Aortic aneurysms as a source of circulating interleukin-6.

abstract：:The following paper on the molecular biology of Barrett's esophagus (BE) includes commentaries on signaling pathways central to the development of BE including Hh, NF-κB, and IL-6/STAT3; surgical approaches for esophagectomy and classification of lesions by appropriate therapy; the debate over the merits of minimally ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gibson MK,Dhaliwal AS,Clemons NJ,Phillips WA,Dvorak K,Tong D,Law S,Pirchi ED,Räsänen J,Krasna MJ,Parikh K,Krishnadath KK,Chen Y,Griffiths L,Colleypriest BJ,Farrant JM,Tosh D,Das KM,Bajpai M

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:Increased oxidation of carbohydrates and free fatty acids is a well-known phenomenon during cold stress. Nevertheless, sources of the fuels used have not been fully clarified as yet. Thus, the aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of acute cold exposure on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism in human subcutaneous ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koska J,Ksinantova L,Seböková E,Kvetnansky R,Klimes I,Chrousos G,Pacak K

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. There are several endogenous ligands that bind to I-receptors of both the I1 and I2 subclass. These include: (a) classic CDS, a partially purified entity isolated by the criteria that it displaces binding ligands to alpha 2- and I-receptors; (b) immunoreactive (ir)-CDS, a moiety that binds to antibodies raised agai...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Reis DJ,Li G,Regunathan S

更新日期：1995-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient privacy is one of the major issues in the development of modern clinical information system networks. Such networks will have to demonstrate an appropriate concern for privacy as a precondition of operation. Regulatory effectiveness analysis is a novel technique for measuring compliance with a technological re...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brannigan VM

更新日期：1992-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Alexithymia has been associated with both posttraumatic stress disorder and neuroendocrine responses to stress. This study examined the relationship of alexithymia to salivary cortisol and 3-methoxy-4-hydroxy-phenylglycol (MHPG) in a sample of police academy recruits exposed to a video stress challenge. Alexithymia sc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： McCaslin SE,Inslicht SS,Neylan TC,Metzler TJ,Otte C,Lenoci M,Henn-Haase C,Best S,Yehuda R,Marmar CR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is a prerequisite for tumor expansion and metastasis. The angiogenic potential of the heparin-binding growth factors acidic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and basic FGF has been demonstrated in various publications. We studied the inhibitory effects of suramin and the polysulfated heparinoids pentosan pol...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zugmaier G,Favoni R,Jaeger R,Rosen N,Knabbe C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral sympathetic nerve terminals in many tissues, but not all, are endowed with beta-adrenoceptors. Activation of these result in an enhancement of noradrenaline release evoked by electrical nerve stimulation. These so-called presynaptic beta-adrenoceptors are possibly located on the outer surface of the varicos...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nedergaard OA,Abrahamsen J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex clinical entity. In contrast to previously limited diagnostic definitions, it is now apparent that COPD is a clinically and biologically heterogeneous disease process, overlapping with other airways diseases like chronic asthma. As such, symptomatic response to...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rooney C,Sethi T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier studies of translation have led us to a specific numeric coding of nucleotides (A = 0, C = 1, G = 2, and U = 3)--that is, a quaternary numeric system; to ordering of digrams and codons (read right to left: .yx and Z.yx) as ordinal numbers from 000 to 111; and to seek hypothetic transformation of mRNA to 20...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Damjanović ZM,Rakocević MM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-17-producing helper T (Th17) cells serve as a Th subset involved in epithelial cell- and neutrophil-mediated immune responses against extracellular microbes and in the development of various autoimmune diseases. The differentiation of Th17 cells is controlled by a number of intracellular signaling cas...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nagai S,Kurebayashi Y,Koyasu S

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:The research presented at this conference, including a series of excellent posters from junior investigators, documents the pervasive importance of affiliation and other social behaviors. Affiliative behaviors interact with, but are distinct from reproductive and aggressive behaviors. Patterns of social behaviors tend...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Carter CS,Lederhendler I,Kirkpatrick B

更新日期：1997-01-15 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：:Substitution of T4 with T3 for T4 replacement in patients with hypothyroidism was undertaken using a randomized placebo controlled study design. Forty individuals were included who had depressive symptoms on stable doses of levothyroxine. Combined T4 plus T3 did not have a significantly different effect on mood and we...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Joffe RT,Sawka AM,Marriott MJ,MacQueen GM,Gernstein HC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats subjected to various accelerations (+G) exhibited increased levels of plasma epinephrine (EPI), norepinephrine (NE), and corticosterone. However, the collection of blood was performed after a centrifugation finished, and therefore the levels could be affected by the process of deceleration. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Petrak J,Mravec B,Jurani M,Baranovska M,Tillinger A,Hapala I,Frollo I,Kvetnanský R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of M. leprae and M. tuberculosis in the human host is dependent upon their ability to produce gene products that counteract the bactericidal activities of macrophages. To identify such mycobacterial genes and gene products, recombinant DNA libraries of mycobacterial DNA in E. coli were passed through macr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mundayoor S,Shinnick TM

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocytes are derived from osteoblasts and make up over 90% of the cells in bone. However, the mechanisms that control the differentiation of osteoblasts into osteocytes embedded in bone matrix are not well understood. With the recent developments of transgenic models for manipulating gene expression in osteocytes an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dallas SL,Bonewald LF

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Apolipoprotein E is a plasma cholesterol and phospholipid transporter which plays a central role in lipoprotein metabolism in the brain. Apolipoprotein E is a polymorphic protein with three common alleles in the general population, designated epsilon 2, epsilon 3 and epsilon 4 coding for proteins ApoE2, ApoE3 and ApoE...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beffert U,Poirier J

更新日期：1996-01-17 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：:In amphibians, alpha-MSH secreted by the pars intermedia of the pituitary plays a pivotal role in the process of skin color adaptation. Reciprocally, the skin of amphibians contains a number of regulatory peptides, some of which have been found to regulate the activity of pituitary melanotrope cells. In particular, th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vaudry H,Chartrel N,Desrues L,Galas L,Kikuyama S,Mor A,Nicolas P,Tonon MC

更新日期：1999-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This review has addressed the concern that the reduction of the risk of coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular disorders by means of reducing serum cholesterol levels might, at the same time, increase the risk of developing noncardiovascular conditions. This concern is justified because, at face value, prospe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Epstein FH

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The repeated, intermittent use of cocaine and other drugs of abuse produces profound and often long-lasting alterations in behavior and brain chemistry. It has been suggested that these consequences of drug use play a critical role in drug craving and relapse to addiction. This article reviews the effects of psychosti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shippenberg TS,Chefer VI,Zapata A,Heidbreder CA

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Over seventy percent of unexpected infant deaths are registered as SIDS. Over 85,000 infants have been screened at birth and one month of age for risk of unexpected death using the Sheffield Score system. Scores range from below 400 to over 800 points. Infants with scores over 800 are at more than 16 times greater ris...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Carpenter RG,Gardner A,Harris J,Judd M,Lewry J,Maddock CR,Powell J,Taylor EM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intentional exposures to toxic chemicals can stem from terrorist attacks, such as the release of sarin in the Tokyo subway system in 1995, as well as from toxic industrial accidents that are much more common. Developing effective medical interventions is a critical component of the overall strategy to overcome the cha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jett DA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information from the vestibular nuclei ascending through the brainstem to the oculomotor and trochlear nuclei (NIII, NIV), the interstitial nucleus of Cajal (INC), the pretectum, or thalamus, is thought to be distributed in at least five different pathways. They include the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF), the as...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zwergal A,Strupp M,Brandt T,Büttner-Ennever JA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherent-cell-depleted primed rabbit splenocytes were capable of mounting an in vitro response to SRBC. The addition of alveolar macrophages (AM) to adherent-cell-depleted or unseparated lymphoid cell populations resulted in significant suppression of the PFC response. Suppressive activity was limited to AM and depend...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Herscowitz HB,Pennline KJ,Conrad RE,Ullrich SE,Gerber HR

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis in T and B lymphocytes is a major element controlling the immune response. Activation induced cell death (AICD) in T cells is a main mechanism for maintaining peripheral tolerance and for limiting an ongoing immune response. AICD is initiated by antigen reengagement of the T cell receptor (TCR), and mediated...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Delgado M,Ganea D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00