Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome: mouse passive-transfer model illuminates disease pathology and facilitates testing therapeutic leads.

abstract：:Over several years our group has sought to synthesize and identify selective ligands for imidazoline (I) receptors, in particular the I2 binding site. As a consequence, [3H]2-(2-benzofuranyl)-2-imidazoline (2BFI) has proved extremely useful for binding and autoradiographic studies. More recently we have synthesized a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hudson AL,Gough R,Tyacke R,Lione L,Lalies M,Lewis J,Husbands S,Knight P,Murray F,Hutson P,Nutt DJ

更新日期：1999-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically potent skeletal muscle relaxants are used primarily for their effects on the central nervous system. But they also have direct effects on muscle contraction that possibly involve Ca2+ channels. We compared the effects of dantrolene, an agent known to have a direct action on vertebrate skeletal muscle, with ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Helland LA,Lopez JR,Taylor SR,Trube G,Wanek LA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the development of three different types of antiviral drugs, the nucleotide and non-nucleotide analogues acting as reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) and the nonpeptidic viral protease inhibitors (PI), and their introduction in the management of patients with AIDS, either alone or in combinati...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kino T,Chrousos GP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of autoimmune diseases is higher in females than in males. In both sexes, adrenal hormones, that is, glucocorticoids, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and androgens, are inadequately low in patients when compared to healthy controls. Hormonally active androgens are anti-inflammatory, whereas estrogens are ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schmidt M,Naumann H,Weidler C,Schellenberg M,Anders S,Straub RH

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These data suggest that shock stress during adolescence increases ETOH consumption and may contribute to an increase in aggression in early adulthood. Interestingly, shock stress without ETOH results in timid behavior in early adulthood. One might speculate that adolescent hamsters "self-medicate" to deal with continu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ferris CF,Brewer J

更新日期：1996-09-20 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：:Gluten sensitivity is an autoimmune disease that usually causes intestinal atrophy resulting in a malabsorption syndrome known as celiac disease. However, gluten sensitivity may involve several organs and is often associated with extraintestinal manifestations. Typically, patients with celiac disease have circulating ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Boscolo S,Sarich A,Lorenzon A,Passoni M,Rui V,Stebel M,Sblattero D,Marzari R,Hadjivassiliou M,Tongiorgi E

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The loss of E-cadherin expression or function in epithelial carcinomas has long been thought as a primary reason for disruption of tight epithelial cell-cell contacts and release of invasive tumor cells from the primary tumor. Indeed, E-cadherin serves as a widely acting suppressor of invasion and growth of epithelial...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hazan RB,Qiao R,Keren R,Badano I,Suyama K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare hereditary disease characterized by recurrent transient ischemic attacks, strokes, and vascular dementia. Various mutations in the Notch3 gene cause the disease, whereas the mechanism of how they cause the di...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Abe K,Murakami T,Matsubara E,Manabe Y,Nagano I,Shoji M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in humans and in animal models have demonstrated that the receptor-dependent actions of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D are required for normal skeletal growth and maturation. Investigations were undertaken to address which consequences of vitamin D receptor deficiency are a direct result of impaired receptor-dependen...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Demay MB

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are the result of a nonenzymatic reaction of reducing sugars with primary amino groups of proteins (Maillard reaction). They accumulate in various tissues in the course of aging. Because AGEs induce protein cross-links and oxidative stress (radicals) within cells and tissues, the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Simm A,Bartling B,Silber RE

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Thiazolidinediones improve glycemic control by reducing insulin resistance. Some studies have demonstrated that troglitazone had a preventative effect on diabetes in NOD (non-obese diabetic) mice. One of the mechanisms proposed for the prevention of diabetes by thiazolidinediones is an effect on T-helper 1/T-helper 2 ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shigihara T,Okubo Y,Kanazawa Y,Oikawa Y,Shimada A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are used to thinking of mathematics as a symbolic activity. Here I argue that it may also be seen as a performative one. Making an analogy with music, I draw attention to the ways in which mathematics may not only be written down but also played out. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wertheim M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking into account that methamphetamine (MA) is a popular recreational drug among young adult women, i.e., in gestational age, the present model aims to assess the effects of its exposure during development. In this experimental model, MA effects are assessed in the rat during the first month of life, regarding both ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gomes-DA-Silva J,Silva MC,Tavares MA

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria can exhibit high levels of resistance to one or more environmental stresses such as temperature, osmolarity, radiation, pH, starvation, as well as resistance to noxious chemicals and antibiotics. Yet evolution has not optimized stress resistance in all bacteria to all stresses. Even within a species like Esch...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ferenci T,Spira B

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt has been made to describe several actions of progesterone related to the preparation of the uterus for decidualization. These actions result from classical ligand-receptor interactions as well as from nonreceptor-mediated changes, that is, those imposed by metabolic inactivation of the steroid. By opposing ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yochim JM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological status of presynaptic receptors, regulating sympathetic neurotransmitter release, remains subject to debate. Nevertheless, pharmacological techniques have shown presynaptic alpha-adrenoceptors, mediating a negative feedback inhibition of neuronal noradrenaline (NA) release, and presynaptic beta-adren...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Borkowski KR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a rabbit model of in utero exposure to intravenous injections of cocaine given twice daily to dams from gestational days 8-29. At the doses employed (4 mg/kg, injected twice daily), no differences were found in the body weight gain of dams, time to delivery, litter size, and body weight or other phys...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Romano AG,Harvey JA

更新日期：1998-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is dedicated to the transient liquid crystal technique measurements for multiple view access by using a novel digital recording and image processing system. The transient liquid crystal technique is widely used for heat transfer investigations in turbomachinery. It has been applied in our laboratory in seve...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vogel G,Boelcs A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges facing health and welfare policymakers as well as researchers in most developed countries is the increasing demand for aging services and aged care. Low birth rates and rapid increases in the percentages of elderly people make aging and aged care one of the top-priority issues among the national ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Soar J,Seo Y

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute phase proteins (APPs) are a group of serum proteins that undergo dramatic changes in concentration during times of inflammation. Many APPs are heavily glycosylated, and their sugar content and complexity change in the presence of cancer-induced chronic inflammation. These changes in glycosylation are currently b...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dempsey E,Rudd PM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS) can provide estimates of body composition for both whole body (WB) and body segments (BS). In normal, healthy subjects, BS measurements may be expected to serve as surrogates for WB indices; however, very little is known about this correspondence in people suffering from acut...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mazariegos M,Klassen P,Solomons NW,Fürst P

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Vascular anomalies" represents a spectrum of vascular lesions, of unclear etiology and often with unpredictable behavior. Patients with vascular anomalies represent a unique population, in that they have focal aberrations of vascular development (in vascular malformations) or vascular proliferation (in hemangiomas). ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blei F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of a discovery of anti-histidyl-tRNA synthetase (Jo1) autoantibodies patients was established in the early diagnosis of antisynthetase syndrome (ASS) as the common form of this pathology is characterized by interstitial lung disease (ILD), inflammatory muscle disease, and production of anti-J...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gomard-Mennesson E,Fabien N,Cordier JF,Ninet J,Tebib J,Rousset H

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research on development of the Xenopus olfactory bulb from our laboratory has shown that mitral cells begin to differentiate after olfactory axons make contact with the olfactory bulb, and the number of olfactory axons is correlated with the number of mitral cells throughout development. In embryos, removal o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Burd GD,Sein V

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite neuropathological and electrophysiological evidence for the involvement of parahippocampal structures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), little attention has been paid to morphometric changes in these structures, and the relation of these changes to TLE. We performed high-resolution MRI volumetric analysis to ex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bernasconi N,Bernasconi A,Caramanos Z,Andermann F,Dubeau F,Arnold DL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In his First Law (of thermodynamics), Clausius emphasized the equivalence of heat and work-conservation of energy was mentioned only indirectly. Today, the main emphasis is put on energy conservation, but the equivalence of heat and work has proven not only to be superfluous, but also highly destructive. Because of th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Job G,Lankau T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caribbean Amblyomma Program has been operational for 8 years. However, owing to funding availability, some islands did not commence eradication activities until late 1997. During the past 2 years, 6 of the 9 islands (St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Anguilla, Montserrat, Barbados, and Dominica) under the program have attaine...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pegram R,Indar L,Eddi C,George J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 4 and 13% of people with schizophrenia commit suicide and between 25 and 50% make a suicide attempt, a reflection of the devastating toll this syndrome takes on the quality of life, that is, the subjective and objective sense of well-being. Many risk factors for suicide in schizophrenia have been identified, t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Meltzer HY

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00