400 to be tested after doctor in Japan gets TB

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The local government said on Tuesday.about 400 people will be tested for tuberculosis in central Japan after their doctor was diagnosed with the disease.The doctor has treated 1,695 patients since January, but the local government said it was unlikely that any would have been infected as the doctor would only have spent a brief time seeing each patient.

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Optimization of Somatic Inhibition at Critical Period Onset in Mouse Visual Cortex

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Local GABAergic circuits trigger visual cortical plasticity in early postnatal life. How these diverse connections contribute to critical period onset was investigated by nonstationary fluctuation analysis following laser photo-uncaging of GABA onto discrete sites upon individual pyramidal cells in slices of mouse visual cortex. The GABAA receptor number decreased on the soma-proximal dendrite (SPD), but not at the axon initial segment, with age and sensory deprivation. Benzodiazepine sensitivity was also higher on the immature SPD

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