Agmatine inhibits naloxone-induced contractions in morphine-dependent Guinea pig ileum.

abstract：:Preventable chronic diseases are the leading cause of death in the majority of countries throughout the world, and this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. The potential to offset the social, economic, and personal burdens associated with such conditions depends on our ability to influence people's thought...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hall PA,Bickel WK,Erickson KI,Wagner DD

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our cumulative experience continues to validate the fetal nucleated erythrocyte as the target fetal cell type of choice, primarily because it reflects the cytogenetic status of the current pregnancy. Additional cell types, such as the granulocyte, await further study. Quantitative PCR is a sensitive and useful new met...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bianchi DW

更新日期：1994-09-07 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：:Few studies have evaluated the impact of nutritional supplementation among pregnant adolescents. We examined the effects of the Rang Din Nutrition Study (RDNS) interventions on children born to mothers <20 years of age. The RDNS was a cluster-randomized effectiveness trial with four arms: (1) women and children both r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dewey KG,Matias SL,Mridha MK,Arnold CD

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human endometrium is an extremely sensitive target for steroid hormones. During the menstrual cycle, this tissue undergoes dynamic changes that are reflected on the surface morphology of the epithelium and that can be followed by scanning electron microscopy. The morphologic changes peak at the midsecretory phase,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nikas G,Makrigiannakis A,Hovatta O,Jones HW Jr

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cities modify their local climate, and at the same time they suffer from the local impacts of climate change. Our paper discusses the progress and obstacles in three active research topics that contribute to increasing the capability within the urban climate research community for transferring local climate knowledge ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hidalgo J,Lemonsu A,Masson V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the alpha(2A)-autoreceptors on the sympathetic nerve terminals of the human atrial appendages and rabbit pulmonary artery, rilmenidine and oxymetazoline exhibit different properties (antagonism and agonism, respectively). These opposite pharmacodynamic properties of alpha(2)-adrenoceptor ligands seem to be due to s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Molderings GJ,Bonisch H,Bruss M,Gothert M

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:Influenza A virus infections result in approximately 500,000 human deaths per year and many more sublethal infections. Wild birds are recognized as the ancestral host of influenza A viruses, and avian viruses have contributed genetic material to most human viruses, including subtypes H5N1 and H1N1. Thus, influenza vir...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vandegrift KJ,Sokolow SH,Daszak P,Kilpatrick AM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the great strides made in understanding the basic biology of cancer and the multiple approaches to cancer therapy that have been utilized, cancer remains a major cause of death worldwide. The two properties that define the most successful tumors are low antigenicity, enabling cancer cells to escape immune syst...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Al-Ramadi BK,Fernandez-Cabezudo MJ,El-Hasasna H,Al-Salam S,Attoub S,Xu D,Chouaib S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in social behavior are center stage in recent formulations of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology, with its emphasis on the long-term consequences of early adaptations, offers itself as an alternative meta-theory to mainstream social psychology, which emphasizes the importance of social st...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rabinowitz VC,Valian V

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Vitamin E is essential for normal neurological function. It is the major lipid-soluble, chain-breaking antioxidant in the body, protecting the integrity of membranes by inhibiting lipid peroxidation. Mostly on the basis of symptoms of primary vitamin E deficiency, it has been demonstrated that vitamin E has a central ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sen CK,Khanna S,Roy S

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:Vitamin A deficiency has been shown to affect vision, reproduction, cellular differentiation, and maintenance of epithelial and skeletal tissues. Different vitamin A compounds, i.e., retinol and retinoic acid, vary in their ability to fulfill these biologic functions. Aside from vision, the exact molecular mechanisms ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Navia JM,Harris SS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing amount of evidences suggests that galanin plays an important role in the regulation of reproduction in the rat. Galanin is colocalized with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) in a subset of LHRH neurons, and the pattern of coexpression is sexually dimorphic, with a higher incidence of colocaliz...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Merchenthaler I

更新日期：1998-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Explicit memory refers to the conscious retrieval of past information or experiences, whereas implicit memory refers to an unintentional or nonconscious form of retrieval. Much of the literature in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience has focused on differences between explicit and implicit memory, and the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dew ITZ,Cabeza R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disorders of sexual differentiation (DSDs) presenting during adolescence are discussed, and molecular explanations are given for some. DSD conditions are often discovered during early adolescence, an age well known to predispose to high risk for adjustment problems. Presentation may be with lack of or minimal pubertal...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lee PA,Houk CP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerotic coronary heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are the major cause of mortality in type II diabetes (T2DM) as well as a major contributor to morbidity and lifetime costs. The purpose of this article is the identification of the biochemical parameters in plasma, which may serve a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kalofoutis C,Piperi C,Zisaki A,Singh J,Harris F,Phoenix D,Alaveras A,Kalofoutis A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classic studies of the cerebellum before the middle of the twentieth century established the structural entity of the cerebellum and characterized its function as enabling animals and humans to carry out smooth and accurate movements, even at a high speed and without visual feedback. In the 1960s, neuronal circuit str...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ito M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, vitamin D has been received increased attention due to the resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets in developed countries and the identification of extraskeletal effects of vitamin D, suggesting unexpected benefits of vitamin D in health and disease, beyond bone health. The possibility of extra...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Christakos S,Hewison M,Gardner DG,Wagner CL,Sergeev IN,Rutten E,Pittas AG,Boland R,Ferrucci L,Bikle DD

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-grown amphibian oocytes, arrested in prophase I or meiosis, respond in vitro to progesterone and certain other steroids. They undergo an apparently normal sequence of nuclear maturation and cytoplasmic differentiation, which are necessary precedents for fertilization and embryogenesis. Individual oocytes or popul...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schuetz AW

更新日期：1977-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal modulators of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP). Corticotropin-releasing hormone is not exclusively produced in the hypothalamus. Its presence has been demonstrated at peripheral inflammatory sites. Ovulation and luteoly...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mastorakos G,Ilias I

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division is facilitated by the divisome, a dynamic multiprotein assembly localizing at mid-cell to synthesize the stress-bearing peptidoglycan and to constrict all cell envelope layers. Divisome assembly occurs in two steps and involves multiple interactions between more than 20 essential and accessory ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Egan AJ,Vollmer W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The research presented at this conference, including a series of excellent posters from junior investigators, documents the pervasive importance of affiliation and other social behaviors. Affiliative behaviors interact with, but are distinct from reproductive and aggressive behaviors. Patterns of social behaviors tend...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Carter CS,Lederhendler I,Kirkpatrick B

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon and the glucagon-like peptides (GLP-1 and GLP-2) share a common evolutionary origin and are triplication products of an ancestral glucagon exon. In mammals, a standard scenario is found where only a single proglucagon-derived peptide set exists. However, fish and amphibians have either multiple proglucagon ge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ng SY,Lee LT,Chow BK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rewards can be viewed as probability distributions of reward values. Besides expected (mean) value, a key parameter of such distributions is variance (or standard deviation), which constitutes a measure of risk. Single neurons in orbitofrontal cortex signal risk mostly separately from value. Comparable risk signals in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schultz W,O'Neill M,Tobler PN,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vestibular stimulation by head accelerations always involves multisensory activation of the vestibular, somatosensory, and visual systems. Over the past few years, galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) has become increasingly popular for testing vestibular function for clinical and research purposes. Although GVS prov...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jahn K,Naessl A,Strupp M,Schneider E,Brandt T,Dieterich M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most striking changes in the primary lymphoid organs during human aging is the progressive involution of the thymus. As a consequence, the rate of naïve T cell output dramatically declines with age and the peripheral T cell pool shrinks. These changes lead to increased incidence of severe infections and dec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pfister G,Weiskopf D,Lazuardi L,Kovaiou RD,Cioca DP,Keller M,Lorbeg B,Parson W,Grubeck-Loebenstein B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dietary preferences, gastrointestinal anatomy, digestive physiology, biochemical capabilities, and commensal microflora of a bird are collectively known as its nutritional strategy. Measurement of hormones in droppings requires an appreciation of an animal's nutritional strategy in order to optimize collection pro...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Klasing KC

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00