Cerebellar manipulations have been used successfully in some intractable epileptic patients, however, their intrinsic mechanisms are not fully understood. To further clarify the cerebellar participation in epilepsy, we stimulated 10 rats with 100 Hz, 20 microA at the superior cerebellar peduncle (SCP) during amygdaloid kindling. Results were compared to 10 rats with an electrode placed at the S...

The dwarf or compact plant architecture is an important trait in plant breeding. A number of genes controlling plant height have been cloned and functionally characterized which often involve in biosynthesis or signaling of plant hormones such as brassinosteroids (BRs). No genes for plant height or vine length have been cloned in cucurbit crops (family Cucurbitaceae). From an EMS-induced mutage...

Volume excess and mechanical load lead to the induction of the endocrine activity of the heart. The increased production and secretion of A- and B-type natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP), in turn, unload the heart due to their physiological effects. To find out the mechanisms of cardiac-specific expression and sensitivity to mechanical stimuli of the natriuretic peptide genes, we have used salm...

While a high-cholesterol diet induces hepatic steatosis, the role of intracellular sterol carrier protein-2/sterol carrier protein-x (SCP-2/SCP-x) proteins is unknown. We hypothesized that ablating SCP-2/SCP-x [double knockout (DKO)] would impact hepatic lipids (cholesterol and cholesteryl ester), especially in high-cholesterol-fed mice. DKO did not alter food consumption, and body weight (BW) ...

ing cerebral embolization due to detached atherosclerotic material from the ascending and arch aortic intima, caused by the “sandblasting” effect of the high-velocity jet from an aortic cannula. Although the number of cases having pedunculated atheroma, mural thrombus in ascending aorta, or aortic arch is low, I believe this method helps to treat such cases. In addition, the safety of starting ...

The set covering problem (SCP) is one of representative combinatorial optimization problems, which has many practical applications. The continuous development of mathematical programming has derived a number of impressive heuristic algorithms as well as exact branch-and-bound algorithms, which can solve huge SCP instances of bus, railway and airline crew scheduling problems. We survey heuristic...

The article analyzes political conflict in Mexico through a powerful social movement that erupted the massive shantytown of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl between 1969 and 1973. In summer 1969, after decades abysmal living conditions, residents (Neza) launched payment strike to demand federal government expropriate land from private developers, with intent gain urban infrastructure formal property title...

BACKGROUND In spastic cerebral palsy (SCP), a limited range of motion of the foot (ROM), limits gait and other activities. Assessment of this limitation of ROM and knowledge of active mechanisms is of crucial importance for clinical treatment. METHODS For a comparison between spastic cerebral palsy (SCP) children and typically developing children (TD), medial gastrocnemius muscle-tendon compl...

BACKGROUND There is a need for improvement of information provision and post-treatment care for cancer survivors. A Survivorship Care Plan (SCP) is recommended by the American Institute of Medicine and the Dutch Health Council, which is a summary of patients' course of treatment as a formal document, and includes recommendations for subsequent cancer surveillance, management of late effects, an...

The super cooling point (SCP) is the best documented parameter for describing the ability of insects to survive freezing but its value as a predictor of overwintering survival or for estimation of the cold hardiness potential, is limited. According to this study, the SCP is influenced by such factors as polyol and protein concentration in the hemolymph; therefore it can be lower in winter than ...