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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2012-07-11
    Description: Bile salt synthesis is a specialized liver function in vertebrates. Bile salts play diverse roles in digestion and signaling, and their homeostasis is maintained by controlling input (biosynthesis) and intestinal conservation. Patients with biliary atresia (i.e., obliteration of the biliary tree) suffer liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. In contrast, sea lamprey thrives despite developmental biliary atresia. We discovered that the sea lamprey adapts to biliary atresia through a unique mechanism of de novo synthesis and secretion of bile salts in intestine after developmental biliary atresia, in addition to known mechanisms, such as the reduction of bile salt synthesis in liver. During and after developmental biliary atresia, expression of cyp7a1 in intestine increased by more than 100-fold (P 〈 0.001), whereas in liver it decreased by the same magnitude (P 〈 0.001). Concurrently, bile salt pools changed in similar patterns and magnitudes in these two organs and the composition shifted from C24 bile alcohol sulfates to taurine-conjugated C24 bile acids. In addition, both in vivo and ex vivo experiments showed that aductular sea lamprey secreted taurocholic acid into its intestinal lumen. Our results indicate that the sea lamprey, a jawless vertebrate, may be in an evolutionarily transitional state where bile salt synthesis occurs in both liver and intestine. Understanding the molecular basis of these mechanisms may shed light on the evolution of bile salt synthesis and possible therapy for infant biliary atresia.
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    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
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    Publication Date: 2011-10-29
    Description: Abeta (beta-amyloid peptide) is an important contributor to Alzheimer's disease (AD). We modeled Abeta toxicity in yeast by directing the peptide to the secretory pathway. A genome-wide screen for toxicity modifiers identified the yeast homolog of phosphatidylinositol binding clathrin assembly protein (PICALM) and other endocytic factors connected to AD whose relationship to Abeta was previously unknown. The factors identified in yeast modified Abeta toxicity in glutamatergic neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans and in primary rat cortical neurons. In yeast, Abeta impaired the endocytic trafficking of a plasma membrane receptor, which was ameliorated by endocytic pathway factors identified in the yeast screen. Thus, links between Abeta, endocytosis, and human AD risk factors can be ascertained with yeast as a model system.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281757/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281757/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Treusch, Sebastian -- Hamamichi, Shusei -- Goodman, Jessica L -- Matlack, Kent E S -- Chung, Chee Yeun -- Baru, Valeriya -- Shulman, Joshua M -- Parrado, Antonio -- Bevis, Brooke J -- Valastyan, Julie S -- Han, Haesun -- Lindhagen-Persson, Malin -- Reiman, Eric M -- Evans, Denis A -- Bennett, David A -- Olofsson, Anders -- DeJager, Philip L -- Tanzi, Rudolph E -- Caldwell, Kim A -- Caldwell, Guy A -- Lindquist, Susan -- F32 NS067782-02/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- K08 AG034290/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- K08AG034290/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- P30 AG019610/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- P30AG10161/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG015819/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG017917/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01AG15819/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01AG17917/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Dec 2;334(6060):1241-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1213210. Epub 2011 Oct 27.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22033521" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alzheimer Disease/*genetics/*metabolism ; Amyloid beta-Peptides/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Animals ; Animals, Genetically Modified ; Caenorhabditis elegans/cytology/genetics/metabolism ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; Clathrin/metabolism ; Cytoskeleton/metabolism ; Disease Susceptibility ; *Endocytosis ; Genetic Association Studies ; Genetic Testing ; Glutamates/metabolism ; Humans ; Monomeric Clathrin Assembly Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Neurons/physiology ; Peptide Fragments/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Transport ; Rats ; Risk Factors ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae/cytology/genetics/growth & development/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Secretory Pathway
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    Publication Date: 2013-10-26
    Description: The induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell field holds promise for in vitro disease modeling. However, identifying innate cellular pathologies, particularly for age-related neurodegenerative diseases, has been challenging. Here, we exploited mutation correction of iPS cells and conserved proteotoxic mechanisms from yeast to humans to discover and reverse phenotypic responses to alpha-synuclein (alphasyn), a key protein involved in Parkinson's disease (PD). We generated cortical neurons from iPS cells of patients harboring alphasyn mutations, who are at high risk of developing PD dementia. Genetic modifiers from unbiased screens in a yeast model of alphasyn toxicity led to identification of early pathogenic phenotypes in patient neurons. These included nitrosative stress, accumulation of endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated degradation substrates, and ER stress. A small molecule identified in a yeast screen (NAB2), and the ubiquitin ligase Nedd4 it affects, reversed pathologic phenotypes in these neurons.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022187/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022187/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chung, Chee Yeun -- Khurana, Vikram -- Auluck, Pavan K -- Tardiff, Daniel F -- Mazzulli, Joseph R -- Soldner, Frank -- Baru, Valeriya -- Lou, Yali -- Freyzon, Yelena -- Cho, Sukhee -- Mungenast, Alison E -- Muffat, Julien -- Mitalipova, Maisam -- Pluth, Michael D -- Jui, Nathan T -- Schule, Birgitt -- Lippard, Stephen J -- Tsai, Li-Huei -- Krainc, Dimitri -- Buchwald, Stephen L -- Jaenisch, Rudolf -- Lindquist, Susan -- 5 R01CA084198/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- K01 AG038546/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- P50 AG005134/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA084198/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM058160/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Nov 22;342(6161):983-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1245296. Epub 2013 Oct 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24158904" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Benzimidazoles/chemistry/*pharmacology ; Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress/drug effects ; Female ; Humans ; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism ; Mutation ; Neurogenesis ; Neurons/*drug effects/metabolism/pathology ; Parkinson Disease/genetics/*metabolism ; Rats ; alpha-Synuclein/genetics/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2013-10-26
    Description: alpha-Synuclein (alpha-syn) is a small lipid-binding protein implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease, whose pathobiology is conserved from yeast to man. There are no therapies targeting these underlying cellular pathologies, or indeed those of any major neurodegenerative disease. Using unbiased phenotypic screens as an alternative to target-based approaches, we discovered an N-aryl benzimidazole (NAB) that strongly and selectively protected diverse cell types from alpha-syn toxicity. Three chemical genetic screens in wild-type yeast cells established that NAB promoted endosomal transport events dependent on the E3 ubiquitin ligase Rsp5/Nedd4. These same steps were perturbed by alpha-syn itself. Thus, NAB identifies a druggable node in the biology of alpha-syn that can correct multiple aspects of its underlying pathology, including dysfunctional endosomal and endoplasmic reticulum-to-Golgi vesicle trafficking.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3993916/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3993916/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tardiff, Daniel F -- Jui, Nathan T -- Khurana, Vikram -- Tambe, Mitali A -- Thompson, Michelle L -- Chung, Chee Yeun -- Kamadurai, Hari B -- Kim, Hyoung Tae -- Lancaster, Alex K -- Caldwell, Kim A -- Caldwell, Guy A -- Rochet, Jean-Christophe -- Buchwald, Stephen L -- Lindquist, Susan -- 5R01GM069530/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- F32GM099817/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- F32NS061419/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- GM58160/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K01 AG038546/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM058160/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R15 NS075684/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Nov 22;342(6161):979-83. doi: 10.1126/science.1245321. Epub 2013 Oct 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR), Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24158909" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Benzimidazoles/chemistry/*pharmacology ; Caenorhabditis elegans ; Cells, Cultured ; *Cytoprotection ; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical ; Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport/*genetics ; Gene Regulatory Networks/*drug effects ; Neurodegenerative Diseases/*metabolism ; Neurons/*drug effects/metabolism ; Neuroprotective Agents/*pharmacology ; Parkinson Disease/metabolism ; Rats ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/drug effects ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/*genetics ; Small Molecule Libraries/chemistry/pharmacology ; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes/*genetics ; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/*genetics ; alpha-Synuclein/*metabolism
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance (1969) 40 (1980), S. 483-488 
    ISSN: 0022-2364
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Physics
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    Neural computing & applications 1 (1993), S. 215-223 
    ISSN: 1433-3058
    Keywords: Expert system ; Knowledge-based system ; Neural networks ; Machine learning ; Induction
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Computer Science , Mathematics
    Notes: Abstract Neural network technology is experiencing rapid growth and is receiving considerable attention from almost every field of science and engineering. The attraction is due to the successful application of neural network techniques to several real world problems. Neural networks have not yet found widespread application in weather forecasting. The reason for this has been the difficulty in obtaining suitable weather forecasting data sets. In this paper we describe our experience in applying neural network techniques for acquiring the necessary knowledge to predict the weather conditions of Melbourne City and its suburbs in Australia during a 24 hour period beginning at 9 am local time. The accuracy of forecasts produced by a given forecasting procedure typically varies with factors such as geographical location, season, categories of weather, quality of input data, lead time and validity time. Two types of weather data sets assembled from the archives of the Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology are used for training the neural network. The results of the experiments are competitive and are discussed.
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    Journal of intelligent and robotic systems 28 (2000), S. 231-258 
    ISSN: 1573-0409
    Keywords: kinematically redundant manipulators ; torque-optimality ; singularity-robustness ; dynamic control equation ; weighted generalized inverses ; Jacobian-inertia product ; damped least-squares inverses ; generalized dynamic manipulability measure
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Computer Science , Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
    Notes: Abstract A new control method for kinematically redundant manipulators having the properties of torque-optimality and singularity-robustness is developed. A dynamic control equation, an equation of joint torques that should be satisfied to get the desired dynamic behavior of the end-effector, is formulated using the feedback linearization theory. The optimal control law is determined by locally optimizing an appropriate norm of joint torques using the weighted generalized inverses of the manipulator Jacobian-inertia product. In addition, the optimal control law is augmented with fictitious joint damping forces to stabilize the uncontrolled dynamics acting in the null-space of the Jacobian-inertia product. This paper also presents a new method for the robust handling of robot kinematic singularities in the context of joint torque optimization. Control of the end-effector motions in the neighborhood of a singular configuration is based on the use of the damped least-squares inverse of the Jacobian-inertia product. A damping factor as a function of the generalized dynamic manipulability measure is introduced to reduce the end-effector acceleration error caused by the damping. The proposed control method is applied to the numerical model of SNU-ERC 3-DOF planar direct-drive manipulator.
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    ISSN: 1588-2780
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
    Notes: Abstract Positron annihilation lifetime (PAL) experiments are performed in polycarbonate (PC) exposed to CO2 and He gases as a function of time and pressure. In PC/CO2 systems, hole size and fraction reduced from PAL data increase as a function of CO2 pressure and exposure time. Significant hysteresis in positron lifetime data is observed during CO2 abasorption/desorption. In PC/He systems, no variation is observed. Hole size distribution in the CO2-exposed polymers is found to be significantly broader than in unexposed samples. The high sensitivity of PAL results to CO2 exposure of PC is thought to relate to the microstructural changes in the polymer matrix, such as penetrant plasticization, gas hydrostatic pressure effect, and molecular filling and creation of holes.
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    Journal of materials science 16 (1997), S. 1284-1285 
    ISSN: 1573-4811
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
    Notes: Abstract Abstracts are not published in this journal
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    Publication Date: 2000-05-09
    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
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