The generative concern scale (GCS) and the generative behavior checklist (GBC) based on the multifaceted model of generativity (McAdams & de St. Aubin, 1992) were reconstructed based on item analysis in preliminary research. The reconstructed scales were administered to 996 adults. Factor analysis of GCS-R and GBC-R data revealed the following three factors which showed high internal consistenc...

Adult neurogenesis is the multistage process of generating neurons from adult neural stem cells. Accumulating evidence indicates that GABAergic depolarization is an important regulator of this process. Here, we examined GABAergic signaling to newly generated granule cells (GCs) of the adult mouse dentate gyrus. We show that the first synaptic currents in newborn GCs are generated by activation ...

A genipin-cross-linked chitosan/graphene oxide (GCS/GO) composite film was prepared using a solution casting method. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy of the composite films showed that the interactions between the CS and oxygen-containing groups of GO resulted in good dispersion of the GO sheets in the CS network. The addition of GO decreased the e...

Mergers of globular clusters (GCs) once associated with dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies have recently been suggested as an explanation for the bimodal horizontal branches (HBs) of some Galactic GCs, most notably NGC 1851, NGC 2808, and NGC 6229. Through analysis of the available color-magnitude diagrams for the GCs in the Fornax and Sagittarius dSph satellites of the Milky Way, as well as thei...

Ovarian-specific promoter 1 (OSP-1) is a retrovirus-like element isolated from the complementary DNA library of rat that has been thought to be specifically expressed in ovary. To exploit this promoter in dairy goat ovary granulosa cells (GCs), OSP-1 from rat was used to construct the reporter vector pOSP-1-EGFP, in which egfp coding for enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) was used a...

Using patch-clamp whole-cell recording, we investigated how activation of the sigma receptor 1 (σR1) modulates light-evoked excitatory postsynaptic currents (eEPSCs) of ganglion cells (GCs) in rat retinal slice preparations. Bath application of the σR1 agonist SKF10047 (SKF) suppressed N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-mediated eEPSCs at different holding potentials in ON, OFF and ON-OFF GCs...

We investigate structural properties of old, metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) formed at high redshifts (z > 6) and located inside and outside virialized galaxy-scale halos in clusters of galaxies with the total masses ofMCL based on high-resolution cosmological simulations with models of GC formation. We mainly derive the parameter dependences of physical properties of intracluster GCs (ICGCs...

We consider the model checking problem for Gap-order Constraint Systems (GCS) w.r.t. the branching-time temporal logic CTL, and in particular its fragments EG and EF. GCS are nondeterministic infinitely branching processes described by evolutions of integer-valued variables, subject to Presburger constraints of the form x−y ≥ k, where x and y are variables or constants and k ∈ N is a non-negati...

We have read with great interest the letter to the editor by van Roon et al commenting on our paper ‘Towards personalised treatment in primary Sjögren’s syndrome: baseline parotid histopathology predicts responsiveness to rituximab treatment’. The authors argue that there is a need for standardisation of the histopathological characteristics of salivary gland tissue of patients with primary Sjö...

Background : Deregulation of DNA repair and replication are involved in cancer development. DNA2 is a nuclease/helicase that plays roles in DNA repair and replication. The aim of this study was to explore DNA2 mutation and DNA2 protein expression in gastric cancers (GCs) and colorectal cancers (CRCs). Methods : We analyzed two mononucleotide repeats in DNA2 in 27 GCs with high microsatellite in...