Calcitonin gene-related peptide enhances the rate of desensitization of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in cultured mouse muscle cells.

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the most important model organisms and has been a valuable asset to human civilization. However, despite its extensive use in the last 9,000 y, the existence of a seasonal cycle outside human-made environments has not yet been described. We demonstrate the role of social wasps as vec...

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

authors： Stefanini I,Dapporto L,Legras JL,Calabretta A,Di Paola M,De Filippo C,Viola R,Capretti P,Polsinelli M,Turillazzi S,Cavalieri D

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural selection does not necessarily favor maximal reproduction because reproduction imposes fitness costs, reducing parental survival, and offspring quality. Here, we show that parents in a preindustrial population in North America incurred fitness costs from reproduction, and women incurred greater costs than men....

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

authors： Penn DJ,Smith KR

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The severe cooling and the expansion of the ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), 27,000-19,000 y ago (27-19 ky ago) had a major impact on plant and animal populations, including humans. Changes in human population size and range have affected our genetic evolution, and recent modeling efforts have reaffir...

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

authors： Tallavaara M,Luoto M,Korhonen N,Järvinen H,Seppä H

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The six-layered neocortex is a uniquely mammalian structure with evolutionary origins that remain in dispute. One long-standing hypothesis, based on similarities in neuronal connectivity, proposes that homologs of the layer 4 input and layer 5 output neurons of neocortex are present in the avian forebrain, where they ...

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

authors： Dugas-Ford J,Rowell JJ,Ragsdale CW

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Trichosanthin, a eukaryotic ribosome-inactivating protein from Trichosanthes kirilowii, inhibits the replication of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in vitro. The alpha-trichosanthin gene was placed under the transcriptional control of a tobamovirus subgenomic promoter in a plant RNA viral vector. Two week...

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

authors： Kumagai MH,Turpen TH,Weinzettl N,della-Cioppa G,Turpen AM,Donson J,Hilf ME,Grantham GL,Dawson WO,Chow TP

更新日期：1993-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Distribution studies disclosed that all major cerebral arteries and cortical arterioles of the cat were invested with fine varicose nerve fibers that contained calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity; the trigeminal ganglia likewise contained CGRP immunoreactivity. Sequential immunostaining with a...

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

authors： McCulloch J,Uddman R,Kingman TA,Edvinsson L

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful implementation of bone marrow transplantation for hematopoietic reconstitution is limited by the lack of suitably HLA-matched donors and by the occurrence of graft-versus-host disease that frequently accompanies this procedure. Recent clinical reports have implied that the use of umbilical cord blood as a s...

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

authors： Harris DT,Schumacher MJ,Locascio J,Besencon FJ,Olson GB,DeLuca D,Shenker L,Bard J,Boyse EA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the scientific community, much attention has focused on improving communications between scientists, policy makers, and the public. To date, efforts have centered on improving the content, accessibility, and delivery of scientific communications. Here we argue that in the current political and media environment...

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

authors： Iyengar S,Massey DS

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hapten coupled to isologous gamma globulin can substitute for anti-idiotypic antibody in the induction of neonatal chronic idiotype suppression. The immunologically suppressed animals fail to express an idiotypically defined subset of anti-hapten antibodies in later life and harbor regulatory T cells that prevent the ...

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

authors： Tokuhisa T,Rajewsky K

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rRNA intervening sequence of Tetrahymena is a catalytic RNA molecule, or "ribozyme." A tertiary-structure model of the active site of this ribozyme has been constructed based on comparative sequence analysis of related group I intervening sequences, data on the accessibility of each nucleotide to chemical and enzy...

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

authors： Kim SH,Cech TR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies that modulate receptor function have great untapped potential in the control of stem cell differentiation. In contrast to many natural ligands, antibodies are stable, exquisitely specific, and are unaffected by the regulatory mechanisms that act on natural ligands. Here we describe an innovative system for ...

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

authors： Melidoni AN,Dyson MR,Wormald S,McCafferty J

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been developed that enables us to identify intracellular degradation intermediates of fructose-bisphosphate aldolase B (D-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate-lyase, EC 4.1.2.13). This method is based on the use of antibody against thoroughly denatured purified aldolase. This antibody ha...

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

authors： Reznick AZ,Rosenfelder L,Shpund S,Gershon D

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type C retroviruses are endogenous in most vertebrate species. These viruses generally are of low pathogenicity in their natural hosts. Variants that contain cell-derived transforming genes have been isolated infrequently in the past upon continued passage in vivo. We report here a procedure that allows the isolation ...

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

authors： Rapp UR,Todaro GJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dendritic building blocks with a focal pyrene unit self-organize into vesicles in aqueous phase. The in situ inclusion of the focal pyrene units into the cavity of beta- or gamma-cyclodextrin (CD) induces self-assembled organic nanotubes with an average outer diameter of approximately 45 nm and inner diameter of 2...

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

authors： Park C,Lee IH,Lee S,Song Y,Rhue M,Kim C

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A method to identify 5-methylcytosine (m5Cyt) in DNA immobilized on nitrocellulose paper by using antibody against m5Cyt raised in rabbits is described. Immobilized restriction fragments of DNA are incubated first with purified antibody against m5Cyt and then with goat anti-rabbit IgG labeled with 125I. Restriction fr...

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

authors： Sano H,Royer HD,Sager R

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinate:NAD(+) 3-oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.24) from carrot cell suspension cultures has previously been shown to be activated by phosphorylation and inactivated by dephosphorylation. Here it is shown that the reactivation of the inactivated quinate:NAD(+) oxidoreductase is an enzyme-mediated process that requires ATP a...

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

authors： Ranjeva R,Refeno G,Boudet AM,Marmé D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-prime repair exonuclease 1 knockout (Trex1-/-) mice suffer from systemic inflammation caused largely by chronic activation of the cyclic GMP-AMP synthase-stimulator of interferon genes-TANK-binding kinase-interferon regulatory factor 3 (cGAS-STING-TBK1-IRF3) signaling pathway. We showed previously that Trex1-def...

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

authors： Hasan M,Gonugunta VK,Dobbs N,Ali A,Palchik G,Calvaruso MA,DeBerardinis RJ,Yan N

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of hearing is remarkable for its auditory dynamic range, which spans more than 10(12) in acoustic intensity. The mechanisms that enable the cochlea to transduce high sound levels without damage are of key interest, particularly with regard to the broad impact of industrial, military, and recreational auditor...

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

authors： Housley GD,Morton-Jones R,Vlajkovic SM,Telang RS,Paramananthasivam V,Tadros SF,Wong AC,Froud KE,Cederholm JM,Sivakumaran Y,Snguanwongchai P,Khakh BS,Cockayne DA,Thorne PR,Ryan AF

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin regulates the proliferation and differentiation of erythroid precursor cells. Its effect is mediated by the erythropoietin receptor (EPOR), a member of a large family of cytokine receptors. The EPOR gene has recently been cloned, sequenced, and characterized. As shown experimentally, its intracellular C...

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

authors： de la Chapelle A,Träskelin AL,Juvonen E

更新日期：1993-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A graph-theoretic condition is given for the existence of stable solutions to the Volterra-Lotka equations. ...

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

authors： Yorke JA,Anderson WN

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed spin labeling EPR (SDSL-EPR) was used to determine the structure of the inhibitory region of TnI in the intact cardiac troponin ternary complex. Maeda and collaborators have modeled the inhibitory region of TnI (skeletal 96-112: the structural motif that communicates the Ca(2+) signal to actin) as a kink...

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

authors： Brown LJ,Sale KL,Hills R,Rouviere C,Song L,Zhang X,Fajer PG

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation therapy is a widely used cancer treatment, but it causes side effects even when localized radiotherapy is used. Extensive apoptosis of microvascular endothelial cells of the lamina propria is the primary lesion initiating intestinal radiation damage after abdominal radiation therapy. Many in vitro studies su...

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

authors： Cho CH,Kammerer RA,Lee HJ,Yasunaga K,Kim KT,Choi HH,Kim W,Kim SH,Park SK,Lee GM,Koh GY

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant techniques allow one to engineer an antibody molecule and, in this way, manipulate its properties and functions. We engineered a chimeric human/mouse antibody to the tumor-associated antigen ganglioside GD2, with the aim of decreasing its serum half-life, maintaining its full antigen-binding capacity, and ...

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

authors： Mueller BM,Reisfeld RA,Gillies SD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has implicated a large network of brain regions in the processing of risk during decision making. However, it has not yet been determined if activity in these regions is predictive of choices on future risky decisions. Here, we examined functional MRI data from a large sample of healthy subjects perf...

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

authors： Helfinstein SM,Schonberg T,Congdon E,Karlsgodt KH,Mumford JA,Sabb FW,Cannon TD,London ED,Bilder RM,Poldrack RA

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages (M phi) are activated by IFN gamma and are important cellular targets for infection by human and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), making it advantageous for CMVs to block IFN gamma-induced M phi differentiation. We found that MCMV infection inhibited IFN gamma regulation of many genes in M phi. MCMV infectio...

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

authors： Popkin DL,Watson MA,Karaskov E,Dunn GP,Bremner R,Virgin HW 4th

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for combined sequential affinity adsorption-electrophoresis has been devised. Its use for the rapid purification of a calcium-dependent cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase from bovine brain in high yield is described. In this procedure, proteins bound to a solid phase of calcium-dependent regulatory protei...

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

authors： Kincaid RL,Vaughan M

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I Interferons (IFNs) are requisite components in antiviral innate immunity. Classically, a Toll-like receptor-dependent pathway induces type I interferons. However, recent recognition of melanoma differentiation associated gene-5 (MDA-5) and retinoic acid inducible gene-I (RIG-I) as primary sensors of RNA viruses...

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

authors： Sarkar D,Desalle R,Fisher PB

更新日期：2008-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal H2O2 levels are closely related to many diseases, including inflammation and cancers. Herein, we simultaneously load HRP and its substrate, 2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS), into liposomal nanoparticles, obtaining a Lipo@HRP&ABTS optical nanoprobe for in vivo H2O2-responsive chrom...

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

authors： Chen Q,Liang C,Sun X,Chen J,Yang Z,Zhao H,Feng L,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The identities between homogeneous expressions in rank 1 vectors and rank n - 1 covectors in a Grassmann-Cayley algebra of rank n, in which one set occurs multilinearly, are shown to represent a set of dimension-independent identities. The theorem yields an infinite set of nontrivial geometric identities from a given ...

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

authors： Hawrylycz M

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Topological mechanical metamaterials are artificial structures whose unusual properties are protected very much like their electronic and optical counterparts. Here, we present an experimental and theoretical study of an active metamaterial--composed of coupled gyroscopes on a lattice--that breaks time-reversal symmet...

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

authors： Nash LM,Kleckner D,Read A,Vitelli V,Turner AM,Irvine WT

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00