Extraretinal light perception in the sparrow. 3. The eyes do not participate in photoperiodic photoreception.

abstract：:X chromosome-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCIDX1) is characterized by the absence of T-cell and natural killer cell development and results from molecular mutations of the interleukin 2 receptor (IL-2R) gamma chain. The IL-2R gamma chain is a common component of the IL-2, IL-4, and IL-7 receptor sy...

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

authors： DiSanto JP,Rieux-Laucat F,Dautry-Varsat A,Fischer A,de Saint Basile G

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydroxyproline-containing proteins (hyproproteins) synthesized by cultured human fibroblasts have been partially characterized. The hyproprotein extracted from the cell layer was found to be similar to the collagen extracted from skin in the ratio of hydroxyproline to proline, chain composition, solubility, and re...

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

authors： Layman DL,McGoodwin EB,Martin GR

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is a group of peptides, originally isolated from the cardiac atria, that have a number of important effects on blood pressure, renal function, and salt balance. In the current study, expression of the ANF gene in certain extra-atrial tissues of the rat has been examined by radioimmunoas...

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

authors： Gardner DG,Deschepper CF,Ganong WF,Hane S,Fiddes J,Baxter JD,Lewicki J

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional interference between genes and the regulatory elements of simple eukaryotes such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an unavoidable consequence of their compressed genetic arrangement. We have shown previously that with the tandem arranged genes GAL10 and GAL7, inefficient transcriptional termination of the...

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

authors： Prescott EM,Proudfoot NJ

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental events in metamorphosis in insects is the replacement of larval tissues by imaginal tissues. Shortly after pupariation the imaginal discs evaginate to assume their positions at the surface of the prepupal animal. This is a very precise process that is only beginning to be understood. In Drosophi...

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

authors： Martin-Blanco E,Pastor-Pareja JC,Garcia-Bellido A

更新日期：2000-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative cerebral glucose metabolism was examined with positron-emission tomography (PET) as a measure of neuronal activation during performance of the classically conditioned eyeblink response in 12 young adult subjects. Each subject received three sessions: (i) a control session with PET scan in which unpaired prese...

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

authors： Logan CG,Grafton ST

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A determinanat for chloramphenicol resistance, cam, initially detected on a resistance transfer factor (RTF) and since transferred to phage P1, may be acquired from P1 by coliphage lambda. Lambdapcam are obtained when a lambda prophage is induced in bacteria which also harbor P1 cam prophage. Lambdacam formation is no...

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

authors： Gottesman MM,Rosner JL

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural mechanisms used by the human brain to identify phonemes remain unclear. We recorded the EEG signals evoked by repeated presentation of 12 American English phonemes. A support vector machine model correctly recognized a high percentage of the EEG brain wave recordings represented by their phases, which were ...

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

authors： Wang R,Perreau-Guimaraes M,Carvalhaes C,Suppes P

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is presented for detection of lysosomal hydrolase activity in situ in colonies of Chinese hamster ovary cells. This method was used to screen for mutants deficient in lysosomal alpha-mannosidase. Mutagenized cells were replicated onto filter papers [Esko, J. D. & Raetz, C. R. H. (1978) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. ...

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

authors： Robbins AR

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) knockout mice raised in the laboratory of Fujii-Kuriyama have been under investigation for several years because of the presence in their urinary bladder of large, yellowish stones. The stones are composed of uric acid and become apparent in the bladders as tiny stones when mice are...

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

authors： Butler R,Inzunza J,Suzuki H,Fujii-Kuriyama Y,Warner M,Gustafsson JÅ

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Overlapping cDNAs derived from the chicken alpha-fibrinogen mRNA have been sequenced, beginning from within the coding region for the signal peptide of this subunit and terminating within the poly(A) extension. The predicted size of chicken alpha-fibrinogen is 54,187 daltons, which is the smallest of any alpha chain r...

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

authors： Weissbach L,Grieninger G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "protein only" hypothesis states that the infectious agent causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is a conformational isomer of PrP, a host protein predominantly expressed in brain, and is strongly supported by many lines of evidence. Prion diseases are so far unique among conformational diseases in tha...

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

authors： Weissmann C,Enari M,Klöhn PC,Rossi D,Flechsig E

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work showed that cultured human pancreatic cancer cells overexpress the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor. In the present study, we sought to determine whether some of these cell lines produce transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha). Utilizing a radiolabeled TGF-alpha cDNA in hybridization experimen...

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

authors： Smith JJ,Derynck R,Korc M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutagenic effect of low linear energy transfer ionizing radiation is reduced for a given dose as the dose rate (DR) is reduced to a low level, a phenomenon known as the direct DR effect. Our reanalysis of published data shows that for both somatic and germ-line mutations there is an opposite, inverse DR effect, wi...

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

authors： Vilenchik MM,Knudson AG Jr

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:As long-term changes in life expectancy and fertility drive the emergence of aging societies across the globe, individual countries vary widely in the development of age-relevant policies and programs. While failure to adapt to the demographic transformation carries not only important financial risks but also social r...

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

authors： Chen C,Goldman DP,Zissimopoulos J,Rowe JW,Research Network on an Aging Society.

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:During transcription, RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) must select the correct nucleotide, catalyze its addition to the growing RNA transcript, and move stepwise along the DNA until a gene is fully transcribed. In all kingdoms of life, transcription must be finely tuned to ensure an appropriate balance between fidelity and ...

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

authors： Larson MH,Zhou J,Kaplan CD,Palangat M,Kornberg RD,Landick R,Block SM

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The exo isomer of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) 8,9-epoxide appears to be the only product of AFB1 involved in reaction with DNA and reacts with the N7 atom of guanine via an SN2 reaction from an intercalated state. Although the epoxide hydrolyzes rapidly in H2O (0.6 s-1 at 25 degrees C), very high yields of DNA adduct result. ...

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

authors： Johnson WW,Guengerich FP

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) plays an essential role in regulating emotion, including inhibiting fear when danger has passed. The extinction of fear, however, is labile and a number of factors, including stress, cause extinguished fear to relapse. Here we show that fear relapse in rats limits single-unit activi...

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

authors： Giustino TF,Fitzgerald PJ,Ressler RL,Maren S

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have totally synthesized a gene that codes for rat hepatic cytochrome b5. The 5' flanking region was designed for efficient expression of this gene in Escherichia coli by incorporating an optimum ribosome binding site and spacer region. Both a soluble form, analogous to the protease-treated microsomal protein, as w...

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

authors： Beck von Bodman S,Schuler MA,Jollie DR,Sligar SG

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bidirectional self-assembly of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV, common or U1 strain) has been studied extensively in vitro. Foreign single-stranded RNA molecules containing the TMV origin-of-assembly sequence (OAS, 75-432 nt in length) are also packaged by TMV coat protein (CP) in vitro to form helical pseudovirus parti...

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

authors： Hwang DJ,Roberts IM,Wilson TM

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Most transmissible spongiform encephalopathies arise either spontaneously or by infection. Mutations of PRNP, which encodes the prion protein, PrP, segregate with phenotypically similar diseases. Here we report that moderate overexpression in transgenic mice of mPrP(170N,174T), a mouse PrP with two point mutations tha...

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

authors： Sigurdson CJ,Nilsson KP,Hornemann S,Heikenwalder M,Manco G,Schwarz P,Ott D,Rülicke T,Liberski PP,Julius C,Falsig J,Stitz L,Wüthrich K,Aguzzi A

更新日期：2009-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids play an important biphasic role in modulating neural plasticity; low doses enhance neural plasticity and spatial memory behavior, whereas chronic, higher doses produce inhibition. We found that 3 independent measures of mitochondrial function-mitochondrial oxidation, membrane potential, and mitochondri...

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

authors： Du J,Wang Y,Hunter R,Wei Y,Blumenthal R,Falke C,Khairova R,Zhou R,Yuan P,Machado-Vieira R,McEwen BS,Manji HK

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological "surprises" are defined as unexpected findings about the natural environment. They are critically important in ecology because they are catalysts for questioning and reformulating views of the natural world, help shape assessments of the veracity of a priori predictions about ecological trends and phenomena...

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

authors： Lindenmayer DB,Likens GE,Krebs CJ,Hobbs RJ

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo phage display identifies peptides that selectively home to the vasculature of individual organs, tissues, and tumors. Here we report the identification of a cyclic nonapeptide, CPGPEGAGC, which homes to normal breast tissue with a 100-fold selectivity over nontargeted phage. The homing of the phage is inhibite...

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

authors： Essler M,Ruoslahti E

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand specificity of a murine gammadelta T-cell receptor-expressing hybridoma (KN6) derived from adult thymocytes has been analyzed in detail. The molecule recognized by the KN6 gammadelta T-cell receptor is expressed on syngeneic cells of various sources (peritoneal macrophages, thymocytes, spleen cells, and Abelson...

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

authors： Bonneville M,Ito K,Krecko EG,Itohara S,Kappes D,Ishida I,Kanagawa O,Janeway CA,Murphy DB,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species- and strain-specific spontaneously occurring tumors have been observed in rodents maintained under normal laboratory conditions. Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms associated with the development of these spontaneous tumors may provide a better understanding of tumor development associated with exposure t...

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

authors： Reynolds SH,Stowers SJ,Maronpot RR,Anderson MW,Aaronson SA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filipin, digitonin, and saponin react with membrane cholesterol to produce unique membrane alterations (sterol-specific complexes) that are easily discernible in freeze-fracture replicas. We have treated both noninnervated and innervated Xenopus embryonic muscle cells in culture with these agents. Freeze-fracture of t...

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

authors： Bridgman PC,Nakajima Y

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We described previously a mutation in maize, hcf106, caused by the insertion of a Mu1 transposon. When the Mu transposon system is in an active phase, hcf106 conditions a nonphotosynthetic, pale green phenotype. However, when the Mu system is inactive (a state correlated with hypermethylation of Mu elements), the plan...

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

authors： Barkan A,Martienssen RA

更新日期：1991-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (complex I) plays a pivotal role in cellular energy production. It employs a series of redox cofactors to couple electron transfer to the generation of a proton-motive force across the inner mitochondrial or bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. Complex I contains a noncovalently bound flavin mon...

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

authors： Yakovlev G,Reda T,Hirst J

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a method for introducing mtDNA mutations into the mouse female germ line by means of embryonic stem (ES) cell cybrids. Mitochondria were recovered from the brain of a NZB mouse by fusion of synaptosomes to a mtDNA-deficient (rho degrees ) cell line. These cybrids were enucleated and the cytoplasts were elect...

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

authors： Sligh JE,Levy SE,Waymire KG,Allard P,Dillehay DL,Nusinowitz S,Heckenlively JR,MacGregor GR,Wallace DC

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00