Estrogen and the aging brain: an elixir for the weary cortical network.

abstract：:Violence against women has been a problem in human cultures for centuries. This is still the case both in developed and in developing countries, but it is in developing countries where the problem is aggravated as the result of cultural norms that are tolerant of men exerting power over women and girls as a commonly a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pick S,Contreras C,Barker-Aguilar A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-mobility group box-1 (HMGB1) is a prototypical endogenous signal that links tissue necrosis and wound healing. Extracellular HMGB1 has apparently contrasting biological actions: it sustains inflammation (with the possible establishment of autoimmunity or of self-maintaining tissue damage) while activating and rec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vezzoli M,Castellani P,Campana L,Corna G,Bosurgi L,Manfredi AA,Bianchi ME,Rubartelli A,Rovere-Querini P

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between chaos and quantum mechanics has been somewhat uneasy--even stormy, in the minds of some people. However, much of the confusion may stem from inappropriate comparisons using formal analyses. In contrast, our starting point here is that a complete dynamical description requires a full understand...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Habib S,Bhattacharya T,Greenbaum B,Jacobs K,Shizume K,Sundaram B

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established that a preferential export of pyruvate-generated citrate occurs from cholesterol-rich tumor mitochondria, with both isolated mitochondrial systems as well as with viable tumor tissue slices (i.e., with whole tumors cells). Furthermore, we have demonstrated that the more rapid citrate efflux kinetic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Coleman PS

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Fifteen patients with coccidioidal meningitis were treated with high doses of ketoconazole for up to 4 years. Five patients were treated with ketoconazole alone. One clinically failed, one developed hepatotoxicity, and three achieved remission of meningitis. One patient received intrathecal AMB in addition to ketocona...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Graybill JR,Stevens DA,Galgiani JN,Sugar AM,Craven PC,Gregg C,Huppert M,Cloud G,Dismukes WE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraocular lesions occurred in 55 of 70 sarcoidosis patients (78.6%) and their intraocular findings were biomicroscopically analyzed. Intraocular lesions were observed bilaterally in 54 of 55 patients (98.0%) and these various lesions occurred simultaneously or within a short period in almost all tissues of the eyeba...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Iwata K,Nanba K,Sobue K,Abe H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most studied effects of verbal working memory (WM) is the influence of the length of the words that compose the list to be remembered. This work aims to investigate the nature of musical WM by replicating the word length effect in the musical domain. Length and rate of presentation were manipulated in a rec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Akiva-Kabiri L,Vecchi T,Granot R,Basso D,Schön D

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:In this experiment, we investigated the influence of the photoperiod upon androgen receptor (AR) distribution and steroid concentrations in ovaries of 21-day-old bank vole females. Sections (6 mum) were assayed immunohistochemically. ARs were localized in the nuclei of granulosa cells. The strongest immunoreaction was...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Galas J,Slomczynska M,Kwasnik A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid membrane reactors are well known for metal extraction. This technology may also be applied to the immobilization of enzymes in enzyme emulsions. The use of liquid membrane reactors for enzymatic bioconversions has several advantages in comparison to solid membrane reactors and conventional immobilization techni...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Scheper T,Makryaleas K,Nowottny C,Likidis Z,Tsikas D,Schügerl K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the second synapse in the central gustatory pathway of the rodent, the parabrachial nucleus of the pons (PbN) receives information about taste stimuli directly from the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS). Data show that NTS cells amplify taste responses before transmitting taste-related signals to the PbN. NTS cel...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Di Lorenzo PM,Platt D,Victor JD

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A triple genetic association between serum IgE levels, mast cell numbers, and susceptibility to oral tolerance was observed in mice genetically selected to extreme phenotypes of oral tolerance (susceptibility and resistance), suggesting a coadaptation of genes controlling these traits. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： da Silva AC,Silva MF,Bianchi C,Ribeiro RC,Nóbrega A,Sant'anna O

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dentate gyrus of the rat forms in three developmental phases, each of which is characterized by neuronal birth, migration and death. Recent evidence indicates that adrenal steroids regulate neuronal birth, death, and possibly migration throughout the life of the animal. However, the observation that very few neuro...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gould E

更新日期：1994-11-14 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：:Recent evidence has suggested that the superoxide and nitric oxide-derived reactive oxygen species peroxynitrite (ONOO-) may play a significant role in the acute pathophysiology of brain injury. One pharmacological mechanism by which ONOO(-)-mediated damage might be interrupted is by the administration of scavenging c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hall ED,Kupina NC,Althaus JS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell protein tyrosine phosphatase (TCPTP) dephosphorylates a number of substrates, including JAK-STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) signaling proteins, which are activated by interferon (IFN)-γ, a major proinflammatory cytokine involved in conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease. A critica...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Krishnan M,McCole DF

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Sensorineural hearing loss results from the degeneration of hair cells and/or auditory neurons in the cochlea of the inner ear. BDNF and NT-3 were shown to support survival of auditory neurons both in vitro and in vivo. Cochlea from P3-P4 rats were cultured as floating explants and hair cells in the organ of Corti wer...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kuang R,Hever G,Zajic G,Yan Q,Collins F,Louis JC,Keithley E,Magal E

更新日期：1999-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Microgravity experiments on the constrained vapor bubble heat exchanger (CVB) are being developed for the space station. Herein, ground-based experimental studies on condensate removal in the condenser region of the vertical CVB were conducted and the mechanism of condensate removal in microgravity was found to be the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zheng L,Wang Y,Wayner PC Jr,Plawsky JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Content differentiation models posit that different areas of the prefrontal cortex perform similar operations but differ in terms of the content that is operated on. For example, it has been suggested that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) perform similar working memory or i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zald DH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the global transition to overnutrition, stunting affected approximately 159 million children worldwide in 2014, while an estimated 50 million children were wasted. India is an important front in the fight against malnutrition and is grappling with the coexistence of undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shankar B,Agrawal S,Beaudreault AR,Avula L,Martorell R,Osendarp S,Prabhakaran D,Mclean MS

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescence marks the beginning of adult-level cognitive control of behavior supported by the brain maturation processes of synaptic pruning and myelination. Cognitive development studies on adolescence indicate that this period is characterized by improvements in the performance of existing abilities including speed ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Luna B,Sweeney JA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of computer-controlled artificial hearts, kidneys, and lungs, as well as the possibility of implanting human embryos in ex vivo uterus models or an artificial endometrium, presents new perspectives for creating an artificial uterus. Survival rates have also improved, with fetuses surviving from as ear...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bulletti C,Palagiano A,Pace C,Cerni A,Borini A,de Ziegler D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant body of research links individual differences in symbolic numerical abilities, such as arithmetic, to number sense, the neurobiological system used to approximate and manipulate quantities without language or symbols. However, recent findings from cognitive neuroscience challenge this influential theory....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wilkey ED,Ansari D

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidomycosis is a potentially serious fungal infection contracted in endemic areas of the desert southwestern United States. Limited information exists about its incidence and clinical course in patients with rheumatic diseases, who may be at higher risk of symptomatic or disseminated coccidioidomycosis because ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mertz LE,Blair JE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replicative senescence is an in vitro biological phenomenon that results the irreversible growth arrest of mammalian cells. In contrast, cellular quiescence is reversible upon the addition of mitogens or replating. Quiescence is associated with the expression of a particular gene family--the growth arrest specific (GA...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gonos ES

更新日期：1998-06-30 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：:Membrane processes are receiving increasing attention in the scientific community and in industry because in many cases they offer a favorable alternative to processes that are not easy to achieve by conventional routes. In this context, membranes made with perfluorinated polymers are of particular interest because of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Arcella V,Ghielmi A,Tommasi G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relaxin (RLX) has antifibrotic effects in a number of tissues. Many of these effects are similar to those induced by the activators of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma), raising the possibility that a mechanism for RLX's antifibrotic effects may involve activation of the PPARgamma pathway. T...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Singh S,Bennett RG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00