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Rodent primary somatosensory cortex (S1) is organized in defined layers, where layer IV serves as the main target for thalamocortical projections. Serotoninergic signaling is important for the organization of thalamocortical projections and consequently proper barrel field development in rodents, and the vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) can be detected locally in layer IV S1 cortical neurons in mice as old as P10, but the identity of the Vmat2-expressing neurons is unknown. We here show that Vmat2 mRNA and also Vmat2-Cre recombinase are still expressed in adult mice in a sub-population of the S1 cortical neurons in the barrel field. The Vmat2-Cre cells showed a homogenous intrinsically bursting firing pattern determined by whole-cell patch-clamp, localized radial densely spinous basal dendritic trees and almost exclusively lack of apical dendrite, indicative of layer IV spiny stellate cells. Single cell mRNA sequencing analysis showed that S1 cortical Vmat2-Cre;tdTomato cells express the layer IV marker Rorb and mainly cluster with layer IV neurons, and RNAscope analysis revealed that adult Vmat2-Cre neurons express Vmat2 and vesicular glutamate transporter 1 (Vglut1) and Vglut2 mRNA to a high extent. In conclusion, our analysis shows that cortical Vmat2 expression is mainly confined to layer IV neurons with morphological, electrophysiological and transcriptional characteristics indicative of spiny stellate cells.Delivering appropriate stimuli remains a challenge in vision research, particularly for aquatic animals such as zebrafish. Due to the shape of the water tank and the associated optical paths of light rays, the stimulus can be subject to unwanted refraction or reflection artifacts, which may spoil the experiment and result in wrong conclusions. Here, we employ computer graphics simulations and calcium imaging in the zebrafish optic tectum to show, how a spherical glass container optically outperforms many previously used water containers, including Petri dish lids. We demonstrate that aquatic vision experiments suffering from total internal reflection artifacts at the water surface or at the flat container bottom may result in the erroneous detection of visual neurons with bipartite receptive fields and in the apparent absence of neurons selective for vertical motion. Our results and demonstrations will help aquatic vision neuroscientists on optimizing their stimulation setups.Seafloor structures related to the emission of different fluids, such as submarine mud volcanoes (MVs), have been recently reported to largely contribute with dissolved organic matter (DOM) into the oceans. Semaglutide Submarine MVs are common structures in the Gulf of Cádiz. However, little is known about the biogeochemical processes that occur in these peculiar environments, especially those involving DOM. Here, we report DOM characterization in the sediment pore water of three MVs of the Gulf of Cádiz. Estimated benthic fluxes of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and chromophoric DOM (CDOM) were higher than in other marine sediments with an average of 0.11 ± 0.04 mmol m-2 d-1 for DOC and ranging between 0.11 and 2.86 m-1 L m-2 d-1, for CDOM. Protein-like components represented ~ 70% of the total fluorescent DOM (FDOM). We found that deep fluids migration from MVs (cold seeps) and anaerobic production via sulfate-reducing bacteria represent a source of DOC and FDOM to the overlying water column. Our results also indicate that fluorescent components can have many diverse sources not captured by common classifications. Overall, MVs act as a source of DOC, CDOM, and FDOM to the deep waters of the Gulf of Cádiz, providing energy to the microbial communities living there.Numerical-based simulations of plasmonic polymer solar cells (PSCs) incorporating a disordered array of non-uniform sized plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) impose a prohibitively long-time and complex computational demand. To surmount this limitation, we present a novel semi-analytical modeling, which dramatically reduces computational time and resource consumption and yet is acceptably accurate. For this purpose, the optical modeling of active layer-incorporated plasmonic metal NPs, which is described by a homogenization theory based on a modified Maxwell-Garnett-Mie theory, is inputted in the electrical modeling based on the coupled equations of Poisson, continuity, and drift-diffusion. Besides, our modeling considers the effects of absorption in the non-active layers, interference induced by electrodes, and scattered light escaping from the PSC. The modeling results satisfactorily reproduce a series of experimental data for photovoltaic parameters of plasmonic PSCs, demonstrating the validity of our modeling approach. According to this, we implement the semi-analytical modeling to propose a new high-efficiency plasmonic PSC based on the PM6Y6 PSC, having the highest reported power conversion efficiency (PCE) to date. The results show that the incorporation of plasmonic NPs into PM6Y6 active layer leads to the PCE over 18%.Neutron spectrometry in science and technology applications in general and accurate exotic photoneutron (PN) dosimetry of cancer patients undergoing high-dose high-energy X-rays therapy in medical accelerators in particular is of vital need. In this study, a novel passive multi-directional multi-detector neutron spectrometry system was developed and home-made using 6 polycarbonate/10B detectors on 6 sides of polyethylene (PE) cubes used bare and also embedded at center of PE spheres of 8 different diameters. The system provided well-resolved unfolded directional PN spectra showing thermal and fast PN peaks of 6 sides and mean spectrum in 5 field sizes at isocenter and other locations in 18 MV Siemens ONCOR medical linear accelerator bunker. The neutron spectrometry system developed has unique characteristics such as being simple, efficient, low cost, practical, and insensitive to low-LET radiation with well-resolved directional and mean spectra easily applicable in medicine, health, environment, science and technology in developing and developed laboratories.Large protein complexes carry out some of the most complex activities in biology1,2. Such structures are often assembled spontaneously through the process of self-assembly and have characteristic chemical or biological assets in the cellular mechanisms3. Gold-based nanomaterials have attracted much attention in many areas of chemistry, physics and biosciences because of their size- and shape-dependent optic, electric, and catalytic properties. Here we report for the first time a one step synthesis in which Manganese Superoxide Dismutase protein plays a key role in the reduction of gold salts via the use of a Good's buffer (HEPES) to produce gold nanoparticles, compared to other proteins as catalase (CAT) and bovine serum albumin (BSA).We prove that this effect is directly related with the biological activities of the proteins that have an effect on the gold reduction mechanisms. Such synthesis route also induces the integration of proteins directly in the AuNPs that are intrinsically safe by design using a one-step production method.