Cellular genes derived from Gypsy/Ty3 retrotransposons in mammalian genomes.

abstract：:Adolescence and emerging adulthood form a critical time period for the achievement of optimal health and nutrition across all stages of the life course. We undertook a review of published literature and global data repositories for information on nutrition levels, trends, and patterns among young people aged 10-24 yea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Akseer N,Al-Gashm S,Mehta S,Mokdad A,Bhutta ZA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CCR6 chemokine receptor is expressed by most B cells and subsets of T cells and dendritic cells (DCs) found in the gut mucosal immune system. CCL20, the single chemokine ligand for CCR6, is selectively made by the follicle-associated epithelium (FAE) overlying Peyer's patches (PPs) and isolated lymphoid follicles ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Williams IR

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the frequency of HLA-B27 and HLA-B51 in healthy subjects from the center of Tunisia and to investigate their usefulness in the diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and Behçet's disease (BD), respectively. Microlymphocytotoxicity test was used to perform serologic HL...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sakly N,Boumiza R,Zrour-Hassen S,Hamzaoui A,Ben Yahia S,Amara H,Khairallah M,Mahjoub S,Bergaoui N,Ghedira I

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A four- to fivefold overexpression of the gene for the Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid precursor protein (APP) in individuals with Down's Syndrome (DS) appears to be responsible for the fifty year earlier onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in DS compared to the normal population. It is therefore likely that a dereg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beyreuther K,Pollwein P,Multhaup G,Mönning U,König G,Dyrks T,Schubert W,Masters CL

更新日期：1993-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The historical reasons for the introduction of tick control during the nineteenth century are reviewed. Background and concepts for the choice between long-term tick control and tick eradication are compared. Case studies of large-scale tick control or eradication programs in Africa, Australia, the United States, and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pegram RG,Wilson DD,Hansen JW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 10 years, the continual discovery of novel forms of encephalitis associated with antibodies to cell-surface or synaptic proteins has changed the paradigms for diagnosing and treating disorders that were previously unknown or mischaracterized. We review here the process of discovery, the symptoms, and the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leypoldt F,Armangue T,Dalmau J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of immunologic biomarkers associated with clinical response after immune intervention for cancer is an area of intensive investigation. The field would benefit from a more systemic and directed approach for biomarker identification and evaluation. Lessons can be learned from other fields, such as ca...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dang Y,Disis ML

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AZT inhibited replication of an immunodeficiency-inducing strain of feline leukemia virus (FeLV-FAIDS) in vitro at concentrations as low as 0.005 microgram/mL. This antiviral activity was augmented an additional 25-30% when AZT was combined with human recombinant alpha-interferon (2b) (IFN alpha). Administration of AZ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hoover EA,Zeidner NS,Mullins JI

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information from the vestibular nuclei ascending through the brainstem to the oculomotor and trochlear nuclei (NIII, NIV), the interstitial nucleus of Cajal (INC), the pretectum, or thalamus, is thought to be distributed in at least five different pathways. They include the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF), the as...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zwergal A,Strupp M,Brandt T,Büttner-Ennever JA

更新日期：2009-05-01 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

abstract：:The prevalence of taste loss over a discrete area of the tongue or palate is unknown; however, we have identified discrete losses in three etiological groups: head trauma, upper respiratory infection, and bulimia. We have now identified discrete losses in elderly subjects. To summarize, elderly subjects show elevated ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bartoshuk LM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible neuroprotective effects of thymosin beta(4) in different models of excitotoxicity. The application of thymosin beta(4) significantly attenuated glutamate-induced toxicity both in primary cultures of cortical neurons and in rat hippocampal slices. In in vivo experiment...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Popoli P,Pepponi R,Martire A,Armida M,Pèzzola A,Galluzzo M,Domenici MR,Potenza RL,Tebano MT,Mollinari C,Merlo D,Garaci E

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to food is essential to optimal development and function in children and adults. Food security, food insecurity, and hunger have been defined and a U.S. Food Security Scale was developed and is administered annually by the Census Bureau in its Current Population Survey. The eight child-referenced items now make...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cook JT,Frank DA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social behavior in most human societies is characterized by the following of moral rules explicitly justified by religious belief systems. These systems constitute the diverse domain of human sacred values. Supernatural entities as founders or warranty of moral principles may be seen as a form of "conversation stopper...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tófalvy T,Viciana H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell doctrine is the foundational paradigm of Euro-American medicine and biology. Even without stepping outside that tradition, one may imagine alternate models of the body such as a fluid model in which cells do not exist or a model wherein cells are described as overlapping fields of molecular organization in space ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Theise ND

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emphasis on the effects of early olfactory restriction has been on the deleterious nature of the consequences of this abnormal early experience. While these effects are certainly present and dramatic, it is also the case that the olfactory system is left fairly intact by this experimental manipulation. If one asks...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leon M

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sex combs reduced gene of the Antennapedia complex specifics the identities of the anterior thoracic and posterior head segments, including the primordium of the larval salivary gland. The Sex combs reduced transcription unit spans over 30 kb of genomic DNA, with another 40 kb of upstream cis-regulatory sequences....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kennison JA,Vázquez M,Brizuela BJ

更新日期：1998-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The LGR7/RXFP1 and LGR8/RXFP2 receptors are unique receptors among the G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) in having a low-density lipoprotein class A (LDL-A) module. Their complex gene organization, among the intron-richest of the GPCRs, suggests that alternative splicing is a common occurrence. We have therefore inv...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kern A,Bryant-Greenwood GD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib is a selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor used for the treatment of Philadelphia chromosome-positive leukemias and other malignancies. An important clinical observation is that imatinib can affect the function of normal nonmalignant cells resulting in myelosuppression in treated patients. This observation is s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Balabanov S,Appel S,Kanz L,Brossart P,Brümmendorf TH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the flight experiment, supporting ground science, and the design rationale for a project on spaceflight holography investigation in a virtual apparatus (SHIVA). SHIVA is a fundamental study of particle dynamics in fluids in microgravity. Gravitation effects and steady Stokes drag often dominate th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Trolinger JD,L'Esperance D,Rangel RH,Coimbra CF,Witherow WK

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of insulin-secreting pancreatic β cells. In humans with T1D and in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice (a murine model for human T1D), autoreactive T cells cause β-cell destruction, as transfer or deletion of these cells induces or...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Padgett LE,Broniowska KA,Hansen PA,Corbett JA,Tse HM

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：:Neuroimaging research suggests that cerebral white matter (WM) integrity, as reflected in fractional anisotropy (FA) via diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), is decreased in older adults, especially in the prefrontal regions of the brain. Behavioral investigations of cognitive functioning suggest that some aspects of cogni...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Marks BL,Madden DJ,Bucur B,Provenzale JM,White LE,Cabeza R,Huettel SA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Departing from the functional parallelism that undoubtedly exists between the nervous and immune system, we suggest that the latter also counts with means for information exchange that may result in a mutual influence of immune processes between nearby individuals. Our concept relies on a molecular interface that is c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Martín PI,Sánchez PA,Rewald E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that the multisensory parieto-insular cortex is the human homologue of the parieto-insular vestibular cortex (PIVC) in the monkey and is involved in the perception of verticality and self-motion. Acute lesions (patients with middle cerebral artery infarctions) of this area caused contraversive ti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brandt T,Dieterich M

更新日期：1999-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to assess the value of different DXA and BIA models for predicting muscle volume in mid-thigh segments obtained by MRI. Three DXA models were used: in model A, muscle was taken to be equivalent to fat-free soft tissue; in model B the thigh segment was divided into its constituent tissues using fixed a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Elia M,Fuller NJ,Hardingham CR,Graves M,Screaton N,Dixon AK,Ward LC

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin 4 (IgG4) is one of four human IgG subclasses and has several unique functional characteristics. It exhibits low affinity for complement and for most Fc receptors. It furthermore has generally high affinity for its antigen, with binding occurring in a monovalent fashion, as IgG4 can exchange Fab-arms wit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huijbers MG,Plomp JJ,van der Maarel SM,Verschuuren JJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted an experimental study of the interaction and coalescence of two drops (of the same fluid) or bubbles translating under the action of buoyancy in a cylindrical tube. The close approach of two Newtonian fluid particles of different size in a non-Newtonian continuous phase was examined using image analysis, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Al-Matroushi E,Borhan A

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The avoidance of autoimmunity requires mechanisms to actively silence or tolerize self reactive T cells in the periphery. During infection, dendritic cells are not only capturing microbial antigens, but also are processing self antigens from dying cells as well as innocuous environmental proteins. Since the dendritic ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Steinman RM,Hawiger D,Liu K,Bonifaz L,Bonnyay D,Mahnke K,Iyoda T,Ravetch J,Dhodapkar M,Inaba K,Nussenzweig M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptive field of a direction-selective unit of any type consists of an excitatory center 3 degrees -5 degrees in size, a near inhibitory surround and a far surround upon which illumination exerts an influence for both spontaneous activity and specific cell response. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Golovkin M,Gorbunov V,Maximova E,Maximov V

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00