Characterization of Eyjafjallajokull volcanic ash particles and a protocol for rapid risk assessment.

abstract：:Sex differences in parenting are common in species where both males and females provide care. Although there is a considerable body of game and optimality theory for why the sexes should differ in parental care, genetics can also play a role, and no study has examined how genetic influences might influence differences...

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

authors： Walling CA,Stamper CE,Smiseth PT,Moore AJ

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic, relapsing myelitis has been induced in golden Syrian hamsters by the intracerebral inoculation of measles virus when the animals were less than 1 day old. No acute illness was seen in animals that developed myelitis, and the onset of the myelitis was at 5 to 50 weeks after infection. In most animals the illne...

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

authors： Carrigan DR,Johnson KP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of submicron particles by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in 14 campaigns in North America, Asia, South America, and Europe were used to identify characteristic organic functional group compositions of fuel combustion, terrestrial vegetation, and ocean bubble bursting sources, each of which often ...

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

authors： Russell LM,Bahadur R,Ziemann PJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gating currents of the cloned delayed-rectifier K+ channel DRK1 expressed in Xenopus oocytes were measured with the open-oocyte Vaseline-gap voltage-clamp technique. DRK1 gating charge had the following salient properties: (i) gating-charge amplitude correlated positively with size of the expressed ionic K+ currents; ...

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

authors： Taglialatela M,Stefani E

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To create a universal system for the control of gene expression, we have studied methods for the construction of novel polydactyl zinc finger proteins that recognize extended DNA sequences. Elsewhere we have described the generation of zinc finger domains recognizing sequences of the 5'-GNN-3' subset of a 64-member zi...

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

authors： Beerli RR,Segal DJ,Dreier B,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies that bind selectively to adducts formed on DNA by the antitumor drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), cis-DDP, or to the chemotherapeutically inactive trans isomer trans-DDP were elicited by immunization with calf thymus DNA modified with either cis- or trans-DDP at ratios of bound platin...

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

authors： Sundquist WI,Lippard SJ,Stollar BD

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IFN-gamma is well known as the signature cytokine of CD4+ T helper 1, CD8+, and natural killer cells, but recent studies demonstrate that antigen-presenting cells, in particular dendritic cells (DCs), are another potent source for this proinflammatory cytokine. T-bet, a transcription factor that controls IFN-gamma exp...

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

authors： Lugo-Villarino G,Maldonado-Lopez R,Possemato R,Penaranda C,Glimcher LH

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme-AMP reaction intermediate of the 102-kDa bovine DNA ligase I was digested with trypsin, and the adenylylated peptide was isolated by chromatography under conditions that maintain the acid-labile phosphoramidate bond. Microsequencing of the peptide showed that it contains an internal trypsin-resistant lysine...

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

authors： Tomkinson AE,Totty NF,Ginsburg M,Lindahl T

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the isolation and characterization of an endogenous peptide ligand of GPR103 from rat brains. The purified peptide was found to be the 43-residue RF-amide peptide QRFP. We also describe two mouse homologues of human GPR103, termed mouse GPR103A and GPR103B. QRFP binds and activates the human GPR103, as...

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

authors： Takayasu S,Sakurai T,Iwasaki S,Teranishi H,Yamanaka A,Williams SC,Iguchi H,Kawasawa YI,Ikeda Y,Sakakibara I,Ohno K,Ioka RX,Murakami S,Dohmae N,Xie J,Suda T,Motoike T,Ohuchi T,Yanagisawa M,Sakai J

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A biomimetic hydrogel platform was designed to signal encapsulated cells using immobilized cell-cell communication cues, with a focus on enhancing the survival and function of encapsulated pancreatic β-cells to treat type 1 diabetes. When MIN6 cells, a pancreatic β-cell line, were encapsulated in poly(ethylene glycol)...

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

authors： Lin CC,Anseth KS

更新日期：2011-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports on the dystrophic mouse mutant suggest that the prominent extracellular matrix component of peripheral nerve tissues plays an important role in peripheral nerve development. We have examined the disposition of two prominent extracellular matrix components, fibronectin and laminin, both in mature periphe...

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

authors： Cornbrooks CJ,Carey DJ,McDonald JA,Timpl R,Bunge RP

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Column chromatography on (dT)(12-18)-cellulose was used to detect and isolate a novel DNA polymerase activity from human breast tumor cell line HBT-3. The new enzyme is similar to those of mammalian RNA tumor viruses in its molecular size, preference for poly(A).(dT)(12-18) as compared to either poly(dA).(dT)(12-18) o...

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

authors： Gerwin BI,Bassin RH

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine T-cell surface molecules Lyt-2 and L3T4 play a role in the activation of antigen-specific T cells. The currently accepted model for the function of these molecules proposes that Lyt-2 and L3T4 increase the overall avidity of the interaction between the T-cell antigen receptor and antigen in association with...

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

authors： Fazekas de St Groth B,Gallagher PF,Miller JF

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia oxidation to nitrite and its subsequent oxidation to nitrate provides energy to the two populations of nitrifying chemoautotrophs in the energy-starved dark ocean, driving a coupling between reduced inorganic nitrogen (N) pools and production of new organic carbon (C) in the dark ocean. However, the relationsh...

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

authors： Zhang Y,Qin W,Hou L,Zakem EJ,Wan X,Zhao Z,Liu L,Hunt KA,Jiao N,Kao SJ,Tang K,Xie X,Shen J,Li Y,Chen M,Dai X,Liu C,Deng W,Dai M,Ingalls AE,Stahl DA,Herndl GJ

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The "false thumb" of pandas is a carpal bone, the radial sesamoid, which has been enlarged and functions as an opposable thumb. If the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) are not closely related, their sharing of this adaptation implies a remarkable convergence. The discovery of pr...

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

authors： Salesa MJ,Antón M,Peigné S,Morales J

更新日期：2006-01-10 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：:Figs (Ficus spp., Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea) constitute perhaps the most tightly integrated pollination mutualism that is known. Figs are characterized by extraordinarily high global and local species diversity. It has been proposed that the diversification of this mutualism has oc...

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

authors： Machado CA,Robbins N,Gilbert MT,Herre EA

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of uncertain pathogenesis characterized by a loss of substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) dopaminergic (DA) neurons, and can be modeled by the neurotoxin 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). Both inflammatory processes and oxidative stress may c...

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

authors： Wu DC,Teismann P,Tieu K,Vila M,Jackson-Lewis V,Ischiropoulos H,Przedborski S

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Presented analysis of human and fly life tables proves that with the specified accuracy their entire survival and mortality curves are uniquely determined by a single point (e.g., by the birth mortality q(0)), according to the law, which is universal for species as remote as humans and flies. Mortality at any age decr...

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

authors： Azbel' MY

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the diverse ecoregions of Madagascar share one distinctive climatic feature: unpredictable intra- or interannual precipitation compared with other regions with comparable rainfall. Climatic unpredictability is associated with unpredictable patterns of fruiting and flowering. It is argued that these featur...

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

authors： Dewar RE,Richard AF

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine exposure diminishes the protective breathing and arousal responses to stress (hypoxia). By exacerbating sleep-disordered breathing, this disturbance could underpin the well established association between smoking and the increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome. We show here that the protective response...

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

authors： Cohen G,Han ZY,Grailhe R,Gallego J,Gaultier C,Changeux JP,Lagercrantz H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a high-resolution isoelectric focusing system, we have been able to separate the products of the individual "nonallelic+ mouse hemoglobin alpha-chain genes. The hemoglobins of mice of inbred strains that make two structurally different, but electrophoretically identical, alpha chains resolve into two bands on is...

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

authors： Whitney JB 3rd,Copland GT,Skow LC,Russell ES

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear double-stranded molecules of the circularly permuted and terminally redundant DNA of Salmonella bacteriophage P22 have been converted to oligomeric products in the presence of polynucleotide ligase coded for by the coliphage T4. The reaction has been monitored by sucrose density-gradient centrifugation and elec...

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

authors： Sgaramella V

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that Cloudman melanoma cells undergo rapid arborization in response to [Nle4,D-Phe7]alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, a potent analogue of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH). The arbors were established by extension of processes and resembled dendrites. We used this system to study the regula...

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

authors： Preston SF,Volpi M,Pearson CM,Berlin RD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-15 and its specific receptor chain, IL-15Rα, support the development of various effector cells, including NK and CD8 T cells via a mechanism called trans-presentation. Whereas the dynamic of trans-presentation has been shown to involve the recycling of IL-15Rα by presenting cells, the way responding c...

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

authors： Tamzalit F,Barbieux I,Plet A,Heim J,Nedellec S,Morisseau S,Jacques Y,Mortier E

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a method for conjugating low density lipoproteins (LDL) with colloidal gold. Conjugation, complete after 1 min, occurs by electrostatic adsorption of the LDL to the negatively charged gold particle. Each conjugate consists of approximately eight biologically active LDL molecules clustered around a ce...

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

authors： Handley DA,Arbeeny CM,Witte LD,Chien S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (EC) play a central role in inflammatory immune responses and efficiently induce effector functions in T cells, despite lacking the classical costimulatory ligands CD80 and CD86. By using the mAb HIL-131 we now demonstrate that human inducible costimulator-ligand (ICOS-L), a molecule related to CD80/...

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

authors： Khayyamian S,Hutloff A,Büchner K,Gräfe M,Henn V,Kroczek RA,Mages HW

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In a genetic screen of available T-DNA-mutagenized Arabidopsis populations for loci potentially involved in phytochrome (phy) signaling, we identified a mutant that displayed reduced seedling deetiolation under continuous red light, but little if any change in responsiveness to continuous far-red light. This behavior ...

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

authors： Huq E,Tepperman JM,Quail PH

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of each of the four framework segments FR1, FR2, FR3, and FR4 of the variable regions (V-regions) of light and heavy chains of immunoglobulins were grouped into sets with identical sequences. Sets contained from 1 to 18 members. When each V-region was traced from one FR to the next, it was seen that members ...

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

authors： Kabat EA,Wu TT,Bilofsky H

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The signal-transducing guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory (G) proteins are heterotrimers composed of three subunits--alpha, beta, and gamma. Although multiple distinctive forms of the alpha subunit have been described, only two forms of the beta subunits of the G proteins have been identified. To investigate furthe...

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

authors： Levine MA,Smallwood PM,Moen PT Jr,Helman LJ,Ahn TG

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00