机构:[1]State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China,[2]Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China放射科首都医科大学宣武医院[3]Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China神经内科首都医科大学宣武医院
Little is currently known about the alterations in the topological organization of the white matter (WM) structural networks in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). In the present study, we used diffusion tensor imaging and deterministic tractography to map the WM structural networks in 39 MS patients and 39 age-and gender-matched healthy controls. Graph theoretical methods were applied to investigate alterations in the network efficiency in these patients. The MS patients and the controls exhibited efficient small-world properties in their WM structural networks. However, the global and local network efficiencies were significantly decreased in the MS patients compared with the controls, with the most pronounced changes observed in the sensorimotor, visual, default-mode, and language areas. Furthermore, the decreased network efficiencies were significantly correlated with the expanded disability status scale scores, the disease durations, and the total WM lesion loads. Together, the results suggest a disrupted integrity in the large-scale brain systems in MS, thus providing new insights into the understanding of MS connectome. Our data also suggest that a topology-based brain network analysis can provide potential biomarkers for disease diagnosis and for monitoring the progression and treatment effects for patients with MS.
基金:
National Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81000633,30870667, 81030028, 30930029, and 30800267)
the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 7102090)
the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars
McDonald Fellowship from Multiple Sclerosis International Federation
第一作者机构:[1]State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China,
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通讯机构:[*1]State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Ni Shu,Yaou Liu,Kuncheng Li,et al.Diffusion Tensor Tractography Reveals Disrupted Topological Efficiency in White Matter Structural Networks in Multiple Sclerosis[J].CEREBRAL CORTEX.2011,21(11):2565-2577.doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr039.
APA:
Ni Shu,Yaou Liu,Kuncheng Li,Yunyun Duan,Jun Wang...&Yong He.(2011).Diffusion Tensor Tractography Reveals Disrupted Topological Efficiency in White Matter Structural Networks in Multiple Sclerosis.CEREBRAL CORTEX,21,(11)
MLA:
Ni Shu,et al."Diffusion Tensor Tractography Reveals Disrupted Topological Efficiency in White Matter Structural Networks in Multiple Sclerosis".CEREBRAL CORTEX 21..11(2011):2565-2577