Nootropic nefiracetam inhibits proconvulsant action of peripheral-type benzodiazepines in epileptic mutant EL mice.

abstract：:Studies in humans and in animal models have demonstrated that the receptor-dependent actions of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D are required for normal skeletal growth and maturation. Investigations were undertaken to address which consequences of vitamin D receptor deficiency are a direct result of impaired receptor-dependen...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Demay MB

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:Protein crystallography, which has a growing role in the human genome project, is one of the most powerful techniques in modern biology. However, it can only be applied providing suitable crystals can be obtained. The ability to produce suitable crystals is currently the major bottleneck to structure determination. Mi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chayen NE,Helliwell JR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human epidemiologic studies provide convincing evidence that dietary patterns practiced during adulthood are important contributors to age-related cognitive decline and dementia risk. Diets high in fat, especially trans and saturated fats, adversely affect cognition, while those high in fruits, vegetables, cereals, an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Parrott MD,Greenwood CE

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin is widely distributed in enteric nerves and nerve terminals throughout the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Within the GI tract galanin is best known for its ability to alter smooth muscle contractility and regulate intestinal motility. However, recent studies also indicate that galanin can modulate epithelial ion...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Benya RV,Matkowskyj KA,Danilkovich A,Hecht G

更新日期：1998-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory stimulation via rhythmic cues can be used successfully in the rehabilitation of motor function in patients with motor disorders. A prototypical example is provided by dysfunctional gait in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). Coupling steps to external rhythmic cues (the beat of music or the sou...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bella SD,Benoit CE,Farrugia N,Schwartze M,Kotz SA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR) remains the only nongenetic intervention that reproducibly extends mean and maximal life span in short-lived mammalian species. This nutritional intervention also delays the onset, or slows the progression, of many age-related disease processes. The diverse effects of CR have been demonstrated...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lane MA,Black A,Handy A,Tilmont EM,Ingram DK,Roth GS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile infection, also known as C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD), is the most common cause of nosocomial diarrhea, typically initiated by the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics that disrupt gut flora, thereby allowing C. difficile to proliferate. It is an increasing cause of morbidity and mortalit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sears P,Ichikawa Y,Ruiz N,Gorbach S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Questions about music's evolution and functions have long excited interest among scholars. More recent theoretical accounts have stressed the importance of music's social origins and functions. Autism and Williams syndrome, neurodevelopmental disorders supposedly characterized by contrasting social and musical phenoty...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Heaton P,Allen R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first recognition of tolerance and partial tolerance to attempted sensitization with simple allergenic chemicals is described. A proper designation would be the Frei-Sulzbeger-Chase phenomenon. Coupling with self occurs in these experiments; there is not only resistance to developing contactant-type sensitivity bu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chase MW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis of 14 clinical studies with RRR- or all-rac-alpha-tocopherol (83,800 subjects) was performed to evaluate whether RRR and all-rac differ in cardiovascular efficacy based on those clinical endpoints that are most consistently documented in the publications of the studies. Odds ratios of treatment versus ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kraemer K,Koch W,Hoppe PP

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human female reproductive aging consists of multiple processes and interacts with other physiological systems in unique ways. Here we discuss eight recent longitudinal, epidemiologic studies of female reproductive aging that include endocrine data to highlight their contributions to our understanding of these various ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ferrell RJ,Sowers M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on the importance of social engagement and the behavioral and neurophysiological mechanisms that allow individuals to reduce psychological and physical distance. A model of social engagement derived from the Polyvagal Theory is presented. The model emphasizes phylogeny as an organizing principle a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Porges SW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uteroglobin, a steroid-inducible, cytokine-like, secreted protein with immunomodulatory properties, has been reported to bind progesterone, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), and retinol. Structural studies may delineate whether binding of ligands is a likely physiological function of human uteroglobin (hUG). We report ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pattabiraman N,Matthews JH,Ward KB,Mantile-Selvaggi G,Miele L,Mukherjee AB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human platelets in sufficient numbers for a therapeutic transfusion can be collected for preservation either by pooling ABO- and Rh-compatible platelets or by apheresis procedures using mechanical cell-separating machines. Human platelets have been frozen successfully with 5 or 6% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and stored ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Valeri CR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of computer-controlled artificial hearts, kidneys, and lungs, as well as the possibility of implanting human embryos in ex vivo uterus models or an artificial endometrium, presents new perspectives for creating an artificial uterus. Survival rates have also improved, with fetuses surviving from as ear...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bulletti C,Palagiano A,Pace C,Cerni A,Borini A,de Ziegler D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wide use of ABPM has resulted in greater appreciation of the circadian time structure of BP variability and its clinical relevance. It is now recognized that the day-night change in BP results from an interplay of circadian rhythms in neurohumoral mechanisms coupled with temporal patterns in physical activity and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Smolensky MH,Portaluppi F

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the main cause of human cancer deaths, and cell motility is one key component of the process of metastasis. The ERK mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway is probably one of the most commonly activated in malignant human cancers. We describe the molecular mechanisms by which ERK MAPK s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Viala E,Pouysségur J

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：:The objective of this article is to investigate the influence of endothelin-1 (ET-1) on human monocyte Na(+)/H(+) exchanger (NHE) activity and on the atherosclerosis-related monocyte functions. ET-1 caused an increase in pHi and in (22)Na influx of monocytes. A reversal of ET-1 effect on pHi was observed in the presen...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koliakos G,Befani C,Paletas K,Kaloyianni M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These findings support the hypothesis that a frontal-subcortical abnormality is necessary to produce symptoms of depression (e.g., mood-related signs, behavioral disturbances, neurovegetative signs) in dementia. Behavioral disturbances (e.g., disinhibition, agitation, social withdrawal) were more likely to occur in FL...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lopez OL,Gonzalez MP,Becker JT,Reynolds CF 3rd,Sudilovsky A,DeKosky ST

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclasts are cells of monocyte-macrophage origin that degrade bone matrix. Receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) induces osteoclast formation in the presence of macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) and costimulatory signals. RANKL induces activation of the TNF receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Takayanagi H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR), despite their well-known roles in cell survival and proliferation, can also weakly enhance apoptosis. To study the relationships between the IGF-IR and Bax as well as Bak, 144 cases of colorectal cancer were examined by immunohistochemistry, using the a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koda M,Reszec J,Sulkowska M,Kanczuga-Koda L,Sulkowski S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anesthetic effect of certain steroids in vertebrate systems is well documented, but it is not known if these compounds can cause anesthesia in simpler organisms. To answer this question, ether, short-chain alkanols, and pregnanolone were tested for their ability to induce anesthesia in 20 aquatic species from 7 ph...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Oliver AE,Deamer DW,Akeson M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-carotene acts as an antioxidant or a pro-oxidant depending on the concentrations that cells are treated with. Oxidative DNA damage is related to apoptosis of various cells. Ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated (ATM), a sensor for DNA-damaging agents, activates a variety of effectors in multiple signaling pathways, such ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jang SH,Lim JW,Kim H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disorientation may draw attention from other activities and its impact on cognition may cause pilot error and problems of concentration in dizzy patients. Tasks used to study the impact of disorientation include number processing, intelligence scales and Brookes matrices (reproduction of 2xD patterns of numbers vs. no...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gresty MA,Golding JF

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonists of the NMDA glutamate receptor, including phencyclidine (PCP), ketamine, and CGS-19755, produce cognitive and behavioral changes in humans. In rodents these agents produce a myriad of histopathological and neurochemical changes. Several lines of evidence suggest that a large number of these drug-induced ef...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Farber NB

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the past three years there has been a rapid expansion in our knowledge of the role TGF-beta mediates in regulating immune responses in vitro. Whether the TGF-beta will be clinically useful to suppress immune responses to transplanted organs or autoimmune responses is unknown. However, now that highly purified q...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Palladino MA,Morris RE,Starnes HF,Levinson AD

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the sensations produced by activating one electrode at a time are summarized as follows: (a) Loudness was found to increase with current level and pitch with repetition rate. (b) Pitch and sharpness increased in the apical-to-basal direction, and vowel labels could be assigned to sensations prod...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tong YC,Clark GM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen has clearly been shown to decrease bone loss and frequency of osteoporotic fractures. Calcitonin has been shown in several studies to reduce the rate of bone loss, although no data are yet available demonstrating a reduction in fracture frequency. Studies of osteoporosis intrinsically assume that prevention o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lindsay R,Cosman F

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00