BACKGROUND Health status of offspring is programmed by maternal diet throughout gestation and lactation. The present study investigates the lasting effects of maternal supplementation with different amounts of soy oil or extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) on weight and biochemical parameters during gestation and lactation of female mice offspring. METHODS Eight weeks old female C57BL/6 mice (n=40)...

This chapter introduces an application case of self-organizing feature map (SOFM) on event processing of Positron Emission Tomagraph (PET) detector. The Siemens Inveon Dedicated PET scanner uses an array of 64 20x20 segmented LSO detectors in a tomographic arrangement to allow PET imaging of small animals. A detector consists of 20x20 LSO crystal pixels coupled to a Position Sensitive Photomult...

In contrast to our knowledge about the anatomical development of the mammalian central auditory system, the development of its physiological properties is still poorly understood. In order to better understand the physiological properties of the developing mammalian auditory brainstem, we made intracellular recordings in brainstem slices from perinatal rats to examine synaptic transmission in t...

Synapses from neurons of the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) onto neurons of the lateral superior olive (LSO) in the auditory brainstem are glycinergic in maturity, but also GABAergic and glutamatergic in development. The role for this neurotransmitter cotransmission is poorly understood. Here we use electrophysiological recordings in brainstem slices from P3-P21 mice to demonstrate...

element detector module and still yield a practical design. In this paper we report results of measurements made on a 64 element detector module made with LSO scintillator crystal. We present performance results for a prototype PET detector module consisting of 64 LSO scintillator crystals (3x3x20 mm) coupled on one end to a single photomultiplier tube and on the opposite end to a 64 pixel arra...

This Letter discusses inner-shell excitation in collisions of very heavy ions (2, -2, 2 140) in the framework of the quasimolecular model. The importance of multistep excitations and of coupling between continuum states is demonstrated. The lso vacancy probabilities resulting from coupled-channels calculations exceed perturbation theory by a factor 3-5, thus giving good agreement with recent ex...

Zebra chip (ZC), an economically important disease of potato, is caused by 'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum' (Lso) transmitted by the potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc) (Hemiptera: Triozidae). Currently, using insecticides against potato psyllid is the only means to manage ZC. However, the ability of the potato psyllid to rapidly transmit Lso represents a substantial challenge i...

The superior olivary complex (SOC) is the first station in the ascending auditory pathway that receives binaural projections. Two of the principal nuclei, the lateral superior olive (LSO) and the medial superior olive (MSO), are major sources of ascending projections to the inferior colliculus. Whereas almost all mammals have an LSO, it has traditionally been thought that only animals that hear...

The effect of supplementing the diet of grazing dairy cows with fish oil (FO) and linseed oil (LSO) on milk conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) was investigated. Sixteen Holstein cows (170±19 DIM) were assigned into two groups and fed a grain supplement (8.0 kg/d; DM basis) containing 800 g of saturated animal fat (CONT) or 200 g FO and 600 g LSO (FOLSO). All cows grazed together on Sudan grass past...

UNLABELLED This article reports the results of performance measurements obtained for the lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO)-based whole-body PET/CT scanner Biograph 16 HI-REZ with the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) NU 2-2001 standard. The Biograph 16 HI-REZ combines a multislice (16-slice) spiral CT scanner with a PET scanner composed of 24.336 LSO crystals arranged in 39 rin...