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Based on the orientations of mouse semicircular canals [23], horizontal semicircular canals are selectively stimulated in the test of hVOR, whereas the anterior and posterior semicircular canals are equally stimulated in the test of vVOR in our assay system.

C1 neurons are activated when RVLM astrocytes are selectively stimulated using an optogenetic approach.

It has also been shown that during fasting the concentration of stearic acid is maintained due to a strong fasting-dependent repression of the fat-7 gene, when peroxisomal and mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation are selectively stimulated [ 29], suggesting a regulatory interaction between fat-7 and β-oxidation, possibly by sensing the concentration of stearic acid.

In parallel, translational initiation of transcription factor ATF4 is selectively stimulated.

To more directly test the hypothesis that activity of granule cells contributed to the enhanced sEPSCs in other granule cells in pilocarpine-treated mice that survived SE, neurons in the granule cell layer were selectively stimulated using focal glutamate photolysis [8], [12].

In vitro, growth of bifidobacteria can be selectively stimulated by several carbohydrates indigestible by humans (prebiotics).

This vagal anti-inflammatory pathway is mediated by the nicotinergic a7nACh receptor that can be selectively stimulated by GTS-21.

Furthermore, E. limosum is selectively stimulated by prebiotics that improve the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease patients (Kanauchi et al., 2005).

In experiments seeking mechanistic insights into the difference in glucose-responsive gene expression between mouse and human islets, we found that the production of transcription factors important to glucose-responsive gene transcription in mice, and specifically of PDX1 and MAFA [ 21, 23– 27], was selectively stimulated by glucose in mouse islets.

Here, we report that a protein kinase-mediated signalling pathway involving host RBC PAK1 and MEK1, which do not have orthologues in the Plasmodium kinome, is selectively stimulated in Plasmodium falciparum-infected (versus uninfected) RBCs, as determined by the use of phospho-specific antibodies directed against the activated forms of these enzymes.

The aim of the work was to develop the chamber to be used in biomechanical, electrochemical and electrophysiological measurements in functional segments of peripheral nerves, when electrical stimulating pulses are selectively applied to preselected locations along the nerve and neural responses are measured.