Genetic and pharmacological disruption of neurokinin 1 receptor function decreases anxiety-related behaviors and increases serotonergic function.

abstract：:A single-nucleotide polymorphism in the human arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 (Nat2) gene has recently been identified as associated with insulin resistance in humans. To understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which alterations in Nat2 activity might cause insulin resistance, we examined murine ortholog N...

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

authors： Camporez JP,Wang Y,Faarkrog K,Chukijrungroat N,Petersen KF,Shulman GI

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:I reject the Darwinian assumption that larvae and their adults evolved from a single common ancestor. Rather I posit that, in animals that metamorphose, the basic types of larvae originated as adults of different lineages, i.e., larvae were transferred when, through hybridization, their genomes were acquired by distan...

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

authors： Williamson DI

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramembrane proteolysis is a new paradigm in biology that controls signaling events throughout evolution. Hydrolysis of peptide bonds is thought to occur within the normally hydrophobic membrane environment, but insights into this unusual activity have been lacking because of difficulty in recapitulating activity in...

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

authors： Urban S,Wolfe MS

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hypoxia causes pulmonary hypertension with smooth muscle cell proliferation and matrix deposition in the wall of the pulmonary arterioles. We demonstrate here that hypoxia also induces a pronounced inflammation in the lung before the structural changes of the vessel wall. The proinflammatory action of hypoxia ...

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

authors： Minamino T,Christou H,Hsieh CM,Liu Y,Dhawan V,Abraham NG,Perrella MA,Mitsialis SA,Kourembanas S

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation is the raw material for natural selection, but the factors shaping variation are still poorly understood. Genetic and developmental interactions can direct variation, but there has been little synthesis of these effects with the extrinsic factors that can shape biodiversity over large scales. The study of ph...

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

authors： Goswami A,Binder WJ,Meachen J,O'Keefe FR

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The dramatic increase in healthcare cost has become a significant burden to the world. Many patients are denied the accessibility of medication because of the high price of drugs. Total biosynthesis of chiral drug intermediates is an environmentally friendly approach that helps provide more affordable pharmaceuticals....

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

authors： Zhang K,Li H,Cho KM,Liao JC

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in direct radiocarbon dating of Neanderthal and anatomically modern human (AMH) fossils and the development of archaeostratigraphic chronologies now allow refined regional models for Neanderthal-AMH coexistence. In addition, they allow us to explore the issue of late Neanderthal survival in regions of Western...

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

authors： Pinhasi R,Higham TF,Golovanova LV,Doronichev VB

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine mastocytoma cells treated with calcium ionophore A23187 produced a slow-reacting substance (SRS) that caused guinea pig ileum to contract. The response was reversed by the SRS antagonist FPL 55712. On the basis of isotope incorporation experiments, spectroscopy, and chemical degradations, the SRS was identified...

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

authors： Murphy RC,Hammarström S,Samuelsson B

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in genes that encode components of the phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) signaling pathway are common in human cancer. The recent discovery of nonrandom somatic mutations in the PIK3CA gene of many human tumors suggests an oncogenic role for the mutated enzyme. We have determined the growth-regulat...

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

authors： Kang S,Bader AG,Vogt PK

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms for plant growth restriction during stress conditions remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that a phytochrome-interacting factor-like protein, OsPIL1/OsPIL13, acts as a key regulator of reduced internode elongation in rice under drought conditions. The level of OsPIL1 mRNA in rice seedlings grown under...

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

authors： Todaka D,Nakashima K,Maruyama K,Kidokoro S,Osakabe Y,Ito Y,Matsukura S,Fujita Y,Yoshiwara K,Ohme-Takagi M,Kojima M,Sakakibara H,Shinozaki K,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been associated with a wide range of adverse health effects. Our case-control study was performed to explore the association between placental levels of selected POPs and risks for neural tube defects (NTDs) in a Chinese population with a high prevalence of NTDs. Cases include...

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

authors： Ren A,Qiu X,Jin L,Ma J,Li Z,Zhang L,Zhu H,Finnell RH,Zhu T

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Small solutes affect protein and nucleic acid processes because of favorable or unfavorable chemical interactions of the solute with the biopolymer surface exposed or buried in the process. Large solutes also exclude volume and affect processes where biopolymer molecularity and/or shape changes. Here, we develop an an...

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

authors： Knowles DB,LaCroix AS,Deines NF,Shkel I,Record MT Jr

更新日期：2011-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher-level cognitive processes strongly depend on a complex interplay between mediodorsal thalamus nuclei and the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Alteration of thalamofrontal connectivity has been involved in cognitive deficits of schizophrenia. Prefrontal serotonin (5-HT)2A receptors play an essential role in cortical net...

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

authors： Barre A,Berthoux C,De Bundel D,Valjent E,Bockaert J,Marin P,Bécamel C

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is used to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India, but it is poorly quality assured. Quality assurance was performed in eight VL endemic districts in Bihar State, India, in 2014. Residual dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was sampled from walls using Bostik tape discs, and DDT ...

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

authors： Coleman M,Foster GM,Deb R,Pratap Singh R,Ismail HM,Shivam P,Ghosh AK,Dunkley S,Kumar V,Coleman M,Hemingway J,Paine MJ,Das P

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine has been identified in the anterior pituitary gland and is secreted from cultured folliculostellate (FS) cells. To determine whether adenosine controls the secretion of anterior pituitary hormones in vitro, adenosine was incubated with anterior pituitaries. It stimulated prolactin (PRL) release at the lowest...

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

authors： Yu WH,Kimura M,Walczewska A,Porter JC,McCann SM

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonlinearity of the Navier-Stokes equations makes predicting the flow of fluid around rapidly moving small bodies highly resistant to all approaches save careful experiments or brute force computation. Here, we show how a linearization of the Navier-Stokes equations captures the drag-determining features of the fl...

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

authors： Roper M,Brenner MP

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-stranded (ds) DNA which may be a replication intermediate was isolated from bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. "Top Crop") leaves systemically infected with bean golden mosaic virus, a whitefly-transmitted plant virus with a genome of circular single-stranded (ss) DNA. The isolation method used phenol/chloroform ext...

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

authors： Ikegami M,Haber S,Goodman RM

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morbidity and mortality associated with Vibrio-mediated waterborne diseases necessitates the development of sensitive detection technologies that are able to elucidate the identity, potential pathogenicity, susceptibility, and viability of contaminating bacteria in a timely manner. For this purpose, we have design...

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

authors： Vora GJ,Meador CE,Bird MM,Bopp CA,Andreadis JD,Stenger DA

更新日期：2005-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Components in cerebrospinal fluid that are antigenically related to myelin basic protein have been identified by a technique described recently [Barbarese, E., Braun, P. E. & Carson, J. H. (1977) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74, 3360-3364] involving separating the cerebrospinal fluid proteins by sodium dodecyl sulfate/p...

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

authors： Carson JH,Barbarese E,Braun PE,McPherson TA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X chromosome-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCIDX1) is characterized by the absence of T-cell and natural killer cell development and results from molecular mutations of the interleukin 2 receptor (IL-2R) gamma chain. The IL-2R gamma chain is a common component of the IL-2, IL-4, and IL-7 receptor sy...

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

authors： DiSanto JP,Rieux-Laucat F,Dautry-Varsat A,Fischer A,de Saint Basile G

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Species-specific colors and patterns on animal body surfaces are determined primarily by neural-crest-derived pigment cells in the skin (chromatophores). However, even closely related species display widely differing patterns. These contrasting aspects of chromatophores (i.e., the fixed developmental control within sp...

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

authors： Fukamachi S,Sugimoto M,Mitani H,Shima A

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and other bacterial pathogens are known to interact with integrins as an initial step in a complex pathway of bacterial ingestion by host cells. Efficient GAS invasion depends on the interaction of bound fibronectin (Fn) with integrins and activation of integrin signaling. TGF-beta1 regulat...

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

authors： Wang B,Li S,Southern PJ,Cleary PP

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes can release glutamate in a calcium-dependent manner and consequently signal to adjacent neurons. Whether this glutamate release pathway is used during physiological signaling or is recruited only under pathophysiological conditions is not well defined. One reason for this lack of understanding is the limite...

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

authors： Parpura V,Haydon PG

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Design and synthesis of 3D metallic carbon that is stable under ambient conditions has been a long-standing dream. We predict the existence of such phases, T6- and T14-carbon, consisting of interlocking hexagons. Their dynamic, mechanical, and thermal stabilities are confirmed by carrying out a variety of state-of-the...

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

authors： Zhang S,Wang Q,Chen X,Jena P

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The rise of inorganic-biological hybrid organisms for solar-to-chemical production has spurred mechanistic investigations into the dynamics of the biotic-abiotic interface to drive the development of next-generation systems. The model system, Moorella thermoacetica-cadmium sulfide (CdS), combines an inorganic semicond...

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

authors： Kornienko N,Sakimoto KK,Herlihy DM,Nguyen SC,Alivisatos AP,Harris CB,Schwartzberg A,Yang P

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Female Utetheisa ornatrix exercise postcopulatory mate selection, favoring sperm of larger males. Larger males also produce larger spermatophores, raising the question whether males are selected on the basis of body size or the size of their spermatophore. We here present evidence, based on matings in which males were...

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

authors： LaMunyon CW,Eisner T

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:During the development of a macronucleus from a micronucleus after cell mating in hypotrichs all the genes (approximately 20,000) are excised from micronuclear chromosomes as individual small DNA molecules. Telomeres are added to the ends of each gene-sized molecule and each is amplified, mostly by approximately 1000-...

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

authors： Greslin AF,Prescott DM,Oka Y,Loukin SH,Chappell JC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general repressor extensively studied in vitro is the human Dr1/DRAP1 heterodimeric complex. To elucidate the function of Dr1 and DRAP1 in vivo, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dr1/DRAP1 repressor complex was identified. The repressor complex is encoded by two essential genes, designated YDR1 and BUR6. The inviab...

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

authors： Kim S,Na JG,Hampsey M,Reinberg D

更新日期：1997-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which antifreeze proteins (AFPs) irreversibly bind to ice has not yet been resolved. The ice-binding site of an AFP is relatively hydrophobic, but also contains many potential hydrogen bond donors/acceptors. The extent to which hydrogen bonding and the hydrophobic effect contribute to ice binding has ...

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

authors： Garnham CP,Campbell RL,Davies PL

更新日期：2011-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) is a second messenger protein that has evolved to bind tightly to a variety of targets and, as such, exhibits low binding specificity. We redesigned CaM by using a computational protein design algorithm to improve its binding specificity for one of its targets, smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase ...

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

authors： Shifman JM,Mayo SL

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00