Faculty Opinions recommendation of Genetics of mouse behavior: interactions with laboratory environment.

The methods of production of electricity from renewable sources are currently highly researched topics. The reason for this is growing social awareness regarding the environmental impact of traditional energy technologies. The main aim of this study is to describe the results of using silicon cell technology and dye concentrator in a single system. The experiment presented in the paper was conducted in a laboratory environment using a dye concentrator in the form of tinted and luminescent acrylic glass (polymethyl methacrylate, PMMA). The experiment was conducted using a few measurement calibrations for the described system, such as different temperatures of the researched silicon cell or different intensity of illuminance from a solar simulator. The results of the experiment showed increase in the performance of the solar cell between 0.05% and 1.42% depending on the pigments used in the concentrator. The highest results were achieved for luminescent red PMMA and on average the improvement was 1.21%. This shows us the potential for the implementation of a luminescent dye concentrator in solar electric technology.

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Internet-of-Things Based Smart Laboratory Environment Monitoring System

2021 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications (ICIEA) ◽

10.1109/iciea52957.2021.9436758 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mary Jane C. Samonte ◽

Friss Amarenth G. Mendoza ◽

Raymond Pablo ◽

Sancho Miguel P. Villa

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Monitoring System ◽

Environment Monitoring ◽

Laboratory Environment

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Postpartum social interactions in families of spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) observed in a laboratory environment

Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society ◽

10.3758/bf03329841 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 253-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Katherine Szijarto ◽

Richard J. Coffee ◽

Catherine Boyle ◽

Diane Bailey ◽

Marisa Mulé ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Acomys Cahirinus ◽

Laboratory Environment ◽

Spiny Mice

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Repeated Cortico-Striatal Stimulation Generates Persistent OCD-Like Behavior

Science ◽

10.1126/science.1234733 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 340 (6137) ◽

pp. 1234-1239 ◽

Cited By ~ 271

Author(s):

Susanne E. Ahmari ◽

Timothy Spellman ◽

Neria L. Douglass ◽

Mazen A. Kheirbek ◽

H. Blair Simpson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Orbitofrontal Cortex ◽

Progressive Increase ◽

Repetitive Behaviors ◽

Mouse Behavior ◽

First Line ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Chronic Fluoxetine

Although cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) circuit dysregulation is correlated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), causation cannot be tested in humans. We used optogenetics in mice to simulate CSTC hyperactivation observed in OCD patients. Whereas acute orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)–ventromedial striatum (VMS) stimulation did not produce repetitive behaviors, repeated hyperactivation over multiple days generated a progressive increase in grooming, a mouse behavior related to OCD. Increased grooming persisted for 2 weeks after stimulation cessation. The grooming increase was temporally coupled with a progressive increase in light-evoked firing of postsynaptic VMS cells. Both increased grooming and evoked firing were reversed by chronic fluoxetine, a first-line OCD treatment. Brief but repeated episodes of abnormal circuit activity may thus set the stage for the development of persistent psychopathology.

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