Between progress and obstacles in urban climate interdisciplinary studies and knowledge transfer to society.

abstract：:There is a growing interest in the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation for sleep disturbed populations. Our study sought to evaluate the effect of mindfulness meditation interventions on sleep quality. To assess for relative efficacy, comparator groups were restricted to specific active controls (such as evidenced...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rusch HL,Rosario M,Levison LM,Olivera A,Livingston WS,Wu T,Gill JM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microgravity experiments on the constrained vapor bubble heat exchanger (CVB) are being developed for the space station. Herein, ground-based experimental studies on condensate removal in the condenser region of the vertical CVB were conducted and the mechanism of condensate removal in microgravity was found to be the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zheng L,Wang Y,Wayner PC Jr,Plawsky JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many other transcription factors, the tumor suppressor protein p53 is bound to the nuclear matrix (NM). To study the interaction of p53 with the NM in more detail, we used alkaline and acidic extractions of NM proteins. It was found that there are two forms of p53, alkali- and acid-soluble, in NM of HEK293 cells ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lapshina MA,Parkhomenko II,Terentiev AA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-seven reports of patients with seizures induced by listening and/or playing music and one personal observation are reviewed. Music-induced (or musicogenic) seizures are currently classified among the reflex seizures precipitated by complex stimuli. According to the available information, they are defined as foc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Avanzini G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticosteroids have potent immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory effects. Although corticosteroids are an important weapon in the clinical arsenal for treating inflammatory episodes, the mechanisms underlying the actions and regulation of endogenous corticosteroids remain obscure. In the late 1980s and early 1990s,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Harbuz MS,Chover-Gonzalez AJ,Jessop DS

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SOX8 is a transcription factor that belongs to the SoxE group of high mobility group (HMG) superfamily of genes. As Sox8 is widely expressed during development, and has male-specific expression at the critical period for sex determination, it was initially hypothesized that its inactivation would result in abnormal se...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kennedy CL,Koopman P,Mishina Y,O'Bryan MK

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma marginale and A. phagocytophylum are intracellular rickettsiae that cause bovine anaplasmosis and human granulocytic anaplasmosis, respectively. The ultimate vaccine for the control of anaplasmosis would be one that reduces infection and transmission of the pathogen by ticks. Effective vaccines for control o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： de la Fuente J,Ayoubi P,Blouin EF,Almazán C,Naranjo V,Kocan KM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports on patients with hemiparalysis indicate the importance of the nervous system for the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or osteoarthritis (OA). Norepinephrine (NE) and opioids seem to be more antiinflammatory neurotransmitters whereas substance P is proinflammatory. The study aimed to investigate the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Miller LE,Wessinghage D,Müller-Ladner U,Schölmerich J,Falk W,Kerner T,Straub RH

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, vitamin D has been received increased attention due to the resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets in developed countries and the identification of extraskeletal effects of vitamin D, suggesting unexpected benefits of vitamin D in health and disease, beyond bone health. The possibility of extra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Christakos S,Hewison M,Gardner DG,Wagner CL,Sergeev IN,Rutten E,Pittas AG,Boland R,Ferrucci L,Bikle DD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of polycystic ovary syndrome in very young girls is complicated by the fact that many features typical of the syndrome can also be seen as physiological stages in the maturation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-ovarian axis. The role of reduced insulin sensitivity in the pathogenesis and evolution of the d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bruni V,Dei M,Nannini S,Balzi D,Nuvolone D

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella, a Gram-negative bacterial species of the family Enterobacteriaceae, causes bacillary dysentery in humans, an acute rectocolitis that reflects the capacity of the microorganism to disrupt, invade, and cause the inflammatory destruction of the intestinal epithelium. Here, the pathogenesis of Shigella infection...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sansonetti PJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice deficient for complement factors C3, C4, or C5 are resistant to experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG). Acetylcholine receptor (AChR) immune lymph node cells (LNC) of C3 deficient mice produce less interleukin 6 (IL-6), and EAMG-resistant IL-6 deficient mice have less serum C3. Increased serum C1q-circu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Christadoss P,Tüzün E,Li J,Saini SS,Yang H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the conductance of molecular films as a function of orientation of the molecules in the film with respect to electrodes. Depending on the angle between the axis of the molecules and the normal to the electrode, the conductance may change by more than an order of magnitude. This is a consequence of the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kornilovitch PE,Bratkovsky AM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between optimal levels of emotional arousal and cognitive performance reflects the integration of several dopaminergically and adrenergically regulated neural systems. The amygdalar system is a key region for gating stimulation to cortical regions and the medial amygdala appears to play an especially key r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mayes LC

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperactivity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is often observed in association with and even prior to the onset of major depression. It is presently unclear (1) which molecular and cellular processes contribute to hyperactivity of parvocellular hypothalamic neurons (key regulators of the HPA system) an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Joëls M,Verkuyl JM,Van Riel E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac afferent neurons are activated in the setting of myocardial ischemia and mediate the sensation of angina. However, the precise stimuli and receptive molecules responsible are not completely understood. To further investigate the molecular components involved, cardiac afferents were isolated in dissociated cult...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Benson CJ,Sutherland SP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD40 ligand (CD40L) is expressed by activated T cells and interacts with the CD40 molecule present on B cells and endothelial cells, promoting immunoglobulin switching in the former and cytokine upregulation in the latter. CD40L exists in both a soluble (sCD40L) and a membrane-bound form. Because primary biliary cirrh...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Oertelt S,Invernizzi P,Selmi C,Podda M,Gershwin ME

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in available biological data. This includes a tremendous quantity of sequence data (e.g., biological structures, genetic and physical maps, pathways) generated by genome and transcriptome projects focused on humans, mice, and a multitude of other species. Diabetes resear...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Petrovsky N,Silva D

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have heard a wide-ranging set of talks on cosmology and high energy astrophysics at this conference. All I can really do in this short talk is to present my subjective impression of an arbitrary selection of highlights. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rees MJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotyledons of dark-grown watermelon seedlings contain during the first period of germination, 4 and later 5 MDH isoenzymes. Whereas isoenzymes I, II, and IV belong to the cytosol, isoenzyme III is confined to the mitochondria (mMDH) and isoenzyme V to the glyoxysomes (gMDH). The organelle-bound MDHs were purified to h...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hock B,Gietl C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our work was to detect minor loci acting as Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetic markers. We divided 206 AD patients and 186 individuals as controls into six age at onset/age-dependent groups. We studied polymorphisms of the genes of apolipoprotein E (APOE) and its promoter, cathepsin D, butyrylcholinesterase, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beyer K,Lao JI,Latorre P,Ariza A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick-borne disease in the United States, little is known about the frequency of and risk factors for infection with Borrelia burgdorferi in occupational groups. In 1986, we recruited primarily outdoor workers from six employee groups in southeastern New York where LD is en...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Smith PF,Benach JL,White DJ,Stroup DF,Morse DL

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic exposure to arsenic causes health problems, including peripheral neuropathy. Oxidative stress is one of the mechanisms underlying arsenic-induced neurotoxicity. For this report, we studied the protective effect of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on arsenic-induced oxidative injury in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) explants...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chao PL,Fan SF,Chou YH,Lin AM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of human prolactin in the mammary gland, one of the main target organs of this hormone, leads to the formation of an autocrine-paracrine proliferative loop in this tissue. Involvement of prolactin in normal and neoplastic mammary development triggered the interest in transcriptional regulation of the human ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Baudhuin A,Manfroid I,Van De Weerdt C,Martial JA,Muller M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, and an impressive number of modern drugs have been isolated from natural sources, many based on their use in traditional medicine. The use of herbal drugs is once more escalating in the form of complementary and alternative medicine. The past century...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cragg GM,Newman DJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translin and translin-associated factor X (translin/TRAX) proteins have been implicated in a variety of cellular activities central to nucleic acid metabolism. Accumulating evidence indicates that translin/TRAX complexes participate in processes ensuring the replication of DNA, as well as cell division. Significant pr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kasai M,Ishida R,Nakahara K,Okumura K,Aoki K

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High demand of neoplastic tissues for glutamine (Gln) is met by its active transport across cell membranes. Chronic treatment with acrylamide in rodents is associated with an increased incidence of neoplasms, including astrocytomas. In this study, 24-h acrylamide treatment significantly increased the initial rate of l...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wu Q,Sidoryk M,Mutkus L,Zielińska M,Albrecht J,Aschner M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cytoplasmic vesicles are observed to move along microtubules. Often, bidirectional movement of particles is observed on a single microtubule. We have isolated one cytoplasmic motor, kinesin, and defined another, the axoplasmic retrograde factor, which are capable of powering anionic latex beads toward the plus an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sheetz MP,Vale R,Schnapp B,Schroer T,Reese T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the gulf between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cellular design arose is a major challenge. The viral eukaryogenesis (VE) hypothesis addresses the challenge of eukaryotic origins by suggesting the first eukaryotic cell was a multimember consortium consisting of a viral ancestor of the nucleus, an archaea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bell PJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endometrial effects of vaginal progesterone have been found to be unexpectedly reliable. This has led us to suspect that a local direct vagina-to-uterus transport or first uterine pass effect was the basis of the uterine targeting of vaginal progesterone. After vaginal administration of progesterone, uterine tissu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Ziegler D,Bulletti C,De Monstier B,Jääskeläinen AS

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00