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Schroeder K, Kovačević V, Civitarese G, Velaoras D, Álvarez M, Tanhua T, Jullion L, Coppola L, Bensi M, Ursella L, Santinelli C, Giani M, Chiggiato J, Aly-Eldeen M, Assimakopoulou G, Bachi G, Bogner B, Borghini M, Cardin V, Cornec M, Giannakourou A, Giannoudi L, Gogou A, Golbol M, Hazan O, Karthäuser C, Kralj M, Krasakopoulou E, Matić F, Mihanović H, Muslim S, Papadopoulos VP, Parinos C, Paulitschke A, Pavlidou A, Pitta E, Protopapa M, Rahav E, Raveh O, Renieris P, Reyes-Suarez NC, Rousselaki E, Silverman J, Souvermezoglou E, Urbini L, Zeri C, Zervoudaki S. Seawater physics and chemistry along the Med-SHIP transects in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016. Sci Data 2024; 11:52. [PMID: 38195581 PMCID: PMC10776779 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02835-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024] Open
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The Mediterranean Sea has been sampled irregularly by research vessels in the past, mostly by national expeditions in regional waters. To monitor the hydrographic, biogeochemical and circulation changes in the Mediterranean Sea, a systematic repeat oceanographic survey programme called Med-SHIP was recommended by the Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM) in 2011, as part of the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP). Med-SHIP consists of zonal and meridional surveys with different frequencies, where comprehensive physical and biogeochemical properties are measured with the highest international standards. The first zonal survey was done in 2011 and repeated in 2018. In addition, a network of meridional (and other key) hydrographic sections were designed: the first cycle of these sections was completed in 2016, with three cruises funded by the EU project EUROFLEETS2. This paper presents the physical and chemical data of the meridional and key transects in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean Sea collected during those cruises.
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- Katrin Schroeder
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Venice and La Spezia, Italy.
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Instituto Español de Oceanografía, IEO-CSIC, A Coruña, Spain
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- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, OSU STAMAR, UAR2017, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris, cedex, 05, France
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Biofisica (CNR-IBF), Pisa, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Venice and La Spezia, Italy
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Biofisica (CNR-IBF), Pisa, Italy
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- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Venice and La Spezia, Italy
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, IOLR, Haifa, Israel
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- University Department of Marine Studies, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- University Department of Marine Studies, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, IOLR, Haifa, Israel
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, IOLR, Haifa, Israel
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, IOLR, Haifa, Israel
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- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, HCMR, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos, Greece
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Rubino A, Bensi M, Hainbucher D, Zanchettin D, Mapelli F, Ogrinc N, Marchetto D, Borin S, Cardin V, Fajon V, Horvat M, Taricco C, Baldi F. Biogeochemical, Isotopic and Bacterial Distributions Trace Oceanic Abyssal Circulation. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0145299. [PMID: 26761666 PMCID: PMC4711998 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We explore the possibility of tracing routes of dense waters toward and within the ocean abyss by the use of an extended set of observed physical and biochemical parameters. To this purpose, we employ mercury, isotopic oxygen, biopolymeric carbon and its constituents, together with indicators of microbial activity and bacterial diversity found in bottom waters of the Eastern Mediterranean. In this basin, which has been considered as a miniature global ocean, two competing sources of bottom water (one in the Adriatic and one in the Aegean seas) contribute to the ventilation of the local abyss. However, due to a recent substantial reduction of the differences in the physical characteristics of these two water masses it has become increasingly complex a water classification using the traditional approach with temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen alone. Here, we show that an extended set of observed physical and biochemical parameters allows recognizing the existence of two different abyssal routes from the Adriatic source and one abyssal route from the Aegean source despite temperature and salinity of such two competing sources of abyssal water being virtually indistinguishable. Moreover, as the near-bottom development of exogenous bacterial communities transported by convectively-generated water masses in the abyss can provide a persistent trace of episodic events, intermittent flows like those generating abyssal waters in the Eastern Mediterranean basin may become detectable beyond the availability of concomitant measurements.
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- Angelo Rubino
- Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Campus Scientifico, Via Torino 155, 30172 Mestre, VE, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, OGS, B.go Grotta Gigante 42/c, Sgonico, Trieste, Italy
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- CEN, Institut für Meereskunde, University of Hamburg, Bundesstraße 53, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Campus Scientifico, Via Torino 155, 30172 Mestre, VE, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze per gli Alimenti, la Nutrizione e l'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, “Jožef Stefan” Institut, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Campus Scientifico, Via Torino 155, 30172, Mestre, VE, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze per gli Alimenti, la Nutrizione e l'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, OGS, B.go Grotta Gigante 42/c, Sgonico, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, “Jožef Stefan” Institut, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, “Jožef Stefan” Institut, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, INAF, Pino Torinese, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Campus Scientifico, Via Torino 155, 30172, Mestre, VE, Italy
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Lyness CR, Woll B, Campbell R, Cardin V. How does visual language affect crossmodal plasticity and cochlear implant success? Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2013; 37:2621-30. [PMID: 23999083 PMCID: PMC3989033 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2013] [Revised: 08/07/2013] [Accepted: 08/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Cochlear implants (CI) are the most successful intervention for ameliorating hearing loss in severely or profoundly deaf children. Despite this, educational performance in children with CI continues to lag behind their hearing peers. From animal models and human neuroimaging studies it has been proposed the integrative functions of auditory cortex are compromised by crossmodal plasticity. This has been argued to result partly from the use of a visual language. Here we argue that 'cochlear implant sensitive periods' comprise both auditory and language sensitive periods, and thus cannot be fully described with animal models. Despite prevailing assumptions, there is no evidence to link the use of a visual language to poorer CI outcome. Crossmodal reorganisation of auditory cortex occurs regardless of compensatory strategies, such as sign language, used by the deaf person. In contrast, language deprivation during early sensitive periods has been repeatedly linked to poor language outcomes. Language sensitive periods have largely been ignored when considering variation in CI outcome, leading to ill-founded recommendations concerning visual language in CI habilitation.
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- C R Lyness
- Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, 26 Bedford Way, University College London, London WC1H 0AP, UK.
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Cardin V, Dion-Bertrand LI, Grégoire P, Nguyen HPT, Sakowicz M, Mi Z, Silva C, Leonelli R. Recombination dynamics in InGaN/GaN nanowire heterostructures on Si(111). Nanotechnology 2013; 24:045702. [PMID: 23299780 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/4/045702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We have performed room-temperature time-resolved photoluminescence measurements on samples that comprise InGaN insertions embedded in GaN nanowires. The decay curves reveal non-exponential recombination dynamics that evolve into a power law at long times. We find that the characteristic power-law exponent increases with emission photon energy. The data are analyzed in terms of a model that involves an interplay between a radiative state and a metastable charge-separated state. The agreement between our results and the model points towards an emission dominated by carriers localized on In-rich nanoclusters that form spontaneously inside the InGaN insertions.
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- V Cardin
- Département de Physique and Regroupement Québécois sur Matériaux de Pointe, Université de Montréal, Case Postale 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada
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Cardin V, Sherrington R, Hemsworth L, Smith AT. Reponses of human V6 to random motion, egomotion_incompatible and egomotion-compatible optic flow. J Vis 2011. [DOI: 10.1167/11.11.711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Cardin V, Smith A. Localisation of the human V6 complex and parietal visual areas using egomotion-consistent stimuli. J Vis 2010. [DOI: 10.1167/9.8.731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Tonelli A, Gallanti A, Bersano A, Cardin V, Ballabio E, Airoldi G, Redaelli F, Candelise L, Bresolin N, Bassi MT. Amino acid changes in the amino terminus of the Na,K-adenosine triphosphatase alpha-2 subunit associated to familial and sporadic hemiplegic migraine. Clin Genet 2007; 72:517-23. [PMID: 17877748 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2007.00892.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) is a rare subtype of migraine with aura inherited with an autosomal dominant pattern. Here, we report the genetic analysis of four families and one sporadic case with hemiplegic migraine (HM) in whom we searched for mutations in the three genes associated with the disease CACNA1A, ATP1A2 and SCN1A. Two novel amino acid changes p.Arg65Trp and p.Tyr9Asn, in the Na,K-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) alpha-2 subunit encoded by the ATP1A2 gene, were found in one FHM family and in the sporadic case, respectively. These mutations are peculiar for their location in the extreme N-terminus, an uncommon mutation target in this protein. Low frequency of migraine attacks in all our mutant patients with low complexity of the associated aura symptoms in the sporadic case is also observed. Besides the two novel mutations, the data here reported confirm the involvement of ATP1A2 gene in the sporadic form of HM, while the negative results on the other families tested for all genes known in HM strengthen the hypothesis of the existence of at least another locus involved in FHM.
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- A Tonelli
- IRCCS E. Medea, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Bosisio Parini Lecco, Italy
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Silani V, Braga M, Cardin V, Scarlato G. The pathogenesis of ALS: implications for treatment strategies. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2002; 35:25-39. [PMID: 11732278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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Besides the free radical hypothesis raised by the identification of Superoxide Dismutase I mutations in a subset of familiar Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients, three etiopathogenic hypotheses for sporadic ALS, namely autoimmune, neurofilament, and glutamate toxicity, have attracted interest in the last few years. The role of autoimmunity in ALS has been seriously questioned. The excitotoxic hypothesis for ALS spurred two clinical trials with riluzole. The results of both studies showed a modest benefit in prolonging survival that was statistically significant. Riluzole was the first drug made available for ALS patients. It began a new era in both basic and clinical research. Various human recombinant neurotrophic molecules (CNTF, BDNF, IGF-I) were administered to ALS patients. IGF-I slowed the progression of functional impairment in patients with ALS with no adverse effects. The recent demonstration of the specific viral echovirus 7 RNA sequences in the spinal cord of ALS patients refocused research on the viral hypothesis of the disease and antiviral drugs are ready to be used in clinical settings. New treatment strategies are today under study: intrathecal infusion with BDNF, intrathecal capsules for neurotrophic factor secretion or in vivo gene therapy using viral vectors. New research findings are, more than for other diseases, immediately transferred to clinical ground for the desperate need of a curative treatment of the patients affected by ALS.
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- V Silani
- Institute of Neurology, University of Milan, Medical School, IRCCS Maggiore Hospital, Milano, Italy.
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Silani V, Braga M, Botturi A, Cardin V, Bez A, Pizzuti A, Scarlato G. Human developing motor neurons as a tool to study ALS. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Other Motor Neuron Disord 2001; 2 Suppl 1:S69-76. [PMID: 11465927 DOI: 10.1080/146608201750138594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Defining the basis of the selective cell vulnerability of human motor neurons (hMNs) represents a crucial step in revealing the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Tissue culture models offer an ideal system for identification of the hMN-specific features at the single cell level. Purified hMNs and astrocytes can today be isolated from the anterior horn of the human embryonic spinal cord. Cultures can be studied at the single cell level using cDNA/mRNA amplification techniques. The effects of molecules affecting hMN survival, neurite extension, and metabolism can be tested in vitro and the expression of selective genes assayed using DNA microarray technology. Crucial information of immediate clinical application for the treatment of patients affected by ALS can be derived after testing the efficacy of candidate pharmaceutical molecules using in vitro cell models. Adult nervous tissue or progenitor cells derived from different regions of the nervous system may be used as an alternative source of human neuronal cells. HMNs in culture, combined with the application of adequate technology, can contribute greatly to identifying the primitive critical events responsible for the cell degeneration observed in ALS, bypassing the intrinsic limitations of the non-human models of the disease.
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- V Silani
- Institute of Neurology, University of Milan Medical School, IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore, Italy.
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Morales-Mulia S, Cardin V, Torres-Márquez ME, Crevenna A, Pasantes-Morales H. Influence of protein kinases on the osmosensitive release of taurine from cerebellar granule neurons. Neurochem Int 2001; 38:153-61. [PMID: 11137884 DOI: 10.1016/s0197-0186(00)00065-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The role of phosphorylation events on the activation and modulation of the osmosensitive (3)H-taurine release (OTR) was examined in cultured cerebellar granule neurons (CGN) stimulated with 30% hyposmotic solutions. OTR was not decreased when [Ca(2+)](i) rise evoked by hyposmolarity was prevented by EGTA-AM (50 microM) or depleted by treatment with 1 microM ionomycin in Ca(2+)-free medium. Accordingly, OTR was not inhibited by Ca(2+)-dependent signaling events. The calmodulin (CAM) blocker W-7 (50 microM) potentiated OTR while the Ca(2+)/CAM kinase blocker KN-93 (10 microM) was without effect. Blockade of PKC by H-7, H-8 (50 microM) and Gö6976 (1 microM), as well as activation by phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) (100 nM) did not influence OTR, but chronic treatment to down regulate PKC decreased it by 30%. Forskolin (20 microM) and 8-BrcAMP (10 microM) did not change OTR. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation seems to be of crucial importance in the activation and modulation of OTR, as it was markedly inhibited (90%) by tyrphostine A23 (50 microM) and potentiated by the tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor ortho-vanadate (100 microM). The PI3 kinase blocker wortmannin 100 nM essentially abolished OTR but LY294002 (10-100 microM) was without effect. This difference may be accounted for PI3K isoforms in neurons with different sensitivity to the blockers. Alternatively, the effect of wortmannin may be exerted not in PI3 kinase but instead on phospholipases, which are also sensitive to this blocker. The hyposmotic stimulus induced activation of Erk1/Erk2, but blockade of this effect by PD 98059 (50 microM) only marginally decreased OTR suggesting that the Erk1/Erk2 is an epiphenomenon, not directly involved in OTR activation.
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- S Morales-Mulia
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Cell Physiology, National University of Mexico
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Manzella GMR, Cardin V, Cruzado A, Fusco G, Gacic M, Galli C, Gasparini GP, Gervais T, Kovacevic V, Millot C, Petit DeLa Villeon L, Spaggiari G, Tonani M, Tziavos C, Velasquez Z, Walne A, Zervakis V, Zodiatis G. EU-sponsored effort improves monitoring of circulation variability in the Mediterranean. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1029/01eo00295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Brain cell swelling compromises neuronal function and survival by the risk of generation of ischemia episodes as compression of small vessels occurs due to the limits to expansion imposed by the rigid skull. External osmolarity reductions or intracellular accumulation of osmotically active solutes result in cell swelling which can be counteracted by extrusion of osmolytes through specific efflux pathways. Characterization of these pathways has received considerable attention, and there is now interest in the understanding of the intracellular signaling events involved in their activation and regulation. Calcium and calmodulin, phosphoinositides and cAMP may act as second messengers, carrying the information about a cell volume change into signaling enzymes. Small GTPases, protein tyrosine kinases and phospholipases, also appear to be part of the signaling cascades ultimately modulating the osmolyte efflux pathways. This review focus on i) the influence of hyposmotic and isosmotic swelling on these signaling events and molecules and ii) the effects of manipulating their function on the osmolyte fluxes, particularly K+, CI- and amino acids, and on the consequent efficiency of cell volume adjustment.
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- H Pasantes-Morales
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Cell Physiology, National University of Mexico, Mexico City.
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Defining the basis of the selective cell vulnerability of motor neurones (MN) represents the key issue in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and tissue culture models are the ideal system for the identification of the MN specific features at the single cell level. Neurone-astrocyte metabolic interactions, which have a critical role in MN through glutamatergic toxicity, have been mostly defined in vitro. Ca++ metabolism, which appears to play a critical role in inducing MN loss in ALS, has been successfully studied using in vitro cell models. Furthermore, primary cultures demonstrated that apoptotic or necrotic death of neurones after injury depends upon the cell energetic status. Superoxide dismutase- (SOD-1) mutations were successfully expressed in cultured rodent MNs, providing a critical assay to sequence the molecular processes responsible for MN degeneration due to the identified genetic defect. The recent identification of genes that separate humans from apes further increases the value of the human in vitro models to better understand specific human cellular properties. Purified human MNs and astrocytes can today be obtained from the human embryonic spinal cord anterior horns. Interactions at the single cell level can be dissected using the cDNA amplification techniques. The effects of molecules affecting MN survival, neurite extension, and metabolism can easily be defined in vitro, gaining a critical mass of information of immediate clinical application in the treatment of patients affected by ALS. Understanding the properties of human MNs in vitro represents today a significant and critical tool that can easily be reached after extension of the available knowledge from non-primate to human research. Human MN culture studies can greatly contribute to identifying the primitive critical cellular events responsible for the MN degeneration observed in ALS and to gaining crucial information on new therapeutical agents.
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- V Silani
- The Institute of Neurology, University of Milan Medical School, I.R.C.C.S. Maggiore Hospital, Italy.
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The cell and molecular mechanisms which determine the motor neurone (MN) phenotype are unclear. Tissue culture models offer a unique system for the study of a wide variety of MN features. For instance, since the neurone-astrocyte metabolic interactions play a critical role in the selective MN loss observed in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the glutamatergic MN toxicity could be reanalyzed in vitro, after a careful evaluation of the role of astrocytes. Ca(2+) appears to be important in inducing MN loss from in vitro studies. It was shown primarily in culture that apoptotic or necrotic death of neurones after injury depends upon the cell energetic status. Also, SOD-1 mutations were successfully expressed in cultured MNs, providing a critical assay to sequence the molecular processes responsible for MN degeneration due to an identified genetic defect. Purified human developing MNs and astrocytes were recently obtained from the spinal cord anterior horn. The effects of molecules affecting MN survival, neurite extension, and metabolism can easily be tested in long-term cultures. Interactions at the single cell level can be studied today using a series of RNA amplification techniques. Understanding the properties of human MNs in vitro may represent a critical tool in defining regional metabolic changes that could constitute the first pathogenic event of cell degeneration in ALS.
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- V Silani
- The Institute of Neurology, University of Milan Medical School, IRCCS Maggiore Hospital, Via. F. Sforza 35, 20122, Milano, Italy
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Cardin V, Peña-Segura C, Pasantes-Morales H. Activation and inactivation of taurine efflux in hyposmotic and isosmotic swelling in cortical astrocytes: role of ionic strength and cell volume decrease. J Neurosci Res 1999; 56:659-67. [PMID: 10374821 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4547(19990615)56:6<659::aid-jnr12>3.0.co;2-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
A decrease in intracellular ionic strength appears involved in the activation of swelling-elicited 3H-taurine efflux in cortical cultured astrocytes. Hyposmotic (50%) or isosmotic urea-induced swelling leading to a decrease of intracellular ionic strength, activated 3H-taurine efflux from a rate constant of about 0.008 min(-1) to 0.33 min(-1) (hyposmotic) and 0.59 min(-1) (urea). This efflux rate was markedly lower (maximal 0.03 min(-1)) in isosmotic swelling caused by K+ accumulation, where there is no decrease in ionic strength, or in cold (10 degrees C) hyposmotic medium (maximal 0.18 min(-1)), where swelling is reduced and consequently intracellular ionic strength is less affected. Also, astrocytes pretreated with hyperosmotic medium, which recover cell volume by ion accumulation, did not release 3H-taurine when they swelled by switching to isosmotic medium, but when volume was recovered by accumulation of urea, taurine release was restored. These results point to a key role of ionic strength in the activation of osmosensitive 3H-taurine efflux. In contrast, its inactivation was independent of the change in ionic strength but appears related to the reduction in cell volume after swelling, since despite the extent or direction of the change in ionic strength, the 3H-taurine efflux did not inactivate in isosmotic KCl-elicited swelling when cell volume did not recover nor in hyposmotic swelling when RVD was impaired by replacing NaCl in the medium by permeant osmolytes.
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- V Cardin
- Institute of Cell Physiology, Department of Biophysics, National University of Mexico, Mexico City
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