A cytosolic factor from sperm (SF) is thought to be responsible for the generation of intracellular calcium oscillations ([Ca2+]i) associated with fertilization in mammalian oocytes. Whether or not mouse oocytes injected with SF exhibit modifications of their Ca2+ release mechanisms similar to those observed in fertilized oocytes is not known and this was investigated here by injecting porcine ...

In three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy the point spread function (PSF) changes with depth, inducing errors in the restored images when these variations are neglected during the deconvolution of thick specimens. Some deconvolution algorithms have been developed to take the depth variations of the PSF into consideration. For these algorithms, the accuracy of the estimated structures depends...

RAD51, a eukaryotic recombinase, catalyzes homologous-pairing and strand-exchange reactions, which are essential steps in homologous recombination and recombinational repair of double strand breaks. On the other hand, human PSF was originally identified as a component of spliceosomes, and its multiple functions in RNA processing, transcription and DNA recombination were subsequently revealed. I...

Context. The control of systematic effects when measuring background galaxy shapes is one of the main challenges for cosmic shear analyses. Aims. Study the fundamental limitations on shear accuracy due to the measurement of the point spread function (PSF) from the finite number of stars that are available. We translate the accuracy required for cosmological parameter estimation to the minimum n...

We describe the design of an integrated development environment (IDE) for PSF. In the software engineering process we used process algebra in the form of PSF for the specification of the architecture of the IDE. This specification is refined to a PSF specification of the IDE system as a ToolBus application, by applying vertical and horizontal implementation techniques. We implemented the variou...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the point-spread function (PSF) and time-of-flight (TOF) on improving (18)F-FDG PET/CT images in relation to reconstruction parameters and noise-equivalent counts (NEC). METHODS This study consisted of a phantom study and a retrospective analysis of 39 consecutive patients who underwent clinical (18)F-FDG PET/CT. The body phan...

Conventional point spread function (PSF) measurement methods often use parametric models for the estimation of the PSF. This limits the shape of the PSF to a specific form provided by the model. However, there are unconventional imaging systems like multispectral cameras with optical bandpass filters, which produce an, e.g., unsymmetric PSF. To estimate such PSFs we have developed a new measure...

BACKGROUND Post-stroke fatigue (PSF) is a common yet debilitating symptom for the majority of patients post-stroke. However, limited information is available for the management of this disabling condition. This is partly due to our poor understanding of the condition. OBJECTIVES In this paper, we review the prevalence, predisposing factors, impact, measurement, and management of PSF. RESULT...

Biotic elicitors can be used to stimulate the production of secondary metabolites in plants. However, limited information is available on the effects of biotic elicitors from endophytic fungi on their host plant. Trichoderma atroviride D16 is an endophytic fungus isolated from the root of Salvia miltiorrhiza and previously reported to produce tanshinone I (T-I) and tanshinone IIA (T-IIA). Here,...