Distribution and function of T- and B-cell subpopulations in sarcoidosis.

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：:It has been proposed that spacetime should be regarded as an evolving block universe, bounded to the future by the present time, which continually extends to the future. This future boundary is defined at each time by measuring proper time along Ricci eigenlines from the start of the universe. A key point, then, is th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ellis GF

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABA and glutamate play a major role in central integration of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) stress responses. Recent work in our group has focused on mechanisms whereby GABAergic and glutamatergic circuits interact with parvocellular paraventricular nucleus (PVN) neurons controlling the HPA axis. GABAerg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Herman JP,Mueller NK,Figueiredo H

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trial was carried out in alpacas (Lama pacos) and llamas (Lama glama) to determine the economic benefits of controlling both external and internal parasites by the use of ivermectin ("Ivomec," Merck Sharp & Dohme). After four months the treated male alpacas gained on average 3.1 kg more than the untreated males, and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Windsor RS,Windsor RH,Teran M

更新日期：1992-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This article suggests eight high-level concepts that can promote convergence by identifying analogies across fields of science and engineering. CONSERVATION: Many properties are conserved, through symmetries, parity laws, and feedback-regulated stabilities in complex adaptive systems. INDECISION: Inconsisten...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bainbridge WS

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pregnant uterus is unique because of the dramatic functional changes that occur in the peripartum period. To promote the concept that we have a relatively poor understanding of the physiology of parturition, we will posit 10 facts that are so obvious and so clearly accepted as facts that they probably are not even...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Young RC

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caribbean Amblyomma Program has been operational for 8 years. However, owing to funding availability, some islands did not commence eradication activities until late 1997. During the past 2 years, 6 of the 9 islands (St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Anguilla, Montserrat, Barbados, and Dominica) under the program have attaine...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pegram R,Indar L,Eddi C,George J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes the goals of this section and considers current knowledge about the association between hormonal changes that occur over pubertal development and the changes in behavior and brain function over the adolescent period. It reviews the cascade of neural and hormonal changes that occur with puberty; d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cameron JL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CDP-choline was given to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) at a daily dose of 1000 mg/day p.o. for one month. This compound slightly improved mental performance, tended to reduce theta activity in fronto-temporal regions, increasing alpha power in occipital areas, and enhanced cerebrovascular perfusion by increas...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cacabelos R,Caamaño J,Gómez MJ,Fernández-Novoa L,Franco-Maside A,Alvarez XA

更新日期：1996-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammasomes continue to generate interest in an increasing number of disciplines owing to their unique ability to integrate a myriad of signals from pathogen- and damage-associated molecular patterns into a proinflammatory response. This potent caspase-1-dependent process is capable of activating the innate immune s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sutterwala FS,Haasken S,Cassel SL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury remains with limited natural recovery and only a few general ineffective treatment options. Recent publications have reported enhanced neurologic recovery with the use of methylprednisolone and GM-1 ganglioside. The results of the Maryland GM-1 Ganglioside Study reported a significant drug effect wi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Geisler FH

更新日期：1998-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that task relevance dissociates between visual awareness and knowledge activation to create a state of seeing without knowing-visual awareness of familiar stimuli without recognizing them. We rely on the fact that in order to experience a Kanizsa illusion, participants must be aware of its inducers. Whi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eitam B,Shoval R,Yeshurun Y

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of metastasis is a dreadful complication of cancer that is associated with a poor prognosis. Several clinical observations and experimental findings indicate that the metastatic process is nonrandom and involves a sequence of multistep events that may all be targeted for therapy. This includes angiogenes...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Laferriere J,Houle F,Huot J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine schistosomiasis mansoni is a parasitic disease in which flukes living in the portal vein of the host produce ova that deposit in the liver and intestines. In these organs, ova release antigens that induce chronic, focal granulomatous inflammation. IFN-gamma is an inflammatory cytokine important in macrophage ac...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Weinstock JV,Elliott D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to study the role of glucocorticoids in the insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP)-3 response to endotoxin. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) administration decreased IGFBP-3 serum levels as well as hepatic IGFBP-3 gene expression in both adrenalectomized and sham-operated rats. These data ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Priego T,Ibañez De Cáceres I,Martín AI,Villanúa MA,López-Calderón A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnant female Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with either 40 mg/kg (-)cocaine hydrochloride or an equivalent volume of 0.9% saline, subcutaneously (s.c.), once daily from gestational day 12 (GD 12) to GD 21. Gestational cocaine exposure had no effect on maternal weight gain, length of gestation, birthweight, fetal...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Choi SJ,Mazzio E,Soliman KF

更新日期：1998-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence has been presented that lipoxygenase products of arachidonic acid metabolism released during the early stages of allergic reactions play an important role in the subsequent development of late bronchial responses. Moreover, because of this, the activity of the lipoxygenase pathway and sensitivity to the produ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Abraham WM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since connective tissue pulleys implement Listing's law by systematically changing rectus extraocular muscle (EOM) pulling directions, non-Listing's law gaze dependence of the vestibulo-ocular reflex is currently inexplicable. Differential activation of compartments within rectus EOMs may endow the ocular motor system...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Demer JL,Clark RA,da Silva Costa RM,Kung J,Yoo L

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidomycosis is a potentially serious fungal infection contracted in endemic areas of the desert southwestern United States. Limited information exists about its incidence and clinical course in patients with rheumatic diseases, who may be at higher risk of symptomatic or disseminated coccidioidomycosis because ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mertz LE,Blair JE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premenstrual syndrome is a collection of symptoms that may be encountered by up to 95% of the population, although it is estimated to affect 5% of women severely. The use of complementary and alternative therapies is high among this group, but does not seem to compromise conventional treatment. It has been established...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Domoney CL,Vashisht A,Studd JW

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Males and females rarely have identical evolutionary interests over reproduction, and when the fitness of both sexes is dependent upon paternity outcomes, sexual conflict over fertilization is inevitable. In internal fertilizers, the female tract is a formidable selective force on the number and integrity of sperm tha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Firman RC

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic symptoms were the earliest and most prominent symptoms recorded in Michigan farm residents exposed to PBB as compared to a non-PBB exposed control farm population in Wisconsin. In Michigan (particularly among males) those who exhibited the most marked symptoms tended to show diminished performance as assess...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Valciukas JA,Lilis R,Anderson HA,Wolff MS,Petrocci M

更新日期：1979-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:B lymphocytes contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune disorders since B-cell depletion treatment improves such diseases. However, B cells seem ambivalent. Murine strains of nonorgan-specific as well as organ-specific autoimmune conditions present with aggravated symptoms when B cells are depleted. It is thus like...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lemoine S,Morva A,Youinou P,Jamin C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon and the glucagon-like peptides (GLP-1 and GLP-2) share a common evolutionary origin and are triplication products of an ancestral glucagon exon. In mammals, a standard scenario is found where only a single proglucagon-derived peptide set exists. However, fish and amphibians have either multiple proglucagon ge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ng SY,Lee LT,Chow BK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous or arterial thrombosis, abortion, and the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) define the criteria for the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). A heterogeneous group of antibodies against phospholipids and plasma proteins may influence several coagulation pathways and lead to thrombophilia. We investigated...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Miesbach W,Matthias T,Scharrer I

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxyradicals are generally considered harmful byproducts of oxidative metabolism, causing molecular damage in living systems. They are implicated in various processes such as mutagenesis, aging, and series of pathological events. Although all this may be justified, evidence is accumulating that it is an oversimplified ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nagy IZ

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has been proposed for measuring fat-free mass, total body water, percent fat, body cell mass, intracellular water, and extracellular water: a veritable laboratory in a box. Although it is unlikely that BIA is quite this versatile, correlations have been demonstrated between BIA a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schoeller DA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols are known to undergo metabolism to phytyl chain-shortened metabolites excreted in urine. We sought to characterize the pathway, including associated enzymes, involved in this biotransformation. We previously found that human hepatoblastoma (HepG2) cultures metabolized tocopherols to their corresponding sho...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Parker RS,Sontag TJ,Swanson JE,McCormick CC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancer DNA decoy oligonucleotides (ODNs) inhibit transcription by competing for transcription factors. A decoy ODN composed of the cAMP response element (CRE) inhibits CRE-directed gene transcription and tumor growth without affecting normal cell growth. We used DNA microarrays to analyze the global gene expression ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cho-Chung YS

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00