Fibroblasts create compartments in the extracellular space where collagen polymerizes into fibrils and fibrils associate into bundles.

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：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) play an important role in various processes involved in regulating systemic blood pressure. These receptors are expressed at excitatory cholinergic synapses between sympathetic preganglionic neurons and postganglionic sympathetic neurons and link the integrative activities of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cooper E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scant empirical attention has been devoted to understanding endings in youth mentoring relationships, despite the frequency with which they occur. This study examined data from a mixed-methods study of mentoring relationship endings in which youth mentees, the youth's parents or guardians, mentors, and program staff w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Spencer R,Keller TE,Perry M,Drew AL,Clark-Shim H,Horn JP,Miranda-Díaz M,McCormack MJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor is a polypeptide belonging to a family of natural proteins also known as heparin-binding growth factors endowed with a pleiotropism of biological activities, the most striking of which are related to wound healing. Large quantities of recombinant human basic fibroblast growth factor (rh-...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mazué G,Bertolero F,Jacob C,Sarmientos P,Roncucci R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recently published reports, including ours, suggest that adiponectin is a strong proinflammatory agent. Indeed, exposure of human placenta and adipose tissue to adiponectin induces the production of interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), IL-6, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). We hav...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tsatsanis C,Zacharioudaki V,Androulidaki A,Dermitzaki E,Charalampopoulos I,Minas V,Gravanis A,Margioris AN

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGDHC) is an important mitochondrial constituent, and deficiency of KGDHC is associated with a number of neurological disorders. KGDHC is composed of three proteins, each encoded on a different and well-characterized gene. The sequences of the human proteins are known. Th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sheu KF,Blass JP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During viewing of a near target, the gain of the visually modulated vestibulo-ocular reflex (vVOR) exceeds 1.0. We investigated whether retinal image slip contributes to this gain increase by measuring responses during strobe illumination. Subjects showed greater gain values during normal versus strobe illumination of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Han YH,Kumar AN,Somers JT,Reschke MF,Leigh RJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient privacy is one of the major issues in the development of modern clinical information system networks. Such networks will have to demonstrate an appropriate concern for privacy as a precondition of operation. Regulatory effectiveness analysis is a novel technique for measuring compliance with a technological re...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brannigan VM

更新日期：1992-12-17 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：:We found that gamma-tocopherol, the predominant vitamin E form in diets, but not alpha-tocopherol, which is the exclusive form of vitamin E in most supplements, exhibited antiproliferation effect on prostate (PC-3, LNCaP) and lung (A549) cancer cells. gamma-Tocopherol induced apoptosis in androgen-sensitive LNCaP but ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jiang Q,Wong J,Ames BN

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:This literature review of contemporary mentoring delineates mentoring definitions and anchors these with explanatory discourse. Select empirical studies spanning 1983-2019 were analyzed, with a focus on education across grade levels. Alternative mentoring issues, types, and applications, also located, are integral to ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mullen CA,Klimaitis CC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this brief review, we introduce some major themes in the regulation of energy, lipid, and glucose metabolism by the central nervous system (CNS). Rather than comprehensively discussing the field, we instead will discuss some of the key findings made regarding the interaction of the hormones ghrelin and leptin with ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nogueiras R,Tschöp MH,Zigman JM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) are innate immune cells that respond rapidly to their environment through soluble inflammatory mediators and cell-to-cell interactions. As tissue-resident sentinels, ILC2 help orchestrate localized type 2 immune responses. These ILC2-driven type 2 responses are now recognized in di...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schuijs MJ,Halim TYF

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the alpha(2A)-autoreceptors on the sympathetic nerve terminals of the human atrial appendages and rabbit pulmonary artery, rilmenidine and oxymetazoline exhibit different properties (antagonism and agonism, respectively). These opposite pharmacodynamic properties of alpha(2)-adrenoceptor ligands seem to be due to s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Molderings GJ,Bonisch H,Bruss M,Gothert M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease characterized by autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells. Genetic and environmental factors contribute in this disease. There is evidence that MHC class I chain-related gene (MIC-A) plays a role in the susceptibility to this and other autoimmune diseases...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zake LN,Ghaderi M,Park YS,Babu S,Eisenbarth G,Sanjeevi CB

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured plasma concentration of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), a proopiomelanocortin derivative that modulates pyrogenic and proinflammatory effects of cytokines, in infectious and inflammatory disorders in humans to learn if changes in this peptide take place in naturally occurring disease. alp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Catania A,Airaghi L,Garofalo L,Cutuli M,Lipton JM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte trafficking from the blood stream to tissues is essential for continuous surveillance of foreign antigens. This dynamic process, designated as the leukocyte adhesion cascade, involves distinct steps. In leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) I the firm adhesion of leukocyte to the endothelium is defective, due ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hanna S,Etzioni A

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is usually caused by autoantibodies against muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR), which is composed of five subunits (alpha(2)betagammadelta or alpha(2)betaepsilondelta). Current treatments, including plasmapheresis, are nonspecific, causing several side effects. We aim to develop an a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tzartos SJ,Bitzopoulou K,Gavra I,Kordas G,Jacobson L,Kostelidou K,Lagoumintzis G,Lazos O,Poulas K,Sideris S,Sotiriadis A,Trakas N,Zisimopoulou P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome architecture is well diversified among eukaryotes in terms of size and content, with many being radically shaped by ancient and ongoing genome conflicts with transposable elements (e.g., the large transposon-rich genomes common among plants). In ciliates, a group of microbial eukaryotes with distinct somatic an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Maurer-Alcalá XX,Nowacki M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mustard gas (sulfur mustard, SM), a highly vesicating chemical warfare agent, was first deployed in warfare in 1917 and recently during the Iraq-Iran war (1980s) and Syrian conflicts (2000s); however, the threat of exposure from stockpiles and old artillery shells still looms large. Whereas research has been long ongo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mishra N,Raina K,Agarwal R

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The transfer of nutrients from the mother through the chorioallantoic placenta meets the nutritional needs of the embryo during human prenatal development. Although all amniotes start with a similar "tool kit" of extraembryonic tissues, an enormous diversity of extraembryonic tissue formation has evolved to accommodat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sheng G,Foley AC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-dependent activator protein for secretion (CAPS) was initially identified in brain cytosol based on its ability to reconstitute calcium-triggered dense-core vesicle (DCV) exocytosis in permeable cell lines (PC12) of adrenal chromaffin origin. Current evidence indicates that CAPS functions selectively in DCV ex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wassenberg JJ,Martin TF

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:A variety of chemical compounds are currently being discussed as novel drug delivery strategies. One promising strategy is to selectively open the paracellular pathway of epithelia for the passage of macromolecules. A prerequisite for this effect is a rapid and reversible action of these compounds, to allow a marked t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rosenthal R,Heydt MS,Amasheh M,Stein C,Fromm M,Amasheh S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis protease-activating factor-1 (Apaf-1), which plays a central role in the formation of the apoptosome, is absent or poorly expressed (because of a transcriptional silencing by methylation) in a substantial percentage of metastatic melanomas and melanoma cell lines, which are unable to activate caspase-9 and e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Del Bello B,Valentini MA,Comporti M,Maellaro E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysosomal system has often been considered a prominent morphologic marker of distressed or dying neurons. Lysosomes or their constituent hydrolases have been viewed in different neuropathologic states as either initiators and direct agents of cell death, agents of cellular repair and recompensation, effectors of e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nixon RA,Cataldo AM

更新日期：1993-05-28 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：: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