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Humbert-Vidan L, Patel V, King AP, Guerrero Urbano T. Interpretability of a Deep Learning-Based Prediction Model for Mandibular Osteoradionecrosis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:e468-e469. [PMID: 37785491 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.1673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) The development of radiation-induced toxicities is a multifactorial process. Existing DVH-based prediction models use traditional multivariate analysis to combine all the potential risk factors. Recently, deep learning (DL) has been proposed for predicting mandibular osteoradionecrosis (ORN) directly from 3D dose distribution maps [1]. However, with this approach, incorporating non-imaging data such as potential risk factors presents challenges. We investigate the use of DL-based multimodality fusion for the purpose of radiation-induced ORN toxicity prediction. MATERIALS/METHODS This study explores early and late fusion strategies for combining 3D radiation dose distribution maps and clinical and demographic variables in the prediction of mandibular ORN incidence in head and neck cancer patients treated with radiotherapy. The results are compared to single-modality predictions with a random forest (RF) trained only on clinical variables and a 3D DenseNet40 trained on dose maps alone. We investigate two different fusion approaches. In the first, the image features extracted from the radiation dose maps using a 3D DenseNet40 were concatenated with the clinical variables into one single vector using a type II early fusion strategy. The combined feature vector was input into a fully connected layer for classification of ORN vs. controls. A final softmax activation layer was added to obtain the class predicted probabilities. The second approach used a late fusion strategy, in which the outputs from the 3D DenseNet40 and the RF model were combined by averaging the predicted classification probabilities for each of the two classes (ORN and no ORN) to obtain the final class decision on a case-by-case basis. RESULTS The AUROC values obtained for the late and early fusion models and the single-modality 3D DenseNet40 and RF models were 0.70, 0.68, 0.69 and 0.60, respectively. The highest AUC ROC was observed with the late fusion approach, which was statistically significantly different to that of the RF single-modality model with a significance level of 0.05. However, after Bonferroni correction (Altman 1999) for multiple comparisons was applied, resulting in a corrected significance level of 0.05/6 = 0.008 for each comparison, no statistically significant difference was observed between any of the models' AUROC values. This is most likely due to the lack of discriminative contribution observed from clinical variables, which on their own resulted in a poorly predictive RF model. CONCLUSION To our knowledge, no previous work has been published on the use of multimodal fusion DL methods to combine dose distribution maps and clinical variables in the prediction of mandibular ORN. Although non-conclusive results were obtained, this study demonstrates the potential of DL in the prediction of the multifactorial side effects resulting from radiotherapy treatments. [1] Humbert-Vidan L et al. Prediction of Mandibular ORN Incidence from 3D Radiation Dose Distribution Maps Using DL (2022).
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- L Humbert-Vidan
- Department of Medical Physics, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oral Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Oncology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Fayn S, King AP, Gutsche NT, Duan Z, Buffington J, Olkowski CP, Fu Y, Hong J, Sail D, Baidoo KE, Swenson RE, Cheloha RW, Ho M, Choyke P, Escorcia FE. Nanobody-Based ImmunoPET for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:S44. [PMID: 37784500 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) HCC accounts for 75-90% of all primary liver cancers, the majority of which are treated with liver-directed therapy. Treatment response and recurrence are difficult to discern using conventional imaging with MR/CT. Tumor-selective PET imaging could help with clinical management in this setting. Here, we engineer HN3, a single-domain antibody (nanobody) specific to GPC3, a histopathologically-defining HCC marker, as an immunoPET agent. We compared both conventional and sortase-based site-specific modification methods for synthesizing HN3 immunoPET tracers. MATERIALS/METHODS Stochastic lysine conjugation with deferoxamine (DFO-NCS) was done to synthesize nHN3-DFO. ssHN3-DFO was engineered utilizing sortase-mediated conjugation of HN3 containing an LPETG C-terminal tag and a triglycine-DFO chelator. Biolayer interferometry (BLI) and radioligand saturation assays were done to determine binding affinity pre- and post-Zirconium-89 labeling. Following, PET/CT with a terminal 3-hour biodistribution was done in mice inoculated with isogenic A431 and A431-GPC3+ xenografts to determine conjugate specificity for GPC3. Finally, conjugates were evaluated in a HepG2 liver cancer model via ex vivo biodistribution studies and a comparative PET/CT study in mice bearing HepG2 tumors that were imaged with both [18F]FDG and 89Zr-ssHN3. RESULTS Both conjugates exhibited nanomolar binding affinity for GPC3 in vitro (11-30 nM for nHN3 and 10-15 nM for ssHN3). A431 and A431-GPC3+ PET/CT and biodistribution studies showed specificity to GPC3 by both probes, with more favorable tumor uptake by 89Zr-ssHN3 at 3 hours post-injection (14% IA/g vs. 7% IA/g for nHN3). Both tracers also displayed uptake in HepG2 (GPC3+) liver tumors, again with the site specifically conjugated probe having higher tumor accumulation and lower liver signal than the conventionally modified HN3 (7% IA/g vs. 5 % IA/g for tumor and 2% IA/g vs. 4% IA/g for liver at 1-hour post-injection). PET/CT studies in mice imaged with [18F]FDG and 89Zr-ssHN3 demonstrated more consistent tumor accumulation for the nanobody conjugate (4/4 mice had uptake by the tumor vs. 1/4 for FDG). CONCLUSION We successfully designed, synthesized, and characterized novel GPC3-selective nanobody PET probes that can image liver tumors in vivo. The site-specifically conjugated tracer showed more favorable biodistribution and pharmacokinetic properties, resulting in a much higher tumor: liver signal compared to 89Zr-nHN3. We also show the superiority of the 89Zr-ssHN3 imaging over conventional [18F]FDG, highlighting a clear advantage in using targeted tumor imaging for this cancer type. Successful translation of the site-specifically conjugated nanobody may ultimately aid in characterizing lesions following liver-directed therapy and allow for more comprehensive screening, early diagnosis, and post-treatment surveillance of HCC.
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- S Fayn
- Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Antibody Engineering Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Antibody Engineering Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Chemistry and Synthesis Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
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- Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Chemistry and Synthesis Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
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- Chemical Biology in Signaling Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Antibody Engineering Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Radiation Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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Ruijsink JB, Puyol-Anton E, Mariscal Harana J, Juarez-Orozco LE, King AP, Razavi R. Automated non-invasive pressure-volume loop analysis of cardiac aging in a large cohort of healthy community dwellers. Eur Heart J 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab724.0107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background/Introduction
Pressure-volume loops (PVloops) provide a wealth of information on cardiac function that is not readily available from cardiac imaging alone.
Methods
To estimate left ventricular (LV) PVloops non-invasively have been available, but have so far not been used to interrogate ventricular function in large patient cohorts, due to the complexity of estimating PVloops. A new method was recently validated that construct PVloops non-invasively from cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), based on the time-varying elastance model [1]. At the same time, we have validated a framework for automated, quality controlled analysis of cine CMR in large cohorts of patients/subjects [2]. Combining these two methods could automated PVloop estimation, enabling analysis of ventricular pressure-volume relationships in large study populations.
Purpose
Evaluate if CMR-based non-invasive PVloops can be used to interrogate the impact of cardiac ageing on LV function occurring in a large population of healthy community dwellers.
Methods
Non-invasive PVloops were calculated from a full cardiac cycle LV volume curve and brachial blood pressure data using a recently validated method based on the time-varying elastance model [1], in 7,650 healthy community dwellers from the UKBiobank population study. The LV volume curve was automatically obtained using our state-of-the-art, quality controlled deep learning (DL) based cine CMR analysis framework [2]. External Work, pressure-volume-area (PVA), end-systolic pressure (Pes), ventricular elastance (Ees, an estimate of contractility) and arterial elastance (Ea) and energy per ejected volume (EEV: PVA/ stroke volume) were calculated from the PVloops. We performed univariate regression between PVloop parameters and age. We also calculated the additional impact of cardiovascular risk-factors in a multivariate analysis.
Results
See results in table 1. With age, LV volumes fall (p<0.001) in healthy subjects, while systolic blood pressure and Pes increases (both p<0.001). As a result of the higher afterload, PVA (p=0.894) and EW (p=0.499) do not significantly change with age despite a lower SV. Arterial elastance (Ea) increased, and so did contractility, as measured by Ees (p<0.001). Due to all these changes, EEV increased with age (p<0.001). In multivariate analysis, cardiovascular risk factors hypercholesterolemia and hypertension negatively impacted Pes, PVA, Ees and EEV. Diabetes and smoking habits did not.
Conclusion
Non-invasive CMR-based PVloop analyses capture the impact of known changes occurring during cardiac ageing on cardiac work, contractility and energetic expenditure. Obtaining PVloops automatically using our AI analysis system in this large cohort of healthy subjects allows to formulate reference for assessment of cardiac disease.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main funding source(s): The authors acknowledge financial support (support) the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cardiovascular MedTech Co-operative (previously existing as the Cardiovascular Healthcare Technology Co-operative 2012 - 2017) award to the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with King's College London and the NIHR comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre of the Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health Univariate regression analysisExample of estimated PV loop
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- J B Ruijsink
- King's College London, Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, London, United Kingdom
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Background/Introduction
Artificial intelligence (AI) is providing opportunities to transform cardiovascular medicine. A particular challenge in the application of AI technology is their potential for intrinsic and extrinsic biases, such as those based on gender and/or ethnicity. Unless satisfactorily addressed, these biases could lead to inequalities in early diagnosis, treatments and outcomes. Fairness in AI is a relatively new but fast-growing research field which deals with assessing and addressing potential bias in AI models.
Purpose
To perform the first analysis that assesses bias in AI-based cardiac MR segmentation models in a large-scale database.
Methods
A state-of-the-art deep learning (DL) based segmentation network, the “nnU-Net” framework [1], was used for automatic segmentation of both ventricles and the myocardium from cine short-axis cardiac MR over the full cardiac cycle. The dataset used consisted of end-diastole and end-systole short-axis cine cardiac MR images of 5,903 subjects (61.5±7.1 years). The nnU-Net network was trained and evaluated using a 5-fold cross validation (splits: train 60% / validation 20% / test 20%). Data on race and gender were obtained from the UK Biobank database and their distribution is summarized in Figure 1. To assess gender and racial bias in the segmentation network, we compared the Dice scores - which measure the overlap between manual and automatic segmentations – and the absolute error in measurements of biventricular volumes and function between patients grouped by ethnicity and gender.
Results
Figure 2 shows the Dice scores and the volumetric and functional measures for the full database, stratified by gender and by ethnicity. Results on the overall population showed an excellent agreement between the manual and automatic segmentations which is consistent with previous reported results [2–3]. However, we find statistically significant differences in Dice scores as well as volumetric measures between different ethnicities, showing that the segmentation network is biased against minority racial groups. No significant differences were found in Dice scores between genders. Similarly, for the end diastolic, end systolic volumes and ejection fraction, there were statistically significant differences in absolute error between the overall population and all racial groups except white.
Conclusion(s)
We have shown, for the first time, that racial bias exists in DL-based cardiac MR segmentation models. Our hypothesis is that this bias is a result of the unbalanced nature of the training data, and this is supported by the results which show that there is racial bias but not gender bias when trained using the UK Biobank database, which is gender-balanced but not race-balanced. In this work we want to highlight the potential issue of bias in DL-based image segmentation models when translating into a clinical environment.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main funding source(s): - EPSRC- Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London Figure 1Figure 2
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- King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- University of Oxford, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University of Oxford, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- William Harvey Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Panayiotou M, King AP, Ma Y, Housden RJ, Rinaldi CA, Gill J, Cooklin M, O’Neill M, Rhode KS. A statistical model of catheter motion from interventional x-ray images: application to image-based gating. Phys Med Biol 2013; 58:7543-62. [DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/21/7543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Tsoumpas C, Polycarpou I, Thielemans K, Buerger C, King AP, Schaeffter T, Marsden PK. The effect of regularization in motion compensated PET image reconstruction: a realistic numerical 4D simulation study. Phys Med Biol 2013; 58:1759-73. [PMID: 23442264 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/6/1759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Following continuous improvement in PET spatial resolution, respiratory motion correction has become an important task. Two of the most common approaches that utilize all detected PET events to motion-correct PET data are the reconstruct-transform-average method (RTA) and motion-compensated image reconstruction (MCIR). In RTA, separate images are reconstructed for each respiratory frame, subsequently transformed to one reference frame and finally averaged to produce a motion-corrected image. In MCIR, the projection data from all frames are reconstructed by including motion information in the system matrix so that a motion-corrected image is reconstructed directly. Previous theoretical analyses have explained why MCIR is expected to outperform RTA. It has been suggested that MCIR creates less noise than RTA because the images for each separate respiratory frame will be severely affected by noise. However, recent investigations have shown that in the unregularized case RTA images can have fewer noise artefacts, while MCIR images are more quantitatively accurate but have the common salt-and-pepper noise. In this paper, we perform a realistic numerical 4D simulation study to compare the advantages gained by including regularization within reconstruction for RTA and MCIR, in particular using the median-root-prior incorporated in the ordered subsets maximum a posteriori one-step-late algorithm. In this investigation we have demonstrated that MCIR with proper regularization parameters reconstructs lesions with less bias and root mean square error and similar CNR and standard deviation to regularized RTA. This finding is reproducible for a variety of noise levels (25, 50, 100 million counts), lesion sizes (8 mm, 14 mm diameter) and iterations. Nevertheless, regularized RTA can also be a practical solution for motion compensation as a proper level of regularization reduces both bias and mean square error.
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- C Tsoumpas
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, King's Health Partners, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK.
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Whitelaw BC, Dworakowska D, Thomas NW, Barazi S, Riordan-Eva P, King AP, Hampton T, Landau DB, Lipscomb D, Buchanan CR, Gilbert JA, Aylwin SJB. Temozolomide in the management of dopamine agonist-resistant prolactinomas. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2012; 76:877-86. [PMID: 22372583 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2012.04373.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND The majority of prolactinomas respond to dopamine agonist therapy, but a proportion are resistant, requiring other treatments including surgery and/or radiotherapy. Temozolomide is an oral chemotherapy agent, which has been used as a salvage therapy to treat aggressive pituitary adenomas and carcinomas, including prolactinomas, unresponsive to all conventional treatment. CASE SERIES We report three patients where temozolomide was used in the treatment of refractory prolactinomas. Case 1 describes a patient with a highly invasive prolactinoma, resistant to all conventional therapy, which responded dramatically to temozolomide used as a salvage treatment. In case 2, temozolomide was used after incomplete surgical resection to relieve chiasmal compression and avoid chiasm exposure to radiotherapy. In case 3, temozolomide enabled radiotherapy to be deferred in a 16-year old with a resistant prolactinoma. In all three cases, the tumours were negative by immunostaining for methylguanine methyltransferase (MGMT). LITERATURE REVIEW AND DISCUSSION A review of the published literature reveals 51 reported cases of temozolomide treatment for pituitary tumours, including 20 prolactinomas. Fifteen of the 20 prolactinomas showed a good response to temozolomide. Our analysis demonstrates a strong association between MGMT-negative staining and a good response to temozolomide (OR 9.35, P = 0.0030). Current clinical practice is to use temozolomide as a salvage therapy after all conventional modalities of treatment have failed. We suggest that, in selected cases, consideration should be given to using temozolomide earlier in the treatment algorithm.
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- B C Whitelaw
- Department of Endocrinology, King's College Hospital, London, SE5 9RS, UK.
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Buerger C, Clough RE, King AP, Schaeffter T, Prieto C. Nonrigid motion modeling of the liver from 3-D undersampled self-gated golden-radial phase encoded MRI. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2012; 31:805-815. [PMID: 22271830 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2011.2181997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been commonly used for guiding and planning image guided interventions since it provides excellent soft tissue visualization of anatomy and allows motion modeling to predict the position of target tissues during the procedure. However, MRI-based motion modeling remains challenging due to the difficulty of acquiring multiple motion-free 3-D respiratory phases with adequate contrast and spatial resolution. Here, we propose a novel retrospective respiratory gating scheme from a 3-D undersampled high-resolution MRI acquisition combined with fast and robust image registrations to model the nonrigid deformation of the liver. The acquisition takes advantage of the recently introduced golden-radial phase encoding (G-RPE) trajectory. G-RPE is self-gated, i.e., the respiratory signal can be derived from the acquired data itself, and allows retrospective reconstructions of multiple respiratory phases at any arbitrary respiratory position. Nonrigid motion modeling is applied to predict the liver deformation of an average breathing cycle. The proposed approach was validated on 10 healthy volunteers. Motion model accuracy was assessed using similarity-, surface-, and landmark-based validation methods, demonstrating precise model predictions with an overall target registration error of TRE = 1.70 ± 0.94 mm which is within the range of the acquired resolution.
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- C Buerger
- Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College London, London, UK.
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Tsoumpas C, Buerger C, King AP, Mollet P, Keereman V, Vandenberghe S, Schulz V, Schleyer P, Schaeffter T, Marsden PK. Fast generation of 4D PET-MR data from real dynamic MR acquisitions. Phys Med Biol 2011; 56:6597-613. [DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/20/005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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King AP, Buerger C, Tsoumpas C, Marsden PK, Schaeffter T. Thoracic respiratory motion estimation from MRI using a statistical model and a 2-D image navigator. Med Image Anal 2011; 16:252-64. [PMID: 21959365 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2011.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2011] [Revised: 08/18/2011] [Accepted: 08/22/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Respiratory motion models have potential application for estimating and correcting the effects of motion in a wide range of applications, for example in PET-MR imaging. Given that motion cycles caused by breathing are only approximately repeatable, an important quality of such models is their ability to capture and estimate the intra- and inter-cycle variability of the motion. In this paper we propose and describe a technique for free-form nonrigid respiratory motion correction in the thorax. Our model is based on a principal component analysis of the motion states encountered during different breathing patterns, and is formed from motion estimates made from dynamic 3-D MRI data. We apply our model using a data-driven technique based on a 2-D MRI image navigator. Unlike most previously reported work in the literature, our approach is able to capture both intra- and inter-cycle motion variability. In addition, the 2-D image navigator can be used to estimate how applicable the current motion model is, and hence report when more imaging data is required to update the model. We also use the motion model to decide on the best positioning for the image navigator. We validate our approach using MRI data acquired from 10 volunteers and demonstrate improvements of up to 40.5% over other reported motion modelling approaches, which corresponds to 61% of the overall respiratory motion present. Finally we demonstrate one potential application of our technique: MRI-based motion correction of real-time PET data for simultaneous PET-MRI acquisition.
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- A P King
- Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King's College, 4th Floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK.
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King AP, Rhode KS, Ma Y, Yao C, Jansen C, Razavi R, Penney GP. Registering preprocedure volumetric images with intraprocedure 3-D ultrasound using an ultrasound imaging model. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2010; 29:924-937. [PMID: 20199926 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2010.2040189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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For many image-guided interventions there exists a need to compute the registration between preprocedure image(s) and the physical space of the intervention. Real-time intraprocedure imaging such as ultrasound (US) can be used to image the region of interest directly and provide valuable anatomical information for computing this registration. Unfortunately, real-time US images often have poor signal-to-noise ratio and suffer from imaging artefacts. Therefore, registration using US images can be challenging and significant preprocessing is often required to make the registrations robust. In this paper we present a novel technique for computing the image-to-physical registration for minimally invasive cardiac interventions using 3-D US. Our technique uses knowledge of the physics of the US imaging process to reduce the amount of preprocessing required on the 3-D US images. To account for the fact that clinical US images normally undergo significant image processing before being exported from the US machine our optimization scheme allows the parameters of the US imaging model to vary. We validated our technique by computing rigid registrations for 12 cardiac US/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets acquired from six volunteers and two patients. The technique had mean registration errors of 2.1-4.4 mm, and 75% capture ranges of 5-30 mm. We also demonstrate how the same approach can be used for respiratory motion correction: on 15 datasets acquired from five volunteers the registration errors due to respiratory motion were reduced by 45%-92%.
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- A P King
- Division of Imaging Sciences, King's College, St. Thomas' Hospital, SE1 7EH London, UK.
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Gallistel CR, King AP, Daniel AM, Freestone D, Papachristos EB, Balci F, Kheifets A, Zhang J, Su X, Schiff G, Kourtev H. Screening for Learning and Memory Mutations: A New Approach. Xin Li Xue Bao 2010; 42:138-158. [PMID: 20352069 PMCID: PMC2844986 DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1041.2010.00138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We describe a fully automated, live-in 24/7 test environment, with experimental protocols that measure the accuracy and precision with which mice match the ratio of their expected visit durations to the ratio of the incomes obtained from two hoppers, the progress of instrumental and classical conditioning (trials-to-acquisition), the accuracy and precision of interval timing, the effect of relative probability on the choice of a timed departure target, and the accuracy and precision of memory for the times of day at which food is available. The system is compact; it obviates the handling of the mice during testing; it requires negligible amounts of experimenter/technician time; and it delivers clear and extensive results from 3 protocols within a total of 7-9 days after the mice are placed in the test environment. Only a single 24-hour period is required for the completion of first protocol (the matching protocol), which is strong test of temporal and spatial estimation and memory mechanisms. Thus, the system permits the extensive screening of many mice in a short period of time and in limited space. The software is publicly available.
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- C R Gallistel
- Department of Psychology & Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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King AP, Boubertakh R, Rhode KS, Ma YL, Chinchapatnam P, Gao G, Tangcharoen T, Ginks M, Cooklin M, Gill JS, Hawkes DJ, Razavi RS, Schaeffter T. A subject-specific technique for respiratory motion correction in image-guided cardiac catheterisation procedures. Med Image Anal 2009; 13:419-31. [PMID: 19223220 DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2009.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2008] [Revised: 01/07/2009] [Accepted: 01/09/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We describe a system for respiratory motion correction of MRI-derived roadmaps for use in X-ray guided cardiac catheterisation procedures. The technique uses a subject-specific affine motion model that is quickly constructed from a short pre-procedure MRI scan. We test a dynamic MRI sequence that acquires a small number of high resolution slices, rather than a single low resolution volume. Additionally, we use prior knowledge of the nature of cardiac respiratory motion by constraining the model to use only the dominant modes of motion. During the procedure the motion of the diaphragm is tracked in X-ray fluoroscopy images, allowing the roadmap to be updated using the motion model. X-ray image acquisition is cardiac gated. Validation is performed on four volunteer datasets and three patient datasets. The accuracy of the model in 3D was within 5mm in 97.6% of volunteer validations. For the patients, 2D accuracy was improved from 5 to 13mm before applying the model to 2-4mm afterwards. For the dynamic MRI sequence comparison, the highest errors were found when using the low resolution volume sequence with an unconstrained model.
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- A P King
- Interdisciplinary Medical Imaging Group, Division of Imaging Sciences, King's College, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
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King AP, Robinson G, Cundall JA, Hight MJ. An electrostatic automatic torque magnetometer for measuring the properties of magnetic thin films. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1088/0950-7671/41/12/313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Freeberg TM, West MJ, King AP, Duncan SD, Sengelaub DR. Cultures, genes, and neurons in the development of song and singing in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater). J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2002; 188:993-1002. [PMID: 12471496 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0360-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2001] [Revised: 04/24/2002] [Accepted: 09/05/2002] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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In brown-headed cowbirds, Molothrus ater, as in many songbird species, vocalizations are fundamental to reproduction. In our studies, experiments utilizing different social housing regimes and geographic comparisons have indicated the social learning of males' vocalizations and associated abilities to use vocalizations effectively during the breeding season. Here, we describe studies indicating roles of cultural and genetic background, and of social influences from females, on male vocal development. These influences can interact with neural regions, including song learning and song control nuclei, but also visual-processing nuclei, in the development of signaling. We argue that a developmental systems approach to the study of vocal behavior provides a structure to organize these different influences and how they may interact with one another over development. A systems approach requires that researchers study the social context in which signals and signalers develop - both the ontogenetic arena in which young animals learn their signals from older animals, and the functional arena in which young and older animals socially interact with one another.
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- T M Freeberg
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA.
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Gallistel CR, Mark TA, King AP, Latham PE. The rat approximates an ideal detector of changes in rates of reward: implications for the law of effect. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 2002. [PMID: 11676086 DOI: 10.1037//0097-7403.27.4.354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Rats responded on 2 levers delivering brain stimulation reward on concurrent variable interval schedules. Following many successive sessions with unchanging relative rates of reward, subjects adjusted to an eventual change slowly and showed spontaneous reversions at the beginning of subsequent sessions. When changes in rates of reward occurred between and within every session, subjects adjusted to them about as rapidly as they could in principle do so, as shown by comparison to a Bayesian model of an ideal detector. This and other features of the adjustments to frequent changes imply that the behavioral effect of reinforcement depends on the subject's perception of incomes and changes in incomes rather than on the strengthening and weakening of behaviors in accord with their past effects or expected results. Models for the process by which perceived incomes determine stay durations and for the process that detects changes in rates are developed.
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- C R Gallistel
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
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Penney GP, Edwards PJ, King AP, Blackall JM, Batchelor PG, Hawkes DJ. A Stochastic Iterative Closest Point Algorithm (stochastICP). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45468-3_91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Gallistel CR, Mark TA, King AP, Latham PE. The rat approximates an ideal detector of changes in rates of reward: implications for the law of effect. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 2001; 27:354-72. [PMID: 11676086 DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.27.4.354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Rats responded on 2 levers delivering brain stimulation reward on concurrent variable interval schedules. Following many successive sessions with unchanging relative rates of reward, subjects adjusted to an eventual change slowly and showed spontaneous reversions at the beginning of subsequent sessions. When changes in rates of reward occurred between and within every session, subjects adjusted to them about as rapidly as they could in principle do so, as shown by comparison to a Bayesian model of an ideal detector. This and other features of the adjustments to frequent changes imply that the behavioral effect of reinforcement depends on the subject's perception of incomes and changes in incomes rather than on the strengthening and weakening of behaviors in accord with their past effects or expected results. Models for the process by which perceived incomes determine stay durations and for the process that detects changes in rates are developed.
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- C R Gallistel
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
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Freeberg TM, King AP, West MJ. Cultural transmission of vocal traditions in cowbirds (Molothrus ater) influences courtship patterns and mate preferences. J Comp Psychol 2001; 115:201-11. [PMID: 11459168 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.115.2.201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In this study, the authors tested the cultural transmission of vocal traditions in cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Young cowbirds from a South Dakota (SD) population were housed over winter with adults of the SD population or with adults from an Indiana (IN) population. Song differences between the original SD and IN adult models were acquired by South Dakota culture (SDC) and Indiana culture (INC) males, respectively, and were transmitted to a 2nd cultural generation of birds. During playback tests of SDC and INC songs, SD females gave more copulatory responses to SDC songs. Finally, males with SD-like songs courted SDC females preferentially in breeding season tests, whereas males with IN-like songs courted INC females preferentially. These results indicate that the transmission of vocal traditions plays a fundamental role in the courtship patterns and mating decisions of cowbirds.
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Baisden BL, Brat DJ, Melhem ER, Rosenblum MK, King AP, Burger PC. Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor-like neoplasm of the septum pellucidum: a lesion often misdiagnosed as glioma: report of 10 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2001; 25:494-9. [PMID: 11257624 DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200104000-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The authors report a series of 10 low-grade neoplasms arising in the midline anteriorly in the region of the septum pellucidum with many of the histologic features of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor (DNT). The patients (five female, five male) ranged in age from 6 to 35 years (mean age, 21.5 years). The most common presenting symptoms were headache, nausea and vomiting, and visual disturbances. Radiographically, the tumors extended into the lateral ventricles from the septal region and obstructed the foramen of Monro. Varying degrees of hydrocephalus were present. The lesions were lobular, well-delineated, hypointense to brain on T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, and hyperintense on T2-weighted images. They were uniformly nonenhancing or showed only minimal peripheral enhancement. The tumors, in aggregate, had the histologic features of DNT. These included a mucin-rich background, oligodendrocyte-like cells, "floating neurons," and a "specific glioneuronal element." Seven patients underwent gross total resection and two underwent subtotal resection. No patients received adjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy. On follow-up (n = 6; median, 14 months), all tumors had either not recurred or were radiologically stable. On the basis of both neuroimaging and histopathology, DNT-like lesions should be considered in the differential diagnosis of midline intraventricular tumors in children and young adults. Distinction from more aggressive neoplasms is essential because these tumors appear to behave in a benign fashion.
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- B L Baisden
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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Edwards PJ, King AP, Hawkes DJ, Fleig O, Maurer CR, Hill DL, Fenlon MR, de Cunha DA, Gaston RP, Chandra S, Mannss J, Strong AJ, Gleeson MJ, Cox TC. Stereo augmented reality in the surgical microscope. Stud Health Technol Inform 2001; 62:102-8. [PMID: 10538337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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We present an augmented reality system that allows surgeons to view features from preoperative radiological images accurately overlaid in stereo in the optical path of a surgical microscope. The purpose of the system is to show the surgeon structures beneath the viewed surface in the correct 3-D position. The technical challenges are registration, tracking, calibration and visualisation. For patient registration, or alignment to preoperative images, we use bone-implanted markers and a dental splint is used for patient tracking. Both microscope and patient are tracked by an optical localiser. Calibration uses an accurately manufactured object with high contrast circular markers which are identified automatically. All ten camera parameters are modelled as a bivariate polynomial function of zoom and focus. The overall system has a theoretical overlay accuracy of better than 1 mm. Implementations of the system have been tested on seven patients. Recent measurements in the operating room conformed to our accuracy predictions. For visualisation the system has been implemented on a graphics workstation to enable high frame rates with a variety of rendering schemes. Several issues of 3-D depth perception remain unsolved, but early results suggest that perception of structures in the correct 3-D position beneath the viewed surface is possible.
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- P J Edwards
- Guy's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Guy's Hospital, London, England
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The biophysical and pharmacological properties of voltage-gated calcium channel currents in the human teratocarcinoma cell line NT2-N were studied using the whole cell patch-clamp technique. When held at -80 mV, barium currents (I(Ba)s) were evoked by voltage commands to above -35 mV that peaked at +5 mV. When holding potentials were reduced to -20 mV or 5 mM barium was substituted for 5 mM calcium, there was a reduction in peak currents and a right shift in the current-voltage curve. A steady-state inactivation curve for I(Ba) was fit with a Boltzmann curve (V(1/2) = -43.3 mV; slope = -17.7 mV). Maximal current amplitude increased from 1-wk (232 pA) to 9-wk (1025 pA) postdifferentiation. Whole cell I(Ba)s were partially blocked by specific channel blockers to a similar extent in 1- to 3-wk and 7- to 9-wk postdifferentiation NT2-N cells: 10 microM nifedipine (19 vs. 25%), 10 microM conotoxin GVIA (27 vs. 25%), 10 microM conotoxin MVIIC (15 vs. 16%), and 1.75 microM SNX-482 (31 vs. 33%). Currents were completely blocked by 300 microM cadmium. In the presence of nifedipine, GVIA, and MVIIC, approximately 35% of current remained, which was reduced further by SNX-482 (7-14% of current remained), consistent with functional expression of L-, N-, and P/Q-calcium channel types and one or more R-type channel. The presence of multiple calcium currents in this human neuronal-type cell line provides a potentially useful model for study of the regulation, expression and cellular function of human derived calcium channel currents; in particular the R-type current(s).
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- T R Neelands
- Neuroscience Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-1687, USA
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Previous work has shown that captive female cowbirds, Molothrus ater, can influence the outcome of male song development by affecting retention or deletion of song elements and by stimulating improvization. Here we looked for evidence of female influence during the process of learning, as males progress from subsong to plastic song to stereotyped song. In a longitudinal study, we measured the rate and timing of vocal development in captive, juvenile male brown-headed cowbirds, M. a. artemisiae. Half the young males were housed with female cowbirds from their own population (South Dakota: SD) and half with female cowbirds from a M. a. ater population (Indiana: IN). Both populations of females prefer local songs and differ in the time of breeding, with SD females breeding 2 weeks later than IN females. The results showed significant effects of female presence on the age at which males advanced through stages of vocal development: the SD males with SD females, as opposed to SD males with IN females, developed stereotyped song earlier, reduced motor practise earlier, and produced more effective playback songs. Longitudinal observations of social interactions showed that the two groups of females reliably differed in social responses to males. Degree of social proximity of females to males in the winter predicted song maturity, rate of rehearsal and song potency. Thus, females can stimulate the progression of song learning, as well as prune song content. Copyright 2000 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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- VA Smith
- Departments of Biology, Indiana University
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Edwards PJ, King AP, Maurer CR, de Cunha DA, Hawkes DJ, Hill DL, Gaston RP, Fenlon MR, Jusczyzck A, Strong AJ, Chandler CL, Gleeson MJ. Design and evaluation of a system for microscope-assisted guided interventions (MAGI). IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2000; 19:1082-93. [PMID: 11204846 DOI: 10.1109/42.896784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The problem of providing surgical navigation using image overlays on the operative scene can be split into four main tasks--calibration of the optical system; registration of preoperative images to the patient; system and patient tracking, and display using a suitable visualization scheme. To achieve a convincing result in the magnified microscope view a very high alignment accuracy is required. We have simulated an entire image overlay system to establish the most significant sources of error and improved each of the stages involved. The microscope calibration process has been automated. We have introduced bone-implanted markers for registration and incorporated a locking acrylic dental stent (LADS) for patient tracking. The LADS can also provide a less-invasive registration device with mean target error of 0.7 mm in volunteer experiments. These improvements have significantly increased the alignment accuracy of our overlays. Phantom accuracy is 0.3-0.5 mm and clinical overlay errors were 0.5-1.0 mm on the bone fiducials and 0.5-4 mm on target structures. We have improved the graphical representation of the stereo overlays. The resulting system provides three-dimensional surgical navigation for microscope-assisted guided interventions (MAGI).
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- P J Edwards
- Computational Imaging Science Group, Radiological Sciences, KCL, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
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King AP, Edwards PJ, Maurer CR, de Cunha DA, Hawkes DJ, Hill DL, Gaston RP, Fenlon MR, Strong AJ, Chandler CL, Richards A, Gleeson MJ. A system for microscope-assisted guided interventions. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2000; 72:107-11. [PMID: 10853060 DOI: 10.1159/000029708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We present a system for surgical navigation using stereo overlays in the operating microscope aligned to the operative scene. This augmented reality system provides 3D information about nearby structures and offers a significant advancement over pointer-based guidance, which provides only the location of one point and requires the surgeon to look away from the operative scene. With a previous version of this system, we demonstrated feasibility, but it became clear that to achieve convincing guidance through the magnified microscope view, a very high alignment accuracy was required. We have made progress with several aspects of the system, including automated calibration, error simulation, bone-implanted fiducials and a dental attachment for tracking. We have performed experiments to establish the visual display parameters required to perceive overlaid structures beneath the operative surface. Easy perception of real and virtual structures with the correct transparency has been demonstrated in a laboratory and through the microscope. The result is a system with a predicted accuracy of 0.9 mm and phantom errors of 0.5 mm. In clinical practice errors are 0.5-1.5 mm, rising to 2-4 mm when brain deformation occurs.
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- A P King
- Computational Imaging Science Group, Division of Radiological Sciences and Medical Engineering, King's, Guy's and St. Thomas' Schools of Medicine, KCL, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
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This article presents a procedure for fabricating a locking acrylic resin dental stent for use in image-guided base-of-skull surgery and neurosurgery. The stent offers advantages over conventional bone screw-anchored systems to surgeons and patients. In view of the increasing use of image guidance in base-of-skull surgery and neurosurgery, prosthodontists will meet a growing demand for this type of device in the future.
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- M R Fenlon
- Guy's, Kings and St Thomas' Hospitals Dental Institute, King's College London, London, Great Britain.
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King AP, Hall KE, Macdonald RL. kappa- and mu-Opioid inhibition of N-type calcium currents is attenuated by 4beta-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and protein kinase C in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1999; 289:312-20. [PMID: 10087019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
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In rat dorsal root ganglion neurons, activation of kappa- and mu-opioid receptors decreases N-type calcium current, whereas a constitutively active form of protein kinase C (PKC; i.e., PKM, a PKC catalytic subunit fragment) increases N-type calcium current. PKC also attenuates inhibition of calcium current by several G protein-linked neurotransmitter systems. We examined the effects of activation of endogenous PKC by 4beta-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and dialysis of cells with PKM and a pseudosubstrate inhibitor PKC(19-31) (PKC-I) on kappa- and mu-opioid-mediated inhibition of calcium current, calcium current amplitude, and rundown. PMA modestly increased peak calcium current and substantially reduced calcium current "rundown," effects blocked by PKC-I. In contrast, PKC-I decreased calcium current and increased current rundown. PMA attenuated morphine-, dynorphin A-, and U50, 488- but not pentobarbitol-related inhibition of calcium current. Similar effects were seen with intracellular dialysis of PKM. Intracellular PKC-I did not block opioid inhibition of calcium current but did reverse PMA and PKM effects on opioid receptor coupling to calcium channels. Because neither PMA nor PKM changed the proportion of omega-CgTX-inhibited current, their effects were not due to a decrease in the proportion of N-type current. After omega-CgTX treatment, there were no differences in the dynorphin A effects on control and PMA- or PKM-treated neurons, suggesting that PKC primarily affected coupling to N-type calcium channels. These data suggest that in acutely dissociated rat dorsal root ganglion neurons, endogenous PKC is required for maintenance of calcium current, may play a role in regulation of neuronal calcium channels, and could be involved in tolerance and/or cross-talk inhibition of opioid responsiveness.
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- A P King
- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, USA
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We assessed courtship success in 14 adult male brown-headed cowbirds, Molothrus ater. Volumes of song control nuclei and visual nuclei were measured in Nissl stained tissue. Variation in courtship success was found to be related to variation in two areas of the avian brain: the song control nucleus, area X, and the thalamic visual area, nucleus rotundus. Volume of area X was negatively correlated with song potency, as assessed by female playback, and with rate of vocalizing. Volume of nucleus rotundus was positively correlated with song potency, vocalizing to females and courtship persistence. These data are the first to implicate a visual nucleus in the use of song. The data also complement previous findings with cowbirds suggesting that song learning involves visual attention to females. Taken as a whole, these results suggest that use of song depends on integration of auditory, vocal and visual information. In that female songbirds in many species assess multimodal performance of song, these findings with cowbirds suggest that future studies of brain and behaviour include a broader view of possible behavioural and neural correlates. Copyright 1998 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.
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The song control region in the avian forebrain is a series of discrete, interconnected nuclei mediating song learning and production. It has been studied in males or in species where both sexes sing. Little is known about the neural correlates of song perception in nonsinging females, often the intended recipients of song. We studied cowbirds (Molothrus ater), a species in which only males sing but in which females discriminate between males on the basis of song. We focused on nucleus lMAN because it has been implicated in early song acquisition, a stage relevant to both sexes to choose among competing acoustic models. We found that volume of lMAN was monomorphic in cowbirds. Moreover, the volume and neuronal number of female lMAN were positively correlated with selectivity of copulatory responding. The results provide strong evidence of nonsinging female's use of "song" control nuclei for song perception without the possibility of song production.
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- K S Hamilton
- Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
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Howlett DC, King AP, Jarosz JM, Stewart RA, al-Sarraj ST, Bingham JB, Cox TC. Imaging and pathological features of primary malignant rhabdoid tumours of the brain and spine. Neuroradiology 1997; 39:719-23. [PMID: 9351109 DOI: 10.1007/s002340050494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In this article two cases of primary malignant extrarenal rhabdoid tumour are described. In the affected children the brain and the spinal cord were the primary sites of origin of the tumour. The imaging findings are presented and the pathology discussed. Although the imaging features are non-specific, rhabdoid tumour should be included in the differential diagnosis of childhood intracranial and spinal neoplasms.
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- D C Howlett
- Department of Radiology, Guy's Hospital, London, UK
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GH has long been known as a regulator of body growth and metabolism, yet its mechanism of action at the cellular level has been elusive. We have recently shown that GH promotes the rapid association of GH receptor with the tyrosine kinase JAK2, activates JAK2, and promotes the tyrosyl phosphorylation of both JAK2 and GH receptor. This suggests that the initial signalling event in GH action is the activation of JAK2 which in turn phosphorylates tyrosines within JAK2 and GH receptor. We have identified a number of proteins that appear to bind to these phosphotyrosines in GH receptor/ JAK2 complexes. These proteins in turn become phosphorylated on tyrosines, resulting in their activation. These proteins include: 1) the signal transducers and activators of transcriptions (Stats) 1, 3 and 5 which have been implicated as regulators of transcription of a variety of genes; 2) the insulin receptor substrates (IRS) 1 and 2, which are believed to mediate some of the metabolic effects of GH; and 3) Shc proteins which lie upstream of Ras and the mitogen activator kinases (MAP) designated ERKs 1 and 2, proteins implicated in the regulation of cellular growth and/or differentiation. These various proteins work in concert with each other and with other signalling molecules to elicit the diverse effects of GH. Other hormones and growth factors also activate JAK kinases. Specificity in signalling was investigated by determining whether signalling pathways for particular ligands may be selectively inhibited by hormones or growth factors. Glucocorticoids were found to selectively decrease binding and cellular signalling in response to GH. This decrease appeared to be due to a decrease in the number of GH receptors in the plasma membrane. Using truncated and mutated GHR, two regions of the GH receptor were identified required for the inhibitory effect of glucocorticoids. Interestingly, they appeared to differ from the region required for GH-induced internalization. Hence, a large amount of insight into signalling by GH has been obtained during the 3 years since JAK2 was identified as a signalling molecule for GH and other ligands that bind to members of the cytokine receptor family. This new insight, and the insight that will continue to be gained in the next few years should enable the design of new and better therapeutic uses of GH and the other ligands that bind to JAK kinase-linked receptors.
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- C Carter-Su
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0622, USA
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King AP, Tseng MJ, Logsdon CD, Billestrup N, Carter-Su C. Distinct cytoplasmic domains of the growth hormone receptor are required for glucocorticoid- and phorbol ester-induced decreases in growth hormone (GH) binding. These domains are different from that reported for GH-induced receptor internalization. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:18088-94. [PMID: 8663346 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.30.18088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Glucocorticoids inhibit growth in children and antagonize the growth-promoting action of GH in peripheral tissues. Recently, they have been shown to decrease GH binding. In this study we examine the molecular mechanisms by which the glucocorticoid dexamethasone (DEX) and the phorbol ester phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) decrease cellular GH binding. In 3T3-F442A fibroblasts, DEX and PMA decrease the number of GH receptors (GHRs) capable of binding GH by 50% (t1/2 = 6 h) and 70% (t1/2 = 15 min), respectively. Neither appear to decrease the total number of cellular GHR. Rather, they appear to redistribute GHRs away from the plasma membrane or inactivate GHRs on the membrane such that they cannot bind GH. DEX and PMA also decrease GH-induced tyrosyl phosphorylation of GHR and JAK2 with a magnitude and time course correlating with that of inhibition of GH binding. DEX- and PMA-induced reductions of GH binding are also observed in a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line stably transfected with a rat liver GHR cDNA, further arguing that DEX and PMA act post-translationally on GHR. Using mutant GHRs stably expressed in CHO cells, amino acids 455-506 and tyrosines 333 and/or 338 of GHR were shown to be required for maximal DEX-induced inhibition of GH binding. DEX decreased GH binding to a GHR mutant F346A, which is reported to be deficient in ligand-induced internalization, suggesting that DEX decreases GH binding by a mechanism distinct from that of ligand-induced GHR internalization. PMA reduced GH binding to CHO cells expressing all GHR mutants tested. However, deletion of the C-terminal 132 amino acids decreased this effect, suggesting that at least one component of PMA action on GHR requires amino acids 507-638. These data suggest that distinct pathways mediate the effects of GH, DEX, and PMA on GHR number in the plasma membrane.
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- A P King
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0622, USA
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West MJ, King AP, Freeberg TM. Social malleability in cowbirds: new measures reveal new evidence of plasticity in the eastern subspecies (Molothrus ater ater). J Comp Psychol 1996; 110:15-26. [PMID: 8851549 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.1.15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The social experiences of young Molothrus ater ater cowbirds were manipulated in a 2-year study. In the 1st year, males were housed with pairs of canaries. The males were tested in 3 social contexts. Also, vocal repertoires were recorded and played back to females. In contrast to a previous study of the M. a. artemisiae subspecies, the males did not vocalize to the canaries in courtship tests (T. M. Freeberg, A. P. King, & M. J. West, 1995) but showed incompetent courtship of female cowbirds. In their 2nd year, half of the males were housed with older males and female cowbirds, and half were housed with only females. Those exposed to older males courted much more successfully than did those deprived of such experience. All males developed new repertoires, and song potencies did not correlate across years. The data reveal intraspecific variation in the ontogeny of mate recognition but intraspecific dependence on social learning to acquire courtship skills.
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- M J West
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA.
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Supraphysiological levels of glucocorticoids, whether endogenous (Cushing's syndrome) or exogenous (glucocorticoid therapy), inhibit growth in children and immature animals. This effect has long been suspected to be due to glucocorticoid antagonism of GH action at the level of peripheral tissues. In the present study we demonstrate direct antagonism of GH action at the cellular level by the artificial glucocorticoid dexamethasone. Dexamethasone was found to inhibit the ability of GH to elicit several early events in GH signaling in 3T3-F442A fibroblasts. Dexamethasone (100 nM) for 24 h decreases by 50-75% GH-induced tyrosyl phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinases ERK1 and ERK2, the transcription factor Stat3/APRF, the GH receptor-associated tyrosine kinase JAK2, and the GH receptor. These effects appear to be specific to GH. Dexamethasone does not inhibit induction of tyrosyl phosphorylation of ERK proteins by epidermal growth factor or phorbol myristate acetate, nor does it block induction of tyrosyl phosphorylation of Stat3/APRF by leukemia inhibitory factor or interleukin-6, or induction of JAK2 by leukemia inhibitory factor or interferon-gamma. Dexamethasone does not decrease the expression of ERK1 or -2, Stat3, or JAK2 proteins. Rather, the effects of dexamethasone on GH action appear to be due to a decrease in the number of GH receptors in the plasma membrane. Twenty-four-hour treatment with dexamethasone leads to a 50% decrease i GH binding, which Scatchard analysis suggests is due to a decrease in GH receptor number. These findings suggest that glucocorticoids antagonize cellular GH action by decreasing GH binding, suggesting a mechanism by which systemic glucocorticoids could antagonize GH action in peripheral tissues.
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- A P King
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0622, USA
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King AP, Smith P, Heath D. Ultrastructure of rat pulmonary arterioles after neonatal exposure to hypoxia and subsequent relief and treatment with monocrotaline. J Pathol 1995; 177:71-81. [PMID: 7472783 DOI: 10.1002/path.1711770112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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A group of rats was born in and spent the first 4 weeks of life at a simulated altitude of 3550 m. Two animals were killed immediately afterwards and the remaining 16 were allowed to recover for various times up to a maximum of 12 weeks at sea-level atmospheric pressure. On ultrastructural examination, the pulmonary arterioles of hypoxic rats showed muscularization, the new layer of mature smooth muscle cells containing abundant organelles and myofilaments. These cells were bounded by prominent elastic laminae. During the recovery period, the medial layer became progressively thinned, but the cells still retained some characteristics of smooth muscle by 12 weeks' recovery. When a similar group of ten hypoxic rats was allowed to recover for 12 weeks before being given monocrotaline, there was early enlargement of the residual smooth muscle cells in the media of pulmonary arterioles and within 5 weeks there was again a thick layer of medial smooth muscle. This was in contrast to the sparse, weakly muscularized arterioles seen in eight similarly treated rats born under normoxic conditions. The relevance is discussed of these findings to the rare occurrence of primary pulmonary hypertension in people who were born at high altitude but returned to sea-level during childhood.
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- A P King
- Department of Pathology, University of Liverpool, UK
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BACKGROUND A 46-year-old man presented with recurrent anemia and polyarthralgia. Investigations revealed a mass in the ileal mesentery, which was resected. Results of routine histologic examination suggested a diagnosis of synovial sarcoma, a rare malignancy usually not reported at this site. METHODS Tissue was examined immunohistochemically, ultrastructurally, and by fluorescent in situ hybridization to confirm the diagnosis. RESULTS Immunohistochemical studies revealed widespread labeling for cytokeratins and focal labeling for desmin and vimentin in the epithelial component, with labeling for epithelial membrane antigen in the epithelial and spindle-cell components. Fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis showed the characteristic t(X;18) translocation of synovial sarcoma. CONCLUSIONS This is a unique case of synovial sarcoma in the small intestinal mesentery. Immunohistochemical labeling confirmed the diagnosis, although, to the authors' knowledge, the pattern of desmin labeling has not been described previously. The clinical association with polyarthralgia, which resolved after removal of the neoplasm, also has not been described previously.
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- T R Helliwell
- Department of Pathology, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Aleixandre MA, King AP, Puerro M. Effect of TMB-8 on alpha-adrenoceptor agonist and KC1 induced-contractions in isolated rabbit aorta. Gen Pharmacol 1993; 24:921-8. [PMID: 7693542 DOI: 10.1016/0306-3623(93)90170-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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1. TMB-8 (10(-6) M-10(-4) M) depresses the contractile effect of the selective alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonists methoxamine and phenylephrine in the isolated rabbit aorta. 2. TMB-8 also depresses contractions evoked by 80 mM KCl in this tissue when used at similar concentrations. 3. The calcium antagonist nifedipine potentiates the inhibitory effect of TMB-8 on the alpha 1-contractions. 4. In preparations mounted in Ca-free solution containing 0.5 mM EGTA, 10(-4) M TMB-8 markedly depressed the contractions caused by both alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonists. 5. The Ca2+ agonist BAY K 8644 (10(-6) M) partially prevented the inhibitory effect of TMB-8 on 80 mM KCl contractions.
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- M A Aleixandre
- Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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King AP, Tai PK, Carter-Su C. Cytochalasin B interferes with conformational changes of the human erythrocyte glucose transporter induced by internal and external sugar binding. Biochemistry 1991; 30:11546-53. [PMID: 1747373 DOI: 10.1021/bi00113a009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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To gain insight into the mechanism of facilitated sugar transport and possible mechanisms by which glucose transporter intrinsic activity might be altered, we have investigated conformational changes of the human erythrocyte glucose transporter induced by internal and external sugar binding and by the transporter inhibitor, cytochalasin B. Changes in the ability of thermolysin to digest glucose transporters present in erythrocyte ghosts were used to monitor conformational changes of the glucose transporter. The degree of protease digestion was determined by the amount of undigested glucose transporter remaining after the protease treatment, as assessed in Western blots using the glucose transporter specific monoclonal antibody 7F7.5. D-Glucose, the physiological substrate of the transporter, increased the transporter's susceptibility to cleavage by thermolysin. Nontransportable glucose analogues which bind specifically to either an internal or external glucose transporter sugar binding site also altered susceptibility of the transporter to thermolysin. Both methyl and propyl glucoside, which preferentially bind the internal sugar site, increased thermolysin susceptibility of the glucose transporter in a manner similar to that of D-glucose. In contrast, 4,6-O-ethylideneglucose, which preferentially binds the external sugar site, protected the transporter from thermolysin digestion. These results suggest that sugar binding to internal and external sugar sites induces distinct conformational changes and that the observed D-glucose effect on the susceptibility of the glucose transporter to thermolysin is due to D-glucose at equilibrium predominantly forming a complex with the internal sugar site. The protection from cleavage by thermolysin caused by external sugar binding is attenuated by the addition of an internally binding sugar.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- A P King
- Department of Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0622
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The cowbird is a brood parasite, providing no parental care to its offspring. The species has often been cited as a model of the usefullness of the construct of innate behavior, as an explanation of how young cowbirds develop species-typical behavior. Here we evaluate the adequacy of this perspective. We show that although it is difficult to explain ontogenetic beginnings without recourse to the concept of innate behaviors, ontogenetic outcomes are less easily accommodated. Constraints on the explanatory power of innateness as an ontogenetic concept are demonstrated with data from the development of singing in cowbirds and the development of babbling in human infants.
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- M J West
- Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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An antigenic analysis was carried out on 145 duck influenza virus isolates of the H3 haemagglutinin subtype obtained over five years continuous surveillance from the region of southern China, a hypothetical influenza epicentre. This was done using a panel of twelve monoclonal antibodies raised to an early human strain of the H3 subtype. We demonstrate the existence of an extensive range of antigenic profiles, broadly similar but not identical to the human H3 strain, which persisted over the five year period. This variability was as great during discrete twelve month periods as over the whole five years. Hierarchic progression (observed with human strains) was not evident and no correlation of antigenic drift, in either positive or negative direction, was observed with the domestic duck isolates over time. Changing dominant antigenic profiles were, however, observed in faecal isolates with time within a single farm. The much broader range of profiles detected in pond water samples from the same farm suggested the existence of a heterogeneous antigenic reservoir. Local switching of dominant profiles may occur due to changes of cohorts as birds are taken to market. In vitro and in vivo passage experiments revealed a high degree of heterogeneity in antigenic profiles in progeny of uncloned isolates, whereas the profiles of cloned isolates were largely conserved. These results suggested that particular antigenic profiles in primary isolates may result from mixtures of subpopulations of the wild type virus in natural duck infections. Switching between reactivity profiles of different progeny is likely to be largely a result of regrouping of these subpopulations with lesser effects due to mutation. Hypervariability in some of the cloned isolates was observed with a few monoclonal antibodies recognising a region of HA reported to be hypervariable in swine influenza virus. Reactivity with one particular antibody was correlated with passage in chicken eggs. The ability of this enormously varied pool of duck influenza H3 strains to cross the species barrier to man and give rise to viruses with hierarchic capabilities was considered.
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The functional attributes of the vocalizations produced by young male cowbirds during their first fall and winter, termed "vocal precursors," were tested by playing the sounds back to female cowbirds. Five classes of vocalizations were tested: subsong, plastic, formatted, and stereotyped song, and songs of nonconspecifics. Females responded selectively to the four classes of cowbird vocalizations. Stereotyped songs evoked the most responding but the key eliciting element was the inclusion of note clusters, which first occurred in plastic song. The data suggest that juvenile cowbirds possess vocalizations capable of evoking biologically relevant responses from companions early in development.
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- M J West
- Department of Psychobiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514
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The role of social stimulation in avian vocal learning is well documented. The separate contribution of social, as opposed to vocal, stimulation has been difficult to address, however, because in almost all cases both tutor and pupil sing. The opportunity to isolate such effects arose in cowbirds (Molothrus ater ater) after discovering that males housed with non-singing female cowbirds made vocal changes which related directly to the female preferences for native song. Here we report how females communicate with males about songs. We describe a visual display by females, a wing stroke, that is elicited by specific vocalizations. The songs that trigger wing strokes are in turn highly effective releasers of copulatory postures, and thus this previously unnoticed female display has biological significance. The data not only provide the first evidence of the tutorial role of male-female interactions during song ontogeny, they also clearly implicate visual stimulation in song learning, a process that has until now been assumed to be affected only by auditory information.
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- M J West
- Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599
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All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places they inhabit as well. We suggest the term ontogenetic niche to signify the ecological and social legacies that accompany genes. A formal name is needed to give the idea of the inherited environment equal status with its conceptual cognates; nature and nurture. We argue here that increased recognition of the inherited environment facilitates unification efforts within the developmental sciences by emphasizing the affinity, rather than opposability, of ontogenetic processes.
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- M J West
- Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514
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Shortridge KF, King AP, Webster RG. Monoclonal antibodies for characterizing H3N2 influenza viruses that persist in pigs in China. J Infect Dis 1987; 155:577-81. [PMID: 2433358 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/155.3.577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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King AP, West MJ. Different outcomes of synergy between song production and song perception in the same subspecies (Molothrus ater ater). Dev Psychobiol 1987; 20:177-87. [PMID: 3582779 DOI: 10.1002/dev.420200207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Here we report data requiring a reinterpretation of published results on the female cowbird's (Molothrus ater ater) ability to identify male song (King, A. P., and West, M. J. (1983). Female perception of cowbird song: A closed developmental program. Dev. Psychobiol., 16:335-342). Previously we stated that naive females, given extensive social experience with males from a distant cowbird subspecies, showed the same degree of preference for native song as did naive females reared with local males: extensive experience with another subspecies produced no evidence of postnatal modifiability. The procedure used to probe for modifiability did not, however, expose the different groups of females to comparable levels of stimulation because the females differentially affected the behavior of their male companions. We must therefore amend our conclusion about the modifiability of females. In addition, we report data on populational differences within the M.a. ater subspecies in the female's ability to influence heterosubspecific males, but data that are consistent with the more general pattern of synergistic effects during song development.
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West MJ, King AP. Song repertoire development in male cowbirds (Molothrus ater): its relation to female assessment of song potency. J Comp Psychol 1986; 100:296-303. [PMID: 3769448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Two studies were conducted to investigate the relation between the male cowbird's (Molothrus ater ater) development of a song repertoire and the female cowbird's assessment of song potency. Male development was assayed by vocal copying and female assessment by copulatory responsiveness to song playback. The results demonstrate that males do not copy most often the particular songs that females respond to most often. Whereas rank orderings of potency were highly correlated across two independent samples of playback females, male and female rank orderings were not significantly correlated. The data highlight the potential significance of social interactions between and across the sexes for repertoire development.
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To investigate the modifiability of the brown-headed female cowbird's (Molothrus ater ater) response to male song, we reared M.a. ater females with either M.a. ater or M.a. obscurus males, whose songs differ in geographic origin. The females were later tested for their responsiveness to playbacks of M.a. ater and M.a. obscurus song. Rearing with M.a. obscurus males had no effect on the female's preference for her native song variant, suggesting a closed program for receptive development. The data on song perception are contrasted with those previously obtained for male production and indicate different constraints on song perception as opposed to song production.
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Shortridge KF, King AP. Cocultivation of avian orthomyxoviruses and paramyxoviruses in embryonated eggs: implications for surveillance studies. Appl Environ Microbiol 1983; 45:463-7. [PMID: 6830215 PMCID: PMC242308 DOI: 10.1128/aem.45.2.463-467.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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A series of avian orthomyxoviruses and paramyxoviruses were cocultivated in embryonated chicken eggs. This resulted in two categories of behavior being observed: (i) one virus was preferentially detected over the other, as shown by five out of six influenza A viruses of differing hemagglutinin subtypes being preferentially detected over paramyxoviruses, and (ii) dual isolations, for example, dual isolations of paramyxoviruses. These findings are considered in the light of results of surveillance studies of orthomyxoviruses and paramyxoviruses carried out on domestic poultry in Hong Kong.
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King AP, Shortridge KF. Multiple avian influenza infection: selection of a non-avid virus by a heterologous avian host. Res Vet Sci 1982; 33:127-9. [PMID: 7134641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Experimental infection of domestic fowl, ducks and geese with an influenza A virus (H7N2) isolated from a domestic duck showed that this virus was apathogenic for these poultry. A second virus (H6N2), also apathogenic and more 'non-avid' than any such isolates previously recognised in surveillance of domestic poultry in Hong Kong, was isolated from one goose after H7N2 shedding had ceased. This goose, in effect, acted as a selective isolation system for the H6N2 virus whose presence in the field isolate could not be detected in spite of multiple passage in embryonated eggs.
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