Mediterranean spotted fever in crete, Greece: clinical and therapeutic data of 15 consecutive patients.

abstract：:We have verified that wild birds can become conditioned to reject naturally toxic insects either visually (experiment 1) or by taste (experiment 2). We have also verified, however, that unconditioned taste rejection of noxious chemicals by wild birds also occurs (experiment 3). Such unconditioned responses to the apos...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brower LP,Fink LS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in the area of adolescent alcohol use is progressing rapidly, as exemplified by the chapters in this section. Basic animal research in rodents has revealed adolescents to be more sensitive than adults to ethanol-induced disruptions in brain plasticity, although adolescents conversely are relatively insensitiv...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Spear LP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A diverse array of organisms live longer under dietary restriction. Here, a hypothesis is proposed as a framework for interpreting this phenomenon. Dietary restriction is explained in terms of evolution and antagonistic pleiotropy. Focusing on the decline in reproductive capacity seen in dietary restriction, it is sub...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koochmeshgi J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescence marks the beginning of adult-level cognitive control of behavior supported by the brain maturation processes of synaptic pruning and myelination. Cognitive development studies on adolescence indicate that this period is characterized by improvements in the performance of existing abilities including speed ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Luna B,Sweeney JA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine (METH), a highly addictive drug, can cause degeneration of monoaminergic terminals and neuronal apoptosis in the mammalian brain. In the present article, we have used serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) to investigate patterns of gene expression in the striata of rats that were given a neurotoxic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cai NS,McCoy MT,Ladenheim B,Lyles J,Ali SF,Cadet JL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Justice judgments are subjective by nature, and are influenced substantially by motivational processes. In the present contribution, two motives underlying justice judgments are examined: individualistic motives to evaluate solutions to social problems that benefit the self in material or immaterial ways as fair versu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： van Prooijen JW

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes the goals of this section and considers current knowledge about the association between hormonal changes that occur over pubertal development and the changes in behavior and brain function over the adolescent period. It reviews the cascade of neural and hormonal changes that occur with puberty; d...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cameron JL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanofluids consisting of nanometer-sized particles dispersed in base liquids are known to be effective in extending the saturated boiling regime and critical heat flux in pool boiling. The heat transfer characteristics of nanosilica suspensions with particle sizes of 10 and 20 nm in pool boiling with a suspended heati...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kumar R,Milanova D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the publication of Heinz Kohut's last book in 1984, "self psychology" has become much more diverse in its perspectives and even fragmented in its applications. Perhaps due in large part to Kohut's own inconsistencies and lack of clarity on certain major points of theory and technique, self psychology currently l...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gehrie MJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most chemical contaminants occur in highest concentrations in coastal waters, often maximized in very localized areas. In general, this situation represents the exposure pattern for marine animals. However, the availability of contaminant to an organism depends not only on its concentration but also on its chemical na...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Whittle KJ,Hardy R,Holden AV,Johnston R,Pentreath RJ

更新日期：1978-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Zoonoses are animal and human diseases. Q fever is primarily a zoonosis-an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans under certain conditions. Recent epidemiological studies suggest that Q fever should be considered as a public health problem in many countries where it is present, but unrecognizable due to inad...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beslagić E,Hamzić S,Beslagić O,Zvizdić S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat striatal synaptosomes showed a reduced capacity to generate a membrane potential after being exposed to methamphetamine (METH) for 1 h. As a consequence, the dopamine (DA) synaptosomes were impeded in their electrogenic-dependent reuptake of dopamine. The capacity for METH-exposed nerve terminals to generate a mem...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Westphalen RI,Stadlin A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research examining brain development during adolescence is escalating rapidly along multiple dimensions, as illustrated by the remarkable diversity of trans-disciplinary work shown in this symposium. Ontogenetic transitions characteristics of adolescence are common among mammalian species. Although no other species de...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Spear LP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of pulmonary oxygen uptake (VO2p) during exercise depends on cellular energy demand, blood flow, ventilation, oxygen exchange across membranes, and oxygen utilization in the contracting skeletal muscle. In human and animal studies of metabolic processes that control cellular respiration in working skeletal ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhou H,Lai N,Saidel GM,Cabrera ME

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ras proteins, which regulate intracellular signaling by a cyclic process involving interconversion between active GTP-bound and inactive GDP-bound states, play an essential role in controlling the activity of several crucial signaling pathways regulating normal cellular proliferation. Mutational activation of RAS ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Colombo S,Peri F,Tisi R,Nicotra F,Martegani E

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometric analysis of the low-molecular-weight (LMW) range of the serum/plasma proteome is revealing the existence of large numbers of previously unknown peptides and protein fragments, predicted to be derived from circulating low-abundance proteins. While genomics and proteomics are the primary discovery res...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Byrum S,Montgomery CO,Nicholas RW,Suva LJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticosteroids have potent immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory effects. Although corticosteroids are an important weapon in the clinical arsenal for treating inflammatory episodes, the mechanisms underlying the actions and regulation of endogenous corticosteroids remain obscure. In the late 1980s and early 1990s,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Harbuz MS,Chover-Gonzalez AJ,Jessop DS

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I have introduced and solved a simple deterministic model of eye tracking that produces rich dynamical behavior. Some of its main features, notably the existence of a chaotic regime, are reminiscent of the anomalies reported in smooth pursuit eye tracking experiments with schizophrenia patients. By obta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huberman BA

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Whole and nonadherent Peyer's patch cells were shown to present antigen to cloned antigen specific T-cells, albeit less efficiently than spleen cells. Unlike spleen cells, adherent PP cells did not present antigen, and PP lacked cells with classical dendritic morphology. The antigen presenting and MLR-stimulating cell...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tomasi TB,Barr WG,Challacombe SJ,Curran G

更新日期：1983-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous review of alternative treatments (Tx) of ADHD--those other than psychoactive medication and behavioral/psychosocial Tx--was supplemented with an additional literature search focused on adults with ADHD. Twenty-four alternative Tx were identified, ranging in scientific documentation from discrediting control...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Arnold LE

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies demonstrate major effects of adrenal medullary and catecholaminergic pathways on a wide variety of normal physiologic and regulatory events. Alterations in these pathways, involving changes in catecholamines or in proteins and peptides costored and coreleased with catecholamines, may lead to profound ch...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Parmer RJ,Zinder O

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:In the late 1970s, Wally Welker and his colleagues published a series of papers describing the first high-resolution physiological maps of tactile mossy fiber projections to the granule cell layer of the rat. Over the subsequent decade, his laboratory continued to explore the implications of these results for cerebell...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bower JM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin (RAPA), an inhibitor of mTORC signaling, has been shown to extend life span in mice and other organisms. Recently, animal and human studies have suggested that inhibition of mTORC signaling can alleviate or prevent the development of cardiomyopathy. In view of this, we used a murine model of type 2 diabetes ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Reifsnyder PC,Ryzhov S,Flurkey K,Anunciado-Koza RP,Mills I,Harrison DE,Koza RA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PL) is a mammotropic neuropeptide produced by the pituitary and extrapituitary cells existing as several isoforms and belongs to the growth and lactogenic hormone family, which includes growth hormone and placental lactogens. The secretion of pituitary PL is under hypothalamic control. The cytokines IL-1, I...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chikanza IC

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic epithelial and nurse cells from different species express a repertoire of neuroendocrine polypeptide precursors. This repertoire exerts a dual role in T-lymphocyte selection according to their status either as cryptocrine signals or as neuroendocrine self-antigens of the peptide sequences that are processed fro...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Geenen V,Martens H,Vandersmissen E,Achour I,Kecha O,Franchimont D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human spatial orientation system is highly complex and nonlinear. It is difficult, therefore, to arrive at an unequivocal model of the underlying processing by merely combining the known elementary mechanisms ("bottom-up" approach); additional "top-down" concepts are required to narrow the choice between several f...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mergner T,Becker W

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive enhancement, the amplification or extension of core capacities of the mind, has become a major topic in bioethics. But cognitive enhancement is a prime example of a converging technology where individual disciplines merge and issues transcend particular local discourses. This article reviews currently availa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sandberg A,Bostrom N

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the sensations produced by activating one electrode at a time are summarized as follows: (a) Loudness was found to increase with current level and pitch with repetition rate. (b) Pitch and sharpness increased in the apical-to-basal direction, and vowel labels could be assigned to sensations prod...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tong YC,Clark GM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00