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Channelopathy-related SCN10A gene variants predict cerebellar dysfunction in multiple sclerosis
, Article Neurology ; Volume 86, Issue 5 , 2016 , Pages 410-417 ; 00283878 (ISSN) ; Sadaghiani, S ; Park, M. T. M ; Mashhadi, R ; Nazeri, A ; Noshad, S ; Salehi, M. J ; Naghibzadeh, M ; Moghadasi, A. N ; Owji, M ; Doosti, R ; Hashemi Taheri, A. P ; Rad, A. S ; Azimi, A ; Chakravarty, M. M ; Voineskos, A. N ; Nazeri, A ; Sahraian, M. A ; Sharif University of Technology
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Abstract
Objective: To determine the motor-behavioral and neural correlates of putative functional common variants in the sodium-channel NaV1.8 encoding gene (SCN10A) in vivo in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: We recruited 161 patients with relapsing-onset MS and 94 demographically comparable healthy participants. All patients with MS underwent structural MRI and clinical examinations (Expanded Disability Status Scale [EDSS] and Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite [MSFC]). Whole-brain voxel-wise and cerebellar volumetry were performed to assess differences in regional brain volumes between genotype groups. Resting-state fMRI was acquired from 62 patients with MS to evaluate...
A three-dimensional statistical volume element for histology informed micromechanical modeling of brain white matter
, Article Annals of Biomedical Engineering ; Volume 48, Issue 4 , 2020 , Pages 1337-1353 ; Farahmand, F ; Ahmadian, M. T ; Sharif University of Technology
Springer
2020
Abstract
This study presents a novel statistical volume element (SVE) for micromechanical modeling of the white matter structures, with histology-informed randomized distribution of axonal tracts within the extracellular matrix. The model was constructed based on the probability distribution functions obtained from the results of diffusion tensor imaging as well as the histological observations of scanning electron micrograph, at two structures of white matter susceptible to traumatic brain injury, i.e. corpus callosum and corona radiata. A simplistic representative volume element (RVE) with symmetrical arrangement of fully alligned axonal fibers was also created as a reference for comparison. A...