Mice are key model organisms in neuroscience and motor systems physiology. Fine motor control tasks performed by mice have become widely used in assaying neural and biophysical motor system mechanisms. Although fine m...
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Mice are key model organisms in neuroscience and motor systems physiology. Fine motor control tasks performed by mice have become widely used in assaying neural and biophysical motor system mechanisms. Although fine motor tasks provide useful insights into behaviors that require complex multi-joint motor control, there is no previously developed physiological biomechanical model of the adult mouse forelimb available for estimating kinematics, muscle activity, or kinetics during behaviors. Here, we developed a musculoskeletal model based on high-resolution imaging of the mouse forelimb that includes muscles spanning the neck, trunk, shoulder, and limbs. Physics-based optimal control simulations of the forelimb model were used to estimate in vivo muscle activity present when constrained to the tracked kinematics during reaching movements. The activity of a subset of muscles was recorded and used to assess the accuracy of the muscle patterning in simulation. We found that the synthesized muscle patterning in the forelimb model had a strong resemblance to empirical muscle patterning, suggesting that our model has utility in providing a realistic set of estimated muscle excitations over time when given a kinematic template. The strength of the similarity between empirical muscle activity and optimal control predictions increases as mice performance improves throughout learning of the reaching task. Our computational tools are available as open-source in the OpenSim physics and modeling platform. Our model can enhance research into limb control across broad research topics and can inform analyses of motor learning, muscle synergies, neural patterning, and behavioral research that would otherwise be inaccessible. NEW & NOTEWORTHY Investigations into motor planning and execution lack an accurate and complete model of the forelimb, which could bolster or expand on findings. We sought to construct such a model using high-detail scans of murine anatomy and prior research into
Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins play an important role in the pathological processes of tumor development and progression. Elastic microfibril interface located protein-1 (EMILIN-1), an ECM glycoprotein, is linked...
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Dear Editor,Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex(PDHc) is a large multienzyme assembly(Mr = 4–10 million Daltons) consisting of three essential components: pyruvate dehydrogenase(E1p), dihydrolipoyl transacetylase(E2p), an...
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Dear Editor,Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex(PDHc) is a large multienzyme assembly(Mr = 4–10 million Daltons) consisting of three essential components: pyruvate dehydrogenase(E1p), dihydrolipoyl transacetylase(E2p), and dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase(E3). These three enzymes perform distinct functions sequentially to catalyze the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate with formation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(NADH) and acetyl-coenzyme A(Patel and Roche, 1990).
For many researchers, the purpose of ontologies is sharing data. This sharing is facilitated when ontologies are available in multiple languages, but inhibited when an ontology is only available in a single language. ...
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In this paper, we present a system for recognizing temporal expressions related to cell cycle phase (CCP) concepts in biomedical literature. We identified 11 classes of cell cycle related temporal expressions, for whi...
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Increasingly, as full-text scientific papers are becoming available, scientific queries have shifted from looking for facts to looking for arguments. Researchers want to know when their colleagues are proposing theori...
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Patent search is an important information retrieval problem in scientific and business research. Semantic search would be a large improvement to current technologies, but requires some insight into the language of pat...
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Patent search is an important information retrieval problem in scientific and business research. Semantic search would be a large improvement to current technologies, but requires some insight into the language of patents. In this article we test the fit of the language of patents to the sublanguage model, focussing on closure properties. The research presented here is relevant to the topic of sublanguage identification for different domains, and to the study of the language of patents. We investigate the hypothesis that fit to the sublanguage model increases as one moves down the International Patent Classification hierarchy. The analysis employs a general English corpus and patent documents from the MAREC corpus. It is shown that patents generally fit the sublanguage model, with some variability between categories in the extent of the fit.
Sublanguages are specialized genres of language associated with specific domains and document types. When sublanguages can be recognized and adequately characterized, they are useful for a variety of types of natural ...
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Sublanguages are specialized genres of language associated with specific domains and document types. When sublanguages can be recognized and adequately characterized, they are useful for a variety of types of natural language processing applications. Although there are sublanguage studies related to languages other than English, all previous work on sublanguage recognition has focused on sublanguages related to general English. This paper tests whether a sublanguage detecting technique developed for English can be applied to another language. Bulgarian clinical documents are an excellent test case, because of a number of unique linguistic properties that affect their lexical and morphological characteristics. Bulgarian clinical documents were studied with respect to their closure properties and were found to fit the sublanguage model and exhibit characteristics like those noted for sublanguages related to English. It was also confirmed that the clinical sublanguage phenomenon is not a coincidental phenomenon of English, but applies to other languages as well. Implications of this fact for natural language processing are proposed.
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