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Sens Actuators B Chem 2021 Jun 15;337. Epub 2021 Mar 15.

Institute for Micromanufacturing (IfM), Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272.

Glutamate (GLU) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) are neurotransmitters (NTs) with an essential role in signal transmission in the brain. Brain disorders, such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and traumatic brain injury can be linked to imbalances in the GLU-GABA homeostasis that occurs in sub-second to seconds time frames. Current measurement techniques can detect these two NT concentrations simultaneously only . Read More

Diabetes Metab Syndr 2022 May 12;16(5):102502. Epub 2022 May 12.

Department of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS), Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia.

Background And Aims: Diabetes management is strongly influenced by patients' beliefs about its causes. The study examined type 2 diabetes patients' perceptions of the causes of their illness in North-East Ethiopia.

Methods: The study used a phenomenological approach triangulated with modified grounded theory based on the Causative Dimension of Self-Regulated Model, and was conducted from July 2019 to January 2020. Read More

Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res 2022 May 16;1869(9):119293. Epub 2022 May 16.

Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.. Electronic address:

The ubiquitous secondary messengers, Ca and cAMP, play a vital role in shaping a diverse array of physiological processes. More significantly, accumulating evidence over the past several decades underpin extensive crosstalk between these two canonical messengers in discrete sub-cellular nanodomains across various cell types. Within such specialized nanodomains, each messenger fine-tunes signaling to maintain homeostasis by manipulating the activities of cellular machinery accountable for the metabolism or activity of the complementary pathway. Read More

Atten Percept Psychophys 2022 May 13. Epub 2022 May 13.

School of Psychology, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus, Dublin 9, Ireland.

The sound-induced flash illusion (SIFI) occurs when a rapidly presented visual stimulus is accompanied by two auditory stimuli, creating the illusory percept of two visual stimuli. While much research has focused on how the temporal proximity of the audiovisual stimuli impacts susceptibility to the illusion, comparatively less research has focused on the impact of spatial manipulations. Here, we aimed to assess whether manipulating the eccentricity of visual flash stimuli altered the properties of the temporal binding window associated with the SIFI. Read More

Neural Netw 2022 Apr 20;152:234-243. Epub 2022 Apr 20.

The graduate school of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan. Electronic address:

We present a novel artificial cognitive mapping system using generative deep neural networks, called variational autoencoder/generative adversarial network (VAE/GAN), which can map input images to latent vectors and generate temporal sequences internally. The results show that the distance of the predicted image is reflected in the distance of the corresponding latent vector after training. This indicates that the latent space is self-organized to reflect the proximity structure of the dataset and may provide a mechanism through which many aspects of cognition are spatially represented. Read More