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Amygdala Stimulation Evokes Time-Varying Synaptic Responses in the Gustatory Cortex of Anesthetized Rats
Gustatory stimuli are characterized by a specific hedonic value; they are either palatable or aversive. Hedonic value, along with other psychological dimensions of tastes, is coded in the time-course of gustatory cortex (GC) neural responses and appears to emerge via top-down modulation by the basolateral amygdala (BLA). While the importance of BLA in modulating gustatory cortical function has been well established, the nature of its input onto GC neurons is largely unknown. Somewhat conflicting results from extracellular recordings point to either excitatory or inhibitory effects. Here, we directly test the hypothesis that BLA can evoke time-varying – excitatory and inhibitory – synaptic responses in GC using in vivo intracellular recording techniques in urethane anesthetized rats. Electrical stimulation of BLA evoked a post-synaptic potential (PSP) in GC neurons that resulted from a combination of short and long latency components: an initial monosynaptic, glutamatergic potential followed by a multisynaptic, GABAergic hyperpolarization. As predicted by the dynamic nature of amygdala evoked potentials, trains of five BLA stimuli at rates that mimic physiological firing rates (5–40 Hz) evoke a combination of excitation and inhibition in GC cells. The magnitude of the different components varies depending on the frequency of stimulation, with summation of excitatory and inhibitory inputs reaching its maximum at higher frequencies. These experiments provide the first description of BLA synaptic inputs to GC and reveal that amygdalar afferents can modulate gustatory cortical network activity and its processing of sensory information via time-varying synaptic dynamics
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Hormonal basis of sex differences in anesthetic sensitivity
General anesthesia-a pharmacologically induced reversible state of unconsciousness-enables millions of life-saving procedures. Anesthetics induce unconsciousness in part by impinging upon sexually dimorphic and hormonally sensitive hypothalamic circuits regulating sleep and wakefulness. Thus, we hypothesized that anesthetic sensitivity should be sex-dependent and modulated by sex hormones. Using distinct behavioral measures, we show that at identical brain anesthetic concentrations, female mice are more resistant to volatile anesthetics than males. Anesthetic sensitivity is bidirectionally modulated by testosterone. Castration increases anesthetic resistance. Conversely, testosterone administration acutely increases anesthetic sensitivity. Conversion of testosterone to estradiol by aromatase is partially responsible for this effect. In contrast, oophorectomy has no effect. To identify the neuronal circuits underlying sex differences, we performed whole brain c-Fos activity mapping under anesthesia in male and female mice. Consistent with a key role of the hypothalamus, we found fewer active neurons in the ventral hypothalamic sleep-promoting regions in females than in males. In humans, we demonstrate that females regain consciousness and recover cognition faster than males after identical anesthetic exposures. Remarkably, while behavioral and neurocognitive measures in mice and humans point to increased anesthetic resistance in females, cortical activity fails to show sex differences under anesthesia in either species. Cumulatively, we demonstrate that sex differences in anesthetic sensitivity are evolutionarily conserved and not reflected in conventional electroencephalographic-based measures of anesthetic depth. This covert resistance to anesthesia may explain the higher incidence of unintended awareness under general anesthesia in females
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Peat Bog Wildfire Smoke Exposure in Rural North Carolina Is Associated with Cardiopulmonary Emergency Department Visits Assessed through Syndromic Surveillance
Background: In June 2008, burning peat deposits produced haze and air pollution far in excess of National Ambient Air Quality Standards, encroaching on rural communities of eastern North Carolina. Although the association of mortality and morbidity with exposure to urban air pollution is well established, the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire emissions are less well understood.
Objective: We investigated the effects of exposure on cardiorespiratory outcomes in the population affected by the fire.
Methods: We performed a population-based study using emergency department (ED) visits reported through the syndromic surveillance program NC DETECT (North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool). We used aerosol optical depth measured by a satellite to determine a high-exposure window and distinguish counties most impacted by the dense smoke plume from surrounding referent counties. Poisson log-linear regression with a 5-day distributed lag was used to estimate changes in the cumulative relative risk (RR).
Results: In the exposed counties, significant increases in cumulative RR for asthma [1.65 (95% confidence interval, 1.25–2.1)], chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [1.73 (1.06–2.83)], and pneumonia and acute bronchitis [1.59 (1.07–2.34)] were observed. ED visits associated with cardiopulmonary symptoms [1.23 (1.06–1.43)] and heart failure [1.37 (1.01–1.85)] were also significantly increased.
Conclusions: Satellite data and syndromic surveillance were combined to assess the health impacts of wildfire smoke in rural counties with sparse air-quality monitoring. This is the first study to demonstrate both respiratory and cardiac effects after brief exposure to peat wildfire smoke
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O10.5. ABNORMAL MODULAR ORGANIZATION OF THE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTOME PREDICTS CONVERSION TO PSYCHOSIS IN CLINICAL HIGH-RISK YOUTH
Abstract Background: The first episode of schizophrenia is typically preceded by a prodromal phase characterized by sub-threshold symptoms and declining functioning. Elucidating the neurobiological substrate of prodromal symptoms that progress into overt psychotic illness is crucial to the development of early detection and intervention strategies for schizophrenia. In this study, we performed a functional connectome analysis in a large group of adolescents and young adults at Clinical High Risk (CHR) for schizophrenia. We aim to assess whether, and if so how, baseline connectome organization distinguishes CHR youth that go on to develop psychosis. Methods: This study comprises a total of 251 subjects, including 158 psychotropically-naïve CHR subjects (CHRs) and 93 healthy controls (HCs), who were matched to CHRs on age, gender, and level of education. Prodromal symptoms and cognition were assessed using the SIPS structured interview and MATRICS cognitive battery. Anatomical T1 MRI and resting-state fMRI scans were collected at baseline and processed using Freesurfer v6.0 and CONN v17.d software. For each subject, a functional connectome map was reconstructed consisting of 162 nodes representing 148 cortical regions from the Destrieux atlas and 14 subcortical structures. Functional connectomes were analyzed in terms of modular topology using the Louvain community detection method. Modular network partitions of individual CHRs were compared to a group-averaged HC network using the rand similarity coefficient (SR), providing a measure of the level of (ab)normality of the CHRs’ modular partitions. Analysis of covariance (correcting for age- and gender) was used to compare SR levels between CHRs who developed psychosis during follow-up (CHR+; N = 23) as compared to CHRs who did not develop psychosis (CHR-; N = 135). Kaplan-Meier analysis was used to estimate psychosis-free survival functions for CHRs with below- versus above-average SR, which were compared using log-rank tests. Cox regression analysis was used to assess how baseline connectome organization and clinical measures (i.e., demographics, symptoms, IQ) predicted time to conversion. Results: Modular community detection in HCs yielded five major modules including a posterior ‘visual’, central ‘sensorimotor’, medial frontoparietal ‘default-mode’, lateral frontoparietal ‘central-executive’, and inferior ‘limbic’ module. Modular connectome organization of CHR+ was significantly less similar to HCs than CHR- (F(1,154) = 7.14, p = 0.008). A region-specific analysis to identify which regions contributed most to aberrant modular connectome organization in CHR+ showed that superior temporal (including STG), medial temporal (including amygdala), and ventromedial prefrontal regions were most abnormal in terms of their modular assignment. Psychosis-free survival functions of CHRs with low versus high SR were significantly different (z = 2.5, p = 0.013), with a Hazard ratio of 3.3 indicating an over 3-fold relative event rate (i.e., conversion to psychosis) in CHRs with abnormal baseline connectome organization. Cox regression analysis indicated that baseline connectome organization (z = -2.3, p = 0.019), IQ (z = -2.7, p = 0.007), and gender (z = 2.0, p = 0.048) predicted time to conversion. Discussion This study indicates that abnormalities in functional connectome organization precede the first psychotic episode. Conversion to psychosis was found to be over three times more likely in CHRs with abnormal modular organization of the functional connectome at baseline. Our results suggest that functional connectome reorganization may underlie the gradual manifestation of prodromal symptoms. These findings may contribute to early diagnosis and intervention in schizophrenia
Bortezomib Added to Daunorubicin and Cytarabine During Induction Therapy and to Intermediate-Dose Cytarabine for Consolidation in Patients With Previously Untreated Acute Myeloid Leukemia Age 60 to 75 Years: CALGB (Alliance) Study 10502
The purpose of this study was to determine remission induction frequency when bortezomib was combined with daunorubicin and cytarabine in previously untreated older adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and safety of bortezomib in combination with consolidation chemotherapy consisting of intermediate-dose cytarabine (Int-DAC)
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