Southwest University

About: Southwest University is a education organization based out in Chongqing, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Gene & Population. The organization has 29772 authors who have published 27755 publications receiving 409441 citations. The organization is also known as: Southwest University in Chongqing & SWU.

Individual Differences in Spontaneous Expressive Suppression Predict Amygdala Responses to Fearful Stimuli: The Role of Suppression Priming.

Abstract: Though the spontaneous emotion regulation has received long discussions, few studies have explored the regulatory effects of spontaneous expressive suppression at the neural level. The functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study aimed to examine whether individual differences in the tendency to use suppression manifests in decreased amygdala responses when individuals are spontaneously confronted with negative situations in Chinese culture valuing emotion suppression. Twenty-three heathy Chinese undergraduates completed a fMRI paradigm involving fear processing, and a synonym matching task was added to prime participants with the unconscious (automatic) expressive suppression goal. Participants completed measures of typical emotion regulation use (reappraisal and suppression), trait anxiety, and neuroticism. Results indicated that only in emotion suppression prime condition, greater use of suppression in everyday life was related to decreased amygdala activity. These associations were not attributable to variation in trait anxiety, neuroticism, or the habitual use of reappraisal. These findings suggest that 1) though Chinese cultures value emotion suppression, the regulatory effects of spontaneous suppression depends on the situational factors; 2) like spontaneous reappraisal, individual differences in suppression use are associated with decreased activation in ventral emotion generative regions in response to negative stimuli.

Microarray-based gene expression profiles in multiple tissues of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori

Abstract: We designed and constructed a genome-wide microarray with 22,987 70-mer oligonucleotides covering the presently known and predicted genes in the silkworm genome, and surveyed the gene expression in multiple silkworm tissues on day 3 of the fifth instar. Clusters of tissue-prevalent and tissue-specific genes and genes that are differentially expressed in different tissues were identified, and they reflect well major tissue-specific functions on the molecular level. The data presented in this study provide a new resource for annotating the silkworm genome.