Intracellular localization of alpha-tocopherol transfer protein and alpha-tocopherol.

abstract：:This review discusses the available clinical trials in which steroids have been used in the (adjuvant) treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Glucocorticosteroids have a positive effect on symptoms and signs of inflammation, but probably not on structural damage. Therefore glucocorticosteroids should be used as part of a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathophysiological events in biological tissue are characterized by a shift in electrical impedance spectra of the tissue under study. In this paper, techniques based on electrical impedance are reviewed with emphasis on their possible role in evaluating the skin reactivity of an individual, including results from imp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nyrén M,Hagströmer L,Emtestam L

更新日期：1999-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the predictive relationships between climate variability and coccidioidomycosis is of great importance for the development of an effective public health decision-support system. Preliminary regression-based climate modeling studies have shown that about 80% of the variance in seasonal coccidioidomycosis ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Comrie AC,Glueck MF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of new food composition carotenoid values for fruits and vegetables increases our ability to test hypotheses concerning the role of antioxidant nutrients and cancer risk. To estimate the usual carotenoid intakes, a quantitative diet history covering a one-year period is recommended for epidemiologic s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hankin JH,Le Marchand L,Kolonel LN,Wilkens LR

更新日期：1993-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Formaldehyde was administered for 104 weeks in drinking water supplied ad libitum at concentrations of 1500, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, or 0 mg/L to groups of 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at seven weeks of age. Control animals (100 males and 100 females) received tap water only. Acetaldehyde was ad...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Soffritti M,Belpoggi F,Lambertin L,Lauriola M,Padovani M,Maltoni C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of specific epithelial cell lineages during development, as well as epithelial plasticity in response to heterologous cell-to-cell cross talk during adult life, accounts for the large variety of functions which are performed by the mucosal surfaces found in the human body. Among its functions, the dige...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hamzaoui N,Pringault E

更新日期：1998-11-17 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：:Perception, preference, and selection are all objectively measurable performances that discriminate between different levels of entities such as the sugar, thickener, or protein in a food. A rating or an intake may not be controlled by the word that the experimenter or the subject uses to describe it: "protein"-orient...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Booth DA,Conner MT,Gibson EL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chemical classes of flavonoids, the flavan-3-ols (catechins and proanthocyanidins) and the anthocyanins, are the natural antioxidants present at the highest concentration in red grape and wine. In the berry, the anthocyanins are localized in the skins, similarly to other highly bioactive phenolics of grape such as...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mattivi F,Zulian C,Nicolini G,Valenti L

更新日期：2002-05-01 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 flash thermal diffusivity measurement technique is applied to tissue for the first time. Making use of its minimal contact with the specimen, the flash technique is extended to allow for well-defined, biaxial, finite strain. As an example application, the radial component of thermal diffusivity of bovine descendin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Doss DJ,Humphrey JD,Wright NT

更新日期：1998-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemorrhagic strokes, intracerebral (ICH) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), often have poor outcomes. Indeed, the most common hemorrhagic stroke, ICH, has the highest mortality and morbidity rates of any stroke subtype. In this report, we discuss the evidence for the staging of red blood cell removal after ICH and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wagner KR,Dwyer BE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the redusome hypothesis, the aging of an organism is determined by the shortening of chronomeres (small perichromosomal linear DNA molecules). In this paper, a presumptive role for infradian hormonal rhythms is considered. Endogenous infradian rhythms are supposed to actively interact with those hormonal ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Olovnikov A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the history of science, technical advances often precede periods of rapid accumulation of knowledge. Within the past three decades, discoveries that enabled the noninvasive measurement of the psychobiology of stress (in saliva) have added new dimensions to the study of health and human development. This widespread ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Granger DA,Kivlighan KT,el-Sheikh M,Gordis EB,Stroud LR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen, a clottable plasma glycoprotein, participates in cell adhesion phenomena involving prokaryotic cells, e.g. staphylococci, and eukaryotic cell fragments, e.g. platelets. Among the three chains (alpha, beta, gamma) of human fibrinogen, the gamma chain bears the main site recognizing the staphylococcal clumpi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hawiger J,Kloczewiak M,Timmons S,Strong D,Doolittle RF

更新日期：1983-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The following paper on the molecular biology of Barrett's esophagus (BE) includes commentaries on signaling pathways central to the development of BE including Hh, NF-κB, and IL-6/STAT3; surgical approaches for esophagectomy and classification of lesions by appropriate therapy; the debate over the merits of minimally ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gibson MK,Dhaliwal AS,Clemons NJ,Phillips WA,Dvorak K,Tong D,Law S,Pirchi ED,Räsänen J,Krasna MJ,Parikh K,Krishnadath KK,Chen Y,Griffiths L,Colleypriest BJ,Farrant JM,Tosh D,Das KM,Bajpai M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starling's law and the end-systolic pressure-volume relationship (ESPVR) reflect the effect of sarcomere length (SL) on the development of stress (sigma) and shortening by myocytes in the uniform ventricle. We show here that tetanic contractions of rat cardiac trabeculae exhibit a sigma-SL relationship at saturating [...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ter Keurs HE,Shinozaki T,Zhang YM,Wakayama Y,Sugai Y,Kagaya Y,Miura M,Boyden PA,Stuyvers BD,Landesberg A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher levels of body fat are associated with increased risk for development of numerous adverse health conditions. Phytochemicals are potential agents to inhibit differentiation of preadipocytes, stimulate lipolysis, and induce apoptosis of existing adipocytes, thereby reducing adipose tissue mass. Resveratrol decrea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Baile CA,Yang JY,Rayalam S,Hartzell DL,Lai CY,Andersen C,Della-Fera MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) analog LK-805 (E107K) exhibited twofold higher specific cytotoxicity on the mouse fibroblast L-929 cell line than its native counterpart. In addition, significantly lowered systemic toxicity was observed in tumor-bearing mouse models treated with this analog. Due to a charge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Menart V,Fonda I,Kenig M,Porekar VG

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments were conducted to determine the effects of neurotensin on secretion of a variety of anterior pituitary hormones. Conscious rats with indwelling cannulae in the third ventricle and external jugular vein were used and the effects on plasma hormone levels measured by radioimmunoassay. Neurotensin ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： McCann SM,Vijayan E,Koenig J,Krulich L

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperactivation of glutamate receptors, especially those of the N-methyl-d-aspartate subtype (NMDA), can induce excess calcium entry into cells, leading to neuronal death. Since the anesthetic gas xenon behaves as an NMDA antagonist, the present article investigated, by distinct morphological approaches and after ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Natale G,Cattano D,Abramo A,Forfori F,Fulceri F,Fornai F,Paparelli A,Giunta F

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:The orbital evolution of about 26,000 Jupiter-crossing objects and 1,500 resonant asteroids under the gravitational influence of planets was investigated. The rate of their collisions with terrestrial planets was estimated by computing the probabilities of collisions based on random-phase approximations and the orbita...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ipatov SI,Mather JC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that methanolic extracts of bovine brain and lung possess CDS activity with an agonist-like profile at alpha(2)-adrenoceptor binding sites (i.e., greater potency against [(3)H]-clonidine sites than against [(3)H]-RX-821001 sites). Following prolonged reflux in ethylacetate, monovalent...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pinthong D,Kendall DA,Wilson VG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parachlamydiaceae are potential emerging pathogens that naturally infect free-living amoebae. We investigated the affects of incubation temperature on the growth and cytopathic effect of P. acanthamoeba in Acanthamoeba polyphaga. A. polyphaga were infected with P. acanthamoeba and incubated at different temperatures f...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Greub G,La Scola B,Raoult D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in the gain of the vertical angular vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) are dependent on the head position in which the gain changes were produced. We determined how long gravity-dependent gain changes last in monkeys after four hours of adaptation, and whether the adaptation is mediated through the nodulus and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yakushin SB,Bukharina SE,Raphan T,Buttner-Ennever J,Cohen B

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indirect evidence suggests that dopamine within the brain may participate in the regulation of immune responses in both man and rodents. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible role played by the specific dopamine D1 receptor subtype within the central amygdala in the modulation of immunity. Mitog...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nistico G,Caroleo MC,Arbitrio M,Pulvirenti L

更新日期：1994-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary psychology seeks to understand the functional design underlying psychological processes and behavior. Theories of selection pressures developed within evolutionary biology are key components of this understanding. Because past selection pressures responsible for current design cannot be directly observed,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gangestad SW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence gathered to date from topographic data, geophysical data, well logs, and drill-core samples indicates that the buried Chicxulub basin, the source crater for the approximately 65 Ma Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundary deposits, is approximately 300 km in diameter. A prominent topographic ridge and a ring of gra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sharpton VL,Marin LE

更新日期：1997-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics (MD) are performed in all-atom simulations of two polymer species based on polythiophene. In one case the amphiphilic polymer forms a monolayer interface between a vacuum and an aqueous layer containing ions. The electroactive nature of the polymer is invoked by conferring a negative charge on it to...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morton-Blake DA,Leith D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00