The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of extended suprathreshold vibratory stimulation on the sensitivity of slowly adapting type 1 (SA1), rapidly adapting (RA), and Pacinian (PC) afferents. To that end, an algorithm was developed to track afferent absolute (I0) and entrainment (I1) thresholds as they change over time. We recorded afferent responses to periliminal vibratory...

Analysis of execution traces plays a fundamental role in many program analysis approaches, such as runtime verification, testing, monitoring, and specification mining. Execution traces are frequently parametric, i.e., they contain events with parameter bindings. Each parametric trace usually consists of many meaningful trace slices merged together, each slice corresponding to one parameter bind...

Methods and results Male C57BL/6 mice (n=30) were immunized with 100μg of peanut protein. Half received a 30-day raw-peanutchallenge-diet (CD) (inflamed-I) while the other received mouse chow (controls-C)(Teixeira 2008). They were further divided and received sweetened OVA (new protein) (egg white diluted in distilled H2O, 1:5 v/v+5% sucralose) orally for 7 days, on day 0 (I1 C1), 10 (I2 C2) or...

Previous studies have shown that diazoacetyl-DL-norleutine methyl ester inactivates pepsin, that Cu(I1) greatly facilitates the reaction, and that in the presence of Cu(I1) substitution occurs specifically at the carboxyl group of an aspartic acid residue in the enzyme. The present experiments were designed to establish the reasons for the speed and specificity of the reaction and the role of t...

The molecular mechanisms underlying regulation of fluid production by secretory epithelia such as the choroid plexus are poorly understood. Two cAMP-regulated inhibitors of protein phosphatase-1, inhibitor-1 (I1) and a dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein, M(r) = 32,000 (DARPP-32), are enriched in the choroid plexus. We show here that these two phosphoproteins are colocalized in choroid ...

Heterochromatin underpins gene repression, genome integrity, and chromosome segregation. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, conserved protein complexes effect heterochromatin formation via RNA interference-mediated recruitment of a histone H3 lysine 9 methyltransferase to cognate chromatin regions. To identify small molecules that inhibit heterochromatin formation, we performed an ...

Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD) is a chicken disease economically important for the poultry industry in function of the immune depression that it causes. Disease control is made with different vaccines and vaccination programs. In present work, the pathogenicity of 3 intermediate vaccines (I1, I2 and I3), 2 intermediate more pathogenic (IP1 and IP2) and 3 vaccines containing strong virus (F1, F...

Physicochemical studies of the human serum albuminCu(II)-L-histidine (HSA-Cu(II)-L-His) ternary complex at pH 7.5 indicate several interesting features. 1. The dissociation constants of the HSA-Cu(II)-L-His ternary complex and the HSA-Cu(I1) binary complex are 1.38 X 1O-22 and 6.61 x lOen, respectively. 2. The absorption spectrum of the ternary complex system has characteristics similar to thos...

The number of self-dual cyclic codes of length pk over GR(p2,m) is determined by the nullity of a certain matrix M(pk, i1). With the aid of Genocchi numbers, we determine the nullity of M(pk, i1) and hence determine completely the number of such codes.