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    Neuroscience

    • Distinct neural mechanisms for repetition effects of visual objects

      • C GUO, A LAWSON, Y JIANG
        Original article citation: Neuroscience 149," 747 - 759, (2007).

      • Categories: Neuroscience
      • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 01/24/2008 04:29PM GMT

        When coming across a visual stimulus that has been seen before, people might sense familiarity; their study offered the neural basis for the repetition effect of visual objects, by showing two distinctive event-related potentials (ERP), separated both temporally, localizationally and qualitatively. The early and late coponents are affected differently by previous experience of intentional learning.
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    Neuroscience

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    Neuroscience

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    Ecology & Evolution

    • Quantitative analyses of the abundance and composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea of a Chinese upland red soil under long-term fertilization practices

      • Ji-zheng He, Ju-pei Shen, Li-mei Zhang, Yong-guan Zhu, Yuan-ming Zheng, Ming-gang Xu, Hongjie Di
        Original article citation: Environ Microbiol 9," 2364 - 2374, (2007).

      • Categories: Ecology & Evolution, Earth & Environment, and Cell & Molecular Biology
      • Recommended by : James Moir on 01/18/2008 03:59AM GMT

        Nitrification, the process of conversion of ammonium to nitrate in the soil is a microbial process which is fundamentally important for nitrogen cycling in the terrestrial ecosystem. It also has environmental and economic implications as the process produces nitrate which can be leached and contaminate groundwater and surface waters. The leaching of nitrate also reduces the efficiency of nitrogen for plant growth. However, the microbes involved in performing the nitrification process are poorly understood mainly because of difficulties of studying them using conventional techniques. The latest advances in molecular techniques and real-time PCR have provided new approaches to studying the abundance and diversity of these microbes. To this end, the publication of the paper by Jizheng He et al., titled, Quantitative analyses of the abundance and composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea of a Chinese upland red soil under long-term fertilization practices Published in Environmental Microbiology (2007) 9(9): 2364-2374 represents a major milestone in this area using the latest molecular techniques to study these ammonium oxidizing microbes. This work makes major advances in this subject area by providing quantitative information on the relative abundance and diversity of the ammonium oxidizing bacteria and archaea in soils that had been under long-term fertilizer applications. These research findings provide important insights into the role that these different microbes play in nitrification and the impact of human activities on the population abundance and diversity of these microbes. These findings have implications on the sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems. I therefore would strongly recommend the paper for the website of Nature China as I am confident that many researchers around China and the world would find it an interesting and important paper.
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    Cell & Molecular Biology

    • Bid is not required for Bax translocation during UV-induced apoptosis

      • Y WU, D XING, W CHEN, X WANG
        Original article citation: Cellular Signalling 19," 2468 - 2478, (2007).

      • Categories: Cell & Molecular Biology
      • Recommended by : Mike X. Chen on 01/14/2008 09:19PM GMT

        Multiple signaling pathways are involved in UV-induced apoptosis, among which Bax activation has been proposed as an important factor. However, the regulation of Bax activation remains elusive. In this paper, Wu et al employed FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) technique to visualize the real-time intracellular events at a single-cell level. A novel mechanism has been revealed that Bax activation is a Bid-independent event in UV irradiation-induced apoptosis.
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    Developmental Biology

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    Chemistry

    • Tuning of Redox Properties of Iron and Iron Oxides via Encapsulation within Carbon Nanotubes

      • W. Chen, X. Pan, X. Bao
        Original article citation: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129," 7421 - 7426, (2007).

      • Categories: Chemistry and Materials
      • Recommended by : Gemma Moxham on 12/06/2007 04:41PM GMT

        There is great interest in the use of carbon nanotubes as templates for synthesis of other nanomaterials or as nanosized reaction vessels. Many studies have shown the benefits of using CNTs as a support for metal catalysts on the outer surface but few efforts have been made to carry out reactions on metals encapsulated within the nanotubes. Little is therefore known about the effects of confining chemical reactions in such a way. This paper reports the encapsulation of iron and iron-oxide particles within CNTs and investigates the interaction of the nanoparticles with the CNTs by Raman spectroscopy. The effect of these interactions on the reduction and oxidation reactions of the particles is investigated.
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    Chemistry

    • Highly Efficient Au(I)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Addition of β-Ketoamide to Unactivated Alkenes

      • C.-Y. Zhou, C.-M. Che
        Original article citation: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129," 5828 - 5829, (2007).

      • Categories: Chemistry
      • Recommended by : Gemma Moxham on 12/06/2007 04:12PM GMT

        The addition of C-H bonds across a C=C double bond is a valuable method of C-C bond formation. It has been shown that Au(I) and Au(III) complexes can catalyse addition of a beta-ketone to an alkene but only for electron rich alkenes. In this paper, Au(I) catalysts are shown to catalyse the addition of a beta-ketoamide to unactivated alkenes to aford highly substituted lactams with excellent yields and regioselectivities under mild reaction conditions.
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    Neuroscience

    • Neural basis of cultural influence on self-representation

      • Y ZHU, L ZHANG, J FAN, S HAN
        Original article citation: NeuroImage 34," 1310 - 1316, (2007).

      • Categories: Neuroscience
      • Recommended by : Jie Huang on 11/27/2007 08:05PM GMT

        In this study, they employed brain imaging technique (fMRI) to illuminate an issue in social psychology realm, which combination is at the cutting edge of social neuroscience. The existence of culture-induced differentiation of Western independent self and Eastern interdependent self has been known for long, here the results prove that this distinction is not solely behaviorally based, but also has its neurological basis: medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), which in Western people is engaged only in self-representation, is engaged in representation of both self and mother in Chinese people. This study, on the other hand, also suggests that culture is able to modulate neural mechanisms,
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    Chemistry

    • Reversible Surface Switching of Nanogel Triggered by External Stimuli

      • Xiaochen Shen, Leyang Zhang, Xiqun Jiang, Yong Hu, Jian Guo
        Original article citation: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46," 7104 - 7107, (2007).

      • Categories: Chemistry and Materials
      • Recommended by : Gemma Moxham on 11/21/2007 11:38AM GMT

        Many organisms are able to change the properties of their surface membrane proteins in response to a change in pH in order to overcome biological membrane barriers. It is highly desirable to mimic such behaviour synthetically for biomedical and pharmaceutical application, hence, a variety of stimuli-responsive polymeric systems have been developed. However, the alterations that occur on a change in pH usually involve a disassembly process result in a change in dimension. In this papar the preparation of a novel nanogel of two biocompatible components is described which has a fully reversible pH-dependent switch process. The particle integrity is maintained over the entire pH range and the nanogel structure better resembles the structures of most organisms than the usual block co-polymer assemblies.
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