Current magnitude of occupational disease in the United States. Estimates from New York State.

abstract：:We are performing genomic searches in randomly ascertained families to identify new quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that influence atherosclerosis and its risk factors. The genetic markers used for genomic searches are random microsatellite markers distributed throughout the human chromosomes. These markers are used fo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hixson JE,Blangero J

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Predicting the response to xenotransplantation is difficult, but can be based upon (i) past clinical experience, (ii) opinion surveys and focus groups, (iii) predictable variables, and (iv) the allotransplant experience. Baby Fae, the Pittsburgh baboon liver transplants, and the Jeff Getty baboon marrow transplant hav...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Daar AS

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive data mining of the scientific literature has become an increasing challenge. To address this challenge, Elsevier's Pathway Studio software uses the techniques of natural language processing to systematically extract specific biological information from journal articles and abstracts that is then used to ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cheadle C,Cao H,Kalinin A,Hodgkinson J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephroblastoma overexpressed (Nov), a member of the CCN family of proteins, is expressed by osteoblasts and its transcription is regulated by transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta and bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP). CCN proteins can interact with TGF-beta, BMPs, and Wnt. We explored the function of Nov in skeletal ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Canalis E

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rostral nucleus of the solitary tract (rNST) plays a key role in modulating, organizing and distributing the sensory information arriving at the central nervous system from gustatory receptors. However, except for some anatomical studies of rNST synapses, the neural circuits responsible for this first stage in syn...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bradley RM,Grabauskas G

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that the tight junction is a dynamically regulated structure. Cytoskeletal reorganization, particularly myosin light chain phosphorylation--induced actomyosin contraction, has increasingly been recognized as a mediator of physiological and pathophysiological tight junction regulation. Howe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shen L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During food shortage, organisms activate defense mechanisms to maximize their chance of survival. At least in part, these responses are triggered by changes in hormonal status and neural status during starvation. The hypothalamus is organized as a collection of distinct autonomously active nuclei and is considered to ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chiba T,Fujita S,Kubota H,Inoue D,Mizuno A,Komatsu T,Yamaza H,Higami Y,Shimokawa I

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biochemical and immunocytochemical comparisons of adhering junctions of different epithelia, we have observed differences in molecular composition not only between the intermediate filament-attached desmosomes and the actin filaments-anchoring adherens junctions but also between desmosomes of different tissues and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Borrmann CM,Mertens C,Schmidt A,Langbein L,Kuhn C,Franke WW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first evidence for the role of the protein elongation factor eEF1A2 in tumorigenesis was reported by Anand and colleagues who demonstrated that eEF1A2 is overexpressed in about 30% of ovarian tumors and some established ovarian cancer cells. This abnormal expression correlates with a poor prognosis. Since this dis...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lee MH,Surh YJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Especially since the (re-)discovery of T cell subpopulations with specialized regulatory activities, mechanisms of anti-inflammatory T cell regulation are studied very actively and are expected to lead to the development of novel immunotherapeutic approaches, especially in chronic inflammatory diseases. Heat shock pro...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Van Eden W,Wick G,Albani S,Cohen I

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum is the major input nucleus of the basal ganglia. It is thought to play a key role in learning on the basis of positive reinforcement and in action selection. One view of the striatum conceives it as comprising a reiterated matrix of processing units that perform common operations in different striatal reg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wickens JR,Budd CS,Hyland BI,Arbuthnott GW

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Uteroglobin (UG) is a multifunctional, secreted protein with anti-inflammatory and antichemotactic properties. While its anti-inflammatory effects, in part, stem from the inhibition of soluble phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) activity, the mechanism(s) of its antichemotactic effects is not clearly understood. Although specifi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kundu GC,Zhang Z,Mantile-Selvaggi G,Mandal A,Yuan CJ,Mukherjee AB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidant activity of Maillard reaction products (MRPs) derived from four sugar-amino acid Maillard reaction model systems (glucose [Glc] or ribose [Rib] reacted with glycine [Gly] and L-lysine [Lys]) were examined in terms of chemical properties and molecular weight fractionation of reaction products. Rib-amino aci...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chen XM,Kitts DD

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutualistic interactions, where two interacting species have a net beneficial effect on each other's fitness, play a crucial role in the survival and evolution of many species. Despite substantial empirical and theoretical work in past decades, the impact of these interactions on natural selection is not fully underst...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hillesland KL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic contact dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin disease caused by T cells that recognize environmental and industrial allergens (i.e., haptens). Langerhans' cells (LC), which are skin-specific and "immature" members of the dendritic cell (DC) family of antigen-presenting cells, play crucial roles in the indu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Takashima A,Mummert M,Kitajima T,Matsue H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emphasis on the effects of early olfactory restriction has been on the deleterious nature of the consequences of this abnormal early experience. While these effects are certainly present and dramatic, it is also the case that the olfactory system is left fairly intact by this experimental manipulation. If one asks...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leon M

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Babesia felis, originally identified in wild cats in the Sudan, was subsequently found to cause clinical disease in domestic cats. Although babesiosis in domestic cats has been reported sporadically from various countries, as a significant disease it appears to be a distinctly South African phenomenon. Apart from an i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Penzhorn BL,Schoeman T,Jacobson LS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol is a widely used intravenous anesthetic agent. Our previous study showed that a therapeutic concentration of propofol can modulate macrophage functions. Mitochondria play critical roles in the maintenance of macrophage activities. This study attempted to evaluate further the effects of mitochondria on the pro...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wu GJ,Tai YT,Chen TL,Lin LL,Ueng YF,Chen RM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article summarizes reports on the concurrence of Klinefelter's syndrome (KS) with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, polymyositis/dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, mixed connective tissue disease, the anti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rovenský J,Imrich R,Lazúrová I,Payer J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal dysplasias or osteochondrodysplasias are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders of bone and/or cartilage. They are characterized by abnormalities in pattering, linear growth, differentiation, and maintenance of the human skeleton. While they have been considered to be generalized di...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rimoin DL,Cohn D,Krakow D,Wilcox W,Lachman RS,Alanay Y

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a significant increase in the percentage and absolute number of activated lymphocytes (OKT10+, IL2R1+) after ECT treatment of major depressive disorder. There is an acute decrease in the absolute number of total lymphocytes, T8+ and Leu11+ cells one hour after a single ECT. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fischler B,Bocken R,Schneider I,De Waele M,Thielemans K,Derde MP

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete amino acid sequence for rat testis P-450 17 alpha was deduced from nucleotide analysis of a cDNA clone isolated from a rat Leydig cell library. This cDNA expressed in COS-1 cells both 17 alpha-hydroxylase and 17,20 lyase activities. Rat P-450 17 alpha exhibited significant similarity to the nucleotide and d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dufau ML,Minegishi T,Buczko E,Kitamura M,Delgado C,Namiki M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This preliminary study describes effects of two pharmacologic agents on erythrocyte behavior. Increased erythrocyte aggregation has been proposed as important in the pathogenesis of a number of disorders, but the exact mechanism by which it plays a role in disease production remains unclear. Several anionic amphophile...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： McMillan DE,Utterback NG,Wujek JJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing limb or differentiating neural and blood cells are traditional models used to study programmed cell death in mammals. The developing mouse dentition can also be an attractive model for studying apoptosis regulation. Apoptosis is most extant during early odontogenesis in mice. The embryonic tooth pattern is ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Peterková R,Peterka M,Lesot H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Balb/c mice were infected with Coxiella burnetii and samples of blood and major organs from the infected mice were collected on days 1 to 14 after infection. The DNAs extracted from the samples were detected by a developed real-time quantitative PCR specific for C. burnetii and high loads of C. burnetii were found...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhang J,Wen B,Chen M,Zhang J,Niu D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quasibiennial oscillation (QBO) dominates the variability of the equatorial stratosphere and also affects the circulation and temperature of the extratropical region. In this paper we review previous work showing that the mid- to high-latitude circulation is weaker (stronger) when QBO easterlies (westerlies) domin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Peña-Ortiz C,García-Herrera R,Ribera P,Calvo N

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VH replacement occurs through RAG-mediated recombination between a cryptic recombination signal sequence (cRSS) presented in a rearranged VH gene and a 23-bp RSS from an upstream VH gene. VH replacement renews the entire VH coding region and extends the immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IgH) CDR3 regions preferentially with...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Liu Y,Fan R,Zhou S,Yu Z,Zhang Z

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring of wildlife diseases started in Scandinavia as sporadic postmortem examinations in the early 20th century. In 1945 a monitoring program for wildlife health was initiated. The program is today an integrated part of the National Environmental Monitoring programs in Sweden. The total material today comprises m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morner T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00