Title Development of an anatomical technique for visualizing the mode of climbing fiber innervation in Purkinje cells and its application to mutant mice lacking GluRδ2 and Cav2.1 Author(s) Miyazaki, Taisuke; Watanabe, Masahiko Citation Anatomical Science International, 86(1): 10-18 Issue Date 2011-03 DOI Doc URL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/47272 Right The original publication is available at www...

Stairway climbing provides a ubiquitous and inconspicuous method of burning calories. While typically two strategies are employed for climbing stairs, climbing one stair step per stride or two steps per stride, research to date has not clarified if there are any differences in energy expenditure between them. Fourteen participants took part in two stair climbing trials whereby measures of heart...

Synapse formation depends critically on the competition among inputs of multiple sources to individual neurons. Cerebellar Purkinje cells have highly organized synaptic wiring from two distinct sources of excitatory afferents. Single climbing fibers innervate proximal dendrites of Purkinje cells, whereas numerous parallel fibers converge on their distal dendrites. Here, we demonstrate that the ...

Tropical rain forests (TRF) are the most diverse terrestrial biome on Earth, but the diversification dynamics of their constituent growth forms remain largely unexplored. Climbing plants contribute significantly to species diversity and ecosystem processes in TRF. We investigate the broad-scale patterns and drivers of species richness as well as the diversification history of climbing and non-c...

Hereditary ataxic mice, tottering (tg) and rolling Nagoya (tg(rol)), carry mutations in the P/Q-type Ca(2+) channel alpha(1A) subunit gene. The positions of the mutations and the neurological phenotypes are known, but the mechanisms of how the mutations cause the symptoms and how the different mutations lead to various onset and severity have remained unsolved. Here we compared fundamental prop...

Rock climbing is among the outdoor activities that have undergone the highest growth since the second half of the 20th century. As a result, cliff habitats, historically one of the least disturbed by human colonization worldwide, are facing more intense human pressure than ever before. However, there is little data on the impact of this activity in plant-communities, and such information is ind...

Many biological activities have been reported in Fabaceae family. The aim of present study was to investigate antidepressant activities of Vicia faba hulhs extract. Antidepressant activities of methanolic extract was evaluated by modified forced swimming test (FST) and tail suspension tests (TST) in male Swiss albino mice. Extract showed significant antidepressant activities in both models. Ext...