| 1 | The Amygdala Responds Rapidly to Flashes Linked to Direct Retinal Innervation:A Flash-evoked Potential Study Across Cortical and Subcortical Visual Pathways显示文摘Rapid detection and response to visual threats are critical for survival in animals.The amygdala(AMY)is hypothesized to be involved in this process,but how it interacts with the visual system to do this remains unclear.By recording flash-evoked potentials simultaneously from the superior colliculus(SC),lateral posterior nucleus of the thalamus,AMY,lateral geniculate nucleus(LGN)and visual cortex,which belong to the cortical and subcortical pathways for visual fear processing,we investigated the temporal relationship between these regions in visual processing in rats.A quick flash-evoked potential(FEP)component was identified in the AMY.This emerged as early as in the LGN and was approximately 25 ms prior to the earliest component recorded in the SC,which was assumed to be an important area in visual fear.This quick P1 component in the AMY was not affected by restraint stress or corticosterone injection,but was diminished by RU38486,a glucocorticoid receptor blocker.By injecting a monosynaptic retrograde AAV tracer into the AMY,we found that it received a direct projection from the retina.These results confirm the existence of a direct connection from the retina to the AMY,that the latency in the AMY to flashes is equivalent to that in the sensory thalamus,and that the response is modulated by glucocorticoids. | Yanmei Chen Yiling Ni Jianhong Zhou Hua Zhou Qian Zhong Xinyue Li Jichuan Zhang Yuanye Ma Jingkuan Wei | 2021 | Neuroscience Bulletin2021，37，8： | 1 |
| 2 | Trimetaphosphate-induced chiral selection between amino acid and nucleoside using ^(15)N-^(31)P coupling NMR显示文摘Life on Earth uses a common set of L-amino acids(L-aa)to construct proteins and D-nucleosides(D-Nu)to form nucleic acids,which serve as the carrier of genetic information.Herein,we reveal the in-trinsic mechanism of chiral selection of L-aa and D-Nu from the perspective of chemical origin of life.This work employed^(15)N-labeled L-aa and performed one-pot synthesis of nucleotide amidate of amino acid(N-aa-NMP)using equal amounts of L-^(15)N-aa and D-^(14)N-aa with D-/L-Nu in the aqueous solution of trimetaphosphate,generating L-^(15)N-aa-NMP and D-^(14)N-aa-NMP,respectively.The ^(31)P-NMR data indicated that L-aa was preferentially selected during the formation of N-aa-NMP in the presence of D-Nu.Surpris-ingly,D-aa was preferred over L-aa in the presence of L-Nu.Further analysis revealed that L-^(15)N-aa-D-NMP vs.D-^(14)N-aa-L-NMP and D-^(14)N-aa-D-NMP vs.L-^(15)N-aa-L-NMP were mirror isomers of each other,respec-tively.These data suggest that there could be a set of chiral systems opposite to that on Earth,which infers there might be a world of life that is a mirror image of the Earth. | Jianxi Ying Ruiwen Ding Yumeng Zhang Bowen Han Yeting Guo Ning Wang Dandan Guo Yile Wu Junwei Huang Yan Liu Feng Ni Shaohua Huang Yufen Zhao | 2022 | Chinese Chemical Letters2022，33，2： | 0 |
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