The MAPK pathway and HIF-1 are involved in the induction of the human PAI-1 gene expression by insulin in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2.

abstract：:In spite of increasing incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma in the last few decades, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) still remains the dominant subtype of esophageal cancer worldwide. Apart from conventional SCC, some rare unconventional tumors of esophageal squamous mucosa are also well known. This study p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tripathi M,Swanson PE

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac muscle relies highly on aerobic metabolism. Heart muscle has a high oxygen uptake at resting conditions, which increases many fold during exhaustive physical exercise. Such a high rate of oxidative metabolism is often associated with enhanced production of reactive oxygen metabolites. A single bout of strenuou...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Atalay M,Sen CK

更新日期：1999-06-30 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 adrenal glands are a major source of steroid hormone biosynthesis. In normal physiology, the pituitary hormone corticotropin (ACTH) regulates the secretion of glucocorticoids via its G protein-coupled receptor (ACTHR), the product of the MC2R gene. Aldosterone is another major product of the adrenal gland; its reg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bourdeau I,Stratakis CA

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:The wide use of ABPM has resulted in greater appreciation of the circadian time structure of BP variability and its clinical relevance. It is now recognized that the day-night change in BP results from an interplay of circadian rhythms in neurohumoral mechanisms coupled with temporal patterns in physical activity and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Smolensky MH,Portaluppi F

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies of proteins often face the problem of distinguishing a true orthologue (species homologue) from a paralogue (a gene duplicate). This identification task is particularly challenging for endocrine peptides and neuropeptides because they are short and usually have several invariant positions. For some...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Larhammar D,Sundström G,Dreborg S,Daza DO,Larsson TA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing limb or differentiating neural and blood cells are traditional models used to study programmed cell death in mammals. The developing mouse dentition can also be an attractive model for studying apoptosis regulation. Apoptosis is most extant during early odontogenesis in mice. The embryonic tooth pattern is ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Peterková R,Peterka M,Lesot H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural systems cannot be closed to the environment. At the same time there is a necessity for closure in order to build the system. It is this quint-essential tension between openness and closure that drives systems to unfold into further stages or levels of growth and development. In other words, the emergence of or...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alvarez De Lorenzana JM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a major source of pain and disability worldwide with no effective medical therapy due to poor understanding of its pathogenesis. Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) has been reported to play a role in subchondral bone pathology and articular cartilage degeneration during the progression of OA. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Xie L,Tintani F,Wang X,Li F,Zhen G,Qiu T,Wan M,Crane J,Chen Q,Cao X

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SERMs currently in clinical practice or in late stages of clinical development have been studied primarily for their effects on the breast, cardiovascular, bone, and reproductive systems. The effect of SERMs on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis has not been the primary focus of the studies conducted th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Plouffe L Jr,Siddhanti S

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of sunlight have fascinated researchers for decades because nearly every living thing on earth is likely to be exposed to sunlight and the ultraviolet (UV) fraction of it. In addition to detrimental long-term effects such as immunosuppression and skin cancer, premature aging of the skin (photoaging) is a well-...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brenneisen P,Sies H,Scharffetter-Kochanek K

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the global transition to overnutrition, stunting affected approximately 159 million children worldwide in 2014, while an estimated 50 million children were wasted. India is an important front in the fight against malnutrition and is grappling with the coexistence of undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shankar B,Agrawal S,Beaudreault AR,Avula L,Martorell R,Osendarp S,Prabhakaran D,Mclean MS

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher levels of body fat are associated with increased risk for development of numerous adverse health conditions. Phytochemicals are potential agents to inhibit differentiation of preadipocytes, stimulate lipolysis, and induce apoptosis of existing adipocytes, thereby reducing adipose tissue mass. Resveratrol decrea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Baile CA,Yang JY,Rayalam S,Hartzell DL,Lai CY,Andersen C,Della-Fera MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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 been interested in the consequences of foreign DNA insertion into established mammalian genomes and have initially studied this problem in adenovirus type 12 (Ad12)-transformed cells or in Ad12-induced hamster tumors. Since integrates are frequently methylated de novo, it appears that they might be modified by...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Doerfler W,Hohlweg U,Müller K,Remus R,Heller H,Hertz J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma is a controversial topic. The rising incidence of this cancer requires a clear consensus to ensure proper management. Application of oncological principles for tumors of the esophagus or stomach is not possible because of comparative differences in the biolo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chevallay M,Bollschweiler E,Chandramohan SM,Schmidt T,Koch O,Demanzoni G,Mönig S,Allum W

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:Three patients with the clinical diagnosis of Wallenberg's syndrome caused by acute unilateral ischemic infarctions, which included the vestibular nucleus in the medullary brain stem and afferent vestibular pathways, were examined by positron emission tomography (PET) during caloric vestibular stimulation. They all ha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dieterich M,Bense S,Stephan T,Brandt T,Schwaiger M,Bartenstein P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex dielectric properties of canine skeletal muscles were measured at 25 degrees C during ischemia in the frequency range from 50 Hz to 200 MHz. The dielectric spectrum of skeletal muscle shows an alpha-dispersion below 1 kHz and a beta-dispersion with a relaxation frequency of about 100 kHz. The alpha-dispers...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schäfer M,Kirlum HJ,Schlegel C,Gebhard MM

更新日期：1999-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), a pleiotropic neuropeptide, exerts a variety of physiological functions through three types of G protein-coupled receptors, PAC1, VPAC1, and VAPC2. Characterization of the molecular forms of PAC1 in mouse heart revealed the presence of four types of variant r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ushiyama M,Sugawara H,Inoue K,Kangawa K,Yamada K,Miyata A

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we consider minimizing the action functional as a method for numerically discovering periodic solutions to the n-body problem. With this method, we can find a large number of choreographies and other more general solutions. We show that most of the solutions found, including all but one of the choreogra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vanderbei RJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability is crucial for normal vascular endothelial function and health. Recent studies have demonstrated an endocrine role for NO equivalents that may be transported in the blood to peripheral tissue beds, where under hypoxic conditions they can liberate NO and cause vasodilation. Exercise tr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stabler T,Kenjale A,Ham K,Jelesoff N,Allen J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female mosquitoes gorge on vertebrate blood, a rich nutrient source for developing eggs, but gorging meals increase the risk of predation. Mosquitoes are quick to reduce the flight payload with a potent diuresis. Diuretic peptides of the insect kinin family induce a tenfold reduction in the paracellular resistance of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beyenbach KW

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenergic system has long been known to be activated in a situation of stress and thus during opiate withdrawal. A method for detoxification that decreases the stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system will prevent changes of catecholamine levels. Some of such methods have been developed. One of them uses dir...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Macedo TR,Relvas J,Fontes Ribeiro CA,Pacheco F,Morgadinho MT,Pinto CM,Gomes PC,Ventura M,Henriques V,Nunes SV,Ruis GR,Ramalheira C,Boto I,Vale LL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a disease characterized by increased numbers of T lymphocytes within the alveolar structures and the consequent spontaneous release of a variety of mediators relevant to the pathogenesis of this disorder. This phenomenon is associated with a different expansion of the T cell subpopulations pre...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rossi GA,Sacco O,Cosulich E,Balbi B,Risso A,Ravazzoni C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Judicious selection of new animal models for the study of basic aging processes must combine feasibility and good use of the comparative method with evidence of antiaging adaptations, like the ability to combat oxidative damage to cells and tissues. A number of vertebrate species already in use or being developed as n...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holmes DJ

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable evidence linking alcohol consumption, sedation, and thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) in the brain septum. We have shown that ethanol in clinically relevant concentrations can in vitro induce TRH release from the septum by a mechanism involving neuronal swelling. Corticotropin-releasing hormone...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kiss A,Adameová A,Kubovcáková L,Jamal B,Bacová Z,Zórad S,Tybitanclová K,Kvetnanský R,Strbák V

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reviewed that suggests a central role for telomeres in one major model of biological aging, namely, proliferative senescence. Telomeric shortening with each cell division does not only act as a biological clock, but appears to trigger the ultimate loss of proliferative ability via activation of the p53-dep...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： von Zglinicki T

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00