Selective responses of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) to the direction of motion have been recorded extracellularly from the rabbit and the mouse retina at eye opening. Recently, it has been shown that the development of this circuitry is light independent. Using whole-cell patch clamp recording, we report here that mouse early postnatal direction-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs) showed lower me...

We have previously reported the discovery and preliminary structure-activity relationships of a new class of inhibitors of varicella-zoster virus (VZV). These novel furanopyrimidine nucleosides bear unusual bicyclic base moieties and exhibit complete specificity for VZV. Limited in vitro cytotoxicity has been detected and the bicyclic nucleosides are now well established as a new family of pote...

Although the gross somatotopic organization of the posterior bank of the precentral gyrus is well established, a fine scale organization of the representations of the digits of the hand has not been fully characterized. Previous neuroimaging studies have failed to find clear evidence for a specificity of digit representations in motor cortex, but rather report a distributed network of control. ...

The quality of functional electrical stimulation (FES) systems is limited by the recording quality and the stimulation selectivity of the neural interface it uses. Thus advances in the quality of the neural interface can directly improve what can be offered by the FES system. The objective of the present study was to investigate the stimulation selectivity of the thin-film longitudinal intrafas...

knowledge of habitat requirements of aquatic animals plays an important role in fisheries and protection programs of aquatic ecosystems. hence, this study was conducted to investigate the suitability indexes of habitat use and habitat suitability index (hsi) of barbus cyri in its distribution range in tootkabon river. a number of environmental variables, including elevation, water depth, river ...

We consider an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) scheduling system. A scheduling unit block consists of contiguous multiple subcarriers. Users are scheduled based on their block average throughput in a proportional fair way. The multiuser diversity gain increases with the degree and dynamic range of channel fluctuations. However, a decrease of the block average throughput in...

Abstract Background: Molecular imprinting is a method for synthesizing polymers with structure-selective adsorption properties with applications such as, selectivity binding, drug delivery systems and anti-bodies. The present study aims at optimizing the preparation of molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) against l-phenylalanine, in order to increase phenylalanine-binding in Enzymatic Intestinal...

Selecting what is important to remember, attending to this information, and then later recalling it can be thought of in terms of the strategic control of attention and encoding, and can lead to the efficient use of memory. The present study used a selectivity task, where items were paired with varying point values, to examine how the ability to selectively and strategically remember informatio...

nitration of phenol and various 4-substituted phenols with cu(no3)2.3h2o, cu(no3)2.3h2o/sio2, 9h2o and cr(no3)2. 9h2o in different anhydrous organic solvents are investigated. high selectivity ratio of para vs ortho isomers has been observed. mono- and dinitro compounds from phenol and 4-substituted phenols by choosing the proper solvents and reaction conditions, are also obtained with high sel...