The formation of osteoclasts in multiple myeloma bone disease patients involves the secretion of soluble decoy receptor 3.

abstract：:The role of gamma-glutamyl-carboxylated growth arrest-specific 6 (cGas6) in mediating the beneficial effect of vitamin K (VK) on regulating glucose metabolism remains elusive. We took a three-pronged approach-evaluating human type 2 diabetes (T2D), high-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice, and in vitro cultured myotubes-to addres...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dihingia A,Ozah D,Borah T,Kalita J,Manna P

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid cooling of small samples is necessary both to cryofixation for electron microscopy and to vitrification for cryopreservation. Several effects on the cooling rates of small samples quenched into liquid nitrogen were studied, including the diameter of samples, the subcooling of liquid nitrogen, the quenching speed...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cao Q,Hua TC

更新日期：1998-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this historical treatise two biological-system theories, formulated in the 1920s and 1930s, are roughly sketched. The first part discusses the concept of a thermodynamically open system, as coined by the Russian pathologist Ervin Bauer (1890-1942). Like Bertalanffy, Bauer wanted to prove the specificity of the biol...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brauckmann S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood-borne beta-amyloids (A beta s) could affect brain function by (1) crossing the BBB to directly interact with brain tissues or (2) altering BBB function by interacting with the brain capillaries that make up the BBB. Several radioactively labeled A beta s have been examined for such interactions. Blood-borne A be...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Banks WA,Kastin AJ,Maness LM,Banks MF,Shayo M,McLay RN

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Agonist interactions with release processes do not validate autoreceptor operation. Instead, the data suggests that autoreceptors function as homoreceptors. Declining efficacy of agonist inhibition of transmitter release with increasing stimulation "intensity" is not assignable to competition with endogenous transmitt...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kalsner S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenergic system has long been known to be activated in a situation of stress and thus during opiate withdrawal. A method for detoxification that decreases the stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system will prevent changes of catecholamine levels. Some of such methods have been developed. One of them uses dir...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Macedo TR,Relvas J,Fontes Ribeiro CA,Pacheco F,Morgadinho MT,Pinto CM,Gomes PC,Ventura M,Henriques V,Nunes SV,Ruis GR,Ramalheira C,Boto I,Vale LL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary psychology seeks to understand the functional design underlying psychological processes and behavior. Theories of selection pressures developed within evolutionary biology are key components of this understanding. Because past selection pressures responsible for current design cannot be directly observed,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gangestad SW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression levels of GAP-43 and MAP-2, two proteins involved, respectively, in axonal and dendritic remodeling, in control adult (11 months), old (24 months), and vitamin E-deficient (11 months) rats were evaluated. mRNA levels were determined by means of a quantitative in situ hybridization procedure in subregion...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Casoli T,Di Stefano G,Delfino A,Fattoretti P,Bertoni-Freddari C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolide and polyether biosynthesis in actinomycetes is regulated at the level of precursor supply by effects of nutrients on the sources of the low-molecular-weight fatty acids used to build the carbon framework of these antibiotics. Ammonium ion appears to suppress the first enzymes of valine and threonine cataboli...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tang L,Zhang YX,Hutchinson CR

更新日期：1994-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative splicing of RNA transcripts is a general characteristic for NCX genes in mammals, mollusks, and arthropods. Among the family of three NCX genes in mammals, the NCX1 gene contains six exons, namely, A, B, C, D, E, and F, that make up the alternatively spliced region. Studies of the NCX1 gene transcripts sug...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schulze DH,Polumuri SK,Gille T,Ruknudin A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In electrical impedance cardiography, Kubicek's formula is often used to measure stroke volume from thoracic impedance variations synchronously to heart activity. To calculate stroke volume from impedance variations, the so-called outflow problem should be adequately solved. This outflow problem refers to the joint ca...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Faes TJ,Raaijmakers E,Meijer JH,Goovaerts HG,Heethaar RM

更新日期：1999-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymus produces several putative thymic hormones: thymosin alpha 1, thymulin, and thymopoietin, which have been reported to circulate and to act on both prothymocytes and mature T cells in the periphery, thus maintaining their commitment to the T cell system. These endocrine influences decline with age and are ass...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hadden JW,Malec PH,Coto J,Hadden EM

更新日期：1992-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomy of the brain is extremely complex, and certain, even large structures, such as the corticospinal tract (CST), remain poorly understood. Diffusion tractography provides an opportunity to explore the white matter tracts in a fundamentally new way. In the current paper, we show how this technique has already ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holodny AI,Watts R,Korneinko VN,Pronin IN,Zhukovskiy ME,Gor DM,Ulug A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol suppresses reproduction in humans, monkeys, and small rodents by suppressing release of luteinizing hormone (LH). The major action is on the hypothalamus to decrease release of LH-releasing hormone (LHRH). The release of LHRH is controlled by nitric oxide (NO) as determined by in vivo and in vitro experiments....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rettori V,McCann SM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resveratrol-mediated heme oxgenase-1 (HO-1) induction has been shown to occur in primary neuronal cultures and has been implicated as having potential neuroprotective action. Further, antioxidant properties of resveratrol have been reported to protect against coronary heart disease. We attempted to examine the HO-1 in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huang HM,Liang YC,Cheng TH,Chen CH,Juan SH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief overview of the different techniques used to estimate the probable maximum precipitation (PMP) is presented. As a particular case, the 1-day PMP over Catalonia has been calculated and mapped with a high spatial resolution. For this purpose, the annual maximum daily rainfall series from 145 pluviometric station...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Casas MC,Rodríguez R,Nieto R,Redaño A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data Sets used in reverse engineering of biochemical networks contain usually relatively few high-dimensional data points, which makes the problem in general vastly underdetermined. It is therefore important to estimate the probability that a given algorithm will return a model of acceptable quality when run on a data...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Just W

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoxidation and lipoxidation reactions contribute to the chemical modification of proteins during the Maillard reaction. Reactive oxygen species, produced during the oxidation of sugars and lipids in these processes, irreversibly oxidize proteins. Methionine is particularly susceptible to oxidation, yielding the oxi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brock JW,Cotham WC,Ames JM,Thorpe SR,Baynes JW

更新日期：2005-06-01 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

abstract：:Iddm4 is a dominant non-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) determinant of diabetes susceptibility in BBDR rats treated with poly I:C, plus depletion of regulatory T cells. In congenic MHC-identical normal WF rats, Iddm4(d) sensitively and specifically predicts induced diabetes. We report a new diabetes-susceptible...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blankenhorn EP,Descipio C,Rodemich L,Cort L,Leif JH,Greiner DL,Mordes JP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In thalassemia, iron overload is the joint outcome of excessive iron absorption and transfusional siderosis. While iron absorption is limited by a physiologic ceiling of about 3 mg/d, plasma iron turnover in thalassemia may be 10 to 15 times normal, caused by the wasteful, ineffective erythropoiesis of an enormously e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hershko C,Link G,Cabantchik I

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerotic coronary heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are the major cause of mortality in type II diabetes (T2DM) as well as a major contributor to morbidity and lifetime costs. The purpose of this article is the identification of the biochemical parameters in plasma, which may serve a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kalofoutis C,Piperi C,Zisaki A,Singh J,Harris F,Phoenix D,Alaveras A,Kalofoutis A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factor Xa inhibitor apixaban is one of the novel anticoagulants to emerge as alternatives to long-standing standards of care that include low-molecular-weight heparin and warfarin. The development of apixaban reflects a strategy to optimize the clinical pharmacology profile, dosing posology, trial designs, and sta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hanna MS,Mohan P,Knabb R,Gupta E,Frost C,Lawrence JH

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many autoimmune diseases are chronic conditions that progress over the course of years, and are characterized by the presence of autoantibodies that precede the overt disease by months or years. As examples, the presence of two islet cell antibodies (ICA) are associated with a 50% risk of developing diabetes mellitus ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Harel M,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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：:Acetaldehyde covalently binds to purified tubulin in vitro to form both stable and unstable adducts. The formation of stable adducts can be greatly facilitated by the inclusion of the relatively gentle and Schiff base specific reducing agent, sodium cyanoborohydride. Although the tubulin molecule has multiple lysine r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tuma DJ,Jennett RB,Sorrell MF

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) play an important role in various processes involved in regulating systemic blood pressure. These receptors are expressed at excitatory cholinergic synapses between sympathetic preganglionic neurons and postganglionic sympathetic neurons and link the integrative activities of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cooper E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with renal impairment have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, which may be the result of advanced glycation end products (AGEs). The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of AGE peptides in relation to kidney function and to study the relationship of AGE peptides with endothelial function...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schalkwijk CG,Ter Wee PM,Stehouwer CD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semi-conservative replication ensures that the DNA sequence of sister chromatids is identical except for replication errors and variation in the length of telomere repeats resulting from replicative losses and variable end processing. What happens with the various epigenetic marks during DNA replication is less clear....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lansdorp PM,Falconer E,Tao J,Brind'Amour J,Naumann U

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00