(n.) The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
(2) A train of conditioning stimuli to either of the midbrain nuclei produced inhibition of evoked population spikes recorded in the CA1 pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus.
(3) Electrophysiological methods were used to determine changes in the neural representation of the binocular visual field at the paired midbrain optic tecta and in the tectal projection of pairs of corresponding retinal loci at various developmental points between these ages.
(4) Intracerebral injection of the GABAA agonists muscimol (1 nmol), isoguvacine (1 nmol) or THIP (1, 2 and 4 nmol) in rats with chemitrodes implanted in the dorsal midbrain central grey raised the threshold electrical current for inducing escape behaviour.
(5) Striking similarities were found between the functional pathways affected differentially by RET stimulation and well-defined cholinergic pathways which originate in the midbrain tegmentum.
(6) These responses were prominent in the rostral midbrain.
(7) Single neurons in the midbrain tegmentum of rats showed clear discriminatory responses to three tones announcing either food or water or no reinforcement.
(8) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(9) ruber, anterodorsolateral midbrain tegmentum, superior and inferior colliculi, pontine gray, cerebral peduncles, medial pontine reticular formation, raphe and vestibular nuclei did not affect the acoustic structure of the calls tested.
(10) This paper describes the distribution of histamine-like immunoreactivity in the midbrain and suboesophageal ganglion of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta.
(11) Parkinsonism in the present case may be due to the involvement of multiple neuronal circuits of the extrapyramidal system at the level of the midbrain to the thalamus.
(12) As a result the dipole of the wave V of auditory brainstem responses was found near the contralateral midbrain.
(13) In the latter tumors, a peculiar ataxic hemiparesis syndrome is produced by midbrain compression.
(14) Fewer, but still ample numbers, of SP-reactive axons are present also in the ventral tegmental and retrorubral areas of the midbrain tegmentum and in the ventral pallidum of the basal forebrain, but only sparse ME-reactive axons are present in these areas.
(15) In the investigation, the neocortex was represented by the frontal cortex (field 10), the old cortex by the hippocamp, the midbrain by black substance, and medulla oblongata by the inferior olive.
(16) The anxiolytic activity of serotonin agonists (buspirone, ipsapirone, campirone, caplapirone, 1-pyrimidinyl-piperazine) determined in rats on 3 experimental models of anxiety closely correlates with the degree of inhibition of impulse release of 3H-serotonin by electrically stimulated slices of the midbrain raphe dorsal nucleus (r = +0.85) but not the slices of the cerebral hemispheric cortex (r = +0.60) of the rats.
(17) The level of 5-HT was diminished in dorsal spinal cord and midbrain, whereas NE appeared unchanged.
(18) Movement-correlated firing was studied in 111 midbrain neurons recorded in freely behaving hamsters.
(19) These results suggest that different fibers with overlapping spatial distributions contribute to analgesia and vocalizations produced by midbrain stimulation.
(20) alpha-Fluoromethylhistidine, a histidine decarboxylase inhibitor, induced a significant depletion in the hypothalamic, midbrain, and cortical brain histamine amounts in 12- and 3-month-old rats.
Nates
Definition:
(n. pl.) The buttocks.
(n. pl.) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
(n. pl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The New York Times' Nate Silver does that thing he does where he uses data to explain everything you ever wanted to know about a particular subject: Support for same-sex marriage is increasing — but is it doing so at a faster rate than in the past?
(2) "We've always wanted to do something like this, but there were limitations in the past that prevented us from doing it," marketing manager Nate Weinstein told the Associated Press.
(3) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
(4) "Four members of Hertha's first team squad use only one name," writes Nate Elliott.
(5) The festival programme also features Nate Parker’s new American epic, The Birth of a Nation , which won the grand jury prize at the Sundance festival at the beginning of the year.
(6) Meanwhile, there’s a core of first baseman Anthony Rizzo, shortstop Starlin Castro and outfield Nate Schierholtz, who just have to get better if there’s to be any offensive improvement.
(7) That matches a similar percentage Republicans needed to win the house before the 2010 elections, and is very similar to a curve produced by Nate Silver before the 2012 elections.
(8) The Nationals may have little choice but to lean on Nate McLouth, a former Pirates, Braves and Orioles outfielder, for whom they dropped $10.75m on over two years this past offseason for in for situations such as these - so far he's hitting .111.
(9) I guess the moral of the story is: don’t trust the polls, not even Nate Silver.
(10) On the other hand, Nate Silver, the New York Times election data blogger, could demonstrably show that a disproportionate amount of Times traffic came to him personally.
(11) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
(12) Family, colleagues and MPs pay tribute to PC Keith Palmer Read more Nate Kizerian, a longtime friend, said Cochran was a vital member of the local music scene.
(13) Illustration: Nate Kitch for the Guardian Slahi’s new cell was to be structured to prevent light from shining in.
(14) I’ve lived here for 20 years and I lost count of the number of times I was stopped and frisked by the police by the time I was in high school,” said Nate Jeffrey, 32, a mechanic with the city’s transit authority.
(15) 6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione and 7-chlorokynure-nate suppressed the NMDA response but significantly less potently in cerebellar mRNA-injected oocytes than in cerebral mRNA-injected oocytes.
(16) The neonatal death nate and the incidence of IVH were significantly higher in infants weighing less than 750g than in those weighing 1,000g or more.
(17) Darryl Roberts put one in late in the 43rd minute and Nate Thornton finished the job in the 90th minute.
(18) This challenge was explaining the news , with Vox.com joining Nate Silver's ESPN-backed FiveThirtyEight site and the New York Times' The Upshot in a new wave of data-driven explanatory news services .
(19) We should have expected far more ‘shy Tories’.” Nate Silver, the man once lauded as an elections oracle for his detailed predictions, was wildly out, putting the Conservatives at “about 280 seats, Labour at about 265”.
(20) The polls swung about one percentage point in Obama’s direction shortly thereafter, Nate Silver estimated .