Probabilistic cognition in two indigenous Mayan groups.

abstract：:Plants require metals for essential functions ranging from respiration to photosynthesis. These metals also contribute to the nutritional value of plants for both humans and livestock. Additionally, plants have the ability to accumulate nonessential metals such as cadmium and lead, and this ability could be harnessed ...

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

authors： Rogers EE,Eide DJ,Guerinot ML

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently established that several mRNAs encode the PR264/SC35 splicing factor and that their expression is related to that of c-Myb in human hematopoietic cells. We now report that the various PR264 mRNAs whose expression is transactivated by c-Myb proteins encode an identical PR264/SC35 polypeptide. These mRN...

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

authors： Sureau A,Perbal B

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatic crossing-over was used in heterozygous Drosophila melanogaster to effect clonal homozygosity for three mutants (h, Hw, ac). In these mutants, one type of process, chaetae, replaces another type, trichomes, in specific patterns on the adult fly. Heterozygous individuals were irradiated at different larval or pu...

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

authors： Garcia-Bellido A,Merriam JR

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SOS-inducible ruvA and ruvB gene products of Escherichia coli are required for normal levels of genetic recombination and DNA repair. In vitro, RuvA protein interacts specifically with Holliday junctions and, together with RuvB (an ATPase), promotes their movement along DNA. This process, known as branch migration...

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

authors： Tsaneva IR,Müller B,West SC

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) represent an important research tool and a potential resource for regenerative medicine. Generally, ESCs are cocultured with a supportive feeder cell layer of murine embryonic fibroblasts, which maintain the ESCs' capacity for self-renewal and block spontaneous differentiation. These cumber...

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

authors： Miyabayashi T,Teo JL,Yamamoto M,McMillan M,Nguyen C,Kahn M

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Past research found that the ingestion of glucose can enhance self-control. It has been widely assumed that basic physiological processes underlie this effect. We hypothesized that the effect of glucose also depends on people's theories about willpower. Three experiments, both measuring (experiment 1) and manipulating...

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

authors： Job V,Walton GM,Bernecker K,Dweck CS

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation may be a component of a multilevel control mechanism that regulates eukaryotic gene expression. We used synthetic oligonucleotides to investigate the effect of cytosine methylation on the binding of the transcription factor Sp1 to its target sequence (a G + C-rich sequence known as a "GC box"). Concate...

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

authors： Harrington MA,Jones PA,Imagawa M,Karin M

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP), the aggregate impact of land use on biomass available each year in ecosystems, is a prominent measure of the human domination of the biosphere. We present a comprehensive assessment of global HANPP based on vegetation modeling, agricultural and forestry statistics...

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

authors： Haberl H,Erb KH,Krausmann F,Gaube V,Bondeau A,Plutzar C,Gingrich S,Lucht W,Fischer-Kowalski M

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive radiation is the evolution of ecological and phenotypic diversity within a rapidly multiplying lineage. Recent studies have identified general patterns in adaptive radiation and inferred that resource competition is a primary factor driving phenotypic divergence. The role and importance of other processes, su...

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

authors： Nosil P,Crespi BJ

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that cellular inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (cIAPs) impair clearance of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection by preventing TNF-mediated killing/death of infected cells. A key question, with profound therapeutic implications, is whether this finding can be translated to the development of drugs that promot...

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

authors： Ebert G,Allison C,Preston S,Cooney J,Toe JG,Stutz MD,Ojaimi S,Baschuk N,Nachbur U,Torresi J,Silke J,Begley CG,Pellegrini M

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of phosphosylation and dephosphorylation of spectrin from human erythrocyte membranes has been examined under closely physiological conditions. The results support the hypothesis that spectrin is an autophosphorylating and dephosphorylating system. (i) Extraction from ghosts of up to 85% of the kinase (c...

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

authors： Imhof BA,Acha-Orbea HJ,Libermann TA,Reber BF,Lanz JH,Winterhalter KH,Birchmeier W

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of auditory sensitivity in terms of the cochlear potentials were made in young specimens of three species of crocodilians, Caiman crocodilus and Alligator mississipiensis of the subfamily Alligatorinae and Crocodylus acutus of the subfamily Crocodylinae. These species show considerable similarity in their...

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

authors： Wever EG

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of L-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.35) has been derived from electron-density maps calculated at 2.8-A resolution with phases obtained from two heavy-atom derivatives and the bound coenzyme, NAD. Like other dehydrogenases, 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase is a double-domain structure, but t...

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

authors： Birktoft JJ,Holden HM,Hamlin R,Xuong NH,Banaszak LJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the social skills of previously institutionalized, 8-y-old Romanian children from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project and the influence of attachment security and brain electrical activity (alpha power) on these skills. Participants included children randomized to an intervention involv...

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

authors： Almas AN,Degnan KA,Radulescu A,Nelson CA 3rd,Zeanah CH,Fox NA

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In normal messenger RNA for the human beta-globin chain, nucleotide sequences have been identified which can be matched to the amino-acid sequence of the abnormally long segment of the beta-chain of hemoglobin Cranston. The finding of these sequences strengthens the hypothesis that the betaCranston chain arose by a fr...

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

authors： Forget BG,Marotta CA,Weissman SM,Cohen-Solal M

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cardiac contraction by neurotransmitters and hormones is often correlated with regulation of the L-type Ca2(+)-channel current (ICa) through the opposite actions of two second messengers, cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP. While cyclic AMP stimulation of ICa is mediated by the activation of cyclic AMP-dependent ...

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

authors： Méry PF,Lohmann SM,Walter U,Fischmeister R

更新日期：1991-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences influence brain morphology and physiology during both development and aging. Here we apply a machine learning algorithm to a multiparametric brain PET imaging dataset acquired in a cohort of 20- to 82-year-old, cognitively normal adults (n = 205) to define their metabolic brain age. We find that throug...

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

authors： Goyal MS,Blazey TM,Su Y,Couture LE,Durbin TJ,Bateman RJ,Benzinger TL,Morris JC,Raichle ME,Vlassenko AG

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduced radioactive precursors directly into identified neurons of Aplysia californica. [(3)H]-Choline and L-[(3)H]tryptophan were injected with pressure into nerve cell bodies to study synthesis of acetylcholine and serotonin. We confirmed the cholinergic nature of R2, L10, and L11, identified neurons of the ab...

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

authors： Eisenstadt M,Goldman JE,Kandel ER,Koike H,Koester J,Schwartz JH

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells (MCs) are potent inflammatory cells that are distributed throughout mucosal barrier tissues and respond rapidly to pathogenic stimuli. During helminth infections, MCs play an important role as late-stage effectors. However, it is currently unknown whether MCs contribute to the early innate events that deter...

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

authors： Hepworth MR,Daniłowicz-Luebert E,Rausch S,Metz M,Klotz C,Maurer M,Hartmann S

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), etiologically associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, uses integrins (α3β1, αVβ3, and αVβ5) and associated signaling to enter human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HMVEC-d), an in vivo target of infection. KSHV infection activated c-Cbl, which induced the selective tra...

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

authors： Chakraborty S,Veettil MV,Bottero V,Chandran B

更新日期：2012-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A galanin receptor protein was solubilized with 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPS) from pig brain membranes and then purified by single-step affinity chromatography. The product exhibits saturable and specific binding for galanin with a binding activity of 17 nmol/mg of protein and a dis...

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

authors： Chen Y,Fournier A,Couvineau A,Laburthe M,Amiranoff B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal progenitors and tumor cells possess propensity to proliferate and to migrate. Glutamate regulates proliferation and migration of neurons during development, but it is not known whether it influences proliferation and migration of tumor cells. We demonstrate that glutamate antagonists inhibit proliferation of ...

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

authors： Rzeski W,Turski L,Ikonomidou C

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:CR1 is a short interspersed repetitive DNA element originally identified in the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus). However, unlike virtually all other such sequences described to date, CR1 is not confined to one or a few closely related species. It is probably a ubiquitous component of the avian genome, having been det...

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

authors： Chen ZQ,Ritzel RG,Lin CC,Hodgetts RB

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contractile forces are essential for many developmental processes involving cell shape change and tissue deformation. Recent experiments on reconstituted actomyosin networks, the major component of the contractile machinery, have shown that active contractility occurs above a threshold motor concentration and within a...

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

authors： Wang S,Wolynes PG

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD), characterized by cognitive decline, has emerged as a disease of synaptic failure. The present study reveals an unanticipated role of erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular A4 (EphA4) in mediating hippocampal synaptic dysfunctions in AD and demonstrates that blockade of the ligand-binding dom...

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

authors： Fu AK,Hung KW,Huang H,Gu S,Shen Y,Cheng EY,Ip FC,Huang X,Fu WY,Ip NY

更新日期：2014-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotic stress responses are critical not only to the survival of unicellular organisms but also to the normal function of the mammalian kidney. However, the extent to which cells outside the kidney rely on osmotic stress responses in vivo remains unknown. Nuclear factor of activated T cells 5 (NFAT5)/tonicity enhance...

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

authors： Go WY,Liu X,Roti MA,Liu F,Ho SN

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical speciation of arsenic in sediments and porewaters of aquifers is the critical factor that determines whether dissolved arsenic accumulates to potentially toxic levels. Sequestration of arsenic in solid phases, which may occur by adsorption or precipitation processes, controls dissolved concentrations. We ...

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

authors： O'Day PA,Vlassopoulos D,Root R,Rivera N

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a model system of purified components to explore the effects of a downstream target on the signaling properties of a covalent modification cycle, an example of retroactivity. In the experimental system used, a bifunctional enzyme catalyzed the modification and demodification of its substrate protein, with both...

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

authors： Ventura AC,Jiang P,Van Wassenhove L,Del Vecchio D,Merajver SD,Ninfa AJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NY-ESO-1 is a "cancer-testis" antigen frequently expressed in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and is among the most immunogenic tumor antigens defined to date. In an effort to understand in vivo tolerance mechanisms, we assessed the phenotype and function of NY-ESO-1-specific CD8(+) T cells derived from peripheral blo...

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

authors： Matsuzaki J,Gnjatic S,Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Beck A,Miller A,Tsuji T,Eppolito C,Qian F,Lele S,Shrikant P,Old LJ,Odunsi K

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinopathy of prematurity is a blinding disease, initiated by lack of retinal vascular growth after premature birth. We show that lack of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in knockout mice prevents normal retinal vascular growth, despite the presence of vascular endothelial growth factor, important to vessel devel...

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

authors： Hellstrom A,Perruzzi C,Ju M,Engstrom E,Hard AL,Liu JL,Albertsson-Wikland K,Carlsson B,Niklasson A,Sjodell L,LeRoith D,Senger DR,Smith LE

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00