Experience and activity refine cortical circuits through synapse elimination, but little is known about the activity patterns and downstream molecular mechanisms that mediate this process. We used optogenetics to drive individual mouse CA1 hippocampal neurons to fire in theta frequency bursts to understand how cell autonomous, postsynaptic activity leads to synapse elimination. Brief (1 hr) per...

propene dissociation channels were characterized by ab initio ccsd(t)/6-311++g(d,p) calculations. inthis work the detailed mechanism of propene dissociation to c2h4+ch2, c2h2+h+ch3, c2h2+ch4 andc3h3+h2+h have been investigated. according to our calculations, ten fragments can be classified intofive dissociated channels. our results point out that two mechanisms come into play in the h2 eliminat...

Malaysia is a country where an estimated 1 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and an estimated 2.5% of the adult population are positive for antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV). Effective nationwide vaccine coverage seems to be a highly effective measure to prevent new HBV infection. Treatment of HCV infection is also a regular practice in Malaysia. These measu...

Axonal growth during development and regeneration coincides with the expression of growth-associated proteins (GAPs), including GAP-43 and tubulin-alpha 1. Following contact with the target region and synaptogenesis, GAPs are downregulated. However, high levels of GAP-43 are expressed in some neurons in the adult CNS, indicating that its function may not be restricted to axonal growth. To defin...

To examine the role of retrograde signals on synaptic maintenance, we inhibited protein synthesis in individual postsynaptic cells in vivo while monitoring presynaptic terminals. Within 12 h, axon terminals begin to atrophy and withdraw from normal postsynaptic sites. Structural similarities between this process and naturally occurring synapse elimination suggest that short-lived target derived...

The Mesoamerican Ministers of Health have set 2020 as the target for malaria elimination to be achieved in the region. Imported malaria cases are a potential threat to countries attempting elimination or working to prevent resurgence. We report the first imported Plasmodium ovale infection with molecular confirmation in Central America, which occurred in a Guatemalan soldier that had been deplo...

This paper derives bounds on the performance of statistical object recognition systems, wherein an image of a target is observed by a remote sensor. Detection and recognition problems are modeled as composite hypothesis testing problems involving nuisance parameters. We develop information–theoretic performance bounds on target recognition based on statistical models for sensors and data, and e...