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The known Mountain Plover population breeding on the Myton Bench, Duchesne County, Utah, is small, composed roughly of 30 adults and young after each breeding season. Currently, its location is peripheral to the species main range. This shrub-steppe breeding habitat differs from the shortgrass prairie habitat with which this bird is historically associated. Between 1996 and 1998 we made observations at nesting sites located consistently in 2 concentrated areas surrounded by large tracts of similar habitat. Activity may be focused in these specific areas because of breeding-site fidelity; this behavior is common among most shorebirds and has been documented for the Mountain Plover in Colorado. Also, Mountain Plovers are social and tend to choose nest sites near others. Most nests in Utah were located within close proximity of mounds of white-tailed prairie dogs ( Cynomys leucurus ), and all were situated near roadways or oil well pads. Mountain Plovers were often observed with broods on these bare areas at night. We conclude that Mountain Plovers on the Myton Bench are distributed in clumped breeding colonies within large areas of apparently favorable habitat. 相似文献
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Somatic histone H3 alterations in pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas and non-brainstem glioblastomas 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Wu G Broniscer A McEachron TA Lu C Paugh BS Becksfort J Qu C Ding L Huether R Parker M Zhang J Gajjar A Dyer MA Mullighan CG Gilbertson RJ Mardis ER Wilson RK Downing JR Ellison DW Zhang J Baker SJ;St. Jude Children's Research Hospital–Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project 《Nature genetics》2012,44(3):251-253
To identify somatic mutations in pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), we performed whole-genome sequencing of DNA from seven DIPGs and matched germline tissue and targeted sequencing of an additional 43 DIPGs and 36 non-brainstem pediatric glioblastomas (non-BS-PGs). We found that 78% of DIPGs and 22% of non-BS-PGs contained a mutation in H3F3A, encoding histone H3.3, or in the related HIST1H3B, encoding histone H3.1, that caused a p.Lys27Met amino acid substitution in each protein. An additional 14% of non-BS-PGs had somatic mutations in H3F3A causing a p.Gly34Arg alteration. 相似文献
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Hovatta I Tennant RS Helton R Marr RA Singer O Redwine JM Ellison JA Schadt EE Verma IM Lockhart DJ Barlow C 《Nature》2005,438(7068):662-666
Anxiety and fear are normal emotional responses to threatening situations. In human anxiety disorders--such as panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia, specific phobias and generalized anxiety disorder--these responses are exaggerated. The molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of normal and pathological anxiety are mostly unknown. However, the availability of different inbred strains of mice offers an excellent model system in which to study the genetics of certain behavioural phenotypes. Here we report, using a combination of behavioural analysis of six inbred mouse strains with quantitative gene expression profiling of several brain regions, the identification of 17 genes with expression patterns that correlate with anxiety-like behavioural phenotypes. To determine if two of the genes, glyoxalase 1 and glutathione reductase 1, have a causal role in the genesis of anxiety, we performed genetic manipulation using lentivirus-mediated gene transfer. Local overexpression of these genes in the mouse brain resulted in increased anxiety-like behaviour, while local inhibition of glyoxalase 1 expression by RNA interference decreased the anxiety-like behaviour. Both of these genes are involved in oxidative stress metabolism, linking this pathway with anxiety-related behaviour. 相似文献
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Subtypes of medulloblastoma have distinct developmental origins 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Gibson P Tong Y Robinson G Thompson MC Currle DS Eden C Kranenburg TA Hogg T Poppleton H Martin J Finkelstein D Pounds S Weiss A Patay Z Scoggins M Ogg R Pei Y Yang ZJ Brun S Lee Y Zindy F Lindsey JC Taketo MM Boop FA Sanford RA Gajjar A Clifford SC Roussel MF McKinnon PJ Gutmann DH Ellison DW Wechsler-Reya R Gilbertson RJ 《Nature》2010,468(7327):1095-1099
Medulloblastoma encompasses a collection of clinically and molecularly diverse tumour subtypes that together comprise the most common malignant childhood brain tumour. These tumours are thought to arise within the cerebellum, with approximately 25% originating from granule neuron precursor cells (GNPCs) after aberrant activation of the Sonic Hedgehog pathway (hereafter, SHH subtype). The pathological processes that drive heterogeneity among the other medulloblastoma subtypes are not known, hindering the development of much needed new therapies. Here we provide evidence that a discrete subtype of medulloblastoma that contains activating mutations in the WNT pathway effector CTNNB1 (hereafter, WNT subtype) arises outside the cerebellum from cells of the dorsal brainstem. We found that genes marking human WNT-subtype medulloblastomas are more frequently expressed in the lower rhombic lip (LRL) and embryonic dorsal brainstem than in the upper rhombic lip (URL) and developing cerebellum. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and intra-operative reports showed that human WNT-subtype tumours infiltrate the dorsal brainstem, whereas SHH-subtype tumours are located within the cerebellar hemispheres. Activating mutations in Ctnnb1 had little impact on progenitor cell populations in the cerebellum, but caused the abnormal accumulation of cells on the embryonic dorsal brainstem which included aberrantly proliferating Zic1(+) precursor cells. These lesions persisted in all mutant adult mice; moreover, in 15% of cases in which Tp53 was concurrently deleted, they progressed to form medulloblastomas that recapitulated the anatomy and gene expression profiles of human WNT-subtype medulloblastoma. We provide the first evidence, to our knowledge, that subtypes of medulloblastoma have distinct cellular origins. Our data provide an explanation for the marked molecular and clinical differences between SHH- and WNT-subtype medulloblastomas and have profound implications for future research and treatment of this important childhood cancer. 相似文献
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Cardiovascular development: towards biomedical applicability 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Torella D Ellison GM Karakikes I Nadal-Ginard B 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2007,64(6):661-673
Regardless of erroneous claims by a minority of reports, adult cardiomyocytes are terminally differentiated cells which do not re-enter the cell-cycle under any known physiological or pathological circumstances. However, it has recently been shown that the adult heart has a robust myocardial regenerative potential, which challenges the accepted notions of cardiac cellular biology. The source of this regenerative potential is constituted by resident cardiac stem cells (CSCs). These CSCs, through both cell transplantation and in situ activation, have the capacity to regenerate significant segmental and diffuse myocyte losts, restoring anatomical integrity and ventricular function. Thus, CSC identification has started a brand new discipline of cardiac biology that could profoundly changed the outlook of cardiac physiology and the potential for treatment of cardiac failure. Nonetheless, the dawn of this new era should not be set back by premature attempts at clinical application before having accumulated the required scientifically reproducible data. 相似文献
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Zhang J Benavente CA McEvoy J Flores-Otero J Ding L Chen X Ulyanov A Wu G Wilson M Wang J Brennan R Rusch M Manning AL Ma J Easton J Shurtleff S Mullighan C Pounds S Mukatira S Gupta P Neale G Zhao D Lu C Fulton RS Fulton LL Hong X Dooling DJ Ochoa K Naeve C Dyson NJ Mardis ER Bahrami A Ellison D Wilson RK Downing JR Dyer MA 《Nature》2012,481(7381):329-334
Retinoblastoma is an aggressive childhood cancer of the developing retina that is initiated by the biallelic loss of RB1. Tumours progress very quickly following RB1 inactivation but the underlying mechanism is not known. Here we show that the retinoblastoma genome is stable, but that multiple cancer pathways can be epigenetically deregulated. To identify the mutations that cooperate with RB1 loss, we performed whole-genome sequencing of retinoblastomas. The overall mutational rate was very low; RB1 was the only known cancer gene mutated. We then evaluated the role of RB1 in genome stability and considered non-genetic mechanisms of cancer pathway deregulation. For example, the proto-oncogene SYK is upregulated in retinoblastoma and is required for tumour cell survival. Targeting SYK with a small-molecule inhibitor induced retinoblastoma tumour cell death in vitro and in vivo. Thus, retinoblastomas may develop quickly as a result of the epigenetic deregulation of key cancer pathways as a direct or indirect result of RB1 loss. 相似文献
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G. Baccelli G. D. Ellison G. Mancia A. Zanchetti 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1971,27(10):1183-1184
Résumé La circulation musculaire du chat est influencée par les situations émotives: la vue d'un autre chat, agresseur, cause une vasoconstriction de nature adrénergique, tandis que la vue d'un chien cause une vasodilatation de nature cholinergique.
On leave from the Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (California, USA). 相似文献
On leave from the Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (California, USA). 相似文献
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The known Mountain Plover population breeding on the Myton Bench, Duchesne County, Utah, is small, composed roughly of 30 adults and young after each breeding season. Currently, its location is peripheral to the species main range. This shrub-steppe breeding habitat differs from the shortgrass prairie habitat with which this bird is historically associated. Between 1996 and 1998 we made observations at nesting sites located consistently in 2 concentrated areas surrounded by large tracts of similar habitat. Activity may be focused in these specific areas because of breeding-site fidelity; this behavior is common among most shorebirds and has been documented for the Mountain Plover in Colorado. Also, Mountain Plovers are social and tend to choose nest sites near others. Most nests in Utah were located within close proximity of mounds of white-tailed prairie dogs ( Cynomys leucurus ), and all were situated near roadways or oil well pads. Mountain Plovers were often observed with broods on these bare areas at night. We conclude that Mountain Plovers on the Myton Bench are distributed in clumped breeding colonies within large areas of apparently favorable habitat. 相似文献
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