Prospects for single-molecule information-processing devices for the next paradigm.

abstract：:This article analyzes the serum cytokine profile of a nonrandomized group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who are destined to be treated with infliximab following failure after failure of different disease-modifiying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Serial serum samples were colle...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Amital H,Barak V,Winkler RE,Rubinow A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of neurons in the basal ganglia is severely disrupted in Parkinson's disease (PD). In nonhuman parkinsonian primate models, the disturbance in neurons in basal ganglia output structures include increased firing, bursting, an augmented synchrony, correlated activity, and a tendency towards loss of specific...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hamani C,Lozano AM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a heterogeneous and progressive neurodegenerative disease which in Western societies mainly accounts for clinical dementia. A high proportion of women are affected by this disease, especially at a very advanced age, which might to a large extent be associated with the fact that women live l...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Candore G,Balistreri CR,Grimaldi MP,Vasto S,Listì F,Chiappelli M,Licastro F,Lio D,Caruso C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) is a multifunctional cell surface aminopeptidase with ubiquitous expression and it has a variety of functional properties in the development of human malignancies. In the present study, we showed the possible correlation between DPPIV/CD26 expression and less migratory potential with de...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kajiyama H,Shibata K,Terauchi M,Ino K,Nawa A,Kikkawa F

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of either short-term fasting or vitamin E administration on insulin action was studied in two groups of obese Type 2 diabetic patients. Twelve patients underwent 7 days of fasting (group A), whereas 600 mg of vitamin E was administered daily during 3 months in 9 diabetic patients (group B). Insulin actio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Skrha J,Sindelka G,Hilgertová J

更新日期：1997-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell nucleus is a prominent target of autoantibodies in systemic autoimmune disorders. Approximately 2% of the population in Europe and North America suffers from systemic rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and scleroderma. The molecular mechanisms of systemic aut...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chen M,von Mikecz A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty in exposure assessment and uncertainty in kinetic models of early effects after exposure to a toxin are addressed in this paper. Sources of uncertainty in the determination of exposure of workers in chemical industry exposed to dioxins are exhibited and a simple kinetic model for biomonitor measurements of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Edler L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplasma phagocytophilum (A. phagocytophilum, formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophila) is a tick-borne pathogen responsible for tick-borne fever in ruminants, equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis (EGE) in horses, canine granulocytic ehrlichiosis (CGE) in dogs, and for human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE). Human cases have bee...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alberti A,Sparagano OA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) capable of "neutralizing" or "inhibiting" immune responses have been described. This review will focus on the properties of phosphorothioate ODN that mimic the immunosuppressive activity of the repetitive TTAGGG motifs present in mammalian telomeres. These TTAGGG multimers block t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Klinman DM,Tross D,Klaschik S,Shirota H,Sato T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with probable Alzheimer's disease were either stimulated with a continuous visual recognition task (n = 18) or with a continuous auditory recognition task during PET measurement with 18 FDG. The PET scanner was a Siemens CTI, ECAT EXACT with 5 mm transaxial and 6 mm axial resolution. The global stimulation ef...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kessler J,Ghaemi M,Mielke R,Herholz K,Heiss WD

更新日期：1996-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of a transdisciplinary research method--Quali-Quantitative Analysis (QQA)--for delivering better evidence for healthy aging is explored. Illustrative reviews from the literature on healthy aging are summarized, as are papers on methodology by Charles Ragin and colleagues. The evidence needs for healthy a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bell E

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the Big Data to Knowledge initiative is to develop methods for discovering new knowledge from large amounts of data. However, if the resulting knowledge is so large that it resists comprehension, referred to here as Big Knowledge (BK), how can it be used properly and creatively? We call this secondary c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Perl Y,Geller J,Halper M,Ochs C,Zheng L,Kapusnik-Uner J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the flight experiment, supporting ground science, and the design rationale for a project on spaceflight holography investigation in a virtual apparatus (SHIVA). SHIVA is a fundamental study of particle dynamics in fluids in microgravity. Gravitation effects and steady Stokes drag often dominate th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Trolinger JD,L'Esperance D,Rangel RH,Coimbra CF,Witherow WK

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein crystallization has been studied in presence or absence of buoyancy-driven convection. Gravity-driven flow was created, or suppressed, in protein solutions by means of vertically directed density gradients that were caused by generating suitable temperature gradients. The presence of enhanced mixing was demons...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nanev CN,Penkova A,Chayen N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain better insight into mass transfer problems in encapsulated cell systems requires a combination of experimental investigations and mathematical modeling. Specific mass transfer studies are reviewed including oxygen transfer in immobilized animal cell culture bioreactors, modeling of polymer droplet formation an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goosen MF

更新日期：1999-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of this study suggest that reperfusion of ischemic myocardium may lead to the peroxisomal disorder both functionally and biochemically. An alkyl glycerol such as chimyl alcohol can protect the ischemic heart from the reperfusion injury probably by enhancing the plasmalogen synthesis. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Maulik N,Tosaki A,Engelman RM,Cordis GA,Das DK

更新日期：1994-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor is a polypeptide belonging to a family of natural proteins also known as heparin-binding growth factors endowed with a pleiotropism of biological activities, the most striking of which are related to wound healing. Large quantities of recombinant human basic fibroblast growth factor (rh-...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mazué G,Bertolero F,Jacob C,Sarmientos P,Roncucci R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine (METH), a highly addictive drug, can cause degeneration of monoaminergic terminals and neuronal apoptosis in the mammalian brain. In the present article, we have used serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) to investigate patterns of gene expression in the striata of rats that were given a neurotoxic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cai NS,McCoy MT,Ladenheim B,Lyles J,Ali SF,Cadet JL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, the Firefighters' Burn Treatment Unit of the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has treated 1399 inpatients suffering from thermal injury. Regional burn care is provided in a 10-bed intensive care unit with 18 plastic surgery reconstructive beds for a large referral regi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tredget EE,Shankowsky HA,Tilley WA

更新日期：1999-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the five enzyme complexes in the oxidative phosphorylation system, NADH-coenzyme Q oxidoreductase (also called complex I) is the largest, most intricate, and least understood. This enzyme complex spans the inner mitochondrial membrane and catalyzes the first step of electron transfer by the oxidation of NADH, an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lin BY,Kao MC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms controlling ATP generation in the transition from normal resting conditions to either high work states or ischemia are poorly understood. ATP generation depends upon compartmentation between the mitochondria and cytosol of metabolic pathways and key energy transfer species that cannot be easily assessed...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhou L,Yu X,Cabrera ME,Stanley WC

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different estrogen-3-sulfates (estrone-3-sulfate, estradiol-3-sulfate, and estriol-3-sulfate) can provoke important biologic responses in different mammary cancer cell lines; there is a significant increase in progesterone receptor. However, no significant effect was observed with estrogen-17-sulfates. The reason for ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pasqualini JR,Gelly C,Nguyen BL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been interested in the consequences of foreign DNA insertion into established mammalian genomes and have initially studied this problem in adenovirus type 12 (Ad12)-transformed cells or in Ad12-induced hamster tumors. Since integrates are frequently methylated de novo, it appears that they might be modified by...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Doerfler W,Hohlweg U,Müller K,Remus R,Heller H,Hertz J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylic-polyuridylic acid complexes (poly A:U) at the 1-5 mu g level, were mitogenic for spleen cells when given intravenously to normal Balb or cortisone-treated mice. Similarly, mitogenicity was evident when poly A:U was added to tissue culture fluids containing spleen cells from normal or cortisone-treated mic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Han IH,Johnson AG

更新日期：1975-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid cooling of small samples is necessary both to cryofixation for electron microscopy and to vitrification for cryopreservation. Several effects on the cooling rates of small samples quenched into liquid nitrogen were studied, including the diameter of samples, the subcooling of liquid nitrogen, the quenching speed...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cao Q,Hua TC

更新日期：1998-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF beta is a cytokine which is involved with the regulation of different aspects of host defense responses to injury. Overexpression of TGF beta can lead to the conversion of its protective functions to pathogenetic manifestations. TGF beta is a potent factor in promoting anabolic aspects in connective tissue metabol...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lotz M,Seth P

更新日期：1993-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In keeping with the inflammatory paradigm of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) pathophysiology, in vitro studies suggest that aneurysms secrete the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6). Circulating IL-6 levels are higher in patients with AAA with elevated circulating IL-6 an independent risk factor for cardiova...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dawson J,Cockerill G,Choke E,Loftus I,Thompson MM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports on patients with hemiparalysis indicate the importance of the nervous system for the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or osteoarthritis (OA). Norepinephrine (NE) and opioids seem to be more antiinflammatory neurotransmitters whereas substance P is proinflammatory. The study aimed to investigate the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Miller LE,Wessinghage D,Müller-Ladner U,Schölmerich J,Falk W,Kerner T,Straub RH

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypomethylation signifies one end of a spectrum of DNA methylation states. In most cases hypomethylation refers to a relative state that represents a change from the "normal" methylation level. Hypomethylation, when approached from a topographical perspective, has been used to describe either overall decreases in the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dunn BK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine (METH) is a major drug of abuse in the United States. A high dose of METH given to mice and rats causes long-lasting depletion of tyrosine hydroxylase activity, dopamine (DA), and DA-transporter (DAT) binding sites in the striatum. In human METH-abusers, a marked decrease of the DAT in the caudate puta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Itzhak Y,Ali SF

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00