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Molecular specific photonics localization technique, the inverse participation ratio (IPR), is a powerful technique to probe the nanoscale structural alterations due to abnormalities or chronic alcoholism in brain cells using the confocal image. Chronic alcoholism is correlated with medical, behavioral, and psychological problems including brain cell damage. However, probiotics such as Lactobacillus Plantarum has shown the promising result in soothing the human brain. This report, using the Confocal-IPR technique, nano to submicron scale structural abnormalities of the glial cells and the nuclei of alcoholic mice brain in the presence of probiotics. The increase in the structural disorder of alcoholic brain cells while the decrease or normalcy in the structural disorder of brain cells of mice fed with probiotics and alcohol simultaneously indicates that alcohol stimulates probiotics and enhances brain function., Comment: 6 figures, 10 pages

Mesoscopic physics-based dual spectroscopic imaging techniques, partial wave spectroscopy (PWS) and inverse participation ratio (IPR), are used to quantify the nano to submicron scales structural alterations in postnatal pups brain cells and tissues due to fetal alcoholism. Chronic alcoholism during pregnancy, being teratogenic, results in fetal alcohol syndrome and neurological disorder. Results of PWS studies of brain tissues show a higher degree of structural alterations. Furthermore, the IPR analyses of cell nuclei show that spatial molecular mass density structural disorder increases in DNA while decreases for histone. This study characterize the brain spatial structures from molecular to tissue level in fetal alcoholism., Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1812.10652

Molecular specific photonic localization is a sensitive technique to probe the structural alterations or abnormalities in a cell such as abnormalities due to alcohol or other drugs. Alcohol consumption during pregnancy by mother, or fetal alcoholism, is one of the major factors of mental retardation in children. Fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol related neurodevelopmental disorder are awful outcomes of the maternal alcohol consumption linked with notable cognitive and behavioral defects. Alcohol consumed by the pregnant mother, being teratogenic, interferes with the fetal health resulting brain damage and other birth defects. This might affect the brain cells at the very nanolevel which cannot be predicted by the present histopathological procedures. We perform quantification of nanoscale spatial structural alterations in two different spatial molecular components, DNA and histone molecular mass densities, in brain cell nuclei of fetal alcohol effected (FAE) pups at postnatal day 60. Confocal images of the brain cells are collected and the degree of morphological alterations in DNA and histone, in terms of mass density fluctuations are obtained using the recently developed molecular specific light or photonic localization analysis technique. The results show an increase in degree of spatial structural disorder in DNA and a reduced histone modification. Increase in spatial disorder in DNA may suggest DNA unwinding and possibly responsible for increase in gene expression. Reduced histone modification may suggest its release from the DNA and help in the unwinding of DNA and gene expression. The probable cause for structural disorder as well as opposite rearrangements for DNA and histone molecules in fetal alcohol effects is also discussed., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures