Growth of transplanted tails of infant rats in adolescent allogeneic recipients.

abstract：:In the last decade, a number of quantitative epidemiological studies of specific diseases have been done in developing countries that for the first time allow estimation of the total burden of disease (mortality and morbidity) attributable to use of solid fuels in adult women and young children, who jointly receive th...

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

authors： Smith KR

更新日期：2000-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the permanency of response to selection for a quantitative character in finite populations and the nature of the genetic effects that contribute to this response, we have used the covariance between ancestors and descendents within populations. Effects and variances are defined for an initial equilibrium rand...

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

authors： Cockerham CC,Tachida H

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphiregulin (AR) and cripto are proteins that are structurally related to epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha). AR is also functionally related to this family of growth regulatory molecules and is able to bind and activate the 170-kDa EGF receptor (EGFR). Human EGFR-3 (HER3)/...

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

authors： Ciardiello F,Kim N,Saeki T,Dono R,Persico MG,Plowman GD,Garrigues J,Radke S,Todaro GJ,Salomon DS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geckos can run rapidly on walls and ceilings, requiring high friction forces (on walls) and adhesion forces (on ceilings), with typical step intervals of approximately 20 ms. The rapid switching between gecko foot attachment and detachment is analyzed theoretically based on a tape model that incorporates the adhesion ...

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

authors： Tian Y,Pesika N,Zeng H,Rosenberg K,Zhao B,McGuiggan P,Autumn K,Israelachvili J

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Photochemical oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons leads to tropospheric ozone and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation, with profound implications for air quality, human health, and climate. Toluene is the most abundant aromatic compound under urban environments, but its detailed chemical oxidation mechanism remai...

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

authors： Ji Y,Zhao J,Terazono H,Misawa K,Levitt NP,Li Y,Lin Y,Peng J,Wang Y,Duan L,Pan B,Zhang F,Feng X,An T,Marrero-Ortiz W,Secrest J,Zhang AL,Shibuya K,Molina MJ,Zhang R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balanced genetic polymorphism has been proposed as a source from which to infer population history complementary to that of neutral genetic polymorphism, because genetic polymorphism maintained by balancing selection permits inferences about population size over much longer spans of time. However, empirical data for b...

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

authors： Richman AD,Kohn JR

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tooth decay (dental caries) is a widespread human disease caused by microbial biofilms. Streptococcus mutans, a biofilm-former, has been consistently associated with severe childhood caries; however, how this bacterium is spatially organized with other microorganisms in the oral cavity to promote disease remains unkno...

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

authors： Kim D,Barraza JP,Arthur RA,Hara A,Lewis K,Liu Y,Scisci EL,Hajishengallis E,Whiteley M,Koo H

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the methyl-CpG binding protein gene (MECP2). MeCP2 is a methyl-cytosine binding protein that is proposed to function as a transcriptional repressor. However, multiple gene expression studies comparing wild-type and MeCP2-deficient neurons hav...

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

authors： Kinde B,Wu DY,Greenberg ME,Gabel HW

更新日期：2016-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of actin monomers into filaments and networks plays vital roles throughout eukaryotic biology, including intracellular transport, cell motility, cell division, determining cellular shape, and providing cells with mechanical strength. The regulation of actin assembly and modulation of filament mechanical p...

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

authors： Kang H,Bradley MJ,McCullough BR,Pierre A,Grintsevich EE,Reisler E,De La Cruz EM

更新日期：2012-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, including hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and pituitary corticotropin, is one of the first endocrine systems to develop during fetal life, probably because glucocorticoid secretion is necessary for the maturation of many essential fetal organs. Consiste...

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

authors： Venihaki M,Carrigan A,Dikkes P,Majzoub JA

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Four overlapping cosmid clones were constructed that contain the complete genome of the attenuated Oka strain of VZV. Transfection of human melanoma cells with the four cosmids resulted in production of infectious VZV. A double-stranded oligonucleotide, encoding a stop codon in all three open reading frames, was inser...

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

authors： Cohen JI,Seidel KE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin V is an unconventional myosin proposed to be processive on actin filaments, analogous to kinesin on a microtubule [Mehta, A. D., et al. (1999) Nature (London) 400, 590-593]. To ascertain the unique properties of myosin V that permit processivity, we undertook a detailed kinetic analysis of the myosin V motor. W...

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

authors： De La Cruz EM,Wells AL,Rosenfeld SS,Ostap EM,Sweeney HL

更新日期：1999-11-23 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：:ADP activates a family of cell surface receptors that modulate signaling pathways in a broad range of cells. ADP receptor antagonists are widely used to treat cardiovascular disease states. These studies identify a critical role for the stable reactive oxygen species hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in mediating cellular resp...

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

authors： Kalwa H,Sartoretto JL,Martinelli R,Romero N,Steinhorn BS,Tao M,Ozaki CK,Carman CV,Michel T

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Human mammary epithelial cells secrete and express on their cell surfaces complex mucin glycoproteins (Mr greater than 250,000) that are developmentally regulated, tumor-associated, and highly immunogenic. Studies using monoclonal antibodies directed to these glycoproteins suggest that their molecular structures can v...

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

authors： Gendler SJ,Burchell JM,Duhig T,Lamport D,White R,Parker M,Taylor-Papadimitriou J

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of transcription factors might be a powerful approach to modification of metabolism for a generation of crops having superior characteristics because a single transcription factor frequently regulates coordinated expression of a set of key genes for respective pathways. Here, we apply the plant-specific Do...

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

authors： Yanagisawa S,Akiyama A,Kisaka H,Uchimiya H,Miwa T

更新日期：2004-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern functional imaging techniques of the brain measure local hemodynamic responses evoked by neuronal activity. Capillary pericytes recently were suggested to mediate neurovascular coupling in brain slices, but their role in vivo remains unexplored. We used two-photon microscopy to study in real time pericytes and ...

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

authors： Fernández-Klett F,Offenhauser N,Dirnagl U,Priller J,Lindauer U

更新日期：2010-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are highly dynamic and complex lipid bilayers, responsible for the fate of living cells. To achieve this function, the hydrating environment is crucial. However, membrane imaging typically neglects water, focusing on the insertion of probes, resonant responses of lipids, or the hydrophobic core. O...

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

authors： Tarun OB,Hannesschläger C,Pohl P,Roke S

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bones from a stratified sedimentary deposit in the Puu Naio Cave site on Maui, Hawaiian Islands, reveal the late Holocene extinction of 19 species of birds. The age of the sediment and associated fauna was determined by direct radiocarbon dating (tandem particle accelerator-mass spectrometer; TAMS) of amino acids extr...

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

authors： James HF,Stafford TW Jr,Steadman DW,Olson SL,Martin PS,Jull AJ,McCoy PC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of acetylcholine to growing cultures of mouse neuroblastoma cells induced a 37-fold increase in the specific activity of acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7). Morphological changes, consisting of neurite-extensions, were also observed during the logarithmic phase of growth of cells stimulated with acetylcholine....

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

authors： Harkins J,Arsenault M,Schlesinger K,Kates J

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of myoblast cell lines with 3-deazaadenosine stimulates differentiation into myofibers. Myoblast clone L5/ 3B5 , which does not form myofibers after 6 days in fusion medium, was stimulated to form myofibers after 5 days of culture in fusion medium containing 50 microM 3-deazaadenosine. Myoblast clone L5/ 3C4...

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

authors： Scarpa S,Strom R,Bozzi A,Aksamit RR,Backlund PS Jr,Chen J,Cantoni GL

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant RHO GTPases (RAC/ROPs) mediate multiple extracellular signals ranging from hormone to stress and regulate diverse cellular processes important for polarized cell growth, differentiation, development, reproduction, and responses to the environment. They shuttle between the GDP-bound inactive state and the GTP-bou...

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

authors： Duan Q,Kita D,Li C,Cheung AY,Wu HM

更新日期：2010-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of neural circuits depends on stable contacts between neuronal processes, mediated by interaction of cell adhesion molecules, including N-cadherin. In the present study, we found that activity-dependent dendrite arborization specifically requires N-cadherin-mediated extracellular neuron-neuron interaction, b...

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

authors： Tan ZJ,Peng Y,Song HL,Zheng JJ,Yu X

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factors beta (TGF-beta s) are important modulators of growth and differentiation. They are intermolecular disulfide-bonded homodimeric molecules. The monomer fold has a conserved cystine knot and lacks a hydrophobic core. The biological specificity of a given member of the family is believed to...

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

authors： Venkataraman G,Sasisekharan V,Cooney CL,Langer R,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP)σ (PTPRS) was shown previously to be associated with susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). PTPσ(-/-) mice exhibit an IBD-like phenotype in the intestine and show increased susceptibility to acute models of murine colitis. However, the function of PTPσ in the intestine is...

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

authors： Murchie R,Guo CH,Persaud A,Muise A,Rotin D

更新日期：2014-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Under particular circumstances like lactation and fasting, the blood-borne monocarboxylates acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and lactate represent significant energy substrates for the brain. Their utilization is dependent on a transport system present on both endothelial cells forming the blood-brain barrier and o...

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

authors： Pellerin L,Pellegri G,Martin JL,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:PSD-95 is a scaffolding protein that regulates the synaptic localization of many receptors, channels, and signaling proteins. The NLGN gene family encodes single-pass transmembrane postsynaptic cell adhesion molecules that are important for synapse assembly and function. At excitatory synapses, NLGN1 mediates transsyn...

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

authors： Jeong J,Pandey S,Li Y,Badger JD 2nd,Lu W,Roche KW

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The parathyroid hormone 2 (PTH2) receptor's anatomical distribution suggests that, among other functions, it may be involved in modulation of nociception. We localized PTH2 receptor protein to spinal cord lamina II and showed that it is synthesized by subpopulations of primary sensory neurons and intrinsic spinal cord...

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

authors： Dobolyi A,Ueda H,Uchida H,Palkovits M,Usdin TB

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tumor necrosis factor (TNF) initially came to prominence because of its anti-tumor activity, most attention is now focused on its proinflammatory actions. TNF appears to play a critical role in both early and late events involved in inflammation, from localizing the noxious agent and amplifying the cellular a...

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

authors： Marino MW,Dunn A,Grail D,Inglese M,Noguchi Y,Richards E,Jungbluth A,Wada H,Moore M,Williamson B,Basu S,Old LJ

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni has a general N-linked glycosylation pathway (encoded by the pgl gene cluster), which culminates in the transfer of a heptasaccharide: GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,4-(Glcbeta1,3)-GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,4-GalNAc-alpha1,3-Bac [where Bac is bacillosamine (2,4-diacetamido-2,4,6-trideoxyglucose...

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

authors： Glover KJ,Weerapana E,Imperiali B

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00