The myogenic differentiation of C2C12 myoblast cells is induced by the novel androgen receptor (AR) partial agonist, (17α,20E)-17,20-[(1-methoxyethylidene)bis-(oxy)]-3-oxo-19-norpregna-4,20-diene-21-carboxylic acid methyl ester (YK11), as well as by dihydrotestosterone (DHT). YK11 is a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM), which activates AR without the N/C interaction. In this study, w...

BACKGROUND Forward Surgical Teams (FSTs) are 20-person units designed to perform front-line, life-saving combat surgery. This study compares the employment, injuries encountered, and workload of an airborne FST in two widely varying campaigns. METHODS The 250th FST provided far forward surgery for initial entry assaults and follow-on stability operations in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Fre...

We investigated the bacterial composition in the gut of Formosan subterranean termites (FST), Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, collected from southern China (native range) vs. Louisiana, U. S. (introduced range) using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Overall, we identified 213 bacteria ribotypes from thirteen phyla. The enemy release hypothesis could not be invoked to explain invasion success of FST si...

We compute the structure of stars of mass M 0:5M starting from the pre{main sequence and employing diierent assumptions on the convection model, in particular dropping the Mixing Length Theory (MLT) and adopting a Full Spectrum of Turbulence (FST) mod-elization (Canuto and Mazzitelli 1991, Canuto, Goldman and Mazzitelli 1996). In the FST framework, convection in the upper stellar envelope can b...

We present new test results for our active object recognition algorithms which are based on the feature space trajectory (FST) representation of objects and a neural network processor for computation of distances in global feature space. The algorithms are used to classify and estimate the pose of objects in different stable rest positions and automatically re-position the camera if the class o...

INTRODUCTION Animal models for depression are indispensable tools in the search to identify new antidepressant drugs and to provide insights into the neuropathology that underlies the disease state of depression. The forced swimming test (FST) is the most widely used tool for assessing antidepressant activity in rodents due to its reliability across the laboratories. To date, however, the effic...

Recently, finite-state transducers (FSTs) have been shown to be useful for a number of applications in speech and language processing. FST operations such as composition, determinization, and minimization make manipulating FSTs very simple. In this paper, we present a method to learn weights for arbitrary FSTs using the EM algorithm. We show that this FST EM algorithm is able to learn pronuncia...

CONTEXT In traditional system of medicine brahmi has been used to enhance memory. Recently it has been reported to have action in psychiatric disorders. With these backgrounds the work has been undertaken to study antidepressant activity of brahmi in albino mice. AIM To evaluate antidepressant activity of brahmi in experimental models. MATERIALS AND METHODS The antidepressant activity was s...

OBJECTIVES This study planned to assess antidepressant like activity of aqueous extract from leaves of Citrus maxima Merr. (Rutaceae). MATERIALS AND METHODS Boiling was used for aqueous extraction. Acute toxicity study was performed in mice. Antidepressant activity was studied using locomotor activity test, modified forced swimming test (FST) and tail suspension test (TST). Three doses 100, 2...