An overview of cytokines and cytokine antagonists as therapeutic agents.

abstract：:Acylated aldose dialkyl dithioacetals with bromine undergo replacement of one alkylthio group by bromine. These unstable bromides react, as by fusion with 2,4-bis(trimethylsilyloxy)pyrimidine, to give acylated 1-(pyrimidin-1-yl) derivatives that upon saponification afford acyclic sugar nucleoside analogues, some as se...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Horton D,Baker DC,Kokrady SS

更新日期：1975-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia affects over 800 million women and children globally. Defined as a limited or insufficient functional red blood cell supply in peripheral blood, anemia causes a reduced oxygen supply to tissues and can have serious health consequences for women and children. Hemoglobin (Hb) concentration is most commonly measur...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Karakochuk CD,Hess SY,Moorthy D,Namaste S,Parker ME,Rappaport AI,Wegmüller R,Dary O,HEmoglobin MEasurement (HEME) Working Group.

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogenate of 30 sarcoid lymph nodes was injected into the footpads of mice and 42% of the mice showed epitheloid-cell granulomas in the sites. However, the control lymph-node homogenates obtained from nonsarcoid patients also provoked similar granulomatous changes, although the positive rate was somewhat lower. In th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Iwai K,Takahashi S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of beta2-adrenergic receptors (beta2-R) on B lymphocytes and agonist-induced cAMP production is reduced in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). To further study functional consequences of the diminished beta2-R density on B lymphocytes in RA patients, agonist-induced cell death was evaluated and com...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wahle M,Pierer M,Krause A,Kolker S,Baerwald CG

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorine (Cl2 ) and bromine (Br2 ) are produced in large quantities throughout the world and used in the industry and the sanitation of water. These halogens can pose a significant threat to public health when released into the atmosphere during transportation and industrial accidents, or as acts of terrorism. In this...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lazrak A,Song W,Zhou T,Aggarwal S,Jilling T,Garantziotis S,Matalon S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human mitotic cells do not proliferate indefinitely in culture but undergo a limited number of divisions and progressively reach a state of irreversible growth arrest, a process termed replicative senescence. Hypoxia is a situation of reduced oxygen concentration that relates to many physiological and pathophys...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Poulios E,Trougakos IP,Chondrogianni N,Gonos ES

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal symptoms are common, and can arise from mucosal, motor, functional, and neoplastic processes, among others. Judicious use of diagnostic testing can help define the etiology of symptoms and can direct management. Endoscopy, esophageal high-resolution manometry (HRM), ambulatory pH or pH-impedance manometry, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gyawali CP,de Bortoli N,Clarke J,Marinelli C,Tolone S,Roman S,Savarino E

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial glucocorticoid resistance (FGR) is a rare hereditary disorder characterized by hypercortisolism and the absence of stigmata of Cushing's syndrome. The inability of glucocorticoids to exert their effects on target tissues is compensated for by increases in circulating corticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol, the for...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stratakis CA,Karl M,Schulte HM,Chrousos GP

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), and peptide histidine-isoleucine (PHI) are members of a superfamily of structurally related peptides widely distributed in the body and displaying pleiotropic biological activities. All these peptides are known to act via ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dejda A,Jozwiak-Bebenista M,Nowak JZ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the role of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in regulating hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity, particularly chronic stress-induced HPA activity. In the current studies, we examined the effects of manipulations of the BLA on HPA responses to the eighth restraint, to novel restraint after ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bhatnagar S,Vining C,Denski K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidomycosis is a mild to life-threatening disease in otherwise healthy humans and other mammals caused by the fungus Coccidioides spp. Understanding the development of the unique dimorphic life cycle of Coccidioides spp. and its role in pathogenesis has been an area of research focus. However, nuclear behavior ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Li L,Schmelz M,Kellner EM,Galgiani JN,Orbach MJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junctions (TJs) regulate paracellular barriers and claudins (Cld) form the backbone of TJ strands. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of claudin polymer formation, TJs were reconstituted by claudin transfection of TJ-free HEK293 cells. Therewith, typical TJ stands can be found at cell-cell contacts. In additio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rossa J,Lorenz D,Ringling M,Veshnyakova A,Piontek J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used site-directed mutagenesis to investigate the contributions of widely distributed residues in the thymosin beta-4 (Tbeta4) sequence to the formation and stability of the actin-Tbeta4 complex. Equilibrium and kinetic studies of actin binding were performed by monitoring the change in fluorescence of an N-io...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Au JK,De La Cruz EM,Safer D

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), antiproteinase 3 (PR3) autoantibodies (PR3-ANCA) are crucial in the development of generalized vasculitis. Wegener's pathognomonic lesion, a granulomatous inflammation of the upper and lower respiratory tract, contains abundant lymphocytes and macrophages. Lymphocyte clusters in germi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Voswinkel J,Müller A,Lamprecht P

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we consider minimizing the action functional as a method for numerically discovering periodic solutions to the n-body problem. With this method, we can find a large number of choreographies and other more general solutions. We show that most of the solutions found, including all but one of the choreogra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vanderbei RJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A host of missense mutations in muscle nicotinic receptor subunits have been identified as the cause of congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS). Two classes of CMS phenotypes have been identified: slow channel myasthenic syndromes (SCCMSs) and fast channel myasthenic syndromes (FCCMSs). Although both have similar phenot...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sine SM,Wang HL,Ohno K,Shen XM,Lee WY,Engel AG

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophic factors are secreted peptides that when interacting with specific classes of membrane receptors activate intracellular signaling cascades that prevents neuronal death during embryonic development. The establishment of gene-targeted null mutant mice for the neurotrophic factors, brain-derived neurotrophic ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Agerman K,Canlon B,Duan M,Ernfors P

更新日期：1999-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary objective of this review is to suggest a major role of cytogenetic pathology in the genesis of both the neoplastic phenotype and the senescent phenotype of aging mammalian organisms. It is hypothesized that allelic variation at a number of genetic loci that have the potential to modulate various types of c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Martin GM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plaques with lipid macrophages and macrophages containing undigested myelin fragments from five multiple sclerosis patients were studied by light microscopy of epoxy-embedded tissue (five cases) and electron microscopy (one case). Cell counts determined electron microscopically revealed that oligodendrocytes were redu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Prineas JW,Kwon EE,Cho ES,Sharer LR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial protein, staphylocoagulase, binds stoichiometrically to human prothrombin resulting in a coagulant complex, staphylothrombin. The enzymatic properties of staphylothrombin differ from those of alpha-thrombin in their substrate specificities toward natural and synthetic substrates, in addition to their interac...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kawabata S,Morita T,Miyata T,Kaida S,Igarashi H,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A linear stability analysis is presented for variable-viscosity miscible fluids in an unstable configuration; that is, a heavier fluid placed above a lighter one in a vertically oriented capillary tube. The initial interface thickness is treated as a parameter to the problem. The analysis is based on the three-dimensi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Meiburg E,Vanaparthy SH,Payr MD,Wilhelm D

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While dopamine (DA) receptors mediate acute effects of amphetamine and cocaine, chronic drug administration produces many glutamate-dependent adaptations, including LTP in reward-related neuronal circuits. An important question presents itself: How do DA receptors influence glutamate-dependent synaptic plasticity? Alt...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wolf ME,Mangiavacchi S,Sun X

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twin and family studies have demonstrated that most cognitive traits are moderately to highly heritable. Neurodevelopmental disorders such as dyslexia, autism, and specific language impairment (SLI) also show strong genetic influence. Nevertheless, it has proved difficult for researchers to identify genes that would e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bishop DV

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The computation of ITD begins with preservation of the phase angle of spectral components by eighth-nerve fibers and by cells of the nucleus magnocellularis. At the level of the nucleus laminaris, the difference in phase angle of corresponding spectral components in the left and right ears is extracted. At the next le...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Takahashi TT

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-lymphocytes from three species of New World monkeys were susceptible to transformation in vitro with human T-cell leukemia virus. Marmoset T-lymphocytes transformed in vitro with HVS or HVA, T-lymphotropic herpesviruses of New World monkeys, were also transformed with HTLV resulting in doubly transformed T-cells. Th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Falk LA Jr,Byington R,Silva DP

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of lymphocytic esophagitis (LyE), which is characterized by the prominence of peripapillary intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) without significant granulocytosis, remains poorly understood. During the last few years, plausible clinical correlates and novel approaches for stratification of LyE...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lisovsky M,Westerhoff M,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amyloid-beta protein (A beta), strongly implicated in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), is formed from the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) through sequential proteolysis by beta- and gamma-secretases. Cleavage by gamma-secretase takes place within the middle of the single transmembrane region of APP a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Moore CL,Diehl TS,Selkoe DJ,Wolfe MS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocytic anaplasmosis is a tick-borne, zoonotic disease caused by an obligate intracellular granulocytotropic bacterium, Anaplasma phagocytophilum. A. phagocytophilum and other Anaplasma and Ehrlichia spp. have been variably implicated with an associated hematologic alteration, platelet dysfunction, that can resul...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Borjesson DL,Brazzell JL,Feferman R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catecholamines (CAs) are significantly involved in the regulation of homeostasis of the organism at rest and especially during stressful situations. Stress induces increases in plasma CA (epinephrine and norepinephrine) levels and prolactin (PRL) release from the adenopituitary. We have recently observed that salsolin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bodnar I,Mravec B,Kubovcakova L,Fekete MI,Nagy GM,Kvetnansky R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro and in vivo 31P magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy studies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain have revealed alterations in membrane phospholipid metabolism and high-energy phosphate metabolism. Mildly demented AD patients compared with control subjects have increased levels of phosphomonoesters, decreased le...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pettegrew JW,Klunk WE,Panchalingam K,McClure RJ,Stanley JA

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00