How harmful is the first law?

abstract：:Our data show that when substance abusers are subtyped simultaneously by antisocial personality disorder and the onset of depression relative to alcohol or drug abuse, groups of people with unique personality and affective profiles are identified. The profiles are represented by measures of affect-related personality ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Epstein EE,Ginsburg BE,Hesselbrock VM,Schwarz JC

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reviewed that suggests a central role for telomeres in one major model of biological aging, namely, proliferative senescence. Telomeric shortening with each cell division does not only act as a biological clock, but appears to trigger the ultimate loss of proliferative ability via activation of the p53-dep...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： von Zglinicki T

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:About 1 of 10 women, particularly those older than 60 years of age, shows some degree of thyroid hormone deficiency. Thyroid diseases are generally characterized by perturbations of thyroid signaling homeostasis. The most common examples of thyroid diseases include hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and several types of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pistollato F,Masias M,Agudo P,Giampieri F,Battino M

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Acetogens utilize the acetyl-CoA Wood-Ljungdahl pathway as a terminal electron-accepting, energy-conserving, CO(2)-fixing process. The decades of research to resolve the enzymology of this pathway (1) preceded studies demonstrating that acetogens not only harbor a novel CO(2)-fixing pathway, but are also ecologically ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Drake HL,Gössner AS,Daniel SL

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An EEG profile for cannabis preparations equated for delta 9-THC activity has been defined in occasional cannabis users in New York and in long-term, high-dose hashish users in Athens. The EEG effects of enhanced alpha activity, decreased beta activity, and decreased mean frequency are dose dependent, both in intensit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fink M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a review of the publicly available knowledge base concerning turbine blade tip heat transfer, from the early fundamental research which laid the foundations of our knowledge, to current experimental and numerical studies utilizing engine-scaled blade cascades and turbine rigs. Focus is placed on hi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bunker RS

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term exposure to estrogens influences the development of breast cancer in women, but the precise mechanisms involved are not clearly defined. Our working hypothesis is that estrogen modulates this process by two separate processes. One involves the binding of estradiol to estrogen receptor (ER) alpha with stimula...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Santen R,Cavalieri E,Rogan E,Russo J,Guttenplan J,Ingle J,Yue W

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory imagery can represent many aspects of music, such as the starting pitches of a tune or the instrument that typically plays it. In this paper, I concentrate on more dynamic, or time-sensitive aspects of musical imagery, as demonstrated in two recently published studies. The first was a behavioral study that ex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Halpern AR

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometric analysis of the low-molecular-weight (LMW) range of the serum/plasma proteome is revealing the existence of large numbers of previously unknown peptides and protein fragments, predicted to be derived from circulating low-abundance proteins. While genomics and proteomics are the primary discovery res...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Byrum S,Montgomery CO,Nicholas RW,Suva LJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of an integrated system for the continuous, automated production of pure cell culture derived proteins is discussed. The system comprises a cell culture subunit for the continuous culture of mammalian cells and a purification subunit linked on-line to the cell culture subunit. The cells are compartment...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Grandics P,Szathmary S,Szathmary Z,O'Neill T

更新日期：1991-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-agent topotecan is an active drug in chemotherapy-naive MDS and CMML and, to a lesser degree, in refractory/relapsed acute leukemias, low-/intermediate-grade lymphoma, and myeloma. Its combination with cytosine arabinoside induces complete remissions in high-risk MDS/CMML. A triple-combination regimen of cyclop...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beran M,Kantarjian HM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human ABO(H) blood group phenotypes arise from the evolutionarily oldest genetic system found in primate populations. While the blood group antigen A is considered the ancestral primordial structure, under the selective pressure of life-threatening diseases blood group O(H) came to dominate as the most frequently ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Arend P

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinamide can protect the NOD mouse from diabetes if given early enough and in sufficient dose. The effect partly wanes with time. There is reduced islet inflammation. Similar protective effects can be demonstrated in quasi-experimental interventions in humans--both diabetes related and unrelated deemed at risk of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Elliott RB,Pilcher CC,Stewart A,Fergusson D,McGregor MA

更新日期：1993-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The historical reasons for the introduction of tick control during the nineteenth century are reviewed. Background and concepts for the choice between long-term tick control and tick eradication are compared. Case studies of large-scale tick control or eradication programs in Africa, Australia, the United States, and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pegram RG,Wilson DD,Hansen JW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans the influence of prior vestibular stimulation (3, 6, 9, 12, and 18 degrees/second2 for 10 seconds) and subsequent whole-field optokinetic stimulation (30, 60, 90, 120, and 180 degrees/second for 1 minute) or the presentation of a stationary pattern on after-nystagmus (AN) was studied. For comparison, pure ve...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koenig E,Dichgans J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidomycosis is a mild to life-threatening disease in otherwise healthy humans and other mammals caused by the fungus Coccidioides spp. Understanding the development of the unique dimorphic life cycle of Coccidioides spp. and its role in pathogenesis has been an area of research focus. However, nuclear behavior ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Li L,Schmelz M,Kellner EM,Galgiani JN,Orbach MJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endometrium, as a target of estrogens and progestins, possesses the respective receptor proteins. These receptors belong to the superfamily of nuclear receptors, having important functional domains required for steroid ligand binding, for dimer formation, for interaction with HREs of DNA, for transcription modulat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Moutsatsou P,Sekeris CE

更新日期：1997-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrointestinal tract (GIT) appears to be the main site of entry for the pathological isoform of prions (PrP(sc)). To understand how the PrP(sc) internalization process occurs, it is important to characterize the cell types that express normal prion protein (PrP(c)) along the GIT. To do so, we studied the distrib...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Marcos Z,Bodegas ME,Sesma MP,Guembe L

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers issues arising from presentations by Barry Everitt and Gorica Petrovich concerning amygdalar involvement in appetitive conditioning. Studies reported by these researchers are beginning to unravel the distribution of associative functions among amygdalar nuclei and their efferent targets. The main ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gabriel M,Burhans L,Kashef A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I have introduced and solved a simple deterministic model of eye tracking that produces rich dynamical behavior. Some of its main features, notably the existence of a chaotic regime, are reminiscent of the anomalies reported in smooth pursuit eye tracking experiments with schizophrenia patients. By obta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huberman BA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many therapeutic options exist for the management of patients with Ménière's disease. In the last few years, the use of intratympanic gentamicin has been investigated as an alternative treatment to vestibular nerve section or labyrinthectomy. In humans, the concentration of gentamicin used for intratympanic treatment ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Quaranta A,Aloisi A,De Benedittis G,Scaringi A

更新日期：1999-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane processes are receiving increasing attention in the scientific community and in industry because in many cases they offer a favorable alternative to processes that are not easy to achieve by conventional routes. In this context, membranes made with perfluorinated polymers are of particular interest because of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Arcella V,Ghielmi A,Tommasi G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) have been defined by their ability to establish long-term hematopoiesis in myelo-ablated hosts. Prospective isolation using combinations of cell-surface markers and/or dye exclusion can yield highly purified and nearly homogeneous phenotypically defined cells that repopulate irradiated h...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schaniel C,Moore KA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contemporary world faces an unprecedented environmental challenge. Past international research has amply shown that we cannot afford to wait for a "development path" that automatically takes us on a sustainable future. Whether we look at global or local problems, the international debate increasingly points to the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Magnani E

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable hemodynamic changes of normal pregnancy are briefly reviewed. In addition, new findings and current concepts related to the underlying hormonal and molecular mechanisms are presented. Finally, work that is in progress as well as future directions is briefly discussed. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Conrad KP,Jeyabalan A,Danielson LA,Kerchner LJ,Novak J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a phenotype resulting from a series of causative factors with a variable risk of complications. Etiologic diversity requires personalized prevention and treatment. Imaging procedures offer the potential to investigate the interplay between organs and pathways underlying energy intake and consumption in an i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Iozzo P

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A permanent decrease was seen in the prevalence of lice infestation among population of the Ukraine from 1990-2004. The prevalence of lice infestation among children under 14 years of age was 6-27 times more than that in adults. The highest figures were among children 7-14 years old. During all of the observation peri...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kurhanova I

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Helicobacter pylori is a definite carcinogen whose mechanism of action is still unknown. The aim of this work was (1) to determine the presence of p53 protein and related antibodies in patients affected by various gastric pathologies and chronically infected with H. pylori, and (2) to try to discover a test to be used...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Losi E,Molinari AM,Gazzerro P,Ortega De Luna L,Fera MT,Carbone M,Catania MR,Hasty DL,Rossano F

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00