En este trabajo se realiza un análisis del discurso videolúdico de SOMA (2015), seleccionado por su alta carga diegética, filosófica y, en última instancia, discursiva. Las ideas sobre la ética transhumanismo y conciencia humana que plantea estudian como parte mayor: los límites morales ciencia tecnología. Así, ofrece marco teórico el señala potencialidad discursiva videojuegos a partir narrati...

Peripheral axotomy induces long-term hyperexcitability (LTH) of centrally located sensory neuron (SN) somata in diverse species. In mammals this LTH can promote spontaneous activity of pain-related SNs, and such activity may contribute to neuropathic pain and hyperalgesia. However, few axotomized SN somata begin to fire spontaneously in any species, and why so many SNs display soma LTH after ax...

The distribution and morphology of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-containing neurons in the rat prefrontal, frontal and parietal cortex were examined using a specific polyclonal antiserum directed against GABA and the immunoperoxidase method. The reaction product was present in the cell bodies, as well as in terminals and some processes without using colchicine. The immunoreactive neurons were ...

Neurons of the avian nucleus laminaris (NL) compute the interaural time difference (ITD) by detecting coincident arrivals of binaural signals with submillisecond accuracy. The cellular mechanisms for this temporal precision have long been studied theoretically and experimentally. The myelinated axon initial segment in the owl's NL neuron and small somatic spikes observed in auditory coincidence...

Intracellular recording techniques were used to study electrical activity in bipolar sensory cells associated with crayfish tactile receptors. Several lines of evidence indicate that spikes evoked by natural stimulation of the receptor originate at a dendritic locus. Although overshooting spikes are recorded in the soma in response to both natural and antidromic stimulation receptor potentials ...

The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm seems able to support effectively distributed applications in open and heterogeneous environments, and application areas such as ecommerce appear to be of particular interest. However, MA technology has to answer to the requirements of security and interoperability to achieve wide deployment, especially in e-commerce applications. The paper focuses on security and...

The somas and dendrites of intact retinal ganglion cells were exposed by enzymatic removal of the overlying endfeet of the Müller glia. Simultaneous whole cell patch recordings were made from a ganglion cell's dendrite and the cell's soma. When a dendrite was stimulated with depolarizing current, impulses often propagated to the soma, where they appeared as a mixture of small depolarizations an...

N. laminaris dendrites begin to atrophy almost immediately after they are deafferented. Accompanying this rapid change in shape is a loss of microtubules and neurofilaments at the base of the dendrite, and a decrease in tbe density ofthe dendritic cytoplasm. However, degenerative changes in the dendritic plasma membrane were not evident until 2 days after deafferentation. Thus it was unknown wh...

Many multicellular organisms produce two cell lineages: germ cells, whose descendants produce the next generation, and somatic cells, which support, protect, and disperse the germ cells. This germ-soma demarcation has evolved independently in dozens of multicellular taxa but is absent in unicellular species. A common explanation holds that in these organisms, inefficient intercellular nutrient ...