Antisense RNA to inducible nitric oxide synthase reduces cytokine-mediated brain endothelial cell death.

abstract：:In the light of results of clinical trials with immunoisolated human parathyroid tissue Ba2+-alginate capsules were developed that meet the requirements for long-term immunoisolated transplantation of (allogeneic and xenogeneic) cells and tissue fragments. Biocompatibility of the capsules was achieved by subjecting hi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zimmermann U,Thürmer F,Jork A,Weber M,Mimietz S,Hillgärtner M,Brunnenmeier F,Zimmermann H,Westphal I,Fuhr G,Nöth U,Haase A,Steinert A,Hendrich C

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal cancer (EC) is one of the most lethal cancers and a public health concern worldwide, owing to late diagnosis and lack of efficient treatment. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) are main histopathological subtypes of EC that show striking differences in geographical...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Talukdar FR,di Pietro M,Secrier M,Moehler M,Goepfert K,Lima SSC,Pinto LFR,Hendricks D,Parker MI,Herceg Z

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our molecular studies have revealed the existence of a large number of different subunits or subtypes for the NMDA and metabotropic glutamate receptors. The individual receptors show functional variabilities and distinct expression patterns in the CNS. The NMDA receptors belong to the ligand-gated ion channel family a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Masu M,Nakajima Y,Moriyoshi K,Ishii T,Akazawa C,Nakanashi S

更新日期：1993-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied ligand-receptor interactions between relaxin (RLN), insulin-like 3 peptide (INSL3), and LGR7 and LGR8 receptors. The phenotypic effects of deficiency for Lgr7 and Lgr8 receptors, transgenic overexpression of Rln1 and Insl3, and different combinations of these mutations in mice were analyzed. It was reported...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feng S,Bogatcheva NV,Kamat AA,Agoulnik AI

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the role of I1-imidazoline (I1-IR) receptors in control of airway function, by testing the effects of systemic administration of the I1-IR agonist moxonidine on reflex responses of tracheal smooth muscle (TSM) tone to either lung deflation or mechanical stimulation of intrapulmonary rapidly adapting recept...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Haxhiu MA,Dreshaj IA,McFadden CB,Erokwu BO,Ernsberger P

更新日期：1999-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented a perspective of progress in three areas of simulations of complex molecules: the development of force fields for molecular simulation; the application of computer graphics, molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics in simulations of DNA and DNA-drug complexes and the application of computer graphic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kollman PA,Weiner S,Seibel G,Lybrand T,Singh UC,Caldwell J,Rao SN

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray analysis was conducted to investigate the transcriptional responses of the human monocytic leukemia cell line THP-1 to infection by Chlamydia trachomatis or Coxiella burnetii. RNA was isolated from mock infected cells and cells infected for 36 hours using TRIzol reagent. Biotinylated probes synthesized ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ren Q,Robertson SJ,Howe D,Barrows LF,Heinzen RA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We and others recently showed that fever induced by intravenously or intraperitoneally injected lipopolysaccharide (LPS) may involve brain signaling via hepatic vagal afferents. This suggests that LPS fever may be initiated by mediators released mainly by cells in the liver, presumably macrophages (Kupffer cells, Kc)....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blatteis CM,Sehic E,Li S

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The question addressed in this paper is whether the human amygdala processes threat-related stimuli independent of selective attention. This is considered from a functional neuroimaging perspective, describing studies in normal volunteers and patients with brain lesions. The conclusion is that the evidence for such au...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dolan RJ,Vuilleumier P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis in T and B lymphocytes is a major element controlling the immune response. Activation induced cell death (AICD) in T cells is a main mechanism for maintaining peripheral tolerance and for limiting an ongoing immune response. AICD is initiated by antigen reengagement of the T cell receptor (TCR), and mediated...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Delgado M,Ganea D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the major active ingredient of marijuana, can suppress reproductive function. Also, we reported previously that the endocannabinoid, anandamide (AEA), inhibited gonadotropin-releasing hormone (LHRH) release from medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) of male rats incubate...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fernandez-Solari J,Prestifilippo JP,Bornstein SR,McCann SM,Rettori V

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for surrogate biomarkers in clinical diagnostics but also preclinical in toxicology of chemicals and efficacy testing of pharmaceuticals. On the background of the emerging fields of systems biology and theranostics, the importance of time scales and the synchronization of complex biological rea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schrattenholz A,Soskić V,Groebe K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance has been defined as a lack of response to self but a more appropriate definition of tolerance is "any mechanism by which a potentially injurious immune response is prevented, suppressed, or shifted to a non-injurious class of immune response." Thus, tolerance is related to productive self-recognition, rather...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Weiner HL

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland, mostly in the dark period of the light/dark cycle, with corresponding fluctuations reflected in the plasma melatonin levels. This hormone plays a critical role in the regulation of various neural and endocrine processes that are synchronized with daily change in pho...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lahiri DK,Chen D,Lahiri P,Rogers JT,Greig NH,Bondy S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over most of the past century, it was thought that the adult brain was completely incapable of generating new neurons. However, in the last decade, the development of new techniques has resulted in an explosion of new research showing that (i) neurogenesis, the birth of new neurons, is not restricted to embryonic deve...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Arlotta P,Magavi SS,Macklis JD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the major population of T lymphocytes express T cell receptor (TCR) alpha beta-chains and recognize peptide antigens in association with either Major Histocompatibility Complex class I or class II molecules, a consensus view does not exist concerning either the nature of the antigen recognized or the nature of t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Roberts K,Shevach EM

更新日期：1991-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Landesberg and Sideman's four state model of the cardiac cross-bridge (XB) hypothesizes a feedback of force development to Ca(2+) binding by troponin C (TnC). We have further modeled this behavior and observed that the force (F)-Ca(2+) relationship as well as the F-sarcomere length (SL) relationship and the time cours...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ter Keurs HE,Wakayama Y,Miura M,Stuyvers BD,Boyden PA,Landesberg A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four weeks immobilization of the right leg of aged rats (26 months old) caused a marked 31% and 27% reduction of muscle mass of the plantaris and soleus muscles, respectively. In animals treated with 0.6 mg/kg body weight of growth hormone (GH), the reduction of weight of the above muscles was only 14.7 and 16.1%, res...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fares FA,Gruener N,Carmeli E,Reznick AZ

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Accelerated atherosclerosis occurs in patients with type III hyperlipoproteinemia and familial hypercholesterolemia. These genetic disorders focus attention on specific types of lipoproteins as being responsible for the development of accelerated coronary artery heart disease. The accumulation of chylomicron remnants ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Weisgraber KH,Innerarity TL,Rall SC Jr,Mahley RW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potato products contain high amounts of acrylamide, which sometimes exceeds the concentration of 1 mg/L. However, many strategies for acrylamide reduction in potato products are possible. In this work, the different approaches for reducing acrylamide formation have been reviewed, keeping in mind that in the applicatio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morales F,Capuano E,Fogliano V

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral vasculature is central to the maintenance of the neuronal microenvironment. We have previously demonstrated that brain microvessels in Alzheimer's disease produce high, potentially toxic, levels of nitric oxide. It is our hypothesis that neuronal injury in Alzheimer's disease occurs because an abnormal en...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Grammas P,Botchlet TR,Moore P,Weigel PH

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous scientific papers have suggested health-promoting effects of resveratrol, including claims in the prevention of diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Therefore, it was proposed that the scientific community needed to express recommendations on the human use of resveratrol. Such recomm...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vang O

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that spacetime should be regarded as an evolving block universe, bounded to the future by the present time, which continually extends to the future. This future boundary is defined at each time by measuring proper time along Ricci eigenlines from the start of the universe. A key point, then, is th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ellis GF

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a phenotype resulting from a series of causative factors with a variable risk of complications. Etiologic diversity requires personalized prevention and treatment. Imaging procedures offer the potential to investigate the interplay between organs and pathways underlying energy intake and consumption in an i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Iozzo P

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight and adherens junctions play critical roles in the barrier, adhesion, and signaling functions of epithelial and endothelial cells. How the molecular organization of these junctions is tuned to the widely diverse physiological requirements of each tissue type is not well understood. Here, we address this question ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vasileva E,Sluysmans S,Bochaton-Piallat ML,Citi S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plaques with lipid macrophages and macrophages containing undigested myelin fragments from five multiple sclerosis patients were studied by light microscopy of epoxy-embedded tissue (five cases) and electron microscopy (one case). Cell counts determined electron microscopically revealed that oligodendrocytes were redu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Prineas JW,Kwon EE,Cho ES,Sharer LR

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:There is now clear evidence that the brain, similar to the adrenal gland, gonads, and placenta, is a steroidogenic organ. Notably in the frog brain, the presence of various steroidogenic enzymes has been detected by immunohistochemistry in specific populations of neurons and/or glial cells. These steroidogenic enzymes...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Do Rego JL,Seong JY,Burel D,Luu-The V,Larhammar D,Tsutsui K,Pelletier G,Tonon MC,Vaudry H

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:This study investigates the complete genome sequences of the Nine Mile, K, and G isolates to improve our understanding of the unique virulence properties of C. burnetii and to provide important insight into the genome architecture and genetic diversity of this pathogen. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beare PA,Porcella SF,Seshadri R,Samuel JE,Heinzen RA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00