Contending with uncertainty in conservation management decisions.

abstract：:The mechanisms controlling ATP generation in the transition from normal resting conditions to either high work states or ischemia are poorly understood. ATP generation depends upon compartmentation between the mitochondria and cytosol of metabolic pathways and key energy transfer species that cannot be easily assessed...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhou L,Yu X,Cabrera ME,Stanley WC

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At a given cytosolic domain of a chromaffin cell, the rate and amplitude of the Ca(2+) concentration, [Ca(2+)](c), depend on at least three efficient regulatory mechanisms: (1) the plasmalemmal Ca(2+) channels; (2) the endoplasmic reticulum (ER); and (3) the mitochondria. High-voltage activated Ca(2+) channels of the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cuchillo-Ibanez I,Albillos A,Aldea M,Arroyo G,Fuentealba J,Garcia AG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty years ago Hans Selye discovered that the neuroendocrine and immune systems interact during stress. The pathophysiological significance of neuroendocrine-immune interaction during injury has only been recognized recently. Today it is rapidly emerging that, in addition to defense against exogenous pathogenic agent...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Berczi I

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP) Repository archives and distributes vectors, embryonic stem cell clones, frozen germplasm, and live mutant mice for 8,500 knockout genes. Here, we describe the creation and functions of the KOMP Repository. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lloyd KC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac tissue engineering promises to revolutionize the treatment of patients with end-stage heart failure and provide new solutions to the serious problem of heart donor shortage. By its broad definition, tissue engineering involves the construction of tissue equivalents from donor cells seeded within three-dimensio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leor J,Cohen S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the main cause of human cancer deaths, and cell motility is one key component of the process of metastasis. The ERK mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway is probably one of the most commonly activated in malignant human cancers. We describe the molecular mechanisms by which ERK MAPK s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Viala E,Pouysségur J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this brief review, we introduce some major themes in the regulation of energy, lipid, and glucose metabolism by the central nervous system (CNS). Rather than comprehensively discussing the field, we instead will discuss some of the key findings made regarding the interaction of the hormones ghrelin and leptin with ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nogueiras R,Tschöp MH,Zigman JM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clumps of corona cells were separated from oocytes at the moment of fertilization control and were subsequently processed and cut into 1-mu sections to study their general morphologic patterns. This study revealed an extensive phagocytosis of spermatozoa by corona cells. Clumps of mural granulosa cells of comparable s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pijnenborg R,Gordts S,Ongkowidjojo R,Brosens I

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Converging lines of evidence indicate that withdrawal from prolonged exposure to stimulants and alcohol results in synaptic deficits of both dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT). According to the dual deficit model proposed by the authors, DA dysfunction during cocaine or alcohol withdrawal underlies anhedonia and psych...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rothman RB,Partilla JS,Dersch CM,Carroll FI,Rice KC,Baumann MH

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proinflammatory cytokines, including tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) might be, at least partially, responsible for the development of osteopenia or osteoporosis in Crohn's disease. We investigated whether anti-TNF therapy for Crohn's disease could have any skeletal impact. Therefore, we studied the effects of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pazianas M,Rhim AD,Weinberg AM,Su C,Lichtenstein GR

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Megadose haploidentical transplants, mismatched at three HLA loci, engraft rapidly and durably without induction of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). In vitro studies suggest that veto cells, contained in the population of hematopoietic progenitors, facilitate this favorable outcome. Cytotoxic T cells, not reactive ag...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Reisner Y

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we develop an agent-based model of social influence on body weight. The model's assumptions are grounded in theory and evidence from physiology, social psychology, and behavioral science, and its outcomes are tested against longitudinal data from American youth. We discuss the implementation of the mode...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hammond RA,Ornstein JT

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preclinical safety and efficacy evaluation of a novel bioartificial liver support system (BLSS) was conducted using a D-galactosamine canine liver failure model. The BLSS houses a suspension of porcine hepatocytes in a hollow fiber cartridge with the hepatocytes on one side of the membrane and whole blood flowing on t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Patzer JF 2nd,Mazariegos GV,Lopez R,Molmenti E,Gerber D,Riddervold F,Khanna A,Yin WY,Chen Y,Scott VL,Aggarwal S,Kramer DJ,Wagner RA,Zhu Y,Fulmer ML,Block GD,Amiot BP

更新日期：1999-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:All scientists are acutely aware of the profound challenge that they face when communicating scientific findings to nonscientists, especially when great uncertainty is involved and when the topic is of personal interest to the general public. Simplification of the issues--sometimes extending to a degree of oversimplif...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Grey AD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass changes of skeletal muscles occur in a variety of species during the migratory period. Phenotypic flexibility of flight muscle mass is considered to represent adaptations of the flight muscle to changing power requirements associated with changes in body mass. We analyzed the relationship between muscle masses an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bauchinger U,Biebach H

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is an ubiquitously present extracellular lipid mediator that is released by several cell types, particularly by activated platelets. The effects of S1P are mediated by a specific family of G protein-coupled sphingosine 1-phosphate receptors (S1P1-S1P5). We demonstrate that S1P acts on hem...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Seitz G,Boehmler AM,Kanz L,Möhle R

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:Clara cell protein (CC16 or CC10) is a 15.8-kDa protein secreted all along the tracheobronchial tree and especially in the terminal bronchioles where Clara cells are localized. Even though the exact in vivo function of CC16 remains to be clarified, evidence is accumulating that CC16 plays an important protective role ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Broeckaert F,Clippe A,Knoops B,Hermans C,Bernard A

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:TGF beta is a cytokine which is involved with the regulation of different aspects of host defense responses to injury. Overexpression of TGF beta can lead to the conversion of its protective functions to pathogenetic manifestations. TGF beta is a potent factor in promoting anabolic aspects in connective tissue metabol...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lotz M,Seth P

更新日期：1993-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:With the progressive aging of the world's population, immunosenescence is rapidly becoming a clinical concern as it accounts for a higher incidence of severe infections and poor response to vaccines. To identify nutritional approaches that may counteract immunosenescence is of obvious importance in clinical practice. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Freeman SL,Fisher L,German JB,Leung PS,Prince H,Selmi C,Naguwa SM,Gershwin ME

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article gives an overview on worldwide efforts to eliminate chemical weapons and facilities for their production in the context of the implementation of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). It highlights the objectives of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the international age...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Trapp R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Module networks" are a framework to learn gene regulatory networks from expression data using a probabilistic model in which coregulated genes share the same parameters and conditional distributions. We present a method to infer ensembles of such networks and an averaging procedure to extract the statistically most s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Michoel T,De Smet R,Joshi A,Marchal K,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conspicuous similarities between Cushing's syndrome and the Metabolic Syndrome X open up the possibility that hypercortisolemia is involved also in the latter. Salivary cortisol is possible to measure during undisturbed conditions including perceived stressful events during everyday life. Such measurements clearly...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Björntorp P,Rosmond R

更新日期：1999-11-18 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：:Potato products contain high amounts of acrylamide, which sometimes exceeds the concentration of 1 mg/L. However, many strategies for acrylamide reduction in potato products are possible. In this work, the different approaches for reducing acrylamide formation have been reviewed, keeping in mind that in the applicatio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morales F,Capuano E,Fogliano V

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible role of the cerebellum for the control of saccades and gaze holding is reconsidered using a computational modeling approach. As suggested by previous research, control of gaze holding is assumed to be enhanced by the floccular lobe, whereas control of the saccadic pulse is governed by the oculomotor vermi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Glasauer S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperoxia and alkalemia, as a result of pulmonary hyperventilation and elevation of plasma DNA (pDNA), are seen during the first 24 h after ischemic stroke. In this study we have examined the correlation between pDNA and these blood parameters in health and stroke. Acid-base equilibrium, oxygen status, hemoglobin affi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Konorova IL,Veiko NN,Novikov VE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division is facilitated by the divisome, a dynamic multiprotein assembly localizing at mid-cell to synthesize the stress-bearing peptidoglycan and to constrict all cell envelope layers. Divisome assembly occurs in two steps and involves multiple interactions between more than 20 essential and accessory ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Egan AJ,Vollmer W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite short halflife in biological fluids, nitric oxide (NO) can produce remote or long lasting effect in the cardiovascular system. Long distance transport or local storage of NO might explain these effects. In blood, recent findings suggest that in addition to being a major consumption pathway, interaction of NO w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Muller B,Kleschyov AL,Alencar JL,Vanin A,Stoclet JC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00