The present study aimed to investigate the feasibility of blended amine absorbents in improving CO2 alkanolamine-based absorption multicycle integrated absorption–mineralization (multicycle IAM) under standard operating conditions (20–25 °C and 1 atm). Multicycle IAM is a promising approach that transforms emissions into valuable products such as carbonates using solvents waste brine. Previousl...

Microelectrode array (MEA) technology is a widely used platform for the study of in vitro neural networks as it can either record or stimulate neurons by accessing multiple sites of neural circuits simultaneously. Unlike intracellular recording techniques, MEAs form noninvasive interface with cells so that they provides relatively long time window for studying neural circuits. As the technology...

The medial preoptic area (MPOA) is a critical integrative site for male copulatory behavior in most vertebrate species. Extracellular dopamine (DA) is increased in the MPOA of male rats immediately before and during copulation. DA agonists microinjected into the MPOA of male rats facilitate and DA antagonists inhibit sexual behavior. A major source of input to the MPOA is the medial amygdala (M...

Odour information induces various innate responses that are critical to the survival of the individual and for the species. An axon guidance molecule, Neuropilin 2 (Nrp2), is known to mediate targeting of olfactory sensory neurons (primary neurons), to the posteroventral main olfactory bulb (PV MOB) in mice. Here we report that Nrp2-positive (Nrp2+) mitral cells (MCs, second-order neurons) play...

The neural control of social behaviors in rodents requires the encoding of pheromonal cues by the vomeronasal system. Here we show that the typical preference of male mice for females is eliminated in mutants lacking oxytocin, a neuropeptide modulating social behaviors in many species. Ablation of the oxytocin receptor in aromatase-expressing neurons of the medial amygdala (MeA) fully recapitul...

The present research provides data on the density (ρ), viscosity (η) and ability to absorb carbon dioxide of systems containing amine, molecular solvent (MS) choline chloride (ChCl), with investigation physical properties both neat amine/MS/ChCl mixtures their samples after complete CO2 saturation. effect mixture composition was studied by varying amine from primary (monoethanolamine, MEA) seco...