11 results on '"Moreau, E."'
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2. Overcome low levels of detection limit and choice of antibody affects detection of lipoarabinomannan in pediatric tuberculosis.
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Amin AG, De P, Graham B, Jensen BL, Moreau E, and Chatterjee D
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- Adolescent, Adult, Antibodies, Child, Epitopes, Humans, Limit of Detection, Lipopolysaccharides, Sensitivity and Specificity, HIV Infections, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tuberculosis diagnosis
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The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents is often overlooked by healthcare providers and difficult to diagnose. As childhood TB cases rise, finding a diagnostic high in sensitivity and specificity is critical. In this study 91 urine samples from children aged 1-10 years were analyzed for tuberculostearic acid (TBSA) by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and capture ELISA (C-ELISA). In C-ELISA the CS35/A194-01 antibody performed very poorly with both curve-based and model-based cutoffs. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) of the CS35 OD450 values was only 0.60. Replacing the capture antibody with BJ76 gave a better performance in both sensitivity and specificity (AUC = 0.95). When these samples were analyzed by GC/MS, 41 classified as 'probable/possible' for TB were distinctly TBSA positive with ten samples having <3 ng/mL LAM. However, from the 50 samples with 'unlikely' TB classification, 36 were negative but 7 had >3 ng/mL and were designated as LAM positive. This experimental assay assessment study signifies that i) the antibody pair CS35/A194-01 that has been successful for adult active TB diagnosis is not adequate when LAM level is low as in pediatric TB; ii) no one mAb appears to recognize all TB-specific LAM epitopes., Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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- 2022
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3. Performance of novel antibodies for lipoarabinomannan to develop diagnostic tests for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Cantera JL, Lillis LM, Peck RB, Moreau E, Schouten JA, Davis P, Drain PK, Andama A, Pinter A, Kawasaki M, Källenius G, Sundling C, Dobos KM, Flores D, Chatterjee D, Murphy E, Halas OR, and Boyle DS
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- Adult, Diagnostic Tests, Routine methods, Epitopes, Humans, Lipopolysaccharides, Phylogeny, Retrospective Studies, Sensitivity and Specificity, HIV Infections diagnosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Lymph Node
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Lipoarabinomannan (LAM), a component of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) cell wall, is detectable in the urine of MTB infected patients with active tuberculosis (TB). LAM-specific antibodies (Igs) have been developed by a variety of traditional and recombinant methods for potential use in a rapid diagnostic test (RDT). We evaluated the analytical performance of the TB LAM Igs to identify pairs that offer superior performance over existing urine LAM tests. We assessed 25 new and 4 existing Igs in a matrixed format using a multiplex electrochemiluminescence-based liquid immunoassay. A total of 841 paired Ig combinations were challenged with in vitro cultured LAM (cLAM) derived from MTB strains representing diverse phylogenetic lineages, alongside urinary LAM (uLAM) from the urine of adults with active pulmonary TB. Analytical sensitivity of down-selected Ig pairs was determined using MTB Aoyama-B cLAM, while diagnostic accuracy was determined using clinical samples. When testing cLAM, the reactivity of Ig pairs was similar across MTB lineages 1-4 but lineage 5:6 had significantly more reactivity among Ig pairs. Overall, 41 Ig pairs had a strong binding affinity to cLAM, as compared to the reference pair of S4-20/A194-01, and 28 Ig pairs therein exhibited a strong affinity for both cLAM and uLAM. Retrospective testing on clinical urine specimens demonstrated varying sensitivities (12-80%) and specificities (14-100%). The five top pairs had a similar analytical limit of detection to the reference pair but in four instances, the sensitivity and specificity with clinical uLAM samples was poor. Overall, epitopes presented by uLAM are different from cLAM, which may affect antibody performance when testing uLAM in patient samples. Several new Ig pairs had similar ranges of high sensitivity to cLAM but overall, there were no new candidate Ig pairs identified in this round of screening with increased performance with uLAM as compared to an existing optimal pair., Competing Interests: James Schouten and Paul Davis are both employees of Mologic Ltd (UK), a commercial developer of rapid immunologic tests. Masanori Kawasaki is an employee of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
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- 2022
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4. Interaction of amphiphilic lipoarabinomannan with host carrier lipoproteins in tuberculosis patients: Implications for blood-based diagnostics.
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Jakhar S, Sakamuri R, Vu D, Dighe P, Stromberg LR, Lilley L, Hengartner N, Swanson BI, Moreau E, Dorman SE, and Mukundan H
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- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Tuberculosis diagnosis, Lipopolysaccharides blood, Lipoproteins blood, Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolism, Tuberculosis blood
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Lipoarabinomannan (LAM), an amphiphilic lipoglycan of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall, is a diagnostic target for tuberculosis. Previous work from our laboratory and others suggests that LAM is associated with host serum lipoproteins, which may in turn have implications for diagnostic assays. Our team has developed two serum assays for amphiphile detection: lipoprotein capture and membrane insertion. The lipoprotein capture assay relies on capture of the host lipoproteins, exploiting the biological association of host lipoprotein with microbial amphiphilic biomarkers to "concentrate" LAM. In contrast, the membrane insertion assay is independent of the association between pathogen amphiphiles and host lipoprotein association, and directly captures LAM based on its thermodynamic propensity for association with a supported lipid membrane, which forms the functional surface of an optical biosensor. In this manuscript, we explored the use of these assays for the detection of LAM in sera from adults whose tuberculosis status had been well-characterized using conventional microbiological tests, and endemic controls. Using the lipoprotein capture assay, LAM signal/noise ratios were >1.0 in 29/35 (83%) individuals with culture-confirmed active tuberculosis, 8/13 (62%) individuals with tuberculosis symptoms, but no positive culture for M. tuberculosis, and 0/6 (0%) symptom-free endemic controls. To evaluate serum LAM levels without bias associated with potential differences in circulating host lipoprotein concentrations between individuals, we subsequently processed available samples to liberate LAM from associated host lipoprotein assemblies followed by direct detection of the pathogen biomarker using the membrane insertion approach. Using the membrane insertion assay, signal/noise for detection of serum LAM was greater than that observed using the lipoprotein capture method for culture-confirmed TB patients (6/6), yet remained negative for controls (2/2). Taken together, these results suggest that detection of serum LAM is a promising TB diagnostic approach, but that further work is required to optimize assay performance and to decipher the implications of LAM/host lipoprotein associations for diagnostic assay performance and TB pathogenesis., Competing Interests: Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratories, operated by the Triad LLC, that are authors on this manuscript, do not have competing interests, and are not consultants for any competing interests. Ramamurthy Sakamuri was a post-doctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory when he conducted this research. He has subsequently transitioned to Bako Diagnostics, which is his current affiliation. However, Bako Diagnostics did not participate or were not involved in the research presented in this manuscript in any way. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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- 2021
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5. Sensitive electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunoassays for detecting lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and ESAT-6 in urine and serum from tuberculosis patients.
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Broger T, Tsionksy M, Mathew A, Lowary TL, Pinter A, Plisova T, Bartlett D, Barbero S, Denkinger CM, Moreau E, Katsuragi K, Kawasaki M, Nahid P, and Sigal GB
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- Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Immunoassay, Male, Middle Aged, Retrospective Studies, Antigens, Bacterial blood, Antigens, Bacterial urine, Bacterial Proteins blood, Bacterial Proteins urine, Electrochemical Techniques, Lipopolysaccharides blood, Lipopolysaccharides urine, Luminescent Measurements, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tuberculosis blood, Tuberculosis urine
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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) infection was responsible for an estimated 1.3 million deaths in 2017. Better diagnostic tools are urgently needed. We sought to determine whether accurate TB antigen detection in blood or urine has the potential to meet the WHO target product profiles for detection of active TB., Materials and Methods: We developed Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunoassays for Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and ESAT-6 detection with detection limits in the pg/ml range and used them to compare the concentrations of the two antigens in the urine and serum of 81 HIV-negative and -positive individuals with presumptive TB enrolled across diverse geographic sites., Results: LAM and ESAT-6 overall sensitivities in urine were 93% and 65% respectively. LAM and ESAT-6 overall sensitivities in serum were 55% and 46% respectively. Overall specificity was ≥97% in all assays. Sensitivities were higher in HIV-positive compared to HIV-negative patients for both antigens and both sample types, with signals roughly 10-fold higher on average in urine than in serum. The two antigens showed similar concentration ranges within the same sample type and correlated., Conclusions: LAM and ESAT-6 can be detected in the urine and serum of TB patients, regardless of the HIV status and further gains in clinical sensitivity may be achievable through assay and reagent optimization. Accuracy in urine was higher with current methods and has the potential to meet the WHO accuracy target if the findings can be transferred to a point-of-care TB test., Competing Interests: TB, CMD and EM are employed by FIND (Geneva, Switzerland), a nonprofit organization that collaborates with industry partners. GBS, MT, AM, TP, DB, and SB are employed by Meso Scale Diagnostics LLC (Rockville, USA) and received funding from FIND and NIH. MK and KK are employed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (Tokyo, Japan). FIND, MSD, and Otsuka provided support in the form of salaries for authors [TB, CMD, EM, GBS, MT, AM, TP, DB, SB, MK and KK], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. TB and AP report patents in the field of LAM detection. The interests of authors do not alter the adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. (as detailed online in our guide for authors http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/competing-interests) All other authors declare no competing interests.
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- 2019
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6. Zika Virus Tissue and Blood Compartmentalization in Acute Infection of Rhesus Macaques.
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Coffey LL, Pesavento PA, Keesler RI, Singapuri A, Watanabe J, Watanabe R, Yee J, Bliss-Moreau E, Cruzen C, Christe KL, Reader JR, von Morgenland W, Gibbons AM, Allen AM, Linnen J, Gao K, Delwart E, Simmons G, Stone M, Lanteri M, Bakkour S, Busch M, Morrison J, and Van Rompay KK
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- Acute Disease, Aging pathology, Animals, Antibodies, Neutralizing immunology, Antibodies, Viral immunology, Female, Macaca mulatta, Organ Specificity, RNA, Viral blood, RNA, Viral urine, Saliva virology, Tissue Distribution, Viremia blood, Zika Virus immunology, Zika Virus physiology, Zika Virus Infection blood, Zika Virus Infection virology
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Animal models of Zika virus (ZIKV) are needed to better understand tropism and pathogenesis and to test candidate vaccines and therapies to curtail the pandemic. Humans and rhesus macaques possess similar fetal development and placental biology that is not shared between humans and rodents. We inoculated 2 non-pregnant rhesus macaques with a 2015 Brazilian ZIKV strain. Consistent with most human infections, the animals experienced no clinical disease but developed short-lived plasma viremias that cleared as neutralizing antibody developed. In 1 animal, viral RNA (vRNA) could be detected longer in whole blood than in plasma. Despite no major histopathologic changes, many adult tissues contained vRNA 14 days post-infection with highest levels in hemolymphatic tissues. These observations warrant further studies to investigate ZIKV persistence and its potential clinical implications for transmission via blood products or tissue and organ transplants., Competing Interests: Jeff Linnen and Kui Gao are employees of Hologic. That JL and KG are Hologic employees does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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- 2017
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7. Correction: The Macaque Social Responsiveness Scale (mSRS): A Rapid Screening Tool for Assessing Variability in the Social Responsiveness of Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta).
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Feczko EJ, Bliss-Moreau E, Walum H, Pruett JR Jr, and Parr LA
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- 2016
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8. The Macaque Social Responsiveness Scale (mSRS): A Rapid Screening Tool for Assessing Variability in the Social Responsiveness of Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta).
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Feczko EJ, Bliss-Moreau E, Walum H, Pruett JR Jr, and Parr LA
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- Animals, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Humans, Male, Reproducibility of Results, Autism Spectrum Disorder physiopathology, Autism Spectrum Disorder psychology, Macaca mulatta physiology, Macaca mulatta psychology, Social Behavior
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Understanding the biological mechanisms underlying human neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), has been hindered by the lack of a robust, translational animal model. Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) display many of the same social behaviors that are affected in ASD, making them an excellent animal species in which to model social impairments. However, the social impairments associated with ASD may reflect extreme ends of a continuous distribution of traits. Thus, to validate the rhesus monkey as an animal model for studying social impairments that has strong translational relevance for ASD, researchers need an easily-implemented measurement tool that can quantify variation in social behavior dimensionally. The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) is a 65-item survey that identifies both typical and atypical social behaviors in humans that covary with ASD symptom severity. A chimpanzee SRS has already been validated and the current study adapted this tool for use in the rhesus monkey (mSRS). Fifteen raters completed the mSRS for 105 rhesus monkeys living at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. The mSRS scores showed a unimodal distribution with a positive skew that identified 6 statistical outliers. Inter-rater reliability was very strong, but only 17 of the 36 questions showed positive intra-item reliability. The results of an exploratory factor analysis identified 3 factors that explained over 60% of the variance, with 12 items significantly loading onto the primary factor. These items reflected behaviors associated with social avoidance, social anxiety or inflexibility and social confidence. These initial findings are encouraging and suggest that variability in the social responsiveness of rhesus monkeys can be quantified using the mSRS: a tool that has strong translational relevance for human disorders. With further modification, the mSRS may provide an promising new direction for research on the biological mechanisms underlying social impairments.
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- 2016
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9. Macaque cardiac physiology is sensitive to the valence of passively viewed sensory stimuli.
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Bliss-Moreau E, Machado CJ, and Amaral DG
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- Animals, Attention physiology, Eye Movements physiology, Heart Rate physiology, Macaca mulatta psychology, Male, Parasympathetic Nervous System physiology, Video Recording, Affect physiology, Heart physiology, Macaca mulatta physiology, Photic Stimulation
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Autonomic nervous system activity is an important component of affective experience. We demonstrate in the rhesus monkey that both the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system respond differentially to the affective valence of passively viewed video stimuli. We recorded cardiac impedance and an electrocardiogram while adult macaques watched a series of 300 30-second videos that varied in their affective content. We found that sympathetic activity (as measured by cardiac pre-ejection period) increased and parasympathetic activity (as measured by respiratory sinus arrhythmia) decreased as video content changes from positive to negative. These findings parallel the relationship between autonomic nervous system responsivity and valence of stimuli in humans. Given the relationship between human cardiac physiology and affective processing, these findings suggest that macaque cardiac physiology may be an index of affect in nonverbal animals.
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- 2013
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10. Mouse testis development and function are differently regulated by follicle-stimulating hormone receptors signaling during fetal and prepubertal life.
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Migrenne S, Moreau E, Pakarinen P, Dierich A, Merlet J, Habert R, and Racine C
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- Animals, Leydig Cells physiology, Male, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Receptors, FSH genetics, Sertoli Cells physiology, Testis growth & development, Testis metabolism, Testosterone blood, Follicle Stimulating Hormone metabolism, Receptors, FSH metabolism, Signal Transduction physiology, Testis physiology
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It is currently admitted that Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH) is physiologically involved in the development and function of fetal/neonatal Sertoli cells in the rat but not the mouse. However, FSH is produced by both species from late fetal life onwards. We thus reinvestigated the role of FSH in mouse testis development at day 0 (birth) 6, 8 and 10 post-partum (dpp) by using mice that lack functional FSH receptors (FSH-R(-/-)). At birth, the number and proliferative index of Sertoli cells were significantly lower in FSH-R(-/-) mice than in wild type neonates. Claudin 11 mRNA expression also was significantly reduced in FSH-R(-/-) testes at 0 and 8 dpp, whereas the mRNA levels of other Sertoli cell markers (Transferrin and Desert hedgehog) were comparable in FSH-R(-/-) and wild type testes. Conversely, AMH mRNA and protein levels were higher at birth, comparable at 6 dpp and then significantly lower in FSH-R(-/-) testes at 8-10 dpp in FSH-R(-/-) mice than in controls. Although the plasma concentration of LH and the number of Leydig cells were similar in FSH-R(-/-) and control (wild type), testosterone concentration and P450c17 mRNA expression were significantly increased in FSH-R(-/-) testes at birth. Conversely, at 10 dpp when adult Leydig cells appear, expression of the steroidogenic genes P450scc, P450c17 and StAR was lower in FSH-R(-/-) testes than in controls. In conclusion, our results show that 1) like in the rat, signaling via FSH-R controls Sertoli cell development and function during late fetal life in the mouse as well; 2) paracrine factors produced by Sertoli cells are involved in the FSH-R-dependent regulation of the functions of fetal Leydig cells in late fetal life; and 3) the role of FSH-R signaling changes during the prepubertal period.
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- 2012
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11. Social and nonsocial content differentially modulates visual attention and autonomic arousal in Rhesus macaques.
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Machado CJ, Bliss-Moreau E, Platt ML, and Amaral DG
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- Animals, Autonomic Nervous System, Macaca mulatta, Male, Attention, Photic Stimulation, Social Environment
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The sophisticated analysis of gestures and vocalizations, including assessment of their emotional valence, helps group-living primates efficiently navigate their social environment. Deficits in social information processing and emotion regulation are important components of many human psychiatric illnesses, such as autism, schizophrenia and social anxiety disorder. Analyzing the neurobiology of social information processing and emotion regulation requires a multidisciplinary approach that benefits from comparative studies of humans and animal models. However, many questions remain regarding the relationship between visual attention and arousal while processing social stimuli. Using noninvasive infrared eye-tracking methods, we measured the visual social attention and physiological arousal (pupil diameter) of adult male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) as they watched social and nonsocial videos. We found that social videos, as compared to nonsocial videos, captured more visual attention, especially if the social signals depicted in the videos were directed towards the subject. Subject-directed social cues and nonsocial nature documentary footage, compared to videos showing conspecifics engaging in naturalistic social interactions, generated larger pupil diameters (indicating heightened sympathetic arousal). These findings indicate that rhesus monkeys will actively engage in watching videos of various kinds. Moreover, infrared eye tracking technology provides a mechanism for sensitively gauging the social interest of presented stimuli. Adult male rhesus monkeys' visual attention and physiological arousal do not always trend in the same direction, and are likely influenced by the content and novelty of a particular visual stimulus. This experiment creates a strong foundation for future experiments that will examine the neural network responsible for social information processing in nonhuman primates. Such studies may provide valuable information relevant to interpreting the neural deficits underlying human psychiatric illnesses such as autism, schizophrenia and social anxiety disorder.
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- 2011
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