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

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

abstract：:A lactocrine mechanism for delivery of maternally derived relaxin (RLX) into the neonatal circulation as a consequence of nursing has been proposed for the pig. Consistently, immunoreactive porcine RLX was detected in colostrum as well as in the serum of nursing pigs. Concentrations of porcine RLX in milk are highest ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Frankshun AL,Ho TY,Steinetz BG,Bartol FF,Bagnell CA

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:Clinical and experimental gerontologists are extremely interested in lipoproteins as well as in new methods for investigating and probing the apolipoprotein pattern. Using immunofixation electrophoresis, we separated free apolipoprotein A-1 from the apo A-1 associated with high-density lipoproteins. Free apolipoprotei...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Giunta S,Maddalena-Peruzzi A,Gaudio MR,Semprini A

更新日期：1992-12-26 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：:The avoidance of autoimmunity requires mechanisms to actively silence or tolerize self reactive T cells in the periphery. During infection, dendritic cells are not only capturing microbial antigens, but also are processing self antigens from dying cells as well as innocuous environmental proteins. Since the dendritic ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Steinman RM,Hawiger D,Liu K,Bonifaz L,Bonnyay D,Mahnke K,Iyoda T,Ravetch J,Dhodapkar M,Inaba K,Nussenzweig M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the potent proinflammatory cytokine IL-1 in disease could clinically be investigated with the development of the IL-1 blocking agent anakinra (Kineret), a recombinant IL-1 receptor antagonist. It was first tested in patients with sepsis without much benefit but was later FDA approved for the treatment of p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goldbach-Mansky R

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole and nonadherent Peyer's patch cells were shown to present antigen to cloned antigen specific T-cells, albeit less efficiently than spleen cells. Unlike spleen cells, adherent PP cells did not present antigen, and PP lacked cells with classical dendritic morphology. The antigen presenting and MLR-stimulating cell...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tomasi TB,Barr WG,Challacombe SJ,Curran G

更新日期：1983-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The overarching role of coenzyme Q(10) in gene regulation, bioenergy formation, cellular redox poise regulation, and hydrogen peroxide formation is presented. Coenzyme Q(10) has a central role acting as a prooxidant in the generation of H(2)O(2). Contrary to the dogma that superoxide and H(2)O(2) formation are highly ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Linnane AW,Eastwood H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-17-producing helper T (Th17) cells serve as a Th subset involved in epithelial cell- and neutrophil-mediated immune responses against extracellular microbes and in the development of various autoimmune diseases. The differentiation of Th17 cells is controlled by a number of intracellular signaling cas...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nagai S,Kurebayashi Y,Koyasu S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sex combs reduced gene of the Antennapedia complex specifics the identities of the anterior thoracic and posterior head segments, including the primordium of the larval salivary gland. The Sex combs reduced transcription unit spans over 30 kb of genomic DNA, with another 40 kb of upstream cis-regulatory sequences....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kennison JA,Vázquez M,Brizuela BJ

更新日期：1998-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is imperative that operating personnel and regulatory agencies have secure, advance, and accurate knowledge of the true surface properties of materials to be contacted with flowing blood. The actual devices must be characterized in their sterile, immediate pre-exposure states. Although very sensitive electronic ins...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Baier RE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans the influence of prior vestibular stimulation (3, 6, 9, 12, and 18 degrees/second2 for 10 seconds) and subsequent whole-field optokinetic stimulation (30, 60, 90, 120, and 180 degrees/second for 1 minute) or the presentation of a stationary pattern on after-nystagmus (AN) was studied. For comparison, pure ve...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koenig E,Dichgans J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcopenia is the involuntary loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that occurs with aging, resulting in physical frailty. One potential explanation for sarcopenia is the failure of muscle to regenerate after damage, some of which may be due to changes in the function of satellite cells. Recent studies have identi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Machida S,Narusawa M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses the available clinical trials in which steroids have been used in the (adjuvant) treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Glucocorticosteroids have a positive effect on symptoms and signs of inflammation, but probably not on structural damage. Therefore glucocorticosteroids should be used as part of a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper describes an algorithm and computational system used to estimate the spatial chaos of magnetic resonance images of patients with gastric cancer and the quantum chaos of mechanoemission in blood. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Orel VE,Romanov AV,Dzyatkovskaya NN,Mel'Nik YI

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated platelets and leukocytes release potent vasoactive factors that may modulate vascular tone. Activation of normal platelets produces dilatation of normal arteries. Vasodilatation is mediated by adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which releases endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) from endothelium. In atherosc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaul S,Padgett RC,Heistad DD

更新日期：1994-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:How can people adaptively analyze and "work through" negative feelings without ruminating? This paper will briefly review findings from an integrative program of research, which suggests that a critical factor determining whether people's attempts to adaptively reason about negative experiences succeed or fail is the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kross E

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) is a highly lethal disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii. In the present study, rickettsial infection was evaluated in 669 Amblyomma aureolatum adult ticks collected from naturally infested dogs in Taiaçupeba, a BSF-endemic area in the state of São Paulo. Ten (1.49%) ticks were infected...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pinter A,Labruna MB

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Clinical research has demonstrated that increased or decreased estradiol 2-hydroxylation can easily be achieved with a number of experimental approaches. In contrast, estradiol 16 alpha-hydroxylation, which may have potentially deleterious effects in estrogen-dependent tissues, cannot be readily altered. Predictable h...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Michnovicz JJ,Bradlow HL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes the serum cytokine profile of a nonrandomized group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who are destined to be treated with infliximab following failure after failure of different disease-modifiying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Serial serum samples were colle...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Amital H,Barak V,Winkler RE,Rubinow A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic growth factors are glycoproteins of 15-70 kDa. Although much clinical success has been obtained using recombinant proteins produced in mammalian cell lines and in microbial fermentation processes, the full-length polypeptides necessarily are expensive to produce, require parenteral administration, and in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaushansky K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several growth factors (e.g., transforming growth factors beta and alpha, basic fibroblast growth factor), produced by hypothalamic astrocytes, participate in the control of hypothalamic gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons. On this basis, we have hypothesized that steroid hormones, like estrogens and proges...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Galbiati M,Saredi S,Melcangi RC

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal pathogens are a growing threat to public health. As human immunodeficiency becomes increasingly common, fungal infections are becoming more prevalent. The use of antifungal agents for prophylaxis and treatment of fungal infections has favored the emergence of previously rare or unidentified species of drug-resi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Geddes-McAlister J,Shapiro RS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews some of the early work that has been performed to investigate the potential roles of circulating nucleic acids as prediction markers in acute illness and injury. Circulating DNA and RNA concentrations are elevated early in patients with trauma, stroke and ACS, and are generally highest in patients...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rainer TH,Lam NY

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned a kappa 3-related opioid receptor, and although it is still not clear whether this clone corresponds to the kappa 3 receptor itself or is a related gene product, the extensive antisense mapping and the antibody immunoreactivity strongly associate this clone with the kappa 3 receptor. Our approach also indica...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pasternak GW,Pan YX,Cheng J

更新日期：1995-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon and the glucagon-like peptides (GLP-1 and GLP-2) share a common evolutionary origin and are triplication products of an ancestral glucagon exon. In mammals, a standard scenario is found where only a single proglucagon-derived peptide set exists. However, fish and amphibians have either multiple proglucagon ge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ng SY,Lee LT,Chow BK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sm-p80-based vaccine efficacy for Schistosoma mansoni was evaluated in a baboon model of infection and disease. The study was designed to replicate a human vaccine implementation scenario for endemic regions in which vaccine would be administered following drug treatment of infected individuals. In our study, the Sm-p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Siddiqui AJ,Molehin AJ,Zhang W,Ganapathy PK,Kim E,Rojo JU,Redman WK,Sennoune SR,Sudduth J,Freeborn J,Hunter D,Kottapalli KR,Kottapalli P,Wettashinghe R,van Dam GJ,Corstjens PLAM,Papin JF,Carey D,Torben W,Ahmad G,S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen synthesized in situ plays a more important role in breast cancer cell proliferation than does circulating estrogen. Aromatase is the enzyme that converts androgen to estrogen and is expressed at a higher level in breast cancer tissue than in surrounding noncancer tissue. A promising route of chemoprevention a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eng ET,Williams D,Mandava U,Kirma N,Tekmal RR,Chen S

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00