Sentence examples for index of activation from inspiring English sources
As an index of activation of the nociceptive fibres implicated in migraine, changes in the average number of c-fos-immuno-reactive nuclei in the upper cervical dorsal horn and TNC 2 h after 15 mg/kg NTG injection were quantified.
The authors also examined differences in activation magnitude between decliners and stable MCI subjects, yet no differences were found using this index of activation.
In the former, the index of activation was the generation of clonal neurospheres and, in the latter, it was the number of GS-positive cells that had incorporated BrdU (BrdU+GS+ phenotype).
The frequency before and during light application were calculated and compared as the index of activation.
We evaluated by immunohistochemistry whether the transcription factor of inflammation, NFκB, was translocated in the nucleus in gestational tissues as an index of activation.
"Index of activation" was calculated as (C – B /(R – B), where C = the maximal carbachol evoked current, R = the maximal 90K current amplitude, and B = the residual leak current in 90K + 5 mM BaCl2.
For each participant, a GLM assessed regionally specific effects of task parameters on blood oxygenation level dependent indices of activation.
For each participant, we used a general linear method (GLM) to assess regional effects of task parameters on BOLD indices of activation.
Nonetheless, an interaction between dopaminergic vasoconstriction and the neuroimaging indices of activation must remain a caveat in fMRI studies with L-dopa.
A crude index of muscle activation is the change in surface EMG activity measured during a test MVC contraction before and after the intervention, with an increase in EMG activity being the summed expression of increased muscle activation caused by an increase in discharge rate of motor units and/or their spatial recruitment.
It is of particular interest that amphetamine had no effects on response or reward collection latencies, measures used in the 5CSRTT/FC task as an index of locomotor activation (see Table 2), indicating that amphetamine's activating effects probably operate on response selection rather than simply response speed per se.
