IVIG and PLEX in the treatment of myasthenia gravis.

abstract：:Plaques with lipid macrophages and macrophages containing undigested myelin fragments from five multiple sclerosis patients were studied by light microscopy of epoxy-embedded tissue (five cases) and electron microscopy (one case). Cell counts determined electron microscopically revealed that oligodendrocytes were redu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Prineas JW,Kwon EE,Cho ES,Sharer LR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of animals with spontaneous autoimmune diabetes have revealed that autoreactive T cells that mediate islet beta cell destruction can be manipulated by the administration of Th(2) cytokines. Using gene delivery to express the targeted protein, we can overcome the need for frequent administration of cytokines on...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Park L,Lee E,Lee S,Lim M,Hong H,Shin G,Park Y

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A host of missense mutations in muscle nicotinic receptor subunits have been identified as the cause of congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS). Two classes of CMS phenotypes have been identified: slow channel myasthenic syndromes (SCCMSs) and fast channel myasthenic syndromes (FCCMSs). Although both have similar phenot...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sine SM,Wang HL,Ohno K,Shen XM,Lee WY,Engel AG

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:T-lymphocytes from three species of New World monkeys were susceptible to transformation in vitro with human T-cell leukemia virus. Marmoset T-lymphocytes transformed in vitro with HVS or HVA, T-lymphotropic herpesviruses of New World monkeys, were also transformed with HTLV resulting in doubly transformed T-cells. Th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Falk LA Jr,Byington R,Silva DP

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments with enzymes in situ that are dependent on ascorbic acid for maximum activity will provide critical information about ascorbic acid requirements. Our work with chromaffin tissue as a model system eventually will result in the determination of two dose-response curves for norepinephrine biosynthesis, repres...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Levine M,Hartzell W

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols are known to undergo metabolism to phytyl chain-shortened metabolites excreted in urine. We sought to characterize the pathway, including associated enzymes, involved in this biotransformation. We previously found that human hepatoblastoma (HepG2) cultures metabolized tocopherols to their corresponding sho...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Parker RS,Sontag TJ,Swanson JE,McCormick CC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT) has been implicated in the modulation of aggression in animals and humans. A longstanding dogma that aggression and serotonergic activity are inversely related has to be abandoned in light of many new findings. Trait and state aggression are differentially regulated by the 5-HT sy...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Olivier B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect evidence, including neuroprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-neurotoxicity by nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors and resistance of transgenic animals deficient in NOS, is controversial. We have reviewed evidence in favor of oxidative stress during the development of MPTP...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mohanakumar KP,Thomas B,Sharma SM,Muralikrishnan D,Chowdhury R,Chiueh CC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse pheochromocytoma cells (MPCs) provide an excellent model system for investigating the effects of hypoxia on catecholamine enzyme genes and on transcription factors mediating stress responses. RT-PCR detects rapid, transient increases in PNMT mRNA in hypoxic MPC 712 cells. Additionally, elevation of mRNAs encodin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Evinger MJ,Cikos S,Nwafor-Anene V,Powers JF,Tischler AS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we analyzed four population-based demographic and health surveys conducted in Bolivia between 1998 and 2016 to understand trends in anemia in children from 6 to 59 months of age by selected sociodemographic characteristics and three categories of altitude: low, medium, and high. Over the 18-year period, the prev...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cordero D,Aguilar AM,Casanovas C,Vargas E,Lutter CK

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of autoimmune diseases is higher in females than in males. In both sexes, adrenal hormones, that is, glucocorticoids, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and androgens, are inadequately low in patients when compared to healthy controls. Hormonally active androgens are anti-inflammatory, whereas estrogens are ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schmidt M,Naumann H,Weidler C,Schellenberg M,Anders S,Straub RH

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of obesity is rapidly increasing in the United States, particularly among women. Approximately 60-70% of hypertension in adults may be directly attributed to obesity. In addition, maternal obesity is a major risk factor for hypertensive disorders during pregnancy. The underlying mechanisms for the assoc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fu Q

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the adenylyl cyclase signaling mechanism (ACSM) of insulin and related peptides allows for advancing the hypothesis of its participation in regulatory action on cell growth, apoptosis, and metabolism. The following evidences were obtained: (1) The order of efficiency of insulin and IGF-I growth-promot...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pertseva MN

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of glucocorticoid (GC) resistance is a serious problem that complicates the treatment of immune-related diseases, such as asthma, ulcerative colitis, and hematologic cancers. hGRalpha and hGRbeta are two isoforms of the human glucocorticoid receptor, which differ in the structural composition of the ca...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lewis-Tuffin LJ,Cidlowski JA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) and oxidative stress (OS) contribute to the development and progression of diabetic complications. We have reported that dietary AGEs and OS induce acute endothelial dysfunction in vivo, but little is known about their effects on adipokines. Twenty inpatients with type 2 diabetes ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stirban A,Negrean M,Götting C,Uribarri J,Gawlowski T,Stratmann B,Kleesiek K,Koschinsky T,Vlassara H,Tschoepe D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In preindustrial settings, biological, economic, and social mechanisms caused fertility to respond to feedback signals from population size variation in such a way as to steer populations toward equilibrium levels. It is unlikely that the relevant signal was population density; more plausibly the signal was economic w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lee R

更新日期：1994-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program has completed two studies on abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and is currently conducting a third. The first, the Aneurysm Detection and Management (ADAM) Study, consisted of both a screening program, which provided information on the prevalence and associa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lederle FA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium channels from rat and rabbit skeletal muscle have been isolated, characterized, and functionally reconstituted. These channel proteins closely resemble those purified from the eel electroplax and from rat brain. Work now in progress on the determination of the primary sequence of the 260 kDa subunit through the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Barchi RL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of intensive investigation, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry, a number of potent and selective metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5) antagonists have been discovered. The structure activity relationship studies that led to the discovery of these mGluR5 antagonists are presented in t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Carroll FI

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the GABAergic control of the spinal locomotor network using an isolated brain stem/spinal cord from newborn rats, in which locomotor-like activity was recorded. We demonstrate that endogenously released GABA controls the locomotor network, by decreasing or completely abolishing all locomotor-like activity. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cazalets JR,Bertrand S,Sqalli-Houssaini Y,Clarac F

更新日期：1998-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma phagocytophilum (A. phagocytophilum, formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophila) is a tick-borne pathogen responsible for tick-borne fever in ruminants, equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis (EGE) in horses, canine granulocytic ehrlichiosis (CGE) in dogs, and for human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE). Human cases have bee...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alberti A,Sparagano OA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper represents a unique effort to elucidate the dynamics of two major types of politically motivated hostage takers. The data presented are derived from an ongoing research project that is gathering extensive interview and psychological test materials from prisoners convicted of politically motivated crimes, bo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Knutson JN

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout this century in the United States, tension has existed between those who believe drug abuse is best combatted through the criminal justice system and those who emphasize a medical/public health model of prevention and treatment. In the last decade this debate has centered around the person of the pregnant a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chavkin W,Wise PH,Elman D

更新日期：1998-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper describes an algorithm and computational system used to estimate the spatial chaos of magnetic resonance images of patients with gastric cancer and the quantum chaos of mechanoemission in blood. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Orel VE,Romanov AV,Dzyatkovskaya NN,Mel'Nik YI

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen, a clottable plasma glycoprotein, participates in cell adhesion phenomena involving prokaryotic cells, e.g. staphylococci, and eukaryotic cell fragments, e.g. platelets. Among the three chains (alpha, beta, gamma) of human fibrinogen, the gamma chain bears the main site recognizing the staphylococcal clumpi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hawiger J,Kloczewiak M,Timmons S,Strong D,Doolittle RF

更新日期：1983-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a serious, chronic condition that, without early recognition and treatment, leads to progressive right heart failure and death. The dual endothelin receptor antagonist macitentan was designed through a deliberate discovery process to maximize endothelin-axis blockade while impr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Selej M,Romero AJ,Channick RN,Clozel M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The processing of pitch, a central aspect of music perception, is neurally dissociable from other perceptual functions. Studies using behavioral-lesion techniques as well as brain imaging methods demonstrate that tonal processing recruits mechanisms in areas of the right auditory cortex. Specifically, the right primar...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zatorre RJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When conceptualized within a developmental systems theoretical framework, resilience involves mutually beneficial, reciprocally influential relations between a person and his or her context. The key features of developmental systems theory, which stress the plasticity of these relations, lead to an optimistic view of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lerner RM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wear particles produced from artificial joint prostheses are known to cause macrophage-monocyte lineage cells to produce proosteoclastogenic cytokines, including tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha. The specific molecular mechanism, however, is not yet known. Bioinformatic analysis showed that the promoter region of TNF...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Minematsu H,Shin MJ,Celil Aydemir AB,Seo SW,Kim DW,Blaine TA,Macián F,Yang J,Lee FY

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00