Profile of in Vitro Binding Affinities of Neuroleptics at Different Rat Brain Receptors: Cluster Analysis Comparison with Pharmacological and Clinical Profiles

A series of 21 neuroleptics with different chemical structures (phenothiazines, thioxanthenes, dibenzodiazepines, butyrophenones, benzamides, etc.) was examined for their in vitro interactions with 12 neurotransmitter binding sites in the rat brain (alpha- and beta-noradrenergic, dopaminergic, muscarinic, serotoninergic, histaminic, and opioid receptors, calcium channels, and serotonin uptake binding sites). The biochemical profile obtained from the binding data was compared with reported pharmacological and clinical profiles for this class of compounds by cluster analysis. Cluster analysis on binding data classified the compounds in three main subgroups: benzamides, compounds with an affinity mainly for DA2 and 5-HT2 receptors and inactive at muscarinic receptors, and compounds with a high affinity for alpha 1-adrenergic receptors and muscarinic receptors. The main subgroups resulting from cluster analysis of previously published pharmacological and clinical data for neuroleptics contain compounds common to the present study, with some correlations. The results extend previous observations that a complete binding profile corresponds to the pharmacological and clinical profile of this class of compounds.     

Screening microarrays of novel monoclonal antibodies for binding to T-, B- and myeloid leukaemia cells

We have developed a microarray (DotScan) that enables rapid immunophenotyping and classification of leukaemias and lymphomas by measuring the capture of cells by immobilized dots of 82 CD antibodies [Belov, L., de la Vega, O., dos Remedios, C.G., Mulligan, S.P., 2001. Immunophenotyping of leukemia using a cluster of differentiation antibody microarray. Cancer Res. 61, 4483; Belov, L., Huang, P., Barber, N., Mulligan, S.P., Christopherson, R.I., 2003. Identification of repertoires of surface antigens on leukemias using an antibody microarray. Proteomics 3, 2147]. The DotScan technology has been used to investigate the properties of 498 new antibodies submitted to the HLDA8 Workshop. These antibodies have been applied as 10 nl dots to a film of nitrocellulose on a microscope slide to make an HLDA8 microarray. After blocking the remaining nitrocellulose surface, individual arrays were incubated with each of 7 cell types from a human leukaemia cell panel consisting of three cell lines, CCRF-CEM (a T-cell acute lymphocytic leukaemia), MEC-1 (derived from B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia) and HL-60 (a promyelocytic leukaemia), and four leukaemias from patients: a T-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia, a B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, and two acute myeloid leukaemias. Leukaemia cells were captured by those immobilized antibodies for which they expressed the corresponding surface molecule. Unbound cells were gently washed off, bound cells were fixed to the arrays and dot patterns were recorded using a DotScan array reader and quantified using DotScan data analysis software. The data obtained show the unique expression profiles of the 7 cell types in the leukaemia cell panel obtained with the DotScan microarray, and the differential capture patterns for these 7 cell types screened against the 498 antibodies in the HLDA8 microarray constructed for this study.     

葛根素对LPS诱导急性脑损伤小鼠的保护作用

目的:研究葛根素(Pur)对脂多糖(LPS)诱导的小鼠急性感染性脑损伤的保护作用及机制。方法:36只清洁级雄性ICR小鼠随机分为正常对照组(NS)、LPS感染组(LPS)和葛根素组(Pur+LPS)。LPS腹腔注射建立急性脑损伤模型,立即腹腔注射给予葛根素注射液治疗,6和24h后旷场。暗场实验检测各组小鼠的自发活动,WesternBlot检测脑组织白细胞分化抗原14(CD14)和环氧化酶2(C0X-2)蛋白表达量,Nisl染色观察神经元存活情况。结果:与NS组相比,LPS组6和24 h旷场实验自主活动距离和穿格次数显著减少,海马神经元的存活数目显著减少,脑组织CD14和C0X-2蛋白表达量显著升高(P<0.05);与LPS组比较,Pur+LPS组6和24 h时海马神经元的存活率明显提高,且CD14和C0X-2蛋白表达量明显下降(P<0.05)。结论:葛根素注射液对LPS所致小鼠急性感染性脑损伤具有一定保护作用,其作用机制可能与抑制脑组织CD14和C0X-2表达有关。     

Unique demographic situation in the United Arab Emirates

A method which optimizes on global properties of sample recordings is proposed for the definition of and the discrimination between electroencephalogram (EEG) classes. The sample was drawn from students at the University of Heidelberg from 1974 to 1978 and consists of 15 healthy index cases clinically ascertained as belonging to the low voltage EEG group. In addition, the three clinically defined groups: diffuse β (18 index cases), borderline α (12 index cases) and monomorphous α (18 index cases) have been included in the study, as well as the first degree relatives of the index cases, thus providing a clinical classification into four groups. The proposed method provides an automatic and reliable classification algorithm using discriminant and cluster analysis. The relation between such an automatized classification and clinical classification schemes is investigated. In particular, the inheritance of the low voltage, EEG, the question on sex differences and the question of a simple Mendelian mechanism had been examined. The method of random splittings had been applied for discriminant and cluster analysis. Our findings can be summarized as follows: (1) except for the monomorphous α EEG group, the clinical classification shows rather marginal separation (discriminating performance 60% to 75%), while a new and more reliable grouping scheme improves the discriminating performance up to 87% to 91%. The latter scheme leads to the concept of personal channel pattern (PCP) and was compared to the clinical classification scheme by means of contingency tables; (2) only a weak correlation between the clinically and PCP-based groups could be found (Cramér Index: 0.27). Accordingly, we continued to investigate the extent to which the proposed EEG classification scheme can nevertheless explain the genetic mechanisms apparently involved in the low voltage EEG. We thus considered the role of sex differences manifest in our proposed new grouping scheme; (3) males occurred more frequently in the new group 3 and females more frequently in the new group 1. In this regard, a much better correlation of the new groups between mothers and children than between fathers and children was observed; and (4) with help of our new PCP scheme, we have been able to reproduce a simple two gene Mendelian scheme to explain inheritance of the clinical low voltage EEG group. In this PCP-based scheme, the low voltage property does not occur when dominance of a certain gene (called gene A) is absent. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) cluster groups among chronically ill patients: Relationship to illness adjustment and treatment outcome

Cluster analysis of the MMPI has been utilized widely in the chronic low back pain literature to try to identify reliable patient subtypes predictive of treatment outcome. We extended this methodology to patients with heterogeneous chronic medical conditions by replicating prototypic MMPI cluster group profiles and by relating cluster groups to clinical baseline and outcome data. Subjects were two independent samples (n=254 and n=263) of chronically ill patients admitted to an inpatient medicine/psychiatry unit. Using a four-cluster solution, similar cluster profile groups were replicated in both samples. Consistent differences emerged between cluster groups on functional impairment, psychiatric diagnoses, depression, and psychosomatic symptoms. Cluster group membership also predicted changes in functional impairment and depression six months after treatment. Results are discussed in terms of similarities between chronic low back pain and chronic illness and tailoring treatment to different patient types.This research was supported in part by a grant from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.     

5′HOXD基因与单纯性马蹄内翻足的相关性分析

目的检测HOXD10、HOXD12、HOXD13基因内4个已知单核苷酸多态(single nucleotide poly-morphisms,SNP)rs2593778、rs847154、rs847151、rs13392701在单纯性马蹄内翻足核心家系中的分布情况,分析各个SNP位点及所构成单倍型与单纯性马蹄内翻足的相关性。方法应用限制性片段长度多态性技术结合测序,分析84个单纯性马蹄内翻足核心家系4个SNP位点基因型;应用ETDT软件统计分析各SNP位点基因型与单纯性马蹄内翻足的相关性;应用TRANSMIT软件构建单倍型并统计分析单倍型频率是否存在差异。结果位于HOXD12基因5′侧翼序列的SNP位点rs847154和位于HOXD13第1外显子的SNP位点rs13392701在单纯性马蹄内翻核心家系中存在传递不平衡(P<0.05);位于HOXD12基因第1外显子的SNP位点rs847151未检测到多态;位于HOXD10第1外显子的SNP位点rs2593778经ETDT分析无统计学意义。结论HOXD12基因5′侧翼序列的SNP位点rs847154和位于HOXD13第1外显子的SNP位点rs13392701与单纯性先天性马蹄内翻足有明显的相关性,提示HOXD12、HOXD13可能是单纯性马蹄内翻足重要的易感基因。     

Empirically derived pain-patient MMPI subgroups: Prediction of treatment outcome

Fifty-seven male chronic pain patients admitted to an inpatient multimodal pain treatment program at a Midwestern Veterans Administration hospital completed the MMPI, Profile of Mood States (POMS), Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS), Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS), activity diaries, and an extensive pain questionnaire. All patients were assessed both before and after treatment, and most also were assessed 2–5 months prior to treatment. No significant changes occurred during the baseline period, but significant improvements were evident at posttreatment on most variables: MMPI, POMS, TSCS, RAS, pain severity, sexual functioning, and activity diaries. MMPI subgroup membership, based on a hierarchical cluster analysis in a larger sample, was not predictive of differential treatment outcome. Possible reasons for comparable treatment gains among these subgroups, which previously have been shown to differ on many psychological and behavioral factors, are discussed.This paper originally was presented at the Fourth World Congress on Pain, Seattle, Washington, September, 1984.     

Papillary adenoma of type II pneumocytes might have malignant potential

Papillary adenoma of type II pneumocytes is a rare tumour. It is considered to be a benign neoplasm and is derived from immature cells in the bronchioloalveolar epithelium, however, its biological nature has not been elucidated. We report a case of an adenomatous tumour; a papillary adenoma of type II pneumocytes, which we regard as possessing malignant potential. Light microscopically, as well circumscribed, papillary tumour of predominantly cuboidal cells resembling type II pneumocytes was found, but Clara type and ciliated cells were also present. Immunohistochemically, the tumour cells reacted positively with antibodies to surfactant apoproteins (A, B), carcinoembryonic antigen, cytochrome P-450 1A1-2 and 2B1-2. Ultrastructurally, many osmiophilic lamellar bodies and electron-dense granules were demonstrated. Semi-serial sections revealed signs of transbronchial dissemination and vascular invasion. Morphometry using 12-dimensional cluster analysis disclosed features of the tumour cells which resembled those of pneumocyte type II adenocarcinoma. These findings suggest that the present case has some malignant characteristics and originates from immature bronchiolar or alveolar cells, with a potential to develop into both type II pneumocyte and Clara cell type adenocarcinomas.     

Patterns of dysmorphic features in schizophrenia

Congenital dysmorphic features are prevalent in schizophrenia and may reflect underlying neurodevelopmental abnormalities. A cluster analysis approach delineating patterns of dysmorphic features has been used in genetics to classify individuals into more etiologically homogeneous subgroups. In the present study, this approach was applied to schizophrenia, using a sample with a suspected genetic syndrome as a testable model. Subjects (n = 159) with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were ascertained from chronic patient populations (random, n = 123) or referred with possible 22q11 deletion syndrome (referred, n = 36). All subjects were evaluated for presence or absence of 70 reliably assessed dysmorphic features, which were used in a three‐step cluster analysis. The analysis produced four major clusters with different patterns of dysmorphic features. Significant between–cluster differences were found for rates of 37 dysmorphic features (P < 0.05), median number of dysmorphic features (P = 0.0001), and validating features not used in the cluster analysis: mild mental retardation (P = 0.001) and congenital heart defects (P = 0.002). Two clusters (1 and 4) appeared to represent more developmental subgroups of schizophrenia with elevated rates of dysmorphic features and validating features. Cluster 1 (n = 27) comprised mostly referred subjects. Cluster 4 (n = 18) had a different pattern of dysmorphic features; one subject had a mosaic Turner syndrome variant. Two other clusters had lower rates and patterns of features consistent with those found in previous studies of schizophrenia. Delineating patterns of dysmorphic features may help identify subgroups that could represent neurodevelopmental forms of schizophrenia with more homogeneous origins. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

帕金森病相关基因的模糊聚类分析

目的通过分析与帕金森病相关基因之间的相互关系，探讨遗传因素对帕金森病发病机制的影响，为帕金森病的预防及临床诊断和治疗提供可能的遗传学参考依据。方法分别对NCBI中Genbank数据库中的与帕金森病相关基因序列进行两两序列的局部比对分析。确定相关序列的度量关系，并采用模糊聚类的方法进行聚类分析。结果由模糊聚类的结果可知，当α=0．6时，共分为三类，其分别为：{x2，x12,x9，x17，x3，x7，x10,x13，x14,x18,x19}；{x5,x16，x1，x6}；{x4，x8，x11,x15}。结论由聚类分析的角度可推断：被聚为一类的基因其功能普遍具有相似性。