Identification of QTLs for high grain yield and component traits in new plant types of rice. by Ravindra Donde, Shibani Mohapatra, S K Yasin Baksh, Barada Padhy, Mitadru Mukherjee, Somnath Roy, Krishnendu Chattopadhyay, A Anandan, Padmini Swain, Khirod Kumar Sahoo, Onkar Nath Singh, Lambodar Behera, Sushanta Kumar Dash

“…Similarly, RM5575, RM204, RM168, RM112, RM26499 and RM22899 were also recorded to be co-localized with more than one trait and could be rated as important for marker-assisted backcross breeding programs, for pyramiding of these QTLs for important yield traits, to produce new-generation rice for prospective increment in yield potentiality and breaking yield ceiling.…”
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Age-Dependent, Subunit Specific Action of Hydrogen Sulfide on GluN1/2A and GluN1/2B NMDA Receptors by Aleksey V. Yakovlev, Evgeniya D. Kurmasheva, Yevheniia Ishchenko, Rashid Giniatullin, Rashid Giniatullin, Guzel F. Sitdikova

“…Adenylate cyclase inhibitor MDL-12330A (10 μM) did not prevent the age-dependent effects of NaHS on NMDA evoked currents in pyramidal neurons of hippocampus. The reducing agent dithiothreitol (DTT, 2 mM) applied on HEK293T cells prevented facilitation induced by NaHS on GluN1/2A NMDA receptors, however in GluN1/2B NMDA receptors the inhibitory effect of NaHS was still observed. …”
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Synthesis, Structure and Biological Evaluations of Zn(II) Pincer Complexes Based on S-Triazine Type Chelator by Heba M. Refaat, Atallh A. M. Alotaibi, Necmi Dege, Ayman El-Faham, Saied M. Soliman

“…Hence, the Zn(II) is penta-coordinated with a distorted square pyramidal coordination geometry. Hirshfeld analysis indicated the predominance of H…H, H…C and N…H intermolecular interactions. …”
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Development of chemogenetic methodology to investigate cortical mechanisms of cognition by Rotariu, SM

“…This suggests that suppression of pyramidal cell activity disrupts the generation of gamma oscillations in the hippocampus by potentially modulating intraneuronal activity. …”

Synthesis, characterisation and biological studies of transition metal complexes (Cu, Zn, Ni) derived from amino acids by Lai, Lee Chin

“…Based on the data obtained, the geometry of the complexes were either distorted tetrahedral or distorted square planar for the four-coordinated complexes, square pyramidal for NiGVal and ZnAAVal and distorted octahedral for NiHDPhe, NiMHDHis, NiHDHis, NiGVal, ZnGVal and ZnGMet. …”
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Spectroscopic properties of ebium doped tellurite glass by Ismail, Siti Fatimah

“…It was observed that, four absorption peaks occur around 1600 cm-1 – 3400 cm-1, 666 cm-1 – 755 cm-1, 546 cm-1 – 684 cm-1 and 465 cm-1 which were due to the stretching mode vibration of OH bond, TeO4 trigonal bipyramids and TeO3 trigonal pyramids, Er-O bond and Zn-O tetrahedral bond, respectively. …”
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Luminescence of erbium doped tellurite glass containing silver nanoparticles by Jamaludin, Mohd. Naqib Asyraf

“…The structural properties measured by using FTIR show that as the AgCl content increases, the sharp infrared (IR) absorption peaks were consistently shifted from 675.13 cm-1 to 679.03 cm-1 which were assigned to the structural changes between the stretching vibration mode of TeO4 (trigonal bipyramids) and TeO3(trigonal pyramids). The absorption peaks around 1600 cm-1 and 3400 cm-1 are related to the stretching vibrations of the hydroxyl group participating in the strong metal and hydrogen bonding, respectively. …”
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Dissection of Superior Alleles for Yield-Related Traits and Their Distribution in Important Cultivars of Wheat by Association Mapping by Xiaojun Li, Xin Xu, Weihua Liu, Xiuquan Li, Xinming Yang, Zhengang Ru, Lihui Li

“…A significant association between the number of favorable alleles and yield was observed (r = 0.799, p < 0.0001), suggesting that pyramiding multiple QTL with marker-assisted selection may effectively increase yield of wheat. …”
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Innovative multidimensional gait evaluation using IMU in multiple sclerosis: introducing the semiogram by Cyril Voisard, Cyril Voisard, Nicolas de l'Escalopier, Nicolas de l'Escalopier, Aliénor Vienne-Jumeau, Albane Moreau, Flavien Quijoux, Flavie Bompaire, Flavie Bompaire, Magali Sallansonnet, Marie-Laure Brechemier, Irina Taifas, Camille Tafani, Eve Drouard, Nicolas Vayatis, Damien Ricard, Damien Ricard, Damien Ricard, Laurent Oudre

“…All partial scores were correlated with an objective but not subjective quantification of gait severity in the pMS population. A deficit in the pyramidal tract was associated with altered scores in all criteria, whereas deficits in cerebellar, sensitive, bulbar, and cognitive deficits were associated with decreased scores in only a subset of gait criteria.ConclusionsThe proposed multidimensional gait quantification represents an innovative approach to monitoring gait disorders. …”
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Interictal spikes in Alzheimer's disease: Preclinical evidence for dominance of the dentate gyrus and cholinergic control by the medial septum by Christos Panagiotis Lisgaras, Helen E. Scharfman

“…In all 3 mouse lines, IIS amplitudes were significantly greater in the DG granule cell layer vs. CA1 pyramidal layer or overlying cortex. Current source density analysis showed robust and early current sources in the DG, and additional sources in CA1 and the cortex also. …”
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APPsα rescues CDK5 and GSK3β dysregulation and restores normal spine density in Tau transgenic mice by Danny Baltissen, Charlotte S. Bold, Lena Rehra, Marija Banićević, Justus Fricke, Jennifer Just, Susann Ludewig, Christian J. Buchholz, Martin Korte, Martin Korte, Ulrike C. Müller

“…Moreover, AAV-APPsα reduced misfolded (MC1) Tau species, particularly in somatodendritic compartments of CA1 pyramidal neurons. Finally, we show that AAV-APPsα upregulated PSD95 expression and rescued deficits in spine density of THY-Tau22 mice. …”
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Maternal antibiotic administration during gestation can affect the memory and brain structure in mouse offspring by Dmytro Shepilov, Iryna Osadchenko, Tetiana Kovalenko, Chiaki Yamada, Chiaki Yamada, Anastasiia Chereshynska, Kateryna Smozhanyk, Galyna Ostrovska, Stanislav Groppa, Stanislav Groppa, Alexandru Movila, Alexandru Movila, Galyna Skibo

“…To our knowledge, we observed a reduction in the density of the hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons and hypomyelination in the corpus callosum in groups of mice in utero exposed to antibiotics at the 2nd and 3rd weeks of gestation. …”
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Saturation Mapping of a Major Effect QTL for Stripe Rust Resistance on Wheat Chromosome 2B in Cultivar Napo 63 Using SNP Genotyping Arrays by Dejun Han, Zhensheng Kang, Jianhui Wu, Qilin Wang, Shengjie Liu, Shuo Huang, Jingmei Mu, Qingdong Zeng, Lili Huang

“…The short genetic interval and flanking KASP markers developed in the study will facilitate marker-assisted selection, gene pyramiding, and eventual positional cloning of Qyrnap.nwafu-2BS.…”
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Thiolated Chitosan Microneedle Patch of Levosulpiride from Fabrication, Characterization to Bioavailability Enhancement Approach by Rukhshanda Habib, Abul Kalam Azad, Muhammad Akhlaq, Fakhria A. Al-Joufi, Gul Shahnaz, Hanan R. H. Mohamed, Muhammad Naeem, Abdulraheem S. A. Almalki, Junaid Asghar, Aamir Jalil, Mohamed M. Abdel-Daim

“…The length of each microneedle was 575 μm; they were pyramidal in shape, with sharp pointed ends and a base diameter of 200 µm. …”
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Adult mice with noise-induced hearing loss exhibited temporal ordering memory deficits accompanied by microglia-associated neuroplastic changes in the medial prefrontal cortex by Qian Li, Xiaomin Kang, Linchen Liu, Yu Xiao, Dan Xu, Hong Zhuang, Haiqing Liu, Jingyi Zhao, Han Zou, Jianing Yang, Xindi Zhan, Tianxiao Li, Xinchen Wang, Lijie Liu

“…The results illustrated that noise exposure induced early-onset transient serum CORT elevation and permanent moderate-to-severe hearing loss in mice. 28DPN mice, in which permanent NIHL has been verified, exhibited impaired performance in temporal order object recognition tasks concomitant with reduced structural complexity of mPFC pyramidal neurons. The time-course immunohistochemical analysis in the mPFC revealed significantly higher morphological microglial activation at 14 and 28 DPN, preceded by a remarkably higher amount of microglial engulfed postsynaptic marker PSD95 at 7 DPN. …”
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Genetic Dissection of Quantitative Resistance to Common Rust (Puccinia sorghi) in Tropical Maize (Zea mays L.) by Combined Genome-Wide Association Study, Linkage Mapping, and Genom... by Jiaojiao Ren, Jiaojiao Ren, Zhimin Li, Zhimin Li, Penghao Wu, Ao Zhang, Yubo Liu, Guanghui Hu, Shiliang Cao, Jingtao Qu, Thanda Dhliwayo, Hongjian Zheng, Michael Olsen, Boddupalli M. Prasanna, Felix San Vicente, Xuecai Zhang

“…In tropical maize, common rust could be improved by pyramiding the new sources of quantitative resistance through marker-assisted selection (MAS) or genomic selection (GS), rather than the implementation of MAS for the single dominant race-specific resistance gene.…”
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Design of a Six-Port Compact UWB MIMO Antenna With a Distinctive DGS for Improved Isolation by Praveen Kumar, Sameena Pathan, Om Prakash Kumar, Shweta Vincent, Yashwanth Nanjappa, Pradeep Kumar, Pranav Shetty, Tanweer Ali

“…A low-profile printed six-port ultrawideband (UWB) antenna with a novel decoupling structure for enhancing port-to-port isolation is analyzed in this paper. Six symmetrical pyramidal form UWB antennas with defective ground structures interspersed with parasitic components served as a unique decoupling structure in the proposed design. …”
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Combining Pre-operative Diffusion Tensor Images and Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Images in the Navigation Is Useful for Detecting White Matter Tracts During Glioma Surgery by Manabu Tamura, Manabu Tamura, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Taiichi Saito, Taiichi Saito, Masayuki Nitta, Masayuki Nitta, Takashi Maruyama, Shunsuke Tsuzuki, Shunsuke Tsuzuki, Atsushi Fukui, Shunichi Koriyama, Takakazu Kawamata, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Yoshihiro Muragaki

“…This white matter nerve functional information was confirmed directly by using neurological examination and referring to the electrophysiological monitoring.ResultsIntraoperative MRI, integrated pre-operative FA color map, and microscopic surgical view were displayed on one screen in all 10 patients, and white matter fibers including the pyramidal tract were displayed as a reference in blue. …”
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Single nucleotide polymorphism SNP19140160 A > C is a potential breeding locus for fast-growth largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) by Jixiang Hua, Chunyi Zhong, Wenhua Chen, Jianjun Fu, Jian Wang, Qingchun Wang, Geyan Zhu, Yan Li, Yifan Tao, Maoyou Zhang, Yalun Dong, Siqi Lu, Wenting Liu, Jun Qiang

“…Determining the major genes related to growth traits and identifying molecular markers associated with these traits serve as the foundation for breeding strategies involving gene pyramiding. In this study, we screened restriction-site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq) data to identify single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci potentially associated with extreme growth differences between fast-growth and slow-growth groups in the F1 generation of a largemouth bass population. …”
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Pumilio2-deficient mice show a predisposition for epilepsy by Philipp Follwaczny, Rico Schieweck, Therese Riedemann, Antonia Demleitner, Tobias Straub, Anna H. Klemm, Martin Bilban, Bernd Sutor, Bastian Popper, Michael A. Kiebler

“…Moreover, field recordings of CA1 pyramidal neurons show a tendency towards a reduced paired-pulse inhibition after stimulation of the Schaffer-collateral-commissural pathway in Pum2 GT mice, indicating a predisposition to the development of spontaneous seizures at later stages. …”
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