Ultrastructural characteristics of bovine embryos produced in vitro and vitrified using the cryotop method.

Background: Despite advancements in bovine embryos cryopreservation techniques, challenges remain, warranting further investigation into their impact on embryo morphology and viability so that outcomes can be improved.

Objective: To analyze, through transmission electron microscopy (TEM), in vitro-produced bovine embryos vitrified using the Cryotop method.

Materials And Methods: Groups of embryos were transferred to a stabilization solution (SS) containing 7.

Vagus Nerve Mediated Liver-Brain-Axis Is a Major Regulator of the Metabolic Landscape in the Liver.

The liver serves as a major energetic reservoir for other tissues and its metabolic function is controlled by humoral and neural factors. The vagus nerve innervating the gastrointestinal tract plays an important role in regulating peripheral metabolism and energy expenditure. Although the liver receives vagus nerve fibers, the impact of this circuitry in the regulation of hepatic metabolism is still poorly understood.

Clinical and Therapeutic Characteristics of Stroke and Their Implications on Outcomes: A Multi-center Study in Panama.

Introduction There are no previous studies that assess the time between stroke symptom onset and hospital arrival in Panama. With this study, we aim to describe the epidemiological, clinical, and therapeutic characteristics of the patients to determine whether our data on stroke care and outcomes align with those from other Latin American countries and nations with more advanced healthcare systems. Methods This prospective study included 214 stroke patients admitted to three healthcare centers in Panama between January and December 2023.

[Translated article] Functional evaluation after cortical button fixation for distal biceps ruptures - Is there any difference between manual or non-manual workers?

Background This study aims to compare clinical and functional results after distal biceps tendon repair in manual workers vs. non-manual workers. Methods This is a retrospective comparative study which refers to 57 cases with distal biceps tendon rupture, divided in manual workers (24 elbows) and non-manual workers (33), that were treated by a single incision with cortical button and interference screw fixation.

A Generalist Intracortical Motor Decoder.

Mapping the relationship between neural activity and motor behavior is a central aim of sensorimotor neuroscience and neurotechnology. While most progress to this end has relied on restricting complexity, the advent of foundation models instead proposes integrating a breadth of data as an alternate avenue for broadly advancing downstream modeling. We quantify this premise for motor decoding from intracortical microelectrode data, pretraining an autoregressive Transformer on 2000 hours of neural population spiking activity paired with diverse motor covariates from over 30 monkeys and humans.