Taste and Related Systems in Primates Including Humans

Taste and related systems in primates including humans.

The cortical processing of taste and related sensory inputs is being investigated at the neuronal level in macaques to help understand the operation of these cortical areas in humans. The primary taste cortex of macaques in the rostral insula and adjoining frontal operculum contains neurons tuned to different tastes including umami (Scott et al., 1986; Yaxley et al., 1990; Baylis and Rolls, 199...

coordination of protective schemes in distribution and subtransmission systems including distributed generation

نصب منابع پراکنده در سیستم های توزیع و فوق توزیع علاوه بر مزیت های فراوان، مشکلاتی را هم به همراه دارد. یکی از این مشکلات تأثیر این منابع روی اندازه جریان های اتصال کوتاه است. به طور معمول از حفاظت های مبتنی بر اصل جریان زیاد در سیستم های توزیع و فوق توزیع استفاده می شود. از مهمترین طرح های حفاظتی استفاده شده در فیدرهای توزیع، حفاظت فیوز- ریکلوزر است. همچنین از طرح های حفاظتی جریان زیاد جهتی در...

Lineage-specific loss of function of bitter taste receptor genes in humans and nonhuman primates.

Since the process of becoming dead genes or pseudogenes (pseudogenization) is irreversible and can occur rather rapidly under certain environmental circumstances, it is one plausible determinant for characterizing species specificity. To test this evolutionary hypothesis, we analyzed the tempo and mode of duplication and pseudogenization of bitter taste receptor (T2R) genes in humans as well as...

Cooperation in Primates and Humans

Distribution of TT virus (TTV), TTV-like minivirus, and related viruses in humans and nonhuman primates.

TT virus (TTV) and TTV-like minivirus (TLMV) are small DNA viruses with single-stranded, closed circular, antisense genomes infecting man. Despite their extreme sequence heterogeneity (>50%), a highly conserved region in the untranslated region (UTR) allows both viruses to be amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). TTV/TLMV infection was detected in 88 of 100 human plasma samples; amplifi...