Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) to median nerve and finger stimulation were analyzed by means of spatio-temporal dipole modelling combined with 3D-NMR tomography in 8 normal subjects. The early SEPs were modelled by 3 equivalent dipoles located in the region of the brain-stem (B) and in the region of the contralateral somatosensory cortex (T and R). Dipole B explained peaks P14 and N18 a...

Chromosomal rearrangements can be triggered by recombination between distinct but related regions. Brassica napus (AACC; 2n = 38) is a recent allopolyploid species whose progenitor genomes are widely replicated. In this article, we analyze the extent to which chromosomal rearrangements originate from homeologous recombination during meiosis of haploid B. napus (n = 19) by genotyping progenies o...

There have been numerous results showing that a measurable cardinal κ can carry exactly α normal measures in a model of GCH, where α is a cardinal at most κ++. Starting with just one measurable cardinal, we have [9] (for α = 1), [10] (for α = κ++, the maximum possible) and [1] (for α = κ+, after collapsing κ++). In addition, under stronger large cardinal hypotheses, one can handle the remaining...

A mesh-independent and second-order accurate multigrid strategy to solve control-constrained parabolic optimal control problems is presented. The resulting algorithms appear to be robust with respect to change of values of the control parameters and have the ability to accommodate constraints on the control also in the limit case of bang-bang control. Central to the development of these multigr...

The characteristics of genotype V Japanese encephalitis virus (GV JEV) remain poorly understood as only two strains have been isolated to date. In this study, we examined the effects of the GV JEV Muar strain on in vitro growth and pathogenicity in mice; we also evaluated the efficacy of inactivated JEV vaccines against the Muar strain. Although growth of the Muar strain in mouse neuroblastoma ...

We herein investigated the effects of face/head and whole body cooling during passive heat stress on human somatosensory processing recorded by somatosensory-evoked potentials (SEPs) at C4' and Fz electrodes. Fourteen healthy subjects received a median nerve stimulation at the left wrist. SEPs were recorded at normothermic baseline (Rest), when esophageal temperature had increased by ~1.2°C (he...

Expression of Nogo protein was investigated in the optic pathway of embryonic mice by using isoform-specific antibodies Bianca and 11C7, which recognize Nogo-A/B and Nogo-A, respectively. Our previous reports from using antibody N18 have shown that Nogo is localized on the radial glia in the retina and at the midline of the ventral diencephalon in mouse embryos during the ingrowth of retinal ga...

Aim Kampo medicine is composed of a variety crude drugs. Each drug has its own effects, and the interaction all drugs produces therapeutic effect medicine. In order to examine characteristics drugs, 120 types herbal medicines were characterized based on their three-dimensional high-performance liquid chromatography (3D-HPLC) profiles as well effects cell morphology/proliferation when added cult...

An important technique in large cardinal set theory is that of extending an elementary embedding j : M → N between inner models to an elementary embedding j∗ : M [G] → N [G∗] between generic extensions of them. This technique is crucial both in the study of large cardinal preservation and of internal consistency. In easy cases, such as when forcing to make the GCH hold, the generic G∗ is simply...