Recent discoveries of new hantaviruses widen their range and question their origins.

abstract：:Increasing data indicate that polymorphic variants of nuclear loci can affect rate and quality of aging in humans. However, the mitochondrial genome is another good candidate, because of the central role played by mitochondrial genes in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) and cell metabolism. A characteristic of the mi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： de Benedictis G,Carrieri G,Varcasia O,Bonafè M,Franceschi C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As insulin is a major autoantigen in autoimmune diabetes and because the insulin gene region locus in humans has been linked to diabetes risk, we have bred insulin gene knockouts onto the NOD mouse. Mice differ from humans in terms that they express two nonallelic genes of insulin. Insulin 2 is the murine homologue of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Paronen J,Moriyama H,Abiru N,Sikora K,Melanitou E,Babu S,Bao F,Liu E,Miao D,Eisenbarth GS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most ecological economists believe that the transition to a steady-state economy is necessary to ensure ecological sustainability and to maximize a nation's economic welfare. While some observers agree with the necessity of the steady-state economy, they are nonetheless critical of the suggestion made by ecological ec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lawn P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, the topic of laminar to turbulent flow transition, as applied to the design of gas turbines, is discussed. Transition comes about when a flow becomes sufficiently unstable that the orderly vorticity structure of the laminar layer becomes randomly oriented. Vorticity with a streamwise component leads to ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Simon TW,Kaszeta RW

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the seroprevalence against Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana among a risk group, patients with HIV infection, and to identify the epidemiological factors involved. Our data indicate that the prevalence of Bartonella infection among HIV-infected patients is much grea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pape M,Kollaras P,Mandraveli K,Tsona A,Metallidis S,Nikolaidis P,Alexiou-Daniel S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols, which exist in alpha, beta, gamma, and delta forms, are antioxidative nutrients also known as vitamin E. Although alpha-tocopherol (alpha-T) is the major form of vitamin E found in the blood and tissues, gamma- and delta-T have been suggested to have stronger anti-inflammatory activities. In the present s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yang CS,Lu G,Ju J,Li GX

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that drinking red wine reduces oxidation of LDL. This reduction in oxidation has been attributed to the polyphenolic compounds in red wine, but the mechanisms of absorption and metabolism of these compounds has been unclear. We therefore investigated the absorption and metabolism of polyphenols using rat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yamashita S,Sakane T,Harada M,Sugiura N,Koda H,Kiso Y,Sezaki H

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane phospholipid metabolism is abnormal in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. Phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine levels are decreased as are choline and ethanolamine, while glycerophosphocholine (GPC) and glycerophosphoethanolamine are increased. To develop a rat model for these changes, we examined th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holmes TC,Nitsch RM,Erfurth A,Wurtman RJ

更新日期：1993-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrations in estrogen signaling increase breast cancer risk. Molecular mechanisms that impact breast cancer initiation, promotion, and progression can be investigated using genetically engineered mouse models. Increasing estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) expression levels twofold is sufficient to initiate and promote br...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Furth PA,Cabrera MC,Díaz-Cruz ES,Millman S,Nakles RE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the effects of two transcription factor decoy oligonucleotides on apoptosis of human osteoclasts (OCs). The first decoy molecule was designed to inhibit nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-kappaB) binding to target sequence, the second to increase estrogen receptor (ER) alpha expression. We found that both decoy mole...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Piva R,Penolazzi L,Zennaro M,Bianchini E,Magri E,Borgatti M,Lampronti I,Lambertini E,Tavanti E,Gambari R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of improved peptide synthesis procedures, convenient and sensitive assays for receptor binding and activation, together with advances in methods for structural characterization, has enabled the key structural features of the relaxin family of peptides responsible for biological activity to be defined....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tregear GW,Bathgate RA,Hossain MA,Lin F,Zhang S,Shabanpoor F,Scott DJ,Ma S,Gundlach AL,Samuel CS,Wade JD

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified 30 differentially expressed genes when comparing recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM-1) patients and controls paired for sex, age, and ethnic background. In this article we performed the hierarchical clustering of these genes taking into account the human-leukocyte-antigen (HL...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rassi DM,Junta CM,Fachin AL,Sandrin-Garcia P,Mello SS,Fernandes AP,Deghaide NN,Foss-Freitas MC,Foss MC,Sakamoto-Hojo ET,Passos GA,Donadi EA

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Antioxidant activity of Maillard reaction products (MRPs) derived from four sugar-amino acid Maillard reaction model systems (glucose [Glc] or ribose [Rib] reacted with glycine [Gly] and L-lysine [Lys]) were examined in terms of chemical properties and molecular weight fractionation of reaction products. Rib-amino aci...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chen XM,Kitts DD

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatomic and electrophysiologic studies have provided evidence that CRF meets some of the criteria as a neurotransmitter in the noradrenergic nucleus, the locus coeruleus (LC), although some of the criteria have yet to be satisfied. Thus, immunohistochemical findings suggest that CRF innervates the LC, but this must b...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Valentino RJ,Foote SL,Page ME

更新日期：1993-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the expression of target genes of Hedgehog/Patched signaling in ovarian fibromas and ovarian dermoids. We noted that high levels of SHH appear almost regularly, especially in dermoids, usually accompanied by increased expression of SMO. GLI overexpression does not coincide with that of PTCH. Loss of hetero...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Levanat S,Musani V,Komar A,Oreskovic S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of high-affinity ligands for PPAR gamma has revealed the role of this receptor as the molecular target for the antidiabetic activity of the thiazolidinediones. The surprising observation that agonists of an adipogenic transcription factor reverse the obesity-associated disease of diabetes highlights...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Willson TM,Lehmann JM,Kliewer SA

更新日期：1996-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In common marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus, order Primates), infants aged 2-28 days were deprived of parental care for 30-120 min/day in order to investigate the long-term effects of this neglect-stress model on affect and cognition in a primate species. Basal morning levels of urinary cortisol across the first ye...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pryce CR,Dettling A,Spengler M,Spaete C,Feldon J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3, the active form of vitamin D3, induced maturation of circulating monocytes to form macrophage-epithelioid cells and multinucleated giant cells in vitro. Calcitriol not only promoted the differentiation of monocytes, as shown by the marked morphological changes and enhanced secretion of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ohta M,Okabe T,Ozawa K,Urabe A,Takaku F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic shock is a systemic response to severe bacterial infections, generally caused by Gram-negative bacterial endotoxins, with multiple manifestations such as hypotension, tissue injury, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and multi-organ failure. All these effects, are induced by the generation of pro-inflammat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Martínez C,Arranz A,Juarranz Y,Abad C,García-Gómez M,Rosignoli F,Leceta J,Gomariz RP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is primarily a motor disorder, and its pathogenesis is multifactorial. As a consequence, treatment should be able to address the underlying pathophysiology. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are the mainstay of medical therapy for GERD, but these drugs only provide the control of sym...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Scarpignato C,Sloan JA,Wang DH,Hunt RH

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans can discriminate whether a change in the direction of gravito-inertial force (GIF) is caused by body tilt or by linear translation. This ability, attributed to vestibular sensory fusion, is often examined by asking subjects to adjust an indicator to match their subjective earth-fixed vertical (SV). We used two ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Guenther AL,Bartl K,Nauderer J,Schneider E,Huesmann A,Brandt T,Glasauer S

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold-restraint stress reduces gastric blood flow and produces acute gastric ulcers. We studied the role of Angiotensin II (Ang II) on gastric blood flow and gastric ulceration during stress. Spontaneously hypertensive rats, a stress-sensitive strain, were pretreated for 14 days with the AT(1) receptor antagonist cande...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bregonzio C,Armando I,Ando H,Jezova M,Baiardi G,Saavedra JM

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the progressive aging of the world's population, immunosenescence is rapidly becoming a clinical concern as it accounts for a higher incidence of severe infections and poor response to vaccines. To identify nutritional approaches that may counteract immunosenescence is of obvious importance in clinical practice. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Freeman SL,Fisher L,German JB,Leung PS,Prince H,Selmi C,Naguwa SM,Gershwin ME

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tick vector Ixodes ricinus can be found in pastures in landscapes where pasture and woodland intermix, such as in the bocage. To identify which mammal or bird species could potentially transport ticks between woodland and pasture, we did a species inventory on four French bocage sites in 2005. Fifty-eight species ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vourc'h G,Boyard C,Barnouin J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year follow-up of Ceravital middle ear prostheses showed there was extremely good tolerance in the middle ear space. Incompatibility phenomena were not observed, and inflammatory reactions were neither caused nor supported by the implants. The tympanoplasties were always performed without interposition of cartila...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Reck R,Störkel S,Meyer A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression levels of GAP-43 and MAP-2, two proteins involved, respectively, in axonal and dendritic remodeling, in control adult (11 months), old (24 months), and vitamin E-deficient (11 months) rats were evaluated. mRNA levels were determined by means of a quantitative in situ hybridization procedure in subregion...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Casoli T,Di Stefano G,Delfino A,Fattoretti P,Bertoni-Freddari C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although drugs of abuse have different chemical structures and interact with different protein targets, all appear to usurp common neuronal systems that regulate reward and motivation. Addiction is a complex disease that is thought to involve drug-induced changes in synaptic plasticity due to alterations in cell signa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lee AM,Messing RO

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B lymphocytes contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune disorders since B-cell depletion treatment improves such diseases. However, B cells seem ambivalent. Murine strains of nonorgan-specific as well as organ-specific autoimmune conditions present with aggravated symptoms when B cells are depleted. It is thus like...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lemoine S,Morva A,Youinou P,Jamin C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transfer of nutrients from the mother through the chorioallantoic placenta meets the nutritional needs of the embryo during human prenatal development. Although all amniotes start with a similar "tool kit" of extraembryonic tissues, an enormous diversity of extraembryonic tissue formation has evolved to accommodat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sheng G,Foley AC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00