Genome hyperevolution and the success of a parasite.

abstract：:Preliminary reports indicate the influence of oxidative stress and interleukins, particularly TGF-beta1, in maintenance of bone mass. This study was designed to determine any possible variations of cellular lipid peroxidation, the total antioxidant power, and concentration of TGF-beta1 in blood and saliva of osteoporo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yousefzadeh G,Larijani B,Mohammadirad A,Heshmat R,Dehghan G,Rahimi R,Abdollahi M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discussed the bonding of O2 to hemoglobin using results of ab initio calculations of idealized portions of the Hb molecule. The bond between Fe and O2 is formed by coupling a triplet state (intermediate spin state) of Fe to the triplet ground state of O2 (analogous to the bonding of O to O2 in ozone). The coordinat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goddard WA 3rd,Olafson BD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated different behavioral parameters in ICR (CD1) female mice of three different ages (38-39 weeks: mature; 62 weeks: late mature; 90 weeks: old), and addressed the effects of an enriched housing condition. We employed the following battery of tests: Holeboard, open field, elevated plus-maze (EPM), and fo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zambrana C,Marco EM,Arranz L,de Castro NM,Viveros MP,de la Fuente M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse and human DNA sequences from centromeric and ribosomal domains were labeled with biotinylated deoxynucleotides and hybridized in situ to paraformaldehyde-fixed tissue culture cells. Centromeres were widely dispersed in most of these interphase nuclei. At late G2 phases of the cell cycle, centromeres appeared to ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Manuelidis L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression regulation, in particular at the level of transcription, has been demonstrated to play a key role in the development of human diseases, including cancer, and in bacteria it is crucial for proliferation as well as for pathogenicity. Transcriptional regulation is based on complex networks of interactions...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zorrilla S,Lillo MP,Chaix D,Margeat E,Royer CA,Declerck N

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entomopathogenic fungi are promising alternatives to chemical acaricides in controlling tick populations; however, biological formulations are required to improve conidial performance of these pathogens in the field. This study evaluated the effect of in vitro treatment of Rhipicephalus sanguineus with conidial formul...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Reis RC,Fernandes EK,Bittencourt VR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and observational findings suggest that calcium intake may protect against colorectal neoplasia. To investigate this hypothesis, we conducted a randomized, double-blind trial of colorectal adenoma recurrence. Nine hundred thirty patients with a recent history of colorectal adenomas were randomly given cal...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Baron JA,Beach M,Mandel JS,van Stolk RU,Haile RW,Sandler RS,Rothstein R,Summers RW,Snover DC,Beck GJ,Frankl H,Pearson L,Bond JH,Greenberg ER

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inactive form of erythrocyte CA I was found in patients with primary aldosteronism. The levels of CA I in the patients were within the normal range: however, the specific esterase activity of CA I from three patients was in the range of 0.12-0.26 u/mg CA I (normal control: 0.66 +/- 0.1 u/mg CA I). In one subject, w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kondo T,Taniguchi N,Hirano T,Kawakami Y

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PL) is a mammotropic neuropeptide produced by the pituitary and extrapituitary cells existing as several isoforms and belongs to the growth and lactogenic hormone family, which includes growth hormone and placental lactogens. The secretion of pituitary PL is under hypothalamic control. The cytokines IL-1, I...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chikanza IC

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (OMS) is a rare neurologic disorder comprising the main symptoms of eye-movement disturbances, muscle jerks, and severe ataxia. In children and adults, some cases are associated with a tumor as a paraneoplastic syndrome, whereas in children the paraneoplastic form is almost exclusively as...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kirsten A,Beck S,Fühlhuber V,Kaps M,Kreutz T,Korfei M,Schmitt S,Preissner KT,Blaes F

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local activation of macrophages may play an important role in the immune process of pulmonary infections and in the inflammatory response of lung allograft rejection. To document macrophage activation within human lung allografts displaying various complications, we have investigated ICAM-1 expression in freshly isola...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fattal-German M,Le Roy Ladurie F,Lecerf F,Berrih-Aknin S

更新日期：1996-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a globally uniform increase in the concentrations of emitted greenhouse gases, radiatively forced surface warming can have significant spatial variations. These define warming patterns that depend on preexisting climate states and through atmospheric and oceanic dynamics can drive changes of the hydrological c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ma J,Zhou L,Foltz GR,Qu X,Ying J,Tokinaga H,Mechoso CR,Li J,Gu X

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After nearly a century of inquiry, the cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains to be found. In this review, basic and clinical evidence is presented that assembles and hypothetically explains most of the key pathologic events associated with the development of AD. These pathologic events are triggered in AD by impai...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： de la Torre JC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although smell loss has several potential etiologies (e.g., head trauma, allergic rhinitis, and enlarged adenoids) that are common among children, studies evaluating the prevalence of olfactory dysfunction in the pediatric population are rare. Several challenges confront the clinician or researcher hoping to evaluate ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dalton P,Mennella JA,Cowart BJ,Maute C,Pribitkin EA,Reilly JS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E is essential for normal neurological function. It is the major lipid-soluble, chain-breaking antioxidant in the body, protecting the integrity of membranes by inhibiting lipid peroxidation. Mostly on the basis of symptoms of primary vitamin E deficiency, it has been demonstrated that vitamin E has a central ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sen CK,Khanna S,Roy S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether treatment with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), which causes transient cellular immunity depression, influences tuberculin skin testing (TST) interpretation. The study was also aimed to assess the degree of cellular immunity depression following open heart surgery. Fifteen children from developing coun...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stein M,Sela-Razon B,Linder I,Somekh E

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent cross-cultural studies of child development reveal that child rearing, while strikingly culturally variable, is everywhere designed to make the child's experience of important lessons constant, to link those lessons to emotional arousal, and to connect them to evaluations of the child's goodness and badness. Th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Quinn N

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), the frequency of antibodies against insulin (IAA), glutamic acid decarboxylase-65 (GAD65), ICA512/IA2 (IA2), and islet cell antigens (ICA) vary with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) composition of the patient. IAA, IA2 autoantibodies, and ICA are increased in DQ8 positives; GAD65 antib...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gupta M,Graham J,McNeeny B,Zarghami M,Landin-Olsson M,Hagopian WA,Palmer J,Lernmark A,Sanjeevi CB

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin (MC)-4 receptor participates in regulating body weight homeostasis. We demonstrated early that acute blockage of the MC-4 receptor increases food intake and relieves anorexic conditions in rats. Our recent studies show that 4-week chronic blockage of the MC-4 receptor leads to robust increases in food...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schiöth HB,Lagerström MC,Watanobe H,Jonsson L,Vergoni AV,Ringholm A,Skarphedinsson JO,Skuladottir GV,Klovins J,Fredriksson R

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) in individuals over 40 years of age comprises three groups: early-onset MG with prolonged disease duration, late-onset MG with thymoma, and late-onset of nonthymomatous MG. The clinical features do not differ between the three groups, except that early-onset patients with prolonged disease durat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Aarli JA,Romi F,Skeie GO,Gilhus NE

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junction (TJ) properties are determined by membrane protein complexes of neighboring cells that form both a barrier and a selective pathway for paracellular substrate transport. Our previous work supports the view that paracellular permeability changes in the thick ascending limb (TAL) may underlie the mechanism...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shan Q,Himmerkus N,Hou J,Goodenough DA,Bleich M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As illustrated in Figure 1, a disturbance of the intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis is thought to be a common pathogenic factor for the generation of secondary nerve cell damage that develops after brain trauma or stroke or during the course of neurodegenerative diseases. A neuronal Ca2+ overload which may result from an ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schubert P,Ogata T,Marchini C,Ferroni S,Rudolphi K

更新日期：1997-10-15 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：:We have employed antisense methods to study the transcriptional functions of c-fos protein (Fos). Clones expressing inducible anti-fos RNA have been employed to inhibit c-fos expression, resulting in activation of c-fos transcription by inhibiting its normal repressor function. The sites of negative regulation by Fos ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holt JT

更新日期：1992-10-28 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：:The key pathologic mechanism in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the destruction of cartilage by fibroblasts. In a severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mouse model, this process can be modulated by gene transfer using invasive LS48 fibroblasts. This study aims to investigate the effect of interleukins (IL) -11 and -12 o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sack U,Sehm B,Kahlenberg F,Murr A,Lehmann J,Tannapfel A,Uberla K,Moessner A,Dietrich A,Emmrich F,Lange F,Jungel A,Braun JM,Anderegg U

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated circulating levels of glucocorticoids are associated with psychiatric symptoms across several different conditions. It remains unknown if this hormonal abnormality is a cause or an effect of the psychiatric conditions. For example, the hypercortisolemia observed in a subset of patients with depression may hav...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wolkowitz OM,Burke H,Epel ES,Reus VI

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice deficient for complement factors C3, C4, or C5 are resistant to experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG). Acetylcholine receptor (AChR) immune lymph node cells (LNC) of C3 deficient mice produce less interleukin 6 (IL-6), and EAMG-resistant IL-6 deficient mice have less serum C3. Increased serum C1q-circu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Christadoss P,Tüzün E,Li J,Saini SS,Yang H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hsp70 chaperone is arguably the most studied member of the heat shock protein family, a legacy traced back to the early days of phage genetics. However, much still remains to be learned about this essential protein-folding machine. Its involvement in a number of human pathologies, ranging from cancer to protein ag...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morano KA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our molecular studies have revealed the existence of a large number of different subunits or subtypes for the NMDA and metabotropic glutamate receptors. The individual receptors show functional variabilities and distinct expression patterns in the CNS. The NMDA receptors belong to the ligand-gated ion channel family a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Masu M,Nakajima Y,Moriyoshi K,Ishii T,Akazawa C,Nakanashi S

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00