He, Wenli Yao, Chengliang Zhao, Zihan Rong, Cunren Zhang, Yanjie Li, Bing Wu, Xiuping
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Frontiers in Materials
Lithium disilicate (Li2Si2O5, referred as LD) glass ceramics with unique aesthetic properties are ideal dental restorative materials. However, their applications are limited due to the lower flexural strength than polycrystalline ceramics. Herein, micro-nano-LD whiskers were utilized to facilitate the formation of crystallization sites and further ...
Simanaviciute, Ugne Brown, Richard E Wong, Aimee Fertan, Emre Grant, Robyn A
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Genes, brain, and behavior
Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent form of dementia in elderly people. The triple transgenic (3xTg-AD) mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease is important in biomedical research as these mice develop both neuropathological and behavioural phenotypes. However, their behavioural phenotype is variable, with findings depending on the specific task, a...
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Neural activity exhibits oscillations, bursts, and resonance, enhancing responsiveness at preferential frequencies. For example, theta-frequency bursting and resonance in granule cells facilitate synaptic transmission and plasticity mechanisms at the input stage of the cerebellar cortex. However, whether theta-frequency bursting of Purkinje cells i...
Adachi, Taiki Naito, Yasuhiko Robinson, Patrick W. Costa, Daniel P. Hückstädt, Luis A. Holser, Rachel R. Iwasaki, Wataru Takahashi, Akinori
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The darkness of the deep ocean limits the vision of diving predators, except when prey emit bioluminescence. It is hypothesized that deep-diving seals rely on highly developed whiskers to locate their prey. However, if and how seals use their whiskers while foraging in natural conditions remains unknown. We used animal-borne tags to show that free-...
Cai, Linbi Yang, Jenq-Wei Wang, Chia-Fang Chou, Shen-Ju Luhmann, Heiko J Karayannis, Theofanis
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The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
The whiskers of rodents are a key sensory organ that provides critical tactile information for animal navigation and object exploration throughout life. Previous work has explored the developmental sensory-driven activation of the primary sensory cortex processing whisker information (wS1), also called barrel cortex. This body of work has shown tha...
Adachi, Taiki Naito, Yasuhiko Robinson, Patrick W Costa, Daniel P Hückstädt, Luis A Holser, Rachel R Iwasaki, Wataru Takahashi, Akinori
The darkness of the deep ocean limits the vision of diving predators, except when prey emit bioluminescence. It is hypothesized that deep-diving seals rely on highly developed whiskers to locate their prey. However, if and how seals use their whiskers while foraging in natural conditions remains unknown. We used animal-borne tags to show that free-...
Saito, Yoshito Maruyama, Kazuhiro Oda, Kazuhito Nagao, Masanori Adachi, Shintaro Terashima, Kensei Tanaka, Isao Takano, Yoshihiko
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Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Substitution of Y for Ca in the Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ (Bi-2212) system is known to effectively change the hole carrier density. In this paper, we report the growth and characterization of Y-substituted Bi-2212 whisker crystals. The evaluated Y content in the whiskers increased as we increased the nominal Y-ratio in the Bi–Sr–Ca–Y–Cu–Te precursor. The X-r...
Starostin, Eugene L Dougill, Gary Grant, Robyn A Goss, Victor G A
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Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
Of all mammalian vibrissae, those of certain species of pinnipeds are exceptional. Researchers believe that their curious undulating form evolved for hydrodynamic detection. Our understanding of how these whiskers work depends on a geometrical model that captures the crucial pertinent features of the natural vibrissae including its tapering and cur...
Mynett, Natasha Mossman, Hannah L Huettner, Tim Grant, Robyn A
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Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007)
Most cetaceans are born with vibrissae but they can be lost or reduced in adulthood, especially in odontocetes. Despite this, some species of odontocetes have been found to have functioning vibrissal follicles (including the follicle itself and any remaining vibrissal hair shaft) that play a role in mechanoreception, proprioception and electrorecep...
Reichmuth, Colleen Casey, Caroline Friedlaender, Ari
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Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007)
The sense of touch in the largest marine mammals is poorly understood. While mysticetes possess specialized sensory hairs that are present through adulthood, descriptions of these structures are based almost entirely on examination of tissues in post-mortem individuals. Sensory hairs have rarely been observed and described in living whales. We phot...
