Auditory perception and speech evolution.

abstract：:Vitamins C and E function as water-soluble and lipid-soluble chain-breaking antioxidants, respectively, and protect lipids, proteins, and membranes from oxidative damage. Vitamin C scavenges oxygen radicals in the aqueous phase, whereas vitamin E scavenges oxygen radicals within the membranes. Vitamin C regenerates vi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Niki E

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned a kappa 3-related opioid receptor, and although it is still not clear whether this clone corresponds to the kappa 3 receptor itself or is a related gene product, the extensive antisense mapping and the antibody immunoreactivity strongly associate this clone with the kappa 3 receptor. Our approach also indica...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pasternak GW,Pan YX,Cheng J

更新日期：1995-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that cirazoline, an alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist, has greater affinity than do other imidazoline or guanidinium compounds at imidazoline recognition sites. In this report we used [3H]cirazoline as a probe to characterize imidazoline recognition sites present in membrane homogenates of rat bra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Angel I,Le Rouzic M,Pimoule C,Graham D,Arbilla S

更新日期：1995-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cervico-ocular reflex (COR), which depends on proprioceptive afferents from neck muscles to the vestibular nucleus, makes little contribution to the stabilization of gaze in humans. If labyrinthine function is lost because of disease, however, the COR may increase in gain and assume greater importance in generatin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Carmona S,Nieto D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic joint inflammation and continuous immune cell infiltration in the synovium. These changes are linked to inflammatory cytokine release, leading to eventual destruction of cartilage and bone. During the last decade new therapeutic modalities ha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Marti L,Golmia R,Golmia AP,Paes AT,Guilhen DD,Moreira-Filho CA,Scheinberg M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propagation and prolongation of rapid neuronal discharge underlies the epilepsies. However, episodic focal rapid neuronal discharges limited to discrete nuclei and pathways of the amygdala-hippocampal-septal-hypothalamic networks are the language of physiologic message systems for endocrine regulation and reproductive...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stevens JR

更新日期：1999-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human diploid fibroblasts (WI38) were inoculated into Rose multipurpose culture chambers, using a high population density to develop confluency. After 24 hours, cells from a 1 mm swath were scraped from the center of the chamber. This cleared path was positioned to permit an unobstructed transmission of a 0.9 X 20 mm ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rounds DE,Olson RS,Booher J

更新日期：1976-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:I(2) site-selective compounds are known to interact with and inhibit monoamine oxidase (MAO), but it remains unclear as to whether this interaction occurs through an allosteric or competitive interaction. This study used the new selective, irreversible I(2) ligand BU99006, to clarify the relationship between MAO and t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Paterson LM,Tyacke RJ,Nutt DJ,Hudson AL

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extended parallel is developed between musical and prosodic structures, using the author's cognitively oriented music theory and recent work in generative phonology. For illustration, the sounds of a short poem by Robert Frost are treated entirely in musical terms. The poem is assigned a phonological stress grid an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lerdahl F

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much work has been done in the field of circulating DNA, no definitive information on sequencing data of total circulating DNA is available. Characterization of total circulating DNA by sequence analysis may give valuable information about the origin and function of these nucleic acid molecules. Circulating D...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： van der Vaart M,Pretorius PJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the fetal origin of adult diseases hypothesis, the intrauterine environment through developmental plasticity may permanently influence long-term health and disease. Therefore, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), due either to maternal, placental, or genetic factors, may permanently alter the endocrine...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kanaka-Gantenbein C

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the selective ACE inhibitor captopril, we studied the effect of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) on larval growth, metamorphosis, and reproduction in a lepidopteran species, the cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis. Captopril was detrimental to adult formation and oviposition, and in female moths it ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vercruysse L,Gelman D,van de Velde S,Raes E,Hooghe B,Vermeirssen V,van Camp J,Smagghe G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in cancer initiation is the reaction of chemical carcinogens with DNA to form stable adducts, which remain in DNA unless removed by repair, and depurinating adducts, which detach from DNA following destabilization of the glycosyl bond. Depurinating DNA adducts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons play a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cavalieri EL,Rogan EG

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reviewed that suggests a central role for telomeres in one major model of biological aging, namely, proliferative senescence. Telomeric shortening with each cell division does not only act as a biological clock, but appears to trigger the ultimate loss of proliferative ability via activation of the p53-dep...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： von Zglinicki T

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells produce and bind to multiple basement membrane components. Fibronectin and interstitial collagens seem to promote migration and proliferation, whereas basement membrane collagen and laminin stimulate attachment and differentiation. Human umbilical vein endothelial cells will rapidly form capillary-li...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Grant DS,Kleinman HK,Martin GR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of apoptosis is associated with the pathogenesis of organ-specific autoimmune diseases, through altered target organ susceptibility. Apoptosis signaling pathways can be initiated through activation of death receptors such as Fas. A comparative analysis of the expression of Fas and FasL, the antiapoptotic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Salmaso C,Bagnasco M,Pesce G,Montagna P,Brizzolara R,Altrinetti V,Richiusa P,Galluzzo A,Giordano C

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taken together with electrophysiological data, these results suggest that in states of DA deficiency, systemically administered L-dopa or DA agonist drugs inhibit cell firing in the major output nuclei of the basal ganglia (GPI and SNPR). We propose that DA produces this net effect by a direct influence on the striato...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wooten GF

更新日期：1997-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It is thought that neuronal activity in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) represents the value of anticipated reward; however activity in many other brain areas also seems to reflect expected reward value. For example, we have shown that in monkeys performing a memory-guided saccade task for a reward of variable size, activi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Roesch MR,Olson CR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein crystallography, which has a growing role in the human genome project, is one of the most powerful techniques in modern biology. However, it can only be applied providing suitable crystals can be obtained. The ability to produce suitable crystals is currently the major bottleneck to structure determination. Mi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chayen NE,Helliwell JR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Vascular anomalies" represents a spectrum of vascular lesions, of unclear etiology and often with unpredictable behavior. Patients with vascular anomalies represent a unique population, in that they have focal aberrations of vascular development (in vascular malformations) or vascular proliferation (in hemangiomas). ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blei F

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Protection against stress by glucocorticoids is discussed in relation to their permissive and suppressive actions. Evidence from the last decade is summarized regarding the physiological nature of the suppressive actions, and the hypothesis that they prevent stress-activated defense mechanisms from overshooting and da...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Munck A,Náray-Fejes-Tóth A

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Until now, neoadjuvant therapy plus surgical resection of the primary tumor and potential metastatic lymph nodes (LNs) has been the current optimal treatment for locally advanced thoracic esophageal cancer (EC). LN metastasis is one of the most negative prognostic factors for thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinom...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wang Z,Mao Y,Gao S,Li Y,Tan L,Daiko H,Liu S,Chen C,Koyanagi K,He J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the time Dan was 12 years old to the present, he always was the explorer of life. He was very fortunate in having an opportunity to see how life exists in several human societies around the world. His many professional foreign travels are presented. Dan went to a 1959 meeting in Argentina, to England in 1963, and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gilbert C,Gilbert RL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to review the advances in electromagnetic levitation techniques as tools for determination of the thermophysical properties of molten metals under standard gravity and microgravity conditions. We show that a combination of containerless processing and microgravity offers the exclusive poss...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bakhtiyarov SI,Overfelt RA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are powerful mediators of biologic responses in the CNS and may contribute to cellular injury in pathophysiologic states. In order to better understand the actions of cytokines in the intact mammalian CNS, a transgenic approach was employed that targeted the expression of different cytokines to astrocytes in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Campbell IL

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite intense efforts, little is known about the etiology of prostate cancer, and treatment of advanced forms of the disease has had limited success. Nonetheless, epidemiologic studies combined with animal model and in vitro experiments indicate that natural components of the diet, including n-3 PUFA, the carotenoid...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cohen LA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phyloproteomics indicate common viral origin from ancient cells before archaea, bacteria, and eukaryota split and subsequent size and complexity reductions occurred. Further independent evidence for the cellular origin of viruses is reviewed for the virus order Megavirales, focusing on the family Poxviridae. Megaviral...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Seligmann H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells in vitro yields abundant hematopoietic progenitors, but achieving stable hematopoietic engraftment of irradiated mice has proven difficult, begging the question of whether ES cells give rise to hematopoietic stem cells in vitro, and limiting the application of ES cells as e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Daley GQ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data have been presented to document that the human newborn is a conditionable organism. Babies in the first days of life possess sensitivity to stimulation in all sensory modalities, an unconditioned repertoire of responses to some of these sensory stimuli, and a capacity for associating simultaneously presented stim...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lipsitt LP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00