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Given its safety profile, lactoferrin is a readily translatable therapeutic option for the management of COVID-19.Background High dose (≥80 parts-per-million[ppm]) inhaled nitric oxide (NO) has antimicrobial effects. We designed a trial to test the preventive effects of high dose NO on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in healthcare providers working with COVID-19 patients. The study was interrupted prematurely due to the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare professionals. Chidamide datasheet We thereby present data on safety and feasibility of breathing 160 ppm NO using two different NO sources, namely pressurized nitrogen/NO cylinders (iNO) and electric NO generators (eNO).Methods Nitric oxide gas was inhaled at 160 ppm in air for 15 minutes twice a day, before and after each work shift, over 14 days to healthcare providers (NCT04312243). During NO administration vital signs were continuously monitored. Safety was assessed by measuring transcutaneous methemoglobinemia (SpMet) and the inhaled nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentration.Results 12 healthy healthcare professionals received a collective total of 185 administrations of high dose NO (160 ppm) for 15 minutes twice daily. 171 doses were delivered by iNO and 14 doses by eNO. During NO administration SpMet increased similarly in both groups (p=.82). Methemoglobin decreased in all subjects at five minutes after discontinuing NO administration. Inhaled NO2 concentrations remained between 0.70 [0.63-0.79] and 0.75 [0.67-0.83] ppm in the iNO group and between 0.74 [0.68-0.78] and 0.88 [0.70-0.93] ppm in eNO group. During NO administration peripheral oxygen saturation and heart rate did not change. No adverse events occurred.Conclusion This pilot study testing high dose inhaled NO (160 ppm) for 15 minutes twice a day using eNO seem feasible and similarly safe when compared with iNO.Experience-dependent formation and removal of synapses are essential throughout life. For instance, GABAergic synapses are removed to facilitate learning, and strong excitatory activity is accompanied by formation of inhibitory synapses to maintain coordination between excitation and inhibition. We recently discovered that active dendrites trigger the growth of inhibitory synapses via CB1 receptor-mediated endocannabinoid signaling, but the underlying mechanism remained unclear. Using two-photon microscopy to monitor the formation of individual inhibitory boutons in hippocampal organotypic slices from mice (both sexes), we found that CB1 receptor activation mediated the formation of inhibitory boutons and promoted their subsequent stabilization. Inhibitory bouton formation did not require neuronal activity and was independent of Gi/o protein signaling, but was directly induced by elevating cAMP levels using forskolin and by activating Gs proteins using DREADDs. Blocking PKA activity prevented CB1 receptor-med axonal cAMP levels and requires PKA activity. Our findings point to a central role for axonal cAMP signaling in activity-dependent inhibitory synapse formation.The pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) is a reticular collection of neurons at the junction of the midbrain and pons, playing an important role in modulating posture and locomotion. Deep brain stimulation of the PPN has been proposed as an emerging treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) or multiple system atrophy (MSA) suffering gait-related atypical parkinsonian syndromes. In this study, we investigated PPN activities during gait to better understand its functional role in locomotion. Specifically, we investigated whether PPN activity is rhythmically modulated by gait cycles during locomotion. PPN local field potential (LFP) activities were recorded from PD or MSA patients suffering from gait difficulties during stepping in place or free walking. Simultaneous measurements from force plates or accelerometers were used to determine the phase within each gait cycle at each time point. Our results showed that activities in the alpha and beta frequency bands in the PPN LFPs were rhythmically modulated bg rhythm was regular. It remains to be tested whether enhancing alternating PPN modulation by stimulating in an alternating fashion could positively affect gait control.Decision-making not only requires agents to decide what to choose, but also how much information to sample before committing to a choice. Previously established frameworks for economic choice argue for a deliberative process of evidence accumulation across time. These tacitly acknowledge a role of information sampling, in that decisions are only made once sufficient evidence is acquired, yet few experiments have explicitly placed information sampling under the participant's control. Here, we use functional MRI to investigate the neural basis of information sampling in economic choice, by allowing participants (n=30, sex not recorded) to actively sample information in a multi-step decision task. We show that medial frontal cortex (MFC) activity is predictive of further information sampling prior to choice. Choice difficulty (inverse value difference, keeping sensory difficulty constant) was also encoded in MFC, but this effect was explained away by the inclusion of information sampling as a co-regressor in thepling decisions in a multi-step economic choice task. This suggests an important role of evidence representations within MFC may be to guide adaptive sequential decisions to sample further information, before committing to a final decision.Binocular disparity provides critical information about three-dimensional (3D) structure to support perception and action. The past decade has seen significant progress in uncovering human brain areas engaged in the processing of binocular disparity signals. Yet, the fine-scale brain processing underlying 3D perception remains unknown. Here, we use ultra-high field (7T) functional imagining at sub-millimetre resolution to examine fine-scale BOLD-fMRI signals involved in 3D perception. In particular, we sought to interrogate the local circuitry involved in disparity processing by sampling fMRI responses at different positions relative to the cortical surface (i.e., across cortical depths corresponding to layers). We test for representations related to 3D perception by presenting participants (male and female, N = 8) with stimuli that enable stable stereoscopic perception (i.e., correlated random dot stereograms RDS) vs. those that do not (i.e., anti-correlated RDS). Using multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA), wn 3D perception at sub-millimetre resolution. We provide evidence for the role of area V3A as a key nexus for disparity processing that is implicated in feedforward and feedback signals related to the perceptual estimation of 3D structure from binocular signals. These fine-scale measurements help bridge the gap between animal neurophysiology and human fMRI studies investigating cross-scale circuits from micro-circuits to global brain networks for 3D perception.When encoding new episodic memories, visual and semantic processing are proposed to make distinct contributions to accurate memory and memory distortions. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and preregistered representational similarity analysis (RSA) to uncover the representations that predict true and false recognition of unfamiliar objects. Two semantic models captured coarse-grained taxonomic categories and specific object features, respectively, while two perceptual models embodied low-level visual properties. Twenty-eight female and male participants encoded images of objects during fMRI scanning, and later had to discriminate studied objects from similar lures and novel objects in a recognition memory test. Both perceptual and semantic models predicted true memory. When studied objects were later identified correctly, neural patterns corresponded to low-level visual representations of these object images in the early visual cortex, lingual, and fusiform gyri. In a similar fashionperties and object knowledge are represented in the brain. When people processed fine-grained visual properties in occipital and posterior temporal cortex, they were more likely to be recognize the objects later, and less likely to falsely recognize similar objects. In contrast, while object-specific feature representations in fusiform gyrus predicted accurate memory, coarse-grained categorical representations in frontal and temporal regions predicted forgetting. The data provide the first direct tests of theoretical assumptions about encoding true and false memories, suggesting that semantic representations contribute to specific memories as well as errors.Neuronal ensembles are groups of neurons with coordinated activity that could represent sensory, motor, or cognitive states. The study of how neuronal ensembles are built, recalled, and involved in the guiding of complex behaviors has been limited by the lack of experimental and analytical tools to reliably identify and manipulate neurons that have the ability to activate entire ensembles. Such "pattern completion" neurons have also been proposed as key elements of artificial and biological neural networks. Indeed, the relevance of pattern completion is highlighted by growing evidence that targeting them can activate neuronal ensembles and trigger behavior. As a method to reliably detect pattern completion neurons, we use Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), a type of probabilistic graphical models. We apply CRFs to identify pattern completion neurons in ensembles in experiments using in vivo two-photon calcium imaging from primary visual cortex of male mice and confirm the CRFs predictions with two-photon optog; Robinson et al., 2020).Cue-induced cocaine craving progressively intensifies (incubates) after withdrawal from cocaine self-administration in rats and humans. In rats, the expression of incubation ultimately depends on Ca2+-permeable AMPARs (CP-AMPARs) that accumulate in synapses onto medium spiny neurons (MSN) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) core. However, the delay in their accumulation (approximately 1 month after drug self-administration ceases) suggests earlier waves of plasticity. This prompted us to conduct the first study of NMDAR transmission in NAc core during incubation, focusing on the GluN3 subunit, which confers atypical properties when incorporated into NMDARs including insensitivity to Mg2+ block and Ca2+-impermeability. Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings were conducted in MSNs of adult male rats 1-68 days after discontinuing extended-access saline or cocaine self-administration. NMDAR transmission was enhanced after 5 days of cocaine withdrawal and this persisted for at least 68 days of withdrawal. The earliest funct Incubation also occurs in human drug users. AMPAR plasticity in medium spiny neurons (MSN) of the nucleus accumbens core is critical for incubation of cocaine craving but occurs only after a delay. Here we found that AMPAR plasticity is preceded by NMDAR plasticity that is essential for incubation and involves GluN3, an atypical NMDAR subunit that markedly alters NMDAR transmission. Together with AMPAR plasticity, this represents profound remodeling of excitatory synaptic transmission onto MSNs. Given the importance of MSNs for translating motivation into action, this plasticity may explain at least in part the profound shifts in motivated behavior that characterize addiction.