Two distinct profiles of fMRI and neurophysiological activity elicited by acetylcholine in visual cortex.

abstract：:Diminished Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling is associated with the most common forebrain defect in humans, holoprosencephaly (HPE), which includes cyclopia, a phenotype also seen in mice and other vertebrates with defective Shh signaling. The secreted protein Shh acts as a crucial factor that patterns the ventral forebr...

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

authors： Roessler E,Du YZ,Mullor JL,Casas E,Allen WP,Gillessen-Kaesbach G,Roeder ER,Ming JE,Ruiz i Altaba A,Muenke M

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes mellitus was tested in the nonobese mouse (NOD) model system. The effects of TNF-alpha were assessed on three levels: (i) insulitis development, (ii) development of overt diabetes, (iii) adoptive transfer of diabetes by sple...

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

authors： Jacob CO,Aiso S,Michie SA,McDevitt HO,Acha-Orbea H

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cat tongue is covered in sharp, rear-facing spines called papillae, the precise function of which is a mystery. In this combined experimental and theoretical study, we use high-speed film, grooming force measurements, and computed tomography (CT) scanning to elucidate the mechanism by which papillae are used to gr...

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

authors： Noel AC,Hu DL

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:High-valent iron-oxo species are thought to be intermediates in the catalytic cycles of oxygenases and peroxidases. An attractive route to these iron-oxo intermediates involves laser flash-quench oxidation of ferric hemes, as demonstrated by our work on the ferryl (compound II) and ferryl porphyrin radical cation (com...

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

authors： Ener ME,Lee YT,Winkler JR,Gray HB,Cheruzel L

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal mammary epithelial cells from BALB/cfC3H midpregnant mice were freed from stromal cell types by Percoll density gradient centrifugation after collagenase digestion and were then embedded within collagen gels. Sustained growth leading to an increase in cell number was accomplished in response to cholera toxin an...

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

authors： Yang J,Richards J,Guzman R,Imagawa W,Nandi S

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotaviruses are the single most common cause of fatal and severe childhood diarrheal illness worldwide (>125 million cases annually). Rotavirus shares structural and functional features with many viruses, such as the presence of segmented double-stranded RNA genomes selectively and tightly packed with a conserved numb...

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

authors： Periz J,Celma C,Jing B,Pinkney JN,Roy P,Kapanidis AN

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by the presence of abundant desmoplastic stroma primarily composed of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). It is generally accepted that CAFs stimulate tumor progression and might be implicated in drug resistance and immunosuppression. Here, we have compared th...

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

authors： Djurec M,Graña O,Lee A,Troulé K,Espinet E,Cabras L,Navas C,Blasco MT,Martín-Díaz L,Burdiel M,Li J,Liu Z,Vallespinós M,Sanchez-Bueno F,Sprick MR,Trumpp A,Sainz B Jr,Al-Shahrour F,Rabadan R,Guerra C,Barbacid M

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of strain A mice with p-azophenylarsonate-conjugated protein stimulates B cells that synthesize anti-p-azophenylarsonate antibodies. A large fraction of these cells produce antibodies with variable (V) regions encoded by a single heavy chain V gene segment together with multiple combinations of diversity,...

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

authors： Wysocki L,Manser T,Gefter ML

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse adipsin gene encodes a member of the serine protease family that is expressed predominantly in adipose tissue and is secreted into the bloodstream. Adipsin expression is sharply down-regulated in several models of genetic and acquired obesity, representing the first example of an adipocyte gene whose express...

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

authors： Platt KA,Min HY,Ross SR,Spiegelman BM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depression (LTD) is held relevant to memory and learning. Its induction is known to require postsynaptic calcium increases. However, the source of these calcium increases remains unclear. In visual cortex slices, LTD was induced by tetanization after blockade of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA ionot...

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

authors： Kato N

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis is a serious complication of chronic inflammation. Serum AA protein (SAA), an acute phase plasma protein, is deposited extracellularly as insoluble amyloid fibrils that damage tissue structure and function. Clinical AA amyloidosis is typically preceded by many years of active inflam...

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

authors： Simons JP,Al-Shawi R,Ellmerich S,Speck I,Aslam S,Hutchinson WL,Mangione PP,Disterer P,Gilbertson JA,Hunt T,Millar DJ,Minogue S,Bodin K,Pepys MB,Hawkins PN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the evolution of the mammalian sex chromosomes, we have compared the gene content of the X chromosomes in the mammalian groups most distantly related to man (marsupials and monotremes). Previous work established that genes on the long arm of the human X chromosome are conserved on the X chromosomes in a...

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

authors： Watson JM,Spencer JA,Riggs AD,Graves JA

更新日期：1991-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient and disrupted sleep is linked with cardiovascular and metabolic dysregulation and morbidity. The current study examines the degree to which differences in sleep between black/African American (AA) and white/European American (EA) adults explain racial differences in cardiometabolic (CMB) disease risk. Tot...

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

authors： Curtis DS,Fuller-Rowell TE,El-Sheikh M,Carnethon MR,Ryff CD

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary base sequence of the protein coding regions of the four small heat shock genes of Drosophila melanogaster present at cytological locus 67B has been determined. A single open reading frame large enough to encode a small heat shock protein is found for each gene. The molecular weights of the predicted protei...

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

authors： Ingolia TD,Craig EA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens iota-toxin (Ia) mono-ADP ribosylates Arg177 of actin, leading to cytoskeletal disorganization and cell death. To fully understand the reaction mechanism of arginine-specific mono-ADP ribosyl transferase, the structure of the toxin-substrate protein complex must be characterized. Recently, we so...

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

authors： Tsurumura T,Tsumori Y,Qiu H,Oda M,Sakurai J,Nagahama M,Tsuge H

更新日期：2013-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3' flanking region of the apolipoprotein B (apoB) gene contains a hypervariable region consisting of a variable number of tandemly repeated short A + T-rich DNA sequences (VNTRs). We present a general method that utilizes the polymerase chain reaction to rapidly and accurately type this and other VNTR loci. We use...

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

authors： Boerwinkle E,Xiong WJ,Fourest E,Chan L

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of CD5 increases progressively as thymocytes mature. We have shown that CD5 expression is controlled by a tissue-specific regulatory promoter located upstream of the CD5 translation start sites. Deletion of this regulatory promoter, which contains three potential transcription factor binding sites (CCAA...

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

authors： Yang Y,Contag CH,Felsher D,Shachaf CM,Cao Y,Herzenberg LA,Herzenberg LA,Tung JW

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The phagocyte NADPH oxidase, dormant in resting cells, is activated during phagocytosis to produce superoxide, a precursor of microbicidal oxidants. The activated oxidase is a complex of membrane-integrated cytochrome b558, composed of 91-kDa (gp91phox) and 22-kDa (p22phox) subunits, and two cytosolic factors (p47phox...

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

authors： Sumimoto H,Kage Y,Nunoi H,Sasaki H,Nose T,Fukumaki Y,Ohno M,Minakami S,Takeshige K

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Rev-Erbβ is a nuclear receptor that couples circadian rhythm, metabolism, and inflammation. Heme binding to the protein modulates its function as a repressor, its stability, its ability to bind other proteins, and its activity in gas sensing. Rev-Erbβ binds Fe3+-heme more tightly than Fe2+-heme, suggesting its activit...

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

authors： Sarkar A,Carter EL,Harland JB,Speelman AL,Lehnert N,Ragsdale SW

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many important hominid-bearing fossil localities in East Africa are in regions that are extremely hot and dry. Although humans are well adapted to such conditions, it has been inferred that East African environments were cooler or more wooded during the Pliocene and Pleistocene when this region was a central stage of ...

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

authors： Passey BH,Levin NE,Cerling TE,Brown FH,Eiler JM

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodicities in the polar/apolar character of the amino acid sequence of a protein can be examined by assigning to each residue a numerical hydrophobicity and searching for periodicity in the resulting one-dimensional function. The strength of each periodic component is the quantity that has been termed the hydrophob...

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

authors： Eisenberg D,Weiss RM,Terwilliger TC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of Rauscher leukemia virus (RLV) with low levels of Nonidet P-40 yielded "immature" cores. These cores have a diameter of about 920 A, as opposed to the 1300-A diameter of RLV, possess knob-like protuberances, and contain a concentrically coiled internal strand apposed to the core shell. The two major polyp...

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

authors： Yoshinaka Y,Luftig RB

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological character displacement describes a pattern where morphological differences between sympatric species are enhanced through interspecific competition. Although widely considered a pervasive force in evolutionary ecology, few clear-cut examples have been documented. Here we report a case of ecological characte...

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

authors： Adams DC,Rohlf FJ

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the group-specific antigen (Gag) polyprotein by HIV-1 protease represents the critical first step in the conversion of immature noninfectious viral particles to mature infectious virions. Selective pressure exerted by HIV-1 protease inhibitors, a mainstay of current anti-HIV-1 therapies, results in the acc...

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

authors： Deshmukh L,Louis JM,Ghirlando R,Clore GM

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranes were purified from rat muscle by a differential centrifugation method that avoids the use of salt extraction or incubations at elevated temperature. Three populations of membrane-limited vesicles were defined having average densities of 1.112 (fraction I), 1.141 (fraction II), and 1.158 (fraction III) g/ml i...

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

authors： Barchi RL,Bonilla E,Wong M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human thioredoxin reductase (TR) contains selenocysteine (Secys) in a redox center [cysteine (Cys)-497,Secys-498] near the C-terminus. The essential role of Secys in TR isolated from HeLa cells was demonstrated by the alkylation studies. Reaction of native NADPH reduced enzyme with bromoacetate at pH 6.5 inhibited enz...

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

authors： Gorlatov SN,Stadtman TC

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pith parenchyma cells store water in various plant organs. These cells are especially important for producing sugar and ethanol from the sugar juice of grass stems. In many plants, the death of pith parenchyma cells reduces their stem water content. Previous studies proposed that a hypothetical D gene might be respons...

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

authors： Fujimoto M,Sazuka T,Oda Y,Kawahigashi H,Wu J,Takanashi H,Ohnishi T,Yoneda JI,Ishimori M,Kajiya-Kanegae H,Hibara KI,Ishizuna F,Ebine K,Ueda T,Tokunaga T,Iwata H,Matsumoto T,Kasuga S,Yonemaru JI,Tsutsumi N

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of geographic isolation in marine microbial speciation is hotly debated because of the high dispersal potential and large population sizes of planktonic microorganisms and the apparent lack of strong dispersal barriers in the open sea. Here, we show that gene flow between distant populations of the globally d...

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

authors： Casteleyn G,Leliaert F,Backeljau T,Debeer AE,Kotaki Y,Rhodes L,Lundholm N,Sabbe K,Vyverman W

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The global demand for food could double in another 40 y owing to growth in the population and food consumption per capita. To meet the world's future food and sustainability needs for biofuels and renewable materials, the production of starch-rich cereals and cellulose-rich bioenergy plants must grow substantially whi...

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

authors： You C,Chen H,Myung S,Sathitsuksanoh N,Ma H,Zhang XZ,Li J,Zhang YH

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarrays have enabled the determination of how thousands of genes are expressed to coordinate function within single organisms. Yet applications to natural or engineered communities where different organisms interact to produce complex properties are hampered by theoretical and technological limitations. Here we de...

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

authors： Marcelino LA,Backman V,Donaldson A,Steadman C,Thompson JR,Preheim SP,Lien C,Lim E,Veneziano D,Polz MF

更新日期：2006-09-12 00:00:00