Human sexual selection, good genes, and special design.

abstract：:The endothelial cells cultured in collagen gel caused upregulation of KDR expression, which resulted in an increase in tube formation. Endothelial cells exposed to high glucose (33 mmol/l) for 30 days increased the tube formation induced by VEGF, but not by serum and bFGF. Immunohistochemical study showed that KDR exp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Murota SI,Onodera M,Morita I

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic contact dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin disease caused by T cells that recognize environmental and industrial allergens (i.e., haptens). Langerhans' cells (LC), which are skin-specific and "immature" members of the dendritic cell (DC) family of antigen-presenting cells, play crucial roles in the indu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Takashima A,Mummert M,Kitajima T,Matsue H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoblast-specific gene transcription requires interaction between bone cell-specific transcription factors and more widely expressed transcriptional regulators. This is particularly evident for the basic domain-leucine zipper factor activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), whose activity can be enhanced or inhibite...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： St-Arnaud R,Hekmatnejad B

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow cells of various animal species and the human produce a group of bioregulatory peptides called myelopeptides (MPs). A highly purified myelopeptide (MP) fraction and some individual molecules have been isolated from the supernatant of the porcine bone marrow cell culture by successive gel chromatography and...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Petrov RV

更新日期：1993-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Resveratrol-mediated heme oxgenase-1 (HO-1) induction has been shown to occur in primary neuronal cultures and has been implicated as having potential neuroprotective action. Further, antioxidant properties of resveratrol have been reported to protect against coronary heart disease. We attempted to examine the HO-1 in...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Huang HM,Liang YC,Cheng TH,Chen CH,Juan SH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The airway disease termed asthma has been recognized for centuries but is now receiving increased attention because of chronicity, high incidence in the population and rising mortality rate. Asthma is now recognized as a disease of unknown etiology characterized by a hyperactive airway which can be demonstrated by res...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Patterson R,Greenberger PA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypophysectomy leads to a small increase in tyrosine hydroxylase activity of all brain areas containing noradrenergic neurons or tuberoinfundibular dopamine neurons, but nigroneostriatal dopamine neurons are not so affected. ACTH or corticosterone treatment inhibited this effect of hypophysectomy in some noradrenergic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Van Loon GR,Sole MJ,Kamble A,Kim C,Green S

更新日期：1977-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reviewed that suggests a central role for telomeres in one major model of biological aging, namely, proliferative senescence. Telomeric shortening with each cell division does not only act as a biological clock, but appears to trigger the ultimate loss of proliferative ability via activation of the p53-dep...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： von Zglinicki T

更新日期：1998-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, studies measuring behavioral activity have used male adult animals and grid crossings (GCs) as a representative measure of activity in lieu of total distance moved (TDM). However, using GCs as the dependent measure may not be effective for comparing the activity of animals during development, as they va...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vila JL,Philpot RM,Kirstein CL

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Positron emission tomography allows for the study of human brain physiology and chemistry including cerebral blood flow, oxygen or glucose metabolism. We applied PET to study glucose metabolism using aphasia as a model of neurobehavior. The most striking observation was that the extent of cerebral glucose metabolic ch...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Metter EJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) in C. elegans and in plants has revolutionized current approaches to biology and medicine. RNAi silences genes in a sequence-specific manner through the actions of small pieces of double-stranded RNAs (siRNAs and miRNAs). RNAi has been found as a widespread natural phenomenon i...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zheng ZM,Tang S,Tao M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses the available clinical trials in which steroids have been used in the (adjuvant) treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Glucocorticosteroids have a positive effect on symptoms and signs of inflammation, but probably not on structural damage. Therefore glucocorticosteroids should be used as part of a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bijlsma JW

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many other transcription factors, the tumor suppressor protein p53 is bound to the nuclear matrix (NM). To study the interaction of p53 with the NM in more detail, we used alkaline and acidic extractions of NM proteins. It was found that there are two forms of p53, alkali- and acid-soluble, in NM of HEK293 cells ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lapshina MA,Parkhomenko II,Terentiev AA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of about 2,000 Japanese sarcoidosis cases collected by the Japan Sarcoidosis Committee during the 10-yr period, 1963-1972, were chronological increase with decreasing infectious diseases (represented by tuberculosis), north-to-south decline in sarcoidosis incidence in accordance with the Oxford Atl...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hosoda Y,Hiraga Y,Odaka M,Yangawa H,Ito Y,Shiegematsu I,Chiba Y

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we briefly review our studies that have unraveled an important role for the calcium- and calmodulin-sensitive enzyme calcineurin (CN) in bone remodeling. We find that the genetic deletion of the calcineurin Aalpha isoform results in osteoporosis, which is recapitulated in humans following calcineurin inhibitor th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sun L,Zhu LL,Zaidi N,Yang G,Moonga BS,Abe E,Iqbal J,Epstein S,Blair HC,Huang CL,Zaidi M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomy of the brain is extremely complex, and certain, even large structures, such as the corticospinal tract (CST), remain poorly understood. Diffusion tractography provides an opportunity to explore the white matter tracts in a fundamentally new way. In the current paper, we show how this technique has already ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holodny AI,Watts R,Korneinko VN,Pronin IN,Zhukovskiy ME,Gor DM,Ulug A

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Studies in humans and in animal models have demonstrated that the receptor-dependent actions of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D are required for normal skeletal growth and maturation. Investigations were undertaken to address which consequences of vitamin D receptor deficiency are a direct result of impaired receptor-dependen...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Demay MB

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in understanding the epidemiology of endometriosis have lagged behind other diseases because of methodologic problems related to disease definition and control selection. Nevertheless, a better picture of the epidemiology of endometriosis has emerged over the past few decades. Prevalence estimates of the dise...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Cramer DW,Missmer SA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane phospholipid metabolism is abnormal in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. Phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine levels are decreased as are choline and ethanolamine, while glycerophosphocholine (GPC) and glycerophosphoethanolamine are increased. To develop a rat model for these changes, we examined th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Holmes TC,Nitsch RM,Erfurth A,Wurtman RJ

更新日期：1993-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenal glands are a major source of steroid hormone biosynthesis. In normal physiology, the pituitary hormone corticotropin (ACTH) regulates the secretion of glucocorticoids via its G protein-coupled receptor (ACTHR), the product of the MC2R gene. Aldosterone is another major product of the adrenal gland; its reg...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bourdeau I,Stratakis CA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and proenkephalin (PE) are synthesized at the endoplasmic reticulum and transported to the trans-Golgi network (TGN) where they are sorted and packaged into dense-core granules of the regulated secretory pathway (RSP). The mechanism of sorting POMC and PE to the RSP in neuroendocrine cells w...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Loh YP,Maldonado A,Zhang C,Tam WH,Cawley N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing the self-activity of matter through complexification can lead to seeing evolution as a process of union. This process approach emphasizes a metaphysics of becoming rather than of being. Advances in the science of thermodynamics lead to understanding chemical self-organization as a stage in this process of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Salmon JF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of metastasis is a dreadful complication of cancer that is associated with a poor prognosis. Several clinical observations and experimental findings indicate that the metastatic process is nonrandom and involves a sequence of multistep events that may all be targeted for therapy. This includes angiogenes...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Laferriere J,Houle F,Huot J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of combined treatment with ribavirin and tiazofurin on the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, the best characterized animal model for human autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis, was investigated. The disease was induced in highly susceptible Dark Agouti rats with spinal cord homogena...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lavrnja I,Stojkov D,Peković S,Subasic S,Mostarica-Stojković M,Stosic-Grujicić S,Nedeljković N,Medic-Mijacević L,Rakić L,Stojiljkovi M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The life expectancy of patients with thalassemia major has significantly increased in recent years, as reported by several groups in different countries. However, complications are still frequent and affect the patients' quality of life. In a recent study from the United Kingdom, it was found that 50% of the patients ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Borgna-Pignatti C,Cappellini MD,De Stefano P,Del Vecchio GC,Forni GL,Gamberini MR,Ghilardi R,Origa R,Piga A,Romeo MA,Zhao H,Cnaan A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In amphibians, alpha-MSH secreted by the pars intermedia of the pituitary plays a pivotal role in the process of skin color adaptation. Reciprocally, the skin of amphibians contains a number of regulatory peptides, some of which have been found to regulate the activity of pituitary melanotrope cells. In particular, th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vaudry H,Chartrel N,Desrues L,Galas L,Kikuyama S,Mor A,Nicolas P,Tonon MC

更新日期：1999-10-20 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：:The aim of our work was to detect minor loci acting as Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetic markers. We divided 206 AD patients and 186 individuals as controls into six age at onset/age-dependent groups. We studied polymorphisms of the genes of apolipoprotein E (APOE) and its promoter, cathepsin D, butyrylcholinesterase, ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beyer K,Lao JI,Latorre P,Ariza A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00