Effect of anionic amphophiles on erythrocyte properties.

abstract：:The factor Xa inhibitor apixaban is one of the novel anticoagulants to emerge as alternatives to long-standing standards of care that include low-molecular-weight heparin and warfarin. The development of apixaban reflects a strategy to optimize the clinical pharmacology profile, dosing posology, trial designs, and sta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hanna MS,Mohan P,Knabb R,Gupta E,Frost C,Lawrence JH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contemporary world faces an unprecedented environmental challenge. Past international research has amply shown that we cannot afford to wait for a "development path" that automatically takes us on a sustainable future. Whether we look at global or local problems, the international debate increasingly points to the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Magnani E

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most remarkable aspects of the immune system is its ability to fashion an immune response most appropriate to the activating stimulus. Although the immune system possesses a number of adaptations to accomplish this, an important theme is local immune regulation by site-specific expression of receptors and l...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shao L,Allez M,Park MS,Mayer L

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence from clinical and epidemiological studies points to a synchronized increase in the incidence of male reproductive problems, such as genital abnormalities, testicular cancer, reduced semen quality, and subfertility. Together these male reproductive problems may reflect the existence of one common entit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Boisen KA,Main KM,Rajpert-De Meyts E,Skakkebaek NE

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant state and national policy initiatives are focusing on strategies for financing and structuring the delivery of evidence-based services for children. These initiatives reflect, in part, an increased awareness of and respect for scientific standards about effective treatments and services. At the same time, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hoagwood K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scientific investigation of brains of different vertebrates, both extant and extinct, is of interest for several reasons: for translating medical research on rodent models into practice, for understanding the animals investigated in order to improve conservation and management strategies, and for understanding the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Manger PR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the morphological phenotypes in patients with different mutations of the PMP22 gene gives additional insights into the role of the protein in myelin function. The pathology in young patients is in some aspects different from the pathology in older patients, providing essential and additional information a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gabreëls-Festen A,VAN DE Wetering R

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocular motor system provides several advantages for studying the brain, including well-defined populations of neurons that contribute to specific eye movements. Generation of rapid eye movements (saccades) depends on excitatory burst neurons (EBN) and omnipause neurons (OPN) within the brainstem, both types of cel...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eggers SD,Horn AK,Roeber S,Härtig W,Nair G,Reich DS,Leigh RJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid (IKr) and slow (IKs) delayed rectifier K+ currents are key regulators of cardiac repolarization. HERG encodes the Kr channel, and KVLQT1 and hminK encode subunits that coassemble to form Ks channels. Mutations in any one of these genes cause Romano-Ward syndrome, an autosomal dominant form of long QT syndrom...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sanguinetti MC

更新日期：1999-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous review of alternative treatments (Tx) of ADHD--those other than psychoactive medication and behavioral/psychosocial Tx--was supplemented with an additional literature search focused on adults with ADHD. Twenty-four alternative Tx were identified, ranging in scientific documentation from discrediting control...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Arnold LE

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We test whether inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) can exert a cytoprotective effect on cerebral endothelial cells upon stimulation by pro-inflammatory cytokines. Mouse brain endothelial cells were stably transfected to express an antisense RNA against iNOS driven by an endothelium-specific von Wille...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yang DI,Chen S,Ezekiel UR,Xu J,Wu Y,Hsu CY

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since NTS neurons receive synaptic input from many sensory modalities, it is crucial to understand the neuronal mechanisms involved in synaptic processing. We have proposed that GABA-containing neurons in the NTS are the primary target for somatic afferent fibers activated by skeletal muscle contraction. In our model,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Potts JT

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene and its isoforms are excellent molecular markers that reflect smooth muscle phenotypes. The SMemb/Nonmuscle Myosin Heavy Chain B (NMHC-B) is a distinct MHC gene expressed predominantly in phenotypically modulated SMCs (synthetic-type SMC). To dissect the molecular mechan...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nagai R,Suzuki T,Aizawa K,Miyamoto S,Amaki T,Kawai-Kowase K,Sekiguchi KI,Kurabayashi M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonists of the NMDA glutamate receptor, including phencyclidine (PCP), ketamine, and CGS-19755, produce cognitive and behavioral changes in humans. In rodents these agents produce a myriad of histopathological and neurochemical changes. Several lines of evidence suggest that a large number of these drug-induced ef...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Farber NB

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A host of missense mutations in muscle nicotinic receptor subunits have been identified as the cause of congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS). Two classes of CMS phenotypes have been identified: slow channel myasthenic syndromes (SCCMSs) and fast channel myasthenic syndromes (FCCMSs). Although both have similar phenot...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sine SM,Wang HL,Ohno K,Shen XM,Lee WY,Engel AG

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violence against women has been a problem in human cultures for centuries. This is still the case both in developed and in developing countries, but it is in developing countries where the problem is aggravated as the result of cultural norms that are tolerant of men exerting power over women and girls as a commonly a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pick S,Contreras C,Barker-Aguilar A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many tissue types, wound healing involves cell division and migration over and into the wound area to cover and remodel the wound. LPA and other members of the phospholipid lipid growth factor (PLGF) family stimulate many of the activities involved in wound healing. In the rabbit cornea, we have found that keratocy...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Watsky MA,Griffith M,Wang DA,Tigyi GJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging may pose a challenge to the central nervous system, increasing its susceptibility to apoptotic events. Recent findings indicate that caloric restriction (CR) may have a profound effect on brain function and vulnerability to injury and diseases, by enhancing neuroprotection, stimulating the production of new neur...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hiona A,Leeuwenburgh C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is emerging that calcium-activated neutral proteinases (CANPs) not only participate in intracellular protein turnover but help to regulate the functional reorganization of cytoskeletal proteins in response to calcium and second-messenger stimulation. The high concentration of CANPs in certain neurons has sugg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nixon RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we have presented an overview of fundamental issues involved in mediphotonic imaging, and reviewed some of the emerging techniques for early-light transillumination imaging of body organs. The results on human breast tissues presented here, together with the data accumulated and advances made by resea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alfano RR,Demos SG,Gayen SK

更新日期：1997-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that methanolic extracts of bovine brain and lung possess CDS activity with an agonist-like profile at alpha(2)-adrenoceptor binding sites (i.e., greater potency against [(3)H]-clonidine sites than against [(3)H]-RX-821001 sites). Following prolonged reflux in ethylacetate, monovalent...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pinthong D,Kendall DA,Wilson VG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Will the development of safe, accurate prenatal diagnosis for Cooley's anemia result in a reduction in the unwanted birth of children with Cooley's anemia in the United States? Since detection of couples at risk only through the birth of an affected child will lead to a minimal reduction in the incidence of the diseas...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rowley PT,Loader S,Walden ME

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locomotion control uses proprioceptive, visual, and vestibular signals. Previously, we analyzed the visual contribution with visual motion stimulation in roll while participants kept their heads in a normal upright orientation. In this study we applied the same visual disturbance in a head-upright and a nose-down cond...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bardins S,Schneider E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In amphibians, alpha-MSH secreted by the pars intermedia of the pituitary plays a pivotal role in the process of skin color adaptation. Reciprocally, the skin of amphibians contains a number of regulatory peptides, some of which have been found to regulate the activity of pituitary melanotrope cells. In particular, th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vaudry H,Chartrel N,Desrues L,Galas L,Kikuyama S,Mor A,Nicolas P,Tonon MC

更新日期：1999-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian spermatogenesis is a complex developmental process. Spermatozoa, like ova, are uniquely capable of supporting embryonic development. Our approach to understanding this process is to identify genes whose developmental pattern of expression suggests that they may play a role in spermatogenesis. Experiments on ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Duggal RN,Zakeri ZF,Ponzetto C,Wolgemuth DJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderated by Lisa Miller from Newsweek, evolutionary biologist Kenneth Miller (Brown University) and theologians John Haught (Georgetown University) and Nancey Murphy (Fuller Theological Seminary) discuss the questions Are we immortal? Do our souls exist beyond our bodies? and What scientific evidence is there for mys...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Miller L,Miller K,Haught J,Murphy N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a disease characterized by increased numbers of T lymphocytes within the alveolar structures and the consequent spontaneous release of a variety of mediators relevant to the pathogenesis of this disorder. This phenomenon is associated with a different expansion of the T cell subpopulations pre...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rossi GA,Sacco O,Cosulich E,Balbi B,Risso A,Ravazzoni C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marisa cornuarietis (Mollusc), Hyalella azteca (Crustacean), and Paracentrotus lividus (Echinoderm) demonstrated the ability to metabolize androgens through different pathways catalyzed by 5alpha-reductases (5alpha-R), hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (HSD), hydroxylases, sulfotransferases (SULT), and fatty-acid acyl-CoA...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Janer G,Leblanc GA,Porte C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of functional polymorphisms in promoters of the MMP-2 (-1306 C > T), MMP-3 (-1171 5A > 6A), MMP-9 (-1562 C > T), MMP-12 (-82 A > G), TIMP-1 (-372 C > T), and PAI-1 (-675 4G > 5G and -847 A > G) genes on the growth rate of small abdominal aortic aneurysms. The patients...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Powell JT

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), and peptide histidine-isoleucine (PHI) are members of a superfamily of structurally related peptides widely distributed in the body and displaying pleiotropic biological activities. All these peptides are known to act via ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dejda A,Jozwiak-Bebenista M,Nowak JZ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00