Functional MRI of the zebra finch brain during song stimulation suggests a lateralized response topography.

abstract：:Results are reported showing that pituitary extracts stimulate growth of 3T3 cells, an established line of mouse fibroblast. Cells were cultured in medium containing an organic buffer (HEPES; N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid), which increases the serum requirement for cell growth. The pituitary grow...

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

authors： Armelin HA

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)/usual interstitial pneumonia is a ravaging condition of progressive lung scarring and destruction. Anti-inflammatory therapies including corticosteroids have limited efficacy in this ultimately fatal disorder. An important unmet need is to identify new agents that interact with key ...

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

authors： Henderson WR Jr,Chi EY,Ye X,Nguyen C,Tien YT,Zhou B,Borok Z,Knight DA,Kahn M

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:PKC eta is expressed predominantly in the epithelial tissues; however, its role in the regulation of epithelial tight junctions (TJs) is unknown. We present evidence that PKC eta phosphorylates occludin on threonine residues (T403 and T404) and plays a crucial role in the assembly and/or maintenance of TJs in Caco-2 a...

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

authors： Suzuki T,Elias BC,Seth A,Shen L,Turner JR,Giorgianni F,Desiderio D,Guntaka R,Rao R

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the influence of interferon gamma (IFN-gamma) on tumorigenicity, we established constitutively IFN-gamma-producing cell lines from a malignant mouse neuroblastoma, C1300, by retroviral transfer of a mouse IFN-gamma cDNA. The gene-transferred cells generally showed an enhanced high-level expression of the ma...

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

authors： Watanabe Y,Kuribayashi K,Miyatake S,Nishihara K,Nakayama E,Taniyama T,Sakata T

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a low stringency polymerase chain reaction (LSPCR) to isolate the unknown neighboring region around a known DNA sequence, thus allowing efficient targeted gene walking. The method involves the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with a single primer under conditions of low stringency for primer annealing...

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

authors： Malo MS,Srivastava K,Andresen JM,Chen XN,Korenberg JR,Ingram VM

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Various biological processes exhibit characteristics that vary dramatically in response to different input conditions or changes in the history of the process itself. One of the examples studied here, the Ras-PKC-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) bistable pathway, follows two distinct dynamics (modes) depending ...

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

authors： Barbano PE,Spivak M,Feng J,Antoniotti M,Mishra B

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kell blood group is a major antigenic system in human erythrocytes. Kell antigens reside on a 93-kDa membrane glycoprotein that is surface-exposed and associated with the underlying cytoskeleton. We isolated tryptic peptides and, based on the amino acid sequence of one of the peptides and by using the PCR, prepare...

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

authors： Lee S,Zambas ED,Marsh WL,Redman CM

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phagocytosis on lectin binding to plasma membranes of polymorphonuclear leukocytes was examined. The specific activities of binding sites of concanavalin A and Ricinus communis agglutinin (defined as mug of lectin bound per 100 mug of membrane protein) were measured on isolated membranes; they decreased ...

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

authors： Oliver JM,Ukena TE,Berlin RD

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I phosphoinositide 3-kinase contains four isoforms of the catalytic subunit, p110alpha, -beta, -gamma, and -delta. At physiological levels of expression, the wild-type p110alpha isoform lacks oncogenic potential, but gain-of-function mutations and overexpression of p110alpha are correlated with oncogenicity. The...

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

authors： Kang S,Denley A,Vanhaesebroeck B,Vogt PK

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The interrelationships of hexose feeding and insulin action were studied in the Chinese hamster fibroblast cell lines 023 and DS-7. The latter, derived from 023 and deficient in phosphoglucose isomerase, has been used to map the metabolic requirements for aldohexose-mediated down-regulation or "curbing" of hexose tran...

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

authors： Wilson C,Peterson SW,Ullrey DB,Kalckar HM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BDF1 [(C57BL/6 X DBA/2)F1] mice were primed with alum-absorbed ovalbumin, and their spleen cells were cultured with ovalbumin to activate antigen-primed T cells. The activated T cells were then propagated in interleukin 2-containing medium in the presence or absence of affinity-purified glycosylation-inhibiting factor...

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

authors： Iwata M,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant I1A cells, lacking IL-1 receptor-associated kinase (IRAK) mRNA and protein, have been used to study the involvement of IRAK in NFkappaB and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activation. A series of IRAK deletion constructs were expressed in I1A cells, which were then tested for their ability to respond to IL-1. Bot...

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

authors： Li X,Commane M,Jiang Z,Stark GR

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiosis-specific homologs of RecA protein have been identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and higher eukaryotes including mammals, but their enzymatic activities have not been described. We have purified the human protein HsDmc1 produced in Escherichia coli from a cloned copy of the cDNA. The recombinant enzyme had D...

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

authors： Li Z,Golub EI,Gupta R,Radding CM

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms by which the extracellular domain of Notch1 controls Notch1 signaling are not well defined. Here, we show that the O-fucose glycan in the Notch1 ligand-binding domain regulates the strength of Notch1 signaling during embryogenesis, postweaning growth, and T cell development in the mouse. Heterozygotes carry...

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

authors： Ge C,Stanley P

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolipid protein (PLP) is the major myelin membrane protein of the central nervous system. We have isolated a copy of an alternatively spliced PLP gene transcript from a mouse brain cDNA library that was screened for PLP-related sequences. The encoded 241-amino acid protein differs from PLP by an internal deletion ...

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

authors： Nave KA,Lai C,Bloom FE,Milner RJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solar system formed from interstellar dust and gas in a molecular cloud. Astronomical observations show that typical interstellar dust consists of amorphous (a-) silicate and organic carbon. Bona fide physical samples for laboratory studies would yield unprecedented insight about solar system formation, but they w...

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

authors： Ishii HA,Bradley JP,Bechtel HA,Brownlee DE,Bustillo KC,Ciston J,Cuzzi JN,Floss C,Joswiak DJ

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous paper we described the induction by x-irradiation or radiation-induced leukemia virus-inoculation of two classes of lymphoid T-cell neoplasms: The first class, designated T-cell lymphoblastoma (TCLB), consists of growth-factor-dependent eudiploid cells that home to the spleen and give rise to splenic tum...

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

authors： Haas M,Altman A,Rothenberg E,Bogart MH,Jones OW

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen receptor gene assembly is regulated by transcriptional promoters and enhancers, which control the accessibility of gene segments to a lymphocyte-specific V(D)J recombinase. However, it remained unclear whether accessibility depends on the process of transcription itself or chromatin modifications that accompan...

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

authors： Sikes ML,Meade A,Tripathi R,Krangel MS,Oltz EM

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the causal agent of crown gall disease. The bacterium is capable of transferring a segment of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) into recipient cells during the transformation process, and it has been widely used as a genetic modification tool for plants and nonplant organisms. Transferred DNA (T...

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

authors： Li X,Yang Q,Peng L,Tu H,Lee LY,Gelvin SB,Pan SQ

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular beacons are FRET-based target-activatable probes. They offer control of fluorescence emission in response to specific cancer targets, thus are useful tools for in vivo cancer imaging. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a cell-killing process by light activation of a photosensitizer (PS) in the presence of oxygen....

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

authors： Zheng G,Chen J,Stefflova K,Jarvi M,Li H,Wilson BC

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The aspartate receptor involved in chemotaxis is modified by methyl esterification at four distinct glutamate residues during the adaptive response of this receptor. To explain the high degree of specificity of this modification, it has been proposed that the methyltransferase recognizes the sequence Glu-Glu-Xaa-Xaa-A...

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

authors： Terwilliger TC,Wang JY,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used low magnesium concentrations and the specific antagonist D-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate (D-AP5) to estimate the effects of long-term potentiation (LTP) on the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptor-mediated components of postsynaptic responses. LTP induction resulted in a considerably larger p...

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

authors： Muller D,Lynch G

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protocell models are used to investigate how cells might have first assembled on Earth. Some, like oil-in-water droplets, can be seemingly simple models, while able to exhibit complex and unpredictable behaviors. How such simple oil-in-water systems can come together to yield complex and life-like behaviors remains a ...

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

authors： Points LJ,Taylor JW,Grizou J,Donkers K,Cronin L

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in animals demonstrate a crucial role for the amygdala in emotional and social behavior, especially as related to fear and aggression. Whereas lesion and functional-imaging studies in humans indicate the amygdala's participation in assessing the significance of nonverbal as well as paralinguistic cues, direct ...

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

authors： Isenberg N,Silbersweig D,Engelien A,Emmerich S,Malavade K,Beattie B,Leon AC,Stern E

更新日期：1999-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsetse-transmitted African trypanosomes must develop into mammalian-infectious metacyclic cells in the fly's salivary glands (SGs) before transmission to a new host. The molecular mechanisms that underlie this developmental process, known as metacyclogenesis, are poorly understood. Blocking the few metacyclic parasite...

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

authors： Vigneron A,O'Neill MB,Weiss BL,Savage AF,Campbell OC,Kamhawi S,Valenzuela JG,Aksoy S

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids (GCs) are potent anti-inflammatory agents that block cytokine production. We investigated whether GCs also block cytokine signaling via the Janus kinase (Jak)-signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway. Dexamethasone inhibited IL-2-induced DNA binding, tyrosine phosphorylation, and...

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

authors： Bianchi M,Meng C,Ivashkiv LB

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants, as sessile organisms, must coordinate various physiological processes to adapt to ever-changing surrounding environments. Stomata, the epidermal pores facilitating gas and water exchange, play important roles in optimizing photosynthetic efficiency and adaptability. Stomatal development is under the control of...

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

authors： Zhang JY,He SB,Li L,Yang HQ

更新日期：2014-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoclonal antibodies (mAb) DA6.147, DA6.164, and HIG.48 against human Ia antigens, but not the W6/32 mAb against human class I major histocompatibility complex antigens or the anti-monocyte OKM1 and 63D3 mAb, stimulated monocytes to secrete interleukin 1 (IL-1). IL-1 was measured by its property of promoting the ...

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

authors： Palacios R

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature lability of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP; glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase; ADP: alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate adenylyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.27), a key starch biosynthetic enzyme, may play a significant role in the heat-induced loss in maize seed weight and yield. Here we report the isolation an...

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

authors： Greene TW,Hannah LC

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for variational calculation of the energy and the spin densities derived from a single-determinant wavefunction. Sum and difference coordinates [unk]R = (1/2)([unk]r(1) + [unk]r(1)) and [unk]r = [unk]r(1) - [unk]r(1) are introduced, and the density matrix P([unk]r(1),[unk]r(1)) is expanded in par...

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

authors： Payne PW

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00