A discrete network of forebrain nuclei underlies vocal learning and production in male zebra finches. Three nuclei within this network form a neural pathway that is particularly important for vocal learning in juveniles: area X of the avian striatum projects to the medial dorsolateral nucleus of the anterior thalamus (DLM), which in turn projects to the lateral magnocellular nucleus of the ante...

Individual axon arbors within developing neural circuits are remodeled during restricted sensitive periods, leading to the emergence of precise patterns of connectivity and specialized adaptive behaviors. In male zebra finches, the circuit connecting the medial dorsolateral nucleus of the thalamus (DLM) and its cortical target, the lateral magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum (lMAN...

The objective of this study was to compare the gain-response curve to dietary levels of 2-hydroxy-4(methylthio) butanoic acid (HMTBA) and DL-Met (DLM) across 4 floor pen trials in which different diets were used. Six replicates of 38 or 41 birds per pen (trials 1 to 2 and 3 to 4, respectively) were used in a 2 x 3 factorial arrangement. A control with 12 replicates was also included. The 2 Met ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between isolated discoid lateral meniscus (DLM) tears and the presence of articular cartilage lesions. METHODS From January 2010 to January 2012, 252 consecutive patients diagnosed with an isolated DLM tear during an arthroscopic procedure were included in this study. Demographic variables, including gender, age, body mass inde...

When methionine (Met) is limiting in swine diets, it is commonly supplemented by using anhydrous dl-methionine (DLM, 99% purity) or liquid dl-methionine-hydroxy analogue free acid (MHA-FA, 88% purity). The objective of this experiment was to test the null hypothesis that the bioavailability of DLM and MHA-FA were not different for growing pigs, using the indicator amino acid (AA) (phenylalanine...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to investigate and analyze bilateral incidence and morphology of complete discoid lateral meniscus (DLM) with possible relation to tears and symptoms in knee joints. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-eight consecutive patients with symptomatic or already-torn complete DLM on magnetic resonance imaging in a unilateral knee underwent diagnostic arthroscopy on both kn...

Considerable progress has recently been made in using clause weighting algorithms such as DLM and SDF to solve SAT benchmark problems. While these algorithms have outperformed earlier stochastic techniques on many larger problems, this improvement has been bought at the cost of extra parameters and the complexity of fine tuning these parameters to obtain optimal run-time performance. This paper...

Deltamethrin (DLM) is a relatively potent and widely used pyrethroid insecticide. Inefficient detoxification has been proposed to be the primary reason for the greater sensitivity of immature rats to the acute neurotoxicity of DLM. The objective of this study was to test this hypothesis by characterizing the age dependence of DLM metabolism in vitro, as well as toxic signs and blood levels of t...

All procedures of our experiments were approved by the animal care and welfare committee of the Institute of Animal Science of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Two dose-response experiments were conducted to assess the bioefficacy and toxicity of DL-methionine hydroxy analog free acid (MHA-FA) relative to DL-methionine (DLM) in White Pekin ducks. In experiment 1, the methionine-deficie...

Plasmodium nucleic acids have been detected in serum and plasma, but there is little published data describing the diagnostic performance of malaria nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) using these specimen types. Previously, our group described a multiplex NAAT for the detection of dengue virus, Leptospira, and Plasmodium species with a callout for P. falciparum (the DLM assay) that demons...