The music instinct: the evolutionary basis of musicality.

abstract：:Despite neuropathological and electrophysiological evidence for the involvement of parahippocampal structures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), little attention has been paid to morphometric changes in these structures, and the relation of these changes to TLE. We performed high-resolution MRI volumetric analysis to ex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bernasconi N,Bernasconi A,Caramanos Z,Andermann F,Dubeau F,Arnold DL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the aforementioned complications, noninvasive saliva collection has provided the medical and research community with an excellent medium for the monitoring of plasma steroid levels. This noninvasive method has permitted the evaluation and assessment of a multitude of endocrine studies that would have been extr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Quissell DO

更新日期：1993-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a progress report on our present understanding of iron nutrition in man, particularly in developing countries. We will be concerned with the quantitative aspects of iron balance and in particular with the availability of dietary iron, the recognition of iron deficiency and its prevalence, the effects of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Finch CA

更新日期：1977-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:An MRI-pathological correlation study was performed to determine the pathological background of white matter lesions depicted on MR images. The pathological findings were various combinations of myelin loss, axonal loss, scattered microinfarcts, astrogliosis, dilatation of perivascular space, and relative preservation...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Udaka F,Sawada H,Kameyama M

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:This paper is dedicated to the transient liquid crystal technique measurements for multiple view access by using a novel digital recording and image processing system. The transient liquid crystal technique is widely used for heat transfer investigations in turbomachinery. It has been applied in our laboratory in seve...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vogel G,Boelcs A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In amphibians, alpha-MSH secreted by the pars intermedia of the pituitary plays a pivotal role in the process of skin color adaptation. Reciprocally, the skin of amphibians contains a number of regulatory peptides, some of which have been found to regulate the activity of pituitary melanotrope cells. In particular, th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vaudry H,Chartrel N,Desrues L,Galas L,Kikuyama S,Mor A,Nicolas P,Tonon MC

更新日期：1999-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We review here evidence that a large portion of the caudomedial telencephalon of songbirds, distinct from the song control circuit, is involved in the perceptual processing of birdsong. When songbirds hear song, a number of caudomedial pallial areas are activated, as revealed by expression of the activity-dependent ge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mello CV,Velho TA,Pinaud R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic health records (eHRs) play an increasingly important role in documentation and exchange of information in multi-and interdisciplinary patient care. Although eHRs are associated with mixed evidence in terms of effectiveness, they are undeniably the health record form of the future. This poses several learnin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Berndt M,Fischer MR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical hypoxia produces depletion of ATP, intracellular Ca2+ overload, and cell death. The role of Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX), the major plasma membrane Ca2+ extruding system, has been explored in chemical hypoxia using BHK cells stably transfected with the three mammalian NCX isoforms: NCX1, NCX2, and NCX3. Here we r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Secondo A,Staiano IR,Scorziello A,Sirabella R,Boscia F,Adornetto A,Canzoniero LM,Di Renzo G,Annunziato L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taken together with electrophysiological data, these results suggest that in states of DA deficiency, systemically administered L-dopa or DA agonist drugs inhibit cell firing in the major output nuclei of the basal ganglia (GPI and SNPR). We propose that DA produces this net effect by a direct influence on the striato...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wooten GF

更新日期：1997-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:CD40 ligand (CD40L) is expressed by activated T cells and interacts with the CD40 molecule present on B cells and endothelial cells, promoting immunoglobulin switching in the former and cytokine upregulation in the latter. CD40L exists in both a soluble (sCD40L) and a membrane-bound form. Because primary biliary cirrh...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Oertelt S,Invernizzi P,Selmi C,Podda M,Gershwin ME

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Music-supported therapy (MST) has been developed recently to improve the use of the affected upper extremity after stroke. MST uses musical instruments, an electronic piano and an electronic drum set emitting piano sounds, to retrain fine and gross movements of the paretic upper extremity. In this paper, we first desc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rodriguez-Fornells A,Rojo N,Amengual JL,Ripollés P,Altenmüller E,Münte TF

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis is a major neuroendocrine system involved in the regulation of numerous physiological processes and in adaptation to stress. A wide range of variability can be observed in all the components of the system, and the contribution of genetic factors has been shown in th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mormede P,Foury A,Barat P,Corcuff JB,Terenina E,Marissal-Arvy N,Moisan MP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A deficiency has been shown to affect vision, reproduction, cellular differentiation, and maintenance of epithelial and skeletal tissues. Different vitamin A compounds, i.e., retinol and retinoic acid, vary in their ability to fulfill these biologic functions. Aside from vision, the exact molecular mechanisms ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Navia JM,Harris SS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation was used to transform the methylotrophic bacterium Methylobacterium extorquens with broad-host-range plasmid pLA2917, which contains a gene specifying resistance to kanamycin. Plasmid DNA was introduced into M. extorquens in the presence of an electric pulse, and kanamycin-resistant transformants were ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ueda S,Matsumoto S,Shimizu S,Yamane T

更新日期：1991-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This brief review is designed to highlight the limitations of our knowledge given the difficulties in simulating the in vivo condition in models established in vitro and ex vivo. Despite this uncertainty, mounting evidence indicates that the GPIIb-IIIa receptor mediates crucial platelet functions and that control over...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Coller BS

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amperometry is a powerful tool for studying the exocytotic process. Catecholamines released from a single secretory vesicle are oxidized by a carbon fiber microelectrode placed on a chromaffin cell membrane. This phenomenon can be recorded online as an amperometric signal. Each event of exocytosis is called a secretor...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gomez JF,Brioso MA,Machado JD,Sanchez JL,Borges R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear receptors are transcription factors that are activated by ligands and subsequently bind to regulatory regions in target genes, thereby modulating their expression. Nuclear receptors thus allow the organism to integrate signals coming from the environment and to adapt by modifying the expression levels of relev...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bocher V,Pineda-Torra I,Fruchart JC,Staels B

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the alpha(2A)-autoreceptors on the sympathetic nerve terminals of the human atrial appendages and rabbit pulmonary artery, rilmenidine and oxymetazoline exhibit different properties (antagonism and agonism, respectively). These opposite pharmacodynamic properties of alpha(2)-adrenoceptor ligands seem to be due to s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Molderings GJ,Bonisch H,Bruss M,Gothert M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient privacy is one of the major issues in the development of modern clinical information system networks. Such networks will have to demonstrate an appropriate concern for privacy as a precondition of operation. Regulatory effectiveness analysis is a novel technique for measuring compliance with a technological re...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brannigan VM

更新日期：1992-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) potently stimulates insulin secretion in vivo in mice without altering glucose disposal. Such a combination of results would be explained if epinephrine released by PACAP counteracts the action of insulin and, therefore, that the gluc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ahrén B,Filipsson K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although evidence for coevolution and geographic variation in its apparent strength is increasing, we still have a relatively poor understanding of why coevolution varies among interactions. Here we review how variation in the occurrence of competitors, resource stability, habitat area, and time has affected the exten...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Benkman CW,Parchman TL,Mezquida ET

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division is facilitated by the divisome, a dynamic multiprotein assembly localizing at mid-cell to synthesize the stress-bearing peptidoglycan and to constrict all cell envelope layers. Divisome assembly occurs in two steps and involves multiple interactions between more than 20 essential and accessory ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Egan AJ,Vollmer W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent identification of lymphatic endothelial cell-specific markers and the generation of mouse models harboring mutations in many genes that encode those markers have enabled us to begin to elucidate the developmental steps that go toward establishing the lymphatic vasculature network. Understanding these basic ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Oliver G,Srinivasan RS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar disorder is a chronic, recurrent illness that ranks among the top 10 causes of disability in the developed world. As the illness progresses, major depressive episodes increasingly predominate. However, few treatment options are available that have demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of bipolar depression, e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Loebel A,Xu J,Hsu J,Cucchiaro J,Pikalov A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensive literature and the work from our laboratory illustrate the large number of complex processes affected by estrogen that might contribute to the striking ability of 17-beta estradiol (E2) and its derivatives to inhibit clinical and histological signs of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in mi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Offner H,Polanczyk M

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:In many tissue types, wound healing involves cell division and migration over and into the wound area to cover and remodel the wound. LPA and other members of the phospholipid lipid growth factor (PLGF) family stimulate many of the activities involved in wound healing. In the rabbit cornea, we have found that keratocy...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Watsky MA,Griffith M,Wang DA,Tigyi GJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats inoculated once with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and adjuvants had two episodes of weakness, the first being acute and transient, starting on day 8, and remitting in a few days, the second, chronic, progressive, and appearing after day 20. In the acute phase, the compound action potential and twitch evoked ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lambert EH,Lindstrom JM,Lennon VA

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00