Bioengineered corporal tissue for structural and functional restoration of the penis.

abstract：:We have developed human cervicovaginal organ culture systems to examine the initiating events in HIV transmission after exposure to various sources of HIV infectivity, including semen. Newly infected cells were detected in the cervical submucosa 3-4 days after exposure to a primary HIV isolate. At earlier times, exten...

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

authors： Maher D,Wu X,Schacker T,Horbul J,Southern P

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Early abstract reasoning has typically been characterized by a "relational shift," in which children initially focus on object features but increasingly come to interpret similarity in terms of structured relations. An alternative possibility is that this shift reflects a learned bias, rather than a typical waypoint a...

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

authors： Carstensen A,Zhang J,Heyman GD,Fu G,Lee K,Walker CM

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoaffinity labeling agent 5-azidoindole-3-acetic acid, an analog of the endogenous plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid (an auxin), was used to identify indole-3-acetic acid-binding proteins in maize. Two peptides with subunit molecular masses of 24 and 22 kilodaltons are specifically labeled in a saturable manne...

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

authors： Jones AM,Venis MA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of graphene materials is typically carried out by oxidizing graphite to graphite oxide followed by a reduction process. Numerous methods exist for both the oxidation and reduction steps, which causes unpredictable contamination from metallic impurities into the final material. These impurities are known ...

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

authors： Wong CH,Sofer Z,Kubešová M,Kučera J,Matějková S,Pumera M

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Summertime Arctic shipboard observations of oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOCs) such as organic acids, key precursors of climatically active secondary organic aerosol (SOA), are consistent with a novel source of OVOCs to the marine boundary layer via chemistry at the sea surface microlayer. Although this sou...

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

authors： Mungall EL,Abbatt JPD,Wentzell JJB,Lee AKY,Thomas JL,Blais M,Gosselin M,Miller LA,Papakyriakou T,Willis MD,Liggio J

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the nonlinear mechanical response of networks formed from un-cross-linked fibrin or collagen type I continually changes in response to repeated large-strain loading. We demonstrate that this dynamic evolution of the mechanical response arises from a shift of a characteristic nonlinear stress-strain relati...

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

authors： Münster S,Jawerth LM,Leslie BA,Weitz JI,Fabry B,Weitz DA

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies can block cellular interactions that negatively regulate T-cell immune responses, such as CD80/CTLA-4 and PD-1/PD1-L, amplifying preexisting immunity and thereby evoking antitumor immune responses. Ibrutinib, an approved therapy for B-cell malignancies, is a covalent inhibitor of BTK, a member of...

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

authors： Sagiv-Barfi I,Kohrt HE,Czerwinski DK,Ng PP,Chang BY,Levy R

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant Mentzelia pumila (family Loasaceae) has leaves and stems densely covered with tiny hooked trichomes. The structures entrap and kill insects and therefore are most probably protective. But they are also maladaptive in that they incapacitate a coccinellid beetle (Hippodamia convergens) that preys upon an aphid...

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

authors： Eisner T,Eisner M,Hoebeke ER

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A major problem facing the effective treatment of patients with cancer is how to get the specific antitumor agent into every tumor cell. In this report we describe the use of a strategy that, by using retroviral vectors encoding a truncated human CD5 cDNA, allows the selection of only the infected cells, and we show t...

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

authors： García-Hernández B,Castellanos A,López A,Orfao A,Sánchez-García I

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase-2 (HIPK2) is a serine/threonine kinase involved in transcriptional regulation and apoptosis. The transcriptional corepressor CtBP (carboxyl-terminal binding protein) also plays a fundamental role in these processes. Our previous studies indicate that HIPK2 participates in a pathw...

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

authors： Zhang Q,Nottke A,Goodman RH

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is an activating ligand of the Met receptor tyrosine kinase, whose activity is essential for normal tissue development and organ regeneration but abnormal activation of Met has been implicated in growth, invasion, and metastasis of many types of solid tumors. HGF has two natural splice v...

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

authors： Tolbert WD,Daugherty-Holtrop J,Gherardi E,Vande Woude G,Xu HE

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is a central organ for the synthesis and storage of nutrients, production of serum proteins and hormones, and breakdown of toxins and metabolites. Because the liver is susceptible to toxin- or pathogen-mediated injury, it maintains a remarkable capacity to regenerate by compensatory growth. Specifically, in ...

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

authors： Goh YP,Henderson NC,Heredia JE,Red Eagle A,Odegaard JI,Lehwald N,Nguyen KD,Sheppard D,Mukundan L,Locksley RM,Chawla A

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve cells depend on specific interactions with glial cells for proper function. Myelinating glial cells are thought to associate with neuronal axons, in part, via the cell-surface adhesion protein, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). MAG is also thought to be a major inhibitor of neurite outgrowth (axon regenerati...

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

authors： Yang LJ,Zeller CB,Shaper NL,Kiso M,Hasegawa A,Shapiro RE,Schnaar RL

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals, multicellular rosette development is regulated by environmental bacteria. The simplicity of this evolutionarily relevant interaction provides an opportunity to identify the molecules and regulatory logic underpinning bacterial regulation of development. We...

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

authors： Woznica A,Cantley AM,Beemelmanns C,Freinkman E,Clardy J,King N

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptase (RNA-directed DNA polymerase, EC 2.7.7.49) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 has been examined with respect to the steady-state kinetics of polymerization of dNTPs into product DNA. With dNTPs as variable substrate, the kinetics of polymerization deviated from standard Michaelis-Menten kinet...

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

authors： West AB,Roberts TM,Kolodner RD

更新日期：1992-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The structurally diverse peroxisome proliferators ciprofibrate, clofibrate, and bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate [(EtHx)2 greater than Pht] increase the activities of hepatic catalase and peroxisomal fatty acid beta-oxidation enzymes in conjunction with profound proliferation of peroxisomes in hepatocytes. In order to deli...

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

authors： Reddy JK,Goel SK,Nemali MR,Carrino JJ,Laffler TG,Reddy MK,Sperbeck SJ,Osumi T,Hashimoto T,Lalwani ND

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human activities have increased N availability dramatically in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Extensive research demonstrates that local plant species diversity generally declines in response to nutrient enrichment, yet the mechanisms for this decline remain unclear. Based on an analysis of >900 species responses...

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

authors： Suding KN,Collins SL,Gough L,Clark C,Cleland EE,Gross KL,Milchunas DG,Pennings S

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (2-methylmalonyl-CoA CoA-carbonylmutase, EC 5.4.99.2) is a mitochondrial enzyme whose deficiency in man leads to several biochemically and clinically heterogenous++ forms of methylmalonic acidemia. Intact fibroblasts from 21 patients with mutase apoenzyme deficiency have been pulse-labeled wit...

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

authors： Fenton WA,Hack AM,Kraus JP,Rosenberg LE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro data show that the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) protein associates with the mitotic spindle and that mouse embryonic stem cells with biallelic Apc mutations are karyotypically unstable. These findings led to suggestions that APC acts in chromosomal segregation and that APC inactivation leads to chromosoma...

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

authors： Sieber OM,Heinimann K,Gorman P,Lamlum H,Crabtree M,Simpson CA,Davies D,Neale K,Hodgson SV,Roylance RR,Phillips RK,Bodmer WF,Tomlinson IP

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique specificity of monoclonal antibodies (Ab) was combined with the cell-killing function of the cytolytic alternative pathway of complement. The functionally C3b-like glycoprotein of cobra venom was linked to a murine monoclonal Ab directed to a human melanoma-associated antigen by a disulfide bond, by using a...

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

authors： Vogel CW,Müller-Eberhard HJ

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relatively short read lengths associated with the most cost-effective DNA sequencing technologies have limited their use in de novo genome assembly, structural variation detection, and haplotype-resolved genome sequencing. Consequently, there is a strong need for methods that capture various scales of contiguity i...

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

authors： Schwartz JJ,Lee C,Hiatt JB,Adey A,Shendure J

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule assembly is enhanced by the addition of 1 M sucrose or 4 M glycerol to the reassembly mixture. Tubulin can be purified from guinea pig brain readily and in good yield by two cycles of assembly in glycerol-containing solutions. The tubules assembled in glycerol and sucrose are more stable than tubules forme...

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

authors： Shelanski ML,Gaskin F,Cantor CR

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of the roles of adaptation and chance in determining genetic diversity and evolution has received attention in the last 50 years, but our understanding is still incomplete. All statements about the relative effects of evolutionary factors, especially drift, need confirmation by strong demograph...

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

authors： Chiaroni J,Underhill PA,Cavalli-Sforza LL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearrangements between tandem sequence homologies of various lengths are a major source of genomic change and can be deleterious to the organism. These rearrangements can result in either deletion or duplication of genetic material flanked by direct sequence repeats. Molecular genetic analysis of repetitive sequence i...

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

authors： Bzymek M,Lovett ST

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:White matter stroke is a distinct stroke subtype, accounting for up to 25% of stroke and constituting the second leading cause of dementia. The biology of possible tissue repair after white matter stroke has not been determined. In a mouse stroke model, white matter ischemia causes focal damage and adjacent areas of a...

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

authors： Sozmen EG,Rosenzweig S,Llorente IL,DiTullio DJ,Machnicki M,Vinters HV,Havton LA,Giger RJ,Hinman JD,Carmichael ST

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial proportions of mammalian genomes comprise repetitive elements including endogenous retrotransposons. Although these play diverse roles during development, their appropriate silencing is critically important in maintaining genomic integrity in the host cells. The major mechanism for retrotransposon silencin...

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

authors： Hatanaka Y,Inoue K,Oikawa M,Kamimura S,Ogonuki N,Kodama EN,Ohkawa Y,Tsukada Y,Ogura A

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of the p53 protein, resulting from gene mutations that increase protein stability, has been detected in greater than 25% of primary human breast cancers. In addition, approximately 10% of breast cancer patients have circulating antibodies to the p53 protein. In this study, the anti-p53 humoral response ...

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

authors： Davidoff AM,Iglehart JD,Marks JR

更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide experiments often measure quantitative differences between treated and untreated cells to identify affected strains. For these studies, statistical models are typically used to determine significance cutoffs. We developed a method termed "CLIK" (Cutoff Linked to Interaction Knowledge) that overlays biologi...

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

authors： Dittmar JC,Pierce S,Rothstein R,Reid RJ

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen isotherms of human hemoglobin measured in distilled water and in solutions of sodium chloride in the concentration range from 0.02 to 3.0 M indicate that the oxygen affinity decreases up to about 1 M salt and then begins to increase. The isotherms obtained in the range from 0.02 to 0.6 M sodium chloride, at 37 ...

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

authors： Haire RN,Hedlund BE

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine suppressor T-cell hybridoma cells (231F1) secrete not only bioactive glycosylation-inhibiting factor (GIF) but also an inactive peptide comparable to bioactive GIF peptide in its molecular size and reactivity with anti-GIF; the amino acid sequence of the inactive peptide is identical to that of the bioactive ho...

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

authors： Nakano T,Liu YC,Mikayama T,Watarai H,Taniguchi M,Ishizaka K

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00