Neuropeptide Y functions as a neuroproliferative factor.

abstract：:A major factor in the progression to heart failure in humans is the inability of the adult heart to repair itself after injury. We recently demonstrated that the early postnatal mammalian heart is capable of regeneration following injury through proliferation of preexisting cardiomyocytes1,2 and that Meis1, a three am...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nguyen NUN,Canseco DC,Xiao F,Nakada Y,Li S,Lam NT,Muralidhar SA,Savla JJ,Hill JA,Le V,Zidan KA,El-Feky HW,Wang Z,Ahmed MS,Hubbi ME,Menendez-Montes I,Moon J,Ali SR,Le V,Villalobos E,Mohamed MS,Elhelaly WM,Thet

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diapycnal mixing (across density surfaces) is an important process in the global ocean overturning circulation. Mixing in the interior of most of the ocean, however, is thought to have a magnitude just one-tenth of that required to close the global circulation by the downward mixing of less dense waters. Some of this ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Watson AJ,Ledwell JR,Messias MJ,King BA,Mackay N,Meredith MP,Mills B,Naveira Garabato AC

更新日期：2013-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin, a major contractile protein, characteristically possesses a long coiled-coil alpha-helical tail and two heads. Each head contains both an actin binding site and an ATPase site and is formed from the NH2-terminal half of one of the two heavy chains (relative molecular mass, Mr, 200,000) and a pair of light chai...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Okamoto Y,Sekine T,Grammer J,Yount RG

更新日期：1986-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus is critical to declarative memory in humans. This kind of memory involves associations among items or events that can be accessed flexibly to guide memory expression in various and even new situations. In animals, there has been controversy about whether the hippocampus is specialized for spatial memor...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bunsey M,Eichenbaum H

更新日期：1996-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Most tetrapods have retained terrestrial locomotion since it evolved in the Palaeozoic era, but bats have become so specialized for flight that they have almost lost the ability to manoeuvre on land at all. Vampire bats, which sneak up on their prey along the ground, are an important exception. Here we show that commo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Riskin DK,Hermanson JW

更新日期：2005-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical-frequency synthesizers, which generate frequency-stable light from a single microwave-frequency reference, are revolutionizing ultrafast science and metrology, but their size, power requirement and cost need to be reduced if they are to be more widely used. Integrated-photonics microchips can be used in high-c...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Spencer DT,Drake T,Briles TC,Stone J,Sinclair LC,Fredrick C,Li Q,Westly D,Ilic BR,Bluestone A,Volet N,Komljenovic T,Chang L,Lee SH,Oh DY,Suh MG,Yang KY,Pfeiffer MHP,Kippenberg TJ,Norberg E,Theogarajan L,Vahala K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor Tu is present in a fourfold excess over the amount seemingly involved in protein synthesis. It is identical to a major protein which we have found associated with the plasma membrane. The possibility of a specific role in that location is considered. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jacobson GR,Rosenbusch JP

更新日期：1976-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Birds can perceive the reflectance of ultraviolet light by biological structures. Here we show that the skin of the mouth and body of starling nestlings substantially reflects light in the ultraviolet range and that young in which this reflectance is reduced will gain less mass than controls, despite low background le...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jourdie V,Moureau B,Bennett AT,Heeb P

更新日期：2004-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta-protein (AP) is a peptide of relative molecular mass (Mr) 42,000 found in the senile plaques, cerebrovascular amyloid deposits, and neurofibrillary tangles of patients with Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome (trisomy 21). Recent molecular genetic evidence has indicated that AP is encoded as part of a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tanzi RE,St George-Hyslop PH,Haines JL,Polinsky RJ,Nee L,Foncin JF,Neve RL,McClatchey AI,Conneally PM,Gusella JF

更新日期：1987-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitter/sodium symporters (NSSs) couple the uptake of neurotransmitter with one or more sodium ions, removing neurotransmitter from the synaptic cleft. NSSs are essential to the function of chemical synapses, are associated with multiple neurological diseases and disorders, and are the targets of therapeutic ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Piscitelli CL,Krishnamurthy H,Gouaux E

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulins of New World hystricomorph rodents exhibit many novel amino acid changes in primary structure when compared with other mammalian insulins. These changes give rise to unusual properties (low potency, failure to self-associate) not shared by other naturally-occurring insulins. We report here on the primary ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Horuk R,Blundell TL,Lazarus NR,Neville RW,Stone D,Wollmer A

更新日期：1980-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Granular materials and ordinary fluids react differently to shear stresses. Rather than deforming uniformly, materials such as dry sand or cohesionless powders develop shear bands--narrow zones of large relative particle motion, with essentially rigid adjacent regions. Because shear bands mark areas of flow, material ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mueth DM,Debregeas GF,Karczmar GS,Eng PJ,Nagel SR,Jaeger HM

更新日期：2000-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cells proteolytically release (shed) the extracellular domains of many cell-surface proteins. Modification of the cell surface in this way can alter the cell's responsiveness to its environment and release potent soluble regulatory factors. The release of soluble tumour-necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) from...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Black RA,Rauch CT,Kozlosky CJ,Peschon JJ,Slack JL,Wolfson MF,Castner BJ,Stocking KL,Reddy P,Srinivasan S,Nelson N,Boiani N,Schooley KA,Gerhart M,Davis R,Fitzner JN,Johnson RS,Paxton RJ,March CJ,Cerretti DP

更新日期：1997-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine-nucleotide-exchange factors (GEFs) promote the exchange of GDP for GTP in Ras GTPases, and thereby positively regulate their functions. Members of the Sec4/Ypt1/Rab branch of the Ras superfamily are essential for vesicular transport. A GEF for a subset of Rab proteins, termed mammalian suppressor of Sec4 (Mss4...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yu H,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1995-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila melanogaster, the rRNA genes (rDNA) are clustered at single sites on two non-homologous chromosomes, the X and Y. Examination of the structure of X and Y rDNAs with restriction endonucleases reveals that the X rDNA contains repeating units not present in the Y. Such observations, as well as genetic evide...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tartof KD,Dawid IG

更新日期：1976-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep learn to recognize the odours of their lambs within two hours of giving birth, and this learning involves synaptic changes within the olfactory bulb. Specifically, mitral cells become increasingly responsive to the learned odour, which stimulates release of both glutamate and GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) neuro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kendrick KM,Guevara-Guzman R,Zorrilla J,Hinton MR,Broad KD,Mimmack M,Ohkura S

更新日期：1997-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of neurite processes from the cell body is the critical step in neuronal development and involves a large increase in cell membrane surface area. Arachidonic-acid-releasing phospholipases are highly enriched in nerve growth cones and have previously been implicated in neurite outgrowth. Cell membrane expansion ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Darios F,Davletov B

更新日期：2006-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain metastasis represents a substantial source of morbidity and mortality in various cancers, and is characterized by high resistance to chemotherapy. Here we define the role of the most abundant cell type in the brain, the astrocyte, in promoting brain metastasis. We show that human and mouse breast and lung cancer...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Chen Q,Boire A,Jin X,Valiente M,Er EE,Lopez-Soto A,Jacob L,Patwa R,Shah H,Xu K,Cross JR,Massagué J

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Clouds on Titan result from the condensation of methane and ethane and, as on other planets, are primarily structured by circulation of the atmosphere. At present, cloud activity mainly occurs in the southern (summer) hemisphere, arising near the pole and at mid-latitudes from cumulus updrafts triggered by surface hea...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rodriguez S,Le Mouélic S,Rannou P,Tobie G,Baines KH,Barnes JW,Griffith CA,Hirtzig M,Pitman KM,Sotin C,Brown RH,Buratti BJ,Clark RN,Nicholson PD

更新日期：2009-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitons are large-amplitude, spatially confined wave packets in nonlinear media. They occur in a wide range of physical systems, such as water surfaces, optical fibres, plasmas, Bose-Einstein condensates and magnetically ordered media. A distinguishing feature of soliton behaviour that is common to all systems, is th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Demokritov SO,Serga AA,Demidov VE,Hillebrands B,Kostylev MP,Kalinikos BA

更新日期：2003-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The wavefunction is the complex distribution used to completely describe a quantum system, and is central to quantum theory. But despite its fundamental role, it is typically introduced as an abstract element of the theory with no explicit definition. Rather, physicists come to a working understanding of the wavefunct...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lundeen JS,Sutherland B,Patel A,Stewart C,Bamber C

更新日期：2011-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a recently developed formalism called topological quantum chemistry, we perform a high-throughput search of 'high-quality' materials (for which the atomic positions and structure have been measured very accurately) in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database in order to identify new topological phases. We develo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Vergniory MG,Elcoro L,Felser C,Regnault N,Bernevig BA,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resolving current concerns about the role of biodiversity on ecosystems calls for understanding the separate roles of changes in species numbers and of composition. Recent work shows that primary productivity often, but not always, saturates with species richness within single trophic levels. However, any interpretati...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Downing AL,Leibold MA

更新日期：2002-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that the osteoclast is formed by fusion of post-mitotic, mononuclear precursors derived from circulating progenitor cells. However, the precise haematopoietic origin of the osteoclast is unknown. We have investigated this here by fractionating mouse bone marrow and isolating haematopoietic stem ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Scheven BA,Visser JW,Nijweide PJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the dynamics of the India Asia collision zone, it is important to know the strain distribution in Central Asia, whose determination relies on the slip rates for active faults. Many previous slip-rate estimates of faults in Central Asia were based on the assumption that offset landforms are young...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hetzel R,Niedermann S,Tao M,Kubik PW,Ivy-Ochs S,Gao B,Strecker MR

更新日期：2002-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Seafloor spreading is largely unobserved because 98 per cent of the global mid-ocean-ridge system is below the ocean surface. Our understanding of the dynamic processes that control seafloor spreading is thus inferred largely from geophysical observations of spreading events on land at Afar in East Africa and Iceland....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tan YJ,Tolstoy M,Waldhauser F,Wilcock WS

更新日期：2016-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The aspergilli comprise a diverse group of filamentous fungi spanning over 200 million years of evolution. Here we report the genome sequence of the model organism Aspergillus nidulans, and a comparative study with Aspergillus fumigatus, a serious human pathogen, and Aspergillus oryzae, used in the production of sake,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Galagan JE,Calvo SE,Cuomo C,Ma LJ,Wortman JR,Batzoglou S,Lee SI,Baştürkmen M,Spevak CC,Clutterbuck J,Kapitonov V,Jurka J,Scazzocchio C,Farman M,Butler J,Purcell S,Harris S,Braus GH,Draht O,Busch S,D'Enfert C,Bou

更新日期：2005-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased levels of brain amyloid-beta, a secreted peptide cleavage product of amyloid precursor protein (APP), is believed to be critical in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease. Increased amyloid-beta can cause synaptic depression, reduce the number of spine protrusions (that is, sites of synaptic contacts) and bloc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kessels HW,Nguyen LN,Nabavi S,Malinow R

更新日期：2010-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical current can be completely spin polarized in a class of materials known as half-metals, as a result of the coexistence of metallic nature for electrons with one spin orientation and insulating nature for electrons with the other. Such asymmetric electronic states for the different spins have been predicted f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Son YW,Cohen ML,Louie SG

更新日期：2006-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Holliday junctions (HJs) are key intermediates in homologous recombination and are especially important for the production of crossover recombinants. Bacterial RecA family proteins promote the formation and branch migration of HJs in vitro by catalysing a reciprocal DNA-strand exchange reaction between two duplex DNA ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Murayama Y,Kurokawa Y,Mayanagi K,Iwasaki H

更新日期：2008-02-21 00:00:00