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Neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in Crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: A preliminary MR spectroscopy study

PURPOSE: Crohn's disease (CD) has been known to cause both abdominal pain alongside functional and structural alterations in the central nervous system (CNS) in affected patients. This study seeks to determine the alternations of metabolites in the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of C...

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Autores principales: Lv, Kun, Song, Wenwen, Tang, Rui, Pan, Zhiyong, Zhang, Yong, Xu, Yi, Lv, Bin, Fan, Yihong, Xu, Maosheng
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Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30268988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.09.008
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author Lv, Kun
Song, Wenwen
Tang, Rui
Pan, Zhiyong
Zhang, Yong
Xu, Yi
Lv, Bin
Fan, Yihong
Xu, Maosheng
author_facet Lv, Kun
Song, Wenwen
Tang, Rui
Pan, Zhiyong
Zhang, Yong
Xu, Yi
Lv, Bin
Fan, Yihong
Xu, Maosheng
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description PURPOSE: Crohn's disease (CD) has been known to cause both abdominal pain alongside functional and structural alterations in the central nervous system (CNS) in affected patients. This study seeks to determine the alternations of metabolites in the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of CD patients with abdominal pain by using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) to further explore the neural mechanism. METHODS: Sixteen CD patients with abdominal pain and 13 CD patients without abdominal pain, were recruited alongside 20 healthy controls (HCs) for this study. Clinical evaluations, including the 0–10 Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of pain, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI), were evaluated prior to MR scanning. This study selected the bilateral ACC as the region of interest (ROI). The metabolites of the bilateral ACC were quantitatively analyzed by LCModel and Gannet. A independent sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were performed for statistical analysis. Spearman correlation analyses were performed to examine the relationship between the metabolite levels and clinical evaluations. RESULTS: The results indicated that CD patients with abdominal pain exhibited significantly higher levels of Glutamate (Glu)/(creatine + phosphocreatine, total creatine, tCr) over CD patients without abdominal pain, and HCs (p = 0.003, 0.009, respectively) in the bilateral ACC. The level of (Glutamate + Glutamine, Glx)/tCr of pain CD group was higher than non-pain CD group (p = 0.022). Moreover, within the pain CD group, Glu/tCr and Glx/tCr levels correlated strongly with the VAS scores of pain (ρ = 0.86, 0.59 respectively, p < 0.05). Meanwhile, the results indicates that CD patients with abdominal pain have significantly lower levels of γ-aminobutyric acid plus (GABA+)/tCr (p = 0.002) than HCs. To some extent, CDAI demonstrated a trend of negative correlation with GABA+/tCr levels (p = 0.088, ρ = −0.60). CONCLUSION: The neural mechanism of CD patients with abdominal pain in pain processing is tightly associated with neurochemical metabolites. An imbalance in Glu and GABA may play a key role in abdominal pain processing for patients with CD. This mechanism of pain may associate with the intestinal microbiota on the brain-gut axis.
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spelling pubmed-61692522018-10-05 Neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in Crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: A preliminary MR spectroscopy study Lv, Kun Song, Wenwen Tang, Rui Pan, Zhiyong Zhang, Yong Xu, Yi Lv, Bin Fan, Yihong Xu, Maosheng Neuroimage Clin Regular Article PURPOSE: Crohn's disease (CD) has been known to cause both abdominal pain alongside functional and structural alterations in the central nervous system (CNS) in affected patients. This study seeks to determine the alternations of metabolites in the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of CD patients with abdominal pain by using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) to further explore the neural mechanism. METHODS: Sixteen CD patients with abdominal pain and 13 CD patients without abdominal pain, were recruited alongside 20 healthy controls (HCs) for this study. Clinical evaluations, including the 0–10 Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of pain, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI), were evaluated prior to MR scanning. This study selected the bilateral ACC as the region of interest (ROI). The metabolites of the bilateral ACC were quantitatively analyzed by LCModel and Gannet. A independent sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were performed for statistical analysis. Spearman correlation analyses were performed to examine the relationship between the metabolite levels and clinical evaluations. RESULTS: The results indicated that CD patients with abdominal pain exhibited significantly higher levels of Glutamate (Glu)/(creatine + phosphocreatine, total creatine, tCr) over CD patients without abdominal pain, and HCs (p = 0.003, 0.009, respectively) in the bilateral ACC. The level of (Glutamate + Glutamine, Glx)/tCr of pain CD group was higher than non-pain CD group (p = 0.022). Moreover, within the pain CD group, Glu/tCr and Glx/tCr levels correlated strongly with the VAS scores of pain (ρ = 0.86, 0.59 respectively, p < 0.05). Meanwhile, the results indicates that CD patients with abdominal pain have significantly lower levels of γ-aminobutyric acid plus (GABA+)/tCr (p = 0.002) than HCs. To some extent, CDAI demonstrated a trend of negative correlation with GABA+/tCr levels (p = 0.088, ρ = −0.60). CONCLUSION: The neural mechanism of CD patients with abdominal pain in pain processing is tightly associated with neurochemical metabolites. An imbalance in Glu and GABA may play a key role in abdominal pain processing for patients with CD. This mechanism of pain may associate with the intestinal microbiota on the brain-gut axis. Elsevier 2018-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6169252/ /pubmed/30268988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.09.008 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Lv, Kun
Song, Wenwen
Tang, Rui
Pan, Zhiyong
Zhang, Yong
Xu, Yi
Lv, Bin
Fan, Yihong
Xu, Maosheng
Neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in Crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: A preliminary MR spectroscopy study
title Neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in Crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: A preliminary MR spectroscopy study
title_full Neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in Crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: A preliminary MR spectroscopy study
title_fullStr Neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in Crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: A preliminary MR spectroscopy study
title_full_unstemmed Neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in Crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: A preliminary MR spectroscopy study
title_short Neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in Crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: A preliminary MR spectroscopy study
title_sort neurotransmitter alterations in the anterior cingulate cortex in crohn's disease patients with abdominal pain: a preliminary mr spectroscopy study
topic Regular Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6169252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30268988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.09.008
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