@article{HalderHammerKleihetal.2013, author = {Halder, Sebastian and Hammer, Eva Maria and Kleih, Sonja Claudia and Bogdan, Martin and Rosenstiel, Wolfgang and Birbaumer, Nils and K{\"u}bler, Andrea}, title = {Prediction of Auditory and Visual P300 Brain-Computer Interface Aptitude}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-77992}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Objective: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) provide a non-muscular communication channel for patients with late-stage motoneuron disease (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)) or otherwise motor impaired people and are also used for motor rehabilitation in chronic stroke. Differences in the ability to use a BCI vary from person to person and from session to session. A reliable predictor of aptitude would allow for the selection of suitable BCI paradigms. For this reason, we investigated whether P300 BCI aptitude could be predicted from a short experiment with a standard auditory oddball. Methods: Forty healthy participants performed an electroencephalography (EEG) based visual and auditory P300-BCI spelling task in a single session. In addition, prior to each session an auditory oddball was presented. Features extracted from the auditory oddball were analyzed with respect to predictive power for BCI aptitude. Results: Correlation between auditory oddball response and P300 BCI accuracy revealed a strong relationship between accuracy and N2 amplitude and the amplitude of a late ERP component between 400 and 600 ms. Interestingly, the P3 amplitude of the auditory oddball response was not correlated with accuracy. Conclusions: Event-related potentials recorded during a standard auditory oddball session moderately predict aptitude in an audiory and highly in a visual P300 BCI. The predictor will allow for faster paradigm selection. Significance: Our method will reduce strain on patients because unsuccessful training may be avoided, provided the results can be generalized to the patient population.}, subject = {Psychologie}, language = {en} } @article{RiedelMofoloAvotaetal.2013, author = {Riedel, Alice and Mofolo, Boitumelo and Avota, Elita and Schneider-Schaulies, Sibylle and Meintjes, Ayton and Mulder, Nicola and Kneitz, Susanne}, title = {Accumulation of Splice Variants and Transcripts in Response to PI3K Inhibition in T Cells}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-77917}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Background: Measles virus (MV) causes T cell suppression by interference with phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) activation. We previously found that this interference affected the activity of splice regulatory proteins and a T cell inhibitory protein isoform was produced from an alternatively spliced pre-mRNA. Hypothesis: Differentially regulated and alternatively splice variant transcripts accumulating in response to PI3K abrogation in T cells potentially encode proteins involved in T cell silencing. Methods: To test this hypothesis at the cellular level, we performed a Human Exon 1.0 ST Array on RNAs isolated from T cells stimulated only or stimulated after PI3K inhibition. We developed a simple algorithm based on a splicing index to detect genes that undergo alternative splicing (AS) or are differentially regulated (RG) upon T cell suppression. Results: Applying our algorithm to the data, 9\% of the genes were assigned as AS, while only 3\% were attributed to RG. Though there are overlaps, AS and RG genes differed with regard to functional regulation, and were found to be enriched in different functional groups. AS genes targeted extracellular matrix (ECM)-receptor interaction and focal adhesion pathways, while RG genes were mainly enriched in cytokine-receptor interaction and Jak-STAT. When combined, AS/RG dependent alterations targeted pathways essential for T cell receptor signaling, cytoskeletal dynamics and cell cycle entry. Conclusions: PI3K abrogation interferes with key T cell activation processes through both differential expression and alternative splicing, which together actively contribute to T cell suppression.}, subject = {Biologie}, language = {en} } @article{Hoegger2013, author = {H{\"o}gger, Petra}, title = {Nutrition-derived bioactive metabolites produced by gut microbiota and their potential impact on human health}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-77349}, year = {2013}, abstract = {The functional role of human gut microbiota has attracted substantial interest and recent research has uncovered various aspects of the interplay between the complex communities of microorganisms colonizing the intestine and their hosts' health. The present review focuses on nutrition-derived bioactive metabolites produced by gut microbiota with potential beneficial effects upon human health. Thereby, the emphasis is on newly generated bacterial metabolites that are not concomitantly present at higher amounts in dietary sources and that have been previously detected in human blood samples. Since a multitude of different substances is generated by gut microbes primarily those metabolites which exert a more pronounced activity than their immediate precursor compound are discussed here. Specifically, the in vitro and in vivo nutridynamics as well as the nutrikinetics of equol, enterolactone / enterodiol, urolithins, 8-prenylnaringenin, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid and 5-(3',4'-dihydroxyphenyl)-g-valerolactone, the short-chain fatty acids butyrate, propionate and acetate, and indole-3-propionic acid are reviewed. Though the metabolites' mechanism of action and the influence of health conditions on metabolite production are not always fully understood yet, there are many reasons to direct the attention to "gut health". It could offer new options for preventing or treating a variety of disease states and nutrition-derived microbial products might inspire future drug development.}, subject = {Kohlenhydrate}, language = {en} } @article{SchreierBinnsHoeggeretal.2013, author = {Schreier, Peter and Binns, Colin and H{\"o}gger, Petra and Wu, Dayong}, title = {It began with citrus}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-74918}, year = {2013}, abstract = {First Editorial of Open Access Journal "Nutrition and Medicine (NUME)" published by W{\"u}rzburg University Press: http://nume.de}, subject = {Ern{\"a}hrung}, language = {en} }