Functional imaging of brain electrical activity was performed in 25 chronic medicated schizophrenics and 40 controls, analyzing the classical frequency bands (delta, theta, alpha, and beta) of 19-channel EEG during resting state to identify brain regions with deviant activity of different functional significances, using LORETA (Low Resolution Tomography) and SPM99 (Statistical Parametric Mappin...

Transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) binding and action were investigated during differentiation of adipocyte precursors freshly isolated from rat inguinal fat-pad cultivated in defined medium. The data presented in this paper indicate that TGF-beta 1 inhibits differentiation of adipocyte precursors with a 50% effective dose of 9 pM. Time course experiments demonstrate that TGF-beta 1...

In the first relay of information processing, the olfactory bulb (OB), odors are known to generate specific spatial patterns of activity. Recently, in freely behaving rats, we demonstrated that learning modulated oscillatory activity in local field potential (LFP), in response to odors, in both beta (15-40 Hz) and gamma (60-90 Hz) bands. The present study further characterized this odor-induced...

In this paper, covalent immobilization of beta amylase enzyme on the surface of modified magnetic nano particles (ZnFe2O4@SiO2-NH2) is reported. For doing so, at first, the magnetic nanoparticles of ZnFe2O4 were synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method and then tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and 3-aminopropyltriethoxy sil...

Introduction Many features, emerging from mathematical techniques, have been used in the analysis of brain signals. In this study, the physical quantity of “moment of inertia” (MOI) was introduced as a feature to enhance high-frequency waves (HFWs) in electroencephalography (EEG). Materials and Methods In this research, the recorded EEGs from F3, F4, and Cz points in 20 males were used. A total...

Recent neurophysiological studies indicate that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) generated by mobile phone radiation can exert effects on brain activity. One technical solution to reduce effects of EMFs in mobile phone use is provided in mobile phone chips that are applied to mobile phones or attached to their surfaces. To date, there are no systematical studies on the effects of mobil...

Oscillatory and coherent EEG activity is increasingly recognized as a fundamental hallmark of cortical integrative functions. We aimed to study deviations from the norm of different resting EEG parameters in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. We compared spectral parameters of the resting EEG of PD patients (n=24, median age 67 years) to those of healthy controls (n=34, median age 62 years). On...