Aberrant neural connections are regarded as a principal factor contributing to epileptogenesis. This study examined chemical and electrical connections between fast-spiking (FS), parvalbumin (PV)-immunoreactive (FS-PV) interneurons and regular-spiking (RS) neurons (pyramidal neurons or spiny stellate neurons) in a rat model of prenatal irradiation-induced cortical dysplasia. Presynaptic action ...

23 Aberrant neural connections are regarded as a principal factor contributing to epileptogenesis. This 24 study examined chemical and electrical connections between fast-spiking (FS), parvalbumin (PV) 25 immunoreactive (Ir, FS-PV) interneurons and regular spiking (RS) neurons (pyramidal neurons or 26 spiny stellate neurons) in a rat model of prenatal irradiation-induced cortical dysplasia. Pre...

The Internet provides easy access to a kind of library resources. However, classification of documents from a large amount of data is still an issue and demands time and energy to find certain documents. Classification of similar documents in specific classes of data can reduce the time for searching the required data, particularly text documents. This is further facilitated by using Artificial...

We chronicle the research on the fusion technology of neural networks and fuzzy systems (NN+FS), the models that have been proposed from this research, and the commercial products and industrial systems that have adopted these models. First, we review the NN+FS research activity during the early stages in Japan, the US, and Europe. Next, following the classification of NN+FS models, we show the...

Text Categorization (TC) is the process of grouping texts into one or more predefined categories based on their content. It has become a key technique for handling and organizing text data. One of the most important issues in TC is Feature Selection (FS). Many FS methods have been put forward and widely used in TC field, such as Information Gain (IG), Document Frequency thresholding (DF) and Mu...

BACKGROUND Human mesial temporal lobe epilepsies (MTLE) represent the most frequent form of partial epilepsies and are frequently preceded by febrile seizures (FS) in infancy and early childhood. Genetic associations of several complement genes including its central component C3 with disorders of the central nervous system, and the existence of C3 dysregulation in the epilepsies and in the MTLE...

Intraoperative frozen section (FS) evaluation of ureteral and urethral margins is frequently requested during radical cystoprostatectomy in patients with bladder urothelial carcinoma. However, it is still controversial whether intraoperative FSs of ureteral and urethral margins are necessary in all patients with cystoprostatectomy or a risk-based assessment with limited to the high risk patient...

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer is a significant cause of death. Removal of precancerous adenomas, and early detection and treatment of cancer, has been shown to reduce the risk of death. The aim of this review and meta-analysis was to determine whether flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) is an effective population screening method for reducing mortality from colorectal cancer. METHODS MEDLINE (1946 to ...

Serotonin (5-HT)(1A) receptors play a critical role in the 5-HTergic mechanism associated with fear memory. Previously we showed that adult rats exposed to early postnatal stress, i.e. footshock (FS) stress experienced during the second week (PND 14-18, 2W-FS), exhibited low levels of fear expression. The present study explored whether aversive stress exposure in the second and/or the third wee...

In analogy with histo-blood group A antigen, Forssman (Fs) antigen terminates with α3-N-acetylgalactosamine and can be used by pathogens as a host receptor in many mammals. However, primates including humans lack Fs synthase activity and have naturally occurring Fs antibodies in plasma. We investigated individuals with the enigmatic ABO subgroup A(pae) and found them to be homozygous for common...