Evaluation of exposure to PAHs in asphalt workers by environmental and biological monitoring.

abstract：:After the initial dramatic effects, observed in a Lewis lung carcinoma animal model, using a combination of thymosin alpha 1 (Talpha1) and interferon (IFN) after cyclophosphamide, a number of other preclinical models in mice (Friend erythroleukemia and B16 melanoma) and in rats (DHD/K12 colorectal cancer liver metasta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Garaci E,Favalli C,Pica F,Sinibaldi Vallebona P,Palamara AT,Matteucci C,Pierimarchi P,Serafino A,Mastino A,Bistoni F,Romani L,Rasi G

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphomannose isomerase (PMI), an enzyme not present in many plants, catalyzes the reversible interconversion of mannose 6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate. Plant cells lacking this enzyme are incapable of surviving on synthetic medium containing mannose. Thus PMI/mannose selection has utility in the identification...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Privalle LS

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular stress proteins including heat shock proteins (Hsps) and glucose-regulated proteins (Grps) are emerging as important mediators of intercellular signaling and transport. Release of such proteins from cells is triggered by physical trauma and behavioral stress as well as exposure to immunological "danger s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Calderwood SK,Mambula SS,Gray PJ Jr

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semi-conservative replication ensures that the DNA sequence of sister chromatids is identical except for replication errors and variation in the length of telomere repeats resulting from replicative losses and variable end processing. What happens with the various epigenetic marks during DNA replication is less clear....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lansdorp PM,Falconer E,Tao J,Brind'Amour J,Naumann U

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols are known to undergo metabolism to phytyl chain-shortened metabolites excreted in urine. We sought to characterize the pathway, including associated enzymes, involved in this biotransformation. We previously found that human hepatoblastoma (HepG2) cultures metabolized tocopherols to their corresponding sho...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Parker RS,Sontag TJ,Swanson JE,McCormick CC

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:Thymosin alpha 1, originally isolated as the compound responsible for reconstitution of immune function in thymectomized animal models, has enjoyed a wide-ranging clinical development program over the past decades, extending across multiple companies, indications, countries, and continents. This paper provides an over...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tuthill C,Rios I,McBeath R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigations with the NZB X SWR model show that the development of systemic autoimmune disease is a multistep, multigene process. Severe lupus nephritis in the NZB X SWR hybrids results from the interaction of genes inherited from both the autoimmune NZB and the normal SWR parents. A similar genetic interaction ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Datta SK,Gavalchin J

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:The anatomy of the brain is extremely complex, and certain, even large structures, such as the corticospinal tract (CST), remain poorly understood. Diffusion tractography provides an opportunity to explore the white matter tracts in a fundamentally new way. In the current paper, we show how this technique has already ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holodny AI,Watts R,Korneinko VN,Pronin IN,Zhukovskiy ME,Gor DM,Ulug A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychostimulant 3,4-,ethylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy") is known to induce hyperthermia and alterations in neurochemical metabolism in the CNS. However, the detailed cellular or molecular mechanisms behind MDMA-induced neurotoxicity are still not well known. Since MDMA induces profound hyperthermia tha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sharma HS,Ali SF

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac development is characterized by a complex interplay of chemical, mechanical, and electrical forces, which together contribute to the proper formation of the heart muscle. In adult myocardium, cardiomyocytes are elongated, well-coupled by gap junctions, and organized in spatially well-defined muscle fibers. Thi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pijnappels DA,Gregoire S,Wu SM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood fibrinolytic system comprises an inactive proenzyme, plasminogen, that can be converted to the active enzyme, plasmin. Plasmin degrades fibrin into soluble fibrin degradation products, by two physiological plasminogen activators (PA), the tissue type PA (t-PA) and the urokinase type PA (u-PA). t-PA mediated ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lijnen HR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 65-kDa isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65) is a major autoantigen in type 1 diabetes, and most patients have serum antibodies reactive with conformational epitopes on the GAD65 molecule. The aims of this study were to prepare mutants of GAD65 to further localize the type 1 diabetes epitope in the region...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Myers MA,Fenalti G,Gray R,Scealy M,Tong JC,El-Kabbani O,Rowley MJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of long-lasting, extensive rowing training on body fluids in 12 experienced rowers (23.3 +/- 6.3 years, 188.7 +/- 5.9 cm, 82.0 +/- 10.8 kg, body mass index [BMI] 23.7 +/- 2.1). All rowers had a light traditional breakfast about 3 h before the training. The subject...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jürimäe J,Jürimäe T,Pihl E

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is typically accompanied by both acute and chronic alterations in the stress response. These alterations have mostly been described in individuals under baseline conditions, but studies have also used a challenge model to assess the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vermetten E,Vythilingam M,Schmahl C,DE Kloet C,Southwick SM,Charney DS,Bremner JD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controls and calibrators in autoimmune assays are typically developed from patient sera. However, the use of sera is accompanied by a number of disadvantages, such as lack of monospecificity, lack of assay comparability, and supply limitations. Ideally, the control reagent would be an antigen-specific human monoclonal...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Knappik A,Capuano F,Frisch C,Ylera F,Bonelli F

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work examines distinct aspects of effortful control and attention predicted aggression in a group of children at elevated risk for the development of conduct problems. Results suggested that behavioral inhibition, rather than attentional control, best predicted maternal reports of child aggressive behaviors. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dennis TA,Brotman LM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the ventral pallidum (VP) is known to be important in relaying information between the nucleus accumbens and target structures, it has become clear that substantial information processing occurs within the VP. We evaluated the possibility that opioid modulation of other transmitters contained in VP afferents is ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Napier TC,Mitrovic I

更新日期：1999-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow cells of various animal species and the human produce a group of bioregulatory peptides called myelopeptides (MPs). A highly purified myelopeptide (MP) fraction and some individual molecules have been isolated from the supernatant of the porcine bone marrow cell culture by successive gel chromatography and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Petrov RV

更新日期：1993-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 15% of pregnant women vape electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), exposing the fetus to a range of toxic compounds, including nicotine and by-products of e-cigarette liquid (e-liquid) pyrolysis. Owing to the recent emergence of these products, research mainly focuses on immediate users, and not on in uter...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Li G,Chan YL,Wang B,Saad S,George J,Oliver BG,Chen H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All scientists are acutely aware of the profound challenge that they face when communicating scientific findings to nonscientists, especially when great uncertainty is involved and when the topic is of personal interest to the general public. Simplification of the issues--sometimes extending to a degree of oversimplif...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Grey AD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young songbirds memorize a tutor song and use the memory trace as a template to shape their own song by auditory feedback. Major issues in birdsong research include the neural sites and mechanisms for song memory and auditory feedback. The brain song control system contains neurons with both premotor and auditory func...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Konishi M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human ABO(H) blood group phenotypes arise from the evolutionarily oldest genetic system found in primate populations. While the blood group antigen A is considered the ancestral primordial structure, under the selective pressure of life-threatening diseases blood group O(H) came to dominate as the most frequently ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Arend P

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect evidence suggests that dopamine within the brain may participate in the regulation of immune responses in both man and rodents. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible role played by the specific dopamine D1 receptor subtype within the central amygdala in the modulation of immunity. Mitog...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nistico G,Caroleo MC,Arbitrio M,Pulvirenti L

更新日期：1994-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium ions are essential to proper neurotransmission. Impairment in cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration and Ca(2+) signaling disturbs neuronal activity, leading to pathological consequences. In cells, a high-affinity plasma membrane calcium pump (PMCA) keeps free Ca(2+) in the nanomolar range. Among four genes encoding t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zylinska L,Kowalska I,Kozaczuk A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Nitropropionic acid (3-NPA) is a model mitochondrial inhibitor that causes selective neurodegeneration in brain. 3-NPA-induced neurodegeneration occurs via a secondary neurotoxicity, caused initially by ATP depletion and redox changes in the cell. It is known that the hippocampal degeneration caused by mitochondrial...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Przybyla-Zawislak BD,Thorn BT,Ali SF,Dennis RA,Amato A,Virmani A,Binienda ZK

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valproic acid (VA), a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACI), in vitro induces differentiation of promyelocyte leukemia cell (HL-60) and proliferation arrest and apoptosis of various leukemia cell lines. In MOLT-4 cells (human T lymphocyte leukemia) the cell cycle arrest is caused by 2 mM VA, while 4 mM VA induces main...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Záskodová D,Rezácová M,Vávrová J,Vokurková D,Tichy A

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Azole resistance in Aspergillus species may be on the rise, with significant potential implications for the management of invasive aspergillosis. The main mechanism of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus is via alterations of the target enzyme CYP51A. Such azole resistance is either primary or secondary (in the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Georgiadou SP,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00