Transient activation of calcineurin is essential to initiate embryonic development in Xenopus laevis.

abstract：:The complement system is a key part of the innate immune system, and is required for clearance of pathogens from the bloodstream. After exposure to pathogens, the third component of the complement system, C3, is cleaved to C3b which, after recruitment of factor B, initiates formation of the alternative pathway convert...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wiesmann C,Katschke KJ,Yin J,Helmy KY,Steffek M,Fairbrother WJ,McCallum SA,Embuscado L,DeForge L,Hass PE,van Lookeren Campagne M

更新日期：2006-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of fossil mammalian faunas from the Middle Awash indicates they span most of the later Neogene and document evolutionary change in several mammalian groups, especially Primates, Proboscidea and Artiodactyla. Oldowan artefacts first appear in the late Pliocene, while Acheulian and later industries and apparent...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kalb JE,Jolly CJ,Mebrate A,Tebedge S,Smart C,Oswald EB,Cramer D,Whitehead P,Wood CB,Conroy GC,Adefris T,Sperling L,Kana B

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symbolic arithmetic is fundamental to science, technology and economics, but its acquisition by children typically requires years of effort, instruction and drill. When adults perform mental arithmetic, they activate nonsymbolic, approximate number representations, and their performance suffers if this nonsymbolic sys...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gilmore CK,McCarthy SE,Spelke ES

更新日期：2007-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Extant vertebrates form two clades, the jawless Cyclostomata (lampreys and hagfishes) and the jawed Gnathostomata (all other vertebrates), with contrasting facial architectures. These arise during development from just a few key differences in the growth patterns of the cranial primordia: notably, the nasal sacs and h...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dupret V,Sanchez S,Goujet D,Tafforeau P,Ahlberg PE

更新日期：2014-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi inhabit the Earth. So, too, do 7 billion people. Two decades ago, at the first Earth Summit, the vast majority of the world's nati...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cardinale BJ,Duffy JE,Gonzalez A,Hooper DU,Perrings C,Venail P,Narwani A,Mace GM,Tilman D,Wardle DA,Kinzig AP,Daily GC,Loreau M,Grace JB,Larigauderie A,Srivastava DS,Naeem S

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of self-fertilization in hermaphrodites is opposed by costs that decrease the value of self progeny relative to that of outcross progeny. However, self-fertilization is common in plants; 20% are highly selfing and 33% are intermediate between selfing and outcrossing. Darwin proposed an adaptive benefit o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kalisz S,Vogler DW,Hanley KM

更新日期：2004-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Because it is so tall, the giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis, provides an important animal model for investigating adaptive mechanisms to orthostatic (gravitational) pressure changes. Previous physiological studies of the giraffe have concentrated on arterial blood pressures in the heart and neck. Briefly, these investi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hargens AR,Millard RW,Pettersson K,Johansen K

更新日期：1987-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1994, two independent groups extracted DNA from several Pleistocene epoch mammoths and noted differences among individual specimens. Subsequently, DNA sequences have been published for a number of extinct species. However, such ancient DNA is often fragmented and damaged, and studies to date have typically focused ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Miller W,Drautz DI,Ratan A,Pusey B,Qi J,Lesk AM,Tomsho LP,Packard MD,Zhao F,Sher A,Tikhonov A,Raney B,Patterson N,Lindblad-Toh K,Lander ES,Knight JR,Irzyk GP,Fredrikson KM,Harkins TT,Sheridan S,Pringle T,Schuste

更新日期：2008-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The signal recognition particle (SRP) consists of one RNA and six protein subunits. The N-terminal domain of the 54K subunit contains a putative GTP-binding site, whereas the C-terminal domain binds signal sequences and SRP RNA. Binding of SRP to the signal sequence as it emerges from the ribosome creates a cytosolic ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Miller JD,Wilhelm H,Gierasch L,Gilmore R,Walter P

更新日期：1993-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding cellular response to environmental stress has broad implications for human disease. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) orchestrates the regulation of energy-generating and -consuming pathways, and protects the heart against ischaemic injury and apoptosis. A role for circulating hormones such as adiponec...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Miller EJ,Li J,Leng L,McDonald C,Atsumi T,Bucala R,Young LH

更新日期：2008-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Jupiter's atmosphere is rotating differentially, with zones and belts rotating at speeds that differ by up to 100 metres per second. Whether this is also true of the gas giant's interior has been unknown, limiting our ability to probe the structure and composition of the planet. The discovery by the Juno spacecraft th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Guillot T,Miguel Y,Militzer B,Hubbard WB,Kaspi Y,Galanti E,Cao H,Helled R,Wahl SM,Iess L,Folkner WM,Stevenson DJ,Lunine JI,Reese DR,Biekman A,Parisi M,Durante D,Connerney JEP,Levin SM,Bolton SJ

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic sexual differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster involves a cascade of regulated splicing events and provides an attractive model system for the analysis of alternative splicing mechanisms. The protein Sex-lethal (Sxl) activates a female-specific 3' splice site in the first intron of transformer (tra) pre-mRN...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Valcárcel J,Singh R,Zamore PD,Green MR

更新日期：1993-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The double helix of DNA epitomizes this molecule's ability to self-assemble in aqueous solutions into a complex chiral structure using hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions. Non-covalently interacting molecules in organic solvents are used to design systems that similarly form controlled architectures. Periphe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hirschberg JH,Brunsveld L,Ramzi A,Vekemans JA,Sijbesma RP,Meijer EW

更新日期：2000-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the extent and basis of gene-enzyme variation has long been a principal concern of population genetics. Numerous surveys have indicated considerable amounts of genetic variation detectable in natural populations, with few exceptions. The variances of average heterozygosities (H) between species and among ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： O'Brien SJ,Gail MH,Levin DL

更新日期：1980-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The electronic properties of heterostructures of atomically thin van der Waals crystals can be modified substantially by moiré superlattice potentials from an interlayer twist between crystals1,2. Moiré tuning of the band structure has led to the recent discovery of superconductivity3,4 and correlated insulating phase...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kerelsky A,McGilly LJ,Kennes DM,Xian L,Yankowitz M,Chen S,Watanabe K,Taniguchi T,Hone J,Dean C,Rubio A,Pasupathy AN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through their functional diversification, distinct lineages of CD4(+) T cells can act to either drive or constrain immune-mediated pathology. Transcription factors are critical in the generation of cellular diversity, and negative regulators antagonistic to alternate fates often act in conjunction with positive regula...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Roychoudhuri R,Hirahara K,Mousavi K,Clever D,Klebanoff CA,Bonelli M,Sciumè G,Zare H,Vahedi G,Dema B,Yu Z,Liu H,Takahashi H,Rao M,Muranski P,Crompton JG,Punkosdy G,Bedognetti D,Wang E,Hoffmann V,Rivera J,Marincol

更新日期：2013-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Grid cells provide a neural representation of space, by discharging when an animal traverses through the vertices of a periodic hexagonal grid spanning the environment. Although grid cells have been characterized in detail in rats, the fundamental question of what neural dynamics give rise to the grid structure remain...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yartsev MM,Witter MP,Ulanovsky N

更新日期：2011-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines rarely provide full protection from disease. Nevertheless, partially effective (imperfect) vaccines may be used to protect both individuals and whole populations. We studied the potential impact of different types of imperfect vaccines on the evolution of pathogen virulence (induced host mortality) and the co...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gandon S,Mackinnon MJ,Nee S,Read AF

更新日期：2001-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein(a) is an LDL-like lipoprotein whose concentration in plasma is correlated with atherosclerosis. The characteristic protein component of lipoprotein(a) is apolipoprotein(a) which is disulphide-linked to apolipoprotein B-100. Sequencing of cloned human apolipoprotein(a) complementary DNA shows that it is ver...

journal_title：Nature

authors： McLean JW,Tomlinson JE,Kuang WJ,Eaton DL,Chen EY,Fless GM,Scanu AM,Lawn RM

更新日期：1987-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is now so common within the world's population that it is beginning to replace undernutrition and infectious diseases as the most significant contributor to ill health. In particular, obesity is associated with diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, certain forms of cancer, and sleep-breathing disorders. O...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kopelman PG

更新日期：2000-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammary gland is composed of multiple types of epithelial cells, which are generated by mammary stem cells (MaSCs) residing at the top of the hierarchy. However, the existence of these multipotent MaSCs remains controversial and the nature of such cells is unknown. Here we demonstrate that protein C receptor (Proc...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wang D,Cai C,Dong X,Yu QC,Zhang XO,Yang L,Zeng YA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During platelet activation there is a major reorganization in the platelet cytoskeleton that accompanies a rapid change in platelet shape. Many of the events associated with activation are attributed to a rise in calcium concentration within the platelet cytoplasm. One direct consequence of the elevated calcium is the...

journal_title：Nature

authors： O'Halloran T,Beckerle MC,Burridge K

更新日期：1985-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Uridine at the first anticodon position (U34) of glutamate, lysine and glutamine transfer RNAs is universally modified by thiouridylase into 2-thiouridine (s2U34), which is crucial for precise translation by restricting codon-anticodon wobble during protein synthesis on the ribosome. However, it remains unclear how th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Numata T,Ikeuchi Y,Fukai S,Suzuki T,Nureki O

更新日期：2006-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Storing and retrieving a quantum state of light on demand, without corrupting the information it carries, is an important challenge in the field of quantum information processing. Classical measurement and reconstruction strategies for storing light must necessarily destroy quantum information as a consequence of the ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hedges MP,Longdell JJ,Li Y,Sellars MJ

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells line the inner surface of blood vessels and act as the main barrier to the passage of cells and large molecules from the blood stream to the tissues. Recent interest in the part played by the endothelium in regulating vascular tone has focused on the synthesis and secretion of prostacyclin and an end...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lansman JB,Hallam TJ,Rink TJ

更新日期：1987-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical endocrine studies have shown that steroid hormones are required for the maintenance of pregnancy and placental viability. The oestrogen-receptor-related receptor beta (ERR-beta) is an orphan member of the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors. Although ERR-beta is homologous to the oestrogen receptor and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Luo J,Sladek R,Bader JA,Matthyssen A,Rossant J,Giguère V

更新日期：1997-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal region of the common corticotropin/beta-lipotrophin (beta-LPH) precursor has been identified in the AtT-20 mouse tumor cells as a glycopeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 16,000 (the '16K fragment'). A third melanotropin core sequence or gamma-MSH similar to that found in ACTH and beta-LPH ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Al-Dujaili EA,Hope J,Estivariz FE,Lowry PJ,Edwards CR

更新日期：1981-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the large-T protein of polyoma virus (plt), the E1A genes of adenoviruses, the viral myc gene (v-myc) or rearranged forms of the cellular c-myc gene confer on rat embryo fibroblast (REF) cells in primary culture a series of new properties ('immortality', reduced serum requirement and sensitivity to t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Connan G,Rassoulzadegan M,Cuzin F

更新日期：1985-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kyoto Protocol permits countries to meet part of their emission reduction obligations by cutting back on gases other than CO2 (ref. 1). This approach requires a definition of trade-offs among the radiatively active gases. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has suggested global warming potentials for thi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Manne AS,Richels RG

更新日期：2001-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hills R,Kulkarni G,Meerburg PD,Puchwein E

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00