Distinct facial expressions represent pain and pleasure across cultures.

abstract：:Observing the structure and regeneration of the myelin sheath in peripheral nerves following injury and during repair would help in understanding the pathogenesis and treatment of neurological diseases caused by an abnormal myelin sheath. In the present study, transmission electron microscopy, immunofluorescence stain...

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

authors： Liu B,Xin W,Tan JR,Zhu RP,Li T,Wang D,Kan SS,Xiong DK,Li HH,Zhang MM,Sun HH,Wagstaff W,Zhou C,Wang ZJ,Zhang YG,He TC

更新日期：2019-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Locomotion of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a key observable used in investigations ranging from behavior to neuroscience to aging. However, while the natural environment of this model organism is 3D, quantitative investigations of its locomotion have been mostly limited to 2D motion. Here, we present a quant...

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

authors： Bilbao A,Patel AK,Rahman M,Vanapalli SA,Blawzdziewicz J

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe hearing loss during early development is associated with deficits in speech and language acquisition. Although functional studies have shown a deafness-induced alteration of synaptic strength, it is not known whether long-term synaptic plasticity depends on auditory experience. In this study, sensorineural hear...

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

authors： Kotak VC,Breithaupt AD,Sanes DH

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanosine tetraphosphate, recently discovered to mediate the regulatory relationship between protein synthesis and RNA accumulation in various bacteria, has been synthesized in vitro in large quantities and analyzed by natural-abundance (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in order to confirm its structure an...

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

authors： Que L Jr,Willie GR,Cashel M,Bodley JW,Gray GR

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementation of the plasmin fragments of reduced-carbamoylmethylated (Cam) human somatotropin (hGH) with those of reduced-carbamoylmethylated human chorionic somatomammotropin (hCS) have been investigated. It was found that the recombinant obtained by noncovalent interaction of [Cys(Cam)53]hGH-(1-134) with [Cys(Cam...

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

authors： Li CH

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the size and location of nephrin, the first protein to be identified at the glomerular podocyte slit diaphragm. In Western blots, nephrin antibodies generated against the two terminal extracellular Ig domains of recombinant human nephrin recognized a 180-kDa protein in lysates of human glomeruli and a...

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

authors： Ruotsalainen V,Ljungberg P,Wartiovaara J,Lenkkeri U,Kestilä M,Jalanko H,Holmberg C,Tryggvason K

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much of the brain's functional organization is genetically predetermined, it appears that some noninnate functions can come to depend on dedicated and segregated neural tissue. In this paper, we describe a series of experiments that have investigated the neural development and organization of one such noninna...

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

authors： Polk TA,Farah MJ

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenies describe the origins and history of species. However, they can also help to predict species' fates and so can be useful tools for managing the future of biodiversity. This article starts by sketching how phylogenetic, geographic, and trait information can be combined to elucidate present mammalian diversit...

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

authors： Davies TJ,Fritz SA,Grenyer R,Orme CD,Bielby J,Bininda-Emonds OR,Cardillo M,Jones KE,Gittleman JL,Mace GM,Purvis A

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In epidemiological studies, both positive and negative correlations have been found between cardiovascular disease and mortality and the presence of several inorganic ions in the drinking water. In an attempt to resolve this apparent disagreement, we exposed White Carneau pigeons to drinking water containing calcium (...

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

authors： Revis NW,Zinsmeister AR,Bull R

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junctions (TJs) play a key role in mediating paracellular ion reabsorption in the kidney. The paracellular pathway in the collecting duct of the kidney is a predominant route for transepithelial chloride reabsorption that determines the extracellular NaCl content and the blood pressure. However, the molecular me...

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

authors： Hou J,Renigunta A,Yang J,Waldegger S

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor-like tyrosine kinase (Ryk), a Wnt receptor, is important for cell fate determination during corticogenesis. During neuronal differentiation, the Ryk intracellular domain (ICD) is cleaved. Cleavage of Ryk and nuclear translocation of Ryk-ICD are required for neuronal differentiation. However, the mechanism...

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

authors： Chang WH,Choi SH,Moon BS,Cai M,Lyu J,Bai J,Gao F,Hajjali I,Zhao Z,Campbell DB,Weiner LP,Lu W

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic partitioning is predicted to be a general mechanism for proteins to fold into their well defined native three-dimensional structure from unfolded states following multiple folding pathways. However, experimental evidence supporting this mechanism is still limited. By using single-molecule atomic force microsco...

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

authors： Peng Q,Li H

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic epithelial cells (TECs), the major component of the thymic microenvironment, can be modulated by pituitary hormones. We have shown previously that prolactin (PRL) can influence the endocrine activity of TECs and stimulate TEC proliferation as well as cytokeratin expression, suggesting the existence of PRL recep...

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

authors： Dardenne M,Kelly PA,Bach JF,Savino W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unique multicomponent vaccine against serogroup B meningococci incorporates the novel genome-derived proteins fHbp, NHBA, and NadA that may vary in sequence and level of expression. Measuring the effectiveness of such vaccines, using the accepted correlate of protection against invasive meningococcal disease, could ...

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

authors： Donnelly J,Medini D,Boccadifuoco G,Biolchi A,Ward J,Frasch C,Moxon ER,Stella M,Comanducci M,Bambini S,Muzzi A,Andrews W,Chen J,Santos G,Santini L,Boucher P,Serruto D,Pizza M,Rappuoli R,Giuliani MM

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In mouse and human, the beta-globin genes reside in a linear array that is associated with a positive regulatory element located 5' to the genes known as the locus control region (LCR). The sequences of the mouse and human beta-globin LCRs are homologous, indicating conservation of an essential function in beta-globin...

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

authors： Bulger M,van Doorninck JH,Saitoh N,Telling A,Farrell C,Bender MA,Felsenfeld G,Axel R,Groudine M

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-kDa glycoprotein has been described recently, whose synthesis is dramatically increased after injury of the rat sciatic and optic nerves. Cells in the nerve sheath, distal to the site of injury, produce and secrete large amounts of this protein, so that by 3 weeks after injury, it represents 2-5% of the total sol...

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

authors： Ignatius MJ,Gebicke-Härter PJ,Skene JH,Schilling JW,Weisgraber KH,Mahley RW,Shooter EM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparations of partially purified chloroplast DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from maize and some other plants transcribe cloned chloroplast genes preferentially and much more actively from appropriately negatively supercoiled templates than from relaxed templates. We have found that the polymerase in such fractions doe...

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

authors： Zaitlin D,Hu J,Bogorad L

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ADP analog carrying a biotin moiety and a photoreactive group was synthesized. In the presence of vanadate ion (Vi), the analog was tightly trapped into the ATPase site of heavy meromyosin (HMM) or myosin subfragment 1 (S1) in an ADP analog/ATPase site molar ratio of 1:1. UV illumination on the HMM (or S1)-Vi-ADP a...

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

authors： Sutoh K,Yamamoto K,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal trefoil factor (ITF) is an essential regulator of colonic epithelial restitution, the rapid migration of colonocytes over mucosal wounds. High levels of ITF are frequently present in colorectal cancers and derived cell lines. Mucosal restitution requires the detachment of epithelium from substrate, which wo...

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

authors： Taupin DR,Kinoshita K,Podolsky DK

更新日期：2000-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The baculovirus Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV, which is representative of the MNPV subtype in which the virions may contain many nucleocapsids within a single viral envelope) encodes a protein, v-ubi, that has 76% identity with the eukaryotic protein ubiquitin. Transcriptional mapping indic...

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

authors： Guarino LA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical analysis of the formation of hemolytic plaques in agar is presented. The results can be used to calculate the rate constant for antigen-antibody association and the distribution of antibody secretion rates. The limitations of the treatment and estimates of the expected errors involved are briefly discus...

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

authors： De Lisi CP,Bell GI

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urea (200-400 milliosmolar) activates transcription, translation of, and trans-activation by the immediate-early gene transcription factor Egr-1 in a renal epithelial cell-specific fashion. The effect at the transcriptional level has been attributed to multiple serum response elements and their adjacent Ets motifs loc...

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

authors： Cohen DM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of contrast enhancement of tumors using magnetic resonance imaging was investigated in MCF7 human breast cancer implanted in nude mice. Dynamic contrast-enhanced images recorded at high spatial resolution were analyzed by an image analysis method based on a physiological model, which included the blood c...

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

authors： Furman-Haran E,Margalit R,Grobgeld D,Degani H

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute-phase plasma protein that functions in innate immunity and lipid homeostasis. SAA is a protein precursor of reactive AA amyloidosis, the major complication of chronic inflammation and one of the most common human systemic amyloid diseases worldwide. Most circulating SAA is protected f...

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

authors： Jayaraman S,Gantz DL,Haupt C,Gursky O

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have indicated that mammalian cells contain a cytosolic protein disaggregation machinery comprised of Hsc70, DnaJ homologs, and Hsp110 proteins, the last of which acts to accelerate a rate-limiting step of nucleotide exchange of Hsc70. We tested the ability of transgenic overexpression of a Thy1 promote...

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

authors： Nagy M,Fenton WA,Li D,Furtak K,Horwich AL

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtractive library construction and differential screening were used to identify a cDNA for a cell type-specific immediate early gene induced in rat PC12 pheochromocytoma cells. Sequencing identified the protein product of this gene as rat synaptotagmin IV (SytIV). Synaptotagmins are synaptic vesicle proteins thought...

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

authors： Vician L,Lim IK,Ferguson G,Tocco G,Baudry M,Herschman HR

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized seven murine retinoic acid receptor gamma cDNA isoforms (mRAR-gamma 1 to -gamma 7) generated by alternative splicing of at least seven exons. These isoforms differ from one another in their 5' untranslated region and in two cases (mRAR-gamma 1 and -gamma 2) differ in their N-terminal A region, wh...

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

authors： Kastner P,Krust A,Mendelsohn C,Garnier JM,Zelent A,Leroy P,Staub A,Chambon P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), the principal signaling receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in mammals, requires the binding of MD-2 to its extracellular domain for maximal responsiveness. MD-2 contains a leader sequence but lacks a transmembrane domain, and we asked whether it is secreted into the medium as an active ...

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

authors： Visintin A,Mazzoni A,Spitzer JA,Segal DM

更新日期：2001-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the mechanical separation of the two complementary strands of a single molecule of bacteriophage lambda DNA. The 3' and 5' extremities on one end of the molecule are pulled progressively apart, and this leads to the opening of the double helix. The typical forces along the opening are in the range of 10-15...

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

authors： Essevaz-Roulet B,Bockelmann U,Heslot F

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory speech perception enables listeners to access phonological categories from speech sounds. During speech production and speech motor learning, speakers' experience matched auditory and somatosensory input. Accordingly, access to phonetic units might also be provided by somatosensory information. The present st...

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

authors： Patri JF,Ostry DJ,Diard J,Schwartz JL,Trudeau-Fisette P,Savariaux C,Perrier P

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00