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Di Ianni T, Ewbank SN, Levinstein MR, Azadian MM, Budinich RC, Michaelides M, Airan RD. Sex dependence of opioid-mediated responses to subanesthetic ketamine in rats. Nat Commun 2024; 15:893. [PMID: 38291050 PMCID: PMC10828511 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45157-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
Abstract
Subanesthetic ketamine is increasingly used for the treatment of varied psychiatric conditions, both on- and off-label. While it is commonly classified as an N-methyl D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist, our picture of ketamine's mechanistic underpinnings is incomplete. Recent clinical evidence has indicated, controversially, that a component of the efficacy of subanesthetic ketamine may be opioid dependent. Using pharmacological functional ultrasound imaging in rats, we found that blocking opioid receptors suppressed neurophysiologic changes evoked by ketamine, but not by a more selective NMDAR antagonist, in limbic regions implicated in the pathophysiology of depression and in reward processing. Importantly, this opioid-dependent response was strongly sex-dependent, as it was not evident in female subjects and was fully reversed by surgical removal of the male gonads. We observed similar sex-dependent effects of opioid blockade affecting ketamine-evoked postsynaptic density and behavioral sensitization, as well as in opioid blockade-induced changes in opioid receptor density. Together, these results underscore the potential for ketamine to induce its affective responses via opioid signaling, and indicate that this opioid dependence may be strongly influenced by subject sex. These factors should be more directly assessed in future clinical trials.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tommaso Di Ianni
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
- Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Biobehavioral Imaging and Molecular Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Biobehavioral Imaging and Molecular Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Biobehavioral Imaging and Molecular Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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Di Ianni T, Morrison KP, Yu B, Murphy KR, de Lecea L, Airan RD. High-throughput ultrasound neuromodulation in awake and freely behaving rats. Brain Stimul 2023; 16:1743-1752. [PMID: 38052373 PMCID: PMC10795522 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2023.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Revised: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation is a promising potential therapeutic tool for the noninvasive treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the expansive parameter space and difficulties in controlling for peripheral auditory effects make it challenging to identify ultrasound sequences and brain targets that may provide therapeutic efficacy. Careful preclinical investigations in clinically relevant behavioral models are critically needed to identify suitable brain targets and acoustic parameters. However, there is a lack of ultrasound devices allowing for multi-target experimental investigations in awake and unrestrained rodents. We developed a miniaturized 64-element ultrasound array that enables neurointerventional investigations with within-trial active control targets in freely behaving rats. We first characterized the acoustic field with measurements in free water and with transcranial propagation. We then confirmed in vivo that the array can target multiple brain regions via electronic steering, and verified that wearing the device does not cause significant impairments to animal motility. Finally, we demonstrated the performance of our system in a high-throughput neuromodulation experiment, where we found that ultrasound stimulation of the rat central medial thalamus, but not an active control target, promotes arousal and increases locomotor activity.
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- Tommaso Di Ianni
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, 94158, CA, USA; Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, 94158, CA, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, USA.
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Purohit MP, Roy KS, Xiang Y, Yu BJ, Azadian MM, Muwanga G, Hart AR, Taoube AK, Lopez DG, Airan RD. Acoustomechanically activatable liposomes for ultrasonic drug uncaging. bioRxiv 2023:2023.10.23.563690. [PMID: 37961368 PMCID: PMC10634775 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.23.563690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
Abstract
Ultrasound-activatable drug-loaded nanocarriers enable noninvasive and spatiotemporally-precise on-demand drug delivery throughout the body. However, most systems for ultrasonic drug uncaging utilize cavitation or heating as the drug release mechanism and often incorporate relatively exotic excipients into the formulation that together limit the drug-loading potential, stability, and clinical translatability and applicability of these systems. Here we describe an alternate strategy for the design of such systems in which the acoustic impedance and osmolarity of the internal liquid phase of a drug-loaded particle is tuned to maximize ultrasound-induced drug release. No gas phase, cavitation, or medium heating is necessary for the drug release mechanism. Instead, a non-cavitation-based mechanical response to ultrasound mediates the drug release. Importantly, this strategy can be implemented with relatively common pharmaceutical excipients, as we demonstrate here by implementing this mechanism with the inclusion of a few percent sucrose into the internal buffer of a liposome. Further, the ultrasound protocols sufficient for in vivo drug uncaging with this system are achievable with current clinical therapeutic ultrasound systems and with intensities that are within FDA and society guidelines for safe transcranial ultrasound application. Finally, this current implementation of this mechanism should be versatile and effective for the loading and uncaging of any therapeutic that may be loaded into a liposome, as we demonstrate for four different drugs in vitro, and two in vivo. These acoustomechanically activatable liposomes formulated with common pharmaceutical excipients promise a system with high clinical translational potential for ultrasonic drug uncaging of myriad drugs of clinical interest.
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
- Biophysics Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
- Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
- Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
- Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305 USA
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Yu B, Taoube AK, Airan RD. Oscillatory effects of ketamine using focused ultrasound sensitive liposomes. Biophys J 2023; 122:540a. [PMID: 36784798 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.11.2859] [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: 02/12/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Brenda Yu
- Biophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Neuroradiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Thaler C, Tian Q, Wintermark M, Ghanouni P, Halpern CH, Henderson JM, Airan RD, Zeineh M, Goubran M, Leuze C, Fiehler J, Butts Pauly K, McNab JA. Changes in the Cerebello-Thalamo-Cortical Network After Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy. Brain Connect 2023; 13:28-38. [PMID: 35678063 PMCID: PMC9942176 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2021.0157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Objective: In recent years, transcranial magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (tcMRgFUS) has been established as a potential treatment option for movement disorders, including essential tremor (ET). So far, however, little is known about the impact of tcMRgFUS on structural connectivity. The objective of this study was to detect microstructural changes in tremor- and motor-related white matter tracts in ET patients treated with tcMRgFUS thalamotomy. Methods: Eleven patients diagnosed with ET were enrolled in this tcMRgFUS thalamotomy study. For each patient, 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (3T MRI) including structural and diffusion MRI were acquired and the Clinical Rating Scale for Tremor was assessed before the procedure as well as 1 year after the treatment. Diffusion MRI tractography was performed to identify the cerebello-thalamo-cortical tract (CTCT), the medial lemniscus, and the corticospinal tract in both hemispheres on pre-treatment data. Pre-treatment tractography results were co-registered to post-treatment diffusion data. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics, including fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD) and radial diffusivity (RD), were averaged across the tracts in the pre- and post-treatment data. Results: The mean value of tract-specific DTI metrics changed significantly within the thalamic lesion and in the CTCT on the treated side (p < 0.05). Changes of DTI-derived indices within the CTCT correlated well with lesion overlap (FA: r = -0.54, p = 0.04; MD: r = 0.57, p = 0.04); RD: r = 0.67, p = 0.036). Further, a trend was seen for the correlation between changes of DTI-derived indices within the CTCT and clinical improvement (FA: r = 0.58; p = 0.062; MD: r = -0.52, p = 0.64; RD: r = -0.61 p = 0.090). Conclusions: Microstructural changes were detected within the CTCT after tcMRgFUS, and these changes correlated well with lesion-tract overlap. Our results show that diffusion MRI is able to detect the microstructural effects of tcMRgFUS, thereby further elucidating the treatment mechanism, and ultimately to improve targeting prospectively. Impact statement The results of this study demonstrate microstructural changes within the cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathways 1 year after MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy. Even more, microstructural changes within the cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathways correlated significantly with clinical outcome. These findings do not only highly emphasize the need of new targeting strategies for MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy but also help to elucidate the treatment mechanism of it.
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- Christian Thaler
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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Aryal M, Azadian MM, Hart AR, Macedo N, Zhou Q, Rosenthal EL, Airan RD. Noninvasive ultrasonic induction of cerebrospinal fluid flow enhances intrathecal drug delivery. J Control Release 2022; 349:434-442. [PMID: 35798095 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2022.06.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [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: 06/07/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
Abstract
Intrathecal drug delivery is routinely used in the treatment and prophylaxis of varied central nervous system conditions, as doing so allows drugs to directly bypass the blood-brain barrier. However, the utility of this route of administration is limited by poor brain and spinal cord parenchymal drug uptake from the cerebrospinal fluid. We demonstrate that a simple noninvasive transcranial ultrasound protocol can significantly increase influx of cerebrospinal fluid into the perivascular spaces of the brain, to enhance the uptake of intrathecally administered drugs. Specifically, we administered small (~1 kDa) and large (~155 kDa) molecule agents into the cisterna magna of rats and then applied low, diagnostic-intensity focused ultrasound in a scanning protocol throughout the brain. Using real-time magnetic resonance imaging and ex vivo histologic analyses, we observed significantly increased uptake of small molecule agents into the brain parenchyma, and of both small and large molecule agents into the perivascular space from the cerebrospinal fluid. Notably, there was no evidence of brain parenchymal damage following this intervention. The low intensity and noninvasive approach of transcranial ultrasound in this protocol underscores the ready path to clinical translation of this technique. In this manner, this protocol can be used to directly bypass the blood-brain barrier for whole-brain delivery of a variety of agents. Additionally, this technique can potentially be used as a means to probe the causal role of the glymphatic system in the variety of disease and physiologic processes to which it has been correlated.
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- Muna Aryal
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Departments of Engineering and Radiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, CA, United States; Department of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
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Functional ultrasound (fUS) is a rapidly emerging modality that enables whole-brain imaging of neural activity in awake and mobile rodents. To achieve sufficient blood flow sensitivity in the brain microvasculature, fUS relies on long ultrasound data acquisitions at high frame rates, posing high demands on the sampling and processing hardware. Here we develop an image reconstruction method based on deep learning that significantly reduces the amount of data necessary while retaining imaging performance. We trained convolutional neural networks to learn the power Doppler reconstruction function from sparse sequences of ultrasound data with compression factors of up to 95%. High-quality images from in vivo acquisitions in rats were used for training and performance evaluation. We demonstrate that time series of power Doppler images can be reconstructed with sufficient accuracy to detect the small changes in cerebral blood volume (~10%) characteristic of task-evoked cortical activation, even though the network was not formally trained to reconstruct such image series. The proposed platform may facilitate the development of this neuroimaging modality in any setting where dedicated hardware is not available or in clinical scanners.
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Pascal A, Li N, Lechtenberg KJ, Rosenberg J, Airan RD, James ML, Bouley DM, Pauly KB. Histologic evaluation of activation of acute inflammatory response in a mouse model following ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier using different acoustic pressures and microbubble doses. Nanotheranostics 2020; 4:210-223. [PMID: 32802731 PMCID: PMC7425053 DOI: 10.7150/ntno.49898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Rationale: Localized blood-brain barrier (BBB) opening can be achieved with minimal to no tissue damage by applying pulsed focused ultrasound alongside a low microbubble (MB) dose. However, relatively little is known regarding how varying treatment parameters affect the degree of neuroinflammation following BBB opening. The goal of this study was to evaluate the activation of an inflammatory response following BBB opening as a function of applied acoustic pressure using two different microbubble doses. Methods: Mice were treated with 650 kHz ultrasound using varying acoustic peak negative pressures (PNPs) using two different MB doses, and activation of an inflammatory response, in terms of microglial and astrocyte activation, was assessed one hour following BBB opening using immunohistochemical staining. Harmonic and subharmonic acoustic emissions (AEs) were monitored for all treatments with a passive cavitation detector, and contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) was performed following BBB opening to quantify the degree of opening. Hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides were assessed for the presence of microhemorrhage and edema. Results: For each MB dose, BBB opening was achieved with minimal activation of microglia and astrocytes using a PNP of 0.15 MPa. Higher PNPs were associated with increased activation, with greater increases associated with the use of the higher MB dose. Additionally, glial activation was still observed in the absence of histopathological findings. We found that CE-MRI was most strongly correlated with the degree of activation. While acoustic emissions were not predictive of microglial or astrocyte activation, subharmonic AEs were strongly associated with marked and severe histopathological findings. Conclusions: Our study demonstrated that there were mild histologic changes and activation of the acute inflammatory response using PNPs ranging from 0.15 MPa to 0.20 MPa, independent of MB dose. However, when higher PNPs of 0.25 MPa or above were applied, the same applied PNP resulted in more severe and widespread histological findings and activation of the acute inflammatory response when using the higher MB dose. The potential activation of the inflammatory response following ultrasound-mediated BBB opening should be considered when treating patients to maximize therapeutic benefit.
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- Aurea Pascal
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Wang JB, Di Ianni T, Vyas DB, Huang Z, Park S, Hosseini-Nassab N, Aryal M, Airan RD. Focused Ultrasound for Noninvasive, Focal Pharmacologic Neurointervention. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:675. [PMID: 32760238 PMCID: PMC7372945 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
A long-standing goal of translational neuroscience is the ability to noninvasively deliver therapeutic agents to specific brain regions with high spatiotemporal resolution. Focused ultrasound (FUS) is an emerging technology that can noninvasively deliver energy up the order of 1 kW/cm2 with millimeter and millisecond resolution to any point in the human brain with Food and Drug Administration-approved hardware. Although FUS is clinically utilized primarily for focal ablation in conditions such as essential tremor, recent breakthroughs have enabled the use of FUS for drug delivery at lower intensities (i.e., tens of watts per square centimeter) without ablation of the tissue. In this review, we present strategies for image-guided FUS-mediated pharmacologic neurointerventions. First, we discuss blood–brain barrier opening to deliver therapeutic agents of a variety of sizes to the central nervous system. We then describe the use of ultrasound-sensitive nanoparticles to noninvasively deliver small molecules to millimeter-sized structures including superficial cortical regions and deep gray matter regions within the brain without the need for blood–brain barrier opening. We also consider the safety and potential complications of these techniques, with attention to temporal acuity. Finally, we close with a discussion of different methods for mapping the ultrasound field within the brain and describe future avenues of research in ultrasound-targeted drug therapies.
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- Jeffrey B Wang
- Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Neuroradiology Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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Miao X, Wu Y, Liu D, Jiang H, Woods D, Stern MT, Blair NIS, Airan RD, Bettegowda C, Rosch KS, Qin Q, van Zijl PCM, Pillai JJ, Hua J. Whole-Brain Functional and Diffusion Tensor MRI in Human Participants with Metallic Orthodontic Braces. Radiology 2020; 294:149-157. [PMID: 31714192 PMCID: PMC6939835 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2019190070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 01/11/2019] [Revised: 09/12/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Background MRI performed with echo-planar imaging (EPI) sequences is sensitive to susceptibility artifacts in the presence of metallic objects, which presents a substantial barrier for performing functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in patients with metallic orthodontic material and other head implants. Purpose To evaluate the ability to reduce susceptibility artifacts in healthy human participants wearing metallic orthodontic braces for two alternative approaches: T2-prepared functional MRI and diffusion-prepared DTI with three-dimensional fast gradient-echo readout. Materials and Methods In this prospective study conducted from February to September 2018, T2-prepared functional MRI and diffusion-prepared DTI were performed in healthy human participants. Removable dental braces with bonding trays were used so that MRI could be performed with braces and without braces in the same participants. Results were evaluated in regions with strong (EPI dropout regions for functional MRI and the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus for DTI) and minimal (motor cortex for functional MRI and the posterior limb of internal capsule for DTI) susceptibility artifacts. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), contrast-to-noise ratio for functional MRI, apparent diffusion coefficient and fractional anisotropy for DTI, and degree of distortion (quantified with the Jaccard index, which measures the similarity of geometric shapes) were compared in regions with strong or minimal susceptibility effects between the current standard EPI sequences and the proposed alternatives by using paired t test. Results Six participants were evaluated (mean age ± standard deviation, 40 years ± 6; three women). In brain regions with strong susceptibility effects from the metallic braces, T2-prepared functional MRI showed significantly higher SNR (37.8 ± 2.4 vs 15.5 ± 5.3; P < .001) and contrast-to-noise ratio (0.83 ± 0.16 vs 0.29 ± 0.10; P < .001), whereas diffusion-prepared DTI showed higher SNR (5.8 ± 1.5 vs 3.8 ± 0.7; P = .03) than did conventional EPI methods. Apparent diffusion coefficient and fractional anisotropy were consistent with the literature. Geometric distortion was substantially reduced throughout the brain with the proposed methods (significantly higher Jaccard index, 0.95 ± 0.12 vs 0.81 ± 0.61; P < .001). Conclusion T2-prepared functional MRI and diffusion-prepared diffusion tensor imaging can acquire functional and diffusion MRI, respectively, in healthy human participants wearing metallic dental braces with less susceptibility artifacts and geometric distortion than with conventional echo-planar imaging. © RSNA, 2019 Online supplemental material is available for this article. See also the editorial by Dietrich in this issue.
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- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
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- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
| | - David Woods
- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
| | - Moshe T. Stern
- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
| | - Nicholas I. S. Blair
- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
| | - Raag D. Airan
- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
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- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
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- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
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- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
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- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
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- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
| | - Jun Hua
- From the Neurosection, Division of MRI Research, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, 707 N Broadway, Baltimore, Md 21205 (X.M., Y.W., D.L., H.J.,
Q.Q., P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain
Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (X.M., Y.W., D.L., Q.Q.,
P.C.M.v.Z., J.H.); Department of Medical Imaging, Nanfang Hospital, Southern
Medical University, Guangzhou, P.R. China (Y.W.); Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Md
(D.W., M.T.S.); Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md (N.I.S.B.); Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (R.D.A., J.J.P.); Department of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (C.B., J.J.P.);
Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and Department of
Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.); and
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (K.S.R.)
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Abstract
Many neuroscientists are excited regarding the potential of ultrasound to yield spatiotemporally precise and noninvasive modulation of arbitrary brain regions. Here, Guo et al. (2018) and Sato et al. (2018) show that applying ultrasound to rodent brains activates acoustic responses more prominently than eliciting neuromodulation directly, suggesting potential confounds of ultrasound neuromodulation experiments.
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- Raag D Airan
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Zhong Q, Yoon BC, Aryal M, Wang JB, Ilovitsh T, Baikoghli MA, Hosseini-Nassab N, Karthik A, Cheng RH, Ferrara KW, Airan RD. Polymeric perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions are ultrasound-activated wireless drug infusion catheters. Biomaterials 2019; 206:73-86. [PMID: 30953907 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.03.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [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: 01/18/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Catheter-based intra-arterial drug therapies have proven effective for a range of oncologic, neurologic, and cardiovascular applications. However, these procedures are limited by their invasiveness and relatively broad drug spatial distribution. The ideal technique for local pharmacotherapy would be noninvasive and would flexibly deliver a given drug to any region of the body with high spatial and temporal precision. Combining polymeric perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions with existent clinical focused ultrasound systems could in principle meet these needs, but it has not been clear whether these nanoparticles could provide the necessary drug loading, stability, and generalizability across a range of drugs, beyond a few niche applications. Here, we develop polymeric perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions into a generalized platform for ultrasound-targeted delivery of hydrophobic drugs with high potential for clinical translation. We demonstrate that a wide variety of drugs may be effectively uncaged with ultrasound using these nanoparticles, with drug loading increasing with hydrophobicity. We also set the stage for clinical translation by delineating production protocols that are scalable and yield sterile, stable, and optimized ultrasound-activated drug-loaded nanoemulsions. Finally, we exhibit a new potential application of these nanoemulsions for local control of vascular tone. This work establishes the power of polymeric perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions as a clinically-translatable platform for efficacious, noninvasive, and localized ultrasonic drug uncaging for myriad targets in the brain and body.
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- Q Zhong
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Wang JB, Aryal M, Zhong Q, Vyas DB, Airan RD. Noninvasive Ultrasonic Drug Uncaging Maps Whole-Brain Functional Networks. Neuron 2018; 100:728-738.e7. [PMID: 30408444 PMCID: PMC6274638 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.10.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [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: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 09/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
Being able to noninvasively modulate brain activity, where and when an experimenter desires, with an immediate path toward human translation is a long-standing goal for neuroscience. To enable robust perturbation of brain activity while leveraging the ability of focused ultrasound to deliver energy to any point of the brain noninvasively, we have developed biocompatible and clinically translatable nanoparticles that allow ultrasound-induced uncaging of neuromodulatory drugs. Utilizing the anesthetic propofol, together with electrophysiological and imaging assays, we show that the neuromodulatory effect of ultrasonic drug uncaging is limited spatially and temporally by the size of the ultrasound focus, the sonication timing, and the pharmacokinetics of the uncaged drug. Moreover, we see secondary effects in brain regions anatomically distinct from and functionally connected to the sonicated region, indicating that ultrasonic drug uncaging could noninvasively map the changes in functional network connectivity associated with pharmacologic action at a particular brain target.
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- Jeffrey B Wang
- Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Division, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Division, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Division, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Division, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology Division, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Airan RD, Foss CA, Ellens NPK, Wang Y, Mease RC, Farahani K, Pomper MG. MR-Guided Delivery of Hydrophilic Molecular Imaging Agents Across the Blood-Brain Barrier Through Focused Ultrasound. Mol Imaging Biol 2017; 19:24-30. [PMID: 27481359 DOI: 10.1007/s11307-016-0985-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE A wide variety of hydrophilic imaging and therapeutic agents are unable to gain access to the central nervous system (CNS) due to the blood-brain barrier (BBB). In particular, unless a particular transporter exists that may transport the agent across the BBB, most agents that are larger than 500 Da or that are hydrophilic will be excluded by the BBB. Glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII), also known as the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) in the periphery, has been implicated in various neuropsychiatric conditions. As all agents that target GCPII are hydrophilic and thereby excluded from the CNS, we used GCPII as a platform for demonstrating our MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) technique for delivery of GCPII/PSMA-specific imaging agents to the brain. PROCEDURES Female rats underwent MRgFUS-mediated opening of the BBB. After opening of the BBB, either a radio- or fluorescently labeled ureido-based ligand for GCPII/PSMA was administered intravenously. Brain uptake was assessed for 2-(3-{1-carboxy-5-[(6-[18F]fluoro-pyridine-3-carbonyl)-amino]-pentyl}-ureido)-pentanedioic acid ([18F]DCFPyL) and YC-27, two compounds known to bind GCPII/PSMA with high affinity, using positron emission tomography (PET) and near-infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging, respectively. Specificity of ligand binding to GCPII/PSMA in the brain was determined with co-administration of a molar excess of ZJ-43, a compound of the same chemical class but different structure from either [18F]DCFPyL or YC-27, which competes for GCPII/PSMA binding. RESULTS Dynamic PET imaging using [18F]DCFPyL demonstrated that target uptake reached a plateau by ∼1 h after radiotracer administration, with target/background ratios continuing to increase throughout the course of imaging, from a ratio of ∼4:1 at 45 min to ∼7:1 by 80 min. NIRF imaging likewise demonstrated delivery of YC-27 to the brain, with clear visualization of tracer in the brain at 24 h. Tissue uptake of both ligands was greatly diminished by ZJ-43 co-administration, establishing specificity of binding of each to GCPII/PSMA. On gross and histological examination, animals showed no evidence for hemorrhage or other deleterious consequences of MRgFUS. CONCLUSIONS MRgFUS provided safe opening of the BBB to enable specific delivery of two hydrophilic agents to target tissues within the brain. This platform might facilitate imaging and therapy using a variety of agents that have heretofore been excluded from the CNS.
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- Raag D Airan
- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.,National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi N, Pillai JJ, Lindquist MA, Calhoun VD, Agarwal S, Airan RD, Caffo B, Gujar SK, Sair HI. Presurgical Brain Mapping of the Ventral Somatomotor Network in Patients with Brain Tumors Using Resting-State fMRI. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2017; 38:1006-1012. [PMID: 28364005 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a5132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2016] [Accepted: 12/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Resting-state fMRI readily identifies the dorsal but less consistently the ventral somatomotor network. Our aim was to assess the relative utility of resting-state fMRI in the identification of the ventral somatomotor network via comparison with task-based fMRI in patients with brain tumor. MATERIALS AND METHODS We identified 26 surgically naïve patients referred for presurgical fMRI brain mapping who had undergone both satisfactory ventral motor activation tasks and resting-state fMRI. Following standard preprocessing for task-based fMRI and resting-state fMRI, general linear model analysis of the ventral motor tasks and independent component analysis of resting-state fMRI were performed with the number of components set to 20, 30, 40, and 50. Visual overlap of task-based fMRI and resting-state fMRI at different component levels was assessed and categorized as full match, partial match, or no match. Rest-versus-task-fMRI concordance was calculated with Dice coefficients across varying fMRI thresholds before and after noise removal. Multithresholded Dice coefficient volume under the surface was calculated. RESULTS The ventral somatomotor network was identified in 81% of patients. At the subject level, better matches between resting-state fMRI and task-based fMRI were seen with an increasing order of components (53% of cases for 20 components versus 73% for 50 components). Noise-removed group-mean volume under the surface improved as component numbers increased from 20 to 50, though ANOVA demonstrated no statistically significant difference among the 4 groups. CONCLUSIONS In most patients, the ventral somatomotor network can be identified with an increase in the probability of a better match at a higher component number. There is variable concordance of the ventral somatomotor network at the single-subject level between resting-state and task-based fMRI.
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- N Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi
- From the Department of Radiology (N.Y.-F.-A.), Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group of Kaiser Permanente, Kensington, Maryland .,Division of Neuroradiology, (N.Y.-F.-A., J.J.P., S.A., R.D.A., S.K.G., H.I.S.), The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, (N.Y.-F.-A., J.J.P., S.A., R.D.A., S.K.G., H.I.S.), The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics (M.A.L., B.C.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- The Mind Research Network (S.A., V.D.C.), Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Division of Neuroradiology, (N.Y.-F.-A., J.J.P., S.A., R.D.A., S.K.G., H.I.S.), The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.,The Mind Research Network (S.A., V.D.C.), Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Division of Neuroradiology, (N.Y.-F.-A., J.J.P., S.A., R.D.A., S.K.G., H.I.S.), The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics (M.A.L., B.C.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, (N.Y.-F.-A., J.J.P., S.A., R.D.A., S.K.G., H.I.S.), The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, (N.Y.-F.-A., J.J.P., S.A., R.D.A., S.K.G., H.I.S.), The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Pereira L, Airan RD, Fishman A, Pillai JJ, Kansal K, Onyike CU, Prince JL, Ying SH, Sair HI. Resting-state functional connectivity and cognitive dysfunction correlations in spinocerebelellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6). Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 38:3001-3010. [PMID: 28295805 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2016] [Revised: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to evaluate the correlation between resting state functional MRI (RS-fMRI) activity and motor and cognitive impairment in spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6). METHODS Twelve patients with genetically confirmed SCA6 and 14 age matched healthy controls were imaged with RS-fMRI. Whole brain gray matter was automatically parcellated into 1000 regions of interest (ROIs). For each ROI, the first eigenvariate of voxel time courses was extracted. For each patient, Pearson correlation coefficients between each pair of ROI time courses were calculated across the 1000 ROIs. The set of average control correlation coefficients were fed as an undirected weighted adjacency matrix into the Rubinov and Sporns (2010) modularity algorithm. The intranetwork global efficiency of the thresholded adjacency sub-matrix was calculated and correlated with ataxia scores and cognitive performance. RESULTS SCA6 patients showed mild cognitive impairments in executive function and visual-motor processing compared to control subjects. These neuropsychological impairments were correlated with decreased RS functional connectivity (FC) in the attention network. CONCLUSIONS Mild cognitive executive functions and visual-motor coordination impairments seen in SCA6 patients correlate with decreased resting-state connectivity in the attention network, suggesting a possible metric for the study of cognitive dysfunction in cerebellar disease. Hum Brain Mapp 38:3001-3010, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Licia Pereira
- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287
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Airan RD, Meyer RA, Ellens NPK, Rhodes KR, Farahani K, Pomper MG, Kadam SD, Green JJ. Noninvasive Targeted Transcranial Neuromodulation via Focused Ultrasound Gated Drug Release from Nanoemulsions. Nano Lett 2017; 17:652-659. [PMID: 28094959 PMCID: PMC5362146 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2016] [Revised: 01/05/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
Targeted, noninvasive neuromodulation of the brain of an otherwise awake subject could revolutionize both basic and clinical neuroscience. Toward this goal, we have developed nanoparticles that allow noninvasive uncaging of a neuromodulatory drug, in this case the small molecule anesthetic propofol, upon the application of focused ultrasound. These nanoparticles are composed of biodegradable and biocompatible constituents and are activated using sonication parameters that are readily achievable by current clinical transcranial focused ultrasound systems. These particles are potent enough that their activation can silence seizures in an acute rat seizure model. Notably, there is no evidence of brain parenchymal damage or blood-brain barrier opening with their use. Further development of these particles promises noninvasive, focal, and image-guided clinical neuromodulation along a variety of pharmacological axes.
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- Raag D. Airan
- Department of Radiology
and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United States
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering and the Translational Tissue Engineering
Center, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United
States
- Department of Radiology, Stanford
University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering and the Translational Tissue Engineering
Center, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United
States
- Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United States
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- Department of Radiology
and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United States
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering and the Translational Tissue Engineering
Center, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United
States
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- Department of Radiology
and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United States
- National
Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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- Department of Radiology
and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United States
- Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United States
- Department
of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United
States
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- Neuroscience Laboratory, Hugo Moser Research Institute, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, United States
- Department
of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, United States
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering and the Translational Tissue Engineering
Center, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United
States
- Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United States
- Department
of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United
States
- Departments of Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, and Materials Science
and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, United States
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Airan RD, Vogelstein JT, Pillai JJ, Caffo B, Pekar JJ, Sair HI. Factors affecting characterization and localization of interindividual differences in functional connectivity using MRI. Hum Brain Mapp 2016; 37:1986-97. [PMID: 27012314 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [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: 07/06/2015] [Revised: 02/08/2016] [Accepted: 02/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Much recent attention has been paid to quantifying anatomic and functional neuroimaging on the individual subject level. For optimal individual subject characterization, specific acquisition and analysis features need to be identified that maximize interindividual variability while concomitantly minimizing intra-subject variability. We delineate the effect of various acquisition parameters (length of acquisition, sampling frequency) and analysis methods (time course extraction, region of interest parcellation, and thresholding of connectivity-derived network graphs) on characterizing individual subject differentiation. We utilize a non-parametric statistical metric that quantifies the degree to which a parameter set allows this individual subject differentiation by both maximizing interindividual variance and minimizing intra-individual variance. We apply this metric to analysis of four publicly available test-retest resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) data sets. We find that for the question of maximizing individual differentiation, (i) for increasing sampling, there is a relative tradeoff between increased sampling frequency and increased acquisition time; (ii) for the sizes of the interrogated data sets, only 3-4 min of acquisition time was sufficient to maximally differentiate each subject with an algorithm that utilized no a priori information regarding subject identification; and (iii) brain regions that most contribute to this individual subject characterization lie in the default mode, attention, and executive control networks. These findings may guide optimal rs-fMRI experiment design and may elucidate the neural bases for subject-to-subject differences. Hum Brain Mapp 37:1986-1997, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Raag D Airan
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.,Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.,F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
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Sair HI, Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi N, Calhoun VD, Airan RD, Agarwal S, Intrapiromkul J, Choe AS, Gujar SK, Caffo B, Lindquist MA, Pillai JJ. Presurgical brain mapping of the language network in patients with brain tumors using resting-state fMRI: Comparison with task fMRI. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 37:913-23. [PMID: 26663615 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [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: 08/19/2015] [Revised: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE To compare language networks derived from resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) with task-fMRI in patients with brain tumors and investigate variables that affect rs-fMRI vs task-fMRI concordance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Independent component analysis (ICA) of rs-fMRI was performed with 20, 30, 40, and 50 target components (ICA20 to ICA50) and language networks identified for patients presenting for presurgical fMRI mapping between 1/1/2009 and 7/1/2015. 49 patients were analyzed fulfilling criteria for presence of brain tumors, no prior brain surgery, and adequate task-fMRI performance. Rs-vs-task-fMRI concordance was measured using Dice coefficients across varying fMRI thresholds before and after noise removal. Multi-thresholded Dice coefficient volume under the surface (DiceVUS) and maximum Dice coefficient (MaxDice) were calculated. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was performed to determine significance of DiceVUS and MaxDice between the four ICA order groups. Age, Sex, Handedness, Tumor Side, Tumor Size, WHO Grade, number of scrubbed volumes, image intensity root mean square (iRMS), and mean framewise displacement (FD) were used as predictors for VUS in a linear regression. RESULTS Artificial elevation of rs-fMRI vs task-fMRI concordance is seen at low thresholds due to noise. Noise-removed group-mean DiceVUS and MaxDice improved as ICA order increased, however ANOVA demonstrated no statistically significant difference between the four groups. Linear regression demonstrated an association between iRMS and DiceVUS for ICA30-50, and iRMS and MaxDice for ICA50. CONCLUSION Overall there is moderate group level rs-vs-task fMRI language network concordance, however substantial subject-level variability exists; iRMS may be used to determine reliability of rs-fMRI derived language networks.
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- Haris I Sair
- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- The Mind Research Network, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Zhang F, Tsai HC, Airan RD, Stuber GD, Adamantidis AR, de Lecea L, Bonci A, Deisseroth K. Optogenetics in Freely Moving Mammals: Dopamine and Reward. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2015; 2015:715-24. [PMID: 26240415 DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top086330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Brain reward systems play a central role in the cognitive and hedonic behaviors of mammals. Multiple neuron types and brain regions are involved in reward processing, posing fascinating scientific questions, and major experimental challenges. Using diverse approaches including genetics, electrophysiology, imaging, and behavioral analysis, a large body of research has focused on both normal functioning of the reward circuitry and on its potential significance in neuropsychiatric diseases. In this introduction, we illustrate a real-world application of optogenetics to mammalian behavior and physiology, delineating procedures and technologies for optogenetic control of individual components of the reward circuitry. We describe the experimental setup and protocol for integrating optogenetic modulation of dopamine neurons with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, conditioned place preference, and operant conditioning to assess the causal role of well-defined electrical and biochemical signals in reward-related behavior.
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Song X, Airan RD, Arifin DR, Bar-Shir A, Kadayakkara DK, Liu G, Gilad AA, van Zijl PCM, McMahon MT, Bulte JWM. Label-free in vivo molecular imaging of underglycosylated mucin-1 expression in tumour cells. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6719. [PMID: 25813863 PMCID: PMC4380237 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2014] [Accepted: 02/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Alterations in mucin expression and glycosylation are associated with cancer development. Underglycosylated mucin-1 (uMUC1) is overexpressed in most malignant adenocarcinomas of epithelial origin (for example, colon, breast and ovarian cancer). Its counterpart MUC1 is a large polymer rich in glycans containing multiple exchangeable OH protons, which is readily detectable by chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI. We show here that deglycosylation of MUC1 results in >75% reduction in CEST signal. Three uMUC1+ human malignant cancer cell lines overexpressing uMUC1 (BT20, HT29 and LS174T) show a significantly lower CEST signal compared with the benign human epithelial cell line MCF10A and the uMUC1− tumour cell line U87. Furthermore, we demonstrate that in vivo CEST MRI is able to make a distinction between LS174T and U87 tumour cells implanted in the mouse brain. These results suggest that the mucCEST MRI signal can be used as a label-free surrogate marker to non-invasively assess mucin glycosylation and tumour malignancy. Overexpression of underglycosylated MUC1 (uMUC1) is found in most malignant adenocarcinomas of epithelial origin. Here the authors use chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI to detect uMUC1 and to distinguish between malignant and nonmalignant tumours.
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- Xiaolei Song
- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA [3] Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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- 1] Division of MR Research, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [2] Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA [3] Department of Oncology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA [4] F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [5] Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA [6] Department of Chemical &Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Gunaydin LA, Grosenick L, Finkelstein JC, Kauvar IV, Fenno LE, Adhikari A, Lammel S, Mirzabekov JJ, Airan RD, Zalocusky KA, Tye KM, Anikeeva P, Malenka RC, Deisseroth K. Natural neural projection dynamics underlying social behavior. Cell 2014; 157:1535-51. [PMID: 24949967 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 878] [Impact Index Per Article: 87.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Revised: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 05/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
Social interaction is a complex behavior essential for many species and is impaired in major neuropsychiatric disorders. Pharmacological studies have implicated certain neurotransmitter systems in social behavior, but circuit-level understanding of endogenous neural activity during social interaction is lacking. We therefore developed and applied a new methodology, termed fiber photometry, to optically record natural neural activity in genetically and connectivity-defined projections to elucidate the real-time role of specified pathways in mammalian behavior. Fiber photometry revealed that activity dynamics of a ventral tegmental area (VTA)-to-nucleus accumbens (NAc) projection could encode and predict key features of social, but not novel object, interaction. Consistent with this observation, optogenetic control of cells specifically contributing to this projection was sufficient to modulate social behavior, which was mediated by type 1 dopamine receptor signaling downstream in the NAc. Direct observation of deep projection-specific activity in this way captures a fundamental and previously inaccessible dimension of mammalian circuit dynamics.
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- Lisa A Gunaydin
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Neuroscience Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Neuroscience Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Neuroscience Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Advances in molecular biology in the early 1970s revolutionized research strategies for the study of complex biological processes, which, in turn, created a high demand for new means to visualize these dynamic biological changes noninvasively and in real time. In this respect, MRI was a perfect fit, because of the versatile possibility to alter the different contrast mechanisms. Genetic manipulations are now being translated to MRI through the development of reporters and sensors, as well as the imaging of transgenic and knockout mice. In the past few years, a new molecular biology toolset, namely optogenetics, has emerged, which allows for the manipulation of cellular behavior using light. This technology provides a few particularly attractive features for combination with newly developed MRI techniques for the probing of in vivo cellular and, in particular, neural processes, specifically the ability to control focal, genetically defined cellular populations with high temporal resolution using equipment that is magnetically inert and does not interact with radiofrequency pulses. Recent studies have demonstrated that the combination of optogenetics and functional MRI (fMRI) can provide an appropriate platform to investigate in vivo, at the cellular and molecular levels, the neuronal basis of fMRI signals. In addition, this novel combination of optogenetics with fMRI has the potential to resolve pre-synaptic versus post-synaptic changes in neuronal activity and changes in the activity of large neuronal networks in the context of plasticity associated with development, learning and pathophysiology.
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- Raag D. Airan
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Cellular Imaging Section and Vascular Biology Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Lim IAL, Faria AV, Li X, Hsu JTC, Airan RD, Mori S, van Zijl PCM. Human brain atlas for automated region of interest selection in quantitative susceptibility mapping: application to determine iron content in deep gray matter structures. Neuroimage 2013; 82:449-69. [PMID: 23769915 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [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: 11/21/2012] [Revised: 05/30/2013] [Accepted: 05/31/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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The purpose of this paper is to extend the single-subject Eve atlas from Johns Hopkins University, which currently contains diffusion tensor and T1-weighted anatomical maps, by including contrast based on quantitative susceptibility mapping. The new atlas combines a "deep gray matter parcellation map" (DGMPM) derived from a single-subject quantitative susceptibility map with the previously established "white matter parcellation map" (WMPM) from the same subject's T1-weighted and diffusion tensor imaging data into an MNI coordinate map named the "Everything Parcellation Map in Eve Space," also known as the "EvePM." It allows automated segmentation of gray matter and white matter structures. Quantitative susceptibility maps from five healthy male volunteers (30 to 33 years of age) were coregistered to the Eve Atlas with AIR and Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping (LDDMM), and the transformation matrices were applied to the EvePM to produce automated parcellation in subject space. Parcellation accuracy was measured with a kappa analysis for the left and right structures of six deep gray matter regions. For multi-orientation QSM images, the Kappa statistic was 0.85 between automated and manual segmentation, with the inter-rater reproducibility Kappa being 0.89 for the human raters, suggesting "almost perfect" agreement between all segmentation methods. Segmentation seemed slightly more difficult for human raters on single-orientation QSM images, with the Kappa statistic being 0.88 between automated and manual segmentation, and 0.85 and 0.86 between human raters. Overall, this atlas provides a time-efficient tool for automated coregistration and segmentation of quantitative susceptibility data to analyze many regions of interest. These data were used to establish a baseline for normal magnetic susceptibility measurements for over 60 brain structures of 30- to 33-year-old males. Correlating the average susceptibility with age-based iron concentrations in gray matter structures measured by Hallgren and Sourander (1958) allowed interpolation of the average iron concentration of several deep gray matter regions delineated in the EvePM.
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- Issel Anne L Lim
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of MR Research, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Airan RD, Bar-Shir A, Liu G, Pelled G, McMahon MT, van Zijl PCM, Bulte JWM, Gilad AA. MRI biosensor for protein kinase A encoded by a single synthetic gene. Magn Reson Med 2012; 68:1919-23. [PMID: 23023588 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2012] [Revised: 08/10/2012] [Accepted: 08/13/2012] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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PURPOSE Protein kinases including protein kinase A (PKA) underlie myriad important signaling pathways. The ability to monitor kinase activity in vivo and in real-time with high spatial resolution in genetically specified cellular populations is a yet unmet need, crucial for understanding complex biological systems as well as for preclinical development and screening of novel therapeutics. METHODS Using the hypothesis that the natural recognition sequences of protein kinases may be detected using chemical exchange saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging, we designed a genetically encoded biosensor composed of eight tandem repeats of the peptide LRRASLG, a natural target of PKA. RESULTS This sensor displays a measurable change in chemical exchange saturation transfer signal following phosphorylation by PKA. The natural PKA substrate LRRASLG exhibits a chemical exchange saturation transfer-magnetic resonance imaging contrast at +1.8 and +3.6 ppm, with a >50% change after phosphorylation with minutes-scale temporal resolution. Expression of a synthetic gene encoding eight monomers of LRRASLG yielded two peaks at these chemical exchange saturation transfer frequencies. CONCLUSION Taken together, these results suggest that this gene may be used to assay PKA levels in a biologically relevant system. Importantly, the design strategy used for this specific sensor may be adapted for a host of clinically interesting protein kinases.
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- Raag D Airan
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA
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Airan RD, Hu ES, Vijaykumar R, Roy M, Meltzer LA, Deisseroth K. Integration of light-controlled neuronal firing and fast circuit imaging. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2008; 17:587-92. [PMID: 18093822 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2007.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [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: 07/02/2007] [Accepted: 11/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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For understanding normal and pathological circuit function, capitalizing on the full potential of recent advances in fast optical neural circuit control will depend crucially on fast, intact-circuit readout technology. First, millisecond-scale optical control will be best leveraged with simultaneous millisecond-scale optical imaging. Second, both fast circuit control and imaging should be adaptable to intact-circuit preparations from normal and diseased subjects. Here we illustrate integration of fast optical circuit control and fast circuit imaging, review recent work demonstrating utility of applying fast imaging to quantifying activity flow in disease models, and discuss integration of diverse optogenetic and chemical genetic tools that have been developed to precisely control the activity of genetically specified neural populations. Together these neuroengineering advances raise the exciting prospect of determining the role-specific cell types play in modulating neural activity flow in neuropsychiatric disease.
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- Raag D Airan
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, CA, United States
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Airan RD, Meltzer LA, Roy M, Gong Y, Chen H, Deisseroth K. High-Speed Imaging Reveals Neurophysiological Links to Behavior in an Animal Model of Depression. Science 2007; 317:819-23. [PMID: 17615305 DOI: 10.1126/science.1144400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 310] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [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: 01/12/2023]
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The hippocampus is one of several brain areas thought to play a central role in affective behaviors, but the underlying local network dynamics are not understood. We used quantitative voltage-sensitive dye imaging to probe hippocampal dynamics with millisecond resolution in brain slices after bidirectional modulation of affective state in rat models of depression. We found that a simple measure of real-time activity-stimulus-evoked percolation of activity through the dentate gyrus relative to the hippocampal output subfield-accounted for induced changes in animal behavior independent of the underlying mechanism of action of the treatments. Our results define a circuit-level neurophysiological endophenotype for affective behavior and suggest an approach to understanding circuit-level substrates underlying psychiatric disease symptoms.
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- Raag D Airan
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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