Activation detection and characterisation in brain fMRI sequences. Application to the study of monkey vision. Abstract: In this report, we propose a number of new ways of detecting activations in fMRI sequences that require a minimum of hypotheses and avoid any pre-modelling of the expected signal. In particular, we try to avoid as much as possible linear models. The sensitivity of the methods ...

background and aims: the e2f family of transcription factors is encoded by at least eight genes, e2f1-8. these proteins are important targets of the retinoblastoma protein (rb) contributed in regulation of transcription, cell cycle and apoptosis. the aim of this study was to investigate the expression levels of e2f protein family including e2f1, e2f2, e2f7, e2f8 and rb1 in the lineage negative ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in embryonic development and are frequently deregulated in human cancers. The let-7 family members are tumor-suppressing miRNAs and are frequently downregulated in cancer cells. Lin-28 and Lin-28B are RNA-binding proteins highly expressed in embryonic tissues. Lin-28 proteins block let-7 precursors from being processed to mature miRNAs by inducing terminal...

Ras-mediated vulval development in C. elegans is inhibited by the functionally redundant sets of class A, B, and C synthetic Multivulva (synMuv) genes. Three of the class B synMuv genes encode an Rb/DP/E2F complex that, by analogy with its mammalian and Drosophila counterparts, has been proposed to silence genes required for vulval specification through chromatin modification and remodeling. Tw...

We describe a general strategy for the genetic mapping in parallel of multiple restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) loci. This approach allows the systematic identification for cloning of physical genetic loci within about 100 kb of any gene in Caenorhabditis elegans. We have used this strategy of parallel RFLP mapping to clone the heterochronic gene lin-14, which controls the timing...

As the founding member of the microRNA (miRNA) gene family, insights into lin-4 regulation and function have laid a conceptual foundation for countless miRNA-related studies that followed. We previously showed that a transcriptional lin-4 reporter in C. elegans was positively regulated by a lin-4-complementary element (LCE), and by lin-4 itself. In this study, we sought to (1) identify addition...