Objective: The objective of this article is to study the role of the dopamine (DA) D1 receptor in the midbrain periaqueductal grey (PAG) on learning and memory in morphine-addicted rats.
Methods: DA D1 receptor agonist SKF81297 and D1 receptor antagonist SCH SCH23390 were administrated into the PAG, respectively, and the learning and memory behavioral changes of morphine addicted rats were detected by water maze. Western blot and immunohistochemistry were used to detect glutamate decarboxylase 67 (GAD67) and tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB) in PAG.
Results: D1 receptor agonist shortened the latency to platform and increased the number of platform crossings, indicating improved learning and memory ability of morphine addict rat. D1 receptor agonist increased GAD67 expression and decreased TrkB in PAG.
Conclusion: (1) The PAG is involved in the learning and memory changes of the addicted rats; (2) the activation of DA D1 receptor will increase the GAD67, reduce the damage to peripheral neurons, and improve the learning and memory of the addicted rats; and (3) D1 receptor agonists further reduced TrkB expression in morphine-addicted rats, whereas TrkB levels deviated from changes in rat behavior.
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In the context of Chinese clinical texts, this paper aims to propose a deep learning algorithm based on Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers (BERT) to identify privacy information and to verify the feasibility of our method for privacy protection in the Chinese clinical context. We collected and double-annotated 33,017 discharge summaries from 151 medical institutions on a municipal regional health information platform, developed a BERT-based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Model (BiLSTM) and Conditional Random Field (CRF) model, and tested the performance of privacy identification on the dataset. To explore the performance of different substructures of the neural network, we created five additional baseline models and evaluated the impact of different models on performance.
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