In the sea slug Aplysia, rhythmic biting is eliminated after bilateral cerebral-buccal connective (CBC) crushes and recovers within 14 days postlesion (dpl). The ability of cerebral-buccal interneuron-2 (CBI-2) to elicit ingestion buccal motor programs (iBMPs; i.e., fictive rhythmic ingestion) and to regenerate synaptic connections with target buccal neurons was assessed with intracellular reco...

We use a multidisciplinary approach to identify, map, and characterize the bioactivity of modulatory neuropeptides in the circuitry that generates feeding behavior in Aplysia. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of the cerebral-buccal connective (CBC), a nerve containing axons of many interneurons that control feeding behavior of Aplysia, was used to ide...

BACKGROUND Many factors affect the accuracy of hemoglobin concentration values. In this study, we evaluated whether the hemoglobin concentration obtained by means of arterial blood gas (ABG) co-oximetry and complete blood count (CBC) central laboratory techniques clinically correlate when using simultaneous measurements of hemoglobin concentration obtained during complex spine fusion surgery. ...

BACKGROUND Complete blood count (CBC) is one of the most common and conventional blood test that physicians usually request. However the results of this test are affected by different factors such as, the temperature and duration of incubation, therefore the aim of this survey was to evaluate the effect of temperature and time of incubation on CBC, red blood cells (RBC) indices and white blood ...

In applications, it is well known that short support, high vanishing moments and reasonable smoothness are the three most important properties of a biorthogonal wavelet. Based on our previous work on analysis and construction of optimal fundamental refinable functions and optimal biorthogonal wavelets, in this paper, we shall discuss the mutual relations among these three properties. For exampl...

In applications, it is well known that short support, high vanishing moments and reasonable smoothness are the three most important properties of a biorthogonal wavelet. Based on our previous work on analysis and construction of optimal fundamental reenable functions and optimal biorthogonal wavelets, in this paper, we shall discuss the mutual relations among these three properties. For example...

We prove (nearly) tight bounds on the concrete PRF-security of two constructions of message-authentication codes (MACs): (1) The truncated CBC-MAC construction, which operates as plain CBC-MAC (without prefix-free encoding of messages), but only returns a subset of the output bits. (2) The MAC derived from the sponge hash-function family by pre-pending a key to the message, which is the de-fact...

Iron homeostasis requires subtle control systems, as iron is both essential and toxic. In Aspergillus nidulans, iron represses iron acquisition via the GATA factor SreA, and induces iron-dependent pathways at the transcriptional level, by a so far unknown mechanism. Here, we demonstrate that iron-dependent pathways (e.g., heme biosynthesis) are repressed during iron-depleted conditions by physi...

In applications, it is well known that short support, high vanishing moments and reasonable smoothness are the three most important properties of a biorthogonal wavelet. Based on our previous work on analysis and construction of optimal fundamental reenable functions and optimal biorthogonal wavelets, in this paper, we shall discuss the mutual relations among these three properties. For example...

INTRODUCTION It is well known that the efficacy of intravenous (i.v.) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is time-dependent when used to treat patients with acute ischemic strokes. AIM Our study examines the safety issue of giving IV tPA without complete blood count (CBC) resulted. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective observational study by examining the database from Huashan Hospit...