Comparison of Weigert stained sections with unfixed, unstained sections for study of myelin sheaths.

abstract：:Rat thoracic aortic smooth muscle cells (line A10, ATCC CRL 1476) display a high density of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) receptors. ANF stimulated the accumulation of cGMP in these cells in a time- and dose-dependent fashion. These cells are known to display a high density of vasopressin receptors of the vascular V...

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

authors： Nambi P,Whitman M,Gessner G,Aiyar N,Crooke ST

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In facultative photoperiodic flowering plants, noninductive photoperiods result in a delay in flowering, but such plants eventually flower, illustrating plasticity in an important developmental transition, flowering. The model plant, Arabidopsis, has a facultative photoperiod response. Although the inductive flowering...

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

authors： Kim DH,Sung S

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of Escherichia coli strains infected with bacteriophage phiX174 catalyze DNA synthesis dependent on double-stranded, circular phiX174 replicative form I (phiX RFI) by a semiconservative process. The reaction required Mg++, ATP, all four dNTP, and exogenous phiX RFI DNA as template and yielded phiX RFI and phi...

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

authors： Sumida-Yasumoto C,Yudelevich A,Hurwitz J

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout occurred, releasing more oil than any accidental spill in history. Oil release continued for 87 d and much of the oil and gas remained in, or returned to, the deep sea. A coral community significantly impacted by the spill was discovered in late 2010 at 1,370 m de...

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

authors： Fisher CR,Hsing PY,Kaiser CL,Yoerger DR,Roberts HH,Shedd WW,Cordes EE,Shank TM,Berlet SP,Saunders MG,Larcom EA,Brooks JM

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoaffinity-purified interleukin 2 (IL2) stimulated proliferation of large but not small B cells. Stimulation was observed even when B cells were cultured at very low cell densities (3 X 10(4) per microwell containing 0.2 ml of medium). Addition of small numbers of purified splenic T cells did not enhance the IL2-i...

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

authors： Mond JJ,Thompson C,Finkelman FD,Farrar J,Schaefer M,Robb RJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 15 per cent of the light chains from homogeneous immunoglobulins in patients with multiple myeloma contain an oligosaccharide group. Five human myeloma light chains that contained carbohydrate were studied. The sequence Asn-[unk]-Ser/Thr was at the site of carbohydrate attachment in all light chains. The...

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

authors： Sox HC Jr,Hood L

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rodent models of Parkinson disease in which transplants of dissociated rodent and human embryonic mesencephalic tissue, rich in dopamine neurons, have been studied, only 5-20% of the dopamine neurons survive the implantation procedure. We have investigated the effects of inhibiting free radical generation with two ...

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

authors： Nakao N,Frodl EM,Duan WM,Widner H,Brundin P

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:One key to the success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a pathogen is its ability to reside in the hostile environment of the human macrophage. Bacteria adapt to stress through a variety of mechanisms, including the use of small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs), which posttranscriptionally regulate bacterial gene expression. H...

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

authors： Gerrick ER,Barbier T,Chase MR,Xu R,François J,Lin VH,Szucs MJ,Rock JM,Ahmad R,Tjaden B,Livny J,Fortune SM

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used DNA transfection to identify several regions of the adenovirus genome needed to induce replication of the defective parvovirus, adenovirus-associated virus (AAV). Previous studies have indicated that only early adenovirus functions are needed to aid the replication of AAV. In this report, we demonstrate t...

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

authors： Janik JE,Huston MM,Rose JA

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All classes of antidepressants increase hippocampal cell proliferation and neurogenesis, which contributes, in part, to the behavioral actions of these treatments. Among antidepressant treatments, electroconvulsive seizure (ECS) is the most robust stimulator of hippocampal cell proliferation and the most efficacious t...

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

authors： Segi-Nishida E,Warner-Schmidt JL,Duman RS

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The global financial crisis has precipitated an increasing appreciation of the need for a systemic perspective toward financial stability. For example: What role do large banks play in systemic risk? How should capital adequacy standards recognize this role? How is stability shaped by concentration and diversification...

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

authors： Arinaminpathy N,Kapadia S,May RM

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a general method for screening, in solution, the impact of deviations from canonical Watson-Crick composition on the thermodynamic stability of nucleic acid duplexes. We demonstrate how fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) can be used to detect directly free energy differences between an initially f...

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

authors： Gelfand CA,Plum GE,Mielewczyk S,Remeta DP,Breslauer KJ

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The single-pass transmembrane domains (TMDs) of the syndecan family of cell surface adhesion molecules have been implicated in functional protein-protein interactions. Although each paralog contains a conserved GxxxG dimerization motif, we show here that the syndecan-1 TMD dimerizes weakly, the syndecan-3 and syndecan...

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

authors： Dews IC,Mackenzie KR

更新日期：2007-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids, i.e., gangliosides, constitute a major component of neuronal cells and are thought to be essential for brain function. UDP-glucose:ceramide glucosyltransferase (Ugcg) catalyzes the initial step of glycosphingolipid (GSL) biosynthesis. To gain insight into the role of GSLs in ...

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

authors： Jennemann R,Sandhoff R,Wang S,Kiss E,Gretz N,Zuliani C,Martin-Villalba A,Jäger R,Schorle H,Kenzelmann M,Bonrouhi M,Wiegandt H,Gröne HJ

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that the B chain of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-B) is transcribed in human atherosclerotic plaques, indicating that production of growth factors within plaques could occur during atherogenesis. However, since atherosclerotic plaques are composed of several cell types and three of th...

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

authors： Barrett TB,Benditt EP

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:Human neutrophils respond to chemoattractants, resulting in their accumulation at an inflammatory site. Chemoattractants such as the C5a peptide, derived from the C5 complement factor, bind to inhibitory guanine nucleotide binding protein (Gi)-coupled seven membrane-spanning receptors expressed in neutrophils. C5a rec...

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

authors： Buhl AM,Avdi N,Worthen GS,Johnson GL

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although advances in microfluidic technology have enabled increasingly sophisticated biosensing and bioassay operations to be performed at the microscale, many of these applications employ such small amounts of charged biomolecules (DNA, proteins, and peptides) that they must first be preconcentrated to a detectable l...

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

authors： Shaikh FA,Ugaz VM

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditional mutations such as temperature-sensitive (ts) mutations are important for the analysis of protein function but are often difficult, or impossible, to obtain. Here we present a simple method for generating conditional mutations based on the use of a protein-destabilizing genetic element in combination with s...

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

authors： Park EC,Finley D,Szostak JW

更新日期：1992-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium oscillations suppress mitochondrial movements along the microtubules to support on-demand distribution of mitochondria. To activate this mechanism, Ca(2+) targets a yet unidentified cytoplasmic factor that does not seem to be a microtubular motor or a kinase/phosphatase. Here, we have studied the dependence of...

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

authors： Saotome M,Safiulina D,Szabadkai G,Das S,Fransson A,Aspenstrom P,Rizzuto R,Hajnóczky G

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Friction is caused by dissipative lateral forces that act between macroscopic objects. An improved understanding of friction is therefore expected from measurements of dissipative lateral forces acting between individual atoms. Here we establish atomic resolution of both conservative and dissipative forces by lateral ...

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

authors： Giessibl FJ,Herz M,Mannhart J

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptors (ERs) protect pancreatic islet survival in mice through rapid extranuclear actions. ERalpha also enhances insulin synthesis in cultured islets. Whether ERalpha stimulates insulin synthesis in vivo and, if so, through which mechanism(s) remain largely unknown. To address these issues, we generated a ...

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

authors： Wong WP,Tiano JP,Liu S,Hewitt SC,Le May C,Dalle S,Katzenellenbogen JA,Katzenellenbogen BS,Korach KS,Mauvais-Jarvis F

更新日期：2010-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological niche is a key concept for elucidating patterns of species distributions and developing strategies for conserving biodiversity. However, recent times are seeing a widespread debate whether species niches are conserved across space and time (niche conservatism hypothesis). Biological invasions represent ...

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

authors： Liu C,Wolter C,Xian W,Jeschke JM

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methylation is catalyzed by the highly evolutionarily conserved multiprotein complex known as Set1/COMPASS or MLL/COMPASS-like complexes from yeast to human, respectively. Here we have reconstituted fully functional yeast Set1/COMPASS and human MLL/COMPASS-like complex in vitro and have iden...

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

authors： Takahashi YH,Westfield GH,Oleskie AN,Trievel RC,Shilatifard A,Skiniotis G

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative ribosome subunit proteins are prevalent in the genomes of diverse bacterial species, but their functional significance is controversial. Attempts to study microbial ribosomal heterogeneity have mostly relied on comparing wild-type strains with mutants in which subunits have been deleted, but this approach ...

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

authors： Chen YX,Xu ZY,Ge X,Sanyal S,Lu ZJ,Javid B

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Female Utetheisa ornatrix exercise postcopulatory mate selection, favoring sperm of larger males. Larger males also produce larger spermatophores, raising the question whether males are selected on the basis of body size or the size of their spermatophore. We here present evidence, based on matings in which males were...

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

authors： LaMunyon CW,Eisner T

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternaria solani, the causal agent of early blight disease in potato, produces two host-specific, lipidlike toxins in culture. Both compounds are required in the leaf bioassay for the elicitation of typical early blight symptoms, but the compounds are individually inactive. The procedures for the preparation of both ...

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

authors： Matern U,Strobel G,Shepard J

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-plasmid system for heterologous expression of 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS) has been developed to facilitate combinatorial biosynthesis of polyketides made by type I modular polyketide synthases (PKSs). The eryA PKS genes encoding the three DEBS subunits were individually cloned into three compatible ...

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

authors： Xue Q,Ashley G,Hutchinson CR,Santi DV

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent article [Vinkovic D, Kirman A (2006) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:19261-19265] showing that the Schelling model has a physical analogue extends our understanding of the model. However, prior research has already outlined a mathematical basis for the Schelling model and simulations based on it have already enhan...

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

authors： Clark WA,Fossett M

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region (VH) locus in a phylogenetically primitive teleost (Elops saurus) has been characterized by a strategy that relied initially on cross-hybridization between genomic VH segments and a murine VH probe. Using a homologous (Elops) VH probe and DNA sequencing, this gene family ...

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

authors： Amemiya CT,Litman GW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00