Chronic reduction in inhibition reduces receptive field size in mouse auditory cortex.

abstract：:Nanobacteria-like objects evidenced at the surface of the orthopyroxenes of the Tataouine meteorite in South Tunisia have been studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopies. A method of micromanipulation has been developed to ensure that exactly the same objects were studied by both methods. We have shown...

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

authors： Benzerara K,Menguy N,Guyot F,Dominici C,Gillet P

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the origins of humans' capacity to represent social relations? We approached this question by studying human infants' understanding of social dominance as a stable relation. We presented infants with interactions between animated agents in conflict situations. Studies 1 and 2 targeted expectations of stabilit...

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

authors： Mascaro O,Csibra G

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys that were randomly allocated at birth across three rearing conditions: mother rearing, peer reari...

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

authors： Conti G,Hansman C,Heckman JJ,Novak MF,Ruggiero A,Suomi SJ

更新日期：2012-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell migration and spreading involve the coordination of membrane trafficking, actomyosin contraction, and modifications to plasma membrane tension and area. The biochemical or biophysical basis for this coordination is however unknown. In this study, we show that during cell spreading, lamellipodia protrusion flatten...

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

authors： Gauthier NC,Fardin MA,Roca-Cusachs P,Sheetz MP

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans shift their gaze to a new location several times per second. It is still unclear what determines where they look next. Fixation behavior is influenced by the low-level salience of the visual stimulus, such as luminance, contrast, and color, but also by high-level task demands and prior knowledge. Under natural ...

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

authors： Schütz AC,Trommershäuser J,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of copper/zinc-containing superoxide dismutase (cSOD; superoxide:superoxide oxidoreductase, EC 1.15.1.1) in metabolic defense against O2 toxicity in Drosophila is examined through the properties of a mutant strain carrying a cSOD-null mutation, cSODn108. Homozygotes are viable as larvae, which indicates that ...

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

authors： Phillips JP,Campbell SD,Michaud D,Charbonneau M,Hilliker AJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs) and their receptors (PDGFRs) are prototypic growth factors and receptor tyrosine kinases which have critical functions in development. We show that PDGFs share a conserved region in their prodomain sequences which can remain noncovalently associated with the mature cystine-knot ...

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

authors： Shim AH,Liu H,Focia PJ,Chen X,Lin PC,He X

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV pili are thin filaments that extend from the poles of a diverse group of bacteria, enabling them to move at speeds of a few tenths of a micrometer per second. They are required for twitching motility, e.g., in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and for social gliding motility in Myxococcus xanth...

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

authors： Skerker JM,Berg HC

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the affinity of two recently synthesized flavin analogs for the isoalloxazine binding site of riboflavin-binding protein (RBP). The results showed that pyrimidopteridines could bind to RBP (Kd 160-250 microM). This suggested that, at the FMN or FAD level, these analogs might also bind to other apoflav...

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

authors： Wessiak A,Schopfer LM,Yuan LC,Bruice TC,Massey V

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pair-bond formation depends vitally on neuromodulatory signaling within the nucleus accumbens, but the neuronal dynamics underlying this behavior remain unclear. Using 1-photon in vivo Ca2+ imaging in monogamous prairie voles, we found that pair bonding does not elicit differences in overall nucleus accumbens Ca2+ act...

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

authors： Scribner JL,Vance EA,Protter DSW,Sheeran WM,Saslow E,Cameron RT,Klein EM,Jimenez JC,Kheirbek MA,Donaldson ZR

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple mitochondrial genomes from a single prehistoric population: two infant burials (USR1 and USR2) from a common interment at the Upward Sun River Si...

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

authors： Tackney JC,Potter BA,Raff J,Powers M,Watkins WS,Warner D,Reuther JD,Irish JD,O'Rourke DH

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+)-NQR is a unique respiratory enzyme that couples the free energy of electron transfer reactions to electrogenic pumping of sodium across the cell membrane. This enzyme is found in many marine and pathogenic bacteria where it plays an analogous role to the H(+)-pumping complex I. It has generally been assumed that...

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

authors： Juárez O,Morgan JE,Nilges MJ,Barquera B

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the basal ganglia, acetylcholine and dopamine play a central role in the extrapyramidal control of motor function. The physiologic effects of these neurotransmitters are mediated by a diversity of receptor subtypes, several of which have now been cloned. Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are encoded by five ge...

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

authors： Weiner DM,Levey AI,Brann MR

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein misfolding is the molecular basis for several human diseases. How the primary amino acid sequence triggers misfolding and determines the benign or toxic character of the misfolded protein remains largely obscure. Among proteins that misfold, polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion proteins provide an interesting case:...

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

authors： Duennwald ML,Jagadish S,Muchowski PJ,Lindquist S

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:During response of budding yeast to peptide mating pheromone, the cell becomes markedly polarized and MAPK scaffold protein Ste5 localizes to the resulting projection (shmoo tip). We demonstrated before that this recruitment is essential for sustained MAPK signaling and requires interaction of a pleckstrin homology (P...

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

authors： Garrenton LS,Stefan CJ,McMurray MA,Emr SD,Thorner J

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of in vitro resistance to HN2 (also called mustargen or mechlorethamine hydrochloride), N,N'-bis(2-chloroethyl)-N-nitrosourea (BCNU), and cisplatin [cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)] was achieved in two human cell lines, the Raji/Burkitt lymphoma and a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue. A 10- to 20-fol...

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

authors： Frei E 3rd,Cucchi CA,Rosowsky A,Tantravahi R,Bernal S,Ervin TJ,Ruprecht RM,Haseltine WA

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two decades after the discovery of the first animal microRNA (miRNA), the number of miRNAs in animal genomes remains a vexing question. Here, we report findings from analyzing 1,323 short RNA sequencing samples (RNA-seq) from 13 different human tissue types. Using stringent thresholding criteria, we identified 3,707 s...

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

authors： Londin E,Loher P,Telonis AG,Quann K,Clark P,Jing Y,Hatzimichael E,Kirino Y,Honda S,Lally M,Ramratnam B,Comstock CE,Knudsen KE,Gomella L,Spaeth GL,Hark L,Katz LJ,Witkiewicz A,Rostami A,Jimenez SA,Hollingsworth MA,

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human tuberculosis is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) that vary in virulence and transmissibility. While genome-wide association studies have uncovered several mutations conferring drug resistance, much less is known about the factors underlying other bacterial phenotypes. Variation ...

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

authors： Øyås O,Borrell S,Trauner A,Zimmermann M,Feldmann J,Liphardt T,Gagneux S,Stelling J,Sauer U,Zampieri M

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a heterogeneous degenerative motor neuron disease linked to numerous genetic mutations in apparently unrelated proteins. These proteins, including SOD1, TDP-43, and FUS, are highly aggregation-prone and form a variety of intracellular inclusion bodies that are characteristic of d...

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

authors： Ciryam P,Lambert-Smith IA,Bean DM,Freer R,Cid F,Tartaglia GG,Saunders DN,Wilson MR,Oliver SG,Morimoto RI,Dobson CM,Vendruscolo M,Favrin G,Yerbury JJ

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations and isotopic compositions of ethane and propane in cold, deeply buried sediments from the southeastern Pacific are best explained by microbial production of these gases in situ. Reduction of acetate to ethane provides one feasible mechanism. Propane is enriched in (13)C relative to ethane. The amount is...

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

authors： Hinrichs KU,Hayes JM,Bach W,Spivack AJ,Hmelo LR,Holm NG,Johnson CG,Sylva SP

更新日期：2006-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are located in highly conserved clusters. The significance of this organization is unclear, but one possibility is that regulatory regions for individual genes are dispersed throughout the cluster and shared with other Hox genes. This hypothesis is supported by studies on several Hox genes in which even larg...

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

authors： Bradshaw MS,Shashikant CS,Belting HG,Bollekens JA,Ruddle FH

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemosmotic model provides a framework for visualizing energy-coupled reactions (vectorial reaction sequences, membrane-dependent gradient formation, and charge separation of reacting species) and a mechanism for energy coupling (indirect coupling between the driving and driven reaction sequences mediated by a mem...

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

authors： Green DE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion that tRNA and 5S rRNA interact through evolutionarily conserved complementary sequences has been tested by nucleolytic modification of the 5S rRNA, using the modified rRNA to reconstitute the large ribosomal subunit, and assaying for poly(uridylic acid)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis. The 5S rRNA sequ...

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

authors： Pace B,Matthews EA,Johnson KD,Cantor CR,Pace NR

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine adrenal medullary cells, cultured on quartz plates, were superfused with buffer to which pulses of stimulant were added. Cytosolic Ca2+ was measured by the fura-2 fluorescence method and the simultaneously released catecholamine was measured electrochemically. When stimulant concentrations were adjusted to give...

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

authors： Kim KT,Westhead EW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal dynamics of electrical activity in an olfactory organ, the procerebral lobe of the terrestrial mollusc Limax maximus, is studied. The lobe exhibits intrinsic oscillations in its field potential. Intracellular recordings show that the lobe contains two classes of neurons, both with activity phase-locked to...

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

authors： Delaney KR,Gelperin A,Fee MS,Flores JA,Gervais R,Tank DW,Kleinfeld D

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes play an essential role in a number of different metabolic pathways, including the beta-oxidation of a distinct set of fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives. The importance of the peroxisomal beta-oxidation system in humans is made apparent by the existence of a group of inherited diseases in which peroxis...

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

authors： van Grunsven EG,van Berkel E,Ijlst L,Vreken P,de Klerk JB,Adamski J,Lemonde H,Clayton PT,Cuebas DA,Wanders RJ

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction, maintenance, and amplification of tumor-protective immunity after cytokine gene therapy is essential for the clinical success of immunotherapeutic approaches. We investigated whether this could be achieved by single-chain IL-12 (scIL-12) gene therapy followed by tumor-targeted IL-2 using a fusion protein co...

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

authors： Lode HN,Xiang R,Duncan SR,Theofilopoulos AN,Gillies SD,Reisfeld RA

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraspeckles are subnuclear structures that form around nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1) long noncoding RNA (lncRNA). Recently, paraspeckles were shown to be functional nuclear bodies involved in stress responses and the development of specific organs. Paraspeckle formation is initiated by transcripti...

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

authors： Kawaguchi T,Tanigawa A,Naganuma T,Ohkawa Y,Souquere S,Pierron G,Hirose T

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt signaling is mediated by three classes of receptors, Frizzled, Ryk, and Ror. In Caenorhabditis elegans, Wnt signaling regulates the anterior/posterior polarity of the P7.p vulval lineage, and mutations in lin-17/Frizzled cause loss or reversal of P7.p lineage polarity. We found that pak-1/Pak (p21-activated kinase...

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

authors： Goh KY,Ng NW,Hagen T,Inoue T

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the ubiquitous use of phosphoramidite chemistry in the synthesis of biophosphates, catalytic asymmetric phosphoramidite transfer remains largely unexplored for phosphate ester synthesis. We have discovered that a tetrazole-functionalized peptide, in the presence of 10-Å molecular sieves, functions as an enanti...

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

authors： Jordan PA,Kayser-Bricker KJ,Miller SJ

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00