The age-specific force of natural selection and biodemographic walls of death.

abstract：:The neuropeptide oxytocin has played an essential role in the regulation of social behavior and attachment throughout mammalian evolution. Because recent studies in humans have shown that oxytocin administration reduces stress responses and increases prosocial behavior, we investigated whether a common single nucleoti...

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

authors： Chen FS,Kumsta R,von Dawans B,Monakhov M,Ebstein RP,Heinrichs M

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of gangliosides in processes related to nerve regeneration and sprouting has been demonstrated recently. The type of interaction by which gangliosides may influence neuronal sprouting was investigated in the present work. Affinity-purified rabbit anti-GM1 antibodies were found to block the sprouting fr...

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

authors： Schwartz M,Spirman N

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal for developmental biologists is to define the behaviors and molecular contents of differentiating cells. We have devised a strategy for isolating cells from diverse embryonic regions and stages in the zebrafish, using computer-guided laser photoconversion of injected Kaede protein and flow cytometry. This...

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

authors： Brown JL,Snir M,Noushmehr H,Kirby M,Hong SK,Elkahloun AG,Feldman B

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient apoptotic cell clearance and induction of immunologic tolerance is a critical mechanism preventing autoimmunity and associated pathology. Our laboratory has reported that apoptotic cells induce tolerance by a mechanism dependent on the tryptophan catabolizing enzyme indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) in sp...

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

authors： Ravishankar B,Liu H,Shinde R,Chaudhary K,Xiao W,Bradley J,Koritzinsky M,Madaio MP,McGaha TL

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that short-term immobilization stress of rats causes increased colonic mucin release, goblet cell depletion, prostaglandin E2 secretion, and colonic mast cell activation, as well as increased colonic motility. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether neurotensin (NT), a peptide expre...

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

authors： Castagliuolo I,Leeman SE,Bartolak-Suki E,Nikulasson S,Qiu B,Carraway RE,Pothoulakis C

更新日期：1996-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal remodeling is a fundamental process by which the brain responds to environmental influences, e.g., during stress. In the hippocampus, chronic stress causes retraction of dendrites in CA3 pyramidal neurons. We have recently identified the glycoprotein M6a as a stress-responsive gene in the hippocampal formatio...

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

authors： Alfonso J,Fernández ME,Cooper B,Flugge G,Frasch AC

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In flowering plants, the asymmetrical division of the zygote is the first hallmark of apical-basal polarity of the embryo and is controlled by a MAP kinase pathway that includes the MAPKKK YODA (YDA). In Arabidopsis, YDA is activated by the membrane-associated pseudokinase SHORT SUSPENSOR (SSP) through an unusual pare...

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

authors： Neu A,Eilbert E,Asseck LY,Slane D,Henschen A,Wang K,Bürgel P,Hildebrandt M,Musielak TJ,Kolb M,Lukowitz W,Grefen C,Bayer M

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification (OA) refers to the ongoing decline in oceanic pH resulting from the uptake of atmospheric CO(2). Mounting experimental evidence suggests that OA will have negative consequences for a variety of marine organisms. Whereas the effect of OA on the calcification of adult reef corals is increasingly well...

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

authors： Albright R,Mason B,Miller M,Langdon C

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:While the concept of intercellular mechanical communication has been revealed, the mechanistic insights have been poorly evidenced in the context of myofibroblast-fibroblast interaction during fibrosis expansion. Here we report and systematically investigate the mechanical force-mediated myofibroblast-fibroblast cross...

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

authors： Liu L,Yu H,Zhao H,Wu Z,Long Y,Zhang J,Yan X,You Z,Zhou L,Xia T,Shi Y,Xiao B,Wang Y,Huang C,Du Y

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoke is the major cause of lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death, and of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Using high-density gene expression arrays, we describe genes that are normally expressed in a subset of human airway epithelial cel...

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

authors： Spira A,Beane J,Shah V,Liu G,Schembri F,Yang X,Palma J,Brody JS

更新日期：2004-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although x-ray crystallography is the most widely used method for macromolecular structure determination, it does not provide dynamical information, and either experimental tricks or complementary experiments must be used to overcome the inherently static nature of crystallographic structures. Here we used specific x-...

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

authors： Colletier JP,Bourgeois D,Sanson B,Fournier D,Sussman JL,Silman I,Weik M

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of long-term cultured and monoclonal T cell populations to provide antigen-specific help was assessed in a system of Ir gene-controlled in vitro antibody responses to soluble antigens. T-cell colonies and monoclonal T-cell lines were generated which proliferated specifically in response to poly(LTyr,Glu)-p...

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

authors： Hodes RJ,Kimoto M,Hathcock KS,Fathman CG,Singer A

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently described organ culture system for human thymocytes is shown to support the generation of a diverse T-cell receptor repertoire in vitro: thymocytes of the alpha beta lineage, including representatives of the V beta families 5.2/5.3, 6.7, and 8, accounted for the majority of T-cell receptor-positive cells th...

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

authors： Merkenschlager M,Fisher AG

更新日期：1992-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to characterize and classify pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors based on array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). Using aCGH, we performed karyotype analysis of 33 small cell lung cancer (SCLC) tumors, 13 SCLC cell lines, 19 bronchial carcinoids, and 9 gastrointestinal carcinoids. In con...

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

authors： Voortman J,Lee JH,Killian JK,Suuriniemi M,Wang Y,Lucchi M,Smith WI Jr,Meltzer P,Wang Y,Giaccone G

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Utrophin levels have recently been shown to be more abundant in slow vs. fast muscles, but the nature of the molecular events underlying this difference remains to be fully elucidated. Here, we determined whether this difference is due to the expression of utrophin A or B, and examined whether transcriptional regulato...

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

authors： Chakkalakal JV,Stocksley MA,Harrison MA,Angus LM,Deschenes-Furry J,St-Pierre S,Megeney LA,Chin ER,Michel RN,Jasmin BJ

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence implicates dysregulation of metabotropic glutamatergic receptor 5 (mGluR5) in pathophysiology of PTSD and suicidality. Using positron emission tomography and [18F]FPEB, we quantified mGluR5 availability in vivo in individuals with PTSD (n = 29) and MDD (n = 29) as a function of suicidal ideation (SI) t...

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

authors： Davis MT,Hillmer A,Holmes SE,Pietrzak RH,DellaGioia N,Nabulsi N,Matuskey D,Angarita GA,Carson RE,Krystal JH,Esterlis I

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In five experiments, participants (n = 701) were shown two silhouett...

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

authors： Nummenmaa L,Glerean E,Hari R,Hietanen JK

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone ethylene is involved in many developmental processes, including fruit ripening, abscission, senescence, and leaf epinasty. Tomato contains a family of ethylene receptors, designated LeETR1, LeETR2, NR, LeETR4, and LeETR5, with homology to the Arabidopsis ETR1 ethylene receptor. Transgenic plants with...

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

authors： Tieman DM,Taylor MG,Ciardi JA,Klee HJ

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) exhibit reduced expression in skeletal muscle of diabetic and prediabetic humans. Moreover, these changes may be mediated by the transcriptional coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1alpha (PGC-1alph...

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

authors： Mootha VK,Handschin C,Arlow D,Xie X,St Pierre J,Sihag S,Yang W,Altshuler D,Puigserver P,Patterson N,Willy PJ,Schulman IG,Heyman RA,Lander ES,Spiegelman BM

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, secretes several toxins implicated in this disease. One of these putative virulence factors is the adenylate cyclase (AC) toxin that elevates intracellular cAMP in eukaryotic cells to cytotoxic levels. This toxin is a bifunctional protein comprising both AC ...

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

authors： Gross MK,Au DC,Smith AL,Storm DR

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropilin-1 (NRP1) is a 130-kDa transmembrane receptor for semaphorins, mediators of neuronal guidance, and for vascular endothelial growth factor 165 (VEGF(165)), an angiogenesis factor. A 2.2-kb truncated NRP1 cDNA was cloned that encodes a 644-aa soluble NRP1 (sNRP1) isoform containing just the a/CUB and b/coagula...

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

authors： Gagnon ML,Bielenberg DR,Gechtman Z,Miao HQ,Takashima S,Soker S,Klagsbrun M

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently purified calorigen, the natural trigger for heat production in the inflorescences of Sauromatum guttatum Schott (voodoo lily), a thermogenic plant, and identified it as salicylic acid. Since then an analytical assay was developed that allows the quantitation of salicylic acid in plant tissues. This as...

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

authors： Raskin I,Turner IM,Melander WR

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning has established the primary structures of two precursors of the human pancreas growth hormone-releasing factor (hpGRF-44), somatocrinin. Both polypeptides contain the sequence of hpGRF-44 flanked by basic processing sites. Furthermore, the precursors include a putative signal sequence and a carboxyl-...

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

authors： Gubler U,Monahan JJ,Lomedico PT,Bhatt RS,Collier KJ,Hoffman BJ,Böhlen P,Esch F,Ling N,Zeytin F,Brazeau P,Poonian MS,Gage LP

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyaromatic hydrocarbons are ubiquitous environmental chemicals that are important mutagens and carcinogens. The purpose of this study was to determine whether genes within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) influence their biological activities. Cell-mediated immunity to dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) was ...

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

authors： Elmets CA,Athar M,Tubesing KA,Rothaupt D,Xu H,Mukhtar H

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), which degrades transcripts harboring a premature termination codon (PTC), depends on the helicase up-frameshift 1 (UPF1). However, mRNAs that are not NMD targets also bind UPF1. What governs the timing, position, and function of UPF1 binding to mRNAs remains unclear. We provide evid...

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

authors： Kurosaki T,Maquat LE

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cells exhibit periodic transient increases in cytosolic calcium levels rather than a sustained rise when stimulated by a hormone or growth factor. We propose here a molecular model that accounts for periodic calcium spiking induced by a constant stimulus. Four elements give rise to repetitive calcium transients: ...

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

authors： Meyer T,Stryer L

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "parallel-up" packing in cellulose Ialpha and Ibeta unit cells was experimentally demonstrated by a combination of direct-staining the reducing ends of cellulose chains and microdiffraction-tilting electron crystallographic analysis. Microdiffraction investigation of nascent bacterial cellulose microfibrils showed...

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

authors： Koyama M,Helbert W,Imai T,Sugiyama J,Henrissat B

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The only major glutamate receptor membrane-associated guanylate kinase scaffolds expressed in the young superficial superior colliculus (SC) are synapse-associated protein 102 (SAP102) and postsynaptic density protein 95 (PSD95). In this, as in all visual brain regions examined, synaptic PSD95 increases rapidly follow...

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

authors： Zhao JP,Murata Y,Constantine-Paton M

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal changes of daylength (photoperiod) affect the expression of hormonal and behavioral circadian rhythms in a variety of organisms. In mammals, such effects might reflect photoperiodic changes in the circadian pace-making system [located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus] that governs thes...

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

authors： Sumová A,Trávnícková Z,Peters R,Schwartz WJ,Illnerová H

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the complete genome sequence of a common avian clone of Pasteurella multocida, Pm70. The genome of Pm70 is a single circular chromosome 2,257,487 base pairs in length and contains 2,014 predicted coding regions, 6 ribosomal RNA operons, and 57 tRNAs. Genome-scale evolutionary analyses based on pairwise...

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

authors： May BJ,Zhang Q,Li LL,Paustian ML,Whittam TS,Kapur V

更新日期：2001-03-13 00:00:00