Intracortical inhibition is crucial to proper functioning of the mature neocortex, yet, paradoxically, is reported to be rare or absent in the neonatal animal. We reexamined this issue by recording whole-cell postsynaptic currents (PSCs) of barrel cortex neurons in thalamocortical brain slices from neonatal mice. Monosynaptic, excitatory thalamocortical responses were elicited in layers V/VI ne...

Using recent calculations we review some well-known aspects of density functional theory: the Hohenberg–Kohn theorems, the Kohn–Sham method, the adiabatic connection, and the approximations of local nature. Emphasis is put upon using model Hamiltonians, of which the noninteracting or the physical ones are just particular cases. The model Hamiltonians allow us to produce multireference density f...

As density functional theory conventionally assumes that the density of a chosen model system (e.g., the Kohn-Sham system) is the same as the exact one, one might expect that approximations to the exact density introduce supplementary errors by falsifying the density. In fact, this is not true: by modeling the exchange-correlation holes for all densities, density functional approximations avoid...

The promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) is a tumor suppressor critical for formation of nuclear bodies (NBs) performing important functions in transcription, apoptosis, DNA repair and antiviral responses. Earlier studies demonstrated that simian virus 40 (SV40) initiates replication near PML NBs. Here we show that PML knockdown inhibits viral replication in vivo, thus indicating a positive rol...

During clathrin-mediated endocytosis, the GTPase dynamin promotes formation of clathrin-coated vesicles, but its mode of action is unresolved. We provide evidence that a switch in three functional states of dynamin (dimers, tetramers, rings/spirals) coordinates its GTPase cycle. Dimers exhibit negative cooperativity whereas tetramers exhibit positive cooperativity with respect to GTP. Our study...

Submitted for the MAR16 Meeting of The American Physical Society Study of adiabatic connection in ground-state density functional theory MANOJ HARBOLA, RABEET CHAUHAN, Indian Inst of Tech-Kanpur, RABEET S. CHAUHAN COLLABORATION — By employing modified [1] variational form of Le-Sech wavefunctions [2] for two-electron systems, accurate wavefunctions for He-like atoms corresponding to their groun...

(N × N)-matrix is called additive when its elements are pair-wise sums of N real numbers ai. For a quadratic binary functional with an additive connection matrix we succeeded in finding the global minimum expressing it through external parameters of the problem. Computer simulations show that energy surface of a quadratic binary functional with an additive matrix is complicate enough.

The human DKC1 gene encodes dyskerin, an evolutionarily conserved nuclear protein whose overexpression represents a common trait of many types of aggressive sporadic cancers. As a crucial component of the nuclear H/ACA snoRNP complexes, dyskerin is involved in a variety of essential processes, including telomere maintenance, splicing efficiency, ribosome biogenesis, snoRNAs stabilization and st...

This study investigated the spatial, spectral, temporal and functional proprieties of functional brain connections involved in the concurrent execution of unrelated visual perception and working memory tasks. Electroencephalography data was analysed using a novel data-driven approach assessing source coherence at the whole-brain level. Three connections in the beta-band (18-24 Hz) and one in th...

Schizophrenia is a disorder of brain dysconnectivity, and both the connection strength and connection number are disrupted in patients with schizophrenia. The functional connectivity density (FCD) can reflect alterations in the connection number. Alterations in the global FCD (gFCD) in schizophrenia were previously demonstrated; however, alterations in two other indices of the pathological char...