Is oral tolerance correlated with IgE levels and mast cell numbers?

abstract：:The nonpregnant uterus shows uterine activity throughout the menstrual cycle. This uterine activity was detected both by single strep tissue and by using intrauterine pressure recordings in vitro and in vivo. Today, ultrasound has made it possible to study this activity with a noninvasive approach and to assess uterin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bulletti C,DE Ziegler D,Setti PL,Cicinelli E,Polli V,Flamigni C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolic events, such as pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombosis, and portal vein thrombosis, have been observed in adult thalassemia patients, mainly in beta-thalassemia intermedia. The clinical findings are consistent with the observation of several alterations that indicate a state of activation of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cappellini MD,Grespi E,Cassinerio E,Bignamini D,Fiorelli G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preclinical safety and efficacy evaluation of a novel bioartificial liver support system (BLSS) was conducted using a D-galactosamine canine liver failure model. The BLSS houses a suspension of porcine hepatocytes in a hollow fiber cartridge with the hepatocytes on one side of the membrane and whole blood flowing on t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Patzer JF 2nd,Mazariegos GV,Lopez R,Molmenti E,Gerber D,Riddervold F,Khanna A,Yin WY,Chen Y,Scott VL,Aggarwal S,Kramer DJ,Wagner RA,Zhu Y,Fulmer ML,Block GD,Amiot BP

更新日期：1999-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the repatriation of human remains to indigenous peoples in Australia and the United States and the role anthropologists play in the construction of past, present, and future identities for contemporary indigenous peoples. Using examples from both countries, I suggest that many of the participants ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cantwell AM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a variety of cell types including chinese hamster embryonic fibroblasts (IIC9 cells), alpha-thrombin is a potent mitogen. Thrombin irreversibly activates Par 1, a member of the seven membrane-spanning superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). This, in turn, activates several heterotrimeric G proteins and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goel R,Baldassare JJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene causes a major risk factor for the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). To study the transcription control of the mouse (m) APOE gene, we first tested the promoter activity of a 721-base-pair (bp) 5'-flanking region, which is located 771 bp upstream from the translation initiation ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lahiri DK,Alley GM,Ge YW,Du Y

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are capable of oxidizing a variety of substrates including (poly)unsaturated enoyl-CoA esters. The beta-oxidation of unsaturated enoyl-CoA esters in peroxisomes, and also in mitochondria, is not just chain-shortening but also involves the metabolizing of pre-existing carbon-to-carbon double bonds. In addit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hiltunen JK,Filppula SA,Koivuranta KT,Siivari K,Qin YM,Häyrinen HM

更新日期：1996-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune disease affects a significant proportion of the population. The etiology of most autoimmune diseases is largely unknown, but it is thought to be multifactorial with both environmental and genetic influences. Rare monogenic autoimmune diseases, however, offer an invaluable window into potential disease mecha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Waterfield M,Anderson MS

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cells are deprived of iron, their growth is invariably inhibited. However, the mechanism involved remains largely unclear. Recently, we have reported that subcytotoxic concentration of deferoxamine mesylate (DFO), an iron chelator, specifically inhibited transition of Chang cell, a normal hepatocyte cell line, fr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yoon YS,Cho H,Lee JH,Yoon G

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes the effect of low amplitude friction and noise in accelerating phase space transport in time-independent Hamiltonian systems that exhibit global stochasticity. Numerical experiments reveal that even very weak non-Hamiltonian perturbations can dramatically increase the rate at which an ensemble of o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kandrup HE

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the industrialized world. This is partially attributed to the inability of cardiomyocytes to divide in a significant manner, and therefore the heart responds to injury through scar formation. One of the challenges of modern medicine is to develop novel therapeutic strateg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bolli P,Chaudhry HW

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current tuberculosis (TB) therapies take too long and the regimens are complex and subject to adverse effects and drug-drug interactions with concomitant medications. The emergence of drug-resistant TB strains exacerbates the situation. Drug discovery for TB has resurged in recent years, generating compounds (hits) wi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mdluli K,Kaneko T,Upton A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma is a controversial topic. The rising incidence of this cancer requires a clear consensus to ensure proper management. Application of oncological principles for tumors of the esophagus or stomach is not possible because of comparative differences in the biolo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chevallay M,Bollschweiler E,Chandramohan SM,Schmidt T,Koch O,Demanzoni G,Mönig S,Allum W

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AH-66 rat ascites hepatoma cells incorporated [14C]leucine into the AFP fraction. In a cell-free system, hepatoma ribosomes were found to be active in AFP synthesis whereas the supernatant fraction from hepatoma had no specific effect on AFP production. The amount of [14C]leucine incorporated in AFP by membrane-bound ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kanai K,Endo Y,Oda T,Kaneko Y

更新日期：1975-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), also known as slowly progressive type 1 diabetes (SPT1D), followed up for changes, including reactivity to the GAD65 antibody epitope for the 9-year period from impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) to the insulin-dependent stage (IDDM). This 69-year-old male...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Maruyama T,Koyama A,Hampe CS

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：:Endometriosis is often a perplexing medical condition for both the physician and the patient. Accordingly, development of treatment strategies based on the needs of the individual patient is highly desirable. Although endometriosis has been part of the clinical practice for almost a century, many questions remain rela...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Valle RF,Sciarra JJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This publication provides a brief summary of a presentation given at the NICHD Anniversary Symposium that was designed to describe the research progress of the O'Malley laboratory over the past 30 years of its NICHD funding. It highlights a few of the lab's major discoveries during the course of the pursuit of its lon...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： O'Malley BW

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheochromocytomas (PCCs) are neuroendocrine tumors of chromaffin tissue that produce catecholamines. They are usually located in the adrenal medulla, although in about 10% the tumors arise from extra-adrenal chromaffin tissue. The majority of PCCs arise sporadically, but PCCs occur also in the context of hereditary ca...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Korpershoek E,Van Nederveen FH,Dannenberg H,Petri BJ,Komminoth P,Perren A,Lenders JW,Verhofstad AA,De Herder WW,De Krijger RR,Dinjens WN

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin 4 (IgG4) is one of four human IgG subclasses and has several unique functional characteristics. It exhibits low affinity for complement and for most Fc receptors. It furthermore has generally high affinity for its antigen, with binding occurring in a monovalent fashion, as IgG4 can exchange Fab-arms wit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huijbers MG,Plomp JJ,van der Maarel SM,Verschuuren JJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies have suggested that excess body weight gain may be a major risk factor for colon and breast cancer. A positive energy balance creates metabolic stresses, including the excess production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), hyperinsulinemia, the elevated adipokine secretion, and increased gut perme...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sung MK,Yeon JY,Park SY,Park JH,Choi MS

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum is the major input nucleus of the basal ganglia. It is thought to play a key role in learning on the basis of positive reinforcement and in action selection. One view of the striatum conceives it as comprising a reiterated matrix of processing units that perform common operations in different striatal reg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wickens JR,Budd CS,Hyland BI,Arbuthnott GW

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All scientists are acutely aware of the profound challenge that they face when communicating scientific findings to nonscientists, especially when great uncertainty is involved and when the topic is of personal interest to the general public. Simplification of the issues--sometimes extending to a degree of oversimplif...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Grey AD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I(2) site-selective compounds are known to interact with and inhibit monoamine oxidase (MAO), but it remains unclear as to whether this interaction occurs through an allosteric or competitive interaction. This study used the new selective, irreversible I(2) ligand BU99006, to clarify the relationship between MAO and t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Paterson LM,Tyacke RJ,Nutt DJ,Hudson AL

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and pubertal disturbances are the commonest endocrinopathies in homozygous thalassemia, accounting for significant morbidity in 70-80% children and adolescents globally. This review focuses on the pathophysiology of the endocrinopathy from a historical perspective and altered natural history induced by better c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chatterjee R,Bajoria R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid (FA) compositions of liver and skeletal muscle structural lipids, overall phospholipids and phosphatidylcholine, and triglycerides (TG) were determined in the hereditary hypertriglyceridemic (HTG) rat, a nonobese animal model of the insulin resistance syndrome. Four groups of HTG rats and four groups of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bohov P,Seböková E,Gasperíková D,Langer P,Klimes I

更新日期：1997-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that gamma-tocopherol, the predominant vitamin E form in diets, but not alpha-tocopherol, which is the exclusive form of vitamin E in most supplements, exhibited antiproliferation effect on prostate (PC-3, LNCaP) and lung (A549) cancer cells. gamma-Tocopherol induced apoptosis in androgen-sensitive LNCaP but ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jiang Q,Wong J,Ames BN

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, immediate hypersensitivity reactions to luminal antigens occur in the intestine and result in pathophysiology including increased permeability and ion secretion. The mechanism involves activation of mast cells with neural amplification (FIG. 5). Released mediators/neurotransmitters may act independently or...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Perdue MH,Kosecka U,Crowe S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) for in vivo cancer diagnosis of the esophagus is described. Autofluorescence of normal and malignant tissues was measured directly using a fiberoptic probe inserted through an endoscope. The measurements were performed in vivo during routine endoscopy. Measurement of the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vo-Dinh T,Panjehpour M,Overholt BF

更新日期：1998-02-09 00:00:00