View THE INFLUENCE OF PERIPHERAL STIMULATION ON THE PAIRED-PULSE FACILITATION IN THE ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX OF THE RAT J.-J. Sun; S.-Y. Cheng; S.-L. Chen; S.-C. Chai; B.-C. Shyu* Inst. of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 115, Taiwan In our previous study, paired-pulse facilitation (PPF) was found in rat s anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) following the stimulation of the medial th...

Poly(propylene fumarate) (PPF) is an injectable, biodegradable polymer that has been used for fabricating preformed scaffolds in tissue engineering applications because of in situ crosslinking characteristics. Aiming for understanding the effects of pore structure parameters on bone tissue ingrowth, 3-dimensional (3D) PPF scaffolds with controlled pore architecture have been produced in this st...

This paper is a revised version of SC/F14/J9 presented to the JARPAII Review Workshop. The discussion of the paper was modified to take into consideration some recommendations from the Review Workshop. The proportion of pregnant animals among mature females (PPF) in Antarctic minke whales was examined from samples collected during 1987/88-2004/05 JARPA and 2005/06-2010/11 JARPAII surveys. Analy...

C3H/He and B6C3F1 show much higher liver cancer susceptibility than C57BL/6J mice. We studied the hypothesis that this difference might result from failure of apoptosis. Hepatocarcinogenesis was induced by a single dose of N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA), followed by phenobarbital (PB) for up to 90 weeks. We observed (1) earlier appearance of putative preneoplastic foci (PPF), hepatocellular adeno...

OBJECTIVE It has been reported that the intravenous anesthetic propofol (PPF) has anti-inflammatory effects in vitro and in patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether PPF has anti-inflammatory effects in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced septic shock by inhibiting the induction of pro-inflammatory cytokines [interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)] and high m...