Trends in extreme rainfall and hydrogeometeorological disasters in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo: a review.

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) of man has several characteristics that distinguish it from viruses of other groups. These include its ultrastructure, viral DNA size and structure, a virion DNA polymerase which repairs a single-stranded region in the viral DNA, liver tropism, character of persistent infection, and association...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Robinson WS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma levels and the glycosylation of acute-phase proteins (APP) are subject to marked changes during acute and chronic inflammation. The pathophysiological variations in different glycoforms of APP in serum most likely result from changes in the glycosylation process during their biosynthesis in the parenchymal ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Van Dijk W,Mackiewicz A

更新日期：1995-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerotic coronary heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are the major cause of mortality in type II diabetes (T2DM) as well as a major contributor to morbidity and lifetime costs. The purpose of this article is the identification of the biochemical parameters in plasma, which may serve a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kalofoutis C,Piperi C,Zisaki A,Singh J,Harris F,Phoenix D,Alaveras A,Kalofoutis A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin therapy is often necessary for glycemic control, and its effect on plasma lipids is an important issue with respect to arteriosclerosis. Previous reports suggested that increased cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) appeared in diabetic patients with hyperinsulinemia or given a lot of insulin is atherogen...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ai M,Tanaka A,Baba T,Yui K,Numano F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azole resistance in Aspergillus species may be on the rise, with significant potential implications for the management of invasive aspergillosis. The main mechanism of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus is via alterations of the target enzyme CYP51A. Such azole resistance is either primary or secondary (in the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Georgiadou SP,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that bone marrow will seed and proliferate in normal recipients. Transfusion of 50 million cells on each of 4 or 5 consecutive days, a total of 200-250 million cells, resulted in the recipient's marrow being 20-40% of donor origin. The present paper reported on the marked enhancement of prolif...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brecher G,Mulcahy K,Tjio JH,Raveché E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrations in estrogen signaling increase breast cancer risk. Molecular mechanisms that impact breast cancer initiation, promotion, and progression can be investigated using genetically engineered mouse models. Increasing estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) expression levels twofold is sufficient to initiate and promote br...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Furth PA,Cabrera MC,Díaz-Cruz ES,Millman S,Nakles RE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a phylogenetically conserved process that plays a critical role in the degradation of oxidatively damaged proteins and organelle turnover. The role of oxidative stress and apoptosis in methamphetamine (METH)-induced neurotoxicity is well known; however, the potential contribution of autophagy to METH-indu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kanthasamy A,Anantharam V,Ali SF,Kanthasamy AG

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we consider the evolution of Alzheimer's-like neuropathology in the aging primate brain. In particular, we examine the evolutionary pressures that have likely selected for the neuroprotective effects of estrogen and of the apolipoprotein E2 and E3 isoforms. We analyze this in the context of the altricial...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sapolsky RM,Finch CE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human moral nature has perplexed laymen and academics for millennia. Recent developments in cognitive neuroscience are opening new venues for unveiling the complex psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underling human morality and its impairments. Here we review these lines of evidence and key topics of deb...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Moll J,De Oliveira-Souza R,Zahn R

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following on molecular aspects of esophageal development contains commentaries on esophageal striated myogenesis and transdifferentiation; conversion from columnar into stratified squamous epithelium in the mouse esophagus; the roles for BMP signaling in the developing esophagus and forestomach; and evidence of a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rishniw M,Rodriguez P,Que J,Burke ZD,Tosh D,Chen H,Chen X

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Early dissemination, blood circulation, or homing of single tumor cells in bone marrow and other organs is usually undetectable at primary diagnosis, even by high resolution imaging technologies. However, ultrasensitive approaches now enable the detection of "occult" tumor cells. Many researchers are currently focusin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Riethdorf S,Pantel K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accepted dogma has been that a single long-term hematopoietic stem cell (LT-HSC) can reconstitute all components of the immune system. However, our single-cell transfer studies have shown that highly purified LT-HSCs selectively fail to reconstitute B-1a cells in otherwise fully reconstituted hosts (i.e., LT-HSCs ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ghosn EE,Yang Y

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the two first cases of human ehrlichiosis described in Italy. One patient presented symptoms indicative of ehrlichiosis, such as fever, conjunctivitis, and increase of hepatic enzymes; HGE was confirmed by fourfold seroconversion for HGE antigen. The second patient, a forest worker, was affected by Lyme...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ruscio M,Cinco M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AZT inhibited replication of an immunodeficiency-inducing strain of feline leukemia virus (FeLV-FAIDS) in vitro at concentrations as low as 0.005 microgram/mL. This antiviral activity was augmented an additional 25-30% when AZT was combined with human recombinant alpha-interferon (2b) (IFN alpha). Administration of AZ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hoover EA,Zeidner NS,Mullins JI

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:A majority of incidentally found adrenal tumors derive from the adrenal cortex. The aim of our study was evaluation of the incidence of chromaffin tumors in a group of 1,111 patients with adrenal incidentalomas. In this group there were 803 women and 308 men, aged 10-87 years. Clinical examination, imaging studies (ul...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kasperlik-Zaluska AA,Roslonowska E,Slowinska-Srzednicka J,Otto M,Cichocki A,Cwikla J,Slapa R,Eisenhofer G

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：: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 four- to fivefold overexpression of the gene for the Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) in individuals with Down's Syndrome (DS) appears to be responsible for the fifty year earlier onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in DS compared to the normal population. It is therefore likely that a dereg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beyreuther K,Pollwein P,Multhaup G,Mönning U,König G,Dyrks T,Schubert W,Masters CL

更新日期：1993-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the plasma suppressive activity was associated with alpha 2M in both normal subjects and cancer patients. alpha 2M binding to physiological levels of proteases was associated with an increase in the ability to suppress lymphocyte reactivity in the TEEM test. alpha 2M binding to proteases released a peptide tha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alomran A,Shenton BK,Donnelly PK,Francis DM,Proud G,Taylor RM

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:Significant advances have been made over the past few years concerning the cellular and molecular events underlying neuron death. Recently, it is becoming increasingly clear that some of genes induced during cerebral ischemia may actually serve to rescue the cell from death. However, the injured cell may not be capabl...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yenari MA,Dumas TC,Sapolsky RM,Steinberg GK

更新日期：2001-06-01 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 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：:Despite new technological advances in the rehabilitation of audition in profoundly deaf children, auditory training remains a fundamental part of their education. Consequently, it is necessary to learn what kind of stimuli, what kind of auditory tasks, and what kind of learning procedures generate faster and more long...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rochette F,Bigand E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy for beta-globinopathies, particularly beta-thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, hold much promise for the future, as a one time cure for these common and debilitating disorders. Correction of the beta-globinopathies using lentivirus vectors (LV) carrying the beta- or gamma-globin genes and elements of the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Perumbeti A,Malik P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro and in vivo 31P magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy studies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain have revealed alterations in membrane phospholipid metabolism and high-energy phosphate metabolism. Mildly demented AD patients compared with control subjects have increased levels of phosphomonoesters, decreased le...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pettegrew JW,Klunk WE,Panchalingam K,McClure RJ,Stanley JA

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a significant increase in the percentage and absolute number of activated lymphocytes (OKT10+, IL2R1+) after ECT treatment of major depressive disorder. There is an acute decrease in the absolute number of total lymphocytes, T8+ and Leu11+ cells one hour after a single ECT. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fischler B,Bocken R,Schneider I,De Waele M,Thielemans K,Derde MP

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00