Chronic Exposure to Arsenic in Drinking Water Causes Alterations in Locomotor Activity and Decreases Striatal mRNA for the D2 Dopamine Receptor in CD1 Male Mice by Claudia Leticia Moreno Ávila, Jorge H. Limón-Pacheco, Magda Giordano, Verónica M. Rodríguez

“…No alterations on aggressive behavior or monoamines levels in striatum or frontal cortex were observed. A significant decrease in the expression of mRNA for D2 receptors was found in striatum of mice exposed to 5.0 mg As/L. …”
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Modified Arthroscopic Suture Fixation of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Tibial Avulsion Fracture in the Setting of Multiligament Knee Injury in Teenager by Miguel Quesado, Ana Sofia Esteves, Nuno Vieira da Silva, Tiago Costa, Nuno Ferreira, Hélder Nogueira

“…The PCL was fixed arthroscopically using a Knee Scorpion and two SutureTapes (Arthrex, Munich-Germany) through of an interlaced configuration at the base of the fragment using a transseptal approach and fixed distally over a cortical button on the anterior cortex. The LCL was repaired with two cannulated screws by a percutaneous approach. …”
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Effects of Patterned Sound Deprivation on Short- and Long-Term Plasticity in the Rat Thalamocortical Auditory System In Vivo by Chloe N. Soutar, Laura G. Rosen, Simon G. Rodier, Hans C. Dringenberg

“…Postnatal sensory experience plays a significant role in the maturation and synaptic stabilization of sensory cortices, such as the primary auditory cortex (A1). Here, we examined the effects of patterned sound deprivation (by rearing in continuous white noise, WN) during early postnatal life on short- and long-term plasticity of adult male rats using an in vivo preparation (urethane anesthesia). …”
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Feasibility study of PET/CT for the detection and localization of nervous system damage caused by trimethyltin chloride by Anqing Liu, Qingqiang Tu, Ming Huang

“…Moreover, TMT induced neuronal damage within the cerebral cortex, hippocampal CA1, CA3 and DG regions as well as the cerebellum while also promoting gliosis surrounding the hippocampus. …”
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Neurocognitive dynamics and behavioral differences of symmetry and asymmetry processing in working memory: insights from fNIRS by Izabela Maria Sztuka, Simone Kühn

“…Significant differences in brain activity were observed in various brain regions, with lateral occipital, posterior parietal, medial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices reacting to symmetry with decreased oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO), while in left orbitofrontal (HbO) and right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (HbO and HbR) hemoglobin concentration increased. …”
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Reversible Cortical Blindness as a Prominent Manifestation of Cerebral Embolism due to Infective Endocarditis by Georgios P. Kranidiotis, Alexandra N. Gougoutsi, Theodoros A. Retsas, Maria I. Anastasiou-Nana

“…Infarction of both occipital lobes, which are supplied by the posterior cerebral arteries, is infrequent, and is the cause of cortical blindness from lesion of the visual cortex. Cortical blindness is characterized by intact pupillary reflexes, a normal fundoscopy, and, rarely, denial of visual loss. …”
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Efferent compared to afferent neural substrates of the vergence eye movement system evoked via fMRI by Ayushi Sangoi, Farzin Hajebrahimi, Suril Gohel, Mitchell Scheiman, Tara L. Alvarez

“…Differences between the afferent sensory and efferent oculomotor experiments were also observed within the visual cortex.DiscussionDifferences between the vergence oculomotor and sensory tasks provide a protocol to delineate the afferent and efferent portion of the vergence neural circuit. …”
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Fasting Upregulates PPAR𝛼 Target Genes in Brain and Influences Pituitary Hormone Expression in a PPAR𝛼 Dependent Manner by Bettina König, Christine Rauer, Susann Rosenbaum, Corinna Brandsch, Klaus Eder, Gabriele I. Stangl

“…Here we demonstrate that fasting of rats increased mRNA concentrations of typical PPAR𝛼 target genes implicated in 𝛽-oxidation of fatty acids (acyl-CoA oxidase, carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1, medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase) and ketogenesis (mitochondrial 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase) in pituitary gland and partially also in frontal cortex and diencephalon compared to nonfasted animals. …”
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A novel approach on laplacian energy of -dominating complex spherical fuzzy graph structures and with application by S. N. Suber Bathusha, S. Angelin Kavitha Raj, Mufti Mahamud, Sowndharya Jayakumar

“…The AM of CSFGS and degree of vertex presence have been found. The lower and upper constraints on the energy of CSFGS are derived by calculating the energy of CSFGS. …”
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Music Theory, Historically-Informed Performance, and The Significance of Cities by Adam Krims

“…Untersucht und gemessen wird die Balance von Holzbläsern und Streichern, die immer als ein Vorteil des Ansatzes der Historischen Aufführungspraxis gesehen wurde. …”
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Pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials in prosthetic vision and simulated visual reduction by Sandra R Montezuma, Yingchen He, Jonathon Toft-Nielsen, Gordon Legge

“…Restriction on the field of view had no impact on either the amplitude or the peak latency of P100.Conclusion The early visual cortex in retinal prosthesis users remains responsive to retinal input, showing a similar response profile to that of sighted controls. …”
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PET Study in a Patient with Spinocerebellar Degeneration before and after Long-Term Administration of Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone by H. Tanji, H. Nagasawa, T. Hayashi, H. Onodera, T. Fujiwara, M. Itoh, T. Ido, Y. Itoyama

“…CMRG1c was markedly decreased in the cerebellum and there was no significant difference before and after the treatment, i.e. mean CMRG1c values were 4.92 and 4.90 mg/100 g/min, and the ratios of the cerebellum versus the frontal cortex were 0.50 and 0.51, respectively. The degree of disequilibrium of her body examined with stabilography became better by the 19th day and further improved by the 26th day after the start of TRH treatment. …”
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Sex-Specific Brain Activations during Single-Leg Exercise by Kyoungyoun Park-Braswell, Dustin Grooms, Sandra Shultz, Louisa Raisbeck, Christopher Rhea, Randy Schmitz

“… # Results There was significantly greater activation in the visual cortices and premotor cortex in females compared to males during the studied movement. …”
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Structural and Functional Deficits in Patients with Poststroke Dementia: A Multimodal MRI Study by Huaying Cai, Zhiyong Zhao, Linhui Ni, Guocan Han, Xingyue Hu, Dan Wu, Xianjun Ding, Jin Wang

“…Moreover, GMV in the left medial prefrontal cortex showed a significant positive correlation with the Mini-Cog assessment in PSD patients, and GMV in the left CPL displayed the highest area under the ROC curve among all the features for classifying PSD versus PSND patients. …”
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Nerve root magnetic stimulation regulates the synaptic plasticity of injured spinal cord by ascending sensory pathway by Ya Zheng, Lingyun Cao, Dan Zhao, Qi Yang, Chunya Gu, Yeran Mao, Guangyue Zhu, Yulian Zhu, Jing Zhao, Dongsheng Xu

“…Neuromagnetic stimulation targeting the nerve roots has been shown to improve motor function by enhancing nerve conduction in the injured spinal cord and restoring the synaptic ultrastructure of both the sensory and motor cortex. However, our understanding of the neurophysiological mechanisms by which nerve root magnetic stimulation facilitates motor function recovery in the spinal cord is limited, and its role in neuroplasticity remains unclear. …”
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Deafferentation-Induced Plasticity of Visual Callosal Connections: Predicting Critical Periods and Analyzing Cortical Abnormalities Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging by Jaime F. Olavarria, Andrew S. Bock, Lindsey A. Leigland, Christopher D. Kroenke

“…Subsequently, we compare these events to diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measurements of water diffusion anisotropy within developing cerebral cortex. We observed that the relationship between the timing of the critical period and the DTI-characterized developmental trajectory is strikingly similar in rodents and ferrets, which opens the possibility of using cortical DTI trajectories for predicting the critical period in species, such as humans, in which this period likely occurs prenatally. …”
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STRIAA (Severity TRichoscopy Index Alopecia Areata): Validation of a Novel Trichoscopic Tool for Evaluation of Alopecia Areata by Michela Starace, Francesca Pampaloni, Federico Quadrelli, Stephano Cedirian, Luca Rapparini, Francesca Bruni, Bianca Maria Piraccini

“…Methods Anonymized images from 340 patients were scored by two independent raters who analyzed four scalp areas (vertex, occipital, and left and right parietal) for trichoscopic signs: black dots, yellow dots, exclamation mark hairs, broken hairs, and short vellus hairs. …”
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Giant Cell Reparative Granuloma of the Orbit: Clinicopathological Characteristics and Treatment by Álvaro Bengoa-González, Enrique Mencía-Gutiérrez, Beatriz Alonso-Martín, Bianca-Maria Laslău, Elena Salvador, Ana-Belén Enguita-Valls, María-Dolores Lago-Llinás

“…In both cases, computed tomography revealed a heterogeneously growing well-defined mass, arising from the roof of the orbit, affecting the cortex, and invading the orbit. In the first case, the mass extended into the anterior cranial fossa. …”
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Characteristics of Brain Functional Reorganization and Neuromodulation Strategies in Stroke Patients based on fNIRS by LI Zengyong

“…This allows for the evaluation of cerebral cortex functional dynamics. Due to its straightforward operation, excellent mobility, minimal susceptibility to motion, and reduced subject constraints, this method is well-suited for dynamic evaluation, feedback, and engagement in the rehabilitation of patients with neurological impairments. …”
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Exclusive displaced hadronic signatures in the LHC forward region by Xabier Cid Vidal, Yuhsin Tsai, Jose Zurita

“…Abstract The LHCb detector provides accurate vertex reconstruction and hadronic particle identification, which make the experiment an ideal place to look for light long-lived particles (LLP) decaying into Standard Model (SM) hadrons. …”
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