Adeno-associated virus type-2 expression of pigmented epithelium-derived factor or Kringles 1-3 of angiostatin reduce retinal neovascularization.

abstract：:Six independent lines of evidence point to the existence of heme-containing compounds and/or hemoglobin breakdown products in extracts of trabecular tissues of the large theropod dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. These include signatures from nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance that indicate the presence ...

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

authors： Schweitzer MH,Marshall M,Carron K,Bohle DS,Busse SC,Arnold EV,Barnard D,Horner JR,Starkey JR

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls of Mycobacterium leprae, prepared by differential solvent extraction, were shown to contain arabinogalactan, mycolates, and peptidoglycan. In addition, amino acid analysis revealed the unexpected presence of large amounts of protein that retained potent immunological reactivity. Purified cell walls stimulat...

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

authors： Melancon-Kaplan J,Hunter SW,McNeil M,Stewart C,Modlin RL,Rea TH,Convit J,Salgame P,Mehra V,Bloom BR

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhuman primates possess a highly developed capacity for face recognition, which resembles the human capacity both cognitively and neurologically. Face recognition is typically tested by having subjects compare facial images, whereas there has been virtually no attention to how they connect these images to reality. C...

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

authors： Pokorny JJ,de Waal FB

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV envelope (Env) protein mediates entry into cells by binding CD4 and an appropriate coreceptor, which triggers structural changes in Env that lead to fusion between the viral and cellular membranes. The major HIV-1 coreceptors are the seven transmembrane domain chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4. The type of co...

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

authors： Hoffman TL,Canziani G,Jia L,Rucker J,Doms RW

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech recognition involves three processes: extraction of acoustic indices from the speech signal, estimation of the probability that the observed index string was caused by a hypothesized utterance segment, and determination of the recognized utterance via a search among hypothesized alternatives. This paper is not ...

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

authors： Jelinek F

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nascent replicative form type II (RFII) DNA of coliphage M13 synthesized in an Escherichia coli mutant deficient in the 5' leads to 3' exonuclease associated uith DNA polymerase I contains ribonucleotides that are retained in the covalently closed RFI DNA sealed in vitro by the joint action of T5 phage DNA polymerase ...

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

authors： Dasgupta S,Mitra S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotency of embryonic stem (ES) cells is maintained by transcription factors that form a highly interconnected protein interaction network surrounding the homeobox protein Nanog. Enforced expression of Nanog in mouse ES (mES) cells promotes self-renewal and alleviates their requirement for leukemia inhibitory fact...

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

authors： Wang J,Levasseur DN,Orkin SH

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced intake of nutrients [calorie restriction (CR)] extends longevity in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals. Mutations affecting somatotropic, insulin, or homologous signaling pathways can increase life span in worms, flies, and mice, and there is considerable evidence that reduced secretion of insulin-like gr...

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

authors： Bonkowski MS,Rocha JS,Masternak MM,Al Regaiey KA,Bartke A

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is expected to cause shifts in the composition of tropical montane forests towards increased relative abundances of species whose ranges were previously centered at lower, hotter elevations. To investigate this process of "thermophilization," we analyzed patterns of compositional change over the last de...

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

authors： Duque A,Stevenson PR,Feeley KJ

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cellular cargoes move bidirectionally along microtubules, driven by teams of plus- and minus-end-directed motor proteins. To probe the forces exerted on cargoes during intracellular transport, we examined latex beads phagocytosed into living mammalian macrophages. These latex bead compartments (LBCs) are encased ...

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

authors： Hendricks AG,Holzbaur EL,Goldman YE

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Observing the structure and regeneration of the myelin sheath in peripheral nerves following injury and during repair would help in understanding the pathogenesis and treatment of neurological diseases caused by an abnormal myelin sheath. In the present study, transmission electron microscopy, immunofluorescence stain...

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

authors： Liu B,Xin W,Tan JR,Zhu RP,Li T,Wang D,Kan SS,Xiong DK,Li HH,Zhang MM,Sun HH,Wagstaff W,Zhou C,Wang ZJ,Zhang YG,He TC

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell of the bacterium Escherichia coli was tethered covalently to a glass coverslip by a single flagellum, and its rotation was stopped by using optical tweezers. The tweezers acted directly on the cell body or indirectly, via a trapped polystyrene bead. The torque generated by the flagellar motor was determined by ...

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

authors： Berry RM,Berg HC

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been controversial whether the cytochrome oxidase (CO)-dense blobs in primate primary visual cortex (V1) and CO-dense thin stripes in visual area 2 (V2) are parts of a cortical color-processing stream that is segregated from other functional streams. One of the key pieces of evidence for the segregated color st...

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

authors： Xiao Y,Felleman DJ

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant efforts have been directed to understanding the factors that influence the lineage commitment of stem cells. This paper demonstrates that cell shape, independent of soluble factors, has a strong influence on the differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from bone marrow. When exposed to compet...

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

authors： Kilian KA,Bugarija B,Lahn BT,Mrksich M

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli mutS gene product is involved in mismatch correction in this organism. We have purified a biologically active form of the 97,000 Mr protein to near homogeneity from an overproducing strain. Enzymatic and chemical protection ("footprinting") experiments have demonstrated that mutS-encoded protein s...

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

authors： Su SS,Modrich P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three of the four deoxynucleoside kinases required for growth of Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26 exist as heterodimeric pairs specific for deoxyadenosine (dAK) and deoxycytidine (dCK) or dAK and deoxyguanosine (dGK). However, only two tandem genes, dak/dgk, are found, and are expressed only as dAK/dGK in transformed Es...

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

authors： Ma N,Ikeda S,Guo S,Fieno A,Park I,Grimme S,Ikeda T,Ives DH

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for Notch in the elaboration of existing neural processes is emerging that is distinct from the increasingly well understood function of this gene in binary cell-fate decisions. Several research groups, by using a variety of organisms, have shown that Notch is important in the development of neural ultrastructu...

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

authors： Presente A,Boyles RS,Serway CN,de Belle JS,Andres AJ

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal sequences of two polypeptides with nonsuppressible insulin-like and cell-growth-promoting activities (NSILA I and II), isolated from human serum, were determined. Of the first 31 residues, 22 are identical in NSILA I and II. Moreover, a striking structural similarity was found between NSILA and insu...

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

authors： Rinderknecht E,Humbel RE

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory CD8 T cells provide durable protection against diverse intracellular pathogens and can be broadly segregated into distinct circulating and tissue-resident populations. Paradigmatic studies have demonstrated that circulating memory cells can be further divided into effector memory (Tem) and central memory (Tcm) ...

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

authors： Milner JJ,Nguyen H,Omilusik K,Reina-Campos M,Tsai M,Toma C,Delpoux A,Boland BS,Hedrick SM,Chang JT,Goldrath AW

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing interpretations of human origins and evolution have recently proliferated despite the accelerated pace of fossil discovery. These controversies parallel those involving other vertebrate families and result from the difficulty of studying evolution among closely related species. Recent advances in development...

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

authors： Hlusko LJ

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal rabies control has been frustrated by the existence of multiple wildlife reservoirs and the lack of efficacious oral vaccines. In this investigation, raccoons fed a vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein recombinant virus in a sponge bait developed rabies virus-neutralizing antibody (0.6-54.0 units) and resisted street r...

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

authors： Rupprecht CE,Wiktor TJ,Johnston DH,Hamir AN,Dietzschold B,Wunner WH,Glickman LT,Koprowski H

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of the water proton spinlattice relaxation (T(1)) in 106 human tumors confirms earlier results with animals [Damadian, R. (1971) Science 171, 1151-1153]. T(1) of all the tumors studied were significantly longer than T(1) of the corresponding normal tissues. Mean standard error and range were reported for ...

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

authors： Damadian R,Zaner K,Hor D,DiMaio T

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of exposure to infectious microbes or their toxins is influenced by both microbial and host genes. Some host genes encode defense mechanisms, whereas others assist pathogen functions. Genomic analyses have associated host gene mutations with altered infectious disease susceptibility, but evidence for causa...

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

authors： Martchenko M,Candille SI,Tang H,Cohen SN

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Antinuclear autoantibodies (ANA) appeared in the plasma of lethally irradiated H-2d histocompatible DBA/2 and BALB/c mice several weeks after intravenous transplantation of 2 to 4 x 10(6) bone marrow cells from 3-week-old animals of the autoimmune New Zealand Black (NZB) strain. Little or no ANA development was observ...

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

authors： Morton JI,Siegel BV

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA chip technology enables simultaneous examination of how approximately 6,200 Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene transcript levels, representing the entire genome, respond to environmental change. By using chips bearing oligonucleotide arrays, we show that, after exposure to the alkylating agent methyl methanesulfonate, ...

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

authors： Jelinsky SA,Samson LD

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli flagellar motor senses the intracellular concentration of the response regulator CheY-P and responds by varying the bias between its counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) rotational states. The response is ultrasensitive with a large Hill coefficient (approximately 10). Recently, the detailed ...

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

authors： Tu Y

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The identity of the oldest lineage of monocotyledons is a subject of debate. Alternative interpretations of morphological homologies are variously consistent with proposals that species of Alismatanae, Dioscoreales, or Melanthiales were the earliest descendants of the first monocotyledons. We present phylogenetic anal...

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

authors： Duvall MR,Learn GH Jr,Eguiarte LE,Clegg MT

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle checkpoints are evolutionarily conserved surveillance systems that protect genomic stability and prevent oncogenesis in mammals. One important target of checkpoint control is ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), which catalyzes the rate-limiting step in dNTP and DNA synthesis. In both yeast and humans, RNR is tr...

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

authors： Zhao X,Rothstein R

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cry proteins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis are selective biodegradable insecticides used increasingly in bacterial insecticides and transgenic plants as alternatives to synthetic chemical insecticides. However, the potential for development of resistance and cross-resistance in target insect populations to Cry pr...

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

authors： Wirth MC,Georghiou GP,Federici BA

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Society makes substantial investments in biomedical research, searching for ways to better human health. The product of this research is principally information published in scientific journals. Continued investment in science relies on society's confidence in the accuracy, honesty, and utility of research results. A ...

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

authors： Bowen A,Casadevall A

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00