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Morris G, Walker AJ, Walder K, Berk M, Marx W, Carvalho AF, Maes M, Puri BK. Increasing Nrf2 Activity as a Treatment Approach in Neuropsychiatry. Mol Neurobiol 2021; 58:2158-2182. [PMID: 33411248 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-020-02212-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a transcription factor encoded by NFE2L2. Under oxidative stress, Nrf2 does not undergo its normal cytoplasmic degradation but instead travels to the nucleus, where it binds to a DNA promoter and initiates transcription of anti-oxidative genes. Nrf2 upregulation is associated with increased cellular levels of glutathione disulfide, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione transferases, thioredoxin and thioredoxin reductase. Given its key role in governing the cellular antioxidant response, upregulation of Nrf2 has been suggested as a common therapeutic target in neuropsychiatric illnesses such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which are associated with chronic oxidative and nitrosative stress, characterised by elevated levels of reactive oxygen species, nitric oxide and peroxynitrite. These processes lead to extensive lipid peroxidation, protein oxidation and carbonylation, and oxidative damage to nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Intake of N-acetylcysteine, coenzyme Q10 and melatonin is accompanied by increased Nrf2 activity. N-acetylcysteine intake is associated with improved cerebral mitochondrial function, decreased central oxidative and nitrosative stress, reduced neuroinflammation, alleviation of endoplasmic reticular stress and suppression of the unfolded protein response. Coenzyme Q10, which acts as a superoxide scavenger in neuroglial mitochondria, instigates mitohormesis, ameliorates lipid peroxidation in the inner mitochondrial membrane, activates uncoupling proteins, promotes mitochondrial biogenesis and has positive effects on the plasma membrane redox system. Melatonin, which scavenges mitochondrial free radicals, inhibits mitochondrial nitric oxide synthase, restores mitochondrial calcium homeostasis, deacetylates and activates mitochondrial SIRT3, ameliorates increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier and intestine and counters neuroinflammation and glutamate excitotoxicity.
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- G Morris
- Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Barwon Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Barwon Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Barwon Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Barwon Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.,CMMR Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.,Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, The Department of Psychiatry and the Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Barwon Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Barwon Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.,Department of Psychiatry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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DNA adducts are associated with a number of diseases, including cancer. Based on a recent report by our group, the aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that DNA adducts can be removed by means of one or more of the following three intervention programmes: intermittent whole-body hyperthermia; detoxification; and cell repair. The number of DNA adducts and total DNA adduct concentrations were measured in 104 patients who underwent one or more of the three intervention programmes. DNA adduct assessments were carried out on extracted genomic DNA by gas-liquid chromatography, with any DNA adducts found being localised using DNA microarrays. The baseline median number of DNA adducts was 2. The follow-up median number of adducts was highly significantly lower at 0 (p < 0.000000000000003). The mean total DNA adduct concentration at baseline was 9.308 ng/mL, and highly significantly lower at follow-up at 1.553 ng/mL (p < 0.000000000000006). Of the three intervention programmes, only the intermittent whole-body hyperthermia was associated with a significant reduction in DNA adducts. This study offers support for the hypothesis that DNA adducts can be removed by intermittent whole-body hyperthermia. The intermittent hyperthermia used involved infrared-A (wavelength 700-1400 nm, or, equivalently, a frequency of 215-430 THz) being preferentially delivered to the whole body, apart from the head, for up to one hour per session, with gradual core body temperature elevation usually occurring during the first 20-30 min. These results may offer an explanation at the molecular level for other reported clinical benefits of intermittent whole-body hyperthermia.
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- B K Puri
- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
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- London Clinic of Nutrition, London, UK
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
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Puri BK, Kingston MC, Monro JA. Fructose-associated hepatotoxicity indexed by the lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme LDH-5. Med Hypotheses 2019; 124:40-41. [PMID: 30798914 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2019.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 02/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Modern diets have become increasingly rich in fructose, for example through the addition of high-fructose corn syrup to many foods and drinks. It has been suggested that this might lead to hepatotoxicity, including the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. After entering hepatocytes via insulin-independent glucose transporter 2 transmembrane carrier proteins, fructose is phosphorylated to fructose-1-phosphate in a reaction catalysed by fructokinase (ketohexokinase). In turn, fructose-1-phosphate is hydrolysed by aldolase B to glyceraldehydes. Glyceraldehydes may enter gluconeogenesis via fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and fructose-6-phosphate; glyceraldehydes may also enter glycogenolysis via pyruvate. The last pathway involves conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA. Alternatively, pyruvate may be converted, via the action of the hepatic lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme LDH-5, into lactate. In liver damage, the LDH-5 isoenzyme becomes elevated, predominantly in serum/plasma. We therefore hypothesised that if dietary fructose is associated with hepatotoxicity, there should be a positive correlation between erythrocyte fructose-6-phosphate and plasma LDH-5. This hypothesis was tested by assaying venous blood samples taken from 39 patients at rest, three hours after eating. Quantitative Fourier transform infrared spectrometry following gel electrophoresis was used to assay erythrocyte fructose-6-phosphate levels. Similarly, plasma LDH-5 concentrations were spectrophotometrically analysed, using the pyruvate-lactate reaction, following electrophoretic separation of the LDH isoenzymes. A significant positive correlation was found between the two variables (r = 0.44, p = 0.0047). This result, which supports our hypothesis, is evidence in favour of the possibility that dietary fructose is associated with hepatotoxicity. In addition to being a marker of hepatic damage, LDH-5 may play a more direct epigenetic role in causing liver damage; acute hepatic injury is associated with nuclear translocation of LDH, causing the production of lactate from pyruvate in the nucleus; in turn, the lactate inhibits histone deacetylase and is associated with upregulation of genes associated with the damage response, leading to cell death.
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- B K Puri
- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
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Puri BK, Kingston MC, Monro JA. Inverse relationship between human erythrocyte fructose-6-phosphate and short-chain fatty acid levels. Med Hypotheses 2018; 121:164-166. [PMID: 30396473 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2018.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In muscle cells, fructose is initially metabolised to fructose-6-phosphate. In the liver, fructose is metabolised to fructose-1-phosphate and thence to glyceraldehydes, which in turn can either enter glycogenolysis via pyruvate or gluconeogenesis via fructose-1,6-bisphosphate and fructose-6-phosphate. High levels of fructose-1-phosphate inhibit both glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis. We hypothesised that, if systemically absorbed short-chain fatty acids constitute a major metabolic fate of unabsorbed dietary fructose, then levels of erythrocyte fructose-6-phosphate would be inversely correlated with plasma levels of short-chain fatty acids. The aim of this study was to test this hypothesis in respect of the three main short-chain fatty acids acetate, propionate and butyrate. Venous blood samples from 39 patients (16 male, 23 female, mean (standard error) age 42.4 (3.3) years) were analysed. Erythrocyte fructose-6-phosphate was measured using quantitative Fourier transform infrared spectrometry following gel electrophoresis, while plasma acetate, propionate and butyrate levels were measured using gas-liquid chromatography. The erythrocyte fructose-6-phosphate level was inversely correlated with the plasma acetate (r = -0.30, p = 0.06), propionate (r = -0.31, p = 0.05) and butyrate (r = -0.40, p = 0.01). These results support our hypothesis. The conversion of unabsorbed dietary fructose into short-chain fatty acids may represent a protective mechanism against the adverse effects of hypoglycaemia.
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- B K Puri
- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
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In the first part, the following mechanisms involved in different forms of cell death are considered, with a view to identifying potential therapeutic targets: tumour necrosis factor receptors (TNFRs) and their engagement by tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α); poly [ADP-ribose] polymerase (PARP)-1 cleavage; the apoptosis signalling kinase (ASK)-c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) axis; lysosomal permeability; activation of programmed necrotic cell death; oxidative stress, caspase-3 inhibition and parthanatos; activation of inflammasomes by reactive oxygen species and the development of pyroptosis; oxidative stress, calcium dyshomeostasis and iron in the development of lysosomal-mediated necrosis and lysosomal membrane permeability; and oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, iron dyshomeostasis and ferroptosis. In the second part, there is a consideration of the role of lethal and sub-lethal activation of these pathways in the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of neurodegenerative and neuroprogressive disorders, with particular reference to the TNF-α-TNFR signalling axis; dysregulation of ASK-1-JNK signalling; prolonged or chronic PARP-1 activation; the role of pyroptosis and chronic inflammasome activation; and the roles of lysosomal permeabilisation, necroptosis and ferroptosis. Finally, it is suggested that, in addition to targeting oxidative stress and inflammatory processes generally, neuropsychiatric disorders may respond to therapeutic targeting of TNF-α, PARP-1, the Nod-like receptor NLRP3 inflammasome and the necrosomal molecular switch receptor-interacting protein kinase-3, since their widespread activation can drive and/or exacerbate peripheral inflammation and neuroinflammation even in the absence of cell death. To this end, the use is proposed of a combination of the tetracycline derivative minocycline and N-acetylcysteine as adjunctive treatment for a range of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- G Morris
- , Bryn Road Seaside 87, Llanelli, Wales, , SA15 2LW, UK
- School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, 3220, Australia
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- School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, 3220, Australia
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- The Centre for Molecular and Medical Research, School of Medicine, Deakin University, P.O. Box 291, Geelong, 3220, Australia
- Department of Clinical Medicine and Translational Psychiatry Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, 60430-040, Brazil
- IMPACT Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Deakin University, P.O. Box 291, Geelong, 3220, Australia
- Orygen Youth Health Research Centre and the Centre of Youth Mental Health, The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, Australia
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- School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, 3220, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, W12 0HS, UK.
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Puri BK, Monro JA. The relationship between plasma vascular endothelial growth factor and erythrocyte 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate: The putative role of chronic hypoxia. Med Hypotheses 2018; 112:60-62. [PMID: 29447940 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2018.01.014] [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] [Received: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The non-invasive assessment of chronic tissue hypoxia is difficult. Pulse oximetry only allows the peripheral oxygen saturation to be measured, while the detection of hyperlactataemia needs to take into account the fact that the accumulation of lactic acid may result from several causes other than prolonged tissue hypoxia. Arterial blood oxygen measurement is invasive and often does not give a good indication of the level of tissue hypoxia. Other suggested methods include the use of positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance T2∗ relaxation time measurement, photoacoustics and high-frequency ultrasound. Tissue hypoxia leads to increased levels of hypoxia-inducible factor-1α, which in turn upregulates VEGFA, leading to increased levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which promote angiogenesis. Hypoxia lasting for more than a few hours is associated with increased synthesis in erythrocytes of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate (BPG), a powerful regulator of the allosteric properties of haemoglobin, via the Rapoport-Luebering phosphoglycerate cycle. We therefore hypothesised that plasma VEGF and erythrocyte BPG levels should be positively correlated. Venous blood samples from 34 patients (18 male, mean age (standard error) 43.4 (3.2) y) were analysed; plasma VEGF was measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay while the erythrocyte BPG was assessed by quantitative Fourier transform infrared spectrometry following gel electrophoresis. The Pearson product-moment correlation between the two variables was 0.622 (p < 0.0001). Based on our findings, we suggest that it may be useful to measure both erythrocyte BPG and plasma VEGF, together, when assessing chronic hypoxia; elevated levels of both are likely to indicate hypoxia.
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- B K Puri
- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
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Julu POO, Shah M, Monro JA, Puri BK. Carbon dioxide therapy in hypocapnic respiratory failure. Med Hypotheses 2018; 110:101-104. [PMID: 29317050 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2017.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 11/30/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Oxygen therapy, usually administered by a facemask or nasal cannulae, is the current default treatment of respiratory failure. Since respiration entails intake of oxygen and release of carbon dioxide from tissues as waste product, the notion of administering carbon dioxide in respiratory failure appears counter-intuitive. However, carbon dioxide stimulates the chemosensitive area of the medulla, known as the central respiratory chemoreceptor, which activates the respiratory groups of neurones in the brainstem and stimulates inspiration thereby initiating oxygen intake during normal breathing. This vital initiation of normal breathing is via a reduction in the pH of the cerebrospinal fluid and the medullary interstitial fluid. We hypothesise that in cases of type I respiratory failure in which the PaCO2 is low, administration of carbon dioxide by inhalation would stimulate the respiratory groups of brainstem neurones and facilitate breathing, which would be of therapeutic value. Preliminary clinical evidence in favour of this hypothesis is presented and we recommend that a formal randomised study be carried out.
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- P O O Julu
- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; Queen Mary University of London and the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, UK
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; Queen Mary University of London and the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, UK
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.
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Puri BK. The effects of stress on the dorsal raphe nucleus of the reticular formation and its role in the aetiology of disparate medical and neuropsychiatric disorders. Med Hypotheses 2016; 96:A4-A5. [PMID: 27663632 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2016.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- B K Puri
- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Puri BK, Hakkarainen-Smith JS, Monro JA. The potential use of cholestyramine to reduce the risk of developing Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in patients receiving long-term intravenous ceftriaxone. Med Hypotheses 2014; 84:78-80. [PMID: 25497389 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2014.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Revised: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 11/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Intravenous pharmacotherapy with the third-generation cephalosporin ceftriaxone is unfortunately associated with a relatively high incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea. Cholestyramine (colestyramine) is an anion-binding resin which can bind luminal C.difficile toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB) and which may be beneficial in the treatment of recurrent antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis. We therefore hypothesised that concomitant oral cholestyramine might reduce the risk of C.difficile-associated diarrhoea in patients receiving long-term intravenous ceftriaxone. A pilot study was carried out in which it was found that only three out of 46 (6.5%) such patients being treated with 2 g ceftriaxone daily for Lyme borreliosis, who also received 4 g cholestyramine daily, developed C.difficile-associated diarrhoea. This is smaller than a published report of the incidence of this complication in six out of 26 (23.1%) patients following 1-3 days' treatment with 1 g intravenous ceftriaxone, but without oral cholestyramine (p=0.06). We therefore recommend that a larger, double-blind placebo-controlled trial be carried out to test this hypothesis.
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- B K Puri
- Department of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, UK.
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- Breakspear Medical Group, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK
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Katyal M, Puri BK, Kumar A, Lin JL. The Electrochemical Behavior of Complexes of Cobalt and Nickel with δ-Valerolactam at the Dropping Mercury Electrode. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.198700022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Puri BK, Sethi CL, Kumar A. Spectrophotometric Determination of Cobalt, Nickel and Palladium after Extraction with Thioxanthate into Molten Naphthalene. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.198200029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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: 11/08/2022]
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Martins JG, Bentsen H, Puri BK. Eicosapentaenoic acid appears to be the key omega-3 fatty acid component associated with efficacy in major depressive disorder: a critique of Bloch and Hannestad and updated meta-analysis. Mol Psychiatry 2012; 17:1144-9; discussion 1163-7. [PMID: 22488258 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- J G Martins
- Academy of Nutritional Medicine, Cambridge, UK.
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Gazizova D, Puri BK, Singh I, Dhaliwal R. The overweight: obesity and plasma lipids in adults with intellectual disability and mental illness. J Intellect Disabil Res 2012; 56:895-901. [PMID: 21883600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2011.01468.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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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BACKGROUND Previous studies in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) have reported a higher prevalence of obesity than in the general population, and a trend to an increase in the prevalence of excess weight. However, little information is available on body weight status and lipids levels of adults with ID and co-existing mental illness. The aim of this study was to address this information gap, by conducting a stepwise multiple regression analysis to predict BMI, thereby allowing the investigation of (semi-)partial correlations, which assess the extent to which a particular predictor variable is associated with BMI over and above the other predictors. METHODS A study of the patients with ID and psychiatric illness registered in the service. Collected data included body mass index (BMI), age, gender, the presence of additional physical conditions, residential status, mental illness and use the psychotropic medication. We analysed the lipid profile including serum cholesterol together with low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), triglycerides and the serum cholesterol/HDL ratio. Data for these variables were entered into a stepwise multiple linear regression to predict BMI. RESULTS 28% of the participants were overweight and 41% obese. Most of the obese patients were men with mild ID (P = 0.039). Level of ID (P = 0.003), gender (P = 0.001) and serum triglycerides (P = 0.026) had significant predictive value in the regression model. There were no significant differences in either the mean serum cholesterol levels or the mean triglyceride levels between those taking and those not taking first-generation antipsychotics, second-generation antipsychotics or anti-epileptic medication. CONCLUSIONS The rate of obesity in our sample was higher than in previous studies. The most predictive combination of predictors to predict BMI was ID level, gender and serum triglyceride levels. Serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels did not appear to be unduly affected by first- or second-generation antipsychotic medication or by antiepileptic medication.
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- D Gazizova
- Psychiatry of Learning Disability, The Riverside Centre, Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, Middx, UK.
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Puri BK. Indexation of cerebral cell membrane phospholipid catabolism by the non-invasively determined cerebral 31-phosphorus neurospectroscopic phosphodiester peak. Med Hypotheses 2011; 78:312-4. [PMID: 22136945 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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] [Received: 10/04/2011] [Accepted: 11/10/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Breakdown of mammalian cerebral cell membrane phospholipids releases phosphorylated polar head groups from the sn-3 phospholipid position, including phosphorylcholine and phosphorylethanolamine. Glycerophosphorylcholine and glycerophosphorylethanolamine are on their catabolic pathways and have been assigned to the phosphodiester narrow resonance obtained from 31-phosphorus neurospectroscopy, accounting for approximately 38% of the overall signal; therefore in human in vivo 31-phosphorus neurospectroscopy neuropsychiatric studies this narrow resonance has been used to index the catabolism of cerebral cell membrane phospholipids non-invasively. However, for ethical reasons direct assessment of this assumption has not hitherto been possible in humans. Recently, it has become possible to analyze signal directly from the cell membrane motion-restricted phospholipids by analysis of a broad resonance signal. It was therefore hypothesized that there should be a negative correlation between the phosphodiester narrow resonance and the broad resonance signal if the former does indeed index cell membrane phospholipid catabolism. Cerebral 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy was carried out in 54 human subjects (mean age 38 years; 41 male), including normal volunteers and patients with schizophrenia, in order potentially to widen the range of phosphodiester and broad resonance values. Spectra were obtained from 70 × 70 × 70 mm(3) voxels using an image-selected in vivo spectroscopy pulse sequence. There was a highly significant negative correlation between the phosphodiester resonances and the broad resonance signals (r=-0.509, P<0.0001). This result is consistent with the hypothesis that the phosphodiester narrow resonance does index cell membrane phospholipid catabolism in non-invasive human neuropsychiatric studies.
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- B K Puri
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Puri BK, Jakeman PM, Agour M, Gunatilake KDR, Fernando KAC, Gurusinghe AI, Treasaden IH, Waldman AD, Gishen P. Regional grey and white matter volumetric changes in myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome): a voxel-based morphometry 3 T MRI study. Br J Radiol 2011; 85:e270-3. [PMID: 22128128 DOI: 10.1259/bjr/93889091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE It is not established whether myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is associated with structural brain changes. The aim of this study was to investigate this by conducting the largest voxel-based morphometry study to date in CFS. METHODS High-resolution structural 3 T cerebral MRI scanning was carried out in 26 patients with CFS and 26 age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers. Voxel-wise generalised linear modelling was applied to the processed MR data using permutation-based non-parametric testing, forming clusters at t>2.3 and testing clusters for significance at p<0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons across space. RESULTS Significant voxels (p<0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons) depicting reduced grey matter volume in the CFS group were noted in the occipital lobes (right and left occipital poles; left lateral occipital cortex, superior division; and left supracalcrine cortex), the right angular gyrus and the posterior division of the left parahippocampal gyrus. Significant voxels (p<0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons) depicting reduced white matter volume in the CFS group were also noted in the left occipital lobe. CONCLUSION These data support the hypothesis that significant neuroanatomical changes occur in CFS, and are consistent with the complaint of impaired memory that is common in this illness; they also suggest that subtle abnormalities in visual processing, and discrepancies between intended actions and consequent movements, may occur in CFS.
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- B K Puri
- Department of Imaging, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
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Puri BK, Gunatilake KDR, Fernando KAC, Gurusinghe AI, Agour M, Treasaden IH. Increased tenderness in the left third intercostal space in adult patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis: a controlled study. J Int Med Res 2011; 39:212-4. [PMID: 21672323 DOI: 10.1177/147323001103900122] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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A clinical sign has not thus far been associated with myalgic encephalo myelitis (ME). The present study involved systematic clinical examination that included inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation of the thorax of 42 ME patients and 20 age-matched healthy controls while sitting. Left lateral third intercostal space tenderness was noted in 34 (81%) of the patients and in none of the controls, a difference that was highly statistically significant. This finding may be related to changes in lymphatic function and to the descending course of the thoracic duct. Further studies, preferably blinded and combined with appropriate imaging, are required.
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- B K Puri
- Imaging Department, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK.
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Puri BK, Agour M, Gunatilake KD, Fernando KA, Gurusinghe AI, Treasaden IH. Reduction in left supplementary motor area grey matter in adult female fibromyalgia sufferers with marked fatigue and without affective disorder: a pilot controlled 3-T magnetic resonance imaging voxel-based morphometry study. J Int Med Res 2010; 38:1468-72. [PMID: 20926020 DOI: 10.1177/147323001003800429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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This study aimed to test the hypothesis that structural grey matter brain changes might occur in the chronic intractable pain disorder fibromyalgia when this is associated with marked fatigue in the absence of a DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, text revision) diagnosis of affective disorder. High-resolution 3-T cerebral magnetic resonance imaging scans were acquired in 10 female, right-handed, non-smoking, white Caucasian subjects: five patients with fibromyalgia associated with marked fatigue and five age-matched healthy women. Voxel-wise generalized linear modelling of the processed neuroanatomical data using permutation-based non-parametric testing, forming clusters at t > 2.3 and testing clusters for significance at P < 0.05, corrected for multiple comparisons across space, revealed significantly lower grey matter density in the patients with fibromyalgia and marked fatigue in the left supplementary motor area. This brain region plays an important role in cognitive or executive control and in the translation of painful cognition; these functions are impaired in fibromyalgia associated with marked fatigue.
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- B K Puri
- Imaging Department, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
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Puri BK. The association of patent foramen ovale transcatheter closure and psychological well-being. Int J Clin Pract 2010; 64:140-1. [PMID: 20089005 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2009.02241.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Puri BK, Agour M, Gunatilake KDR, Fernando KAC, Gurusinghe AI, Treasaden IH. An in vivo proton neurospectroscopy study of cerebral oxidative stress in myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome). Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2009; 81:303-5. [PMID: 19906518 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2009.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2009] [Accepted: 10/13/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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A particularly important family of antioxidant defence enzymes in the body are the glutathione peroxidases, which remove H(2)O(2) by coupling its reduction to H(2)O with oxidation of reduced glutathione (GSH) to oxidised glutathione (GSSG). There are suggestions that GSH in the peripheral blood may be reduced in myalgic encephalomyelitis, which is a highly disabling neurological disease of unknown aetiology. Since many of the symptoms relate to cerebral functioning, it would seem probable that peripheral blood GSH findings would be reflected in lower cerebral GSH levels. The aim of this study was to carry out the first direct assessment of cerebral GSH levels in myalgic encephalomyelitis; the hypothesis being tested was that cerebral GSH levels would be reduced in myalgic encephalomyelitis. Cerebral proton neurospectroscopy was carried out at a magnetic field strength of 3T in 26 subjects; spectra were obtained from 20x20x20mm(3) voxels using a point-resolved spectroscopy pulse sequence. The mean cerebral GSH level in the myalgic encephalomyelitis patients was 2.703 (SD 2.311) which did not differ significantly from that in age- and gender-matched normal controls who did not have any history of neurological or other major medical disorder (5.191, SD 8.984; NS). Therefore our study does not suggest that GSH is reduced in the brain in myalgic encephalomyelitis. At the present time, based on the results of this study, there is no evidence to support the suggestion that, by taking glutathione supplements, an improvement in the brain-related symptomatology of myalgic encephalomyelitis may occur.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, England, UK.
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Puri BK, Treasaden IH. A human in vivo study of the extent to which 31-phosphorus neurospectroscopy phosphomonoesters index cerebral cell membrane phospholipid anabolism. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2009; 81:307-8. [PMID: 19906517 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2009.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2009] [Accepted: 10/13/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The phosphomonoester narrow resonance of human in vivo 31-phosphorus neurospectroscopy studies is believed to index the anabolism of cell membrane phospholipids and has therefore been used to study phospholipid anabolism in the brain non-invasively. However, it is an indirect measure of phospholipid metabolism and although it does contain major contributions from phosphocholine, phosphoethanolamine and L-phosphoserine, which are important precursors of membrane phospholipids, many other metabolites, including sugar phosphates, can contribute to this region of the spectrum, and separation of these different peaks is not achieved with the present in vivo methodology. Recently, it has become possible to analyze signal directly from the cell membrane motion-restricted phospholipids by analysis of a broad resonance signal. We therefore hypothesized that there should be a positive correlation between the phosphomonoester narrow resonance and the broad resonance signal if the former does indeed index cell membrane phospholipid anabolism. Cerebral 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy was carried out in 54 human subjects, including normal volunteers and patients with schizophrenia in order to widen the range of phosphomonoester and broad resonance values. Spectra were obtained from 70x70x70mm(3) voxels using an image-selected in vivo spectroscopy pulse sequence. There was a highly significant positive correlation between the phosphomonoester resonances and the broad resonance signals (r=0.404, P<0.005). These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the phosphomonoester narrow resonance does indeed index cell membrane phospholipid anabolism in brain studies.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, England, UK.
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Puri BK, Counsell SJ, Hamilton G. Brain cell membrane motion-restricted phospholipids: a cerebral 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of patients with schizophrenia. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2008; 79:233-5. [PMID: 18842398 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2008.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2008] [Accepted: 08/26/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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This study directly assessed, for the first time, whether there was a change in brain cell motion-restricted membrane phospholipids in vivo in patients with schizophrenia with mild to moderate negative symptoms, by quantification of the underlying broad resonance signal of cerebral 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance scans. Cerebral 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy was carried out in 16 schizophrenia patients and 16 age- and gender-matched normal controls. Spectra were obtained from 70x70x70 mm3 voxels using an image-selected in vivo spectroscopy pulse sequence. There was no significant difference in the broad resonances between the two groups, with the mean (S.E.) percentage signal being 59.4 (5.6) for the patients and 53.5 (5.9) for the controls. The phosphomonoesters and phosphodiesters narrow signals also did not differ significantly, their ratio being 0.26 (0.01) in the patients and 0.25 (0.01) in the controls. These results appear to be at variance with the changes expected under the membrane phospholipid hypothesis of schizophrenia.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK.
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Puri BK, Bydder GM, Manku MS, Clarke A, Waldman AD, Beckmann CF. Reduction in Cerebral Atrophy Associated with Ethyl-Eicosapentaenoic Acid Treatment in Patients with Huntington's Disease. J Int Med Res 2008; 36:896-905. [DOI: 10.1177/147323000803600505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Ultra-pure ethyl-eicosapentaenoic acid (ethyl-EPA), a semi-synthetic ethyl ester of eicosapentaenoic acid, is associated with clinical improvement in motor functioning in Huntington's disease. The aim was to determine the extent to which it might reduce the rate of progress of cerebral atrophy. High-resolution cerebral magnetic resonance imaging scans were acquired at baseline, 6 months and 1 year in up to 34 patients with stage I or II Huntington's disease who took part in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of ethyl-EPA. For each subject and each pair of structural images, the two-timepoint brain volume change was calculated in a double-blind manner. Significant group-level reductions in brain atrophy were observed in the head of the caudate nucleus and the posterior thalamus. These findings show that treatment with ethyl-EPA is associated with significant reduction in brain atrophy, particularly in the caudate and thalamus. No other drug tested in Huntington's disease has shown this effect.
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- BK Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Amarin Neuroscience Ltd, Magdalen Centre North, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, UK
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- Amarin Neuroscience Ltd, Magdalen Centre North, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, UK
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- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Department of Imaging, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Hospital and Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK
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- Clinical Neuroscience Department, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK and FMRIB Centre, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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A systematic, prospective observer-rated study was carried out to determine the prevalence of late luteal phase dysphoric disorder (premenstrual syndrome) in women with autism. A group of women with autism and learning disability ( n = 26) was compared with a group of women with a non-autism learning disability ( n = 36) matched for age, in-patient status, intelligence, marital status, parity, behavioural problems and ethnicity. Observers rated DSM-IV symptoms of late luteal phase dysphoric disorder every day from each subject over three consecutive menstrual cycles. Using a premenstrual increase in DSM-IV symptoms of ≥ 30% as evidence of fulfilment of diagnostic criteria, the prevalence of late luteal phase dysphoric disorder was 92% in the autism group compared with 11% in the control group. This difference was highly statistically significant. The principal conclusion from this study is that there is a marked increase in premenstrual syndrome in women with autism compared with matched controls.
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- Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust, St Peter's House, Bricket Road, St Albans, UK
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- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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The concern that evening primrose oil might cause epilepsy or seizures, or reduce the threshold for seizures, originated from two papers published in the early 1980s. These original reports are re-examined, and the association of evening primrose oil with seizures is shown to be spurious. Not only are linoleic acid and gamma-linolenic acid safe in epilepsy, with prolonged oral administration of linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid (in a 4:1 mixture) protecting rats from having seizures in four different epilepsy models, but the evening primrose oil-derived omega-6 fatty acid arachidonic acid inhibits sodium ion currents and synaptic transmission, while the evening primrose oil-derived eicosanoid prostaglandin E(1) appears to have anticonvulsant activity. In light of these findings, it is suggested that formularies should now remove seizures or epilepsy as a side-effect of evening primrose oil, and should remove a history of seizures or epilepsy as a contraindication to taking evening primrose oil.
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- B K Puri
- Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Puri BK, Richardson AJ, Counsell SJ, Ward PE, Bustos MG, Hamilton G, Bhakoo KK, Treasaden IH. Negative correlation between cerebral inorganic phosphate and the volumetric niacin response in male patients with schizophrenia who have seriously and dangerously violently offended: a (31)P magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2007; 77:97-9. [PMID: 17765531 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2007.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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] [Received: 01/04/2007] [Accepted: 07/16/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The aim of the study was to examine the association of arachidonic acid-related signal transduction with cerebral metabolism in patients with schizophrenia who have violently and dangerously offended while psychotic. Cerebral 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy was carried out in 11 male patients with schizophrenia who had violently offended (homicide, attempted murder, or wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm) while psychotic. Spectra were obtained from 70 x 70 x 70 mm(3) voxels using an image-selected in vivo spectroscopy pulse sequence. Niacin flush testing results were quantified as the volumetric niacin response. There was a strong, and negative, correlation between the volumetric niacin response and the metabolite concentration of inorganic phosphate expressed as a ratio of the total 31-phosphorus signal (p<0.005). Our results suggest that patients with schizophrenia who have violently offended and have poor phospholipid-related signal transduction may have higher levels of cerebral energy metabolism.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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Puri BK, Koepp MJ, Holmes J, Hamilton G, Yuen AWC. A 31-phosphorus neurospectroscopy study of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid intervention with eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid in patients with chronic refractory epilepsy. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2007; 77:105-7. [PMID: 17761409 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2007.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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] [Received: 01/04/2007] [Accepted: 07/16/2007] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The aim of this study was to determine whether supplementation with the n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid in patients with chronic refractory epilepsy is associated with beneficial changes in cerebral biochemistry. In a 3-month pilot randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study, three patients received eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid daily and four received a placebo. 31-Phosphorus neurospectroscopy showed a decrease in phosphodiesters, an increase in gammaNTP and an increase in the broadband component in the active group over this period, while the opposite changes occurred in the placebo group. Therefore, in chronic refractory epilepsy, omega-3 supplementation may be associated with reduced membrane phospholipid breakdown in the brain, an improvement in brain energy metabolism, and an increased level of phospholipids in membranes and/or vesicle bilayers in cells in the brain. The unfavourable biochemical changes observed in the placebo group may be a feature of chronic intractable epilepsy.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
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Sahney R, Anand S, Puri BK, Srivastava AK. A comparative study of immobilization techniques for urease on glass-pH-electrode and its application in urea detection in blood serum. Anal Chim Acta 2006; 578:156-61. [PMID: 17723707 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2006.06.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2005] [Revised: 06/23/2006] [Accepted: 06/26/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Different techniques have been used (physical adsorption, physically entrapped sandwich and microencapsulation) for the immobilization of urease enzyme in tetramethylorthosilicate (TMOS) derived sol-gel matrix on the sensing surface of glass-pH-electrode. No significant leaching of enzyme occurs from the microencapsulated and physically entrapped enzyme sandwich films. Potentiometric techniques have been used for the estimation of urea concentration in each instance. Various parameters of biosensor performance have been studied which indicates that microencapsulation technique is a better method of enzyme immobilization in sol-gel films derived from TMOS. The advantage of microencapsulated biosensor over others include higher sensitivity (dpH/dp(C)=2.4), lower detection limit of 52 microg mL(-1), larger linear range (0.01-30 mM) of urea determination and reasonably long-term stability of about 25 days with 80% response signal.
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- Rachana Sahney
- Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 110016, India.
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Evidence is put forward to suggest that myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, may be associated with persistent viral infection. In turn, such infections are likely to impair the ability of the body to biosynthesise n-3 and n-6 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids by inhibiting the delta-6 desaturation of the precursor essential fatty acids--namely, alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid. This would, in turn, impair the proper functioning of cell membranes, including cell signalling, and have an adverse effect on the biosynthesis of eicosanoids from the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid, arachidonic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid. These actions might offer an explanation for some of the symptoms and signs of myalgic encephalomyelitis. A potential therapeutic avenue could be offered by bypassing the inhibition of the enzyme delta-6-desaturase by treatment with virgin cold-pressed non-raffinated evening primrose oil, which would supply gamma-linolenic acid and lipophilic pentacyclic triterpenes, and with eicosapentaenoic acid. The gamma-linolenic acid can readily be converted into dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid and thence arachidonic acid, while triterpenes have important free radical scavenging, cyclo-oxygenase and neutrophil elastase inhibitory activities. Furthermore, both arachidonic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid are, at relatively low concentrations, directly virucidal.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
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Puri BK, Leavitt BR, Hayden MR, Ross CA, Rosenblatt A, Greenamyre JT, Hersch S, Vaddadi KS, Sword A, Horrobin DF, Manku M, Murck H. Ethyl-EPA in Huntington disease: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Neurology 2005; 65:286-92. [PMID: 16043801 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000169025.09670.6d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [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: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Preliminary evidence suggests beneficial effects of pure ethyl-eicosapentaenoate (ethyl-EPA) in Huntington disease (HD). METHODS A total of 135 patients with HD were randomized to enter a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial on the efficacy of 2 g/d ethyl-EPA vs placebo. The Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) was used for assessment. The primary end point was outcome at 12 months on the Total Motor Score 4 subscale (TMS-4). Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and a chi2 test on response, defined as absence of increase in the TMS-4, were performed. RESULTS A total of 121 patients completed 12 months, and 83 did so without protocol violations (PP cohort). Intent-to-treat (ITT) analysis revealed no significant difference between ethyl-EPA and placebo for TMS-4. In the PP cohort, ethyl-EPA proved better than placebo on the chi2 test on TMS-4 (p < 0.05), but missed significance on ANCOVA (p = 0.06). Secondary end points (ITT cohort) showed no benefit of ethyl-EPA but a significantly worse outcome in the behavioral severity and frequency compared with placebo. Exploring moderators of the efficacy of ethyl-EPA on TMS-4 showed a significant interaction between treatment and a factor defining patients with high vs low CAG repeats. Reported adverse events were distributed equally between treatment arms. CONCLUSIONS Ethyl-eicosapentaenoate (ethyl-EPA) (purity > 95%) had no benefit in the intent-to-treat cohort of patients with Huntington disease, but exploratory analysis revealed that a significantly higher number of patients in the per protocol cohort, treated with ethyl-EPA, showed stable or improved motor function. Further studies of the potential efficacy of ethyl-EPA are warranted.
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- B K Puri
- Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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Puri BK, Saeed N, Richardson AJ, Oatridge A, Hajnal JV, Bydder GM. Schizophrenia syndromes associated with changes in ventricle-to-brain ratios: a serial high-resolution three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging study in first-episode schizophrenia patients using subvoxel registration and semiautomated quantification. Int J Clin Pract 2005; 59:399-402. [PMID: 15853853 DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-5031.2005.00501.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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A cohort of patients with first-episode schizophrenia was dichotomised into two age- and sex-matched groups of clinical syndromes, the active and withdrawn, and underwent high-resolution three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging at baseline and 8 months later. A cohort of age- and sex-matched normal controls was also imaged at the same time intervals. The application of subvoxel registration and semiautomated quantification techniques demonstrated a significantly different outcome in ventricular changes between the two groups of patients. Compared with the controls, the withdrawn patients showed progressive ventricular enlargement, with an increase in ventricle-to-brain volume ratio, whereas the active group showed a reduction in ventricle-to-brain volume ratio, with a change opposite in sign and smaller in magnitude. These findings lend further support for the aetiological validity of this syndromal model of schizophrenia and are likely to be of importance in furthering our understanding of its pathogenesis and in the development of suitable therapeutic strategies.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
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Gatehouse PD, He T, Puri BK, Thomas RD, Resnick D, Bydder GM. Contrast-enhanced MRI of the menisci of the knee using ultrashort echo time (UTE) pulse sequences: imaging of the red and white zones. Br J Radiol 2004; 77:641-7. [PMID: 15326040 DOI: 10.1259/bjr/31774546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 11/05/2022] Open
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The objective of this study was to demonstrate the red and white zones of the meniscus of the knee using MRI. Ultrashort echo time (UTE) pulse sequences with an initial TE of 0.08 ms and later echoes at 5.95 ms, 11.08 ms and 17.70 ms were used to image the meniscus of the knee in two normal subjects before and after intravenous administration of gadodiamide. Difference images were formed by subtraction of later echo images from the first. The difference images showed obvious enhancement in an area consistent in location and dimensions with the red zone of the meniscus. Regions of interest placed within this area, central to it (corresponding to the white zone), and peripheral to it (corresponding to perimeniscal tissue) all showed increases in signal intensity after intravenous contrast administration. The greatest change in signal intensity in these regions of interest was seen with the shortest TE and in perimeniscal tissue on the original images. The increase in signal intensity was greatest in the red zone on the difference images. Using UTE pulse sequences and difference images derived from them, it is possible to visualize enhancement selectively in the red zone of the meniscus. Less obvious but significant changes in signal intensity were also present in the white zone.
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- P D Gatehouse
- The Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London, UK
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Puri BK. Monomodal rigid-body registration and applications to the investigation of the effects of eicosapentaenoic acid intervention in neuropsychiatric disorders. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2004; 71:177-9. [PMID: 15253887 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2004.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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] [Received: 12/19/2003] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The technique of monomodal rigid-body registration of serial magnetic resonance scans based on the sinc ((sin z)/z) interpolation function and its application to neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, depression and Huntington's disease, in relation to the assessment of the cerebral effects of intervention with the n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid are described. The evidence thus far indicates that researchers investigating the benefits of treatment with essential fatty acids in neuropsychiatric disorders should consider utilizing this technique.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, England, UK.
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Rao A, Chandrashekara R, Sanchez-Ortiz GI, Mohiaddin R, Aljabar P, Hajnal JV, Puri BK, Rueckert D. Spatial transformation of motion and deformation fields using nonrigid registration. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2004; 23:1065-1076. [PMID: 15377115 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2004.828681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [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: 05/24/2023]
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In this paper, we present a technique that can be used to transform the motion or deformation fields defined in the coordinate system of one subject into the coordinate system of another subject. Such a transformation accounts for the differences in the coordinate systems of the two subjects due to misalignment and size/shape variation, enabling the motion or deformation of each of the subjects to be directly quantitatively and qualitatively compared. The field transformation is performed by using a nonrigid registration algorithm to determine the intersubject coordinate system mapping from the first subject to the second subject. This fixes the relationship between the coordinate systems of the two subjects, and allows us to recover the deformation/motion vectors of the second subject for each corresponding point in the first subject. Since these vectors are still aligned with the coordinate system of the second subject, the inverse of the intersubject coordinate mapping is required to transform these vectors into the coordinate system of the first subject, and we approximate this inverse using a numerical line integral method. The accuracy of our numerical inversion technique is demonstrated using a synthetic example, after which we present applications of our method to sequences of cardiac and brain images.
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- A Rao
- Visual Information Processing Group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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There is evidence that there is an association between chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition of unknown aetiology, and essential fatty acids. This evidence is based on the actions of essential fatty acids, the results of proton neurospectroscopy studies, and essential fatty acid trial data. A series of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome were treated solely with a high-eicosapentaenoic acid-containing essential fatty acid supplement. All showed improvement in their symptomatology within eight to 12 weeks. These results, which are consistent with a recent detailed report of cerebral and clinical changes associated with a high intake of eicosapentaenoic acid, suggest that this n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acid may offer the hope of effective treatment for at least some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, England, UK.
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy is one of the most important tools for quantitative analysis of chemical composition and structure, and this non-invasive technique is now being applied in vivo to study biochemical processes in those neuropsychiatric disorders that are part of the phospholipid spectrum. Interpretation of a clinical magnetic resonance spectrum can provide information about membrane phospholipid turnover, cellular energetics, neuronal function, selected neurotransmitter activity and intracellular pH. Cerebral proton and phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings are summarized in relation to schizophrenia, dyslexia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
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- I J Cox
- Faculty of Medicine, Imaging Sciences Department, Imperial College London, Division of Clinical Sciences, Robert Steiner Magnetic Resonance Unit, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK.
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Puri BK, Counsell SJ, Hamilton G, Bustos MG, Horrobin DF, Richardson AJ, Treasaden IH. Cerebral metabolism in male patients with schizophrenia who have seriously and dangerously violently offended: a 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2004; 70:409-11. [PMID: 15041035 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2003.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/18/2003] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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There is biochemical evidence to suggest that membrane phospholipid metabolism may be impaired in some patients with schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that patients with schizophrenia who have violently offended while psychotic suffer from changes in cerebral phospholipid metabolism. Cerebral 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy was carried out in 15 male patients with schizophrenia who had violently offended (homicide, attempted murder, or wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm) while psychotic and in a control group of 13 age-matched healthy male control subjects. Spectra were obtained from 70x70x70mm(3) voxels in the brain using an image-selected in vivo spectroscopy pulse sequence. betaNTP was lower (P < 0.04) and gammaNTP was higher (P < 0.04) in the patient group compared with the normal control group. Our results are suggestive of increased cerebral energy metabolism taking place in the forensic patients.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK
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Puri BK, Holmes J, Hamilton G. Eicosapentaenoic acid-rich essential fatty acid supplementation in chronic fatigue syndrome associated with symptom remission and structural brain changes. Int J Clin Pract 2004; 58:297-9. [PMID: 15117099 DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-5031.2004.00073.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Lateral ventricular enlargement has been reported in chronic fatigue syndrome, while cerebral neurospectroscopy has recently indicated that essential fatty acid treatment may be of value in this condition. An essential fatty acid supplement rich in eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) was therefore given daily to a female patient with a 6-year history of unremitting symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. Cerebral magnetic resonance scanning was carried out at baseline and 16 weeks later. The EPA-rich essential fatty acid supplementation led to a marked clinical improvement in her symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, starting within 6-8 weeks. Accurate quantification of the lateral ventricular volumes in the baseline and 16-week follow-up registered images of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging structural scans showed that the treatment was accompanied by a marked reduction in the lateral ventricular volume during this period, from 28,940-23,660 mm3.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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Puri BK, Davey NJ, Zaman R. Excitability of the motor cortex in schizophrenia following typical and atypical antipsychotics: two serial case reports. Int J Clin Pract 2003; 57:831-3. [PMID: 14686575] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023] Open
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A previous electrophysiological investigation of schizophrenia using transcranial magnetic stimulation has shown altered corticospinal inhibition in medicated patients compared with drug-naive patients. Based on this work, we have carried out the first serial electrophysiological case studies of the human corticospinal system in schizophrenia in which a typical antipsychotic was compared with an atypical antipsychotic. We used transcranial magnetic stimulation-based techniques to study the time course of drug action in two antipsychotic drug-naive patients with schizophrenia; one patient treated with a typical antipsychotic (haloperidol) and the other with an atypical antipsychotic (risperidone). The typical antipsychotic was associated with an increase in corticospinal excitability which we found to occur 4-5 weeks after beginning medication. In contrast, the atypical antipsychotic was associated with a decrease in corticospinal excitability, occurring 3-4 weeks after starting pharmacotherapy. We conclude that these opposite neurophysiological effects are related to the relative dopaminergic and serotonergic actions of the two classes of drug.
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- B K Puri
- MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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Oatridge A, Herlihy A, Thomas RW, Wallace AL, Puri BK, Larkman DJ, Bydder GM. Magic angle imaging of the achilles tendon in patients with chronic tendonopathy. Clin Radiol 2003; 58:384-8. [PMID: 12727167 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-9260(02)00582-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 12/22/2022]
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AIMS To assess the Achilles tendon in patients with chronic tendonopathy using magnetic resonance (MR) magic angle imaging, and to compare the appearances and uptake of contrast medium in abnormal tendons with those in normal tendons. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eight patients with chronic Achilles tendonopathy and five normal controls were examined with the long axis of the tendon placed at 55 degrees and at 0 degrees to the main magnetic field. Conventional two-dimensional (2D) multi-slice images were obtained and T1 values were calculated before, and for up to 1h after the administration of intravenous gadodiamide. Both the unenhanced appearance and the pattern of enhancement in the tendon were compared. RESULTS In the patients with tendonopathy, high signal intensity areas were evident on the short T1 inversion recovery (STIR) images obtained at 55 degrees in all tendons. Contrast medium enhancement was seen in six tendons and was most obvious on the images obtained at the magic angle. This was initially focal and then spread more diffusely within the tendon. After contrast medium administration, T1 values were significantly reduced in the tendonopathy group compared with normal controls (p<0.01). On the late post-contrast medium images obtained at 55 degrees, enhancement was evident in most of the tendon and correlated well with high signal intensity seen on STIR images. CONCLUSION The use of magic angle MR imaging improved the demonstration of signal changes in the Achilles tendon in chronic tendonopathy. The STIR images obtained at the magic angle showed more obvious signal change than those obtained at 0 degrees. The changes due to enhancement were much more evident on images obtained at 55 degrees than at 0 degrees. The uptake of contrast medium was greater in the patients than in normal controls.
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- A Oatridge
- The Robert Steiner Magnetic Resonance Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imaging Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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Davey NJ, Puri BK, Catley M, Main J, Nowicky AV, Zaman R. Deficit in motor performance correlates with changed corticospinal excitability in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Int J Clin Pract 2003; 57:262-4. [PMID: 12800454] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is characterised by fatigue and musculosketetal pain, the severity of which is variable. Simple reaction times (SRTs) and movement times (SMTs) are slowed in CFS. Our objective is to correlate the day-to-day changes in symptomatology with any change in SRT, SMT or corticospinal excitability. Ten CFS patients were tested on two occasions up to two years apart. Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the motor cortex were recorded from the thenar muscles. Threshold TMS strength to evoke MEPs was measured to index corticospinal excitability. SRTs and SMTs were measured. The percentage change in both SRTs and SMTs between the two test sessions correlated with the percentage change in corticospinal excitability assessed according to threshold TMS intensity required to produce MEPs. This study provides evidence that changing motor deficits in CFS have a neurophysiological basis. The slowness of SRTs supports the notion of a deficit in motor preparatory areas of the brain.
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- N J Davey
- Department of Sensorimotor Systems, Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital, London W6 8RF, UK
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Oatridge A, Hajnal JV, Saeed N, Newlands ES, Curati WL, White SJ, Puri BK, Bydder GM. Subvoxel image registration of multislice (2D) magnetic resonance images in patients with high-grade gliomas of the brain. Clin Radiol 2002; 57:1098-108. [PMID: 12475535 DOI: 10.1053/crad.2002.1103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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AIMS To implement a multislice two-dimensional (2D) T2-weighted sequence suitable for subvoxel image registration and to assess its usefulness in detecting change in high-grade intracranial gliomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty patients with high-grade gliomas were studied on two or more occasions. T2-weighted multislice pulse sequences with a Gaussian slice profile, 50% overlapping slices and nearly isotropic voxels were acquired. The images were registered and subtraction images were produced. The images were compared with three-dimensional (3D) T1-weighted registered images and conventional unregistered T2-weighted images. All images were scored for changes in the lesions and ventricular system. RESULTS The 2D and 3D registered subtraction images were the most sensitive for detecting changes in both the lesions and other regions in the brain. The mean rank scores were significantly higher for the lesions (chi2=86.742; df=5, n=38, P<0.0001) and for the ventricles (chi2=63.837; df=5, n=35, P<0.0001) compared with the unregistered and registered anatomical images. The subtraction images were also most sensitive for detecting signal intensity changes irrespective of the direction of change. CONCLUSION Rigid body subvoxel registration can be successfully performed with both multislice 2D and 3D imaging. In principle, virtually all forms of clinical MR images of the brain can be accurately registered and subtracted.
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- A Oatridge
- The Robert Steiner Magnetic Resonance Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imaging Sciences Department, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, UK
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OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is associated with altered cerebral metabolites in the frontal and occipital cortices. METHOD Cerebral proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) was carried out in eight CFS patients and eight age- and sex-matched healthy control subjects. Spectra were obtained from 20 x 20 x 20 mm3 voxels in the dominant motor and occipital cortices using a point-resolved spectroscopy pulse sequence. RESULTS The mean ratio of choline (Cho) to creatine (Cr) in the occipital cortex in CFS (0.97) was significantly higher than in the controls (0.76; P=0.008). No other metabolite ratios were significantly different between the two groups in either the frontal or occipital cortex. In addition, there was a loss of the normal spatial variation of Cho in CFS. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that there may be an abnormality of phospholipid metabolism in the brain in CFS.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
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Saeed N, Puri BK. Cerebellum segmentation employing texture properties and knowledge based image processing: applied to normal adult controls and patients. Magn Reson Imaging 2002; 20:425-9. [PMID: 12206868 DOI: 10.1016/s0730-725x(02)00508-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 11/28/2022]
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A semi-automated method is described for segmenting the cerebellum from T(1)-weighted 3-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging scans of adult controls and patients. The method relies on prior knowledge involving a user-defined template as a guide to aid the segmentation of the cerebellum. As the gray and white matter intensity distribution in the cerebellum has a complex pattern, texture information that identified the "graininess" was employed to capture the intensity distribution of voxels. The textural information was used to group voxels in a small circular structuring element as belonging to the cerebellum region. The cerebella from scans of 15 of the 20 subjects were segmented both manually and using the semi-automated procedure; the results were strongly correlated (r = 0.985, n = 15, p < 0.0001), and the volumes obtained from the two methods differed by 2.3%. The cerebellar volumes in 10 normal subjects and 10 age- and sex-matched patients with a neuropsychiatric disorder (schizophrenia) did not differ significantly (p = 0.18). The whole cerebellum was segmented in approximately 30 min using the semi-automated procedure. The method described is robust, easy-to-use, fairly fast and gives objective measurements.
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- N Saeed
- MRI Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0HS, UK.
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Richardson AJ, Allen SJ, Hajnal JV, Cox IJ, Easton T, Puri BK. Associations between central and peripheral measures of phospholipid breakdown revealed by cerebral 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy and fatty acid composition of erythrocyte membranes. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2001; 25:1513-21. [PMID: 11642651 DOI: 10.1016/s0278-5846(01)00211-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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1. Abnormal neuronal membrane phospholipid metabolism is increasingly recognized as being of central importance to a number of neuropsychiatric disorders. Currently, two important indices of membrane phospholipid metabolism tend to be measured: the ratio of the areas of the phosphomonoester (PME) and phosphodiester (PDE) peaks from in vivo cerebral phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P MRS) studies; and erythrocyte membrane fatty acid concentrations. Thus far, there have been no studies comparing these two indices to ascertain the extent to which they agree. 2. The authors measured these indices in nine normal adults. Spectral localization was achieved using four-dimensional chemical shift imaging methods and erythrocyte membrane fatty acid concentrations (from blood samples taken at the time of scanning) were measured using gas liquid chromatography. 3. Levels of PDE (an index of phospholipid catabolism), measured using cerebral 31P MRS, were significantly correlated with reduced concentrations of the highly unsaturated fatty acids docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) (r = -0.68, p < 0.05) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) (r -0.78, p < 0.02). No significant correlations were found between peripheral concentrations of any highly unsaturated fatty acids and PME levels, nor between their essential fatty acid precursors and either PDE or PME levels. Other 31-phosphorus metabolites also showed no significant correlations with the blood fatty acid measures. 4. The correlations between central measures of PDE and peripheral measures of DHA and EPA provide validation of cerebral 31P MRS as a non-invasive technique for the study of membrane phospholipid metabolism in vivo.
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Puri BK, Counsell SJ, Hamilton G, Richardson AJ, Horrobin DF. Eicosapentaenoic acid in treatment-resistant depression associated with symptom remission, structural brain changes and reduced neuronal phospholipid turnover. Int J Clin Pract 2001; 55:560-3. [PMID: 11695079] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
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The n-3 essential fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) was added to the conventional antidepressant treatment of a treatment-resistant severely depressed and suicidal male patient with a seven-year history of unremitting depressive symptoms. The niacin skin flush test and cerebral magnetic resonance scanning were carried out at baseline and nine months later. The addition of ethyl-EPA led to a dramatic and sustained clinical improvement in all the symptoms of depression, including a cessation of previously unremitting severe suicidal ideation, within one month. Symptoms of social phobia also improved dramatically. During the nine-month period the volumetric niacin response increased by 30%, the relative concentration of cerebral phosphomonesters increased by 53%, and the ratio of cerebral phosphomonesters to phosphodiesters increased by 79%, indicating reduced neuronal phospholipid turnover. Registered difference images showed that the EPA treatment was accompanied by structural brain changes including, in particular, a reduction in the lateral ventricular volume.
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- B K Puri
- MRI Unit, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W12 0HS, UK
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Taher MA, Bansal H, Puri BK. A solid liquid extraction and preconcentration method for the atomic absorption spectrometric determination of trace cobalt in various alloys and biological samples. Ann Chim 2001; 91:649-58. [PMID: 11770164] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Cobalt is quantitatively retained as cobalt-2-nitroso-4-sulfonic acid (nitros-S)-tetradecyldimethylbenzylammonium (TDBA+) ion-pair complex on microcrystalline naphthalene in the pH range 6.2-9.0 from a large volume of its aqueous solution of various complex samples. After filtration, the solid mass consisting of cobalt complex and naphthalene is dissolved in 5 ml of dimethylformamide (DMF) and the metal is determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). Cobalt complex can alternatively be quantitatively adsorbed on tetradecyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride-naphthalene adsorbent packed in a column and determined similarly. The calibration curve is linear over the concentration range 0.2-11.5 micrograms of cobalt in 5 ml of the final DMF solution. In this case, 0.2 microgram of cobalt may be concentrated in a column from 250 ml of aqueous sample where its concentration is as low as 0.8 ng/ml. Eight replicate determinations of 3.0 micrograms of cobalt in the final DMF solution give a mean absorbance of 0.045 with a relative standard deviation of 1.8%. The sensitivity for 1% absorption is 59 ng/ml. The interference of a large number of anions and cations on the determination of cobalt has been studied and the optimum conditions developed utilized for its trace determination in various alloys and biological samples. The method may also be used for the determination of cobalt in some environmental samples.
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- M A Taher
- Department of Chemistry, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran
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