abstract：:MRI assessment of myocardial iron and function has revolutionized the treatment of thalassemia major patients. While knowledge of somatic iron stores is vital for iron chelation management, it does not adequately monitor cardiac risk. MRI monitoring of cardiac T2* allows preclinical recognition of myocardial iron, str...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wood JC,Noetzli L

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and pubertal disturbances are the commonest endocrinopathies in homozygous thalassemia, accounting for significant morbidity in 70-80% children and adolescents globally. This review focuses on the pathophysiology of the endocrinopathy from a historical perspective and altered natural history induced by better c...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chatterjee R,Bajoria R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy for beta-globinopathies, particularly beta-thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, hold much promise for the future, as a one time cure for these common and debilitating disorders. Correction of the beta-globinopathies using lentivirus vectors (LV) carrying the beta- or gamma-globin genes and elements of the ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Perumbeti A,Malik P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human female reproductive aging consists of multiple processes and interacts with other physiological systems in unique ways. Here we discuss eight recent longitudinal, epidemiologic studies of female reproductive aging that include endocrine data to highlight their contributions to our understanding of these various ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ferrell RJ,Sowers M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surprising discovery in 1990 that estrogen modulates hippocampal structural plasticity launched a whole new field of scientific inquiry. Over the past two decades, estrogen-induced spinogenesis has been described in several brain areas involved in cognition in a number of species, in both sexes and on multiple tim...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dumitriu D,Rapp PR,McEwen BS,Morrison JH

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every 365.2421999 days--more or less--the earth rotates, revolves, wobbles, and precesses along an elliptical path around the sun. Those of us who survive the journey are a year older: we have aged one solar year. Some years we seem to age faster than other years; some people seem to age faster than other people; some...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Haaga J,O'Connor K,Weinstein M,Wise P

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability is crucial for normal vascular endothelial function and health. Recent studies have demonstrated an endocrine role for NO equivalents that may be transported in the blood to peripheral tissue beds, where under hypoxic conditions they can liberate NO and cause vasodilation. Exercise tr...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Stabler T,Kenjale A,Ham K,Jelesoff N,Allen J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocopherols, which exist in alpha, beta, gamma, and delta forms, are antioxidative nutrients also known as vitamin E. Although alpha-tocopherol (alpha-T) is the major form of vitamin E found in the blood and tissues, gamma- and delta-T have been suggested to have stronger anti-inflammatory activities. In the present s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Yang CS,Lu G,Ju J,Li GX

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal peptides play important roles regulating feeding and energy homeostasis. Most gastrointestinal peptides including glucagon like peptide-1, peptide YY, amylin, and oxytomodulin are anorectic, and only ghrelin is an orexigenic peptide. Ghrelin increases appetite, modulates energy balance, suppresses inf...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ueno H,Shiiya T,Nakazato M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon and the glucagon-like peptides (GLP-1 and GLP-2) share a common evolutionary origin and are triplication products of an ancestral glucagon exon. In mammals, a standard scenario is found where only a single proglucagon-derived peptide set exists. However, fish and amphibians have either multiple proglucagon ge...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ng SY,Lee LT,Chow BK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reprogramming of energy metabolism is one of the hallmarks of cancer. In normal conditions, cells rely on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation to provide energy for cellular activities. Cancer cells are characterized by increased glycolysis and reduced mitochondrial respiratory function. In the past decade, somatic...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kaipparettu BA,Ma Y,Wong LJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CISD2, the causative gene for Wolfram syndrome 2 (WFS2), is an evolutionarily conserved novel gene. Recently, we have demonstrated that CISD2 is involved in mammalian lifespan control; this work also establishes WFS2 as a mitochondria-mediated disorder and effectively links CISD2 gene function, mitochondrial integrity...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Chen YF,Wu CY,Kirby R,Kao CH,Tsai TF

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity is a fundamental property of the neural system controlling breathing. One frequently studied model of respiratory plasticity is long-term facilitation of phrenic motor output (pLTF) following acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH). pLTF arises from spinal plasticity, increasing respiratory motor output through a ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dale-Nagle EA,Hoffman MS,MacFarlane PM,Satriotomo I,Lovett-Barr MR,Vinit S,Mitchell GS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tissue injury can evoke significant hyperalgesia in infants from the first days of life, little is known about how injury affects emergent central pain networks at the synaptic level. Recent studies have investigated whether tissue damage at different ages has distinct consequences for synaptic function in th...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Baccei ML

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sacrocaudal afferent (SCA) stimulation is used in this work to study neural pathways involved in sensory-activation of central pattern generators (CPGs) in the isolated spinal cord of the neonatal rat. Surgical manipulations of the white matter funiculi and confocal imaging of back-labeled funicular pathways suggest t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Lev-Tov A,Etlin A,Blivis D

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for surrogate biomarkers in clinical diagnostics but also preclinical in toxicology of chemicals and efficacy testing of pharmaceuticals. On the background of the emerging fields of systems biology and theranostics, the importance of time scales and the synchronization of complex biological rea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Schrattenholz A,Soskić V,Groebe K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By virtue of the progress in proteomics, the involvement of posttranslational modifications in aging has been more clearly demonstrated in recent years. We describe here that (1) carbonylation, a hallmark of protein oxidation in general, is paradoxically decreased in histone with aging and increased by calorie restric...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Nakamura A,Kawakami K,Kametani F,Nakamoto H,Goto S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past three decades of clinical disappointments in treating stroke must compel us to rethink our strategy. Given the enormous complexity of the clinical disease, the "one size fits all" approach to stroke treatment is unlikely to succeed. The effective treatment of stroke aimed at reversing ischemic injury will req...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Joshi S,Agarwal S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the use of statins, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, for treating specific neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., cerebrovascular disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis) and possibly traumatic brain injury. Neither is there a consensus on the efficacy of statins in t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Wood WG,Eckert GP,Igbavboa U,Müller WE

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus infections result in approximately 500,000 human deaths per year and many more sublethal infections. Wild birds are recognized as the ancestral host of influenza A viruses, and avian viruses have contributed genetic material to most human viruses, including subtypes H5N1 and H1N1. Thus, influenza vir...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Vandegrift KJ,Sokolow SH,Daszak P,Kilpatrick AM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the relevance of studying ecology within the framework of Complexity Science from a statistical mechanics approach. Ecology is concerned with understanding how systems level properties emerge out of the multitude of interactions among large numbers of components, leading to ecosystems that possess the proto...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Jensen HJ,Arcaute E

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify rate and stability of remission induced by low-dose prednisone comedication in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we evaluated patients with early RA (<1 year) who were randomized to receive (P) or not (non-P) low-dose prednisone in association with step-up disease-modifying antirheumatic drug thera...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Todoerti M,Scirè CA,Boffini N,Bugatti S,Montecucco C,Caporali R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with experimental neuropsychiatric lupus (NPSLE), induced by anti-ribosomal-P antibodies, developed depression-like behavior and a diminished sense of smell. Manganese-enhanced MRI (MEMRI) allows in vivo mapping of functional neuronal connections in the brain, including the olfactory tract. The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kivity S,Tsarfaty G,Agmon-Levin N,Blank M,Manor D,Konen E,Chapman J,Reichlin M,Wasson C,Shoenfeld Y,Kushnir T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article summarizes reports on the concurrence of Klinefelter's syndrome (KS) with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, polymyositis/dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, mixed connective tissue disease, the anti...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Rovenský J,Imrich R,Lazúrová I,Payer J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous ulcers are responsible for about 70% of the chronic ulcers of the lower limbs. Standard of care includes compression, dressings, debridement of devitalized tissue, and infection control. Thymosin beta 4 (Tbeta4), a synthetic copy of the naturally occurring 43 amino-acid peptide, has been found to have wound hea...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Guarnera G,DeRosa A,Camerini R,8 European sites.

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymosin alpha 1, originally isolated as the compound responsible for reconstitution of immune function in thymectomized animal models, has enjoyed a wide-ranging clinical development program over the past decades, extending across multiple companies, indications, countries, and continents. This paper provides an over...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Tuthill C,Rios I,McBeath R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural tetrapeptide acetyl-ser-asp-lys-pro (AcSDKP) is formed in vivo by enzymatic cleavage of the N terminus of thymosin beta4 by prolyl oligopeptidase (POP). Recently, AcSDKP was shown to promote angiogenesis. Because of the critical role of neovascularization in cancer development, the levels of AcSDKP and POP...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Liu JM,Garcia-Alvarez MC,Bignon J,Kusinski M,Kuzdak K,Riches A,Wdzieczak-Bakala J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we discuss how neuropsychological impairments in visual selection can inform us about how selection normally operates. Using neuroanatomical and behavioral evidence on the disorders of neglect, extinction, and simultanagnosia, we propose functional and anatomical links between different aspects of visu...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Riddoch MJ,Chechlacz M,Mevorach C,Mavritsaki E,Allen H,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocytes are derived from osteoblasts and make up over 90% of the cells in bone. However, the mechanisms that control the differentiation of osteoblasts into osteocytes embedded in bone matrix are not well understood. With the recent developments of transgenic models for manipulating gene expression in osteocytes an...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Dallas SL,Bonewald LF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium signaling plays a key role in bone turnover, regulating both osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Despite this the role of calmodulin, the primary intracellular calcium receptor regulatory protein, has received little attention. In this brief review, the function of Ca(2+)/calmodulin signaling in osteoclast developmen...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Williams JP,Micoli K,McDonald JM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble decoy receptor 3 (DcR3), a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, has recently been reported to increase osteoclast (OC) differentiation. Its impact on the skeleton was reinforced by a study on DcR3 transgenic mice showing a decreased bone mass through the elevation of OC number, providing s...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Brunetti G,Oranger A,Mori G,Centonze M,Colaianni G,Rizzi R,Liso V,Zallone A,Grano M,Colucci S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometric analysis of the low-molecular-weight (LMW) range of the serum/plasma proteome is revealing the existence of large numbers of previously unknown peptides and protein fragments, predicted to be derived from circulating low-abundance proteins. While genomics and proteomics are the primary discovery res...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Byrum S,Montgomery CO,Nicholas RW,Suva LJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse models with targeted deletion of the genes encoding the enzyme 25-hydroxyvitamin D 1alpha-hydroxylase [1alpha(OH)ase], and the vitamin D receptor (VDR), have provided considerable insight into the regulation of mineral and skeletal physiology by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)(2)D]. Dietary manipulation induce...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Goltzman D

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fracture of bone is clearly a major health concern, especially for the elderly. Medical therapies to reduce the possibility of bone fracture to date have principally centered on treating the loss in bone mass (bone mineral density) that accompanies aging (i.e., addressing the loss in bone quantity). However, it is...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Ritchie RO

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institutes of Health's Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program has had a profound impact on clinical research and training methods at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). UC Davis was among the first 12 institutions to receive NIH funding for this award, and created its Clinical...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Kasim-Karakas S,Hyson D,Halsted C,van Loan M,Chedin E,Berglund L

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the progressive aging of the world's population, immunosenescence is rapidly becoming a clinical concern as it accounts for a higher incidence of severe infections and poor response to vaccines. To identify nutritional approaches that may counteract immunosenescence is of obvious importance in clinical practice. ...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Freeman SL,Fisher L,German JB,Leung PS,Prince H,Selmi C,Naguwa SM,Gershwin ME

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular (LV) wall motion abnormalities reflect regional nonuniform contraction which may be arrhythmogenic. We studied sarcomere mechanics and force development (F) in uniform and nonuniform trabeculae using a model in which half of the muscle can be rendered weak by exposure to low [Ca2+]o. Stretch allowed t...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： ter Keurs HE,Diao N,Deis NP

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF), the highest occurring cardiac arrhythmia in the Western world, is associated with substantial morbidity and increased mortality. In spite of extensive research, the cause of atrial electrical remodeling, a major factor in the self-perpetuating nature of AF, is still unknown. Downregulation of...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Beharier O,Etzion Y,Levi S,Mor M,Mor M,Dror S,Kahn J,Katz A,Moran A

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac development is characterized by a complex interplay of chemical, mechanical, and electrical forces, which together contribute to the proper formation of the heart muscle. In adult myocardium, cardiomyocytes are elongated, well-coupled by gap junctions, and organized in spatially well-defined muscle fibers. Thi...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Pijnappels DA,Gregoire S,Wu SM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adults with better jobs enjoy better health: job title was, in fact, the social gradient metric first used to study the relationship between social class and chronic disease etiology, a core finding now replicated in most developed countries. What has been less well proved is whether this correlation is causal, and if...

journal_title：Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

authors： Clougherty JE,Souza K,Cullen MR

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00