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  1. Article ; Online: The plasma proteome differentiates the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) from children with SARS-CoV-2 negative sepsis.

    Patel, Maitray A / Fraser, Douglas D / Daley, Mark / Cepinskas, Gediminas / Veraldi, Noemi / Grazioli, Serge

    Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)

    2024  Volume 30, Issue 1, Page(s) 51

    Abstract: Background: The Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) can develop several weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection and requires a distinct treatment protocol. Distinguishing MIS-C from SARS-CoV-2 negative sepsis (SCNS) patients is important to ... ...

    Abstract Background: The Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) can develop several weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection and requires a distinct treatment protocol. Distinguishing MIS-C from SARS-CoV-2 negative sepsis (SCNS) patients is important to quickly institute the correct therapies. We performed targeted proteomics and machine learning analysis to identify novel plasma proteins of MIS-C for early disease recognition.
    Methods: A case-control study comparing the expression of 2,870 unique blood proteins in MIS-C versus SCNS patients, measured using proximity extension assays. The 2,870 proteins were reduced in number with either feature selection alone or with a prior COMBAT-Seq batch effect adjustment. The leading proteins were correlated with demographic and clinical variables. Organ system and cell type expression patterns were analyzed with Natural Language Processing (NLP).
    Results: The cohorts were well-balanced for age and sex. Of the 2,870 unique blood proteins, 58 proteins were identified with feature selection (FDR-adjusted P < 0.005, P < 0.0001; accuracy = 0.96, AUC = 1.00, F1 = 0.95), and 15 proteins were identified with a COMBAT-Seq batch effect adjusted feature selection (FDR-adjusted P < 0.05, P < 0.0001; accuracy = 0.92, AUC = 1.00, F1 = 0.89). All of the latter 15 proteins were present in the former 58-protein model. Several proteins were correlated with illness severity scores, length of stay, and interventions (LTA4H, PTN, PPBP, and EGF; P < 0.001). NLP analysis highlighted the multi-system nature of MIS-C, with the 58-protein set expressed in all organ systems; the highest levels of expression were found in the digestive system. The cell types most involved included leukocytes not yet determined, lymphocytes, macrophages, and platelets.
    Conclusions: The plasma proteome of MIS-C patients was distinct from that of SCNS. The key proteins demonstrated expression in all organ systems and most cell types. The unique proteomic signature identified in MIS-C patients could aid future diagnostic and therapeutic advancements, as well as predict hospital length of stays, interventions, and mortality risks.
    MeSH term(s) Child ; Humans ; Proteome ; SARS-CoV-2 ; COVID-19/complications ; Case-Control Studies ; Proteomics ; Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome ; Sepsis ; Blood Proteins
    Chemical Substances Proteome ; Blood Proteins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-17
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1283676-x
    ISSN 1528-3658 ; 1076-1551
    ISSN (online) 1528-3658
    ISSN 1076-1551
    DOI 10.1186/s10020-024-00806-x
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  2. Book ; Online: Using Connectome Features to Constrain Echo State Networks

    Morra, Jacob / Daley, Mark

    2022  

    Abstract: We report an improvement to the conventional Echo State Network (ESN) across three benchmark chaotic time-series prediction tasks using fruit fly connectome data alone. We also investigate the impact of key connectome-derived structural features on ... ...

    Abstract We report an improvement to the conventional Echo State Network (ESN) across three benchmark chaotic time-series prediction tasks using fruit fly connectome data alone. We also investigate the impact of key connectome-derived structural features on prediction performance -- uniquely bridging neurobiological structure and machine learning function; and find that both increasing the global average clustering coefficient and modifying the position of weights -- by permuting their synapse-synapse partners -- can lead to increased model variance and (in some cases) degraded performance. In all we consider four topological point modifications to a connectome-derived ESN reservoir (null model): namely, we alter the network sparsity, re-draw nonzero weights from a uniform distribution, permute nonzero weight positions, and increase the network global average clustering coefficient. We compare the four resulting ESN model classes -- and the null model -- with a conventional ESN by conducting time-series prediction experiments on size-variants of the Mackey-Glass 17 (MG-17), Lorenz, and Rossler chaotic time series; denoting each model's performance and variance across train-validate trials.

    Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures
    Keywords Computer Science - Machine Learning ; Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing
    Subject code 006
    Publishing date 2022-06-05
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: The complexity of genomic structural variation in neurodevelopmental disorders.

    Daley, Mark

    Biological psychiatry

    2014  Volume 75, Issue 5, Page(s) 344–345

    MeSH term(s) Chromosome Aberrations ; DNA Copy Number Variations/genetics ; Developmental Disabilities/genetics ; Female ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease ; Humans ; Male ; Penetrance ; Schizophrenia/genetics
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-03-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Comment ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 209434-4
    ISSN 1873-2402 ; 0006-3223
    ISSN (online) 1873-2402
    ISSN 0006-3223
    DOI 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.12.004
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  4. Book ; Online: Multifunctionality in a Connectome-Based Reservoir Computer

    Morra, Jacob / Flynn, Andrew / Amann, Andreas / Daley, Mark

    2023  

    Abstract: Multifunctionality describes the capacity for a neural network to perform multiple mutually exclusive tasks without altering its network connections; and is an emerging area of interest in the reservoir computing machine learning paradigm. ... ...

    Abstract Multifunctionality describes the capacity for a neural network to perform multiple mutually exclusive tasks without altering its network connections; and is an emerging area of interest in the reservoir computing machine learning paradigm. Multifunctionality has been observed in the brains of humans and other animals: particularly, in the lateral horn of the fruit fly. In this work, we transplant the connectome of the fruit fly lateral horn to a reservoir computer (RC), and investigate the extent to which this 'fruit fly RC' (FFRC) exhibits multifunctionality using the 'seeing double' problem as a benchmark test. We furthermore explore the dynamics of how this FFRC achieves multifunctionality while varying the network's spectral radius. Compared to the widely-used Erd\"os-Renyi Reservoir Computer (ERRC), we report that the FFRC exhibits a greater capacity for multifunctionality; is multifunctional across a broader hyperparameter range; and solves the seeing double problem far beyond the previously observed spectral radius limit, wherein the ERRC's dynamics become chaotic.

    Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures
    Keywords Computer Science - Machine Learning ; Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing
    Publishing date 2023-06-02
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
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  5. Article: Characterization of cardiac fibroblast-extracellular matrix crosstalk across developmental ages provides insight into age-related changes in cardiac repair.

    Perreault, Luke R / Daley, Mark C / Watson, Matthew C / Rastogi, Sagar / Jaiganesh, Ajith / Porter, Elizabeth C / Duffy, Breanna M / Black, Lauren D

    Frontiers in cell and developmental biology

    2024  Volume 12, Page(s) 1279932

    Abstract: Heart failure afflicts an estimated 6.5 million people in the United States, driven largely by incidents of coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD leads to heart failure due to the inability of adult myocardial tissue to regenerate after myocardial infarction ...

    Abstract Heart failure afflicts an estimated 6.5 million people in the United States, driven largely by incidents of coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD leads to heart failure due to the inability of adult myocardial tissue to regenerate after myocardial infarction (MI). Instead, immune cells and resident cardiac fibroblasts (CFs), the cells responsible for the maintenance of the cardiac extracellular matrix (cECM), drive an inflammatory wound healing response, which leads to fibrotic scar tissue. However, fibrosis is reduced in fetal and early (<1-week-old) neonatal mammals, which exhibit a transient capability for regenerative tissue remodeling. Recent work by our laboratory and others suggests this is in part due to compositional differences in the cECM and functional differences in CFs with respect to developmental age. Specifically, fetal cECM and CFs appear to mitigate functional loss in MI models and engineered cardiac tissues, compared to adult CFs and cECM. We conducted 2D studies of CFs on solubilized fetal and adult cECM to investigate whether these age-specific functional differences are synergistic with respect to their impact on CF phenotype and, therefore, cardiac wound healing. We found that the CF migration rate and stiffness vary with respect to cell and cECM developmental age and that CF transition to a fibrotic phenotype can be partially attenuated in the fetal cECM. However, this effect was not observed when cells were treated with cytokine TGF-β1, suggesting that inflammatory signaling factors are the dominant driver of the fibroblast phenotype. This information may be valuable for targeted therapies aimed at modifying the CF wound healing response and is broadly applicable to age-related studies of cardiac remodeling.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-16
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2737824-X
    ISSN 2296-634X
    ISSN 2296-634X
    DOI 10.3389/fcell.2024.1279932
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  6. Article: Pediatric sepsis inflammatory blood biomarkers that correlate with clinical variables and severity of illness scores.

    Leonard, Sean / Guertin, Hailey / Odoardi, Natalya / Miller, Michael R / Patel, Maitray A / Daley, Mark / Cepinskas, Gediminas / Fraser, Douglas D

    Journal of inflammation (London, England)

    2024  Volume 21, Issue 1, Page(s) 7

    Abstract: Background: Sepsis is a dysregulated systemic inflammatory response triggered by infection, resulting in organ dysfunction. A major challenge in clinical pediatrics is to identify sepsis early and then quickly intervene to reduce morbidity and mortality. ...

    Abstract Background: Sepsis is a dysregulated systemic inflammatory response triggered by infection, resulting in organ dysfunction. A major challenge in clinical pediatrics is to identify sepsis early and then quickly intervene to reduce morbidity and mortality. As blood biomarkers hold promise as early sepsis diagnostic tools, we aimed to measure a large number of blood inflammatory biomarkers from pediatric sepsis patients to determine their predictive ability, as well as their correlations with clinical variables and illness severity scores.
    Methods: Pediatric patients that met sepsis criteria were enrolled, and clinical data and blood samples were collected. Fifty-eight inflammatory plasma biomarker concentrations were determined using immunoassays. The data were analyzed with both conventional statistics and machine learning.
    Results: Twenty sepsis patients were enrolled (median age 13 years), with infectious pathogens identified in 75%. Vasopressors were administered to 85% of patients, while 55% received invasive ventilation and 20% were ventilated non-invasively. A total of 24 inflammatory biomarkers were significantly different between sepsis patients and age/sex-matched healthy controls. Nine biomarkers (IL-6, IL-8, MCP-1, M-CSF, IL-1RA, hyaluronan, HSP70, MMP3, and MMP10) yielded AUC parameters > 0.9 (95% CIs: 0.837-1.000; p < 0.001). Boruta feature reduction yielded 6 critical biomarkers with their relative importance: IL-8 (12.2%), MCP-1 (11.6%), HSP70 (11.6%), hyaluronan (11.5%), M-CSF (11.5%), and IL-6 (11.5%); combinations of 2 biomarkers yielded AUC values of 1.00 (95% CI: 1.00-1.00; p < 0.001). Specific biomarkers strongly correlated with illness severity scoring, as well as other clinical variables. IL-3 specifically distinguished bacterial versus viral infection (p < 0.005).
    Conclusions: Specific inflammatory biomarkers were identified as markers of pediatric sepsis and strongly correlated to both clinical variables and sepsis severity.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2164385-4
    ISSN 1476-9255
    ISSN 1476-9255
    DOI 10.1186/s12950-024-00379-w
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  7. Article: Case Report: Inflammation and Endothelial Injury Profiling of COVID-19 Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C).

    Fraser, Douglas D / Patterson, Eric K / Daley, Mark / Cepinskas, Gediminas

    Frontiers in pediatrics

    2021  Volume 9, Page(s) 597926

    Abstract: Introduction: ...

    Abstract Introduction:
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-08
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2711999-3
    ISSN 2296-2360
    ISSN 2296-2360
    DOI 10.3389/fped.2021.597926
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  8. Article ; Online: Is Human Walking a Network Medicine Problem? An Analysis Using Symbolic Regression Models with Genetic Programming.

    Dasgupta, Pritika / Hughes, James Alexander / Daley, Mark / Sejdić, Ervin

    Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

    2021  Volume 206, Page(s) 106104

    Abstract: Background and objective: Human walking is typically assessed using a sensor placed on the lower back or the hip. Such analyses often ignore that the arms, legs, and body trunk movements all have significant roles during walking; in other words, these ... ...

    Abstract Background and objective: Human walking is typically assessed using a sensor placed on the lower back or the hip. Such analyses often ignore that the arms, legs, and body trunk movements all have significant roles during walking; in other words, these body nodes with accelerometers form a body sensor network (BSN). BSN refers to a network of wearable sensors or devices on the human body that collects physiological signals. Our study proposes that human locomotion could be considered as a network of well-connected nodes.
    Methods: While hypothesizing that accelerometer data can model this BSN, we collected accelerometer signals from six body areas from ten healthy participants performing a cognitive task. Machine learning based on genetic programming was used to produce a collection of non-linear symbolic models of human locomotion.
    Results: With implications in precision medicine, our primary finding was that our BSN models fit the data from the lower back's accelerometer and describe subject-specific data the best compared to all other models. Across subjects, models were less effective due to the diversity of human sizes.
    Conclusions: A BSN relationship between all six body nodes has been shown to describe the subject-specific data, which indicates that the network-medicine relationship between these nodes is essential in adequately describing human walking. Our gait analyses can be used for several clinical applications such as medical diagnostics as well as creating a baseline for healthy walking with and without a cognitive load.
    MeSH term(s) Gait ; Humans ; Leg ; Machine Learning ; Movement ; Walking
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-10
    Publishing country Ireland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 632564-6
    ISSN 1872-7565 ; 0169-2607
    ISSN (online) 1872-7565
    ISSN 0169-2607
    DOI 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106104
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  9. Article ; Online: Beyond pharmaceuticals: Fit-for-purpose new approach methodologies for environmental cardiotoxicity testing.

    Daley, Mark C / Mende, Ulrike / Choi, Bum-Rak / McMullen, Patrick D / Coulombe, Kareen L K

    ALTEX

    2022  Volume 40, Issue 1, Page(s) 103–116

    Abstract: Environmental factors play a substantial role in determining cardiovascular health, but data informing the risks presented by environmental toxicants is insufficient. In vitro new approach methodologies (NAMs) offer a promising approach with which to ... ...

    Abstract Environmental factors play a substantial role in determining cardiovascular health, but data informing the risks presented by environmental toxicants is insufficient. In vitro new approach methodologies (NAMs) offer a promising approach with which to address the limitations of traditional in vivo and in vitro assays for assessing cardiotoxicity. Driven largely by the needs of pharmaceutical toxicity testing, considerable progress in developing NAMs for cardiotoxicity analysis has already been made. As the scientific and regulatory interest in NAMs for environmental chemicals continues to grow, a thorough understanding of the unique features of environmental cardiotoxicants and their associated cardiotoxicities is needed. Here, we review the key characteristics of as well as important regulatory and biological considerations for fit-for-purpose NAMs for environmental cardiotoxicity. By emphasizing the challenges and opportunities presented by NAMs for environmental cardiotoxicity we hope to accelerate their development, acceptance, and application.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Cardiotoxicity ; Toxicity Tests/methods ; Myocytes, Cardiac ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
    Chemical Substances Pharmaceutical Preparations
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-01
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Review ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 165707-0
    ISSN 1868-8551 ; 1018-4562 ; 0946-7785
    ISSN (online) 1868-8551
    ISSN 1018-4562 ; 0946-7785
    DOI 10.14573/altex.2109131
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  10. Article ; Online: Organ and cell-specific biomarkers of Long-COVID identified with targeted proteomics and machine learning.

    Patel, Maitray A / Knauer, Michael J / Nicholson, Michael / Daley, Mark / Van Nynatten, Logan R / Cepinskas, Gediminas / Fraser, Douglas D

    Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)

    2023  Volume 29, Issue 1, Page(s) 26

    Abstract: Background: Survivors of acute COVID-19 often suffer prolonged, diffuse symptoms post-infection, referred to as "Long-COVID". A lack of Long-COVID biomarkers and pathophysiological mechanisms limits effective diagnosis, treatment and disease ... ...

    Abstract Background: Survivors of acute COVID-19 often suffer prolonged, diffuse symptoms post-infection, referred to as "Long-COVID". A lack of Long-COVID biomarkers and pathophysiological mechanisms limits effective diagnosis, treatment and disease surveillance. We performed targeted proteomics and machine learning analyses to identify novel blood biomarkers of Long-COVID.
    Methods: A case-control study comparing the expression of 2925 unique blood proteins in Long-COVID outpatients versus COVID-19 inpatients and healthy control subjects. Targeted proteomics was accomplished with proximity extension assays, and machine learning was used to identify the most important proteins for identifying Long-COVID patients. Organ system and cell type expression patterns were identified with Natural Language Processing (NLP) of the UniProt Knowledgebase.
    Results: Machine learning analysis identified 119 relevant proteins for differentiating Long-COVID outpatients (Bonferonni corrected P < 0.01). Protein combinations were narrowed down to two optimal models, with nine and five proteins each, and with both having excellent sensitivity and specificity for Long-COVID status (AUC = 1.00, F1 = 1.00). NLP expression analysis highlighted the diffuse organ system involvement in Long-COVID, as well as the involved cell types, including leukocytes and platelets, as key components associated with Long-COVID.
    Conclusions: Proteomic analysis of plasma from Long-COVID patients identified 119 highly relevant proteins and two optimal models with nine and five proteins, respectively. The identified proteins reflected widespread organ and cell type expression. Optimal protein models, as well as individual proteins, hold the potential for accurate diagnosis of Long-COVID and targeted therapeutics.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; COVID-19 ; Proteomics ; Case-Control Studies ; Machine Learning ; Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome ; Biomarkers
    Chemical Substances Biomarkers
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-21
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1283676-x
    ISSN 1528-3658 ; 1076-1551
    ISSN (online) 1528-3658
    ISSN 1076-1551
    DOI 10.1186/s10020-023-00610-z
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