Crucial role for the Nalp3 inflammasome in the immunostimulatory properties of aluminium adjuvants.

abstract：:Improvement in the clinical outcome of lung cancer is likely to be achieved by identification of the molecular events that underlie its pathogenesis. Here we show that a small inversion within chromosome 2p results in the formation of a fusion gene comprising portions of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-l...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Soda M,Choi YL,Enomoto M,Takada S,Yamashita Y,Ishikawa S,Fujiwara S,Watanabe H,Kurashina K,Hatanaka H,Bando M,Ohno S,Ishikawa Y,Aburatani H,Niki T,Sohara Y,Sugiyama Y,Mano H

更新日期：2007-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult animals, sensory neurons innervating the skin are phenotypically diverse. We have now investigated whether nerve growth factor (NGF) has a physiological role in the development of this diversity. We gave antisera against NGF to rats from postnatal day 1 (PND 1) to adulthood (5 weeks). We found a virtually com...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ritter AM,Lewin GR,Kremer NE,Mendell LM

更新日期：1991-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Diminishing fossil fuel reserves and growing concerns about global warming indicate that sustainable sources of energy are needed in the near future. For fuels to be useful in the transportation sector, they must have specific physical properties that allow for efficient distribution, storage and combustion; these pro...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Román-Leshkov Y,Barrett CJ,Liu ZY,Dumesic JA

更新日期：2007-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in behaviour extend to cognitive-like processes such as learning, but the underlying dimorphisms in neural circuit development and organization that generate these behavioural differences are largely unknown. Here we define at the single-cell level-from development, through neural circuit connectivity,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sammut M,Cook SJ,Nguyen KCQ,Felton T,Hall DH,Emmons SW,Poole RJ,Barrios A

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Y chromosomes underlie sex determination in mammals, but their repeat-rich nature has hampered sequencing and associated evolutionary studies. Here we trace Y evolution across 15 representative mammals on the basis of high-throughput genome and transcriptome sequencing. We uncover three independent sex chromosome orig...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cortez D,Marin R,Toledo-Flores D,Froidevaux L,Liechti A,Waters PD,Grützner F,Kaessmann H

更新日期：2014-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasa gene product of Drosophila melanogaster is required only in the female germ line. Progeny of females homozygous for vasa mutations lack posterior structures and pole cells. Isolation and characterization of vasa genomic and complementary DNA clones show that the transcript is abundant in the female germ line ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lasko PF,Ashburner M

更新日期：1988-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Materials showing simultaneous ferroelectric and magnetic ordering are attracting a great deal of interest because of their unusual physics and potential applications. Hemberger et al. have reported relaxor-like dielectric properties and colossal magnetocapacitance (in excess of 500%) for the cubic spinel compound CdC...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Catalan G,Scott JF

更新日期：2007-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-cell immune response is directed against antigenic peptide fragments generated in intracellular compartments, the cytosol or the endocytic system. Peptides derived from cytosolic proteins, usually of biosynthetic origin, are presented efficiently to T-cell receptors by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) clas...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Deverson EV,Gow IR,Coadwell WJ,Monaco JJ,Butcher GW,Howard JC

更新日期：1990-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-evolution between plants and their natural enemies is generally believed to have generated much of the Earth's biological diversity. A process analogous to co-evolution occurs in agricultural systems, in which natural enemies adapt to crop resistance introduced by breeding or genetic engineering. Because of this si...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Rausher MD

更新日期：2001-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilia B, or Christmas disease, is an inherited X-chromosome-linked bleeding disorder caused by a defect in clotting factor IX and occurs in about 1 in 30,000 males in the United Kingdom. Injection of factor IX concentrate obtained from blood donors allows most patients to be successfully managed. However, becaus...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Anson DS,Austen DE,Brownlee GG

更新日期：1985-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural visual scenes are cluttered with multiple objects whose individual features must somehow be selectively linked (or 'bound') if perception is to coincide with reality. Recent neurophysiological evidence supports a 'binding-by-synchrony' hypothesis: neurons excited by features of the same object fire synchronous...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Thiele A,Stoner G

更新日期：2003-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Therizinosauroids are an enigmatic group of dinosaurs known mostly from the Cretaceous period of Asia, whose derived members are characterized by elongate necks, laterally expanded pelves, small, leaf-shaped teeth, edentulous rostra and mandibular symphyses that probably bore keratinized beaks. Although more than a do...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kirkland JI,Zanno LE,Sampson SD,Clark JM,DeBlieux DD

更新日期：2005-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:One reason for the failure of chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced cancers may be the outgrowth of multidrug-resistant tumour cells. Multidrug resistance has been modelled in numerous mammalian cell lines in which the phenotype is characterized by a pleiotropic cross-resistance to unrelated drugs. In the study re...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kartner N,Evernden-Porelle D,Bradley G,Ling V

更新日期：1985-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Abyssal-hill-bounding faults that pervade the oceanic crust are the most common tectonic feature on the surface of the Earth. The recognition that these faults form at plate spreading centres came with the plate tectonic revolution. Recent observations reveal a large range of fault sizes and orientations; numerical mo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Buck WR,Lavier LL,Poliakov AN

更新日期：2005-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the composition of the Earth's core is important for understanding its melting point and therefore the temperature at the inner-core boundary and the temperature profile of the core and mantle. In addition, the partitioning of light elements between solid and liquid, as the outer core freezes at the inner...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Alfe D,Gillan MJ,Price GD

更新日期：2000-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, one of the most pronounced consequences of viral infection is the induction of type I interferons, cytokines with potent antiviral activity. Schlafen (Slfn) genes are a subset of interferon-stimulated early response genes (ISGs) that are also induced directly by pathogens via the interferon regulatory fact...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Li M,Kao E,Gao X,Sandig H,Limmer K,Pavon-Eternod M,Jones TE,Landry S,Pan T,Weitzman MD,David M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid decrease in shear velocity in the suboceanic mantle is used to infer the thickness of the lithosphere. It is proposed that new and highly precise group velocity data constrain the solutions and imply a thickness near 70 km. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kanamori H,Press F

更新日期：1970-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The bony skeleton is maintained by local factors that regulate bone-forming osteoblasts and bone-resorbing osteoclasts, in addition to hormonal activity. Osteoprotegerin protects bone by inhibiting osteoclastic bone resorption, but no factor has yet been identified as a local determinant of bone mass that regulates bo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hayashi M,Nakashima T,Taniguchi M,Kodama T,Kumanogoh A,Takayanagi H

更新日期：2012-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Decision making in an uncertain environment poses a conflict between the opposing demands of gathering and exploiting information. In a classic illustration of this 'exploration-exploitation' dilemma, a gambler choosing between multiple slot machines balances the desire to select what seems, on the basis of accumulate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Daw ND,O'Doherty JP,Dayan P,Seymour B,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants acquire whatever language is spoken in the environment into which they are born. The mental capability of the newborn child is not biased in any way towards the acquisition of one human language rather than another. Because psychologists who attempt to model the process of language comprehension are interested...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cutler A,Mehler J,Norris D,Segui J

更新日期：1983-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:B lymphocytes originate from pluripotential haematopoietic stem cells and differentiate into immunoglobulin (Ig)-producing cells. B-cell lineage differentiation is accompanied by two types of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements--rearrangement of V, D and J gene segments to create a functional V gene and rearrangement o...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sugiyama H,Akira S,Kikutani H,Kishimoto S,Yamamura Y,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1983-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms controlling the process of myelination by Schwann cells remain elusive, despite recent progress in the identification and characterization of genes encoding myelin components (reviewed in ref. 1). We have created a null allele in the mouse Krox-20 gene, which encodes a zinc-finger transcriptio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Topilko P,Schneider-Maunoury S,Levi G,Baron-Van Evercooren A,Chennoufi AB,Seitanidou T,Babinet C,Charnay P

更新日期：1994-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic manipulations of insect populations for pest control have been advocated for some time, but there are few cases where manipulated individuals have been released in the field and no cases where they have successfully invaded target populations. Population transformation using the intracellular bacterium Wolbach...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hoffmann AA,Montgomery BL,Popovici J,Iturbe-Ormaetxe I,Johnson PH,Muzzi F,Greenfield M,Durkan M,Leong YS,Dong Y,Cook H,Axford J,Callahan AG,Kenny N,Omodei C,McGraw EA,Ryan PA,Ritchie SA,Turelli M,O'Neill SL

更新日期：2011-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation initiation determines both the quantity and identity of the protein that is encoded in an mRNA by establishing the reading frame for protein synthesis. In eukaryotic cells, numerous translation initiation factors prepare ribosomes for polypeptide synthesis; however, the underlying dynamics of this process ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wang J,Johnson AG,Lapointe CP,Choi J,Prabhakar A,Chen DH,Petrov AN,Puglisi JD

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of tetrapods from their fish antecedents, approximately 400 million years ago, was coupled with the origin of terrestrial locomotion and the evolution of supporting limbs. Polypterus is a member of the basal-most group of ray-finned fish (actinopterygians) and has many plesiomorphic morphologies that are co...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Standen EM,Du TY,Larsson HC

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The selection and design of modern high-performance structural engineering materials is driven by optimizing combinations of mechanical properties such as strength, ductility, toughness, elasticity and requirements for predictable and graceful (non-catastrophic) failure in service. Highly processable bulk metallic gla...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hofmann DC,Suh JY,Wiest A,Duan G,Lind ML,Demetriou MD,Johnson WL

更新日期：2008-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-dimensional electron system is a powerful laboratory for investigating the physics of interacting particles. Application of a large magnetic field produces massively degenerate quantum levels known as Landau levels; within a Landau level the kinetic energy of the electrons is suppressed, and electron-electron ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dial OE,Ashoori RC,Pfeiffer LN,West KW

更新日期：2010-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of a mutant adenovirus carrying an insertion of cellular DNA has led to the identification of a new family of human repetitive sequences, which are found tandemly arranged in the genome. The sequence of the viral insert resembles that of eukaryotic transposable elements. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Shimizu Y,Yoshida K,Ren CS,Fujinaga K,Rajagopalan S,Chinnadurai G

更新日期：1983-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient long-distance quantum teleportation is crucial for quantum communication and quantum networking schemes. Here we describe the high-fidelity teleportation of photons over a distance of 600 metres across the River Danube in Vienna, with the optimal efficiency that can be achieved using linear optics. Our resul...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ursin R,Jennewein T,Aspelmeyer M,Kaltenbaek R,Lindenthal M,Walther P,Zeilinger A

更新日期：2004-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate strongly affects the production of sediment from mountain catchments as well as its transport and deposition within adjacent sedimentary basins. However, identifying climatic influences on basin stratigraphy is complicated by nonlinearities, feedback loops, lag times, buffering and convergence among processes ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Foreman BZ,Heller PL,Clementz MT

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00