Curcumin inhibits the classical and the alternate pathways of complement activation.

abstract：:Anaplasma marginale and A. phagocytophylum are intracellular rickettsiae that cause bovine anaplasmosis and human granulocytic anaplasmosis, respectively. The ultimate vaccine for the control of anaplasmosis would be one that reduces infection and transmission of the pathogen by ticks. Effective vaccines for control o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： de la Fuente J,Ayoubi P,Blouin EF,Almazán C,Naranjo V,Kocan KM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HLA DQB1*0302 allele on DR4 haplotypes is a well-known marker for T1D susceptibility. The contribution of this DQ molecule to overall disease susceptibility may be genotype dependent. On Asian DR4 haplotypes, not only DQB1*0302, but also DQB1*0401 confer susceptibility to T1D, which is mediated by DRB1*0405 on the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Park Y,Tait BD,Kawasaki E,Rowley M,Mackay IR

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some in vitro functions of purified T and B cells from PPD- and Candida albicans-negative sarcoidosis patients were analyzed. It appears that in those patients there is: 1) A decrease in the absolute number of T lymphocytes and an increase in the number of B cells; 2) a rather normal response of T lymphocytes to PHA a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fernandez B,Press P,Girard JP

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:The dentate gyrus of the rat forms in three developmental phases, each of which is characterized by neuronal birth, migration and death. Recent evidence indicates that adrenal steroids regulate neuronal birth, death, and possibly migration throughout the life of the animal. However, the observation that very few neuro...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gould E

更新日期：1994-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein crystallography, which has a growing role in the human genome project, is one of the most powerful techniques in modern biology. However, it can only be applied providing suitable crystals can be obtained. The ability to produce suitable crystals is currently the major bottleneck to structure determination. Mi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chayen NE,Helliwell JR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are used to thinking of mathematics as a symbolic activity. Here I argue that it may also be seen as a performative one. Making an analogy with music, I draw attention to the ways in which mathematics may not only be written down but also played out. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wertheim M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent literature providing insights from neuroscience and evolutionary biology into how individuals perceive risky choice situations represents a "second wave" of findings that recapitulates as well as challenges the risk perception research begun in the 1980s, which relied on psychometric survey research. Gleani...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Finkel AM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In visual working memory tasks, memory for an item is enhanced if participants are told that the item is relatively more valuable than others presented within the same trial. Experiment 1 explored whether these probe value boosts (termed prioritization effects in previous literature) are affected by probe frequency (i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Atkinson AL,Berry EDJ,Waterman AH,Baddeley AD,Hitch GJ,Allen RJ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

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：:In recent years calcium channel blockers have emerged as a new class of antiarrhythmic agents for the control of certain supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias. Electrophysiologically, they are heterogeneous but their main action is mediated through a depressant effect on the slow calcium channel in cardiac musc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nademanee K,Singh BN

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses experimental research aimed at defining a base drag reduction device based on splitter plates. The unsteady three-dimensional nature of the flow is studied by Schlieren photography, particle image velocimetry, and measurement of the total unsteady lift and drag loads. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Neau L,Pruvost J,Rodriguez O,Loc TP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments, musically trained and untrained adults were tested on their ability to match spoken utterances with their tonal analogues (tone sequences that retained the pitch and temporal patterns of the utterances). In both cases, musical training was associated with superior performance, indicating an enhance...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Thompson WF,Schellenberg EG,Husain G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biochemical and immunocytochemical comparisons of adhering junctions of different epithelia, we have observed differences in molecular composition not only between the intermediate filament-attached desmosomes and the actin filaments-anchoring adherens junctions but also between desmosomes of different tissues and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Borrmann CM,Mertens C,Schmidt A,Langbein L,Kuhn C,Franke WW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptive field of a direction-selective unit of any type consists of an excitatory center 3 degrees -5 degrees in size, a near inhibitory surround and a far surround upon which illumination exerts an influence for both spontaneous activity and specific cell response. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Golovkin M,Gorbunov V,Maximova E,Maximov V

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:The gain of the angular vestibulo-ocular reflex (aVOR) was determined in monkeys by rotation about a spatial vertical axis while upright or statically tilted forward and backward. Horizontal, vertical, and roll gains were determined at each head orientation and plotted as a function of head tilt. Before canal plugging...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yakushin SB,Dai M,Raphan T,Suzuki J,Arai Y,Cohen B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the morphological phenotypes in patients with different mutations of the PMP22 gene gives additional insights into the role of the protein in myelin function. The pathology in young patients is in some aspects different from the pathology in older patients, providing essential and additional information a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gabreëls-Festen A,VAN DE Wetering R

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to quantify the changes in cell membrane conductance in response to electropermeabilization, which may elucidate the mechanisms of tissue injury resulting from high-voltage electrical shock. A high-speed, space-clamp and voltage-clamp experimental configuration was used. The pulse paramet...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gowrishankar TR,Chen W,Lee RC

更新日期：1998-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative process characterized by progressive degeneration of the substantia nigra and concurrent loss of neuromelanin in these structures. The present hypothesis suggests that progression of Parkinson's disease may be reduced by enhancing the regional levels of neuroprotective factor...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Halabe Bucay A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we analyzed four population-based demographic and health surveys conducted in Bolivia between 1998 and 2016 to understand trends in anemia in children from 6 to 59 months of age by selected sociodemographic characteristics and three categories of altitude: low, medium, and high. Over the 18-year period, the prev...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cordero D,Aguilar AM,Casanovas C,Vargas E,Lutter CK

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymosin β4 (Tβ4) is highly expressed in saliva of human newborns but not in adults. Here preliminary immunohistochemical analyses on different human tissues are reported. Immunoreactivity for Tβ4 in human salivary glands show high quantities of Tβ4 before birth, followed by downregulation of expression in adulthood. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Faa G,Nemolato S,Cabras T,Fanni D,Gerosa C,Fanari M,Locci A,Fanos V,Messana I,Castagnola M

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:"Vascular anomalies" represents a spectrum of vascular lesions, of unclear etiology and often with unpredictable behavior. Patients with vascular anomalies represent a unique population, in that they have focal aberrations of vascular development (in vascular malformations) or vascular proliferation (in hemangiomas). ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blei F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane domain of the Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) contains two conserved internal repeat sequences, designated the alpha-1 and alpha-2 repeats. We have studied the topological disposition of residues in the alpha repeats and a neighboring region by substituted cysteine accessibility scanning as well as the funct...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shigekawa M,Iwamoto T,Uehara A,Kita S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we have presented an overview of fundamental issues involved in mediphotonic imaging, and reviewed some of the emerging techniques for early-light transillumination imaging of body organs. The results on human breast tissues presented here, together with the data accumulated and advances made by resea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alfano RR,Demos SG,Gayen SK

更新日期：1997-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Huperzine A has been shown to be useful in the treatment of symptoms of dementia of the Alzheimer type. Our initial attempts to synthesize (-)Huperzine A resulted in the racemic mixture of (+/-)Huperzine A. We have therefore compared the in vitro and in vivo effects of (+/-)Huperzine A with those of (-)Huperzine A in ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hanin I,Tang XC,Kindel GL,Kozikowski AP

更新日期：1993-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade, a considerable body of evidence has emerged showing that circumstances during the fetal period may have lifelong programming effects on different body functions with a considerable impact on disease susceptibility. The purpose of this article is to provide a synopsis of these findings and their...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kajantie E

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to visualize androgen receptors (ARs) in the testis, epididymis, and prostate of the stallion by means of immunohistochemistry. Nuclear immunostaining was found in all somatic cells in the testis--Leydig, Sertoli, and peritubular myoid cells; in both types of epithelial cells of the epi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bilinska B,Hejmej A,Gancarczyk M,Sadowska J

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congestive heart failure (CHF) is characterized by neurohumoral excitation. Increased sympathetic drive and activation of the reninangiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), with vasoconstriction and volume retention, are hallmarks of the CHF syndrome. Treatment strategies have targeted the peripheral influences of these ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Felder RB,Francis J,Weiss RM,Zhang ZH,Wei SG,Johnson AK

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00