Are male reproductive disorders a common entity? The testicular dysgenesis syndrome.

abstract：:By using the selective ACE inhibitor captopril, we studied the effect of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) on larval growth, metamorphosis, and reproduction in a lepidopteran species, the cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis. Captopril was detrimental to adult formation and oviposition, and in female moths it ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vercruysse L,Gelman D,van de Velde S,Raes E,Hooghe B,Vermeirssen V,van Camp J,Smagghe G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New approaches to the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) have increased symptomatic relief and prolonged survival. PH is a common sequela of the hemoglobinopathies, but the use of standard oral treatment options is limited because of toxicity and poor effectiveness. Sildenafil citrate is a selective and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Derchi G,Forni GL

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Young songbirds memorize a tutor song and use the memory trace as a template to shape their own song by auditory feedback. Major issues in birdsong research include the neural sites and mechanisms for song memory and auditory feedback. The brain song control system contains neurons with both premotor and auditory func...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Konishi M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of traditional animal health care practices in Passoré province of Burkina Faso led to the characterization of 24 diseases, together with their local names, causes of their appearance, and their treatment. Most (95%) of the medicinal recipes used to treat affected animals were based on plants. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tamboura HH,Sawadogo LL,Kaboré H,Yameogo SM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, I describe the development of the Irie Classroom Toolbox, a school-based violence prevention, teacher training program for use with children aged 3-6 years. In-depth interviews were conducted with Jamaican preschool teachers, who had participated in a trial of a classroom behavior management program, at...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Baker-Henningham H

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general aim of this experiment was to investigate the processes involved in reading musical notation and to study the relationship between written music and its auditory representation. Our main interest was to determine if musicians can develop expectancies for plausible or implausible auditory events on the sole...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schön D,Besson M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this limited review, it has only been possible to highlight some of the more significant interactions of peptides with the blood-brain barrier. The literature has been reviewed extensively in recent years, and the major reviews are included in the references. Certainly one of the major outstanding problems is an el...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Begley DJ

更新日期：1994-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances have recently been made in understanding the regulation of Ca(2+)-ATPase by phospholamban and in modeling their structures. However, these insights would be furthered by determining the 3-D structure of both proteins within the membrane, thus revealing the structural basis for their interaction. T...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Young HS,Reddy LG,Jones LR,Stokes DL

更新日期：1998-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent literature providing insights from neuroscience and evolutionary biology into how individuals perceive risky choice situations represents a "second wave" of findings that recapitulates as well as challenges the risk perception research begun in the 1980s, which relied on psychometric survey research. Gleani...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Finkel AM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation was used to transform the methylotrophic bacterium Methylobacterium extorquens with broad-host-range plasmid pLA2917, which contains a gene specifying resistance to kanamycin. Plasmid DNA was introduced into M. extorquens in the presence of an electric pulse, and kanamycin-resistant transformants were ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ueda S,Matsumoto S,Shimizu S,Yamane T

更新日期：1991-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In red blood cells as well as in platelets there appears to be a decrease in adenine nucleotides during storage under blood bank conditions. This can be decreased by use of anticoagulant preservatives with higher phosphate content than the standard ACD solution, through the addition of adenine and inosine. Maintenance...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ambrus JL,Ambrus CM,Odake K,Mink IB,Shields R,Warner W,Bishop C,Tritsch GL,Golden G,Mittelman A

更新日期：1975-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve safety and health in the workplace, appropriate occupational health programs should be implemented utilizing expertise from multiple disciplines. In other words, the occupational health program should be a team effort. Expertise from all aspects of occupational health should be utilized, from the industrial...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Murthy LI

更新日期：1997-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of R. prowazekii in lice using R. prowazekii-specific qPCR cassettes showed the changes of the rickettsial burden in the lice post-infection. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rozmajzl PJ,Houhamdi L,Jiang J,Raoult D,Richards AL

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:The identification of sensitive assay formats capable of distinguishing islet autoreactive T cells directly ex vivo in blood is a major goal in type 1 diabetes research. Whereas much effort has been made to identify suitable assay formats, relatively little attention has been paid to optimizing the quality of cell pre...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tree TI,Roep BO,Peakman M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments, musically trained and untrained adults were tested on their ability to match spoken utterances with their tonal analogues (tone sequences that retained the pitch and temporal patterns of the utterances). In both cases, musical training was associated with superior performance, indicating an enhance...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Thompson WF,Schellenberg EG,Husain G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of immunodeficient mice engrafted with functional human immune systems and islets permits in vivo study of human diabetes without putting patients at risk. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Greiner DL,Brehm MA,Hosur V,Harlan DM,Powers AC,Shultz LD

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

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：:The public health implications of reducing or preventing the excess increase in blood pressure and the acquisition of obesity during childhood years are important. Many children with high blood pressure, particularly those who are initially obese or become obese as young adults and those with excess left ventricular m...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mahoney LT,Lauer RM,Lee J,Clarke WR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3, the active form of vitamin D3, induced maturation of circulating monocytes to form macrophage-epithelioid cells and multinucleated giant cells in vitro. Calcitriol not only promoted the differentiation of monocytes, as shown by the marked morphological changes and enhanced secretion of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ohta M,Okabe T,Ozawa K,Urabe A,Takaku F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidative modification of proteins by reactive species, especially reactive oxygen species, is implicated in the etiology or progression of a panoply of disorders and diseases. These reactive species form through a large number of physiological and non-physiological reactions. An increase in the rate of their prod...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stadtman ER,Levine RL

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Internuclear ophthalmoparesis (INO) is the most common saccadic eye movement disorder observed in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). It is characterized by slowing of the adducting eye during horizontal saccades, and most commonly results from a demyelinating lesion in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) with...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Frohman TC,Davis SL,Frohman EM

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Clinical and experimental gerontologists are extremely interested in lipoproteins as well as in new methods for investigating and probing the apolipoprotein pattern. Using immunofixation electrophoresis, we separated free apolipoprotein A-1 from the apo A-1 associated with high-density lipoproteins. Free apolipoprotei...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Giunta S,Maddalena-Peruzzi A,Gaudio MR,Semprini A

更新日期：1992-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of mtDNA types common to Asians and Amerinds (types A, B, C, and D) forced investigators to search for those nations of Asia which, though not considered the ancestors of the Amerinds, have retained a close genetic resemblance with them. We collected samples and studied the gene pools of the Turkic-speak...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zakharov IA,Derenko MV,Maliarchuk BA,Dambueva IK,Dorzhu CM,Rychkov SY

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of expression of human class II MHC genes has been studied in lymphoid and melanoma cells. Specific unmethylation of all restriction sites nearby the promoter regions has been detected in all cell lines and tissues studied, irrespective of their ability to express class II MHC products. The main functional...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gambari R,Barbieri R,Piva R,Tecce R,Fisher PB,Giacomini P,Natali PG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic value of thymectomy for myasthenia is still questioned although it retains an important place among management modalities that strive for sustained remission. Questions derive from uncertainty as to appropriate timing, variable extent of resection and quantitation of response. Forty-seven patients, fol...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Penn AS,Jaretzki A 3rd,Wolff M,Chang HW,Tennyson V

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elderly, often defined as those 65 years or older, are the most rapidly growing segment of the population, and onset of epilepsy is higher in this age group than in any other. This paper reviews recent developments, including a new proposed definition of epilepsy, a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leppik IE,Birnbaum AK

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00