BMC NeurosciencePub Date : 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00920-w
Su-Min Park, Yong-Hun Oh, Ga-Hyun Lim, Ju-Hyun An, Jin-Hwan Lee, Byoung-Joo Gwag, So-Jung Won, Kyoung-Won Seo, Hwa-Young Youn
{"title":"Crisdesalazine alleviates inflammation in an experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis multiple sclerosis mouse model by regulating the immune system.","authors":"Su-Min Park, Yong-Hun Oh, Ga-Hyun Lim, Ju-Hyun An, Jin-Hwan Lee, Byoung-Joo Gwag, So-Jung Won, Kyoung-Won Seo, Hwa-Young Youn","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00920-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00920-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microglia/macrophages participate in the development of and recovery from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), and the macrophage M1 (pro-inflammatory)/M2 (anti-inflammatory) phase transition is involved in EAE disease progression. We evaluated the efficacy of crisdesalazine (a novel microsomal prostaglandin E2 synthase-1 inhibitor) in an EAE model, including its immune-regulating potency in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated macrophages, and its neuroprotective effects in a macrophage-neuronal co-culture system. Crisdesalazine significantly alleviated clinical symptoms, inhibited inflammatory cell infiltration and demyelination in the spinal cord, and altered the phase of microglial/macrophage and regulatory T cells. Crisdesalazine promoted the M1 to M2 phase transition in macrophages (immunomodulation) and reduced neuronal necrosis (neuroprotection) in vitro. This is the first study to directly demonstrate the therapeutic effects of a microsomal prostaglandin E2 synthase-1 inhibitor in an EAE model and its ability to alter macrophage polarization, suggesting that it may be a new therapeutic option for the treatment of patients affected by multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"26 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11699678/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142926396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-12-31DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00913-9
Ross Mandeville, Hooman Sedghamiz, Perry Mansfield, Geoffrey Sheean, Chris Studer, Derrick Cordice, Ghodsieh Ghanbari, Atul Malhotra, Shamim Nemati, Jejo Koola
{"title":"Deep learning enhanced transmembranous electromyography in the diagnosis of sleep apnea.","authors":"Ross Mandeville, Hooman Sedghamiz, Perry Mansfield, Geoffrey Sheean, Chris Studer, Derrick Cordice, Ghodsieh Ghanbari, Atul Malhotra, Shamim Nemati, Jejo Koola","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00913-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00913-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is widespread, under-recognized, and under-treated, impacting the health and quality of life for millions. The current gold standard for sleep apnea testing is based on the in-lab sleep study, which is costly, cumbersome, not readily available and represents a well-known roadblock to managing this huge societal burden. Assessment of neuromuscular function involved in the upper airway using electromyography (EMG) has shown potential to characterize and diagnose sleep apnea, while the development of transmembranous electromyography (tmEMG), a painless surface probe, has made this opportunity practical and highly feasible. However, experience and ability to interpret electrical signals from the upper airway are scarce, and much of the pertinent information within the signal is likely difficult to detect visually. To overcome this issue, we explored the use of transformers, a deep learning (DL) model architecture with attention mechanisms, to model tmEMG data and distinguish between electromyographic signals from a cohort of control, neurogenic, and sleep apnea patients. Our approach involved three strategies to train a generalizable model on a relatively small dataset including, (1) transfer learning using an audio spectral transformer (AST), (2) the use of 6,000 simulated EMG recordings, converted to spectrograms and using standard backpropagation for fine-tuning, and (3) application of regularization to prevent overfitting and enhance generalizability. This DL approach was tested using 177 transoral EMG recordings from a prior study's database that included six healthy controls, five moderate to severe OSA patients, and five amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients with evidence of bulbar involvement (neurogenic injury). Sensitivity and specificity for classifying neurogenic cases from controls were 98% and 73%, respectively, while classifying OSA from controls were 88% and 64%, respectively. Notably, by averaging the predicted probabilities of each segment for individual patients, the model correctly classified up to 82% of control and OSA patients. These results not only suggest a potential to diagnose OSA patients accurately, but also to identify OSA endotypes that involve neuromuscular pathology, which has major implications for clinical management, patient outcomes, and research.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"80"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11686987/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142909255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-12-27DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00919-3
Andrew Savoy, Katherine L Anderson, Joseph V Gogola
{"title":"The songbird connectome (OSCINE-NET.ORG): structure-function organization beyond the canonical vocal control network.","authors":"Andrew Savoy, Katherine L Anderson, Joseph V Gogola","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00919-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00919-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Understanding the neural basis of behavior requires insight into how different brain systems coordinate with each other. Existing connectomes for various species have highlighted brain systems essential to various aspects of behavior, yet their application to complex learned behaviors remains limited. Research on vocal learning in songbirds has extensively focused on the vocal control network, though recent work implicates a variety of circuits in contributing to important aspects of vocal behavior. Thus, a more comprehensive understanding of brain-wide connectivity is essential to further assess the totality of circuitry underlying this complex learned behavior.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We present the Oscine Structural Connectome for Investigating NEural NETwork ORGanization (OSCINE-NET.ORG), the first interactive mesoscale connectome for any vocal learner. This comprehensive digital map includes all known connectivity data, covering major brain superstructures and functional networks. Our analysis reveals that the songbird brain exhibits small-world properties, with highly connected communities functionally designated as motor, visual, associative, vocal, social, and auditory. Moreover, there is a small set of significant connections across these communities, including from social and auditory sub-communities to vocal sub-communities, which highlight ethologically relevant facets of vocal learning and production. Notably, the vocal community contains the majority of the canonical vocal control network, as well as a variety of other nodes that are highly interconnected with it, meriting further evaluation for their inclusion in this network. A subset of nodes forms a \"rich broker club,\" highly connected across the brain and forming a small circuit amongst themselves, indicating they may play a key role in information transfer broadly. Collectively, their bidirectional connectivity with multiple communities indicates they may act as liaisons across multiple functional circuits for a variety of complex behaviors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>OSCINE-NET.ORG offers unprecedented access to detailed songbird connectivity data, promoting insight into the neural circuits underlying complex behaviors. This data emphasizes the importance of brain-wide integration in vocal learning, facilitating a potential reevaluation of the canonical vocal control network. Furthermore, we computationally identify a small, previously unidentified circuit-one which may play an impactful role in brain-wide coordination of multiple complex behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"79"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11681764/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142891836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-12-26DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00918-4
Ting Zou, Chen Chen, Huafu Chen, Xuyang Wang, Lin Gan, Chong Wang, Qing Gao, Chunyan Zhang, Wei Liao, Jingliang Cheng, Rong Li
{"title":"Structural-functional connectivity decoupling in multiscale brain networks in Parkinson's disease.","authors":"Ting Zou, Chen Chen, Huafu Chen, Xuyang Wang, Lin Gan, Chong Wang, Qing Gao, Chunyan Zhang, Wei Liao, Jingliang Cheng, Rong Li","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00918-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00918-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease associated with functional and structural alterations beyond the nigrostriatal dopamine projection. However, the structural-functional (SC-FC) coupling changes in combination with subcortical regions at the network level are rarely investigated in PD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>SC-FC coupling networks were systematically constructed using the structural connectivity obtained by diffusion tensor imaging and the functional connectivity obtained by resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging in 53 PD and 72 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs). Then, we explored how SC-FC coupling varied within and between several well-defined functional domains.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results showed that the SC-FC coupling in patients with PD was globally reduced in comparison with HCs. Specifically, regional SC-FC decoupled in the inferior parietal lobule, occipitotemporal cortex, motor cortex, and higher-order association cortex in patients with PD. Moreover, PD showed intranetwork SC-FC decoupling in the visual network (VIS), limbic and higher-order association networks. Furthermore, internetwork decoupling mainly linked to the VIS, the somatomotor network (SOM), the dorsal attention network, and the default mode network, was observed, increased internetwork coupling was found between the subcortical network and the SOM in PD (all p < 0.05, FDR corrected).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that PD is characterized by SC-FC decoupling in topological organization of multiscale brain networks, providing insights into the brain network mechanisms in PD.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"78"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11674082/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142891834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-12-25DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00922-8
Solomon Owumi, Joseph Chimezie, Praise Dyap Emmanuel, Anthony Chukwuma Okeibuno, Olatunde Owoeye
{"title":"Diethyl nitrosamine-induces neurobehavioral deficit, oxido-nitrosative stress in rats' brain: a neuroprotective role of diphenyl diselenide.","authors":"Solomon Owumi, Joseph Chimezie, Praise Dyap Emmanuel, Anthony Chukwuma Okeibuno, Olatunde Owoeye","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00922-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00922-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diethylnitrosamine (DEN), a common dietary carcinogen, is associated with neurotoxicity in humans and animals. This study investigated the neuroprotective effects of diphenyl diselenide (DPDS) against DEN-induced neurotoxicity in male Albino Wistar rats (n = 40). Rats were randomly distributed into cohorts and treated as follows: vehicle control (corn oil 2 mL/kg; gavage), DPDS-only (5 mg/kg; gavage) and DEN-only (200 mg/kg; single dose i.p.). Also, two other rat cohorts were pre-treated with DPDS (3 or 5 mg/kg) for 15 days (day: 0-15), subsequently administered with DEN (200 mg/kg) and continuously treated with DPDS for another 7 days, (days:15-21). Behavioural tests (OFT- using the open field test; NORT- novel object recognition test; FST- forced swimming test and Y-maze) were conducted from days 19-21, followed by biochemical analysis of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex for oxidative stress, inflammation, neurotransmitter metabolic enzyme, and histopathology. DEN-treated rats exhibited decreased locomotor activity, spatial memory function and antioxidant activity, increased oxidative and nitration stress, anxiety, and depressive-like behaviour, causing histoarchitectural damage in prefrontal and hippocampal cortices. DPDS treatment (pre- and post-DEN exposure) significantly alleviated these neurotoxic, oxidative, and nitration effects, reversed DEN-induced histopathological alterations, and improved locomotive and cognitive functions. In conclusion, DPDS demonstrates potent neuroprotective effects against DEN-induced toxicity, likely through enhanced endogenous antioxidant capacity that mitigates oxido-nitrative damage. These findings suggest that the organo-selenium -DPDS- is a promising chemotherapeutic agent potent in alleviating DEN-mediated neurotoxicity and maintaining brain health.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"77"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11669237/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142891833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-12-23DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00915-7
Linda Bistere, Stefan Wilczek, Daniela Vallentin
{"title":"Variable and slow-paced neural dynamics in HVC underlie plastic song production in juvenile zebra finches.","authors":"Linda Bistere, Stefan Wilczek, Daniela Vallentin","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00915-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00915-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Zebra finches undergo a gradual refinement of their vocalizations, transitioning from variable juvenile songs to the stereotyped song of adulthood. To investigate the neural mechanisms underlying song crystallization-a critical phase in this developmental process-we performed intracellular recordings in HVC (a premotor nucleus essential for song learning and production) of juvenile birds. We then compared these recordings to previously published electrophysiological data from adult birds. We found that HVC projection neurons in juvenile zebra finches during the song crystallization phase exhibited more variable spiking patterns compared to the precise bursting observed in adult HVC projection neurons. Additionally, subthreshold membrane potential fluctuations in juvenile neurons exhibited longer durations and larger amplitude excitatory postsynaptic potentials. These distinct temporal dynamics in HVC during song crystallization likely play a crucial role in the fine-tuning processes that shape the precise timing and structure of the mature zebra finch song.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"76"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11667989/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142881162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00911-x
Yan Yang, Shiyu Song, Hongwei Wang, Zhengliang Ma, Qian Gao
{"title":"The antioxidative effect of STAT3 involved in cellular vulnerability to isoflurane.","authors":"Yan Yang, Shiyu Song, Hongwei Wang, Zhengliang Ma, Qian Gao","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00911-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00911-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The vulnerable period to neurotoxicity of isoflurane overlaps with a developmental stage characterized by programmed neuronal death. STAT3 has been identified as a crucial molecule involved in survival pathways during this period. We aimed to investigate the role of STAT3 in cellular vulnerability to isoflurane.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>C57/BL6 mice on postnatal day 7 or 21, primary neurons derived from mice embryos at gestational days 14-16 and cultured for 5 or 14 days, as well as human neuroglioma U251 cells were treated with isoflurane. A plasmid containing human wild-type STAT3, STAT3 anti-sense oligonucleotide, STAT3 specific inhibitor STA21, proteasome inhibitor MG-132 and calcineurin inhibitor FK506 were utilized to evaluate the influence of STAT3 levels on isoflurane-induced cytotoxicity. The levels of Western blot results, mRNA, intracellular ROS, apoptotic rate, and calcineurin activity were analyzed using unpaired Student's t-test or one-way ANOVA followed by Bonferroni post hoc test, as appropriate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Elevated levels of STAT3, reduced activity of calcineurin, as well as a diminished response to isoflurane-induced calcineurin activation and neuroapoptosis were observed in more mature brain or neurons. Isoflurane accelerated the degradation of ubiquitin-conjugated proteins but did not facilitate ubiquitin conjugation to proteins. STAT3 was of particular importance in the all ubiquitin-conjugated proteins degraded by isoflurane. Knockdown or inhibition of STAT3 nuclear translocation exacerbated isoflurane-induced oxidative injury and apoptosis, while STAT3 overexpression mitigated these effects. Finally, this study demonstrated that FK506 pretreatment mitigated the apoptosis, ROS accumulation, and the impairment of neurite growth in primary neurons after exposed to isoflurane.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings indicate that specific regulation of STAT3 was closely related with the cellular vulnerability to isoflurane via an antioxidative pathway.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"75"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11619428/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142779254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Older is order: entropy reduction in cortical spontaneous activity marks healthy aging.","authors":"Da Chang, Xiu Wang, Yaojing Chen, Zhuo Rachel Han, Yin Wang, Bing Liu, Zhanjun Zhang, Xi-Nian Zuo","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00916-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00916-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Entropy trajectories remain unclear for the aging process of human brain system due to the lacking of longitudinal neuroimaging resource.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We used open data from an accelerated longitudinal cohort (PREVENT-AD) that included 24 healthy aging participants followed by 4 years with 5 visits per participant to establish cortical entropy aging curves and distinguish with the effects of age and cohort. This reveals that global cortical entropy decreased with aging, while a significant cohort effect was detectable that people who were born earlier showed higher cortical entropy. Such entropy reductions were also evident for large-scale cortical networks, although with different rates of reduction for different networks. Specifically, the primary and intermediate networks reduce their entropy faster than the higher-order association networks.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study confirmed that cortical entropy decreases continually in the aging process, both globally and regionally, and we conclude two specific characteristics of the entropy of the human cortex with aging: the shift of the complexity hierarchy and the diversity of complexity strengthen.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11616130/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142765989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-11-28DOI: 10.1186/s12868-024-00912-w
Xin Lin, Meicen Zhou, Hua Wang
{"title":"A rat model establishment of bronchopulmonary dysplasia-related lung & brain injury within 28 days after birth.","authors":"Xin Lin, Meicen Zhou, Hua Wang","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00912-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00912-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Lung injury associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and its related neurodevelopmental disorders have garnered increasing attention in the context of premature infants. Establishing a reliable animal model is essential for delving into the underlying mechanisms of these conditions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Newborn rats were randomly assigned to two groups: the hyperoxia-induced BPD group and the normoxia (NO) group. For the BPD group, they were nurtured in a hyperoxic environment with a high oxygen inspired fraction (0.85) from birth until day 14 within 28 days postnatally. In contrast, the NO group consisted of newborn rats that were nurtured in a normoxic environment with a standard oxygen inspired fraction (0.21) for 28 days postnatally. Various pathological sections of both lung and brain tissues were examined. TUNEL staining, immunofluorescence assays, and functional tests were performed, and the results were meticulously analyzed to assess the impact of hyperoxia environments on the developing organs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the newborn rats of the BPD group, a significant reduction in alveolar number coupled with enlargement was observed, alongside severe fibrosis, collagen deposition, and constriction of bronchi and vascular lumens. This was accompanied by an accumulation of inflammatory cells and a marked deterioration in lung function compared to the NO group (P < 0.05). Additionally, a decrease in neuronal count, an increase in neuronal apoptosis, proliferation of neuroglia cells, and demyelination were noted, and poorer performance in the Morris water maze test within the BPD group (P < 0.05).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The BPD-rats model was established successfully. Lung injury in the BPD group evident across the bronchi to the alveoli and pulmonary vessels, which was associated with deteriorated lung function at postnatal day 14. Concurrently, brain injury extended from the cerebral cortex to the hippocampus, which was associated with impaired performance in orientation navigation and spatial probe tests at postnatal day 28.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"73"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11603889/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142749825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does choline have an effect on Transient Global Amnesia (TGA)?","authors":"Sasan Rahmanian, Mahsa Shapouri, Mohammad Keshavarz Mohammadian, Zahra Mahmoudi, Zahra Saeedirad, Khadijeh Abbasi Mobarakeh, Abdolrahman Parhiz, Soheila Shekari, Asma Rajabi Harsini, Neda Valisoltani, Sara Khoshdooz, Saeid Doaei, Akram Kooshki, Maryam Gholamalizadeh","doi":"10.1186/s12868-024-00898-5","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12868-024-00898-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Choline was frequently reported to have some beneficial effects on memory function. However, the association of dietary choline with different types of amnesia is not well understood. The objective of this study was to examine the association between dietary intake of choline and transient global amnesia (TGA).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This case-control study was carried out on 258 patients with TGA and 520 participants without amnesia. Data on dietary choline intake was collected using a validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). All participants were examined for amnesia by a neurologist according to the Kaplan and Hodges criteria.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> There was an inverse association between TGA and dietary choline intake after adjustment for age and gender (OR: 0.98, CI 95% 0.96-0.98, P = 0.03). The association remained significant after additional adjusting for physical activity, body mass index (BMI), occupation, marital status, smoking, and drinking alcohol (OR: 0.98, CI 95% 0.96-0.99, P = 0.04) and after further adjustment for calorie and food groups intake (OR: 0.98, CI 95% 0.96-0.99, P = 0.03).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results of this study indicated that choline may have beneficial effects against TGA. Further longitudinal studies are warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":9031,"journal":{"name":"BMC Neuroscience","volume":"25 1","pages":"72"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11575108/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142666977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}