Phospholipid growth factors and corneal wound healing.

abstract：:The anesthetic effect of certain steroids in vertebrate systems is well documented, but it is not known if these compounds can cause anesthesia in simpler organisms. To answer this question, ether, short-chain alkanols, and pregnanolone were tested for their ability to induce anesthesia in 20 aquatic species from 7 ph...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Oliver AE,Deamer DW,Akeson M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NFkappaB factor Bcl-3 influences the survival of T cells when they are activated to take part in immune responses. Because treatment of mice with adjuvant results in the increased expression of Bcl-3 in T cells, where it has survival-promoting effects, Bcl-3 may be an important, limiting factor that is supplied to...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mitchell TC,Thompson BS,Trent JO,Casella CR

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More effective therapies have improved survival times of HIV+ patients, resulting in a higher prevalence of long-term complications of the disease. This review focuses on HIV-associated cardiovascular pathology, correlating the morphologic findings to clinical syndromes of HIV disease/AIDS. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： d'Amati G,di Gioia CR,Gallo P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen has been the plasma protein most frequently studied after tissue injury. This report presents evidence that leukocytic endogenous mediator (LEM) from macrophages promotes fibrinogen synthesis. LEM has a molecular weight of 13,000-16,000, an isoelectric point (pI) at pH 7.3, is heat labile, and is inactivate...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kampschmidt RF,Upchurch HF,Pulliam LA

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:The term sepsis describes a potentially lethal clinical condition that develops as a result of a dysregulated host response to bacterial infection. The most common bacterial component implicated in initiating the septic syndrome is a cell wall molecule derived from Gram-negative bacteria, known as lipopolysaccharide (...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bosshart H,Heinzelmann M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VH replacement occurs through RAG-mediated recombination between a cryptic recombination signal sequence (cRSS) presented in a rearranged VH gene and a 23-bp RSS from an upstream VH gene. VH replacement renews the entire VH coding region and extends the immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IgH) CDR3 regions preferentially with...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Liu Y,Fan R,Zhou S,Yu Z,Zhang Z

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a progress report on our present understanding of iron nutrition in man, particularly in developing countries. We will be concerned with the quantitative aspects of iron balance and in particular with the availability of dietary iron, the recognition of iron deficiency and its prevalence, the effects of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Finch CA

更新日期：1977-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tularemia is a disease caused by several subspecies of Francisella tularensis, although the severity of the disease varies greatly from subspecies to subspecies. Currently, there are four recognized subspecies (tularensis, holarctica, mediasiatica, and novicida), in addition to a second Francisella species, F. philomi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Keim P,Johansson A,Wagner DM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After nearly a century of inquiry, the cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains to be found. In this review, basic and clinical evidence is presented that assembles and hypothetically explains most of the key pathologic events associated with the development of AD. These pathologic events are triggered in AD by impai...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： de la Torre JC

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central administration of galanin produces performance deficits on a variety of rodent learning and memory tasks. Galanin impairs acquisition and/or retention of the Morris water task, delayed nonmatching to position, T-maze delayed alternation, starburst radial maze, and passive avoidance in normal rats. A primary si...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： McDonald MP,Gleason TC,Robinson JK,Crawley JN

更新日期：1998-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence indicates increased susceptibility to cell death and increased oxidative damage as common features in neurons from sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients but also from familial AD (FAD) cases. Autosomal dominant forms of FAD are caused by mutations of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene and ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Eckert A,Marques CA,Keil U,Schüssel K,Müller WE

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sexual quality of adult song is the result of genetic and epigenetic mechanisms shaping the neural song system throughout life. Genetic brain-intrinsic mechanisms determine the neuron pools that develop into forebrain song control areas independent of gonadal steroid hormones, androgens and estrogens. One fate of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gahr M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillomaviruses are widespread, sexually transmitted agents with an increasing prevalence. They are associated with a significant risk of genital carcinoma in infected women. Because they can be transmitted to the fetus before or during birth, they are also a risk to the infant born to an infected woman. Laryngeal HP...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Steinberg BM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the hippocampus expresses nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and receives cholinergic innervation, the functional roles of these receptors are not completely understood. Our results indicated that presynaptic nAChRs mediated a calcium influx that enhanced the release of both glutamate and GABA. Fura-2...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Radcliffe KA,Fisher JL,Gray R,Dani JA

更新日期：1999-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory imagery can represent many aspects of music, such as the starting pitches of a tune or the instrument that typically plays it. In this paper, I concentrate on more dynamic, or time-sensitive aspects of musical imagery, as demonstrated in two recently published studies. The first was a behavioral study that ex...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Halpern AR

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coccidioidomycosis is a potentially serious fungal infection contracted in endemic areas of the desert southwestern United States. Limited information exists about its incidence and clinical course in patients with rheumatic diseases, who may be at higher risk of symptomatic or disseminated coccidioidomycosis because ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Mertz LE,Blair JE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cities modify their local climate, and at the same time they suffer from the local impacts of climate change. Our paper discusses the progress and obstacles in three active research topics that contribute to increasing the capability within the urban climate research community for transferring local climate knowledge ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hidalgo J,Lemonsu A,Masson V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective expression of a gene is achieved through the interaction of protein transcription factors with characteristic DNA sequences located in the regulatory region of the gene, which is usually distinct from the coding region. These proteins contain domains that bind specifically to the DNA sites (or response e...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Klug A

更新日期：1995-06-30 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：:In response to infection or effective vaccination, naive antigen-specific CD8+ T cells undergo a dramatic highly orchestrated activation process. Initial encounter with an appropriately activated antigen-presenting cell leads to blastogenesis and an exponential increase in antigen-specific CD8+ T cell numbers. Simulta...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Obar JJ,Lefrançois L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question addressed in this paper is whether the human amygdala processes threat-related stimuli independent of selective attention. This is considered from a functional neuroimaging perspective, describing studies in normal volunteers and patients with brain lesions. The conclusion is that the evidence for such au...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dolan RJ,Vuilleumier P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years it has been shown that, like many other non-neuroendocrine cells, adipocytes possess a mechanism for triggered exocytosis. Endocytosis and exocytosis affect the plasma membrane surface area, which can be directly monitored with electrophysiological patch-clamp techniques by measuring membrane cap...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chowdhury HH,Grilc S,Zorec R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine-based therapies have the potential to provide novel treatments for cancer, autoimmune diseases, and many types of infectious disease. However, to date, the full clinical potential of cytokines as drugs has been limited by a number of factors. To discuss these limitations and explore ways to overcome them, the...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Donnelly RP,Young HA,Rosenberg AS

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic joint inflammation and continuous immune cell infiltration in the synovium. These changes are linked to inflammatory cytokine release, leading to eventual destruction of cartilage and bone. During the last decade new therapeutic modalities ha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Marti L,Golmia R,Golmia AP,Paes AT,Guilhen DD,Moreira-Filho CA,Scheinberg M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fourth component of complement (C4) occurs in human plasma as a protein with a three polypeptide chain structure. Lately a single-chain form of C4 has been purified from human plasma by sequential steps of immunoadsorbent chromatography, gel filtration in 6 M guanidine hydrochloride, and gel filtration in 6 M guan...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gorski JP,Muller-Eberhard HJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dietary preferences, gastrointestinal anatomy, digestive physiology, biochemical capabilities, and commensal microflora of a bird are collectively known as its nutritional strategy. Measurement of hormones in droppings requires an appreciation of an animal's nutritional strategy in order to optimize collection pro...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Klasing KC

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly pathogenic paramyxovirus, which emerged in 1998 from fruit bats in Malaysia and caused an outbreak of severe respiratory disease in pigs and fatal encephalitis in humans with high mortality rates. In contrast to most paramyxoviruses, NiV can infect a large variety of mammalian species. Du...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Diederich S,Maisner A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that gamma-tocopherol, the predominant vitamin E form in diets, but not alpha-tocopherol, which is the exclusive form of vitamin E in most supplements, exhibited antiproliferation effect on prostate (PC-3, LNCaP) and lung (A549) cancer cells. gamma-Tocopherol induced apoptosis in androgen-sensitive LNCaP but ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jiang Q,Wong J,Ames BN

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with probable Alzheimer's disease were either stimulated with a continuous visual recognition task (n = 18) or with a continuous auditory recognition task during PET measurement with 18 FDG. The PET scanner was a Siemens CTI, ECAT EXACT with 5 mm transaxial and 6 mm axial resolution. The global stimulation ef...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kessler J,Ghaemi M,Mielke R,Herholz K,Heiss WD

更新日期：1996-01-17 00:00:00