Reporter transgenic mouse models highlight the dual endocrine and neural facet of GnRH receptor function.

abstract：:At concentrations effecting apoptosis, the alkylphosphocholine ErPC3 induced increased expression of the Rb protein in breast cancer (MCF-7) and leukemia (SKW-3, AR-230) cell lines as well as hypophosphorylation (K-562, CMLT-1, DOHH-2) and fragmentation of Rb (BV-173, SKW-3) in leukemia cell lines. ErPC3 exerts at lea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Berger MR,Tsoneva I,Konstantinov SM,Eibl H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication summaries a series of observations of the transport function of the crypt of the rat distal colon. Development of methods to study both 22Na uptake by apical membrane vesicles prepared from crypt cells and intracellular pHi (pHi), fluid movement (Jv), and bicarbonate secretion during microperfusion ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Binder HJ,Rajendran VM,Geibel JP

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:According to the fetal origin of adult diseases hypothesis, the intrauterine environment through developmental plasticity may permanently influence long-term health and disease. Therefore, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), due either to maternal, placental, or genetic factors, may permanently alter the endocrine...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kanaka-Gantenbein C

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is typically accompanied by both acute and chronic alterations in the stress response. These alterations have mostly been described in individuals under baseline conditions, but studies have also used a challenge model to assess the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vermetten E,Vythilingam M,Schmahl C,DE Kloet C,Southwick SM,Charney DS,Bremner JD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper represents recent results on the development of optimal analytic solutions to the variation problem of trajectory optimization and their application in the construction of on-board guidance laws. The importance of employing the analytically integrated trajectories in a mission design is discussed. It is ass...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Azimov D,Bishop R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 4 and 13% of people with schizophrenia commit suicide and between 25 and 50% make a suicide attempt, a reflection of the devastating toll this syndrome takes on the quality of life, that is, the subjective and objective sense of well-being. Many risk factors for suicide in schizophrenia have been identified, t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Meltzer HY

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated platelets and leukocytes release potent vasoactive factors that may modulate vascular tone. Activation of normal platelets produces dilatation of normal arteries. Vasodilatation is mediated by adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which releases endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) from endothelium. In atherosc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaul S,Padgett RC,Heistad DD

更新日期：1994-04-18 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：:The theme of this presentation has been to show that the control of transmitter release at the neuromuscular synapse is achieved by extracellular and intracellular calcium. For the fast information transfer represented by the end-plate potential, the electrochemical gradient for calcium across the presynaptic membrane...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rahamimoff R,Erulkar SD,Lev-Tov A,Meiri H

更新日期：1978-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The free radical theory of aging proposes that oxidative stress is one of the determinants of an organism's life span. In Caenorhabditis elegans, genetic or environmental changes have been shown to modulate life span. Here we discuss whether changes in the generation and destruction of free radicals are implicated in ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Honda Y,Honda S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential impact of atrazine (ATZ) on gonadal malformations in larval Xenopus laevis has been controversially discussed, and a hypothesis has been generated that ATZ might induce the estrogen-synthesizing enzyme aromatase, leading to feminization or demasculinization. Recently, extensive long-term studies clearly ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kloas W,Lutz I,Urbatzka R,Springer T,Krueger H,Wolf J,Holden L,Hosmer A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a dysmyelinating disorder of the central nervous system typically caused by duplications or missense mutations of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene. Most investigators have found that peripheral nerve function and structure is normal in PMD patients. We have found that null mutat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Garbern JY,Cambi F,Lewis R,Shy M,Sima A,Kraft G,Vallat JM,Bosch EP,Hodes ME,Dlouhy S,Raskind W,Bird T,Macklin W,Kamholz J

更新日期：1999-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in the gain of the vertical angular vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) are dependent on the head position in which the gain changes were produced. We determined how long gravity-dependent gain changes last in monkeys after four hours of adaptation, and whether the adaptation is mediated through the nodulus and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yakushin SB,Bukharina SE,Raphan T,Buttner-Ennever J,Cohen B

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent controversies in the existence of saturable binding of general anesthetics in brain tissues prompted a careful examination of specific binding of anesthetics to neural receptors. We examined the binding of both local and general anesthetics using electron spin resonance and radioligand criteria. Our results sug...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lin L,Koblin DD,Wang HH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers issues arising from presentations by Barry Everitt and Gorica Petrovich concerning amygdalar involvement in appetitive conditioning. Studies reported by these researchers are beginning to unravel the distribution of associative functions among amygdalar nuclei and their efferent targets. The main ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gabriel M,Burhans L,Kashef A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huperzine A has been shown to be useful in the treatment of symptoms of dementia of the Alzheimer type. Our initial attempts to synthesize (-)Huperzine A resulted in the racemic mixture of (+/-)Huperzine A. We have therefore compared the in vitro and in vivo effects of (+/-)Huperzine A with those of (-)Huperzine A in ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hanin I,Tang XC,Kindel GL,Kozikowski AP

更新日期：1993-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Frozen-hydrated microtubules have been studied by cryoelectron microscopy. We have described some structural features of microtubules, their relationship with the computed or X ray diffraction patterns, and the influence of the contrast transfer function. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mandelkow E,Mandelkow EM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of a nonantimicrobial tetracycline analogue, CMT-8, on bone loss and osteoclasts in ovariectomized (OVX) rats. Three-month-old female rats were OVX, and, one week later, distributed into three groups: sham-operated non-OVX controls, untreated OVX controls, and CMT-8-treated OVX rats. After 145 ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sasaki T,Ohyori N,Debari K,Ramamurthy NS,Golub LM

更新日期：1999-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes the goals of this section and considers current knowledge about the association between hormonal changes that occur over pubertal development and the changes in behavior and brain function over the adolescent period. It reviews the cascade of neural and hormonal changes that occur with puberty; d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cameron JL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphosphonates are widely used in the management of metastatic disease to bone and in diseases of altered bone turnover. Recently, multiple-case series and retrospective studies have established a relationship between necrotic bone lesions localized to the jaw and the use of chronic bisphosphonate therapy. This condi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ruggiero SL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The injury to vascular endothelium seen in severe bacterial infection may be mediated by neutrophil-derived enzymes. Neutrophil adhesion to endothelium, a prerequisite for this process, is mediated sequentially by the leukocyte adhesion molecules L-selectin and the beta 2 integrins, including CD11b/CD18. We have explo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Finn A,Strobel S,Levin M,Klein N

更新日期：1994-05-28 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：:Because of certain restrictions in medical praxis, reusable materials are only allowed in some countries. This also applies to electrodes for electromyography; the special single-fiber electromyography electrode must be replaced. This article gives some details of the possibilities of using an alternative-a small conc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stålberg E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis of 14 clinical studies with RRR- or all-rac-alpha-tocopherol (83,800 subjects) was performed to evaluate whether RRR and all-rac differ in cardiovascular efficacy based on those clinical endpoints that are most consistently documented in the publications of the studies. Odds ratios of treatment versus ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kraemer K,Koch W,Hoppe PP

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pronounced increases in gangliosides belonging to the gangliotetraose family during the neurite outgrowth phase of neuronal differentiation have suggested a functional requirement for these substances related to process extension, arborization, and possibly synaptogenesis. Support for this hypothesis has come from...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ledeen RW,Wu G,Lu ZH,Kozireski-Chuback D,Fang Y

更新日期：1998-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a disease characterized by increased numbers of T lymphocytes within the alveolar structures and the consequent spontaneous release of a variety of mediators relevant to the pathogenesis of this disorder. This phenomenon is associated with a different expansion of the T cell subpopulations pre...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rossi GA,Sacco O,Cosulich E,Balbi B,Risso A,Ravazzoni C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Child maltreatment (CM) not only has detrimental and lifelong psychological consequences, but also can lead to lasting alterations in core physiological systems--a biological memory of CM. Furthermore, some of these alterations might even be transmitted to the next generation. This article describes current knowledge ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schury K,Kolassa IT

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the protein profile of mitochondria and its age-dependent variation is a promising approach to unravel mechanisms involved in aging and age-related diseases. Our studies focus on the mammalian mitochondrial membrane proteome, especially of the inner mitochondrial membrane with the respiratory chain complex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dencher NA,Frenzel M,Reifschneider NH,Sugawa M,Krause F

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial neural network (ANN) technology is finding increasing application in medicine and biomedical engineering. This paper supplies necessary background in ANN technology for researchers unfamiliar with this rapidly emerging discipline. This introduction to ANN application is cast in the context of epileptic seiz...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hand C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00