Synaptic plasticity in the mesolimbic system: therapeutic implications for substance abuse.

abstract：:Murine schistosomiasis mansoni is a parasitic disease in which flukes living in the portal vein of the host produce ova that deposit in the liver and intestines. In these organs, ova release antigens that induce chronic, focal granulomatous inflammation. IFN-gamma is an inflammatory cytokine important in macrophage ac...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Weinstock JV,Elliott D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) are often thought of as components of a neural circuit that assigns affective significance--or value--to sensory stimuli so as to anticipate future events and adjust behavioral and physiological responses. Much recent work has been aimed at understanding the distinct contrib...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Salzman CD,Paton JJ,Belova MA,Morrison SE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In keeping with the inflammatory paradigm of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) pathophysiology, in vitro studies suggest that aneurysms secrete the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6). Circulating IL-6 levels are higher in patients with AAA with elevated circulating IL-6 an independent risk factor for cardiova...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dawson J,Cockerill G,Choke E,Loftus I,Thompson MM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect and direct experimental evidence demonstrates that both the entry of extracellular calcium and the liberation of calcium from intracellular stores can contribute to an increase in free cytoplasmic calcium concentration in endothelial cells, which seems to be an essential step in the synthesis and/or release o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rubanyi GM,Vanhoutte PM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been learned during the past decade about the specific retinoid-binding proteins that exist in plasma, and in the intracellular compartment in a number of tissues. Vitamin A is mobilized from liver stores and transported in plasma in the form of the lipid alcohol retinol, bound to a specific transport protein...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goodman DS

更新日期：1981-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioides causes coccidioidomycosis in the southwestern United States. Its clinical manifestations range from the primary asymptomatic to progressive pulmonary and extrapulmonary disease. Because of endemicity, frequent relapse, and virulent nature of Coccidioides, there is an urgent need for the development of eff...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Awasthi S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern contraceptive methods represent more than a technical advance: they are the instrument of a true social revolution-the "first reproductive revolution" in the history of humanity, an achievement of the second part of the 20th century, when modern, effective methods became available. Today a great diversity of te...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Benagiano G,Bastianelli C,Farris M

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphomannose isomerase (PMI), an enzyme not present in many plants, catalyzes the reversible interconversion of mannose 6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate. Plant cells lacking this enzyme are incapable of surviving on synthetic medium containing mannose. Thus PMI/mannose selection has utility in the identification...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Privalle LS

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of four randomized controlled trials were examined to assess the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) for myasthenia gravis (MG) acute exacerbations. The first trial compared plasma exchange (PE) and IVIG in 87 patients. At day 15, the mean change in the Myasthenic Muscular Score (MMS) was 16.6 (9...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gajdos P,Chevret S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As recently as ten years ago, the nature of the T-cell receptor for antigen was a mystery, as was the precise role of histocompatibility molecules in antigen-presentation to T cells. Although T-cell receptors have now been cloned and crystal structures of MHC/peptide molecules exist, our understanding of the parameter...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Boniface JJ,Davis MM

更新日期：1995-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of expression of human class II MHC genes has been studied in lymphoid and melanoma cells. Specific unmethylation of all restriction sites nearby the promoter regions has been detected in all cell lines and tissues studied, irrespective of their ability to express class II MHC products. The main functional...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gambari R,Barbieri R,Piva R,Tecce R,Fisher PB,Giacomini P,Natali PG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to recognize and discriminate conspecific faces and facial expressions has played a critical role in the evolution of social communication. Darwin was one of the first to speculate that human and nonhuman primate facial expressions share similar mechanisms for production and functions in expressing emotion...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Parr LA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor is a polypeptide belonging to a family of natural proteins also known as heparin-binding growth factors endowed with a pleiotropism of biological activities, the most striking of which are related to wound healing. Large quantities of recombinant human basic fibroblast growth factor (rh-...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mazué G,Bertolero F,Jacob C,Sarmientos P,Roncucci R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of blood-brain barrier permeability and metabolic processes, and their regulation by endogenous or exogenous factors, will be important for development of efficient and selective delivery of therapeutic agents to the central nervous system. Primary cultures of brain microvessel endothelial cells offer a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Audus KL,Borchardt RT

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:2-Methoxyestradiol (2-ME) is an estradiol metabolite with antiangiogenic properties. It can be produced by granulosa cells and it is present in normal follicle at high concentrations. The identification of reactive oxygen species (ROS) role in the molecular pharmacology of 2-ME is an active area of research. The objec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Basini G,Santini SE,Grasselli F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although drugs of abuse have different chemical structures and interact with different protein targets, all appear to usurp common neuronal systems that regulate reward and motivation. Addiction is a complex disease that is thought to involve drug-induced changes in synaptic plasticity due to alterations in cell signa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lee AM,Messing RO

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Policy and program implementers require evidence on whether integrated psychosocial stimulation and nutrition interventions can be effectively delivered at-scale, how, and at what cost? To address some of these issues, a comprehensive evaluation of implementation was designed for a trial in Pakistan that integrated ps...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yousafzai AK,Rasheed MA,Siyal S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, some 80,000 commercial and industrial chemicals are now in use of which over 30,000 are produced or used in the Great Lakes region. Thus, the environmental quality within the Great Lakes basin has been compromised particularly with respect to persistent toxic substances (PTS). Information derived...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Rosa CT,Hicks HE,Ashizawa AE,Pohl HR,Mumtaz MM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning theory proposes that drug seeking is a synthesis of multiple controllers. Whereas goal-directed drug seeking is determined by the anticipated incentive value of the drug, habitual drug seeking is elicited by stimuli that have formed a direct association with the response. Moreover, drug-paired stimuli can tra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hogarth L,Balleine BW,Corbit LH,Killcross S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous beta thalassemia affects thousands of people around the world. Current management of this condition includes regular transfusion of red cells, which leads to transfusional iron overload requiring chelation therapy: increasing hemoglobin levels while decreasing or eliminating iron overload is therefore a maj...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dover GJ

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols and tocotrienols (vitamin E) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) as well as the carotenoids react with free radicals, notably peroxyl radicals, and with singlet molecular oxygen (1O2), this being the basis of their function as antioxidants. RRR-alpha-tocopherol is the major peroxyl radical scavenger in biologica...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sies H,Stahl W,Sundquist AR

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this chapter, we will review how signal transduction pathways have been assembled in the past, bringing us to our present understanding of this area of research. The methods employed have relied heavily upon the genetics of yeast, worms, flies, mice, and humans. The use of second site suppressors and epistasis has ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Levine AJ,Hu W,Feng Z,Gil G

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of visual field changes and ocular hypertension on visual evoked potentials were investigated by photopic ERG and by luminance and pattern-reversal EPs on 116 glaucomatous and on 7 normal eyes. The problem was approached by way of four investigations: Firstly, which nerve structures are affected by glaucom...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bartl G

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the c-Myc transcription factor in neoplastic transformation is well documented. However, which of its numerous target genes are crucial for tumorigenesis remains a frequently contested issue. We have recently established a non-transgenic murine model for B-cell lymphoma based on neoplastic conversio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yu D,Cozma D,Park A,Thomas-Tikhonenko A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-related peptides (IRPs) from ganglions of mollusk, Anodonta cygnea, were purified and characterized (IRP1-IRP13) using insulin and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) radioreceptor test systems. The IRPs were able to bind to insulin and IGF-I receptors. Dose-dependent curve slopes indicated that most IRPs bin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shipilov VN,Shpakov AO,Rusakov YI

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every year thousands of young teenagers are afflicted with different types of cancer and receive gonadotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy regimens, causing depletion of germ cells in the gonads and premature gonadal failure. In this review, we discuss and outline the current strategies and the future directions of fe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Oktem O,Oktay K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current research has demonstrated that MPP+ can induce lipid peroxidation in the nigrostriatal system of rat in vivo. Antioxidant agent U-78517F and .OH scavenger DMSO may protect against MPP+ toxicity through the inhibition of .OH radical-mediated oxidative injury in the substantia nigra. These findings indicate ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wu RM,Mohanakumar KP,Murphy DL,Chiueh CC

更新日期：1994-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing literature on the subject of aneurysmal degeneration of arteries in patients who are infected with HIV. A patient recently seen at our medical center with an aneurysm of the carotid artery stimulated our interest in reviewing the mechanisms by which HIV may initiate or predispose to these pathologies....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tilson MD 3rd,Withers L

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human organism is in a state of dynamic equilibrium, homeostasis. The stress system is activated when homeostasis is challenged by extrinsic or intrinsic forces, the stressors. This system, whose central component is the central nervous system (CNS) and includes corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and noradrener...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stratakis CA,Chrousos GP

更新日期：1995-12-29 00:00:00