Brain-derived neurotrophic factor prevents human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protein gp120 neurotoxicity in the rat nigrostriatal system.

abstract：:We found a novel genetic abnormality, heterozygous C-->T nucleotide substitution at position -1138 bp in the 5'-flanking region of the fibrinogen A alpha gene, in patients with hypofibrinogenemia. Luciferase reporter assay using the pGL3-basic vector and CHO cells indicates that the transcriptional activity of a vecto...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Okumura N,Terasawa F,Yonekawa O,Hamada E,Kaneko H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell doctrine is the foundational paradigm of Euro-American medicine and biology. Even without stepping outside that tradition, one may imagine alternate models of the body such as a fluid model in which cells do not exist or a model wherein cells are described as overlapping fields of molecular organization in space ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Theise ND

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high index of suspicion is essential in arriving at the correct diagnosis of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS). LEMS should be considered in the differential in any patient who has proximal weakness, reduced or absent muscle stretch reflexes, and dry mouth. Weakness predominates in hip and shoulder muscles, b...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sanders DB

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motivation can be defined as a class of central nervous processes determining the likelihood of display of a behavior and the intensity of the behavior if displayed. All behavior is, according to this definition, caused and controlled by motivation. Although the concept of motivation eventually could be replaced by an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hernández-González M,Guevara MA,Agmo A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy for beta-globinopathies, particularly beta-thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, hold much promise for the future, as a one time cure for these common and debilitating disorders. Correction of the beta-globinopathies using lentivirus vectors (LV) carrying the beta- or gamma-globin genes and elements of the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Perumbeti A,Malik P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strategy of antigenic variation is to present a constantly changing population phenotype that enhances parasite transmission, through evasion of immunity arising within, or existing between, host animals. Trypanosome antigenic variation occurs through spontaneous switching among members of a silent archive of many...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Barry JD,Hall JP,Plenderleith L

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most anticancer treatments such as chemo- and radiotherapy induce DNA damage and apoptosis in normal cells. The aim of this study was to assess the induction of single and double DNA strand breaks (ssb and dsb, respectively) and apoptosis in normal human lymphocytes and rat thymocytes subjected to the action of H2O2, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Benítez-Bribiesca L,Sánchez-Suárez P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological actions of methamphetamine (METH) and phencyclidine (PCP) are different, but both of them can induce similar psychiatric disorders including abuse, intoxication, withdrawal, and psychotic symptoms like those of schizophrenia. These mental disorders are caused not only by their direct pharmacological ef...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ouchi Y,Kubota Y,Ito C

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air particulate activity over all of the Northern Hemisphere reached its highest levels since the termination of nuclear weapons testing--sometimes up to 1 million times higher than before the Chernobyl contamination. There were essential changes in the ionic, aerosol, and gas structure of the surface air in the heavi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yablokov AV,Nesterenko VB,Nesterenko AV

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidomycosis is a mild to life-threatening disease in otherwise healthy humans and other mammals caused by the fungus Coccidioides spp. Understanding the development of the unique dimorphic life cycle of Coccidioides spp. and its role in pathogenesis has been an area of research focus. However, nuclear behavior ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Li L,Schmelz M,Kellner EM,Galgiani JN,Orbach MJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Women are four to eight times more likely to be affected by fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). A lack of cortisol, potentially due to an adrenocortical deficit is postulated in FMS. The cause of such adrenal insufficiency is unknown. It could be assumed that stress exposure during critical periods contributes to vulnerabili...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Klingmann PO,Kugler I,Steffke TS,Bellingrath S,Kudielka BM,Hellhammer DH

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a significant increase in the percentage and absolute number of activated lymphocytes (OKT10+, IL2R1+) after ECT treatment of major depressive disorder. There is an acute decrease in the absolute number of total lymphocytes, T8+ and Leu11+ cells one hour after a single ECT. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fischler B,Bocken R,Schneider I,De Waele M,Thielemans K,Derde MP

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanomedicine is the application of nanotechnology to the discipline of medicine: the use of nanoscale materials for the diagnosis, monitoring, control, prevention, and treatment of disease. Nanomedicine holds tremendous promise to revolutionize medicine across disciplines and specialties, but this promise has yet to b...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tinkle S,McNeil SE,Mühlebach S,Bawa R,Borchard G,Barenholz YC,Tamarkin L,Desai N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "steroid- or glucocorticoid-resistant (GR) asthma" has been used to describe a group of asthmatics who demonstrate persistent airway obstruction and inflammation despite treatment with high doses of systemic glucocorticoids (GCs). There are at least two forms of GR asthma. The first group of patients has an a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leung DY,de Castro M,Szefler SJ,Chrousos GP

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A new Biorex molecule, BRX-220, has been shown to be effective in animal models of diabetic neuro- and retinopathy. Recent in vitro studies showed that it might also have an insulin-sensitizing action. Therefore, the effect of BRX-220 on insulin sensitivity was compared with the action of pioglitazone (PGZ) ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Seböková E,Kürthy M,Mogyorosi T,Nagy K,Demcáková E,Ukropec J,Koranyi L,Klimes I

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned a kappa 3-related opioid receptor, and although it is still not clear whether this clone corresponds to the kappa 3 receptor itself or is a related gene product, the extensive antisense mapping and the antibody immunoreactivity strongly associate this clone with the kappa 3 receptor. Our approach also indica...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pasternak GW,Pan YX,Cheng J

更新日期：1995-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of animal cells, tissues, or organs for humans is being investigated as an alternative to allotransplantation and as therapy for a broad range of disease states including diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and neurologic pain control. The risk of transmitting novel infections with these tissues, xenozoonoses, has ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Michaels M

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice deficient for complement factors C3, C4, or C5 are resistant to experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG). Acetylcholine receptor (AChR) immune lymph node cells (LNC) of C3 deficient mice produce less interleukin 6 (IL-6), and EAMG-resistant IL-6 deficient mice have less serum C3. Increased serum C1q-circu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Christadoss P,Tüzün E,Li J,Saini SS,Yang H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipogenesis occurs primarily in the liver, where dietary carbohydrates control the expression of key enzymes in glycolytic and lipogenic pathways. We have recently discovered that the transcription factor XBP1, best known as a key regulator of the unfolded protein response (UPR), is required for de novo fatty acid syn...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Glimcher LH,Lee AH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of neurons in the basal ganglia is severely disrupted in Parkinson's disease (PD). In nonhuman parkinsonian primate models, the disturbance in neurons in basal ganglia output structures include increased firing, bursting, an augmented synchrony, correlated activity, and a tendency towards loss of specific...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hamani C,Lozano AM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the performance of a novel line-blot immunoassay (LIA; Mikrogen) and compared results with those obtained by CIE (in-house), ELISA (Pharmacia Diagnostics), and FEIA (Pharmacia Diagnostics). Sera from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients (n = 123), systemic sclerosis patients (n = 25), and heal...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Damoiseaux J,Boesten K,Giesen J,Austen J,Tervaert JW

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruminants are widespread in hot, arid regions. This demands adaptation to large circadian temperature fluctuations and recurrent periods of food and water shortage. Pregnancy and lactation add to the demands on the adaptive mechanisms due to the greater need for food, water, and electrolytes. The blood volume increase...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Olsson K

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following on proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and chemoprevention in relation to Barrett's esophagus includes commentaries on 48-h pH monitoring, pH-impedence, bile acid testing, dyspepsia, long/short segment Barrett's esophagus, nonerosive reflux disease (NERD), functional heartburn, dual-release delivery PPIs, imme...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Richter JE,Penagini R,Tenca A,Pohl D,Dvorak K,Goldman A,Savarino E,Zentilin P,Savarino V,Watson JT,Wong RK,Pace F,Casini V,Peura DA,Herzig SJ,Kamiya T,Pelosini I,Scarpignato C,Armstrong D,DeVault KR,Bechi P,Tadd

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lobster stomatogastric ganglion contains 30 neurons and when modulated can produce two distinct rhythmic motor patterns--the gastric mill and the pyloric. The complete neural circuitry underlying both patterns is well known. Without modulatory input no patterns are produced, and the neurons fire tonically or are s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Selverston A,Elson R,Rabinovich M,Huerta R,Abarbanel H

更新日期：1998-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a serious, chronic condition that, without early recognition and treatment, leads to progressive right heart failure and death. The dual endothelin receptor antagonist macitentan was designed through a deliberate discovery process to maximize endothelin-axis blockade while impr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Selej M,Romero AJ,Channick RN,Clozel M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a role in a wide range of somatic and mental diseases. Whereas the role of the ANS in the regulation of the cardiovascular system seems evident, its role in the regulation of other systems associated with allostasis is less clear. Using a model of neurovisceral integration we d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Thayer JF,Sternberg E

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred years after Santiago Ramon y Cajal provided critical evidence for the "neuron doctrine," his cellular view of the brain remains the basis of modern neural science. This article begins with a review of how the early work of Ramon y Cajal, Charles Sherrington, and John Eccles and their contemporaries laid ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Albright TD,Jessell TM,Kandell ER,Posner MI

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human alpha 2-antiplasmin (alpha 2AP) is the primary inhibitor of plasmin-mediated fibrinolysis and is an efficient substrate of activated factor XIII (FXIIIa). Among 452 amino acid residues in alpha 2AP, Gln2 is believed to be the sole FXIIIa-reactive site that participates in crosslinking alpha 2AP to fibrin. We stu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lee KN,Lee CS,Tae WC,Jackson KW,Christiansen VJ,McKee PA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past three decades of clinical disappointments in treating stroke must compel us to rethink our strategy. Given the enormous complexity of the clinical disease, the "one size fits all" approach to stroke treatment is unlikely to succeed. The effective treatment of stroke aimed at reversing ischemic injury will req...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Joshi S,Agarwal S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00