Interrelationships between hormones, behavior, and affect during adolescence: understanding hormonal, physical, and brain changes occurring in association with pubertal activation of the reproductive axis. Introduction to part III.

abstract：:Access to experimental X-ray diffraction image data is important for validation and reproduction of macromolecular models and indispensable for the development of structural biology processing methods. In response to the evolving needs of the structural biology community, we recently established a diffraction data pub...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： McKinney B,Meyer PA,Crosas M,Sliz P

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of alpha-hemoglobin chains and the cause of membrane protein defects in thalassemic erythrocytes have been studied in: (1) human beta-thalassemia syndromes, (2) mouse beta-thalassemia, and (3) normal human erythrocytes loaded with purified alpha-hemoglobin chains. The similarity and differences observed in th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rouyer-Fessard P,Scott MD,Leroy-Viard K,Garel MC,Bachir D,Galacteros F,Beuzard Y

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicergoline (NE)--a cerebral vasodilator with nicotinic acid esterified in its molecule--and Antagonic-Stress (AS) composition--a neurometabolic nootropic, also containing nicotinic acid but with fast and prolonged release--were evaluated in senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (SDAT), mild to moderate intensity (DSM-I...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schneider F,Popa R,Mihalas G,Stefanigă P,Mihalas IG,Măties R,Mateescu R

更新日期：1994-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the linear coupling between the Marangoni and Cowley-Rosensweig instabilities for a thin layer of ferrofluid subjected to a temperature gradient and a magnetic field. Both are perpendicular to the reference horizontal boundaries, one of which is a rigid plate, while the other is a free surface remaining flat ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hennenberg M,Slavtchev S,Weyssow B

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several years of survey data indicate that illicit drug use among U.S. youth was at its highest level in 1979. Generally, the use of some illicit drugs declined progressively throughout the 1980s, stabilized, and then decreased slightly. Reducing illicit drug use among U.S. youth continues to be a priority of federal,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Banken JA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting the response to xenotransplantation is difficult, but can be based upon (i) past clinical experience, (ii) opinion surveys and focus groups, (iii) predictable variables, and (iv) the allotransplant experience. Baby Fae, the Pittsburgh baboon liver transplants, and the Jeff Getty baboon marrow transplant hav...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Daar AS

更新日期：1998-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model for spatial convective transport processes conjugated with the measured or calculated realistic quasi-steady microaccelerations is presented. Rotation around the mass center, including accelerated rotation, gravity gradient, and aerodynamical drag are taken into account. New results of the effect on mixing...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Polezhaev VI,Nikitin SA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence suggests that oxidative processes contribute to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and that antioxidants may represent a strategy to complement the lowering of lipids in the therapy of this disease. Although multiple molecular events have been identified in vitro and although it is tempting to ascri...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sigal E,Laughton CW,Mulkins MA

更新日期：1994-04-18 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：:The Trk family of tyrosine-protein kinases, TrkA, TrkB, and TrkC, are the signaling receptors that mediate the biological properties of the NGF family of neurotrophins. This family of growth factors includes in addition to NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4. TrkA is the NGF receptor. TrkB serves as a receptor for both BDNF and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Barbacid M

更新日期：1995-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine changes in muscle cell injury and antioxidant capacity of weightlifters following a 1-week intensive resistance-training regimen. Thirty-six female subjects participated in this study, and their ages ranged from 18 to 25 years. The sample group included 19 elite weightlifters with ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Liu JF,Chang WY,Chan KH,Tsai WY,Lin CL,Hsu MC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature and regulation of juvenile hormone (JH) biosynthesis have been investigated in isolated corpora allata (CA) of adult males and females, and larvae of the tomato moth Lacanobia oleracea (Noctuidae). Larval CA (Vth day 1 to VIth day 1) appear to synthesize JH at very low rates (< 0.5 fmol/pr/h). This synthesi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Audsley N,Weaver RJ,Edwards JP

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) frequently develop and progress in settings in which sympathoadrenomedullary and gonadal hormone levels are changing, e.g., during pregnancy, postpartum period, menopause, estrogen administration. This paper addresses the view that adrenal and gonadal ho...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wilder RL,Elenkov IJ

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent identification of lymphatic endothelial cell-specific markers and the generation of mouse models harboring mutations in many genes that encode those markers have enabled us to begin to elucidate the developmental steps that go toward establishing the lymphatic vasculature network. Understanding these basic ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Oliver G,Srinivasan RS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lactocrine mechanism for delivery of maternally derived relaxin (RLX) into the neonatal circulation as a consequence of nursing has been proposed for the pig. Consistently, immunoreactive porcine RLX was detected in colostrum as well as in the serum of nursing pigs. Concentrations of porcine RLX in milk are highest ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Frankshun AL,Ho TY,Steinetz BG,Bartol FF,Bagnell CA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow cells of various animal species and the human produce a group of bioregulatory peptides called myelopeptides (MPs). A highly purified myelopeptide (MP) fraction and some individual molecules have been isolated from the supernatant of the porcine bone marrow cell culture by successive gel chromatography and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Petrov RV

更新日期：1993-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective investigation of perioperative cardiac edema formation requiring a delayed sternal closure, we identified thrombin increase combined with a simultaneous decrease of factor XIII as a probable cause. After experimental studies additionally revealed that factor XIII could protect endothelial barrier func...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wozniak G,Noll T,Akintürk H,Thul J,Müller M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper describes a comprehensive and objective evaluation of 2358 persons arrested in Philadelphia for driving while intoxicated. It was demonstrated that 63.8% of this population was involved with alcohol to an extent that a diagnosis of alcoholism was evident, and it is suggested that these persons are in need of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fine EW,Scoles P

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:Activated platelets and leukocytes release potent vasoactive factors that may modulate vascular tone. Activation of normal platelets produces dilatation of normal arteries. Vasodilatation is mediated by adenosine diphosphate (ADP), which releases endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) from endothelium. In atherosc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaul S,Padgett RC,Heistad DD

更新日期：1994-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial British dementia (FBD) is a disorder characterized by the presence of amyloid deposits in cerebral blood vessels and brain parenchyma coexisting with neurofibrillary tangles in limbic areas. The amyloid subunit (ABri) is a 4 kDa fragment of a 266 amino acid type II single-spanning transmembrane precursor prot...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ghiso J,Vidal R,Rostagno A,Miravalle L,Holton JL,Mead S,Révész T,Plant G,Frangione B

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Developmental robustness, the capacity to stay "on track" despite the myriad vicissitudes that inevitably plague a developing organism, is, I argue, a prerequisite for natural selection and key to our understanding of the evolution of developmental processes. But how is such robustness achieved? And how can we reconci...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Keller EF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both hereditary and environmental factors influence the risk of cancer. Four risk categories, or oncodemes, can exist for a particular kind of cancer, depending upon the presence of neither, one, or both factors: (1) spontaneous, or background; (2) hereditary; (3) environmental; (4) interactive. In the second, mutatio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Knudson AG

更新日期：1997-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junctions of epithelial and endothelial cells form selective barriers that regulate paracellular transport of solutes, immune cells, and drugs. Tight junctions consist of proteins that physically "seal" the tight junction but also form channels that allow for permeation between the cells, resulting in epithelial...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schulzke JD,Fromm M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the mechanisms dominating the regulation of the biochemical energy consumption and the mechanical output of the actin-myosin motor units, the crossbridges (Xbs), in the cardiac sarcomere. Our analytical model, which couples Xbs cycling dynamics with the kinetics of the free Ca(2+) binding to tropon...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Landesberg A,Levy C,Yaniv Y,Sideman S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout this century in the United States, tension has existed between those who believe drug abuse is best combatted through the criminal justice system and those who emphasize a medical/public health model of prevention and treatment. In the last decade this debate has centered around the person of the pregnant a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chavkin W,Wise PH,Elman D

更新日期：1998-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:5-HT2B receptors, in addition to phospholipase C stimulation, are able to trigger activation of the proto-oncogene product p21ras. During mouse embryogenesis, a peak of 5-HT2B receptor expression is detected at the neurulation stage; we localized the 5-HT2B expression in neural crest cells, heart myocardium, and somit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Choi DS,Kellermann O,Richard S,Colas JF,Bolaños-Jimenez F,Tournois C,Launay JM,Maroteaux L

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptions of coccidioidomycosis as a medical problem has undergone sequential and dramatic metamorphoses since its first description more than a century ago. First thought to be rare and lethal, coccidioidomycosis was subsequently found to be common and often mild. During World War II, its overall impact upon la...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Galgiani JN

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00