Is HLA class II profile relevant for the study of large-scale differentially expressed genes in type 1 diabetes mellitus patients?

abstract：:Adaptation to different host taxa is a key driver of insect diversification. Herbivorous insects are classic models for ecological and evolutionary research, but it is recent advances in sequencing, statistics, and molecular technologies that have cleared the way for investigations into the proximate genetic mechanism...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vertacnik KL,Linnen CR

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New approaches to the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) have increased symptomatic relief and prolonged survival. PH is a common sequela of the hemoglobinopathies, but the use of standard oral treatment options is limited because of toxicity and poor effectiveness. Sildenafil citrate is a selective and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Derchi G,Forni GL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocturnal cortisol release in humans is synergistically regulated by circadian rhythm and sleep. Cortisol concentrations typically reach a nadir during the slow wave sleep-rich periods of early nocturnal sleep, whereas during the late night, when rapid eye movement (REM) sleep predominates, cortisol levels are enhance...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Born J,Wagner U

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the protein profile of mitochondria and its age-dependent variation is a promising approach to unravel mechanisms involved in aging and age-related diseases. Our studies focus on the mammalian mitochondrial membrane proteome, especially of the inner mitochondrial membrane with the respiratory chain complex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dencher NA,Frenzel M,Reifschneider NH,Sugawa M,Krause F

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entomopathogenic fungi are promising alternatives to chemical acaricides in controlling tick populations; however, biological formulations are required to improve conidial performance of these pathogens in the field. This study evaluated the effect of in vitro treatment of Rhipicephalus sanguineus with conidial formul...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Reis RC,Fernandes EK,Bittencourt VR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac tissue engineering promises to revolutionize the treatment of patients with end-stage heart failure and provide new solutions to the serious problem of heart donor shortage. By its broad definition, tissue engineering involves the construction of tissue equivalents from donor cells seeded within three-dimensio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leor J,Cohen S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Now that the human genome has been mapped, a new challenge has emerged: deciphering the various products of individual genes. Consequently, new proteomic technologies are being developed to monitor and identify protein function and interactions responsible for the total activities of the cell. The application of these...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leak LV,Petricoin EF 3rd,Jones M,Paweletz CP,Ardekani AM,Fusaro VA,Ross S,Liotta LA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the annual Ramazzini Days, the Mayor of Carpi confers the Ramazzini Award on scientists deemed by the Collegium Ramazzini to have made outstanding contributions to furthering the aims of Bernardino Ramazzini in safeguarding public health. Dr. Lorenzo Tomatis was the Ramazzini Award recipient in 2005, and the pr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tomatis L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is generated through the catalytic activity of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). In the brain, NO mediates neuronal survival, synaptic plasticity, vascular smooth muscle relaxation, and endothelial cell permeability. Previous studies demonstrated aberrant expression...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： de la Monte SM,Sohn YK,Etienne D,Kraft J,Wands JR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxyfullerenes, including two regioisomers C3 and D3, were investigated as antioxidants against iron-induced oxidative stress in vivo and in vitro. Both C3 and D3 dose-dependently inhibited autoxidation and iron-elevated lipid peroxidation in cortical homogenates. The antioxidative property of C3 was compared to Tr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lin AM,Luh TY,Chou CK,Ho LT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a series of experiments aimed at directly comparing the prosodic level of processing in language with the melodic level of processing in music are reported. The first series of experiments was conducted on adults, musicians and nonmusicians, and the second one on 7- to 9-year-old musician and nonmusicia...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Magne C,Schön D,Besson M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR) remains the only nongenetic intervention that reproducibly extends mean and maximal life span in short-lived mammalian species. This nutritional intervention also delays the onset, or slows the progression, of many age-related disease processes. The diverse effects of CR have been demonstrated...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lane MA,Black A,Handy A,Tilmont EM,Ingram DK,Roth GS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New aggressive pathogens are responsible for the increasing incidence and difficult management of infections. Modern epidemics such as diabetes are frequently complicated by severe infections with subsequent high morbidity. Diagnosis (essentially early detection of infection) and also management decision making pose c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Israel O,Keidar Z

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Guillain Barré syndromes (GBS) are the world's leading cause of acute autoimmune neuromuscular paralysis. Understanding the pathophysiological events of GBS, and improving immunotherapies are fundamental to improving the clinical outcome. Recent research into GBS and the Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) variant has fo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Willison HJ,Plomp JJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The loss of mucus coat continuity and apoptosis have been shown in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori)-infected gastric tissues. Blockade of p38 mitogen-activated kinase (MAPK) produced reversal in the LPS-induced reduction in mucin synthesis and apoptosis in gastric epithelial cells. This study investigates whether H. py...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kim H,Seo JH,Kim KH

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now generally accepted that it is not possible to design iron(III)-selective hexadentate chelators with high oral bioavailability. In order to achieve suitable levels of oral activity for the treatment of systemic iron overload either tridentate or bidentate molecules need to be investigated. There are a number ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hider RC,Zhou T

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Extracellular DNA in the plasma or serum of cancer patients has been recently proposed as a source of analyzable cancer-related gene sequences (qualitative approach). Furthermore, patients with different tumor types show high levels of cell-free circulating DNA both in plasma and serum (quantitative approach) at the t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Frattini M,Gallino G,Signoroni S,Balestra D,Battaglia L,Sozzi G,Leo E,Pilotti S,Pierotti MA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been renewed interest in the role of strategies in sensorimotor learning. The combination of new behavioral methods and computational methods has begun to unravel the interaction between processes related to strategic control and processes related to motor adaptation. These processes may operate on very diff...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Taylor JA,Ivry RB

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients show evidence of immune activation, as demonstrated by increased numbers of activated T lymphocytes, including cytotoxic T cells, as well as elevated levels of circulating cytokines. Nevertheless, immune cell function of CFS patients is poor, with low natural killer cell cytotox...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Patarca R

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Content differentiation models posit that different areas of the prefrontal cortex perform similar operations but differ in terms of the content that is operated on. For example, it has been suggested that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) perform similar working memory or i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zald DH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the evidence for oxidative stress for air pollution in the human lung is fragmentary, the hypothesis that oxidative stress is an important, if not the sole, mechanism of toxicity of oxidizing air pollutants and tobacco smoke is compelling and growing. First, biochemical mechanisms have been worked out for oxi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Menzel DB

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is a "tripartite" synapse, composed of three cellular elements: the presynaptic nerve terminal, the postsynaptic specialization, and synapse-associated glial cells, called perisynaptic Schwann cells (PSCs; also called terminal Schwann cells). During development, PSCs grow be...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feng Z,Ko CP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is a common response of epidermal cells to a variety of noxious stimuli such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation from solar light and proinflammatory cytokines from skin-infiltrating leukocytes. Here, we report that two types of plant-derived antioxidants, the phenylpropanoid glycoside verbascoside as well ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pastore S,Potapovich A,Kostyuk V,Mariani V,Lulli D,De Luca C,Korkina L

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progression of the cell cycle is controlled by activating and inhibiting cellular factors. The delicate balance between these positive- and negative-acting regulators warrants proper cell cycle progression in normal cells and facilitates cellular response to a variety of stress stimuli. The increased activity of the p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wesierska-Gadek J,Krystof V

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsiae primarily infect the microvascular endothelium, leading to changes in microvascular permeability that result in potentially severe pulmonary and cerebral edema. The mechanisms responsible for these changes are not well understood. One potential mechanism of increased vascular permeability is the anti-ricke...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Woods ME,Wen G,Olano JP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols and tocotrienols (vitamin E) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) as well as the carotenoids react with free radicals, notably peroxyl radicals, and with singlet molecular oxygen (1O2), this being the basis of their function as antioxidants. RRR-alpha-tocopherol is the major peroxyl radical scavenger in biologica...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sies H,Stahl W,Sundquist AR

更新日期：1992-09-30 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：: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：:Recent controversies in the existence of saturable binding of general anesthetics in brain tissues prompted a careful examination of specific binding of anesthetics to neural receptors. We examined the binding of both local and general anesthetics using electron spin resonance and radioligand criteria. Our results sug...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lin L,Koblin DD,Wang HH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00