This study evaluates the antibacterial and antifungal effects of ethanol extracts from L. derived from freshly harvested plant biomass, including stems, leaves, flowers, and roots. The extract was analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to determine its antimicrobial activity against phytopathogenic bacteria and fungi.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCa-activated KCa3.1 channels are known to contribute to slow afterhyperpolarization in pyramidal neurons of several brain areas, while Ca-permeable AMPA receptors (CP-AMPARs) may provide a subthreshold source of Ca elevation in the cytoplasm. The functionality of these two types of channels has also been shown to be altered by epileptic disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCADENCE is an open Python 3-written neuroinformatics tool with Qt6 graphic user interface for supervised calcium events detection. In neuronal ensembles recording during calcium imaging experiments, the output of instruments such as Celena X, Zeiss LSM 5 Live confocal microscope and Miniscope is a movie showing flashing cells somata. There are few pipelines to convert video to relative fluorescence ΔF/F, from simplest ImageJ plugins to sophisticated tools like MiniAn (Dong et al.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFberries contain many compounds with potential benefits for human health. The food flavonoids quercetin and rutin, found in significant amounts in the fruits of , are known to have favourable effects on animal and human organisms. However, data on the effect of flavonols isolated from black chokeberry on immune functions during immunosuppression are not available in the literature.
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