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Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic β-cells

Hormones and neurotransmitters are released when secretory granules or synaptic vesicles fuse with the cell membrane, a process denoted exocytosis. Modern imaging techniques, in particular total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, allow the investigator to monitor secretory granules...

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Autores principales: Cortese, Giuliana, Gandasi, Nikhil R., Barg, Sebastian, Pedersen, Morten Gram
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5132000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27907065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167282
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author Cortese, Giuliana
Gandasi, Nikhil R.
Barg, Sebastian
Pedersen, Morten Gram
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Gandasi, Nikhil R.
Barg, Sebastian
Pedersen, Morten Gram
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description Hormones and neurotransmitters are released when secretory granules or synaptic vesicles fuse with the cell membrane, a process denoted exocytosis. Modern imaging techniques, in particular total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, allow the investigator to monitor secretory granules at the plasma membrane before and when they undergo exocytosis. However, rigorous statistical approaches for temporal analysis of such exocytosis data are still lacking. We propose here that statistical methods from time-to-event (also known as survival) analysis are well suited for the problem. These methods are typically used in clinical settings when individuals are followed over time to the occurrence of an event such as death, remission or conception. We model the rate of exocytosis in response to pulses of stimuli in insulin-secreting pancreatic β-cell from healthy and diabetic human donors using piecewise-constant hazard modeling. To study heterogeneity in the granule population we exploit frailty modeling, which describe unobserved differences in the propensity to exocytosis. In particular, we insert a discrete frailty in our statistical model to account for the higher rate of exocytosis in an immediately releasable pool (IRP) of insulin-containing granules. Estimates of parameters are obtained from maximum-likelihood methods. Since granules within the same cell are correlated, i.e., the data are clustered, a modified likelihood function is used for log-likelihood ratio tests in order to perform valid inference. Our approach allows us for example to estimate the size of the IRP in the cells, and we find that the IRP is deficient in diabetic cells. This novel application of time-to-event analysis and frailty modeling should be useful also for the study of other well-defined temporal events at the cellular level.
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spelling pubmed-51320002016-12-21 Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic β-cells Cortese, Giuliana Gandasi, Nikhil R. Barg, Sebastian Pedersen, Morten Gram PLoS One Research Article Hormones and neurotransmitters are released when secretory granules or synaptic vesicles fuse with the cell membrane, a process denoted exocytosis. Modern imaging techniques, in particular total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, allow the investigator to monitor secretory granules at the plasma membrane before and when they undergo exocytosis. However, rigorous statistical approaches for temporal analysis of such exocytosis data are still lacking. We propose here that statistical methods from time-to-event (also known as survival) analysis are well suited for the problem. These methods are typically used in clinical settings when individuals are followed over time to the occurrence of an event such as death, remission or conception. We model the rate of exocytosis in response to pulses of stimuli in insulin-secreting pancreatic β-cell from healthy and diabetic human donors using piecewise-constant hazard modeling. To study heterogeneity in the granule population we exploit frailty modeling, which describe unobserved differences in the propensity to exocytosis. In particular, we insert a discrete frailty in our statistical model to account for the higher rate of exocytosis in an immediately releasable pool (IRP) of insulin-containing granules. Estimates of parameters are obtained from maximum-likelihood methods. Since granules within the same cell are correlated, i.e., the data are clustered, a modified likelihood function is used for log-likelihood ratio tests in order to perform valid inference. Our approach allows us for example to estimate the size of the IRP in the cells, and we find that the IRP is deficient in diabetic cells. This novel application of time-to-event analysis and frailty modeling should be useful also for the study of other well-defined temporal events at the cellular level. Public Library of Science 2016-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5132000/ /pubmed/27907065 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167282 Text en © 2016 Cortese et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Cortese, Giuliana
Gandasi, Nikhil R.
Barg, Sebastian
Pedersen, Morten Gram
Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic β-cells
title Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic β-cells
title_full Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic β-cells
title_fullStr Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic β-cells
title_full_unstemmed Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic β-cells
title_short Statistical Frailty Modeling for Quantitative Analysis of Exocytotic Events Recorded by Live Cell Imaging: Rapid Release of Insulin-Containing Granules Is Impaired in Human Diabetic β-cells
title_sort statistical frailty modeling for quantitative analysis of exocytotic events recorded by live cell imaging: rapid release of insulin-containing granules is impaired in human diabetic β-cells
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5132000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27907065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167282
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