Clinical reports suggest close interactions between stressors, particularly those of long duration, and liver diseases, such as hepatic inflammation, that is proposed to occur via reactive oxygen species. In the present study we have used 21-day social isolation of male Wistar rats as a model of chronic stress to investigate protein expression/activity of liver antioxidant enzymes: superoxide d...

The amino acids glutamate (Glu) and glycine (Gly) trigger large, rapid rises in cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration and a concomitant rise in membrane potential (depolarization) in plants. The possibility that plant homologs of neuronal ionotropic glutamate receptors mediate these neuron-like ionic responses was tested in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings using a combination of Ca(2+) mea...

This paper addresses a target detection problem for which the covariance matrix of the unknown Gaussian clutter background has block diagonal structure This block diagonal structure is the consequence of the target lying along a boundary between two statistically independent clutter regions Here we design adaptive detection algorithmsusing both the generalized likelihood ratio GLR and invarianc...

A detector for the case of a radar target with known Doppler and unknown complex amplitude in complex Gaussian noise with unknown parameters has been derived. The detector assumes that the noise is an Auto-Regressive (AR) process with Gaussian autocorrelation function which is a suitable model for ground clutter in most scenarios involving airborne radars. The detector estimates the unknown...

This correspondence considers the problem of detecting abrupt changes in the mean of a multivariate Gaussian random signal. A fixed sample size -test is compared against the optimum sequential tests ( -CUSUM and -GLR).

alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors (AMPARs) are a major subtype of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) that mediate rapid excitatory synaptic transmission in the vertebrate brain. Putative AMPARs are also expressed in the nervous system of invertebrates. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the GLR-1 receptor subunit is expressed in neural circuits that mediate ...

-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA)-type glutamate receptors mediate the majority of excitatory signaling in the CNS, and the functional properties and subcellular fate of these receptors depend on receptor subunit composition. Subunit assembly is thought to occur in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), although we are just beginning to understand the underlying mechanism. He...

Objectives. Since the effectiveness of Zero Open Defecation (ZOD) program as a scaling-up approach in lowering rates soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections has not yet been locally explored, this study aimed to (1) describe association between environmental determinants and STH cumulative prevalence, (2) predict 2020 prevalence. Methods. A generalized linear regression (GLR) model was used...

Let G = GLr+1 over a nonarchimedean local field F . The Kashiwara crystal B(∞) is the quantized enveloping algebra of the lower triangular maximal unipotent subgroup N−. Examples are given where an integral over N−(F ) may be replaced by a sum over B(∞). Thus the Gindikin-Karpelevich formula evaluates the integral of the standard spherical vector in the induced model of a principal series repre...