Despite its importance in regulating emotion and mental wellbeing, the complex structure and function of the serotonergic system present formidable challenges toward understanding its mechanisms. In this paper, we review studies investigating the interactions between serotonergic and related brain systems and their behavior at multiple scales, with a focus on biologically-based computational modeling. We first discuss serotonergic intracellular signaling and neuronal excitability, followed by neuronal circuit and systems levels. At each level of organization, we will discuss the experimental work accompanied by related computational modeling work. We then suggest that a multiscale modeling approach that integrates the various levels of neurobiological organization could potentially transform the way we understand the complex functions associated with serotonin.
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J Biomech Eng
January 2025
School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 865 Asp Ave, Norman, OK 73019, USA.
Hearing loss is highly related to acoustic injuries and mechanical damage of ear tissues. The mechanical responses of ear tissues are difficult to measure experimentally, especially cochlear hair cells within the organ of Corti (OC) at microscale. Finite element (FE) modeling has become an important tool for simulating acoustic wave transmission and studying cochlear mechanics.
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January 2025
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China.
The accurate identification of protein-nucleotide binding residues is crucial for protein function annotation and drug discovery. Numerous computational methods have been proposed to predict these binding residues, achieving remarkable performance. However, due to the limited availability and high variability of nucleotides, predicting binding residues for diverse nucleotides remains a significant challenge.
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January 2025
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
Quantification of intrahepatic covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) is a key for evaluating an elimination of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in infected patients. However, quantifying cccDNA requires invasive methods such as a liver biopsy, which makes it impractical to access the dynamics of cccDNA in patients. Although HBV RNA and HBV core-related antigens (HBcrAg) have been proposed as surrogate markers for evaluating cccDNA activity, they do not necessarily estimate the amount of cccDNA.
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December 2024
Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Background: Reduced complexity of resting-state fMRI has been associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's diseases (AD) in cross-sectional cohorts. However, the trajectory of complexity in AD progression remains unknown. We conducted complexity analyses in a longitudinal AD dataset.
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February 2025
From the University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Georg-August University, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany (T.L., B.E.B., A. Schulz, R.E., K.R.R., K.T., G.H., M.P., A. Schuster); German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (T.L., B.E.B., A. Schulz, R.E., K.R.R., K.T., G.H., M.P., A. Schuster); Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (A. Schulz); Department of Cardiology, Campus Kerckhoff of the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Kerckhoff-Clinic, Bad Nauheim, Germany (S.J.B.); German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Bad Nauheim, Germany (S.J.B.); FORUM Radiology, Rosdorf, Germany (J.T.K.); Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells" (MBExC), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (G.H.); and FORUM Cardiology, Rosdorf, Germany (A. Schuster).
Purpose To assess the prognostic implications of cardiac MRI-derived imaging markers in individuals with severe aortic stenosis (AS). Materials and Methods This prospective study (German Clinical Trials Register, DRKS00024479) enrolled individuals with severe AS who underwent cardiac MRI before transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) from January 2017 to March 2022. Image analyses included myocardial volumes, cardiac MRI feature tracking-derived left atrial (LA) and right atrial (RA) as well as left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) strain, myocardial T1 mapping, and late gadolinium enhancement analyses.
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