Fibrinogen Longmont. A heterozygous abnormal fibrinogen with B beta Arg-166 to Cys substitution associated with defective fibrin polymerization.

abstract：:Blood-borne beta-amyloids (A beta s) could affect brain function by (1) crossing the BBB to directly interact with brain tissues or (2) altering BBB function by interacting with the brain capillaries that make up the BBB. Several radioactively labeled A beta s have been examined for such interactions. Blood-borne A be...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Banks WA,Kastin AJ,Maness LM,Banks MF,Shayo M,McLay RN

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of animal and mathematical models for several forms of acquired nystagmus has led to more comprehensive knowledge of these disorders. In the best understood forms, such as periodic alternating nystagmus, our range of knowledge includes an animal model, the neurotransmitters involved, and effective trea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leigh RJ,Das VE,Seidman SH

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing limb or differentiating neural and blood cells are traditional models used to study programmed cell death in mammals. The developing mouse dentition can also be an attractive model for studying apoptosis regulation. Apoptosis is most extant during early odontogenesis in mice. The embryonic tooth pattern is ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Peterková R,Peterka M,Lesot H

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:A diverse array of organisms live longer under dietary restriction. Here, a hypothesis is proposed as a framework for interpreting this phenomenon. Dietary restriction is explained in terms of evolution and antagonistic pleiotropy. Focusing on the decline in reproductive capacity seen in dietary restriction, it is sub...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koochmeshgi J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) causes neuronal degeneration and, at a late stage, creates HIV-associated dementia (HAD) and other neurological abnormalities. Therefore, the need for neuroprotective agents is great. However, therapeutic agents that reduce HIV neurotoxicity are difficult to characterize and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mocchetti I,Nosheny RL,Tanda G,Ren K,Meyer EM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticosteroids have potent immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory effects. Although corticosteroids are an important weapon in the clinical arsenal for treating inflammatory episodes, the mechanisms underlying the actions and regulation of endogenous corticosteroids remain obscure. In the late 1980s and early 1990s,...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Harbuz MS,Chover-Gonzalez AJ,Jessop DS

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass production of Ehrlichia ruminantium variants from different regions of sub-Saharan Africa is one of the difficulties that must be overcome in producing a heartwater vaccine. Vaccine productivity can be limited by endogenous induction of interferon (IFN), which inhibits the propagation of Ehrlichia ruminantium (ER...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pedregal A,de Sousa DR,Nguyen HN,das Neves EA,Lowagie S,Marique T,Kagye N,Guerra IT,Kamba Y,Totte P,Vachiéry N,Lefrançois T,Martinez D,Yourassowsky C,Callens N,Monnom O,Dubois F,Wérenne J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This volume provides a small sampling of the rapidly growing science of cancer immunology. Growth in the field includes advances on the requirements for immunization or vaccination and the ways in which immunity can be suppressed or blocked, including active tumor-based mechanisms. I would like to introduce the papers...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Steinman RM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Now that the human genome has been mapped, a new challenge has emerged: deciphering the various products of individual genes. Consequently, new proteomic technologies are being developed to monitor and identify protein function and interactions responsible for the total activities of the cell. The application of these...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Leak LV,Petricoin EF 3rd,Jones M,Paweletz CP,Ardekani AM,Fusaro VA,Ross S,Liotta LA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured plasma concentration of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), a proopiomelanocortin derivative that modulates pyrogenic and proinflammatory effects of cytokines, in infectious and inflammatory disorders in humans to learn if changes in this peptide take place in naturally occurring disease. alp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Catania A,Airaghi L,Garofalo L,Cutuli M,Lipton JM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microgravity experiments on the constrained vapor bubble heat exchanger (CVB) are being developed for the space station. Herein, ground-based experimental studies on condensate removal in the condenser region of the vertical CVB were conducted and the mechanism of condensate removal in microgravity was found to be the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zheng L,Wang Y,Wayner PC Jr,Plawsky JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperprolactinemia is often observed in lymphocytic hypophysitis (LYH). To clarify the possible autoimmune pituitary involvement in patients with apparently idiopathic hyperprolactinemia we investigated the presence of antipituitary antibodies (APA) in hyperprolactinemic patients with idiopathic hyperprolactinemia and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Bellis A,Colao A,Pivonello R,Savoia A,Battaglia M,Ruocco G,Tirelli G,Lombardi G,Bellastella A,Bizzarro A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(a) The PR elicited by excitotoxic destruction of intrinsic neurons in the CN has a rapid onset, peaks within 2 weeks, and persists indefinitely; (b) the majority of the proliferating cells are not intrinsic to the CNS but are of hematic origin; (c) a small mirror-image response is seen in the contralateral CN; (d) th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Katz IR,Iacovitti L,Reis DJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term exposure to cadmium (Cd) induces perturbation of kidney proximal tubular epithelial cells. Mitochondrial dysfunction in renal cortical cells may contribute to the pathogenesis of Cd-induced nephropathy. In this study, we examined the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) with a large deletion and cellula...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Takaki A,Jimi S,Segawa M,Iwasaki H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that a central even in the early pathogenesis of sporadic Alzheimer disease (SAD) is the dysfunction of the neuronal insulin receptor signal transduction. To prove this, this receptor was inhibited by a triplicate icv application of STZ. Insulin binding sites were upregulated as in SAD. With r...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hoyer S,Lee SK,Löffler T,Schliebs R

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex clinical entity. In contrast to previously limited diagnostic definitions, it is now apparent that COPD is a clinically and biologically heterogeneous disease process, overlapping with other airways diseases like chronic asthma. As such, symptomatic response to...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rooney C,Sethi T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in postmenopausal women have reported that estrogen treatment (ET) modulates the risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). It has recently been hypothesized that there may be a "critical period" around the time of menopause during which the prescription of ET may reduce the risk of developing AD i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Craig MC,Murphy DG

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Seleno-glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx) is considered to be the major enzymatic activity in charge of removing excess cytosolic and mitochondrial H2O2 in most tissues including brain. Intracellular GSHPx activity is therefore hypothesized to be one important factor that contributes to minimize hydroxyl radical formation...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mirault ME,Tremblay A,Furling D,Trepanier G,Dugre F,Puymirat J,Pothier F

更新日期：1994-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the E(2) --> E(1) conformational change of unphosphorylated Na(+),K(+)-ATPase from rabbit kidney were investigated via the stopped-flow technique using the fluorescent label RH421 (pH 7.4, 24 degrees C). The enzyme was preequilibrated in a solution containing 25 mM histidine and 0.1 mM EDTA to initiall...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Clarke RJ,Humphrey PA,Lüpfert C,Apell HJ,Cornelius F

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for esophageal cancer include genetic factors (such as tylosis) and infectious agents. A variety of organisms have been implicated in esophageal carcinogenesis, either directly or indirectly. In this review, we explore the normal esophageal flora and how it may be controlled, and also the variety of organ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： El-Zimaity H,Di Pilato V,Novella Ringressi M,Brcic I,Rajendra S,Langer R,Dislich B,Tripathi M,Guindi M,Riddell R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odorant receptors are thought to be critical determinants of olfactory sensory neuron axon targeting and organization. Nonetheless, a systematic characterization of the onset of odorant receptor expression has not yet been done in the main olfactory epithelium. Here, we briefly review our current understanding regardi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rodriguez-Gil DJ,Treloar HB,Miller A,Two A,Iwema C,Greer CA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of quail eggs 4 hr per day during the first 5 incubation days at 2450 MHz and in an exposure field of 30 mW/cm-2 and at an absorbed power of 14 mW/g does not cause any great change in body weight, observed gross malformations, rbc, wbc, hematocrit, hemoglobin, or differential wbc percentages. If small differe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： McRee DI,Hamrick PE,Zinkl J,Thaxton P,Parkhurst CR

更新日期：1975-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The endometrial effects of vaginal progesterone have been found to be unexpectedly reliable. This has led us to suspect that a local direct vagina-to-uterus transport or first uterine pass effect was the basis of the uterine targeting of vaginal progesterone. After vaginal administration of progesterone, uterine tissu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： De Ziegler D,Bulletti C,De Monstier B,Jääskeläinen AS

更新日期：1997-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron microscopical studies presented here show that characteristic morphological alterations in mitochondria are a very early hallmark of the hepatocellular apoptotic program. Before chromatin condensation occurs, the outer mitochondrial membrane is focally disrupted and the inner membrane protrudes through th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Angermüller S,Schümann J,Fahimi HD,Tiegs G

更新日期：1999-01-01 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 observations described herein allow us to make several inferences about PKC and regulation of normal and CF Cl- channels. FIGURE 5 shows a model that summarizes these observations. In this model, for the sake of clarity, we refer to the channel as a single entity, but note that it may consist of multiple subunits ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Welsh MJ,Li M,McCann JD,Clancy JP,Anderson MP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) now enables precise visualization of the mechanical state of the living human orbit. Resulting insights have motivated histological re-examination of human and simian orbits, providing abundant consistent evidence for the active pulley hypothesis, a re-formulation of ocular motor physi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Demer JL

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00