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Christopher J. Bockisch Elham Khojasteh Dominik Straumann Stefan C. A. Hegemann 《PloS one》2012,7(12)
The nystagmus in patients with vestibular disorders often has an eye position dependency, called Alexander’s law, where the slow phase velocity is higher with gaze in the fast phase direction compared with gaze in the slow phase direction. Alexander’s law has been hypothesized to arise either due to adaptive changes in the velocity-to-position neural integrator, or as a consequence of processing of the vestibular-ocular reflex. We tested whether Alexander’s law arises only as a consequence of non-physiologic vestibular stimulation. We measured the time course of the development of Alexander’s law in healthy humans with nystagmus caused by three types of caloric vestibular stimulation: cold (unilateral inhibition), warm (unilateral excitation), and simultaneous bilateral bithermal (one side cold, the other warm) stimulation, mimicking the normal push-pull pattern of vestibular stimulation. Alexander’s law, measured as a negative slope of the velocity versus position curve, was observed in all conditions. A reversed pattern of eye position dependency (positive slope) was found <10% of the time. The slope often changed with nystagmus velocity (cross-correlation of nystagmus speed and slope was significant in 50% of cases), and the average lag of the slope with the speed was not significantly different from zero. Our results do not support the hypothesis that Alexander’s law can only be observed with non-physiologic vestibular stimulation. Further, the rapid development of Alexander’s law, while possible for an adaptive mechanism, is nonetheless quite fast compared to most other ocular motor adaptations. These results suggest that Alexander’s law may not be a consequence of a true adaptive mechanism. 相似文献
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Narjes Soltani Ali Roohbakhsh Mohammad Allahtavakoli Elham Salari Vahid Sheibani Iman Fatemi 《Somatosensory & motor research》2013,30(2):131-138
AbstractCholecystokinin (CCK) is one of the most studied neuropeptides in the brain. In this study, we investigated the effects of CCK-8s and LY225910 (CCK2 receptor antagonist) on properties of neuronal response to natural stimuli (whisker deflection) in deep layers of rat barrel cortex. This study was done on 20 male Wistar rats, weighing 230–260?g. CCK-8s (300?nmol/rat) and LY225910 (1?µmol/rat) were administered intracerebroventricularly (ICV). Neuronal responses to deflection of principal (PW) and adjacent (AW) whiskers were recorded in the barrel cortex using tungsten microelectrodes. Computer controlled mechanical displacement was used to deflect whiskers individually or in combination at 30?ms inter-stimulus intervals. ON and OFF responses for PW and AW deflections were measured. A condition-test ratio (CTR) was computed to quantify neuronal responses to whisker interaction. ICV administration of CCK-8s and LY225910 had heterogeneous effects on neuronal spontaneous activity, ON and OFF responses to PW and/or AW deflections, and CTR for both ON and OFF responses. The results of this study demonstrated that CCK-8s can modulate neuronal response properties in deep layers of rat barrel cortex probably via CCK2 receptors. 相似文献
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Zeinab Hamid Andrew Wadsworth Elham Rezasoltani Sarah Holliday Mohammed Azzouzi Marios Neophytou Anne A. Y. Guilbert Yifan Dong Mark S. Little Subhrangsu Mukherjee Andrew A. Herzing Helen Bristow R. Joseph Kline Dean M. DeLongchamp Artem A. Bakulin James R. Durrant Jenny Nelson Iain McCulloch 《Liver Transplantation》2020,10(8)
The temperature‐dependent aggregation behavior of PffBT4T polymers used in organic solar cells plays a critical role in the formation of a favorable morphology in fullerene‐based devices. However, there is little investigation into the impact of donor/acceptor ratio on morphology tuning, especially for nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs). Herein, the influence of composition on morphology is reported for blends of PffBT4T‐2DT with two NFAs, O‐IDTBR and O‐IDFBR. The monotectic phase behavior inferred from differential scanning calorimetry provides qualitative insight into the interplay between solid–liquid and liquid–liquid demixing. Transient absorption spectroscopy suggests that geminate recombination dominates charge decay and that the decay rate is insensitive to composition, corroborated by negligible changes in open‐circuit voltage. Exciton lifetimes are also insensitive to composition, which is attributed to the signal being dominated by acceptor excitons which are formed and decay in domains of similar size and purity irrespective of composition. A hierarchical morphology is observed, where the composition dependence of size scales and scattering intensity from resonant soft X‐ray scattering (R‐SoXS) is dominated by variations in volume fractions of polymer/polymer‐rich domains. Results suggest an optimal morphology where polymer crystallite size and connectivity are balanced, ensuring a high probability of hole extraction via such domains. 相似文献
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Mehrabi Fatemeh Shamspur Tayebeh Sheibani Hassan Mostafavi Ali Mohamadi Maryam Hakimi Hamid Bahramabadi Reza Salari Elham 《Biometals》2021,34(6):1237-1246
BioMetals - Trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole are prescribed for a broad spectrum of bacteria. However, the use of these medicines is restricted due to the risk of microbial resistance in the body.... 相似文献
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Rahmani Behrouz Ghashghayi Elham Zendehdel Morteza Khodadadi Mina Hamidi Behnam 《International journal of peptide research and therapeutics》2021,27(4):2349-2370
International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics - Appetite is controlled by a complex system of central and peripheral signals interacting to modulate the ingestion response. Several... 相似文献
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Masoumeh Shayanmehr Elliyeh Yahyapour Morteza Kahrarian Elham Yoosefi Lafooraki 《ZooKeys》2013,(335):69-83
The Collembola fauna of Iran is little known and no comprehensive examination of this group of Hexapoda is available for this region. The only notable work on Collembola was carried out by Cox (1982). Recently, studies on the Collembola fauna have started in several regions. In this paper, publications by different researchers are documented and the species that have been found in different regions of Iran until January 2013 are listed. At present, 112 species, belonging to 18 families and 57 genera are known from Iran. 相似文献
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Heevy Abdulkareem Musa Al-Chaqmaqchi Ali Moshfegh Elham Dadfar Josefin Paulsson Moustapha Hassan Stefan H. Jacobson Joachim Lundahl 《PloS one》2013,8(7)
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have significantly increased morbidity and mortality resulting from infections and cardiovascular diseases. Since monocytes play an essential role in host immunity, this study was directed to explore the gene expression profile in order to identify differences in activated pathways in monocytes relevant to the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and increased susceptibility to infections. Monocytes from CKD patients (stages 4 and 5, estimated GFR <20 ml/min/1.73 m2) and healthy donors were collected from peripheral blood. Microarray gene expression profile was performed and data were interpreted by GeneSpring software and by PANTHER tool. Western blot was done to validate the pathway members. The results demonstrated that 600 and 272 genes were differentially up- and down regulated respectively in the patient group. Pathways involved in the inflammatory response were highly expressed and the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway was the most significant pathway expressed in the patient group. Since this pathway has been attributed to a variety of inflammatory manifestations, the current findings may contribute to dysfunctional monocytes in CKD patients. Strategies to interfere with this pathway may improve host immunity and prevent cardiovascular complications in CKD patients. 相似文献
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Hossein Roohi Ali-Reza Nowroozi Ali Ebrahimi Fazlola Eshghi Elham Ahmadepour 《Molecular simulation》2013,39(5):386-393
We have analysed the role of HOCl…O3 and HOCl…HOCl interactions on the stability of four estimated O3(HOCl)2 complexes by means of ab initio molecular orbital calculations. It is predicted that the O3(HOCl) + HOCl reaction is more energetically favourable than (HOCl)2 + O3 one. In all complexes, HOCl…HOCl interaction is stronger than HOCl…O3 one. The results show that the HOCl…O3 interaction strengthens the HOCl…HOCl one. On the other hand, O…H interaction in HOCl…O3 moiety is strengthened when it interacts with HOCl. Quantum theory of atoms in molecules predicts that the weak interactions in O3(HOCl)2 complexes have electrostatic characteristic. In all complexes, the charge transfer from O3 to (HOCl)2 is expected from natural bond orbital analysis. 相似文献
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Elham Khanicheh Martina Mitterhuber Lifen Xu Stéphanie P. Haeuselmann Gabriela M. Kuster Beat A. Kaufmann 《PloS one》2013,8(3)
Background/Objectives
Inflammatory changes on the endothelium are responsible for leukocyte recruitment to plaques in atherosclerosis. Noninvasive assessment of treatment-effects on endothelial inflammation may be of use for managing medical therapy and developing novel therapies. We hypothesized that molecular imaging of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) with contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEU) could assess treatment effects on endothelial phenotype in early atherosclerosis.Methods
Mice with atherosclerosis produced by gene deletion of the LDL-receptor and Apobec-1-editing protein were studied. At 12 weeks of age, mice received 8 weeks of regular chow or atorvastatin-enriched chow (10 mg/kg/day). At 20 weeks, CEU molecular imaging for aortic endothelial VCAM-1 expression was performed with VCAM-1-targeted (MBVCAM) and control microbubbles (MBCtr). Aortic wall thickness was assessed with high frequency ultrasound. Histology, immunohistology and Western blot were used to assess plaque burden and VCAM-1 expression.Results
Plaque burden was reduced on histology, and VCAM-1 was reduced on Western blot by atorvastatin, which corresponded to less endothelial expression of VCAM-1 on immunohistology. High frequency ultrasound did not detect differences in aortic wall thickness between groups. In contrast, CEU molecular imaging demonstrated selective signal enhancement for MBVCAM in non-treated animals (MBVCAM 2±0.3 vs MBCtr 0.7±0.2, p<0.01), but not in statin-treated animals (MBVCAM 0.8±0.2 vs MBCtr 1.0±0.2, p = ns; p<0.01 for the effect of statin on MBVCAM signal).Conclusions
Non-invasive CEU molecular imaging detects the effects of anti-inflammatory treatment on endothelial inflammation in early atherosclerosis. This easily accessible, low-cost technique may be useful in assessing treatment effects in preclinical research and in patients. 相似文献10.