Pathfinding of growing neurites depends on turning of the growth cone in response to extracellular cues. Motile filopodia of the growth cone are known to be critical for mediating contact-dependent guidance of the growth cone. However, whether filopodia also play an essential role in growth cone turning response induced by a diffusible chemotropic substance is unclear. Growth cones of cultured ...

We investigate a cone in the symmetric group algebra introduced by Stembridge [2]. It is dual to the cone of monomial-positive immanants of n × n matrices with indeterminate entries. We present a new set of relations between elements of the dual cone, and use these relations to show that the cone is finitely generated for n = 6, generalizing Stembridge’s result for n = 5.

Repellents evoke growth cone turning by eliciting asymmetric, localized loss of actin cytoskeleton together with changes in substratum attachment. We have demonstrated that semaphorin-3A (Sema3A)-induced growth cone detachment and collapse require eicosanoid-mediated activation of protein kinase C epsilon (PKC epsilon) and that the major PKC epsilon target is the myristoylated, alanine-rich C-k...

In this paper we prove some stochastic comparisons results for progressive type II censored order statistics. The problem of stochastically comparing concomitants of the two progressive type II censored order statistics with possibly different schemes, under different kinds of dependence between X and Y is considered and it is proved that if Y is stochastically increasing (decreasing) in X, ...

Multiple attributes group decision making problems aim to find the best alternative for the experts from a solution set of alternatives. Because the attribute value and decision-makers evaluation with respect to the alternatives are usually vague and imprecise, fuzzy multiple attributes group decision making have been widely investigated, in which, ordering fuzzy evaluation results in fuzzy dec...

The Morrison-Kawamata cone conjecture predicts that the actions of the automorphism group on the effective nef cone and the pseudo-automorphism group on the effective movable cone of a klt Calabi-Yau pair (X,∆) have finite, rational polyhedral fundamental domains. Let Z be an n-dimensional Fano manifold of index n − 1 such that −KZ = (n − 1)H for an ample divisor H. Let Γ be the base locus of a...

PURPOSE To compare the patterns of local cone and rod system impairment in patients with progressive cone dystrophy (CD) using psychophysical and electrophysiological techniques. METHODS Local cone system function was assessed by measuring cone system thresholds (visual fields) and cone-mediated multifocal electroretinograms (mfERGs). Rod system function was assessed by measuring rod system t...