The intuition is that neurons that respond more when a trial is more rewarding ("positive" neurons) should fire less on aborted trials compared to those that were not aborted.
In this study, we analyzed the transcriptome profiles of early anthers of sterile mutants aborted microspores (ams) and found that 1,368 genes were differentially expressed in ams compared to wild type anthers, affecting metabolism, transportation, ubiquitination and stress response.
Compared to the poor guys who're suffering in random cellar holes around the world I could have aborted this shit any minute and could have stormed out the door after screaming "fuck off" into my colleague's face.
Low levels of PAGs, compared to the levels in animals with unassisted parturition, were recorded in 1 SRB heifer (No. 1052) with premature parturition and 1 aborting SRB cow as shown in Fig. 4; right lower panel.
43 Up to 94% of fetuses with prenatally diagnosed fatal malformations (eg, anencephaly) are aborted, compared with 30%to40%0% of fetuses with treatable malformations (eg, diaphragmatic hernia or transposition of great arteries).
In contrast, the inclusion of the P cue tended to increase the frequency of aborts (compare R/P vs R/N trials; p < 0.05 for each monkey).
A segment on the late local news introduced John Mangopoulos, a businessman making a Senate bid largely in order to run in-your-face ads comparing aborted fetuses to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Different strategies are analyzed, abort to Atlantic, abort to orbit and abort to Woomera Australiaa).
For each trial type (R-contra, R-ipsi, P-contra, and P-ipsi), we used an ROC analysis to compare firing rates on abort and non-abort trials (indices greater than 0.5 indicated higher firing on abort trials and values less 0.5 indicated higher firing on non-abort trials), and a Wilcoxon (p<0.05) to evaluate the significance of firing rate differences.
Studies have found a low male to female sex ratio of spontaneously aborted fetuses with an anomaly compared with those without suggesting a better survival rate to birth of male fetuses with anomalies compared with females which could contribute to a higher risk in live born children (Hay, 1971; Kellokumpu-Lehtinen and Pelliniemi, 1984; Khoury et al., 1989).
