A method for characterization of total circulating DNA.

abstract：:Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and plasma exchange (PLEX) are used to treat myasthenia gravis (MG) but with little trial evidence. While a class I study provided evidence for the efficacy of IVIG treatment, the empirical support for PLEX has been less convincing until recently. In a randomized controlled single-mas...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bril V,Barnett-Tapia C,Barth D,Katzberg HD

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is an endocrine organ that contributes to thermogenesis and energy consumption. We investigated the effects of salt loading and surgical removal of whitened interscapular BAT (iBAT) on cardiac and adipose tissue pathology in DahlS.Z-Leprfa /Leprfa (DS/obese) rats, an animal model of metaboli...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Komatsu Y,Aoyama K,Yoneda M,Ito S,Sano Y,Kawai Y,Cui X,Yamada Y,Furukawa N,Ikeda K,Nagata K

更新日期：2020-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine (METH) produces nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) loss, partly resembling that which occurs in Parkinson's disease (PD). In PD there is also a marked alteration in the gut. Given the similarities between the central DA denervation produced by METH and PD, in the present study we evaluated the alterations in ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Natale G,Kastsiuchenka O,Pasquali L,Ruggieri S,Paparelli A,Fornai F

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory interactions have been shown to occur between all the testicular cell types considered. The paracrine factors mediating these interactions generally influence either cellular growth or differentiation. The regulation of cellular growth is essential in the developing testis and is required for the maintenanc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Skinner MK,Norton JN,Mullaney BP,Rosselli M,Whaley PD,Anthony CT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common of a number of diseases in which inflammation and tissue destruction is driven by an autoimmune process. Current therapy is inadequate, and this has prompted major research efforts, both in academia and industry, to understand more about the pathogenesis, and hence provide the r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feldmann M,Brennan FM,Elliott MJ,Williams RO,Maini RN

更新日期：1995-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The W-curve is a numerical mapping algorithm that provides tertiary information content of long and short genomic sequences. The most popular genomic pattern recognition algorithms depend on string matching of the primary information content of short genomic sequences. Herein, we describe a way to define the fuzzy pro...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cork DJ,Toguem A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheochromocytomas (PCCs) are neuroendocrine tumors of chromaffin tissue that produce catecholamines. They are usually located in the adrenal medulla, although in about 10% the tumors arise from extra-adrenal chromaffin tissue. The majority of PCCs arise sporadically, but PCCs occur also in the context of hereditary ca...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Korpershoek E,Van Nederveen FH,Dannenberg H,Petri BJ,Komminoth P,Perren A,Lenders JW,Verhofstad AA,De Herder WW,De Krijger RR,Dinjens WN

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At a given cytosolic domain of a chromaffin cell, the rate and amplitude of the Ca(2+) concentration, [Ca(2+)](c), depend on at least three efficient regulatory mechanisms: (1) the plasmalemmal Ca(2+) channels; (2) the endoplasmic reticulum (ER); and (3) the mitochondria. High-voltage activated Ca(2+) channels of the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cuchillo-Ibanez I,Albillos A,Aldea M,Arroyo G,Fuentealba J,Garcia AG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsiae primarily infect the microvascular endothelium, leading to changes in microvascular permeability that result in potentially severe pulmonary and cerebral edema. The mechanisms responsible for these changes are not well understood. One potential mechanism of increased vascular permeability is the anti-ricke...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Woods ME,Wen G,Olano JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperactivation of glutamate receptors, especially those of the N-methyl-d-aspartate subtype (NMDA), can induce excess calcium entry into cells, leading to neuronal death. Since the anesthetic gas xenon behaves as an NMDA antagonist, the present article investigated, by distinct morphological approaches and after ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Natale G,Cattano D,Abramo A,Forfori F,Fulceri F,Fornai F,Paparelli A,Giunta F

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now good evidence that in the AD brain, a number of neurotransmitter effector systems are defective. Such abnormalities include defective G, protein and protein kinase C function as well as a drastically reduced level of receptors for the second messenger Ins(1,4,5) P3. Such changes are probably not restricte...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fowler CJ,Garlind A,O'Neill C,Cowburn RF

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Products of phosphatidylinositol turnover have recently been implicated as regulators of cell growth and differentiation. Transformation of cells in culture by infection with certain viruses (Rous sarcoma virus, Kirsten sarcoma virus, and polyoma virus) or by transfection with the oncogenes carried by these viruses af...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cantley LC,Whitman M,Chahwala S,Fleischman L,Kaplan DR,Schaffhausen BS,Roberts TM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a series of experiments aimed at directly comparing the prosodic level of processing in language with the melodic level of processing in music are reported. The first series of experiments was conducted on adults, musicians and nonmusicians, and the second one on 7- to 9-year-old musician and nonmusicia...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Magne C,Schön D,Besson M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:R-Apomorphine (APO) the catechol-derived dopamine D1-D2 receptor agonist has been shown to be highly potent iron chelator and radical scavenger and inhibitor of membrane lipid peroxidation in vitro, in vivo and in cell culture employing PC12 cells. Its potency has been compared to the prototype iron chelator desferrio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Youdim MB,Grünblatt E,Mandel S

更新日期：1999-01-01 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 endometrial effects of vaginal progesterone have been found to be unexpectedly reliable. This has led us to suspect that a local direct vagina-to-uterus transport or first uterine pass effect was the basis of the uterine targeting of vaginal progesterone. After vaginal administration of progesterone, uterine tissu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Ziegler D,Bulletti C,De Monstier B,Jääskeläinen AS

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the high prevalence of adolescent smoking, few studies have examined nicotine sensitivity during this developmental period. In the present study we examined adolescent and adult rats' preference/aversion for a flavor previously paired with nicotine. Paired (nicotine + Kool-Aid) and unpaired (Kool-Aid) solution...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wilmouth CE,Spear LP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect and direct experimental evidence demonstrates that both the entry of extracellular calcium and the liberation of calcium from intracellular stores can contribute to an increase in free cytoplasmic calcium concentration in endothelial cells, which seems to be an essential step in the synthesis and/or release o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rubanyi GM,Vanhoutte PM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autonomic nervous system consists of sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric ganglia and also of a specialized neuroendocrine derivative, the adrenomedullary chromaffin cells. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kalcheim C,Langley K,Unsicker K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is associated with abnormal lipid metabolism, intense respiratory tract (RT) infection, and inflammation, eventually resulting in lung tissue destruction and respiratory failure. The CF RT inflammatory milieu, as reflected by airway secretions, includes a complex array of inflammatory mediators, b...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eiserich JP,Yang J,Morrissey BM,Hammock BD,Cross CE

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of poliovirus (PV) infection in the development of the post-polio syndrome (PPS), we studied the serum, spinal fluid, peripheral blood lymphocytes, and muscle from 47 patients with PPS. We found high titers of IgM PV antibodies (up to 1:250) in the serum of 6 patients, compared to very low tite...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leon-Monzon ME,Dalakas MC

更新日期：1995-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia and late initiation of corticosteroid treatment are included in the present study. Four of them received LHRHa treatment for the arrest of central precocious puberty, while the other four served as controls. The administration of LHRHa was effective in arresting the m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dacou-Voutetakis C,Karidis N

更新日期：1993-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria can exhibit high levels of resistance to one or more environmental stresses such as temperature, osmolarity, radiation, pH, starvation, as well as resistance to noxious chemicals and antibiotics. Yet evolution has not optimized stress resistance in all bacteria to all stresses. Even within a species like Esch...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ferenci T,Spira B

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of cellular glutathione (GSH) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) simultaneously determined by fluorometric measurement, may provide important information on pro-oxidative and antioxidative balance. The dual effect of quercetin antioxidant and pro-oxidant activity was proposed from different studies. Our stud...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kim GN,Jang HD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV encephalopathy has been in the past years the most typical CNS disorder in patients with AIDS. Histologic abnormalities consist in astrocytosis, myelin pallor, infiltration by infected macrophages, resident microglia and multinucleated giant cells, generally in absence of direct infection of neurons. Mononuclear p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Antinori A,Giancola ML,Alba L,Soldani F,Grisetti S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strategy of "manufacturing uncertainty" has been used with great success by polluters and manufacturers of dangerous products to oppose public health and environmental regulation. This strategy entails questioning the validity of scientific evidence on which the regulation is based. While this approach is most ide...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Michaels D

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odorant signals are detected by binding of odor molecules to odorant receptors. These belong to the G protein-coupled receptor family. They in turn couple to G proteins, most of which induce cAMP production. This second messenger activates ion channels to depolarize the olfactory sensory neuron, thus providing a signa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wicher D,Schäfer R,Bauernfeind R,Stensmyr MC,Heller R,Heinemann SH,Hansson BS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the mechanisms dominating the regulation of the biochemical energy consumption and the mechanical output of the actin-myosin motor units, the crossbridges (Xbs), in the cardiac sarcomere. Our analytical model, which couples Xbs cycling dynamics with the kinetics of the free Ca(2+) binding to tropon...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Landesberg A,Levy C,Yaniv Y,Sideman S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD27(+) IgD(+) B cell population, known as IgM memory, reduces with age. It is thought that this population is responsible for pneumococcal polysaccharide T-independent responses, and that the age-related reduction might be partially responsible for the increased susceptibility of older people to bacterial pathoge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Martin V,Wu YC,Kipling D,Dunn-Walters DK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial glucocorticoid resistance (FGR) is a rare hereditary disorder characterized by hypercortisolism and the absence of stigmata of Cushing's syndrome. The inability of glucocorticoids to exert their effects on target tissues is compensated for by increases in circulating corticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol, the for...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stratakis CA,Karl M,Schulte HM,Chrousos GP

更新日期：1994-11-30 00:00:00