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Gesteland, Raymond F.; Atkins, John F.; Felden, Brice; McCutcheon, John P. | Probing the structure of the Escherichia coli 10Sa RNA (tmRNA) | The conformation of the Escherichia coli 10Sa RNA (tmRNA) in solution was investigated using chemical and enzymatic probes. Single- and double-stranded domains were identified by hydrolysis of tmRNA in imidazole buffer and by lead(II)-induced cleavages. Ribonucleases T1 and S1 were used to map unpai... | Covariation; Pseudoknot; Structural Probing; 10Sa RNA; tmRNA | 1997 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Proposed specifications for a lumbar spinal cord electrode array for control of lower extremities in paraplegia | The goal of the study was to provide specifications for a stimulating electrode array to be implanted in the lumbosacral spinal cord as part of a functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) system for control of lower extremity muscles in paralyzed individuals. Dual channel stimulation of the qua... | Stimulating electrode array; FNS; Functional neuromuscular stimulation | 1997 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Dispersion effects in fiber optic interferometry | An extended analysis of the effects of uncompensated fiber dispersion on the fringe visibility of a fiber optic interferometer is developed, with particular emphasis on stellar interferometry. Both material and waveguide dispersion for single-mode, polarization-preserving fibers are considered. It... | Stellar interferometry; Fiber optics; Statistical optics | 1997 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Are the extrinsic muscles better suited for signaling joint angles or finger tip location? | We used a biomechanical model of the human long finger to determine whether the extrinsic muscles are better suited for estimating the finger's joint angles or for estimating location of the finger tip. We found that two of the extrinsic muscles together could provide information sufficient to direc... | Extrinsic muscles; Metacarpophalangeal joint; Biomechanical models | 1997 |
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Christensen, Douglas A.; Herron, James N. | Rapid clinical diagnostics assays using injection-molded planar waveguides | The goal of our research program is to develop an evanescent wave immunoassay system that can be used in point-of-care and critical care settings. Several key attributes are required to accomplish this goal: (i) the assay system should be at least as sensitive as present day immunoassays; (ii) assay... | Planar waveguides; Creatine phosphokinase MB (CK-MB); Cardiac troponin I (cTnl); Diagnostics; Evanescence; Fluorescence; Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) | 1998 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Shah, Maulik R. | Study of printed spiral coils for neuroprosthetic transcranial telemetry applications | We have explored the use of printed spiral coils (PSC's) for neuroprosthetic transcranial telemetry applications. We fabricated two-dimensional PSC's on a thin (25 microns) polyimide substrate using copper (35 microns) as a conducting material. All the coils had a fixed inner diameter of 1.0 cm. We ... | Blindness; Neuroprosthesis; Transcranial Telemetry System; Prosthesis Design | 1998 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Plasma-etched polymer waveguides for intrachip optical interconnects | Optical intrachip communication offers the potential advantages of high speed and lack of electrical interference. We report on progress made on an interconnect design using GaAs LEDs, polymer waveguides, and photodiodes in a silicon substrate. The polymer waveguides are fabricated in polyimide or p... | Polymer waveguides; Intrachip interconnects; LEDs | 1998 |
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Gesteland, Raymond F.; Atkins, John F.; Ingram, Jennifer A.; Kelly, Paul J.; Grentzmann, Guido | Dual-luciferase reporter system for studying recoding signals | A new reporter system has been developed for measuring translation coupling efficiency of recoding mechanisms such as frameshifting or readthrough. A recoding test sequence is cloned in between the renilla and firefly luciferase reporter genes and the two luciferase activities are subsequently measu... | Amino Acid Sequence; Genes, Reporter; HIV; Antizyme; Translation | 1998 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Maynard, Edwin M. | Neuronal interactions improve cortical population coding of movement direction | Interactions among groups of neurons in primary motor cortex (MI) may convey information about motor behavior. We investigated the information carried by interactions in MI of macaque monkeys using a novel multielectrode array to record simultaneously from 12-16 neurons during an arm-reaching task. ... | Motor Cortex; Monkey; Population Coding; Movement | 1999 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Maynard, Edwin M. | Neural interface for a cortical vision prosthesis | The development of a cortically based vision prosthesis has been hampered by a lack of basic experiments on phosphene psychophysics. This basic research has been hampered by the lack of a means to safely stimulate large numbers of cortical neurons. Recently, a number of laboratories have developed a... | Neuroprosthetics; Artificial Vision; Electrode Arrays; Multielectrode Recordings; Biocompatibility | 1999 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Selective activation of muscle groups in the feline hindlimb thorough electrical microstimulation of the ventral lumbo-sacral spinal cord | Selective activation of muscle groups in the feline hindlimb by electrical stimulation of the ventral lumbo-sacral spinal cord was investigated. Spinal cord segments L5 to S1 were mapped using a penetrating tungsten needle electrode. Locations that produced isolated contraction of quadriceps, ti... | Functional electrical stimulation; Motor pools; Spinal chord stimulation | 2000 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Muscle recruitment through electrical stimulation of the lumbo-sacral spinal cord | The goal of this study was to determine the feasibility of producing graded muscle contraction in individual muscles or muscle groups by electrically stimulating motor neurons in the lumbo-sacral spinal cord. Recruitment curves were obtained for quadriceps, tibialis anterior and triceps surae/pl... | Functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS); Motor pools, Muscle recruitment, Spinal cord stimulation | 2000 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Planar waveguide biosensors for nucleic acid hybridization reactions | Oligonucleotide probes derived from (1) the T3 RNA polymerase promoter sequence (T3) and (2) prostate-specific antigen messenger RNA (PSA) were prepared and labeled with a red-emitting fluorescent dye (Cy5). The complimentary oligonucleotides (anti T3 and anti PSA) were prepared and labeled with bio... | Planar waveguides; Evanescence; Fluorescence; Glandular kallikrein; MDx; Molecular diagnostics; Nucleic acid; PSA; Oligonucleotide probes | 2000 |
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Christensen, Douglas A.; Furse, Cynthia M. | Problem and treatment of DC offsets in FDTD simulations | This paper discusses the causes of and some solutions to the commonly observed problem of dc field offsets in finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations. DC electric and magnetic field offsets are shown to be valid calculated responses of the modeled systems, resulting from interaction betwee... | Finite-difference time-domain method; Direct current offsets; Waveforms | 2000-08 |
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Christensen, Douglas A. | Using the cardiovascular system to illustrate fundamental laws and principles in a freshman course | Our Fundamentals of Bioengineering I course is organized around key physical and engineering laws and principles. A semester-long Major Project is assigned which integrates many of these principles by modeling the human systemic cardiovascular system, using both Matlab computer analysis and assembly... | Matlab | 2002 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Christensen, Douglas A. | Accelerated 4-year bachelors/masters degree program in biomedical engineering | In response to the need for providing advanced engineering education in a shorter time period than is currently possible by traditional curricula, we have created an Accelerated Dual Degree program in biomedical engineering. The purpose of this pilot program is to attract the brightest students, g... | Accelerated dual-degree program | 2002 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Christensen, Douglas A. | Accelerated 4-year bachelors/masters degree program in biomedical engineering | In response to the need for providing advanced engineering education in a shorter time period than is currently possible by traditional curricula, we have created an Accelerated Dual Degree program in biomedical engineering. The purpose of this pilot program is to attract the brightest students, g... | Accelerated; Dual-degrees; Education | 2002 |
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Angelucci, Alessandra; Lund, Jennifer S. | Circuits for local and global signal integration in primary visual cortex | Contrast-dependent changes in spatial summation and contextual modulation of primary visual cortex (V1) neuron responses to stimulation of their receptive field reveal long-distance integration of visual signals within V1, well beyond the classical receptive field (cRF) of single neurons. To identif... | Primary Visual Cortex; Extrastriate Cortex; Feed-back Connections; Lateral Connections; SUrround Modulation; Macaque | 2002-10-01 |
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Varner, Michael W.; Clark, Edward B.; Fernando, Kumari L.; Mathews, V. John | Robust estimation of fetal heart rate variability using Doppler ultrasound. | This paper presents a new measure of heart rate variability (HRV) that can be estimated using Doppler ultrasound techniques and is robust to variations in the angle of incidence of the ultrasound beam and the measurement noise. This measure employs the multiple signal characterization (MUSIC) algori... | Prenatal Ultrasonography; Fetal Heart Rate; Blood Flow Velocity; Algorithms | 2003-08 |
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Horch, Kenneth W.; Lawrence, Steve M.; Dhillon, Gurpreet S. | Acute peripheral nerve recording characteristics of polymer-based longitudinal intrafascicular electrodes | We examined the recording characteristics of two different types of polymer-based longitudinal intrafascicular electrodes (LIFEs) in peripheral nerve: single-stranded (s-polyLIFEs) and multistranded (m-polyLIFEs). Recordings were also made from Pt-Ir wire-based electrodes (PtIrLIFEs) as a control. T... | Sciatic Nerve; Intrafascicular Electrodes, Peripheral Nerve Recording | 2004 |
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Horch, Kenneth W. | Ontogeny of diving and feeding behavior in juvenile seaturtles: Leatherback Seaturtles (Dermochelys coriacea L) and Green Seaturtles (Chelonia mydas L) in the Florida Current | We compared activity, diving behavior and response to prey by Dermochelys coriacea and Chelonia mydas during their first 8-10 weeks of development.We reared juveniles in the laboratory and, at two-week intervals, released them in the ocean for a brief trial. Each turtle towed a device used to measur... | Hatchlings; Posthatchling; Habitats | 2004 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Shoham, Shy | Encoding mechanisms for sensory neurons studied with a multielectrode array in the cat dorsal root ganglion | Recent advances in microelectrode array technology now permit a direct examination of the way populations of sensory neurons encode information about a limb's position in space. To address this issue, we recorded nerve impulses from about 100 single units simultaneously in the L6 and L7 dorsal root ... | Sensory; Encoding; Multielectrode; Dorsal Root Ganglion; Cutaneour; Muscle | 2004 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Branner, Almut | Long-term stimulation and recording with a penetrating microelectrode array in cat sciatic nerve | We studied the consequences of long-term implantation of a penetrating microelectrode array in peripheral nerve over the time course of 4-6 mo. Electrode arrays without lead wires were implanted to test the ability of different containment systems to protect the array and nerve during contractions o... | Cats; Microelectrodes; Prosthesis Implantation; Sciatic Nerve | 2004 |
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Normann, Richard A.; Clark, Gregory A.; McDonnall, Daniel | Selective motor unit recruitment via intrafascicular multielectrode stimulation | Recruitment of force via independent asynchronous firing of large numbers of motor units produces the grace and endurance of physiological motion. We have investigated the possibility of reproducing this physiological recruitment strategy by determining the selectivity of access to large numbers of ... | Funtional Neuromuscular Stimulation; Microelectrode Array; Neuroprosthesis; Intrafascicular Multielectrode Stimulation; Cats | 2004 |
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Gesteland, Raymond F.; Atkins, John F.; Baranov, Pavel V. | P-site tRNA is a crucial initiator of ribosomal frameshifting | The expression of some genes requires a high proportion of ribosomes to shift at a specific site into one of the two alternative frames. This utilized frameshifting provides a unique tool for studying reading frame control. Peptidyl-tRNA slippage has been invoked to explain many cases of programmed ... | Translation; Recoding; Kinetic Model; Frameshifting; Ribosome | 2004 |
