Leptin has been shown to modulate deiodinase type 1 (D1) and type 2 (D2) enzymes responsible for thyroxine (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3) conversion. Previously, it was demonstrated that a single injection of leptin in euthyroid fed rats rapidly increased liver, pituitary, and thyroid D1 activity, and simultaneously decreased brown adipose tissue (BAT) and hypothalamic D2 activity. We have now e...

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is characterized by progressive dementia with two of three core symptoms; Parkinsonism, visual hallucinations or disturbances of consciousness/fluctuating attention. Dementia in Parkinson's disease (PDD) has similar neuropsychiatric characteristics. Reduced nigrothalamic dopamine and altered thalamic D2 receptors may mediate some of the non-motor symptoms of DLB ...

We have used a yeast two-hybrid approach to uncover protein interactions involving the D2-like subfamily of dopamine receptors. Using the third intracellular loop of the D2S and D3 dopamine receptors as bait to screen a human brain cDNA library, we identified filamin A (FLN-A) as a protein that interacts with both the D2 and D3 subtypes. The interaction with FLN-A was specific for the D2 and D3...

Jaśkowski’s logic D2 was formulated with the help of the modal logic S5, [8]–[10]. It was shown (see [12], [16]) that to define D2 one could use normal modal logics weaker than S5. In the present paper we indicate a certain regular modal logic which also defines D2. This logic is the weakest regular modal logic defining D2.

Most receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) contain two conserved phosphatase domains (D1 and D2) in their intracellular region. The carboxy-terminal D2 domain has little or no catalytic activity. The crystal structure of the tandem D1 and D2 domains of the human RPTP LAR revealed that the tertiary structures of the LAR D1 and D2 domains are very similar to each other, with the exc...

For nonnegative integers d1, d2, and L(d1, d2)-labeling of a graph G, is a function f : V(G) 3 {0, 1, 2, . . .} such that f(u) f(v) di whenever the distance between u and v is i in G, for i 1, 2. The L(d1, d2)-number of G, d1,d2(G) is the smallest k such that there exists an L(d1, d2)-labeling with the largest label k. These labelings have an application to a computer code assignment problem. T...

Let d1 and d2 be discriminants of distinct quadratic imaginary orders and let J(d1, d2) denote the product of differences of CM j-invariants with discriminants d1 and d2. In 1985, Gross and Zagier gave an elegant formula for the factorization of the integer J(d1, d2) in the case that d1 and d2 are relatively prime and discriminants of maximal orders. We generalize their methods and give a compl...

BACKGROUND We have previously reported associations between frontal D2/3 receptor binding potential positive symptoms and cognitive deficits in antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenia patients. Here, we examined the effect of dopamine D2/3 receptor blockade on cognition. Additionally, we explored the relation between frontal D2/3 receptor availability and treatment effect on positive symptoms. METH...

Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterized by abnormal manifestations of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness. Using a canine model of the disease, we found that central D2 antagonists suppressed cataplexy, a form of REM-sleep atonia occurring in narcolepsy, whereas this symptom was aggravated by D2 agonists. The effect on cataplexy was stereospecific for the S(-) e...