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Flaviviruses are emerging arthropod-borne RNA viruses, causing a broad spectrum of life-threatening disease symptoms such as encephalitis and hemorrhagic fever. PT2399 research buy Successful vaccines exist against yellow fever virus, Japanese encephalitis virus and tick-borne encephalitis virus. However, vaccine development against other flaviviruses like dengue virus is not straightforward. This is partly because of the high sequence conservation and immunological cross-reactivity among flavivirus envelope glycoproteins leading to antibody mediated enhancement of disease. A comprehensive analyses of the structural landscape of humoral immune response against flaviviruses is crucial for antigen design. Here, we compare the available structural data of several flavivirus antibody complexes with a major focus on Zika virus and dengue virus and discuss the mapped epitopes, the stoichiometry of antibody binding and mechanisms of neutralization.Visual motion or flashing lights can evoke auditory sensations in some people. This large-scale internet study aimed to validate a combined subjective/objective test of the genuineness of this putative form of synaesthesia (visually-evoked auditory response, vEAR). Correlations were measured between each individual's ratings of the vividness of auditory sensations evoked by a series of looping videos, and measurement of the videos' physical low-level motion energy, calculated using Adelson and Bergen's (1985) computational model of low-level visual motion processing. The strength of this association for each individual provided a test of how strongly subjective vEAR was driven by objective motion energy ('ME-sensitivity'). A second aim was to infer whether vEAR depends on cortical excitation and/or disinhibition of early visual and/or auditory brain areas. To achieve this, correlations were measured between the above vEAR measures and visual contrast surround-suppression, which is thought to index lateral inhibition in the early visual system. As predicted by a disinhibition account of vEAR, video ratings were overall higher in individuals showing weaker surround-suppression. Interestingly, surround-suppression and ME-sensitivity did not correlate. Additionally, both surround-suppression and ME-sensitivity each independently predicted different clusters of trait measures selected for their possible association with cortical excitability and/or disinhibition Surround-suppression was associated with vEAR self-ratings and auditory-evoked visual phosphenes, while ME-sensitivity was independently associated with ratings of other traits including susceptibility to migraine and pattern glare. Altogether, these results suggest there are two independent mechanisms underlying vEAR and its associated traits, based putatively on cortical disinhibition versus excitability.Recently it has been shown that statistical learning of regularities presented in a display can bias attentional selection, such that attentional capture by salient objects is reduced by suppressing the location where these distractors are likely to appear. The role of attention in learning these contingencies is not immediately clear. Specifically, it is not known whether attention needs to be directed to the contingencies present in the display for learning to occur. In the current study we investigated whether participants can learn statistical regularities present in the environment even when these regularities are not relevant for the participant and are not part of their top-down goals. We used the additional singleton paradigm in which a color singleton was presented much more often in one location than in all other locations. We show that after being exposed to these regularities regarding the location of the color singleton during an unrelated task in which there are no targets nor distractors, participants showed a suppression effect from the previously learned contingencies when switching to a task in which they search for a target and suppress a distractor. We conclude that visual statistical learning can occur in the absence of top-down attention.Similar neural circuits are activated during action and the observation of action and such sensorimotor resonance is said to support action understanding and empathy. Previous research, however, shows that group biases can restrict sensorimotor resonance to the social ingroup. Here we test whether an empathic mindset can alleviate such group biases in sensorimotor resonance. Participants adopted either an objective mindset or a perspective taking mindset while writing about a day in the life of a racial outgroup member. Participants in an objective mindset resonated with ingroup members, indicated by significant suppression of the 8-13 Hz electroencephalographic (EEG) mu-rhythm recorded over sensorimotor areas during action observation compared to baseline, but did not show significant mu-suppression in response to outgroup members. In contrast, participants in a perspective taking mindset resonated with both ingroup and outgroup members and significantly more so with outgroup members. Moreover, mindset uniquely affected resonance in response to outgroup members but not in response to ingroup members, with participants who previously took the perspective of an outgroup member later responding with more resonance to the actions of other outgroup members. Together these findings suggest that taking the perspective of a racial outgroup member can reduce group biases in sensorimotor resonance, potentially fostering an intuitive understanding across groups.Difficulty of Pomegranate fruit peeling and arils separation are the main motivations of progressive ready-to-eat pomegranate fresh arils industry. Also, extracted pomegranate arils are highly perishable due to water loss and microbial contamination expose. The aim of the current work was then to evaluate the effect of ultrasound for 15 and 30 min on maintenance of bioactive compounds and microbial load reduction of pomegranate arils cv. Rabbab. Treated arils were kept at 5 °C and analyzed during 15 days of storage. The most and least weight loss of arils obtained in control and 30 min treated samples, respectively. After 12 days of storage, all samples were decayed except those treated for 15 and 30 min. The ultrasound treatment significantly prevented degradation of anthocyanin and ascorbic acid compounds. Total phenol and antioxidant activity decreased during storage. At the end of storage, the most total phenol content (3898.6 mg GAE L-1) was found in arils treated for 30 min whereas the most anthocyanin (91.