Ratatouille-Whiskers/Ratatouille-Whisker: Ratatouille Whisker
<p>Robot whisker sensors have been researched in many studies but are difficult or impossible to replicate across labs. An open-source hardware robot whisker, including easy-to-follow visual build and test instructions, is presented.
Stevenson, Robert +6 more
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Transcripts enriched in codons that trigger P‐site tRNA‐mediated mRNA decay possess stable mRNA
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.PTMD codons were first described by Mendel et al. as mediators of an mRNA decay pathway dependent on the human protein CNOT3, homologous to yeast Not5. Our findings confirm that PTMD codons destabilize transcripts; however, unlike in yeast, the human pathway specifically targets and slightly destabilizes primarily stable mRNAs.
Rodolfo Lopes Carneiro +1 more
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Co-coding of head and whisker movements by both VPM and POm thalamic neurons
Nature CommunicationsRodents continuously move their heads and whiskers in a coordinated manner while perceiving objects through whisker-touch. Studies in head-fixed rodents showed that the ventroposterior medial (VPM) and posterior medial (POm) thalamic nuclei code for ...
Tess Baker Oram +4 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016 During active tactile exploration with their whiskers (vibrissae), rodents can rapidly orient to an object even though there are very few proprioceptors in the whisker muscles. Thus a long-standing question in the study of the vibrissal system is how the
Anne En-Tzu Yang +2 more
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The Advantages of a Tapered Whisker
PLoS ONE, 2010 The role of facial vibrissae (whiskers) in the behavior of terrestrial mammals is principally as a supplement or substitute for short-distance vision. Each whisker in the array functions as a mechanical transducer, conveying forces applied along the shaft to mechanoreceptors in the follicle at the whisker base.
Christopher M Williams, Eric M Kramer
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Effect of terahertz irradiation on DNA damage repair in living cells
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.We investigated the effect of terahertz (THz) wave irradiation on DNA double‐strand break (DSB) repair in living cells. We found that THz irradiation enhanced DSB repair at specific frequencies, whereas heat treatment inhibited it, indicating that this effect is nonthermal and frequency‐specific.
Yuya Ueno +3 more
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Spatiotemporal patterns of contact across the rat vibrissal array during exploratory behavior
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016 The rat vibrissal system is an important model for the study of somatosensation, but the small size and rapid speed of the vibrissae have precluded measuring precise vibrissal-object contact sequences during behavior.
Jennifer Anne Hobbs +2 more
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Accurate and noninvasive prostate cancer detection using plasma‐derived extracellular vesicle RNA
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Plasma extracellular vesicles were captured with WGA‐conjugated magnetic beads and profiled for RNA biomarkers. A three‐RNA panel (NM_024955, NR_047469, and NR_002564) distinguished prostate cancer from healthy controls and benign prostatic hyperplasia, supporting a simple, noninvasive approach to improve prostate cancer detection.
Hanping Wei, Haoran Wu, Wei Feng
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Hydrothermal-solid state synthesis of Gadolinium aluminate nano whiskers with alkaline mineralizer
Materials Research Express, 2020 Gadolinium aluminate (GdAlO _3 , GAP) nano whiskers were synthesized by the hydrothermal-solid state method, Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis
Pengyuan Qi +4 more
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Effect of sensory deprivation and locus coeruleus phasic electrical stimulation following the deflection of adjacent whisker on response properties of principal whisker related-neurons in layer IV of rat barrel cortex [PDF]
Background: Barrel cortex of rodents is responsible for sensory information processing via facial whiskers. Locus coeruleus (LC), main source of cortical norepinephrine (NE), influences tactile sensory processing.
شمسی زاده, علی +4 more
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