Estradiol modulates the efficacy of synaptic inhibition by decreasing the dwell time of GABAA receptors at inhibitory synapses.

abstract：:The accuracy of dynamical models for reactive scattering of molecular hydrogen, H(2), from metal surfaces is relevant to the validation of first principles electronic structure methods for molecules interacting with metal surfaces. The ability to validate such methods is important to progress in modeling heterogeneous...

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

authors： Kroes GJ,Díaz C,Pijper E,Olsen RA,Auerbach DJ

更新日期：2010-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Using morphometrical methods, we investigated variation in the skeletons of more than 400 offspring of C57BL/6J and DBA/2J male mice that had received either a 250 mg/kg dose of the mutagen ethylnitrosourea or a solvent control. Sperm involved in the matings developed from cells in the spermatogonial stage at the time...

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

authors： Lovell DP,Willis DB,Johnson FM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a T cell-regulated, antibody-mediated autoimmune disease. Two peptides representing sequences of the human acetylcholine receptor alpha-subunit, p195-212 and p259-271, were previously shown to stimulate peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients with MG and were found to be immunodominant T cel...

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

authors： Katz-Levy Y,Paas-Rozner M,Kirshner S,Dayan M,Zisman E,Fridkin M,Wirguin I,Sela M,Mozes E

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To differentiate roles of androgen receptor (AR) in prostate stromal and epithelial cells, we have generated inducible-(ind)ARKO-TRAMP and prostate epithelial-specific ARKO TRAMP (pes-ARKO-TRAMP) mouse models, in which the AR was knocked down in both prostate epithelium and stroma or was knocked out in the prostate ep...

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

authors： Niu Y,Altuwaijri S,Yeh S,Lai KP,Yu S,Chuang KH,Huang SP,Lardy H,Chang C

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression, the most prevalent mental illness, is underdiagnosed and undertreated, highlighting the need to extend the scope of current screening methods. Here, we use language from Facebook posts of consenting individuals to predict depression recorded in electronic medical records. We accessed the history of Faceboo...

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

authors： Eichstaedt JC,Smith RJ,Merchant RM,Ungar LH,Crutchley P,Preoţiuc-Pietro D,Asch DA,Schwartz HA

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins, nucleic acids, and fluorescein-conjugated antibody are shown to be identifidable in situ via the fluorescence excited by the focused electron beam of a canning electron microscope. A molecular species is identified by its characteristic fluorescence spectrum and by a characteristic alteration of the spectrum...

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

authors： Hough PV,McKinney WR,Ledbeter MC,Pollack RE,Moos HW

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of chemical exchange in 2D IR heterodyne echo spectroscopy is characterized through the hydrogen-bond exchange between CH3OH and the CN of CH3CN. The exchange dynamics on the hydrogen-bond potential surfaces associated with different quantum states of the high-frequency CN stretching mode contributes t...

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

authors： Kim YS,Hochstrasser RM

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic lymphocytes eliminate virus-infected and cancerous cells by immune recognition and killing through the perforin-granzyme pathway. Traditional killing assays measure average target cell lysis at fixed times and high effector:target ratios. Such assays obscure kinetic details that might reveal novel physiology...

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

authors： Choi PJ,Mitchison TJ

更新日期：2013-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Death of pancreatic β cells is a pathological hallmark of type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, the molecular mechanisms of β cell death and its regulation are poorly understood. Here we describe a unique regulatory pathway of β cell death that comprises microRNA-21, its target tumor suppressor PDCD4, and its upstream trans...

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

authors： Ruan Q,Wang T,Kameswaran V,Wei Q,Johnson DS,Matschinsky F,Shi W,Chen YH

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:For taxonomic levels higher than species, the abundance distributions of the number of subtaxa per taxon tend to approximate power laws but often show strong deviations from such laws. Previously, these deviations were attributed to finite-time effects in a continuous-time branching process at the generic level. Inste...

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

authors： Chu J,Adami C

更新日期：1999-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an emerging cause of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), which frequently progresses to more serious invasive infections. We adapted a mouse model of CAUTI to investigate how catheterization increases an individual's susceptibility to MRSA UTI. Thi...

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

authors： Walker JN,Flores-Mireles AL,Pinkner CL,Schreiber HL 4th,Joens MS,Park AM,Potretzke AM,Bauman TM,Pinkner JS,Fitzpatrick JAJ,Desai A,Caparon MG,Hultgren SJ

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential eukaryotic pre-mRNA splicing factor U2AF (U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein auxiliary factor) is required to specify the 3' splice at an early step in spliceosome assembly. U2AF binds site-specifically to the intron polypyrimidine tract and recruits U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein to the branch site....

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

authors： Rudner DZ,Kanaar R,Breger KS,Rio DC

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystem services are supplied by nature but, by definition, are received by people. Ecosystem service assessments, intended to influence the decisions people make regarding their interactions with nature, need to understand how people benefit from different ecosystem services. A critical question is therefore, What ...

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

authors： Hicks CC,Cinner JE

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature immunologically competent dendritic cells are the most efficient antigen-presenting cells that powerfully activate T cells and initiate and sustain immune responses. Indeed, dendritic cells are able to efficiently capture antigens, express high levels of costimulatory molecules, and produce the combination of c...

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

authors： Quaratino S,Duddy LP,Londei M

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial extent of the cortical filters selective for different spatial frequencies and orientations is limited. We studied psychophysically how information from the local filters is integrated into global pattern shapes, i.e., whether performance in the identification of a global pattern consisting of small, local...

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

authors： Saarinen J,Levi DM,Shen B

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:GPIbalpha binding to von Willebrand factor (VWF) exposed at a site of vascular injury is thought to be the first step in the formation of a hemostatic plug. However, our previous studies in VWF-deficient mice demonstrated delayed but not absent arterial thrombus formation, suggesting that, under these conditions, GPIb...

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

authors： Bergmeier W,Piffath CL,Goerge T,Cifuni SM,Ruggeri ZM,Ware J,Wagner DD

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of resting CD4(+) T lymphocytes leads to rapid proliferation and differentiation into effector (Teff) or inducible regulatory (Treg) subsets with specific functions to promote or suppress immunity. Importantly, Teff and Treg use distinct metabolic programs to support subset specification, survival, and fun...

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

authors： Michalek RD,Gerriets VA,Nichols AG,Inoue M,Kazmin D,Chang CY,Dwyer MA,Nelson ER,Pollizzi KN,Ilkayeva O,Giguere V,Zuercher WJ,Powell JD,Shinohara ML,McDonnell DP,Rathmell JC

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the major folding intermediate, the transition state for folding, and the folded state of barnase have been previously characterized. We now add a further step toward a complete picture of the folding of barnase by reporting the backbone 15N, 13C, and 1H NMR assignments for barnase unfolded at pH 1.8...

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

authors： Arcus VL,Vuilleumier S,Freund SM,Bycroft M,Fersht AR

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nervous system, glucocorticosteroid hormones play a major role during development and adult life. Myelin-forming cells are among the targets of glucocorticosteroids, which have been shown to promote myelination both in the central and peripheral nervous system. Glucocorticosteroid-stimulated gene transcription ...

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

authors： Fonte C,Grenier J,Trousson A,Chauchereau A,Lahuna O,Baulieu EE,Schumacher M,Massaad C

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoblastoma-related (RBR) proteins regulate cell division in higher eukaryotes by controlling the adenovirus E2 promoter binding factor (E2F)/dimerization partner (DP) family of transcription factors that regulate expression of many genes involved in cell-cycle progression. We identified a previously undescribed me...

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

authors： Sabelli PA,Dante RA,Leiva-Neto JT,Jung R,Gordon-Kamm WJ,Larkins BA

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding latent-infection membrane protein 1 (LMP1) was specifically mutated in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) recombinants by inserting a nonsense linker after codon 9 or codon 84 or into an intron 186 bp 3' to the latter insertion site. EBV recombinants with the LMP1 intron mutation were wild type for LMP1 expres...

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

authors： Kaye KM,Izumi KM,Kieff E

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental property of ecosystems is a tradeoff between the number and size of habitats: as the number of habitats within a fixed area increases, the average area per habitat must decrease. This tradeoff is termed the "area-heterogeneity tradeoff." Theoretical models suggest that the reduction in habitat sizes unde...

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

authors： Ben-Hur E,Kadmon R

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell fusion was induced by brain extracts containing the scrapie virus and the virus of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The assay involved quantitation of colony-forming ability in a double selection system, strandardized against fusion induced by Sendai virus. Correlation between the logarithm of virus dilution and the hy...

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

authors： Kidson C,Moreau MC,Asher DM,Brown PW,Coon HG,Gajdusek DC,Gibbs CJ Jr

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural processes occur in a wide variety of animal taxa, from insects to cetaceans. The songs of humpback whales are one of the most striking examples of the transmission of a cultural trait and social learning in any nonhuman animal. To understand how songs are learned, we investigate rare cases of song hybridizati...

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

authors： Garland EC,Rendell L,Lamoni L,Poole MM,Noad MJ

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation of the human major histocompatibility complex class II genes requires at least two upstream elements, the X and Y boxes, located in the -50- to -150-base-pair region of all class II promoters. The DRA and DPB promoters contain phorbol ester-responsive elements overlapping the 3' side of thei...

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

authors： Ono SJ,Bazil V,Levi BZ,Ozato K,Strominger JL

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Public responses where identical T cell receptors (TCRs) are clonally dominant and shared between different individuals are a common characteristic of CD8(+) T cell-mediated immunity. Focusing on TCR sharing, we analyzed approximately 3,400 TCR beta chains (TCRbetas) from mouse CD8(+) T cells responding to the influen...

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

authors： Venturi V,Kedzierska K,Price DA,Doherty PC,Douek DC,Turner SJ,Davenport MP

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-polarized charge currents induce magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) switching by virtue of spin-transfer torque (STT). Recently, by taking advantage of the spin-dependent thermoelectric properties of magnetic materials, novel means of generating spin currents from temperature gradients, and their associated thermal-s...

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

authors： Pushp A,Phung T,Rettner C,Hughes BP,Yang SH,Parkin SS

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) is the prototype member of a distinctive subset of lymphotropic herpesviruses (the gamma 2 subgroup) with A+T-rich coding sequences. In this paper, we show that cells productively infected with HVS contain high concentrations of a virus-specified thymidylate synthase (5,10-methylenetetrahydro...

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

authors： Honess RW,Bodemer W,Cameron KR,Niller HH,Fleckenstein B,Randall RE

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photonic materials with positionally ordered structure can interact strongly with light to produce brilliant structural colors. Here, we found that the nonperiodic nematic liquid crystals of nanoplates can also display structural color with only significant orientational order. Owing to the loose stacking of the nemat...

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

authors： Zeng M,King D,Huang D,Do C,Wang L,Chen M,Lei S,Lin P,Chen Y,Cheng Z

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is demonstrated that, properly represented, the amino acid composition of protein sequences contains the information necessary to delineate the global properties of protein structure space. A numerical representation of amino acid sequence in terms of a set of property factors is used, and the values of those prope...

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

authors： Rackovsky S

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00