Netrin and Slit signaling systems play opposing roles during the positioning of longitudinal tracts along the midline in the ventral nerve cord of Drosophila embryo. It has been hypothesized that a gradient of Slit from the midline interacts with three different Robo receptors to specify the axon tract positioning. However, no such gradient has been detected. Moreover, overexpression of Slit at...

Center For The Treatment of Burns in Siemianowice Śląskie1 Dyrektor: dr n. med. M. nowak Technical-Humanistic Academy in Bielsko Biała. Faculty of Health Science. Faculty of Emergency Medicine2 Dziekan Wydziału: dr hab. M. Mikulska, prof. ATH Higher School of Applied Sciences in Ruda Śląska. Department of Health3 Dziekan Wydziału: doc. dr n. med. I. Caus-Woźniak Center of Polymer and Carbon Res...

heavy alkylated benzene (hab), which is a by-product in linear alkylbenzene (lab) production by uop process, is separated by distillation from lab and consists of a range of components such as polyalkylbenzenes, diphenylalkanes, alkyl tetralins, and alkylindans. the products of sulfonation of hab or its distillation cuts are of wide industrial applications such as emulsifiers, dispersants in lu...

Slit is a repellent axon guidance cue produced by the midline glia in Drosophila that is required to regulate the formation of contralateral projections and the lateral position of longitudinal tracts. Four sequence motifs comprise the structure of Slit: a leucine-rich repeat (LRR), epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) repeats, a laminin-like globular (G)-domain, and a cysteine domain. Here we de...

We investigate a power line communications (PLC) scheme that could be used to enhance the HomePlug 1.0 standard, specifically its ROBO mode which provides modest throughput for the worst case PLC channel. The scheme is based on using a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code, in lieu of the concatenated Reed-Solomon and convolutional codes in ROBO mode. The PLC channel is modeled with multipath fa...

Extending axons in the developing nervous system are guided in part by repulsive cues. Genetic analysis in Drosophila, reported in a companion to this paper, identifies the Slit protein as a candidate ligand for the repulsive guidance receptor Roundabout (Robo). Here we describe the characterization of three mammalian Slit homologs and show that the Drosophila Slit protein and at least one of t...

West Kalimantan is known as a multiethnic region with many ethnicities such Dayak, Malay, Chinese, Bugis, Banjar, and Javanese. One cultural heritage that still preserved by the Malay community of Sintang Regency Robo-robo, which has meaning messages for teenagers. Robo-robo tradition preventing problems important in maintaining good relations among family members during month Safar Islamic cal...

We have recently found that strain B31 infection-immune rabbits are completely protected against homologous challenge with large numbers (>10(6)) of host-adapted Borrelia burgdorferi (HAB) (E. S. Shang, C. I. Champion, X. Wu, J. T. Skare, D. B. Blanco, J. N. Miller, and M. A. Lovett, Infect. Immun. 68:4189-4199, 2000). In this study, we have extended these findings to determine whether B31 stra...

Increasing evidence suggests that specific physiological measures may serve as biomarkers for successful treatment to alleviate symptoms of pathological anxiety. Studies of autonomic function investigating parameters such as heart rate (HR), HR variability and blood pressure (BP) indicated that HR variability is consistently reduced in anxious patients, whereas HR and BP data show inconsistent ...

The neurobiological basis of pathological anxiety and the improvement of its pharmacological treatment are a matter of intensive investigation. Here, using electrophysiological techniques in brain slices from animals of the high anxiety-related behavior (HAB) and normal anxiety-related behavior (NAB) mouse model, we show that basal neurotransmission at ventral hippocampal CA3-CA1 synapses is we...