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- Creator:
- Lockhart, Nancy
- Description:
- GRAND is a five-year, cluster randomized controlled trial. The study is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, [ID#: NCT04033003] and is a collaboration between University of Michigan in the United States and the Dodowa Health Research Center in Ghana. and The study setting for GRAND is four districts (Akwapim North, Yilo Krobo, Nsawam-Adoagyiri, and Lower Manya Krobo) within the Eastern Region of Ghana. Health facilities were selected based the number ANC registrants per month and average gestational age of women at registration in each facility. Facilities were then matched based on facility type, district, and number of monthly ANC registrants.
- Keyword:
- Antenatal care, Ghana, and Maternal health
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences and International Studies
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- Creator:
- Luyet, Chloe, Elvati, Paolo, Vinh, Jordan, and Violi, Angela
- Description:
- A growing body of work has linked key biological activities to the mechanical properties of cellular membranes, and as a means of identification. Here, we present a computational approach to simulate and compare the vibrational spectra in the low-THz region for mammalian and bacterial membranes, investigating the effect of membrane asymmetry and composition, as well as the conserved frequencies of a specific cell. We find that asymmetry does not impact the vibrational spectra, and the impact of sterols depends on the mobility of the components of the membrane. We demonstrate that vibrational spectra can be used to distinguish between membranes and, therefore, could be used in identification of different organisms. The method presented, here, can be immediately extended to other biological structures (e.g., amyloid fibers, polysaccharides, and protein-ligand structures) in order to fingerprint and understand vibrations of numerous biologically-relevant nanoscale structures.
- Keyword:
- molecular dynamics, membranes, mechanical vibration, bacterial identification, and Staphylococcus aureus
- Citation to related publication:
- Luyet C, Elvati P, Vinh J, Violi A. Low-THz Vibrations of Biological Membranes. Membranes. 2023; 13(2):139. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13020139
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Elvati, Paolo, Luyet, Chloe, Wang, Yichun, Liu, Changjiang, VanEpps, J. Scott, Kotov, Nicholas A., and Violi, Angela
- Description:
- Amyloid nanofibers are abundant in microorganisms and are integral components of many biofilms, serving various purposes, from virulent to structural. Nonetheless, the precise characterization of bacterial amyloid nanofibers has been elusive, with incomplete and contradicting results. The present work focuses on the molecular details and characteristics of PSMa1-derived functional amyloids present in Staphylococcus aureus biofilms, using a combination of computational and experimental techniques, to develop a model that can aid the design of compounds to control amyloid formation. Results from molecular dynamics simulations, guided and supported by spectroscopy and microscopy, show that PSMa1 amyloid nanofibers present a helical structure formed by two protofilaments, have an average diameter of about 12 nm, and adopt a left-handed helicity with a periodicity of approximately 72 nm. The chirality of the self-assembled nanofibers, an intrinsic geometric property of its constituent peptides, is central to determining the fibers' lateral growth.
- Keyword:
- molecular self-assembly, computational nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology, and structural properties
- Citation to related publication:
- Paolo Elvati, Chloe Luyet, Yichun Wang, Changjiang Liu, J. Scott VanEpps, Nicholas A. Kotov, and Angela Violi ACS Applied Nano Materials 2023 6 (8), 6594-6604 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.3c00174
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Penner-Hahn, James, Sension, Roseanne, McClain, Taylor, Lamb, Ryan, Alonso-Mori, Roberto, Lima, Frederico, Ardana-Lamas, Fernando, Biednov, Mykola, Chollet, Matthieu, Chung, Taewon, Deb, Aniruddha, Dewan, Paul, Gee, Leland, Huang, Joel, Yifeng, Khakhulin, Dmitry, Li, Jianhao, Michocki, Lindsay, Miller, Nicholas, Otte, Florian, Uemura, Yohei, and van Driel, Tim
- Description:
- UV-visible, X-ray absorption, and X-ray emission data used to characterize the dynamics of aquo and hydroxo cobalamin. Details of data collection and reduction are provided in the associated manuscript. Data files are all text files which contain tab-delimited columns of data corresponding to each figure in the manuscript.
- Keyword:
- Ultrafast, X-ray, Transient absorption, cobalamin, vitamin B12, XAS, XES, and XANES
- Citation to related publication:
- Sension, R.J., et al. (2023). Watching Excited State Dynamics with Optical and X-ray Probes: The Excited State Dynamics of Aquocobalamin and Hydroxocobalamin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. in press. and https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c04099
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Lee, Sophie Y., Schönhöfer Philipp W.A., and Glotzer, Sharon C.
- Description:
- This dataset was generated for our work: "Complex motion of steerable vesicular robots filled with active colloidal rods". In this project, we used Brownian molecular dynamics simulations to study the rich dynamical behavior of rigid kinked vesicles that contain self-propelling rod-shaped particles. We identified that kinks in the vesicle membrane bias the emergent clustering and alignment of the active agents. Based on the system's geometrical and material properties, we were able to design multiple types of directed motion of the vesicle superstructure. This dataset includes simulation data for two-dimensional systems of self-propelling rod particles confined by teardrop-shaped coarse-grained vesicles. The trajectory of each simulation is saved in a GSD format file with parameter metadata in a JSON file. Due to the large number of replicas of each pair of parameters, simulation data were grouped into 5 different folders. Collective quantitative analysis for simulated trajectories was performed with Jupyter Notebook. and Workspaces_simulations.zip contains all the workspaces of simulations Each folder has subfolders called 'dimer' and 'trimer' depending on the length of the propelling rod particles used in the simulation. (Except for the folder 'number-density_16' which has only 'dimer') In the subfolders, we include the Python scripts used in this work for simulating and trajectory analysis for individual trajectory data. The parameter space of each folder is noted in init.py. Analysis_jupyter_notebooks.zip includes Jupyter notebooks that can reproduce the collective analysis done for this work.
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Zielinski, Ruth E, Kukula, Vida, Apetorgbor, Veronica, Awini, Elizabeth, Moyer, Cheryl, Badu-Gyan, Georgina, Williams, John, Lockhart, Nancy, and Lori, Jody R
- Description:
- This is a process evaluation of the RCT, Group Antenatal Care and Delivery project (GRAND) to identify and document patient, provider, and system barriers and facilitators to program implementation. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, potential and actual influences on the quality and conduct of the program's operations, implementation, and service delivery were identified. Only the seven (7) sites randomized to the Group ANC (G-ANC) intervention were included for collection of process evaluation data since the evaluation was of G-ANC implementation. Data were collected from August 2019 to November 2020 and included both quantitative and qualitative data sources.
- Keyword:
- Group Antenatal Care, Ghana, and Process Evaluation
- Citation to related publication:
- Zielinski R, Kukula V, Apetorgbor V, Awini E, Moyer C, Badu-Gyan G, et al. (2023) “With group antenatal care, pregnant women know they are not alone”: The process evaluation of a group antenatal care intervention in Ghana. PLoS ONE 18(11): e0291855. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291855
- Discipline:
- International Studies and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Chen, Kevin S, Noureldein, Mohamed H, McGinley, Lisa M, Hayes, John M, Rigan, Diana M, Kwentus, Jaquelin F, Mason, Shayna N, Mendelson, Faye E, Savelieff, Masha G, and Feldman, Eva L
- Description:
- Therapeutic mechanisms of human neural stem cells (hNSCs) were studied in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model (5XFAD). hNSCs restored spatial memory abilities in 5XFAD animals; however, amyloid beta levels were unchanged. Spatial transcriptomics was used to probe mechanisms of hNSCs. Focusing on a subset of plaque-induced genes, gene normalization was seen particularly in microglia, confirmed by PROGENy and Cell Chat analyses. and The spatial transcriptomics data from this publication have been deposited in NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (16) and are accessible through GEO Series accession number GSE209583 ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE209583 and enter token gzglogqkvjqrhmt). Additional supporting data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
- Citation to related publication:
- Chen KS, Noureldein MH, McGinley LM, Hayes JM, Rigan DM, Kwentus JF, Mason SN, Mendelson FE, Savelieffd MG, Feldman EL. Human neural stem cells restore spatial memory in a transgenic Alzheimer's disease mouse model by an immunomodulating mechanism. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2023 Nov 4:2023.11.01.565161. doi: 10.1101/2023.11.01.565161. PMID: 37961246; PMCID: PMC10635057.
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Singer, Kanakadurga
- Description:
- Supplementary Figure 1. Example gating scheme for bone marrow mature leukocytes and hematopoietic progenitors. To stain for mature leukocytes antibodies used were against CD45, Ly6G, CD11b, CD115, CD19, and CD3e. All CD45+ cells were gated first. Neutrophils were defined as Ly6G+CD11b+, monocytes were defined as Ly6G-CD11b+CD115+ (17,18), B cells were defined as Ly6G-CD11b-CD19+, and T cells were defined as Ly6G-CD11b-CD3e+. To stain for hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells antibodies used were against lineage panel (B220, Gr1, TER119, CD11b, CD4, CD8), cKit, Sca1, CD48, CD150, CD16/32, and CD105. HSCs were defined as Lin-Sca1+cKit+CD48-CD150+, MPPs were defined as Lin-Sca1+cKit+CD48-CD150-, HPC1 were defined as Lin-Sca1+cKit+CD48+CD150-, HPC2 were defined as Lin-Sca1+cKit+CD48+CD150+, GMP were defined as Lin-Sca1-cKit+CD150-CD16/32+, PreGM were defined as Lin-Sca1+cKit+CD150-CD105-, preMegE were defined as Lin-Sca1+cKit+CD150+CD105-, and PreCFUe were defined as Lin-Sca1+cKit+CD150+CD105+. , Supplementary Figure 2. Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell frequency by flow cytometry as a percentage of CD45 bone marrow cells in male and female Ctrl and HFD PN offspring. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), multipotent progenitor cells (MPP), Pre-Granulocyte Macrophage (Pre-GM), granulocyte monocyte precursors (GMP), Pre-Megakaryocyte-Erythroid Precursors (Pre-MegE) and erythroid precursors (Pre-CFUE). Analyses were Student’s t-test ang gating per Supplementary Figure 1., Supplementary Table 1. Differential gene expression between Ctrl and HFD PN male gonadal white adipose tissue (GWAT) from postnatal day 16. The significant gene expression differences were determined by the DESeq2 package for R Studio. Sequencing The RNA was extracted from adipose tissue using Trizol LS (Life Technologies) by Qiagen RNeasy Mini Kit (74106) according to the manual. The RNA was sent to the University of Michigan Advanced Genomics Core for RNA-sequencing. For RNAseq studies, gonadal white adipose tissue 3’ QuantSeq single-end poly-A mRNA libraries were generated (Lexogen). These were sequenced to a depth of 10-20M reads on Illumina NovaSeq platform. Data are available from GEO at accession number GSE227337., and Supplementary Table 2. Differentially expressed genes between Ctrl and HFD PN male gonadal white adipose tissue (GWAT) from postnatal day 16 that are significant after correction for false discovery rate were determined by the DESeq2 package for R Studio.
- Citation to related publication:
- Kim K, Varghese M, Sun H, Abrishami S, Bowers E, Bridges D, Meijer JL, Singer K* and Gregg B*. The influence of maternal high fat diet during lactation on offspring hematopoietic priming. Endocrinology. https://doi.org/10.1210/endocr/bqad182 PMID 38048597.
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Wallace, Dylan M, Benyamini, Miri, Nason-Tomaszewski, Samuel R, Costello, Joseph T, Cubillos, Luis H, Mender, Matthew J, Temmar, Hisham, Willsey, Matthew S, Patil, Parag P, Chestek, Cynthia A, and Zacksenhouse, Miriam
- Description:
- This is data from Wallace, Benyamini et al., 2023, Journal of Neural Engineering. There are two sets of data included: 1. Neural features and error labels used to train error classifiers for each day used in the study 2. Trial data from an example experiment day (Monkey N, Day 6), with runs for offline calibration, online brain control, error monitoring, and error correction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of error signals in motor cortex to improve brain-machine interface (BMI) performance for control of two finger groups. All data is contained in .mat files, which can be opened using MATLAB or the Python SciPy library.
- Keyword:
- Brain-machine interface (BMI), Error detection, and Neural recording
- Citation to related publication:
- Wallace, D. M., Benyamini, M., Nason-Tomaszewski, S. R., Costello, J. T., Cubillos, L. H., Mender, M. J., Temmar, H., Willsey, M. S., Patil, P. G., Chestek, C. A., & Zacksenhouse, M. (2023). Error detection and correction in intracortical brain–machine interfaces controlling two finger groups. Journal of Neural Engineering, 20(4), 046037. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/acef95
- Discipline:
- Engineering, Science, and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Sun, Hu, Ren, Jiaen, Chen, Yang, Zou, Shasha, Chang, Yurui, Wang, Zihan, and Coster, Anthea
- Description:
- Our research focuses on providing a fully-imputed map of the worldwide total electron content with high resolution and spatial-temporal smoothness. We fill in the missing values of the original Madrigal TEC maps via estimating the latent feature of each latitude and local time along the 2-D grid and give initial guess of the missing regions based on pre-computed spherical harmonics map. The resulting TEC map has high imputation accuracy and the ease of reproducing. All data are in HDF5 format and are easy to read using the h5py package in Python. The TEC map is grouped in folders based on years and each file contains a single-day data of 5-min cadence. Each individual TEC map is of size 181*361. and WARNING: 2023-12-01 the data file for 2019-Jan-03 has badly fitted values. Please avoid using it. All other days' files are ready to use.
- Keyword:
- Total Electron Content, Matrix Completion, VISTA, Spherical Harmonics, and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing
- Citation to related publication:
- Sun, H., Hua, Z., Ren, J., Zou, S., Sun, Y., & Chen, Y. (2022). Matrix completion methods for the total electron content video reconstruction. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 16(3), 1333-1358., Sun, H., Chen, Y., Zou, S., Ren, J., Chang, Y., Wang, Z., & Coster, A. (2023). Complete Global Total Electron Content Map Dataset based on a Video Imputation Algorithm VISTA. Scientific Data, in press., and Zou, S., Ren, J., Wang, Z., Sun, H., & Chen, Y. (2021). Impact of storm-enhanced density (SED) on ion upflow fluxes during geomagnetic storm. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 8, 746429.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering