1 TNFα Mechanically Sensitizes Masseter Muscle Nociceptors by 2 Increasing Prostaglandin E2 Levels. 3 4 5 Akhlaq W. Hakim, Xudong Dong, Brian E. Cairns 6 7 Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, 8 V6T 1Z3, Canada 9 10 11 12 13 14 Running title: TNFα-induced nociceptor sensitization 15 16 17 18 19 20 Correspondence should be addressed...

Most standard learning algorithms, such as Logistic Regression (LR) and the Support Vector Machine (SVM), are designed to deal with i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed) data. They therefore do not work effectively for tasks that involve non-i.i.d. data, such as “region segmentation”. (Eg, the “tumor vs non-tumor” labels in a medical image are correlated, in that adjacent pixels typi...

According to the Aharonov–Bohm effect, magnetic potentials have a direct significance to the motion of particles in quantum mechanics. We study this quantum effect through the scattering by several point–like magnetic fields at large separation in two dimensions. We derive the asymptotic formula for scattering amplitudes as the distances between centers of fields go to infinity. The result heav...

Possibilities for installation oflarge scale magnetic ~vices for energy production have stimulated inquiries Blo the biological effects of magnetic fields [1,2]. 'ecently magnetic fields have been reported by .. eking et al. [3] to influence the force developed ring contraction of isolated frog sartorius muscle. ey observed that in homogeneous magnetic fields to 5 T, the amplitude of isometric ...

objective: to assess the effect of combination of pulsed electromagnetic fields (pemf) with predatory stress on transected sciatic nerve regeneration in rats.  methods: in sham- operated group (sog) the nerve was manipulated and left intact. the 10-mm rat sciatic nerve gap was created in rats. in transected group (transected) nerve stumps were sutured to adjacent muscle and in vein graft group ...

Mass-flowering crops (MFCs) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator communities in MFC fields and nearby semi-natural habitats (SNHs). Across six European regions and 2 years, we assessed how landscape-scale cover of MFCs affected pollinator densities in 408 MFC fields and adjacent SNHs. In MFC fields, densities of bumblebees, solitary bees, managed honeybees and hoverflies w...

Cortical reorganization was induced by amputation of the 4th digit in 11 adult raccoons. Animals were studied at various intervals, ranging from 2 to 37 wk, after amputation. Recordings were made from a total of 129 neurons in the deafferented cortical region using multibarrel micropipettes. Several types of receptive fields were described in reorganized cortex: restricted fields were similar i...