Regulation of molecular components of the synapse in the developing and adult rat superior cervical ganglion.

abstract：:Magnetic ground states in solids often arise as a result of a delicate balance between competing factors. One currently active area of research in magnetic materials involves compounds in which long-range magnetic ordering at low temperatures is frustrated by the geometry of the crystalline lattice, a situation known ...

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

authors： Karunadasa H,Huang Q,Ueland BG,Schiffer P,Cava RJ

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental, yet underexplored, materials system is the interface between biological molecules and inorganic surfaces. In an elemental approach to this problem, we have systematically examined the adhesion of amino acids to a series of inorganic surfaces including metals, insulators, and semiconductors. Significant ...

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

authors： Willett RL,Baldwin KW,West KW,Pfeiffer LN

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared a stable cell line expressing the glucagon receptor to characterize the effect of G(s)-coupled receptor stimulation on extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) activity. Glucagon treatment of the cell line caused a dose-dependent increase in cAMP concentration, activation of cAMP-dependen...

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

authors： Jiang Y,Cypess AM,Muse ED,Wu CR,Unson CG,Merrifield RB,Sakmar TP

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors are an established treatment in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and are currently in clinical development in melanoma, a tumor that exhibits high rates of CDK4 activation. We analyzed melanoma cells with acquired resistance to the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib an...

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

authors： AbuHammad S,Cullinane C,Martin C,Bacolas Z,Ward T,Chen H,Slater A,Ardley K,Kirby L,Chan KT,Brajanovski N,Smith LK,Rao AD,Lelliott EJ,Kleinschmidt M,Vergara IA,Papenfuss AT,Lau P,Ghosh P,Haupt S,Haupt Y,Sanij E,

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Human pluripotent stem cells have the potential to provide comprehensive model systems for the earliest stages of human ontogenesis. To serve in this capacity, these cells must undergo a targeted, stepwise differentiation process that follows a normal developmental timeline. Here we demonstrate the ability of both hum...

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

authors： Meyer JS,Shearer RL,Capowski EE,Wright LS,Wallace KA,McMillan EL,Zhang SC,Gamm DM

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Venom peptide toxins such as conotoxins play a critical role in the characterization of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) structure and function and have potential as nervous system therapeutics as well. However, the lack of solved structures of conotoxins bound to nAChRs and the large size of these peptides ar...

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

authors： Leffler AE,Kuryatov A,Zebroski HA,Powell SR,Filipenko P,Hussein AK,Gorson J,Heizmann A,Lyskov S,Tsien RW,Poget SF,Nicke A,Lindstrom J,Rudy B,Bonneau R,Holford M

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The pivotal step on the mitochondrial pathway to apoptosis is permeabilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM) by oligomers of the B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) family members Bak or Bax. However, how they disrupt MOM integrity is unknown. A longstanding model is that activated Bak and Bax insert two α-helices, ...

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

authors： Westphal D,Dewson G,Menard M,Frederick P,Iyer S,Bartolo R,Gibson L,Czabotar PE,Smith BJ,Adams JM,Kluck RM

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Artemisinins are effective against a variety of parasites and provide the first line of treatment for malaria. Laboratory studies have identified several mechanisms for artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum, including mutations in Kelch13 that are associated with delayed clearance in some clinical isolates, ...

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

authors： Rosenberg A,Luth MR,Winzeler EA,Behnke M,Sibley LD

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody raised against the human erythrocyte glucose transporter identified a recombinant lambda gt11 bacteriophage in a cDNA library prepared from immunoselected polysomal RNA from adult rat brain. The cDNA predicts a 492-amino acid protein that demonstrates 97.6% identity to the human hepatoma hexose carrier. The t...

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

authors： Birnbaum MJ,Haspel HC,Rosen OM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt) signaling pathway was recently shown to negatively regulate LPS-induced acute inflammatory responses. We previously observed that the metabolic thiol antioxidant alpha-lipoic acid (LA) inhibits LPS-induced expression of cellular adhesion molecules and adheren...

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

authors： Zhang WJ,Wei H,Hagen T,Frei B

更新日期：2007-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral inhibitory nerves are physiological regulators of the contractile behavior of visceral smooth muscles. One of the transmitters responsible for inhibitory neurotransmission has been reputed to be a purine, possibly ATP. However, the exact identity of this substance has never been verified. Here we show that ...

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

authors： Mutafova-Yambolieva VN,Hwang SJ,Hao X,Chen H,Zhu MX,Wood JD,Ward SM,Sanders KM

更新日期：2007-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) induces characteristic reversible changes of cell shape in certain fibroblastic lines: motile lamellas are transformed into noncontractile narrow processes; simultaneously, the actin microfilament network of lamellas is locally disorganized. This reaction to PMA...

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

authors： Bershadsky AD,Ivanova OY,Lyass LA,Pletyushkina OY,Vasiliev JM,Gelfand IM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is essential for motor and procedure learning, but the role of DLS spiny projection neurons (SPNs) of direct and indirect pathways, as marked, respectively, by D1 and D2 receptor (D1R and D2R) expression, remains to be clarified. Long-term two-photon calcium imaging of the same neuronal...

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

authors： Sheng MJ,Lu D,Shen ZM,Poo MM

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Delayed gastric ulcer healing is a well recognized problem associated with the use of cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. In contrast, NO-releasing COX inhibitors do not interfere with ulcer healing. These divergent effects may in part be due to differences in their effects on platelets, which are known to influence ulce...

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

authors： Ma L,del Soldato P,Wallace JL

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular replicative DNA polymerases cannot initiate DNA synthesis without a priming 3' OH. During DNA replication, this is supplied in the context of a short RNA primer molecule synthesized by DNA primase. The primase of archaea and eukaryotes, despite having varying subunit compositions, share sequence and struc...

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

authors： Yan J,Holzer S,Pellegrini L,Bell SD

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine stromal cell-derived factor 1, SDF-1, is an important regulator of leukocyte and hematopoietic precursor migration and pre-B cell proliferation. The receptor for SDF-1, CXCR4, also functions as a coreceptor for T-tropic HIV-1 entry. We find that mice deficient for CXCR4 die perinatally and display profou...

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

authors： Ma Q,Jones D,Borghesani PR,Segal RA,Nagasawa T,Kishimoto T,Bronson RT,Springer TA

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Coherent multidimensional electronic spectroscopy is commonly used to investigate photophysical phenomena such as light harvesting in photosynthesis in which the system returns back to its ground state after energy transfer. By contrast, we introduce multidimensional spectroscopy to study ultrafast photochemical proce...

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

authors： Ruetzel S,Diekmann M,Nuernberger P,Walter C,Engels B,Brixner T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branched polyethylenimine (PEI) chains with an average molecular mass of 2 kDa (PEI2) have been covalently attached to gold nanoparticles (GNPs), and the potency of the resulting PEI2-GNPs conjugates as vectors for the delivery of plasmid DNA into monkey kidney (COS-7) cells in the presence of serum in vitro has been ...

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

authors： Thomas M,Klibanov AM

更新日期：2003-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreatic islets is the hallmark of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a spontaneous autoimmune disease of non-obese diabetic mice resembling human juvenile (type I) diabetes. Histochemical analysis of diabetic pancreata revealed that mononuclear cells...

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

authors： Weiss L,Slavin S,Reich S,Cohen P,Shuster S,Stern R,Kaganovsky E,Okon E,Rubinstein AM,Naor D

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Some aspects of pattern formation in developing embryos can be described by nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. An important class of these models accounts for diffusion and degradation of a locally produced single chemical species. At long times, solutions of such models approach a steady state in which the conce...

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

authors： Gordon PV,Sample C,Berezhkovskii AM,Muratov CB,Shvartsman SY

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural environments typically contain multiple sound sources. The sounds from these sources frequently overlap in time and often mask each other. Masking could potentially distort the representation of a sound's spectrum, altering its timbre and impairing object recognition. Here, we report that the auditory system p...

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

authors： McDermott JH,Oxenham AJ

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells are dynamical systems of biomolecular interactions that process information from their environment to mount diverse yet specific responses. A key property of many self-organized systems is that of criticality: a state of a system in which, on average, perturbations are neither dampened nor amplified, but are pro...

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

authors： Nykter M,Price ND,Aldana M,Ramsey SA,Kauffman SA,Hood LE,Yli-Harja O,Shmulevich I

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depression (LTD) at cerebellar parallel fiber (PF)-Purkinje cell synapses must be balanced by long-term potentiation (LTP) to prevent saturation and allow reversal of motor learning. The only previously analyzed form of cerebellar LTP is induced by 4-8 Hz PF stimulation and requires cAMP but not nitric oxide...

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

authors： Lev-Ram V,Wong ST,Storm DR,Tsien RY

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT2) pumps monoamine neurotransmitters and Parkinsonism-inducing dopamine neurotoxins such as 1-methyl-4-phenyl-phenypyridinium (MPP+) from neuronal cytoplasm into synaptic vesicles, from which amphetamines cause their release. Amphetamines and MPP+ each also act at nonvesi...

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

authors： Takahashi N,Miner LL,Sora I,Ujike H,Revay RS,Kostic V,Jackson-Lewis V,Przedborski S,Uhl GR

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Groundwater-dependent species are among the least-known components of global biodiversity, as well as some of the most vulnerable because of rapid groundwater depletion at regional and global scales. The karstic Edwards-Trinity aquifer system of west-central Texas is one of the most species-rich groundwater systems in...

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

authors： Devitt TJ,Wright AM,Cannatella DC,Hillis DM

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy provided tools for the investigation and the analysis of the viral replication steps in the cellular context. In the HIV field, the current visualization systems successfully achieve the fluorescent labeling of the viral envelope and proteins, but not the genome. Here, we dev...

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

authors： Di Primio C,Quercioli V,Allouch A,Gijsbers R,Christ F,Debyser Z,Arosio D,Cereseto A

更新日期：2013-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis, by the recovery of specific genetic "markers," of the effects of DNase I, physical shear, and temperature shock on DNA-cell complexes demonstrates that sequential attachment of both ends of bacteriophage SP82G DNA to Bacillus subtilis precedes entry of the DNA molecule into the cell, and that each attachment...

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

authors： Williams GL,Green DM

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, after reductive amination, were separated and detected as their 3-(4-carboxybenzoyl)-2-quinolinecarboxaldehyde (CBQCA) derivatives by capillary electrophoresis/laser-induced fluorescence. Under optimized conditions, the minimum detectable quantities for monosaccharide sol...

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

authors： Liu JP,Shirota O,Wiesler D,Novotny M

更新日期：1991-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The generalized seizures of status epilepticus (SE) trigger a series of molecular and cellular events that produce cognitive deficits and can culminate in the development of epilepsy. Known early events include opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and astrocytosis accompanied by activation of brain microglia. Wher...

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

authors： Varvel NH,Neher JJ,Bosch A,Wang W,Ransohoff RM,Miller RJ,Dingledine R

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:After more than two decades of study, many fundamental questions remain unanswered about the dynamics of glass-forming materials confined to thin films. Experiments and simulations indicate that free interfaces enhance dynamics over length scales larger than molecular sizes, and this effect strengthens at lower temper...

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

authors： Ivancic RJS,Riggleman RA

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00