abstract：:Dopaminergic signaling in the brain is primarily modulated by dopamine transporters (DATs), which actively translocate extraneuronal dopamine back into dopaminergic neurons. Transporter proteins are highly dynamic, continuously trafficking between plasmalemmal and endosomal membranes. Changes in DAT membrane trafficki...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schmitt KC,Reith ME

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an ever-changing environment, animals must learn new behavioral strategies for the successful procurement of food, sex, and other needs. Synaptic plasticity within the mesolimbic system, a key reward circuit, affords an animal the ability to adapt and perform essential goal-directed behaviors. Ironically, drugs of ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chen BT,Hopf FW,Bonci A

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recovery of Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Bright Yellow 2 (BY-2) cells in Linsmaire and Skoog medium after treatment at high hydrostatic pressure was investigated using an Evans Blue staining method to discriminate live from dead cells. The survival of BY-2 cells just after the high-pressure treatment at 5 degrees C an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kusube M,Nishino T,Nishikawa Y,Goto M,Matsuki H,Iwahashi H

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bilayer phase behavior of symmetric and asymmetric phosphatidylcholines (PCs), 1,2-diheptadecanoyl-PC (C17PC), 1-palmitoyl-2-stearoyl-PC (PSPC), and 1-stearoyl-2-palmitoyl-PC (SPPC), with different vesicle sizes were investigated by a high-pressure fluorescence method using the polarity-sensitive fluorescent probe...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goto M,Kusube M,Nishimoto M,Tamai N,Matsuki H,Kaneshina S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In today's climate of government outsourcing and multiple stakeholder involvement in public sector management and service delivery, it is more important than ever to rethink and redesign the structure of how policy decisions are made, implemented, monitored, and adapted to new realities. The traditional command-and-co...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： van den Belt M,Kenyan JR,Krueger E,Maynard A,Roy MG,Raphael I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A summary is provided of the early history of research on the flow of nonrenewable energy resources through the economy and of the flow of renewable energy resources through a natural ecosystem. The techniques are similar, and many specific applications are provided. A combined economic and ecological technique is als...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hannon B

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are a rare population of circulating cells that selectively express Toll-like receptors (TLR)7 and TLR9 and have the capacity to produce large amounts of type I interferons (IFNs) in response to viruses or host-derived nucleic acid-containing complexes. Through the production of typ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lande R,Gilliet M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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

abstract：:Although fetal nigral transplants have been shown to survive grafting into the striatum, increased [(18)F]6-fluroro-L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine ((18)F-DOPA) uptake and improved motor function in open-label assessments have failed to establish any clinical benefits in double-blind, sham-controlled studies. To understa...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chu Y,Kordower JH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the potent proinflammatory cytokine IL-1 in disease could clinically be investigated with the development of the IL-1 blocking agent anakinra (Kineret), a recombinant IL-1 receptor antagonist. It was first tested in patients with sepsis without much benefit but was later FDA approved for the treatment of p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goldbach-Mansky R

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Air particulate activity over all of the Northern Hemisphere reached its highest levels since the termination of nuclear weapons testing--sometimes up to 1 million times higher than before the Chernobyl contamination. There were essential changes in the ionic, aerosol, and gas structure of the surface air in the heavi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yablokov AV,Nesterenko VB,Nesterenko AV

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl meltdown spread over 40% of Europe (including Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Romania, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Iceland, Slovenia) and wide territories in Asia (including Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Emirates, China), northern Africa, and N...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yablokov AV,Nesterenko VB

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Understanding how the gulf between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cellular design arose is a major challenge. The viral eukaryogenesis (VE) hypothesis addresses the challenge of eukaryotic origins by suggesting the first eukaryotic cell was a multimember consortium consisting of a viral ancestor of the nucleus, an archaea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bell PJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is a common physiologic and pathophysiologic stimulus that activates the expression of genes through oxygen-sensitive transcription factors including the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) and nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB). Hypoxia-dependent gene expression can have important physiologic or pathophysiologic co...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Taylor CT,Cummins EP

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of the molecular mechanisms involved in low-oxygen chemotransduction has been an active field of research since the first description of an oxygen-sensitive K(+) channel in rabbit carotid body (CB) chemoreceptor cells. As a result, a large number of components of the transduction cascade, from O(2...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Gonzalez C,Vaquero LM,López-López JR,Pérez-García MT

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe the AddNeuroMed multicenter magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study for longitudinal assessment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study is similar to a faux clinical trial and has been established to assess longitudinal MRI changes in AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and healthy control subjects usi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Simmons A,Westman E,Muehlboeck S,Mecocci P,Vellas B,Tsolaki M,Kłoszewska I,Wahlund LO,Soininen H,Lovestone S,Evans A,Spenger C,AddNeuroMed Consortium.

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is crucial for the effects of glucocorticoids (GCs). Several polymorphisms of the GR are associated with altered sensitivity to GCs. For the ER22/23EK polymorphism, a relative GC resistance has been demonstrated. In vivo, this was suggested by a smaller response to a dexamethasone supp...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Manenschijn L,van den Akker EL,Lamberts SW,van Rossum EF

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated circulating levels of glucocorticoids are associated with psychiatric symptoms across several different conditions. It remains unknown if this hormonal abnormality is a cause or an effect of the psychiatric conditions. For example, the hypercortisolemia observed in a subset of patients with depression may hav...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wolkowitz OM,Burke H,Epel ES,Reus VI

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to reevaluate the role of infection in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Sera from 119 patients with IBD [80 with Crohn's disease (CD); 39 with ulcerative colitis] and 98 healthy controls were assessed using the Bio-Rad BioPlex 2200 for the presence of Toxoplasma gondii, cytomegalovirus, Epst...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lidar M,Langevitz P,Barzilai O,Ram M,Porat-Katz BS,Bizzaro N,Tonutti E,Maieron R,Chowers Y,Bar-Meir S,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decade of research on human embryonic stem cells (ESC) has paved the way for the discovery of alternative approaches to generating pluripotent stem cells. Combinatorial overexpression of a limited number of proteins linked to pluripotency in ESC was recently found to reprogram differentiated somatic cells back to a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lengerke C,Grauer M,Niebuhr NI,Riedt T,Kanz L,Park IH,Daley GQ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the frequency of HLA-B27 and HLA-B51 in healthy subjects from the center of Tunisia and to investigate their usefulness in the diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and Behçet's disease (BD), respectively. Microlymphocytotoxicity test was used to perform serologic HL...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sakly N,Boumiza R,Zrour-Hassen S,Hamzaoui A,Ben Yahia S,Amara H,Khairallah M,Mahjoub S,Bergaoui N,Ghedira I

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of type 1 diabetes is, in part, dictated by the failure of regulatory T cells to maintain peripheral tolerance. As such, therapies aimed at correcting the declining function of regulatory T cells have been the subject of intense investigation. In this review, we discuss the potential of regulatory T ce...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Richer MJ,Horwitz MS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very recently, we identified two distinct mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) subsets in primary bone marrow (BM) that differ in their expression pattern (CD271(bright)MSCA-1(dim)CD56(+) and CD271(bright)MSCA-1(bright)CD56(-)) and morphology as well as in their clonogenic and differentiation capacity. Here we analyzed the cel...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bühring HJ,Treml S,Cerabona F,de Zwart P,Kanz L,Sobiesiak M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Departing from the functional parallelism that undoubtedly exists between the nervous and immune system, we suggest that the latter also counts with means for information exchange that may result in a mutual influence of immune processes between nearby individuals. Our concept relies on a molecular interface that is c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Martín PI,Sánchez PA,Rewald E

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) have been defined by their ability to establish long-term hematopoiesis in myelo-ablated hosts. Prospective isolation using combinations of cell-surface markers and/or dye exclusion can yield highly purified and nearly homogeneous phenotypically defined cells that repopulate irradiated h...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schaniel C,Moore KA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B lymphocytes contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmune disorders since B-cell depletion treatment improves such diseases. However, B cells seem ambivalent. Murine strains of nonorgan-specific as well as organ-specific autoimmune conditions present with aggravated symptoms when B cells are depleted. It is thus like...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lemoine S,Morva A,Youinou P,Jamin C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controls and calibrators in autoimmune assays are typically developed from patient sera. However, the use of sera is accompanied by a number of disadvantages, such as lack of monospecificity, lack of assay comparability, and supply limitations. Ideally, the control reagent would be an antigen-specific human monoclonal...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Knappik A,Capuano F,Frisch C,Ylera F,Bonelli F

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) capable of "neutralizing" or "inhibiting" immune responses have been described. This review will focus on the properties of phosphorothioate ODN that mimic the immunosuppressive activity of the repetitive TTAGGG motifs present in mammalian telomeres. These TTAGGG multimers block t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Klinman DM,Tross D,Klaschik S,Shirota H,Sato T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence in the serum of specific autoantibodies, such as antinuclear antibodies (ANA), anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA), and antiextractable nuclear antigens (anti-ENA), is one of the diagnostic criteria for autoimmune rheumatic disease, and the requests for these tests in the last few years have grown remar...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bonaguri C,Melegari A,Dall'Aglio P,Ballabio A,Terenziani P,Russo A,Battistelli L,Aloe R,Camisa R,Campaniello G,Sartori E,Monica C

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:The identification of immunologic biomarkers associated with clinical response after immune intervention for cancer is an area of intensive investigation. The field would benefit from a more systemic and directed approach for biomarker identification and evaluation. Lessons can be learned from other fields, such as ca...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dang Y,Disis ML

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:Lipogenesis occurs primarily in the liver, where dietary carbohydrates control the expression of key enzymes in glycolytic and lipogenic pathways. We have recently discovered that the transcription factor XBP1, best known as a key regulator of the unfolded protein response (UPR), is required for de novo fatty acid syn...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Glimcher LH,Lee AH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The available evidence suggests that plasma leakage in dengue hemorrhagic fever is caused by the action of circulating mediators on the vascular endothelium, and that the host immune response is a critical determinant of this response. We have been exploring the role of dengue virus-specific T lymphocytes in the immun...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rothman AL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparins represent an efficient treatment of acute thrombosis and obstetric complications in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Enhanced microvesiculation of cell membranes, as detected by reduced membrane adhesion, can contribute to hypercoagulability in APS. Healthy donor IgG antibodies significantly increased beta2-g...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Frank M,Sodin-Semrl S,Rozman B,Potocnik M,Kralj-Iglic V

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted depletion of immune cells expressing the interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor can exacerbate inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) through elimination of regulatory T (Treg) cells, or ameliorate its course by depletion of cytotoxic cells. To answer this question we used a fusion protein composed of IL-2 and caspase-3 (IL...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sagiv Y,Kaminitz A,Lorberboum-Galski H,Askenasy N,Yarkoni S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00