Depression is one of the most severe sequelae of COVID-19, with major depressive disorder often characterized by disruption in white matter (WM) connectivity stemming from changes in brain myelination. This study aimed to quantitatively assess brain myelination in clinically diagnosed post-COVID depression (PCD) using the recently proposed MRI method, macromolecular proton fraction (MPF) mapping. The study involved 63 recovered COVID-19 patients (52 mild, 11 moderate, and 2 severe) at 13.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrodissection of the chromocenter of D. virilis salivary gland polytene chromosomes has been carried out and the region-specific. DNA library (DvirIII) has been obtained.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvolutionary rearrangements of pericentromeric heterochromatin among Drosophila melanogaster subgroup species have been investigated. Region-specific DNA library from Drosophila orena ovarian nurse cell chromocenter has been obtained by microdissection of polytene chromosomes. The probe was localized on ovarian nurse cells chromosomes of D.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of inbreeding and low temperature on the pattern of homologous chromosome synapsis in ovarian nurse cell nuclei of Drosophila melanogaster strains were studied. Exposure to decreased temperature (16 degrees C) caused a noticeable increase in the rate of asynapses of homologous chromosomes, whereas this effect was insignificant for F30 inbreeding generation. Long-term inbreeding has a substantial effect on the relative positions of chromosomes in the nurse cell nuclei.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalysis of localization of chromosomes 2, 3, and 6 of Calliphora erythrocephala Mg. in ovarian nurse cell nuclei with different chromatin structure has shown that the regions of DNA probe hybridization reduced with increasing chromatin compaction. Hybridization of DNA probes of chromosomes 3 and 6 to secondary reticular nuclei demonstrated that chromosomes retain their territories in the nuclei when the chromatin acquires a reticular structure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe structure of primary polytene chromosomes and general architecture of nurse cell nuclei was studied in Calliphora erythrocephala using various methods of differential chromosome banding(G-, R-, C-banding; Ag- and DAPI staining), chromospecific DNA probes and fluorescence in situ hybridization. This analysis revealed differential compaction of particular chromosome regions. The localization of material of polytene chromosome 6 is retained after its rearrangement and the formation of the internal reticular structure of the nucleus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of hybrid dysgenesis on the chromosome structure of Drosophila melanogaster ovarian nurse cells was studied. In the examined lines and interlinear hybrids (including those yielded by dysgenic crosses in the P-M and I-R systems of hybrid dysgenesis), disturbed chromosome synapsis was revealed. The disturbance was somewhat similar to that observed in interspecific hybrids.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCertain aspects of the polytene chromosome attachment to the nuclear envelope (NE) of ovarian pseudonurse cells (PNC) in the mutant strains otu11 and fs(2) B of Drosophila melanogaster were studied. In contrast to salivary a local chromocenter and Rable-orientation of chromosomes were shown to be missing from the PNC nuclei. The pericentric regions were scattered in the nuclear space and were obliged to attach to the NE by specific loci of heterochromatin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOrganization of chromosomes was analyzed in ovarian nurse cells in 12 species of the virilis group of Drosophila. A diffuse chromocenter containing a clearly detectable block of heterochromatin was shown to be characteristic of the phylogenetically ancestral species D. virilis and D.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is shown that prophase chromosomes of oocytes in Anopheles messeae ovaries do not form local chromocenters, unlike spermatocytes, in which chromosomes fuse in a joint centromeric assembly. This fact reflects the dynamic nature of the system of chromocenter formation in generative tissues. During analysis of interspecific hybrids F1 A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn analysis was carried out of the peculiarities of interlocation of primary ovarian trophocyte polytene chromosomes of Drosophila sechellia in comparison with seven earlier-described species of the melanogaster subgroup. Based on the data from this analysis and earlier-known results of reconstruction of the reconstruction of the subgroup phylogeny, the following trend in the evolution of the architectonics of trophocyte chromosomes is suggested: from a local tight chromocenter (D. orena), to a diffuse chromocenter (D.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEssential differences in the architecture of primary polytene chromosomes in ovarian nurse cells between Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans and D. mauritiana were discovered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe principles of three dimensional organization of primary and secondary orders polytene chromosomes in ovarian nurse cells of Drosophila melanogaster were elucidated. Contrary to somatic tissues, no joining of chromosome arms into local chromocentre was discovered. The chromosomes are separated in the nuclear space and are attached to the nuclear envelope by the centromeric (and the XL arm--by the telomeric) sites, the arms of autosomes (especially primary polytene chromosomes) being separated in the area of attachment.
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