Autologous engineering of cartilage.

abstract：:The periaqueductal gray (PAG) and amygdala are known to be important for defensive responses, and many contemporary fear-conditioning models present the PAG as downstream of the amygdala, directing the appropriate behavior (i.e., freezing or fleeing). However, empirical studies of this circuitry are inconsistent and w...

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

authors： Kim EJ,Horovitz O,Pellman BA,Tan LM,Li Q,Richter-Levin G,Kim JJ

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian retina contains an endogenous circadian pacemaker that broadly regulates retinal physiology and function, yet the cellular origin and organization of the mammalian retinal circadian clock remains unclear. Circadian clock neurons generate daily rhythms via cell-autonomous autoregulatory clock gene network...

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

authors： Ruan GX,Zhang DQ,Zhou T,Yamazaki S,McMahon DG

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence is defined by the limited proliferative capacity of normal cultured cells. Immortal cells overcome this regulation and proliferate indefinitively. One step in the immortalization process may be reactivation of telomerase activity, a ribonucleoprotein complex, which, by de novo synthesized telomeric...

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

authors： Härle-Bachor C,Boukamp P

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium-sulfur batteries (Li-S batteries) have attracted intense interest because of their high specific capacity and low cost, although they are still hindered by severe capacity loss upon cycling caused by the soluble lithium polysulfide intermediates. Although many structure innovations at the material and device l...

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

authors： Liu W,Jiang J,Yang KR,Mi Y,Kumaravadivel P,Zhong Y,Fan Q,Weng Z,Wu Z,Cha JJ,Zhou H,Batista VS,Brudvig GW,Wang H

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The central structural feature of natural proteins is a tightly packed and highly ordered hydrophobic core. If some measure of exquisite, native-like core packing is necessary for enzymatic function, this would constitute a significant obstacle to the development of novel enzymes, either by design or by natural or exp...

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

authors： Axe DD,Foster NW,Fersht AR

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil spontaneous death plays essential roles in neutrophil homeostasis and resolution of inflammation, whereas the underlying molecular mechanisms are still ill-defined. Neutrophils die because of programmed cell death or apoptosis. However, treatment with inhibitor of caspases, which are responsible for the maj...

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

authors： Zhu D,Hattori H,Jo H,Jia Y,Subramanian KK,Loison F,You J,Le Y,Honczarenko M,Silberstein L,Luo HR

更新日期：2006-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Axiomatic foundations for a theory of perception have been given in a prior communication [Shiman, L. G. (1978) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75, 2049-2053]. The theory is based on mathematically characterized stable images. Stable images model subjective (psychological) states of observers. We showed there is a universa...

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

authors： Shiman LG

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since at least the 1920s, it has been reported that common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) differ from humans in being capable of exceptional feats of "super strength," both in the wild and in captive environments. A mix of anecdotal and more controlled studies provides some support for this view; however, a critical re...

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

authors： O'Neill MC,Umberger BR,Holowka NB,Larson SG,Reiser PJ

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulates in the brain of normal animals dosed with low levels of copper (Cu), the mechanism is not completely known. Cu could contribute to Aβ accumulation by altering its clearance and/or its production. Because Cu homeostasis is altered in transgenic mice overexpressing Aβ precursor protein...

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

authors： Singh I,Sagare AP,Coma M,Perlmutter D,Gelein R,Bell RD,Deane RJ,Zhong E,Parisi M,Ciszewski J,Kasper RT,Deane R

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:One way to dissect the antibody response to an invading microorganism is to clone the antibody repertoire from immune donors and subsequently characterize the specific antibodies. Recently, methodological advances have allowed investigations of neutralizing antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV) in vitro. We have ...

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

authors： Johansson DX,Voisset C,Tarr AW,Aung M,Ball JK,Dubuisson J,Persson MA

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Old noninbred fly mortality decreases according to the inverse linear law and reduces to a single suborder-specific age. Relative child mortality (the mortality at a given age related to the mortality at 10 years) from 1 mo to 11 years is the same with 8% mean accuracy for all humans, independent of race, country, sex...

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

authors： Azbel' MY

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of resistance to multiple unrelated chemotherapeutic drugs impedes the treatment of several cancers. Although the involvement of ATP-binding cassette transporters has long been known, there is no in situ method capable of tracking this transporter-related resistance at the single-cell level without inter...

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

authors： Kuss S,Polcari D,Geissler M,Brassard D,Mauzeroll J

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin ( DTx ) is an extremely potent inhibitor of protein synthesis. It is secreted as a linear polypeptide, which is cleaved to produce disulfide-linked A and B fragments. Fragment A, the inhibitor of protein synthesis, requires fragment B, the recognition subunit, for entry into intact cells. Fragment B h...

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

authors： Zalman LS,Wisnieski BJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The six members of the contactin (CNTN) family of neural cell adhesion molecules are involved in the formation and maintenance of the central nervous system (CNS) and have been linked to mental retardation and neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism. Five of the six CNTNs bind to the homologous receptor protein tyro...

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

authors： Lamprianou S,Chatzopoulou E,Thomas JL,Bouyain S,Harroch S

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissues from rhesus monkeys were screened by PCR for the presence of sequences homologous to known adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotypes 1-6. DNA spanning entire rep-cap ORFs from two novel AAVs, called AAV7 and AAV8, were isolated. Sequence comparisons among these and previously described AAVs revealed the greatest ...

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

authors： Gao GP,Alvira MR,Wang L,Calcedo R,Johnston J,Wilson JM

更新日期：2002-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we described a recurrent variant translocation, t(11;17)(q23;q21), in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) which juxtaposes PLZF, a gene encoding a zinc finger protein, to RARA, encoding retinoic acid receptor alpha (RAR alpha). We have now cloned cDNAs encoding PLZF-RAR alpha chimeric proteins and studied the...

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

authors： Chen Z,Guidez F,Rousselot P,Agadir A,Chen SJ,Wang ZY,Degos L,Zelent A,Waxman S,Chomienne C

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An explosion of new information linking activation of cell surface signal initiators to changes in gene expression has recently emerged. The focus of much of this information has centered around the agonist-dependent activation of the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases. Although this intracellular signal transduc...

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

authors： Blenis J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella sonnei is a human-adapted pathogen that is emerging globally as the dominant agent of bacterial dysentery. To investigate local establishment, we sequenced the genomes of 263 Vietnamese S. sonnei isolated over 15 y. Our data show that S. sonnei was introduced into Vietnam in the 1980s and has undergone locali...

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

authors： Holt KE,Thieu Nga TV,Thanh DP,Vinh H,Kim DW,Vu Tra MP,Campbell JI,Hoang NV,Vinh NT,Minh PV,Thuy CT,Nga TT,Thompson C,Dung TT,Nhu NT,Vinh PV,Tuyet PT,Phuc HL,Lien NT,Phu BD,Ai NT,Tien NM,Dong N,Parry CM,Hie

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is known that the c-myc oncogene is rearranged in a head-to-head fashion with the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus in mouse plasmacytomas, it has not been clear whether the c-myc oncogene is translocated to the heavy chain locus on mouse chromosome 12 or whether the heavy chain locus is translocated to the...

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

authors： Erikson J,Miller DA,Miller OJ,Abcarian PW,Skurla RM,Mushinski JF,Croce CM

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids play an important biphasic role in modulating neural plasticity; low doses enhance neural plasticity and spatial memory behavior, whereas chronic, higher doses produce inhibition. We found that 3 independent measures of mitochondrial function-mitochondrial oxidation, membrane potential, and mitochondri...

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

authors： Du J,Wang Y,Hunter R,Wei Y,Blumenthal R,Falke C,Khairova R,Zhou R,Yuan P,Machado-Vieira R,McEwen BS,Manji HK

更新日期：2009-03-03 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：:Coagulation is an innate defense mechanism intended to limit blood loss and trap invading pathogens during infection. However, Staphylococcus aureus has the ability to hijack the coagulation cascade and generate clots via secretion of coagulases. Although many S. aureus have this characteristic, some do not. The popul...

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

authors： Trivedi U,Madsen JS,Everett J,Fell C,Russel J,Haaber J,Crosby HA,Horswill AR,Burmølle M,Rumbaugh KP,Sørensen SJ

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The amphibian tetradecapeptide, bombesin (BBS) has been shown to stimulate insulin secretion both in vivo and by pancreatic islet cells in vitro. To determine whether BBS can act directly on pancreatic beta cells, we examined its effects on insulin secretion by HIT-T15 cells (HIT cells), a clonal islet cell line. Addi...

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

authors： Swope SL,Schonbrunn A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interindividual differences in hepatic metabolism, which are mainly due to genetic polymorphism in its gene, have a large influence on individual drug efficacy and adverse reaction. Hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have the potential to predict interindividual...

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

authors： Takayama K,Morisaki Y,Kuno S,Nagamoto Y,Harada K,Furukawa N,Ohtaka M,Nishimura K,Imagawa K,Sakurai F,Tachibana M,Sumazaki R,Noguchi E,Nakanishi M,Hirata K,Kawabata K,Mizuguchi H

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheep antibodies directed against an AMP-bovine serum albumin conjugate exhibit highly specific binding toward AMP. These antibodies bind to the AMP moiety of adenylylated glutamine synthetase [L-glutamate:ammonia ligase (ADP-forming), EC 6.3.1.2] from Escherichia coli and to no other antigenic determinant on the prot...

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

authors： Hohman RJ,Rhee SG,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonhomologous integration vectors have been used to demonstrate the feasibility of insertional mutagenesis in haploid tachyzoites of the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Mutant clones resistant to 5-fluorouracil were identified at a frequency of approximately 10(-6) (approximately 2 x 10(-5) of the stable transfo...

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

authors： Donald RG,Roos DS

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 6 days' s.c. infusions of angiotensin II at increasing doses was determined on the uptake of rat or human low density lipoprotein (LDL) and of human fibrinogen by aorta in normal and spontaneously hypertensive rats. Rat or human LDL or human fibrinogen was injected i.v. 5 days after the start of infusion...

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

authors： Cardona-Sanclemente LE,Medina R,Born GV

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the luminescence system in Beneckea harveyi is controlled by cyclic nucleotides at the level of transcription. In the wild type, it is repressed by exogenously added guanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate and this repression is overcome by the addition of adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate. These ob...

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

authors： Ulitzur S,Yashphe J,Hastings JW

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiazides and related diuretics inhibit NaCl reabsorption in the distal tubule through an unknown mechanism. We report here that [3H]metolazone, a diuretic with a thiazide-like mechanism of action, labels a site in rat kidney membranes that has characteristics of the thiazide-sensitive ion transporter. [3H]Metolazone ...

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

authors： Beaumont K,Vaughn DA,Fanestil DD

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the transcription factor FOXC2 is induced and necessary for successful epithelial-mesenchymal transition, a developmental program that when activated in cancer endows cells with metastatic potential and the properties of stem cells. As such, identifying agents that inhibit the growth of FOXC2-transformed...

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

authors： Bollong MJ,Pietilä M,Pearson AD,Sarkar TR,Ahmad I,Soundararajan R,Lyssiotis CA,Mani SA,Schultz PG,Lairson LL

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00