic manifestation of an imbalance in inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters in this region. CONCLUSIONS: The present data shed new light on the structural and functional underpinnings of precentral abnormalities in ALS.
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Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica , Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica/diagnóstico por imagem , Corpo Caloso , Humanos , Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Tratos Piramidais/diagnóstico por imagemRESUMO
Nonconventional luminogens with persistent room temperature phosphoresce (p-RTP) are attracting increasing attention owing to their momentous significance and diverse technical applications in optoelectronic and biomedical. So far, the p-RTP emission of some amorphous powders or single crystals has been studied in depth. The p-RTP emission of amorphous and fully crystalline states and their emission properties are widely divergent, while the difference of their p-RTP emission mechanism is still controversial. The relevance between crystallinity change and p-RTP properties is rarely studied. Furthermore, there is almost no research on the photoluminescence (PL) property change and emission mechanism under the crystal form transformation of semi-crystalline polymer. Herein, microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) is chosen as a model compound to explore its crystallinity and the change in luminescence during the crystal form transformation to make up for this gap. By precisely adjusting the crystallinity and crystal cellulose conversion of MCC, the changing trend of quantum efficiency, and p-RTP lifetime is consistent with the change of crystallinity, and the cellulose I may be more beneficial to PL emission than cellulose II. Clustering-triggered emission mechanism can reasonably explain these interesting photophysical processes, which also can be supported by single-crystal analysis and theoretical calculations.
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Celulose , LuminescênciaRESUMO
Although diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) has long been considered a disease of the peripheral nervous system, recent neuroimaging studies have shown that alterations in the central nervous system may play a crucial role in its pathogenesis. Here, we used surface-based morphometry (SBM) and tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) to investigate gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) differences between patients with DPN (n = 67, 44 painless and 23 painful) and healthy controls (HCs; n = 88). Compared with HCs, patients with DPN exhibited GM abnormalities in the pre- and postcentral gyrus and in several deep GM nuclei (caudate, putamen, medial pallidum, thalamus, and ventral nuclear). They also exhibited altered WM tracts (corticospinal tract, spinothalamic tract, and thalamocortical projecting fibers). These findings suggest impaired motor and somatosensory pathways in DPN. Further, patients with DPN (particularly painful DPN) exhibited morphological differences in the cingulate, insula, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus, as well as impaired WM integrity in periaqueductal WM and internal and external capsules. This suggests pain-perception/modulation pathways are altered in painful DPN. Intermodal correlation analyses found that the morphological indices of the brain regions identified by the SBM analysis were significantly correlated with the fractional anisotropy of brain regions identified by the TBSS analysis, suggesting that the GM and WM alterations were tightly coupled. Overall, our study showed sensorimotor and pain-related GM and WM alterations in patients with DPN, which might be involved in the development of DPN.
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Córtex Cerebral/patologia , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/patologia , Neuropatias Diabéticas/patologia , Substância Cinzenta/patologia , Atividade Motora , Neuralgia/patologia , Distúrbios Somatossensoriais/patologia , Substância Branca/patologia , Adulto , Idoso , Córtex Cerebral/diagnóstico por imagem , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/complicações , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/diagnóstico por imagem , Neuropatias Diabéticas/diagnóstico por imagem , Neuropatias Diabéticas/etiologia , Feminino , Substância Cinzenta/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Atividade Motora/fisiologia , Vias Neurais/diagnóstico por imagem , Vias Neurais/patologia , Neuralgia/diagnóstico por imagem , Neuralgia/etiologia , Neuroimagem , Distúrbios Somatossensoriais/diagnóstico por imagem , Distúrbios Somatossensoriais/etiologia , Substância Branca/diagnóstico por imagemRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of long-term Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) practice on practitioners' brain functional specialization compare with the TCC novices. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. SETTING: A psychology Institute. PARTICIPANTS: TCC practitioners (N=22) (52.4±6.8y; 7 men; educated years: 12.18±3.03y) and 18 healthy adults (54.8±6.8y; 8 men; education years: 11.78±2.90y) matched by age, sex, and education were enrolled. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning and cognitive test to measure the differences in functional specialization and cognitive function. Functional specialization was evaluated by voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) method. RESULTS: Lower middle frontal gyrus VMHC in TCC practitioners compared to controls. For TCC practitioners, the longer they practice, the lower their VMHC in precentral and precuneus. TCC practitioners showed better cognition performance. CONCLUSIONS: Changed VMHC indicated that TCC practice could enhance functional specialization in the middle frontal cortex of practitioners, which may be associated with higher-order cognitive ability.
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Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Cognição/fisiologia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Tai Chi Chuan/métodos , Tai Chi Chuan/psicologia , Adulto , Mapeamento Encefálico/métodos , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Valores de Referência , Medição de Risco , Taiwan , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and intractable neurodegenerative disease of human motor system characterized by progressive muscular weakness and atrophy. A considerable body of research has demonstrated significant structural and functional abnormalities of the primary motor cortex in patients with ALS. In contrast, much less attention has been paid to the abnormalities of cerebellum in this disease. Using multimodal magnetic resonance imagining data of 60 patients with ALS and 60 healthy controls, we examined changes in gray matter volume (GMV), white matter (WM) fractional anisotropy (FA), and functional connectivity (FC) in patients with ALS. Compared with healthy controls, patients with ALS showed decreased GMV in the left precentral gyrus and increased GMV in bilateral cerebellum, decreased FA in the left corticospinal tract and body of corpus callosum, and decreased FC in multiple brain regions, involving bilateral postcentral gyrus, precentral gyrus and cerebellum anterior lobe, among others. Meanwhile, we found significant intermodal correlations among GMV of left precentral gyrus, FA of altered WM tracts, and FC of left precentral gyrus, and that WM microstructural alterations seem to play important roles in mediating the relationship between GMV and FC of the precentral gyrus, as well as the relationship between GMVs of the precentral gyrus and cerebellum. These findings provided evidence for the precentral degeneration and cerebellar compensation in ALS, and the involvement of WM alterations in mediating the relationship between pathologies of the primary motor cortex and cerebellum, which may contribute to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of ALS.
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Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica/diagnóstico por imagem , Cerebelo/diagnóstico por imagem , Imagem de Tensor de Difusão/métodos , Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador/métodos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Adulto , Idoso , Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica/fisiopatologia , Cerebelo/fisiologia , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Imagem Multimodal/métodos , Degeneração Neural/diagnóstico por imagem , Degeneração Neural/fisiopatologia , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Here, DNA-functionalized nanoscale PCN-224 is established with the aptamer of A549 lung cancer cells. The aptamer was modified with carboxyl and fluorescein at the two terminals. When touching the A549 cells, DOX@PCN-224-DNA can trace tumor cells and present good targeting therapy by the combination of chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy. This facile aptamer functionalization of PCN-224 offers an opportunity to develop metal-organic framework-based target-directed therapy and biosensors.