In vivo structural studies of the hippocampus in normal aging and in incipient Alzheimer's disease.

abstract：:Aged F344 female rats (21 months) showed decreased performance, as compared to young rats (4 months), on an object recognition memory task. Golgi impregnation measured dendritic spine density of pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex (layer II-III), a brain area important for recognition memory. Densities of spine...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wallace M,Frankfurt M,Arellanos A,Inagaki T,Luine V

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on extensive physiological study of sodium transport mechanisms along the renal tubule, complementary DNAs for all of the major transporters and channels responsible for renal tubular sodium reabsorption have been cloned over the past decade. There is now a comprehensive set of cDNA and antibody probes that can ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Knepper MA,Kim GH,Masilamani S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI is a robust technology that allows for superior contrast of muscles, tissues, and bones within the body, which enables visualization of soft tissue pathology that cannot be seen with CT or plain film radiography. In order to appreciate the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) intricacies of MRI, one must have a ba...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Khanna S,Crues JV 3rd

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data from our study indicate that the magnitude of occupational disease in New York State is considerable, and that a detailed and comprehensive plan must be initiated and implemented if occupational disease is to be controlled. New York State contains slightly less than 10% of the nation's workforce. A direct lin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Landrigan PJ,Markowitz S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrotransposons have generally been known to integrate randomly into host genomes. Jurka, however, showed some consensus sequence patterns at insertion sites of some mammalian retrotransposons and proposed enzymatic involvement that mediates integration. Jurka used about 400 complete human Alu and rodent ID sequences...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Toda Y,Saito R,Tomita M

更新日期：1999-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether the previously reported differences in adenylate cyclase activity between the sarcolemma of normal and dystrophic chick muscles are also found in the SR, to search for a possible relationship between the adenylate cyclase changes and the pathophysiology of dystrophy, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rodan GA,Rodan SB,Raible DG,Cutler LS,Wacholtz M,Sha'afi RI

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular architecture of biological systems is heavily influenced by the highly polar interactions of water. Thus, macromolecules such as proteins that are highly water soluble must be electrically polar. Energy generation methods needed to support cell metabolic processes depend on compartmentalizing mobile ions...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lee RC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The historical reasons for the introduction of tick control during the nineteenth century are reviewed. Background and concepts for the choice between long-term tick control and tick eradication are compared. Case studies of large-scale tick control or eradication programs in Africa, Australia, the United States, and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pegram RG,Wilson DD,Hansen JW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma phagocytophilum (A. phagocytophilum, formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophila) is a tick-borne pathogen responsible for tick-borne fever in ruminants, equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis (EGE) in horses, canine granulocytic ehrlichiosis (CGE) in dogs, and for human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE). Human cases have bee...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alberti A,Sparagano OA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay method (RIA) with specific antisera for human and rat alpha fetoprotein (AFP) was used to study the evolution of AFP levels in humans and rats, respectively, throughout the life span. Sera of 66 rats, aged 3-70 weeks, as well as sera of 201 clinically well children, 192 healthy blood donors, and 16...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Masseyeff R,Gilli J,Krebs B,Calluaud A,Bonet C

更新日期：1975-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic preconditioning (PC) is a polygenic defensive cellular adaptive phenomenon whereby brief ischemic stimuli render the heart resistant to subsequent similar stress. The late phase of ischemic PC lasts for three to four days, protects against both myocardial stunning and infarction, and thus has considerable cli...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dawn B,Bolli R

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid, inexpensive transmission of words and data, brought about by the internet and cheap computers, is changing the world faster than anything mankind has ever experienced, reaching into nearly every aspect of our lives, public and private, commercial and governmental. We are in an Information Age with an essent...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hugh-Jones M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of pulmonary oxygen uptake (VO2p) during exercise depends on cellular energy demand, blood flow, ventilation, oxygen exchange across membranes, and oxygen utilization in the contracting skeletal muscle. In human and animal studies of metabolic processes that control cellular respiration in working skeletal ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhou H,Lai N,Saidel GM,Cabrera ME

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a role in a wide range of somatic and mental diseases. Whereas the role of the ANS in the regulation of the cardiovascular system seems evident, its role in the regulation of other systems associated with allostasis is less clear. Using a model of neurovisceral integration we d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Thayer JF,Sternberg E

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the protein profile of mitochondria and its age-dependent variation is a promising approach to unravel mechanisms involved in aging and age-related diseases. Our studies focus on the mammalian mitochondrial membrane proteome, especially of the inner mitochondrial membrane with the respiratory chain complex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dencher NA,Frenzel M,Reifschneider NH,Sugawa M,Krause F

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have heard a wide-ranging set of talks on cosmology and high energy astrophysics at this conference. All I can really do in this short talk is to present my subjective impression of an arbitrary selection of highlights. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rees MJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jopock (Jpk), a transacting factor associated with the position-specific regulatory element of murine Hoxa-7, has shown to induce cell death in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells when introduced and overexpressed. Since Jpk protein harbors a transmembrane domain (TM) and a putative endoplasmic reticulum (ER) -reten...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kim HS,Kong KA,Chung H,Park S,Kim MH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we have reported the results of studies in psychiatric patient groups using the strategy of measuring opioid activity and beta-endorphin (ir) in CSF. Our findings do not lend support to the notion of excess endorphin activity in schizophrenia, but rather suggest the possibility of a decrease in endogenou...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pickar D,Naber D,Post RM,van Kammen DP,Kaye W,Rubinow DR,Ballenger JC,Bunney WE Jr

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:Trichostatin A (TSA), an inhibitor of the eukaryotic cell cycle and an inducer of morphological reversion of transformed cells, inhibits histone deacetylase (HDAC) at nanomolar concentrations. Recently, trapoxin, oxamflatin, and FR901228, antitumor agents structurally unrelated to TSA, were found to be potent HDAC inh...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yoshida M,Horinouchi S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophic factors are secreted peptides that when interacting with specific classes of membrane receptors activate intracellular signaling cascades that prevents neuronal death during embryonic development. The establishment of gene-targeted null mutant mice for the neurotrophic factors, brain-derived neurotrophic ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Agerman K,Canlon B,Duan M,Ernfors P

更新日期：1999-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is clear that thrombopoietin is the primary regulator of thrombopoiesis, several lines of evidence indicate that the hormone affects multiple aspects of hematopoiesis: the in vivo administration of TPO increases marrow levels of erythroid, myeloid, and megakaryocytic progenitor cells and its genetic elimin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaushansky K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This chapter discusses the influence of drama in the author's background in conceptualizing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The history of ideas relevant to a dramaturgical analysis from Freud to Kohut's revolution, with additional modifications by relational psychoanalysis, is explored. The author poses a trimoda...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ringstrom PA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Needle free jet injection guns have been used extensively in both veterinary and human health to deliver both vaccine and drugs, but in recent years, concerns have mounted for their potential to transmit blood borne disease agents among consecutive vaccinates. A Ped-O-Jet type jet injection device was used to deliver ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sweat JM,Abdy M,Weniger BG,Harrington R,Coyle B,Abuknesha RA,Gibbs EP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As studied by single cell RT-PCR of pituitary hormones, we demonstrated that the pituitaries of rats and mice contain a subpopulation of cells that express two or more hormone phenotypes typically belonging to lineages that are branched separately early during embryonic development, such as glycoprotein hormone alpha-...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Denef C,Pals K,Hauspie A,Vankelecom H,Seuntjens E

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most important advances in perinatal health care is the use of antepartum fetal testing. Antepartum fetal testing methods may include inexpensive tests such as fetal kick counts or tests that can be quite expensive such as non-stress tests, fetal biophysical profiles, and Doppler assessments as well as inva...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vintzileos AM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nearly neutral theory represents a development of Kimura's neutral theory of molecular evolution that makes testable predictions that go beyond a mere null model. Recent evidence has strongly supported several of these predictions, including the prediction that slightly deleterious variants will accumulate in a sp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hughes AL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia affects a third of the world's population and contributes to increased morbidity and mortality, decreased work productivity, and impaired neurological development. Understanding anemia's varied and complex etiology is crucial for developing effective interventions that address the context-specific causes of ane...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chaparro CM,Suchdev PS

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of literature has investigated the effects of playing video games on brain function and behavior. One key takeaway from this literature has been that not all entertainment video games are created equal with respect to their effects on cognitive functioning. The majority of the research to date has contr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dale G,Joessel A,Bavelier D,Green CS

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00