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| العنوان: |
Hippocampal Metabolic Alterations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study. |
| المؤلفون: |
Christidi, Foteini, Argyropoulos, Georgios D., Karavasilis, Efstratios, Velonakis, Georgios, Zouvelou, Vasiliki, Kourtesis, Panagiotis, Pantoleon, Varvara, Tan, Ee Ling, Daponte, Ariadne, Aristeidou, Stavroula, Xirou, Sofia, Ferentinos, Panagiotis, Evdokimidis, Ioannis, Rentzos, Michail, Seimenis, Ioannis, Bede, Peter |
| المصدر: |
Life (2075-1729); Feb2023, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p571, 18p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
NUCLEAR magnetic resonance spectroscopy, DIFFUSION tensor imaging, CALCULUS of tensors, HIPPOCAMPUS (Brain), COGNITIVE ability, WHITE matter (Nerve tissue), AMYOTROPHIC lateral sclerosis |
| مستخلص: |
Background: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been overwhelmingly applied to motor regions to date and our understanding of frontotemporal metabolic signatures is relatively limited. The association between metabolic alterations and cognitive performance in also poorly characterised. Material and Methods: In a multimodal, prospective pilot study, the structural, metabolic, and diffusivity profile of the hippocampus was systematically evaluated in patients with ALS. Patients underwent careful clinical and neurocognitive assessments. All patients were non-demented and exhibited normal memory performance. 1H-MRS spectra of the right and left hippocampi were acquired at 3.0T to determine the concentration of a panel of metabolites. The imaging protocol also included high-resolution T1-weighted structural imaging for subsequent hippocampal grey matter (GM) analyses and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for the tractographic evaluation of the integrity of the hippocampal perforant pathway zone (PPZ). Results: ALS patients exhibited higher hippocampal tNAA, tNAA/tCr and tCho bilaterally, despite the absence of volumetric and PPZ diffusivity differences between the two groups. Furthermore, superior memory performance was associated with higher hippocampal tNAA/tCr bilaterally. Both longer symptom duration and greater functional disability correlated with higher tCho levels. Conclusion: Hippocampal 1H-MRS may not only contribute to a better academic understanding of extra-motor disease burden in ALS, but given its sensitive correlations with validated clinical metrics, it may serve as practical biomarker for future clinical and clinical trial applications. Neuroimaging protocols in ALS should incorporate MRS in addition to standard structural, functional, and diffusion sequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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