Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is believed to elicit a unique taste perception known as umami. We have used conditioned taste aversion assays in rats to compare taste responses elicited by the glutamate receptor agonists MSG, L-aspartic acid (L-Asp), and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), and to determine if these compounds share a common taste quality. This information could shed new light upon the rece...

In the past few decades the West has witnessed an explosion of interest among psychologists, theologians, scientists, and philosophers alike in what Huxley (1970) has called philosophia perennis,the 'perennial philosophy', a universal doctrine as to the nature of man and reality lying at the very heart of every major metaphysical tradition, whether that of the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Amerind...

It has been shown that L-arginine like the abused drugs could release dopamine from meso-cortico-limbic system. The purpose of the present study was to compare the effect of L-arginine with morphine as a standard abuse drug in the induction of conditioned place preference (CPP) in rat. For this purpose, male Wistar rats (250-300 g) were used in the experiments. Five days after surgical cannulat...

Background: Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) are multipotent mesenchymal stem cells. DPSCs can renew themselves and differentiate into various cell types such as adipocytes, osteocytes, neurons, etc. DPSCs possess immunomodulatory properties and can inhibit peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) proliferation. Recent studies showed that conditioned-medium mesenchymal stem cells also had immunos...

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The eye is an immune privileged tissue with multiple mechanisms of immunosuppression to protect the light gathering tissues from the damage of inflammation. One of theses mechanisms involves retinal pigment epithelial cell suppression of phagosome activation in macrophages. The objective of this work is to determine if the human RPE cell line ARPE-19 is capable of suppressing the activation of ...

AS TROPICAL BIOLOGISTS, MANY OF US ESPOUSE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION to our students, our peers, and sometimes to the media and general public. In doing so, we are helping to spread the word, to inform the populace about the importance of tropical nature and the many perils it faces. But the things we talk about are often general in nature, such as the looming dangers of deforestation, or the ...

The main purpose of this article is to establish links between the teachings Hryhorii Skovoroda and leading trends in Western philosophy his time. Since anticipated influences, similarities parallels are mostly implicit, study identify common motives for thinking, rather than direct dependence. Nevertheless, biggest difficulty analysis that it not easy enroll a Ukrainian philosopher any modern ...