A Case of Struma Carcinoid and Graves Disease by Asha K. Pathak, MD, Gregory M. Cheeney, MD, Mara H. Rendi, MD, PhD, Renata R. Urban, MD, Richard A. Failor, MD, Alan Chait, MD

“…Repeat RAIU with scan at 6 months postoperative demonstrated 4- and 24-hour uptake in the neck of 10.4% (normal range, 4 to 20%) and 23.6% (normal range, 10 to 30%), with diffuse, minimally inhomogeneous uptake in the thyroid lobes bilaterally and uptake visualized in the pyramidal lobe. There was no uptake outside the neck on whole-body imaging. …”
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Diffusion MRI simulation of realistic neurons with SpinDoctor and the Neuron Module by Chengran Fang, Van-Dang Nguyen, Demian Wassermann, Jing-Rebecca Li

“…In order to facilitate the diffusion MRI simulation of realistic neurons by the research community, we constructed finite element meshes for a group of 36 pyramidal neurons and a group of 29 spindle neurons whose morphological descriptions were found in the publicly available neuron repository NeuroMorpho.Org. …”
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Fine Mapping of Stripe-Rust-Resistance Gene <i>YrJ22</i> in Common Wheat by BSR-Seq and MutMap-Based Sequencing by Can Chen, Weihao Hao, Jingchun Wu, Hongqi Si, Xianchun Xia, Chuanxi Ma

“…Identification and accurate mapping of new resistance genes are essential for gene pyramiding in wheat breeding. The <i>YrJ22</i> gene is a dominant stripe-rust-resistance gene located at the distal end of chromosome 2AL, which was identified in a leading Chinese-wheat variety, Jimai 22, showing high resistance to CYR32, a prevalent race of <i>Puccinia striiformis tritici</i> (<i>Pst</i>) in China. …”
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Preparation, structural and dielectric properties of nanocomposite Al2O3/BaTiO3 for multilayer ceramic capacitors applications by Ahmed I. Ali, Mansour M. Hassan, G. Goda Mohammed, Hossam Youssef Abdel El-Hamid, Hilmy Awad

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Motor- and cognition-related safety of pimavanserin in patients with Parkinson's disease psychosis by Victor Abler, Cecilia Brain, Clive Ballard, Ana Berrio, Bruce Coate, Alberto J. Espay

“…In the open-label period, the mean (SE) change from baseline to week 12 (n = 39) Extra-Pyramidal Symptom Rating Scale (ESRS-A) score was −1.7 (0.74); in the double-blind period, the results were generally comparable between the pimavanserin and placebo arms. …”
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Occurrence and Ear Damage of <i>Helicoverpa zea</i> on Transgenic <i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i> Maize in the Field in Texas, U.S. and Its Susceptibility to Vip3A Protein by Fei Yang, José C. Santiago González, Jayme Williams, Donald C. Cook, Ryan T. Gilreath, David L. Kerns

“…A total of 67.5% of the pyramided Bt maize expressing Cry1Ab+Cry1F+Vip3A was damaged by 2nd&#8315;4th instar larvae of <i>H. zea</i>. …”
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Neurobehavioral and Immunohistochemical Studies of the Cerebral Cortex Following Treatment with Ethyl Acetate Leaf Fraction of Tamarindus indica During Prenatal Aluminum Chloride E... by Usman IM, Adebisi SS, Musa SA, Iliya IA, Ochieng JJ, Ivang AE, Peter AB, Okesina AA

“…The EPM, CF, and GFAP results revealed significant improvement in anxiety-like behavior, motor activities, GFAP expression, pyramidal cell count, and Nissl staining following prenatal EATI administration during AlCl3 exposure.Conclusion: The present study concludes that EATI was associated with some protective potential during prenatal AlCl3 exposure in Wistar rats.Graphical Abstract: Keywords: Tamarindus indica, aluminum toxicity, glial fibrillary acid protein, sensory-motor development, elevated plus maze, anxiety-like behavior…”
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3177 Determining mechanisms underlying hippocampal network disruption in early amyloid pathology by Adam Caccavano, P. Lorenzo Bozzelli, Katherine Conant, Stefano Vicini

“…Ongoing experiments into the activity and synaptic input to both inhibitory PV and excitatory pyramidal neurons seek to determine the effects of this PNN disruption on downstream micro-circuitry. …”
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Detection of Wolbachia and different trypanosome species in Glossina palpalis palpalis populations from three sleeping sickness foci of southern Cameroon by Sartrien Tagueu Kanté, Trésor Melachio, Elvis Ofon, Flobert Njiokou, Gustave Simo

“…Methods Tsetse flies were captured with pyramidal traps in the Bipindi, Campo and Fontem HAT foci. …”
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Identification of key genes effective in tolerance to drought stress in rice through meta-analysis of microarray data by Sedigheh Soltanpour, Alireza Tarinejad, Karim Hasanpur, Mohammad Majidi

“…Identification of hub genes in this study can be effective to obtain an overview of hub genes that play an important role in response to drought stress in riceConclusionIdentifying downstream of hub genes can help in the production of drought-tolerant rice through classical breeding methods by pyramiding genes or genome manipulation and increase tolerance to drought stress.The result will lead to sustainable agriculture.…”
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Early impairment of cortical circuit plasticity and connectivity in the 5XFAD Alzheimer’s disease mouse model by Chang Chen, Xiaokuang Ma, Jing Wei, Neha Shakir, Jessica K. Zhang, Le Zhang, Antoine Nehme, Yuehua Cui, Deveroux Ferguson, Feng Bai, Shenfeng Qiu

“…APP overloading was also seen in L5 pyramidal neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) during the critical period of plasticity (4–5 weeks age). …”
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Theta-Nested Gamma Oscillations in Next Generation Neural Mass Models by Marco Segneri, Hongjie Bi, Hongjie Bi, Simona Olmi, Simona Olmi, Alessandro Torcini, Alessandro Torcini

“…In this framework, we have examined two set-ups able to support collective gamma oscillations: namely, the pyramidal interneuronal network gamma (PING) and the interneuronal network gamma (ING). …”
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Neuropsychiatric Profile in Malaria: An Overview by Veer Bahadur Singh, Harish Kumar, Babu Lal Meena, Subhash Chandra, Jatin Agrawal, Naresh Kanogiya

“…Neuropsychiatric manifestation seen in falciparum malaria (n=111) as follow: altered consciousness 20 (18.01%), headache 17 (15.32%), neck rigidity 5 (4.5%), convulsion 5 (4.55%), extra pyramidal rigidity 2 (1.8%), decorticate rigidity 1 (0.90%), decerebrate rigidity 1 (0.90%), cerebellar ataxia 3 (2.7%), subarachnoid haemorrhage 1 (0.90%), aphasia 2 (1.8%), subconjunctival haemorrhage 1 (0.90%), conjugate deviation of eye 1 (0.90%) and psychosis 6 (5.40%). …”
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MicroRNA-mediated host defense mechanisms against pathogens and herbivores in rice: balancing gains from genetic resistance with trade-offs to productivity potential by Kishor Kumar, Swarupa Nanda Mandal, Kumari Neelam, Benildo G. de los Reyes

“…Breeding has been successful in utilizing various mechanisms of defense by gene pyramiding in elite cultivars, but the continuous resurgence of highly resistant races of pathogens and herbivores often overcomes the inherent capacity of host plant immunity. …”
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Robust R-peak detection in an electrocardiogram with stationary wavelet transformation and separable convolution by Donghwan Yun, Hyung-Chul Lee, Chul-Woo Jung, Soonil Kwon, So-Ryoung Lee, Kwangsoo Kim, Yon Su Kim, Seung Seok Han

“…Separable convolution with atrous spatial pyramidal pooling was selected as the model’s architecture, and noise-augmented waveforms of 5.69 s duration (2048 size in 360 Hz) were used in training. …”
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Role of TRPC6 in conditioning and extinction of contextual fear memory in mice by TIAN Yiqin, CHEN Xiuxiu, BIAN Chen, BIAN Chen, LI Min

“…Results At 20 d after injection, massive GFP-positive cells were observed in the pyramidal layer of hippocampal CA1 region, and Western blotting showed AAV-TRPC6 injection significantly reduced the hippocampal TRPC6 expression in the sh-TRPC6 subgroup than the GFP subgroup (P < 0.01). …”
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Mining of favorable alleles for seed reserve utilization efficiency in Oryza sativa by means of association mapping by Nour Ali, Dalu Li, Moaz S. Eltahawy, Dina Abdulmajid, Lal Bux, Erbao Liu, Xiaojing Dang, Delin Hong

“…The optimal parental combinations for pyramiding more favorable alleles for SRUE were selected and could be used for breeding rice accessions suitable for wet direct seeding in the future.…”
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RNAi-based knockdown of candidate gut receptor genes altered the susceptibility of Spodoptera frugiperda and S. litura larvae to a chimeric toxin Cry1AcF by Tushar K. Dutta, Kodhandaraman Santhoshkumar, Arudhimath Veeresh, Chandramani Waghmare, Chetna Mathur, Rohini Sreevathsa

“…To avoid this problem, multiple gene pyramiding or protein-engineered chimeric toxin-based strategy has been analyzed. …”
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Esclerose múltipla: estudo de pacientes com a forma surto-remissão cadastrados na Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de Minas Gerais Multiple sclerosis: study of patients with relapsing... by Eustáquio Claret dos Santos, Mitico Yokota, Nádia Fernanda Rezende Dias

“…The initial symptoms included sensorial (46.4%), visual (33.1%), brainstem/cerebellar syndromes (30.1%) and motor (pyramidal) syndrome (25.9%). The symptoms observed in subsequent relapses were motor (22.3%), brainstem/cerebellar syndromes (18.9%), visual (18.9%) and sensorial findings (9.6%). …”
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Towards Neurotransplantation in Multiple System Atrophy: Clinical Rationale, Pathophysiological Basis, and Preliminary Experimental Evidence by Gregor Karl Wenning, Francois Tison, Christoph Scherfler, Zoe Puschban, Regina Waldner, Roberta Granata, Imad Ghorayeb, Werner Poewe

“…Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a neurodegenerative disorder that occurs sporadically and causes parkinsonism, cerebellar, autonomic, urinary, and pyramidal dysfunction in many combinations. Progressive L-dopa-unresponsive parkinsonism due to underlying striatonigral degeneration dominates the clinical syndrome in the majority of cases (MSA-P subtype). …”
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