Advances in optical imaging of biomedical media.

abstract：:Pheochromocytoma is a rare, surgically correctable cause of hypertension. Modern medical blockade has significantly improved patient survival and morbidity. The last decade has seen the identification of the genes responsible for several hereditary causes of pheochromocytoma. Evaluation of these patients has demonstra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Walther MM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beneficial effect of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in the treatment of acute focal cerebral ischemia has not been proven. In the present study, two established experimental models of acute focal cerebral ischemia were treated with DMSO. Twenty adult cats lightly anesthetized with ketamine hydrochloride underwent right m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Little JR,Spetzler RF,Roski RA,Selman WR,Zabramski J,Lesser RP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skin immune system includes a complex network of dendritic cells (DCs). In addition to generating cellular and humoral immunity against pathogens, skin DCs are involved in tolerogenic mechanisms that maintain immune homeostasis and in pathogenic chronic inflammation in which immune responses are unrestrained. Harn...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Klechevsky E,Banchereau J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major methodological problems that impact clinical research in endometriosis are the absence of a low-cost, highly reliable method for diagnosing endometriosis and the possibility that endometriosis is actually multiple different diseases that we have not yet been able to differentiate. Animal models of endometrio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Barbieri RL,Missmer S

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:The lobster stomatogastric ganglion contains 30 neurons and when modulated can produce two distinct rhythmic motor patterns--the gastric mill and the pyloric. The complete neural circuitry underlying both patterns is well known. Without modulatory input no patterns are produced, and the neurons fire tonically or are s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Selverston A,Elson R,Rabinovich M,Huerta R,Abarbanel H

更新日期：1998-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinesterase inhibitors used to treat Alzheimer's disease according to the principle of cholinergic replacement therapy have proved to be less beneficial than expected. The present study was designed to investigate the cerebrovascular response to physostigmine and tacrine in the experimental model of lesioning of th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Peruzzi P,von Euw D,Lacombe P

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 10 years umbilical cord blood (UCB) has been used as an alternative source of hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic transplantation. Although the clinical results are encouraging, UCB is associated with delayed engraftment. To address these issues we have used the NOD/SCID mouse model to study the engr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fibbe WE,Noort WA,Schipper F,Willemze R

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) is a multifunctional cell surface aminopeptidase with ubiquitous expression and it has a variety of functional properties in the development of human malignancies. In the present study, we showed the possible correlation between DPPIV/CD26 expression and less migratory potential with de...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kajiyama H,Shibata K,Terauchi M,Ino K,Nawa A,Kikkawa F

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured plasma concentration of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), a proopiomelanocortin derivative that modulates pyrogenic and proinflammatory effects of cytokines, in infectious and inflammatory disorders in humans to learn if changes in this peptide take place in naturally occurring disease. alp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Catania A,Airaghi L,Garofalo L,Cutuli M,Lipton JM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr. Josep Font (Barcelona, 1953-2006) devoted his professional career to the care of patients with systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD). In 1995, he created the Department of Autoimmune Diseases at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, a pioneering unit in Europe specifically dedicated to the clinical management of these pa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ramos-Casals M,Khamashta MA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, several rickettsioses are officially being reported in the Russian Federation. These are epidemic typhus and Brill-Zinsser disease, both caused by Rickettsia prowazekii which has a historic prevalence in Russia. Nowadays only single sporadic cases of R. prowazekii infection are reported. The last significan...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tarasevich IV,Mediannikov OY

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic growth factors are glycoproteins of 15-70 kDa. Although much clinical success has been obtained using recombinant proteins produced in mammalian cell lines and in microbial fermentation processes, the full-length polypeptides necessarily are expensive to produce, require parenteral administration, and in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaushansky K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated circulating levels of glucocorticoids are associated with psychiatric symptoms across several different conditions. It remains unknown if this hormonal abnormality is a cause or an effect of the psychiatric conditions. For example, the hypercortisolemia observed in a subset of patients with depression may hav...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wolkowitz OM,Burke H,Epel ES,Reus VI

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of cell-free nucleic acids in plasma has opened up new possibilities for noninvasive clinical diagnosis. We demonstrate the presence of cell-free fetal RNA in maternal plasma, indicating that plasma fetal RNA might be used as a marker for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Poon LL,Leung TN,Lau TK,Lo YM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semi-conservative replication ensures that the DNA sequence of sister chromatids is identical except for replication errors and variation in the length of telomere repeats resulting from replicative losses and variable end processing. What happens with the various epigenetic marks during DNA replication is less clear....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lansdorp PM,Falconer E,Tao J,Brind'Amour J,Naumann U

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seleno-glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx) is considered to be the major enzymatic activity in charge of removing excess cytosolic and mitochondrial H2O2 in most tissues including brain. Intracellular GSHPx activity is therefore hypothesized to be one important factor that contributes to minimize hydroxyl radical formation...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mirault ME,Tremblay A,Furling D,Trepanier G,Dugre F,Puymirat J,Pothier F

更新日期：1994-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoaminergic and cholinergic systems are implicated in different forms of behavioral arousal that can be dissected in terms of their forebrain targets and the nature of the behavioral processes they modulate in distinct regions. Thus, evidence in rats with selective neurochemical manipulations tested behaviorally...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Robbins TW,Granon S,Muir JL,Durantou F,Harrison A,Everitt BJ

更新日期：1998-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of cellular glutathione (GSH) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) simultaneously determined by fluorometric measurement, may provide important information on pro-oxidative and antioxidative balance. The dual effect of quercetin antioxidant and pro-oxidant activity was proposed from different studies. Our stud...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kim GN,Jang HD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperactivation of glutamate receptors, especially those of the N-methyl-d-aspartate subtype (NMDA), can induce excess calcium entry into cells, leading to neuronal death. Since the anesthetic gas xenon behaves as an NMDA antagonist, the present article investigated, by distinct morphological approaches and after ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Natale G,Cattano D,Abramo A,Forfori F,Fulceri F,Fornai F,Paparelli A,Giunta F

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) in individuals over 40 years of age comprises three groups: early-onset MG with prolonged disease duration, late-onset MG with thymoma, and late-onset of nonthymomatous MG. The clinical features do not differ between the three groups, except that early-onset patients with prolonged disease durat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Aarli JA,Romi F,Skeie GO,Gilhus NE

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogenate of 30 sarcoid lymph nodes was injected into the footpads of mice and 42% of the mice showed epitheloid-cell granulomas in the sites. However, the control lymph-node homogenates obtained from nonsarcoid patients also provoked similar granulomatous changes, although the positive rate was somewhat lower. In th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Iwai K,Takahashi S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wisdom is a special kind of virtue. It is not to be identified with any outstanding cognitive ability-like having a prodigious memory or knowing a lot. Rather it consists in seeing what is most important and most valuable, either within a particular domain or in life as a whole. In the life of a wise person, that insi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kitcher P

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from experimental animal studies show that sex hormones influence the glucocorticoid response to a variety of inflammatory and noninflammatory stimuli. In this study we assessed gender differences in the response of ACTH and cortisol in normal young male and female humans following intravenous infusion of hum...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Silva C,Ines LS,Nour D,Straub RH,da Silva JA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a eugenol-degrading bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens E118. This strain produced a novel enzyme, eugenol dehydrogenase, which catalyzes the conversion of eugenol into coniferyl alcohol. The enzyme was purified from the eugenol-induced cells of P. fluorescens E118. The purified enzyme appeared to be homoge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Furukawa H,Nagasawa T

更新日期：1998-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that HDL exerts its anti-atherogenic effects through the process of delivering cholesterol from peripheral tissues back to the liver for removal from the body (i.e., reverse cholesterol transport). The metabolic life cycle of HDL lipid and apolipoproteins during reverse cholesterol transport involves bo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Silver DL,Jiang XC,Arai T,Bruce C,Tall AR

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is a common gynecologic disorder that affects approximately 14% of all women and 30% to 50% of infertile women. Since the most common symptoms of endometriosis--progressive dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility--are also symptoms of multiple disorders, a diagnosis of endometrios...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rice VM

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children exposed in utero to cocaine are at risk for long-term neurobehavioral damage not just because of the drug itself, but also because of clustering of other health determinants, including low socioeconomic status, low maternal education, and maternal addiction, to mention a few. One methodologic approach to sepa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koren G,Nulman I,Rovet J,Greenbaum R,Loebstein M,Einarson T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays a key role in excessive bone loss in conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and periodontitis. An important paradigm in immunology is that inflammatory factors activate feedback inhibition mechanisms to restrain inflammation and limit associated tissue damage. We hypothesized that inflammatory fact...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ivashkiv LB,Zhao B,Park-Min KH,Takami M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered calcium homeostasis may play a key role in the pathophysiology of human heart failure. Levels of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) proteins and sarcolemmal Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger were analyzed by Western blot in failing and nonfailing human myocardium and related to myocardial function. Levels of the SR calcium releas...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lehnart SE,Schillinger W,Pieske B,Prestle J,Just H,Hasenfuss G

更新日期：1998-09-16 00:00:00