Characterization and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of -Derived Extracellular Vesicles.

Bacterial extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a pivotal role in host-microbe communication. , a symbiotic bacterium essential for intestinal health, is hypothesized to exert its effects via EVs. Here, we successfully isolated and characterized EVs derived from (Am-EVs) using ultracentrifugation.

Predicting the Pro-Inflammatory Effects of Oxidized Methyl Oleate Based on the Volatile Compounds.

The negative impact of lipid peroxidation on health is intimately tied to its oxidation products. In this study, methyl oleate was oxidized at 180℃ for 0, 2, 4, 8 and 12 h respectively. The free radicals and volatile components generated during the oxidation process were determined using electron spin resonance and headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME)-GC-MS.

Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes.

Bribery is a common form of corruption that takes place when a briber suborns a power holder to achieve an advantageous outcome at the cost of moral transgression. Although bribery has been extensively investigated in the behavioral sciences, its underlying neurobiological basis remains poorly understood. Here, we employed transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) in combination with a novel paradigm ( = 119 adults) to investigate whether disruption of right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) causally changed bribe-taking decisions of power holders.

Neurostructural correlates of dispositional self-compassion.

Self-compassion is an important emotion regulation strategy predicting positive psychological health and fewer psychopathological problems, but little is known about its structural neural basis. In the current study, we investigated the neurostructural correlates of dispositional self-compassion and its components using voxel-based morphometry (VBM). We found that self-compassion was inversely correlated with gray matter volume (GMV) in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), which was primarily driven by the reduced self-judgment component.

The Neural Correlate Difference Between Positive and Negative Awe.

Awe is an emotional response to perceptually vast stimuli that transcend current frames of reference. Narrative and experimental work has characterized two distinct variants of awe: positive and negative; however, little is known about the structural neural basis associated with the differences of these two variants of awe. In this study, we investigated the structural neural basis of positive and negative awe underlying individual differences among 62 young healthy adults.

The Positivity Bias Phenomenon in Face Perception Given Different Information on Ability.

The negativity bias has been shown in many fields, including in face processing. We assume that this bias stems from the potential threat inlayed in the stimuli (e.g.

Examining brain structures associated with dispositional envy and the mediation role of emotional intelligence.

Dispositional envy is distinguished by definition and neurally from episodic envy. While the neural correlates of episodic envy have been evaluated by specific tasks in previous studies, little is known about the structural neural basis of dispositional envy. In this study, we investigated the structural neural basis of dispositional envy underlying individual differences across two independent samples comprising a total of 100 young healthy adults.

Short-term trained lexical categories affect preattentive shape perception: Evidence from vMMN.

Perceptual processing of colors and shapes in the right visual field is modulated by the lexical category information of the stimuli, a phenomenon known as the lateralized Whorfian effect. For color stimuli, lateralized Whorfian effect is characterized by preattentive occurrence and dependency on acquired lexical information, but it remains unknown whether these key features are generalizable to other domains of perceptual processing. Here, we investigated whether lateralized Whorfian effect in the shape perception domain also depends on acquired lexical category and occurs preattentively using ERPs.