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abstract：:The treatment of substance use disorders has always been challenging because multiple neurotransmitters mediate addiction. However, with smoking being the leading cause of preventable death and the recent opioid epidemic in the United States, the search for novel solutions becomes more imperative. In this review, we d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Xu A,Kosten TR

更新日期：2020-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) potently stimulates insulin secretion in vivo in mice without altering glucose disposal. Such a combination of results would be explained if epinephrine released by PACAP counteracts the action of insulin and, therefore, that the gluc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ahrén B,Filipsson K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SET domain, first identified within and named after proteins encoded by three Drosophila genes [Su(var)3-9, E(z), and Trithorax], is recognized as a signature motif for histone methyltransferases that are involved in epigenetic processes. The SUV39H family of SET domain proteins methylate specifically the residue ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhao Z,Shen WH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Agency for Research on Cancer has initiated a program to evaluate the carcinogenic risk of chemicals to man. This program is centered on the production of monographs on individual chemicals, consisting of data on use and production, carcinogenicity in experimental animals, epidemiological studies and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tomatis L

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resveratrol-mediated heme oxgenase-1 (HO-1) induction has been shown to occur in primary neuronal cultures and has been implicated as having potential neuroprotective action. Further, antioxidant properties of resveratrol have been reported to protect against coronary heart disease. We attempted to examine the HO-1 in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huang HM,Liang YC,Cheng TH,Chen CH,Juan SH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine (METH) is a widely used "club drug" that produces neural damage in the brain, including the loss of some neurons. METH-induced striatal neuronal loss has been attenuated by pretreatment with the neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist WIN-51,708 in mice. Using a histologic method, we have observed the interna...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wang J,Xu W,Ali SF,Angulo JA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) family members RANKL and TNF-alpha are critical regulators of osteoclast formation, functions of other TNFs in bone are poorly understood. Here we consider the roles in regulating bone turnover of TNF receptors (TNF-R) also expressed by osteoblasts and osteoblast precursors. TNF r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Robinson LJ,Borysenko CW,Blair HC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane domain of the Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) contains two conserved internal repeat sequences, designated the alpha-1 and alpha-2 repeats. We have studied the topological disposition of residues in the alpha repeats and a neighboring region by substituted cysteine accessibility scanning as well as the funct...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shigekawa M,Iwamoto T,Uehara A,Kita S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular DNA in the plasma or serum of cancer patients has been recently proposed as a source of analyzable cancer-related gene sequences (qualitative approach). Furthermore, patients with different tumor types show high levels of cell-free circulating DNA both in plasma and serum (quantitative approach) at the t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Frattini M,Gallino G,Signoroni S,Balestra D,Battaglia L,Sozzi G,Leo E,Pilotti S,Pierotti MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a eugenol-degrading bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens E118. This strain produced a novel enzyme, eugenol dehydrogenase, which catalyzes the conversion of eugenol into coniferyl alcohol. The enzyme was purified from the eugenol-induced cells of P. fluorescens E118. The purified enzyme appeared to be homoge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Furukawa H,Nagasawa T

更新日期：1998-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol suppresses reproduction in humans, monkeys, and small rodents by suppressing release of luteinizing hormone (LH). The major action is on the hypothalamus to decrease release of LH-releasing hormone (LHRH). The release of LHRH is controlled by nitric oxide (NO) as determined by in vivo and in vitro experiments....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rettori V,McCann SM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperactivity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is often observed in association with and even prior to the onset of major depression. It is presently unclear (1) which molecular and cellular processes contribute to hyperactivity of parvocellular hypothalamic neurons (key regulators of the HPA system) an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Joëls M,Verkuyl JM,Van Riel E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense oligonucleotides (AON) are being developed for a wide array of therapeutic applications. Significant improvements in their serum stability, target affinity, and safety profile have been achieved with the development of chemically modified oligonucleotides. Here, we compared 2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-beta-D-arabinon...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ferrari N,Bergeron D,Tedeschi AL,Mangos MM,Paquet L,Renzi PM,Damha MJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Studies of musical abilities in dementia have for the most part been rather general assessments of abilities, for instance, assessing retention of music learned premorbidly. Here, we studied patients with dementias with contrasting cognitive profiles to explore specific aspects of music cognition under challenge. Pati...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Halpern AR,Golden HL,Magdalinou N,Witoonpanich P,Warren JD

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our studies have indicated that normal human placental cytosol contains a complex mixture of nucleoside kinase enzymes, some of which conform to previously characterized activities. Deoxyadenosine is phosphorylated by deoxycytidine kinase, adenosine kinase, and two as yet uncharacterized activities. Deoxyguanosine pho...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hurley MC,Fox IH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the annual Ramazzini Days, the Mayor of Carpi confers the Ramazzini Award on scientists deemed by the Collegium Ramazzini to have made outstanding contributions to furthering the aims of Bernardino Ramazzini in safeguarding public health. Dr. Lorenzo Tomatis was the Ramazzini Award recipient in 2005, and the pr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tomatis L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous ulcers are responsible for about 70% of the chronic ulcers of the lower limbs. Standard of care includes compression, dressings, debridement of devitalized tissue, and infection control. Thymosin beta 4 (Tbeta4), a synthetic copy of the naturally occurring 43 amino-acid peptide, has been found to have wound hea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Guarnera G,DeRosa A,Camerini R,8 European sites.

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regardless of how creative, innovative, and elegant our computational methods, the ultimate proof of an algorithm's worth is the experimentally validated quality of its predictions. Unfortunately, this truism is hard to reduce to practice. Usually, modelers produce hundreds to hundreds of thousands of predictions, mos...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stolovitzky G,Prill RJ,Califano A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The flow divider of the brachiocephalic branching of the rabbit aorta had both high and low shear stress regions, each of which was covered by endothelial cells with low and high permeability respectively, even in normolipidemic intact rabbits. When rabbits were placed on an atherogenic diet, low shear regions were...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yoshida Y,Okano M,Wang S,Kobayashi M,Kawasumi M,Hagiwara H,Mitsumata M

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Tick burdens cause direct damage to hosts and transmit several disease agents, the majority of which are secreted into feeding lesions through tick salivary glands. Reduced incidence of naturally transmitted tick-borne diseases was recently observed among cattle immunized with tick salivary gland extracts (TSGE). The ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jittapalapong S,Phichitrasilp T,Chanphao H,Rerkamnuychoke W,Stich RW

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is an essential nutrient for the physiology of live organisms, but excessive copper can be harmful. Copper radioisotopes are used for measurement of copper fluxes in live organisms using a radioactivity assay of body fluids or whole-body positron emission tomography (PET). Hybrid positron emission tomography-co...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Peng F

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The computation of ITD begins with preservation of the phase angle of spectral components by eighth-nerve fibers and by cells of the nucleus magnocellularis. At the level of the nucleus laminaris, the difference in phase angle of corresponding spectral components in the left and right ears is extracted. At the next le...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Takahashi TT

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane phospholipid metabolism is abnormal in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. Phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine levels are decreased as are choline and ethanolamine, while glycerophosphocholine (GPC) and glycerophosphoethanolamine are increased. To develop a rat model for these changes, we examined th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holmes TC,Nitsch RM,Erfurth A,Wurtman RJ

更新日期：1993-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbic acid has been found to interact with several elements in such a manner as to render them less available for animals. This property of the vitamin has a negative effect on the animals fed a copper-deficient diet, but a positive effect on those fed toxic levels of copper, selenium, vanadium, and cobalt. The eff...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hill CH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular bacterium, Ehrlichia ruminantium, is the causative agent of heartwater, a tick-borne disease of livestock. Because vaccines need to incorporate components from several virulent isolates, it is essential to have information on the extent of genetic variation among isolates. We therefore amplified and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Allsopp M,Steyn H,Zweygarth E,Allsopp B

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Ticks do not usually infest sympatric hosts species according to their availability in a given environment, and it has been suggested that habitat use by hosts is a major determinant of tick burdens. The knowledge of such infestation patterns and their relationship with host habitat use is important for the control of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Garine-Wichatitsky M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial phase of vessel formation is the establishment of nascent endothelial tubes from mesodermal precursor cells. Development of the vascular epithelium is examined using the transcription factor TAL1 as a marker of endothelial precursor cells (angioblasts), and a functional assay based on intact, whole-mounted...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Drake CJ,Hungerford JE,Little CD

更新日期：1998-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome architecture is well diversified among eukaryotes in terms of size and content, with many being radically shaped by ancient and ongoing genome conflicts with transposable elements (e.g., the large transposon-rich genomes common among plants). In ciliates, a group of microbial eukaryotes with distinct somatic an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Maurer-Alcalá XX,Nowacki M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00