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Int J Mol Sci ; 21(3)2020 Feb 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32033098

RESUMO

Salmonella typhimurium (S. typhimurium) is a common foodborne pathogen that not only causes diseases and contaminates food, but also causes considerable economic losses. Therefore, it is necessary to find effective and feasible methods to control S. typhimurium. In this study, changes in S. typhimurium after treatment with benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC) were detected by transcriptomics to explore the antibacterial effect of BITC at subinhibitory concentration. The results showed that, in contrast to the control group (SC), the BITC-treated group (SQ_BITC) had 197 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), of which 115 were downregulated and 82 were upregulated. We screened out eight significantly downregulated virulence-related genes and verified gene expression by quantitative Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR). We also selected motility and biofilm formation to observe the effects of BITC on the other virulence related factors of S. typhimurium. The results showed that both swimming and swarming were significantly inhibited. BITC also had a significant inhibitory effect on biofilm formation, and showed an effect on bacterial morphology. These results will be helpful for understanding the mechanism of the antibacterial action of BITC against S. typhimurium and other foodborne pathogens.


Assuntos
Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Biofilmes/efeitos dos fármacos , Isotiocianatos/farmacologia , Salmonella typhimurium/efeitos dos fármacos , Transcriptoma/efeitos dos fármacos , Transcriptoma/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/métodos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana/métodos , Salmonella typhimurium/genética , Virulência/efeitos dos fármacos , Virulência/genética , Fatores de Virulência/genética
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Conscious Cogn ; 74: 102780, 2019 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31302585

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Perceptual learning of motion discrimination has long been believed to be motion direction specific. However, recent studies using a double-training paradigm, in which the to-be-transferred condition was experienced through practicing an irrelevant task, found that perceptual learning in various visual tasks, including motion direction discrimination, can transfer completely to new conditions. This transfer occurred when the transfer stimulus was subconsciously presented, or when top-down attention was allocated to the transfer stimulus (which was absent). In the current study, observers were exposed subconsciously, or directed top-down attention, to the transfer motion direction, either simultaneously or successively with training. Data showed that motion direction learning transferred to the transfer direction, and suggest that motion direction learning specificity may result from under-activations of untrained visual neurons due to insufficient bottom-up stimulation and/or lack of top-down attention during training. These results shed new light on the neural mechanisms underlying motion perceptual learning and provide a constraint for models of motion perceptual learning.


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Atenção/fisiologia , Aprendizagem por Discriminação/fisiologia , Percepção de Movimento/fisiologia , Prática Psicológica , Percepção Espacial/fisiologia , Transferência de Experiência/fisiologia , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Adulto Jovem
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Molecules ; 24(2)2019 Jan 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30654581

RESUMO

The influence of 11 kinds of oxygen-containing sulfur flavor molecules was examined on ß-carotene stability under UVA irradiation in ethanol system. Both the effects of sulfides on dynamic degradation of ß-carotene and the relation between structure and effect were investigated. The oxidation products of ß-carotene accelerated by sulfides under UVA irradiation were also identified. The results indicated that the disulfides had more obvious accelerative effects on the photodegradation of ß-carotene than mono sulfides. The degradation of ß-carotene after methyl (2-methyl-3-furyl) disulfide (MMFDS), methyl furfuryl disulfide (MFDS) and bis(2-methyl-3-furyl) disulfide (BMFDS) exposure followed first-order kinetics. Furan-containing sulfides such as MMFDS and BMFDS showed more pronounced accelerative effects than their corresponding isomers. The oxidation products were identified as 13-cis-ß-carotene, 9,13-di-cis-ß-carotene and all-trans-5,6-epoxy-ß-carotene. These results suggest that both the sulfur atom numbers and the furan group in oxygen-containing sulfides play a critical role in the photooxidation of ß-carotene.


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Aromatizantes/química , Oxigênio/química , Enxofre/química , beta Caroteno/química , Indústria Alimentícia , Cinética , Estrutura Molecular , Oxirredução , Fotólise , Sulfetos/química , Raios Ultravioleta
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Molecules ; 24(4)2019 Feb 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30791538

RESUMO

Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from seafood is a pathogenic microorganism that leads to several acute diseases that are harmful to our health and is frequently transmitted by food. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the control and suppression of this pathogen. In this paper, transcriptional analysis was used to determine the effect of treatment with benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC) extracted from cruciferous vegetables on V. parahaemolyticus and to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the response to BITC. Treatment with BITC resulted in 332 differentially expressed genes, among which 137 genes were downregulated, while 195 genes were upregulated. Moreover, six differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in RNA sequencing studies were further verified by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Genes found to regulate virulence encoded an l-threonine 3-dehydrogenase, a GGDEF family protein, the outer membrane protein OmpV, a flagellum-specific adenosine triphosphate synthase, TolQ protein and VirK protein. Hence, the results allow us to speculate that BITC may be an effective control strategy for inhibiting microorganisms growing in foods.


Assuntos
Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Isotiocianatos/farmacologia , Transcriptoma , Vibrio parahaemolyticus/efeitos dos fármacos , Vibrio parahaemolyticus/genética , Virulência/genética , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Biologia Computacional/métodos , Ontologia Genética , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Vibrioses/microbiologia , Vibrio parahaemolyticus/patogenicidade , Fatores de Virulência/genética
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Behav Res Methods ; 50(4): 1496-1502, 2018 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29532446

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Because they were used for decades to present visual stimuli in psychophysical and psychophysiological studies, cathode ray tubes (CRTs) used to be the gold standard for stimulus presentation in vision research. Recently, as CRTs have become increasingly rare in the market, researchers have started using various types of liquid-crystal display (LCD) monitors as a replacement for CRTs. However, LCDs are typically not cost-effective when used in vision research and often cannot reach the full capacity of a high refresh rate. In this study we measured the temporal and spatial characteristics of a consumer-grade LCD, and the results suggested that a consumer-grade LCD can successfully meet all the technical demands in vision research. The tested LCD, working in a flash style like that of CRTs, demonstrated perfect consistency for initial latencies across locations, yet showed poor spatial uniformity and sluggishness in reaching the requested luminance within the first frame. After these drawbacks were addressed through software corrections, the candidate monitor showed performance comparable or superior to that of CRTs in terms of both spatial and temporal homogeneity. The proposed solution can be used as a replacement for CRTs in vision research.


Assuntos
Tubo de Raio Catódico , Apresentação de Dados/normas , Desenho de Equipamento , Cristais Líquidos , Estimulação Luminosa , Humanos , Estimulação Luminosa/instrumentação , Estimulação Luminosa/métodos , Psicofísica , Psicofisiologia , Software , Análise Espaço-Temporal , Visão Ocular/fisiologia
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Sensors (Basel) ; 17(4)2017 Apr 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28379194

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This study aimed to identify N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) produced by Hafnia alvei H4, which was isolated from spoiled instant sea cucumber, and to investigate the effect of AHLs on biofilm formation. Two biosensor strains, Chromobacterium violaceum CV026 and Agrobacterium tumefaciens KYC55, were used to detect the quorum sensing (QS) activity of H. alvei H4 and to confirm the existence of AHL-mediated QS system. Thin layer chromatography (TLC) and high resolution triple quadrupole liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) analysis of the AHLs extracted from the culture supernatant of H. alvei H4 revealed the existence of at least three AHLs: N-hexanoyl-l-homoserine lactone (C6-HSL), N-(3-oxo-octanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone (3-oxo-C8-HSL), and N-butyryl-l-homoserine lactone (C4-HSL). This is the first report of the production of C4-HSL by H. alvei. In order to determine the relationship between the production of AHL by H. alvei H4 and bacterial growth, the ß-galactosidase assay was employed to monitor AHL activity during a 48-h growth phase. AHLs production reached a maximum level of 134.6 Miller unites at late log phase (after 18 h) and then decreased to a stable level of about 100 Miller unites. AHL production and bacterial growth displayed a similar trend, suggesting that growth of H. alvei H4 might be regulated by QS. The effect of AHLs on biofilm formation of H. alvei H4 was investigated by adding exogenous AHLs (C4-HSL, C6-HSL and 3-oxo-C8-HSL) to H. alvei H4 culture. Biofilm formation was significantly promoted (p < 0.05) by 5 and 10 µM C6-HSL, inhibited (p < 0.05) by C4-HSL (5 and 10 µM) and 5 µM 3-oxo-C8-HSL, suggesting that QS may have a regulatory role in the biofilm formation of H. alvei H4.


Assuntos
Pepinos-do-Mar , 4-Butirolactona/análogos & derivados , Acil-Butirolactonas , Animais , Hafnia alvei , Percepção de Quorum
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J Vis ; 15(10): 8, 2015.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26370168

RESUMO

The brain site of perceptual learning has been frequently debated. Recent psychophysical evidence for complete learning transfer to new retinal locations and orientations/directions suggests that perceptual learning may mainly occur in high-level brain areas. Contradictorily, ERP C1 changes associated with perceptual learning are cited as evidence for training-induced plasticity in the early visual cortex. However, C1 can be top-down modulated, which suggests the possibility that C1 changes may result from top-down modulation of the early visual cortex by high-level perceptual learning. To single out the potential top-down impact, we trained observers with a peripheral orientation discrimination task and measured C1 changes at an untrained diagonal quadrant location where learning transfer was previously known to be significant. Our assumption was that any C1 changes at this untrained location would indicate top-down modulation of the early visual cortex, rather than plasticity in the early visual cortex. The expected learning transfer was indeed accompanied with significant C1 changes. Moreover, C1 changes were absent in an untrained shape discrimination task with the same stimuli. We conclude that ERP C1 can be top-down modulated in a task-specific manner by high-level perceptual learning, so that C1 changes may not necessarily indicate plasticity in the early visual cortex. Moreover, learning transfer and associated C1 changes may indicate that learning-based top-down modulation can be remapped to early visual cortical neurons at untrained locations to enable learning transfer.


Assuntos
Potenciais Evocados Visuais/fisiologia , Orientação/fisiologia , Retina/fisiologia , Córtex Visual/fisiologia , Percepção Visual/fisiologia , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Aprendizagem/fisiologia , Masculino , Plasticidade Neuronal/fisiologia , Psicofísica , Transferência de Experiência , Adulto Jovem
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Front Psychol ; 15: 1350358, 2024.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38911956

RESUMO

Introduction: Affective decision-making is a prominent topic in consumer psychology research, with its core assumption being that consumers tend to purchase brands and commodities they like. However, the reasons behind why we develop emotional responses of liking or disliking toward certain commodities, as well as what the underlying neural mechanisms are, remain largely unknown. Methods: This study utilized the S1-S2 paradigm in an experiment wherein S1 presented 12 types of commodities and S2 displayed 48 distinct colored squares. Participants were instructed to assess whether they "Like" or "Dislike" the commodity in S1, which was colored with the S2 color. Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings were obtained during the reaction process and subsequently analyzed to examine the components of S2-induced event-related potentials (ERPs). Results: The analysis revealed that S2 elicited a significant N270 in the prefrontal scalp area under both the "Like" and "Dislike" conditions. Interestingly, the amplitude of the N270 was significantly higher during the "Dislike" condition compared to the "Like" condition. Discussion: The N270 component was shown to reflect the conflict in physical attributes between S1 and S2, as well as the conflict between commodity and color. This highlights the potential utility of this component as an objective EEG indicator of consumer commodity color preferences in future marketing research.

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J Hazard Mater ; 465: 133160, 2024 Mar 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38064948

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Composite aerogels, formed by the combination of nanoscale polymers and highly efficient adsorbents, offer the potential to deploy adsorbent distinct separation properties into a processable matrix. This paper presents a method for the fabrication of low energy bio-aerogels with high ductility, excellent wet strength and favorable heat resistance, based on cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) bound by calcium carbonate particles (CaCO3) via a simple process of ice induction, cross-linking during freezing and freeze-drying. Due to induced defects, two-dimensional metal-organic layers (MOLs) were rich in mesoporous structure and embedded in the aerogel (AGCa-MOL), which exhibited a powerful adsorption capacity. AGCa-MOL could take full advantage of their hierarchical pores and available surface area to obtain high adsorption capacity (0.694-5.470 µmol/g) and rapid adsorption kinetics (5 min) for 14 heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs). Moreover, the CaCO3 particles and MOLs gave the AGCa-MOL excellent thermal stability, so that it could maintain excellent adsorption capacity at a high temperature (100 °C) and be applied as an adsorbent to remove HAAs in the boiling marinade. The intrinsic potential of composite aerogels was revealed due to the synergistic properties of the various components in the composite aerogel.

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Int J Biol Macromol ; 267(Pt 1): 131584, 2024 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38615856

RESUMO

Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) are the main carcinogens produced during thermal processing of protein-rich foods. In this paper, a composite aerogel (TOCNFCa) with a stabilized dual-network structure was prepared via a template for the in-situ synthesis of UiO-66 on cellulose for the adsorption of HAAs in food. The dual-network structure of TOCNFCa provides the composite aerogel with excellent wet strength, maintaining excellent compressive properties. With the in-situ grown UiO-66 content up to 71.89 wt%, the hierarchical porosity endowed TOCNFCa@UiO-66 with the ability to rapidly adsorb HAAs molecules with high capacity (1.44-5.82 µmol/g). Based on excellent thermal stability, adsorption capacity and anti-interference, TOCNFCa@UiO-66 achieved satisfactory recoveries of HAAs in the boiled marinade, which is faster and more economical than the conventional SPE method. Moreover, TOCNFCa@UiO-66 could maintain 84.55 % of the initial adsorption capacity after 5 times of reuse.


Assuntos
Aminas , Celulose , Compostos Heterocíclicos , Estruturas Metalorgânicas , Nanofibras , Ácidos Ftálicos , Celulose/química , Adsorção , Aminas/química , Nanofibras/química , Estruturas Metalorgânicas/química , Compostos Heterocíclicos/química , Géis/química , Porosidade
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Int J Biol Macromol ; 278(Pt 2): 134683, 2024 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39147345

RESUMO

In this study, the active food packaging film were prepared using hydroxypropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride chitosan with different substitution sites (O-HACC & N-HACC) and dialdehyde chitosan (DCS) grafted with protocatechuic acid (PA). To explore the effect of chitosan quaternization positions and crosslinking approaches on the slow-release and antibacterial properties, the double-crosslinked film were fabricated through the self-coupling reaction of PA and Schiff base reaction between amino groups on HACC and aldehyde groups on DCS. The HACC/DCS-based film exhibited stable porous three-dimensional networks with high nisin loading ratios (>90 %). With the participation of the catechol-catechol structure, the dense double-crosslinked film effectively restricted the diffusion of the water molecules, resulting in excellent slow-release properties fitting with the Korsmeyer-Peppas kinetic model. Especially, O-HACC/PA-g-DCS film, which had more reaction sites for Schiff base crosslinking than N-HACC, exhibited the equilibrium swelling ratio of 800 % at 60 h and could sustainably release nisin via non-Fickian diffusion behavior until 48 h. Moreover, the HACC/DCS-based double-crosslinked film performed good long-time antibacterial activity and preservation effects on salmon. On the 10th day of storage, the TVBN of N-HACC/PA-g-DCS and O-HACC/PA-g-DCS groups were only 28.26 ± 1.93 and 29.06 ± 1.68 mg/100 g and still lower than the thresholds.


Assuntos
Antibacterianos , Quitosana , Compostos de Amônio Quaternário , Quitosana/química , Quitosana/análogos & derivados , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Antibacterianos/química , Compostos de Amônio Quaternário/química , Compostos de Amônio Quaternário/farmacologia , Embalagem de Alimentos/métodos , Nisina/química , Nisina/farmacologia , Preparações de Ação Retardada , Hidroxibenzoatos/química , Hidroxibenzoatos/farmacologia , Cinética , Bases de Schiff/química , Liberação Controlada de Fármacos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Staphylococcus aureus/efeitos dos fármacos
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Food Chem ; 449: 139225, 2024 Aug 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38599107

RESUMO

Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs), arising as chemical derivatives during the high-temperature culinary treatment of proteinaceous comestibles, exhibit notable carcinogenic potential. In this paper, a composite aerogel (AGD-UiO-66) with high-capacity and fast adsorption of HAAs was made with anchoring defective UiO-66 (D-UiO-66) mediated by lauric acid on the backbone of cellulose nanofibers (CNF). AGD-UiO-66 with hierarchical porosity reduced the mass transfer efficiency for the adsorption of HAAs and achieved high adsorption amount (0.84-1.05 µmol/g) and fast adsorption (15 min). The isothermal adsorption model demonstrated that AGD-UiO-66 belonged to a multilayer adsorption mechanism for HAAs. Furthermore, AGD-UiO-66 was successfully used to adsorb 12 HAAs in different food (roasted beef, roasted pork, roasted salmon and marinade) with high recoveries of 94.65%-104.43%. The intrinsic potential of AGD-UiO-66 demonstrated that it could be widely applicable to the adsorption of HAAs in foods.


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Aminas , Celulose , Nanocompostos , Adsorção , Aminas/química , Celulose/química , Animais , Nanocompostos/química , Compostos Heterocíclicos/química , Bovinos , Suínos , Salmão , Estruturas Metalorgânicas/química , Carne/análise , Contaminação de Alimentos/análise , Géis/química
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Int J Biol Macromol ; 276(Pt 1): 133689, 2024 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38971272

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Benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC) is a naturally active bacteriostatic substance and κ-carrageenan (KC) is a good film-forming substrate. In the present study, a nanoemulsion incorporating BITC was fabricated with a particle size of 224.1 nm and an encapsulation efficiency of 69.2 %. Subsequently, the acquired BITC nanoemulsion (BITC-NE) was incorporated into the KC-based film, and the light transmittance of the prepared composite films was lower than that of the pure KC film. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy revealed that BITC-NE was compatible with the KC matrix. BITC-NE incorporation enhanced the tensile strength of the KC-based films by 33.7 %, decreased the elongation at break by 33.8 %, decreased the water vapor permeability by 60.1 %, increased the maximum thermal degradation temperature by 48.8 %, and decreased the oxygen permeability by 42 % (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the composite films showed enhanced antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhimurium, and Pseudomonas fluorescens. The developed KC-based composite films were applied to wrap raw beef, which significantly delayed the increase in total viable count, total volatile base nitrogen content, and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances, and prolonged the shelf-life of the raw beef by up to 10 days. These results indicated that the composite films prepared by incorporating BITC nanoemulsions into KC matrices have great antimicrobial application potential.


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Antibacterianos , Carragenina , Emulsões , Isotiocianatos , Carragenina/química , Carragenina/farmacologia , Isotiocianatos/química , Isotiocianatos/farmacologia , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Antibacterianos/química , Animais , Permeabilidade , Conservação de Alimentos/métodos , Bovinos , Carne Vermelha , Embalagem de Alimentos/métodos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Espectroscopia de Infravermelho com Transformada de Fourier , Resistência à Tração
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Eur J Neurosci ; 38(12): 3758-67, 2013 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24118649

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Visual processing takes place in both retinotopic and spatiotopic frames of reference. Whereas visual perceptual learning is usually specific to the trained retinotopic location, our recent study has shown spatiotopic specificity of learning in motion direction discrimination. To explore the mechanisms underlying spatiotopic processing and learning, and to examine whether similar mechanisms also exist in visual form processing, we trained human subjects to discriminate an orientation difference between two successively displayed stimuli, with a gaze shift in between to manipulate their positional relation in the spatiotopic frame of reference without changing their retinal locations. Training resulted in better orientation discriminability for the trained than for the untrained spatial relation of the two stimuli. This learning-induced spatiotopic preference was seen only at the trained retinal location and orientation, suggesting experience-dependent spatiotopic form processing directly based on a retinotopic map. Moreover, a similar but weaker learning-induced spatiotopic preference was still present even if the first stimulus was rendered irrelevant to the orientation discrimination task by having the subjects judge the orientation of the second stimulus relative to its mean orientation in a block of trials. However, if the first stimulus was absent, and thus no attention was captured before the gaze shift, the learning produced no significant spatiotopic preference, suggesting an important role of attentional remapping in spatiotopic processing and learning. Taken together, our results suggest that spatiotopic visual representation can be mediated by interactions between retinotopic processing and attentional remapping, and can be modified by perceptual training.


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Atenção , Aprendizagem por Discriminação , Percepção de Forma , Visão Ocular , Córtex Visual/fisiologia , Movimentos Oculares , Humanos , Retina/fisiologia , Adulto Jovem
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J Vis ; 13(4): 19, 2013 Mar 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23532907

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Our recent studies demonstrate that perceptual learning can transfer completely to untrained retinal locations upon proper training procedures, which suggests perceptual learning being a high-level learning process occurring beyond the retinotopic visual areas. We propose that whether learning is location specific depends on the functional connections between high-level learning and the sensory inputs corresponding to the untrained retinal locations. These inputs may be suppressed by intensive training and focused (spatial) attention on the trained location to obstruct learning transfer. Here we present event-related potential (ERP) evidence that Vernier perceptual learning and its transfer are associated with P1 reduction and N1 enhancement. However, location specificity is only associated with N1 suppression corresponding to the untrained retinal location. These results are consistent with our proposal that the blockage of top-down influences or functional connections and the inhibition of visual inputs corresponding to untrained locations may contribute to location specificity in perceptual learning.


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Aprendizagem por Discriminação/fisiologia , Potenciais Evocados/fisiologia , Percepção Visual/fisiologia , Adulto , Análise de Variância , Eletroencefalografia , Feminino , Humanos , Aprendizagem/fisiologia , Masculino , Estimulação Luminosa/métodos , Córtex Visual/fisiologia , Adulto Jovem
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Spine (Phila Pa 1976) ; 48(18): 1308-1316, 2023 Sep 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36856549

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STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective observational study. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to investigate factors associated with cervical kyphosis after laminoplasty. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Many factors are reportedly associated with the deterioration of cervical curvature after laminoplasty, including cervical lordosis angle, cervical spine range of motion (ROM), T1 slope, and C2-C7 sagittal vertical axis. Postlaminoplasty kyphosis or deterioration of cervical curvature is likely caused by multiple factors. There is currently no consensus on these issues. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data of patients treated with laminoplasty for degenerative cervical myelopathy at our institution during 2008-2018 were reviewed. The following variables were collected for each patient: age and sex; follow-up time; surgery involving C3 (yes or no); surgery involving C7 (yes or no); distribution of segments operated on; number of laminae operated on; flexion, extension, and total ROM; cervical lordotic angle; longitudinal distance index; curvature index; C2-C7 sagittal vertical axis; and T1 slope. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess possible risk factors for postoperative kyphosis. Receiver operating characteristic curves were constructed to determine the cutoff values of risk factors. RESULTS: The study cohort comprised 151 patients. Logistic regression analysis indicated that sex, number of laminae operated on, and preoperative extension ROM were significantly associated with postoperative cervical kyphosis ( P <0.05). There was significantly greater postoperative kyphosis in women than in men; the more segments operated on, the greater the risk of postoperative kyphosis, and the larger the preoperative extension ROM, the lower the risk of postlaminoplasty kyphosis. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the cutoff value for preoperative extension ROM is 22.1°. CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative extension ROM may be associated with the development of postoperative kyphosis. The cutoff value of preoperative extension ROM that suggested the prospect of postoperative kyphosis in our sample was 22.1°.


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Cifose , Laminoplastia , Lordose , Doenças da Medula Espinal , Masculino , Humanos , Feminino , Laminoplastia/efeitos adversos , Laminoplastia/métodos , Cifose/diagnóstico por imagem , Cifose/etiologia , Cifose/cirurgia , Lordose/cirurgia , Doenças da Medula Espinal/cirurgia , Vértebras Cervicais/diagnóstico por imagem , Vértebras Cervicais/cirurgia , Estudos Retrospectivos , Amplitude de Movimento Articular , Resultado do Tratamento
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Food Chem ; 428: 136775, 2023 Dec 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37423111

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To develop food packaging with good antibacterial activity and mechanical performance, four amino carboxymethyl chitosan (ACC)//dialdehyde starch (DAS) /polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films were prepared by Schiff base and hydrogen bond interactions for efficient loading and release of ε-polylysine (ε-PL). The effects of the Schiff base reaction on the physicochemical properties of the films were explored based on the different aldehyde group contents in DAS. The ACC//DAS4/PVA film exhibited a tensile strength of 62.5 MPa, and the water vapor and oxygen permeability was 8.77 × 10-3·g·mm/m2·d·kPa and 0.15 × 103·cm3·mm/m2·d, respectively. By leveraging the Schiff base reaction, the film swelling properties were improved by adjusting the cross-link density, mesh size, and molecular mass between the cross-links. The ACC//DAS4/PVA film could efficiently load ε-PL with a value of 98.44% and long-term release in a food simulant of 10% ethanol at 25 °C for 120 min. Moreover, the ACC-ε-PL//DAS4/PVA film was successfully used for salmon preservation.


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Quitosana , Quitosana/química , Polivinil , Álcool de Polivinil/química , Polilisina/química , Bases de Schiff , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Embalagem de Alimentos
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J Vis ; 12(7)2012 Jul 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22782439

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Multiletter identification studies often find correctly identified letters being reported in wrong positions. However, how position uncertainty impacts crowding in peripheral vision is not fully understood. The observation of a flanker being reported as the central target cannot be taken as unequivocal evidence for position misperception because the observers could be biased to report a more identifiable flanker when failing to identify the central target. In addition, it has never been reported whether a correctly identified central target can be perceived at a flanker position under crowding. Empirical investigation into this possibility holds the key to demonstrating letter-level position uncertainty in crowding, because the position errors of the least identifiable central target cannot be attributed to response bias. We asked normally-sighted observers to report either the central target of a trigram (partial report) or all three characters (whole report). The results showed that, for radially arranged trigrams, the rate of reporting the central target regardless of the reported position in the whole report was significantly higher than the partial report rate, and the extra target reports mostly ended up in flanker positions. Error analysis indicated that target-flanker position swapping and misalignment (lateral shift of the target and one flanker) underlay this target misplacement. Our results thus establish target misplacement as a source of crowding errors and ascertain the role of letter-level position uncertainty in crowding.


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Aglomeração , Discriminação Psicológica/fisiologia , Percepção de Forma/fisiologia , Reconhecimento Visual de Modelos/fisiologia , Estimulação Luminosa/métodos , Adulto , Movimentos Oculares/fisiologia , Área de Dependência-Independência , Humanos , Psicofísica , Campos Visuais/fisiologia , Adulto Jovem
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Carbohydr Polym ; 285: 119234, 2022 Jun 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35287858

RESUMO

To improve the mechanical and barrier properties of cellulose and chitosan (CS) and to allow the application of volatile antibacterial benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC) in active packaging, a double-layer nanocomposite film was prepared. Cellulose nanofibers (CNF) were crosslinked with CS via genipin to build the substrate. Quaternized cellulose nanocrystals (QCNC) were synthesized for carrying BITC as the coating material. By the layer-by-layer self-assembly approach, CS-CNF/QCNC-BITC film was fabricated. This film possessed the tensile strength of 33.75 MPa, low permeabilities of oxygen (6.9 × 10-17 m3/s·m·Pa) and moisture (1.2 × 10-11 g/s·m·Pa), and good antibacterial activity with the inhibition zone diameters of 4.9, 4.2 and 2.7 cm against Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium and Staphylococcus aureus. The total viable count, total volatile basic nitrogen and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances of the chicken wrapped CS-CNF/QCNC-BITC were only 4.4 log CFU/g, 17.7 mg/100 g and 0.44 mg/kg at 14 days, indicating a potential application of CS-CNF/QCNC-BITC for food packaging.


Assuntos
Quitosana , Nanocompostos , Nanofibras , Antibacterianos/química , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Celulose/química , Quitosana/química , Embalagem de Alimentos , Isotiocianatos , Nanocompostos/química , Nanofibras/química
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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces ; 14(25): 29131-29143, 2022 Jun 29.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35652293

RESUMO

This work overcomes the long-standing challenge of cumbersome pretreatment methods in the detection of heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs). A UiO-66/nanocellulose composite aerogel (CMC-CNC-UiO-66) with layered pores and low density prepared by a self-cross-linking method is applied as a simple and rapid adsorbent for capturing 14 HAAs via strong electrostatic interactions, van der Waals force, and the steric effect. The adsorption capacity of CMC-CNC-UiO-66 to 14 HAAs reached 98.00-188.00 nmol/mg at equilibrium within 10 min. The adsorption and desorption abilities of CMC-CNC-UiO-66 were retained with values of 93.36 and 97.34% after two cycles. In the meantime, the kinetics study demonstrated the chemisorption between HAA molecules and CMC-CNC-UiO-66 due to the excellent agreement with the pseudo-second-order adsorption models. The fit with the Freundlich isotherm models suggested a multilayer adsorption mechanism between HAA molecules and materials with heterogeneous surfaces. Moreover, coupled with the ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry detection, the CMC-CNC-UiO-66 extraction process can be completed with a high average recovery ranging from 86.68 to 115.33%, indicating a potential application of CMC-CNC-UiO-66 in HAA adsorption for further quantitative analysis.

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