Transgenic mice for interleukin 3 develop motor neuron degeneration associated with autoimmune reaction against spinal cord motor neurons.

abstract：:Rivers around the world are being regulated by dams to accommodate the needs of a rapidly growing global population. These regulatory efforts usually oppose the natural tendency of rivers to flood, move sediment, and migrate. Although an economic benefit, river regulation has come at unforeseen and unevaluated cumulat...

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

authors： Trush WJ,McBain SM,Leopold LB

更新日期：2000-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviruses undergo a high frequency of genetic alterations during the process of copying their RNA genomes. However, little is known about the replication fidelity of other elements that transpose via reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate. The complete sequence of 29 independently integrated copies of the yea...

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

authors： Gabriel A,Willems M,Mules EH,Boeke JD

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Corazonin is a highly conserved neuropeptide hormone of wide-spread occurrence in insects yet is associated with no universally recognized function. After discovery of the corazonin receptor in Drosophila, we identified its ortholog in the moth, Manduca sexta, as a prelude to physiological studies. The corazonin recep...

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

authors： Kim YJ,Spalovská-Valachová I,Cho KH,Zitnanova I,Park Y,Adams ME,Zitnan D

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that regulate insulin secretion were investigated using capacitance measurements of exocytosis in single beta cells maintained in tissue culture. Exocytosis was stimulated by voltage-clamp depolarizations to activate the voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels that mediate Ca2+ influx into the beta cell. Under ...

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

authors： Ammälä C,Eliasson L,Bokvist K,Berggren PO,Honkanen RE,Sjöholm A,Rorsman P

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Distributions of sulfur isotopes in geological samples would provide a record of atmospheric composition if the mechanism producing the isotope effects could be described quantitatively. We determined the UV absorption spectra of 32SO2, 33SO2, and 34SO2 and use them to interpret the geological record. The calculated i...

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

authors： Ueno Y,Johnson MS,Danielache SO,Eskebjerg C,Pandey A,Yoshida N

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use quantized molecular dynamics simulations to characterize the role of enzyme vibrations in facilitating dihydrofolate reductase hydride transfer. By sampling the full ensemble of reactive trajectories, we are able to quantify and distinguish between statistical and dynamical correlations in the enzyme motion. We...

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

authors： Boekelheide N,Salomón-Ferrer R,Miller TF 3rd

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) inhibited [3H]thymidine incorporation in normal adrenocortical cells of adult rats in culture, with a concomitant increase in corticosterone production and a characteristic retraction of cells. Both dibutyryl cyclic AMP and an analog of ACTH, which produces virtually no cyclic AMP, i...

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

authors： Ramachandran J,Suyama AT

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many marine bacteria have evolved to grow optimally at either high (copiotrophic) or low (oligotrophic) nutrient concentrations, enabling different species to colonize distinct trophic habitats in the oceans. Here, we compare the genome sequences of two bacteria, Photobacterium angustum S14 and Sphingopyxis alaskensis...

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

authors： Lauro FM,McDougald D,Thomas T,Williams TJ,Egan S,Rice S,DeMaere MZ,Ting L,Ertan H,Johnson J,Ferriera S,Lapidus A,Anderson I,Kyrpides N,Munk AC,Detter C,Han CS,Brown MV,Robb FT,Kjelleberg S,Cavicchioli R

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) and a form of programmed cell death called hypersensitive response (HR) are often associated with disease resistance of plants. We have previously shown that the Rac homolog of rice, OsRac1, is a regulator of ROI production and cell death in rice. Here we show that the...

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

authors： Ono E,Wong HL,Kawasaki T,Hasegawa M,Kodama O,Shimamoto K

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Competing populations in shared spaces with nonrenewable resources do not necessarily wage a battle for dominance at the cost of extinction of the less-fit strain if there are fitness advantages to the presence of the other strain. We report on the use of nanofabricated habitat landscapes to study the population dynam...

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

authors： Keymer JE,Galajda P,Lambert G,Liao D,Austin RH

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic epithelial cells (TECs), the major component of the thymic microenvironment, can be modulated by pituitary hormones. We have shown previously that prolactin (PRL) can influence the endocrine activity of TECs and stimulate TEC proliferation as well as cytokeratin expression, suggesting the existence of PRL recep...

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

authors： Dardenne M,Kelly PA,Bach JF,Savino W

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The four principal gut epithelial cell lineages undergo continuous and rapid renewal during a geographically well-organized migration along the crypt-to-villus axis. The molecules that regulate their proliferation and differentiation programs are largely unknown. The large tumor antigen (TAg) of wild-type (wt) simian ...

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

authors： Kim SH,Roth KA,Coopersmith CM,Pipas JM,Gordon JI

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxococcus xanthus is a Gram-negative bacterium that aggregates to form fruiting bodies when nutrients are limiting. Previous studies showed that the frz mutants that are defective in chemotaxis exhibited irregular and infrequent patterns of cellular reversal. In contrast, wild-type cells, when examined individually, ...

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

authors： Shi W,Ngok FK,Zusman DR

更新日期：1996-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined population genetic and reproductive analysis was undertaken to compare free-ranging cheetahs from east Africa (Acinonyx jubatus raineyi) with the genetically impoverished and reproductively impaired south African subspecies (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus). Like that of their south African counterparts, the quali...

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

authors： O'Brien SJ,Wildt DE,Bush M,Caro TM,FitzGibbon C,Aggundey I,Leakey RE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) involves fetal overgrowth and predisposition to a wide variety of embryonal tumors of childhood. We have previously found that BWS is genetically linked to 11p15 and that this same band shows loss of heterozygosity in the types of tumors to which children with BWS are susceptible. How...

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

authors： Hoovers JM,Kalikin LM,Johnson LA,Alders M,Redeker B,Law DJ,Bliek J,Steenman M,Benedict M,Wiegant J,Lengauer C,Taillon-Miller P,Schlessinger D,Edwards MC,Elledge SJ,Ivens A,Westerveld A,Little P,Mannens M,Feinberg AP

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The simple yet powerful technique of induced pluripotency may eventually supply a wide range of differentiated cells for cell therapy and drug development. However, making the appropriate cells via induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) requires reprogramming of somatic cells and subsequent redifferentiation. Given ho...

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

authors： Kim J,Efe JA,Zhu S,Talantova M,Yuan X,Wang S,Lipton SA,Zhang K,Ding S

更新日期：2011-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ia (PHP-Ia) results from the loss of one allele of G(salpha), causing resistance to parathyroid hormone and other hormones that transduce signals via G(s). Most G(salpha)mutations cause the complete loss of protein expression, but some cause loss of function only, and these have provided ...

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

authors： Makita N,Sato J,Rondard P,Fukamachi H,Yuasa Y,Aldred MA,Hashimoto M,Fujita T,Iiri T

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized seven murine retinoic acid receptor gamma cDNA isoforms (mRAR-gamma 1 to -gamma 7) generated by alternative splicing of at least seven exons. These isoforms differ from one another in their 5' untranslated region and in two cases (mRAR-gamma 1 and -gamma 2) differ in their N-terminal A region, wh...

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

authors： Kastner P,Krust A,Mendelsohn C,Garnier JM,Zelent A,Leroy P,Staub A,Chambon P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of profiling by ethnicity or nationality to trigger secondary security screening is a controversial social and political issue. Overlooked is the question of whether such actuarial methods are in fact mathematically justified, even under the most idealized assumptions of completely accurate prior probabilities...

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

authors： Press WH

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have detected an endoglycosidase activity produced by Flavobacterium meningosepticum. This enzyme, named endo F, cleaves glycans of both the high-mannose and the complex type linked through asparagine to the protein backbone. The data indicate that cleavage occurs via hydrolysis of the glycosidic bond of the N,N'-d...

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

authors： Elder JH,Alexander S

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels of apolipoprotein CIII (apoCIII) are increased in type 1 diabetic patients, and when β cells are exposed to these diabetic sera, apoptosis occurs, an effect abolished by an antibody against apoCIII. We have investigated the BB rat, an animal model that develops a human-like type 1 diabetes, and found that...

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

authors： Holmberg R,Refai E,Höög A,Crooke RM,Graham M,Olivecrona G,Berggren PO,Juntti-Berggren L

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is an important cause of acute renal failure in children. Mutations in one or more genes encoding complement-regulatory proteins have been reported in approximately one-third of nondiarrheal, atypical HUS (aHUS) patients, suggesting a defect in the protection of cell surfaces against co...

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

authors： Goicoechea de Jorge E,Harris CL,Esparza-Gordillo J,Carreras L,Arranz EA,Garrido CA,López-Trascasa M,Sánchez-Corral P,Morgan BP,Rodríguez de Córdoba S

更新日期：2007-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the core features of human speech is that words cause listeners to retrieve corresponding visual mental images. However, whether vocalizations similarly evoke mental images in animal communication systems is surprisingly unknown. Japanese tits (Parus minor) produce specific alarm calls when and only when encoun...

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

authors： Suzuki TN

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Global increases in population, consumption, and gross domestic product raise concerns about the sustainability of the current and future use of natural resources. The human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) provides a useful measure of human intervention into the biosphere. The productive capacity of la...

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

authors： Krausmann F,Erb KH,Gingrich S,Haberl H,Bondeau A,Gaube V,Lauk C,Plutzar C,Searchinger TD

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle L-type Ca2+ channels respond to trains of brief depolarizations with a strong shift of the voltage dependence of channel activation toward more negative membrane potentials and slowing of channel deactivation. Increased Ca2+ entry resulting from this potentiation of channel activity may increase contra...

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

authors： Johnson BD,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-amino acid residue peptide has been isolated from the Fc region of a human IgG1 myeloma protein. The peptide has associated with it the same ability to induce murine B cells to polyclonally secrete antibody as does the intact Fc fragment. Amino acid composition of the peptide indicates that on a mole/mole basis t...

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

authors： Morgan EL,Hugli TE,Weigle WO

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation is regulated by the induction of growth promoting genes and the suppression of growth inhibitory genes. Malignant growth can result from the altered balance of expression of these genes in favor of cell proliferation. Induction of the transcription factor, c-Myc, promotes cell proliferation and tran...

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

authors： Lee TC,Li L,Philipson L,Ziff EB

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of the cells in osteoblastic lineage, including preosteoblasts and osteoblasts, has been postulated to influence bone formation. However, the molecular bases that link preosteoblastic/osteoblastic cell migration and bone formation are incompletely understood. Nck (noncatalytic region of tyrosine kinase; coll...

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

authors： Aryal A C S,Miyai K,Izu Y,Hayata T,Notomi T,Noda M,Ezura Y

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular targeting of the two receptor interaction domains of the epigenetic repressor silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors (SMRT(mRID)) produced a transplantable skeletal syndrome that reduced radial bone growth, increased numbers of bone-resorbing periosteal osteoclasts, and increased bone f...

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

authors： Hong SH,Dvorak-Ewell M,Stevens HY,Barish GD,Castro GL,Nofsinger R,Frangos JA,Shoback D,Evans RM

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The nanoscale distributions of electron density and electric fields in GaAs semiconductor devices are displayed with NMR experiments. The spectra are sensitive to the changes to the nuclear-spin Hamiltonian that are induced by perturbations delivered in synchrony with a line-narrowing pulse sequence. This POWER (pertu...

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

authors： Kempf JG,Miller MA,Weitekamp DP

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00