Objective The epileptic source localization is an important issue for diagnostics and control of epileptic *** better method has be the major goal in this field for a long *** this work,based on the simultaneously rec...
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Objective The epileptic source localization is an important issue for diagnostics and control of epileptic *** better method has be the major goal in this field for a long *** this work,based on the simultaneously recorded EEG and fMRI,we are aimed at developing novel source localization method based on EEG-fMRI information *** By utilizing Bayesian model,a new epileptic EEG source localization method,network-based source imaging(NESOI),is desinged which adopts the fMRI network information obtained by independent component analysis as the spatial *** Compared with other typical source localization methods on simulation data,NESOI demnostrates itself with the smallest localization error,then an illustration application to a real epileptic data shows that NESOI may result in a more physiologically reasonable source localization result than the fMRI SPM *** The EEG-fMRI fusion based novel method NESOI is a potentially useful tool for clinic practice in epileptic disorder.
Background Earlier studies found that gray matter volume in the frontal,parietal and temporal lobes is significantly altered in idiopathic generalized epilepsy(IGE).Research has indicated that a relationship exists be...
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Background Earlier studies found that gray matter volume in the frontal,parietal and temporal lobes is significantly altered in idiopathic generalized epilepsy(IGE).Research has indicated that a relationship exists between the brain's subcortical structures and ***,little is known about possible changes in the subcortical structures in *** To determine the changes in the shape of subcortical structures in IGE using vertex *** Fourteen male patients with IGE and 28 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were included in this study,which used high-resolution magnetic resonance *** performed a vertex-based shape analysis, in which we compared patients with IGE with the controls,on the subcortical structures that we had obtained from the MRI *** Statistical analysis showed significant regional atrophy in the left thalamus,left putamen and bilateral globus pallidus in patients with *** These results indicate that regional atrophy of the basal ganglia and the thalamus may be related to seizure *** the future,these findings may prove useful for choosing new therapeutic regimens.
Objective Many CNS pathologies are associated with changes in the structure and function of astrocytes. When the lesioned brain and spinal cord tissues undergo the repairing process,astrocytes reactivate and form glia...
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Objective Many CNS pathologies are associated with changes in the structure and function of astrocytes. When the lesioned brain and spinal cord tissues undergo the repairing process,astrocytes reactivate and form glial scars that have a detrimental effect on neural *** the molecular regulation of astrocyte development could help to prevent astrogliosis in CNS ***,at present,little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying astrocyte *** this study,we attempted to explore the functional role of miRNAs in astrocyte differentiation during *** We generated the GFAP Dicer mice line to block the miRNA function in differentiating astrocytes,and analyze the differential expression of glial specific molecular markers in the spinal cord between mutant and control ***(1) Disruption of miRNAs delays astrocyte maturation;(2) Absence of miRNAs in astrocyte can interfere with oligodendrocyte myelination;(3) miRNAs contribute to the formation and maintenance of astrocyte structure and *** miRNAs are important regulators of astrocyte development.
Objectives Damage to the left occipito-temporal cortex often leads to pure alexia,which is characterized by an extreme slowness in *** is well known that the left hemisphere(LH) is specialized for analytic processing ...
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Objectives Damage to the left occipito-temporal cortex often leads to pure alexia,which is characterized by an extreme slowness in *** is well known that the left hemisphere(LH) is specialized for analytic processing and the RH for holistic *** thus hypothesize that the processing of visual words in patients with pure alexia might rely more on holistic process than in normal *** We tested a patient with pure alexia and a group of young controls(n = 32) using a character composite paradigm,which allows the measurement of failures of selective attention to parts of a character that result from a holistic processing *** this paradigm,participants saw pairs of Chinese characters presented briefly and then made a same/different judgment about the attended halves of the two *** Holistic processing was revealed by the interference from the unattended *** patient showed a larger interference effect than the *** Enhanced holistic processing of characters may be a characteristic hallmark of Chinese pure alexia.
During the development of vertebrate neuromuscular junction,the formation and maintenance of acetylcholine receptor(AChR) clusters are regulated by both positive and negative *** stabilizes,whereas acetylcholine(ACh) ...
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During the development of vertebrate neuromuscular junction,the formation and maintenance of acetylcholine receptor(AChR) clusters are regulated by both positive and negative *** stabilizes,whereas acetylcholine(ACh) destabilizes AChR *** mechanisms underlying this counteractive interaction are not completely *** we show that caspase-3,an effector caspase involved in apoptosis,negatively regulates AChR *** found that caspase-3 was activated by cholinergic stimulation of cultured muscle *** activation did not depend on calpain,a calcium-dependent protease which is involved in the dispersion of AChR *** treatment prevented the activation of ***,inhibition or down-regulation of caspase-3 attenuated ACh agonist-induced dispersion of AChR ***,the loss of AChR clusters in agrin mutant mice was partially rescued by the inhibition of caspase-3 or genetic ablation of *** together, these results suggest a novel role of caspase-3 in the refinement of synapse.
In the present study,synchrotron radiation-based Fourier transform infrared(FTIR) was used to analyze the biochemical composition of the striatal neurons in normal and Parkinson's disease(PD) rat brain *** rat mod...
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In the present study,synchrotron radiation-based Fourier transform infrared(FTIR) was used to analyze the biochemical composition of the striatal neurons in normal and Parkinson's disease(PD) rat brain *** rat model of PD was established by 6-hydroxydopamine destroying the nigrostriatal *** detailed spectral analyses showed significant changes of cellular compositions such as lipids,proteins and nucleic acids in PD neurons with respect to *** a result,the intensities of spectral absorption assigned to lipid in the striatal neurons of PD were higher than that of ***,the unsaturation level of phospholipids decreased for PD neurons with respect to normal,indicating the high level of lipid *** analysis of protein secondary structure showed a significantly higher ratio of P-sheet in PD neurons compared to that of ***,the content of nucleic acids in PD neurons decreased in comparison to *** finding suggest that the biochemical changes in the striatal neurons might be involved in the pathogenesis of PD.
<正>Genetic factor has long been considered to be related to idiopathic epilepsies and the susceptibility gene for idiopathic generalized epilepsy(IGE) has grown to more than 20 genes *** vast majority of them are...
<正>Genetic factor has long been considered to be related to idiopathic epilepsies and the susceptibility gene for idiopathic generalized epilepsy(IGE) has grown to more than 20 genes *** vast majority of them are genes encoding channels or the proteins regulating the action of excitatory or inhibitory neurotransmission in the central nervous system(CNS).But,these genes mutations can only explain the minor part for idiopathic epilepsy,and the genes responsible for the most common forms of idiopathic epilepsy still remain mostly *** advances recently have resulted in new high-throughput approaches that promise to accelerate the identification of new susceptibility genes and copy number variations(CNVs) for *** this talk,the recent advance of the susceptibility genes study in childhood absence epilepsy(CAE) will be reviewed,especially the two new genes probably associated to Chinese CAE patients we found by combining the whole genome SNP chip association study and direct sequence of the *** studies have revealed recurrent CNVs related to *** study showed the 15q 11.2 might be the most common CNV in Chinese CAE patients,it will be introduced.
Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system(CNS).In response to injury or inflammatory stimuli,the resting microglia can be rapidly activated to participate in pathological responses,including mi...
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Microglia are resident immune cells in the central nervous system(CNS).In response to injury or inflammatory stimuli,the resting microglia can be rapidly activated to participate in pathological responses,including migration to the affected site,release of various inflammatory molecules,and clearing of cellular *** released from damaged neural cells has been considered to be a major chemokine for inducing rapid process extension and migration of microglial ***,ATP leaking from the local injured cells may not be able to diffuse extensively to effectively induce migration of remote microglia,because extracellular nucleotides are rapidly degraded by ecto-ATPases in the *** found that ATP-indueed ATP release from microglial lysosomes contributed to the directional migration of remote *** addition,we found that ATP could function as a "drink" signal in microglia by triggering ***,we found that this purine-induced macropinocytosis is very efficient in clearing up extracellular soluble amyloid beta(Aβ),an early and key intermediate in the pathogenesis Alzheimer's disease.
Targeted gene expression is a powerful approach in studies of the nervous *** have used Tol2 mediated enhancer trap to find tissue specific enhancers in zebrafish genome and to produce transgenic driver lines expressi...
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Targeted gene expression is a powerful approach in studies of the nervous *** have used Tol2 mediated enhancer trap to find tissue specific enhancers in zebrafish genome and to produce transgenic driver lines expressing Gal4 protein in specific parts of ***4 protein can recognize upstream activator sequence(UAS)and activate the expression of UAS-driven reporter *** 35 driver lines that express Gal4 in specific parts of CNS have been screened *** have also mapped the loci of Tol2-Gal4 insertions in some of our driver *** of the insertion loci are located near developmentally important genes such as *** driver lines will be powerful tools for neuronal development research and behavior studies.
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