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Antiepileptogenic effects of trilostane in the kainic acid model of temporal lobe epilepsy
Objective: Epileptogenesis after status epilepticus (SE) has a faster onset in rats treated to reduce brain levels of the anticonvulsant neurosteroid allopregnanolone with the 5α-reductase inhibitor finasteride; however, it still has to be evaluated whether treatments aimed at increasing allopregnanolone levels could result in the opposite effect of delaying epileptogenesis. This possibility could be tested using the peripherally active inhibitor of 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/Δ5-4 isomerase trilostane, which has been shown repeatedly to increase allopregnanolone levels in the brain.
Methods: Trilostane (50 mg/kg) was administered subcutaneously once daily for
up to six consecutive days, starting 10 min after intraperitoneal administration of
kainic acid (15 mg/kg). Seizures were evaluated by video-electrocorticographic
recordings for 70 days maximum, and endogenous neurosteroid levels were
assessed by liquid chromatography–electrospray tandem mass spectrometry.
Immunohistochemical staining was performed to evaluate the presence of brain
lesions.
Results: Trilostane did not alter the latency of kainic acid-induced SE onset or its
overall duration. When compared to the vehicle-treated group, rats receiving six
daily trilostane injections presented a remarkable delay of the first spontaneous
electrocorticographic seizure and subsequent tonic–clonic spontaneous recurrent
seizures (SRSs). Conversely, rats treated with only the first trilostane injection
during SE did not differ from vehicle-treated rats in developing the SRSs.
Notably, trilostane did not modify neuronal cell densities or the overall damage
in the hippocampus. In comparison to the vehicle group, repeated administration
of trilostane significantly decreased the activated microglia morphology in
the subiculum. As expected, allopregnanolone and other neurosteroid levels were
remarkably increased in the hippocampus and neocortex of rats treated for 6 days
with trilostane, but pregnanolone was barely detectable. Neurosteroids returned
to basal levels after a week of trilostane washout..
Significance: Overall, these results suggest that trilostane led to a remarkable increase in allopregnanolone brain levels, which was associated with protracted effects on epileptogenesis
A new proof of Frank-Weissenborn inequality
A new proof of the Frank-Weissenborn inequality is given. This proof uses the theory of algebroid functions
P-AMENABLE LOCALLY COMPACT HYPERGROUPS
Abstract. Let K be a locally compact hypergroup with left Haar measure and let We say that K is P-amenable if there exists a left invariant mean on C(P 1 (K)), the space of all bounded continuous functions on P 1 (K). In this note, we consider the Pamenability of hypergroups. The P-amenability of hypergroup joins K = H ∨ J where H is a compact hypergroup and J is a discrete hypergroup with H ∩ J = {e} is characterized. It is also shown that Z-hypergroups are P-amenable if Z(K) ∩ G(K) is compact
Gravitation on a Homogeneous Domain
Among all plastic deformations of the gravitational Lorentz vacuum \cite{wr1}
a particular role is being played by conformal deformations. These are
conveniently described by using the homogeneous space for the conformal group
SU(2,2)/S(U(2)x U(2)) and its Shilov boundary - the compactified Minkowski
space \tilde{M} [1]. In this paper we review the geometrical structure involved
in such a description. In particular we demonstrate that coherent states on the
homogeneous Kae}hler domain give rise to Einstein-like plastic conformal
deformations when extended to \tilde{M} [2].Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure; four misprints in the original version corrected:
one lacking closing parenthesis, two letters, and an overall sign in front of
the primitive function on p.
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Intelligent approach for attracting churning customers in banking industry based on collaborative filtering
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Cyber-physical systems design for runtime trustworthiness maintenance supported by tools
The trustworthiness of cyber-physical systems is a critical factor for establishing wide-spread adoption of these systems. Hence, especially the behavior of safety-critical software components needs to be monitored and managed during system operation. Runtime trustworthiness maintenance should be planned and prepared in early requirements and design phases. This involves the identification of threats that may occur and affect user’s trust at runtime, as well as related controls that can be executed to mitigate the threats. Furthermore, observable and measureable system quality properties have to be identified as indicators of threats, and interfaces for reporting these properties as well as for executing controls have to be designed and implemented. This paper presents a process model for preparing and designing systems for runtime trustworthiness maintenance, which is supported by several tools that facilitate the tasks to be performed by requirements engineers and system designer
A tool for monitoring and maintaining system trustworthiness at runtime
Trustworthiness of software systems is a key factor in their acceptance and effectiveness. This is especially the case for cyber-physical systems, where incorrect or even sub-optimal functioning of the system may have detrimental effects. In addition to designing systems with trustworthiness in mind, monitoring and maintaining trustworthiness at runtime is critical to identify issues that could negatively affect a system's trustworthiness. In this paper, we present a fully operational tool for system trustworthiness maintenance, covering a comprehensive set of quality attributes. It automatically detects, and in some cases mitigates, trustworthiness threatening events. The use of such a tool can enable complex software systems to support runtime adaptation and self-healing, thus reducing the overall upkeep cost and complexity
A transient formulation of Newton’s cooling law for spherical bodies
Newton's law of cooling is shown to underestimate the heat flux between a spherical body (droplet) and a homogeneous gas after this body is suddenly immersed into the gas. This problem is rectified by replacing the gas thermal conductivity by the effective thermal conductivity. The latter reduces to the gas thermal conductivity in the limit of t→ϱ, but can be substantially higher in the limit of t→0. In the case of fuel droplet heating in a medium duty truck Diesel engine the gas thermal conductivity may need to be increased by more than 100 percent at the initial stage of calculations to account for transient effects during the process of droplet heating
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