Evidence for the conservation of an immunoreactive monokine network in invertebrates.

abstract：:Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a disease characterized by increased numbers of T lymphocytes within the alveolar structures and the consequent spontaneous release of a variety of mediators relevant to the pathogenesis of this disorder. This phenomenon is associated with a different expansion of the T cell subpopulations pre...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rossi GA,Sacco O,Cosulich E,Balbi B,Risso A,Ravazzoni C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation study is to evaluate safety, tolerability, and enhancement on healing of thymosin beta-4 (Tbeta-4) administered topically in patients with venous ulcers. Three groups of patients, coming from 10 sites, 5 from Italy and 5 from Poland, will be enrol...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Guarnera G,DE Rosa A,Camerini R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfortunately, all of the problems of the hemophiliac have not been solved by the availability of concentrated factor VIII products. Patients still are faced with the crippling effects of arthritis, problems with employment, problems with ignorance (both medical and lay), and an increased risk of premature death even ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Breckenridge RT

更新日期：1975-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensorimotor learning requires knowledge of the relationship between movements and sensory effects: a sensorimotor map. Generally, these mappings are not innate but have to be learned. During learning, the challenge is to build a continuous map from a set of discrete observations, that is, predict locations of novel t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： van Vugt FT,Ostry DJ

更新日期：2018-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans any effects of dietary saturated fats or omega-6 polyunsaturates on blood pressure appear to be mediated by changes in caloric intake and long-term weight changes. In contrast, omega-3 fatty acids have a mild antihypertensive effect which is seen most clearly in untreated subjects with higher blood pressures...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beilin LJ

更新日期：1993-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disorder characterized by neurobiological changes that lead to a compulsion to take a drug with loss of control over drug intake. The hypothesis outlined here is that knowledge of the neurochemical systems involved in the transition from drug use to the compulsive use of add...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koob GF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "steroid- or glucocorticoid-resistant (GR) asthma" has been used to describe a group of asthmatics who demonstrate persistent airway obstruction and inflammation despite treatment with high doses of systemic glucocorticoids (GCs). There are at least two forms of GR asthma. The first group of patients has an a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leung DY,de Castro M,Szefler SJ,Chrousos GP

更新日期：1998-05-01 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 amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) are often thought of as components of a neural circuit that assigns affective significance--or value--to sensory stimuli so as to anticipate future events and adjust behavioral and physiological responses. Much recent work has been aimed at understanding the distinct contrib...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Salzman CD,Paton JJ,Belova MA,Morrison SE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking into account that methamphetamine (MA) is a popular recreational drug among young adult women, i.e., in gestational age, the present model aims to assess the effects of its exposure during development. In this experimental model, MA effects are assessed in the rat during the first month of life, regarding both ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gomes-DA-Silva J,Silva MC,Tavares MA

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In his First Law (of thermodynamics), Clausius emphasized the equivalence of heat and work-conservation of energy was mentioned only indirectly. Today, the main emphasis is put on energy conservation, but the equivalence of heat and work has proven not only to be superfluous, but also highly destructive. Because of th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Job G,Lankau T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxyradicals are generally considered harmful byproducts of oxidative metabolism, causing molecular damage in living systems. They are implicated in various processes such as mutagenesis, aging, and series of pathological events. Although all this may be justified, evidence is accumulating that it is an oversimplified ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nagy IZ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of change of head position in the pitch plane on the ability to hold horizontal eccentric gaze in five patients with cerebellar disorders. All patient showed a change in the time constant of horizontal centripetal drift when the head was pitched forward or back. This result suggests that otolith...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wilson E,Sng K,Somers JT,Reschke MF,Leigh RJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To minimize technical problems relating to excessive size (600-800 mu in diameter) of standard alginate microcapsules (CSM) for pancreatic islet graft immunoisolation, we have developed two novel minimal volume, chemically identical, capsule prototypes (MVC): 1) coherent microcapsules (CM), and 2) medium-size microcap...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Calafiore R,Basta G,Luca G,Boselli C,Bufalari A,Bufalari A,Cassarani MP,Giustozzi GM,Brunetti P

更新日期：1999-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified 30 differentially expressed genes when comparing recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM-1) patients and controls paired for sex, age, and ethnic background. In this article we performed the hierarchical clustering of these genes taking into account the human-leukocyte-antigen (HL...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rassi DM,Junta CM,Fachin AL,Sandrin-Garcia P,Mello SS,Fernandes AP,Deghaide NN,Foss-Freitas MC,Foss MC,Sakamoto-Hojo ET,Passos GA,Donadi EA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the approaches presently available for prevention of blood-transmitted hepatitis, most clearly effective is the avoidance of high-risk donor populations, such as most paid commercial donors. It should be emphasized that even after screening for hepatitis B antigen most paid donor blood carries with it a five-ten ti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Prince AM

更新日期：1975-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) and oxidative stress (OS) contribute to the development and progression of diabetic complications. We have reported that dietary AGEs and OS induce acute endothelial dysfunction in vivo, but little is known about their effects on adipokines. Twenty inpatients with type 2 diabetes ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stirban A,Negrean M,Götting C,Uribarri J,Gawlowski T,Stratmann B,Kleesiek K,Koschinsky T,Vlassara H,Tschoepe D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of increasing incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma in the last few decades, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) still remains the dominant subtype of esophageal cancer worldwide. Apart from conventional SCC, some rare unconventional tumors of esophageal squamous mucosa are also well known. This study p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tripathi M,Swanson PE

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A generation of research in cognitive psychology has given rise to many tasks that tap at various aspects of attention. It is now widely agreed that attention is not a single thing and that its measurement needs a strategy to study each of its various aspects. While there is no widely agreed taxonomy of attentional op...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Posner MI

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief overview of the different techniques used to estimate the probable maximum precipitation (PMP) is presented. As a particular case, the 1-day PMP over Catalonia has been calculated and mapped with a high spatial resolution. For this purpose, the annual maximum daily rainfall series from 145 pluviometric station...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Casas MC,Rodríguez R,Nieto R,Redaño A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in cancer initiation is the reaction of chemical carcinogens with DNA to form stable adducts, which remain in DNA unless removed by repair, and depurinating adducts, which detach from DNA following destabilization of the glycosyl bond. Depurinating DNA adducts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons play a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cavalieri EL,Rogan EG

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that HDL exerts its anti-atherogenic effects through the process of delivering cholesterol from peripheral tissues back to the liver for removal from the body (i.e., reverse cholesterol transport). The metabolic life cycle of HDL lipid and apolipoproteins during reverse cholesterol transport involves bo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Silver DL,Jiang XC,Arai T,Bruce C,Tall AR

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth septate junctions (sSJs) are cell-cell junctions that are thought to regulate the paracellular pathway of the intestine and renal system in arthropods. The detailed mechanism of action of sSJs is not well understood, because their molecular organization has remained elusive for a long time. Recently, two sSJ-sp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Furuse M,Izumi Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioterrorism includes possible use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), preferably biological agents, by non-state terrorist groups as well as criminal clusters. The threat from terrorists to utilize biological agents to achieve goals is not new, but the threshold to realize the threats seems to be lower than previou...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sandström G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular redundancy refers to the ability of genes to back up damaged genes or gene loss. Although this term is widely discussed in many scientific circles, the process is still ill-defined, as shown by reviewing examples from the literature. Exploring the collagen-induced arthritis model in the context of CD44 knock...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Naor D,Nedvetzki S,Assayag N,Thurmond RL,Huang JF,Turley EA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective expression of a gene is achieved through the interaction of protein transcription factors with characteristic DNA sequences located in the regulatory region of the gene, which is usually distinct from the coding region. These proteins contain domains that bind specifically to the DNA sites (or response e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Klug A

更新日期：1995-06-30 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：:"Module networks" are a framework to learn gene regulatory networks from expression data using a probabilistic model in which coregulated genes share the same parameters and conditional distributions. We present a method to infer ensembles of such networks and an averaging procedure to extract the statistically most s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Michoel T,De Smet R,Joshi A,Marchal K,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury remains with limited natural recovery and only a few general ineffective treatment options. Recent publications have reported enhanced neurologic recovery with the use of methylprednisolone and GM-1 ganglioside. The results of the Maryland GM-1 Ganglioside Study reported a significant drug effect wi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Geisler FH

更新日期：1998-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Azathioprine may be tried for treatment of severe myasthenia gravis, in a dose of 2 mg/kg BW. With careful monitoring the side reactions may be controlled. The therapeutic response will occur after a time delay of 4-8 months. About one-third of patients with type II MG (severe, late onset, HLA B8-) will proceed to a c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Matell G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00