The globus pallidus is a nucleus in the indirect pathway of the basal ganglia circuits. Neurotensin has been reported to play an important role in the central nervous system. Functional study revealed that systemic administration of neurotensin produced antiparkinsonian effects. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of neurotensin on the firing rate of globus pallidus neur...

In this paper, we analyze some technical issues concerning the use of Grid-enabled technologies based on the Globus Toolkit to solve multi-objective optimization problems. We develop two distributed algorithms: an enumerative search and an evolutionary algorithm. The former is a simple technique, whose high time complexity is mastered down to acceptable execution times to some extent by the use...

The Globus Replica Catalog is a fundamental Data Grid service. It is important to evaluate the performance of this complex system, currently based on LDAP servers. The paper presents the results obtained during performance tests, which were done with three popular LDAP implementations (OpenLDAP, Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Netscape Directory) available today. Oracle9i is a new product and ...

Leech infestation could be associated with wide range of complications including epistaxis, stridor, hemoptysis, globus sensation, hematemesis, and vaginal bleeding. In the present case report. , we introduce a case of leech infestation in a 41-year-old female presenting with chronic globus sensation, stridor, vomiting and dysphagia later diagnosed with leech infestation. Therefore, leech bites...

We show that most globus pallidus neurons, but very few neocortical interneurons, are generated from the ventral medial ganglionic eminence and dorsal preoptic area based on fate mapping using an Shh-Cre allele. The Shh-expressing subpallial lineage produces parvalbumin(+) GABAergic neurons, ChAT(+) cholinergic neurons, and oligodendrocytes. Loss of Nkx2-1 function from the Shh-expressing domai...