Under the influence of external electric fields, cells experience a rapid potential buildup across the cell membrane. Above a critical threshold of electric field strength, permanent cell damage can occur, resulting in cell death. Typical investigations of electroporation effects focus on two distinct regimes. The first uses sub-microsecond duration, high field strength pulses while the second ...

With the development of economic construction, underground space development continues to move towards the deep. "More, long, big, deep," will be the general trend of the development of underground engineering in the 21st century. Rock burst is a kind of sudden geological disasters with a higher frequency in deep tunnel construction. Rock burst prediction has very important significance for the...

The purpose of the present experiments was to test the hypothesis that the metrics of saccades caused by the activation of distinct collicular sites depend on the strength of their projections onto the burst generators. This study of morphofunctional correlations was limited to the horizontal components of saccades. We evoked saccades by stimulation of the deeper layers of the superior collicul...

We tested the hypothesis that orthostatic stress would modulate the arterial baroreflex (ABR)-mediated beat-by-beat control of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) in humans. In 12 healthy subjects, ABR control of MSNA (burst incidence, burst strength, and total activity) was evaluated by analysis of the relation between beat-by-beat spontaneous variations in diastolic blood pressure (DAP) ...

Striatal spiny projection neurons control basal ganglia outputs via action potential bursts conveyed to the globus pallidus and substantia nigra. Accordingly, burst activity in these neurons contributes importantly to basal ganglia function and dysfunction. These bursts are driven by multiple corticostriatal inputs that depolarize spiny projection neurons from their resting potential of approxi...

In this work, electrospun tubes of interest for vascular tissue engineering were fabricated and evaluated for burst pressure and suture retention strength (SRS) in the same context as tensile strength providing a direct, novel comparison. Tubes could be fabricated displaying average burst pressures up to 4000 mmHg--well above the standard of 2000 mmHg--and SRS values matching those of relevant ...

Both the numbers of neurons that are active during multi-unit bursts of spikes and the frequencies with which individual neurons fire in these bursts can vary in response to changes in excitation. Here is a digital-filtering method that measures the strength of a burst of spikes by calculating the area of a polygon derived from the squared voltages that record the burst, and dividing this area ...