Mixed matrix membrane development.

abstract：:The endothelial regulation of vWF synthesis, storage, regulated and constitutive release, and now binding are the focus of numerous research laboratories. The understanding of these phenomena is important to the pathophysiology of local hemostasis. Although the structural understanding of the relationship of vW AgII t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kawai Y,Montgomery RR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of TCDD exposure on the developing immune system were investigated in Wistar/Fischer hybrid or Fischer rats. Fetal and neonatal rats were exposed to TCDD through maternal dosing (5 muk/kg) on day 18 of gestation and on days 0, 7, and 14 of postnatal life (group 1). Another group of neonatal rats was expose...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Luster MI,Faith RE,Clark G

更新日期：1979-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of beta2-adrenergic receptors (beta2-R) on B lymphocytes and agonist-induced cAMP production is reduced in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). To further study functional consequences of the diminished beta2-R density on B lymphocytes in RA patients, agonist-induced cell death was evaluated and com...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wahle M,Pierer M,Krause A,Kolker S,Baerwald CG

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a system dynamics policy model of nutritional food market transformation, tracing over-time interactions between the nutritional quality of supply, consumer food choice, population health, and governmental policy. Applied to the Canadian context and with body mass index as the primary outcome, we e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Struben J,Chan D,Dubé L

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of certain restrictions in medical praxis, reusable materials are only allowed in some countries. This also applies to electrodes for electromyography; the special single-fiber electromyography electrode must be replaced. This article gives some details of the possibilities of using an alternative-a small conc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stålberg E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring of wildlife diseases started in Scandinavia as sporadic postmortem examinations in the early 20th century. In 1945 a monitoring program for wildlife health was initiated. The program is today an integrated part of the National Environmental Monitoring programs in Sweden. The total material today comprises m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Morner T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional or physical stress triggers Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy in postmenopausal females, which is characterized by an elevation of the ST segment in the electrocardiogram (ECG) and left ventricular apical ballooning in the left ventriculogram (LVG). Immobilization stress (IMO) of rats can reproduce these ECG and LVG...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ueyama T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. One can accurately predict the contribution of each inhibitor to the total inactivation of an enzyme in plasma once its pseudo-first-order reaction rate constant and concentration are known. 2. Because the mechanism of augmentation of the inactivation rate of an enzyme by ATIII occurs via formation of an ATIII-hepa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Colman RW,Scott CF,Pixley RA,de la Cadena RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we will evaluate evidence that altered gene dosage and structure impacts neurodevelopment and neural connectivity through deleterious effects on synaptic structure and function, and evidence that the latter are key contributors to the risk for autism. We will review information on alterations of structu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Smith M,Spence MA,Flodman P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoxidation and lipoxidation reactions contribute to the chemical modification of proteins during the Maillard reaction. Reactive oxygen species, produced during the oxidation of sugars and lipids in these processes, irreversibly oxidize proteins. Methionine is particularly susceptible to oxidation, yielding the oxi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brock JW,Cotham WC,Ames JM,Thorpe SR,Baynes JW

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-specific proliferative responses of peripheral blood T cells are widely used in humans to study the T cell compartment. However, responses to autoantigens are often weak and poorly reproducible. Here we show, using a test recall antigen (tetanus toxoid), that absolute levels of proliferation, minimally detecta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Narendran P,Elsegood K,Leech NJ,Dayan CM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has been proposed for measuring fat-free mass, total body water, percent fat, body cell mass, intracellular water, and extracellular water: a veritable laboratory in a box. Although it is unlikely that BIA is quite this versatile, correlations have been demonstrated between BIA a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schoeller DA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One in 12 people worldwide suffers from diabetes and more than 90% of affected adult individuals are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Obesity adds to the personal risk to develop T2DM, and both metabolic diseases are rampantly increasing worldwide. Over recent years, primary cilia have moved into the fo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Volta F,Gerdes JM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptive component of the immune system depends greatly on the generation of genetic diversity provided by lymphocyte-specific genomic rearrangements. V(D)J recombination, class switch recombination (CSR), and somatic hypermutation (SHM) constitute complex and vulnerable processes that are orchestrated by a multit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： de Miranda NF,Björkman A,Pan-Hammarström Q

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sophisticated imaging and fetal sampling techniques have defined the natural history and pathophysiologic characteristics of many previously mysterious conditions of newborn. Although most prenatally diagnosed malformations are best managed by appropriate medical and surgical therapy after delivery, an increasing numb...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Albanese CT,Harrison MR

更新日期：1998-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The concepts of the ventral striatopallidal system and extended amygdala have significantly improved our understanding of basal forebrain organization. As a result of these and other advances during the last twenty years, many of the most prominent basal forebrain structures, including the nucleus accumbens, olfactory...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： de Olmos JS,Heimer L

更新日期：1999-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive, accurate, and simple method, called shifted termination assay (STA), was developed for detection of genetic mutations. The STA technology can be used to detect genetic mutations in polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified samples of tissue, and plasma and serum that include circulating DNA containing poi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shackelford W,Deng S,Murayama K,Wang J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is the product of the ob gene located in humans on chromosome 7q31.3. It is a 16-kDa protein named after the Greek "leptos," meaning lean, to indicate the function that this adipocyte-secreted protein was thought to have. Since its discovery, in fact, most of the research focused on the role of leptin in body-w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ghizzoni L,Mastorakos G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocular motor system provides several advantages for studying the brain, including well-defined populations of neurons that contribute to specific eye movements. Generation of rapid eye movements (saccades) depends on excitatory burst neurons (EBN) and omnipause neurons (OPN) within the brainstem, both types of cel...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eggers SD,Horn AK,Roeber S,Härtig W,Nair G,Reich DS,Leigh RJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukoplakia in the oral cavity has been used as a putative surrogate marker of head and neck cancer development. A class of chemoprevention compounds, called protease inhibitors, has been shown in vitro and in animal models to effectively suppress premalignant lesions. Bowman-Birk inhibitor (BBI) is a protease inhibit...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Meyskens FL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congestive heart failure (CHF) is characterized by neurohumoral excitation. Increased sympathetic drive and activation of the reninangiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), with vasoconstriction and volume retention, are hallmarks of the CHF syndrome. Treatment strategies have targeted the peripheral influences of these ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Felder RB,Francis J,Weiss RM,Zhang ZH,Wei SG,Johnson AK

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A generation of research in cognitive psychology has given rise to many tasks that tap at various aspects of attention. It is now widely agreed that attention is not a single thing and that its measurement needs a strategy to study each of its various aspects. While there is no widely agreed taxonomy of attentional op...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Posner MI

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three distinct pathological conditions, related to different means by which dense intralabyrinthine particles interfere with the function of a semicircular canal and cause nystagmus and vertigo, are amenable to treatment with repositioning maneuvers. Known as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and variants, these co...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Epley JM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substitution of T4 with T3 for T4 replacement in patients with hypothyroidism was undertaken using a randomized placebo controlled study design. Forty individuals were included who had depressive symptoms on stable doses of levothyroxine. Combined T4 plus T3 did not have a significantly different effect on mood and we...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Joffe RT,Sawka AM,Marriott MJ,MacQueen GM,Gernstein HC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four weeks immobilization of the right leg of aged rats (26 months old) caused a marked 31% and 27% reduction of muscle mass of the plantaris and soleus muscles, respectively. In animals treated with 0.6 mg/kg body weight of growth hormone (GH), the reduction of weight of the above muscles was only 14.7 and 16.1%, res...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Fares FA,Gruener N,Carmeli E,Reznick AZ

更新日期：1996-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphomannose isomerase (PMI), an enzyme not present in many plants, catalyzes the reversible interconversion of mannose 6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate. Plant cells lacking this enzyme are incapable of surviving on synthetic medium containing mannose. Thus PMI/mannose selection has utility in the identification...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Privalle LS

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although stress is tightly connected with elevated levels of catecholamines, stress effects on target structures of catecholamine action--adrenoceptors (ARs)--has not been deeply studied yet. Similarly, very little is known about changes of muscarinic receptors (MRs) during stress. We determined changes in these recep...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Myslivecek J,Tillinger A,Novakova M,Kvetnanský R

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) play an important role in various processes involved in regulating systemic blood pressure. These receptors are expressed at excitatory cholinergic synapses between sympathetic preganglionic neurons and postganglionic sympathetic neurons and link the integrative activities of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cooper E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols and tocotrienols (vitamin E) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) as well as the carotenoids react with free radicals, notably peroxyl radicals, and with singlet molecular oxygen (1O2), this being the basis of their function as antioxidants. RRR-alpha-tocopherol is the major peroxyl radical scavenger in biologica...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sies H,Stahl W,Sundquist AR

更新日期：1992-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial protein, staphylocoagulase, binds stoichiometrically to human prothrombin resulting in a coagulant complex, staphylothrombin. The enzymatic properties of staphylothrombin differ from those of alpha-thrombin in their substrate specificities toward natural and synthetic substrates, in addition to their interac...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kawabata S,Morita T,Miyata T,Kaida S,Igarashi H,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00