Article history: Received 24 June 2010 Received in revised form 29 January 2011 Accepted 9 February 2011 Available online 13 February 2011

BACKGROUND Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) vaccines are used for experimental immunotherapy of equine melanoma. The injection of complexed linear DNA encoding interleukin (IL)-12/IL-18 induced partial tumour remission in a clinical study including 27 grey horses. To date, the detailed mechanism of the anti-tumour effect of this treatment is unknown. RESULTS In the present study, the clinical and ...

Functional MRI during face matching shows activation of the ventral visual stream, including the ventral temporal lobes and fusiform gyrus. In contrast, a location-matching task activates the dorsal visual stream, compromising parietal lobe areas. The morphological basis of the functional coupling between brain regions may be related to the distribution of neuron numbers and neuropil density, b...

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