Development of macitentan for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

abstract：:To gain better insight into mass transfer problems in encapsulated cell systems requires a combination of experimental investigations and mathematical modeling. Specific mass transfer studies are reviewed including oxygen transfer in immobilized animal cell culture bioreactors, modeling of polymer droplet formation an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goosen MF

更新日期：1999-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disorder characterized by neurobiological changes that lead to a compulsion to take a drug with loss of control over drug intake. The hypothesis outlined here is that knowledge of the neurochemical systems involved in the transition from drug use to the compulsive use of add...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koob GF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) modulates all forms of inflammation by acting on peripheral inflammatory cells, glial inflammatory cells, and on CNS receptors that activate descending antiinflammatory neural pathways. The multiple actions of this ancient peptide suggest that there is no singular bioch...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lipton JM,Zhao H,Ichiyama T,Barsh GS,Catania A

更新日期：1999-10-20 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

abstract：:There is growing interest in the use of statins, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, for treating specific neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., cerebrovascular disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis) and possibly traumatic brain injury. Neither is there a consensus on the efficacy of statins in t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wood WG,Eckert GP,Igbavboa U,Müller WE

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic sequence data provide evidence for a common origin of life and for its evolution by genetic variation via mutation and recombination. This paper discusses the fundamental dialectic paradigm of evolution--stability versus variability--at the crossroads of molecular genetics, population genetics, ecology, and th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Radman M,Matic I,Taddei F

更新日期：1999-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:I2-imidazoline receptors (I2-IR) are characterized by their high affinity for imidazolines and guanidines and medium affinity for imidazolidines. The differential recognition of I2-IR by amiloride led to subtype these sites as amiloride-sensitive (I2A-IR) and amiloride-insensitive (I2B-IR). I2-IR labeled with [3H]idaz...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Olmos G,Alemany R,Boronat MA,García-Sevilla JA

更新日期：1999-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In thalassemia, iron overload is the joint outcome of excessive iron absorption and transfusional siderosis. While iron absorption is limited by a physiologic ceiling of about 3 mg/d, plasma iron turnover in thalassemia may be 10 to 15 times normal, caused by the wasteful, ineffective erythropoiesis of an enormously e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hershko C,Link G,Cabantchik I

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-species hybridizations have enabled us to isolate and clone the gene for the beta chain of human fibrinogen. Highlights of the gene for the beta chain revealed by nucleotide sequence analyses, particularly in areas that have a direct bearing on defining the overall organization of the gene, have been presented. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chung DW,Rixon MW,Que BG,Davie EW

更新日期：1983-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports preliminary results for pool film boiling on a wire immersed in almost saturated FC72 recently obtained during an experimental campaign performed in low gravity on the European Space Agency Zero-G airplane, (reduced gravity level 10(-2)). This is part of a long-term research program on the effect of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Di Marco P,Grassi W,Trentavizi F

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In response to recent reports of mitochondrial dysfunction in HIV-uninfected infants exposed to antiretroviral (ARV) prophylaxis, the Perinatal Safety Review Working Group reviewed deaths in five large HIV-exposed perinatal cohorts in the United States to determine if similar cases of severe mitochondrial to...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dominguez K,Bertolli J,Fowler M,Peters V,Ortiz I,Melville S,Rakusan T,Frederick T,Hsu H,D'Almada P,Maldonado Y,Wilfert C,PSD Consortium. Perinatal Safety Review Working Group.

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:The liver is morphologically and functionally modulated by sex hormones. Long-term use of oral contraceptives (OCs) and anabolic androgenic steroids (AASs) can induce both benign (hemangioma, adenoma, and focal nodular hyperplasia [FNH]) and malignant (hepatocellular carcinoma [HCC]) hepatocellular tumors. Hepatic ade...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Giannitrapani L,Soresi M,La Spada E,Cervello M,D'Alessandro N,Montalto G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scientific investigation of brains of different vertebrates, both extant and extinct, is of interest for several reasons: for translating medical research on rodent models into practice, for understanding the animals investigated in order to improve conservation and management strategies, and for understanding the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Manger PR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichostatin A (TSA), an inhibitor of the eukaryotic cell cycle and an inducer of morphological reversion of transformed cells, inhibits histone deacetylase (HDAC) at nanomolar concentrations. Recently, trapoxin, oxamflatin, and FR901228, antitumor agents structurally unrelated to TSA, were found to be potent HDAC inh...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yoshida M,Horinouchi S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful introduction of nucleic acids into mammalian neurons has revolutionized the analyses of gene regulation and cellular function. Various methods, including viral infection, have been developed to introduce plasmid DNA into primary neuronal cultures. However, transfection of primary cultures of neurons using t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Anji A,Shaik KA,Kumari M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical androgens, including dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), are produced in the inner zone of the adrenal cortex that is in direct contact with the neural crest-derived catecholamine-producing chromaffin cells. DHEA has recently been identified as a crucial regulator of neuronal stem cell proliferation. Thus, D...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ziegler CG,Sicard F,Sperber S,Ehrhart-Bornstein M,Bornstein SR,Krug AW

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats, arginine vasopressin augments bradycardia associated with baroreflex activation. We investigated whether modulation of peripheral cardiac parasympathetic nerve function by AVP may play a role in this effect. To accomplish this we utilized an in vivo model with which we previously demonstrated both adrenergic ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pardini BJ,Lund DD,Schmid PG

更新日期：1993-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that bone marrow will seed and proliferate in normal recipients. Transfusion of 50 million cells on each of 4 or 5 consecutive days, a total of 200-250 million cells, resulted in the recipient's marrow being 20-40% of donor origin. The present paper reported on the marked enhancement of prolif...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brecher G,Mulcahy K,Tjio JH,Raveché E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the morphological phenotypes in patients with different mutations of the PMP22 gene gives additional insights into the role of the protein in myelin function. The pathology in young patients is in some aspects different from the pathology in older patients, providing essential and additional information a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gabreëls-Festen A,VAN DE Wetering R

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that metabolic inhibition is neuroprotective, but little evidence has been provided to support this proposal. Using the in vitro rabbit retina preparation as an established model of the central nervous system (CNS), we measured the rate of glucose utilization and lactate production, and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Maynard KI,Quiñones-Hinojosa A,Malek JY

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conclusion, 5-HT has been shown to contract both circular and longitudinal muscle layers of human terminal ileum. By the use of selective antagonists, the receptors mediating these actions have been identified. In the circular muscle of human small intestine, 5-HT-induced contraction is mediated via a receptor of t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Borman RA,Burleigh DE

更新日期：1997-05-30 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：:At the preB stage, when only the IGH locus has rearranged, mu chains become expressed in association with the psi L chains, lambda-like and VpreB, thus forming the preB receptor. By the use of a monoclonal anti VpreB antibody, preB cells were isolated from two adult bone marrow samples, and the VH repertoire was analy...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tonnelle C,Cuisinier AM,Gauthier L,Guelpa-Fonlupt V,Milili M,Schiff C,Fougereau M

更新日期：1995-09-29 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：:In this paper we first present methods and preliminary results of pilot surveys of "serious" mental retardation (IQ less than or equal to 55); the surveys included screening and diagnostic components and were carried out in the less-developed world. Next we discuss two problems raised by these surveys: one is the diag...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stein Z,Durkin M,Belmont L

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging, hypoxia, and thiamin deficiency diminish motor performance. Similar alterations of ACh, DA, and glutamate metabolism accompany hypoxia, thiamin deficiency, and aging. Both aging and hypoxia reduce ACh release and stimulate DA and glutamate release. Presynaptic enhancement of DA and glutamate release may be impo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Freeman GB,Gibson GE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonad-stimulating substance (GSS) is the first invertebrate gonadotropic neuropeptide hormone identified in a marine invertebrate, the starfish. Here, we show expression and distribution of GSS in various organs of the starfish Asterina pectinifera. Levels of GSS were high in the radial nerves and nerve ring. GSS was ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mita M,Ito C,Kubota E,Nagahama Y,Shibata Y

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia affects a third of the world's population and contributes to increased morbidity and mortality, decreased work productivity, and impaired neurological development. Understanding anemia's varied and complex etiology is crucial for developing effective interventions that address the context-specific causes of ane...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chaparro CM,Suchdev PS

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results obtained from projects in which self-organizing musical structures spontaneously arise through electrical interface between the brain and generative musical systems are surveyed. This provides a springboard for examining important paradigm shifts taking place in our thinking about what musical forms can be and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rosenboom D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00