Hypothalamic programming of systemic ageing involving IKK-β, NF-κB and GnRH.

abstract：:Bottom trawling is a non-selective commercial fishing technique whereby heavy nets and gear are pulled along the sea floor. The direct impact of this technique on fish populations and benthic communities has received much attention, but trawling can also modify the physical properties of seafloor sediments, water–sedi...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Puig P,Canals M,Company JB,Martín J,Amblas D,Lastras G,Palanques A

更新日期：2012-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The function and nature of inhibition of neurons in the visual cortex have been the focus of both experimental and theoretical investigations. There are two ways in which inhibition can suppress synaptic excitation. In hyperpolarizing inhibition, negative and positive currents sum linearly to produce a net change in m...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Borg-Graham LJ,Monier C,Frégnac Y

更新日期：1998-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of a sufficiently strong magnetic field to a superconductor will, in general, destroy the superconducting state. Two mechanisms are responsible for this. The first is the Zeeman effect, which breaks apart the paired electrons if they are in a spin-singlet (but not a spin-triplet) state. The second is t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Uji S,Shinagawa H,Terashima T,Yakabe T,Terai Y,Tokumoto M,Kobayashi A,Tanaka H,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2001-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The ras proto-oncogene, found in all eukaryotes so far examined, encode s a protein with guanine nucleotide-binding and GTPase activity. Gene disruption experiments in yeast indicate that ras is essential for cell growth. Anit-sense mutagenesis approaches suggest that this is also true for Dictyostelium. Most mutation...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Reymond CD,Gomer RH,Nellen W,Theibert A,Devreotes P,Firtel RA

更新日期：1986-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolysis is essential for the execution of many cellular functions. These include removal of incorrectly folded or damaged proteins, the activation of transcription factors, the ordered degradation of proteins involved in cell cycle control, and the generation of peptides destined for presentation by class I molecu...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Glas R,Bogyo M,McMaster JS,Gaczynska M,Ploegh HL

更新日期：1998-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time investigations of the rearrangement of bonds during chemical transformations require femtosecond temporal resolution, so that the atomic vibrations within the reacting molecules can be observed. Following the development of lasers capable of emitting ultrashort laser flashes on this timescale, chemical react...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kobayashi T,Saito T,Ohtani H

更新日期：2001-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Methane is an important greenhouse gas that is emitted from multiple natural and anthropogenic sources. Atmospheric methane concentrations have varied on a number of timescales in the past, but what has caused these variations is not always well understood. The different sources and sinks of methane have specific isot...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sapart CJ,Monteil G,Prokopiou M,van de Wal RS,Kaplan JO,Sperlich P,Krumhardt KM,van der Veen C,Houweling S,Krol MC,Blunier T,Sowers T,Martinerie P,Witrant E,Dahl-Jensen D,Röckmann T

更新日期：2012-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl carrier protein (ACP) transports the growing fatty acid chain between enzymatic domains of fatty acid synthase (FAS) during biosynthesis. Because FAS enzymes operate on ACP-bound acyl groups, ACP must stabilize and transport the growing lipid chain. ACPs have a central role in transporting starting materials and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Nguyen C,Haushalter RW,Lee DJ,Markwick PR,Bruegger J,Caldara-Festin G,Finzel K,Jackson DR,Ishikawa F,O'Dowd B,McCammon JA,Opella SJ,Tsai SC,Burkart MD

更新日期：2014-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrosulphide ion (HS(-)) and its undissociated form, hydrogen sulphide (H(2)S), which are believed to have been critical to the origin of life on Earth, remain important in physiology and cellular signalling. As a major metabolite in anaerobic bacterial growth, hydrogen sulphide is a product of both assimilatory ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Czyzewski BK,Wang DN

更新日期：2012-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins have wide-ranging effects in the body and are thought to be important mediators of inflammation. Cyclooxygenase (COX) plays a key regulatory role in prostaglandin synthesis, and occurs in both constitutive (COX-1) and inducible (COX-2) isoforms. COX-1 is thought to provide cytoprotective effects, wherea...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dinchuk JE,Car BD,Focht RJ,Johnston JJ,Jaffee BD,Covington MB,Contel NR,Eng VM,Collins RJ,Czerniak PM

更新日期：1995-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bird songs frequently contain trilling sounds that demand extremely fast vocalization control. Here we show that doves control their syrinx, a vocal organ that is unique to birds, by using superfast muscles. These muscles, which are similar to those that operate highly specialist acoustic organs such as the rattle of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Elemans CP,Spierts IL,Müller UK,Van Leeuwen JL,Goller F

更新日期：2004-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray structure of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel from Erwinia chrysanthemi (ELIC) has recently provided structural insight into this family of ion channels at high resolution. The structure shows a homo-pentameric protein with a barrel-stave architecture that defines an ion-conduction pore located on the f...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hilf RJ,Dutzler R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-resolution intensity spectra of Earth's atmosphere obtained from space reveal strong signatures of life ('biosignatures'), such as molecular oxygen and methane with abundances far from chemical equilibrium, as well as the presence of a 'red edge' (a sharp increase of albedo for wavelengths longer than 700 nm) caus...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sterzik MF,Bagnulo S,Palle E

更新日期：2012-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper, zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD) catalyses the very rapid two-step dismutation of the toxic superoxide radical (O-2) to molecular oxygen and hydrogen peroxide through the alternate reduction and oxidation of the active-site copper. We report here that after refitting and further refinement of the previous 2 A s...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tainer JA,Getzoff ED,Richardson JS,Richardson DC

更新日期：1983-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometry and dimensions of branched structures such as blood vessels or airways are important factors in determining the efficiency of physiological processes. It has been shown that fractal trees can be space filling and can ensure minimal dissipation. The bronchial tree of most mammalian lungs is a good example ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mauroy B,Filoche M,Weibel ER,Sapoval B

更新日期：2004-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition and localization of sound signals is fundamental to acoustic communication. Complex neural mechanisms are thought to underlie the processing of species-specific sound patterns even in animals with simple auditory pathways. In female crickets, which orient towards the male's calling song, current models...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hedwig B,Poulet JF

更新日期：2004-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:With the world's focus on reducing our dependency on fossil-fuel energy, the scientific community can investigate new plastic materials that are much less dependent on petroleum than are conventional plastics. Given increasing environmental issues, the idea of replacing plastics with water-based gels, so-called hydrog...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wang Q,Mynar JL,Yoshida M,Lee E,Lee M,Okuro K,Kinbara K,Aida T

更新日期：2010-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is selected in the thymus after rearrangement of genes encoding TCR alpha and beta chains. Selection is based on the recognition by newly emergent T cells of self-ligands associated with molecules of the major histocompatibility complex: some combinations result in positive selecti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dyson PJ,Knight AM,Fairchild S,Simpson E,Tomonari K

更新日期：1991-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to double-stranded DNA, there has so far been little evidence that double-stranded RNA can undergo major conformational transitions. We have investigated the conformation in different conditions of the double-stranded RNA molecule poly(G-C).poly(G-C), by NMR, circular dichroism and absorbance spectroscopy....

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hall K,Cruz P,Tinoco I Jr,Jovin TM,van de Sande JH

更新日期：1984-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen recognition by T lymphocytes is mediated by cell-surface glycoproteins known as T-cell antigen receptors (TCRs). These are composed of alpha and beta, or gamma and delta, polypeptide chains with variable (V) and constant (C) regions. In contrast to alphabeta TCRs, which recognize antigen only as peptide fragme...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Li H,Lebedeva MI,Llera AS,Fields BA,Brenner MB,Mariuzza RA

更新日期：1998-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic architecture of brain structure and function is largely unknown. To investigate this, we carried out genome-wide association studies of 3,144 functional and structural brain imaging phenotypes from UK Biobank (discovery dataset 8,428 subjects). Here we show that many of these phenotypes are heritable. We i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Elliott LT,Sharp K,Alfaro-Almagro F,Shi S,Miller KL,Douaud G,Marchini J,Smith SM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of Aspergillus oryzae, a fungus important for the production of traditional fermented foods and beverages in Japan, has been sequenced. The ability to secrete large amounts of proteins and the development of a transformation system have facilitated the use of A. oryzae in modern biotechnology. Although both...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Machida M,Asai K,Sano M,Tanaka T,Kumagai T,Terai G,Kusumoto K,Arima T,Akita O,Kashiwagi Y,Abe K,Gomi K,Horiuchi H,Kitamoto K,Kobayashi T,Takeuchi M,Denning DW,Galagan JE,Nierman WC,Yu J,Archer DB,Bennett JW,Bh

更新日期：2005-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In associative learning, the activated neurones undergo a variety of concomitant functional alterations--increases or decreases of firing activity and modifications of membrane potential or resistance and of synaptic responsiveness. Synaptic transmission which can be strengthened only when there is paired activity in ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Baranyi A,Fehér O

更新日期：1981-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite germ line, sperm and then oocytes are made from a common pool of germ-cell precursors. The decision to differentiate as a sperm or an oocyte is regulated by the sex-determining gene, fem-3. Expression of fem-3 in the hermaphrodite germ line directs spermatogenesis and must b...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ahringer J,Kimble J

更新日期：1991-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain has generally been considered an insulin-independent organ, because insulin does not apparently exert a direct effect on brain glucose consumption. Recently, however, insulin receptors have been detected throughout the central nervous system (CNS) of several species. Since important insights into the functio...

journal_title：Nature

authors： van Houten M,Posner BI

更新日期：1979-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour cells become addicted to the expression of initiating oncogenes like Ras, such that loss of oncogene expression in established tumours leads to tumour regression. HRas, NRas or KRas are mutated to remain in the active GTP-bound oncogenic state in many cancers. Although Ras activates several proteins to initiate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Lim KH,Ancrile BB,Kashatus DF,Counter CM

更新日期：2008-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of geochemical species in the Earth's interior is largely controlled by fractional melting and crystallization processes that are intimately linked to the thermal state and evolution of the mantle. The existence of patches of dense partial melt at the base of the Earth's mantle, together with estimate...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Labrosse S,Hernlund JW,Coltice N

更新日期：2007-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular and cellular basis of T-lymphocyte activation remains a central question in immunology. The growth of already proliferating T cells is known to depend on T-cell growth factor (TCGF), a physiological mitogen. Noncycling T lymphocytes, however, are not sensitive to TCGF. They require a short contact with m...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Larsson EL,Iscove NN,Coutinho A

更新日期：1980-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:When mountains form through the collision of lithospheric plates, uplift of the Earth's surface is accompanied by thickening of the crust, and the buoyancy of these deep crustal roots (relative to the surrounding mantle) is thought to contribute to the support of mountain topography. Once active tectonism ceases, cont...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Fischer KM

更新日期：2002-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:First recognized as regulators of development in worms and fruitflies, microRNAs are emerging as pivotal modulators of mammalian cardiovascular development and disease. Individual microRNAs modulate the expression of collections of messenger RNA targets that often have related functions, thereby governing complex biol...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Small EM,Olson EN

更新日期：2011-01-20 00:00:00