According to the ambivalence model of craving, alcohol craving involves the dynamic interplay of separate approach and avoidance inclinations. Cue-elicited increases in approach inclinations are posited to be more likely to result in alcohol consumption and risky drinking behaviors only if unimpeded by restraint inclinations. Current study aims were (1) to test if changes in the net balance bet...

Iridotomy with red krypton laser instead of blue-green argon laser was performed on 68 eyes with various types of angle-closure glaucoma. Patent iridotomy was obtained in all the eyes, mostly in one working session. In eight eyes secondary closure by pigment needed reopening with a few applications at the iridotomy site. There were no immediate or late complications of importance, the main adva...

The pheromone drop test is a simple and robust behavioral assay to quantify acute avoidance of pheromones in C. elegans, and the suppression of avoidance by attractive pheromones. In the pheromone drop test, water-soluble C. elegans pheromones are individually applied to animals that are freely moving on a large plate. Upon encountering a repellent, each C. elegans animal may or may not try to ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a disorder with multiple pathophysiological causes, destructive outcomes, and no available definitive cure. Pelargonidin (Pel), an anthocyanin derivative, is an estrogen receptor agonist with little estrogen side effects. This study was designed to assess Pel memory enhancing effects on the a rat Amyloid Beta25-35 (Aβ) intrahippocampal microinjections model of AD in ...

Applying magnetic fields around a beam chamber seems to be one of the effective methods to suppress the generation of electron cloud due to photoelectrons and, therefore, the beam size blow up of the positron beam observed at the KEKB. In order to investigate the effective magnetic field configuration and to estimate the necessary strength of it, the photoelectron current at the center of a tes...

Two anticancer agents, one lipophilic, 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU), and one hydrophilic, 5-(3,3-dimethyl-1-triazeno) imidazol-4-carboxamide (DTIC), were used to treat Brown-Pearce epithelioma in the anterior chamber of rabbit eyes. The BCNU test animals were divided into three groups: one treated by direct injection of the drug into the subconjuntival space or the anterior chamb...

Introduction In cases of patients who have contraindications to transvenous pacing leads but still require pacing, surgically placed epicardial pacing leads are often used. If such a patient warranted implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), a subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD) system would be ideal from the standpoint of avoidance of transvenous leads, but devicedevice interaction with the epicardi...

Introduction Left ventricular (LV) endocardial pacing is a relatively new therapy that may offer several advantages over coronary venous lead placement for biventricular resynchronization therapy, including access to more regions of the LV, faster impulse propagation, avoidance of phrenic nerve stimulation, and more physiologic LV activation. We report a case of transseptal implantation of a pa...