Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain.

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women remarkable. In southern Britain, the Late Iron Age Durotriges tribe often buried women with substantial grave goods. Here we analyse 57 ancient genomes from Durotrigian burial sites and find an extended kin group centred around a single maternal lineage, with unrelated (presumably inward migrating) burials being predominantly male.

On the Stationarity Time of a Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Massive Radio Channel in a Line-of-Sight Suburban Environment.

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) communication systems are a pillar technology for 5G. However, the wireless radio channel models relying on the assumption of wide-sense stationary uncorrelated scattering (WSSUS) may not always be valid for dynamic scenarios. Nonetheless, an analysis of the stationarity time that validates this hypothesis for mMIMO vehicular channels as well as a clear relationship with the scattering properties is missing in the literature.

Taurine in gerbil retina: changes during ischemia reperfusion/insult (I.R.I.) and aging.

The retina contains a high amount of taurine which suggests a role in retinal function. The mongolian gerbil is well studied in stroke because of its incomplete circle of Willis. Two groups of gerbils were used: one served as control and the other was subjected to unilateral left carotid occlusion during 30 minutes, followed by 60 minutes of reperfusion.

Effects of Daflon 500 mg* on haemoconcentration and alterations of white blood cell count elicited by the upright position in anaesthetized dogs.

In the passive upright position, arterial and venous pressures in the human feet increase capillary pressure which leads to the filtration of fluid from the circulating plasma into the tissues of the feet. Loss of fluid concentrates both red cells and plasma so that the haematrocrit and plasma protein concentration of venous blood leaving the feet greatly exceed their mean values in the circulation. To study this phenomenon in animals, we used Beagle dogs in upright position.

Effect of piribedil, a D-2 dopaminergic agonist, on dopamine, amino acids, and free radicals in gerbil brain after cerebral ischemia.

The excitatory amino acids (EAA) are involved in the pathogenesis of the cerebral ischemia. Moreover, several investigators have demonstrated that a considerable amount of dopamine (DA) is released in the striatum after ischemia reperfusion/insult (IRI). Recently, studies have demonstrated in vitro, that D-2 agonist, at the level of striatum and retina, may represent a powerful signal to inhibit release of excitatory amino acids implicated in cerebral ischemia.