Sentences with phrase «as dorsal»

This is known as the dorsal ridge.
Depending on the exact nature of the disease as determined by advanced imaging, some cases of cervical stenosis respond to a surgical procedure known as a dorsal hemilaminectomy.
[11] Researchers have also discovered that it takes more effort for a brain area known as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex to modify emotional responses which are negative in individuals with depression who have poor sleep patterns.
Using real - time cellular imaging to monitor the changes in aged flies» neuron activity before and after learning, Davis and his colleague Ayako Tonoki found structural connectivity defects between a set of neurons known as dorsal paired medial neurons and mushroom body neurons; these defects prevented long - term memories from forming.
The cerebral cortex is the brain's CEO; it regulates higher - order functions such as motor learning and attention through its connections to brain structures such as the dorsal striatum, which is historically divided into just four regions.
«Increased activity in brain areas such as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is associated with an increased experience of social pain.

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The numbers are getting lower each year as more sharks die as by - catch in fishing operations and get hunted for their dorsal fins.
-- and yet I got shingles, AKA a super painful, non-contagious reawakening of the varicella (AKA chickenpox) virus in your dorsal root ganglion (nerve roots) that emerges as an excruciating and somewhat debilitating rash (that can be very dangerous, even deadly, for immunocompromised individuals).
Dr Sara Andreotti, a marine biologist in the Department of Botany and Zoology at SU, have collected over 5000 photographic images of the dorsal fins of white sharks along the South African coastline as part of her research on the population structure of South Africa's great white sharks.
In particular, the researchers found that general intelligence was associated with how efficiently the dorsal attention network is functionally organized used a measure called small - world propensity, which describes how well the neural network is connected within locally clustered regions as well as across globally integrated systems.
Up to 100 million sharks are killed each year by finning: Fishermen cut off a shark's dorsal fin to sell as a delicacy and dump the wounded animal back into the ocean to die.
The areas in the brain linked to this type of decision making were the dorsal portion of the medial prefrontal cortex, which is known to support higher cognitive functions such as planning, and the premotor cortex, which is more involved in the execution of real or imaginary movements.
A team headed by Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich did now reveal which inhibitory neurons in the spinal cord are responsible for this control function: As the study published in the science journal Neuron shows, the control cells are located in the spinal dorsal horn and use the amino acid glycine as an inhibitory messengeAs the study published in the science journal Neuron shows, the control cells are located in the spinal dorsal horn and use the amino acid glycine as an inhibitory messengeas an inhibitory messenger.
Because the dorsal nexus is a place where attention, memory, and emotion all converge, its emergence as the target of ECT explains both the therapy's success and the side effects of memory impairment, the authors write.
Before throwing the lingcod back into its element, he punches a tiny, external plastic tag through the muscle beneath its dorsal fin as a signal to fishermen.
As the water - loving reptiles mature, their faces, dorsal crests, and saillike tails shift from a drab green and gray to vibrant shades of neon purple, cyan, and harlequin.
More disagreeable forms of sin such as wrath and envy enlist the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC).
They photographed and identified whales based on physical marks such as nicks in their dorsal fins.
With these tools in hand, they determined that in Hofstenia, as in planarians, Wnt signaling controls regeneration along the anterior - posterior (head - tail) axis and Bmp - Admp signaling controls regeneration along the dorsal - ventral (back - belly) axis.
B. terrestris: overall view with arrow - shaped safe site on the thorax (A), safe site above the insertion of antennae on the head (B), dorsal thorax (triangular)(C, D), waist (E), abdomen (F, G), and ventral abdomen (H), A. mellifera: overall view with broad safe site on the thorax and narrow safe site on the abdomen (I), safe site between the eyes (J), dorsal thorax (K), waist (L), and abdomen (M), as well as ventral abdomen (N), dorsal thorax and abdominal safe site under full spectrum illumination (O) and UV - illumination (P).
The OTUs of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium marker bacteria displayed as (A) the percentage of the total bacterial population and (B) the number of bacteria per ml in the saliva or per swab of the anterior dorsal surface of the tongue.
Dorsal root ganglion (DRG) explants from embryonic day 15 rat embryos (Charles River Laboratories, Wilmington, MA) were isolated as described by Kleitman et al. (1998).
They were on the head between the antennae and on the dorsal side of the thorax (but mirror - inverted, mainly at the caput - facing end, running as a stripe towards the tegulae and tapering towards the abdomen).
In trance, brain networks displayed notable reconfigurations, including increased connectivity in regions associated with internal thought (the default mode's posterior cingulate cortex) and cognitive control (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and insula), as well as decreased connectivity within the brainstem and auditory pathway.
Using Acks as a neural activity marker, we demonstrated that neural activity in the mushroom bodies, especially in Class II Kenyon cells, one subtype of mushroom body intrinsic neurons, and a restricted area between the dorsal lobes and the optic lobes was increased in the brains of Japanese honeybee workers involved in the formation of a hot defensive bee ball.
In Carcharhiniforms, as compared to, for example, Lamnids, the angle between the dorsal and ventral lobes is small, they have a low aspect ratio, and tails are more flexible.
By using a new mounting technique, we became able to observe Tribolium embryogenesis for up to 50 hours along multiple directions, documenting all major embryogenic events such as gastrulation, germ band elongation, germ band retraction and dorsal closure continuously in the same specimen.
Scientists study dorsal closure, which occurs during the development of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, to gain insights into wound healing in humans, as both processes involve closing a gap in the skin by stretching the surrounding epithelial cells over it.
Two of such modules are the ventral (superior parietal cortex as well as superior and medial frontal gyri) and dorsal (superior parietal cortex, superior and dorsal lateral frontal, and precentral gyri) attention networks identified by previous fMRI analyses [3].
As expected, this construct (minus F56B12) rescued forward but not backward locomotion, and UNC - 7S was strongly expressed as puncta in the nerve ring and ventral nerve cord, but not the dorsal nerve cord (consistent with lack of DA and DB motor neuron expressionAs expected, this construct (minus F56B12) rescued forward but not backward locomotion, and UNC - 7S was strongly expressed as puncta in the nerve ring and ventral nerve cord, but not the dorsal nerve cord (consistent with lack of DA and DB motor neuron expressionas puncta in the nerve ring and ventral nerve cord, but not the dorsal nerve cord (consistent with lack of DA and DB motor neuron expression).
For the simultaneous visualization of hemolymph flow through the heart and ventral abdominal contractions, as well as the quantification of hemolymph flow speeds in the lateral abdomen, mosquitoes were restrained laterally by placing pins: (1) on either side of the cervical membrane such that they crossed dorsally and restrained the mosquito between the pins and the Sylgard; (2) through non-vascular portions of each wing after they had been teased away from the abdominal tergum; (3) between the wings and the anterior portion of the abdomen; (4) over the legs, entering the Sylgard posterior to the third leg pair; and (5) immediately dorsal of the longitudinal midline of the scutum (Figure 1B).
The anterograde (forward) tracing results of retinal projections in the garden warbler demonstrated virtually identical connections between the eye and the brain as known from other lateral - eyed bird species [e.g. 15]--[18]: fibers either projected onto the contralateral optic tectum (part of the tectofugal system), to the nucleus of the basal optic root (part of the accessory pathway)(data not shown) or curved into the thalamus innervating the dorsal geniculate complex (Gld, for details, see Fig. 1C, 2A, D).
The adult female skull and skeleton came to rest on their dorsal surfaces before burial, as is typical for archaeocetes.
Given findings linking subjective ratings of desire to dorsal anterior cingulate activation, psychophysiological interaction analysis was conducted with dorsal cingulate as the seed region (coordinates x y z = 0 8 38 mm, radius = 10 mm) contrasting explicit — exciting videos.
Alternative methods currently include dorsal fin tags of tiger sharks living off Hawaii, as well as the highly controversial culling programmes.
Remember to strength the back with the dorsal raise exercise or the back extension as a complement to sit ups so that you create a strong, balanced core.
Recent investigations have also found attachments originating from the gluteus medius fascia, ilium, thoracolumbar fascia, erector spinae aponeurosis, dorsal sacroiliac and sacrotuberous ligaments, as well as the traditional attachments at the sacrum and coccyx (Barker et al. 2014).
It can only be done over one disk space and involves removing the dorsal spinous process and lamina as shown below.
The joints continue to develop normally as long as full congruity is maintained between the acetabulum and the femoral head... The acetabular rims are stimulated to grow by mild traction applied by the joint capsule and gluteal muscles attached along their dorsal borders, and from pressure by the femoral heads upon the articular surfaces... The morphologic characteristics of the complex hip structure show that biomechanical behavior is the prime influence in the growth of this joint.»
As we continue down the thoracic vertebrae you can visualize how high their dorsal spinal processes are.
The OFA, as well as most hip registries around the world, still rely on the old leg - extended ventro - dorsal view, which unnaturally positions the dog and artificially tightens the hip joint capsule.
Consequently the rostral forebrain is often absent and there are no transverse or dorsal images of the cranium meaning that many measurements are not possible; for example, accurate determination of the skull and parenchyma volume as described in other studies [6]--[9], [30], [39], [42].
The center of the circle (F) was used as a vertex and the occipital circle could also be used as an assessment of the size of the caudal cranial fossa by measuring the distance and angulation of the point where the circle bisected to the dorsal cerebellum (E).
As a compensatory change, there appears to be an increased height of the rostral cranial cavity with lengthening of the dorsal cranial vault and considerable reorganization of the brain parenchyma including ventral deviation of the olfactory bulbs and rostral invagination of the cerebellum under the occipital lobes.
«Remora front dorsal fins have evolved to enable them to adhere by suction to smooth surfaces and they spend their lives clinging to a host animal such as a whale, turtle, shark or ray.
The interactive dolphin program also includes the dorsal tow, where two dolphins will pull you across the water as you hold on to their dorsal fins.
The program also includes the dorsal tow, where you will hold on to the dolphin's fins as he pulls you across the water.
You will be thrilled to enjoy a dorsal tow as well as the exhilarating foot push.
You will do the dorsal tow, where you will hold on to the dolphin's fins as he pulls you across the water.
«Frogfishes, members of the group known as anglerfishes, are usually provided with a «fishing pole,» tipped with a fleshy «bait,» located on the snout and derived from the first dorsal fin spine.
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