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Guo W, Zhang D, Sun J, Chen L, Wu T, Xu E. Quantitative susceptibility mapping of subcortical iron deposition in Parkinson disease and multiple system atrophy: clinical correlations and diagnostic implications. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2024; 14:4464-4474. [PMID: 39022221 PMCID: PMC11250300 DOI: 10.21037/qims-24-168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
Abstract
Background Parkinson disease (PD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the accumulation of alpha-synuclein. Distinguishing between these conditions remains a significant challenge. This study thus employed quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) to evaluate subcortical iron deposition and its clinical implications in patients with PD or MSA and a group of healthy controls (HCs). Methods The study included 26 patients with MSA, 40 patients with PD, and 35 HCs. We used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based QSM to measure iron accumulation in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc), substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr), and globus pallidus internus (GPi). We assessed differences between groups, examined correlations with clinical scores, and conducted receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Results Compared to those with PD, patients with MSA showed more severe motor and nonmotor impairment. QSM analysis indicated a significant increase in iron levels in the SNc, SNr, and GPi regions in patient groups compared to HCs. In patients with MSA, a notable positive correlation was found between SNc QSM values and Non-Motor Symptoms Scale scores (r=0.4; P=0.043). In patients with PD, a positive association was observed between iron levels in the SNc and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part III (UPDRS-III) (r=0.395; P=0.012) and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale scores (r=0.313; P=0.049). Furthermore, iron content in the GPi inversely correlated with rapid-eye movement sleep behavior disorder questionnaire-Hong Kong scores (r=-0.342; P=0.031). The SNr region demonstrated the best ability to discriminate between MSA and PD with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.67, followed by the GPi (AUC =0.64) and SNc (AUC =0.57). Conclusions QSM effectively quantified subcortical iron deposition in the PD, MSA, and HC groups. The correlations found between iron levels and clinical manifestations provide insights into the pathophysiological processes of these disorders, highlighting the potential of QSM as a diagnostic tool for differentiation.
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- Weihang Guo
- Department of Neurobiology, Neurology and Geriatrics, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing, China
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- Center for Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Center for Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurobiology, Neurology and Geriatrics, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing, China
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Filip P, Lasica A, Uhrová T, Mana J, Růžička F, Keller J, Mueller K, Burdová K, Kiakou D, Jech R. Mixed anxiety-depressive disorder in Parkinson's disease associated with worse resting state functional response to deep brain stimulation of subthalamic nucleus. Heliyon 2024; 10:e30698. [PMID: 38778942 PMCID: PMC11109721 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024] Open
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Background Parkinson's disease (PD), even though generally perceived as a dominantly motor disorder, is associated with a wide range of non-motor symptoms, including mixed anxiety-depressive disorder (MADD). Objectives The aim of the presented study was to determine whether deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) brings the functional characteristics of non-motor networks closer to the condition detected in healthy population and whether pre-DBS presence of MADD in PD patients was associated with different reaction to this therapeutic modality. Methods Resting-state fMRI signature elicited by STN DBS activation and deactivation in 81 PD patients was compared against healthy controls, with the focus on measures of efficiency of information processing and localised subnetwork differences. Results While all the MRI metrics showed statistically significant differences between PD patients in DBS OFF condition and healthy controls, none were detected in such a comparison against DBS ON condition. Furthermore, in the post-DBS evaluation, PD patients with MADD in the pre-DBS stage showed no differences in depression scales compared to pre-DBS psychiatrically intact PD patients, but still exhibited lower DBS-related connectivity in a subnetwork encompassing anterior and posterior cingulate, dorsolateral prefrontal and medial temporal cortices. Conclusions STN DBS improved all the metrics of interest towards the healthy state, normalising the resting-state MRI signature of PD. Furthermore, pre-DBS presence of MADD, even though clinically silent at post-DBS MRI acquisition, was associated with lower DBS effect in areas highly relevant for depression. This finding points to a possibly latent nature of post-DBS MADD, calling for caution in further follow-up of these patients.
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- Pavel Filip
- Department of Neurology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
- Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Science and Research, Prague College of Psychosocial Studies, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Radiology, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
- Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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Jin J, Su D, Zhang J, Lam JST, Zhou J, Feng T. Iron deposition in subcortical nuclei of Parkinson's disease: A meta-analysis of quantitative iron-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging studies. Chin Med J (Engl) 2024:00029330-990000000-01086. [PMID: 38809051 DOI: 10.1097/cm9.0000000000003167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Iron deposition plays a crucial role in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD), yet the distribution pattern of iron deposition in the subcortical nuclei has been inconsistent across previous studies. We aimed to assess the difference patterns of iron deposition detected by quantitative iron-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) between patients with PD and patients with atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APSs), and between patients with PD and healthy controls (HCs). METHODS A systematic literature search was conducted on PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases to identify studies investigating the iron content in PD patients using the iron-sensitive MRI techniques (R2* and quantitative susceptibility mapping [QSM]), up until May 1, 2023. The quality assessment of case-control and cohort studies was performed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, whereas diagnostic studies were assessed using the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2. Standardized mean differences and summary estimates of sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated for iron content, using a random effects model. We also conducted the subgroup-analysis based on the MRI sequence and meta-regression. RESULTS Seventy-seven studies with 3192 PD, 209 multiple system atrophy (MSA), 174 progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and 2447 HCs were included. Elevated iron content in substantia nigra (SN) pars reticulata (P <0.001) and compacta (P <0.001), SN (P <0.001), red nucleus (RN, P <0.001), globus pallidus (P <0.001), putamen (PUT, P = 0.009), and thalamus (P = 0.046) were found in PD patients compared with HCs. PD patients showed lower iron content in PUT (P <0.001), RN (P = 0.003), SN (P = 0.017), and caudate nucleus (P = 0.027) than MSA patients, and lower iron content in RN (P = 0.001), PUT (P <0.001), globus pallidus (P = 0.004), SN (P = 0.015), and caudate nucleus (P = 0.001) than PSP patients. The highest diagnostic accuracy distinguishing PD from HCs was observed in SN (AUC: 0.85), and that distinguishing PD from MSA was found in PUT (AUC: 0.90). In addition, the best diagnostic performance was achieved in the RN for distinguishing PD from PSP (AUC: 0.84). CONCLUSION Quantitative iron-sensitive MRI could quantitatively detect the iron content of subcortical nuclei in PD and APSs, while it may be insufficient to accurately diagnose PD. Future studies are needed to explore the role of multimodal MRI in the diagnosis of PD. REGISTRISION PROSPERO; CRD42022344413.
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- Jianing Jin
- Center for Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing 100070, China
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- Center for Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing 100070, China
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- Center for Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing 100070, China
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- Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Roslindale, MA 02131, United States
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02210, United States
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- Center for Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China
- China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing 100070, China
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Yan S, Lu J, Li Y, Zhu H, Tian T, Qin Y, Zhu W. Large-scale functional network connectivity mediates the association between nigral neuromelanin hypopigmentation and motor impairment in Parkinson's disease. Brain Struct Funct 2024; 229:843-852. [PMID: 38347222 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-024-02761-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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Neuromelanin hypopigmentation within substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) reflects the loss of pigmented neurons, which in turn contributes to the dysfunction of the nigrostriatal and striato-cortical pathways in Parkinson's disease (PD). Our study aims to investigate the relationships between SN degeneration manifested by neuromelanin reduction, functional connectivity (FC) among large-scale brain networks, and motor impairment in PD. This study included 68 idiopathic PD patients and 32 age-, sex- and education level-matched healthy controls who underwent neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI, and motor assessments. SN integrity was measured using the subregional contrast-to-noise ratio calculated from neuromelanin-sensitive MRI. Resting-state FC maps were obtained based on the independent component analysis. Subsequently, we performed partial correlation and mediation analyses in SN degeneration, network disruption, and motor impairment for PD patients. We found significantly decreased neuromelanin within SN and widely altered inter-network FCs, mainly involved in the basal ganglia (BG), sensorimotor and frontoparietal networks in PD. In addition, decreased neuromelanin content was negatively correlated with the dorsal sensorimotor network (dSMN)-medial visual network connection (P = 0.012) and dSMN-BG connection (P = 0.004). Importantly, the effect of SN neuromelanin hypopigmentation on motor symptom severity in PD is partially mediated by the increased connectivity strength between BG and dSMN (indirect effect = - 1.358, 95% CI: - 2.997, - 0.147). Our results advanced our understanding of the interactions between neuromelanin hypopigmentation in SN and altered FCs of functional networks in PD and suggested the potential of multimodal metrics for early diagnosis and monitoring the response to therapies.
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- Su Yan
- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095, JiefangAvenue, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of CT & MRI, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Shihezi University, 107 North Second Road, Shihezi, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095, JiefangAvenue, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095, JiefangAvenue, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095, JiefangAvenue, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095, JiefangAvenue, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No. 1095, JiefangAvenue, Wuhan, 430030, China.
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Guan X, Lancione M, Ayton S, Dusek P, Langkammer C, Zhang M. Neuroimaging of Parkinson's disease by quantitative susceptibility mapping. Neuroimage 2024; 289:120547. [PMID: 38373677 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
Abstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease, and apart from a few rare genetic causes, its pathogenesis remains largely unclear. Recent scientific interest has been captured by the involvement of iron biochemistry and the disruption of iron homeostasis, particularly within the brain regions specifically affected in PD. The advent of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) has enabled non-invasive quantification of brain iron in vivo by MRI, which has contributed to the understanding of iron-associated pathogenesis and has the potential for the development of iron-based biomarkers in PD. This review elucidates the biochemical underpinnings of brain iron accumulation, details advancements in iron-sensitive MRI technologies, and discusses the role of QSM as a biomarker of iron deposition in PD. Despite considerable progress, several challenges impede its clinical application after a decade of QSM studies. The initiation of multi-site research is warranted for developing robust, interpretable, and disease-specific biomarkers for monitoring PD disease progression.
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- Xiaojun Guan
- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China; Joint Laboratory of Clinical Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 31009, China
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- Laboratory of Medical Physics and Magnetic Resonance, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, Pisa, Italy
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- Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czechia; Department of Radiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Auenbruggerplatz 22, Prague 8036, Czechia
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China; Joint Laboratory of Clinical Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 31009, China.
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Alushaj E, Handfield-Jones N, Kuurstra A, Morava A, Menon RS, Owen AM, Sharma M, Khan AR, MacDonald PA. Increased iron in the substantia nigra pars compacta identifies patients with early Parkinson'sdisease: A 3T and 7T MRI study. Neuroimage Clin 2024; 41:103577. [PMID: 38377722 PMCID: PMC10944193 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
Abstract
Degeneration in the substantia nigra (SN) pars compacta (SNc) underlies motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD). Currently, there are no neuroimaging biomarkers that are sufficiently sensitive, specific, reproducible, and accessible for routine diagnosis or staging of PD. Although iron is essential for cellular processes, it also mediates neurodegeneration. MRI can localize and quantify brain iron using magnetic susceptibility, which could potentially provide biomarkers of PD. We measured iron in the SNc, SN pars reticulata (SNr), total SN, and ventral tegmental area (VTA), using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) and R2* relaxometry, in PD patients and age-matched healthy controls (HCs). PD patients, diagnosed within five years of participation and HCs were scanned at 3T (22 PD and 23 HCs) and 7T (17 PD and 21 HCs) MRI. Midbrain nuclei were segmented using a probabilistic subcortical atlas. QSM and R2* values were measured in midbrain subregions. For each measure, groups were contrasted, with Age and Sex as covariates, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were performed with repeated k-fold cross-validation to test the potential of our measures to classify PD patients and HCs. Statistical differences of area under the curves (AUCs) were compared using the Hanley-MacNeil method (QSM versus R2*; 3T versus 7T MRI). PD patients had higher QSM values in the SNc at both 3T (padj = 0.001) and 7T (padj = 0.01), but not in SNr, total SN, or VTA, at either field strength. No significant group differences were revealed using R2* in any midbrain region at 3T, though increased R2* values in SNc at 7T MRI were marginally significant in PDs compared to HCs (padj = 0.052). ROC curve analyses showed that SNc iron measured with QSM, distinguished early PD patients from HCs at the single-subject level with good diagnostic accuracy, using 3T (mean AUC = 0.83, 95 % CI = 0.82-0.84) and 7T (mean AUC = 0.80, 95 % CI = 0.79-0.81) MRI. Mean AUCs reported here are from averages of tests in the hold-out fold of cross-validated samples. The Hanley-MacNeil method demonstrated that QSM outperforms R2* in discriminating PD patients from HCs at 3T, but not 7T. There were no significant differences between 3T and 7T in diagnostic accuracy of QSM values in SNc. This study highlights the importance of segmenting midbrain subregions, performed here using a standardized atlas, and demonstrates high accuracy of SNc iron measured with QSM at 3T MRI in identifying early PD patients. QSM measures of SNc show potential for inclusion in neuroimaging diagnostic biomarkers of early PD. An MRI diagnostic biomarker of PD would represent a significant clinical advance.
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- Erind Alushaj
- Department of Neuroscience, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada; Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Department of Neuroscience, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada; Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada; Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada; Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada.
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Shang S, Wang L, Xu Y, Zhang H, Chen L, Dou W, Yin X, Ye J, Chen YC. Optimization of structural connectomes and scaled patterns of structural-functional decoupling in Parkinson's disease. Neuroimage 2023; 284:120450. [PMID: 37949260 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2023] [Revised: 11/05/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is manifested with disrupted topology of the structural connection network (SCN) and the functional connection network (FCN). However, the SCN and its interactions with the FCN remain to be further investigated. This multimodality study attempted to precisely characterize the SCN using diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) and further identify the neuropathological pattern of SCN-FCN decoupling, underscoring the neurodegeneration of PD. Diffusion-weighted imaging and resting-state functional imaging were available for network constructions among sixty-nine patients with PD and seventy demographically matched healthy control (HC) participants. The classification performance and topological prosperities of both the SCN and the FCN were analyzed, followed by quantification of the SCN-FCN couplings across scales. The SCN constructed by kurtosis metrics achieved optimal classification performance (area under the curve 0.89, accuracy 80.55 %, sensitivity 78.40 %, and specificity 80.65 %). Along with diverse alterations of structural and functional network topology, the PD group exhibited decoupling across scales including: reduced global coupling; increased nodal coupling within the sensorimotor network (SMN) and subcortical network (SN); higher intramodular coupling within the SMN and SN and lower intramodular coupling of the default mode network (DMN); decreased coupling between the modules of DMN-fronto-parietal network and DMN-visual network, but increased coupling between the SMN-SN module. Several associations between the coupling coefficient and topological properties of the SCN, as well as between network values and clinical scores, were observed. These findings validated the clinical implementation of DKI for structural network construction with better differentiation ability and characterized the SCN-FCN decoupling as supplementary insight into the pathological process underlying PD.
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- Song'an Shang
- Department of Medical imaging center, Clinical Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Jintang First People's Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Clinical Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Department of Medical imaging center, Clinical Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, Clinical Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- MR Research China, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Medical imaging center, Clinical Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
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Zuo C, Suo X, Lan H, Pan N, Wang S, Kemp GJ, Gong Q. Global Alterations of Whole Brain Structural Connectome in Parkinson's Disease: A Meta-analysis. Neuropsychol Rev 2023; 33:783-802. [PMID: 36125651 PMCID: PMC10770271 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-022-09559-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Recent graph-theoretical studies of Parkinson's disease (PD) have examined alterations in the global properties of the brain structural connectome; however, reported alterations are not consistent. The present study aimed to identify the most robust global metric alterations in PD via a meta-analysis. A comprehensive literature search was conducted for all available diffusion MRI structural connectome studies that compared global graph metrics between PD patients and healthy controls (HC). Hedges' g effect sizes were calculated for each study and then pooled using a random-effects model in Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software, and the effects of potential moderator variables were tested. A total of 22 studies met the inclusion criteria for review. Of these, 16 studies reporting 10 global graph metrics (916 PD patients; 560 HC) were included in the meta-analysis. In the structural connectome of PD patients compared with HC, we found a significant decrease in clustering coefficient (g = -0.357, P = 0.005) and global efficiency (g = -0.359, P < 0.001), and a significant increase in characteristic path length (g = 0.250, P = 0.006). Dopaminergic medication, sex and age of patients were potential moderators of global brain network changes in PD. These findings provide evidence of decreased global segregation and integration of the structural connectome in PD, indicating a shift from a balanced small-world network to 'weaker small-worldization', which may provide useful markers of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying PD.
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- Chao Zuo
- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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- Liverpool Magnetic Resonance Imaging Centre (LiMRIC) and Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
- Department of Radiology, West China Xiamen Hospital of Sichuan University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
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Madden DJ, Merenstein JL. Quantitative susceptibility mapping of brain iron in healthy aging and cognition. Neuroimage 2023; 282:120401. [PMID: 37802405 PMCID: PMC10797559 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/30/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that can assess the magnetic properties of cerebral iron in vivo. Although brain iron is necessary for basic neurobiological functions, excess iron content disrupts homeostasis, leads to oxidative stress, and ultimately contributes to neurodegenerative disease. However, some degree of elevated brain iron is present even among healthy older adults. To better understand the topographical pattern of iron accumulation and its relation to cognitive aging, we conducted an integrative review of 47 QSM studies of healthy aging, with a focus on five distinct themes. The first two themes focused on age-related increases in iron accumulation in deep gray matter nuclei versus the cortex. The overall level of iron is higher in deep gray matter nuclei than in cortical regions. Deep gray matter nuclei vary with regard to age-related effects, which are most prominent in the putamen, and age-related deposition of iron is also observed in frontal, temporal, and parietal cortical regions during healthy aging. The third theme focused on the behavioral relevance of iron content and indicated that higher iron in both deep gray matter and cortical regions was related to decline in fluid (speed-dependent) cognition. A handful of multimodal studies, reviewed in the fourth theme, suggest that iron interacts with imaging measures of brain function, white matter degradation, and the accumulation of neuropathologies. The final theme concerning modifiers of brain iron pointed to potential roles of cardiovascular, dietary, and genetic factors. Although QSM is a relatively recent tool for assessing cerebral iron accumulation, it has significant promise for contributing new insights into healthy neurocognitive aging.
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- David J Madden
- Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3918, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
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- Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3918, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Mateo D, Marquès M, Torrente M. Metals linked with the most prevalent primary neurodegenerative dementias in the elderly: A narrative review. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 236:116722. [PMID: 37487923 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023]
Abstract
The ageing population has been steadily increasing worldwide, leading to a higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia. Environmental toxicants, particularly metals, have been identified as modifiable risk factors for cognitive impairment. Continuous exposure to metals occurs mainly through dietary sources, with older adults being particularly vulnerable. However, imbalances in the gut microbiota, known as dysbiosis, have also been associated with dementia. A literature review was conducted to explore the potential role of metals in the development of cognitive decline and the most prevalent primary neurodegenerative dementias, as well as their interaction with the gut microbiota. High levels of iron (Fe) and copper (Cu) are associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), while low selenium (Se) levels are linked to poor cognitive status. Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) is associated with elevated levels of iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), and zinc (Zn), but the role of copper (Cu) remains unclear. The relationship between metals and Lewy body dementia (LBD) requires further investigation. High aluminium (Al) exposure is associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and elevated selenium (Se) levels may be linked to its onset. Challenges in comparing studies arise from the heterogeneity of metal analysis matrices and analytical techniques, as well as the limitations of small study cohorts. More research is needed to understand the influence of metals on cognition through the gut microbiota (GMB) and its potential relevance in the development of these diseases.
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- David Mateo
- Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Sant Llorenç 21, 43201, Reus, Catalonia, Spain; Center of Environmental, Food and Toxicological Technology - TecnATox, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
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- Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Sant Llorenç 21, 43201, Reus, Catalonia, Spain; Center of Environmental, Food and Toxicological Technology - TecnATox, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
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- Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Sant Llorenç 21, 43201, Reus, Catalonia, Spain; Center of Environmental, Food and Toxicological Technology - TecnATox, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain; Department of Psychology, CRAMC (Research Center for Behaviour Assessment), Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Crta. de Valls s/n, 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain; Institute Lerin Neurocognitive, Alzheimer and other Neurocognitive Disorders Association, Av. D'Antoni Planas i Marca, 13, 43205, Reus, Catalonia, Spain.
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Long H, Zhu W, Wei L, Zhao J. Iron homeostasis imbalance and ferroptosis in brain diseases. MedComm (Beijing) 2023; 4:e298. [PMID: 37377861 PMCID: PMC10292684 DOI: 10.1002/mco2.298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2022] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Brain iron homeostasis is maintained through the normal function of blood-brain barrier and iron regulation at the systemic and cellular levels, which is fundamental to normal brain function. Excess iron can catalyze the generation of free radicals through Fenton reactions due to its dual redox state, thus causing oxidative stress. Numerous evidence has indicated brain diseases, especially stroke and neurodegenerative diseases, are closely related to the mechanism of iron homeostasis imbalance in the brain. For one thing, brain diseases promote brain iron accumulation. For another, iron accumulation amplifies damage to the nervous system and exacerbates patients' outcomes. In addition, iron accumulation triggers ferroptosis, a newly discovered iron-dependent type of programmed cell death, which is closely related to neurodegeneration and has received wide attention in recent years. In this context, we outline the mechanism of a normal brain iron metabolism and focus on the current mechanism of the iron homeostasis imbalance in stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease. Meanwhile, we also discuss the mechanism of ferroptosis and simultaneously enumerate the newly discovered drugs for iron chelators and ferroptosis inhibitors.
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- Haining Long
- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional RadiologyShanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Afliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School
of MedicineShanghaiChina
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional RadiologyShanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Afliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School
of MedicineShanghaiChina
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional RadiologyShanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Afliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School
of MedicineShanghaiChina
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional RadiologyShanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Afliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School
of MedicineShanghaiChina
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Huang P, Zhang M. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Neurodegenerative Disease: From Methods to Translational Research. Neurosci Bull 2023; 39:99-112. [PMID: 35771383 PMCID: PMC9849544 DOI: 10.1007/s12264-022-00905-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) have become a significant threat to an aging human society. Numerous studies have been conducted in the past decades to clarify their pathologic mechanisms and search for reliable biomarkers. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful tool for investigating structural and functional brain alterations in NDs. With the advantages of being non-invasive and non-radioactive, it has been frequently used in both animal research and large-scale clinical investigations. MRI may serve as a bridge connecting micro- and macro-level analysis and promoting bench-to-bed translational research. Nevertheless, due to the abundance and complexity of MRI techniques, exploiting their potential is not always straightforward. This review aims to briefly introduce research progress in clinical imaging studies and discuss possible strategies for applying MRI in translational ND research.
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- Peiyu Huang
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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Wen J, Guo T, Wu J, Bai X, Zhou C, Wu H, Liu X, Chen J, Cao Z, Gu L, Pu J, Zhang B, Zhang M, Guan X, Xu X. Nigral Iron Deposition Influences Disease Severity by Modulating the Effect of Parkinson's Disease on Brain Networks. JOURNAL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE 2022; 12:2479-2492. [PMID: 36336939 PMCID: PMC9837680 DOI: 10.3233/jpd-223372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND In Parkinson's disease (PD), excessive iron deposition in the substantia nigra may exacerbate α-synuclein aggregation, facilitating the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons and their neural projection. OBJECTIVE To investigate the interaction effect between nigral iron deposition and PD status on brain networks. METHODS Eighty-five PD patients and 140 normal controls (NC) were included. Network function and nigral iron were measured using multi-modality magnetic resonance imaging. According to the median of nigral magnetic susceptibility of NC (0.095 ppm), PD and NC were respectively divided into high and low nigral iron group. The main and interaction effects were investigated by mixed effect analysis. RESULTS The main effect of disease was observed in basal ganglia network (BGN) and visual network (VN). The interaction effect between nigral iron and PD status was observed in left inferior frontal gyrus and left insular lobe in BGN, as well as right middle occipital gyrus, right superior temporal gyrus, and bilateral cuneus in VN. Furthermore, multiple mediation analysis revealed that the functional connectivity of interaction effect clusters in BGN and medial VN partially mediated the relationship between nigral iron and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale II score. CONCLUSION Our study demonstrates an interaction of nigral iron deposition and PD status on brain networks, that is, nigral iron deposition is associated with the change of brain network configuration exclusively when in PD. We identified a potential causal mediation pathway for iron to affect disease severity that was mediated by both BGN dysfunction and VN hyperfunction in PD.
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- Jiaqi Wen
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China,Correspondence to: Xiaojun Xu, MD, Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 310009, China. Tel.: +86 0571 87315255; Fax: +86 0571 87315255; E-mail: and Xiaojun Guan, PhD, Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 310009, China. Tel.: +86 0571 87315255; Fax: +86 0571 87315255;
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China,Correspondence to: Xiaojun Xu, MD, Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 310009, China. Tel.: +86 0571 87315255; Fax: +86 0571 87315255; E-mail: and Xiaojun Guan, PhD, Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 310009, China. Tel.: +86 0571 87315255; Fax: +86 0571 87315255;
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Holz TG, Kunzler FA, Carra Forte G, Miranda Difini JP, Bernardi Soder R, Watte G, Hochhegger B. In vivo brain iron concentration in healthy individuals at 3.0 T magnetic resonance imaging: a prospective cross-sectional study. Br J Radiol 2022; 95:20210809. [PMID: 35119909 PMCID: PMC10993970 DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20210809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To quantify iron deposits in the basal ganglia and to evaluate its relation to age, sex, body mass index and brain laterality. METHODS Prospective observational study. Data were collected from the patients' electronic medical records. The concentration of iron deposits in the brain was assessed using whole-brain MRI at 3.0 Tesla. RESULTS 138 participants were selected, 69.6% were female and the mean age was 47 ± 19 years. The κ coefficient was very strong (k = 0.92, p < 0.001). Age showed a moderate correlation between iron deposits in the caudate and putamen nuclei, on both right and left sides. In overall and right-handed individuals, a significantly higher iron concentration was observed on the left side for the caudate nucleus, putamen, thalamus, globus pallidus, and centrum semiovale, and for left-handed individuals, it was also observed in the left side-for the putamen and centrum semiovale. A weak correlation was shown between body mass index and left and right substantia nigra, left caudate nuclei, left putamen and right globus pallidus. CONCLUSION Our results showed a significantly higher iron deposit on the left side in most brain regions. In addition, the body mass index may also be related to iron overload, especially in the caudate nucleus. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE Brain iron deposits may be normal, owing to aging, or be pathological, such as neurodegeneration. Thus, it is important to know how much is expected of iron deposition in the brain of healthy populations.
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- Tiago Garcia Holz
- School of Medicine, Graduate Program in Medicine and Health
Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brazil
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- School of Medicine, Graduate Program in Medicine and Health
Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brazil
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- School of Medicine, Graduate Program in Medicine and Health
Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brazil
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- School of Medicine, Graduate Program in Medicine and Health
Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brazil
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- School of Medicine, Graduate Program in Medicine and Health
Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brazil
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- School of Medicine, Graduate Program in Medicine and Health
Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brazil
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- School of Medicine, Graduate Program in Medicine and Health
Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do
Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brazil
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Si X, Guo T, Wang Z, Fang Y, Gu L, Cao L, Yang W, Gao T, Song Z, Tian J, Yin X, Guan X, Zhou C, Wu J, Bai X, Liu X, Zhao G, Zhang M, Pu J, Zhang B. Neuroimaging evidence of glymphatic system dysfunction in possible REM sleep behavior disorder and Parkinson's disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2022; 8:54. [PMID: 35487930 PMCID: PMC9055043 DOI: 10.1038/s41531-022-00316-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Alpha-synucleinopathy is postulated to be central to both idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Growing evidence suggests an association between the diminished clearance of α-synuclein and glymphatic system dysfunction. However, evidence accumulating primarily based on clinical data to support glymphatic system dysfunction in patients with iRBD and PD is currently insufficient. This study aimed to use diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space (DTI-ALPS) to evaluate glymphatic system activity and its relationship to clinical scores of disease severity in patients with possible iRBD (piRBDs) and those with PD. Further, we validated the correlation between the ALPS index and the prognosis of PD longitudinally. Overall, 168 patients with PD, 119 piRBDs, and 129 healthy controls were enroled. Among them, 50 patients with PD had been longitudinally reexamined. Patients with PD exhibited a lower ALPS index than those with piRBDs (P = 0.036), and both patient groups showed a lower ALPS index than healthy controls (P < 0.001 and P = 0.001). The ALPS index and elevated disease severity were negatively correlated in the piRBD and PD subgroups. Moreover, the ALPS index was correlated with cognitive decline in patients with PD in the longitudinal analyses. In conclusion, DTI-ALPS provided neuroimaging evidence of glymphatic system dysfunction in piRBDs and patients with PD; however, the potential of assessing the pathological progress of α-synucleinopathies as an indicator is worth verifying. Further development of imaging methods for glymphatic system function is also warranted.
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- Xiaoli Si
- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.,Department of Neurology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, N1 Avenue, 322000, Yiwu, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, N1 Avenue, 322000, Yiwu, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. .,Department of Neurology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, N1 Avenue, 322000, Yiwu, Zhejiang, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310009, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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Zang Z, Song T, Li J, Yan S, Nie B, Mei S, Ma J, Yang Y, Shan B, Zhang Y, Lu J. Modulation effect of substantia nigra iron deposition and functional connectivity on putamen glucose metabolism in Parkinson's disease. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 43:3735-3744. [PMID: 35471638 PMCID: PMC9294292 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Neurodegeneration of the substantia nigra affects putamen activity in Parkinson's disease (PD), yet in vivo evidence of how the substantia nigra modulates putamen glucose metabolism in humans is missing. We aimed to investigate how substantia nigra modulates the putamen glucose metabolism using a cross‐sectional design. Resting‐state fMRI, susceptibility‐weighted imaging, and [18F]‐fluorodeoxyglucose‐PET (FDG‐PET) data were acquired. Forty‐two PD patients and 25 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited for simultaneous PET/MRI scanning. The main measurements of the current study were R2* images representing iron deposition (28 PD and 25 HCs), standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr) images representing FDG‐uptake (33 PD and 25 HCs), and resting state functional connectivity maps from resting state fMRI (34 PD and 25 HCs). An interaction term based on the general linear model was used to investigate the joint modulation effect of nigral iron deposition and nigral‐putamen functional connectivity on putamen FDG‐uptake. Compared with HCs, we found increased iron deposition in the substantia nigra (p = .007), increased FDG‐uptake in the putamen (left: PFWE < 0.001; right: PFWE < 0.001), and decreased functional connectivity between the substantia nigra and the anterior putamen (left PFWE < 0.001, right: PFWE = 0.007). We then identified significant interaction effect of nigral iron deposition and nigral‐putamen connectivity on FDG‐uptake in the putamen (p = .004). The current study demonstrated joint modulation effect of the substantia nigra iron deposition and nigral‐putamen functional connectivity on putamen glucose metabolic distribution, thereby revealing in vivo pathological mechanism of nigrostriatal neurodegeneration of PD.
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- Zhenxiang Zang
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Institute of Functional Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Engineering Research Center of Radiographic Techniques and Equipment, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Engineering Research Center of Radiographic Techniques and Equipment, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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- Beijing Institute of Functional Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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An Updated Overview of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain Iron in Movement Disorders. Behav Neurol 2022; 2022:3972173. [PMID: 35251368 PMCID: PMC8894064 DOI: 10.1155/2022/3972173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Brain iron load is one of the most important neuropathological hallmarks in movement disorders. Specifically, the iron provides most of the paramagnetic metal signals in the brain and its accumulation seems to play a key role, although not completely explained, in the degeneration of the basal ganglia, as well as other brain structures. Moreover, iron distribution patterns have been implicated in depicting different movement disorders. This work reviewed current literature on Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Brain Iron Detection and Quantification (MRI-BIDQ) in neurodegenerative processes underlying movement disorders.
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Zhou C, Guo T, Bai X, Wu J, Gao T, Guan X, Liu X, Gu L, Huang P, Xuan M, Gu Q, Xu X, Zhang B, Zhang M. Locus coeruleus degeneration is associated with disorganized functional topology in Parkinson's disease. Neuroimage Clin 2022; 32:102873. [PMID: 34749290 PMCID: PMC8578042 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/30/2021] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Degeneration of the locus coeruleus (LC) is recognized as a critical hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). Recent studies have reported that noradrenaline produced from the LC has critical effects on brain functional organization. However, it is unknown if LC degeneration in PD contributes to cognitive/motor manifestations through modulating brain functional organization. This study enrolled 94 PD patients and 68 healthy controls, and LC integrity was measured using the contrast-to-noise ratio of the LC (CNRLC) calculated from T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. We used graph-theory-based network analysis to characterize brain functional organization. The relationships among LC degeneration, network disruption, and cognitive/motor manifestations in PD were assessed. Whether network disruption was a mediator between LC degeneration and cognitive/motor impairments was assessed further. In addition, an independent PD subgroup (n = 35) having functional magnetic resonance scanning before and after levodopa administration was enrolled to evaluate whether LC degeneration-related network deficiencies were independent of dopamine deficiency. We demonstrated that PD patients have significant LC degeneration compared to healthy controls. CNRLC was positively correlated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment score and the nodal efficiency (NE) of several cognitive-related regions. Lower NE of the superior temporal gyrus was a mediator between LC degeneration and cognitive impairment in PD. However, levodopa treatment could not normalize the reduced NE of the superior temporal gyrus (mediator). In conclusion, we provided evidence for the relationship between LC degeneration and extensive network disruption in PD, and highlight the role of network disorganization in LC degeneration-related cognitive impairment.
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- Cheng Zhou
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310000 Hangzhou, China.
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Guo T, Xuan M, Zhou C, Wu J, Gao T, Bai X, Liu X, Gu L, Liu R, Song Z, Gu Q, Huang P, Pu J, Zhang B, Xu X, Guan X, Zhang M. Normalization effect of levodopa on hierarchical brain function in Parkinson’s disease. Netw Neurosci 2022; 6:552-569. [PMID: 35733432 PMCID: PMC9208001 DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
Hierarchical brain organization, in which the rich club and diverse club situate in core position, is critical for global information integration in the human brain network. Parkinson’s disease (PD), a common movement disorder, has been conceptualized as a network disorder. Levodopa is an effective treatment for PD. Whether there is a functional divergence in the hierarchical brain system under PD pathology, and how this divergence is regulated by immediate levodopa therapy, remains unknown. We constructed a functional network in 61 PD patients and 89 normal controls and applied graph theoretical analyses to examine the neural mechanism of levodopa short response from the perspective of brain hierarchical configuration. The results revealed the following: (a) PD patients exhibited disrupted function within rich-club organization, while the diverse club preserved function, indicating a differentiated brain topological organization in PD. (b) Along the rich-club derivate hierarchical system, PD patients showed impaired network properties within rich-club and feeder subnetworks, and decreased nodal degree centrality in rich-club and feeder nodes, along with increased nodal degree in peripheral nodes, suggesting distinct functional patterns in different types of nodes. And (c) levodopa could normalize the abnormal network architecture of the rich-club system. This study provides evidence for levodopa effects on the hierarchical brain system with divergent functions. Many studies of brain networks have revealed densely connected regions forming the rich club and diverse club, which occupy the central position of the hierarchical brain system. Here, we explore the hierarchical topology in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and investigate the neural effect of levodopa on it. We show that within the core position of the hierarchical system, the function of the diverse club is preserved while the function of the rich club is impaired. Along the rich-club hierarchical system, the function of biologically costly rich-club and feeder subnetworks is disrupted, together with an increased function of peripheral nodes, which could be normalized by levodopa. Our study provides evidence of a disparity pattern between different levels of brain hierarchical systems under PD pathology.
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- Tao Guo
- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Wu H, Zhou C, Bai X, Liu X, Chen J, Wen J, Guo T, Wu J, Guan X, Gao T, Gu L, Huang P, Xu X, Zhang B, Zhang M. Identifying a whole-brain connectome-based model in drug-naïve Parkinson's disease for predicting motor impairment. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 43:1984-1996. [PMID: 34970835 PMCID: PMC8933250 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Revised: 12/12/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Identifying a whole‐brain connectome‐based predictive model in drug‐naïve patients with Parkinson's disease and verifying its predictions on drug‐managed patients would be useful in determining the intrinsic functional underpinnings of motor impairment and establishing general brain–behavior associations. In this study, we constructed a predictive model from the resting‐state functional data of 47 drug‐naïve patients by using a connectome‐based approach. This model was subsequently validated in 115 drug‐managed patients. The severity of motor impairment was assessed by calculating Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part III scores. The predictive performance of model was evaluated using the correlation coefficient (rtrue) between predicted and observed scores. As a result, a connectome‐based model for predicting individual motor impairment in drug‐naïve patients was identified with significant performance (rtrue = .845, p < .001, ppermu = .002). Two patterns of connection were identified according to correlations between connection strength and the severity of motor impairment. The negative motor‐impairment‐related network contained more within‐network connections in the motor, visual‐related, and default mode networks, whereas the positive motor‐impairment‐related network was constructed mostly with between‐network connections coupling the motor‐visual, motor‐limbic, and motor‐basal ganglia networks. Finally, this predictive model constructed around drug‐naïve patients was confirmed with significant predictive efficacy on drug‐managed patients (r = .209, p = .025), suggesting a generalizability in Parkinson's disease patients under long‐term drug influence. In conclusion, this study identified a whole‐brain connectome‐based model that could predict the severity of motor impairment in Parkinson's patients and furthers our understanding of the functional underpinnings of the disease.
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- Haoting Wu
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Xu J, Guan X, Wen J, Wang T, Zhang M, Xu X. Substantia nigra iron affects functional connectivity networks modifying working memory performance in younger adults. Eur J Neurosci 2021; 54:7959-7973. [PMID: 34779047 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Brain iron affects working memory (WM) but the impact of iron content in deep grey matter nuclei on WM networks is unknown. We aimed to test whether deep grey matter nuclei iron concentration can affect resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) within brain networks modifying WM performance. An N-back WM paradigm was applied in a hundred healthy younger adults. The participants then underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for brain network analysis and quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) imaging for assessment of deep grey matter nuclei iron concentration. Higher substantia nigra (SN) iron concentration was associated with lower rsFC between SN and brain regions of the temporal/frontal lobe but with better WM performance after controlling for age, gender and education. A follow-up mediation analysis also indicated that functional connectivity may mediate the link between SN iron and WM performance. Our results suggest that high SN iron concentration may affect communication between the SN and temporal/frontal lobe and is associated with strengthened WM performance in younger adults.
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- Jingjing Xu
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Dauer Née Joppe K, Tatenhorst L, Caldi Gomes L, Zhang S, Parvaz M, Carboni E, Roser AE, El DeBakey H, Bähr M, Vogel-Mikuš K, Wang Ip C, Becker S, Zweckstetter M, Lingor P. Brain iron enrichment attenuates α-synuclein spreading after injection of preformed fibrils. J Neurochem 2021; 159:554-573. [PMID: 34176164 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.15461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Regional iron accumulation and α-synuclein (α-syn) spreading pathology within the central nervous system are common pathological findings in Parkinson's disease (PD). Whereas iron is known to bind to α-syn, facilitating its aggregation and regulating α-syn expression, it remains unclear if and how iron also modulates α-syn spreading. To elucidate the influence of iron on the propagation of α-syn pathology, we investigated α-syn spreading after stereotactic injection of α-syn preformed fibrils (PFFs) into the striatum of mouse brains after neonatal brain iron enrichment. C57Bl/6J mouse pups received oral gavage with 60, 120, or 240 mg/kg carbonyl iron or vehicle between postnatal days 10 and 17. At 12 weeks of age, intrastriatal injections of 5-µg PFFs were performed to induce seeding of α-syn aggregates. At 90 days post-injection, PFFs-injected mice displayed long-term memory deficits, without affection of motor behavior. Interestingly, quantification of α-syn phosphorylated at S129 showed reduced α-syn pathology and attenuated spreading to connectome-specific brain regions after brain iron enrichment. Furthermore, PFFs injection caused intrastriatal microglia accumulation, which was alleviated by iron in a dose-dependent way. In primary cortical neurons in a microfluidic chamber model in vitro, iron application did not alter trans-synaptic α-syn propagation, possibly indicating an involvement of non-neuronal cells in this process. Our study suggests that α-syn PFFs may induce cognitive deficits in mice independent of iron. However, a redistribution of α-syn aggregate pathology and reduction of striatal microglia accumulation in the mouse brain may be mediated via iron-induced alterations of the brain connectome.
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- Karina Dauer Née Joppe
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University Hospital rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University Hospital rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University Hospital rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells" (MBExC), University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of NMR Based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Goettingen, Germany
- Research group Mass Spectrometry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University Hospital rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Sheng W, Guo T, Zhou C, Wu J, Gao T, Pu J, Zhang B, Zhang M, Yang Y, Guan X, Xu X. Altered Cortical Cholinergic Network in Parkinson's Disease at Different Stage: A Resting-State fMRI Study. Front Aging Neurosci 2021; 13:723948. [PMID: 34566625 PMCID: PMC8461333 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.723948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The cholinergic system is critical in Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathology, which accounts for various clinical symptoms in PD patients. The substantia innominata (SI) provides the main source of cortical cholinergic innervation. Previous studies revealed cholinergic-related dysfunction in PD pathology at early stage. Since PD is a progressive disorder, alterations of cholinergic system function along with the PD progression have yet to be elucidated. Seventy-nine PD patients, including thirty-five early-stage PD patients (PD-E) and forty-four middle-to-late stage PD patients (PD-M), and sixty-four healthy controls (HC) underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging and clinical assessments. We employed seed-based resting-state functional connectivity analysis to explore the cholinergic-related functional alterations. Correlation analysis was used to investigate the relationship between altered functional connectivity and the severity of motor symptoms in PD patients. Results showed that both PD-E and PD-M groups exhibited decreased functional connectivity between left SI and left frontal inferior opercularis areas and increased functional connectivity between left SI and left cingulum middle area as well as right primary motor and sensory areas when comparing with HC. At advanced stages of PD, functional connectivity in the right primary motor and sensory areas was further increased. These altered functional connectivity were also significantly correlated with the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale motor scores. In conclusion, this study illustrated that altered cholinergic function plays an important role in the motor disruptions in PD patients both in early stage as well as during the progression of the disease.
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- Wenshuang Sheng
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.,Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Involvement of Hepcidin in Cognitive Damage Induced by Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia in Mice. OXIDATIVE MEDICINE AND CELLULAR LONGEVITY 2021; 2021:8520967. [PMID: 34394834 PMCID: PMC8357469 DOI: 10.1155/2021/8520967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2021] [Revised: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients exhibit different degrees of cognitive impairment, which is related to the activation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production by chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) and the deposition of iron in the brain. As a central regulator of iron homeostasis, whether hepcidin is involved in OSA-induced cognitive impairment has not been clarified. In order to simulate OSA, we established the mouse model by reducing the percentage of inspired O2 (FiO2) from 21% to 5%, 20 times/h for 8 h/day. We found hepcidin was rising during CIH, along with increasing iron levels and neuron loss. Then, we constructed a mouse with astrocyte-specific knockdown hepcidin gene (shHamp). During CIH exposure, the shHamp mice showed a lower level of total iron and neuronal iron in the hippocampus, via stabilizing ferroportin 1 (FPN1) and decreasing L-ferritin (FTL) levels, when compared with wild-type (WT) mice. Furthermore, the shHamp mice showed a decrease of ROS by downregulating the elevated NADPH oxidase (NOX2) and 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) levels mediated by CIH. In addition, the shHamp mice presented improved cognitive deficit by improving synaptic plasticity and BDNF expression in the hippocampus when subjected to CIH. Therefore, our data revealed that highly expressed hepcidin might promote the degradation of FPN1, resulting in neuronal iron deposition, oxidative stress damage, reduced synaptic plasticity, and impaired cognitive performance during CIH exposure.
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Novaes NP, Balardin JB, Hirata FC, Melo L, Amaro E, Barbosa ER, Sato JR, Cardoso EF. Global efficiency of the motor network is decreased in Parkinson's disease in comparison with essential tremor and healthy controls. Brain Behav 2021; 11:e02178. [PMID: 34302446 PMCID: PMC8413813 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.2178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Graph theory (GT) is a mathematical field that analyses complex networks that can be applied to neuroimaging to quantify brain's functional systems in Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET). OBJECTIVES To evaluate the functional connectivity (FC) measured by the global efficiency (GE) of the motor network in PD and compare it to ET and healthy controls (HC), and correlate it to clinical parameters. METHODS 103 subjects (54PD, 18ET, 31HC) were submitted to structural and functional MRI. A network was designed with regions of interest (ROIs) involved in motor function, and GT was applied to determine its GE. Clinical parameters were analyzed as covariates to estimate the impact of disease severity and medication on GE. RESULTS GE of the motor circuit was reduced in PD in comparison with HC (p .042). Areas that most contributed to it were left supplementary motor area (SMA) and bilateral postcentral gyrus. Tremor scores correlated positively with GE of the motor network in PD subgroups. For ET, there was an increase in the connectivity of the anterior cerebellar network to the other ROIs of the motor circuit in comparison with PD. CONCLUSIONS FC measured by the GE of the motor network is diminished in PD in comparison with HC, especially due to decreased connectivity of left SMA and bilateral postcentral gyrus. This finding supports the theory that there is a global impairment of the motor network in PD, and it does not affect just the basal ganglia, but also areas associated with movement modulation. The ET group presented an increased connectivity of the anterior cerebellar network to the other ROIs of the motor circuit when compared to PD, which reinforces what it is known about its role in this pathology.
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- Natalia Pelizari Novaes
- Neurology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.,Radiology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Hôpital du Valais, Sion, Switzerland
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- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.,Radiology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Neurology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.,Radiology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.,Radiology, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Nrf2 as a potential target for Parkinson's disease therapy. J Mol Med (Berl) 2021; 99:917-931. [PMID: 33844027 DOI: 10.1007/s00109-021-02071-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 01/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder featuring both motor and nonmotor symptoms associated with a progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta. Conventionally, PD treatment options have focused on dopamine replacement and provide only symptomatic relief. However, disease-modifying therapies are still unavailable. Mechanistically, genetic and environmental factors can produce oxidative stress which has been implicated as a core contributor to the initiation and progression of PD through the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons. Importantly, nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is essential for maintaining redox homeostasis by binding to the antioxidant response element which exists in the promoter regions of most genes coding for antioxidant enzymes. Furthermore, protein kinase C, mitogen-activated protein kinases, and phosphotidylinositol 3-kinase have been implicated in the regulation of Nrf2 activity during PD. Here, we review the evidence supporting the regulation of Nrf2 through Keap1-dependent and Keap1-independent mechanisms. We also address that targeting Nrf2 may provide a therapeutic option to mitigate oxidative stress-associated PD. Finally, we discuss currently known classes of small molecule activators of Nrf2, including Nrf2-activating compounds in PD.
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Guan X, Bai X, Zhou C, Guo T, Wu J, Gu L, Gao T, Wang X, Wei H, Zhang Y, Xuan M, Gu Q, Huang P, Liu C, Zhang B, Pu J, Song Z, Yan Y, Xu X, Zhang M. Serum Ceruloplasmin Depletion is Associated With Magnetic Resonance Evidence of Widespread Accumulation of Brain Iron in Parkinson's Disease. J Magn Reson Imaging 2021; 54:1098-1106. [PMID: 33949744 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.27680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Excessive iron accumulation is one of the main pathogeneses of Parkinson's disease (PD). Ceruloplasmin plays an important role in keeping the iron homoeostasis. PURPOSE To explore the association between serum ceruloplasmin depletion and subcortical iron distribution in PD. STUDY TYPE Prospective. POPULATION One hundred and twenty-one normal controls, 34 PD patients with low serum ceruloplasmin (PD-LC), and 28 patients with normal serum ceruloplasmin (PD-NC). SEQUENCE Enhanced susceptibility-weighted angiography (ESWAN) on a 3 T scanner. ASSESSMENT Quantitative susceptibility mapping was employed to quantify the regional iron content by using a semi-automatic method. Serum ceruloplasmin concentration was measured from peripheral blood sample. Clinical assessments were conducted by a neurologist. STATISTICAL TESTS General linear model was used to compare the intergroup difference of region iron distribution among groups, and the statistics was adjusted by Bonferroni method (P < 0.01). Partial correlation analysis was used to detect the association between regional iron distribution and serum ceruloplasmin concentration (P < 0.05). RESULTS Compared with normal controls, significant iron accumulation in substantia nigra, putamen, and red nucleus was observed in PD-LC, while the only region showing significant iron accumulation was SN in PD-NC. Between PD-NC and PD-LC, the iron accumulation in putamen remained significantly different, which had a negative correlation with serum ceruloplasmin in whole PD patients (r = -0.338, P = 0.008). DATA CONCLUSION Nigral iron accumulation characterizes PD patients without significant association with serum ceruloplasmin. Differentially, when PD patients appear with reduced serum ceruloplasmin, more widespread iron accumulation would be expected with additionally involving putamen and red nucleus. All these findings provide insightful evidence for the abnormal iron metabolism behind the ceruloplasmin depletion in PD. EVIDENCE LEVEL: 2 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: 2.
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- Xiaojun Guan
- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute for Medical Imaging Technology, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.,Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Chansiw N, Kulprachakarn K, Paradee N, Prommaban A, Srichairatanakool S. Protection of Iron-Induced Oxidative Damage in Neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) Cells by Combination of 1-(N-Acetyl-6-aminohexyl)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpyridin-4-one and Green Tea Extract. Bioinorg Chem Appl 2021; 2021:5539666. [PMID: 33986790 PMCID: PMC8079199 DOI: 10.1155/2021/5539666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Iron is a crucial trace element and essential for many cellular processes; however, excessive iron accumulation can induce oxidative stress and cell damage. Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, have been associated with altered iron homoeostasis causing altered iron distribution and accumulation in brain tissue. This study aims to investigate the protective effect of 1-(N-acetyl-6-aminohexyl)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpyridin-4-one (CM1) in combination with green tea extract (GTE) on iron-induced oxidative stress in neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) cells. Cells were cultured in medium with or without ferric chloride loading. Their viability and mitochondrial activity were assessed using MTT and JC-1 staining methods. Levels of the cellular labile iron pool (LIP), reactive oxygen species (ROS), and lipid-peroxidation products were determined using calcein acetoxymethyl ester, 2',7'-dichlorohydrofluorescein diacetate, and TBARS-based assays, respectively. The viability of iron-loaded cells was found to be significantly increased after treatment with CM1 (10 µM) for 24 h. CM1 co-treatment with GTE resulted in a greater protective effect than their monotherapy. Combination of CM1 and GTE also reduced mitochondrial disruption and LIP content and ROS and TBARS production. In conclusion, the combination of CM1 and GTE exhibits protection against iron-induced oxidative stress in neuroblastoma cells.
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- Nittaya Chansiw
- School of Medicine, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
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- Research Institute for Health Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
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- Oxidative Stress Cluster, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
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- Oxidative Stress Cluster, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
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- Oxidative Stress Cluster, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
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Ravanfar P, Loi SM, Syeda WT, Van Rheenen TE, Bush AI, Desmond P, Cropley VL, Lane DJR, Opazo CM, Moffat BA, Velakoulis D, Pantelis C. Systematic Review: Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) of Brain Iron Profile in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:618435. [PMID: 33679303 PMCID: PMC7930077 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.618435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Iron has been increasingly implicated in the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases. In the past decade, development of the new magnetic resonance imaging technique, quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), has enabled for the more comprehensive investigation of iron distribution in the brain. The aim of this systematic review was to provide a synthesis of the findings from existing QSM studies in neurodegenerative diseases. We identified 80 records by searching MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, and PsycInfo databases. The disorders investigated in these studies included Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Wilson's disease, Huntington's disease, Friedreich's ataxia, spinocerebellar ataxia, Fabry disease, myotonic dystrophy, pantothenate-kinase-associated neurodegeneration, and mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration. As a general pattern, QSM revealed increased magnetic susceptibility (suggestive of increased iron content) in the brain regions associated with the pathology of each disorder, such as the amygdala and caudate nucleus in Alzheimer's disease, the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease, motor cortex in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, basal ganglia in Huntington's disease, and cerebellar dentate nucleus in Friedreich's ataxia. Furthermore, the increased magnetic susceptibility correlated with disease duration and severity of clinical features in some disorders. Although the number of studies is still limited in most of the neurodegenerative diseases, the existing evidence suggests that QSM can be a promising tool in the investigation of neurodegeneration.
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- Parsa Ravanfar
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton South, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton South, VIC, Australia.,Neuropsychiatry, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton South, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton South, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Brain Centre Imaging Unit, Department of Medicine and Radiology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.,Department of Radiology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton South, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton South, VIC, Australia.,Melbourne Brain Centre Imaging Unit, Department of Medicine and Radiology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton South, VIC, Australia.,Neuropsychiatry, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Carlton South, VIC, Australia.,Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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Zhang T, Zhang Y, Ren J, Yang C, Zhou H, Li L, Lei D, Gong Q, Zhou D, Yang T. Aberrant basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical network topology in juvenile absence epilepsy: A resting-state EEG-fMRI study. Seizure 2020; 84:78-83. [PMID: 33307464 DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2020.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 11/22/2020] [Accepted: 11/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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PURPOSE The underlying pathophysiology of juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) is unclear. Since cortical and subcortical brain regions are thought to be altered in genetic generalized epilepsy, the present study examined the resting-state functional network topology of the same regions in JAE. METHODS Electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging (EEG-fMRI) were performed on 18 JAE patients and 28 healthy controls (HCs). The topology of functional networks was analyzed using the graph-theoretic method. Both global and nodal network parameters were calculated, and parameters differing significantly between the two groups were correlated with clinical variables. RESULTS Both JAE patients and HCs had small-world functional network topological architectures. However, JAE patients showed higher values for the global parameters of clustering coefficient (Cp) and normalized characteristic path length (Lambda). At the nodal level, patients exhibited greater centrality at widespread cortices, including the left superior parietal gyrus, right superior temporal gyrus, right orbital part of middle frontal gyrus and bilateral supplementary motor area. Conversely, patients showed decreased nodal centrality predominantly in the limbic network, left thalamus and right caudate nucleus. Degree centrality in the right hippocampus and betweenness centrality in the right caudate nucleus positively correlated with epilepsy duration. CONCLUSION The global functional network of JAE shows small-world properties, but tends to be regular with higher segregation and lower integration. Regions in the basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical network have aberrant nodal centrality. The hippocampus and caudate nucleus may reorganize as epilepsy progresses. Our findings indicate the pathogenesis and compensatory mechanisms to seizure attacks and cognitive deficits of JAE.
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- Tianyu Zhang
- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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Xiong W, Li LF, Huang L, Liu Y, Xia ZC, Zhou XX, Tang BS, Guo JF, Lei LF. Different iron deposition patterns in akinetic/rigid-dominant and tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2020; 198:106181. [PMID: 33022525 DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2020.106181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2020] [Revised: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 08/23/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The loss of dopaminergic cells and excessive iron deposition in some deep brain nuclei are associated with the pathophysiology of PD, and different clinical subtypes may indicate different pathological processes. This study was designed to investigate the relationships between regional iron in the cardinal subcortical nuclei and different clinical subtypes. PATIENTS AND METHODS Nine Arkinetic/Rigid-dominant Parkinson's disease (PDAR) patients, eight Tremor-dominant (PDTD)patients and 10 matched healthy controls were recruited for this study. The iron content in 8 cardinal subcortical nuclei was measured through SWI sequence scanning (3.0 T), and different patterns of iron deposition were analyzed not only between the PD patients and HC groups but also between the different clinical subtypes. RESULTS Compared with the healthy controls, the iron content in the substantia nigra pars compacta(SNc), substantia nigra pars reticulata(SNr) from both the severe and milder side in PD groups were significantly increased (P < 0.01 and P < 0.02 for SNc; both P < 0.01 for SNr), and the iron content in the GP of both the severe and milder side of the PDAR patients was significantly increased compared with the PDTD patients (P < 0.01 and P = 0.02, respectively) CONCLUSION: SWI is a very good technique for the in vivo assessment of subcortical nucleus iron content, and abnormal deposition of iron in the SNc and SNr is an obvious characteristic in PD patients. Furthermore, our data indicates that PDAR patients have higher iron content in the GP than PDTD patients and HCs, indicating that abnormal iron deposition in GP is related to the phenotype of Akinetic/Rigid in PD patients.
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- Wei Xiong
- Department of Neurology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013, PR China
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- Department of Radiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013, PR China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013, PR China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013, PR China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013, PR China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, PR China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, PR China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, PR China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410013, PR China.
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Guan X, Guo T, Zhou C, Wu J, Gao T, Bai X, Wei H, Zhang Y, Xuan M, Gu Q, Huang P, Liu C, Zhang B, Pu J, Song Z, Yan Y, Cui F, Zhang M, Xu X. Asymmetrical nigral iron accumulation in Parkinson's disease with motor asymmetry: an explorative, longitudinal and test-retest study. Aging (Albany NY) 2020; 12:18622-18634. [PMID: 32986011 PMCID: PMC7585099 DOI: 10.18632/aging.103870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is commonly characterized by asymmetrical motor impairment. This study aimed to clarify the iron distributions in PD patients with significant motor asymmetry and their longitudinal alterations. This study included 123 PD patients and 121 normal controls. Thirty-eight PD patients were revisited. PD patients with significant motor asymmetry were identified by using an objective criterion. Inter-group, inter-hemisphere and inter-visit differences of regional tissue susceptibility were analyzed. Iron accumulation in dominantly and non-dominantly affected substantia nigra (SN) were observed in PD patients with motor asymmetry compared with normal controls (p < 0.005, Bonferroni corrected). Iron accumulation in the dominantly affected SN was significantly higher than that in the non-dominantly affected SN (p < 0.01, Bonferroni corrected). After follow-up, time effect on the iron content in SN was observed, directing to decrease in PD patients with motor asymmetry without hemispherical difference (p < 0.05). In conclusion, asymmetrical iron accumulation in SN was associated with the motor asymmetry in PD at baseline, while along the disease evolution iron content in SN became longitudinally decreased. All these findings provide new evidence for PD pathogenesis that the abnormal iron metabolism in SN is complicated and not always unidirectional.
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- Xiaojun Guan
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute for Medical Imaging Technology, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA,Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Guo T, Guan X, Zhou C, Gao T, Wu J, Song Z, Xuan M, Gu Q, Huang P, Pu J, Zhang B, Cui F, Xia S, Xu X, Zhang M. Clinically relevant connectivity features define three subtypes of Parkinson's disease patients. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:4077-4092. [PMID: 32588952 PMCID: PMC7469787 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2020] [Revised: 05/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by complex clinical symptoms, including classic motor and nonmotor disturbances. Patients with PD vary in clinical manifestations and prognosis, which point to the existence of subtypes. This study aimed to find the fiber connectivity correlations with several crucial clinical symptoms and identify PD subtypes using unsupervised clustering analysis. One hundred and thirty-four PD patients and 77 normal controls were enrolled. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was performed to define the clinically relevant connectivity features, which were then used in the hierarchical clustering analysis to identify the distinct subtypes of PD patients. Multimodal neuroimaging analyses were further used to explore the neurophysiological basis of these subtypes. The methodology was validated in an independent data set. CCA revealed two significant clinically relevant patterns (motor-related pattern and depression-related pattern; r = .94, p < .001 and r = .926, p = .001, respectively) among PD patients, and hierarchical clustering analysis identified three neurophysiological subtypes ("mild" subtype, "severe depression-dominant" subtype and "severe motor-dominant" subtype). Multimodal neuroimaging analyses suggested that the patients in the "severe depression-dominant" subtype exhibited widespread disruptions both in function and structure, while the other two subtypes exhibited relatively mild abnormalities in brain function. In the independent validation, three similar subtypes were identified. In conclusion, we revealed heterogeneous subtypes of PD patients according to their distinct clinically relevant connectivity features. Importantly, depression symptoms have a considerable impact on brain damage in patients with PD.
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- Tao Guo
- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Guan X, Guo T, Zeng Q, Wang J, Zhou C, Liu C, Wei H, Zhang Y, Xuan M, Gu Q, Xu X, Huang P, Pu J, Zhang B, Zhang MM. Oscillation-specific nodal alterations in early to middle stages Parkinson's disease. Transl Neurodegener 2019; 8:36. [PMID: 31807287 PMCID: PMC6857322 DOI: 10.1186/s40035-019-0177-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Different oscillations of brain networks could carry different dimensions of brain integration. We aimed to investigate oscillation-specific nodal alterations in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) across early stage to middle stage by using graph theory-based analysis. METHODS Eighty-eight PD patients including 39 PD patients in the early stage (EPD) and 49 patients in the middle stage (MPD) and 36 controls were recruited in the present study. Graph theory-based network analyses from three oscillation frequencies (slow-5: 0.01-0.027 Hz; slow-4: 0.027-0.073 Hz; slow-3: 0.073-0.198 Hz) were analyzed. Nodal metrics (e.g. nodal degree centrality, betweenness centrality and nodal efficiency) were calculated. RESULTS Our results showed that (1) a divergent effect of oscillation frequencies on nodal metrics, especially on nodal degree centrality and nodal efficiency, that the anteroventral neocortex and subcortex had high nodal metrics within low oscillation frequencies while the posterolateral neocortex had high values within the relative high oscillation frequency was observed, which visually showed that network was perturbed in PD; (2) PD patients in early stage relatively preserved nodal properties while MPD patients showed widespread abnormalities, which was consistently detected within all three oscillation frequencies; (3) the involvement of basal ganglia could be specifically observed within slow-5 oscillation frequency in MPD patients; (4) logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic curve analyses demonstrated that some of those oscillation-specific nodal alterations had the ability to well discriminate PD patients from controls or MPD from EPD patients at the individual level; (5) occipital disruption within high frequency (slow-3) made a significant influence on motor impairment which was dominated by akinesia and rigidity. CONCLUSIONS Coupling various oscillations could provide potentially useful information for large-scale network and progressive oscillation-specific nodal alterations were observed in PD patients across early to middle stages.
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- Xiaojun Guan
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, 310009 China
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Jellinger KA. Neuropathology and pathogenesis of extrapyramidal movement disorders: a critical update-I. Hypokinetic-rigid movement disorders. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2019; 126:933-995. [PMID: 31214855 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-019-02028-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Extrapyramidal movement disorders include hypokinetic rigid and hyperkinetic or mixed forms, most of them originating from dysfunction of the basal ganglia (BG) and their information circuits. The functional anatomy of the BG, the cortico-BG-thalamocortical, and BG-cerebellar circuit connections are briefly reviewed. Pathophysiologic classification of extrapyramidal movement disorder mechanisms distinguish (1) parkinsonian syndromes, (2) chorea and related syndromes, (3) dystonias, (4) myoclonic syndromes, (5) ballism, (6) tics, and (7) tremor syndromes. Recent genetic and molecular-biologic classifications distinguish (1) synucleinopathies (Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease-dementia, and multiple system atrophy); (2) tauopathies (progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, FTLD-17; Guamian Parkinson-dementia; Pick's disease, and others); (3) polyglutamine disorders (Huntington's disease and related disorders); (4) pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration; (5) Wilson's disease; and (6) other hereditary neurodegenerations without hitherto detected genetic or specific markers. The diversity of phenotypes is related to the deposition of pathologic proteins in distinct cell populations, causing neurodegeneration due to genetic and environmental factors, but there is frequent overlap between various disorders. Their etiopathogenesis is still poorly understood, but is suggested to result from an interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Multiple etiologies and noxious factors (protein mishandling, mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, excitotoxicity, energy failure, and chronic neuroinflammation) are more likely than a single factor. Current clinical consensus criteria have increased the diagnostic accuracy of most neurodegenerative movement disorders, but for their definite diagnosis, histopathological confirmation is required. We present a timely overview of the neuropathology and pathogenesis of the major extrapyramidal movement disorders in two parts, the first one dedicated to hypokinetic-rigid forms and the second to hyperkinetic disorders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kurt A Jellinger
- Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Alberichgasse 5/13, 1150, Vienna, Austria.
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