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Earlier today, I was talking with someone who brought up “eigenvalues.” I answered their questions; however, I realized that I had no clue where the word comes from or what it really insinuates. In fact, there are many math terms that I haven’t the slightest clue where they originated. Immediately I began a Google search [...]
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In my Copious Free Time (CFT), I sometimes like to try to figure out how close we are to implementing some of the crazy technology I’d love to use in research. I want to learn more about the canid stress response, as a way of learning about canid domestication (domesticated animals have blunted stress responses, and this may be part of why they are so accepting of novelty and so easy to socialize). The hormone that most people use to study the stress response is cortisol.I have written in the […]
Egerton A., Mehta M.A., Montgomery A.J., Lappin J.M., Howes O.D., Reeves S.J., Cunningham V.J. & Grasby P.M. (2009). The dopaminergic basis of human behaviors: A review of molecular imaging studies, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 33 (7) 1109-1132. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.05.005
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Filling the Dermis
By Tom Deerinck, NCMIR and UCSD
While the epidermis of mammalian skin contains primarily kerotinocytes, the dermis is composed largely of fibroblasts. The dermis is a type of connective tissue, and fibroblasts produce the two major structural components of its extracellular matrix: collagen fibers, which give the dermis strength and traction; and, elastin, which make the dermis stretchable and flexible. Unlike epithelial cells, fibroblasts do not form flat, monolayers but
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