Hair-specific expression of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase in transgenic mice under the control of an ultra-high-sulfur keratin promoter.

abstract：:Although neurotrophins are primarily associated with long-term effects on neuronal survival and differentiation, recent studies have shown that acute changes in synaptic transmission can also be produced. In the hippocampus, an area critically involved in learning and memory, we have found that brain-derived neurotrop...

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

authors： Levine ES,Dreyfus CF,Black IB,Plummer MR

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the influence of a photothrombotic lesion in somatosensory cortex on plasticity in the mouse visual system and the efficacy of anti-inflammatory treatment to rescue compromised learning. To challenge plasticity mechanisms, we induced monocular deprivation (MD) in 3-mo-old mice. In control animals, MD induced...

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

authors： Greifzu F,Schmidt S,Schmidt KF,Kreikemeier K,Witte OW,Löwel S

更新日期：2011-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantum mechanical problem of the hydrogen atom is treated by use of a finite difference equation in place of Schrödinger's differential equation. The exact solution leads to a wave vector energy expression that is readily converted to the Bohr-Rydberg formula. (The calculations here reported are limited to spheri...

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

authors： Wall FT

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leading hypothesis explaining Phanerozoic mass extinctions and associated carbon isotopic anomalies is the emission of greenhouse, other gases, and aerosols caused by eruptions of continental flood basalt provinces. However, the necessary serial relationship between these eruptions, isotopic excursions, and extincti...

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

authors： Whiteside JH,Olsen PE,Eglinton T,Brookfield ME,Sambrotto RN

更新日期：2010-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In our earlier work we showed that either spermidine or spermine could support the growth of spe2Delta or spe3Delta polyamine-requiring mutants, but it was unclear whether the cells had a specific requirement for either of these amines. In the current work, we demonstrate that spermidine is specifically required for t...

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

authors： Chattopadhyay MK,Tabor CW,Tabor H

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To evade their predators, animals must quickly detect potential threats, gauge risk, and mount a response. Putative neural circuits responsible for these tasks have been isolated in laboratory studies. However, it is unclear whether and how these circuits combine to generate the flexible, dynamic sequences of evasion ...

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

authors： Hein AM,Gil MA,Twomey CR,Couzin ID,Levin SA

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-association of gene-32 protein has been studied by sedimentation equilibrium centrifugation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, in order to better understand its role in DNA replication and genetic recombination. The monomer molecular weight of gene-32 protein is 38,000 in guanidine hydrochloride and 34,0...

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

authors： Carroll RB,Neet KE,Goldthwait DA

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscular dystrophy is a general term encompassing muscle disorders that cause weakness and wasting, typically leading to premature death. Membrane instability, as a result of a genetic disruption within the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC), is thought to induce myofiber degeneration, although the downstream mecha...

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

authors： Millay DP,Goonasekera SA,Sargent MA,Maillet M,Aronow BJ,Molkentin JD

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the DNA sequence of the symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium strain NGR234, we predicted potential rearrangements generated by homologous recombination. All predicted rearrangements were identified experimentally by using a PCR-based methodology. Thus, the predicted and the actual dynamic maps of the replicon coinc...

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

authors： Flores M,Mavingui P,Perret X,Broughton WJ,Romero D,Hernández G,Dávila G,Palacios R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses a multiisotope (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium) approach to examine early animal management in the Maya region. An analysis of faunal specimens across almost 2,000 years (1000 BC to AD 950) at the site of Ceibal, Guatemala, reveals the earliest evidence for live-traded dogs and possible captiv...

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

authors： Sharpe AE,Emery KF,Inomata T,Triadan D,Kamenov GD,Krigbaum J

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication-competent viruses, such as Vaccinia virus (VACV), are powerful tools for the development of oncolytic viral therapies and elicit superior immune responses when used as vaccine and immunotherapeutic vectors. However, severe complications from uncontrolled viral replication can occur, particularly in immunoc...

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

authors： Grigg P,Titong A,Jones LA,Yilma TD,Verardi PH

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:As a first step in assessing the efficacy of a gene transfer approach to the induction of transplantation tolerance in our miniature swine model, double-copy retroviral vectors engineered to express a drug-resistance marker (neomycin) and a swine class II DRB cDNA were constructed. Infectious particles containing thes...

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

authors： Shafer GE,Emery DW,Gustafsson K,Germana S,Anderson WF,Sachs DH,LeGuern C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is assembled from the literature to support the argument that myocardial infarction and death results from narrowing of coronary arteries-a process that may result from various causes, as discussed in this paper. Angiotensin and hypertension are suggested as among the chief components of such processes. ...

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

authors： Page IH

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates of 21st Century global-mean surface temperature increase have generally been based on scenarios that do not include climate policies. Newly developed multigas mitigation scenarios, based on a wide range of modeling approaches and socioeconomic assumptions, now allow the assessment of possible impacts of clim...

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

authors： Van Vuuren DP,Meinshausen M,Plattner GK,Joos F,Strassmann KM,Smith SJ,Wigley TM,Raper SC,Riahi K,de la Chesnaye F,den Elzen MG,Fujino J,Jiang K,Nakicenovic N,Paltsev S,Reilly JM

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed plants vary tremendously in size and morphology; however, variation and covariation in plant traits may be governed, at least in part, by universal biophysical laws and biological constants. Metabolic scaling theory (MST) posits that whole-organismal metabolism and growth rate are under stabilizing selection that...

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

authors： Vasseur F,Exposito-Alonso M,Ayala-Garay OJ,Wang G,Enquist BJ,Vile D,Violle C,Weigel D

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:How do firing patterns in a cortical circuit change when inhibitory neurons are excited? We virally expressed an excitatory designer receptor exclusively activated by a designer drug (Gq-DREADD) in all inhibitory interneuron types of the CA1 region of the hippocampus in the rat. While clozapine N-oxide (CNO) activatio...

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

authors： Rogers S,Rozman PA,Valero M,Doyle WK,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component histidine kinases recently have been found in eukaryotic organisms including fungi, slime molds, and plants. We describe the identification of a gene, COS1, from the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans by using a PCR-based screening strategy. The sequence of COS1 indicates that it encodes a homolog o...

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

authors： Alex LA,Korch C,Selitrennikoff CP,Simon MI

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play essential, conserved roles in diverse developmental processes through association with the miRNA-induced silencing complex (miRISC). Whereas fundamental insights into the mechanistic framework of miRNA biogenesis and target gene silencing have been established, posttranslational modifications t...

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

authors： Alessi AF,Khivansara V,Han T,Freeberg MA,Moresco JJ,Tu PG,Montoye E,Yates JR 3rd,Karp X,Kim JK

更新日期：2015-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:How cells achieve their final sizes is a pervasive biological question. One strategy to increase cell size is for the cell to amplify its chromosomal DNA content through endoreduplication cycles. Although endoreduplication is widespread in eukaryotes, we know very little about its molecular mechanisms. Successful prog...

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

authors： Sugimoto-Shirasu K,Roberts GR,Stacey NJ,McCann MC,Maxwell A,Roberts K

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:KCNE β-subunits assemble with and modulate the properties of voltage-gated K+ channels. In the heart, KCNE1 associates with the α-subunit KCNQ1 to generate the slowly activating, voltage-dependent potassium current (IKs) in the heart that controls the repolarization phase of cardiac action potentials. By contrast, in ...

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

authors： Barro-Soria R,Ramentol R,Liin SI,Perez ME,Kass RS,Larsson HP

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA viruses are the largest virus class and include many pathogens such as hepatitis C virus and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS). Brome mosaic virus (BMV) is a representative positive-strand RNA virus whose RNA replication, gene expression, and encapsidation have been reproduce...

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

authors： Kushner DB,Lindenbach BD,Grdzelishvili VZ,Noueiry AO,Paul SM,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the CB2 receptor is apparently an endogenous protective mechanism. Thus, it restrains inflammation and protects the skeleton against age-related bone loss. However, the endogenous cannabinoids, as well as Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main plant psychoactive constituent, activate both cannabinoid recept...

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

authors： Smoum R,Baraghithy S,Chourasia M,Breuer A,Mussai N,Attar-Namdar M,Kogan NM,Raphael B,Bolognini D,Cascio MG,Marini P,Pertwee RG,Shurki A,Mechoulam R,Bab I

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-specific activation of the transcription factor sigma F during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is controlled by a regulatory pathway involving the proteins SpoIIE, SpoIIAA, and SpoIIAB. SpoIIAB is an antagonist of sigma F, and SpoIIAA, which is capable of overcoming SpoIIAB-mediated inhibition of sigma F, is an ...

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

authors： Arigoni F,Duncan L,Alper S,Losick R,Stragier P

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Costly interactions between species that arise as a by-product of ancestral similarities in communication signals are expected to persist only under specific evolutionary circumstances. Territorial aggression between species, for instance, is widely assumed to persist only when extrinsic barriers prevent niche diverge...

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

authors： Drury JP,Cowen MC,Grether GF

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose, one of the most important nutrients for animals, acts as a regulatory signal that controls the secretion of hormones, such as insulin, by endocrine tissues. However, how organisms respond to extracellular glucose and how glucose controls nutrient homeostasis remain unknown. Here, we show that a putative Droso...

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

authors： Kohyama-Koganeya A,Kim YJ,Miura M,Hirabayashi Y

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Met mutant of Drosophila melanogaster is highly resistant to juvenile hormone III (JH III) or its chemical analog, methoprene, an insect growth regulator. Five major mechanisms of insecticide resistance were examined in Met and susceptible Met+ flies. These two strains showed only minor differences when penetratio...

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

authors： Shemshedini L,Wilson TG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A construct, MRE-beta Geo, with five metal response elements fused to a selectable reporter gene was transfected into BHK cells and a stable clone that could be induced up to 100-fold by zinc, cadmium, bismuth, silver, cobalt, copper, mercury, or nickle was isolated. Some, and perhaps all, of these metals induce MRE-b...

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

authors： Palmiter RD

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The MoxR family of AAA+ ATPases is widespread throughout bacteria and archaea but remains poorly characterized. We recently found that the Escherichia coli MoxR protein, RavA (Regulatory ATPase variant A), tightly interacts with the inducible lysine decarboxylase, LdcI/CadA, to form a unique cage-like structure. Here,...

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

authors： El Bakkouri M,Gutsche I,Kanjee U,Zhao B,Yu M,Goret G,Schoehn G,Burmeister WP,Houry WA

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In Trimenia moorei, an extant member of the ancient angiosperm clade Austrobaileyales, we found a remarkable pattern of female gametophyte (egg-producing structure) development that strikingly resembles that of pollen tubes and their intrasexual competition within the maternal pollen tube transmitting tissues of most ...

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

authors： Bachelier JB,Friedman WE

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(A)+ mRNA was isolated from the brains of C57BL/6J (B6), DBA/2J (D2), and F1 hybrid mice (B6 X D2) of 16-17 days of age. The yield of polysomal RNA, both poly(A)+ and poly(A)-, from the three strains of mice was comparable. When translated in vitro in a reticulocyte lysate system, the mRNA preparations had the sam...

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

authors： Miskimins R,Ebato H,Seyfried TN,Yu RK

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00