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Oltra J, Habich A, Schwarz CG, Nedelska Z, Przybelski SA, Inguanzo A, Diaz‐Galvan P, Lowe VJ, Oppedal K, Gonzalez MC, Philippi N, Blanc F, Barkhof F, Lemstra AW, Hort J, Padovani A, Rektorova I, Bonanni L, Massa F, Kramberger MG, Taylor J, Snædal JG, Walker Z, Antonini A, Dierks T, Segura B, Junque C, Westman E, Boeve BF, Aarsland D, Kantarci K, Ferreira D. Sex differences in brain atrophy in dementia with Lewy bodies. Alzheimers Dement 2024; 20:1815-1826. [PMID: 38131463 PMCID: PMC10947875 DOI: 10.1002/alz.13571] [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: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Sex influences neurodegeneration, but it has been poorly investigated in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We investigated sex differences in brain atrophy in DLB using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS We included 436 patients from the European-DLB consortium and the Mayo Clinic. Sex differences and sex-by-age interactions were assessed through visual atrophy rating scales (n = 327; 73 ± 8 years, 62% males) and automated estimations of regional gray matter volume and cortical thickness (n = 165; 69 ± 9 years, 72% males). RESULTS We found a higher likelihood of frontal atrophy and smaller volumes in six cortical regions in males and thinner olfactory cortices in females. There were significant sex-by-age interactions in volume (six regions) and cortical thickness (seven regions) across the entire cortex. DISCUSSION We demonstrate that males have more widespread cortical atrophy at younger ages, but differences tend to disappear with increasing age, with males and females converging around the age of 75. HIGHLIGHTS Male DLB patients had higher odds for frontal atrophy on radiological visual rating scales. Male DLB patients displayed a widespread pattern of cortical gray matter alterations on automated methods. Sex differences in gray matter measures in DLB tended to disappear with increasing age.
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- Javier Oltra
- Medical Psychology UnitDepartment of MedicineInstitute of NeuroscienceUniversity of BarcelonaBarcelonaCataloniaSpain
- Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)BarcelonaCataloniaSpain
- Division of Clinical GeriatricsCenter for Alzheimer ResearchDepartment of NeurobiologyCare Sciences and SocietyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Division of Clinical GeriatricsCenter for Alzheimer ResearchDepartment of NeurobiologyCare Sciences and SocietyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
- University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bern, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Memory ClinicDepartment of NeurologyCharles University2nd Faculty of Medicine and Motol University HospitalPragueCzech Republic
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- Division of Clinical GeriatricsCenter for Alzheimer ResearchDepartment of NeurobiologyCare Sciences and SocietyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Department of RadiologyMayo ClinicRochesterMinnesotaUSA
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- Center for Age‐Related MedicineStavanger University HospitalStavangerNorway
- Stavanger Medical Imaging Laboratory (SMIL)Department of RadiologyStavanger University HospitalStavangerNorway
- The Norwegian Centre for Movement DisordersStavanger University HospitalStavangerNorway
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- Center for Age‐Related MedicineStavanger University HospitalStavangerNorway
- Stavanger Medical Imaging Laboratory (SMIL)Department of RadiologyStavanger University HospitalStavangerNorway
- The Norwegian Centre for Movement DisordersStavanger University HospitalStavangerNorway
- Department of Quality and Health TechnologyFaculty of Health SciencesUniversity of StavangerStavangerNorway
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- Geriatrics and Neurology UnitsResearch and Resources Memory Center (CM2R)Hôpitaux Universitaires de StrasbourgStrasbourgFrance
- ICube Laboratory (CNRS, UMR 7357)StrasbourgFrance
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- Geriatrics and Neurology UnitsResearch and Resources Memory Center (CM2R)Hôpitaux Universitaires de StrasbourgStrasbourgFrance
- ICube Laboratory (CNRS, UMR 7357)StrasbourgFrance
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- Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine (AMC)Amsterdam UMC, Vrije UniversiteitAmsterdamthe Netherlands
- Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC)University College LondonLondonUK
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- Alzheimer Center AmsterdamNeurologyVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC location VumcAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam NeuroscienceNeurodegeneration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC location VumcAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Memory ClinicDepartment of NeurologyCharles University2nd Faculty of Medicine and Motol University HospitalPragueCzech Republic
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- Neurology UnitDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences (DSCS)University of BresciaBresciaItaly
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- Brain and Mind ResearchCentral European Institute of Technology (CEITET)Masaryk UniversityBrnoCzech Republic
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- Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti‐Pescara ChietiChietiItaly
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- Department of NeuroscienceRehabilitationOphthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child HealthUniversity of GenovaGenovaItaly
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- Translational and Clinical Research InstituteFaculty of Medical SciencesNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- Division of PsychiatryUniversity College LondonLondonUK
- St Margaret's HospitalEssex Partnership University NHS Foundation TrustEssexUK
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- Parkinson and Movement Disorders UnitStudy Center on Neurodegeneration (CESNE)PadovaItaly
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- University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bern, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Medical Psychology UnitDepartment of MedicineInstitute of NeuroscienceUniversity of BarcelonaBarcelonaCataloniaSpain
- Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)BarcelonaCataloniaSpain
- Network Center for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED: CB06/05/0018‐ISCIII)BarcelonaCataloniaSpain
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- Medical Psychology UnitDepartment of MedicineInstitute of NeuroscienceUniversity of BarcelonaBarcelonaCataloniaSpain
- Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)BarcelonaCataloniaSpain
- Network Center for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED: CB06/05/0018‐ISCIII)BarcelonaCataloniaSpain
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- Division of Clinical GeriatricsCenter for Alzheimer ResearchDepartment of NeurobiologyCare Sciences and SocietyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Center for Age‐Related MedicineStavanger University HospitalStavangerNorway
- Department of Old Age PsychiatryInstitute of PsychiatryPsychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)King's College LondonLondonUK
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- Division of Clinical GeriatricsCenter for Alzheimer ResearchDepartment of NeurobiologyCare Sciences and SocietyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
- Department of RadiologyMayo ClinicRochesterMinnesotaUSA
- Facultad de Ciencias de la SaludUniversidad Fernando Pessoa CanariasLas PalmasEspaña
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Incocciati A, Kubeš J, Piacentini R, Cappelletti C, Botta S, Bertuccini L, Šimůnek T, Boffi A, Macone A, Bonamore A. Hydrophobicity-enhanced ferritin nanoparticles for efficient encapsulation and targeted delivery of hydrophobic drugs to tumor cells. Protein Sci 2023; 32:e4819. [PMID: 37883077 PMCID: PMC10661074 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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Ferritin, a naturally occurring iron storage protein, has gained significant attention as a drug delivery platform due to its inherent biocompatibility and capacity to encapsulate therapeutic agents. In this study, we successfully genetically engineered human H ferritin by incorporating 4 or 6 tryptophan residues per subunit, strategically oriented towards the inner cavity of the nanoparticle. This modification aimed to enhance the encapsulation of hydrophobic drugs into the ferritin cage. Comprehensive characterization of the mutants revealed that only the variant carrying four tryptophan substitutions per subunit retained the ability to disassemble and reassemble properly. As a proof of concept, we evaluated the loading capacity of this mutant with ellipticine, a natural hydrophobic indole alkaloid with multimodal anticancer activity. Our data demonstrated that this specific mutant exhibited significantly higher efficiency in loading ellipticine compared to human H ferritin. Furthermore, to evaluate the versatility of this hydrophobicity-enhanced ferritin nanoparticle as a drug carrier, we conducted a comparative study by also encapsulating doxorubicin, a commonly used anticancer drug. Subsequently, we tested both ellipticine and doxorubicin-loaded nanoparticles on a promyelocytic leukemia cell line, demonstrating efficient uptake by these cells and resulting in the expected cytotoxic effect.
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- Alessio Incocciati
- Department of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec KrálovéCharles UniversityHradec KrálovéCzech Republic
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
- Center of Life Nano‐ and Neuro‐ScienceItalian Institute of TechnologyRomeItaly
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec KrálovéCharles UniversityHradec KrálovéCzech Republic
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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Procházková L, Matsuzaki R, Řezanka T, Nedbalová L, Remias D. The snow alga Chloromonas kaweckae sp. nov. (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) causes green surface blooms in the high tatras (Slovakia) and tolerates high irradiance. J Phycol 2023; 59:236-248. [PMID: 36461636 PMCID: PMC10946730 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 04/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Seasonally slowly melting mountain snowfields are populated by extremophilic microalgae. In alpine habitats, high-light sensitive, green phytoflagellates are usually observed in subsurface layers deeper in the snowpack under dim conditions, while robust orange to reddish cyst stages can be seen exposed on the surface. In this study, uncommon surface green snow was investigated in the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia). The monospecific community found in the green surface bloom consisted of vegetative Chloromonas cells (Volvocales, Chlorophyta). Molecular data demonstrated that the field sample and the strain isolated and established from the bloom were conspecific, and they represent a new species, Chloromonas kaweckae sp. nov., which is described based on the morphology of the vegetative cells and asexual reproduction and on molecular analyses of the strain. Cells of C. kaweckae accumulated approximately 50% polyunsaturated fatty acids, which is advantageous at low temperatures. In addition, this new species performed active photosynthesis at temperatures close to the freezing point showed a light compensation point of 126 ± 22 μmol photons · m-2 · s-1 and some signs of photoinhibition at irradiances greater than 600 μmol photons · m-2 · s-1 . These data indicate that the photosynthetic apparatus of C. kaweckae could be regarded as adapted to relatively high light intensities, otherwise unusual for most flagellate stages of snow algae.
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- Lenka Procházková
- Department of EcologyCharles University, Faculty of SciencePrague128 44Czech Republic
- The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Centre for PhycologyDukelská 135379 82TřeboňCzech Republic
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- University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences1–1–1 TennodaiTsukubaIbaraki305–8572Japan
- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Biodiversity Division16‐2 OnogawaTsukubaIbaraki305‐8506Japan
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- The Czech Academy of SciencesInstitute of MicrobiologyVídeňská 1083Prague142 20Czech Republic
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- Department of EcologyCharles University, Faculty of SciencePrague128 44Czech Republic
- The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Centre for PhycologyDukelská 135379 82TřeboňCzech Republic
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- University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, School of EngineeringStelzhamerstr. 23Wels4600Austria
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Vrbická K, Kohler TJ, Falteisek L, Hawkings JR, Vinšová P, Bulínová M, Lamarche-Gagnon G, Hofer S, Kellerman AM, Holt AD, Cameron KA, Schön M, Wadham JL, Stibal M. Catchment characteristics and seasonality control the composition of microbial assemblages exported from three outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:1035197. [PMID: 36523833 PMCID: PMC9745319 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1035197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2023] Open
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Glacial meltwater drains into proglacial rivers where it interacts with the surrounding landscape, collecting microbial cells as it travels downstream. Characterizing the composition of the resulting microbial assemblages in transport can inform us about intra-annual changes in meltwater flowpaths beneath the glacier as well as hydrological connectivity with proglacial areas. Here, we investigated how the structure of suspended microbial assemblages evolves over the course of a melt season for three proglacial catchments of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS), reasoning that differences in glacier size and the proportion of glacierized versus non-glacierized catchment areas will influence both the identity and relative abundance of microbial taxa in transport. Streamwater samples were taken at the same time each day over a period of 3 weeks (summer 2018) to identify temporal patterns in microbial assemblages for three outlet glaciers of the GrIS, which differed in glacier size (smallest to largest; Russell, Leverett, and Isunnguata Sermia [IS]) and their glacierized: proglacial catchment area ratio (Leverett, 76; Isunnguata Sermia, 25; Russell, 2). DNA was extracted from samples, and 16S rRNA gene amplicons sequenced to characterize the structure of assemblages. We found that microbial diversity was significantly greater in Isunnguata Sermia and Russell Glacier rivers compared to Leverett Glacier, the latter of which having the smallest relative proglacial catchment area. Furthermore, the microbial diversity of the former two catchments continued to increase over monitored period, presumably due to increasing hydrologic connectivity with proglacial habitats. Meanwhile, diversity decreased over the monitored period in Leverett, which may have resulted from the evolution of an efficient subglacial drainage system. Linear discriminant analysis further revealed that bacteria characteristic to soils were disproportionately represented in the Isunnguata Sermia river, while putative methylotrophs were disproportionately abundant in Russell Glacier. Meanwhile, taxa typical for glacierized habitats (i.e., Rhodoferax and Polaromonas) dominated in the Leverett Glacier river. Our findings suggest that the proportion of deglaciated catchment area is more influential to suspended microbial assemblage structure than absolute glacier size, and improve our understanding of hydrological flowpaths, particulate entrainment, and transport.
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- Kristýna Vrbická
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
- River Ecosystems Laboratory, Alpine and Polar Environmental Research Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Earth and Environment, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
- Department of Geosciences, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Geosciences, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Geosciences, UiO University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
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- School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- River Ecosystems Laboratory, Alpine and Polar Environmental Research Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Geosciences, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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