PD134308, a selective antagonist of cholecystokinin type B receptor, enhances the analgesic effect of morphine and synergistically interacts with intrathecal galanin to depress spinal nociceptive reflexes.

abstract：:Addition of antisense oligonucleotides to cell cultures has been used to specifically inhibit gene expression. We have investigated the mechanism by which oligonucleotides enter living cells. These compounds are taken up by cells in a saturable, size-dependent manner compatible with receptor-mediated endocytosis. Poly...

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

authors： Loke SL,Stein CA,Zhang XH,Mori K,Nakanishi M,Subasinghe C,Cohen JS,Neckers LM

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca(2+)-binding protein calbindin D28k (CB) is vital for the normal function of the central nervous system but its specific functional role is largely unclear. CB is typically described as a mobile Ca(2+)buffer that shapes the spatiotemporal extent of cellular Ca(2+)signals. Recent biochemical data, however, indica...

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

authors： Schmidt H,Schwaller B,Eilers J

更新日期：2005-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The exact role of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) during spermatogenesis has not been clarified. We used purified germ cell fractions representative of all phases of spermatogenesis and primary cultures of spermatogonia. This approach allowed the precise quantification of the cannabinoid receptor ligands, anandamide ...

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

authors： Grimaldi P,Orlando P,Di Siena S,Lolicato F,Petrosino S,Bisogno T,Geremia R,De Petrocellis L,Di Marzo V

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Most human cancers are of monoclonal origin and display many genetic alterations. In an effort to determine whether clonal expansion itself could account for the large number of genetic alterations, we compared spontaneous transformation in cloned and uncloned populations of NIH 3T3 cells. We have reported that progre...

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

authors： Chow M,Rubin H

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An acetone extract of chloroplast particles, when layered on an aqueous surface, exhibited light-dependent phosphorylation. Studies with the firefly-tail enzyme assay, as well as with (32)P-labeled inorganic phosphate, show an initial release of adenosine triphosphate (a step that is apparently only light-triggered), ...

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

authors： McPhee J,Brody SS

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative oxidation of hydroethidine (HE) has become a widely used fluorescent assay for the detection of superoxide in cultured cells. By covalently joining HE to a hexyl triphenylphosphonium cation (Mito-HE), the HE moiety can be targeted to mitochondria. However, the specificity of HE and Mito-HE for superoxide ...

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

authors： Robinson KM,Janes MS,Pehar M,Monette JS,Ross MF,Hagen TM,Murphy MP,Beckman JS

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid electrical conduction in the His-Purkinje system tightly controls spatiotemporal activation of the ventricles. Although recent work has shed much light on the regulation of early specification and morphogenesis of the His-Purkinje system, less is known about how transcriptional regulation establishes impulse con...

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

authors： Zhang SS,Kim KH,Rosen A,Smyth JW,Sakuma R,Delgado-Olguín P,Davis M,Chi NC,Puviindran V,Gaborit N,Sukonnik T,Wylie JN,Brand-Arzamendi K,Farman GP,Kim J,Rose RA,Marsden PA,Zhu Y,Zhou YQ,Miquerol L,Henkelman RM,Sta

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 40 y the dominant theory of stomatal behavior has been that plants should open stomates until the carbon gained by an infinitesimal additional opening balances the additional water lost times a water price that is constant at least over short periods. This theory has persisted because of its remarkable succes...

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

authors： Wolf A,Anderegg WR,Pacala SW

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated RAS transforming genes that encode proteins (p21s) with amino acid substitutions at positions 12, 13, or 61 have been detected in 10-20% of human neoplasms. This report describes a monoclonal antibody (DWP) raised against a synthetic peptide corresponding to amino acids 5-16 of a mutated RAS gene encoding Va...

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

authors： Carney WP,Petit D,Hamer P,Der CJ,Finkel T,Cooper GM,Lefebvre M,Mobtaker H,Delellis R,Tischler AS

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a simple and efficient cDNA cloning strategy that overcomes many of the difficulties encountered in obtaining full-length cDNA clones of low-abundance mRNAs. In essence, cDNAs are generated by using the DNA polymerase chain reaction technique to amplify copies of the region between a single point in th...

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

authors： Frohman MA,Dush MK,Martin GR

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is associated with alterations in nitric oxide (NO)/cGMP signaling. In early stages of the disease, inflammatory and possibly other cells produce reactive oxygen species that scavenge vasoprotective NO. In addition to the oxidative stress, expression and activity of enzymes downstream to NO formation m...

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

authors： Melichar VO,Behr-Roussel D,Zabel U,Uttenthal LO,Rodrigo J,Rupin A,Verbeuren TJ,Kumar H S A,Schmidt HH

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we examine how the introduction of a reference lottery with nonrandom outcomes alters the way in which choices among pairs of lotteries are made, even if it does not alter the choices. We use different domains (some of the lotteries produce gains, other losses) and different contexts (one member of the p...

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

authors： Dickhaut J,McCabe K,Nagode JC,Rustichini A,Smith K,Pardo JV

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular landers are molecules comprising of a central rigid molecular wire maintained above a metallic surface by organic spacers, which allows specific ultrahigh vacuum-scanning tunneling microscopy experiments to be performed at the single-molecule level. The understanding of the molecule-surface interactions, int...

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

authors： Moresco F,Gourdon A

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced functional bladder capacity and concomitant increased micturition frequency (pollakisuria) are common lower urinary tract symptoms associated with conditions such as cystitis, prostatic hyperplasia, neurological disease, and overactive bladder syndrome. These symptoms can profoundly affect the quality of life ...

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

authors： Everaerts W,Zhen X,Ghosh D,Vriens J,Gevaert T,Gilbert JP,Hayward NJ,McNamara CR,Xue F,Moran MM,Strassmaier T,Uykal E,Owsianik G,Vennekens R,De Ridder D,Nilius B,Fanger CM,Voets T

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Precipitation extreme changes are often assumed to scale with, or are constrained by, the change in atmospheric moisture content. Studies have generally confirmed the scaling based on moisture content for the midlatitudes but identified deviations for the tropics. In fact half of the twelve selected Intergovernmental ...

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

authors： Sugiyama M,Shiogama H,Emori S

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA toroids produced by the condensation of lambda phage DNA with hexammine cobalt (III) have been investigated by cryoelectron microscopy. Image resolution obtained by this technique has allowed unprecedented views of DNA packing within toroidal condensates. Toroids oriented coplanar with the microscope image plane e...

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

authors： Hud NV,Downing KH

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the direct measurement of thermodynamic properties of colloidal hard spheres by optical microscopy. By using confocal microscopy, we obtain three-dimensional snapshots of a colloidal hard-sphere suspension over a wide range of densities. From these snapshots, the available volume to insert an additional sphe...

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

authors： Dullens RP,Aarts DG,Kegel WK

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathways and enzymes of fatty acid synthase-mediated, long-even-chain (generally C16-C20) fatty acid synthesis are well studied, and general metabolism involved in short-chain (C4-C7) fatty acid biosynthesis is also understood. In contrast, mechanisms of medium-chain (C8-C14) fatty acid synthesis are unclear. Recent w...

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

authors： Kroumova AB,Xie Z,Wagner GJ

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has uncovered the existence of an Escherichia coli locus, groE, that is essential for bacterial growth, lambda phage and T4 phage head morphogenesis, and T5 phage tail assembly. Our genetic and biochemical analyses of lambda groE+ transducing phages and their deletion and point mutant derivatives show th...

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

authors： Tilly K,Murialdo H,Georgopoulos C

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed synthetic oligonucleotides encoding sequences conserved among tyrosine-specific protein kinases were used to probe the genome of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Two genes with homology to protein kinases were isolated and characterized by DNA sequence analysis. These genes, designated KIN1 and KIN2, ...

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

authors： Levin DE,Hammond CI,Ralston RO,Bishop JM

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that interstitial telomere (TTAGGG)n-like sequences at chromosome 2 fragile sites play an important role in the somatic events that characterize the earliest phases of radiation-induced acute myeloid leukemia in the CBA/H mouse. Here we show that the highly inbred CBA/H colony unexpectedly contains f...

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

authors： Silver A,Cox R

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of carboxylate ions (acetate, butyrate) with nucleic aicd bases and nucleosides has been investigated by proton magnetic resonance in dimethyl sulfoxide (d6)/H2O mixtures. Carboxylate ions interacted only with guanine derivatives and led to a large downfield shift of the NH2 resonance. A 1:1 stoichiome...

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

authors： Lancelot G,Hélène C

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe two mammalian transcription factors selectively expressed in the central nervous system. Both proteins, neuronal PAS domain protein (NPAS) 1 and NPAS2, are members of the basic helix-loop-helix-PAS family of transcription factors. cDNAs encoding mouse and human forms of NPAS1 and NPAS2 have been isola...

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

authors： Zhou YD,Barnard M,Tian H,Li X,Ring HZ,Francke U,Shelton J,Richardson J,Russell DW,McKnight SL

更新日期：1997-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:NY-ESO-1 is a "cancer-testis" antigen frequently expressed in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and is among the most immunogenic tumor antigens defined to date. In an effort to understand in vivo tolerance mechanisms, we assessed the phenotype and function of NY-ESO-1-specific CD8(+) T cells derived from peripheral blo...

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

authors： Matsuzaki J,Gnjatic S,Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Beck A,Miller A,Tsuji T,Eppolito C,Qian F,Lele S,Shrikant P,Old LJ,Odunsi K

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal macrophysiology is an established research field that has led to well-described patterns in the global structuring of climate adaptation and risk. However, since it was developed primarily in animals, we lack information on how general these patterns are across organisms. This is alarming if we are to understa...

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

authors： Lancaster LT,Humphreys AM

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a molecular resistance biomarker to gefitinib, epithelial membrane protein-1 (EMP-1). Gefitinib is a small-molecule inhibitor that competes for the ATP-binding site on EGF receptor (EGFR) and has been approved for patients with advanced lung cancers. Treatment with gefitinib has resulted in clinical benefi...

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

authors： Jain A,Tindell CA,Laux I,Hunter JB,Curran J,Galkin A,Afar DE,Aronson N,Shak S,Natale RB,Agus DB

更新日期：2005-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Several hypolipidemic drugs and certain industrial plasticizers induce proliferation of peroxisomes, enhance the activity of peroxisome-associated beta-oxidation of fatty acids, and produce hepatocellular carcinomas in the livers of rodents. Because these chemicals themselves are not mutagens and do not covalently mod...

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

authors： Fahl WE,Lalwani ND,Watanabe T,Goel SK,Reddy JK

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown recently that the temporal order of antioxidant consumption in human blood plasma exposed to a constant flux of aqueous peroxyl radicals is ascorbate = protein thiols greater than bilirubin greater than urate greater than alpha-tocopherol and that detectable lipid peroxidation starts only after ascorbate...

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

authors： Frei B,England L,Ames BN

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteasome is responsible for degradation of substrates of the ubiquitin pathway. 20S proteasomes are cylindrical particles with subunits arranged in a stack of four heptameric rings. The outer rings are composed of alpha subunits, and the inner rings are composed of beta subunits. A well-characterized archaeal pr...

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

authors： Arendt CS,Hochstrasser M

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation is a major mechanism regulating the activity of ion channels that remains poorly understood with respect to T-type calcium channels (Cav3). These channels are low voltage-activated calcium channels that play a key role in cellular excitability and various physiological functions. Their dysfunction has ...

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

authors： Blesneac I,Chemin J,Bidaud I,Huc-Brandt S,Vandermoere F,Lory P

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00