These experiments revealed that in the presence of PNU-120596 and 10 µM choline, low densities of expression of CA1 pyramidal α7* nAChRs generate persistent step-like currents which cause transient depolarizations and occasionally, may trigger bursts of action potentials (Figure 5).
Therefore, the movement of amoeboid Dictyostelium cells may be described by relatively straight runs of persistent steps mediated by pseudopod splittings and random turns by de novo pseudopodia.
In conclusion, the movement of Dictyostelium cells is composed of de novo pseudopodia leading to random turns, and of alternating right/left splitting pseudopodia giving rise to the observed relatively straight run of persistent steps.
In order to prove the persistence of system (1.3) (see [27, Theorem 4.2]), we divided the proof process into two steps: Step 1, we show that system (1.3) is uniformly weakly ρ-persistent; Step 2, by the relative compactness of the orbit (Phi (t,(x_{i0},y_{i0}(cdot),v_{0}))), system (1.3) is uniformly strongly ρ-persistent.
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Persistent changes include step-like changes and trend changes that occur just after the earthquake (Fig. 5).
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Results of the experiments with either increment or decrement bars as contrast stimuli, i.e., with a single contrast polarity relative to the mean level, are shown in Figure 4. Regardless of contrast polarity, attenuation was always stronger and more persistent with the upward step (grey upward triangles) than with the downward step (black downward triangles).
Attenuation was found to be transient, subsiding within 200 400 ms from the luminance step, but persistent enough to be of relevance to vision, considering the rapid refresh rate of the retinal image during normal viewing of natural scenes.
