On the definition of the concepts thinking, consciousness, and conscience.

abstract：:The explosive growth in citizen science combined with a recalcitrance on the part of mainstream science to fully embrace this data collection technique demands a rigorous examination of the factors influencing data quality and project efficacy. Patterns of contributor effort and task performance have been well reviewe...

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

authors： Parrish JK,Jones T,Burgess HK,He Y,Fortson L,Cavalier D

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxazolidinones represent the first new class of antibiotics to enter into clinical usage within the past 30 years, but their binding site and mechanism of action has not been fully characterized. We have determined the crystal structure of the oxazolidinone linezolid bound to the Deinococcus radiodurans 50S riboso...

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

authors： Wilson DN,Schluenzen F,Harms JM,Starosta AL,Connell SR,Fucini P

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent studies have shown that deregulated expression of R2, the rate-limiting component of ribonucleotide reductase, enhances transformation and malignant potential by cooperating with activated oncogenes. We now demonstrate that the R1 component of ribonucleotide reductase has tumor-suppressing activity. Stable ...

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

authors： Fan H,Huang A,Villegas C,Wright JA

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium marinum, a natural pathogen of fish and frogs and an occasional pathogen of humans, is capable of inducing actin tail formation within the cytoplasm of macrophages, leading to actin-based motility and intercellular spread. Actin tail formation by M. marinum is markedly reduced in macrophages deficient in...

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

authors： Stamm LM,Pak MA,Morisaki JH,Snapper SB,Rottner K,Lommel S,Brown EJ

更新日期：2005-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable capacity of the adult olfactory epithelium (OE) to regenerate fully both neurosensory and nonneuronal cell types after severe epithelial injury depends on life-long persistence of two stem cell populations: the horizontal basal cells (HBCs), which are quiescent and held in reserve, and mitotically activ...

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

authors： Herrick DB,Lin B,Peterson J,Schnittke N,Schwob JE

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of bacterial multidrug resistance to antibiotics threatens to cause regression to the preantibiotic era. Here we present the crystal structure of the large ribosomal subunit from Staphylococcus aureus, a versatile Gram-positive aggressive pathogen, and its complexes with the known antibiotics linezolid a...

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

authors： Eyal Z,Matzov D,Krupkin M,Wekselman I,Paukner S,Zimmerman E,Rozenberg H,Bashan A,Yonath A

更新日期：2015-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of bacteria in the natural environment live within the confines of a biofilm. The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis forms biofilms that exhibit a characteristic wrinkled morphology and a highly hydrophobic surface. A critical component in generating these properties is the protein BslA, which form...

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

authors： Bromley KM,Morris RJ,Hobley L,Brandani G,Gillespie RM,McCluskey M,Zachariae U,Marenduzzo D,Stanley-Wall NR,MacPhee CE

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a neurosteroid with potential effects on neurogenesis and neuronal survival in humans. However, most studies on DHEA have been performed in rodents, and there is little direct evidence for biological effects on the human nervous system. Furthermore, the mechanism of its action is unkno...

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

authors： Suzuki M,Wright LS,Marwah P,Lardy HA,Svendsen CN

更新日期：2004-03-02 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：:Emerging evidence suggests that tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), currently the only FDA-approved medication for ischemic stroke, exerts important biological actions on the CNS besides its well-known thrombolytic effect. In this study, we investigated the role of tPA on primary neurons in culture and on brain recove...

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

authors： Pu H,Shi Y,Zhang L,Lu Z,Ye Q,Leak RK,Xu F,Ma S,Mu H,Wei Z,Xu N,Xia Y,Hu X,Hitchens TK,Bennett MVL,Chen J

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Using single-cell sequence analysis, we discovered that a high proportion of cells in tissues as diverse as buccal epithelium and heart muscle contain high proportions of clonal mutant mtDNA expanded from single initial mutant mtDNA molecules. We demonstrate that intracellular clonal expansion of somatic point mutatio...

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

authors： Nekhaeva E,Bodyak ND,Kraytsberg Y,McGrath SB,Van Orsouw NJ,Pluzhnikov A,Wei JY,Vijg J,Khrapko K

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied androgen binding characteristics of cells for androgen insensitivity from an obligate heterozygote, who is the mother of three male pseudohermaphrodites with dihydrotestosterone (17beta-hydroxy-5alpha-androstan-3-one) receptor deficiency. Specific dihydrotestosterone binding by skin fibroblasts from he...

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

authors： Meyer WJ 3rd,Migeon BR,Migeon CJ

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine mast cell line PB-3c is dependent on interleukin 3 (IL-3) with respect to survival and proliferation. These cells also require IL-3 to display antigen-mediated serotonin release, which is coupled to a transient increase of cytosolic free calcium ([Ca2+]i). The antigen-mediated exocytosis is inhibited by pho...

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

authors： Mazurek N,Regazzi R,Borner C,Wyss R,Conscience JF,Erne P,Eppenberger U,Fabbro D

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drake Passage (DP) is the major geographic constriction for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and exerts a strong control on the exchange of physical, chemical, and biological properties between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean basins. Resolving changes in the flow of circumpolar water masses through ...

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

authors： Lamy F,Arz HW,Kilian R,Lange CB,Lembke-Jene L,Wengler M,Kaiser J,Baeza-Urrea O,Hall IR,Harada N,Tiedemann R

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:An initiation complex has been formed in high yields from E. coli ribosomes, 9S messenger RNA for rabbit hemoglobin, and N-formylmethionine-tRNA. Initiation factor IF-3 is required for the binding and puromycin is required for the release of fMet. Valyl-tRNA fails to bind to the second codon, whereas a mixture of 15 a...

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

authors： Noll M,Noll H,Lingrel JB

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune responses to several soluble antigens were compared between B6.C-H-2bm12 mutant and wild-type B6 mice by using a lymph node T-cell proliferation assay. B6.C-H-2bm12 mice failed to respond to beef insulin whereas other IA gene-controlled responses, such as response to poly(L-Tyr, L-Glu)--poly(DL-Ala, L-Lys) and ...

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

authors： Lin CC,Rosenthal AS,Passmore HC,Hansen TH

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, including hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and pituitary corticotropin, is one of the first endocrine systems to develop during fetal life, probably because glucocorticoid secretion is necessary for the maturation of many essential fetal organs. Consiste...

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

authors： Venihaki M,Carrigan A,Dikkes P,Majzoub JA

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The chimaeric protein repressor-galactosidase, in which fully active lac repressor is covalently linked to the active enzyme beta-galactosidase, was used as a system for probing the quaternary structure of lac repressor. Electron micrographs revealed repressor-galactosidase to be a tetrameric aggregate. When lac repre...

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

authors： Kania J,Brown DT

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy is arguably the most powerful tool for spatial imaging of structures. As such, 2D and 3D microscopies provide static structures with subnanometer and increasingly with angstrom-scale spatial resolution. Here we report the development of 4D ultrafast electron microscopy, whose capability imparts ano...

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

authors： Lobastov VA,Srinivasan R,Zewail AH

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition for mates can be a major source of selection, not just on secondary sexual traits but across the genome. Mate competition strengthens selection on males via sexual selection, which typically favors healthy, vigorous individuals and, thus, all genetic variants that increase overall quality. However, recent ...

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

authors： Yun L,Chen PJ,Kwok KE,Angell CS,Rundle HD,Agrawal AF

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Using brain transcriptomic profiles from 853 individual honey bees exhibiting 48 distinct behavioral phenotypes in naturalistic contexts, we report that behavior-specific neurogenomic states can be inferred from the coordinated action of transcription factors (TFs) and their predicted target genes. Unsupervised hierar...

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

authors： Chandrasekaran S,Ament SA,Eddy JA,Rodriguez-Zas SL,Schatz BR,Price ND,Robinson GE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-adjoint algebra of operators generated by the semigroup of translation operators acting on the Hilbert space of functions supported on the half-line is studied. A real-valued index is introduced and is used to determine the spectrum of the Wiener-Hopf integral operators with distribution kernel having an almo...

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

authors： Coburn LA,Douglas RG

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:n-Type Si electrodes in MeOH solvent with 0.2 M (1-hydroxyethyl)ferrocene, 0.5 mM (1-hydroxyethyl)ferricenium, and 1.0 M LiClO(4) exhibit air mass 2 conversion efficiencies of 10.1% for optical energy into electricity. We observe open-circuit voltages of 0.53 V and short-circuit quantum efficiencies for electron flow ...

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

authors： Gronet CM,Lewis NS,Cogan G,Gibbons J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal cells in piriform cortex receive excitatory inputs from two different sources that are segregated onto adjacent segments of their apical dendrites. The present studies show that excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) evoked by primary olfactory tract afferents that terminate on distal apical segments dis...

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

authors： Bower JM,Haberly LB

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using T- and B-cell deficient C.B-17 mice with the scid mutation, we have previously documented the existence of a T-cell-independent but interferon gamma-dependent pathway of macrophage activation that confers upon the host partial resistance to the facultative intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. This pat...

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

authors： Rogers HW,Sheehan KC,Brunt LM,Dower SK,Unanue ER,Schreiber RD

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous actin (F-actin) cytoskeletal remodeling is critical for glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) in pancreatic β-cells, and its dysregulation causes type 2 diabetes. The adaptor protein APPL1 promotes first-phase GSIS by up-regulating soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor...

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

authors： Wang B,Lin H,Li X,Lu W,Kim JB,Xu A,Cheng KKY

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector delivery of an Apaf-1-dominant negative inhibitor was tested for its antiapoptotic effect on degenerating nigrostriatal neurons in a 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) model of Parkinson's disease. The wild-type caspase recruitment domain of Apaf-1 was used as a dom...

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

authors： Mochizuki H,Hayakawa H,Migita M,Shibata M,Tanaka R,Suzuki A,Shimo-Nakanishi Y,Urabe T,Yamada M,Tamayose K,Shimada T,Miura M,Mizuno Y

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A Raleigh, NC, population of Drosophila melanogaster was sampled for the presence of enzyme null alleles at 25 loci. No nulls were found at any of five X-linked loci. Nulls were recovered at 13 of 20 autosomal loci; the weighted mean frequency for all 20 autosomal loci was estimated to be 0.0025. A consideration of th...

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

authors： Voelker RA,Langley CH,Brown AJ,Ohnishi S,Dickson B,Montgomery E,Smith SC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the functional consequences of mutations present in defective alleles of the retinoblastoma susceptibility gene (RB1) isolated from two spontaneously arising tumors. Unlike cDNA clones expressing the wild-type protein p110Rb, those encoding the two mutant proteins failed to induce the appearance of se...

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

authors： Templeton DJ,Park SH,Lanier L,Weinberg RA

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:When human genome was fractionated by thermal elution chromatography, repetitious DNA was found in every arbitrary temperature segment. When these repetitious DNA families were used for in situ hybridization, the following conclusions were evident: (a) Unlike the case of mouse, where essentially all centromeric hetero...

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

authors： Hsu TC,Arrighi FE,Saunders GF

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00