Network centrality in patients with acute unilateral open globe injury: A voxel‑wise degree centrality study

  • Authors:
    • Hua Wang
    • Ting Chen
    • Lei Ye
    • Qi‑Chen Yang
    • Rong Wei
    • Ying Zhang
    • Nan Jiang
    • Yi Shao
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  • Published online on: September 26, 2017     https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2017.7635
  • Pages: 8295-8300
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Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate functional networks underlying brain‑activity alterations in patients with acute unilateral open globe injury (OGI) and associations with their clinical features using the voxel‑wise degree centrality (DC) method. In total, 18 patients with acute OGI (16 males and 2 females), and 18 healthy subjects (16 males and 2 females), closely matched in age, sex and education, participated in the present study. Each subject underwent a resting‑state functional magnetic resonance imaging scan. The DC method was used to assess local features of spontaneous brain activity. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was used to distinguish OGIs from healthy controls (HCs). Correlation analysis was used to examine the association between the observed mean DC values of different brain areas and behavioral performance. Compared with HCs, patients with acute unilateral OGI had significantly increased DC values in the bilateral primary visual cortex (V1/V2) and left precuneus (PCUN), and significantly decreased DC values in the right insula, left insula, right inferior parietal lobule (IPL)/supramarginal gyrus (SMG), IPL/SMG, right supplementary motor area and right postcentral gyrus. Additionally, in the acute OGI group, it was observed that the duration of OGI was negatively correlated with the DC signal value of the bilateral V1/V2 (r=‑0.581; P=0.011) and left PCUN (r=‑0.508; P=0.031). Acute OGI led to brain functional network dysfunction in a number of brain regions, which may indicate impairment of the visual cortex and other vision‑associated brain regions in OGI.

Introduction

Open globe injury (OGI) is a severe eye disease that frequently causes unilateral visual loss. Ocular trauma is a public health problem in developing countries (1,2). A previous study indicated that the annual prevalence of ocular trauma was 4.9 per 100,000 in the Western Sicily Mediterranean area, which investigated a 5 year period from January 2001 to December 2005 (3). In addition, the incidence of OGI is increased in men compared with women (4). OGI primarily occurs in the 15–44 and 0–14 age groups (5). A total of ~19 million cases of unilateral blindness or decreased vision are caused by ocular trauma each year (6). Clinically, OGI is frequently associated with corneal injury and iris prolapse (7), retinal detachment (8), glaucoma (9) and endophthalmitis (10). At present, surgery is the principal means of treatment for OGI (11,12).

Computed tomography (CT) and B-scan ultrasonography are important clinical tests for the diagnosis of OGI. Although CT may provide information for the diagnosis of OGI (13), it is insufficient for making the decision of immediate treatment (14). B-scan ultrasonography is able to locate retinal detachment points, retinal tears and vitreous traction, and thus may be beneficial for further medical treatment (15). The aforementioned methods focus solely on ocular trauma in OGI. However, other parts of the visual system, including the connecting pathways and the visual cortex, are frequently overlooked. Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of neural alterations in the OGI.

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is able to evaluate intrinsic brain activity in subjects at rest (16). It has been widely used in visual studies associated with brain functional alterations. A previous study reported decreased functional connectivity within the occipital visual cortices and a correlation with other vision-associated brain regions in patients with early blindness (17). An additional study demonstrated that patients with early blindness exhibited stronger connectivity in the primary somatosensory area (S1) and primary visual cortex (V1) compared with patients with late blindness (18). In addition, a previous report demonstrated that patients with early blindness exhibited markedly decreased gray matter volumes in the optic tract and visual cortex (19). Although there have been numerous studies into visual and brain function alterations in patients with blindness, less is known about the spontaneous brain activity alterations in patients with acute unilateral vision loss caused by OGI.

Voxel-wise degree centrality (DC) is a measurement that illustrates the network architecture of functional connectivity within the human brain connectome at the voxel level (20). Distinct from the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) (21) and regional homogeneity (ReHo) (22) techniques, it does not require the definition of regions of interest. The DC method is able to provide insights into the functional connectivity of the entire brain. The DC method has been successfully used to evaluate the pathological mechanisms underlying a number of diseases, including autism (23), obesity (24) and Parkinson's disease (25). A previous study investigated strabismus and optic neuritis through whole-brain voxel-based analysis of diffusion tensor imaging (26,27). In addition, ALFF and ReHo were previously used to analyzed patients with acute OGI (28,29). The present study evaluated functional network brain activity alterations in patients with acute unilateral vision loss caused by OGI, and associations with clinical features.

Subjects and methods

Subjects

A total of 18 patients with acute unilateral OGI (16 male and 2 female; 8 right eye injury and 8 left eye injury; age range, 18–65 years) were recruited from the ophthalmology departments of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University and Xiangya Hospital between August 2015 and January 2016. Acute unilateral OGI was diagnosed with the following critera: i) Severe ocular trauma; ii) acute vision loss; iii) corneal and scleral rupture; iv) decreased intraocular pressure; v) incomplete eyeball wall visualized using orbital CT or orbital MRI; and vi) contralateral eye best-corrected visual acuity (VA) ≥1.0.

Exclusion conditions were as follows: i) Patients with other eye diseases (including cataracts, glaucoma, pterygium and strabismus, ocular infection and inflammation, hereditary optic neuropathy, ischemic diseases, demyelinating diseases, intraocular placeholder lesions, toxic lesions, vascular lesions and ischemic optic neuropathy); ii) central nervous system diseases and systemic disorders; iii) diabetes and cardiovascular diseases; and iv) addictions (including drugs or alcohol).

A total of 18 healthy controls (HCs; 16 males and 2 females) with matched age, sex and education were recruited for the present study. All HCs met the following conditions: i) Normal brain parenchyma on head MRI scan; ii) no ocular or central nervous system diseases; iii) naked eye or the best-corrected VA >1.0; and iv) no MRI scanning contraindications (for example, implanted metal devices).

The research methods of the present study followed the Declaration of Helsinki and conformed to the principles of medical ethics. The present study was approved by the Ethics Committees of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University and Xiangya Hospital. All subjects participated voluntarily and were informed of the purposes, methods and procedures, and all subjects signed an informed consent form.

MRI data acquisition

MRI scanning was performed on a 3-Tesla MR scanner (Trio; Siemens AG, Munich, Germany). High-resolution T1-weighted images were acquired as described previously (30). A total of 240 functional images covering the whole brain in one subject were obtained.

fMRI data preprocessing

All functional data were prefiltered using MRIcro (www.MRIcro.com) and preprocessed using SPM8 (www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm), DPARSFA (rfmri.org/DPARSF) and the Resting-state Data Analysis Toolkit (www.restfmri.net), as described previously (30).

Degree centrality

The voxel-wise functional network was generated as described previously (30). Based on the voxel-wise functional network, DC was calculated as the counting of significant suprathresholded correlations (or the degree of the binarized adjacency matrix) for each subject. The voxel-wise DC map for each individual was converted into a z-score map, as described previously (30).

Statistical analysis

For demographic and clinical measurements, the data were presented as the mean ± standard deviation. The differences in clinical features between the patients and HCs were calculated using independent two-sample t-tests.

Independent t-tests with generalized linear model analysis was performed using the SPM8 toolkit to investigate the group differences in DC values between patients with OGI and HCs. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference, with Gaussian random field theory correction. Pearson correlation analysis was used to calculate the association between mean DC values and clinical features. Statistical tests were performed using SPSS version 16.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).

Results

Demographics and visual measurements

There were no significant differences in weight (P=0.423), age (P=0.990), best-corrected VA-right (P<0.001) and best-corrected VA-left (P<0.001) between the two groups (Table I).

Table I.

Demographic information and clinical features of subjects in the OGI and HC groups.

Table I.

Demographic information and clinical features of subjects in the OGI and HC groups.

FeatureOGIHCtP-value
Sex, male/female16/216/2N/AN/A
Agea, years44.17±13.9444.11±12.780.0120.990
Weighta, kg55.83±6.0454.39±4.420.8130.423
Handedness20 R20 RN/A>0.999
Duration of OGI, ha24.83±31.72N/AN/AN/A
Best-corrected VA-righta0.56±0.571.16±0.18−4.262<0.001
Best-corrected VA-lefta0.64±0.531.17±0.18−4.023<0.001

a Independent t-tests (mean ± standard deviation) were used to compare the two groups. OGI, open globe injury; HC, healthy control; N/A, not applicable; VA, visual acuity; R, right.

DC differences

Compared with HCs, DC values of patients with acute OGI were increased in the bilateral visual cortex (V1/V2) and left precuneus (PCUN) regions, although they were decreased in the right insula, left insula, right inferior parietal lobule (IPL)/supramarginal gyrus (SMG), left IPL/SMG, right supplementary motor area (SMA) and S1 (Fig. 1; Table II; z>2.3; cluster-wise P<0.05 corrected). The mean altered DC values between patients with OGIs and HCs are presented in Fig. 2.

Table II.

Brain regions with significant differences in DC between the OGI and HC groups.

Table II.

Brain regions with significant differences in DC between the OGI and HC groups.

MNI coordinates

Brain areaxyzVoxel no.BAL/R/BPeak T values
OGI<HC
Insula336624113R−5.503
Insula−3012−316713L−4.948
IPL/SMG60−303614740R−4.741
IPL/SMG−60−332711940L−4.382
SMA15−666176  6R−4.970
S121−5163128  5R−5.711
OGI>HC
V1/V227−99−1287917,18B8.076
PCUN−3075278  7L5.935

[i] The statistical threshold was set at P<0.05 for multiple comparisons using Gaussian Random Field theory (z>2.3; cluster-wise P<0.05 corrected). DC, degree centrality; BA, Brodmann area; OGI, open globe injury; HC, healthy control; MNI, Montreal Neurological Institute; V1/V2, primary visual cortex; PCUN, precuneus; IPL, inferior parietal lobule; SMG, supramarginal gyrus; SMA, supplementary motor area; S1, postcentral gyrus; R, right; L, left; B, bilateral.

Correlation analysis of DC values and clinical outcomes in the OGI group

In the acute OGI group, it was observed that the duration of OGI was negatively correlated with the DC signal value of the bilateral V1/V2 (r=-0.581; P=0.011; Fig. 3A) and the left PCUN (r=-0.508; P=0.031; Fig. 3B).

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve

It was proposed that DC differences between patients with OGI and HCs may be useful diagnostic markers. The mean DC values of the different brain regions were used for ROC curves analysis. The area under the curve values were: Bilateral V1/V2, 1.000 and left PCUN, 0.994, respectively (Fig. 4).

Discussion

To the best of our knowledge, the present study was the first to evaluate the effects of acute OGI on functional networks and brain-activity changes using the DC technique. Compared with HCs, patients with acute unilateral OGI exhibited increased DC values in the bilateral V1/V2 and left PCUN, and decreased DC values in the right insula, left insula, right IPL/SMG, left IPL/SMG, right SMA and S1. It was observed that the duration of OGI was negatively correlated with the DC signal value of the bilateral V1/V2 (r=-0.581; P=0.011) and left PCUN (r=-0.508; P=0.031).

The primary visual cortex, also termed V1 (striate cortex or Brodmann area 17) (31) is located in the occipital lobe involved in the processing of visual information. The extrastriate areas are located next to the primary visual cortex, including functional areas V2, V3, V4 and V5 (32). The extrastriate areas receive visual information from the primary visual cortex and transmit the information to other brain areas (33). A previous study reported that visual acuity exerts a marked effect on the V1 blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response (34). An additional study demonstrated that central vision loss may lead to cortical atrophy of V1 (35). Increased regional homogeneity in the occipital areas was reported in patients with early blindness (36). Consistent these previous findings, it was observed in the present study that patients with acute unilateral OGI exhibited significantly increased DC values in the bilateral V1/V2, which may reflect the compensation of the visual cortex in acute unilateral vision loss associated with OGI. It was additionally demonstrated that the duration of OGI exhibited a negative correlation with the DC signal value of the bilateral V1/V2 (r=-0.581; P=0.011). This suggested that a stronger visual compensatory function may occur in V1/V2 during the early phase of acute OGI.

The PCUN, located forward of the occipital lobe, contributes to visuospatial information processing (37) and memory (38). A previous study reported that the PCUN is activated during visuospatial activities (39). In the present study, it was observed that patients with acute unilateral OGI had increased DC values in the left PCUN, which may reflect the compensation of the PCUN in acute unilateral visual loss associated with OGI. Additionally, it was observed that the duration of OGI was negatively correlated with the DC signal value of the left PCUN. Therefore, a stronger compensatory function may occur in the PCUN during the early phase of acute OGI.

The insula, located in the lateral sulcus (40), is divided into two part. The insula serves roles in emotion and cognition (4143). A previous study reported that increased activity of the insula is associated with emotional regulation (44). Dysfunction of the insula has been observed in negative emotional experiences (45) and anxiety-prone subjects (46). In the present study, it was demonstrated that DC values in the right insula and left insula were decreased in patients with OGI, which may reflect impaired emotional processing caused by acute unilateral OGI.

The SMA, located in front of the primary motor cortex, is involved in the control of movement (47,48). A previous study demonstrated that the SMA served an important role in the orchestration of movements (49). An additional study demonstrated the role of injury to the upper motor neuron in supplementary motor area syndrome (50). In the present study, it was observed that patients with acute unilateral OGI exhibited increased DC values in the right SMA, indicating that OGI may be associated with the dysfunction of movement.

In conclusion, the results of the present study demonstrated that patients with OGI had dysfunctional activity in specific regions of the brain, which may be associated with compensation for vision loss in acute OGI. The present findings may provide a basis for identifying the downstream impact of OGI on brain network organization. However, the sample size of the present study was relatively small. In addition, the clinical characteristics were not strictly defined. Right and left eye-injured patients were included in the present study, which may have affected the DC results. In future studies, differences will be distinguished and brain function activity alterations measured more accurately.

Acknowledgements

The present study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 81170,823, 81460092 and 81400372), the Science and Technology Program Project of Hunan Province Science and Technology Department (grant nos. 2015JC3011 and 2015JC3118), the Jiangxi Province Voyage Project (grant no. 2014022), the Natural Science Key Project of Jiangxi Province (grant no. 20161ACB21017), the Youth Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (grant no. 20151BAB215016), and the Technology and Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (grant no. 20151BBG70223).

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