[Evaluation of exploratory activity and anxiety in rats with different levels of impulsive behavior].

Rats were divided into 3 groups according to their preference for reinforcements of different values. Animals that preferred valuable but delayed reinforcement in more than 70% of cases formed as self-controlled group, less than 30% of cases formed an impulsive group, the rest formed an ambivalent group. Behavior of animals of different groups was scored for exploratory activity and anxiety in x-maze, fear-conditioning and novelty suppressed feeding.

[Conservation of the regulatory elements implicated in the control of the rpsB-tsf operon expression in gamma-proteobacteria].

In eubacteria, the rpsB-tsf operon encodes two essential components of translational apparatus, ribosomal protein (r-protein) S2 and elongation factor Ts. Recently, we located the promoter region of the Escherichia coli rpsB-tsf operon and demonstrated that both rpsB and tsf genes are negatively regulated by r-protein S2 at the translational level. In this paper, we present data of phylogenetic analysis showing high conservation of both the promoter signature and the structure of the 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) of the rpsB mRNA in gamma-proteobacteria.