Publications by authors named "Eric Lang"

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  • ctACS may offer a non-invasive treatment avenue for psychiatric and neurological disorders, but its effectiveness is limited by a lack of understanding of its impact on cerebellar activity at cellular levels.
  • Previous research indicated that AC stimulation influenced Purkinje cell (PC) and cerebellar nuclear (CN) cell activity in a frequency-dependent manner when applied to the cerebellum.
  • This study found that ctACS altered PC and CN activity in rats, revealing that the modulation patterns varied with stimulus frequency and electrode placement, indicating potential for targeted treatment strategies.
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Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) and its variants are being tested in clinical trials for treatment of neurological disorders, and cerebellar tACS (ctACS) in particular has garnered much interest because of the involvement of the cerebellum in these disorders. The main objective of this study was to investigate the frequency tuning curves for the entrainment of the Purkinje cells (PCs) and the cerebellar nuclear (CN) cells by their axonal projections. In addition, we aimed to investigate the temporal and steady-state characteristics of the PC-CN transsynaptic modulation under clinically relevant stimulation waveforms.

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Transcranial alternating current stimulation (ctACS) has the potential to be an appealing, non-invasive treatment option for psychiatric and neurological disorders. However, its potential has been limited by significant knowledge gaps in the details and mechanisms of how ctACS affects cerebellar output on single cell and population levels. We investigated this issue by making single-unit recordings of Purkinje cells (PC) and lateral cerebellar nuclear (Lat CN) cells in response to ctACS in anesthetized adult female Sprague-Dawley rats.

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Despite of excellent thermal properties and high sputtering resistance, pure tungsten cannot fully satisfy the requirements for plasma facing materials in future high-duty cycle nuclear fusion reactions due to the coupled extreme environments, including the high thermal loads, plasma exposure, and radiation damage. Here, we demonstrated that tungsten-based composite materials fabricated using spark-plasma sintering (SPS) present promising solutions to these challenges. Through the examination of two model systems, i.

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Producing soft magnetic alloys by additive manufacturing has the potential to overcome cracking and brittle fracture issues associated with conventional thermomechanical processing. Fe-Co alloys exhibit high magnetic saturation but low ductility that makes them difficult to process by commercial methods. Ni-Fe alloys have good ductility and high permeability in comparison to Fe-Co, but they suffer from low magnetic saturation.

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The cerebellum takes in a great deal of sensory information from the periphery and descending signals from the cerebral cortices. It has been debated whether the paramedian lobule (PML) in the rat and its paravermal regions that project to the interpositus nucleus (IPN) are primarily involved in motor execution or motor planning. Studies that have relied on single spike recordings in behaving animals have led to conflicting conclusions regarding this issue.

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Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique that is being tested clinically for treatment of a variety of neural disorders. Animal studies investigating the underlying mechanisms of tACS are scarce, and nearly absent in the cerebellum. In the present study, we applied 10-400 Hz alternating currents (AC) to the cerebellar cortex in ketamine/xylazine anesthetized rats.

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The formation of helium bubbles and subsequent property degradation poses a significant challenge to tungsten as a plasma-facing material in future long-pulse plasma-burning fusion reactors. In this study, we investigated helium bubble formation in dispersion-strengthened tungsten doped with transition metal carbides, including TaC, ZrC, and TiC. Of the three dispersoids, TaC exhibited the highest resistance to helium bubble formation, possibly due to the low vacancy mobility in the Group VB metal carbide and oxide phases.

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Introduction: Cerebellar transcranial alternating current stimulation (ctACS) has shown promise as a therapeutic modality for treating a variety of neurological disorders, and for affecting normal learning processes. Yet, little is known about how electric fields induced by applied currents affect cerebellar activity in the mammalian cerebellum under conditions.

Methods: Alternating current (AC) stimulation with frequencies from 0.

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Importance: The global prevalence of myopia is predicted to approach 50% by 2050, increasing the risk of visual impairment later in life. No pharmacologic therapy is approved for treating childhood myopia progression.

Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of NVK002 (Vyluma), a novel, preservative-free, 0.

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Nanostructured metals are a promising class of radiation-tolerant materials. A large volume fraction of grain boundaries (GBs) can provide plenty of sinks for radiation damage, and understanding the underlying healing mechanisms is key to developing more effective radiation tolerant materials. Here, we observe radiation damage absorption by stress-assisted GB migration in ultrafine-grained Au thin films using a quantitative transmission electron microscopy nanomechanical testing technique.

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Nanocrystalline metals have presented intriguing possibilities for use in radiation environments due to their high grain boundary volume, serving as enhanced irradiation-induced defect sinks. Their promise has been lessened due to the propensity for nanocrystalline metals to suffer deleterious grain growth from combinations of irradiation and/or elevated homologous temperature. While approaches for stabilizing such materials against grain growth are the subject of current research, there is still a lack of central knowledge on the irradiation-grain boundary interactions in pure metals despite many studies on the same.

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Ultrathin MoS has shown remarkable characteristics at the atomic scale with an immutable disorder to weak external stimuli. Ion beam modification unlocks the potential to selectively tune the size, concentration, and morphology of defects produced at the site of impact in 2D materials. Combining experiments, first-principles calculations, atomistic simulations, and transfer learning, it is shown that irradiation-induced defects can induce a rotation-dependent moiré pattern in vertically stacked homobilayers of MoS by deforming the atomically thin material and exciting surface acoustic waves (SAWs).

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Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique that is being tested for treatment of a variety of neural disorders. Animal studies investigating the underlying mechanisms of tACS are scarce. In the present study, we have applied sinusoidal alternating currents (AC) from 10 Hz to 400 Hz to the cerebellar cortex in ketamine/xylazine anesthetized rats, as this has been previously shown to modulate and entrain Purkinje cell (PC) simple spike activity.

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Objective: Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) is well established in humans. Despite widespread use, additional research questions related to thoracic aortic stenting and endovascular innovation require large animal models. Translating human TEVAR devices and techniques into animal models, however, is a challenge even for experienced endovascular surgeons looking to develop a large animal TEVAR model.

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Background: Partial resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (pREBOA) is a potential method to mitigate the ischemia observed in full REBOA (fREBOA). However, the effect of pREBOA on cerebral perfusion in the setting of raised intracranial pressure (rICP) is unknown. The aim was to evaluate the effects of no REBOA (nREBOA) vs pREBOA vs fREBOA on cerebral perfusion in a swine model of rICP and hemorrhagic shock.

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Temporary intravascular shunts are used to maintain perfusion in injured vessels, although failure can be unpredictable and lead to significant morbidity. The aim of the present study was to develop a dose- and timing-controlled swine model of intrinsic shunt failure to facilitate the development of a warning system for impending failure. Ten Yorkshire swine (weight, 56.

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We consider the question whether the inferior olive (IO) is required for essential tremor (ET). Much evidence shows that the olivocerebellar system is the main system capable of generating the widespread synchronous oscillatory Purkinje cell (PC) complex spike (CS) activity across the cerebellar cortex that would be capable of generating the type of bursting cerebellar output from the deep cerebellar nuclei (DCN) that could underlie tremor. Normally, synchronous CS activity primarily reflects the effective electrical coupling of IO neurons by gap junctions, and traditionally, ET research has focused on the hypothesis of increased coupling of IO neurons as the cause of hypersynchronous CS activity underlying tremor.

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High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are proposed as materials for a variety of extreme environments, including both fission and fusion radiation applications. To withstand these harsh environments, materials processing must be tailored to their given application, now achieved through additive manufacturing processes. However, radiation application opportunities remain limited due to an incomplete understanding of the effects of irradiation on HEA performance.

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We test a range of standard generalized Born (GB) models and protein force fields for a set of five experimentally characterized, designed peptides comprising alternating blocks of glutamate and lysine, which have been shown to differ significantly in α-helical content. Sixty-five combinations of force fields and GB models are evaluated in >800 μs of molecular dynamics simulations. GB models generally do not reproduce the experimentally observed α-helical content, and none perform well for all five peptides.

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Sodium-glucose co-transporter type 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor therapy to treat type 2 diabetes unexpectedly reduced all-cause mortality and hospitalization due to heart failure in several large-scale clinical trials, and has since been shown to produce similar cardiovascular disease-protective effects in patients without diabetes. How SGLT2 inhibitor therapy improves cardiovascular disease outcomes remains incompletely understood. Metabolic flexibility refers to the ability of a cell or organ to adjust its use of metabolic substrates, such as glucose or fatty acids, in response to physiological or pathophysiological conditions, and is a feature of a healthy heart that may be lost during diabetic cardiomyopathy and in the failing heart.

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Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) is used for aortic control in hemorrhagic shock despite little quantification of its mechanism of resuscitation or cardiac injury. The goal of this study was to use pressure-volume (PV) loop analysis and direct coronary blood flow measurements to describe the physiologic changes associated with the clinical use of REBOA. Swine underwent surgical and vascular access to measure left ventricular PV loops and left coronary flow in hemorrhagic shock and subsequent placement of occlusive REBOA, partial REBOA, and no REBOA.

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Introduction: Perfusion of the brain is critical, but this can be compromised due to focal space occupying lesions (SOL). SOLs can raise intracranial pressure (ICP), resulting in reduced cerebral blood flow (CBF). Most gyrencephalic models of brain injury focus on parenchymal injury, with few models of acutely elevated ICP.

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Background: Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) is controversial as a hemorrhage control adjunct due to lack of data with a suitable control group. We aimed to determine outcomes of trauma patients in shock undergoing REBOA versus no-REBOA.

Methods: This single-center, retrospective, matched cohort study analyzed patients ≥16 years in hemorrhagic shock without cardiac arrest (2000-2019).

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