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- Dictionarystria/ˈstrʌɪə/
noun
- 1. a linear mark, slight ridge, or groove on a surface, often one of a number of similar parallel features. technical
- 2. any of a number of longitudinal collections of nerve fibres in the brain.
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5 days ago · The interthalamic adhesion, or massa intermedia, is a small variably present connection between the medial apposing surfaces of the two thalami that passes through the third ventricle. It is not a commissure as once thought, as it does not contain neurons; instead, it is composed of glial tissue.
5 days ago · To define the sine and cosine of an acute angle α, start with a right triangle that contains an angle of measure α; in the accompanying figure, angle α in triangle ABC is the angle of interest. The three sides of the triangle are named as follows:
Being so easy to install, Stria offers more opportunities to create your own exclusive home design without breaking the budget. This 325mm standard profile cladding is a 14mm thick board with a smooth 285mm vertical profile finished with a horizontal square edge leaving a 15mm groove at the shiplap joint.
4 days ago · Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: Together with LS, the BNST constitutes an overlapping node between SBN and the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system. The role of BNST on aggression has been better studied in males, where multiple circuits within BNST have been implicated (Masugi-Tokita, Flor, & Kawata, 2016 ; Shaikh, Brutus, Siegel, & Siegel, 1986 ; Veenema, Beiderbeck, Lukas, & Neumann, 2010 ).
6 days ago · Neuropeptides are potent feeding modulators, but how these endogenous signals shape relevant neurocircuits remains unclear. Here, the authors show that hypothalamic neuropeptide Y drives input ...
1 day ago · Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and phylogenetic diversity. [1] Diversity is not distributed evenly on Earth.
2 days ago · Good parenting isn’t just a robotic tending to the needs of a child. While this care is crucial, it’s not the only aspect of parenting. The American Psychological Association (n.d.) describes three primary goals of parenting; only the first one involves basic needs. Keeping children healthy and safe.
4 days ago · As a consequence, visual deprivation delays, prolongs, or “reawakens” developmental levels of plasticity for many processes, including BDNF expression, maturation of inhibitory PV cells, silent synapse maturation, the remodeling of layer 4 pyramidal cells into spiny neurons, neuronal tuning, and visual acuity.
3 days ago · Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. [1] . The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. [2] . Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms.
5 days ago · noun. : a spinal reflex involving reflex contraction of a muscle in response to stretching. called also myotatic reflex. Dictionary Entries Near stretch reflex. stretch receptor. stretch reflex. stria. See More Nearby Entries. Cite this Entry. Style. “Stretch reflex.”
