Pathological findings of HIV-associated cardiovascular disease.

abstract：:Autophagy is a major intracellular pathway for the degradation and recycling of long-lived proteins and cytoplasmic organelles. Like apoptotic programmed cell death, autophagy is an essential part of growth regulation and maintenance of homeostasis in multicellular organisms. Autophagic vacuole formation is also activ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kelekar A

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Gypsy/Ty3 retrotransposons, a group of long terminal repeat retrotransposons related to vertebrate retroviruses, are found in the genome of many fungi, plants, and animals. Although multiple families of such retroelements are present in fish, active Gypsy/Ty3 retrotransposons have all been eliminated from the lineage ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Volff JN

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid diffusion experiments conducted on the MIR space station using the Canadian Space Agency QUELD II processing facility and the microgravity isolation mount (MIM) showed that g-jitter significantly increased the measured solute diffusion coefficients. In some experiments, milli-g forced vibration was superimposed...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Smith RW,Yang BJ,Huang WD

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro clonal analyses were performed to gain insight into the mechanisms that control development of neural crest-derived cardiac outflow tract mesenchyme of quail embryos. The cardiac neural crest originates from the posterior rhombencephalic neural tube. The cells leave the neural tube and migrate through the pos...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sieber-Blum M,Ito K

更新日期：1995-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Though several studies show that genetic factors influence individual differences in musical engagement, aptitude, and achievement, no study to date has investigated whether specialization among musically active individuals in terms of choice of instrument and genre is heritable. Using a large twin cohort, we explored...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mosing MA,Ullén F

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most remarkable aspects of the immune system is its ability to fashion an immune response most appropriate to the activating stimulus. Although the immune system possesses a number of adaptations to accomplish this, an important theme is local immune regulation by site-specific expression of receptors and l...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Shao L,Allez M,Park MS,Mayer L

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amyloid-beta protein (A beta), strongly implicated in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), is formed from the amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) through sequential proteolysis by beta- and gamma-secretases. Cleavage by gamma-secretase takes place within the middle of the single transmembrane region of APP a...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Moore CL,Diehl TS,Selkoe DJ,Wolfe MS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-carotene acts as an antioxidant or a pro-oxidant depending on the concentrations that cells are treated with. Oxidative DNA damage is related to apoptosis of various cells. Ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated (ATM), a sensor for DNA-damaging agents, activates a variety of effectors in multiple signaling pathways, such ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jang SH,Lim JW,Kim H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The processing of pitch, a central aspect of music perception, is neurally dissociable from other perceptual functions. Studies using behavioral-lesion techniques as well as brain imaging methods demonstrate that tonal processing recruits mechanisms in areas of the right auditory cortex. Specifically, the right primar...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zatorre RJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances have been made over the past few years concerning the cellular and molecular events underlying neuron death. Recently, it is becoming increasingly clear that some of genes induced during cerebral ischemia may actually serve to rescue the cell from death. However, the injured cell may not be capabl...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yenari MA,Dumas TC,Sapolsky RM,Steinberg GK

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of therapeutic trials of transfer factor in a number of laboratories suggest clinical benefit and enhancement of immunological reactivity in patients with primary or secondary immunodeficiency diseases. Long term follow-up of 32 patients with the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome suggested that transfer factor caused c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Spitler LE

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue engineering (TE) approaches are being widely investigated for repair of focal defects in articular cartilage. However, the amount and/or type of extracellular matrix (ECM) produced in engineered constructs does not always correlate with the resultant mechanical properties. This could be related to the specifics...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Karchner JP,Querido W,Kandel S,Pleshko N

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) and oxidative stress (OS) contribute to the development and progression of diabetic complications. We have reported that dietary AGEs and OS induce acute endothelial dysfunction in vivo, but little is known about their effects on adipokines. Twenty inpatients with type 2 diabetes ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stirban A,Negrean M,Götting C,Uribarri J,Gawlowski T,Stratmann B,Kleesiek K,Koschinsky T,Vlassara H,Tschoepe D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is a "tripartite" synapse, composed of three cellular elements: the presynaptic nerve terminal, the postsynaptic specialization, and synapse-associated glial cells, called perisynaptic Schwann cells (PSCs; also called terminal Schwann cells). During development, PSCs grow be...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feng Z,Ko CP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite short halflife in biological fluids, nitric oxide (NO) can produce remote or long lasting effect in the cardiovascular system. Long distance transport or local storage of NO might explain these effects. In blood, recent findings suggest that in addition to being a major consumption pathway, interaction of NO w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Muller B,Kleschyov AL,Alencar JL,Vanin A,Stoclet JC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the translational vestibulo-ocular reflex (tVOR) in four healthy human subjects during complex, unpredictable sum-of-sines head motion (combination of 0.73, 1.33, 1.93, and 2.93 Hz), while subjects viewed a target 15 cm away. Ideal eye velocity was calculated from recorded head motion; actual eye velocity w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Walker M,Liao K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of thrombin in the pathogenesis in atherosclerosis and restenosis. First we examined the effect of thrombin on cultured human vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). We showed that thrombin acts as a mitogen on VSMC through thrombin receptor. The expression of thrombin receptor was increased in t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Maruyama I,Shigeta K,Miyahara H,Nakajima T,Shin H,Ide S,Kitajima I

更新日期：1997-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat striatal synaptosomes showed a reduced capacity to generate a membrane potential after being exposed to methamphetamine (METH) for 1 h. As a consequence, the dopamine (DA) synaptosomes were impeded in their electrogenic-dependent reuptake of dopamine. The capacity for METH-exposed nerve terminals to generate a mem...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Westphalen RI,Stadlin A

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor p53 is a phosphoprotein barely detectable in the nucleus of normal cells. Upon cellular stress, particularly that induced by DNA damage, p53 can arrest cell cycle progression, thus allowing the DNA to be repaired; or it can lead to apoptosis. These functions are achieved, in part, by the transacti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Soussi T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial dysfunction is a common characteristic of all neurodegenerative diseases. However, the cause of this dysfunction remains a mystery. Here, we discuss the potential role of mitochondrial fission and fusion in the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Specifically, we propose that an imbalanc...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Knott AB,Bossy-Wetzel E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:9-beta-D-Arabinofuranosyladenine 5'-triphosphate (ara-ATP) is an inhibitor both of DNA polymerase-alpha and -beta from noninfected rabbit kidney cells and of the DNA-dependent DNA polymerase induced by herpes simplex virus Type 1 (strain IES). The studies were performed with partially purified enzymes, and each of the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Müller WE,Zahn RK,Bittlingmaier K,Falke D

更新日期：1977-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The current status of gene transfer experiments indicates that it is possible to provide (1) safe and efficient retroviral packaging lines for gene transfer; and (2) vectors containing the human beta-globin genes and selectable marker genes which can be transmitted into erythroid cells and are appropriately expressed....

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bank A,Markowitz D,Lerner N

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discussed the bonding of O2 to hemoglobin using results of ab initio calculations of idealized portions of the Hb molecule. The bond between Fe and O2 is formed by coupling a triplet state (intermediate spin state) of Fe to the triplet ground state of O2 (analogous to the bonding of O to O2 in ozone). The coordinat...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goddard WA 3rd,Olafson BD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate a novel third-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the high-sensitivity detection of autoantibodies to proteinase-3 (PR3) in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG). First- and second-generation ELISA for the detection of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Roggenbuck D,Buettner T,Hoffmann L,Schmechta H,Reinhold D,Conrad K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TT virus (TTV) is a recently described circular DNA virus of about 3.8 kb, which is related to the circoviridae viruses. It is commonly detected in healthy subjects and no association with any specific disease has been established. TTV was initially thought to be hepatotropic, but subsequent reports have shown that it...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zhong S,Yeo W,Tang MW,Lin XR,Mo F,Ho WM,Hui P,Johnson PJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensory and hedonic evaluation of most food-related flavors is mainly dependent on olfactory perception. The sense of smell is able to recognize and discriminate myriads of airborne molecules with great accuracy and sensitivity. The primary processes of odor perception are mediated by the chemosensory olfactory ne...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Breer H

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surprising discovery in 1990 that estrogen modulates hippocampal structural plasticity launched a whole new field of scientific inquiry. Over the past two decades, estrogen-induced spinogenesis has been described in several brain areas involved in cognition in a number of species, in both sexes and on multiple tim...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dumitriu D,Rapp PR,McEwen BS,Morrison JH

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last years, El Sistema--the Venezuelan project started in 1975 and now acknowledged worldwide as the most significant example of collective music education--has inspired a profusion of remarkable initiatives on all continents. From the original impulse by founder José Antonio Abreu, strong social principles o...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Majno M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uteroglobin, a steroid-inducible, cytokine-like, secreted protein with immunomodulatory properties, has been reported to bind progesterone, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), and retinol. Structural studies may delineate whether binding of ligands is a likely physiological function of human uteroglobin (hUG). We report ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pattabiraman N,Matthews JH,Ward KB,Mantile-Selvaggi G,Miele L,Mukherjee AB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00