Similarity between the target and masking voices is known to have a strong influence on performance in monaural and binaural selective attention tasks, but little is known about the role it might play in dichotic listening tasks with a target signal and one masking voice in the one ear and a second independent masking voice in the opposite ear. This experiment examined performance in a dichotic...

We examined that the protective effects of ANX1 on 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol- 13-acetate (TPA)-induced skin inflammation in animal models using a Tat-ANX1 protein. Topical application of the Tat-ANX1 protein markedly inhibited TPAinduced ear edema and expression levels of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) as well as pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin- 1 beta (IL-1 β), IL-6, and tumor necrosi...

We previously reported that oral administration of luteolin can inhibit serum tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha production and several inflammatory and allergic models. We investigated here the effect of various flavonoids which resemble luteolin in structure. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced TNF-alpha production from macrophages was inhibited by treatment with flavone (luteolin, apigenin, and ...