Publications by authors named "Akilandeswari Balasubramanian"
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- Tracking live cells in various imaging scenarios is essential for studying biological processes, but it’s challenging in complex tissues due to ambiguous segmentation.
- Ultrack is a new cell-tracking method that integrates multiple segmentation algorithms and uses temporal consistency to improve tracking accuracy, especially in crowded environments.
- The method has been tested on large datasets from different organisms and outperforms existing techniques, and it's available as a free Python package with plugins for easy use in research settings.
Dynamic reconfiguration of circuit function subserves the flexibility of innate behaviors tuned to physiological states. Internal energy stores adaptively regulate feeding-associated behaviors and integrate opposing hunger and satiety signals at the level of neural circuits. Across vertebrate lineages, the neuropeptides cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) and neuropeptide Y (NPY) have potent anorexic and orexic functions, respectively, and show energy-state-dependent expression in interoceptive neurons.
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