Project description:Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) is the most common neuropathological finding of medically intractable cases of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), the most common form of partial epilepsy. Within the dentate gyrus, HS may be associated with granule cell dispersion and aberrant mossy fiber sprouting, and these pathological changes are accompanied by a range of molecular changes. In this study, we analyzed the gene expression profiles of dentate granule cells of MTLE patients with and without HS to show that next-generation sequencing methods can produce interpretable genomic data from RNA collected from small homogenous cell populations and to shed light on the transcriptional changes associated with HS. 12 samples of dentate granule cells from patients with mesial tempora lobe epilepsy, 5 with hippocampal sclerosis and 7 without hippocampal sclerosis. 10 samples had replicates.
Project description:The epilepsies represent one of the most common neurological disorders. Mesial temporal lobe epilepsies (MTLE) are the most frequent form of partial epilepsies and display frequent resistance to anti-epileptic drugs thus representing a major health care problem. In TLE, the origin of seizure activity typically involves the hippocampal formation, which displays major neuropathological features, described with the term hippocampal sclerosis (HS). HS is the most frequent pathological substrate of refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Complex partial seizures (CPS) are the predominant seizure type associated with medial temporal lobe epilepsy. MTLE is commonly due to mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS). The biology underlying the epilepstic seizures and the transcriptome associated to the seizure in intractable medial temporal lobe epilepsy is ill understood. The aim of the study was to identify potential biomarkers that could identify epileptic seizure. Thus we performed transcriptome profiling of ten medial temporal lobe epilepsy cases which are resistant to the drug and underwent temporal lobectomy. The cases constitutes of patients with intractable complex partial seizure, treated medically and have undergone detailed presurgical evaluation and subjected to surgery for standard temporal lobectomy and amygdalo-hippocampectomy. The spiking areas identified after the electrocorticography will form the test tissues, which compared with the nonspiking areas removed during the surgery, from the same patient. This could probably form one of the appropriate controls, as test and control are from same patient, which eliminates the genome variations that could incur due to the comparison with the tissues from the another patient. Also this could get rid of expression changes due to the treatments undergone by the patient. We performed two color microarray wherein we labled seizure focus (spiking area) with Cy5 and non-seizure region tissues (non-spiking) with Cy3. As a strategy to test the possibility of potential diagnostic biomarkers we are intended to test the differentially regulated molecules in an independent set of epilepsy samples. Two color experiment
Project description:The epilepsies represent one of the most common neurological disorders. Mesial temporal lobe epilepsies (MTLE) are the most frequent form of partial epilepsies and display frequent resistance to anti-epileptic drugs thus representing a major health care problem. In TLE, the origin of seizure activity typically involves the hippocampal formation, which displays major neuropathological features, described with the term hippocampal sclerosis (HS). HS is the most frequent pathological substrate of refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Complex partial seizures (CPS) are the predominant seizure type associated with medial temporal lobe epilepsy. MTLE is commonly due to mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS). The biology underlying the epilepstic seizures and the transcriptome associated to the seizure in intractable medial temporal lobe epilepsy is ill understood. The aim of the study was to identify potential biomarkers that could identify epileptic seizure. Thus we performed transcriptome profiling of ten medial temporal lobe epilepsy cases which are resistant to the drug and underwent temporal lobectomy. The cases constitutes of patients with intractable complex partial seizure, treated medically and have undergone detailed presurgical evaluation and subjected to surgery for standard temporal lobectomy and amygdalo-hippocampectomy. The spiking areas identified after the electrocorticography will form the test tissues, which compared with the nonspiking areas removed during the surgery, from the same patient. This could probably form one of the appropriate controls, as test and control are from same patient, which eliminates the genome variations that could incur due to the comparison with the tissues from the another patient. Also this could get rid of expression changes due to the treatments undergone by the patient. We performed two color microarray wherein we labled seizure focus (spiking area) with Cy5 and non-seizure region tissues (non-spiking) with Cy3. As a strategy to test the possibility of potential diagnostic biomarkers we are intended to test the differentially regulated molecules in an independent set of epilepsy samples.
Project description:Ion channel splice array data collected from temporal neocortex brain tissue collected from patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Temporal cortex samples from control subjects were compared to temporal neocortex of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
Project description:Ion channel splice array data from temporal cortex brain tissue samples collected from control subjects (no mesial temporal lobe epilepsy). Keywords: disease associated splicing changes Temporal cortex samples from control subjects were compared to temporal neocortex of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
Project description:Nine patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) underwent hippocampal resection. Six had hippocampal sclerosis, three did not show signs of hippocampal sclerosis. Resected hippocampi were used for Ago iCLIP to detect miRNA targeting in the resected tissue.
Project description:We analyzed the transcriptomic profile of CA3 explants surgically obtained from patients with refractory MTLE (mesial temporal lobe epilepsy) and HS (hippocampal sclerosis) in order to investigate if the initial precipitating injury (IPI) influences the molecular mechanisms underlying this condition. CA3 transcriptomic profile was found to be significantly different in cases with prolonged febrile seizures as the IPI (identified here as FS) when compared to correspondent data from cases without febrile seizure history (NFS).
Project description:We analyzed the transcriptomic profile of CA3 explants surgically obtained from patients with refractory MTLE (mesial temporal lobe epilepsy) and HS (hippocampal sclerosis) in order to investigate if the initial precipitating injury (IPI) influences the molecular mechanisms underlying this condition. CA3 transcriptomic profile was found to be significantly different in cases with prolonged febrile seizures as the IPI (identified here as FS) when compared to correspondent data from cases without febrile seizure history (NFS). CA3 transcriptomic profiles of FS and NFS were compared in order to identify differentially expressed transcripts
Project description:Epilepsy is a global neurological condition affecting over 70 million people. Therin, temporal lobe epilepsy stands to be the most common type of refractory epilepsy critically featured by hippocampal sclerosis. In this study, single-nucleus RNA-sequencing was performed on the nineteen hippocampus samples of patients with hippocampal sclerosis, presenting the first single-nucleus resolution cellular and molecular landscape of human hippocampal sclerosis.