Cyclic AMP-dependent plasticity underlies rapid changes in odor coding associated with reward learning.

abstract：:Certain cognitive functions differ in men and women, although the anatomical and functional substrates underlying these differences remain unknown. Because neocortical activity is directly related with higher brain function, numerous studies have focused on the cerebral cortex when searching for possible structural co...

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

authors： Alonso-Nanclares L,Gonzalez-Soriano J,Rodriguez JR,DeFelipe J

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells (PCC) have an exceptional propensity to metastasize early into intratumoral, chemokine-secreting nerves. However, we hypothesized the opposite process, that precancerous pancreatic cells secrete chemokines that chemoattract Schwann cells (SC) of nerves and thus induce read...

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

authors： Demir IE,Kujundzic K,Pfitzinger PL,Saricaoglu ÖC,Teller S,Kehl T,Reyes CM,Ertl LS,Miao Z,Schall TJ,Tieftrunk E,Haller B,Diakopoulos KN,Kurkowski MU,Lesina M,Krüger A,Algül H,Friess H,Ceyhan GO

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination is the most effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated a large part of the infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A recent study concluded that since 1924 in the United States alone, vaccines have prevented 40 million ca...

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

authors： Rappuoli R,Pizza M,Del Giudice G,De Gregorio E

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the principles that has emerged from experimental evolutionary studies of microorganisms is that polymorphic alleles or new mutations can sometimes possess a latent potential to respond to selection in different environments, although the alleles may be functionally equivalent or disfavored under typical condit...

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

authors： Stebbins GL,Hartl DL

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+)-channel inactivation is proposed to occur by binding of an intracellular inactivation gate to a hydrophobic inactivation gate receptor in the intracellular mouth of the pore. Amino acid residues in transmembrane segment S6 of domain IV (IVS6) that are critical for fast inactivation were identified by alanine-sca...

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

authors： McPhee JC,Ragsdale DS,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta plays a pivotal role in regulation of progression of cancer through effects on tumor microenvironment as well as on cancer cells. TGF-beta inhibitors have recently been shown to prevent the growth and metastasis of certain cancers. However, there may be adverse effects caused by T...

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

authors： Kano MR,Bae Y,Iwata C,Morishita Y,Yashiro M,Oka M,Fujii T,Komuro A,Kiyono K,Kaminishi M,Hirakawa K,Ouchi Y,Nishiyama N,Kataoka K,Miyazono K

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional asymmetric PCR is inefficient and difficult to optimize because limiting the concentration of one primer lowers its melting temperature below the reaction annealing temperature. Linear-After-The-Exponential (LATE)-PCR describes a new paradigm for primer design that renders assays as efficient as symmetric...

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

authors： Sanchez JA,Pierce KE,Rice JE,Wangh LJ

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a cDNA clone, called Dmyd for Drosophila myogenic-determination gene, that encodes a protein with structural and functional characteristics similar to the members of the vertebrate MyoD family. Dmyd clone encodes a polypeptide of 332 amino acids with 82% identity to MyoD in the 41 amino acids of the p...

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

authors： Paterson BM,Walldorf U,Eldridge J,Dübendorfer A,Frasch M,Gehring WJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p-Coumaric acid is the precursor of phenylpropanoids, which are plant secondary metabolites that are beneficial to human health. Tyrosine ammonia lyase catalyzes the production of p-coumaric acid from tyrosine. Because of their photosynthetic ability and biosynthetic versatility, cyanobacteria are promising candidates...

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

authors： Xue Y,Zhang Y,Cheng D,Daddy S,He Q

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MARCKS protein is a widely distributed cellular substrate for protein kinase C. It is a myristoylprotein that binds calmodulin and actin in a manner reversible by protein kinase C-dependent phosphorylation. It is also highly expressed in nervous tissue, particularly during development. To evaluate a possible devel...

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

authors： Stumpo DJ,Bock CB,Tuttle JS,Blackshear PJ

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-shock protein of 90 kDa (Hsp90) is an essential molecular chaperone that adopts different 3D structures associated with distinct nucleotide states: a wide-open, V-shaped dimer in the apo state and a twisted, N-terminally closed dimer with ATP. Although the N domain is known to mediate ATP binding, how Hsp90 sense...

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

authors： Sung N,Lee J,Kim JH,Chang C,Joachimiak A,Lee S,Tsai FT

更新日期：2016-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that incubation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) with cultured endothelial cells (EC) converts it to a new form (EC-modified LDL) that is now recognized by a specific receptor on macrophages (the acetyl LDL receptor) and is taken up and degraded 3-10 times more rapidly than native LDL...

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

authors： Parthasarathy S,Steinbrecher UP,Barnett J,Witztum JL,Steinberg D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split GFPs have been widely applied for monitoring protein-protein interactions by expressing GFPs as two or more constituent parts linked to separate proteins that only fluoresce on complementing with one another. Although this complementation is typically irreversible, it has been shown previously that light acceler...

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

authors： Lin CY,Both J,Do K,Boxer SG

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been implicated in a variety of physiological and pathological processes, including cancer. In prostate cancer, prostate cancer gene expression marker 1 (PCGEM1) is an androgen-induced prostate-specific lncRNA whose overexpression is highly associated with prostate tumors. PCGEM1's t...

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

authors： Hung CL,Wang LY,Yu YL,Chen HW,Srivastava S,Petrovics G,Kung HJ

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent vital dye rhodamine 123 (Rh-123), which preferentially accumulates in mitochondrial membranes, can be used as a probe to indicate mitochondrial and hence cellular activity. In this study, mouse bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells were subdivided into Rh-123lo, Rh-123med, and Rh-123hi populations. The ...

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

authors： Spangrude GJ,Johnson GR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic AChRs (nAChRs) represent a paradigm for ligand-gated ion channels. Despite intensive studies over many years, our understanding of the mechanisms of activation and inhibition for nAChRs is still incomplete. Here, we present molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the alpha7 nAChR ligand-binding domain, both i...

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

authors： Yi M,Tjong H,Zhou HX

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about how animals discriminate pathogens from innocuous microbes. To address this question, we examined infection-response gene induction in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We focused on genes that are induced in C. elegans by infection with the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but ...

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

authors： Estes KA,Dunbar TL,Powell JR,Ausubel FM,Troemel ER

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal kidney cell tumors develop in rats given the alkylating agent N-nitroso-N'-methylurea as neonates. These tumors resemble the childhood Wilms tumors in their histopathology. Deletions and mutations in the Wilms tumor suppressor gene, WT1, are present in up to 6% of childhood nephroblastomas. To investigate th...

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

authors： Sharma PM,Bowman M,Yu BF,Sukumar S

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) is a 42-amino acid gastrointestinal regulatory peptide that stimulates insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells in the presence of glucose. Approximately 7.8 x 10(5) recombinant clones of a neonatal rat intestinal cDNA library were screened by using plaque hybridizati...

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

authors： Tseng CC,Jarboe LA,Landau SB,Williams EK,Wolfe MM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtain a classification of the irreducible (nonunitary) representations of a connected semisimple Lie group G, in terms of their restriction to a maximal compact subgroup K of G. (A classification in terms of analytic properties of the representations has been given by R. P. Langlands [(1973), mimeographed notes, I...

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

authors： Vogan DA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported that proteasome inhibitors were able to overcome Bcl-2-mediated protection from apoptosis. Here we show that inhibition of the proteasome activity in Bcl-2-overexpressing cells accumulates the proapoptotic Bax protein to mitochondria/cytoplasm, where it interacts to Bcl-2 protein. This event was...

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

authors： Li B,Dou QP

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection is a major complication of implantable medical devices, which provide a scaffold for biofilm formation, thereby reducing susceptibility to antibiotics and complicating treatment. Hematogenous implant-related infections following bacteremia are particularly problematic because they can occur at any time in a ...

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

authors： Wang Y,Cheng LI,Helfer DR,Ashbaugh AG,Miller RJ,Tzomides AJ,Thompson JM,Ortines RV,Tsai AS,Liu H,Dillen CA,Archer NK,Cohen TS,Tkaczyk C,Stover CK,Sellman BR,Miller LS

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The primitive neurohypophyseal nonapeptide oxytocin (OXT) has established functions in parturition, lactation, appetite, and social behavior. We have shown that OXT has direct actions on the mammalian skeleton, stimulating bone formation by osteoblasts and modulating the genesis and function of bone-resorbing osteocla...

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

authors： Sun L,Lizneva D,Ji Y,Colaianni G,Hadelia E,Gumerova A,Ievleva K,Kuo TC,Korkmaz F,Ryu V,Rahimova A,Gera S,Taneja C,Khan A,Ahmad N,Tamma R,Bian Z,Zallone A,Kim SM,New MI,Iqbal J,Yuen T,Zaidi M

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The rotational strengths of the four longer wavelength transitions, B(2u), B(1u), and the two E(1u), of adenosine derivatives constrained in the syn form have been investigated theoretically and experimentally. The theory combines a complete neglect of differential overlap version S (CNDO/S) description of the base wi...

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

authors： Miles DW,Farmer M,Eyring H

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, a large body of research has demonstrated that judgments and behaviors can propagate from person to person. Phenomena as diverse as political mobilization, health practices, altruism, and emotional states exhibit similar dynamics of social contagion. The precise mechanisms of judgment propagation are ...

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

authors： Moussaïd M,Herzog SM,Kämmer JE,Hertwig R

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanobacteria-like objects evidenced at the surface of the orthopyroxenes of the Tataouine meteorite in South Tunisia have been studied by scanning and transmission electron microscopies. A method of micromanipulation has been developed to ensure that exactly the same objects were studied by both methods. We have shown...

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

authors： Benzerara K,Menguy N,Guyot F,Dominici C,Gillet P

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanadyl sulfate and sodium orthovanadate in the concentration range between 5 and 50 microM are shown to be mitogenic for quiescent cultures of Swiss mouse 3T3 and 3T6 cells. The compounds caused a striking shift in the dose-response for the effect of serum on [3H]thymidine incorporation and DNA synthesis. In the abse...

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

authors： Smith JB

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an era of large-scale science-related challenges and rapid advancements in groundbreaking science with major societal implications, communicating about science is critical. The profile of science communication has increased over the last few decades, with multiple sectors calling for such activities. As scientists ...

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

authors： Rose KM,Markowitz EM,Brossard D

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Anisotropic expansion of plant cells requires organized arrays of cortical microtubules. Mutations in microtubule-associated proteins and a particular mutation in alpha-tubulins were reported to cause abnormal microtubule arrays and result in helical growth in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, the way in which these muta...

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

authors： Ishida T,Kaneko Y,Iwano M,Hashimoto T

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The goldfish (Carassius auratus) visual pathway displays continuous growth and plasticity throughout life. Since homeobox genes are important transcriptional regulators in development, we searched for homeobox genes in the adult goldfish retina and brain. Using the PCR, we discovered a repertoire of homeobox sequences...

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

authors： Levine EM,Schechter N

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00