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RNA content in motor and sensory neurons and surrounding neuroglia of mouse spinal cord under conditions of hypodynamia and following normalization
The differences in the dynamics of reparative processes in RNA metabolism within the neuron-neuroglia unit after the cessation of hyper- and hypodynamia is dicussed. The role of neuroglia is stressed in compensatory, reparative and trophic processes in the nervous system as well as the possibility in an adaptation at the cellular level
RNA content in motor and sensory neurons and surrounding neuroglia of mouse spinal cord under conditions of hypodynamia and following normalization
Male white mice were subjected to two and three week hypodynamia and then decapitated. Cytoplasmic RNA content per cell was measured by means of ultraviolet cytospectrometry. Changes in RNA content are shown, and the dynamics of the reparative processes of cells are discussed
Topochemical differences in the amount of RNA in the motoneurons of the spinal chord in hypoxia and hypokinesia
Reactions to hypoxia and hypoknesia were compared by measuring charges in the amount of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the cytoplasm of neurons of the intumescentia cervicalis and lumbalis. Animals were subjected to hypoxia, hypokinesia and both combined and a control group to neither. A total of two groups of motoneurons were compared, one innervating the respiratory musculature, the other the musculature of the lower extremities, so that hypoxic hypoxia would probably affect the first group primarily and hypokinesia the second. Results indicate that neither affect the amount of RNA in the neurons of the first group but a significant increase is noted in neurons of the second group. Other significant results are reported
Structural and Functional Organization of the Vestibular Apparatus in Rats Subjected to Weightlessness for 19.5 Days Aboard the Kosmos-782 Satellite
The vestibular apparatus was investigated in rats subjected to weightlessness for 19.5 days. The vestibular apparatus was removed and its sections were fixed in a glutaraldehyde solution for investigation by light and electron microscopes. Structural and functional charges were noted in the otolith portions of the ear, with the otolith particles clinging to the utricular receptor surface and with the peripheral arrangement of the nucleolus in the nuclei of the receptor cells. It is possible that increased edema of the vestibular tissue resulted in the destruction of some receptor cells and in changes in the form and structure of the otolith. In the horizontal crista, the capula was separated
Anyui Volcano in Chukotka: Age, structure, pecularities of rocks' composition and eruptions
The study of lavas and pyroclastics from Anyui Volcano made it possible to reconstruct succession of its eruption events. The age of the eruption is estimated by isotopic methods to be 0.248 ± 0.030 Ma. It is established that the last episode of volcanic activity in northeastern Russia occurred 0.2‒0.5 Ma ago (in its continental part, 0.2‒0.3 Ma ago). This episode is chronologically close to the last peak in activation of volcanism in the Arctic and Subarctic regions. The absence of features indicating glacial influence on lavas from Anyui Volcano provides grounds for an assumption that no significant glaciations took place in the continental areas of western Chukotka during the last 250 ka
Stationary Distribution and Eigenvalues for a de Bruijn Process
We define a de Bruijn process with parameters n and L as a certain
continuous-time Markov chain on the de Bruijn graph with words of length L over
an n-letter alphabet as vertices. We determine explicitly its steady state
distribution and its characteristic polynomial, which turns out to decompose
into linear factors. In addition, we examine the stationary state of two
specializations in detail. In the first one, the de Bruijn-Bernoulli process,
this is a product measure. In the second one, the Skin-deep de Bruin process,
the distribution has constant density but nontrivial correlation functions. The
two point correlation function is determined using generating function
techniques.Comment: Dedicated to Herb Wilf on the occasion of his 80th birthda
Expected length of the longest common subsequence for large alphabets
We consider the length L of the longest common subsequence of two randomly
uniformly and independently chosen n character words over a k-ary alphabet.
Subadditivity arguments yield that the expected value of L, when normalized by
n, converges to a constant C_k. We prove a conjecture of Sankoff and Mainville
from the early 80's claiming that C_k\sqrt{k} goes to 2 as k goes to infinity.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure, LaTe
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