High prevalence of serum antibodies reacting with simian virus 40 capsid protein mimotopes in patients affected by malignant pleural mesothelioma.

abstract：:A procedure is described to discover genes that are specifically expressed in human prostate. The procedure involves searching the expressed sequence tag (EST) database for genes that have many related EST sequences from human prostate cDNA libraries but none or few from nonprostate human libraries. The selected candi...

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

authors： Vasmatzis G,Essand M,Brinkmann U,Lee B,Pastan I

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocytes in the atria contain a prohormone that gives rise to atrial natriuretic peptides (ANP), which have intrinsic hemodynamic regulatory activity. Little is known about mechanisms regulating ANP release. In rats with indwelling catheters, acute blood volume expansion with 5% (wt/vol) dextrose increases the amount ...

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

authors： Zamir N,Haass M,Dave JR,Zukowska-Grojec Z

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells (PCC) have an exceptional propensity to metastasize early into intratumoral, chemokine-secreting nerves. However, we hypothesized the opposite process, that precancerous pancreatic cells secrete chemokines that chemoattract Schwann cells (SC) of nerves and thus induce read...

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

authors： Demir IE,Kujundzic K,Pfitzinger PL,Saricaoglu ÖC,Teller S,Kehl T,Reyes CM,Ertl LS,Miao Z,Schall TJ,Tieftrunk E,Haller B,Diakopoulos KN,Kurkowski MU,Lesina M,Krüger A,Algül H,Friess H,Ceyhan GO

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnetic microstructure of a natural, finely exsolved intergrowth of submicron magnetite blocks in an ulvöspinel matrix is characterized by using off-axis electron holography in the transmission electron microscope. Single-domain and vortex states in individual blocks, as well as magnetostatic interaction fields b...

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

authors： Harrison RJ,Dunin-Borkowski RE,Putnis A

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The conservation of endangered fish is of critical importance. Cryobanking could provide an effective backup measure for use in conjunction with the conservation of natural populations; however, methodology for cryopreservation of fish eggs and embryos has not yet been developed. The present study established a method...

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

authors： Lee S,Iwasaki Y,Shikina S,Yoshizaki G

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA class II gene polymorphism was investigated in 100 patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of Taq I-digested DNA using DRB, DQA, and DQB cDNA probes. Twenty-six patients had primarily chronic progressive MS and 74 had relapsing/remitting MS. Th...

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

authors： Olerup O,Hillert J,Fredrikson S,Olsson T,Kam-Hansen S,Möller E,Carlsson B,Wallin J

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional structure of fibrinogen was considered in reference to the terminal plasmin-cleavage fragments, D and E. By two independent approaches, a yield of two D and two E fragments was determined and this established the presence of two D and two E regions in each fibrinogen molecule. Immunochemically, it was sho...

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

authors： Plow EF,Edgington TS

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high proportion of human B cells carry B-cell receptors (BCRs) that are autoreactive. Inhibitory receptors such as CD22 can downmodulate autoreactive BCR responses. With its extracellular domain, CD22 binds to sialic acids in α2,6 linkages in cis, on the surface of the same B cell or in trans, on other cells. Sialic...

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

authors： Müller J,Obermeier I,Wöhner M,Brandl C,Mrotzek S,Angermüller S,Maity PC,Reth M,Nitschke L

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is associated with alterations in nitric oxide (NO)/cGMP signaling. In early stages of the disease, inflammatory and possibly other cells produce reactive oxygen species that scavenge vasoprotective NO. In addition to the oxidative stress, expression and activity of enzymes downstream to NO formation m...

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

authors： Melichar VO,Behr-Roussel D,Zabel U,Uttenthal LO,Rodrigo J,Rupin A,Verbeuren TJ,Kumar H S A,Schmidt HH

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Particular major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II alleles clearly contribute to T cell-mediated autoimmune type 1 diabetes (T1D) in both humans and nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice. However, studies in NOD mice indicate MHC class I-restricted T cell responses are also essential to T1D development. In humans, epid...

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

authors： Marron MP,Graser RT,Chapman HD,Serreze DV

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil systems are being increasingly exposed to the interactive effects of biological invasions and climate change, with rising temperatures expected to benefit alien over indigenous species. We assessed this expectation for an important soil-dwelling group, the springtails, by determining whether alien species show br...

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

authors： Janion-Scheepers C,Phillips L,Sgrò CM,Duffy GA,Hallas R,Chown SL

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two anti-tumor monoclonal antibodies, L6 (anticarcinoma) and 1F5 (anti-B lymphoma), were covalently linked to alkaline phosphatase (AP), forming conjugates that could bind to the surface of antigen-positive tumor cells. The conjugates were capable of converting a relatively noncytotoxic prodrug, etoposide phosphate (E...

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

authors： Senter PD,Saulnier MG,Schreiber GJ,Hirschberg DL,Brown JP,Hellström I,Hellström KE

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a multifactorial illness and genetic factors play a role in its etiology. The understanding of its physiopathology relies on the availability of experimental models potentially mimicking the disease. Here we describe a model built up by selective breeding of mice with strikingly different responses in th...

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

authors： El Yacoubi M,Bouali S,Popa D,Naudon L,Leroux-Nicollet I,Hamon M,Costentin J,Adrien J,Vaugeois JM

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether gravity is required for normal amphibian development, Xenopus laevis females were induced to ovulate aboard the orbiting Space Shuttle. Eggs were fertilized in vitro, and although early embryonic stages showed some abnormalities, the embryos were able to regulate and produce nearly normal larvae. These...

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

authors： Souza KA,Black SD,Wassersug RJ

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Several mouse models have already proved valuable for investigating hypertrophic responses to cardiac stress. Here, we characterize one caused by a well defined single copy transgene, RenTgMK, that genetically clamps plasma renin and thence angiotensin II at high levels. All of the transgenic males develop concentric ...

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

authors： Caron KM,James LR,Kim HS,Knowles J,Uhlir R,Mao L,Hagaman JR,Cascio W,Rockman H,Smithies O

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of RNA silencing as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungi was examined by testing the effect of dicer gene disruptions on mycovirus infection of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. C. parasitica dicer-like genes dcl-1 and dcl-2 were cloned and shown to share a high level of predicted amino ...

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

authors： Segers GC,Zhang X,Deng F,Sun Q,Nuss DL

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA viruses are the largest virus class and include many pathogens such as hepatitis C virus and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS). Brome mosaic virus (BMV) is a representative positive-strand RNA virus whose RNA replication, gene expression, and encapsidation have been reproduce...

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

authors： Kushner DB,Lindenbach BD,Grdzelishvili VZ,Noueiry AO,Paul SM,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:VEGF and angiopoietin-1 (Ang1) are two major angiogenic factors being investigated for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI). Targeting VEGF and Ang1 expression in the ischemic myocardium can increase their local therapeutic effects and reduce possible adverse effects. Adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) expre...

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

authors： Tao Z,Chen B,Tan X,Zhao Y,Wang L,Zhu T,Cao K,Yang Z,Kan YW,Su H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperation via production of common goods is found in diverse life forms ranging from viruses to social animals. However, natural selection predicts a "tragedy of the commons": Cheaters, benefiting from without producing costly common goods, are more fit than cooperators and should destroy cooperation. In an attempt ...

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

authors： Waite AJ,Shou W

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are nonequilibrium systems that exchange matter and energy with the environment to sustain their metabolic needs. The nonequilibrium nature of this system presents considerable challenges to developing a general theory describing its behavior; however, when studied at appropriate spatiotemporal scales, the behav...

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

authors： Chang AY,Marshall WF

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how members of the indigenous microflora interact with their mammalian hosts to establish mutually beneficial relationships. We have used a gnotobiotic mouse model to show that Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a component of the intestinal microflora of mice and humans, uses a repressor, FucR, as a ...

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

authors： Hooper LV,Xu J,Falk PG,Midtvedt T,Gordon JI

更新日期：1999-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor caudal-type homeobox 1 (CDX1) is a key regulator of differentiation in the normal colon and in colorectal cancer (CRC). CDX1 activates the expression of enterocyte genes, but it is not clear how the concomitant silencing of stem cell genes is achieved. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important mediator...

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

authors： Jones MF,Hara T,Francis P,Li XL,Bilke S,Zhu Y,Pineda M,Subramanian M,Bodmer WF,Lal A

更新日期：2015-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work shows that arachidonic acid and some other long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid, which is abundant in fish oil, produce a direct open channel block of the major voltage-dependent K+ channel (Kv1.5) cloned in cardiac cells. The inhibitory action of these selected fatty ac...

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

authors： Honoré E,Barhanin J,Attali B,Lesage F,Lazdunski M

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by a progressive dysfunction of central neurons. Recent experimental evidence indicates that in the cortex, in addition to the silencing of a fraction of neurons, other neurons are hyperactive in amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque-enriched regions. However, it has remained unknown what com...

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

authors： Busche MA,Chen X,Henning HA,Reichwald J,Staufenbiel M,Sakmann B,Konnerth A

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature peripheral T cells respond to foreign but not to self-antigens. During development in the thymus, deletion of high-affinity self-reactive immature thymocytes contributes to tolerance of mature T cells. However, double-positive thymocytes are positively selected to survive if they respond to self-peptide-MHC com...

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

authors： Stephen TL,Wilson BS,Laufer TM

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:PDZ domains are abundant protein interaction modules and typically recognize a short motif at the C terminus of their ligands, with a few residues in the motif endowing the binding specificity. The sequence-based rules, however, cannot fully account for the specificity between the vast number of PDZ domains and ligand...

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

authors： Pascoe HG,Gutowski S,Chen H,Brautigam CA,Chen Z,Sternweis PC,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis of a region contained within a large, interspersed repetitive family of mice reveals a long open reading frame. This sequence extends 978 base pairs between two stop codons, creating a reading frame that is open for 326 amino acids. The DNA sequence in this region is conserved between three dista...

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

authors： Martin SL,Voliva CF,Burton FH,Edgell MH,Hutchison CA 3rd

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt/beta-catenin signaling controls various cell fates in metazoan development and is misregulated in several cancers and developmental disorders. Binding of a Wnt ligand to its transmembrane coreceptors inhibits phosphorylation and degradation of the transcriptional coactivator beta-catenin, which then translocates t...

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

authors： Cselenyi CS,Jernigan KK,Tahinci E,Thorne CA,Lee LA,Lee E

更新日期：2008-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylylated RNA synthesized after heat shock was isolated from polysomes of cultured cells of Drosophila melanogaster and used as template to prepare cDNA. An excess of poly(A)-RNA from heat-shocked cells hybridized to 80% of the cDNA, whereas cytoplasmic poly(A)-RNA from cells grown at 25 degrees could drive onl...

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

authors： Biessmann H,Levy B,McCarthy BJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal RNA was isolated from several rat tissues by a new technique. It is shown by RNA-DNA hybridization that each tissue contains a distinct population of chromosomal RNA sequences. This finding is compatible with the proposal that chromosomal RNA is involved in the process of gene activation. ...

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

authors： Mayfield JE,Bonner J

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00