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Oshry Markovich Evyatar Steiner Štěpán Kouřil Petr Tarkowski Asaph Aharoni Rivka Elbaum 《Plant, cell & environment》2017,40(7):1189-1196
Silicate minerals are dominant soil components. Thus, plant roots are constantly exposed to silicic acid. High silicon intake, enabled by root silicon transporters, correlates with increased tolerance to many biotic and abiotic stresses. However, the underlying protection mechanisms are largely unknown. Here, we tested the hypothesis that silicon interacts with the plant hormones, and specifically, that silicic acid intake increases cytokinin biosynthesis. The reaction of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and Arabidopsis plants, modified to absorb high versus low amounts of silicon, to dark‐induced senescence was monitored, by quantifying expression levels of genes along the senescence pathway and measuring tissue cytokinin levels. In both species, detached leaves with high silicon content senesced more slowly than leaves that were not exposed to silicic acid. Expression levels of genes along the senescence pathway suggested increased cytokinin biosynthesis with silicon exposure. Mass spectrometry measurements of cytokinin suggested a positive correlation between silicon exposure and active cytokinin concentrations. Our results indicate a similar reaction to silicon treatment in distantly related plants, proposing a general function of silicon as a stress reliever, acting via increased cytokinin biosynthesis. 相似文献
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The vestibulo-ocular and vestibulo-spinal network provides the ability to hold gaze fixed on an object during passive head
movement. Within that network, most of the second-order neurons of the medial vestibular nucleus (MVNn) compute internal representations
of head movement velocity in the horizontal plane. Our previous in vitro studies of the MVNn membrane properties indicated
that they may play a major role in determining the dynamic properties of these neurons independently of their connectivity.
The present study investigated that hypothesis at a theoretical level. Biophysical models of type A and B MVNn were developed.
Two factors were found to be important in modeling tonic and phasic firing activity: the activation of the delayed potassium
current and the rate of calcium flux. In addition, the model showed that the strength of the delayed potassium current may
determine the different forms of action potentials observed experimentally. These two models (type A and B cells) were examined
using depolarizing stimulation, random noise, step, ramp and sinusoidal inputs. For random noise, type A cells showed stable
(regular) firing frequencies, while type B cells exhibited irregular activity. With step stimulation, the models exhibited
tonic and phasic firing responses, respectively. Using ramp stimulations, frequency versus current curves showed a linear
response for the type B neuron model. Finally, with sinusoidal stimulation of increasing frequencies, the type A model demonstrated
a decrease in sensitivity, while the type B model exhibited an increase in sensitivity. These theoretical results support
the hypothesis that MVNn intrinsic membrane properties specify various types of dynamic properties amongst these cells and
therefore contribute to the wide range of dynamic responses which characterize the vestibulo-ocular and vestibulo-spinal network.
Received: 1 August 1996 / Accepted in revised form: 16 December 1998 相似文献
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Evyatar Av-Ron 《Journal of mathematical biology》1994,33(1):71-87
Presented here is a biophysical cell model which can exhibit low-frequency repetitive activity and bursting behavior. The
model is developed from previous models (Av-Ron et al. 1991, 1993) for excitability, oscillations and bursting. A stepwise
development of the present model shows the contribution of a transient potassium current (I
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) to the overall dynamics. By changing a limited set of model parameters one can describe different firing patterns; oscillations
with frequencies ranging from 2–200 Hz and a wide range of bursting behaviors in terms of the durations of bursting and quiescence,
peak firing frequency and rate of change of the firing frequency. 相似文献
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Presented here is a minimal biophysical cell model, based on work by Hodgkin and Huxley and by Rinzel, that can exhibit both excitable and oscillatory behavior. Two versions of the model are studied, which conform to data for squid and lobster giant axons. 相似文献
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Cataldo E Brunelli M Byrne JH Av-Ron E Cai Y Baxter DA 《Journal of computational neuroscience》2005,18(1):5-24
Bursts of spikes in T cells produce an AHP, which results from activation of a Na+/K+ pump and a Ca2+-dependent K+ current. Activity-dependent increases in the AHP are believed to induce conduction block of spikes in several regions of the neuron, which in turn, may decrease presynaptic invasion of spikes and thereby decrease transmitter release. To explore this possibility, we used the neurosimulator SNNAP to develop a multi-compartmental model of the T cell. The model incorporated empirical data that describe the geometry of the cell and activity-dependent changes of the AHP. Simulations indicated that at some branching points, activity-dependent increases of the AHP reduced the number of spikes transmitted from the minor receptive fields to the soma and beyond. More importantly, simulations also suggest that the AHP could modulate, under some circumstances, transmission from the soma to the synaptic terminals, suggesting that the AHP can regulate spike conduction within the presynaptic arborizations of the cell and could in principle contribute to the synaptic depression that is correlated with increases in the AHP. 相似文献
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