Massive activation of dopamine neurons is critical for natural reward and drug abuse. In contrast, the significance of their spontaneous activity remains elusive. In Drosophila melanogaster, depolarization of the protocerebral anterior medial (PAM) cluster dopamine neurons en masse signals reward to the mushroom body (MB) and drives appetitive memory. Focusing on the functional heterogeneity of...

Probiotics play important roles in many crucial functions for maintaining the homeostasis of host, such as protection against pathogens, immunity and metabolism dietary compounds. Resistant starch (RS) is or products which cannot be digested through body, but can by gut microbiota, producing a variety metabolites provide range physiological benefits to host. An RS classified prebiotic if it sel...

As honey bee populations worldwide are declining there is an urgent need for a deeper understanding of stress reactivity in these important insects. Our data indicate that stress responses in bees (Apis mellifera L.) may be mediated by neuropeptides identified, on the basis of sequence similarities, as allatostatins (ASTA, ASTC and ASTCC). Effects of allatostatin injection are compared with str...

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is a member of diarrheagenic E. coli, which plays an important role in human infections in developing countries. Investigations of EAEC in diarrheal patients at Hat-Yai and Pattani Hospitals, southern Thailand identified 5 EAEC strains, which were classified into serogroups, O44 and O127a. All 5 EAEC contained the global transcriptional regulator gene, ...

Feeding the Fibrillating Heart: Dichloroacetate Improves Cardiac Contractile 1 Dysfunction following VF 2 Running Title: DCA Treatment for VF Arrest 3 4 Mohammed Ali Azam, Cory S. Wagg, Stéphane Massé, Talha Farid, 5 Patrick F.H. Lai, Marjan Kusha, John Asta, Rafael Jaimes III, Sarah Kuzmiak-Glancy, 6 Matthew W. Kay, Gary D. Lopaschuk, Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar. 7 The Hull Family Cardiac Fibrilla...

luktidentifikasjon i den menneskelige hjerne. I would like to thank my supervisor, Professor Asta K. Håberg, for all the knowledge you conveyed, for being available, and for being supportive. Thank you for good advice and that you offered me the opportunity to work with research during the entire process of a project, from the idea to the final results. Thanks for all the cups of teas during th...

Crystal channeling technology has offered various opportunities in the accelerator community with a viability of ultrahigh gradient (TV/m) acceleration for future HEP collider. The major challenge of channeling acceleration is that ultimate acceleration gradients might require a high power driver in the hard x-ray regime (~ 40 keV). This x-ray energy exceeds those for x-rays as of today, althou...

bibliothek, dem Asta und vielen Studierenden unterstützt. Zentrales Ereignis der Fiesta ist das öffentliche Vorlesen des kompletten ersten Teils des Don Quijote in deutscher Übersetzung: von 10 bis 24 h. Gelesen wird im Eingangsbereich der Unibibliothek, zusätzlich wird nach außen übertragen. Honoratioren der Ruhr-Uni und der Stadt Bochum, weitere Politiker, Künstler usw. werden lesen, vor alle...