Objective: To determine serotonin system abnormalities related to major depression or previous suicidal behavior.
Methods: [11C]WAY100635, [18F]altanserin and positron emission tomography were used to compare 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A binding in MDD patients divided into eight past suicide attempters (>4yrs prior to scanning) and eight lifetime non-attempters, and both groups were compared to eight healthy volunteers.
Results: The two receptor types differed in binding pattern across brain regions from each other, but there were no differences in binding between healthy volunteers and the two depressed groups or between depressed suicide attempters and non-attempters. No effects of depression severity or lifetime aggression were observed for either receptor.
Conclusion: Limitations of this study include small sample size and absence of high lethality suicide attempts in the depressed attempter group. No trait-like binding correlations with past suicide attempt or current depression were observed. Given the heterogeneity of nonfatal suicidal behavior, a larger sample study emphasizing higher lethality suicide attempts may find the serotonin biological phenotype seen in suicide decedents. 相似文献
Lowering of the elevated plasma FFA concentration in 18- 24-h fasted rats with nicotinic acid (NA) caused complete ablation of subsequent glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS). Although the effect of NA was reversed when the fasting level of total FFA was maintained by coinfusion of soybean oil or lard oil (plus heparin), the more saturated animal fat proved to be far more potent in enhancing GSIS. We therefore examined the influence of individual fatty acids on insulin secretion in the perfused rat pancreas. When present in the perfusion fluid at 0.5 mM (in the context of 1% albumin), the fold stimulation of insulin release from the fasted pancreas in response to 12.5 mM glucose was as follows: octanoate (C8:0), 3.4; linoleate (C18:2 cis/cis), 5.3; oleate (C18:1 cis), 9.4; palmitate (C16:0), 16. 2; and stearate (C18:0), 21.0. The equivalent value for palmitoleate (C16:1 cis) was 3.1. A cis--> trans switch of the double bond in the C16:1 and C18:1 fatty acids had only a modest, if any, impact on their potency. A similar profile emerged with regard to basal insulin secretion (3 mM glucose). When a subset of these fatty acids was tested in pancreases from fed animals, the same rank order of effectiveness at both basal and stimulatory levels of glucose was seen. The findings reaffirm the essentiality of an elevated plasma FFA concentration for GSIS in the fasted rat. They also show, however, that the insulinotropic effect of individual fatty acids spans a remarkably broad range, increasing and decreasing dramatically with chain length and degree of unsaturation, respectively. Thus, for any given level of glucose, insulin secretion will be influenced greatly not only by the combined concentration of all circulating (unbound) FFA, but also by the makeup of this FFA pool. Both factors will likely be important considerations in understanding the complex interplay between the nature of dietary fat and whole body insulin, glucose, and lipid dynamics. 相似文献
The aim of the study was to determine whether a prior diagnostic testicle
biopsy can predict success or failure of testicular sperm extraction (TESE)
with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in patients with
non-obstructive azoospermia caused by testicular failure, and what is the
minimum threshold of sperm production in the testis which must be surpassed
for spermatozoa to reach the ejaculate. Forty- five patients with
non-obstructive azoospermia caused by testicular failure underwent
diagnostic testicle biopsy prior to a planned future TESE-ICSI procedure.
The diagnostic testicle biopsy was analysed quantitatively, and correlated
with the quantitative findings of spermatogenesis in patients with normal
spermatogenesis, as well as with the results of subsequent attempts at
TESE-ICSI. Men with non- obstructive azoospermia caused by germinal failure
had a mean of 0-6 mature spermatids/seminiferous tubule seen on a
diagnostic testicle biopsy, compared to 17-35 mature spermatids/tubule in
men with normal spermatogenesis and obstructive azoospermia. These findings
were the same for all types of testicular failure whether Sertoli cell
only, maturation arrest, cryptorchidism, or post-chemotherapy azoospermia.
Twenty-two of 26 men with mature spermatids found in the prior testis
biopsy had successful retrieval of spermatozoa for ICSI, 12 of their
partners became pregnant, and are either ongoing or delivered. The study
suggests that 4-6 mature spermatids/tubule must be present in the testis
biopsy for any spermatozoa to reach the ejaculate. More than half of
azoospermic patients with germinal failure have minute foci of
spermatogenesis which are insufficient to produce spermatozoa in the
ejaculate. Prior diagnostic testicle biopsy analysed quantitatively (for
the presence of mature spermatids) can predict subsequent success or
failure with TESE-ICSI. Incomplete testicular failure may involve a sparse
multi-focal distribution of spermatogenesis throughout the entire testicle,
rather than a regional distribution. Therefore, it is possible that massive
testicular sampling from many different regions of the testes may not be
necessary for successful TESE-ICSI.
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