dOr83b--receptor or ion channel?

abstract：:In an effort to identify novel targets for the development of nonhormonal male contraceptives, genome-wide transcriptional profiling of the rat testis was performed. Specifically, enzymatically purified spermatogonia plus early spermatocyctes, pachytene spermatocytes, round spermatids, and Sertoli cells was analyzed a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Johnston DS,Jelinsky SA,Zhi Y,Finger JN,Kopf GS,Wright WW

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal function of the lymphatic vessels is associated with a variety of diseases, such as tumor metastasis and lymphedema. The development of strategies for local and controlled induction or inhibition of lymphangiogenesis would thus be of major importance for the treatment of such diseases. Two growth factors, vas...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Saaristo A,Karkkainen MJ,Alitalo K

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays a key role in excessive bone loss in conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and periodontitis. An important paradigm in immunology is that inflammatory factors activate feedback inhibition mechanisms to restrain inflammation and limit associated tissue damage. We hypothesized that inflammatory fact...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ivashkiv LB,Zhao B,Park-Min KH,Takami M

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:Processes that regulate quiescence, self-renewal, and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are not well understood. Owing, in part, to the ability of xenobiotic ligands to have persistent effects on the immune system in experimental animals, there has been much work to define a physiological role of the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gasiewicz TA,Singh KP,Bennett JA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. One can accurately predict the contribution of each inhibitor to the total inactivation of an enzyme in plasma once its pseudo-first-order reaction rate constant and concentration are known. 2. Because the mechanism of augmentation of the inactivation rate of an enzyme by ATIII occurs via formation of an ATIII-hepa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Colman RW,Scott CF,Pixley RA,de la Cadena RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of change of head position in the pitch plane on the ability to hold horizontal eccentric gaze in five patients with cerebellar disorders. All patient showed a change in the time constant of horizontal centripetal drift when the head was pitched forward or back. This result suggests that otolith...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wilson E,Sng K,Somers JT,Reschke MF,Leigh RJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our studies of Ca2+ release have shown that three classes of compounds--quercetin, which inhibits Ca2+ release by reversal of the Ca2+ pump, H+ ionophores and DCCD, which affect proton gradients, and lipophilic anions, which act to oppose a separation of membrane surface charges--all have potential in probing the mech...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： MacLennan DH,Shoshan V,Wood DS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is an autoimmune disorder of the neuromuscular synapse. About half of LEMS patients have an associated small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC), which is usually detected after diagnosis of LEMS. This short review summarizes clinical and serological markers shown to predict the presenc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lipka AF,Verschuuren JJ,Titulaer MJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to learn the prevalence of spotted fever group (SFG) Rickettsia detected in ticks in La Rioja, in the north of Spain. From 2001 to 2005, 496 ticks representing 7 tick species were analysed at the Hospital de La Rioja. Ticks were removed from humans with or without rickettsial syndrome (n = 59) or col...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Oteo JA,Portillo A,Santibáñez S,Pérez-Martínez L,Blanco JR,Jiménez S,Ibarra V,Pérez-Palacios A,Sanz M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking into account that methamphetamine (MA) is a popular recreational drug among young adult women, i.e., in gestational age, the present model aims to assess the effects of its exposure during development. In this experimental model, MA effects are assessed in the rat during the first month of life, regarding both ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gomes-DA-Silva J,Silva MC,Tavares MA

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.2 kb polymorphic fragment from the Gardel isolate of Ehrlichia (formerly Cowdria) ruminantium was used to isolate a 15kb clone from the E. ruminantium Welgevonden LambdaGEM-11 library. This clone, WL2EL1, was subcloned and sequenced. Eight open reading frames (ORFs) were identified. The ORF in WL2EL1 which contain...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Louw E,Brayton KA,Collins NE,Pretorius A,Van Strijp F,Allsopp BA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of a neuron in the developing brain to multiply, differentiate, or die in an apoptotic manner depends on the expression of genes that are involved in regulating the cell cycle. Recent studies determined the involvement of several genes, including cyclin A and B2, in dopamine-induced apoptosis in cultured chic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Porat S,Simantov R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Music can arouse ecstatic "chill" experiences defined as "goose pimples" and as "shivers down the spine." We recorded chills both via subjects' self-reports and physiological reactions, finding that they do not occur in a reflex-like manner, but as a result of attentive, experienced, and conscious musical enjoyment. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Grewe O,Nagel F,Kopiez R,Altenmüller E

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor p53 is a phosphoprotein barely detectable in the nucleus of normal cells. Upon cellular stress, particularly that induced by DNA damage, p53 can arrest cell cycle progression, thus allowing the DNA to be repaired; or it can lead to apoptosis. These functions are achieved, in part, by the transacti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Soussi T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical androgens, including dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), are produced in the inner zone of the adrenal cortex that is in direct contact with the neural crest-derived catecholamine-producing chromaffin cells. DHEA has recently been identified as a crucial regulator of neuronal stem cell proliferation. Thus, D...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ziegler CG,Sicard F,Sperber S,Ehrhart-Bornstein M,Bornstein SR,Krug AW

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoblast-specific gene transcription requires interaction between bone cell-specific transcription factors and more widely expressed transcriptional regulators. This is particularly evident for the basic domain-leucine zipper factor activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), whose activity can be enhanced or inhibite...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： St-Arnaud R,Hekmatnejad B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most chemical contaminants occur in highest concentrations in coastal waters, often maximized in very localized areas. In general, this situation represents the exposure pattern for marine animals. However, the availability of contaminant to an organism depends not only on its concentration but also on its chemical na...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Whittle KJ,Hardy R,Holden AV,Johnston R,Pentreath RJ

更新日期：1978-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the use of statins, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, for treating specific neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., cerebrovascular disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis) and possibly traumatic brain injury. Neither is there a consensus on the efficacy of statins in t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wood WG,Eckert GP,Igbavboa U,Müller WE

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alteration of oligosaccharide structures through genetic manipulation of glycosyltransferase activities is now a reality. It is apparent that this technique has greater consequences on oligosaccharide structure when an exogenous enzyme is introduced into cells, and in particular when this enzyme is responsible for...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Youakim A,Shur BD

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-dependent activator protein for secretion (CAPS) was initially identified in brain cytosol based on its ability to reconstitute calcium-triggered dense-core vesicle (DCV) exocytosis in permeable cell lines (PC12) of adrenal chromaffin origin. Current evidence indicates that CAPS functions selectively in DCV ex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wassenberg JJ,Martin TF

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart disease is a leading cause of death in newborns and in adults. Efforts to promote cardiac repair by introduction or recruitment of exogenous stem cells hold promise but typically involve isolation and introduction of autologous or donor progenitor cells. We have found that the G-actin-sequestering peptide thymos...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Srivastava D,Saxena A,Michael Dimaio J,Bock-Marquette I

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we show that the same panel of three microsatellite markers is useful for the detection of alterations in the DNA of tumor cells and plasma from patients diagnosed with SCLC and NSCLC. In 31% of the SCLC patients, we detected a microsatellite alteration(s) or LOH in at least one locus. In the group of p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bruhn N,Beinert T,Oehm C,Jandrig B,Petersen I,Chen XQ,Possinger K,Fleischhacker M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolic events, such as pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombosis, and portal vein thrombosis, have been observed in adult thalassemia patients, mainly in beta-thalassemia intermedia. The clinical findings are consistent with the observation of several alterations that indicate a state of activation of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cappellini MD,Grespi E,Cassinerio E,Bignamini D,Fiorelli G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets play important roles for hemostasis with activated platelets adhering to the injured vessel wall to initiate platelet aggregation. At the same time, our study revealed the cytotoxic effect on endothelial cells characterized by an increase of intracellular Ca++ and a decrease of EDRF production, which may cau...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Numano F,Kishi Y,Ashikaga T,Hata A,Makita T,Watanabe R

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we analyzed the morphology of testes and efferent ducts as well as the localization of androgen receptors (AR) in the tissues of XY, YY, and XX male rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum. Testes of the XX trout differed distinctly from those of XY and YY males; the interstitial space was very ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Galas JF,Hejmej A,Glogowski J,Bilińska B

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of tick vaccines provides new opportunities for control of tick infestations and tick-borne diseases. Recently, the tick-protective protein, subolesin, was identified in a cell line derived from Ixodes scapularis by expression library immunization and a mouse model of tick infestations. While subolesin was...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blouin EF,Manzano-Roman R,de la Fuente J,Kocan KM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work examines distinct aspects of effortful control and attention predicted aggression in a group of children at elevated risk for the development of conduct problems. Results suggested that behavioral inhibition, rather than attentional control, best predicted maternal reports of child aggressive behaviors. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dennis TA,Brotman LM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotic opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) most likely is mediated by modification of interendothelial tight junctions, subsequent to shrinkage of cerebrovascular endothelial cells, and not by stimulation of transendothelial vesicular transport or by channel formation. This paper summarizes evidence for this con...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rapoport SI,Robinson PJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Justice judgments are subjective by nature, and are influenced substantially by motivational processes. In the present contribution, two motives underlying justice judgments are examined: individualistic motives to evaluate solutions to social problems that benefit the self in material or immaterial ways as fair versu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： van Prooijen JW

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00