Interaction of fibrinogen with staphylococcal clumping factor and with platelets.

abstract：:The term "steroid- or glucocorticoid-resistant (GR) asthma" has been used to describe a group of asthmatics who demonstrate persistent airway obstruction and inflammation despite treatment with high doses of systemic glucocorticoids (GCs). There are at least two forms of GR asthma. The first group of patients has an a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leung DY,de Castro M,Szefler SJ,Chrousos GP

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present article was to investigate the occurrence and temporary changes of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP)-38 and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) in various brain areas of chicken embryos by means of radioimmunoassay. The highest concentrations of PACAP-38 were measured in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jozsa R,Hollosy T,Nemeth J,Tamás A,Lubics A,Jakab B,Olah A,Arimura A,Reglödi D

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural tetrapeptide acetyl-ser-asp-lys-pro (AcSDKP) is formed in vivo by enzymatic cleavage of the N terminus of thymosin beta4 by prolyl oligopeptidase (POP). Recently, AcSDKP was shown to promote angiogenesis. Because of the critical role of neovascularization in cancer development, the levels of AcSDKP and POP...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Liu JM,Garcia-Alvarez MC,Bignon J,Kusinski M,Kuzdak K,Riches A,Wdzieczak-Bakala J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental robustness, the capacity to stay "on track" despite the myriad vicissitudes that inevitably plague a developing organism, is, I argue, a prerequisite for natural selection and key to our understanding of the evolution of developmental processes. But how is such robustness achieved? And how can we reconci...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Keller EF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria can exhibit high levels of resistance to one or more environmental stresses such as temperature, osmolarity, radiation, pH, starvation, as well as resistance to noxious chemicals and antibiotics. Yet evolution has not optimized stress resistance in all bacteria to all stresses. Even within a species like Esch...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ferenci T,Spira B

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick burdens cause direct damage to hosts and transmit several disease agents, the majority of which are secreted into feeding lesions through tick salivary glands. Reduced incidence of naturally transmitted tick-borne diseases was recently observed among cattle immunized with tick salivary gland extracts (TSGE). The ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jittapalapong S,Phichitrasilp T,Chanphao H,Rerkamnuychoke W,Stich RW

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2014, there was an outbreak of beriberi on Kuria, a remote atoll in Kiribati, a small Pacific Island nation. A thiamine-poor diet consisting mainly of rice, sugar, and small amounts of fortified flour was likely to blame. We aimed to design a food fortification strategy to improve thiamine intakes in Kuria. We surv...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Green TJ,Whitfield KC,Daniels L,Brown RC,Houghton LA

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is often treated as a single entity, but architectonic and connectional neuroanatomy indicate that it has distinguishable parts. Nevertheless, few studies have attempted to dissociate the functions of its subregions. Here we review findings from recent neuropsychological and neur...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rudebeck PH,Murray EA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much is known about the pleiotropic effects mediated by relaxin, the exact signaling pathways involved remain relatively elusive. This study examines LGR7 and LGR8 signaling using reporter gene technology. The greatest response was observed at the CRE reporter (indicates activation of cAMP-PKA and p38/JNK pat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Halls ML,Bathgate RA,Roche PJ,Summers RJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of R. prowazekii in lice using R. prowazekii-specific qPCR cassettes showed the changes of the rickettsial burden in the lice post-infection. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rozmajzl PJ,Houhamdi L,Jiang J,Raoult D,Richards AL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of substance use disorders has always been challenging because multiple neurotransmitters mediate addiction. However, with smoking being the leading cause of preventable death and the recent opioid epidemic in the United States, the search for novel solutions becomes more imperative. In this review, we d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Xu A,Kosten TR

更新日期：2020-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common of a number of diseases in which inflammation and tissue destruction is driven by an autoimmune process. Current therapy is inadequate, and this has prompted major research efforts, both in academia and industry, to understand more about the pathogenesis, and hence provide the r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feldmann M,Brennan FM,Elliott MJ,Williams RO,Maini RN

更新日期：1995-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The general aim of this experiment was to investigate the processes involved in reading musical notation and to study the relationship between written music and its auditory representation. Our main interest was to determine if musicians can develop expectancies for plausible or implausible auditory events on the sole...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schön D,Besson M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillomaviruses are widespread, sexually transmitted agents with an increasing prevalence. They are associated with a significant risk of genital carcinoma in infected women. Because they can be transmitted to the fetus before or during birth, they are also a risk to the infant born to an infected woman. Laryngeal HP...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Steinberg BM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our molecular studies have revealed the existence of a large number of different subunits or subtypes for the NMDA and metabotropic glutamate receptors. The individual receptors show functional variabilities and distinct expression patterns in the CNS. The NMDA receptors belong to the ligand-gated ion channel family a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Masu M,Nakajima Y,Moriyoshi K,Ishii T,Akazawa C,Nakanashi S

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the molecular mechanism by which Sph-1-P affects the FN-dependent haptotactic motility of serum-starved mouse melanoma B16/F10 cells. We found that EDG-5-induced Rho activation followed by enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of FAK and paxillin, and beta 1-integrin activation leading to overexpression of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yamamura S,Hakomori S,Wada A,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent study showed a significant association between schizophrenia in European samples and the glutamate cysteine ligase modifier (GCLM) subunit gene, which is the key glutathione (GSH)-synthesizing enzyme. Since the symptoms of methamphetamine (METH)-induced psychosis are similar to those of schizophrenia, the GCL...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kishi T,Ikeda M,Kitajima T,Yamanouchi Y,Kinoshita Y,Kawashima K,Inada T,Harano M,Komiyama T,Hori T,Yamada M,Iyo M,Sora I,Sekine Y,Ozaki N,Ujike H,Iwata N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the pancreatic islets, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is expressed in beta cells and autonomic nerve terminals; the majority of these nerve terminals are parasympathetic. PACAP binds to three types of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs): VPAC1 receptors, VPAC2 receptors, and PAC1 recepto...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ahrén B

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article investigated clinical symptoms and their longitudinal clinical course following pharmacological treatment in 32 female incarcerated patients suffering from methamphetamine (METH) psychosis who were referred to psychiatric consultation. The length of METH-abuse periods of the patients ranged from 2 ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Akiyama K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid (FA) compositions of liver and skeletal muscle structural lipids, overall phospholipids and phosphatidylcholine, and triglycerides (TG) were determined in the hereditary hypertriglyceridemic (HTG) rat, a nonobese animal model of the insulin resistance syndrome. Four groups of HTG rats and four groups of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bohov P,Seböková E,Gasperíková D,Langer P,Klimes I

更新日期：1997-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranscriptional control of gene expression plays a key role in regulating gene expression in cells undergoing apoptosis. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is a crucial enzyme in the conversion of arachidonic acid to prostaglandin E2 (PGE(2)) and is significantly upregulated in many types of adenocarcinomas. COX-2 overexpre...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mukhopadhyay D,Jung J,Murmu N,Houchen CW,Dieckgraefe BK,Anant S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of four randomized controlled trials were examined to assess the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) for myasthenia gravis (MG) acute exacerbations. The first trial compared plasma exchange (PE) and IVIG in 87 patients. At day 15, the mean change in the Myasthenic Muscular Score (MMS) was 16.6 (9...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gajdos P,Chevret S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) in C. elegans and in plants has revolutionized current approaches to biology and medicine. RNAi silences genes in a sequence-specific manner through the actions of small pieces of double-stranded RNAs (siRNAs and miRNAs). RNAi has been found as a widespread natural phenomenon i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zheng ZM,Tang S,Tao M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatase cytochrome P450, the key enzyme of estrogen biosynthesis from androgens, is encoded by CYP19. Its structure shows some peculiarities: exons II to X encode the protein, while multiple alternative exons I encode unique 5'-untranslated regions of the aromatase mRNA transcripts. Immunohistochemistry studies in t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Galmiche G,Corvaisier S,Kottler ML

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:In this note epistemological problems in general theories about living systems are considered; in particular, the question of hidden connections between different areas of experience, such as folk biology and scientific biology, and hidden connections between central concepts of theoretical biology, such as function, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Emmeche C

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented evidence indicating that P2-purinergic receptors may activate the polyphosphoinositide-phospholipase C in HL60 cells via the mediation of a pertussis-toxin-sensitive GTP-binding protein, which also mediates the actions of chemotactic peptide receptors in these and other phagocytic white blood cells. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dubyak GR,Cowen DS,Lazarus HM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used site-directed mutagenesis to investigate the contributions of widely distributed residues in the thymosin beta-4 (Tbeta4) sequence to the formation and stability of the actin-Tbeta4 complex. Equilibrium and kinetic studies of actin binding were performed by monitoring the change in fluorescence of an N-io...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Au JK,De La Cruz EM,Safer D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-carotene acts as an antioxidant or a pro-oxidant depending on the concentrations that cells are treated with. Oxidative DNA damage is related to apoptosis of various cells. Ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated (ATM), a sensor for DNA-damaging agents, activates a variety of effectors in multiple signaling pathways, such ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jang SH,Lim JW,Kim H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant major histocompatibility complex (MHC) with the same class III region as the NOD mouse, but different class II region from the NOD mouse was identified in the NON mouse, and NOD mice congenic for this recombinant MHC, NOD.NON-H2, was established. None of the congenic mice homozygous for the NON MHC devel...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yamaji K,Ikegami H,Fujisawa T,Noso S,Nojima K,Babaya N,Itoi-Babaya M,Kobayashi M,Hiromine Y,Makino S,Ogihara T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00