Soluble CD40L in plasma of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis.

abstract：:Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has been proposed for measuring fat-free mass, total body water, percent fat, body cell mass, intracellular water, and extracellular water: a veritable laboratory in a box. Although it is unlikely that BIA is quite this versatile, correlations have been demonstrated between BIA a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schoeller DA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our work was to detect minor loci acting as Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetic markers. We divided 206 AD patients and 186 individuals as controls into six age at onset/age-dependent groups. We studied polymorphisms of the genes of apolipoprotein E (APOE) and its promoter, cathepsin D, butyrylcholinesterase, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beyer K,Lao JI,Latorre P,Ariza A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of imidazoline derivatives are known to be effective stimulators of insulin secretion, and this response correlates with closure of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in the pancreatic beta-cell. However, mounting evidence indicates that potassium channel blockade may form only part of the mechanism by which imi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morgan NG,Chan SL,Mourtada M,Monks LK,Ramsden CA

更新日期：1999-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrotransposons have generally been known to integrate randomly into host genomes. Jurka, however, showed some consensus sequence patterns at insertion sites of some mammalian retrotransposons and proposed enzymatic involvement that mediates integration. Jurka used about 400 complete human Alu and rodent ID sequences...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Toda Y,Saito R,Tomita M

更新日期：1999-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We reevaluated the exchange stoichiometry of the Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange current by measuring its reversal potential. The exchange current was measured from the inside-out macropatch excised from intact sarcolemma of guinea pig ventricular myocytes. This method provides more accurate control of extracellular and cytopla...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Matsuoka S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A broad biological approach makes it possible to understand why aging exists and also why different mammalian species have very different maximum longevities. The adult organism is maintained in a functional state by at least ten major mechanisms, which together constitute a substantial proportion of all biological pr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holliday R

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Iddm4 is a dominant non-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) determinant of diabetes susceptibility in BBDR rats treated with poly I:C, plus depletion of regulatory T cells. In congenic MHC-identical normal WF rats, Iddm4(d) sensitively and specifically predicts induced diabetes. We report a new diabetes-susceptible...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blankenhorn EP,Descipio C,Rodemich L,Cort L,Leif JH,Greiner DL,Mordes JP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine disorders affecting almost 6% of the world's population. The number of diabetic patients will reach 300 million in 2025 (International Diabetes Federation, 2001). More than 97% of these patients will have type II diabetes. The projected increase in the number of di...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Adeghate E,Schattner P,Dunn E

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preventive effects of the phytoalexin trans-resveratrol toward cancer have been largely described at the cellular and molecular levels in both in vivo and in vitro models; however, its primary targets are still poorly identified. In this review, we show the crucial role of cell membrane microdomains, that is, lipi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Delmas D,Aires V,Colin DJ,Limagne E,Scagliarini A,Cotte AK,Ghiringhelli F

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes the serum cytokine profile of a nonrandomized group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who are destined to be treated with infliximab following failure after failure of different disease-modifiying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Serial serum samples were colle...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Amital H,Barak V,Winkler RE,Rubinow A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperactivity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is often observed in association with and even prior to the onset of major depression. It is presently unclear (1) which molecular and cellular processes contribute to hyperactivity of parvocellular hypothalamic neurons (key regulators of the HPA system) an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Joëls M,Verkuyl JM,Van Riel E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lactocrine mechanism for delivery of maternally derived relaxin (RLX) into the neonatal circulation as a consequence of nursing has been proposed for the pig. Consistently, immunoreactive porcine RLX was detected in colostrum as well as in the serum of nursing pigs. Concentrations of porcine RLX in milk are highest ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Frankshun AL,Ho TY,Steinetz BG,Bartol FF,Bagnell CA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CNS interstitial fluid homeostasis by the glial perineurial blood-brain barrier in the crayfish and cockroach is dependent on glial uptake mechanisms, low paracellular permeability, and the cation-binding properties of the extracellular matrix. Potassium selective permeability of the crayfish perineurium is modulated ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Butt AM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulosa cells are known to contribute to maturation of oocytes, and most of the growth factors exert their action via granulosa cells. It has been established that granulosa cell death during follicular atresia and luteolysis results from apoptosis. However, the precise mechanistic pathways of granulosa cell apoptos...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tsai NM,Hsieh RH,Au HK,Shieh MJ,Huang SY,Tzeng CR

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decade of research on human embryonic stem cells (ESC) has paved the way for the discovery of alternative approaches to generating pluripotent stem cells. Combinatorial overexpression of a limited number of proteins linked to pluripotency in ESC was recently found to reprogram differentiated somatic cells back to a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lengerke C,Grauer M,Niebuhr NI,Riedt T,Kanz L,Park IH,Daley GQ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) are innate immune cells that respond rapidly to their environment through soluble inflammatory mediators and cell-to-cell interactions. As tissue-resident sentinels, ILC2 help orchestrate localized type 2 immune responses. These ILC2-driven type 2 responses are now recognized in di...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schuijs MJ,Halim TYF

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic shock is a systemic response to severe bacterial infections, generally caused by Gram-negative bacterial endotoxins, with multiple manifestations such as hypotension, tissue injury, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and multi-organ failure. All these effects, are induced by the generation of pro-inflammat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Martínez C,Arranz A,Juarranz Y,Abad C,García-Gómez M,Rosignoli F,Leceta J,Gomariz RP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data Sets used in reverse engineering of biochemical networks contain usually relatively few high-dimensional data points, which makes the problem in general vastly underdetermined. It is therefore important to estimate the probability that a given algorithm will return a model of acceptable quality when run on a data...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Just W

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrations in estrogen signaling increase breast cancer risk. Molecular mechanisms that impact breast cancer initiation, promotion, and progression can be investigated using genetically engineered mouse models. Increasing estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) expression levels twofold is sufficient to initiate and promote br...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Furth PA,Cabrera MC,Díaz-Cruz ES,Millman S,Nakles RE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and experimental gerontologists are extremely interested in lipoproteins as well as in new methods for investigating and probing the apolipoprotein pattern. Using immunofixation electrophoresis, we separated free apolipoprotein A-1 from the apo A-1 associated with high-density lipoproteins. Free apolipoprotei...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Giunta S,Maddalena-Peruzzi A,Gaudio MR,Semprini A

更新日期：1992-12-26 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：:The characterization of the molecular mechanisms involved in low-oxygen chemotransduction has been an active field of research since the first description of an oxygen-sensitive K(+) channel in rabbit carotid body (CB) chemoreceptor cells. As a result, a large number of components of the transduction cascade, from O(2...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gonzalez C,Vaquero LM,López-López JR,Pérez-García MT

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from two similar experimental systems that attempt to create laboratory geophysical analogs in spherical geometry are presented. In the first system, real time holographic interferometry and shadowgraph visualization are used to study convection in the fluid between two concentric spheres when two distinct buo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hegseth J,Amara K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass changes of skeletal muscles occur in a variety of species during the migratory period. Phenotypic flexibility of flight muscle mass is considered to represent adaptations of the flight muscle to changing power requirements associated with changes in body mass. We analyzed the relationship between muscle masses an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bauchinger U,Biebach H

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overt aggression in its various forms is the most prevalent symptom presenting to pediatric mental health providers, regardless of setting. It is a behavior with a heterogeneous etiology and requires a comprehensive approach to evaluation and treatment. Evaluation of the aggressive child must assess medical, neurologi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Connor DF,Steingard RJ

更新日期：1996-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The invariant nature of body situs within and across vertebrate species implies that a highly conserved pathway controls the specification of the left-right (L/R) axis. Situs-specific morphogenesis begins at the end of this pathway and leads to normal organ arrangement, also known as situs solitus. Occasionally, indiv...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Delhaas T,Decaluwe W,Rubbens M,Kerckhoffs R,Arts T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current concept of stress in plants has been well developed over the past 60 years. Any unfavorable condition or substance that affects or blocks a plant's metabolism, growth, or development is regarded as stress. Vegetation stress can be induced by various natural and anthropogenic stress factors. One has to diff...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lichtenthaler HK

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Expectation of reward facilitates motor behaviors that enable the animal to approach a location in space where the reward is expected. It is now known that the same expectation of reward profoundly modifies sensory, motor, and cognitive information processing in the brain. However, it is still unclear which brain regi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hikosaka O

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been shown that stimulation of muscarinic m1 or m3 receptors can, by generating diacylglycerol (DAG) and activating protein kinase C (PKC), accelerate the breakdown of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) to form soluble, non-amyloidogenic peptides (APPs). This relationship has been demonstrated in hu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lee RK,Jimenez J,Cox AJ,Wurtman RJ

更新日期：1996-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at finding neural correlates of aesthetic versus descriptive listening of the same musical cadences. Results showed that aesthetic listening generated greater right frontocentral negativities than did descriptive listening, indicating distinct cortical mechanisms for aesthetic versus descri...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brattico E,Jacobsen T,De Baene W,Nakai N,Tervaniemi M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00