The integrative aspects of cardiac physiology and their implications for cell-based therapy.

abstract：:Accelerated atherosclerosis occurs in patients with type III hyperlipoproteinemia and familial hypercholesterolemia. These genetic disorders focus attention on specific types of lipoproteins as being responsible for the development of accelerated coronary artery heart disease. The accumulation of chylomicron remnants ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Weisgraber KH,Innerarity TL,Rall SC Jr,Mahley RW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances have recently been made in understanding the regulation of Ca(2+)-ATPase by phospholamban and in modeling their structures. However, these insights would be furthered by determining the 3-D structure of both proteins within the membrane, thus revealing the structural basis for their interaction. T...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Young HS,Reddy LG,Jones LR,Stokes DL

更新日期：1998-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:For more than 10 years umbilical cord blood (UCB) has been used as an alternative source of hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic transplantation. Although the clinical results are encouraging, UCB is associated with delayed engraftment. To address these issues we have used the NOD/SCID mouse model to study the engr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fibbe WE,Noort WA,Schipper F,Willemze R

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) is a highly lethal disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii. In the present study, rickettsial infection was evaluated in 669 Amblyomma aureolatum adult ticks collected from naturally infested dogs in Taiaçupeba, a BSF-endemic area in the state of São Paulo. Ten (1.49%) ticks were infected...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pinter A,Labruna MB

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis in the animal kingdom is closely coupled with the intracellular synthesis and the extracellular deposition of collagen. These morphogenetically important events involve multiple steps which begin in compartments inside the cell and continue in compartments outside the cell. The movement of matrix compone...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Birk DE,Trelstad RL

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have earlier shown that monkeys reared with daily alternating monocular occlusion for the first few months of life develop large horizontal strabismus, A/V patterns, dissociated vertical deviation (DVD), and dissociated horizontal deviation (DHD). Here, we present results from neurophysiological experiments that sh...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Das VE

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This has been an overview of fish health, a comparison of some aspects of fish husbandry with other animal husbandry, and comments concerning fish health research--especially where it is going. The 1972 disease survey identified current problems; it ranked the problems according to priority. More important, research e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wolf K

更新日期：1975-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of imidazoline derivatives are known to be effective stimulators of insulin secretion, and this response correlates with closure of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in the pancreatic beta-cell. However, mounting evidence indicates that potassium channel blockade may form only part of the mechanism by which imi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morgan NG,Chan SL,Mourtada M,Monks LK,Ramsden CA

更新日期：1999-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the molecular mechanism by which Sph-1-P affects the FN-dependent haptotactic motility of serum-starved mouse melanoma B16/F10 cells. We found that EDG-5-induced Rho activation followed by enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of FAK and paxillin, and beta 1-integrin activation leading to overexpression of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yamamura S,Hakomori S,Wada A,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Questions about music's evolution and functions have long excited interest among scholars. More recent theoretical accounts have stressed the importance of music's social origins and functions. Autism and Williams syndrome, neurodevelopmental disorders supposedly characterized by contrasting social and musical phenoty...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Heaton P,Allen R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring of wildlife diseases started in Scandinavia as sporadic postmortem examinations in the early 20th century. In 1945 a monitoring program for wildlife health was initiated. The program is today an integrated part of the National Environmental Monitoring programs in Sweden. The total material today comprises m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morner T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptions of coccidioidomycosis as a medical problem has undergone sequential and dramatic metamorphoses since its first description more than a century ago. First thought to be rare and lethal, coccidioidomycosis was subsequently found to be common and often mild. During World War II, its overall impact upon la...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Galgiani JN

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The success of embryonic implantation relies on an ideal cross-talk between the embryo and the receptive endometrium. This article focuses on the role of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and its receptors in human embryo implantation. LIF is a secreted glycoprotein first described as a factor that induced the differen...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Aghajanova L

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is crucial for the effects of glucocorticoids (GCs). Several polymorphisms of the GR are associated with altered sensitivity to GCs. For the ER22/23EK polymorphism, a relative GC resistance has been demonstrated. In vivo, this was suggested by a smaller response to a dexamethasone supp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Manenschijn L,van den Akker EL,Lamberts SW,van Rossum EF

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:One of the most remarkable aspects of the immune system is its ability to fashion an immune response most appropriate to the activating stimulus. Although the immune system possesses a number of adaptations to accomplish this, an important theme is local immune regulation by site-specific expression of receptors and l...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shao L,Allez M,Park MS,Mayer L

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with experimental neuropsychiatric lupus (NPSLE), induced by anti-ribosomal-P antibodies, developed depression-like behavior and a diminished sense of smell. Manganese-enhanced MRI (MEMRI) allows in vivo mapping of functional neuronal connections in the brain, including the olfactory tract. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kivity S,Tsarfaty G,Agmon-Levin N,Blank M,Manor D,Konen E,Chapman J,Reichlin M,Wasson C,Shoenfeld Y,Kushnir T

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Carbonic anhydrase is abundantly distributed in renal tissue and functions, as in other epithelia, to catalyze the hydration-dehydration reaction of CO2. The proximal tubule is responsible for at least 80% of whole kidney bicarbonate transport and is mediated by proton secretion. Membrane-bound carbonic anhydrase appe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： DuBose TD Jr

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, immediate hypersensitivity reactions to luminal antigens occur in the intestine and result in pathophysiology including increased permeability and ion secretion. The mechanism involves activation of mast cells with neural amplification (FIG. 5). Released mediators/neurotransmitters may act independently or...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Perdue MH,Kosecka U,Crowe S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of smell shows a diminution with age as measured by the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT). To ascertain whether the volumes of the olfactory bulbs and tracts (OBTs) and the temporal lobes (TL) declined in parallel to smell function, we examined 36 individuals from ages 22 to 78 who...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yousem DM,Geckle RJ,Bilker WB,Doty RL

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic growth factors are glycoproteins of 15-70 kDa. Although much clinical success has been obtained using recombinant proteins produced in mammalian cell lines and in microbial fermentation processes, the full-length polypeptides necessarily are expensive to produce, require parenteral administration, and in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaushansky K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to determine the IgG antibody response to spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR) R. conorii and R. slovaca, and its specificity and sensitivity in patients with DEBONEL/TIBOLA. A prospective study of 31 patients with DEBONEL was carried out from January 2001 to May 2004. The SFGR serology testi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Santibáñez S,Ibarra V,Portillo A,Blanco JR,Martínez de Artola V,Guerrero A,Oteo JA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers in Utrecht, the Netherlands have studied the effects of different factors, such as oral contraceptives (OCs), on sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) levels in blood. The SHBG levels in women who continuously used OCs consisting only of .05 mg of ethinyl estradiol (EE2) rose as high as 260% + or - 25% of t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Thijssen JH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two well-characterized cannabinoid receptors (CBrs), CB1 and CB2, mediate the effects of cannabinoids and marijuana use, with functional evidence for other CBrs. CB1 receptors are expressed primarily in brain and peripheral tissues. For over a decade several laboratories were unable to detect CB2 receptors in brain an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Onaivi ES,Ishiguro H,Gong JP,Patel S,Perchuk A,Meozzi PA,Myers L,Mora Z,Tagliaferro P,Gardner E,Brusco A,Akinshola BE,Liu QR,Hope B,Iwasaki S,Arinami T,Teasenfitz L,Uhl GR

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following on proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and chemoprevention in relation to Barrett's esophagus includes commentaries on 48-h pH monitoring, pH-impedence, bile acid testing, dyspepsia, long/short segment Barrett's esophagus, nonerosive reflux disease (NERD), functional heartburn, dual-release delivery PPIs, imme...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Richter JE,Penagini R,Tenca A,Pohl D,Dvorak K,Goldman A,Savarino E,Zentilin P,Savarino V,Watson JT,Wong RK,Pace F,Casini V,Peura DA,Herzig SJ,Kamiya T,Pelosini I,Scarpignato C,Armstrong D,DeVault KR,Bechi P,Tadd

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe several algorithms with winning performance in the Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM2) Reverse Engineering Competition 2007. After the gold standards for the challenges were released, the performance of the algorithms could be thoroughly evaluated under different parameters or...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Scheinine A,Mentzen WI,Fotia G,Pieroni E,Maggio F,Mancosu G,de la Fuente A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells derived from human trabecular bones have been shown to have multipotential differentiation ability along osteogenic, chondrogenic, and adipogenic lineages. In this study, we have derived two clonal sublines of human trabecular bone cells by means of stable transduction with human papilloma virus E6/E7 genes. Our...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Osyczka AM,Nöth U,Danielson KG,Tuan RS

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:In this paper, I have introduced and solved a simple deterministic model of eye tracking that produces rich dynamical behavior. Some of its main features, notably the existence of a chaotic regime, are reminiscent of the anomalies reported in smooth pursuit eye tracking experiments with schizophrenia patients. By obta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huberman BA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00