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Item Investigation of Neurogenesis in Kindled Wistar and Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats(MARMARA UNIV, INST HEALTH SCIENCES, 2022-01-01) Kandemir, Cansu; Yavuz, Melis; Karakaya, Fatma Bedia; Kaya, Ozlem Tugce Cilingir; Onat, Filiz; Sirvanci, SerapObjective: The most common type of epilepsy affecting about 50 million people worldwide is temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Chemical and electrical kindling methods in animals can be used to form TLE model. In the present study, it was aimed to investigate neurogenesis in the hippocampus of adult kindled Wistar rats and genetic absence epilepsy rats from Strasbourg (GAERS) rats by immunofluorescence methods.Methods: Adult Wistar and GAERS albino rats weighing 250-300 gr were injected pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) (35 mg/kg, s.c.) every other day to produce chemical kindling. Animals having 5 times grade 5 seizures were considered to be kindled. Intracardiac perfusion was performed under deep anesthesia on the 7th and 14th days after the last grade 5 seizure. Immunofluorescence methods were used to demonstrate newly formed neurons, astroglial cells, and mature neurons, by using anti-doublecortin (DCX), anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and antineuronal nuclear antigen (NeuN) primary antibodies, respectively. Sections were then examined under a fluorescence microscope.Results: DCX (+) cells were found to be increased in GAERS control groups compared to the Wistar control groupsItem Neonatal Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic Mouse Model(IOS PRESS, 2018-01-01) Mazi, Aise Rumeysa; Arzuman, Aysegul Sumeyye; Gurel, Busra; Sahin, Betul; Tuzuner, Mete Bora; Ozansoy, Mehmet; Baykal, Ahmet TarikAlzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive disorder characterized by a variety of molecular pathologies causing cortical dementia with a prominent memory deficit. Formation of the pathology, which begins decades before the diagnosis of the disease, is highly correlated with the clinical symptoms. Several proteomics studies were performed using animal models to monitor the alterations of the brain tissue proteome at different stages of AD. However, proteome changes in the brain regions of newborn transgenic mouse model have not been investigated yet. To this end, we analyzed protein expression alterations in cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum of transgenic mice carrying five familial AD mutations (5XFAD) at neonatal day-1. Our results indicate a remarkable difference in protein expression profile of newborn 5XFAD brain with region specific variations. Additionally, the proteins, which show similar expression alteration pattern in postmortem human AD brains, were determined. Bioinformatics analysis showed that the molecular alterations were mostly related to the cell morphology, cellular assembly and organization, and neuroinflammation. Moreover, morphological analysis revealed that there is an increase in neurite number of 5XFAD mouse neurons in vitro. We suggest that, molecular alterations in the AD brain exist even at birth, and perhaps the disease is silenced until older ages when the brain becomes vulnerable.Item Correlation of anatomical involvement patterns of insular gliomas with subnetworks of the limbic system(AMER ASSOC NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS, 2022-01-01) Ulgen, Ege; Aras, Fuat Kaan; Cosgun, Erdal; Ersen-Danyeli, Ayca; Dincer, Alp; Usseli, M. Imre; Ozduman, Koray; Pamir, M. NecmettinOBJECTIVE Gliomas frequently involve the insula both primarily and secondarily by invasion. Despite the high connectivity of the human insula, gliomas do not spread randomly to or from the insula but follow stereotypical anatomical involvement patterns. In the majority of cases, these patterns correspond to the intrinsic connectivity of the limbic system, except for tumors with aggressive biology. On the basis of these observations, the authors hypothesized that these different involvement patterns may be correlated with distinct outcomes and analyzed these correlations in an institutional cohort. METHODS Fifty-nine patients who had undergone surgery for insular diffuse gliomas and had complete demographic, pre- and postoperative imaging, pathology, molecular genetics, and clinical follow-up data were included in the analysis (median age 37 years, range 21-71 years, M/F ratio 1.68). Patients with gliomatosis and those with only minor involvement of the insula were excluded. The presence of T2-hyperintense tumor infiltration was evaluated in 12 anatomical structures. Hierarchical biclustering was used to identify co-involved structures, and the findings were correlated with established functional anatomy knowledge. Overall survival was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards regression analysis (17 parameters). RESULTS The tumors involved the anterior insula (98.3\%), posterior insula (67.8\%), temporal operculum (47.5\%), amygdala (42.4\%), frontal operculum (40.7\%), temporal pole (39\%), parolfactory area (35.6\%), hypothalamus (23.7\%), hippocampus (16.9\%), thalamus (6.8\%), striatum (5.1\%), and cingulate gyrus (3.4\%). A mean 4.2 +/- 2.6 structures were involved. On the basis of hierarchical biclustering, 7 involvement patterns were identified and correlated with cortical functional anatomy (pure insular {[}11.9\%], olfactocentric {[}15.3\%], olfactoopercular {[}33.9\%], operculoinsular {[}15.3\%], striatoinsular {[}3.4\%], translimbic {[}11.9\%], and multifocal {[}8.5\%] patterns). Cox regression identified hippocampal involvement (p = 0.006) and postoperative tumor volume (p = 0.027) as significant negative independent prognosticators of overall survival and extent of resection (p = 0.015) as a significant positive independent prognosticator. CONCLUSIONS The study findings indicate that insular gliomas primarily involve the olfactocentric limbic girdle and that involvement in the hippocampocentric limbic girdle is associated with a worse prognosis.