Lunasensor, infradian rhythms, telomeres, and the chronomere program of aging.

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：:The elderly, often defined as those 65 years or older, are the most rapidly growing segment of the population, and onset of epilepsy is higher in this age group than in any other. This paper reviews recent developments, including a new proposed definition of epilepsy, a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leppik IE,Birnbaum AK

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of literature has investigated the effects of playing video games on brain function and behavior. One key takeaway from this literature has been that not all entertainment video games are created equal with respect to their effects on cognitive functioning. The majority of the research to date has contr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dale G,Joessel A,Bavelier D,Green CS

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin 4 (IgG4) is one of four human IgG subclasses and has several unique functional characteristics. It exhibits low affinity for complement and for most Fc receptors. It furthermore has generally high affinity for its antigen, with binding occurring in a monovalent fashion, as IgG4 can exchange Fab-arms wit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huijbers MG,Plomp JJ,van der Maarel SM,Verschuuren JJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain livestock diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, such as foot-and-mouth disease are difficult to control because of the large numbers of infected wildlife hosts. These wildlife disease reservoirs form a continuous hazard of transmittal of the diseases to domestic livestock, which limits the access of livestock produc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sutmoller P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most remarkable aspects of the immune system is its ability to fashion an immune response most appropriate to the activating stimulus. Although the immune system possesses a number of adaptations to accomplish this, an important theme is local immune regulation by site-specific expression of receptors and l...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shao L,Allez M,Park MS,Mayer L

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common feature across all animals, including humans, is that mitochondrial bioenergetics is linked to oxidative stress, but the nature of these relationships with survival is yet to be properly defined. In this study we included 12 Drosophila simulans isofemale lines: four of each distinct mtDNA haplogroup (siI, -II...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ballard JW,Katewa SD,Melvin RG,Chan G

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous dopamine (DA) stimulation is a therapeutic approach that applies to the treatment of motor fluctuations due to pulsatile DA stimulation in Parkinson's disease (PD), to cure the abuse of drugs, such as cocaine or amphetamine (which produce short-lasting peaks of extracellular DA), and as a safe therapeutic a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Biagioni F,Busceti CL,Molinaro G,Battaglia G,Giorgi FS,Ruggieri S,Fornai F

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although smell loss has several potential etiologies (e.g., head trauma, allergic rhinitis, and enlarged adenoids) that are common among children, studies evaluating the prevalence of olfactory dysfunction in the pediatric population are rare. Several challenges confront the clinician or researcher hoping to evaluate ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dalton P,Mennella JA,Cowart BJ,Maute C,Pribitkin EA,Reilly JS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The processing of pitch, a central aspect of music perception, is neurally dissociable from other perceptual functions. Studies using behavioral-lesion techniques as well as brain imaging methods demonstrate that tonal processing recruits mechanisms in areas of the right auditory cortex. Specifically, the right primar...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zatorre RJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of inflammation in atherosclerosis is well recognized. We have evaluated the allele frequencies of the +869T/C and +915G/C polymorphisms (SNPs) at the TGF-beta1 gene and -1082G/A SNP at IL-10 promoter sequence, two well-known immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory cytokines, in patients with carotid stenosis...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Crivello A,Giacalone A,Scola L,Forte GI,Nuzzo D,Giacconi R,Cipriano C,Candore G,Mocchegiani E,Colonna-Romano G,Lio D,Caruso C

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies to double-stranded desoxyribonucleic acid (dsDNA) and to the polymyositis/scleroderma (PM/Scl) complex are regarded as serological markers for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and PM/Scl overlap syndrome, respectively. In a previous study, serum samples were identified that contained antibodies specific f...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mahler M,Greidinger EL,Szmyrka M,Kromminga A,Fritzler MJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the expression of several genes whose transcripts have increased levels in Alzheimer's disease and have found heterogeneity in these levels in different patients with this condition. The level of expression of these genes was compared to different clinical and pathological aspects of the disease. A ca...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Duguid JR,Trzepacz C,Kemper T,Tourtellote WW,Volicer L

更新日期：1993-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of glucocorticoid (GC) resistance is a serious problem that complicates the treatment of immune-related diseases, such as asthma, ulcerative colitis, and hematologic cancers. hGRalpha and hGRbeta are two isoforms of the human glucocorticoid receptor, which differ in the structural composition of the ca...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lewis-Tuffin LJ,Cidlowski JA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunotherapeutic agent ipilimumab has helped address a significant unmet need in the treatment of advanced melanoma. Ipilimumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody that targets cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4), thereby augmenting antitumor immune responses. After decades in which a number of clinical tr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wolchok JD,Hodi FS,Weber JS,Allison JP,Urba WJ,Robert C,O'Day SJ,Hoos A,Humphrey R,Berman DM,Lonberg N,Korman AJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies have suggested that excess body weight gain may be a major risk factor for colon and breast cancer. A positive energy balance creates metabolic stresses, including the excess production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), hyperinsulinemia, the elevated adipokine secretion, and increased gut perme...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sung MK,Yeon JY,Park SY,Park JH,Choi MS

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is often treated as a single entity, but architectonic and connectional neuroanatomy indicate that it has distinguishable parts. Nevertheless, few studies have attempted to dissociate the functions of its subregions. Here we review findings from recent neuropsychological and neur...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rudebeck PH,Murray EA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune diseases include a diverse group of over 80 conditions. Sjögren's syndrome is the second most common autoimmune rheumatic disease, with an estimated prevalence in the United States of 2-4 million persons. There are prominent and consistent oral and dental findings in Sjögren's syndrome related to the autoim...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fox PC

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:The statistical techniques developed herein show strong promise as a nonparametric extension of the classical Wing-Kristofferson decomposition of variance in isochronous tapping to include tempo drift. It is now important to establish the relative role of the three sources of variance in discriminating among unselecte...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Collier GL,Ogden RT

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:While liver enzyme changes are frequently reported in hyperthyroidism, liver dysfunction itself can lead to alterations in thyroid hormone metabolism. However, the exact relationship between hyperthyroidism and liver dysfunction is unclear. We report an 11-year-old boy presenting with acute hepatitis of unknown etiolo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yeliosof O,Marshall I

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that the medial preoptic area (MPO) in the hypothalamus is a major site where interferon (IFN)-alpha acts to induce suppression of splenic natural killer (NK) cell activity through an activation of sympathetic nervous system (SNS) in rats. Here, we discuss the hypothalamic mechanisms of the cytokine acti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Katafuchi T,Duan S,Take S,Yoshimura M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent study demonstrated that M55V variant in SUMO4 at IDDM5 was associated with susceptibility to type 1 diabetes. Subsequent studies, however, showed inconsistency in the association. To clarify the population-wide effect on the association of SUMO4 with type 1 diabetes, we have performed meta-analysis including ou...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Noso S,Ikegami H,Fujisawa T,Kawabata Y,Asano K,Hiromine Y,Sugihara S,Lee I,Kawasaki E,Awata T,Ogihara T

更新日期：2006-10-01 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

abstract：:Continuous infusion (CI) of coagulation factor concentrates has been used since the early 1990s. Recent reports of the occurrence of an inhibitor after CI have raised concerns about this method of treatment. We conducted a retrospective study to investigate the development of inhibitors after CI of Factor VIII concent...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： von Auer Ch,Oldenburg J,von Depka M,Escuriola-Ettinghausen C,Kurnik K,Lenk H,Scharrer I

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a rabbit model of in utero exposure to intravenous injections of cocaine given twice daily to dams from gestational days 8-29. At the doses employed (4 mg/kg, injected twice daily), no differences were found in the body weight gain of dams, time to delivery, litter size, and body weight or other phys...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Romano AG,Harvey JA

更新日期：1998-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms minimize genetic damage through complex pathways of DNA repair. Yet a gene family--the AID/APOBECs--has evolved in vertebrates with the sole purpose of producing targeted damage in DNA/RNA molecules through cytosine deamination. They likely originated from deaminases involved in A>I editing in tRNAs. AID, th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Conticello SG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Athletic women are at risk for developing ovulatory dysfunction, which presents variably as menstrual irregularity or absence. Initially characterized as an isolated disruption of hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) release, athletic amenorrhea, a form of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, is invariably acc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pauli SA,Berga SL

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male factor is implicated in about 50% of couples treated with advanced assisted reproductive techniques (in vitro fertilization [IVF] or intracytoplasmic sperm injection [ICSI]). An important function of spermatozoa is to deliver the paternal genome to the oocyte. However, neither the routine testing of male fertil...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Patrizio P,Sanguineti F,Sakkas D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00