Systemic administration of beta-endorphin: potent hypotensive effect involving a serotonergic pathway.

abstract：:Mutations at position 187 in secreted gelsolin enable aberrant proteolysis at the 172-173 and 243-244 amide bonds, affording the 71-residue amyloidogenic peptide deposited in Familial Amyloidosis of Finnish Type (FAF). Thermodynamic comparisons of two different domain 2 constructs were carried out to study possible ef...

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

authors： Ratnaswamy G,Huff ME,Su AI,Rion S,Kelly JW

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that DNA methyltransferase (Dnmt) 1 is required for maintenance of bulk DNA methylation and is essential for mouse development. However, somatic disruption of DNMT1 in the human cancer cell line HCT116 was not lethal and caused only minor decreases in methylation. Here, we report the identi...

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

authors： Egger G,Jeong S,Escobar SG,Cortez CC,Li TW,Saito Y,Yoo CB,Jones PA,Liang G

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A line of nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice expressing the human diabetes-associated HLA-DQ8 transgene in the absence of mouse IAbeta failed to show spontaneous insulitis or diabetes, but rather developed dilated cardiomyopathy, leading to early death from heart failure. Pathology in these animals results from an organ- an...

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

authors： Elliott JF,Liu J,Yuan ZN,Bautista-Lopez N,Wallbank SL,Suzuki K,Rayner D,Nation P,Robertson MA,Liu G,Kavanagh KM

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that supercoiling of a DNA trefoil, the simplest knotted ring, perturbs differently the spatial writhe of its two chiral forms. As a consequence, the negative-noded and positive-noded DNA trefoils can be resolved by gel electrophoresis. Analysis of the chirality of trefoils produced by cyclization of two linea...

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

authors： Shaw SY,Wang JC

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthrax toxin is an intracellularly acting toxin in which sufficient information is available regarding the structure of its transmembrane channel, allowing for detailed investigation of models of translocation. Anthrax toxin, comprising three proteins-protective antigen (PA), lethal factor (LF), and edema factor-tran...

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

authors： Das D,Krantz BA

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistent tetrodotoxin (TTX)-sensitive sodium current, detected in neurons of many regions of mammalian brains, is associated with many essential neuronal activities, including boosting of excitatory synaptic inputs, acceleration of firing rates, and promotion of oscillatory neuronal activities. However, the orig...

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

authors： Liu Z,Song W,Dong K

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified inside-out vesicles from human erythrocytes were used to investigate the active transport of oxidized glutathione (GSSG). Incubation of vesicles and GSSG in the presence of ATP resulted in the transport of GSSG into the vesicles. When vesicles were incubated with reduced glutathione (GSH), no transport was ob...

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

authors： Kondo T,Dale GL,Beutler E

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virus is associated with a strain of transovarially-transmitted SR-spirochetes, NSR, of Drosophila. This virus, designated spv-1, is able to infect and to multiply in another strain of SR-spirochetes, WSR, thereby eliminating the SR condition from the host flies. Spv-1 contains DNA, has a buoyant density of 1.480 in...

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

authors： Oishi K,Poulson DF

更新日期：1970-11-01 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：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease, in which the death of mutant rod photoreceptors leads secondarily to the non-cell autonomous death of cone photoreceptors. Gene therapy is a promising treatment strategy. Unfortunately, current methods of gene delivery treat only a fraction of diseas...

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

authors： Koch SF,Duong JK,Hsu CW,Tsai YT,Lin CS,Wahl-Schott CA,Tsang SH

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences were inserted into adenovirus in place of the E1 region. The HIV-1 LTR contained in this recombinant adenovirus responds to trans-activation by tatIII in a HeLa cell line constitutively expressing that HIV-1 gene product. In addition, the ...

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

authors： Rice AP,Mathews MB

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against human schistosome infection develops slowly, for reasons that are not yet fully understood. For many decades, researchers have attempted to infer properties of the immune response from epidemiological studies, with mathematical models frequently being used to bridge the gap between immunolo...

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

authors： Mitchell KM,Mutapi F,Savill NJ,Woolhouse ME

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:5 alpha-Cholest-8(14)-en-3 beta-ol-15-one has been found to have significant hypocholesterolemic activity upon oral administration at a daily dosage of 75 mg/kg of body weight to Rhesus monkeys fed a diet of moderate cholesterol (Chol) content [0.19 mg/kcal (1 cal = 4.184 J) of diet]. The reductions in total serum Cho...

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

authors： Schroepfer GJ Jr,Sherrill BC,Wang KS,Wilson WK,Kisic A,Clarkson TB

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is accepted that regulatory T cells (T regs) contribute to cancer progression, most studies in the field consider nonantigen-specific suppression. Here, we show the presence of tumor antigen-specific CD4(+) T regs in the blood of patients with metastatic melanoma. These CD4(+) T regs recognize a broad rang...

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

authors： Vence L,Palucka AK,Fay JW,Ito T,Liu YJ,Banchereau J,Ueno H

更新日期：2007-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of alphavbeta3- or alphavbeta5-integrins and selectins is widespread on blood cells and endothelial cells. Here we report that human tumor cells injected s.c. into mice lacking beta3- or beta3/beta5-integrins or various selectins show enhanced tumor growth compared with growth in control mice. There was inc...

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

authors： Taverna D,Moher H,Crowley D,Borsig L,Varki A,Hynes RO

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV type 1 (HIV-1) virion infectivity factor (Vif) protein blocks the action of the host defense factor APOBEC3G in human cells, thereby allowing release of infectious virions, but fails to inhibit similar APOBEC3G proteins present in some simian cells. Conversely, the Vif protein encoded by the African green monk...

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

authors： Bogerd HP,Doehle BP,Wiegand HL,Cullen BR

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy is a widely used cancer treatment, but it causes side effects even when localized radiotherapy is used. Extensive apoptosis of microvascular endothelial cells of the lamina propria is the primary lesion initiating intestinal radiation damage after abdominal radiation therapy. Many in vitro studies su...

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

authors： Cho CH,Kammerer RA,Lee HJ,Yasunaga K,Kim KT,Choi HH,Kim W,Kim SH,Park SK,Lee GM,Koh GY

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorarachniophytes are amoeboid algae with unusual chloroplasts. Instead of the usual two membranes that surround the chloroplasts of plants, green algae, and red algae, the chloroplasts of chlorarachniophytes have four bounding membranes. The extra membranes may reflect an unusual origin of chlorarachniophyte chloro...

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

authors： McFadden GI,Gilson PR,Hofmann CJ,Adcock GJ,Maier UG

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we found that human neural stem cells (HNSCs) exposed to high concentrations of secreted amyloid-precursor protein (sAPP) in vitro differentiated into mainly astrocytes, suggesting that pathological alterations in APP processing during neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) ...

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

authors： Marutle A,Ohmitsu M,Nilbratt M,Greig NH,Nordberg A,Sugaya K

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver nuclei pure by enzymatic and electron microscope criteria contain protein kinase C (PKC) that can be activated several hundredfold within 3 min of addition of prolactin or phorbol 12-tetradecanoate 13-acetate. Rat prolactin stimulated PKC maximally at 10(-12) M, whereas ovine prolactin was maximally stimulat...

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

authors： Buckley AR,Crowe PD,Russell DH

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential benefits of autonomous systems are obvious. However, there are still major issues to be dealt with before developing such systems becomes a commonplace engineering practice, with accepted and trustworthy deliverables. We argue that a solid, evolving, publicly available, community-controlled foundation fo...

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

authors： Harel D,Marron A,Sifakis J

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of macromolecular structures requires weighting of experimental evidence relative to prior physical information. Although it can critically affect the quality of the calculated structures, experimental data are routinely weighted on an empirical basis. At present, cross-validation is the most rigorou...

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

authors： Habeck M,Rieping W,Nilges M

更新日期：2006-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) is a neurotoxin that causes parkinsonism in humans and nonhuman animals, and its use has led to greater understanding of the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. However, its molecular targets have not been defined. We show that mice lacking the gene for poly(ADP-rib...

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

authors： Mandir AS,Przedborski S,Jackson-Lewis V,Wang ZQ,Simbulan-Rosenthal CM,Smulson ME,Hoffman BE,Guastella DB,Dawson VL,Dawson TM

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Current understanding of the integration of cell division and expansion in the development of plant lateral organs such as leaves is limited. Cell number is established during a mitotic phase, and subsequent growth into a mature organ relies primarily on cell expansion accompanied by endocycles. Here we show that the ...

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

authors： Dewitte W,Scofield S,Alcasabas AA,Maughan SC,Menges M,Braun N,Collins C,Nieuwland J,Prinsen E,Sundaresan V,Murray JA

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental mystery of plant cell biology is the occurrence of "stromules," stroma-filled tubular extensions from plastids (such as chloroplasts) that are universally observed in plants but whose functions are, in effect, completely unknown. One prevalent hypothesis is that stromules exchange signals or metabolites ...

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

authors： Brunkard JO,Runkel AM,Zambryski PC

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A high density of galanin binding sites was found by using 125I-labeled galanin, iodinated by chloramine-T, followed by autoradiography in the ventral, but not in the dorsal, hippocampus of the rat. Lesions of the fimbria and of the septum caused disappearance of a major population of these binding sites, suggesting t...

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

authors： Fisone G,Wu CF,Consolo S,Nordström O,Brynne N,Bartfai T,Melander T,Hökfelt T

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four synthetic peptides that together constitute the cell attachment domain of fibronectin [Pierschbacher, M.D., Ruoslahti, E., Sundelin, J., Lind, P. & Peterson, P. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 9593-9597] were constructed and tested for their ability to induce cell attachment and spreading. One of these peptides, consi...

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

authors： Pierschbacher M,Hayman EG,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that the renal proximal tubular epithelium of the hamster is a bona fide estrogen target tissue. The effect of estrogens on the growth of proximal tubule cell explants and dissociated single cells derived from these explant outgrowths has been studied in culture. Renal tubular cells were gr...

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

authors： Oberley TD,Lauchner LJ,Pugh TD,Gonzalez A,Goldfarb S,Li SA,Li JJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of megaliths in Europe. The conventional view from the late 19th and early 20th centuries was of a single-source diffusion of megaliths in Europe from the Near East through the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast. Following early radiocarbon dating in the 1970s,...

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

authors： Schulz Paulsson B

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequences of large insert clones containing genomic DNA that is orthologous to the maize adh1 region were obtained for sorghum, rice, and the adh1-homoeologous region of maize, a remnant of the tetraploid history of the Zea lineage. By using all four genomes, it was possible to describe the nature, timing, and lin...

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

authors： Ilic K,SanMiguel PJ,Bennetzen JL

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00