Pituitary growth hormone network responses are sexually dimorphic and regulated by gonadal steroids in adulthood.

abstract：:Five patients with advanced breast cancer were treated with pooled dialyzable transfer factor from healthy adult donors. The period of treatment ranged from 21 to 310 days, the total dose from 20 to 257 ml. Transfer factor did not elicit inflammatory or hypersensitivity reactions or detectable formation of antibody to...

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

authors： Oettgen HF,Old LJ,Farrow JH,Valentine FT,Lawrence HS,Thomas L

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino-terminal amino acid sequence and several internal peptide sequences of angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE; peptidyl-dipeptidase A, kininase II; EC 3.4.15.1) purified from human kidney were used to design oligonucleotide probes. The nucleotide sequence of ACE mRNA was determined by molecular cloning of the ...

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

authors： Soubrier F,Alhenc-Gelas F,Hubert C,Allegrini J,John M,Tregear G,Corvol P

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human rhinovirus (HRV) and other members of the enterovirus genus bind small-molecule antiviral compounds in a cavity buried within the viral capsid protein VP1. These compounds block the release of the viral protein VP4 and RNA from inside the capsid during the uncoating process. In addition, the antiviral compounds ...

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

authors： Roy A,Post CB

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a fundamental technological advance for multilayer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidics. Vertical passages (vias), connecting channels located in different layers, are fabricated monolithically, in parallel, by simple and easy means. The resulting 3D connectivity greatly expands the potential complex...

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

authors： Kartalov EP,Walker C,Taylor CR,Anderson WF,Scherer A

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:ATM (ataxia-telangiectasia mutated) and ATR (ATM and Rad3-related) are large PI3 kinases whose human mutations result in complex syndromes that include a compromised DNA damage response (DDR) and prominent nervous system phenotypes. Both proteins are nuclear-localized in keeping with their DDR functions, yet both are ...

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

authors： Cheng A,Zhao T,Tse KH,Chow HM,Cui Y,Jiang L,Du S,Loy MMT,Herrup K

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Managing excess nutrients remains a major obstacle to improving ecosystem service benefits of urban waters. To inform more ecologically based landscape nutrient management, we compared watershed inputs, outputs, and retention for nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in seven subwatersheds of the Mississippi River in St. Pa...

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

authors： Hobbie SE,Finlay JC,Janke BD,Nidzgorski DA,Millet DB,Baker LA

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory cortex is critical for perceiving a sound's location. However, there is no topographic representation of acoustic space, and individual auditory cortical neurons are often broadly tuned to stimulus location. It thus remains unclear how acoustic space is represented in the mammalian cerebral cortex and how...

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

authors： Miller LM,Recanzone GH

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Export of LDL-derived cholesterol from lysosomes requires the cooperation of the integral membrane protein Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) and a soluble protein, Niemann-Pick C2 (NPC2). Mutations in the genes encoding these proteins lead to Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC). NPC2 binds to NPC1's second (middle), lumenally orie...

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

authors： Li X,Saha P,Li J,Blobel G,Pfeffer SR

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied visual perception using an annular random-dot motion stimulus called the racetrack. We recorded neural activity using magnetoencephalography while subjects viewed variants of this stimulus that contained no inherent motion or various degrees of embedded motion. Subjects reported seeing rotary motion during ...

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

authors： Crowe DA,Leuthold AC,Georgopoulos AP

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The v-jun oncogene encodes a nuclear DNA binding protein that functions as a transcription factor and is part of the activator protein 1 complex. Oncogenic transformation by v-jun is thought to be mediated by the aberrant expression of specific target genes. To identify such Jun-regulated genes and to explore the mech...

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

authors： Kruse U,Iacovoni JS,Goller ME,Vogt PK

更新日期：1997-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflict between groups of individuals is a prevalent feature in human societies. A common theoretical explanation for intergroup conflict is that it provides benefits to individuals within groups in the form of reproduction-enhancing resources, such as food, territory, or mates. However, it is not always the case tha...

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

authors： Henriques GJB,Simon B,Ispolatov Y,Doebeli M

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplanted cord blood (CB) hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and progenitor cells (HPC) can treat malignant and nonmalignant disorders. Because long-term cryopreservation is critical for CB banking and transplantation, we assessed the efficiency of recovery of viable HSCHPC from individual CBs stored frozen for 15 yr. ...

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

authors： Broxmeyer HE,Srour EF,Hangoc G,Cooper S,Anderson SA,Bodine DM

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Species competing exclusively for renewing resources are shown to obey simultaneous differential equations equivalent to the conditions for minimizing a certain quadratic form. In this sense competition acts to select species abundances giving the best least-squares fit in an expression [Formula: see text] Thus the nu...

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

authors： Arthur RM

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtain a collection of multilinear Littlewood-Paley estimates, which we then apply to two problems in partial differential equations. The first problem is the estimation of the square root of an elliptic operator in divergence form, and the second is the estimation of solutions to the Cauchy problem for nondivergen...

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

authors： Fabes EB,Jerison DS,Kenig CE

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondrules may have played a critical role in the earliest stages of planet formation by mediating the accumulation of dust into planetesimals. However, the origin of chondrules and their significance for planetesimal accretion remain enigmatic. Here, we show that chondrules and matrix in the carbonaceous chondrite Al...

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

authors： Budde G,Kleine T,Kruijer TS,Burkhardt C,Metzler K

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradable polymers are beginning to play an increasing role as materials for environmental and medical applications. Understanding factors that control erosion, such as bond cleavage and the dissolution and diffusion of degradation products, will be critical to the future development of these materials. Erosion kinet...

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

authors： Tamada JA,Langer R

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:With global heavy metal contamination increasing, plants that can process heavy metals might provide efficient and ecologically sound approaches to sequestration and removal. Mercuric ion reductase, MerA, converts toxic Hg2+ to the less toxic, relatively inert metallic mercury (Hg0) The bacterial merA sequence is rich...

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

authors： Rugh CL,Wilde HD,Stack NM,Thompson DM,Summers AO,Meagher RB

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xlim-1 gene is activated in the late blastula stage of Xenopus embryogenesis in the mesoderm, and its RNA product becomes concentrated in the Spemann organizer at early gastrula stage. A major regulator of early expression of Xlim-1 is activin or an activin-like signal. We report experiments aiming to identify the...

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

authors： Rebbert ML,Dawid IB

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrocytes are collagen-type-I-producing cells that arise at low frequency from hematopoietic cells. We have analyzed in mice which leukocyte subsets are required for generation of fibrocytes and show that murine fibrocytes develop from the subpopulation of CD11b(+) CD115(+) Gr1(+) monocytes under the control of CD4(+...

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

authors： Niedermeier M,Reich B,Rodriguez Gomez M,Denzel A,Schmidbauer K,Göbel N,Talke Y,Schweda F,Mack M

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Persephin (Pspn), a recently cloned member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily (TGF-beta) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) subfamily, is distributed throughout the nervous system at extremely low levels and is thought to function as a survival factor for midbrain dopaminergic and s...

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

authors： Tomac AC,Agulnick AD,Haughey N,Chang CF,Zhang Y,Bäckman C,Morales M,Mattson MP,Wang Y,Westphal H,Hoffer BJ

更新日期：2002-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we sought to better understand the role of the glycoprotein quality control machinery in the assembly of MHC class I molecules with high-affinity peptides. The lectin-like chaperone calreticulin (CRT) and the thiol oxidoreductase ERp57 participate in the final step of this process as part of the peptide-...

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

authors： Wearsch PA,Peaper DR,Cresswell P

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with developmental dyslexia vary in their ability to improve reading skills, but the brain basis for improvement remains largely unknown. We performed a prospective, longitudinal study over 2.5 y in children with dyslexia (n = 25) or without dyslexia (n = 20) to discover whether initial behavioral or brain...

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

authors： Hoeft F,McCandliss BD,Black JM,Gantman A,Zakerani N,Hulme C,Lyytinen H,Whitfield-Gabrieli S,Glover GH,Reiss AL,Gabrieli JD

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical description of aqueous hydration in the minor groove of a B-form DNA is presented on the basis of a liquid-state Monte Carlo computer simulation on a system consisting of the oligonucleotide duplex d(CGCGAATTCGCG).d(GCGCTTAAGCGC) in a canonical B-form together with 1777 water molecules contained in a hex...

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

authors： Subramanian PS,Ravishanker G,Beveridge DL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding the endothelin receptor type B (EDNRB) produce congenital aganglionic megacolon and pigment abnormalities in mice and humans. Here we report a naturally occurring null mutation of the EDNRB gene in spotting lethal (sl) rats, which exhibit aganglionic megacolon associated with white coat ...

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

authors： Gariepy CE,Cass DT,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of the Daudi Burkitt lymphoma-derived cell line with human interferon alpha, which inhibits cell proliferation in this system, induces differentiation of these B-lymphoid cells into cells with a plasmacytoid phenotype. This differentiation, quantified by the appearance of surface antigens characteristic of m...

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

authors： Exley R,Gordon J,Clemens MJ

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysates by double-stranded RNA is caused by the inactivation of IF-3, an initiation factor required for the recycling of ribosomes and for their binding to messenger RNA. The evidence for this is that (i) the inhibition can be overcome by addition of exogenous If-...

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

authors： Kaempfer R,Kaufman J

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remembering and discriminating objects based on their previously learned values are essential for goal-directed behaviors. While the cerebral cortex is known to contribute to object recognition, surprisingly little is known about its role in retaining long-term object-value associations. To address this question, we t...

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

authors： Ghazizadeh A,Griggs W,Leopold DA,Hikosaka O

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Esterase 6 is a polymorphic carboxylesterase (carboxylic-ester hydrolase, EC 3.1.1.1) localized to the reproductive tract of male Drosophila melanogaster and transferred to females at copulation. The reproductive fitness of males is strongly affected by temperature and the esterase 6 alleles (active versus null) that ...

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

authors： Gilbert DG,Richmond RC

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tritiated photoaffinity analogs of the natural lepidopteran juvenile hormones, JH I and II [epoxy[3H]bishomofarnesyl diazoacetate ([3H]EBDA) and epoxy[3H]homofarnesyl diazoacetate ([3H]EHDA)], and of the JH analog methoprene [[3H]methoprene diazoketone ([3H]MDK)] were synthesized and used to identify specific JH bindi...

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

authors： Palli SR,Osir EO,Eng W,Boehm MF,Edwards M,Kulcsar P,Ujvary I,Hiruma K,Prestwich GD,Riddiford LM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A calix[4]arene was designed to reversibly dimerize and form an egg-shaped enclosure. Adhesive interactions in the assembly were provided by four self-associating ureas, which form a cyclic array containing 16 hydrogen bonds. The synthesis was completed in four steps from the previously described O,O',O",O"'-tetrabenz...

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

authors： Shimizu KD,Rebek J Jr

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00