Classical complement pathway in experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis pathogenesis.

abstract：:The rates and properties of new mutations affecting fitness have implications for a number of outstanding questions in evolutionary biology. Obtaining estimates of mutation rates and effects has historically been challenging, and little theory has been available for predicting the distribution of fitness effects (DFE)...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bataillon T,Bailey SF

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the two first cases of human ehrlichiosis described in Italy. One patient presented symptoms indicative of ehrlichiosis, such as fever, conjunctivitis, and increase of hepatic enzymes; HGE was confirmed by fourfold seroconversion for HGE antigen. The second patient, a forest worker, was affected by Lyme...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ruscio M,Cinco M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have heard a wide-ranging set of talks on cosmology and high energy astrophysics at this conference. All I can really do in this short talk is to present my subjective impression of an arbitrary selection of highlights. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rees MJ

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human organism is in a state of dynamic equilibrium, homeostasis. The stress system is activated when homeostasis is challenged by extrinsic or intrinsic forces, the stressors. This system, whose central component is the central nervous system (CNS) and includes corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and noradrener...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stratakis CA,Chrousos GP

更新日期：1995-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to determine the IgG antibody response to spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR) R. conorii and R. slovaca, and its specificity and sensitivity in patients with DEBONEL/TIBOLA. A prospective study of 31 patients with DEBONEL was carried out from January 2001 to May 2004. The SFGR serology testi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Santibáñez S,Ibarra V,Portillo A,Blanco JR,Martínez de Artola V,Guerrero A,Oteo JA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary adrenal pheochromocytoma is caused by germline mutations in RET, VHL, SDHB, SDHD, and NF1. As these genes differ in function, so may their pheochromocytoma phenotypes, suggesting gene-specific patterns of age-related progression to pheochromocytoma. This possibility was explored for gene carriers with a lif...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Machens A,Brauckhoff M,Gimm O,Dralle H

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parachlamydiaceae are potential emerging pathogens that naturally infect free-living amoebae. We investigated the affects of incubation temperature on the growth and cytopathic effect of P. acanthamoeba in Acanthamoeba polyphaga. A. polyphaga were infected with P. acanthamoeba and incubated at different temperatures f...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Greub G,La Scola B,Raoult D

更新日期：2003-06-01 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

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：:Atherosclerotic coronary heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are the major cause of mortality in type II diabetes (T2DM) as well as a major contributor to morbidity and lifetime costs. The purpose of this article is the identification of the biochemical parameters in plasma, which may serve a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kalofoutis C,Piperi C,Zisaki A,Singh J,Harris F,Phoenix D,Alaveras A,Kalofoutis A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary and human factors have been found to be the major factors influencing the bioavailability of micronutrients, such as provitamin A carotenoid (pVAC), iron, and zinc, in biofortified crops. Dietary factors are related to food matrix structure and composition. Processing can improve pVAC bioavailability by disrup...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bechoff A,Dhuique-Mayer C

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various mechanisms have been identified by which hormones and neurotransmitters, interacting with heptahelical receptors, modulate the intracellular Ca2+ concentration in neuronal, endocrine, and neuroendocrine cells. All of them involve heterotrimeric G proteins. Best documented are hormonal stimulations and inhibiti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hescheler J,Schultz G

更新日期：1994-09-15 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：: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：:Older age is associated with functional declines throughout the body, including some aspects of cognitive performance. While dementia develops in only some elderly individuals, declines in cognitive functioning have an impact on daily living for many others. There are individual differences in age-related cognitive ch...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Moffat SD

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most important advances in perinatal health care is the use of antepartum fetal testing. Antepartum fetal testing methods may include inexpensive tests such as fetal kick counts or tests that can be quite expensive such as non-stress tests, fetal biophysical profiles, and Doppler assessments as well as inva...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vintzileos AM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning theory proposes that drug seeking is a synthesis of multiple controllers. Whereas goal-directed drug seeking is determined by the anticipated incentive value of the drug, habitual drug seeking is elicited by stimuli that have formed a direct association with the response. Moreover, drug-paired stimuli can tra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hogarth L,Balleine BW,Corbit LH,Killcross S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are capable of oxidizing a variety of substrates including (poly)unsaturated enoyl-CoA esters. The beta-oxidation of unsaturated enoyl-CoA esters in peroxisomes, and also in mitochondria, is not just chain-shortening but also involves the metabolizing of pre-existing carbon-to-carbon double bonds. In addit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hiltunen JK,Filppula SA,Koivuranta KT,Siivari K,Qin YM,Häyrinen HM

更新日期：1996-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Results obtained from projects in which self-organizing musical structures spontaneously arise through electrical interface between the brain and generative musical systems are surveyed. This provides a springboard for examining important paradigm shifts taking place in our thinking about what musical forms can be and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rosenboom D

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe the AddNeuroMed multicenter magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study for longitudinal assessment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study is similar to a faux clinical trial and has been established to assess longitudinal MRI changes in AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and healthy control subjects usi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Simmons A,Westman E,Muehlboeck S,Mecocci P,Vellas B,Tsolaki M,Kłoszewska I,Wahlund LO,Soininen H,Lovestone S,Evans A,Spenger C,AddNeuroMed Consortium.

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II topoisomerases are essential enzymes that modulate DNA under- and overwinding, knotting, and tangling. Beyond their critical physiological functions, these enzymes are the targets for some of the most widely prescribed anticancer drugs (topoisomerase II poisons) in clinical use. Topoisomerase II poisons kill c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pendleton M,Lindsey RH Jr,Felix CA,Grimwade D,Osheroff N

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of rodents and hematophagous flies was conducted on three farms located in an area endemic for vesicular stomatitis to determine the species composition of each zoological group occurring in these areas. Eleven species of small rodents were collected and identified. Individuals from forty-nine species of hema...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jimenez AE,Vargas Herrera F,Salman M,Herrero MV

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Gene expression regulation, in particular at the level of transcription, has been demonstrated to play a key role in the development of human diseases, including cancer, and in bacteria it is crucial for proliferation as well as for pathogenicity. Transcriptional regulation is based on complex networks of interactions...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zorrilla S,Lillo MP,Chaix D,Margeat E,Royer CA,Declerck N

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kinds of active protein fraction, TP1 and TP2, were isolated from bovine thymus extracts. Both these fractions showed a single band in polyacrylamide gel disc electrophoresis. Though these two fractions showed a difference in potency, they both lowered serum calcium in rabbits and increased lymphocytes in mice. Mo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mizutani Shimizu M,Suzuki I,Mizutani T,Hayase S,Mizutani A

更新日期：1975-02-28 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：:Pregnant female Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with either 40 mg/kg (-)cocaine hydrochloride or an equivalent volume of 0.9% saline, subcutaneously (s.c.), once daily from gestational day 12 (GD 12) to GD 21. Gestational cocaine exposure had no effect on maternal weight gain, length of gestation, birthweight, fetal...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Choi SJ,Mazzio E,Soliman KF

更新日期：1998-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of death and morbidity worldwide, and systemic thrombolytic treatment is still the first-line therapy within 4.5 h from symptom onset. Selecting patients for treatment response is mandatory in any time window but challenging as well. The authors aim to support stroke physic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hametner C,Ringleb PA,Hacke W,Kellert L

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane processes are receiving increasing attention in the scientific community and in industry because in many cases they offer a favorable alternative to processes that are not easy to achieve by conventional routes. In this context, membranes made with perfluorinated polymers are of particular interest because of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Arcella V,Ghielmi A,Tommasi G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Trk family of tyrosine-protein kinases, TrkA, TrkB, and TrkC, are the signaling receptors that mediate the biological properties of the NGF family of neurotrophins. This family of growth factors includes in addition to NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4. TrkA is the NGF receptor. TrkB serves as a receptor for both BDNF and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Barbacid M

更新日期：1995-09-07 00:00:00