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Issler O, van der Zee YY, Ramakrishnan A, Xia S, Zinsmaier AK, Tan C, Li W, Browne CJ, Walker DM, Salery M, Torres-Berrío A, Futamura R, Duffy JE, Labonte B, Girgenti MJ, Tamminga CA, Dupree JL, Dong Y, Murrough JW, Shen L, Nestler EJ. The long noncoding RNA FEDORA is a cell type- and sex-specific regulator of depression. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabn9494. [PMID: 36449610 PMCID: PMC9710883 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn9494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
Women suffer from depression at twice the rate of men, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we identify marked baseline sex differences in the expression of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), a class of regulatory transcripts, in human postmortem brain tissue that are profoundly lost in depression. One such human lncRNA, RP11-298D21.1 (which we termed FEDORA), is enriched in oligodendrocytes and neurons and up-regulated in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of depressed females only. We found that virally expressing FEDORA selectively either in neurons or in oligodendrocytes of PFC promoted depression-like behavioral abnormalities in female mice only, changes associated with cell type-specific regulation of synaptic properties, myelin thickness, and gene expression. We also found that blood FEDORA levels have diagnostic implications for depressed women and are associated with clinical response to ketamine. These findings demonstrate the important role played by lncRNAs, and FEDORA in particular, in shaping the sex-specific landscape of the brain and contributing to sex differences in depression.
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Affiliation(s)
- Orna Issler
- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Issler O, van der Zee YY, Ramakrishnan A, Wang J, Tan C, Loh YHE, Purushothaman I, Walker DM, Lorsch ZS, Hamilton PJ, Peña CJ, Flaherty E, Hartley BJ, Torres-Berrío A, Parise EM, Kronman H, Duffy JE, Estill MS, Calipari ES, Labonté B, Neve RL, Tamminga CA, Brennand KJ, Dong Y, Shen L, Nestler EJ. Sex-Specific Role for the Long Non-coding RNA LINC00473 in Depression. Neuron 2020; 106:912-926.e5. [PMID: 32304628 PMCID: PMC7305959 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Revised: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Depression is a common disorder that affects women at twice the rate of men. Here, we report that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), a recently discovered class of regulatory transcripts, represent about one-third of the differentially expressed genes in the brains of depressed humans and display complex region- and sex-specific patterns of regulation. We identified the primate-specific, neuronal-enriched gene LINC00473 as downregulated in prefrontal cortex (PFC) of depressed females but not males. Using viral-mediated gene transfer to express LINC00473 in adult mouse PFC neurons, we mirrored the human sex-specific phenotype by inducing stress resilience solely in female mice. This sex-specific phenotype was accompanied by changes in synaptic function and gene expression selectively in female mice and, along with studies of human neuron-like cells in culture, implicates LINC00473 as a CREB effector. Together, our studies identify LINC00473 as a female-specific driver of stress resilience that is aberrant in female depression.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Depression/genetics
- Depression/metabolism
- Depressive Disorder, Major/genetics
- Depressive Disorder, Major/metabolism
- Down-Regulation
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Middle Aged
- Neurons/metabolism
- Prefrontal Cortex/metabolism
- RNA, Long Noncoding/genetics
- RNA, Long Noncoding/metabolism
- RNA-Seq
- Resilience, Psychological
- Sex Factors
- Stress, Psychological/genetics
- Stress, Psychological/metabolism
- Young Adult
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Affiliation(s)
- Orna Issler
- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, 6229 ER, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Gene Delivery Technology Core, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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Bruno JF, Boyer KE, Duffy JE, Lee SC, Kertesz JS. Effects of macroalgal species identity and richness on primary production in benthic marine communities. Ecol Lett 2013; 8:1165-74. [PMID: 21352440 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00823.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
Plant biodiversity can enhance primary production in terrestrial ecosystems, but biodiversity effects are largely unstudied in the ocean. We conducted a series of field and mesocosm experiments to measure the relative effects of macroalgal identity and richness on primary productivity (net photosynthetic rate) and biomass accumulation in hard substratum subtidal communities in North Carolina, USA. Algal identity consistently and strongly affected production; species richness effects, although often significent, were subtle. Partitioning of the net biodiversity effect indicated that complementarity effects were always positive and species were usually more productive in mixtures than in monoculture. Surprisingly, slow growing species performed relatively better in the most diverse treatments than the most productive species, thus selection effects were consistently negative. Our results suggest that several basic mechanisms underlying terrestrial plant biodiversity effects also operate in algal-based marine ecosystems, and thus may be general.
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- John F Bruno
- Department of Marine Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3300, USA Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies and Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA 94920, USA School of Marine Sciences, The College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA 23062-1346, USA
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Duffy JE, Li Y, Zelikoff JT. PCB-induced hepatic Cyp1A induction is associated with innate immune dysfunction in a feral teleost fish. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 2005; 74:107-113. [PMID: 15768506 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-004-0555-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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- J E Duffy
- New York University School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Medicine, Tuxedo, NY 10987, USA
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Duffy JE, Ray JM. Enhanced wet air oxidation of sediment contaminated with PCBs. Environ Technol 2003; 24:1389-1397. [PMID: 14733392 DOI: 10.1080/09593330309385683] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Wet air oxidation (WAO) is investigated as a method of treating river sediments contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Aqueous slurries containing 2.5% (w/w) sediment were oxidized with oxygen in a one liter, high-pressure, batch reactor at temperatures up to 250 degrees C. Concentrations of PCBs adsorbed on the sediment and reactor surfaces and dissolved in the water and gas phases after oxidation were determined by high-resolution gas chromatography. Results indicate that no significant wet oxidation of PCBs in sediment slurries occurs for temperatures at or below 250 degrees C. However, during reactor heat-up, significant degradation of PCBs occurred at high temperature regions near the reactor wall even when bulk fluid temperature was quite low. A variety of amendments were tested to determine their effect on PCB oxidation. These amendments included hydrogen peroxide, a readily degraded organic compound (phenol), and homogeneous copper catalyst. Only hydrogen peroxide addition resulted in a significant degradation of PCBs. The addition of phenol did not result in enhanced degradation of PCBs through kinetic coupling as has been observed for other recalcitrant organic compounds.
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- J E Duffy
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Room 306 Cobleigh Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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Duffy JE, Carlson EA, Li Y, Prophete C, Zelikofft JT. Age-related differences in the sensitivity of the fish immune response to a coplanar PCB. Ecotoxicology 2003; 12:251-259. [PMID: 12739872 DOI: 10.1023/a:1022511028617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are widespread environmental pollutants. Because of their persistence and bioaccumulation in aquatic organisms (among other factors), the biological impact of PCB exposure on resident fish populations is of particular concern. To assess the effect(s) of an environmentally relevant coplanar PCB congener on the fish immune response, juvenile and aged Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) were injected i.p. with either vehicle or PCB 126 (at 0.01 or 1.0 microg/g BW) and examined after 3 and 14 days. CYP1A protein levels, examined as an indicator of PCB exposure, were significantly increased (compared to controls) in all fish treated with the highest PCB dose. Kidney phagocyte superoxide (O2*-) production was examined to indicate effects upon innate immune function. After 14 days, unstimulated O2*- production by kidney phagocytes from juvenile and aged medaka treated with the highest PCB dose was significantly increased compared to controls. Stimulated O2*- production by aged PCB-treated fish was unaffected (compared to controls) at both post-exposure timepoints. However, phagocytes from PCB-treated juvenile medaka demonstrated reduced O2*- production at 3 days post-exposure and increased levels after 14 days (compared to controls). These results demonstrate the sensitivity of medaka phagocyte function for examining PCB-induced immunotoxicity.
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- J E Duffy
- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, 57 Old Forge Rd., Tuxedo, NY 10987, USA
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Duffy JE, Carlson E, Li Y, Prophete C, Zelikoff JT. Impact of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) on the immune function of fish: age as a variable in determining adverse outcome. Mar Environ Res 2002; 54:559-63. [PMID: 12408617 DOI: 10.1016/s0141-1136(02)00176-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a major contaminant of global extent in water resources and aquatic biota. Due to its high lipid solubility, PCBs fail to be degraded and, therefore, continue to bioaccumulate throughout the environment and food chain. To determine the impact of PCBs on the immune system of aged and juvenile Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes), fish were injected with the coplanar PCB congener 126 and examined after 3 and 14 days. PCB 126 produced oxidative stress in both age groups of fish 14 days post-injection; however, juvenile medaka appeared more susceptible than aged fish. Humoral immunity, as determined by antibody forming cell (AFC) numbers, was significantly depressed for up to 14 days post-injection in both age groups. These results demonstrate the sensitivity of the fish immune response for predicting PCB-induced immunotoxicity and identify age as a variable in determining adverse outcome.
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- J E Duffy
- Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo 10987, USA
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As the most extreme expression of apparent altruism in nature, eusociality has long posed a central paradox for behavioral and evolutionary ecology. Because eusociality has arisen rarely among animals, understanding the selective pressures important in early stages of its evolution remains elusive. Employing a historical approach to this problem, we used morphology and DNA sequences to reconstruct the phylogeny of 13 species of sponge-dwelling shrimps (Synalpheus) with colony organization ranging from asocial pair-bonding through eusociality. We then used phylogenetically independent contrasts to test whether sociality was associated with evidence of enhanced competitive ability, as suggested by hypotheses invoking an advantage of cooperation in crowded habitats. The molecular, morphological, and combined data each strongly supported three independent origins of monogynous, multigenerational (eusocial) colony organization within this genus. Phylogenetically independent contrasts confirmed that highly social taxa, with strong reproductive skew, have significantly higher relative abundance within the host sponge than do less social taxa, a result that was robust to uncertainty in tree topology and varying models of character change. A similar tendency for highly social species to share their sponge with fewer congener species was suggestive, but not significant. Because unoccupied habitat appears to be limiting for many sponge-dwelling shrimp species, these data are consistent with hypotheses that cooperative social groups enjoy a competitive advantage over less organized groups or individuals, where independent establishment is difficult, and that enemy pressure is of central importance in the evolution of animal sociality.
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- J E Duffy
- College of William and Mary, School of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062-1346, USA.
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Wei TQ, Chu VP, Craig AR, Duffy JE, Obzansky DM, Kilgore D, Masulli IS, Sanders CM, Thompson JC. Automated homogeneous immunoassay for gentamicin on the dimension clinical chemistry system. Clin Chem 1999; 45:388-93. [PMID: 10053040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Monitoring of the concentration of gentamicin in serum and plasma during therapy is widely recommended and practiced in hospitals. Our aim was to develop a homogeneous immunoassay based on particle-enhanced turbidimetric inhibition immunoassay technology to quantify gentamicin on the Dimension clinical chemistry system. METHODS Assay performance was assessed on each of the Dimension models in a 15-instrument interlaboratory comparison study. A split-sample comparison (n = 1171) was also performed between the gentamicin methods on the Dimension system and the Abbott TDx analyzer, using multiple reagent and calibrator lots on multiple instruments. RESULTS The Dimension method was linear to 25.1 micromol/L (12.0 microg/mL) with a detection limit of 0.63 micromol/L (0.3 microg/mL). Calibration was stable for 30 days. The within-run imprecision (CV) was <1.3%, and total imprecision ranged from 1.8% to 3.2% between 4.2 micromol/L (2.0 microg/mL) and 16.7 micromol/L (8.0 microg/mL) gentamicin. Linear regression analysis of the results on the Dimension method (DM) vs the Abbott TDx yielded the following equation: DM = 0.98TDx - 0.42; r = 0.987. Minimal interference was observed from structurally related compounds such as sagamicin, netilmicin, and sisomicin. CONCLUSION The monoclonal antibody used in this method has similar reactivities toward the individual gentamicin subspecies C1, C1a, and C2, thus providing analytical recovery not significantly dependent on relative subspecies concentrations.
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- T Q Wei
- Dade Behring Inc., Glasgow Business Community, Newark, DE 19714-6101, USA.
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Duffy JE, Owens RG. Factors affecting promptness of reporting in breast cancer patients. Hygie 1984; 3:29-32. [PMID: 6490015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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