Onset of odorant receptors.

abstract：:Chronic exposure to arsenic causes health problems, including peripheral neuropathy. Oxidative stress is one of the mechanisms underlying arsenic-induced neurotoxicity. For this report, we studied the protective effect of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on arsenic-induced oxidative injury in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) explants...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chao PL,Fan SF,Chou YH,Lin AM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cardinal feature of neurons is the morphological polarity of neurons with serious functional implications. Typically, a neuron has a single axon and several dendrites. Neuronal polarity is essential for the unidirectional signal flow from somata or dendrites to axons in neurons. The initial event in establishing a p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yoshimura T,Arimura N,Kaibuchi K

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present experiment was to determine if there is a factor in serum of patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) that interferes with binding of (125I)-alpha-bungarotoxin to acetylcholine receptors of normal mouse diaphragm. Diaphragms were incubated aerobically for 1 hour in either Krebs-Henseleit solutio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Keesey J,Shaikh I,Wolfgram F,Chao LP

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine (METH) is one of the major drugs of abuse that is postulated to cause neurotoxicity by depleting dopamine (DA) and its metabolites, high-affinity DA uptake sites, and the activity of tyrosine hydroxylase. The present study was undertaken to investigate whether the relatively selective, neuronal nitric ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ali SF,Itzhak Y

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) caused by Rickettsia rickettsii is a severe rickettsiosis that occurs in nearly every state of the continental USA. RMSF is endemic in Central and Southern America, with recent well-documented cases in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina. RMSF is the most mal...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eremeeva ME,Dasch GA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is a subjective symptom whose prevalence can be grossly underestimated. The high proportion of adults with thalassemia who experience chronic pain is evident from recent surveys. However, pain has not received enough attention in the overall management of thalassemia. The association of pain with the type and tre...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lal A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the great strides made in understanding the basic biology of cancer and the multiple approaches to cancer therapy that have been utilized, cancer remains a major cause of death worldwide. The two properties that define the most successful tumors are low antigenicity, enabling cancer cells to escape immune syst...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Al-Ramadi BK,Fernandez-Cabezudo MJ,El-Hasasna H,Al-Salam S,Attoub S,Xu D,Chouaib S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive, accurate, and simple method, called shifted termination assay (STA), was developed for detection of genetic mutations. The STA technology can be used to detect genetic mutations in polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified samples of tissue, and plasma and serum that include circulating DNA containing poi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shackelford W,Deng S,Murayama K,Wang J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1,4-dihydropyridine-sensitive voltage-gated Ca2+ channel is widely distributed in excitable cells. The channel and its several associated drug binding sites are known to be up- and downregulated by a variety of homologous and heterologous influences including membrane depolarization. The neurosecretory GH4C1 cell ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Liu J,Rutledge A,Triggle DJ

更新日期：1995-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated platelets and leukocytes release potent vasoactive factors that may modulate vascular tone. Activation of normal platelets produces dilatation of normal arteries. Vasodilatation is mediated by adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which releases endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) from endothelium. In atherosc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaul S,Padgett RC,Heistad DD

更新日期：1994-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the sensations produced by activating one electrode at a time are summarized as follows: (a) Loudness was found to increase with current level and pitch with repetition rate. (b) Pitch and sharpness increased in the apical-to-basal direction, and vowel labels could be assigned to sensations prod...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tong YC,Clark GM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have employed antisense methods to study the transcriptional functions of c-fos protein (Fos). Clones expressing inducible anti-fos RNA have been employed to inhibit c-fos expression, resulting in activation of c-fos transcription by inhibiting its normal repressor function. The sites of negative regulation by Fos ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holt JT

更新日期：1992-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges facing health and welfare policymakers as well as researchers in most developed countries is the increasing demand for aging services and aged care. Low birth rates and rapid increases in the percentages of elderly people make aging and aged care one of the top-priority issues among the national ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Soar J,Seo Y

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-resolved confocal microspectrofluorometry and fluorescence microscopy imaging were applied to monitor the cellular uptake of fluorescent-labeled oligonucleotides (ONs) delivered by a porphyrin molecule. The fate of porphyrin-ON complexes inside living cells has also been monitored. Due to intrinsic fluorescence o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Praus P,Kocisová E,Mojzes P,Stepánek J,Seksek O,Sureau F,Turpin PY

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infertility is defined as the inability of a couple to conceive despite trying for a year, and it affects approximately 15% of the reproductive-age population. It is considered a genetically lethal factor, as the family lineage stops at that individual with no progeny produced. A genetic defect associated with an infe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hwang K,Yatsenko AN,Jorgez CJ,Mukherjee S,Nalam RL,Matzuk MM,Lamb DJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR) is well described and has received extensive attention for its multiple benefits, including longevity and stress resistance. However, some studies have shown that CR negatively influences bone, although a mechanism hasn't been provided. Adiponectin, an adipocyte-derived hormone, can affect bon...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhu J,Liu C,Jia J,Zhang C,Yuan W,Leng H,Xu Y,Song C

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term sepsis describes a potentially lethal clinical condition that develops as a result of a dysregulated host response to bacterial infection. The most common bacterial component implicated in initiating the septic syndrome is a cell wall molecule derived from Gram-negative bacteria, known as lipopolysaccharide (...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bosshart H,Heinzelmann M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocular motor system provides several advantages for studying the brain, including well-defined populations of neurons that contribute to specific eye movements. Generation of rapid eye movements (saccades) depends on excitatory burst neurons (EBN) and omnipause neurons (OPN) within the brainstem, both types of cel...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eggers SD,Horn AK,Roeber S,Härtig W,Nair G,Reich DS,Leigh RJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and pubertal disturbances are the commonest endocrinopathies in homozygous thalassemia, accounting for significant morbidity in 70-80% children and adolescents globally. This review focuses on the pathophysiology of the endocrinopathy from a historical perspective and altered natural history induced by better c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chatterjee R,Bajoria R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigations with the NZB X SWR model show that the development of systemic autoimmune disease is a multistep, multigene process. Severe lupus nephritis in the NZB X SWR hybrids results from the interaction of genes inherited from both the autoimmune NZB and the normal SWR parents. A similar genetic interaction ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Datta SK,Gavalchin J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable clinical and experimental evidence indicates that loss of vestibular function results in cognitive deficits, especially deficits in spatial memory. These studies demonstrate the importance of balance for the most fundamental of cognitive processes and suggest that information about head acceleration and o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Smith PF,Brandt T,Strupp M,Darlington CL,Zheng Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood-borne beta-amyloids (A beta s) could affect brain function by (1) crossing the BBB to directly interact with brain tissues or (2) altering BBB function by interacting with the brain capillaries that make up the BBB. Several radioactively labeled A beta s have been examined for such interactions. Blood-borne A be...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Banks WA,Kastin AJ,Maness LM,Banks MF,Shayo M,McLay RN

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells located in connective tissues are a potent source of vasoactive and inflammatory mediators, such as cytokines. They accumulate in tissues in a wide variety of diseases where their function in most cases in unclear. In this report we provide evidence that rat basophilic leukemia cells (RBLC) cultured with a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Conti P,Barbacane RC,Trakatellis M,Placido FC,Cataldo I,Reale M

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent controversies in the existence of saturable binding of general anesthetics in brain tissues prompted a careful examination of specific binding of anesthetics to neural receptors. We examined the binding of both local and general anesthetics using electron spin resonance and radioligand criteria. Our results sug...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lin L,Koblin DD,Wang HH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal trials of many pharmacological neuroprotective agents have been quite successful, whereas trials in humans have been uniformly disappointing. A major difference between laboratory research in animals and clinical research in humans is the amount and/or quality of data obtained. The goal of this presentation is ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Andrews RJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is typically accompanied by both acute and chronic alterations in the stress response. These alterations have mostly been described in individuals under baseline conditions, but studies have also used a challenge model to assess the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vermetten E,Vythilingam M,Schmahl C,DE Kloet C,Southwick SM,Charney DS,Bremner JD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper a novel algorithm is proposed for space trajectory design that combines a systematic and a heuristic method for global optimization. For the systematic part of the algorithm a branching technique is used, whereas a particular implementation of evolution programming forms the core of the heuristic part. T...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vasile M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro clonal analyses were performed to gain insight into the mechanisms that control development of neural crest-derived cardiac outflow tract mesenchyme of quail embryos. The cardiac neural crest originates from the posterior rhombencephalic neural tube. The cells leave the neural tube and migrate through the pos...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sieber-Blum M,Ito K

更新日期：1995-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present research, the relationship between various semantic memory functions and episodic odor memory across the adult life span is addressed. In contrast to earlier evidence that odors may be encoded and stored as unique, nonlinguistic whole percepts, the present work suggests that episodic odor information is...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Larsson M,Bäckman L

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-associated alterations in the mitochondrial electron transport system (ETS) may lead to free radical generation and contribute to aging. The complexes of the ETS were screened spectrophotometrically in gastrocnemius of young (10 month) as well as older (20 and 26 month) B6C3F1 female mice fed an ad libitum (AL) di...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feuers RJ

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00