Neural mechanisms for the control of vergence eye movements.

abstract：:Elevated circulating levels of glucocorticoids are associated with psychiatric symptoms across several different conditions. It remains unknown if this hormonal abnormality is a cause or an effect of the psychiatric conditions. For example, the hypercortisolemia observed in a subset of patients with depression may hav...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wolkowitz OM,Burke H,Epel ES,Reus VI

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While each region of the world faces unique public health challenges, environmental threats to vulnerable populations in Asia constitute a significant global public health challenge. Environmental threats to health are widespread and are increasing as nations in the region undergo rapid industrial development. One of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Suk WA,Davis EA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CDP-choline was given to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) at a daily dose of 1000 mg/day p.o. for one month. This compound slightly improved mental performance, tended to reduce theta activity in fronto-temporal regions, increasing alpha power in occipital areas, and enhanced cerebrovascular perfusion by increas...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cacabelos R,Caamaño J,Gómez MJ,Fernández-Novoa L,Franco-Maside A,Alvarez XA

更新日期：1996-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the complete genome sequences of the Nine Mile, K, and G isolates to improve our understanding of the unique virulence properties of C. burnetii and to provide important insight into the genome architecture and genetic diversity of this pathogen. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beare PA,Porcella SF,Seshadri R,Samuel JE,Heinzen RA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional and thiophosphonate-derivatized oligonucleotides were employed to specifically regulate functional gene expression in murine T-cell hybridomas. For example, induction of apoptotic cell death following activation of T-cell hybridomas was examined using antisense oligonucleotides corresponding to several pr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Green DR,Zheng H,Shi Y

更新日期：1992-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac afferent neurons are activated in the setting of myocardial ischemia and mediate the sensation of angina. However, the precise stimuli and receptive molecules responsible are not completely understood. To further investigate the molecular components involved, cardiac afferents were isolated in dissociated cult...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Benson CJ,Sutherland SP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Music-supported therapy (MST) has been developed recently to improve the use of the affected upper extremity after stroke. MST uses musical instruments, an electronic piano and an electronic drum set emitting piano sounds, to retrain fine and gross movements of the paretic upper extremity. In this paper, we first desc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rodriguez-Fornells A,Rojo N,Amengual JL,Ripollés P,Altenmüller E,Münte TF

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the c-Myc transcription factor in neoplastic transformation is well documented. However, which of its numerous target genes are crucial for tumorigenesis remains a frequently contested issue. We have recently established a non-transgenic murine model for B-cell lymphoma based on neoplastic conversio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yu D,Cozma D,Park A,Thomas-Tikhonenko A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of waist circumference and sagittal diameter as surrogate measures of visceral fat were assessed using preliminary cross-sectional data from the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study, a cohort of 3,075 men and women aged 70-79. Weight, body mass index, waist circumference, waist/thigh ratio, and sagitt...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Harris TB,Visser M,Everhart J,Cauley J,Tylavsky F,Fuerst T,Zamboni M,Taaffe D,Resnick HE,Scherzinger A,Nevitt M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are used to thinking of mathematics as a symbolic activity. Here I argue that it may also be seen as a performative one. Making an analogy with music, I draw attention to the ways in which mathematics may not only be written down but also played out. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wertheim M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays a key role in excessive bone loss in conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and periodontitis. An important paradigm in immunology is that inflammatory factors activate feedback inhibition mechanisms to restrain inflammation and limit associated tissue damage. We hypothesized that inflammatory fact...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ivashkiv LB,Zhao B,Park-Min KH,Takami M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary adrenal pheochromocytoma is caused by germline mutations in RET, VHL, SDHB, SDHD, and NF1. As these genes differ in function, so may their pheochromocytoma phenotypes, suggesting gene-specific patterns of age-related progression to pheochromocytoma. This possibility was explored for gene carriers with a lif...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Machens A,Brauckhoff M,Gimm O,Dralle H

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photochemical smog is caused by a free-radical chain mechanism which converts NO to NO2. The NO2 further reacts to produce ozone, nitric acid, and peracylnitrates. This chain mechanism can be inhibited by suitable free-radical scavengers. The chemistry and toxicology of one such free-radical scavenger, diethylhydroxyl...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Heicklen J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytes play a major role in several diseases. In particular mononuclear phagocyte-derived foam cells have a prominent role in the development of the atherosclerotic lesions. Macrophages are present in all stages of atherogenesis; they internalize lipoproteins and accumulate cholesterol. Moreover, lipid-filled macr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Paoletti R,Bellosta S,Bernini F

更新日期：1997-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the history of science, technical advances often precede periods of rapid accumulation of knowledge. Within the past three decades, discoveries that enabled the noninvasive measurement of the psychobiology of stress (in saliva) have added new dimensions to the study of health and human development. This widespread ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Granger DA,Kivlighan KT,el-Sheikh M,Gordis EB,Stroud LR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated different behavioral parameters in ICR (CD1) female mice of three different ages (38-39 weeks: mature; 62 weeks: late mature; 90 weeks: old), and addressed the effects of an enriched housing condition. We employed the following battery of tests: Holeboard, open field, elevated plus-maze (EPM), and fo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zambrana C,Marco EM,Arranz L,de Castro NM,Viveros MP,de la Fuente M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conclusion, 5-HT has been shown to contract both circular and longitudinal muscle layers of human terminal ileum. By the use of selective antagonists, the receptors mediating these actions have been identified. In the circular muscle of human small intestine, 5-HT-induced contraction is mediated via a receptor of t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Borman RA,Burleigh DE

更新日期：1997-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclasts are cells of monocyte-macrophage origin that degrade bone matrix. Receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand (RANKL) induces osteoclast formation in the presence of macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) and costimulatory signals. RANKL induces activation of the TNF receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Takayanagi H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phyloproteomics indicate common viral origin from ancient cells before archaea, bacteria, and eukaryota split and subsequent size and complexity reductions occurred. Further independent evidence for the cellular origin of viruses is reviewed for the virus order Megavirales, focusing on the family Poxviridae. Megaviral...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Seligmann H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to immunochemically identify a coronin-like protein in Babesia bovis, B. bigemina, B. divergens, and B. canis. A 2-kbp cDNA insert of B. bovis carried by plasmid BvN9 was sequenced by the dideoxichain-termination method on both strands. The cDNA insert contained a 1719-bp long open readi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Figueroa JV,Precigout E,Carcy B,Gorenflot A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the two first cases of human ehrlichiosis described in Italy. One patient presented symptoms indicative of ehrlichiosis, such as fever, conjunctivitis, and increase of hepatic enzymes; HGE was confirmed by fourfold seroconversion for HGE antigen. The second patient, a forest worker, was affected by Lyme...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ruscio M,Cinco M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we measured the lymphocyte levels of proteins involved in apoptosis regulation, such as Bcl-2, the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), caspase-3, and Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (Cu/Zn SOD), in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), either untreated or under therapy with dopaminergic agents (l-Dop...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Blandini F,Mangiagalli A,Cosentino M,Marino F,Samuele A,Rasini E,Fancellu R,Martignoni E,Riboldazzi G,Calandrella D,Frigo GM,Nappi G

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-month-old Swiss mice were allocated into three groups: (A) control; (B) infected group; and (C) infected but treated with 5 mg of the phytocompound MMT. Mice were infected intranasally with 30 microL of 75 HA viral units. MMT markedly blunted the nasal signs of virus infection and the febrile response. Formazan...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cervi J,Marotta F,Bater C,Masulair K,Minelli E,Harada M,Marandola P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV-1) infection is characterized by increased immune cell apoptosis. Apoptosis can be triggered by signals that arise from within the cell, or by signals that are elicited by binding of extracellular "death ligands" to their "death receptors," most of which belong to the tumor nec...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pinti M,Nasi M,Moretti L,Mussini C,Petrusca D,Esposito R,Cossarizza A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells can be separated from cells which provided radioprotection (short-term repopulating cells) on the basis of size. This might be a result of the quiescent nature of long-term repopulating cells. To define the activity of these populations we utilized a dye, PKH26, which in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lanzkron SM,Collector MI,Sharkis SJ

更新日期：1999-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Our studies of Ca2+ release have shown that three classes of compounds--quercetin, which inhibits Ca2+ release by reversal of the Ca2+ pump, H+ ionophores and DCCD, which affect proton gradients, and lipophilic anions, which act to oppose a separation of membrane surface charges--all have potential in probing the mech...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： MacLennan DH,Shoshan V,Wood DS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the study reported in this paper, we characterized PACAP in the human fetal adrenal gland and we investigated the effect of PACAP on steroid secretion from cultured fetal adrenal cells. The adrenal gland from 20-week-old fetuses contained substantial concentrations of PACAP-immunoreactive material (88.6 ng/g wet ti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Breault L,Yon L,Montéro M,Chouinard L,Contesse V,Delarue C,Fournier A,Lehoux JG,Vaudry H,Gallo-Payet N

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular biological approach has provided important information toward understanding the complexities of the F0F1 ATPase. This article focuses on our recent results on the ATPase catalytic site contained in the beta subunit and the role of the gamma subunit in regulation of proton transport. We used a combination...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nakamoto RK,Shin K,Iwamoto A,Omote H,Maeda M,Futai M

更新日期：1992-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junctions (TJs) regulate paracellular barriers and claudins (Cld) form the backbone of TJ strands. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of claudin polymer formation, TJs were reconstituted by claudin transfection of TJ-free HEK293 cells. Therewith, typical TJ stands can be found at cell-cell contacts. In additio...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rossa J,Lorenz D,Ringling M,Veshnyakova A,Piontek J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tissue injury can evoke significant hyperalgesia in infants from the first days of life, little is known about how injury affects emergent central pain networks at the synaptic level. Recent studies have investigated whether tissue damage at different ages has distinct consequences for synaptic function in th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Baccei ML

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00