Using patch-clamp techniques, we investigated the characteristics of the spontaneous oscillatory activity displayed by starburst amacrine cells in the mouse retina. At a holding potential of -70 mV, oscillations appeared as spontaneous, rhythmic inward currents with a frequency of approximately 3.5 Hz and an average maximal amplitude of approximately 120 pA. Application of TEA, a potassium chan...

Models of the hexagonally arrayed spatial activity pattern of grid cell firing in the literature generally fall into two main categories: continuous attractor models or oscillatory interference models. Burak and Fiete (2009, PLoS Comput Biol) recently examined noise in two continuous attractor models, but did not consider oscillatory interference models in detail. Here we analyze an oscillatory...

We present a deeper analysis of recently published Transition Effect Ring Oscillator (TERO). TERO is an entropy source suitable for cryptographic True Random Number Generator (TRNG) embedded in FPGAs. We propose new TERO structure with simplified control adopted for the Actel Fusion FPGAs. An original idea behind the principle lies in the randomness extraction on an oscillatory trajectory when ...

Oscillatory neural activity in different frequency bands and phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) are hypothesized to be biomarkers of Parkinson's disease (PD) that could explain dysfunction in the motor circuit and be used for closed-loop deep brain stimulation (DBS). How these putative biomarkers change from the normal to the parkinsonian state across nodes in the motor circuit and within the same ...

Alongside the time-locked event-related potentials (ERPs), nociceptive somatosensory inputs can induce modulations of ongoing oscillations, appeared as event-related synchronization or desynchronization (ERS/ERD) in different frequency bands. These ERD/ERS activities are suggested to reflect various aspects of pain perception, including the representation, encoding, assessment, and integration ...

In this paper we study the boundedness properties of certain oscillatory integrals with polynomial phase. We obtain sharp estimates for these oscillatory integrals. By the virtue of these estimates and extrapolation we obtain L boundedness for these oscillatory integrals under rather weak size conditions on the kernel function. Keywords—Fourier transform, oscillatory integrals, Orlicz spaces, B...

We discuss features of the inflaton potential that can lead to a strong enhancement power spectrum curvature perturbations. show steep decrease induces an by several orders magnitude, which may production primordial black holes. The same feature also create distinctive oscillatory pattern in gravitational waves generated through scalar perturbations at second order. study additive effect such f...

We examined the possible role of cyclooxygenase (COX) in charybdotoxin (ChTX)-induced oscillatory contraction in guinea pig trachea. Involvement of prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) in ChTX-induced oscillatory contraction was also investigated. ChTX (100 nM) induced oscillatory contraction in guinea pig trachea. The mean oscillatory frequency induced by ChTX was 10.7 +/- 0.8 counts/h. Maximum and min...

Oscillatory electrical activity is regarded as a hallmark of the pancreatic beta cell glucose-dependent excitability pattern. Electrophysiologically recorded membrane potential oscillations in beta cells are associated with in-phase oscillatory cytosolic calcium activity ([Ca(2+)]i) measured with fluorescent probes. Recent high spatial and temporal resolution confocal imaging revealed that gluc...

We continue our study begun in “On the integrality of the Taylor coefficients of mirror maps” [Duke Math. J. (to appear)] of the fine integrality properties of the Taylor coefficients of the series q(z) = z exp(G(z)/F(z)), where F(z) and G(z) + log(z)F(z) are specific solutions of certain hypergeometric differential equations with maximal unipotent monodromy at z = 0. More precisely, we address...