Gastric motility is coordinated by bioelectric slow waves (SWs) and dysrhythmic SW activity has been linked with motility disorders. Magnetogastrography (MGG) is the non-invasive measurement of the biomagnetic fields generated by SWs. Dysrhythmia identification using MGG is currently challenging because source models are not well developed and the impact of anatomical variation is not well understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTechnological advances have made it feasible to collect multi-condition multi-omic time courses of cellular response to perturbation, but the complexity of these datasets impedes discovery due to challenges in data management, analysis, visualization, and interpretation. Here, we report a whole-cell mechanistic analysis of HL-60 cellular response to bendamustine. We integrate both enrichment and network analysis to show the progression of DNA damage and programmed cell death over time in molecular, pathway, and process-level detail using an interactive analysis framework for multi-omics data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol
December 2022
Chronic nausea is a widespread functional disease in children with numerous comorbidities. High-resolution electrogastrogram (HR-EGG) has shown sufficient sensitivity as a noninvasive clinical marker to objectively detect distinct gastric slow wave properties in children with functional nausea. We hypothesized that the increased precision of magnetogastrogram (MGG) slow wave recordings could provide supplementary information not evident on HR-EGG.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Pediatric functional nausea is challenging for patients to manage and for clinicians to treat since it lacks objective diagnosis and assessment. A data-driven non-invasive diagnostic screening tool that distinguishes the electro-pathophysiology of pediatric functional nausea from healthy controls would be an invaluable aid to support clinical decision-making in diagnosis and management of patient treatment methodology. The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative approach for objectively classifying pediatric functional nausea using cutaneous high-resolution electrogastrogram data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic nausea in adolescents with functional gastrointestinal disorders is an increasingly reported but poorly understood symptom that negatively affects quality of life. Functional gastrointestinal disorders are known to correlate closely with slow wave rhythm disturbances. The ability to characterize gastric electrophysiologic perturbations in functional nausea patients could provide potential diagnostic and therapeutic tools for nausea patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Comp Psychol
August 2020
Performance of honeybees resembles that of vertebrates in a variety of associative learning experiments. Recent work has focused on relational learning phenomena not easily explained by associative principles, including same/different problems, the simplest of which is the oddity problem. Free-flying bees were trained to visit a laboratory window and were rewarded for choice of the odd stimulus among a set of stimuli.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Acute mesenteric ischemia represents a life-threatening gastrointestinal condition. A noninvasive diagnostic modality that identifies mesenteric ischemia patients early in the disease process will enable early surgical intervention. Previous studies have identified significant changes in the small-bowel electrical slow-wave parameters during intestinal ischemia caused by total occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The prokinetic action of erythromycin is clinically useful under conditions associated with gastrointestinal hypomotility. Although erythromycin is known to affect the electrogastrogram, no studies have examined the effects that erythromycin has on gastric slow wave magnetic fields.
Methods: In this study, gastric slow wave activity was assessed simultaneously using noninvasive magnetogastrogram (MGG), electrogastrogram, and mucosal electromyogram recordings.
An understanding of how cells respond to perturbation is essential for biological applications; however, most approaches for profiling cellular response are limited in scope to pre-established targets. Global analysis of molecular mechanism will advance our understanding of the complex networks constituting cellular perturbation and lead to advancements in areas, such as infectious disease pathogenesis, developmental biology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and toxicology. We have developed a high-throughput multiomics platform for comprehensive, de novo characterization of cellular mechanisms of action.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHoneybee learning is surprisingly similar to vertebrate learning and one implication is that the basic associative learning principles are also similar. This research extends the work to more complex cognitive phenomena. Forager bees were trained individually to visit a laboratory window for sucrose.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF