Publications by Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan

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Abnormal brain oxygen homeostasis in an animal model of liver disease

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Dunja Simicic, Katarzyna Pierzchala

Background & Aims: Increased plasma ammonia concentration and consequent disruption of brain energy metabolism could underpin the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Brain energy homeostasis relies on effective maintenance of brain oxygenation, an ...

ELSEVIER2022

Effect of manganese chloride on the neurochemical profile of the rat hypothalamus

Rolf Gruetter, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Hongxia Lei, Nathalie Just

Manganese (Mn 2+)-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging studies of the neuronal pathways of the hypothalamus showed that information about the regulation of food intake and energy balance circulate through specific hypothalamic nuclei. The dehydration-induce ...

Nature Publishing Group2011

PET CMRglc mapping and H-1-MRS show altered glucose uptake and neurometabolic profiles in BDL rats

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Bernard Lanz, Carole Poitry-Yamate, Dunja Simicic, Jessie Julie Mosso, Mario Gaetano Lepore, Ting Yin

Type C hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder occurring as a consequence of chronic liver disease. Alterations in energy metabolism have been suggested in type C HE, but in vivo studies on this matter remain sparse and have repo ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Probiotics improve the neurometabolic profile of rats with chronic cholestatic liver disease

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Veronika Rackayová, Jocelin Grosse, Emmanuelle Ines Flatt

Chronic liver disease leads to neuropsychiatric complications called hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Current treatments have some limitations in their efficacy and tolerability, emphasizing the need for alternative therapies. Modulation of gut bacterial flora ...

Nature Research2021

Heterozygous females from a rat model for creatine transporter deficiency reveal altered behavioral response to stressors, normal body weight and slight metabolic changes

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Dunja Simicic

Creatine (Cr) is an organic acid essential for recycling ATP, important in tissues with high energy demand such as muscle or brain. Cr is synthesized in a 2-step pathway by the enzymes AGAT and GAMT, and transported by SLC6A8 (also called CrT). Cerebral Cr ...

2025

High field brain proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and volumetry in children with chronic, compensated liver disease-A pilot study

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Lijing Xin, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal

Background: There is increasing evidence that children or young adults having acquired liver disease in childhood display neurocognitive impairment which may become more apparent as they grow older. The molecular, cellular and morphological underpinnings o ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Neurometabolic changes in a rat pup model of type C hepatic encephalopathy depend on age at liver disease onset

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Dunja Simicic, Veronika Rackayová

Chronic liver disease (CLD) is a serious condition where various toxins present in the blood affect the brain leading to type C hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Both adults and children are impacted, while children may display unique vulnerabilities depending ...

SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS2023

Cerebral glutamine metabolism under hyperammonemia determined in vivo by localized H-1 and N-15 NMR spectroscopy

Rolf Gruetter, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Bernard Lanz, Yves Pilloud

Brain glutamine synthetase (GS) is an integral part of the glutamate-glutamine cycle and occurs in the glial compartment. In vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) allows noninvasive measurements of the concentrations and synthesis rates of metabolites ...

Nature Publishing Group2012

Automated segmentation and labeling of subcutaneous mouse implants at 14.1T

Gilles Bioley, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Maria Giulia Preti, Nicolas Gninenko

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool for studying subcutaneous implants in rodents, providing non-invasive insight into biomaterial conformability and longitudinal characterization. However, considerable variability in existing image analysi ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Fast High-Resolution Metabolite Mapping in the rat Brain Using 1H-FID-MRSI at 14.1 T

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Bernard Lanz, Dunja Simicic, Jessie Julie Mosso, Thanh Phong Kevin Lê, Guillaume Miro André Briand, Brayan Alves

Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) enables the simultaneous noninvasive acquisition of MR spectra from multiple spatial locations inside the brain. Although 1H-MRSI is increasingly used in the human brain, it is not yet widely applied in the p ...

2025

Metabolic and transcriptomic profiles of glioblastoma invasion revealed by comparisons between patients and corresponding orthotopic xenografts in mice

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Lijing Xin, Mario Gaetano Lepore, Marta Lai

The invasive behavior of glioblastoma, the most aggressive primary brain tumor, is considered highly relevant for tumor recurrence. However, the invasion zone is difficult to visualize by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and is protected by the blood brain ...

2021

B(0)shimming for in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy: Experts' consensus recommendations

Rolf Gruetter, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) allow the chemical analysis of physiological processes in vivo and provide powerful tools in the life sciences and for clinical diagnostics. Excellent homogeneity of the static B(0)magn ...

2020

Proton and phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy of a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

Rolf Gruetter, Patrick Aebischer, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Bernard Schneider, Hongxia Lei, Sharon Janssens, Lili Sun-Reimer

The development of new diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) requires new in vivo markers reflecting early pathological changes in the brain of patients. Magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy has been shown to provide useful information about the ...

Ios Press2012

Noise-reduction techniques for 1H-FID-MRSI at 14.1 T: Monte Carlo validation and in vivo application

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Bernard Lanz, Dunja Simicic, Jessie Julie Mosso, Thanh Phong Kevin Lê, Guillaume Miro André Briand, Brayan Alves

Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1H-MRSI) is a powerful tool that enables the multidimensional non-invasive mapping of the neurochemical profile at high resolution over the entire brain. The constant demand for higher spatial resolution in ...

Wiley2024

Longitudinal neurometabolic changes in the hippocampus of a rat model of chronic hepatic encephalopathy

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Jocelin Grosse, Katarzyna Pierzchala, Veronika Rackayová

Background & Aims: The sequence of events in hepatic encephalopathy (HE) remains unclear. Using the advantages of in vivo 1H-MRS (9.4T) we aimed to analyse the time-course of disease in an established model of type C HE by analysing the longitudinal change ...

2019

MP-PCA denoising for diffusion MRS data: promises and pitfalls

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Dunja Simicic, Jessie Julie Mosso

Diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) suffers from a lower signal to noise ratio (SNR) compared to conventional MRS owing to the addition of diffusion attenuation. This technique can therefore strongly benefit from noise reduction s ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Comparison of T-1 Relaxation Times of the Neurochemical Profile in Rat Brain at 9.4 Tesla and 14.1 Tesla

Rolf Gruetter, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Lijing Xin

Knowledge of T-1 relaxation times can be important for accurate relative and absolute quantification of brain metabolites, for sensitivity optimizations, for characterizing molecular dynamics, and for studying changes induced by various pathological condit ...

Wiley-Blackwell2009

Diffusion of brain metabolites highlights altered brain microstructure in type C hepatic encephalopathy: a 9.4 T preliminary study

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Dunja Simicic, Katarzyna Pierzchala, Jessie Julie Mosso, Guillaume Miro André Briand

Introduction Type C hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a decompensating event of chronic liver disease leading to severe motor and cognitive impairment. The progression of type C HE is associated with changes in brain metabolite concentrations measured by 1H m ...

Frontiers Media Sa2024

Harmonization of multi-scanner in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy: ENIGMA consortium task group considerations

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a powerful, non-invasive, quantitative imaging technique that allows for the measurement of brain metabolites that has demonstrated utility in diagnosing and characterizing a broad range of neurological diseases. Its impa ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

In vivo metabolic profiling of glioma-initiating cells using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 14.1 Tesla

Rolf Gruetter, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan

In the last decade, evidence has emerged indicating that the growth of a vast majority of tumors including gliomas is sustained by a subpopulation of cancer cells with stem cell properties called cancer initiating cells. These cells are able to initiate an ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012