Direct method for detection and characterization of cell surface receptors for insulin by means of 125I-labeled autoantibodies against the insulin receptor.

abstract：:The ability of specific gangliosides to function as host cell receptors for Sendai virus was investigated by using Madin-Darby bovine kidney cells which become resistant to infection upon treatment with Vibrio cholerae sialidase. Sialidase-treated cells were incubated for 20 min at 37 degrees C with individual, highly...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Markwell MA,Svennerholm L,Paulson JC

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B7 family proteins provide costimulatory signals that regulate T cell responses. Here we report the third set of B7 family-related T cell inhibitory molecules with the identification of a homolog of the B7 family, B7x. It is expressed in immune cells, nonlymphoid tissues, and some tumor cell lines. B7x inhibits cell-c...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zang X,Loke P,Kim J,Murphy K,Waitz R,Allison JP

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In HL-60 cells, a human promyelocytic leukemia cell line, the human c-myc gene, designated MYC, is amplified about 16-fold. On differentiation of the HL-60 cells into granulocytes induced by several inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase [NAD+ poly(adenosine diphosphate D-ribose)ADP-D-ribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.3...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Shima H,Nakayasu M,Aonuma S,Sugimura T,Nagao M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amputation of the zebrafish caudal fin stimulates regeneration of the dermal skeleton and reexpression of sonic hedgehog (shh)-signaling pathway genes. Expression patterns suggest a role for shh signaling in the secretion and patterning of the regenerating dermal bone, but a direct role has not been demonstrated. We e...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Quint E,Smith A,Avaron F,Laforest L,Miles J,Gaffield W,Akimenko MA

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers have found a small number of lithium-depleted halo stars in the temperature range of the Spite plateau. The current status of the mass-loss hypothesis for producing the observed lithium dip in Population (Pop) I stars is briefly discussed and extended to Pop II stars as a possible explanation for these halo ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Dearborn DS,Schramm DN

更新日期：1997-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium ion at concentrations between 2 and 20 mM simulated the stimulatory effects of insulin on the uptake of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid, synthesis of RNA and DNA, and cell multiplication in mouse mammary gland explants cultured in a chemically defined synthetic medium. Other monovalent cations were virtually ineffe...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Hori C,Oka T

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transcript generated by the distal part of the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) gene was initially detected in cells where the full size 14-kilobase (kb) messenger RNA is not found at a significant level. This transcript, approximately 4.5 kb long, corresponds to the cysteine-rich and carboxyl-terminal domains of d...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Hugnot JP,Gilgenkrantz H,Vincent N,Chafey P,Morris GE,Monaco AP,Berwald-Netter Y,Koulakoff A,Kaplan JC,Kahn A

更新日期：1992-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryoelectron microscopy and X-ray crystallography have recently been used to generate structural models that likely represent the unliganded closed-channel conformation and the fully liganded open-channel conformation of different members of the nicotinic-receptor superfamily. To characterize the structure of the clos...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Gonzalez-Gutierrez G,Cuello LG,Nair SK,Grosman C

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological studies have provided ample evidence for synaptic connections between cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs), but the functional properties of these synapses remain elusive. We report on direct recordings of synaptically connected PCs in mice cerebellar slices. In PCs filled with a fluorescent dye to aid axon v...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Orduz D,Llano I

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocytes normally marginate toward the vascular wall in large vessels and within the microvasculature. Reversal of this process, leukocyte demargination, leads to substantial increases in the clinical white blood cell and granulocyte count and is a well-documented effect of glucocorticoid and catecholamine hormones,...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Fay ME,Myers DR,Kumar A,Turbyfield CT,Byler R,Crawford K,Mannino RG,Laohapant A,Tyburski EA,Sakurai Y,Rosenbluth MJ,Switz NA,Sulchek TA,Graham MD,Lam WA

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A central tenet in understanding the biological effects of ionizing radiation has been that the initially affected cells were directly damaged by the radiation. By contrast, evidence has emerged concerning "bystander" responses involving damage to nearby cells that were not themselves directly traversed by the radiati...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Belyakov OV,Mitchell SA,Parikh D,Randers-Pehrson G,Marino SA,Amundson SA,Geard CR,Brenner DJ

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of carboxylate ions (acetate, butyrate) with nucleic aicd bases and nucleosides has been investigated by proton magnetic resonance in dimethyl sulfoxide (d6)/H2O mixtures. Carboxylate ions interacted only with guanine derivatives and led to a large downfield shift of the NH2 resonance. A 1:1 stoichiome...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lancelot G,Hélène C

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids play an important biphasic role in modulating neural plasticity; low doses enhance neural plasticity and spatial memory behavior, whereas chronic, higher doses produce inhibition. We found that 3 independent measures of mitochondrial function-mitochondrial oxidation, membrane potential, and mitochondri...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Du J,Wang Y,Hunter R,Wei Y,Blumenthal R,Falke C,Khairova R,Zhou R,Yuan P,Machado-Vieira R,McEwen BS,Manji HK

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication reports a modulating effect of intracellular ATP on the steady-state and kinetic properties of the delayed rectifier of the giant axon of the squid. When internally dialyzed or perfused giant axons from Loligo plei or Loligo pealei are voltage clamped at -60 mV and washed free of ATP, the potassium ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bezanilla F,Caputo C,DiPolo R,Rojas H

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The great mass extinctions of the fossil record were a major creative force that provided entirely new kinds of opportunities for the subsequent explosive evolution and diversification of surviving clades. Today, the synergistic effects of human impacts are laying the groundwork for a comparably great Anthropocene mas...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Jackson JB

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Both laboratory and field data suggest that people punish noncooperators even in one-shot interactions. Although such "altruistic punishment" may explain the high levels of cooperation in human societies, it creates an evolutionary puzzle: existing models suggest that altruistic cooperation among nonrelatives is evolu...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Boyd R,Gintis H,Bowles S,Richerson PJ

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-sensing ion channel 1a (ASIC1a) is abundantly expressed in the amygdala complex and other brain regions associated with fear. Studies of mice with a disrupted ASIC1 gene suggested that ASIC1a may contribute to learned fear. To test this hypothesis, we generated mice overexpressing human ASIC1a by using the pa...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Wemmie JA,Coryell MW,Askwith CC,Lamani E,Leonard AS,Sigmund CD,Welsh MJ

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A family of proteins involved in cell cycle progression, DNA recombination, and the detection of DNA damage has been recently identified. One of the members of this family, human ATM, is defective in the cells of patients with ataxia telangiectasia and is involved in detection and response of cells to damaged DNA. Oth...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Cimprich KA,Shin TB,Keith CT,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal degeneration is an initial key step in traumatic and neurodegenerative CNS disorders. We established a unique in vivo epifluorescence imaging paradigm to characterize very early events in axonal degeneration in the rat optic nerve. Single retinal ganglion cell axons were visualized by AAV-mediated expression of...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Knöferle J,Koch JC,Ostendorf T,Michel U,Planchamp V,Vutova P,Tönges L,Stadelmann C,Brück W,Bähr M,Lingor P

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloidal and sol-gel procedures have been used to prepare heterogeneous catalysts consisting of platinum metal particles with narrow size distributions and well defined shapes dispersed on high-surface-area silica supports. The overall procedure was developed in three stages. First, tetrahedral and cubic colloidal me...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lee I,Morales R,Albiter MA,Zaera F

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochromes P450 play key roles in drug metabolism and disease by oxidizing a wide variety of natural and xenobiotic compounds. High-resolution crystal structures of P450cam bound to ruthenium sensitizer-linked substrates reveal an open conformation of the enzyme that allows substrates to access the active center via ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Dunn AR,Dmochowski IJ,Bilwes AM,Gray HB,Crane BR

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), also known as cachectin, was demonstrated to induce the expression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in a chronically infected T-cell clone (ACH-2). Concentrations of recombinant TNF-alpha as low as 50 pg/ml induced a significant increase over background of HIV expression i...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Folks TM,Clouse KA,Justement J,Rabson A,Duh E,Kehrl JH,Fauci AS

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional signals are crucial for sharing important information, with conspecifics, for example, to warn humans of danger. Humans use a range of different cues to communicate to others how they feel, including facial, vocal, and gestural signals. We examined the recognition of nonverbal emotional vocalizations, such a...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Sauter DA,Eisner F,Ekman P,Scott SK

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer code to investigate the equilibrium and stability of a diffuse plasma in three dimensions is described that generalizes earlier work on a sharp free boundary model. Toroidal equilibria of a plasma are determined by considering paths of steepest descent associated with a new version of the variational princi...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Betancourt O,Garabedian P

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been inferred that East African environments were cooler or more wooded during the Pliocene and Pleistocene when this region was a central stage of ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Passey BH,Levin NE,Cerling TE,Brown FH,Eiler JM

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansion of polyglutamine repeats in several unrelated proteins causes neurodegenerative diseases with distinct but related pathologies. To provide a model system for investigating common pathogenic features, we have examined the behavior of polyglutamine expansions expressed in Caenorhabditis elegans. The expression...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Satyal SH,Schmidt E,Kitagawa K,Sondheimer N,Lindquist S,Kramer JM,Morimoto RI

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The flux of solvent water coupled to the transit of ions through protein pores is considerable. The effect of this electroosmotic solvent flow on the binding of a neutral molecule [beta-cyclodextrin (betaCD)] to sites within the staphylococcal alpha-hemolysin pore was investigated. Mutant alpha-hemolysin pores were us...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Gu LQ,Cheley S,Bayley H

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined whether dissociation of the histone octamer is required for elongation of RNA transcripts through arrays of nucleosome cores in vitro. Control or dimethyl suberimidate-crosslinked histone octamers were reconstituted onto supercoiled, closed circular pT207-18 DNA, which contains tandemly repeated 207-b...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： O'Neill TE,Smith JG,Bradbury EM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various enzymatic derivatives of the murine myeloma protein IgA(MOPC-315) were subjected to hapten-binding quantitation and circular dichroic analysis in an attempt to ascertain the structural localization and functional definition of the immunoglobulin active site. The extrinsic Cotton effects observed with near satu...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Merz DC,Litman GW,Good RA

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous addition of [D-Ala2, D-Leu5]-enkephalin and morphiceptin at concentrations at which 98% of enkephalin (delta) and morphine (mu) receptors are occupied only partially inhibits the binding of [3H]diprenorphine to rat brain membranes. These conditions, furthermore, do not affect the curves for displaceme...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Chang KJ,Hazum E,Cuatrecasas P

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00