The role of consciousness during simple and difficult decision-making tasks 5:40-6:10 pm James Blackmon Independently conscious brain hemispheres: a plurality of minds Isolating neural signatures of conscious perception with perceptually bistable stimuli Salient sounds enhance visual-cortical processing: Interplay between reflexive auditory-evoked activation and top-down voluntary attentional p...

The role of consciousness during simple and difficult decision-making tasks 5:40-6:10 pm James Blackmon Independently conscious brain hemispheres: a plurality of minds Isolating neural signatures of conscious perception with perceptually bistable stimuli Salient sounds enhance visual-cortical processing: Interplay between reflexive auditory-evoked activation and top-down voluntary attentional p...

Palmultang (PM) is an herbal decoction that has been used to treat anorexia, anemia, general prostration, and weakness due to chronic illness since medieval times in Korea, China, and Japan. The present study focused on the inhibitory effects of PM on the production of inflammatory factors and on the activation of mechanisms in murine macrophages. PM suppressed the expression of nitric oxide (N...

Cucurbit powdery mildew (PM) is one of the most severe fungal diseases, but the molecular mechanisms underlying PM resistance remain largely unknown, especially in pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duch.). The goal of this study was to identify gene expression differences in PM-treated plants (harvested at 24 h and 48 h after inoculation) and untreated (control) plants of inbred line "112-2" using RN...

Endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane (ER-PM) junctions are conserved structures defined as regions of the ER that tightly associate with the plasma membrane. However, little is known about the mechanisms that tether these organelles together and why such connections are maintained. Using a quantitative proteomic approach, we identified three families of ER-PM tethering proteins in yeast: Ist2 ...

Particulate matter (PM) air pollution exerts significant adverse health effects in global populations, particularly in developing countries with extensive air pollution. Understanding of the mechanisms of PM-induced health effects including the risk for cardiovascular diseases remains limited. In addition to the direct cellular physiological responses such as mitochondrial dysfunction and oxida...

Prospective memory (PM) is memory for delayed intentions. While deleterious effects of acute doses of alcohol on PM have been documented previously using between-subjects comparisons, the current study adopted a single blind placebo-controlled within-subjects design to explore whether the extent to which alcohol-related impairments in PM are mediated by executive functions (EFs). To this end, 5...

From the health stand-point, atmospheric particulate matter (PM) is regulated through PM(10) and PM(2.5) conventions by the Directive 2008/50/EC. The Directive points out the negative impact on human health due to PM(2.5) and recognizes that no threshold has been identified for such pollutant at which no risk is foreseen for the population. Then, the goal is to pursue a general reduction of PM(...

Increasing evidence suggests that reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidative stress are involved in PM-mediated lung and cardiovascular injury. The physical characteristics and the chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) play a key role in ROS generation in vitro and in vivo. The mitochondria are major subcellular targets for PM as well as a source of ROS production. ROS production is ...