An interventional study of Electrophysiological system and Multiphoton microscope in Brain Diseases and Brain Tumor, sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-08-21.
Sponsored by National Taiwan University Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
The research aims to establish a big database of multiple kinds of brain tissues and prove the relevance of human brain tissue models and hiPSCs-derived organoid models.
Brain diseases are very difficult diseases to treat, and when developing related medical cures for saving lives, however, it is difficult to obtain examining samples, especially like normal brain tissue since it is necessary to preserve the brain tissue of patients to ensure its functionality. Among the numerous brain diseases, there are many diseases that combine surgery, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy in treatment. For example, for brain tumors, surgery is the most important treatment that can effectively prolong the survival time of patients. Numerous neurological functions, tumors generated in such important organs, require careful judgment of resection strategy in surgical treatment. In addition to achieving complete tumor resection, subsequent chemotherapy and immunotherapy are also important factors to improve prognosis. Traditionally, the neurosurgeon's experience and various preoperative examinations are used to judge the type and distribution of the disease, which may lead to inconsistent results due to different personal experiences. The current methods that can be used clinically to help improve the integrity of resection (such as intraoperative fluorochrome and intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging) are relatively indirect methods of judgment, but it is hard to directly know the detailed information of the disease before surgery, and the assessment results of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) section through the standard operation of pathological procedures are used to formulate drug treatment strategies, which may greatly affect the prognosis of patients. According to the current intraoperative cryopathology, there are many brain tumors that cannot be classified easily by it. When searching the literature, there are also few related studies that try to solve this problem, but in addition to the insufficient sample size, it is also impossible to acquire appropriate conclusions due to the limited number of samples. Therefore, through this study, we want to implement optical microscopy and electrophysiological analysis system to capture images and electrophysiological signals of some remaining brain diseased tissues after surgical resection, and compare the acquired datas with the results obtained from human brain organoid tissues. Eventually, construct a large database of brain tissue can also verify whether human brain organoids can completely compare with real human brain samples can truly improve the medical operation.
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Device: Multiphoton microscope
Device: Electrophysiological system
Electrophysiological system is used for examining voltage variation in biological samples. And multiphoton microscopy is a common type of nonlinear optical microscope.
Multiphoton microscope acquires high-resolution image based on nonlinear optics and can be used for detect biological specimens.
Acquire neuronal structual (image frame) results of different brain regions
By interpreting the microscopic images of different brain regions' tissues , an attempt is made to understand the structure of brain disease tissues (via cell morphology, microvessels, etc).
Time frame: 3 years
Acquire electrophysiological readout (voltage amplitude, mV) datas of different brain regions
By interpreting the neuron electric reactive datas, an attempt is made to know the neuronal activity (via detecting voltage amplitude change) between multiple neurons.
Time frame: 3 years
To conduct imaging for multiple types of human brain tissues and construct the neuron image database
Accumulating the microscopic images and neuron electrosiological signals, the image database of normal and diseased neuron reaction can be constructed.
Time frame: 3 years
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