Fighting nerve agent chemical weapons with enzyme technology.

abstract：:Neuroscience has made tremendous progress delineating the cellular and molecular processes important for understanding neuronal development and behavior, but this knowledge has been slow to translate to new treatments for psychiatric illness. To accelerate this transfer of knowledge to the human condition requires the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jones KA,Menniti FS,Sivarao DV

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is the major risk factor for both the development of chronic diseases and loss of functional capacity. Geroscience provides links among the biology of aging, the biology of disease, and the physiology of frailty, three fields where enormous progress has been made in the last few decades. While, previously, the f...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kohanski RA,Deeks SG,Gravekamp C,Halter JB,High K,Hurria A,Fuldner R,Green P,Huebner R,Macchiarini F,Sierra F

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is a common and often fatal event, and, in survivors, it is accompanied by a high risk of recurrence. Ischemic stroke is associated with abnormal platelet activity and thrombus formation. In addition to their roles in the development of acute thrombi, platelets serve as a bridge for leukocytes within the vascul...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Franks ZG,Campbell RA,Weyrich AS,Rondina MT

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioides causes coccidioidomycosis in the southwestern United States. Its clinical manifestations range from the primary asymptomatic to progressive pulmonary and extrapulmonary disease. Because of endemicity, frequent relapse, and virulent nature of Coccidioides, there is an urgent need for the development of eff...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Awasthi S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrations in estrogen signaling increase breast cancer risk. Molecular mechanisms that impact breast cancer initiation, promotion, and progression can be investigated using genetically engineered mouse models. Increasing estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) expression levels twofold is sufficient to initiate and promote br...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Furth PA,Cabrera MC,Díaz-Cruz ES,Millman S,Nakles RE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surprising discovery in 1990 that estrogen modulates hippocampal structural plasticity launched a whole new field of scientific inquiry. Over the past two decades, estrogen-induced spinogenesis has been described in several brain areas involved in cognition in a number of species, in both sexes and on multiple tim...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dumitriu D,Rapp PR,McEwen BS,Morrison JH

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At a given cytosolic domain of a chromaffin cell, the rate and amplitude of the Ca(2+) concentration, [Ca(2+)](c), depend on at least three efficient regulatory mechanisms: (1) the plasmalemmal Ca(2+) channels; (2) the endoplasmic reticulum (ER); and (3) the mitochondria. High-voltage activated Ca(2+) channels of the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cuchillo-Ibanez I,Albillos A,Aldea M,Arroyo G,Fuentealba J,Garcia AG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An apparently macromolecular factor is isolated from aqueous skin extracts which inhibits DNA synthesis in vivo and in vitro with high efficacy (ID50 in vivo 0.2 pmol/g, in vitro 0.2 pM) and in a highly specific manner showing a point of attack in the late G1-phase of the cell cycle (epidermal G1-chalone). Preliminary...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Richter KH,Clauss M,Höfle W,Schnapke R,Marks F

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is a prerequisite for tumor expansion and metastasis. The angiogenic potential of the heparin-binding growth factors acidic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and basic FGF has been demonstrated in various publications. We studied the inhibitory effects of suramin and the polysulfated heparinoids pentosan pol...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zugmaier G,Favoni R,Jaeger R,Rosen N,Knabbe C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesia felis, originally identified in wild cats in the Sudan, was subsequently found to cause clinical disease in domestic cats. Although babesiosis in domestic cats has been reported sporadically from various countries, as a significant disease it appears to be a distinctly South African phenomenon. Apart from an i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Penzhorn BL,Schoeman T,Jacobson LS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Externally guided sensory-motor processes deteriorate with increasing age. Internally guided, for example, predictive, behavior usually helps to overcome sensory-motor delays. We studied whether predictive components of visuomotor transformation decline with age. We investigated smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM) of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sprenger A,Trillenberg P,Pohlmann J,Herold K,Lencer R,Helmchen C

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-carotene acts as an antioxidant or a pro-oxidant depending on the concentrations that cells are treated with. Oxidative DNA damage is related to apoptosis of various cells. Ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated (ATM), a sensor for DNA-damaging agents, activates a variety of effectors in multiple signaling pathways, such ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jang SH,Lim JW,Kim H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer chemoprevention entails the ingestion of dietary or pharmaceutical agents that can prevent, delay, or reverse the process of carcinogenesis. With support provided by the National Cancer Institute, we have been actively engaged in the systematic discovery and characterization of natural chemopreventive agents. T...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pezzuto JM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, the exon/intron structure of the chicken type II collagen gene is identical with that of the chicken alpha 2(I) collagen gene and differs at only one known position from the human and mouse alpha 1(I) genes. However, the chicken type II gene is different from the chicken alpha 2(I) gene in that it is consi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Upholt WB,Strom CM,Sandell LJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biochemical and immunocytochemical comparisons of adhering junctions of different epithelia, we have observed differences in molecular composition not only between the intermediate filament-attached desmosomes and the actin filaments-anchoring adherens junctions but also between desmosomes of different tissues and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Borrmann CM,Mertens C,Schmidt A,Langbein L,Kuhn C,Franke WW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our data show that when substance abusers are subtyped simultaneously by antisocial personality disorder and the onset of depression relative to alcohol or drug abuse, groups of people with unique personality and affective profiles are identified. The profiles are represented by measures of affect-related personality ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Epstein EE,Ginsburg BE,Hesselbrock VM,Schwarz JC

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of type 1 diabetes is, in part, dictated by the failure of regulatory T cells to maintain peripheral tolerance. As such, therapies aimed at correcting the declining function of regulatory T cells have been the subject of intense investigation. In this review, we discuss the potential of regulatory T ce...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Richer MJ,Horwitz MS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health implications of reducing or preventing the excess increase in blood pressure and the acquisition of obesity during childhood years are important. Many children with high blood pressure, particularly those who are initially obese or become obese as young adults and those with excess left ventricular m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mahoney LT,Lauer RM,Lee J,Clarke WR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human organism is continuously in close contact with microorganisms, especially bacteria. In the present work, by means of a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, we looked for the presence of a distinct bacterial gene in human cells. To this end, we cultured a human cell line, HL60, in a supernatan...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Anker P,Zajac V,Lyautey J,Lederrey C,Dunand C,Lefort F,Mulcahy H,Heinemann J,Stroun M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observations described herein allow us to make several inferences about PKC and regulation of normal and CF Cl- channels. FIGURE 5 shows a model that summarizes these observations. In this model, for the sake of clarity, we refer to the channel as a single entity, but note that it may consist of multiple subunits ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Welsh MJ,Li M,McCann JD,Clancy JP,Anderson MP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia have been associated with vascular injury such as atherosclerosis in diabetes mellitus. Recently, annexin II, a member of annexin family proteins, has been found to work as co-receptor on endothelial cells for plasminogen and tissue plasminogen activator, facilitating plasmin generat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ishii H,Yoshida M,Hajjar KA,Tanaka A,Yasukochi Y,Shimokado K,Numano F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased oxidation of carbohydrates and free fatty acids is a well-known phenomenon during cold stress. Nevertheless, sources of the fuels used have not been fully clarified as yet. Thus, the aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of acute cold exposure on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism in human subcutaneous ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koska J,Ksinantova L,Seböková E,Kvetnansky R,Klimes I,Chrousos G,Pacak K

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acylated aldose dialkyl dithioacetals with bromine undergo replacement of one alkylthio group by bromine. These unstable bromides react, as by fusion with 2,4-bis(trimethylsilyloxy)pyrimidine, to give acylated 1-(pyrimidin-1-yl) derivatives that upon saponification afford acyclic sugar nucleoside analogues, some as se...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Horton D,Baker DC,Kokrady SS

更新日期：1975-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The hair follicles of eutheria arise during fetal life as a consequence of interactions between the cells and matrices of the epidermis and mesenchyme. In some instances, communication may be mediated by growth factors, receptors, and similar molecules. We have focused on epidermal growth factor and fibroblast growth ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Moore GP,Du Cros DL,Isaacs K,Pisansarakit P,Wynn PC

更新日期：1991-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we have sought to identify differences in alcohol consumption patterns and problems among young adult males from white, black, and Hispanic ethnic groups entering drug treatment programs. In overall consumption patterns we found results similar to those obtained in general population studies. However, ab...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hubbard RL,Schlenger WE,Rachal JV,Bray RM,Craddock SG,Cavanaugh ER,Ginzburg HM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the steroid receptor superfamily, like other transcription factors, can function as transcriptional inducers as well as repressors of transcription. The mechanisms by which repression is achieved seem to be specific for the factors and [table: see text] regulatory sequences involved. Many and perhaps all of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Renkawitz R

更新日期：1993-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the main cause of human cancer deaths, and cell motility is one key component of the process of metastasis. The ERK mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway is probably one of the most commonly activated in malignant human cancers. We describe the molecular mechanisms by which ERK MAPK s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Viala E,Pouysségur J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a major source of pain and disability worldwide with no effective medical therapy due to poor understanding of its pathogenesis. Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) has been reported to play a role in subchondral bone pathology and articular cartilage degeneration during the progression of OA. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Xie L,Tintani F,Wang X,Li F,Zhen G,Qiu T,Wan M,Crane J,Chen Q,Cao X

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary theory is undergoing an intense period of discussion and reevaluation. This, contrary to the misleading claims of creationists and other pseudoscientists, is no harbinger of a crisis but rather the opposite: the field is expanding dramatically in terms of both empirical discoveries and new ideas. In this ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pigliucci M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, some 80,000 commercial and industrial chemicals are now in use of which over 30,000 are produced or used in the Great Lakes region. Thus, the environmental quality within the Great Lakes basin has been compromised particularly with respect to persistent toxic substances (PTS). Information derived...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Rosa CT,Hicks HE,Ashizawa AE,Pohl HR,Mumtaz MM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00