abstract：:Most of the plasma suppressive activity was associated with alpha 2M in both normal subjects and cancer patients. alpha 2M binding to physiological levels of proteases was associated with an increase in the ability to suppress lymphocyte reactivity in the TEEM test. alpha 2M binding to proteases released a peptide tha...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Alomran A,Shenton BK,Donnelly PK,Francis DM,Proud G,Taylor RM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) by human primary hepatocellular carcinoma (PHC) is abnormal. Concanavalin A (Con A)-affinity molecular variant patterns of serum AFP from patients with PHC are different from those of cord-serum AFP. Different patients with PHC exhibit different Con-A-affinity AFP molecular var...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Smith CJ,Ajdukiewicz A,Kelleher PC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serologic and molecular characterization of four monoclonal antibodies to human gastric cancer cells and to CEA were described and the immunohistologic patterns of reactions with freshly obtained gastrointestinal tissues were examined. Monoclonal antibody YK004, which was secreted by the hybridoma constructed with...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yachi A,Imai K,Moriya Y,Fujita H,Tanda M,Nishi S,Kawaharada M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for tumor markers suitable for use in diagnosis and management of patients with lung cancer has met with limited success because each available marker lacks sufficient sensitivity and specificity. We have begun a collaborative study to evaluate multiple simultaneous serum markers to determine whether there ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： McIntire KR,Radovich BT,Gail MH,Go VL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our studies to date indicate that treatment with anti-idiotype to monoclonal anti-MHC antibodies can markedly influence the repertoire of anti-MHC antibodies expressed. The antibodies discussed here appear to represent two classes, one of which is public, probably representing expression of a germ line gene, and the s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sachs DH,Bluestone JA,Epstein SL,Rabinowitz R

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how mitogenic factors generate growth regulatory signals and how these are mediated within the cell. We have developed three different types of mitogenic stimuli in order to identify the possible existence of common denominators in a complex and perhaps pleiotypic signal-response system. 3T3 cell...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Zetterberg A,Engström W,Larsson O

更新日期：1982-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E deficiency in rats increased the sensitivity of liver and muscle mitochondria to damage during incubation at various temperatures, irradiation with visible light, or steady-state respiration with substrates. In all cases, vitamin E-deficient mitochondria exhibited increased lipid peroxidation, reduced transm...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Quintanilha AT,Packer L,Davies JM,Racanelli TL,Davies KJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory brainstem potentials were recorded from various scalp and nasopharyngeal sites referenced both to a noncephalic site and to certain scalp locations in normal humans. The distribution of amplitudes and latencies of the components were defined. There were significant amplitude, polarity, and latency asymmetries...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Starr A,Squires K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of visual field changes and ocular hypertension on visual evoked potentials were investigated by photopic ERG and by luminance and pattern-reversal EPs on 116 glaucomatous and on 7 normal eyes. The problem was approached by way of four investigations: Firstly, which nerve structures are affected by glaucom...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Bartl G

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+-pump ATPase of human RBC membranes appears to be exquisitely sensitive to a variety of amphipathic molecules. The acidic protein calmodulin (CaM) activates the enzyme some three- to fivefold with an apparent Kd of approximately 1-5 nM. A variety of other amphipathic anions, such as acidic phospholipids, free ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vincenzi FF

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we have reported the results of studies in psychiatric patient groups using the strategy of measuring opioid activity and beta-endorphin (ir) in CSF. Our findings do not lend support to the notion of excess endorphin activity in schizophrenia, but rather suggest the possibility of a decrease in endogenou...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pickar D,Naber D,Post RM,van Kammen DP,Kaye W,Rubinow DR,Ballenger JC,Bunney WE Jr

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments were conducted to determine the effects of neurotensin on secretion of a variety of anterior pituitary hormones. Conscious rats with indwelling cannulae in the third ventricle and external jugular vein were used and the effects on plasma hormone levels measured by radioimmunoassay. Neurotensin ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： McCann SM,Vijayan E,Koenig J,Krulich L

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is not confined only to late shock states but is a typical finding in intoxications with such oxidizing agents as O3, NO2, chlorate, or paraquat. Under experimental conditions, alpha-tocopherol in a high enteric dosage (2 x 50 mg/kg) was able to prevent alterations of pul...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wolf HR,Seeger HW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E and essential fatty acid status were examined in two groups of patients, one receiving fat-free total parenteral nutrition (TPN) with intravenous all-rac-alpha-tocopherol for vitamin E deficiency and the other receiving routine intravenous fat (Intralipid, 10%) emulsions with TPN to supply both fatty acid an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Thurlow PM,Grant JP

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotyledons of dark-grown watermelon seedlings contain during the first period of germination, 4 and later 5 MDH isoenzymes. Whereas isoenzymes I, II, and IV belong to the cytosol, isoenzyme III is confined to the mitochondria (mMDH) and isoenzyme V to the glyoxysomes (gMDH). The organelle-bound MDHs were purified to h...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hock B,Gietl C

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:Our studies of Ca2+ release have shown that three classes of compounds--quercetin, which inhibits Ca2+ release by reversal of the Ca2+ pump, H+ ionophores and DCCD, which affect proton gradients, and lipophilic anions, which act to oppose a separation of membrane surface charges--all have potential in probing the mech...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： MacLennan DH,Shoshan V,Wood DS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first recognition of tolerance and partial tolerance to attempted sensitization with simple allergenic chemicals is described. A proper designation would be the Frei-Sulzbeger-Chase phenomenon. Coupling with self occurs in these experiments; there is not only resistance to developing contactant-type sensitivity bu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chase MW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much has been learned during the past decade about the specific retinoid-binding proteins that exist in plasma, and in the intracellular compartment in a number of tissues. Vitamin A is mobilized from liver stores and transported in plasma in the form of the lipid alcohol retinol, bound to a specific transport protein...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goodman DS

更新日期：1981-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) during G1 phase of the cell cycle appears to be universal and essential for cell cycle progression. This induction has been demonstrated in at least 23 cell types in response to various growth stimuli. Further, specific inhibitors of ODC added to several of these cell lin...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Russell DH,Haddox MK

更新日期：1981-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic value of thymectomy for myasthenia is still questioned although it retains an important place among management modalities that strive for sustained remission. Questions derive from uncertainty as to appropriate timing, variable extent of resection and quantitation of response. Forty-seven patients, fol...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Penn AS,Jaretzki A 3rd,Wolff M,Chang HW,Tennyson V

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific probes (alpha-bungarotoxin for acetylcholine receptor (AChR), staphylococcal protein A for IgG, monospecific antibodies against C3 and C9) labelled with peroxidase were applied to study of the ultrastructure of the MG end plate. In each case of MG there was postsynaptic AChR deficiency, usually greatest at en...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Engel AG,Sahashi K,Fumagalli G

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) was studied in 26 normal subjects and 26 patients with cerebellar lesions, using horizontal vision-reversal prisms. In normal subjects, the adaptation of gain after wearing prisms for one hour was approximately 50% of the VOR value in the dark. In contrast to this, p...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yagi T,Shimizu M,Sekine S,Kamio T,Suzuki JI

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans the influence of prior vestibular stimulation (3, 6, 9, 12, and 18 degrees/second2 for 10 seconds) and subsequent whole-field optokinetic stimulation (30, 60, 90, 120, and 180 degrees/second for 1 minute) or the presentation of a stationary pattern on after-nystagmus (AN) was studied. For comparison, pure ve...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Koenig E,Dichgans J

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Recently, in membrane transport studies, we have observed the duality of ligand-binding site interactions in a structural protein membrane. Separately, the role of membrane anisotropy in the transport/catalytic behavior of an enzyme-membrane was investigated and modeled by the present authors. In this work, we are com...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vieth WR,Ciftçi T

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) of man has several characteristics that distinguish it from viruses of other groups. These include its ultrastructure, viral DNA size and structure, a virion DNA polymerase which repairs a single-stranded region in the viral DNA, liver tropism, character of persistent infection, and association...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Robinson WS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A deficiency has been shown to affect vision, reproduction, cellular differentiation, and maintenance of epithelial and skeletal tissues. Different vitamin A compounds, i.e., retinol and retinoic acid, vary in their ability to fulfill these biologic functions. Aside from vision, the exact molecular mechanisms ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Navia JM,Harris SS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbic acid has been found to interact with several elements in such a manner as to render them less available for animals. This property of the vitamin has a negative effect on the animals fed a copper-deficient diet, but a positive effect on those fed toxic levels of copper, selenium, vanadium, and cobalt. The eff...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Hill CH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper represents a unique effort to elucidate the dynamics of two major types of politically motivated hostage takers. The data presented are derived from an ongoing research project that is gathering extensive interview and psychological test materials from prisoners convicted of politically motivated crimes, bo...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Knutson JN

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The signal peptidases from both chicken oviduct and dog pancreas microsomes have been detected by a post-translational assay and, in the case of dog microsomes, by a cotranslational assay. This proteolytic activity is not sensitive to a variety of conventional protease inhibitors under the conditions used in these ass...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Thibodeau SN,Walsh KA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many features of these gastric vesicles satisfy the requirements for the gastric H+ pump. For example, we have: (a) K+ requirement, (b) KA for K+ of about 30 mM; (c) identical cation sequence for tissue and vesicles, (d) similar anion sequence, (e) localization at the microvillus of the secretory canaliculus, (f) TI+ ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Sachs G,Berglindh T,Rabon E,Stewart HB,Barcellona ML,Wallmark B,Saccomani G

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat IgM and IgG was determined by mechanized "sandwich" enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using peroxidase labeled anti-rat-IgM and -IgG. Linear ranges in standard curves of a reference rat serum had a slope similar to the slopes found with sera of 25 rats of various age. IgM and IgG measurements by ELISA in t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vos JG,Buys J,Beekhof P,Hagenaars AM

更新日期：1979-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of TCDD exposure on the developing immune system were investigated in Wistar/Fischer hybrid or Fischer rats. Fetal and neonatal rats were exposed to TCDD through maternal dosing (5 muk/kg) on day 18 of gestation and on days 0, 7, and 14 of postnatal life (group 1). Another group of neonatal rats was expose...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Luster MI,Faith RE,Clark G

更新日期：1979-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic symptoms were the earliest and most prominent symptoms recorded in Michigan farm residents exposed to PBB as compared to a non-PBB exposed control farm population in Wisconsin. In Michigan (particularly among males) those who exhibited the most marked symptoms tended to show diminished performance as assess...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Valciukas JA,Lilis R,Anderson HA,Wolff MS,Petrocci M

更新日期：1979-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Adherent-cell-depleted primed rabbit splenocytes were capable of mounting an in vitro response to SRBC. The addition of alveolar macrophages (AM) to adherent-cell-depleted or unseparated lymphoid cell populations resulted in significant suppression of the PFC response. Suppressive activity was limited to AM and depend...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Herscowitz HB,Pennline KJ,Conrad RE,Ullrich SE,Gerber HR

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance studies of various normal and dystrophic muscles have demonstrated differences in phosphodiester contents. Dystrophic chicken pectoralis muscle contains elevated levels of the diester SEP, and Duchenne dystrophic human leg muscle lacks the diester GPC. It is shown that SEP may be ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chalovich JM,Burt CT,Danon MJ,Glonek T,Bárány M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two basic types of factors reacting with anti-I region (anti-Ia) antisera are compared, those derived from macrophage-like antigen presenting cells and others derived from T-lymphocytes, of either the suppressor or helper type. Despite the common property of reacting with anti-Ia antisera, the two sets of factors diff...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Feldmann M,Erb P,Kontiainen S,Todd I,Woody JN

更新日期：1979-01-01 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