The expression of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) and splice variants of its receptor in human gastroenteropancreatic carcinomas.

abstract：:Junctional Adhesion Molecule-A (JAM-A) is a transmembrane adhesive protein expressed at endothelial junctions and in leukocytes. Here we report that JAM-A is required for the correct infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) into an inflamed peritoneum or in the heart upon ischemia-reperfusion injury. The def...

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

authors： Corada M,Chimenti S,Cera MR,Vinci M,Salio M,Fiordaliso F,De Angelis N,Villa A,Bossi M,Staszewsky LI,Vecchi A,Parazzoli D,Motoike T,Latini R,Dejana E

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin is a newly discovered peptide and an endogenous ligand for growth hormone (GH) secretagogue (GHS) receptor. It has been shown to possess various central and peripheral effects, including GH secretion, food intake, and gastric and cardiac effects. Ghrelin and the GHS receptor are expressed also in pancreatic is...

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

authors： Doi A,Shono T,Nishi M,Furuta H,Sasaki H,Nanjo K

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational aspects of the acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) of Electrophorus electricus have been examined by studies of its interaction with structurally related, constrained aromatic bis quaternary compounds. Among the compounds synthesized was 3,3'-bis[alpha-(trimethylammonium)-methyl]azobenzene dibromide (3,3'-b...

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

authors： Wassermann NH,Bartels E,Erlanger BF

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domesticated maize and its wild ancestor (teosinte) differ strikingly in morphology and afford an opportunity to examine the connection between strong selection and diversity in a major crop species. The tb1 gene largely controls the increase in apical dominance in maize relative to teosinte, and a region of the tb1 l...

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

authors： Clark RM,Linton E,Messing J,Doebley JF

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome P-450 superfamily of enzymes catalyzes the oxidative metabolism of innumerable lipophilic compounds (e.g., drugs, carcinogens, steroids). Although the three-dimensional structure of a soluble bacterial P-450 (P-450cam) has been solved, little is known about the structures of the membrane-bound mammalian...

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

authors： Kronbach T,Larabee TM,Johnson EF

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera vibrios produce a single polymeric protein that (i) causes hemagglutination; (ii) appears to participate in their attachment to gut epithelium; (iii) may mediate their detachment from gut epithelium; and (iv) is a protease that hydrolyzes fibronectin and mucin, cleaves lactoferrin, and nicks the A subunit of t...

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

authors： Finkelstein RA,Boesman-Finkelstein M,Holt P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) exhibit reduced expression in skeletal muscle of diabetic and prediabetic humans. Moreover, these changes may be mediated by the transcriptional coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1alpha (PGC-1alph...

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

authors： Mootha VK,Handschin C,Arlow D,Xie X,St Pierre J,Sihag S,Yang W,Altshuler D,Puigserver P,Patterson N,Willy PJ,Schulman IG,Heyman RA,Lander ES,Spiegelman BM

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Based largely on studies in xenograft models, lipocalin-2 (Lcn2) has been implicated in the progression of multiple types of human tumors, including breast cancer. Here we examine the role of Lcn2 in mammary tumorigenesis and lung metastasis using an in vivo molecular genetics approach. We crossed a well-characterized...

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

authors： Berger T,Cheung CC,Elia AJ,Mak TW

更新日期：2010-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides targeted to the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor were encapsulated into liposomes linked to folate via a polyethylene glycol spacer (folate-PEG-liposomes) and efficiently delivered into cultured KB cells via folate receptor-mediated endocytosis. The oligonucleotides were a pho...

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

authors： Wang S,Lee RJ,Cauchon G,Gorenstein DG,Low PS

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural abundance 13C spin-lattice (T1) relaxation time measurements are reported for unilamellar vesicles of 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine), in the liquid crystalline phase, at magnetic field strengths of 1.40, 1.87, 2.35, 4.23, 7.05, 8.45, and 11.7 tesla (resonance f...

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

authors： Brown MF,Ribeiro AA,Williams GD

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunction of gap junctions (GJs) caused by mutations in connexin26 (Cx26) and Cx30 accounts for nearly half of all cases of hereditary nonsyndromic deafness cases. Although it is widely held that GJs connecting supporting cells in the organ of Corti mainly provide ionic pathways for rapid removal of K+ around the ba...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Tang W,Ahmad S,Sipp JA,Chen P,Lin X

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously it was shown that yeast ADA2 protein is necessary for the full activity of some activation domains, such as VP16 and GCN4, in vivo and in vitro. These results suggest that ADA2 protein functions as a transcriptional coactivator or adaptor that bridges the interaction between certain acidic activation domain...

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

authors： Silverman N,Agapite J,Guarente L

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotifers of the asexual class Bdelloidea are unusual in possessing two or more divergent copies of every gene that has been examined. Phylogenetic analysis of the heat-shock gene hsp82 and the TATA-box-binding protein gene tbp in multiple bdelloid species suggested that for each gene, each copy belonged to one of two ...

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

authors： Mark Welch DB,Cummings MP,Hillis DM,Meselson M

更新日期：2004-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Proopiomelanocortin (POMC), a major pituitary product, is also present in the adult mouse testis. We have shown previously that POMC mRNAs are most abundant in a subpopulation of Leydig cells associated with tubules in specific stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium. In the present study, we examined the e...

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

authors： Gizang-Ginsberg E,Wolgemuth DJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-methyladenosine (m6A) represents one of the most common RNA modifications in eukaryotes. Specific m6A writer, eraser, and reader proteins have been identified. As an m6A eraser, ALKBH5 specifically removes m6A from target mRNAs and inactivation of Alkbh5 leads to male infertility in mice. However, the underlying mo...

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

authors： Tang C,Klukovich R,Peng H,Wang Z,Yu T,Zhang Y,Zheng H,Klungland A,Yan W

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin/Insulin-like growth factor signaling regulates homeostasis and growth in mammals, and is implicated in diseases from diabetes to cancer. In Drosophila melanogaster, as in other invertebrates, multiple Insulin-Like Peptides (DILPs) are encoded by a family of related genes. To assess DILPs' physiological roles, ...

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

authors： Zhang H,Liu J,Li CR,Momen B,Kohanski RA,Pick L

更新日期：2009-11-17 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：:Metallic nanoscale structures are capable of supporting surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), propagating collective electron oscillations with tight spatial confinement at the metal surface. SPPs represent one of the most promising structures to beat the diffraction limit imposed by conventional dielectric optics. Ag na...

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

authors： Yan R,Pausauskie P,Huang J,Yang P

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In skeletal muscle, transcription of the gene encoding the mouse type Ialpha (RIalpha) subunit of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase is initiated from the alternative noncoding first exons 1a and 1b. Here, we report that activity of the promoter upstream of exon 1a (Pa) depends on two adjacent E boxes (E1 and E2) in NI...

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

authors： Barradeau S,Imaizumi-Scherrer T,Weiss MC,Faust DM

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified, cultured, characterized, and propagated adult pluripotent stem cells (PSC) from a subset of human peripheral blood monocytes. These cells, which in appearance resemble fibroblasts, expand in the presence of macrophage colony-stimulating factor and display monocytic and hematopoietic stem cell marke...

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

authors： Zhao Y,Glesne D,Huberman E

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropeptide galanin is expressed developmentally in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and is rapidly up-regulated 120-fold after peripheral nerve section in the adult. Here we report that adult mice carrying a loss-of-function mutation in the galanin gene have a 13% reduction in the number of cells in the DRG associ...

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

authors： Holmes FE,Mahoney S,King VR,Bacon A,Kerr NC,Pachnis V,Curtis R,Priestley JV,Wynick D

更新日期：2000-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of gene gain through duplication has long been appreciated. In contrast, the importance of gene loss has only recently attracted attention. Indeed, studies in organisms ranging from plants to worms and humans suggest that duplication of some genes might be better tolerated than that of others. Here we h...

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

authors： De Smet R,Adams KL,Vandepoele K,Van Montagu MC,Maere S,Van de Peer Y

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper shows that the most predictable components of internal variability in coupled atmosphere-ocean models are remarkably similar to the most predictable components of climate models without interactive ocean dynamics (i.e., models whose ocean is represented by a 50-m-deep slab ocean mixed layer with no interact...

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

authors： Srivastava A,DelSole T

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Unconventional myosin 15 is a molecular motor expressed in inner ear hair cells that transports protein cargos within developing mechanosensory stereocilia. Mutations of myosin 15 cause profound hearing loss in humans and mice; however, the properties of this motor and its regulation within the stereocilia organelle a...

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

authors： Bird JE,Takagi Y,Billington N,Strub MP,Sellers JR,Friedman TB

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal cation homeostasis is essential for plant nutrition and resistance to toxic heavy metals. Many plant metal transporters remain to be identified at the molecular level. In the present study, we have isolated AtNramp cDNAs from Arabidopsis and show that these genes complement the phenotype of a metal uptake defici...

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

authors： Thomine S,Wang R,Ward JM,Crawford NM,Schroeder JI

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It is proved that the well known Nagata automorphism of the polynomial ring in three variables over a field of characteristic zero is wild, that is, it can not be decomposed into a product of elementary automorphisms. ...

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

authors： Shestakov IP,Umirbaev UU

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastogenesis is a hierarchical process by which cells form functional elastic fibers, providing elasticity and the ability to regulate growth factor bioavailability in tissues, including blood vessels, lung, and skin. This process requires accessory proteins, including fibulin-4 and -5, and latent TGF binding protein...

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

authors： Kumra H,Nelea V,Hakami H,Pagliuzza A,Djokic J,Xu J,Yanagisawa H,Reinhardt DP

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenetic processes that facilitate the entry, replication, and persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in the mammalian host likely include the regulated expression of specific sets of genes at different stages of infection. Identification of genes that are differentially expressed in vivo would provide in...

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

authors： Timm J,Post FA,Bekker LG,Walther GB,Wainwright HC,Manganelli R,Chan WT,Tsenova L,Gold B,Smith I,Kaplan G,McKinney JD

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Layer 5 pyramidal neurons process information from multiple cortical layers to provide a major output of cortex. Because of technical limitations it has remained unclear how these cells integrate widespread synaptic inputs located in distantly separated basal and tuft dendrites. Here, we obtained in vivo two-photon ca...

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

authors： Hill DN,Varga Z,Jia H,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Explosions account for 79% of combat-related injuries, leading to multiorgan hemorrhage and uncontrolled bleeding. Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of death in battlefield traumas as well as in civilian life. We need to stop the bleeding quickly to save lives, but, shockingly, there are no treatments to stop...

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

authors： Lashof-Sullivan MM,Shoffstall E,Atkins KT,Keane N,Bir C,VandeVord P,Lavik EB

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00