Publications by authors named "Luyan Gu"

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  • The study investigated changes in the brain's microstructure among Parkinson's disease (PD) patients at different disease stages compared to healthy controls.
  • Using diffusion MRI and the NODDI model, researchers measured neurite density and orientation dispersion in the brain, noting significant differences between early stage PD (EPD) and moderate-to-late stage PD (MLPD) patients.
  • Findings indicated that both EPD and MLPD patients had reduced cortical microstructure, with MLPD patients displaying more extensive degeneration, particularly in areas linked to worse clinical outcomes.
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Aims: To explore the cortical structural reorganization in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients under chronic dopamine replacement therapy (DRT) in cross-sectional and longitudinal data and determine whether these changes were associated with clinical alterations.

Methods: A total of 61 DRT-treated, 60 untreated PD patients, and 61 normal controls (NC) were retrospectively included. Structural MRI scans and neuropsychological tests were conducted.

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Peripheral immune cells play a vital role in the development of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, their cytokine and chemokine secretion functions remain unclear. Therefore, we aimed to explore the cytokine and chemokine secretion functions of specific immune cell subtypes in drug-naïve patients with PD at different ages of onset.

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Increasing evidence suggests that Parkinson's disease (PD) exhibits disparate spatial and temporal patterns of progression. Here we used a machine-learning technique-Subtype and Stage Inference (SuStaIn) - to uncover PD subtypes with distinct trajectories of clinical and neurodegeneration events. We enrolled 228 PD patients and 119 healthy controls with comprehensive assessments of olfactory, autonomic, cognitive, sleep, and emotional function.

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Aims: The purpose of this study was to clarify the dentato-rubro-thalamic (DRT) pathway in action tremor in comparison to normal controls (NC) and disease controls (i.e., rest tremor) by using multi-modality magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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Gait impairment is a common symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD), but its neural signature remains unclear due to the interindividual variability of gait performance. Identifying a robust gait-brain correlation at the individual level would provide insight into a generalizable neural basis of gait impairment. In this context, this study aimed to detect connectome that can predict individual gait function of PD, and follow-up analyses assess the molecular architecture underlying the connectome by relating it to the neurotransmitter-receptor/transporter density maps.

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Objective: To determine whether white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volumes in specific regions are associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) compared to non-PD controls, and to assess their impact on motor signs through cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.

Methods: A total of 50 PD participants and 47 age- and gender-matched controls were enrolled. All PD participants were followed up for at least 2 years.

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Aims: To detect functional connectomes of akinetic-rigid (AR) and tremor and compare their connection pattern.

Methods: Resting-state functional MRI data of 78 drug-naïve PD patients were enrolled to construct connectomes of AR and tremor via connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM). The connectomes were further validated with 17 drug-naïve patients to verify their replication.

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Background: Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a great imitator with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations that include dementia, parkinsonism, paroxysmal symptoms, peripheral neuropathy, and autonomic dysfunction. Hence, it may also masquerade as other diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Recent breakthroughs on neuroimaging, skin biopsy, and genetic testing have facilitated the diagnosis.

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Background: Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) could develop preceding or come after motor symptoms during Parkinson's disease (PD). It remains unknown that whether PD with different timing of RBD onset relative to motor symptoms suggests different spatiotemporal sequence of neurodegeneration. This study aimed to explore the sequence of disease progression in crucially involved brain regions in PD with different timing of RBD onset.

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Genetic factors play a major role in essential tremor (ET) pathogenesis. This study aimed to assess variant burden in ET-associated genes in a relatively large Chinese population cohort. We genotyped 27 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously reported to be associated with ET by multiplex PCR amplicon sequencing assay in 488 familial and sporadic ET patients and 514 healthy controls (HCs).

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Dysfunction of the glymphatic system, an intracranial clearance pathway that drains misfolded proteins, has been implicated in the onset of Parkinson's disease (PD). Recently, the coupling strength of global blood-oxygen-level-dependent (gBOLD) signals and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) inflow dynamics have been suggested to be an indicator of glymphatic function. Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we quantified gBOLD-CSF coupling strength as the cross-correlation between baseline gBOLD and CSF inflow signals to evaluate glymphatic function and its association with the clinical manifestations of PD.

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Background: Dysfunction of iron metabolism, especially in substantia nigra (SN), is widely acknowledged in Parkinson's disease (PD), but the genetic influence on iron deposition remains largely unknown. Thus, in this study, we aimed to investigate potential genetic impacts on iron deposition in PD.

Methods: Seventy-four subjects, including 38 patients with PD and 36 age-matched normal controls, participated in this study.

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  • The study investigates the link between intestinal inflammation, gut microbiota, and Parkinson's disease (PD), focusing on the role of elevated serum anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibody (ASCA) levels, which are markers of chronic gut inflammation.* -
  • Researchers measured serum ASCA levels and analyzed gut fungal communities in 393 subjects, finding that PD patients had significantly higher ASCA IgG and IgA levels compared to healthy controls and those with essential tremor, alongside differences in gut fungal composition.* -
  • The findings suggest that elevated serum ASCA levels and enriched levels of the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae could help distinguish PD from other groups, indicating a potential link between gut health and PD pathogenesis.*
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Introduction: Growing evidence has demonstrated dysfunction of the glymphatic system in α-synucleinopathy and related diseases. In this study, we aimed to use diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space (DTI-ALPS) and MRI-visible enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) to evaluate glymphatic system function quantitatively and qualitatively and its relationship to clinical scores of disease severity in Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET).

Methods: Overall, 124 patients with PD, 74 with ET, and 106 healthy controls (HC) were enrolled.

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This study aimed to investigate the cortical microstructural/macrostructural degenerative patterns in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Overall, 38 PD patients with normal cognition (PD-NC), 38 PD-MCI, and 32 healthy controls (HC) were included. PD-MCI was diagnosed according to the MDS Task Force level II criteria.

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Background: In Parkinson's disease (PD), excessive iron deposition in the substantia nigra may exacerbate α-synuclein aggregation, facilitating the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons and their neural projection.

Objective: To investigate the interaction effect between nigral iron deposition and PD status on brain networks.

Methods: Eighty-five PD patients and 140 normal controls (NC) were included.

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Brain iron deposition is a promising marker for human brain health, providing insightful information for understanding aging as well as neurodegenerations, e.g., Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

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Background: The pathophysiology of essential tremor (ET) is not fully understood, and studies suggest pathological changes mainly occur in the cerebellum and locus coeruleus (LC).

Methods: Fifty-three ET patients, including 30 patients with head tremor (h-ET), 23 patients without head tremor (nh-ET), 71 age and education matched healthy controls (HCs) were enrolled. All participants underwent Neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging (NM-MRI) and T1 scans on a 3-Tesla MR system.

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Background And Purpose: The insidious onset of Parkinson's disease (PD) makes early diagnosis difficult. Notably, idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) was reported as a prodrome of PD, which may represent a breakthrough for the early diagnosis of PD. However, currently there is no reliable biomarker for PD diagnosis.

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Hierarchical brain organization, in which the rich club and diverse club situate in core position, is critical for global information integration in the human brain network. Parkinson's disease (PD), a common movement disorder, has been conceptualized as a network disorder. Levodopa is an effective treatment for PD.

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Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is highly heterogeneous reflected by different affected side of body and type of motor symptom. We aim to explore clinical characteristics and underlying brain structure alterations in PD with different predominant sides and motor types.

Methods: We recruited 161 PD patients and 50 healthy controls (HC).

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Alpha-synucleinopathy is postulated to be central to both idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Growing evidence suggests an association between the diminished clearance of α-synuclein and glymphatic system dysfunction. However, evidence accumulating primarily based on clinical data to support glymphatic system dysfunction in patients with iRBD and PD is currently insufficient.

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Objective: Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) facilitates a sleep-enhanced interstitial brain waste clearance system. This study was conducted to determine the clinical implication of polymorphisms in Parkinson's disease (PD).

Methods: Three-hundred and eighty-two patients with PD and 180 healthy controls with a mean follow-up time of 66.

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