阿尔茨海默病突破：科学家在未清除脑斑块的情况下恢复了两小时睡眠

* "Researchers say something similar may happen in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease." -> 研究人员表示，类似的情况可能也发生在阿尔茨海默病患者的大脑中。 * "Amyloid plaques, sticky clumps of protein that accumulate in the brain, are like the fire." -> 淀粉样蛋白斑块（在大脑中积聚的粘性蛋白质团块）就像火灾。 * "Microglia, the brain's resident immune cells, act like the sprinklers." -> 小胶质细胞（大脑中的驻留免疫细胞）则像喷淋装置。 * "Their response is meant to protect the brain, but it may ultimately make the situation worse." -> 它们的反应本意是保护大脑，但最终可能会使情况恶化。 * *Paragraph 2:* * "A team at the University of Kentucky has now identified this damaging process for the first time and demonstrated a way to shut it down." -> 肯塔基大学的一个团队现已首次确定了这一破坏性过程，并演示了一种阻断该过程的方法。 * *Paragraph 3 (Title):* * "Brain Immune Cells Linked to Alzheimer's Sleep Loss" -> 大脑免疫细胞与阿尔茨海默病睡眠缺失有关。 * *Paragraph 4:* * "In a study published in the journal *Alzheimer's & Dementia*..." -> 在发表于《阿尔茨海默病与痴呆症》期刊的一项研究中... * "...researchers led by Shannon L. Macauley, Ph.D., an associate professor of physiology in the UK College of Medicine..." -> 由肯塔基大学医学院生理学副教授 Shannon L. Macauley 博士领导的研究人员... * "...and first author Nicholas J. Constantino, Ph.D., a recent UK doctoral graduate..." -> 以及第一作者、肯塔基大学最近的博士毕业生 Nicholas J. Constantino 博士... * "...found that microglia are the main drivers of sleep loss in an animal model of Alzheimer's." -> 发现小胶质细胞是阿尔茨海默病动物模型中睡眠缺失的主要驱动因素。 * *Paragraph 5:* * "When the researchers used a drug to temporarily eliminate most of these cells..." -> 当研究人员使用药物暂时清除大部分此类细胞时... * "...the animals regained more than two hours of sleep each day." -> 动物每天恢复了两个多小时的睡眠。 * "The result points to a potential new treatment target for the disease, which Macauley called 'paradigm shifting'." -> 这一结果指出了该疾病一个潜在的新治疗靶点，Macauley 称其为“范式转变”。 * *Paragraph 6:* * "Scientists had previously attributed Alzheimer's related sleep loss mainly to damaged neurons or the physical presence of amyloid plaques." -> 科学家此前主要将阿尔茨海默病相关的睡眠缺失归因于受损的神经元或淀粉样蛋白斑块的物理存在。 * "The new findings suggest that the disruption may instead come from a much broader immune reaction, similar to a 'whole house response'." -> 新发现表明，这种干扰可能源于更广泛的免疫反应，类似于“全屋响应”。 * *Paragraph 7:* * "Basically, we showed that it is not the plaques themselves, or solely dysfunctional neurons, that cause sleep loss but actually microglia," -> “基本上，我们证明了造成睡眠缺失的不是斑块本身，也不单单是功能失调的神经元，实际上是小胶质细胞，” * "Microglia are immune cells that, when they respond to plaques, kick off this elaborate cascade of inflammation, as if the microglia are partying all night, and keeping the brain awake." -> “小胶质细胞是免疫细胞，当它们对斑块做出反应时，会引发这种复杂的炎症级联反应，就像小胶质细胞整夜狂欢，让大脑保持清醒一样。” * *Div:* ` ` -> Keep as is. * *Paragraph 8 (Title):* * "Tracking Sleep and Brain Activity" -> 追踪睡眠与大脑活动 * *Paragraph 9:* * "To separate Alzheimer's related changes from those caused by normal aging..." -> 为了区分阿尔茨海默病相关的变化与正常衰老引起的变化... * "...the researchers studied two groups of mice." -> 研究人员研究了两组小鼠。 * "One group had a genetic tendency to develop amyloid plaques..." -> 一组具有产生淀粉样蛋白斑块的遗传倾向... * "...while the other consisted of 'wild-type' mice that aged normally." -> 另一组则由正常衰老的“野生型”小鼠组成。 * *Paragraph 10:* * "The animals were examined at six months of age, when plaques begin to appear..." -> 研究人员在小鼠六个月大（斑块开始出现时）进行了检查... * "...and again at 18 months, a stage representing advanced disease." -> 并在18个月大（代表疾病晚期阶段）时再次进行检查。 * *Paragraph 11:* * "The team used several advanced tools to closely monitor changes in sleep and brain activity." -> 该团队使用了几种先进工具来密切监测睡眠和大脑活动的变化。 * "The mice wore small head mounted devices that recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyography (EMG)." -> 小鼠佩戴了小型头戴式设备，用于记录脑电图（EEG）和肌电图（EMG）。 * *Paragraph 12:* * "An EEG captures patterns of electrical activity and oscillations across brain networks..." -> EEG 捕捉大脑网络中的电活动模式和振荡... * "...creating what can be thought of as an electrical fingerprint of the brain." -> 生成可被视为大脑电指纹的图像。 * "An EMG measures muscle activity." -> EMG 测量肌肉活动。 * "Together, the two methods allowed researchers to determine precisely when the animals were awake, in deep restorative sleep or in dreaming sleep." -> 这两种方法结合使用，使研究人员能够精确判断动物何时处于清醒状态、深度恢复性睡眠或做梦睡眠状态。 * *Paragraph 13:* * "To locate the immune cells that were 'partying all night,' as Macauley described them..." -> 为了定位 Macauley 所描述的那些“整夜狂欢”的免疫细胞... * "...the researchers also used a technique called light sheet microscopy." -> 研究人员还使用了一种称为光片显微镜的技术。 * "The method makes brain tissue transparent, then uses a thin plane of laser light to build a detailed 3D digital image." -> 该方法使脑组织变得透明，然后使用薄层激光构建详细的三维数字图像。 * *Div:* ` ` -> Keep as is. * *Paragraph 14:* * "This approach gave the team a full view of both amyloid plaques and immune cells throughout the brain." -> 这种方法使团队得以全面观察整个大脑中的淀粉样蛋白斑块和免疫细胞。 * *Paragraph 15 (Title):* * "Temporarily Removing Microglia" -> 暂时清除小胶质细胞 * *Paragraph 16:* * "To test whether microglia were actually causing the sleep disruption..." -> 为了测试小胶质细胞是否确实导致了睡眠中断... * "...the scientists used a drug called Pexidartinib (PLX3397)." -> 科学家使用了一种名为培昔达尼的药物。 * "The medication was first developed for cancer research and blocks a signaling pathway that microglia depend on for survival." -> 该药物最初是为癌症研究开发的，可阻断小胶质细胞生存所依赖的信号通路。 * *Paragraph 17:* * "After the mice received the drug for 14 days, about 87% of the brain's immune cells were temporarily removed." -> 小鼠接受该药物治疗14天后，约87%的大脑免疫细胞被暂时清除。 * "The researchers could then determine whether sleep improved in their absence." -> 研究人员随后可以确定在缺乏这些细胞的情况下睡眠是否有所改善。 * *Paragraph 18:* * "The team also used a mathematical method called Fitting Oscillations and One Over Frequency..." -> 团队还使用了一种称为“拟合振荡和频率倒数”的数学方法... * "...to divide the brain's electrical activity into two categories: periodic activity (the rhythmic waves we usually think of as brain waves) and aperiodic activity (the background electrical noise)." -> 将大脑的电活动分为两类：周期性活动（我们通常认为的脑电波节律波）和非周期性活动（背景电噪声）。 * *Paragraph 19:* * "Using a car comparison, the researchers were effectively testing whether the brain's engine continued to run at an unusually high speed even while the animals were resting." -> 用汽车作比喻，研究人员实际上是在测试即使动物在休息时，大脑的“引擎”是否仍以异常高的速度运转。 * *Paragraph 20 (Title):* * "Early Plaques Trigger a Lasting Sleep Deficit" -> 早期斑块引发持续的睡眠缺失 * *Paragraph 21:* * "Macauley called the results 'mind-blowing and unexpected.'" -> Macauley 称结果“令人震惊且出乎意料”。 * "The findings showed that plaque accumulation and sleep disruption did not worsen together in a steady decline." -> 研究结果表明，斑块积聚和睡眠中断并没有随着病情的稳步恶化而同步加重。 * *Paragraph 22:* * "I expected that as plaque burden became more severe, sleep disruption would also worsen," -> “我原以为随着斑块负荷变得更严重，睡眠中断也会恶化，” * "The disruptions in sleep and cortical EEG activity that occur at six months, when plaques first emerge, did not worsen by 18 months, despite more than double the amount of plaque burden" -> “在六个月大斑块首次出现时发生的睡眠和皮层脑电图活动中断，到了18个月大时并没有恶化，尽管斑块负荷增加了一倍多。” * *Paragraph 23:* * "The team described this pattern as a ceiling effect." -> 团队将这种模式描述为“天花板效应”。 * "Even though plaque levels more than doubled, the amount of lost sleep remained about the same." -> 尽管斑块水平增加了一倍多，但睡眠缺失的量大致保持不变。 * *Paragraph 24:* * "That result suggests that the first wave of immune activity triggered by early plaques may be enough to establish the sleep problem." -> 这一结果表明，早期斑块引发的第一波免疫活动可能足以确立睡眠问题。 * "Additional plaques may not produce a proportional increase in sleep disruption." -> 额外的斑块可能不会导致睡眠中断成比例增加。 * *Paragraph 25 (Title):* * "Alzheimer's Targets Restorative Sleep" -> 阿尔茨海默病针对恢复性睡眠 * *Paragraph 26:* * "The study also helped distinguish the effects of normal aging from those linked to Alzheimer's pathology." -> 该研究还有助于区分正常衰老的影响与阿尔茨海默病病理相关的影响。 * *Paragraph 27:* * "Normal aging primarily reduced rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the stage associated with dreaming and memory consolidation." -> 正常衰老主要减少快速眼动（REM）睡眠，这是与做梦和记忆巩固相关的阶段。 * "In contrast, amyloid pathology selectively reduced nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, the deeply restorative stage of sleep." -> 相比之下，淀粉样蛋白病理选择性地减少了非快速眼动（NREM）睡眠，这是深度恢复性的睡眠阶段。 * *Paragraph 28:* * "That restorative sleep is super important for physical repair, learning and memory and washing out the toxins of the day," -> “这种恢复性睡眠对身体的修复、学习和记忆以及清除一天中的毒素至关重要，” * "When Alzheimer's patients lose this stage, they lose their brain's primary cleaning cycle, creating a feed-forward loop that may drive further damage." -> “当阿尔茨海默病患者失去这一阶段时，他们就失去了大脑的主要清洁周期，从而形成一个可能导致进一步损伤的前馈循环。” * *Paragraph 29:* * "The loss of this restorative period could therefore create a harmful cycle." -> 因此，这种恢复性时期的缺失可能形成一个恶性循环。 * "Poor sleep may reduce the brain's ability to clear waste, which could contribute to further damage and even more sleep disruption." -> 睡眠不佳可能会降低大脑清除废物的能力，这可能导致进一步的损伤和更多的睡眠中断。 * *Paragraph 30 (Title):* * "More Than Two Hours of Sleep Restored" -> 恢复了两个多小时的睡眠 * *Paragraph 31:* * "The most striking result came after the researchers depleted the microglia." -> 最引人注目的结果出现在研究人员耗尽小胶质细胞之后。 * *Paragraph 32:* * "Mice with Alzheimer's related pathology gained more than two hours of sleep per night once most of their brain immune cells had been removed." -> 一旦大部分大脑免疫细胞被清除，患有阿尔茨海默病相关病理的小鼠每晚的睡眠时间增加了两个多小时。 * "Their periods of restorative NREM sleep also became longer, giving them more opportunities to enter healthy dreaming sleep that supports the formation of new memories." -> 它们的恢复性 NREM 睡眠期也变长了，这使它们有更多机会进入支持新记忆形成的健康做梦睡眠。 * *Paragraph 33:* * "Importantly, the improvement occurred even though the amount of amyloid plaque in the brain did not change." -> 重要的是，尽管大脑中的淀粉样蛋白斑块量没有改变，但睡眠状况仍有所改善。 * *Paragraph 34:* * "This finding suggests that the inflammatory response to plaques may be a reversible cause of sleep loss and could potentially be treated separately from the plaques themselves." -> 这一发现表明，对斑块的炎症反应可能是睡眠缺失的一个可逆原因，并且有可能与斑块本身分开治疗。 * *Paragraph 35:* * "It also raises a major question for future research: could restoring this essential sleep in people help interrupt the feed-forward loop associated with Alzheimer's disease?" -> 这也为未来的研究提出了一个主要问题：恢复人类的这种基本睡眠是否有助于阻断与阿尔茨海默病相关的前馈循环？ * *Paragraph 36 (Title):* * "A Collaborative Lab Culture" -> 协作的实验室文化 * *Paragraph 37:* * "The discovery grew out of the research environment in Macauley's laboratory in the Department of Physiology at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging." -> 这一发现源于 Sanders-Brown 衰老研究中心生理学系 Macauley 实验室的研究环境。 * "Macauley credited the progress to a 'beautiful partnership' between herself, her students and other trainees." -> Macauley 将进展归功于她与学生及其他受训者之间“美妙的合作关系”。 * *Paragraph 38:* * "I love people who take initiative, find their passion are curious and keep pushing to find an answer," -> “我喜欢那些主动出击、找到激情、充满好奇心并不断推动寻找答案的人，” * *Paragraph 39:* * "She encourages members of her team to become 'calculated risk-takers,' and keeps a Wayne Gretzky quote in her office: 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.'" -> 她鼓励团队成员成为“有计划的风险承担者”，并在办公室里挂着 Wayne Gretzky 的一句名言：“你不尝试投篮，就会100%错失机会。” * *Paragraph 40:* * "Constantino, who recently defended his doctorate at UK, said that this atmosphere gave him the confidence to pursue challenging questions that crossed multiple fields." -> 最近在肯塔基大学通过博士论文答辩的 Constantino 表示，这种氛围给了他信心去探索跨越多个领域的挑战性问题。 * *Paragraph 41:* * "Dr. Macauley has also taught me to embrace uncertainty and failure as part of the scientific process," -> “Macauley 博士还教会我将不确定性和失败视为科学过程的一部分，” * "Some of the most interesting studies I have been a part of emerged because our original hypothesis was wrong." -> “我参与过的一些最有趣的研究之所以出现，是因为我们最初的假设是错误的。” * *Paragraph 42:* * "When experiments encounter obstacles, Macauley encourages the team to keep investigating rather than stop." -> 当实验遇到障碍时，Macauley 鼓励团队继续调查而不是停止。 * *Paragraph 43:* * "Follow the data, ask better questions and figure out what is actually happening." -> “追随数据，提出更好的问题，并弄清楚实际发生了什么。” * *Paragraph 44:* * "That approach helped the researchers move beyond the field's traditional focus on neurons and investigate whether microglia could be a treatment target." -> 这种方法帮助研究人员超越了该领域对神经元的传统关注，转而调查小胶质细胞是否可以成为治疗靶点。 * *Paragraph 45 (Title):* * "Portable EEG Could Aid Earlier Detection" -> 便携式脑电图有望辅助早期检测 * *Paragraph 46:* * "The broader goal of the research is to develop affordable and noninvasive tools for people affected by Alzheimer's disease." -> 这项研究的更广泛目标是为受阿尔茨海默病影响的人群开发负担得起且无创的工具。 * "The current findings provide several directions for future work." -> 目前的发现为未来的工作提供了几个方向。 * *Paragraph 47:* * "The researchers identified patterns of electrical brain activity that appear to distinguish Alzheimer's related changes from normal aging." -> 研究人员识别出了似乎能区分阿尔茨海默病相关变化与正常衰老的大脑电活动模式。 * "They believe EEG technology could eventually serve as a 'readily accessible, affordable and longitudinal biomarker of Alzheimer's disease.'" -> 他们认为脑电图技术最终可以成为一种“易于获取、负担得起且纵向的阿尔茨海默病生物标志物”。 * *Paragraph 48:* * "Portable EEG systems could allow us to monitor people in their home environments and potentially screen for changes associated with an Alzheimer's disease, without the initial need for expensive or invasive tests," -> “便携式脑电图系统可以让我们在家庭环境中监测人们，并潜在地筛查与阿尔茨海默病相关的变化，而最初无需进行昂贵或有创的检查，” * *Paragraph 49:* * "Such devices could potentially allow local clinics across Kentucky to screen people at risk before requiring them to travel long distances to major hospitals for more specialized testing." -> 此类设备可能使肯塔基州各地的当地诊所能够在要求高风险人群长途跋涉前往大型医院进行更专业检测之前，先对他们进行筛查。 * *Paragraph 50 (Title):* * "Calming Microglia Without Removing Them" -> 在不清除小胶质细胞的情况下使其“冷静” * *Paragraph 51:* * "Macauley's laboratory is now studying ways to reduce microglial overactivity without eliminating the cells completely." -> Macauley 的实验室目前正在研究在不完全清除细胞的情况下降低小胶质细胞过度活跃的方法。 * *Paragraph 52:* * "The team is examining safe medications that are already in use, including the diabetes drug Metformin and the antiseizure drug Stiripentol." -> 团队正在检查已经在使用的安全药物，包括糖尿病药物二甲双胍和抗癫痫药物司替戊醇。 * "Researchers want to determine whether these medicines can change how microglia process energy and reduce their tendency to become overactive." -> 研究人员想要确定这些药物是否能改变小胶质细胞处理能量的方式，并降低其变得过度活跃的倾向。 * *Paragraph 53:* * "By preventing immune cells from keeping the brain's engine in a heightened state..." -> 通过阻止免疫细胞使大脑的“引擎”保持亢奋状态... * "...the team hopes to restore healthy sleep and improve quality of life years before noticeable memory loss develops." -> 团队希望在明显的记忆丧失出现前几年，恢复健康的睡眠并提高生活质量。 * *Paragraph 54:* * "If we can target that process, it might help with quality of life, attention, cognition and confusion," -> “如果我们能针对这一过程，可能有助于改善生活质量、注意力、认知和意识模糊，” * *Paragraph 55:* * "Finding effective solutions begins with identifying both the source of the problem and the right tool to address it. Macauley's team is making progress on both fronts." -> 找到有效的解决方案始于确定问题的根源和解决它的正确工具。Macauley 的团队在这两方面都在取得进展。 * *Paragraph 56 (Funding info):* * "Research reported in this publication was supported by..." -> 本出版物报道的研究得到了以下机构的支持... * "National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health" -> 美国国立卫生研究院国家老龄化研究所 * "National Institute of General Medical Sciences" -> 美国国立卫生研究院国家普通医学科学研究所 * Award numbers need to be kept as is. * "The content is solely the responsibility of the authors..." -> 内容完全由作者负责，并不一定代表国立卫生研究院的官方观点。 * *Paragraph 57:* * "This work was supported by a $287,236 award from the Cure Alzheimer's Fund." -> 这项工作得到了治愈阿尔茨海默病基金 287,236 美元资助的支持。 * *Paragraph 58:* * "This work was supported by a $250,000 award from The CART Fund (Coins for Alzheimer's Research Trust)." -> 这项工作得到了 CART 基金（阿尔茨海默病研究信托基金）250,000 美元资助的支持。 4. **Final Review:** * Check for flow and tone. 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