Group 2 innate lymphocytes at the interface between innate and adaptive immunity.

abstract：:Experiments with enzymes in situ that are dependent on ascorbic acid for maximum activity will provide critical information about ascorbic acid requirements. Our work with chromaffin tissue as a model system eventually will result in the determination of two dose-response curves for norepinephrine biosynthesis, repres...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Levine M,Hartzell W

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two basic types of factors reacting with anti-I region (anti-Ia) antisera are compared, those derived from macrophage-like antigen presenting cells and others derived from T-lymphocytes, of either the suppressor or helper type. Despite the common property of reacting with anti-Ia antisera, the two sets of factors diff...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feldmann M,Erb P,Kontiainen S,Todd I,Woody JN

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is thought that neuronal activity in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) represents the value of anticipated reward; however activity in many other brain areas also seems to reflect expected reward value. For example, we have shown that in monkeys performing a memory-guided saccade task for a reward of variable size, activi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Roesch MR,Olson CR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory condition associated with HLA B27. But the association is not absolute. Hence association with other HLA class I antigens and class II alleles was studied in a southern Indian population. Sixty-five patients with primary AS were typed serologically for HLA class I ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Madhavan R,Parthiban M,Rajendran CP,Chandrasekaran AN,Zake L,Sanjeevi CB

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin (MC)-4 receptor participates in regulating body weight homeostasis. We demonstrated early that acute blockage of the MC-4 receptor increases food intake and relieves anorexic conditions in rats. Our recent studies show that 4-week chronic blockage of the MC-4 receptor leads to robust increases in food...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schiöth HB,Lagerström MC,Watanobe H,Jonsson L,Vergoni AV,Ringholm A,Skarphedinsson JO,Skuladottir GV,Klovins J,Fredriksson R

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is a common physiologic and pathophysiologic stimulus that activates the expression of genes through oxygen-sensitive transcription factors including the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) and nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB). Hypoxia-dependent gene expression can have important physiologic or pathophysiologic co...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Taylor CT,Cummins EP

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the richest reservoirs of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes, animal intestinal microbiota contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment and, potentially, to human pathogens. Both culture-based genomic technology and culture-independent metagenomics have been developed to investigat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Su JQ,Cui L,Chen QL,An XL,Zhu YG

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E has the ability to scavenge a wide spectrum of free radicals, including singlet oxygen, superoxide, and hydroxyl radicals. It has beneficial effects against several other disorders, such as atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease, because it acts as a transcriptional regulator for gene expression via a tr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Al-Shamsi M,Amin A,Adeghate E

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulosa cells are known to contribute to maturation of oocytes, and most of the growth factors exert their action via granulosa cells. It has been established that granulosa cell death during follicular atresia and luteolysis results from apoptosis. However, the precise mechanistic pathways of granulosa cell apoptos...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tsai NM,Hsieh RH,Au HK,Shieh MJ,Huang SY,Tzeng CR

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B beta Arg166 to Cys substitution was identified in an abnormal fibrinogen named fibrinogen Longmont. The proband, a young woman, and her mother were heterozygous; both experienced episodes of severe hemorrhage at childbirth. The neo-Cys residues were found to be disulfide-bridged to either an isolated Cys amino acid ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lounes KC,Lefkowitz JB,Coates AI,Hantgan RR,Henschen-Edman A,Lord ST

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our studies to date indicate that treatment with anti-idiotype to monoclonal anti-MHC antibodies can markedly influence the repertoire of anti-MHC antibodies expressed. The antibodies discussed here appear to represent two classes, one of which is public, probably representing expression of a germ line gene, and the s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sachs DH,Bluestone JA,Epstein SL,Rabinowitz R

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic administration of 5,7-HT to newborn rats produces an altered development of the 5-HT neurons in the central nervous system, with marked regional differences. 5,7-Hydroxytryptamine can enter the brain and elicit its neurotoxic actions after systemic administration in the neonatal stage due to an incompletely d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jonsson G,Pollare T,Hallman H,Sachs C

更新日期：1978-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that HDL exerts its anti-atherogenic effects through the process of delivering cholesterol from peripheral tissues back to the liver for removal from the body (i.e., reverse cholesterol transport). The metabolic life cycle of HDL lipid and apolipoproteins during reverse cholesterol transport involves bo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Silver DL,Jiang XC,Arai T,Bruce C,Tall AR

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Pregnancy at high altitude (>2700 m) is associated with higher rates of fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia as well as alterations in placentation, including increased villous vascularization and reduced remodeling of maternal spiral arteries. Because circulatory fetal DNA concentrations were shown to be enhance...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhong XY,Wang Y,Chen S,Labu,Pubuzhuoma,Gesangzhuogab,Ouzhuwangmu,Hahn C,Holzgreve W,Hahn S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we discuss how neuropsychological impairments in visual selection can inform us about how selection normally operates. Using neuroanatomical and behavioral evidence on the disorders of neglect, extinction, and simultanagnosia, we propose functional and anatomical links between different aspects of visu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Riddoch MJ,Chechlacz M,Mevorach C,Mavritsaki E,Allen H,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iddm4 is a dominant non-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) determinant of diabetes susceptibility in BBDR rats treated with poly I:C, plus depletion of regulatory T cells. In congenic MHC-identical normal WF rats, Iddm4(d) sensitively and specifically predicts induced diabetes. We report a new diabetes-susceptible...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blankenhorn EP,Descipio C,Rodemich L,Cort L,Leif JH,Greiner DL,Mordes JP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toluene, a volatile hydrocarbon found in a variety of chemical compounds, is misused and abused by inhalation for its euphorigenic effects. Toluene's reinforcing properties may share a common characteristic with other drugs of abuse, namely, activation of the mesolimbic dopamine system. Prior studies in our laboratory...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Riegel AC,Ali SF,Torinese S,French ED

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcinematography was applied to the analysis of the kinetics of apoptotic cell death. Apoptosis was found to be a process that proceeds in different cells at different times after an initial stress, and therefore kinetic studies of apoptotic events in bulk cultures can be problematic. Using single cell analysis we ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goldstein JC,Kluck RM,Green DR

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:In this paper a novel algorithm is proposed for space trajectory design that combines a systematic and a heuristic method for global optimization. For the systematic part of the algorithm a branching technique is used, whereas a particular implementation of evolution programming forms the core of the heuristic part. T...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vasile M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood fibrinolytic system comprises an inactive proenzyme, plasminogen, that can be converted to the active enzyme, plasmin. Plasmin degrades fibrin into soluble fibrin degradation products, by two physiological plasminogen activators (PA), the tissue type PA (t-PA) and the urokinase type PA (u-PA). t-PA mediated ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lijnen HR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

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：:The authors report their experience in the surgical treatment of bone deformities in osteogenesis imperfecta, based upon 45 operations in 13 severely affected patients. Three different procedures were used. Fragmentation and temporary fixation by means of a wire does not guarantee a sufficient protection of the bone a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brunelli PC,Frediani P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite short halflife in biological fluids, nitric oxide (NO) can produce remote or long lasting effect in the cardiovascular system. Long distance transport or local storage of NO might explain these effects. In blood, recent findings suggest that in addition to being a major consumption pathway, interaction of NO w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Muller B,Kleschyov AL,Alencar JL,Vanin A,Stoclet JC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The screwworm fly, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel), is a parasite that attacks all warm-blooded animals including humans. This parasite has caused significant losses to the livestock industries of the Americas. Since the screwworm eradication program was initiated in the Southeastern United States in 1957, the erad...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wyss JH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the main cause of human cancer deaths, and cell motility is one key component of the process of metastasis. The ERK mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway is probably one of the most commonly activated in malignant human cancers. We describe the molecular mechanisms by which ERK MAPK s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Viala E,Pouysségur J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) and oxidative stress (OS) contribute to the development and progression of diabetic complications. We have reported that dietary AGEs and OS induce acute endothelial dysfunction in vivo, but little is known about their effects on adipokines. Twenty inpatients with type 2 diabetes ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stirban A,Negrean M,Götting C,Uribarri J,Gawlowski T,Stratmann B,Kleesiek K,Koschinsky T,Vlassara H,Tschoepe D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiple actions of somatostatin are mediated by specific membrane-bound receptors present in all somatostatin target tissues, such as brain, pituitary, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, and kidney. For instance, in the human gastrointestinal tract, three different types of tissue compartments express somatostatin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Reubi JC,Laissue J,Waser B,Horisberger U,Schaer JC

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth septate junctions (sSJs) are cell-cell junctions that are thought to regulate the paracellular pathway of the intestine and renal system in arthropods. The detailed mechanism of action of sSJs is not well understood, because their molecular organization has remained elusive for a long time. Recently, two sSJ-sp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Furuse M,Izumi Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00