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Major mood disorders, which primarily include bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder, are the leading cause of disability worldwide and pose a major challenge in identifying robust risk genes. Here, we present data from independent large-scale clinical data sets (including 29 557 cases and 32 056 controls) revealing brain expressed protocadherin 17 (PCDH17) as a susceptibility gene for major mood disorders. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning the PCDH17 region are significantly associated with major mood disorders; subjects carrying the risk allele showed impaired cognitive abilities, increased vulnerable personality features, decreased amygdala volume and altered amygdala function as compared with non-carriers. The risk allele predicted higher transcriptional levels of PCDH17 mRNA in postmortem brain samples, which is consistent with increased gene expression in patients with bipolar disorder compared with healthy subjects. Further, overexpression of PCDH17 in primary cortical neurons revealed significantly decreased spine density and abnormal dendritic morphology compared with control groups, which again is consistent with the clinical observations of reduced numbers of dendritic spines in the brains of patients with major mood disorders. Given that synaptic spines are dynamic structures which regulate neuronal plasticity and have crucial roles in myriad brain functions, this study reveals a potential underlying biological mechanism of a novel risk gene for major mood disorders involved in synaptic function and related intermediate phenotypes.
Objective: Sensorineural hearing loss leads to the progressive degeneration of spiral ganglion cells (SGC). Next to postoperative fibrous tissue growth, which should be suppressed to assure a close nerve–electrode interaction, the density of healthy SGC is one factor that influences the efficiency of cochlear implants (CI), the choice of treatment for affected patients. Rolipram, a phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor, has proven neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory effects and might also reduce SGC degeneration and fibrosis, but it has to pass the cellular membrane to be biologically active.
Methods: Lipidic nanocapsules (LNC) can be used as biodegradable drug carriers to increase the efficacy of conventional application methods. We examined the biological effects of rolipram and LNC's core encapsulated rolipram on SGC and dendritic cell (DC) tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) production in vitro and on SGC survival in systemically-deafened guinea pigs in vivo.
Results: Our results prove that rolipram does not have a beneficial effect on cultured SGC. Incorporation of rolipram in LNC increased the survival of SGC significantly. In the DC study, rolipram significantly inhibited TNF-α in a dose-dependent manner. The rolipram-loaded LNC provided a significant cytokine inhibition as well. In vivo data do not confirm the in vitro results.
Conclusion: By transporting rolipram into the SGC cytoplasm, LNC enabled the neuroprotective effect of rolipram in vitro, but not in vivo. This might be due to dilution of test substances by perilymph or an inadequate release of rolipram based on differing in vivo and in vitro conditions. Nevertheless, based on in vitro results, proving a significantly increased neuronal survival when using LNC-rolipram compared to pure rolipram and pure LNC application, we believe that the combination of rolipram and LNC can potentially reduce neuronal degeneration and fibrosis after CI implantation. We conclude that rolipram is a promising drug that can be used in inner ear therapy and that LNC have potential as an inner ear drug-delivery system. Further experiments with modified conditions might reveal in vivo biological effects.
Hintergrund: Die chirurgische Facharztweiterbildung erfordert neben dem Erlernen theoretischen Wissens ebenfalls den Erwerb praktisch-chirurgischer Kompetenzen. Eine Alternative zur Aus- und Weiterbildung am Patienten stellen simulationsbasierte Lehrkonzepte dar. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die Analyse der Verteilung und des Einsatzes chirurgischer Simulatoren in deutschen Kliniken.
Methoden: Die Datenanalyse erfolgte auf Basis eines individuellen Onlinefragebogens mit insgesamt 19 standardisierten Fragen. Dieser wurde über die E‑Mail-Verteiler der deutschen chirurgischen Fachgesellschaften an die leitenden chirurgischen Klinikärzte versendet.
Ergebnisse: Insgesamt 267 vollständige Antwortdatensätze wurden analysiert (Rücklaufquote 12,0 %). 84,0 % der Teilnehmer gaben ihre Tätigkeit an einem Lehrkrankenhaus an. Zum Zeitpunkt der Untersuchung waren 143 chirurgische Simulatoren an 35,0 % der in die Auswertung eingeschlossenen Kliniken vorhanden. Regional zeigten sich deutliche Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Bundesländern. 21,1 % der Teilnehmer, an deren Klinik kein Simulator zur Verfügung steht, planten eine Neubeschaffung. Studierende (41,1 %) und Ärzte in Weiterbildung (ÄiW, 32,5 %) nutzten das Simulationstraining am häufigsten. Eine Integration in die chirurgische Weiterbildung bestand zu 81,8 % nicht. 94,0 % der beteiligten Kliniken zeigten Interesse an einer zukünftigen Integration in die chirurgische Facharztweiterbildung.
Schlussfolgerung: Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse bestätigen die besondere Bedeutung des simulationsbasierten Trainings für die chirurgische Weiterbildung an deutschen Kliniken. Gleichzeitig bestehen deutliche Informationsdefizite über das Nutzungsverhalten sowie eine defizitär empfundene Integration des Simulationstrainings in die chirurgische Weiterbildung.
A central motivation for the development of x-ray free-electron lasers has been the prospect of time-resolved single-molecule imaging with atomic resolution. Here, we show that x-ray photoelectron diffraction—where a photoelectron emitted after x-ray absorption illuminates the molecular structure from within—can be used to image the increase of the internuclear distance during the x-ray-induced fragmentation of an O2 molecule. By measuring the molecular-frame photoelectron emission patterns for a two-photon sequential K-shell ionization in coincidence with the fragment ions, and by sorting the data as a function of the measured kinetic energy release, we can resolve the elongation of the molecular bond by approximately 1.2 a.u. within the duration of the x-ray pulse. The experiment paves the road toward time-resolved pump-probe photoelectron diffraction imaging at high-repetition-rate x-ray free-electron lasers.