Lactogen and LH receptors. Rat P-450 17 alpha, structural analysis and hormonal regulation of mRNA levels in the Leydig cell.

abstract：:A brief overview is presented of recently developed and currently emerging statistical and computational techniques that have been proved to be highly helpful in handling the avalanche of the new type of data generated by modern high-throughput technologies in experimental biology. The review, in no way comprehensive,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rosenfeld S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Na+/Ca2+-K+ exchangers (NCKX) are plasma membrane transporters that are thought to mainly mediate Ca2+ extrusion (along with K+) at the expense of the Na+ electrochemical gradient. However, because they are bidirectional, most assays have relied on measuring their activity in the reverse (Ca2+ import) mode. Herein we ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Altimimi HF,Schnetkamp PP

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Data show that specifically chelating lysosomal redox-active iron can prevent most H(2)O(2)-induced DNA damage. Lysosomes seem to contain the major pool of redox-active labile iron within the cell. Under oxidative stress conditions, this iron may then relocate to the nucleus and play an important role for DNA damage b...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kurz T,Leake A,von Zglinicki T,Brunk UT

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two well-characterized cannabinoid receptors (CBrs), CB1 and CB2, mediate the effects of cannabinoids and marijuana use, with functional evidence for other CBrs. CB1 receptors are expressed primarily in brain and peripheral tissues. For over a decade several laboratories were unable to detect CB2 receptors in brain an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Onaivi ES,Ishiguro H,Gong JP,Patel S,Perchuk A,Meozzi PA,Myers L,Mora Z,Tagliaferro P,Gardner E,Brusco A,Akinshola BE,Liu QR,Hope B,Iwasaki S,Arinami T,Teasenfitz L,Uhl GR

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing amount of evidences suggests that galanin plays an important role in the regulation of reproduction in the rat. Galanin is colocalized with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) in a subset of LHRH neurons, and the pattern of coexpression is sexually dimorphic, with a higher incidence of colocaliz...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Merchenthaler I

更新日期：1998-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Image processing in fluid mechanics has become an important quantitative tool for flow analysis. The feasibility of simultaneous measurements of instantaneous velocity and temperature fields, as well as for tracking interfaces, creates a functional tool to describe thermally driven flows accompanied by phase change. T...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kowalewski TA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E deficiency in rats increased the sensitivity of liver and muscle mitochondria to damage during incubation at various temperatures, irradiation with visible light, or steady-state respiration with substrates. In all cases, vitamin E-deficient mitochondria exhibited increased lipid peroxidation, reduced transm...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Quintanilha AT,Packer L,Davies JM,Racanelli TL,Davies KJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesothelium is the simple squamous epithelium covering all abdominal organs and the coeloms in which those organs reside. While the structural characteristics of this cell type were documented a century ago, its potential in development, disease, and wound healing is only now becoming apparent. In the embryo, mesothel...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shelton EL,Bader DM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astronomers and physicists of diverse interest are teaming up to study enigmatic cosmic phenomena, such as the life cycle of black holes. A "disruptive innovation" is about to emerge during the next decade: Advanced gravitational-wave observatories. The emergence of gravitational-wave physics as a viable observational...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Márka S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term changes in catecholamine levels and expression of their biosynthetic enzymes are associated with several stress-related disorders such as elevated plasma norepinephrine in posttraumatic stress disorder and increased postmortem tyrosine hydroxylase in the locus coeruleus with major depression. Stress elevates...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sabban EL,Hebert MA,Liu X,Nankova B,Serova L

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin (RAPA), an inhibitor of mTORC signaling, has been shown to extend life span in mice and other organisms. Recently, animal and human studies have suggested that inhibition of mTORC signaling can alleviate or prevent the development of cardiomyopathy. In view of this, we used a murine model of type 2 diabetes ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Reifsnyder PC,Ryzhov S,Flurkey K,Anunciado-Koza RP,Mills I,Harrison DE,Koza RA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The data presented above suggest that one possible clinical use of TGF-beta would be to protect the bone marrow from the effects of myelosuppressive chemotherapeutic drugs by preventing entry or removing primitive stem cells from the cell cycle. It may also have the additional benefit of reducing the drug-induced neut...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ruscetti FW,Jacobsen SE,Birchenall-Roberts M,Broxmeyer HE,Engelmann GL,Dubois C,Keller JR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral interaction of c-erbB family receptors resulting in dimer formation is the key event initiating signal transduction. Consequently cross-activation and intracellular signaling is triggered with immediate impact on cell proliferation, migration, cell survival, and differentiation. In order to elucidate the conne...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Diermeier-Daucher S,Hasmann M,Brockhoff G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick-borne pathogens in the genus Ehrlichia cause emerging zoonoses. Although laboratory mice are susceptible to Ehrlichia infections, many isolates do not cause clinical illness. In contrast, the Ixodes ovatus Ehrlichia-like agent (IOE) causes disease and immune responses in mice comparable to the human illness cause...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Munderloh UG,Silverman DJ,MacNamara KC,Ahlstrand GG,Chatterjee M,Winslow GM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most chemical contaminants occur in highest concentrations in coastal waters, often maximized in very localized areas. In general, this situation represents the exposure pattern for marine animals. However, the availability of contaminant to an organism depends not only on its concentration but also on its chemical na...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Whittle KJ,Hardy R,Holden AV,Johnston R,Pentreath RJ

更新日期：1978-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:1. One can accurately predict the contribution of each inhibitor to the total inactivation of an enzyme in plasma once its pseudo-first-order reaction rate constant and concentration are known. 2. Because the mechanism of augmentation of the inactivation rate of an enzyme by ATIII occurs via formation of an ATIII-hepa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Colman RW,Scott CF,Pixley RA,de la Cadena RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Glucose conversion by brain synaptosomes can be regarded as a special case of intrinsic kinetic properties of the enzyme substrate system. Temperature modulation of apparent K(m) for this process can be described with our kinetic model. Using experimental data and the kinetic model, the minimal K(m) value for glucose ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Marjanović M,Zivadinović D,Dzakula Z,Andjus RK

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the impact of estrogen antagonists and of 16alpha-OHE1 (an estrogen derivative that binds to and induces transactivation of estrogen receptors) on estrogen metabolism in malignant HepG2 human liver cells featured by high estrogen sulfotransferase (EST); our aim was to clarify the potentia...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Campisi I,Granata OM,Cocciadiferro L,Calabrò M,Polito LM,Carruba G

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often proposed that quinolinic acid (QUIN) contributes to the pathophysiology of neuroinflammation because this kynurenine pathway metabolite is a selective agonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, and both its brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid concentrations increase markedly with inflammation. Howe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Obrenovitch TP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semi-conservative replication ensures that the DNA sequence of sister chromatids is identical except for replication errors and variation in the length of telomere repeats resulting from replicative losses and variable end processing. What happens with the various epigenetic marks during DNA replication is less clear....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lansdorp PM,Falconer E,Tao J,Brind'Amour J,Naumann U

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified human urinary CSF-1 was used for production of polyclonal CSF antibodies in rabbits. The purified CSF was iodinated by a modified chloramine-T technique with retention of biologic activity. Dilutions of anti-CSF were reacted with 15,000 cpm of 125I-CSF in EDTA-phosphate buffer for 48 hr. Sheep antirabbit seru...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shadduck RK,Waheed A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health implications of reducing or preventing the excess increase in blood pressure and the acquisition of obesity during childhood years are important. Many children with high blood pressure, particularly those who are initially obese or become obese as young adults and those with excess left ventricular m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mahoney LT,Lauer RM,Lee J,Clarke WR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na,K-ATPase is composed of two subunits, alpha and beta, and each subunit consists of multiple isoforms. In the case of alpha, four isoforms, alpha1, alpha2, alpha3, and alpha4 are present in mammalian cells. The distribution of these isoforms is tissue- and developmental-specific, suggesting that they may play sp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lingrel J,Moseley A,Dostanic I,Cougnon M,He S,James P,Woo A,O'Connor K,Neumann J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent identification of tumor-associated antigens (TAA) and TAA-derived peptides presented by MHC molecules to T cells has provided the tools to design and test clinical vaccines for treating human malignancies, such as melanoma. While the most effective adjuvant for use in vaccine formulation remains unclear, au...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zitvogel L,Couderc B,Mayordomo JI,Robbins PD,Lotze MT,Storkus WJ

更新日期：1996-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Marisa cornuarietis (Mollusc), Hyalella azteca (Crustacean), and Paracentrotus lividus (Echinoderm) demonstrated the ability to metabolize androgens through different pathways catalyzed by 5alpha-reductases (5alpha-R), hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (HSD), hydroxylases, sulfotransferases (SULT), and fatty-acid acyl-CoA...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Janer G,Leblanc GA,Porte C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances have recently been made in understanding the regulation of Ca(2+)-ATPase by phospholamban and in modeling their structures. However, these insights would be furthered by determining the 3-D structure of both proteins within the membrane, thus revealing the structural basis for their interaction. T...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Young HS,Reddy LG,Jones LR,Stokes DL

更新日期：1998-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in many forms of cell death, particularly in the central nervous system. The mitochondria are required at the same time to generate adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) for the cell, sequester excess cytoplasmic Ca(2+), and both produce and detoxify superoxide free radicals. The elec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nicholls DG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe several algorithms with winning performance in the Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM2) Reverse Engineering Competition 2007. After the gold standards for the challenges were released, the performance of the algorithms could be thoroughly evaluated under different parameters or...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Scheinine A,Mentzen WI,Fotia G,Pieroni E,Maggio F,Mancosu G,de la Fuente A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00