Counting the number of releasable synaptic vesicles in a presynaptic terminal.

abstract：:Proper resolution of inflammation is vital for repair and restoration of homeostasis after tissue damage, and its dysregulation underlies various noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Macrophages play diverse roles throughout initial inflammation, its resolution, and tissue repair. D...

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

authors： Nakayama Y,Fujiu K,Yuki R,Oishi Y,Morioka MS,Isagawa T,Matsuda J,Oshima T,Matsubara T,Sugita J,Kudo F,Kaneda A,Endo Y,Nakayama T,Nagai R,Komuro I,Manabe I

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:5 alpha-Cholest-8(14)-en-3 beta-ol-15-one has been found to have significant hypocholesterolemic activity upon oral administration at a daily dosage of 75 mg/kg of body weight to Rhesus monkeys fed a diet of moderate cholesterol (Chol) content [0.19 mg/kcal (1 cal = 4.184 J) of diet]. The reductions in total serum Cho...

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

authors： Schroepfer GJ Jr,Sherrill BC,Wang KS,Wilson WK,Kisic A,Clarkson TB

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photo-triggered alpha-helix formation of a 16-residue peptide featuring a built-in conformational photoswitch is monitored by time-resolved IR spectroscopy. An experimental approach with 2-ps time resolution and a scanning range up to 30 micros is used to cover all time scales of the peptide dynamics. Experiments are ...

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

authors： Bredenbeck J,Helbing J,Kumita JR,Woolley GA,Hamm P

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disorder that has a progression that is closely associated with oxidative stress. It has long been speculated that the reactive oxygen species (ROS) level in AD brains is much higher than that in healthy brains. However, evidence from living beings is scarc...

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

authors： Yang J,Zhang X,Yuan P,Yang J,Xu Y,Grutzendler J,Shao Y,Moore A,Ran C

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple model is proposed to account for large increases in transporter-mediated ion flux across cell membranes that are elicited by small fractional changes of cell volume. The model is based upon the concept that, as a result of large excluded volume effects in cytoplasm (macromolecular crowding), the tendency of s...

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

authors： Minton AP,Colclasure GC,Parker JC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief visual experience causes rapid physiological changes in the visual cortex during early postnatal development. A possible mediator of these effects is the immediate early genes whose protein products are involved in the rapid response of neurons to transsynaptic stimulation. Here we report evidence that the level...

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

authors： Rosen KM,McCormack MA,Villa-Komaroff L,Mower GD

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Scores of homeobox gene-encoded transcription factors are expressed in a definite spatiotemporal pattern during embryogenesis and regulate a series of as yet unidentified target genes to help coordinate the morphogenetic process. We have suggested that homeobox gene products modulate the expression of adhesion molecul...

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

authors： Jones FS,Holst BD,Minowa O,De Robertis EM,Edelman GM

更新日期：1993-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For many agronomically important plant genes, only their position on a genetic map is known. In the absence of an efficient transposon tagging system, such genes have to be isolated by map-based cloning. In bread wheat Triticum aestivum, the genome is hexaploid, has a size of 1.6 x 10(10) bp, and contains more than 80...

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

authors： Stein N,Feuillet C,Wicker T,Schlagenhauf E,Keller B

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:During exercise, increased energy demands are met by increased glucose production that occurs simultaneously with the increased glucose uptake. We had previously observed that, during exercise, metabolic clearance rate of glucose (MCR) increases markedly in normal, but only marginally in poorly controlled diabetic dog...

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

authors： Miles PD,Yamatani K,Lickley HL,Vranic M

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological studies indicate beneficial effects of moderate ethanol consumption in ischemic heart disease. Most studies, however, focus on the effect of long-term consumption of ethanol. In this study, we determined whether brief exposure to ethanol immediately before ischemia also produces cardioprotection...

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

authors： Chen CH,Gray MO,Mochly-Rosen D

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies are created and refined by somatic evolution in B cell populations, which endows the human immune system with the ability to recognize and eliminate diverse pathogens. However, the evolutionary processes that sculpt antibody repertoires remain poorly understood. Here, using an unbiased repertoire-scale appr...

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

authors： Horns F,Vollmers C,Dekker CL,Quake SR

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The thesis is developed that a low oxygen level Precambrian atmosphere presented early-evolving metazoan organisms with physiological connective tissue priorities resulting from the important molecular oxygen requirements in the biosynthesis of collagen hydroxyproline. Shells, cuticles, and carapaces which are not man...

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

authors： Towe KM

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcripts from mitochondrial (maxicircle) genes of kinetoplastid organisms undergo RNA editing characterized by a series of reactions that insert and delete uridine nucleotides within the sequence of the pre-mRNAs. Guide RNAs, which complement fully edited mRNAs, provide the information for the edited sequence by an...

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

authors： Göringer HU,Koslowsky DJ,Morales TH,Stuart K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental and anthropogenic factors often drive population declines in top predators, but how their influences may combine remains unclear. Albatrosses are particularly threatened. They breed in fast-changing environments, and their extensive foraging ranges expose them to incidental mortality (bycatch) in multipl...

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

authors： Pardo D,Forcada J,Wood AG,Tuck GN,Ireland L,Pradel R,Croxall JP,Phillips RA

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Stopping an action in response to an unexpected event requires both that the event is attended to, and that the action is inhibited. Previous neuroimaging investigations of stopping have failed to adequately separate these cognitive elements. Here we used a version of the widely used Stop Signal Task that controls for...

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

authors： Sharp DJ,Bonnelle V,De Boissezon X,Beckmann CF,James SG,Patel MC,Mehta MA

更新日期：2010-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the binding domain for dihydropyridine Ca2+ antagonists, skeletal muscle Ca2+ channels were photolabeled with [3H](+)-PN200-110 and [3H]azidopine. Regions of alpha 1 photolabeled by these ligands were then identified by antibody mapping of proteolytic fragments. Approximately 50% of the specific labeling b...

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

authors： Striessnig J,Murphy BJ,Catterall WA

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of the female gamete into a developmentally competent oocyte relies on the protected environment of the ovarian follicle. The oocyte plays a key role in establishing this microenvironment by releasing paracrine factors that control the functions of surrounding somatic cells. Growth differentiation ...

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

authors： Cakmak H,Franciosi F,Zamah AM,Cedars MI,Conti M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New geochemical data from the Malawi Rift (Chiwondo Beds, Karonga Basin) fill a major spatial gap in our knowledge of hominin adaptations on a continental scale. Oxygen (δ18O), carbon (δ13C), and clumped (Δ47) isotope data on paleosols, hominins, and selected fauna elucidate an unexpected diversity in the Pleistocene ...

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

authors： Lüdecke T,Kullmer O,Wacker U,Sandrock O,Fiebig J,Schrenk F,Mulch A

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter of mitochondria (Atm1) mediates iron homeostasis in eukaryotes, while the prokaryotic homolog from Novosphingobium aromaticivorans (NaAtm1) can export glutathione derivatives and confer protection against heavy-metal toxicity. To establish the structural framework underlying ...

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

authors： Fan C,Kaiser JT,Rees DC

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A defect in the yeast GEF1 gene, a CLC chloride channel homolog leads to an iron requirement and cation sensitivity. The iron requirement is due to a failure to load Cu2+ onto a component of the iron uptake system, Fet3. This process, which requires both Gef1 and the Menkes disease Cu2+-ATPase yeast homolog Ccc2, occu...

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

authors： Gaxiola RA,Yuan DS,Klausner RD,Fink GR

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The P23T mutant of human gammaD-crystallin (HGD) is associated with cataract. We have previously investigated the solution properties of this mutant, as well as those of the closely related P23V and P23S mutants, and shown that although mutations at site 23 of HGD do not produce a significant structural change in the ...

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

authors： McManus JJ,Lomakin A,Ogun O,Pande A,Basan M,Pande J,Benedek GB

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the accumulation of newly synthesized nuclear proteins into nuclei during DNA repair synthesis in confluent WI-38 human diploid fibroblasts damaged with ultraviolet radiation or N-acetoxy-2-acetylaminofluroene. In contrast to a marked stimulation of DNA repair synthesis, stimulation of amino acid inco...

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

authors： Stein GS,Park WD,Stein JL,Lieberman MW

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial outer membrane porins have a robust beta-barrel structure and therefore show potential for use as stochastic sensors based on single-molecule detection. The monomeric porin OmpG is especially attractive compared with multisubunit proteins because appropriate modifications of the pore can be easily achieved b...

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

authors： Chen M,Khalid S,Sansom MS,Bayley H

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of the estrogen receptor/ligand complex with a DNA estrogen response element is known to regulate gene transcription. In turn, specific conformations of the receptor-ligand complex have been postulated to influence unique subsets of estrogen-responsive genes resulting in differential modulation and, ultima...

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

authors： Grese TA,Sluka JP,Bryant HU,Cullinan GJ,Glasebrook AL,Jones CD,Matsumoto K,Palkowitz AD,Sato M,Termine JD,Winter MA,Yang NN,Dodge JA

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormones abscisic acid (ABA) and gibberellic acid (GA) are important regulators of the dormancy and germination of seeds. In cereals, GA enhances the synthesis and secretion of enzymes (principally alpha-amylases) in the aleurone cells of the endosperm, which then mobilize the storage reserves that fuel germ...

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

authors： Ritchie S,Gilroy S

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Free hydrogen (H2) is a basal energy source underlying chemosynthetic activity within igneous ocean crust. In an attempt to systematically account for all H2 within young oceanic lithosphere (<10 Ma) near the Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR), we construct a box model of this environment. Within this control volume, we assess abi...

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

authors： Worman SL,Pratson LF,Karson JA,Schlesinger WH

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:At meiotic prophase, chromatin loops around a proteinaceous core, with the sizes of these loops varying between species. Comparison of the morphology of sequence-related inserts at different sites in transgenic mice demonstrates that loop size also varies with chromosomal geography. Similarly, chromatin loop lengths d...

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

authors： Heng HH,Chamberlain JW,Shi XM,Spyropoulos B,Tsui LC,Moens PB

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple epidemic diseases have been designated as emerging or reemerging because the numbers of clinical cases have increased. Emerging diseases are often suspected to be driven by increased virulence or fitness, possibly associated with the gain of novel genes or mutations. However, the time period over which humans...

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

authors： Zhou Z,McCann A,Weill FX,Blin C,Nair S,Wain J,Dougan G,Achtman M

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The degeneracy of the genetic code allows nucleic acids to encode amino acid identity as well as noncoding information for gene regulation and genome maintenance. The rare arginine codons AGA and AGG (AGR) present a case study in codon choice, with AGRs encoding important transcriptional and translational properties d...

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

authors： Napolitano MG,Landon M,Gregg CJ,Lajoie MJ,Govindarajan L,Mosberg JA,Kuznetsov G,Goodman DB,Vargas-Rodriguez O,Isaacs FJ,Söll D,Church GM

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that phagocytic leukocytes exposed to the tumor-promoting agent, 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate, efficiently release carbon-1 of 2-deoxyglucose in the form of CO2 with concurrent intracellular accumulation of a phosphorylated 5-carbon intermediate. In the absence of 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-a...

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

authors： Zabos P,Kyner D,Mendelsohn N,Schreiber C,Waxman S,Christman J,Acs G

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00