The X chromosome in female-predominant autoimmune diseases.

abstract：:Without landmarks, navigation is based on information about self-velocity, which is transformed to position or orientation by a process called path integration. Simple path integration tasks, such as reaching a previously seen goal by blindfolded locomotion, were often considered to be automatic and not influenced by ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Glasauer S,Stein A,Günther AL,Flanagin VL,Jahn K,Brandt T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied ligand-receptor interactions between relaxin (RLN), insulin-like 3 peptide (INSL3), and LGR7 and LGR8 receptors. The phenotypic effects of deficiency for Lgr7 and Lgr8 receptors, transgenic overexpression of Rln1 and Insl3, and different combinations of these mutations in mice were analyzed. It was reported...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feng S,Bogatcheva NV,Kamat AA,Agoulnik AI

更新日期：2005-05-01 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 conspicuous similarities between Cushing's syndrome and the Metabolic Syndrome X open up the possibility that hypercortisolemia is involved also in the latter. Salivary cortisol is possible to measure during undisturbed conditions including perceived stressful events during everyday life. Such measurements clearly...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Björntorp P,Rosmond R

更新日期：1999-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the role of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in regulating hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity, particularly chronic stress-induced HPA activity. In the current studies, we examined the effects of manipulations of the BLA on HPA responses to the eighth restraint, to novel restraint after ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bhatnagar S,Vining C,Denski K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) in individuals over 40 years of age comprises three groups: early-onset MG with prolonged disease duration, late-onset MG with thymoma, and late-onset of nonthymomatous MG. The clinical features do not differ between the three groups, except that early-onset patients with prolonged disease durat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Aarli JA,Romi F,Skeie GO,Gilhus NE

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：:This article draws on ideas published in my "Intimations of Immortality" essay in Science (Vol. 288, No. 5463, p. 59, April 7, 2000) and my "Intimations of Immortality-The Ethics and Justice of Life Extending Therapies" in editor Michael Freeman's Current Legal Problems (Oxford University Press 2002: 65-97). This arti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Harris J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of immunodeficient mice engrafted with functional human immune systems and islets permits in vivo study of human diabetes without putting patients at risk. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Greiner DL,Brehm MA,Hosur V,Harlan DM,Powers AC,Shultz LD

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This publication provides a brief summary of a presentation given at the NICHD Anniversary Symposium that was designed to describe the research progress of the O'Malley laboratory over the past 30 years of its NICHD funding. It highlights a few of the lab's major discoveries during the course of the pursuit of its lon...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： O'Malley BW

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of metastasis is a dreadful complication of cancer that is associated with a poor prognosis. Several clinical observations and experimental findings indicate that the metastatic process is nonrandom and involves a sequence of multistep events that may all be targeted for therapy. This includes angiogenes...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Laferriere J,Houle F,Huot J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogenate of 30 sarcoid lymph nodes was injected into the footpads of mice and 42% of the mice showed epitheloid-cell granulomas in the sites. However, the control lymph-node homogenates obtained from nonsarcoid patients also provoked similar granulomatous changes, although the positive rate was somewhat lower. In th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Iwai K,Takahashi S

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies reactive with desmin (D3 and D76) have been generated and their specificities validated by immunoblots, RIAs, and immunocytochemistry. No cross-reaction with other IFPs has been observed. The McAbs recognized different epitopes but both reside in the amino-terminal rod domain of desmin. Whereas M...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fischman DA,Danto SI

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen has been the plasma protein most frequently studied after tissue injury. This report presents evidence that leukocytic endogenous mediator (LEM) from macrophages promotes fibrinogen synthesis. LEM has a molecular weight of 13,000-16,000, an isoelectric point (pI) at pH 7.3, is heat labile, and is inactivate...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kampschmidt RF,Upchurch HF,Pulliam LA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of literature has investigated the effects of playing video games on brain function and behavior. One key takeaway from this literature has been that not all entertainment video games are created equal with respect to their effects on cognitive functioning. The majority of the research to date has contr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dale G,Joessel A,Bavelier D,Green CS

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental Herpesvirus hominis encephalitis in 3-week-old Swiss mice was utilized to evaluate the antiviral effects of adenine arabinoside (ara-A), phosphonacetic acid (PAA), and humoral antibodies to H. hominis (HIG). Administration of ara-A, PAA, or HIG during the early phase of infection reduced the mortality rat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cho CT,Feng KK

更新日期：1977-03-04 00:00:00

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：:The results reviewed here demonstrate that vestibulospinal and vestibulo-ocular interneurons in the chicken embryo are organized into coherent clusters, each of which occupies a unique spatial domain and has a characteristic axon trajectory. Moreover, the vestibulo-ocular clusters have specific termination patterns in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Glover JC

更新日期：1996-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of functional polymorphisms in promoters of the MMP-2 (-1306 C > T), MMP-3 (-1171 5A > 6A), MMP-9 (-1562 C > T), MMP-12 (-82 A > G), TIMP-1 (-372 C > T), and PAI-1 (-675 4G > 5G and -847 A > G) genes on the growth rate of small abdominal aortic aneurysms. The patients...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Powell JT

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persorption of large, hard, insoluble, solid particles in micrometer size range is observed with regularity. It is a normal biological effect on the food passage through the intestine. Persorbability of particles is determined by the size of the particles and by their consistency and hardness. PVC particles in microme...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Volkheimer G

更新日期：1975-01-31 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：:Social behavior in most human societies is characterized by the following of moral rules explicitly justified by religious belief systems. These systems constitute the diverse domain of human sacred values. Supernatural entities as founders or warranty of moral principles may be seen as a form of "conversation stopper...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tófalvy T,Viciana H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes are nanovesicles secreted from cells that play key roles in intercellular communication. They carry unique content derived from parental cells and are capable of transferring this cargo between cells. The role and function of exosomes largely depends on the origin and functional status of the parental cells. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cobelli NJ,Leong DJ,Sun HB

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observations described herein allow us to make several inferences about PKC and regulation of normal and CF Cl- channels. FIGURE 5 shows a model that summarizes these observations. In this model, for the sake of clarity, we refer to the channel as a single entity, but note that it may consist of multiple subunits ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Welsh MJ,Li M,McCann JD,Clancy JP,Anderson MP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal phagocytosis of neutrophils, a crucial component of non-specific immunity, is an eminently circadian parameter. In mice and rats, rates of phagocytosis peak in the second half of the dark span. A lipopolysaccharide-induced phagocytic response challenged in this period appears the most significant in amplitude an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hriscu ML

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The injury to vascular endothelium seen in severe bacterial infection may be mediated by neutrophil-derived enzymes. Neutrophil adhesion to endothelium, a prerequisite for this process, is mediated sequentially by the leukocyte adhesion molecules L-selectin and the beta 2 integrins, including CD11b/CD18. We have explo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Finn A,Strobel S,Levin M,Klein N

更新日期：1994-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole body exposure of rabbits to microwave radiation causes a decrease in ascorbic acid in the lens. In our study, rabbit lenses maintained in culture medium (37 degrees C) were exposed to either pulsed or continuous wave S-band radiation for 10-15 min at power densities between 0 and 200 mW/cm-2. Total ascorbic acid...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Weiter JJ,Finch ED,Schulz W,Frattali V

更新日期：1975-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761 has been used for many years to treat age-related cognitive disorders including Alzheimer's disease. EGb 761 given shortly after initiating mitochondrial damage by sodium nitroprusside (nitric oxide donor) improved the mitochondrial membrane potential of PC12 cells significantly and dose ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eckert A,Keil U,Scherping I,Hauptmann S,Müller WE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamins C and E function as water-soluble and lipid-soluble chain-breaking antioxidants, respectively, and protect lipids, proteins, and membranes from oxidative damage. Vitamin C scavenges oxygen radicals in the aqueous phase, whereas vitamin E scavenges oxygen radicals within the membranes. Vitamin C regenerates vi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Niki E

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that cirazoline, an alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist, has greater affinity than do other imidazoline or guanidinium compounds at imidazoline recognition sites. In this report we used [3H]cirazoline as a probe to characterize imidazoline recognition sites present in membrane homogenates of rat bra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Angel I,Le Rouzic M,Pimoule C,Graham D,Arbilla S

更新日期：1995-07-12 00:00:00