Cooper Penner

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How do Kuramoto Models relate to exogenous patterns of activity?

Good afternoon, I am wondering if someone could explain if any work has been done on the relationship between a kuramoto model of neural oscillators and a linked exogenous pattern of...

11 June 2018 7,758 0 View

Does anyone know a good way of getting plasma from frozen whole blood?

Hello, some very important blood samples were frozen at -80 before being spun down. Upon thawing and centrifuging a non important sample at 2000 x g and 100000 x g nothing seemed to spin down....

12 July 2017 9,326 4 View

Is it possible to infer aspects of the low threshold cutaneous inhibition of motor neurons with an EDA recording?

Hello! I've been reading a lot of papers about how cutaneous afferents can affect motor neuron excitability by partially inhibiting sub threshold outputs from the corticospinal tract. I'm...

27 June 2017 4,065 0 View

Approaches to noise at biological zero in a flowmetry laser signal

Hello! I'm running some basic analyses on a set of flowmetry traces, (blood flow return after occlusion, time to hyperemia peak, things like that) and am unsure how to approach the noise that...

18 June 2017 4,609 0 View

Do neuronal oscillations have a conditioning relationship to intracellular Astrocyte Calcium oscillations?

Hey all, I know that astrocyte calcium changes are potentiated by neuronal firing (both directly and indirectly), and that the calcium fluxes that correspond with gliotransmitter release from...

14 September 2016 8,588 3 View

Factors affecting Glial transcription?

Does anyone know of a recent paper that lays out the state of research on factors affecting glial transcription, especially as related to neuroinflammation? I would love to have a list of...

26 July 2016 5,624 7 View

Minimum N for a study on BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism?

Hello, I'm currently in the recruitment phase of a study evaluating the Val66Met SNP present in about 22-30% of the population. I was wondering if someone could tell me what the minimum N would be...

26 July 2016 8,331 5 View

Any suggestions for Micro array designed to evaluate NF KB processes?

Hi all, I've never run a microarray before, and was wondering if anyone had a suggestion on a good NFKB kit, it seems insufficient to just google "NFKB microarray kit" and hope for the best. Thanks!

27 May 2016 4,305 0 View

Is measuring Il-6 levels equivalent to Il-6Sr?

I know due to trans signaling the level of soluble Il-6 receptor in a sample is as significant if not more significant than the non bonded Il-6, especially when looking at something like...

31 March 2016 3,053 0 View

NFKB oscillatory mathematical or computer modeling in human subjects?

I am currently planning a longitudinal study looking at changes in inflammatory markers as a result of Mind Body Exercises. Is there any way to account for NFKB's oscillatory tendencies? I know...

31 March 2016 1,714 1 View