Development and persistence of kindling epilepsy are impaired in mice lacking glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha 2.

abstract：:After decades of robust growth, the rise in US life expectancy stalled after 2010. Explanations for the stall have focused on rising drug-related deaths. Here we show that a stagnating decline in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality was the main culprit, outpacing and overshadowing the effects of all other causes of...

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

authors： Mehta NK,Abrams LR,Myrskylä M

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In autotrophically grown Chlorella cells, glucose induces a hexose transport system but, at the same time, the synthesis of two amino acid transport systems is also induced. Thus, the rates of uptake of glycine, L-alanine, L-proline, and L-serine, all of which compete with each other for entry into the cells, increase...

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

authors： Cho BH,Sauer N,Komor E,Tanner W

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is responsible for nonspecific, bulk degradation of cytoplasmic components. Recent work has revealed also that there is specific, autophagic degradation of polyubiquitinated protein aggregates, whose buildup occurs during neurodegenerative disease. Here, we report that simple mono-ubiquitination of normally ...

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

authors： Kim PK,Hailey DW,Mullen RT,Lippincott-Schwartz J

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine whether the vascular smooth muscle contractile effect of NG-methyl-L-arginine (NMA) is endothelium dependent and attributed to a decline in smooth muscle levels of cyclic GMP. Vascular smooth muscle levels of cyclic GMP are severalfold greater in endothelium-intact than in ...

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

authors： Gold ME,Wood KS,Byrns RE,Fukuto J,Ignarro LJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies implicate the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus (VMN) in glycemic control. Here, we report that selective inhibition of the subset of VMN neurons that express the transcription factor steroidogenic-factor 1 (VMN(SF1) neurons) blocks recovery from insulin-induced hypoglycemia whereas, conversely, activ...

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

authors： Meek TH,Nelson JT,Matsen ME,Dorfman MD,Guyenet SJ,Damian V,Allison MB,Scarlett JM,Nguyen HT,Thaler JP,Olson DP,Myers MG Jr,Schwartz MW,Morton GJ

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of 26 mouse-human somatic cell hybrids containing different human chromosome complements was analyzed with a cloned human pepsinogen cDNA probe to determine the chromosomal location and the number of genes encoding these proteins. A complex containing variable numbers of pepsinogen genes was localized to the c...

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

authors： Taggart RT,Mohandas TK,Shows TB,Bell GI

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free gangliosides bind fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), thus preventing cell interaction and biological activity of the growth factor in endothelial cells. Here we investigated the role of cell-associated gangliosides in mediating the biological activity of FGF2. Treatment of endothelial cells of different origin wi...

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

authors： Rusnati M,Urbinati C,Tanghetti E,Dell'Era P,Lortat-Jacob H,Presta M

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal mossy fibers, which are the axons of dentate granule cells, form powerful excitatory synapses onto the proximal dendrites of CA3 pyramidal cells. It has long been known that high-affinity binding sites for kainate, a glutamate receptor agonist, are present on mossy fibers. Here we summarize recent experime...

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

authors： Schmitz D,Mellor J,Frerking M,Nicoll RA

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant Escherichia coli strains in which export of the LamB protein (coded for by the lamB gene) to the outer membrane of the cell is prevented have been described previously. One of these mutant strains contains a small (12-base pair) deletion mutation within the region of the lamB gene that codes for the NH2-termina...

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

authors： Emr SD,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p-Coumaric acid is the precursor of phenylpropanoids, which are plant secondary metabolites that are beneficial to human health. Tyrosine ammonia lyase catalyzes the production of p-coumaric acid from tyrosine. Because of their photosynthetic ability and biosynthetic versatility, cyanobacteria are promising candidates...

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

authors： Xue Y,Zhang Y,Cheng D,Daddy S,He Q

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We construct a C*-algebra that has only one irreducible representation up to unitary equivalence but is not isomorphic to the algebra of compact operators on any Hilbert space. This answers an old question of Naimark. Our construction uses a combinatorial statement called the diamond principle, which is known to be co...

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

authors： Akemann C,Weaver N

更新日期：2004-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:PDZ domains are abundant protein interaction modules and typically recognize a short motif at the C terminus of their ligands, with a few residues in the motif endowing the binding specificity. The sequence-based rules, however, cannot fully account for the specificity between the vast number of PDZ domains and ligand...

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

authors： Pascoe HG,Gutowski S,Chen H,Brautigam CA,Chen Z,Sternweis PC,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In myocardial ischemia, adrenergic nerves release excessive amounts of norepinephrine (NE), causing dysfunction and arrhythmias. With anoxia and the concomitant ATP depletion, vesicular storage of NE is impaired, resulting in accumulation of free NE in the axoplasm of sympathetic nerves. Intraneuronal acidosis activat...

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

authors： Silver RB,Mackins CJ,Smith NC,Koritchneva IL,Lefkowitz K,Lovenberg TW,Levi R

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) plays diverse and significant roles in biological processes despite its cytotoxicity, raising the question of how biological systems control the action of NO to minimize its cytotoxicity in cells. As a great example of such a system, we found a possibility that NO-generating nitrite reductase (NiR) f...

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

authors： Terasaka E,Yamada K,Wang PH,Hosokawa K,Yamagiwa R,Matsumoto K,Ishii S,Mori T,Yagi K,Sawai H,Arai H,Sugimoto H,Sugita Y,Shiro Y,Tosha T

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Although genetic analysis has demonstrated that members of the winged helix, or forkhead, family of transcription factors play pivotal roles in the regulation of cellular differentiation and proliferation, both during development and in the adult, little is known of the mechanisms underlying their regulation. Here we ...

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

authors： Biggs WH 3rd,Meisenhelder J,Hunter T,Cavenee WK,Arden KC

更新日期：1999-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimization theory has been used to analyze evolutionary adaptation. This theory has explained many features of biological systems, from the genetic code to animal behavior. However, these systems show important deviations from optimality. Typically, these deviations are large in some particular components of the sys...

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

authors： Pérez-Escudero A,Rivera-Alba M,de Polavieja GG

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engraftment and maintenance of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) depend on their ability to respond to extracellular signals from the bone marrow microenvironment, but the critical intracellular pathways integrating these signals remain poorly understood. Furthermore, recent studies provide contradictory ...

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

authors： Sanchez-Aguilera A,Lee YJ,Lo Celso C,Ferraro F,Brumme K,Mondal S,Kim C,Dorrance A,Luo HR,Scadden DT,Williams DA

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In a field study, we show that a young song sparrow (i) selects his songs from three or four older birds who have neighboring territories, (ii) preferentially learns song types that these tutor neighbors share, and (iii) ultimately sets up his territory next to, or replaces, one of these tutor neighbors. The consequen...

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

authors： Beecher MD,Campbell SE,Stoddard PK

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:During primate evolution, a major factor in lengthening life-span and decreasing age-specific cancer rates may have been improved protective mechanisms against oxygen radicals. We propose that one of these protective systems is plasma uric acid, the level of which increased markedly during primate evolution as a conse...

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

authors： Ames BN,Cathcart R,Schwiers E,Hochstein P

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of computer predictions of RNA secondary structure from sequence data and free energy parameters has been increased to roughly 70%. Performance is judged by comparison with structures known from phylogenetic analysis. The algorithm also generates suboptimal structures. On average, the best structure withi...

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

authors： Jaeger JA,Turner DH,Zuker M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since at least the 1920s, it has been reported that common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) differ from humans in being capable of exceptional feats of "super strength," both in the wild and in captive environments. A mix of anecdotal and more controlled studies provides some support for this view; however, a critical re...

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

authors： O'Neill MC,Umberger BR,Holowka NB,Larson SG,Reiser PJ

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the influence of a photothrombotic lesion in somatosensory cortex on plasticity in the mouse visual system and the efficacy of anti-inflammatory treatment to rescue compromised learning. To challenge plasticity mechanisms, we induced monocular deprivation (MD) in 3-mo-old mice. In control animals, MD induced...

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

authors： Greifzu F,Schmidt S,Schmidt KF,Kreikemeier K,Witte OW,Löwel S

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) are a highly tumorigenic cell type present as a minority population in developmentally diverse tumors and cell lines. Using a genetic screen in an inducible model of CSC formation in a breast cell line, we identify microRNAs (miRNAs) that inhibit CSC growth and are down-regulated in CSCs....

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

authors： Polytarchou C,Iliopoulos D,Struhl K

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of lymphocytes with inducers of interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) results in the production of corticotropin (ACTH) and endorphin-like activities. The pro-opiomelanocortin-derived hormones ACTH and alpha-, beta-, and gamma-endorphin and the structurally related hormones [Leu]- and [Met]enkephalin were therefore t...

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

authors： Johnson HM,Smith EM,Torres BA,Blalock JE

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell separation technique was designed based on the interaction between cell-surface-bound IgG and protein A of Staphylococcus aureus. The density of lymphoid cells coated with IgG antibodies against one of the surface markers was increased by adherence of staphylococci. Cells with adhering bacteria were separated f...

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

authors： Ghetie V,Nilsson K,Sjöquist J

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional wisdom regarding mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis holds that pathogens arise by external acquisition of distinct virulence factors, whereas determinants shared by pathogens and commensals are considered to be functionally equivalent and have been ignored as genes that could become adapted specifically...

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

authors： Sokurenko EV,Chesnokova V,Dykhuizen DE,Ofek I,Wu XR,Krogfelt KA,Struve C,Schembri MA,Hasty DL

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the possibility that insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) acts as a neuromodulator in the adult cerebellar cortex since previous observations indicated that IGF-I is located in the olivo-cerebellar system encompassing the inferior olive and Purkinje cells. We found that conjoint administration of IGF-I and g...

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

authors： Castro-Alamancos MA,Torres-Aleman I

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA from several mammalian species has been digested with a site-specific restriction endonuclease (HaeIII) from Haemophilus aegyptius. A quantitative analysis of the resulting specific fragments indicates that the mtDNA of any individual mammal is predominantly a single molecular clone. Gel analysis of ...

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

authors： Potter SS,Newbold JE,Hutchison CA 3rd,Edgell MH

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the goal of developing techniques for DNA insertional mutagenesis in zebrafish, we established procedures for rapidly obtaining and injecting large numbers of fertilized eggs. Using either of two plasmid constructs, we injected uncut DNA into fertilized eggs at the one- or two-cell stage. Fish hatched from inject...

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

authors： Culp P,Nüsslein-Volhard C,Hopkins N

更新日期：1991-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations show that the desolvation rates of isotopes of Li(+), K(+), Rb(+), Ca(2+), Sr(2+), and Ba(2+) may have a relatively strong dependence on the metal cation mass. This inference is based on the observation that the exchange rate constant, k(wex), for water molecules in the first hydration s...

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

authors： Hofmann AE,Bourg IC,DePaolo DJ

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00