目的:应用血氧水平依赖性功能磁共振成像(BOLD-fMRI),探究针刺太冲穴治疗眼疾的现代科学机制。方法:30例健康志愿者接受交替针刺视觉相关穴位——太冲穴及假穴,1.5 T MRI采集数据,SPM 2软件处理后获得2个针刺任务的个体及组激活图;组激...目的:应用血氧水平依赖性功能磁共振成像(BOLD-fMRI),探究针刺太冲穴治疗眼疾的现代科学机制。方法:30例健康志愿者接受交替针刺视觉相关穴位——太冲穴及假穴,1.5 T MRI采集数据,SPM 2软件处理后获得2个针刺任务的个体及组激活图;组激活图若见视皮层激活,计算激活点的信号强度,并采用SPSS 13.0软件进行Wilcoxon符号秩检验。结果:组激活图针刺太冲穴见视皮层激活,而假穴未见激活;针刺太冲穴双侧视皮层激活点信号强度均较强,且均为针刺侧激活强度强。个体激活图针刺太冲穴9例视皮层激活;假穴6例。结论:BOLD-fMRI研究中发现针刺太冲穴激活双侧枕叶视皮层(BA18),负责较高级视觉过程,且针刺侧视皮层激活强度强,为中医针灸治疗眼疾提供了一种解释。展开更多
To decipher the organizational logic of complex brain circuits,it is important to chart long-distance pathways while preserving micron-level accuracy of local network.However,mapping the neuronal projections with indi...To decipher the organizational logic of complex brain circuits,it is important to chart long-distance pathways while preserving micron-level accuracy of local network.However,mapping the neuronal projections with individual-axon resolution in the large and complex primate brain is still challenging.Herein,we describe a highly efficient pipeline for three-dimensional mapping of the entire macaque brain with subcellular resolution.The pipeline includes a novel poly-N-acryloyl glycinamide(PNAGA)-based embedding method for long-term structure and fluorescence preservation,high-resolution and rapid whole-brain optical imaging,and image post-processing.The cytoarchitectonic information of the entire macaque brain was acquired with a voxel size of 0.32μm×0.32μm×10μm,showing its anatomical structure with cell distribution,density,and shape.Furthermore,thanks to viral labeling,individual long-distance projection axons from the frontal cortex were for the first time reconstructed across the entire brain hemisphere with a voxel size of 0.65μm×0.65μm×3μm.Our results show that individual cortical axons originating from the prefrontal cortex simultaneously target multiple brain regions,including the visual cortex,striatum,thalamus,and midbrain.This pipeline provides an efficient method for cellular and circuitry investigation of the whole macaque brain with individual-axon resolution,and can shed light on brain function and disorders.展开更多
文摘目的:应用血氧水平依赖性功能磁共振成像(BOLD-fMRI),探究针刺太冲穴治疗眼疾的现代科学机制。方法:30例健康志愿者接受交替针刺视觉相关穴位——太冲穴及假穴,1.5 T MRI采集数据,SPM 2软件处理后获得2个针刺任务的个体及组激活图;组激活图若见视皮层激活,计算激活点的信号强度,并采用SPSS 13.0软件进行Wilcoxon符号秩检验。结果:组激活图针刺太冲穴见视皮层激活,而假穴未见激活;针刺太冲穴双侧视皮层激活点信号强度均较强,且均为针刺侧激活强度强。个体激活图针刺太冲穴9例视皮层激活;假穴6例。结论:BOLD-fMRI研究中发现针刺太冲穴激活双侧枕叶视皮层(BA18),负责较高级视觉过程,且针刺侧视皮层激活强度强,为中医针灸治疗眼疾提供了一种解释。
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Project2015CB755602)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61721092,61890953,31871088,and 81871082)Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2019B030335001)CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(2019-I2M-5-014)the Director Fund of Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics。
文摘To decipher the organizational logic of complex brain circuits,it is important to chart long-distance pathways while preserving micron-level accuracy of local network.However,mapping the neuronal projections with individual-axon resolution in the large and complex primate brain is still challenging.Herein,we describe a highly efficient pipeline for three-dimensional mapping of the entire macaque brain with subcellular resolution.The pipeline includes a novel poly-N-acryloyl glycinamide(PNAGA)-based embedding method for long-term structure and fluorescence preservation,high-resolution and rapid whole-brain optical imaging,and image post-processing.The cytoarchitectonic information of the entire macaque brain was acquired with a voxel size of 0.32μm×0.32μm×10μm,showing its anatomical structure with cell distribution,density,and shape.Furthermore,thanks to viral labeling,individual long-distance projection axons from the frontal cortex were for the first time reconstructed across the entire brain hemisphere with a voxel size of 0.65μm×0.65μm×3μm.Our results show that individual cortical axons originating from the prefrontal cortex simultaneously target multiple brain regions,including the visual cortex,striatum,thalamus,and midbrain.This pipeline provides an efficient method for cellular and circuitry investigation of the whole macaque brain with individual-axon resolution,and can shed light on brain function and disorders.
