The Soil Bacterium Bath Interacts with Human Dendritic Cells to Modulate Immune Function.

The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has increased in Western countries during the course of the twentieth century, and is evolving to be a global disease. Recently we showed that a bacterial meal of a non-commensal, non-pathogenic methanotrophic soil bacterium, Bath prevents experimentally induced colitis in a murine model of IBD. The mechanism behind the effect has this far not been identified.

Generalized Laminar Population Analysis (gLPA) for Interpretation of Multielectrode Data from Cortex.

Laminar population analysis (LPA) is a method for analysis of electrical data recorded by linear multielectrodes passing through all lamina of cortex. Like principal components analysis (PCA) and independent components analysis (ICA), LPA offers a way to decompose the data into contributions from separate cortical populations. However, instead of using purely mathematical assumptions in the decomposition, LPA is based on physiological constraints, i.