Readiness potential (RP) based on electroencephalograms (EEG) has been studied extensively in recent years, but no studies have investigated the influence of the reference electrode on RP. In order to investigate the reference effect, 10 subjects were recruited and the original vertex reference (Cz) was used to record the raw EEG signal when the subjects performed a motor preparation task. The ...

Let Bn(RP ) (respectively Pn(RP )) denote the braid group (respectively pure braid group) on n strings of the real projective plane RP 2 . In this paper we study these braid groups, in particular the associated pure braid group short exact sequence of Fadell and Neuwirth, their torsion elements and the roots of the ‘full twist’ braid. Our main results may be summarised as follows: first, the pu...

Parameter Estimate Reaction k1f 0.01 nM−1 s−1 S+L → SL k1b 0.059 s−1 SL → S+L k2 0.1 s−1 SL (+ATP) → SLP (+ADP) k3f 0.001 s−1 SLP → SP k3b 0.001 s−1 SP → SLP k4f 0.0238 nM−1 s−1 SLP+R → SLP·R k4b 0.001 s−1 SLP·R → SLP+R k5f 0.0238 nM−1 s−1 SP+R → SP·R k5b 0.001 s−1 SP·R → SP+R k6f 19.8 s−1 SLP·R → SL+RP k6b 0.001 nM−1 s−1 SL+RP → SLP·R k7f 19.8 s−1 SP·R → S+RP k7b 0.001 nM−1 s−1 S+RP → SP·R k8f...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of stabilization of retinyl palmitate (RP) on its skin permeation and distribution profiles. Skin permeation and distribution study were performed using Franz diffusion cells along with rat dorsal skin, and the effect of drug concentration and the addition of pectin on skin deposition profiles of RP was observed. The skin distribution of RP in...

The transcriptional repressor for rat vasoactive-intestinal-polypeptide receptor 1 (VIPR-RP) is a recently characterized transcription factor that belongs to a family of proteins, which include components of the DNA replication factor C complex. In this study, I investigated the mechanisms by which VIPR-RP represses transcription. I show here that transcriptional repression by VIPR-RP is mediat...

An automatable, robust, high-performance online multidimensional liquid chromatography (MDLC) platform comprising of pH 10 reversed-phase (RP), strong cation exchange (SCX), and pH 2 RP separation stages has been integrated into a modified commercial off-the-shelf LC instrument with a simple rewiring, enabling accelerated routine qualitative and quantitative proteomics analyses. This system has...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequent form of dementia in western countries. The rise in life expectancy will likely increase its prevalence, since ageing is the greatest known risk factor. Although an early and accurate identification is critical, low diagnostic accuracy is currently reached. Hence, the aim of the present study was to analyse the spontaneous magnetoencephalographic (ME...