Using caged neurotransmitters.

abstract：:The dopamine-containing projection from the ventral tegmental area of the midbrain to the nucleus accumbens is critically involved in mediating the reinforcing properties of cocaine. Although neurons in this area respond to rewards on a subsecond timescale, neurochemical studies have only addressed the role of dopamin...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Phillips PE,Stuber GD,Heien ML,Wightman RM,Carelli RM

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear envelope defines a compartment boundary which is penetrated by pores that mediate a remarkable transport process. Precursor RNAs are retained in the nucleus, while processed messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal subunits are transported to the cytoplasm. Proteins destined for the nucleus become localiz...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Goldfarb DS,Gariépy J,Schoolnik G,Kornberg RD

更新日期：1986-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Countless millions of people have died from tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus. The complete genome sequence of the best-characterized strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, H37Rv, has been determined and analysed in order to improve our understanding of the biology of this slow-...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Cole ST,Brosch R,Parkhill J,Garnier T,Churcher C,Harris D,Gordon SV,Eiglmeier K,Gas S,Barry CE 3rd,Tekaia F,Badcock K,Basham D,Brown D,Chillingworth T,Connor R,Davies R,Devlin K,Feltwell T,Gentles S,Hamlin N,Hol

更新日期：1998-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma, the most common paediatric solid tumour, arises from defective neural crest cells. Genetic alterations occur frequently in the most aggressive neuroblastomas. In particular, deletion or suppression of the proapoptotic enzyme caspase-8 is common in malignant, disseminated disease, although the effect of ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Stupack DG,Teitz T,Potter MD,Mikolon D,Houghton PJ,Kidd VJ,Lahti JM,Cheresh DA

更新日期：2006-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreceptors of the vertebrate retina hyperpolarize in response to light. The hyperpolarization elicited by a brief flash is approximately ten times slower in rods than in cones of the same retina. We have examined the amplification and temporal properties of synaptic transfer of rod and cone signals to a common pos...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Schnapf JL,Copenhagen DR

更新日期：1982-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN) or genomic alterations in the phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase-signalling pathway are the most common genetic alterations reported in human prostate cancer. However, the precise mechanism underlying how indolent tumours with PTEN alterations acquire metastatic poten...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Qin J,Wu SP,Creighton CJ,Dai F,Xie X,Cheng CM,Frolov A,Ayala G,Lin X,Feng XH,Ittmann MM,Tsai SJ,Tsai MJ,Tsai SY

更新日期：2013-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of their primary structure, the lysine-rich histones are a unified family of proteins. Each has an amino acid chain which falls into three distinct domains. Only the central domain (approximately 80 residues) is in a folded conformation. It is protected from trypsin digestion in chromatin and corresponds ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Allan J,Hartman PG,Crane-Robinson C,Aviles FX

更新日期：1980-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic manipulations of insect populations for pest control have been advocated for some time, but there are few cases where manipulated individuals have been released in the field and no cases where they have successfully invaded target populations. Population transformation using the intracellular bacterium Wolbach...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hoffmann AA,Montgomery BL,Popovici J,Iturbe-Ormaetxe I,Johnson PH,Muzzi F,Greenfield M,Durkan M,Leong YS,Dong Y,Cook H,Axford J,Callahan AG,Kenny N,Omodei C,McGraw EA,Ryan PA,Ritchie SA,Turelli M,O'Neill SL

更新日期：2011-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The identical structure of two racially distinct alpha 1-globin alleles and the high degree of homology between the alpha 1- and alpha 2-globin loci indicate that mechanisms exist for suppression of allelic polymorphisms and for exchange of genetic information within the alpha-globin gene complex. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Liebhaber SA,Goossens M,Kan YW

更新日期：1981-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The classical theory of solids, based on the quantum mechanics of single electrons moving in periodic potentials, provides an excellent description of substances ranging from semiconducting silicon to superconducting aluminium. Over the last fifteen years, it has become increasingly clear that there are substances for...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yeh A,Soh YA,Brooke J,Aeppli G,Rosenbaum TF,Hayden SM

更新日期：2002-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilia B, or Christmas disease, is an inherited X-chromosome-linked bleeding disorder caused by a defect in clotting factor IX and occurs in about 1 in 30,000 males in the United Kingdom. Injection of factor IX concentrate obtained from blood donors allows most patients to be successfully managed. However, becaus...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Anson DS,Austen DE,Brownlee GG

更新日期：1985-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of neurite processes from the cell body is the critical step in neuronal development and involves a large increase in cell membrane surface area. Arachidonic-acid-releasing phospholipases are highly enriched in nerve growth cones and have previously been implicated in neurite outgrowth. Cell membrane expansion ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Darios F,Davletov B

更新日期：2006-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioural studies and field observations demonstrate that echolocating bats simultaneously perceive range, direction and shape of multiple objects in the environment as acoustic images derived from echoes. Cortical echo delay-tuned neurons contribute to the perception of object range, because focal inactivation of t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dear SP,Simmons JA,Fritz J

更新日期：1993-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-binding repressor proteins mediate regulation of yeast genes by cell type (Mcm1/alpha 2 and a1/alpha 2), glucose (Mig1) and oxygen (Rox1) (refs 1-4 respectively). An unusual feature of all these regulatory pathways is that transcriptional repression requires two physically associated proteins that do not bind DNA ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tzamarias D,Struhl K

更新日期：1994-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission of most vertebrate synapses is thought to be terminated by rapid transport of the neurotransmitter into presynaptic nerve terminals or neuroglia. L-Glutamate is the major excitatory transmitter in brain and its transport represents the mechanism by which it is removed from the synaptic cleft and ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pines G,Danbolt NC,Bjørås M,Zhang Y,Bendahan A,Eide L,Koepsell H,Storm-Mathisen J,Seeberg E,Kanner BI

更新日期：1992-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila, as in mammals, epidermal differentiation is controlled by signalling cascades that include Wnt proteins and the ovo/shavenbaby (svb) family of zinc-finger transcription factors. Ovo/svb is a complex gene with two genetic functions corresponding to separate control regions: ovo is required for female ger...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Payre F,Vincent A,Carreno S

更新日期：1999-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Water masers are found in dense molecular clouds closely associated with supermassive black holes at the centres of active galaxies. On the basis of the understanding of the local water-maser luminosity function, it was expected that masers at intermediate and high redshifts would be extremely rare. However, galaxies ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Impellizzeri CM,McKean JP,Castangia P,Roy AL,Henkel C,Brunthaler A,Wucknitz O

更新日期：2008-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Midbrain dopamine neurons are activated by reward or sensory stimuli predicting reward. These excitatory responses increase as the reward value increases. This response property has led to a hypothesis that dopamine neurons encode value-related signals and are inhibited by aversive events. Here we show that this is tr...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Matsumoto M,Hikosaka O

更新日期：2009-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Ca2+ signalling processes are fundamental to muscle contraction, neurotransmitter release, cell growth and apoptosis. Release of Ca2+ from the intracellular stores is supported by a series of ion channels in sarcoplasmic or endoplasmic reticulum (SR/ER). Among them, two isoforms of the trimeric intracell...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yang H,Hu M,Guo J,Ou X,Cai T,Liu Z

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to acting as template for protein synthesis, messenger RNA (mRNA) often contains sensory sequence elements that regulate this process. Here we report a new mechanism that limits the number of complete protein molecules that can be synthesized from a single mRNA molecule of the human AMD1 gene encoding aden...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yordanova MM,Loughran G,Zhdanov AV,Mariotti M,Kiniry SJ,O'Connor PBF,Andreev DE,Tzani I,Saffert P,Michel AM,Gladyshev VN,Papkovsky DB,Atkins JF,Baranov PV

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is the deposition of amyloid fibrils in the brain. The principal component of amyloid fibrils is beta/A4 amyloid protein, which can be generated by the aberrant processing of a large membrane-bound glycoprotein, the beta/A4 amyloid protein precursor (APP)3. To test whethe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Yoshikawa K,Aizawa T,Hayashi Y

更新日期：1992-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chameleons are arboral lizards that spot their prey visually and catch it by highly precise shots with their long sticky tongue. They scan their environment by large-amplitude independent saccadic eye movements; once an insect is detected, the head axis is aligned towards the target ('head tracking', both eyes come fo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ott M,Schaeffel F

更新日期：1995-02-23 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：:Mutations in the transcription factor FOXA1 define a unique subset of prostate cancers but the functional consequences of these mutations and whether they confer gain or loss of function is unknown1-9. Here, by annotating the landscape of FOXA1 mutations from 3,086 human prostate cancers, we define two hotspots in the...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Adams EJ,Karthaus WR,Hoover E,Liu D,Gruet A,Zhang Z,Cho H,DiLoreto R,Chhangawala S,Liu Y,Watson PA,Davicioni E,Sboner A,Barbieri CE,Bose R,Leslie CS,Sawyers CL

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecules capable of mimicking the function of a wide range of mechanical devices have been fabricated, with motors that can induce mechanical movement attracting particular attention. Such molecular motors convert light or chemical energy into directional rotary or linear motion, and are usually prepared and operated...

journal_title：Nature

authors： van Delden RA,ter Wiel MK,Pollard MM,Vicario J,Koumura N,Feringa BL

更新日期：2005-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Gradual accumulation of evidence is thought to be fundamental for decision-making, and its neural correlates have been found in several brain regions. Here we develop a generalizable method to measure tuning curves that specify the relationship between neural responses and mentally accumulated evidence, and apply it t...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hanks TD,Kopec CD,Brunton BW,Duan CA,Erlich JC,Brody CD

更新日期：2015-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The masses of the supermassive black holes found in galaxy bulges are correlated with a multitude of galaxy properties, leading to suggestions that galaxies and black holes may evolve together. The number of reliably measured black-hole masses is small, and the number of methods for measuring them is limited, holding ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Davis TA,Bureau M,Cappellari M,Sarzi M,Blitz L

更新日期：2013-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenesis in sickle cell disease depends on the polymerization of deoxyhaemoglobin S into long fibres followed by 'gel' formation. The 'gelation' renders the affected erythrocytes less deformable than normal so that they obstruct the microvasculature and the 'gelation' process has been one of the targets for the de...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Briehl RW

更新日期：1980-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of multipotential stem cells in long-term murine bone marrow cell culture is known to depend on the development of an adherent stromal cell layer. In these conditions, restricted haematopoietic progenitor cells have also been generated for up to several months1-3. However, maturation is observed only in th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Wendling F,Shreeve MM,McLeod DL,Axelrad AA

更新日期：1983-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstellar dust plays a crucial role in the evolution of the Universe by assisting the formation of molecules, by triggering the formation of the first low-mass stars, and by absorbing stellar ultraviolet-optical light and subsequently re-emitting it at infrared/millimetre wavelengths. Dust is thought to be produced...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Maiolino R,Schneider R,Oliva E,Bianchi S,Ferrara A,Mannucci F,Pedani M,Sogorb MR

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00