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    Brain areas interconnected to ventral pathway circuitsare independently able to induce enhancement in objectrecognition memory and cause reversal in object recognitionmemory deficit.

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    Ventral pathway circuits are constituted by the interconnected brain areas that are distributed throughout the brain. These brain circuits are primarily involved in processing of object related information in brain. However, their role in object recognition memory (ORM) enhancement remains unknown. Here, we have studied on the implication of these circuits in ORM enhancement and in reversal of ORM deficit in aging. The brain areas interconnected to ventral pathway circuits in rat brain were activated by an expression of a protein called regulator of G-protein signaling 14 of 414 amino acids (RGS14414). RGS14414 is an ORM enhancer and therefore used here as a gain-in-function tool. ORM test and immunohistochemistry, lesions, neuronal arborization, and knockdown studies were performed to uncover the novel function of ventral pathway circuits. An activation of each of the brain areas interconnected to ventral pathway circuits individually induced enhancement in ORM; however, same treatment in brain areas not interconnected to ventral pathway circuits produced no effect. Further study in perirhinal cortex (PRh), area V2 of visual cortex and frontal cortex (FrC), which are brain areas that have been shown to be involved in ORM and are interconnected to ventral pathway circuits, revealed that ORM enhancement seen after the activation of any one of the three brain areas was unaffected by the lesions in other two brain areas either individually in each area or even concurrently in both areas. This ORM enhancement in all three brain areas was associated to increase in structural plasticity of pyramidal neurons where more than 2-fold higher dendritic spines were observed. Additionally, we found that an activation of either PRh, area V2, or FrC not only was adequate but also was sufficient for the reversal of ORM deficit in aging rats, and the blockade of RGS14414 activity led to loss in increase in dendritic spine density and failure in reversal of ORM deficit.Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades. Grant Number: PID2022-136954OB-I00 Junta de AndalucĂ­a. Grant Number: PROYEXCEL-00422 Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional. Grant Number: CTS-586-G-FEDER Funding for open access charge: Universidad de MĂĄlaga / CBU

    Revista de Vertebrados de la Estación Biológica de Doñana

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    PĂĄgina 298 con error de impresiĂłnEstudio cariolĂłgico en dos especies de SerrĂĄnidos del MediterrĂĄneo (Peces: PerciformesRelaciones morfomĂ©tricas de Atherina boyeri Risso (Pisces: Atherinidae) de la laguna de Zoñar (CĂłrdoba, España)ContribuciĂłn al conocimiento de la biometrĂ­ay osteologĂ­a de Barbus barbus bocagei, Steindachner, 1866 (Pisces: CyprinidaeLa actividad de la salamandra, Salamandra salamandra (L.), en Galicia.Estudios sobre el sapo corredor (Bufo calamita) en el Sur de España.1. BiometrĂ­aEstudios sobre el sapo corredor (Bufo calamita) en el Sur de España. II. AlimentaciĂłnBiologĂ­a de la reproducciĂłn de Rana iberica Boulenger 1879 en zonas simpĂĄtridas con Rana temporaria Linneo, 1758Nuevos datos sobre la distribuciĂłn geogrĂĄfica de Lacerta monticola cantabrica Mertens, 1929. (Sauria, lacertidae).Datos sobre Lacerta monticola Boulenger, 1905 (Saurio: lacertidae)en el oeste del Sistema Central.Nueva especie de Anolis (lacertilia, Iguanidae) para CubaEtograma cuantificado del cortejo en Falco naumannOntogĂ©nesis del comportamiento predador en Falco naumanniContaminaciĂłn xenobiĂłtica del Parque Nacional de Doñana. 1. Residuos de insecticidas organoclorados, bifenilos policlorados y mercurio en anseriformes y gruiformesReproducciĂłn del crĂ­alo (Clamator glandarius) en Sierra Morena CentraNidificaciĂłn de Picus viridis en taludes de arcilla en Ramblas de Guadix (Granada)Comportamiento del calamĂłn Porphyrio porphyrio (Linnaeus, 1758) en Doñana, Marismas del GuadalquiviBiologĂ­a y ecologĂ­a de la malvasĂ­a (Oxyura leucocephala) en AndalucĂ­a.On the differential diet of Carnivora in islands:a method for analysing it and a particular case.Notas sobre la distribuciĂłn pasada y actual del meloncillo Herpestes ichneumon (L.) en la PenĂ­nsula IbĂ©ricaEstructuraciĂłn de las interacciones en una camada de lobos (CanĂ­s lupus)Nuevos datos sobre la distribuciĂłn del Cottus gobio L. (pisces, cottidae) en EspañaSobre la alimentaciĂłn de Callopistes maculatus (Reptilia,teiidaeObservaciĂłn de Lacerta lepida depredando un nido de Alectoris rufaNueva cita del galĂĄpago leproso Mauremys leprosa (Scheigger, 1812) en los pirineosPrimera cita de Psammodromus hispanicus (Fitzinger) para GaliciaSobre la presencia de Gallotia (=Lacerta) atlantica (Peters y Doria, 1882) en Gran CanariaNota sobre las Lacerta monticola Boulenger, 1905 de las zonas del norte de GaliciaPrimeras notas herpetolĂłgicas de la provincia de Soria.Datos sobre selecciĂłn de hĂĄbitat y ecologĂ­a alimenticia del porrĂłn pardo (Aythya nyroca)Probable nueva ĂĄrea de crĂ­a del pechiazul (Luscinia svecica cyanecula) en el sistema central. PerisPredaciĂłn de Falco peregrinus y Falco subbuteo sobre quirĂłpterosResultados de la producciĂłn de Oxyura leucocephala en el año 1981 en las lagunas de Zóñar y el rincĂłnAnĂĄlisis de la dieta de Tyto alba en un medio ĂĄrido antropĂłgeno de los alrededores de AlmerĂ­aÂżSon Eudocimus ruber y E. albus distintas especies?EL Estornino pinto (Sturnus vulgaris) en Canarias: nueva especie nidifiante en el archipiĂ©lagoDatos sobre la alimentaciĂłn otoñal del cĂĄrabo (Strix aluco) en la sierra de CĂĄdizObservaciĂłn primaveral de rapaces y otras aves en el pĂĄramo del estado de MĂ©rida (Venezuela).MurciĂ©lago hematĂłfago (Desmodus rotundus) parasitando a un chigĂŒire (Hidrochoerus hydrochaeris)Observaciones sobre la reproducciĂłn del zacatuche o teporinho Romerolagus diazi (Mammalia: lagomorpha)Estudio electroforĂ©tico de hemoglobinas y esterasas sanguĂ­neas en Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Chiroptera: rhinolophidae) y de hemoglobinas en Tadaria taeniotis (chiroptera: molossidae)Peer reviewe

    Effect of viral storm in patients admitted to intensive care units with severe COVID-19 in Spain: a multicentre, prospective, cohort study

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    Background: The contribution of the virus to the pathogenesis of severe COVID-19 is still unclear. We aimed to evaluate associations between viral RNA load in plasma and host response, complications, and deaths in critically ill patients with COVID-19. Methods: We did a prospective cohort study across 23 hospitals in Spain. We included patients aged 18 years or older with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who were admitted to an intensive care unit between March 16, 2020, and Feb 27, 2021. RNA of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid region 1 (N1) was quantified in plasma samples collected from patients in the first 48 h following admission, using digital PCR. Patients were grouped on the basis of N1 quantity: VIR-N1-Zero ([removed]2747 N1 copies per mL). The primary outcome was all-cause death within 90 days after admission. We evaluated odds ratios (ORs) for the primary outcome between groups using a logistic regression analysis. Findings: 1068 patients met the inclusion criteria, of whom 117 had insufficient plasma samples and 115 had key information missing. 836 patients were included in the analysis, of whom 403 (48%) were in the VIR-N1-Low group, 283 (34%) were in the VIR-N1-Storm group, and 150 (18%) were in the VIR-N1-Zero group. Overall, patients in the VIR-N1-Storm group had the most severe disease: 266 (94%) of 283 patients received invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), 116 (41%) developed acute kidney injury, 180 (65%) had secondary infections, and 148 (52%) died within 90 days. Patients in the VIR-N1-Zero group had the least severe disease: 81 (54%) of 150 received IMV, 34 (23%) developed acute kidney injury, 47 (32%) had secondary infections, and 26 (17%) died within 90 days (OR for death 0·30, 95% CI 0·16–0·55; p<0·0001, compared with the VIR-N1-Storm group). 106 (26%) of 403 patients in the VIR-N1-Low group died within 90 days (OR for death 0·39, 95% CI 0·26–0·57; p[removed]11 pĂĄgina

    A922 Sequential measurement of 1 hour creatinine clearance (1-CRCL) in critically ill patients at risk of acute kidney injury (AKI)

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    Tuplespace-based computing for the semantic web: a survey of the state of the art

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    Semantic technologies promise to solve many challenging problems of the present Web applications. As they achieve a feasible level of maturity, they become increasingly accepted in various business settings at enterprise level. By contrast, their usability in open environments such as the Web—with respect to issues such as scalability, dynamism and openness—still requires additional investigation. In particular, Semantic Web services have inherited the Web service communication model, which is primarily based on synchronous message exchange technology such as remote procedure call (RPC), thus being incompatible with the REST (REpresentational State Transfer) architectural model of the Web. Recent advances in the field of middleware propose ‘semantic tuplespace computing’ as an instrument for coping with this situation. Arguing that truly Web-compliant Web service communication should be based, analogously to the conventional Web, on shared access to persistently published data instead of message passing, space-based middleware introduces a coordination infrastructure by means of which services can exchange information in a time- and reference-decoupled manner. In this article, we introduce the most important approaches in this newly emerging field. Our objective is to analyze and compare the solutions proposed so far, thus giving an account of the current state-of-the-art, and identifying new directions of research and development

    A Panorama of the Semantic EAI Initiatives and the Adoption of Ontologies by these Initiatives

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    Part 8: Ontology-Based InteroperabilityInternational audienceEnterprise Application Integration (EAI) plays an important role by linking heterogeneous applications in order to support business processes within and across organizations. In this context, semantic conflicts often arise and have to be dealt with to ensure successful interoperation. In recent years, many EAI initiatives have aimed at addressing semantic interoperability challenges by employing ontologies in various ways. This paper aims to reveal, through a systematic review method, some aspects associated with semantic EAI initiatives and the adoption of ontologies by them, namely: (i) the business application domains in which these initiatives have been conducted; (ii) the focus of the initiatives regarding integration layers (data, message/service, and process); (iii) the adoption of ontologies by EAI research along the years; and (iv) the characteristics of these ontologies. We provide a panorama of these aspects and identify gaps and trends that may guide further research
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