In pair-pulse stimulation experiments, pair-pulse depression (PPD) of the population spike (PS) occurred at intervals shorter than 20 ms in the dentate gyrus in guinea pig hippocampal slices. Application of 50 mu M ca...
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In pair-pulse stimulation experiments, pair-pulse depression (PPD) of the population spike (PS) occurred at intervals shorter than 20 ms in the dentate gyrus in guinea pig hippocampal slices. Application of 50 mu M carbachol resulted in an increase in the test PS amplitude and caused suppression of PPD. This suppression was antagonized by atropine sulfate, a muscarinic receptor antagonist. Carbachol at 50 mu M induced intermittent bursts of theta-like activity (TLA). We compared the pair-pulse index (PPI) during TLA with that in a rest period between bursts of TLA. The PPI was defined as the ratio of the amplitude of the test PS to that of the conditioning PS. The PPI during TLA were significantly larger than that during the rest period, although there were no significant differences in the conditioning PS amplitude and the test pEPSP slope. When TLA was induced, the PPI during the rest period was increased by bicuculline. The PPI during TLA did not change significantly with the drug. The increase by bicuculline in the PPI during the rest period was caused by increase in the test PS amplitude. PPD can occur due to inhibition of granule cell activity by inhibitory neurons. Our findings suggest that the action of inhibitory neurons on granule cell activity is suppressed by activation of muscarinic receptors, with stronger suppression during TLA than during the rest period between bursts of TLA. (C) 1997 Elsevier science Ireland Ltd.
This work reconstructs a 3D graphics model of an object with specular surfaces by its rotation. Continuous images are taken to measure highlights on the smooth surfaces and their motion. Coplanar extended lights deter...
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This work reconstructs a 3D graphics model of an object with specular surfaces by its rotation. Continuous images are taken to measure highlights on the smooth surfaces and their motion. Coplanar extended lights determine a plane of rays to produce a highlight stripe on the object. 3D surfaces are then recovered from the moving stripe. We investigate global motion characteristics of the highlights in the Epipolar-plane images so as to qualitatively identify surface types and control the modeling process. Under single and multiple plane-of-rays illuminations, we give two quantitative approaches for surface and normal recovery which use highlight orientation in the image and highlight motion in the Epipolar-Plane images. The computations employ a first-order differential equation and linear equations, respectively.
Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) is a multifunctional factor that regulates many aspects of cellular processes. TGF-beta signals through a heteromeric complex of type-I and type-II receptors, which both belo...
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Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) is a multifunctional factor that regulates many aspects of cellular processes. TGF-beta signals through a heteromeric complex of type-I and type-II receptors, which both belong to the transmembrane (TM) receptor serine/threonine kinase family. Reported here is the isolation of a subtype of the human TGF-beta receptor type II from a cDNA library using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant. This yeast mutant has a defect in the expression of the gene encoding inositol-1-phosphate synthase and requires myo-inositol for its growth. The cloned subtype of the TGF-beta receptor type II has a 25-amino-acid insertion relative to the reported receptor type-II sequence. In addition to that encoding the TGF-beta receptor, two more human genes were obtained using the same yeast mutant. They encode the protein phosphatase type 2A regulatory subunit A and a 14-3-3 protein which is known as a regulatory protein for protein kinases. These results clearly indicate that these human genes function in yeast cells. It is also suggested that yeast possesses a signal transduction mechanism resembling the human TGF-beta-mediated signaling pathway.
There are many examples of enzymes that share substrates or cofactors in a cyclic manner. Techniques have been developed that use cyclic enzyme systems to assay quantitatively small amounts of biochemical substances (...
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There are many examples of enzymes that share substrates or cofactors in a cyclic manner. Techniques have been developed that use cyclic enzyme systems to assay quantitatively small amounts of biochemical substances (cofactor, substrate), however, only a few studies of the control of these systems have been published. The author previously showed with computer simulations that cyclic enzyme systems have the reliability of ON-OFF types of operation (McCulloch-Pitts' neuronic equation) capable of storing short-memory, and the applicability for a switching circuit in a biocomputer. This paper introduces a unique switching mechanism of cyclic enzyme system (basic switching element), and next, building the integrated biochemical switching system being composed of the basic switching element, shows the physiological phenomenon termed 'selective elimination of synapses' generally produced as a result of low-frequency train of electrical stimuli to the synapses.
Particle swarm optimizer (PSO) is an effective tool for solving many optimization problems. However, it may easily get trapped into local optimum when solving com- plex multimodal nonseparable problems. This paper p...
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Particle swarm optimizer (PSO) is an effective tool for solving many optimization problems. However, it may easily get trapped into local optimum when solving com- plex multimodal nonseparable problems. This paper presents a novel algorithm called distributed learning particle swarm optimizer (DLPSO) to solve multimodal nonseparable prob- lems. The strategy for DLPSO is to extract good vector infor- mation from local vectors which are distributed around the search space and then to form a new vector which can jump out of local optima and will be optimized further. Experimen- tal studies on a set of test functions show that DLPSO ex- hibits better performance in solving optimization problems with few interactions between variables than several other peer algorithms.
Background: Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) have a higher risk of cognitive impairment (CI). However, complexity of CI diagnosis and lack of simple screening approaches limited early screening and intervention ...
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With the rapid improvement of medical consumer electronics (CE), the transmission of multiple images has become increasingly common in the medical field. During the transmission and storage of image data, sensitive in...
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A response to the comments by Lortie and Andre is given, and the usefulness of their methodology is considered. The need for simplification should be reconsidered in light of the remarkably improved ability of modern ...
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A response to the comments by Lortie and Andre is given, and the usefulness of their methodology is considered. The need for simplification should be reconsidered in light of the remarkably improved ability of modern personal computers to perform numerical calculations.
Incomputability results in formal logic and the Theory of Computation (i.e., incompleteness and undecidability) have deep implications for the foundations of mathematics and computerscience. Likewise, Social Choice T...
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Diffusional and electrostatic effects on the apparent maximum reaction rate V-m(app) and the apparent Michaelis constant K-m(app) were investigated theoretically for a system in which an enzyme immobilized on the exte...
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Diffusional and electrostatic effects on the apparent maximum reaction rate V-m(app) and the apparent Michaelis constant K-m(app) were investigated theoretically for a system in which an enzyme immobilized on the external surface of a solid support catalyzes a reaction according to Michaelis-Menten kinetics. In such a system, the dependence of V-m(app) and K-m(app) on the substrate concentration can be expressed analytically. When the support and substrate carry charges of the same sign, resulting in a repulsive force between them, both V-m(app) and K-m(app) decrease with increasing substrate concentration, but they never decrease below the respective intrinsic values. On the other hand, when the support and substrate carry charges of opposite sign and therefore an attractive force occurs, V-m(app) decreases towards its intrinsic value, while K-m(app) decreases to values below its intrinsic value in the region of high substrate concentration.
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