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South of the Roman Forum, a slope leads up to the Palatine Hill, Rome’s legendary birthplace and today a romantic garden, dotted with toppled columns among the wild flowers and spiny acanthus shrubs.
However, these two genera were removed from Artemisia s.l ., and on the basis of spiny pollen have been considered transitional between the Artemisia -group and four radiate genera: Tridactylina Arctanthemum, Brachanthemum, and Dendranthema . Our ITS phylogeny places disciform Ajania sister to radiate Arctanthemum derived from within the Arctanthemum-Dendranthema clade, rather than sister to the Artemisia -group.
In the case of Huntington disease the loss of 15-30% of the normal complement of medium spiny neurons leads to distinct movement disorder in both humans and transgenic mouse models [ 14 15 16 17 ] . The subset of genes that normally control the proliferation, differentiation, and survival of striatal neurons [ 18 19 20 ] are therefore of considerable importance in ensuring adaptive behavior at maturity.
Approximately 90% of all neurons in the striatum - 1.5 to 2.5 million in mice [ 1, 2] and 110-200 million in humans [ 3, 4] - belong to an unusual type 'of inhibitory projection cell referred to as medium spiny neurons [ 5 6 7 8 ] . Striatal neurons are divided into two major subpopulations (patch and matrix), that have somewhat different gene expression profiles and have different patterns of pre- and postsynaptic connections [ 9 10 11 12 13 ] .
But they would prefer to be trekking across the wildflower-pocked tundra, wading through 35-degree glacial muck, spending hours -looking, or exploring tidal pools for sunflower stars and brittle stars, spiny sea urchins, mussel worms, anemones, and blennies, as curious and brightly colored as any on a tropical coral reef.
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