Ranking Japan's life science research.

abstract：:All living organisms use ion channels to regulate the transport of ions across cellular membranes. Certain ion channels are classed as voltage-dependent because they have a voltage-sensing structure that induces their pores to open in response to changes in the cell membrane voltage. Until recently, the voltage-depend...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Ruta V,Jiang Y,Lee A,Chen J,MacKinnon R

更新日期：2003-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An evolutionary view of ageing suggests that mortality may be due to an energy-saving strategy of reduced error regulation in somatic cells. This supports Orgel's 'error catastrophe' hypothesis and offers a new basis for the study of normal and abnormal ageing syndromes and of apparently immortal transformed cell line...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Kirkwood TB

更新日期：1977-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the pathological effects in man following infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a transient autoimmune disorder characterized by the presence of high-titre erythrocyte autoantibodies (cold agglutinins). These autoantibodies are usually directed against the carbohydrate antigen termed I (ref. 3) which consists ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Loomes LM,Uemura K,Childs RA,Paulson JC,Rogers GN,Scudder PR,Michalski JC,Hounsell EF,Taylor-Robinson D,Feizi T

更新日期：1984-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The double helix of DNA epitomizes this molecule's ability to self-assemble in aqueous solutions into a complex chiral structure using hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions. Non-covalently interacting molecules in organic solvents are used to design systems that similarly form controlled architectures. Periphe...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Hirschberg JH,Brunsveld L,Ramzi A,Vekemans JA,Sijbesma RP,Meijer EW

更新日期：2000-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in behaviour extend to cognitive-like processes such as learning, but the underlying dimorphisms in neural circuit development and organization that generate these behavioural differences are largely unknown. Here we define at the single-cell level-from development, through neural circuit connectivity,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sammut M,Cook SJ,Nguyen KCQ,Felton T,Hall DH,Emmons SW,Poole RJ,Barrios A

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the hypothalamus helps to control ageing, but the mechanisms responsible remain unclear. Here we develop several mouse models in which hypothalamic stem/progenitor cells that co-express Sox2 and Bmi1 are ablated, as we observed that ageing in mice started with a substantial loss of these hypo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zhang Y,Kim MS,Jia B,Yan J,Zuniga-Hertz JP,Han C,Cai D

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The delivery of therapeutic drugs to solid tumours may be impaired by structural and functional abnormalities in blood and lymphatic vessels. Here we provide evidence that proliferating cancer cells cause intratumour vessels to compress and collapse. By reducing this compressive mechanical force and opening vessels, c...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Padera TP,Stoll BR,Tooredman JB,Capen D,di Tomaso E,Jain RK

更新日期：2004-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombosis--localized clotting of the blood--can occur in the arterial or the venous circulation and has a major medical impact. Acute arterial thrombosis is the proximal cause of most cases of myocardial infarction (heart attack) and of about 80% of strokes, collectively the most common cause of death in the develope...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Mackman N

更新日期：2008-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport vesicles derived from the Golgi apparatus are thought to mediate biosynthetic transport across the Golgi stack. These vesicles are surrounded by a protein coat whose principal constituents are coatomer (a complex of seven distinct subunits or COPs) and ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF, an N-myristylated small GT...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Orcl L,Palmer DJ,Amherdt M,Rothman JE

更新日期：1993-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Human apolipoprotein E has three isoforms: APOE2, APOE3 and APOE4. APOE4 is a major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and is associated with Down's syndrome dementia and poor neurological outcome after traumatic brain injury and haemorrhage. Neurovascular dysfunction is present in normal APOE4 carriers and i...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Bell RD,Winkler EA,Singh I,Sagare AP,Deane R,Wu Z,Holtzman DM,Betsholtz C,Armulik A,Sallstrom J,Berk BC,Zlokovic BV

更新日期：2012-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineral nitrogen in nature is often found in the form of nitrate (NO3(-)). Numerous microorganisms evolved to assimilate nitrate and use it as a major source of mineral nitrogen uptake. Nitrate, which is central in nitrogen metabolism, is first reduced to nitrite (NO2(-)) through a two-electron reduction reaction. The...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Zheng H,Wisedchaisri G,Gonen T

更新日期：2013-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of a firm link between individual meteorites and their asteroidal parent bodies, asteroids are typically characterized only by their light reflection properties, and grouped accordingly into classes. On 6 October 2008, a small asteroid was discovered with a flat reflectance spectrum in the 554-995 nm wa...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jenniskens P,Shaddad MH,Numan D,Elsir S,Kudoda AM,Zolensky ME,Le L,Robinson GA,Friedrich JM,Rumble D,Steele A,Chesley SR,Fitzsimmons A,Duddy S,Hsieh HH,Ramsay G,Brown PG,Edwards WN,Tagliaferri E,Boslough MB,Spaldi

更新日期：2009-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammasomes are intracellular protein complexes that drive the activation of inflammatory caspases. So far, four inflammasomes involving NLRP1, NLRP3, NLRC4 and AIM2 have been described that recruit the common adaptor protein ASC to activate caspase-1, leading to the secretion of mature IL-1β and IL-18 proteins. The...

journal_title：Nature

authors： He Y,Zeng MY,Yang D,Motro B,Núñez G

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing ability to control light-matter interactions at the nanometre scale has improved the performance of semiconductor lasers in the past decade. The ultimate optimization is realized in semiconductor microcavities, in which strong coupling between quantum-well excitons and cavity photons gives rise to hybri...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Tsintzos SI,Pelekanos NT,Konstantinidis G,Hatzopoulos Z,Savvidis PG

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Article, in Fig. 1a, the 5' and 3' labels were reversed in the DNA sequence, and Fig. 4 was missing panel labels a-e. These errors have been corrected online. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Matsumoto S,Cavadini S,Bunker RD,Grand RS,Potenza A,Rabl J,Yamamoto J,Schenk AD,Schübeler D,Iwai S,Sugasawa K,Kurumizaka H,Thomä NH

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medawar has suggested that the major histocompatibility gene complex (MHC) might be involved in the contact inhibition of movement shown by fibroblasts and epithelia. Contact inhibition of movement is that reaction of cells which stops the movement of one cell over another and thus leads to monolayering and other feat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Curtis AS,Rooney P

更新日期：1979-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide and complementary DNA microarrays are being used to subclassify histologically similar tumours, monitor disease progress, and individualize treatment regimens. However, extracting new biological insight from high-throughput genomic studies of human diseases is a challenge, limited by difficulties in re...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Calvano SE,Xiao W,Richards DR,Felciano RM,Baker HV,Cho RJ,Chen RO,Brownstein BH,Cobb JP,Tschoeke SK,Miller-Graziano C,Moldawer LL,Mindrinos MN,Davis RW,Tompkins RG,Lowry SF,Inflamm and Host Response to Injury Large Scale

更新日期：2005-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cas9 is an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease that targets foreign DNA for destruction as part of a bacterial adaptive immune system mediated by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR). Together with single-guide RNAs, Cas9 also functions as a powerful genome engineering tool in plants and animals,...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Sternberg SH,LaFrance B,Kaplan M,Doudna JA

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin is the structural protein of coated membranes involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis and aspects of Golgi sorting in eukaryotic cells. We have now detected a stoichiometric complex of clathrin with a novel protein of M(r) approximately 100,000 (100K) in lysates of different mammalian cells. Formation of th...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Pleasure IT,Black MM,Keen JH

更新日期：1993-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of mutations affecting flower structure has led to the identification of some of the genes that direct flower development. Cloning of these genes has allowed the formulation of molecular models of how floral meristem and organ identity may be specified, and has shown that the distantly related flowering p...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Coen ES,Meyerowitz EM

更新日期：1991-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite tremendous efforts, development of an effective vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has proved an elusive goal. Recently, however, numerous antibodies have been identified that are capable of neutralizing most circulating HIV strains. These antibodies all exhibit an unusually high level of somat...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Balazs AB,Chen J,Hong CM,Rao DS,Yang L,Baltimore D

更新日期：2011-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory amino acids mediate fast synaptic transmission in the central nervous system through the activation of at least three distinct ionotropic receptors: N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-isoxasole-4-propionate (AMPA)/quisqualate (QUIS) and the kainate subtypes (for reviews, see ref...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Charpak S,Gähwiler BH,Do KQ,Knöpfel T

更新日期：1990-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Gewin V

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor is a trimeric molecule, each subunit of which consists of an antiparallel beta-sandwich. Individual subunits from the trimer by a novel edge-to-face packing of beta-sheets. A comparison of the subunit fold with that of other proteins reveals a remarkable similarity to the 'jelly-roll' structural...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Jones EY,Stuart DI,Walker NP

更新日期：1989-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Flash spectra of the total solar eclipse throughout all its phases have been obtained in the extreme ultraviolet for the first time. ...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Speer RJ,Garton WR,Morgan JF,Nicholls RW,Goldberg L,Parkinson WH,Reeves EM,Jones TJ,Paxton HJ,Shenton DB,Wilson R

更新日期：1970-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is selected in the thymus after rearrangement of genes encoding TCR alpha and beta chains. Selection is based on the recognition by newly emergent T cells of self-ligands associated with molecules of the major histocompatibility complex: some combinations result in positive selecti...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Dyson PJ,Knight AM,Fairchild S,Simpson E,Tomonari K

更新日期：1991-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In infected cells, the RNA genomes of RNA tumour viruses are copied into DNA by a virus-encoded reverse transcriptase enzyme. This transfer of information from RNA into DNA was thought to be a unique feature of RNA tumour viruses, but recent results suggest it may be a more general strategy. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) ha...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Toh H,Hayashida H,Miyata T

更新日期：1983-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Abyssal-hill-bounding faults that pervade the oceanic crust are the most common tectonic feature on the surface of the Earth. The recognition that these faults form at plate spreading centres came with the plate tectonic revolution. Recent observations reveal a large range of fault sizes and orientations; numerical mo...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Buck WR,Lavier LL,Poliakov AN

更新日期：2005-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:There is ample evidence that the secretion of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) by the pituitary gland is regulated by a nonsteroidal hormone of gonadal origin, termed inhibin. In several species, testicular extracts, gonadal lymph and seminal plasma have been shown to contain proteins which inhibit FSH release; lack...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Scott RS,Burger HG

更新日期：1980-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the earliest computational principles attributed to the cerebellum was the measurement of time. This idea was originally suggested on anatomical grounds, and was taken up again to explain some of the deficits in cerebellar patients. The contribution of the cerebellum to eye movements, in contrast, has tradition...

journal_title：Nature

authors： Thier P,Dicke PW,Haas R,Barash S

更新日期：2000-05-04 00:00:00