Objective: Pimpinella anisum (P. anisum) has different pharmacological properties such as anticonvulsant, analgesic, tranquilizer, antidepressant and anti-anxiety effects. In this study the antidepressant-like effect of aqueous and ethanolic extracts of P. anisum fruit in mice was investigated. Materials and Methods: Forced swimming test (FST) and tail suspension test (TST) were used to determ...

Synapse elimination is considered to be the final step in neural circuit formation, by causing refinement of redundant connections formed at earlier developmental stages. The developmental loss of climbing fiber innervation from cerebellar Purkinje cells is an example of such synapse elimination. It has been suggested that NMDA receptors are involved in the elimination of climbing fiber synapse...

JEFFREY M. JANOT, JEFF P. STEFFEN, JOHN P. PORCARI, AND MARGARET A. MAHER. Heart rate responses and perceived exertion for beginner and recreational sport climbers during indoor climbing. JEPONLINE 3(1):17, 2000. The purpose of this investigation was to compare heart rate (HR) and ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) of beginner and recreational sport climbers during indoor climbing. Seventeen b...

no unique method has been so far specified for determining the number of neurons in hidden layers of multi-layer perceptron (mlp) neural networks used for prediction. the present research is intended to optimize the number of neurons using two meta-heuristic procedures namely genetic and hill climbing algorithms. the data used in the present research for prediction are consumption data of water...