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T1-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies report early atrophy in the left anterior temporal lobe, especially the perirhinal cortex, in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA). Improved segmentation protocols using high-resolution T2-MRI have enabled fine-grained medial temporal lobe (MTL) subregional measurements, which may provide novel information on the atrophy pattern and disease progression in svPPA. We aimed to investigate the MTL subregional atrophy pattern cross-sectionally and longitudinally in patients with svPPA as compared with controls and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). MTL subregional volumes were obtained using the Automated Segmentation for Hippocampal Subfields software from high-resolution T2-MRIs in 15 svPPA, 37 AD, and 23 healthy controls. All MTL volumes were corrected for intracranial volume and parahippocampal cortices for slice number. Longitudinal atrophy rates of all subregions were obtained using an unbiased deformation-based morphometry pipeline in 6 svPPA patients, 9 controls, and 12 AD patients. Cross-sectionally, significant volume loss was observed in svPPA compared with controls in the left MTL, right cornu ammonis 1 (CA1), Brodmann area (BA)35, and BA36 (subdivisions of the perirhinal cortex). Compared with AD patients, svPPA patients had significantly smaller left CA1, BA35, and left and right BA36 volumes. Longitudinally, svPPA patients had significantly greater atrophy rates of left and right BA36 than controls but not relative to AD patients. Fine-grained analysis of MTL atrophy patterns provides information about the evolution of atrophy in svPPA. These results indicate that MTL subregional measures might be useful markers to track disease progression or for clinical trials in svPPA.Impaired mRNA translation (protein synthesis) is linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. Recent studies revealed the role of increased phosphorylation of eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (eEF2) in AD-associated cognitive deficits. Phosphorylation of eEF2 (at the Thr56 site) by its only known kinase eEF2K leads to inhibition of general protein synthesis. AD is considered as a disease of "synaptic failure" characterized by impairments of synaptic plasticity, including long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD). Deficiency of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5-dependent LTD (mGluR-LTD) is indicated in cognitive syndromes associated with various neurological disorders, including AD, but the molecular signaling mechanisms underlying the mGluR-LTD dysregulation in AD remain unclear. In this brief communication, we report genetic repression of eEF2K in aged APP/PS1 AD model mice prevented AD-associated hippocampal mGluR-LTD deficits. Using a pharmacological approach, we further observed that impairments of mGluR-LTD in APP/PS1 mice were rescued by treating hippocampal slices with a small molecule eEF2K antagonist NH125. Our findings, taken together, suggest a critical role of abnormal protein synthesis dysregulation at the elongation phase in AD-associated mGluR-LTD failure, thus providing insights into a mechanistic understanding of synaptic impairments in AD and other related dementia syndromes.Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is the collection of cognitive impairments, lasting days to months, experienced by individuals following surgery. Persistent POCD is most commonly experienced by older individuals and is associated with a greater vulnerability to developing Alzheimer's disease, but the underlying mechanisms are not known. It is known that laparotomy (exploratory abdominal surgery) in aged rats produces memory impairments for 4 days. Here we report that postsurgical treatment with morphine extends this deficit to at least 2 months while having no effects in the absence of surgery. Indeed, hippocampal-dependent long-term memory was impaired 2, 4, and 8 weeks postsurgery only in aged, morphine-treated rats. Short-term memory remained intact. Morphine is known to have analgesic effects via μ-opioid receptor activation and neuroinflammatory effects through Toll-like receptor 4 activation. Here we demonstrate that persistent memory deficits were mediated independently of the μ-opioid receptor, suggesting that they were evoked through a neuroinflammatory mechanism and unrelated to pain modulation. In support of this, aged, laparotomized, and morphine-treated rats exhibited increased gene expression of various proinflammatory markers (IL-1β, IL-6, TNFα, NLRP3, HMGB1, TLR2, and TLR4) in the hippocampus at the 2-week time point. Furthermore, central blockade of IL-1β signaling with the specific IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA), at the time of surgery, completely prevented the memory impairment. Finally, synaptophysin and PSD95 gene expression were significantly dysregulated in the hippocampus of aged, laparotomized, morphine-treated rats, suggesting that impaired synaptic structure and/or function may play a key role in this persistent deficit. This instance of long-term memory impairment following surgery closely mirrors the timeline of persistent POCD in humans and may be useful for future treatment discoveries.

There is growing interest in the ability of automated infrared pupillometry to assess severity of neurological illness. We studied the correlation between computed tomography (CT) indicators of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) severity with objective measures of the pupillary light reflex (PLR), and hypothesized that hemorrhage volume would predict the Neurological Pupil index™ (NPi™), an indicator of pupillary reactivity.

This study examined data from patients with supratentorial ICH who underwent serial pupillometer evaluations. CT images were examined to determine the location and laterality of the hemorrhage, along with hematoma volume (using the simplified ABC/2 method), midline shift, hydrocephalus score, and modified Graeb score (indicating interventricular hemorrhage). Demographics were examined with standard measures of central tendency, hypotheses with logistic regression, categorical data with Fisher's Exact X2, and multivariate modeling with constructed MAX-R models.

Data were gathered from 44 CT indicators of ICH severity. Future studies should explore the role of NPi in detecting early hematoma expansion and worsening midline shift.Indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) catalyses the first and rate limiting step of kynurenine pathway accounting for the major contributor of L-Tryptophan degradation. The Kynurenine metabolites are identified as essential cofactors, antagonists, neurotoxins, immunomodulators, antioxidants as well as carcinogens. The catalytic active site of IDO1 enzyme consists of hydrophobic Pocket-A positioned in the distal heme site and remains connected to a second hydrophobic Pocket-B towards the entrance of the active site. selleck inhibitor IDO1 enzyme also relates directly to the modulation of the innate and adaptive immune system. Various studies proved that the over expression of IDO1 enzyme play a predominant role in the escape of immunity during cancer progression. Recently, there has been considerable interest in evaluating the potential of IDO1 inhibitors to mobilize the body's immune system against solid tumours. In the last two decades, enormous attempts to advance new IDO1 inhibitors are on-going both in pharmaceutical industries and in academia which resulted in the discovery of a diverse range of selective and potent IDO1 inhibitors. The IDO1 inhibitors have therapeutic utility in various diseases and in the near future, it may have utility in the treatment of COVID-19. Despite various reviews on IDO1 inhibitors in last five years, none of the reviews provide a complete overview of diverse chemical space including naturally occurring and synthetic IDO1 inhibitors with detailed structure activity relationship studies. The present work provides a complete overview on the IDO1 inhibitors known in the literature so far along with the Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) in each class of compounds.There is strong evidence that inhibition of one or more Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 1A (ALDH1A) isoforms may be beneficial in chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer and other tumor types. While many previous efforts have focused on development of ALDH1A1 selective inhibitors, the most deadly ovarian cancer subtype, high-grade serous (HGSOC), exhibits elevated expression of ALDH1A3. Herein, we report continued development of pan-ALDH1A inhibitors to assess whether broad spectrum ALDH1A inhibition is an effective adjunct to chemotherapy in this critical tumor subtype. Optimization of the CM39 scaffold, aided by metabolite ID and several new ALDH1A1 crystal structures, led to improved biochemical potencies, improved cellular ALDH inhibition in HGSOC cell lines, and substantial improvements in microsomal stability culminating in orally bioavailable compounds. We demonstrate that two compounds 68 and 69 are able to synergize with chemotherapy in a resistant cell line and patient-derived HGSOC tumor spheroids, indicating their suitability for future in vivo proof of concept experiments.MAIT cells are preset αβ T lymphocytes that recognize a series of microbial antigens exclusively derived from the riboflavin biosynthesis pathway, which is present in most bacteria. The most active known antigen is unstable 5-(2-oxopropylideneamino)-6-(d-ribitylamino)uracil (5-OP-RU) which is stabilized when bound and presented to MAIT cells by MHC-related protein 1 (MR1). Here we describe the chemical synthesis and biological evaluation of new chemical probes for the study of MAIT cell biology. The two probes were ethinyl functionalized analogues of 5-OP-RU able to react through CuAAC also called "click chemistry". The molecules up-regulated more MR1 than 5-OP-RU and they efficiently activated iVα19 Vβ8 TCR transgenic murine MAIT cells but not iVα19 TCRα transgenic MAIT cells indicating a surprisingly strong impact of the TRCβ chain. Moreover, the use of these molecules as chemical probes was validated in vitro by efficient and selective binding to MR1 revealed via fluorescence microscopy. This study was also complemented by molecular modelling investigation of the probes and the binary/ternary complexes they form with MR1 and the TCR. These new probes will be crucial to delineate the dynamics of 5-OP-RU at the cellular or whole organism level and to identify the cells presenting 5-OP-RU to MAIT cells in vivo.

In a previous study which made a comparison between disorder-specific and generic instruments to assess outcome of treatments for depression, the Beck Depression Inventory, Second Edition (BDI-II) seemed to be more sensitive to change than the Inventory of Depressive Symptoms- Self Rating (IDS-SR).

A set with longitudinal data from Routine Outcome Monitoring (n=144) were analyzed with multilevel models with random intercepts. The sensitivity to change of two disorder-specific instruments, the BDI-II and the IDS-SR, were compared head to head.

The BDI-II was more sensitive to change when measuring treatment outcome compared to the IDS-SR. The BDI-II decreases significantly more over time than the IDS-SR the average decrease per week for the IDS-SR is -.012 (95%CI -0.015, -0.009) and for the BDI-II it is -.017 (95%CI -0.021, -0.014).

Conclusions can only be preliminary due to a small sample size.

Treatment outcomes measured with questionnaires may differ depending on the degree of sensitivity to change of the instruments.