Synthesis of alpha-fetoprotein by rat ascites hepatoma cells.

abstract：:Obstructive sleep apnea is often regarded as a structural disorder causing narrowing of the airway. This article reviews the neurological aspects of obstructive sleep apnea, including the upper airway reflex, cortical arousal thresholds, and motor function as they pertain to the pathophysiology of disease. We also dis...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Broderick M,Guilleminault C

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphotoxin is a protein with a MW of 45,000 daltons derived from activated lymphocytes that kills target cells nonspecifically. Kinetic studies indicate that there is a lag period of about 4 hours before cytotoxicity becomes apparent, even at high concentrations of lymphotoxin. Therefore, the role of lymphotoxin in c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mayer MM,Gately MK,Okamoto M,Shin ML,Willoughby JB

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amperometry is a powerful tool for studying the exocytotic process. Catecholamines released from a single secretory vesicle are oxidized by a carbon fiber microelectrode placed on a chromaffin cell membrane. This phenomenon can be recorded online as an amperometric signal. Each event of exocytosis is called a secretor...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gomez JF,Brioso MA,Machado JD,Sanchez JL,Borges R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of waist circumference and sagittal diameter as surrogate measures of visceral fat were assessed using preliminary cross-sectional data from the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study, a cohort of 3,075 men and women aged 70-79. Weight, body mass index, waist circumference, waist/thigh ratio, and sagitt...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Harris TB,Visser M,Everhart J,Cauley J,Tylavsky F,Fuerst T,Zamboni M,Taaffe D,Resnick HE,Scherzinger A,Nevitt M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, some 80,000 commercial and industrial chemicals are now in use of which over 30,000 are produced or used in the Great Lakes region. Thus, the environmental quality within the Great Lakes basin has been compromised particularly with respect to persistent toxic substances (PTS). Information derived...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Rosa CT,Hicks HE,Ashizawa AE,Pohl HR,Mumtaz MM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in the area of adolescent alcohol use is progressing rapidly, as exemplified by the chapters in this section. Basic animal research in rodents has revealed adolescents to be more sensitive than adults to ethanol-induced disruptions in brain plasticity, although adolescents conversely are relatively insensitiv...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Spear LP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acanthamoeba castellanii (A. castellanii) is a common soil- or water-borne protozoon that feeds on bacteria by phagocytosis. A. castellanii can grow between 4 and 32 degrees C and has to adapt quickly to chilling in order to survive. We have identified a Delta12-fatty acid desaturase as key to low temperature adaptati...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Harwood JL

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：:The monoaminergic and cholinergic systems are implicated in different forms of behavioral arousal that can be dissected in terms of their forebrain targets and the nature of the behavioral processes they modulate in distinct regions. Thus, evidence in rats with selective neurochemical manipulations tested behaviorally...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Robbins TW,Granon S,Muir JL,Durantou F,Harrison A,Everitt BJ

更新日期：1998-06-21 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：:Full-grown amphibian oocytes, arrested in prophase I or meiosis, respond in vitro to progesterone and certain other steroids. They undergo an apparently normal sequence of nuclear maturation and cytoplasmic differentiation, which are necessary precedents for fertilization and embryogenesis. Individual oocytes or popul...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schuetz AW

更新日期：1977-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of expression of human class II MHC genes has been studied in lymphoid and melanoma cells. Specific unmethylation of all restriction sites nearby the promoter regions has been detected in all cell lines and tissues studied, irrespective of their ability to express class II MHC products. The main functional...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gambari R,Barbieri R,Piva R,Tecce R,Fisher PB,Giacomini P,Natali PG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Module networks" are a framework to learn gene regulatory networks from expression data using a probabilistic model in which coregulated genes share the same parameters and conditional distributions. We present a method to infer ensembles of such networks and an averaging procedure to extract the statistically most s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Michoel T,De Smet R,Joshi A,Marchal K,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the approaches presently available for prevention of blood-transmitted hepatitis, most clearly effective is the avoidance of high-risk donor populations, such as most paid commercial donors. It should be emphasized that even after screening for hepatitis B antigen most paid donor blood carries with it a five-ten ti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Prince AM

更新日期：1975-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Departing from the functional parallelism that undoubtedly exists between the nervous and immune system, we suggest that the latter also counts with means for information exchange that may result in a mutual influence of immune processes between nearby individuals. Our concept relies on a molecular interface that is c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Martín PI,Sánchez PA,Rewald E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine typhus is a cause of fever of intermediate duration in the south of Spain, where antibodies against Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis were observed in humans. This study presents the first report from the northeast of Spain. Human serum samples were tested by serological test. R. typhi and R. felis seroprev...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nogueras MM,Cardeñosa N,Sanfeliu I,Muñoz T,Font B,Segura F

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonpathogenic enteric bacterial species initiate and perpetuate experimental colitis in interleukin-10 geneeficient mice (IL-10(-/-)). Bacteria-specific effects on the epithelium are difficult to distinguish because of the complex nature of the gut microflora. We showed that IL-10(-/-) mice compared to wild-type mice ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ruiz PA,Shkoda A,Kim SC,Sartor RB,Haller D

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classic cardiac research programs revolved around measurable properties such as pressures, work done, vascular blood flow, electrical propagation, and other such parameters that defined the global heart functions in health and decease. Consistently, the first Henry Goldberg Workshop, held in Haifa in 1984, focused...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beyar R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new autoimmune disease affecting the neuromuscular junction has been defined. Acquired neuromyotonia is associated with antibodies to voltage-gated potassium channels that act, at least in part, by reducing potassium channel function with resulting neuronal hyperactivity. This condition is quite frequently associate...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vincent A,Jacobson L,Plested P,Polizzi A,Tang T,Riemersma S,Newland C,Ghorazian S,Farrar J,MacLennan C,Willcox N,Beeson D,Newsom-Davis J

更新日期：1998-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Our studies of Ca2+ release have shown that three classes of compounds--quercetin, which inhibits Ca2+ release by reversal of the Ca2+ pump, H+ ionophores and DCCD, which affect proton gradients, and lipophilic anions, which act to oppose a separation of membrane surface charges--all have potential in probing the mech...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： MacLennan DH,Shoshan V,Wood DS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidant activity of Maillard reaction products (MRPs) derived from four sugar-amino acid Maillard reaction model systems (glucose [Glc] or ribose [Rib] reacted with glycine [Gly] and L-lysine [Lys]) were examined in terms of chemical properties and molecular weight fractionation of reaction products. Rib-amino aci...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chen XM,Kitts DD

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:Justice judgments are subjective by nature, and are influenced substantially by motivational processes. In the present contribution, two motives underlying justice judgments are examined: individualistic motives to evaluate solutions to social problems that benefit the self in material or immaterial ways as fair versu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： van Prooijen JW

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief overview is presented of recently developed and currently emerging statistical and computational techniques that have been proved to be highly helpful in handling the avalanche of the new type of data generated by modern high-throughput technologies in experimental biology. The review, in no way comprehensive,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rosenfeld S

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:Recent studies demonstrate major effects of adrenal medullary and catecholaminergic pathways on a wide variety of normal physiologic and regulatory events. Alterations in these pathways, involving changes in catecholamines or in proteins and peptides costored and coreleased with catecholamines, may lead to profound ch...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Parmer RJ,Zinder O

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During neuronal circuit formation, axons are guided to their targets by the help of axon guidance molecules, which are required for establishing functional circuits. A promising system to dissect the development and functionalities of neuronal circuitry is the spinal cord central pattern generator (CPG) for locomotion...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vallstedt A,Kullander K

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that the symptoms associated with endometriosis are the result of local peritoneal inflammation. Increased concentrations of activated pelvic macrophages and lymphocytes and the elevated levels of specific cytokines and growth factors reviewed above support this hypothesis. The precise roles of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Taylor RN,Ryan IP,Moore ES,Hornung D,Shifren JL,Tseng JF

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) from bone marrow are a source of osteoblast progenitors in vivo, and under appropriate conditions they differentiate into osteoblasts ex vivo. The cells provide a convenient cell culture model for the study of osteogenic tissue repair in an experimentally accessible system. Recent ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gregory CA,Gunn WG,Reyes E,Smolarz AJ,Munoz J,Spees JL,Prockop DJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rehabilitation aims to lessen the physical and cognitive impairments and disabilities of patients with stroke, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord or brain injury, and other neurologic diseases. Conventional approaches beyond compensatory adjustments to disability may be augmented by applying some of the myriad experiment...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dobkin BH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00