The choroid plexus epithelium is the site of the organic anion transport protein in the brain.

abstract：:Twenty-four hours after rats receive choline chloride (20 mmol/kg, by stomach tube) the activity of tyrosine hydroxylase [tyrosine 3-monooxygenase; L-tyrosine, tetrahydropteridine:oxygen oxidoreductase (3-hydroxylating), EC 1.14.16.2] increases by 31% within adrenomedullary chromaffin cells. This treatment also causes...

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

authors： Ulus IH,Hirsch MJ,Wurtman RJ

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that cholinergic input to the hippocampus plays an important role in learning and memory and that degeneration of cholinergic terminals in the hippocampus may contribute to the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. One of the more prominent effects of cholinergic agonists on hippocampal ph...

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

authors： Marino MJ,Rouse ST,Levey AI,Potter LT,Conn PJ

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions are mammalian proteins (PrPs) with a unique pathogenic property: a nonendogenous isoform PrP(Sc) can catalyze conversion of the endogenous PrP(C) isoform into additional PrP(Sc). In this work, we demonstrate that PrP(C) helix 1 has certain properties (hydrophilicity, charge distribution) that make it unique amo...

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

authors： Morrissey MP,Shakhnovich EI

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes that are unexpressed in somatic cells have been activated by injecting cultured cell nuclei of the frog Xenopus laevis into oocytes of the newt Pleurodeles waltlii. The genes that were activated are normally expressed in oocytes but not in cultured cells. Conversely, genes that are normally expressed in cultured...

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

authors： De Robertis EM,Gurdon JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional differences in neurons, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia exist in the brain during health, and regional differences in the transcriptome may occur for each cell type during neurodegeneration. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is multifocal, and regional differences in the astrocyte transcriptome occur in exp...

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

authors： Voskuhl RR,Itoh N,Tassoni A,Matsukawa MA,Ren E,Tse V,Jang E,Suen TT,Itoh Y

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Male (NZW x BXSB)F1 (W/BF1) mice develop systemic autoimmunity involving autoantibodies, thrombocytopenia, lupus nephritis, and coronary vascular disease (CVD) with myocardial infarction. To determine whether this murine lupus-associated CVD can be prevented by the reduction of dietary calories, male W/BF1 mice were s...

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

authors： Mizutani H,Engelman RW,Kinjoh K,Kurata Y,Ikehara S,Matsuzawa Y,Good RA

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascorbate (vitamin C) recycling occurs when extracellular ascorbate is oxidized, transported as dehydroascorbic acid, and reduced intracellularly to ascorbate. We investigated microorganism induction of ascorbate recycling in human neutrophils and in microorganisms themselves. Ascorbate recycling was determined by mea...

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

authors： Wang Y,Russo TA,Kwon O,Chanock S,Rumsey SC,Levine M

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacteria are a recently described group of phototrophic bacteria that is a major focus of photosynthesis research, previously known only from marine environments in symbiosis with eukaryotes. We have discovered a free-living member of this group from a eutrophic hypersaline lake. Phylogene...

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

authors： Miller SR,Augustine S,Olson TL,Blankenship RE,Selker J,Wood AM

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-coated vesicles are known to be involved in the transport of proteins from the Golgi to the vacuole in plant cells. The mechanisms by which proteins are directed into this pathway are not known. Here we identify an integral membrane protein of approximately 80 kDa, extracted from clathrin-coated vesicles of d...

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

authors： Kirsch T,Paris N,Butler JM,Beevers L,Rogers JC

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) stimulated the phosphorylation of a 28-kDa protein (p28) in the ME-180 line of human cervical carcinoma cells. The effect of TNF-alpha on the phosphorylation state of p28 was rapid (4-fold increase within 15 min) and persistent, remaining above the basal level for at least 2 hr....

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

authors： Marino MW,Pfeffer LM,Guidon PT Jr,Donner DB

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous regression/complete resistance (SR/CR) mice resist very high doses of cancer cells that are lethal to WT mice even at low doses. In this study, we show that this resistance is mediated by rapid infiltration of leukocytes, mostly of innate immunity, in both primary and repeated challenges. Formation of rose...

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

authors： Hicks AM,Riedlinger G,Willingham MC,Alexander-Miller MA,Von Kap-Herr C,Pettenati MJ,Sanders AM,Weir HM,Du W,Kim J,Simpson AJ,Old LJ,Cui Z

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A single dose of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea given to sexually immature female Buf/N rats produces a high incidence of mammary adenocarcinomas. A large percentage of these tumors contain the Ha-ras oncogene, activated by a G----A transition at the second nucleotide of codon 12. Copenhagen rats, on the other hand, are compl...

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

authors： Lu SJ,Archer MC

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 125I-labeled synthetic analog of bovine parathyroid hormone, [8-norleucine,18-norleucine,34-tyrosine]PTH-(1-34) amide ([Nle]PTH-(1-34)-NH2), purified by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), was employed to label the parathyroid hormone (PTH) receptor in cell lines derived from PTH target tissues: the ROS 17/...

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

authors： Wright BS,Tyler GA,O'Brien R,Caporale LH,Rosenblatt M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The periaqueductal gray (PAG) and amygdala are known to be important for defensive responses, and many contemporary fear-conditioning models present the PAG as downstream of the amygdala, directing the appropriate behavior (i.e., freezing or fleeing). However, empirical studies of this circuitry are inconsistent and w...

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

authors： Kim EJ,Horovitz O,Pellman BA,Tan LM,Li Q,Richter-Levin G,Kim JJ

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in clearing apoptotic debris disrupt tissue and immunological homeostasis, leading to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Herein, we report that macrophages from lupus-prone MRL/lpr mice have impaired lysosomal maturation, resulting in heightened ROS production and attenuated lysosomal acidification. Impaire...

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

authors： Monteith AJ,Kang S,Scott E,Hillman K,Rajfur Z,Jacobson K,Costello MJ,Vilen BJ

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant viruses are submitted to narrow population bottlenecks both during infection of their hosts and during horizontal transmission between host individuals. The size of bottlenecks exerted on virus populations during plant invasion has been estimated in a few pathosystems but is not addressed yet for horizontal tran...

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

authors： Moury B,Fabre F,Senoussi R

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that p-terphenyl-3,5,3',5'-tetracarboxylic acid adsorbed on graphite self-assembles into a two-dimensional rhombus random tiling. This tiling is close to ideal, displaying long-range correlations punctuated by sparse localized tiling defects. In this article we explore the analogy between dynami...

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

authors： Garrahan JP,Stannard A,Blunt MO,Beton PH

更新日期：2009-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of cholera toxin to membrane particles prepared from sarcoma 180 cells gives rise to a variety of fragments which are capable of activating adenylate cyclase [ATP:pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1]. A major component of these fragments has an apparent molecular weight in the 8,000-10,000 range. The ...

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

authors： Matuo Y,Wheeler MA,Bitensky MW

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral mobility of an active fluorescent derivative of cytochrome c on the membranes of giant mitochondria was measured by fluorescence redistribution after photobleaching. A diffusion coefficient of 1.6 X 10(-10) cm2/sec was determined for the labeled cytochrome c on inner mitochondrial membranes under conditions wh...

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

authors： Hochman JH,Schindler M,Lee JG,Ferguson-Miller S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and epidemiological synergy exists between the globally important sexually transmitted infections, gonorrhea and HIV. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which causes gonorrhea, is particularly adept at driving HIV-1 expression, but the molecular determinants of this relationship remain undefined. N. gonorrhoeae liberates...

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

authors： Malott RJ,Keller BO,Gaudet RG,McCaw SE,Lai CC,Dobson-Belaire WN,Hobbs JL,St Michael F,Cox AD,Moraes TF,Gray-Owen SD

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:DG42 is one of the main mRNAs expressed during gastrulation in embryos of Xenopus laevis. Here we demonstrate that cells expressing this mRNA synthesize hyaluronan. The cloned DG42 cDNA was expressed in rabbit kidney (RK13) and human osteosarcoma (tk-) cells using a vaccinia virus system. Lysates prepared from infecte...

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

authors： Meyer MF,Kreil G

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drake Passage (DP) is the major geographic constriction for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and exerts a strong control on the exchange of physical, chemical, and biological properties between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean basins. Resolving changes in the flow of circumpolar water masses through ...

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

authors： Lamy F,Arz HW,Kilian R,Lange CB,Lembke-Jene L,Wengler M,Kaiser J,Baeza-Urrea O,Hall IR,Harada N,Tiedemann R

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an FK506 affinity column to identify mammalian immunosuppressant-binding proteins, we identified an immunophilin with an apparent M(r) approximately 55,000, which we have named FKBP52. We used chemically determined peptide sequence and a computerized algorithm to search GenPept, the translated GenBank data base,...

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

authors： Peattie DA,Harding MW,Fleming MA,DeCenzo MT,Lippke JA,Livingston DJ,Benasutti M

更新日期：1992-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin (IL)-33 is an important member of the IL-1 family that has pleiotropic activities in innate and adaptive immune responses in host defense and disease. It signals through its ligand-binding primary receptor ST2 and IL-1 receptor accessory protein (IL-1RAcP), both of which are members of the IL-1 receptor fa...

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

authors： Liu X,Hammel M,He Y,Tainer JA,Jeng US,Zhang L,Wang S,Wang X

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Bernard-Soulier syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder of platelet dysfunction presenting with mild thrombocytopenia, circulating "giant" platelets and a bleeding phenotype. The bleeding in patients with the Bernard-Soulier syndrome is disproportionately more severe than suggested by the reduced platele...

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

authors： Ware J,Russell S,Ruggeri ZM

更新日期：2000-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the manufacture of chemical feedstocks and subsequent processing into derivatives and materials, the U.S. chemical industry sets the current standard of excellence for technological competitiveness. This world-class leadership is attributed to the innovation and advancement of chemical engineering process technolog...

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

authors： Mitchell JW

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tc1-like transposable elements from teleost fish have been phylogenetically examined to determine the mechanisms involved in their evolution and conserved domains of function. We identified two new functional domains in these elements. The first is a bipartite nuclear localization signal, indicating that transposons c...

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

authors： Ivics Z,Izsvak Z,Minter A,Hackett PB

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-deoxy-D-glucose method was used to study asymmetries in cerebral metabolic activity in neonatal rats. Left-right asymmetries in 2-deoxy-D-glucose uptake were observed in hippocampus, diencephalon, cortex, and medulla-pons: 2-deoxy-D-glucose incorporation was greater in right hippocampus, right diencephalon, left...

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

authors： Ross DA,Glick SD,Meibach RC

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Chinese hamster cell lines, G1+-1 and CHO, have been grown in the presence of low concentrations of hydroxyurea to determine how a slowing DNA synthesis (i.e., a lengthening of the S period) affects the length of the G1 period. Hydroxyurea concentrations of approximately 10 microM do not alter the generation times...

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

authors： Stancel GM,Prescott DM,Liskay RM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reaction cycle for electron-transportdriven proton pumps is proposed. It includes two distinct conformational states of the pump protein in which the primary electron acceptor has different reduction potentials. This has as an unavoidable consequence that the steady-state rate equation for the catalytic reaction dri...

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

authors： Brzezinski P,Malmström BG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00