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Dry immersion as a model of deafferentation: A neurophysiology study using somatosensory evoked potentials. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
INTRODUCTION:Dry immersion is a ground-based experiment simulating the effects of weightlessness, and it is a model of acute symmetrical bilateral deafferentation. This exploratory study aimed to investigate the effects of three days of dry immersion (DI)
Blandine Acket, Liubov Amirova, Angelique Gerdelat, Pascal Cintas, Marc-Antoine Custaud, Anne Pavy-LeTraon   +5 more
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Sparse Graphical Memory for Robust Planning [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
To operate effectively in the real world, agents should be able to act from high-dimensional raw sensory input such as images and achieve diverse goals across long time-horizons. Current deep reinforcement and imitation learning methods can learn directly from high-dimensional inputs but do not scale well to long-horizon tasks.
arxiv  

Plasma lipidomic and metabolomic profiles in high‐grade glioma patients before and after 72‐h presurgery water‐only fasting

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Presurgery 72‐h fasting in GB patients leads to adaptations of plasma lipids and polar metabolites. Fasting reduces lysophosphatidylcholines and increases free fatty acids, shifts triglycerides toward long‐chain TGs and increases branched‐chain amino acids, alpha aminobutyric acid, and uric acid.
Iris Divé, Lisa Hahnefeld, Katharina J. Wenger, Donat Kögel, Joachim Steinbach, Gerd Geisslinger, Michael W. Ronellenfitsch, Irmgard Tegeder   +7 more
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Highly multiplexed digital PCR assay for simultaneous quantification of variant allele frequencies and copy number alterations of KRAS and GNAS in pancreatic cancer precursors

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Combining melting curve analysis enhances the multiplexing capability of digital PCR. Here, we developed a 14‐plex assay to simultaneously measure single nucleotide mutations and amplifications of KRAS and GNAS, which are common driver genes in pancreatic cancer precursors. This assay accurately quantified variant allele frequencies in clinical samples
Junko Tanaka, Tatsuo Nakagawa, Yusuke Ono, Yoshio Kamura, Takeshi Ishida, Hidemasa Kawabata, Kenji Takahashi, Hiroki Sato, Andrew S. Liss, Yusuke Mizukami, Takahide Yokoi   +10 more
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A Normative Theory of Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction in Neural Networks [PDF]

arXiv, 2015
To make sense of the world our brains must analyze high-dimensional datasets streamed by our sensory organs. Because such analysis begins with dimensionality reduction, modelling early sensory processing requires biologically plausible online dimensionality reduction algorithms. Recently, we derived such an algorithm, termed similarity matching, from a
arxiv  

Tactile feedback improves auditory spatial localization

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Our recent studies suggest that congenitally blind adults have severely impaired thresholds in an auditory spatial-bisection task, pointing to the importance of vision in constructing complex auditory spatial maps (Gori et al., 2014).
Monica eGori, Tiziana eVercillo, Giulio eSandini, David eBurr   +3 more
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The atypical KRASQ22K mutation directs TGF‐β response towards partial epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition in patient‐derived colorectal cancer tumoroids

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
TGF‐β has a complex role in cancer, exhibiting both tumor‐suppressive and tumor‐promoting properties. Using a series of differentiated tumoroids, derived from different stages and mutational background of colorectal cancer patients, we replicate this duality of TGF‐β in vitro. Notably, the atypical but highly aggressive KRASQ22K mutation rendered early‐
Theresia Mair, Philip König, Milena Mijović, Jessica Kalla, Anil Baskan, Loan Tran, Kristina Draganić, Pedro Morata Saldaña, Carlos Uziel Pérez Malla, Janette Pfneissl, Andreas Tiefenbacher, Julijan Kabiljo, Velina S. Atanasova, Lisa Wozelka‐Oltjan, Leonhard Müllauer, Michael Bergmann, Raheleh Sheibani‐Tezerji, Gerda Egger   +17 more
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A large‐scale retrospective study in metastatic breast cancer patients using circulating tumour DNA and machine learning to predict treatment outcome and progression‐free survival

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
There is an unmet need in metastatic breast cancer patients to monitor therapy response in real time. In this study, we show how a noninvasive and affordable strategy based on sequencing of plasma samples with longitudinal tracking of tumour fraction paired with a statistical model provides valuable information on treatment response in advance of the ...
Emma J. Beddowes, Mario Ortega Duran, Solon Karapanagiotis, Alistair Martin, Meiling Gao, Riccardo Masina, Ramona Woitek, James Tanner, Fleur Tippin, Justine Kane, Jonathan Lay, Anja Brouwer, Stephen‐John Sammut, Suet‐Feung Chin, Davina Gale, Dana W. Y. Tsui, Sarah‐Jane Dawson, Nitzan Rosenfeld, Maurizio Callari, Oscar M. Rueda, Carlos Caldas   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Multimodal Anomaly Detector for Robot-Assisted Feeding Using an LSTM-based Variational Autoencoder [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
The detection of anomalous executions is valuable for reducing potential hazards in assistive manipulation. Multimodal sensory signals can be helpful for detecting a wide range of anomalies. However, the fusion of high-dimensional and heterogeneous modalities is a challenging problem. We introduce a long short-term memory based variational autoencoder (
arxiv  

Escape from TGF‐β‐induced senescence promotes aggressive hallmarks in epithelial hepatocellular carcinoma cells

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Chronic TGF‐β exposure drives epithelial HCC cells from a senescent state to a TGF‐β resistant mesenchymal phenotype. This transition is characterized by the loss of Smad3‐mediated signaling, escape from senescence, enhanced invasiveness and metastatic potential, and upregulation of key resistance modulators such as MARK1 and GRM8, ultimately promoting
Minenur Kalyoncu, Dilara Demirci, Sude Eris, Bengisu Dayanc, Ece Cakiroglu, Merve Basol, Merve Uysal, Gulcin Cakan‐Akdogan, Fang Liu, Mehmet Ozturk, Gökhan Karakülah, Serif Senturk   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source