Endoscopic exploration of Red Sea coral reefs reveals dense populations of cavity-dwelling sponges.

abstract：:During formation of the neuromuscular junction, acetylcholine receptors in the endplate membrane become metabolically stabilized under neural control, their half-life increasing from about 1 day to about 10 days. The metabolic stability of the receptors is regulated by the electrical activity induced in the muscle by ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rotzler S,Schramek H,Brenner HR

更新日期：1991-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the brain behave as nonlinear oscillators, which develop rhythmic activity and interact to process information. Taking inspiration from this behaviour to realize high-density, low-power neuromorphic computing will require very large numbers of nanoscale nonlinear oscillators. A simple estimation indicates t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Torrejon J,Riou M,Araujo FA,Tsunegi S,Khalsa G,Querlioz D,Bortolotti P,Cros V,Yakushiji K,Fukushima A,Kubota H,Yuasa S,Stiles MD,Grollier J

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA double-strand breaks are generated by genotoxic agents and by cellular endonucleases as intermediates of several important physiological processes. The cellular response to genotoxic DNA breaks includes the activation of transcriptional programs known primarily to regulate cell-cycle checkpoints and cell survival....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bredemeyer AL,Helmink BA,Innes CL,Calderon B,McGinnis LM,Mahowald GK,Gapud EJ,Walker LM,Collins JB,Weaver BK,Mandik-Nayak L,Schreiber RD,Allen PM,May MJ,Paules RS,Bassing CH,Sleckman BP

更新日期：2008-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 22-nucleotide endogenous RNAs that often repress the expression of complementary messenger RNAs. In animals, miRNAs derive from characteristic hairpins in primary transcripts through two sequential RNase III-mediated cleavages; Drosha cleaves near the base of the stem to liberate a...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruby JG,Jan CH,Bartel DP

更新日期：2007-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis in the immune system is a fundamental process regulating lymphocyte maturation, receptor repertoire selection and homeostasis. Thus, death by apoptosis is as essential for the function of lymphocytes as growth and differentiation. This article focuses on death receptor-associated apoptosis and the role of CD...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krammer PH

更新日期：2000-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The benzodiazepines are a class of drugs used to alleviate anxiety. As such they constitute one of the most commonly prescribed compounds, due in part to their efficacy and safety. The physiological effect of these drugs is probably through interactions with a low affinity benzodiazepine binding site and two (types 1 ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Barr GA,Lithgow T

更新日期：1983-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of cancer is contingent on the emergence of at least one clone of transformed cells. One method used to investigate whether human tumours are monoclonal depends on the mosaicism in the normal tissues of women heterozygous for the two forms of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD). This ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Woodruff MF,Ansell JD,Forbes GM,Gordon JC,Burton DI,Micklem HS

更新日期：1982-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Practice, with feedback, is a fundamental variable that influences the aquisition of motor skills: with it, everyone improves, but some improve more than others. This simple fact has led to frequent debate over the relative importance of genetic and environmental influences on motor learning. In principle these factor...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fox PW,Hershberger SL,Bouchard TJ Jr

更新日期：1996-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hunger is a hard-wired motivational state essential for survival. Agouti-related peptide (AgRP)-expressing neurons in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) at the base of the hypothalamus are crucial to the control of hunger. They are activated by caloric deficiency and, when naturally or artificially stimulated, they potently in...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Krashes MJ,Shah BP,Madara JC,Olson DP,Strochlic DE,Garfield AS,Vong L,Pei H,Watabe-Uchida M,Uchida N,Liberles SD,Lowell BB

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas is a type-I membrane protein that transduces an apoptotic signal. Binding of Fas ligand or agonistic anti-Fas antibody to Fas kills the cells by apoptosis. Studies in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans have suggested that proteases such as interleukin-1 beta-converting enzyme (ICE) or the product of the C. elegan...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Enari M,Hug H,Nagata S

更新日期：1995-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dense plexuses of neurones containing immunoreactive vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) have been found in discrete areas of the central nervous system and in peripheral organs, including the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas and urogenital system. In many of these locations VIP is concentrated in nerve endings, where...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Giachetti A,Said SI

更新日期：1979-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Commission has made good progress in gathering support for its new programme of basic and applied research. Now Europe's industries and heads of state need to fulfill promises made two years ago. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors：

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The proto-oncogene c-jun is the cellular homologue of v-jun, the transforming oncogene of the avian sarcoma virus 17 (ref. 1). c-jun encodes one major component of the AP-1 transcription factor complex and is expressed in many organs during mouse development and in the adult. Because of its rapid induction in cells fo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hilberg F,Aguzzi A,Howells N,Wagner EF

更新日期：1993-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Homology-directed DNA repair is essential for genome maintenance through templated DNA synthesis. Alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) necessitates homology-directed DNA repair to maintain telomeres in about 10-15% of human cancers. How DNA damage induces assembly and execution of a DNA replication complex (brea...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dilley RL,Verma P,Cho NW,Winters HD,Wondisford AR,Greenberg RA

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensation of pain is carried to the central nervous system by small-diameter fibres which terminate in the superficial layers of the spinal grey matter, particularly the substantia gelatinosa. Opiate drugs administered into the substantia gelatinosa inhibit the excitation of deeper dorsal horn neurones by noxious ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yoshimura M,North RA

更新日期：1983-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity in the motor cortex predicts movements, seconds before they are initiated. This preparatory activity has been observed across cortical layers, including in descending pyramidal tract neurons in layer 5. A key question is how preparatory activity is maintained without causing movement, and is ultimately conver...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Economo MN,Viswanathan S,Tasic B,Bas E,Winnubst J,Menon V,Graybuck LT,Nguyen TN,Smith KA,Yao Z,Wang L,Gerfen CR,Chandrashekar J,Zeng H,Looger LL,Svoboda K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) elicits multiple biological effects through two distinct cell surface receptors, TNF-R1 (p55) and TNF-R2 (p75). Most TNF-mediated biological responses, such as cell death, gene induction, antiviral activity and cytokine production, have been attributed to TNF-R1 (refs 1-5). Gene targeting ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Erickson SL,de Sauvage FJ,Kikly K,Carver-Moore K,Pitts-Meek S,Gillett N,Sheehan KC,Schreiber RD,Goeddel DV,Moore MW

更新日期：1994-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineral nitrogen in nature is often found in the form of nitrate (NO3(-)). Numerous microorganisms evolved to assimilate nitrate and use it as a major source of mineral nitrogen uptake. Nitrate, which is central in nitrogen metabolism, is first reduced to nitrite (NO2(-)) through a two-electron reduction reaction. The...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zheng H,Wisedchaisri G,Gonen T

更新日期：2013-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer control by adaptive immunity involves a number of defined death and clearance mechanisms. However, efficient inhibition of exponential cancer growth by T cells and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) requires additional undefined mechanisms that arrest cancer cell proliferation. Here we show that the combined action of the T-...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Braumüller H,Wieder T,Brenner E,Aßmann S,Hahn M,Alkhaled M,Schilbach K,Essmann F,Kneilling M,Griessinger C,Ranta F,Ullrich S,Mocikat R,Braungart K,Mehra T,Fehrenbacher B,Berdel J,Niessner H,Meier F,van den Broek M,

更新日期：2013-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Deltas and alluvial fans preserved on the surface of Mars provide an important record of surface water flow. Understanding how surface water flow could have produced the observed morphology is fundamental to understanding the history of water on Mars. To date, morphological studies have provided only minimum time esti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kraal ER,van Dijk M,Postma G,Kleinhans MG

更新日期：2008-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal muscles of the limbs develop from myogenic progenitors that originate in the paraxial mesoderm and migrate into the limb-bud mesenchyme. Among the genes known to be important for muscle development in mammalian embryos are those encoding the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs;...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mankoo BS,Collins NS,Ashby P,Grigorieva E,Pevny LH,Candia A,Wright CV,Rigby PW,Pachnis V

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abiraterone blocks androgen synthesis and prolongs survival in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, which is otherwise driven by intratumoral androgen synthesis. Abiraterone is metabolized in patients to Δ(4)-abiraterone (D4A), which has even greater anti-tumour activity and is structurally similar to e...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Li Z,Alyamani M,Li J,Rogacki K,Abazeed M,Upadhyay SK,Balk SP,Taplin ME,Auchus RJ,Sharifi N

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Below water depths of about 300 metres, pressure and temperature conditions cause methane to form ice-like crystals of methane hydrate. Marine deposits of methane hydrate are estimated to be large, amassing about 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon, and are thought to be important to global change and seafloor stability, as w...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wood WT,Gettrust JF,Chapman NR,Spence GD,Hyndman RD

更新日期：2002-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The inner ear contains sensory epithelia that detect head movements, gravity and sound. It is unclear how to develop these sensory epithelia from pluripotent stem cells, a process that will be critical for modelling inner ear disorders or developing cell-based therapies for profound hearing loss and balance disorders....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Koehler KR,Mikosz AM,Molosh AI,Patel D,Hashino E

更新日期：2013-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:At the molecular level, muscle contraction is the result of cyclic interaction between myosin crossbridges, which extend from the thick filament, and the thin filament, which consists mainly of actin. The energy for work done by a single crossbridge during a cycle of attachment, generation of force, shortening and det...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lombardi V,Piazzesi G,Linari M

更新日期：1992-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Seismological observations have revealed the existence of low-velocity and high-attenuation zones above the discontinuity at 410 km depth, at the base of the Earth's upper mantle. It has been suggested that a small amount of melt could be responsible for such anomalies. The density of silicate melt under dry condition...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sakamaki T,Suzuki A,Ohtani E

更新日期：2006-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-dependent forms of microscopy (such as phase contrast, interference, or polarization microscopy) have been used for many years; the amount of phase retardation produces images based mainly on index of refraction. We have developed a microscope that forms images that depend on small differences in extinction for ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mickols W,Maestre MF,Tinoco I Jr

更新日期：1987-07-30 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：:The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca. Here we report the sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads and a fosmid-pooling strategy, along with transcriptomes of development and stress response and the proteom...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang G,Fang X,Guo X,Li L,Luo R,Xu F,Yang P,Zhang L,Wang X,Qi H,Xiong Z,Que H,Xie Y,Holland PW,Paps J,Zhu Y,Wu F,Chen Y,Wang J,Peng C,Meng J,Yang L,Liu J,Wen B,Zhang N,Huang Z,Zhu Q,Feng Y,Mount A

更新日期：2012-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Substrates of the proteasome are recognized and unfolded by the regulatory particle, and then translocated into the core particle (CP) to be degraded. A hetero-hexameric ATPase ring, containing subunits Rpt1-6, is situated within the base subassembly of the regulatory particle. The ATPase ring sits atop the CP, with t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Park S,Roelofs J,Kim W,Robert J,Schmidt M,Gygi SP,Finley D

更新日期：2009-06-11 00:00:00