IL-12-engineered dendritic cells serve as effective tumor vaccine adjuvants in vivo.

abstract：:Eight children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia and late initiation of corticosteroid treatment are included in the present study. Four of them received LHRHa treatment for the arrest of central precocious puberty, while the other four served as controls. The administration of LHRHa was effective in arresting the m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dacou-Voutetakis C,Karidis N

更新日期：1993-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-related peptides (IRPs) from ganglions of mollusk, Anodonta cygnea, were purified and characterized (IRP1-IRP13) using insulin and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) radioreceptor test systems. The IRPs were able to bind to insulin and IGF-I receptors. Dose-dependent curve slopes indicated that most IRPs bin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shipilov VN,Shpakov AO,Rusakov YI

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the repatriation of human remains to indigenous peoples in Australia and the United States and the role anthropologists play in the construction of past, present, and future identities for contemporary indigenous peoples. Using examples from both countries, I suggest that many of the participants ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cantwell AM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flash thermal diffusivity measurement technique is applied to tissue for the first time. Making use of its minimal contact with the specimen, the flash technique is extended to allow for well-defined, biaxial, finite strain. As an example application, the radial component of thermal diffusivity of bovine descendin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Doss DJ,Humphrey JD,Wright NT

更新日期：1998-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular (LV) wall motion abnormalities reflect regional nonuniform contraction which may be arrhythmogenic. We studied sarcomere mechanics and force development (F) in uniform and nonuniform trabeculae using a model in which half of the muscle can be rendered weak by exposure to low [Ca2+]o. Stretch allowed t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： ter Keurs HE,Diao N,Deis NP

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mobilization and recruitment of blood and lymphatic vasculatures are widely described in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). Although angiogenesis contributes to intense gut inflammation, it remains unclear whether and when lymphangiogenesis amplifies or protects in IBD. The prolonged maintenance of lymphatic (ove...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alexander JS,Chaitanya GV,Grisham MB,Boktor M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invariant nature of body situs within and across vertebrate species implies that a highly conserved pathway controls the specification of the left-right (L/R) axis. Situs-specific morphogenesis begins at the end of this pathway and leads to normal organ arrangement, also known as situs solitus. Occasionally, indiv...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Delhaas T,Decaluwe W,Rubbens M,Kerckhoffs R,Arts T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a complete spinal cord injury (SCI) at the lowest thoracic level (T13), adult cats trained to walk on a treadmill can recover hindlimb locomotion within 2-3 weeks, resulting from the activity of a spinal circuitry termed the central pattern generator (CPG). The role of this spinal circuitry in the recovery of lo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Martinez M,Rossignol S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of rodents and hematophagous flies was conducted on three farms located in an area endemic for vesicular stomatitis to determine the species composition of each zoological group occurring in these areas. Eleven species of small rodents were collected and identified. Individuals from forty-nine species of hema...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jimenez AE,Vargas Herrera F,Salman M,Herrero MV

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:In response to tissue injury elicited by trauma or infection, the inflammatory response, as a complex network of molecular and cellular interactions, sets an answer directed to facilitate a return to physiological homeostasis and tissue repair. The role of the genetic background and the subsequent predisposition towar...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Grimaldi MP,Vasto S,Balistreri CR,di Carlo D,Caruso M,Incalcaterra E,Lio D,Caruso C,Candore G

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E has the ability to scavenge a wide spectrum of free radicals, including singlet oxygen, superoxide, and hydroxyl radicals. It has beneficial effects against several other disorders, such as atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease, because it acts as a transcriptional regulator for gene expression via a tr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Al-Shamsi M,Amin A,Adeghate E

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells derived from human trabecular bones have been shown to have multipotential differentiation ability along osteogenic, chondrogenic, and adipogenic lineages. In this study, we have derived two clonal sublines of human trabecular bone cells by means of stable transduction with human papilloma virus E6/E7 genes. Our...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Osyczka AM,Nöth U,Danielson KG,Tuan RS

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infertility is defined as the inability of a couple to conceive despite trying for a year, and it affects approximately 15% of the reproductive-age population. It is considered a genetically lethal factor, as the family lineage stops at that individual with no progeny produced. A genetic defect associated with an infe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hwang K,Yatsenko AN,Jorgez CJ,Mukherjee S,Nalam RL,Matzuk MM,Lamb DJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in many forms of cell death, particularly in the central nervous system. The mitochondria are required at the same time to generate adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) for the cell, sequester excess cytoplasmic Ca(2+), and both produce and detoxify superoxide free radicals. The elec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nicholls DG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols and tocotrienols (vitamin E) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) as well as the carotenoids react with free radicals, notably peroxyl radicals, and with singlet molecular oxygen (1O2), this being the basis of their function as antioxidants. RRR-alpha-tocopherol is the major peroxyl radical scavenger in biologica...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sies H,Stahl W,Sundquist AR

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This review has addressed the concern that the reduction of the risk of coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular disorders by means of reducing serum cholesterol levels might, at the same time, increase the risk of developing noncardiovascular conditions. This concern is justified because, at face value, prospe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Epstein FH

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of computer-controlled artificial hearts, kidneys, and lungs, as well as the possibility of implanting human embryos in ex vivo uterus models or an artificial endometrium, presents new perspectives for creating an artificial uterus. Survival rates have also improved, with fetuses surviving from as ear...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bulletti C,Palagiano A,Pace C,Cerni A,Borini A,de Ziegler D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR) remains the only nongenetic intervention that reproducibly extends mean and maximal life span in short-lived mammalian species. This nutritional intervention also delays the onset, or slows the progression, of many age-related disease processes. The diverse effects of CR have been demonstrated...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lane MA,Black A,Handy A,Tilmont EM,Ingram DK,Roth GS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expectation of reward facilitates motor behaviors that enable the animal to approach a location in space where the reward is expected. It is now known that the same expectation of reward profoundly modifies sensory, motor, and cognitive information processing in the brain. However, it is still unclear which brain regi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hikosaka O

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the history of science, technical advances often precede periods of rapid accumulation of knowledge. Within the past three decades, discoveries that enabled the noninvasive measurement of the psychobiology of stress (in saliva) have added new dimensions to the study of health and human development. This widespread ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Granger DA,Kivlighan KT,el-Sheikh M,Gordis EB,Stroud LR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the most predominant malignancies worldwide. The 5-year survival rate is still relatively low due to few symptoms presenting with the early disease, diagnosis at middle to late stage, and high risk of recurrence after therapy. Novel protein biomarkers for early detec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wang M,Smith JS,Wei WQ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential health hazards involved with antineoplastic agents have been known for decades. Many anticancer drugs are recognized as carcinogens and genotoxins in experimental assays. Second cancers have been recorded in follow-up studies with treated patients. The first findings on occupational exposures among hospi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sorsa M,Hämeilä M,Järviluoma E

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the major population of T lymphocytes express T cell receptor (TCR) alpha beta-chains and recognize peptide antigens in association with either Major Histocompatibility Complex class I or class II molecules, a consensus view does not exist concerning either the nature of the antigen recognized or the nature of t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Roberts K,Shevach EM

更新日期：1991-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a heterogeneous and progressive neurodegenerative disease which in Western societies mainly accounts for clinical dementia. A high proportion of women are affected by this disease, especially at a very advanced age, which might to a large extent be associated with the fact that women live l...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Candore G,Balistreri CR,Grimaldi MP,Vasto S,Listì F,Chiappelli M,Licastro F,Lio D,Caruso C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in available biological data. This includes a tremendous quantity of sequence data (e.g., biological structures, genetic and physical maps, pathways) generated by genome and transcriptome projects focused on humans, mice, and a multitude of other species. Diabetes resear...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Petrovsky N,Silva D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonpregnant uterus shows uterine activity throughout the menstrual cycle. This uterine activity was detected both by single strep tissue and by using intrauterine pressure recordings in vitro and in vivo. Today, ultrasound has made it possible to study this activity with a noninvasive approach and to assess uterin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bulletti C,DE Ziegler D,Setti PL,Cicinelli E,Polli V,Flamigni C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the study of nationalism has received much attention throughout the social sciences and humanities, the experimental investigation of it lags behind. In this paper we review recent advances in the examination of implicit nationalism. In the first set of experiments we survey, the Palestinian, Israeli, Italian, a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hassin RR,Ferguson MJ,Kardosh R,Porter SC,Carter TJ,Dudareva V

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of expression of human class II MHC genes has been studied in lymphoid and melanoma cells. Specific unmethylation of all restriction sites nearby the promoter regions has been detected in all cell lines and tissues studied, irrespective of their ability to express class II MHC products. The main functional...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gambari R,Barbieri R,Piva R,Tecce R,Fisher PB,Giacomini P,Natali PG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnitine acyltransferases catalyze the exchange of acyl groups between carnitine and coenzyme A (CoA). These enzymes include carnitine acetyltransferase (CrAT), carnitine octanoyltransferase (CrOT), and carnitine palmitoyltransferases (CPTs). CPT-I and CPT-II are crucial for the beta-oxidation of long-chain fatty aci...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jogl G,Hsiao YS,Tong L

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00