A hydration-based biophysical index for the onset of soil microbial coexistence.

abstract：:Clinical data have been equivocal and controversial as to the benefits to the brain and cognition of hormone therapy (HT) in postmenopausal women. Recent reevaluation of the role of estrogens proposed that HT may effectively prevent the deleterious effects of aging on cognition, and reduces the risks of dementia, incl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Girard R,Météreau E,Thomas J,Pugeat M,Qu C,Dreher JC

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mozaheb N,Arefian E,Amoozegar MA

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD), characterized by progressive renal dysfunction with tubulointerstitial fibrosis, is increasing because of societal aging. Uremic toxins, accumulated during renal dysfunction, cause kidney damage, leading to renal deterioration. A recent metabolomic analysis revealed that...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Okada A,Nangaku M,Jao TM,Maekawa H,Ishimono Y,Kawakami T,Inagi R

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The eruptive activity of basaltic hotspot volcanoes displays major fluctuations on times scales of years to decades. Theses fluctuations are thought to reflect changes in the rate of mantle melt supply. However, the crustal filter generally masks the mantle processes involved. Here, we show that the cyclic and general...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vlastélic I,Di Muro A,Bachèlery P,Gurioli L,Auclair D,Gannoun A

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a major health concern worldwide; however, the molecular mechanism underlying its development is poorly understood. The hormone amylin is postulated to be involved, as human amylin forms amyloid in the pancreases of diabetic patients, and oligomers have been shown to be cytotoxic to β-cells...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nie T,Zhang S,Vazhoor Amarsingh G,Liu H,McCann MJ,Cooper GJS

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho GTPases are master regulators of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. The activation of Rho GTPases is governed by Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs). Three RhoGEF isoforms are produced by the gene ARHGEF25; p63RhoGEF580, GEFT and a recently discovered longer isoform of 619 amino acids (p63RhoGEF619). The subc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： van Unen J,Yin T,Wu YI,Mastop M,Gadella TW Jr,Goedhart J

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal microbiome changes that occur in HIV positive individuals on different antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens are important to understand, as they are potentially linked with chronic inflammation and microbiome-linked comorbidities that occur at increased incidence in this population. We conducted a cross-se...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pinto-Cardoso S,Lozupone C,Briceño O,Alva-Hernández S,Téllez N,Adriana A,Murakami-Ogasawara A,Reyes-Terán G

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:After prolonged stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) patients often complain about cognitive impairments that affect health-related quality of life after discharge. The aim of this proof-of-concept study was to test the feasibility and effects of controlled visual and acoustic stimulation in a virtual reality (VR) set...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gerber SM,Jeitziner MM,Wyss P,Chesham A,Urwyler P,Müri RM,Jakob SM,Nef T

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean acidification (OA) is predicted to alter benthic marine community structure and function, however, there is a paucity of field experiments in benthic soft sediment communities and ecosystems. Benthic diatoms are important components of Antarctic coastal ecosystems, however very little is known of how they will r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Black JG,Stark JS,Johnstone GJ,McMinn A,Boyd P,McKinlay J,Wootherspoon S,Runcie JW

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The demand for high efficiency intermediate band (IB) solar cells is driving efforts in producing high quality IB photovoltaic materials. Here, we demonstrate ZnTe:O highly mismatched alloys synthesized by high dose ion implantation and pulsed laser melting exhibiting optically active IB states and efficient sub-gap p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J,Ye J,Ren F,Tang D,Yang Y,Tang K,Gu S,Zhang R,Zheng Y

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional disease animal models have limitations on the conformity to the actual clinical situation. Disease-syndrome combination (DS) modeling may provide a more efficient strategy for biomedicine research. Disease model and DS model of renal fibrosis in chronic kidney disease were established by ligating the left...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li S,Xu P,Han L,Mao W,Wang Y,Luo G,Yang N

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell motility requires the precise coordination of cell polarization, lamellipodia formation, adhesion, and force generation. LKB1 is a multi-functional serine/threonine kinase that associates with actin at the cellular leading edge of motile cells and suppresses FAK. We sought to understand how LKB1 coordinates these...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wilkinson S,Hou Y,Zoine JT,Saltz J,Zhang C,Chen Z,Cooper LA,Marcus AI

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Although various surgical procedures have been developed for chronic rotator cuff tear repair, the re-tear rate remains high with severe fat infiltration. However, little is known about the molecular regulation of this process. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the intra-muscular space are origin of ectopic fat cells i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee D,Taniguchi N,Sato K,Choijookhuu N,Hishikawa Y,Kataoka H,Morinaga H,Lotz M,Chosa E

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplexes (G4s) are nucleic acids secondary structures, epigenetic regulators in cells and viruses. In herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1)-infected cells, G4s are massively present during viral replication. We here aimed at investigating the possibility to target the HSV-1 G4s by a core extended naphtalene diimide (c-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Callegaro S,Perrone R,Scalabrin M,Doria F,Palù G,Richter SN

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:When acids are supplied with an excess electron (or placed in an Ar or the more polarizable N2 matrix) in the presence of species such as NH3, the formation of ion-pairs is a likely outcome. Using density functional theory and first-principles calculations, however, we show that, without supplying an external electron...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Varadwaj PR,Varadwaj A,Marques HM

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum coherence and quantum correlations are important quantum resources for quantum computation and quantum information. In this paper, using entropy-based measures, we investigate the relationships between quantum correlated coherence, which is the coherence between subsystems, and two main kinds of quantum correl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang XL,Yue QL,Yu CH,Gao F,Qin SJ

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucosinolates (GSLs) and their hydrolysis products present in Brassicales play important roles in plants against herbivores and pathogens as well as in the protection of human health. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the formation of species-specific GSLs and their hydrolysed products in Raphanus sati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang J,Qiu Y,Wang X,Yue Z,Yang X,Chen X,Zhang X,Shen D,Wang H,Song J,He H,Li X

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Milk-derived exosomes were identified as a novel mechanism of mother-to-child transmission of regulatory molecules, but their functions in intestinal tissues of neonates are not well-studied. Here, we characterized potential roles of porcine milk-derived exosomes in the intestinal tract. In vitro, treatment with milk-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen T,Xie MY,Sun JJ,Ye RS,Cheng X,Sun RP,Wei LM,Li M,Lin DL,Jiang QY,Xi QY,Zhang YL

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial activity is central to tissue homeostasis. Mitochondria dysfunction constitutes a hallmark of many genetic diseases and plays a key role in tumor progression. The essential role of mitochondria, added to their recently documented capacity to transfer from cell to cell, obviously contributes to their curr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Caicedo A,Fritz V,Brondello JM,Ayala M,Dennemont I,Abdellaoui N,de Fraipont F,Moisan A,Prouteau CA,Boukhaddaoui H,Jorgensen C,Vignais ML

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to an adverse early-life environment leads to long-term health problems, many of which are recapitulated in subsequent generations. The female reproductive tract is particularly sensitive to early-life influences, and plays a pivotal role in programming the conceptus. We examine the influence of suboptimal gr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Aiken CE,Tarry-Adkins JL,Ozanne SE

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Compact and power-efficient plastic electronic synapses are of fundamental importance to overcoming the bottlenecks of developing a neuromorphic chip. Memristor is a strong contender among the various electronic synapses in existence today. However, the speeds of synaptic events are relatively slow in most attempts at...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Y,Zhong Y,Xu L,Zhang J,Xu X,Sun H,Miao X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Land use, habitat, and forage quality have emerged as critical factors influencing the health, productivity, and survival of honey bee colonies. However, characterization of the mechanistic relationship between differential land-use conditions and ultimate outcomes for honey bee colonies has been elusive. We assessed ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Smart MD,Otto CRV,Lundgren JG

更新日期：2019-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the cuprate pseudogap (Δ(p)) and superconducting gap (Δ(s)) remains an unsolved mystery. Here, we present a temperature- and doping-dependent tunneling study of submicron Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+δ) intrinsic Josephson junctions, which provides a clear evidence that Δ(s) closes at a temperature T(...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ren JK,Zhu XB,Yu HF,Tian Y,Yang HF,Gu CZ,Wang NL,Ren YF,Zhao SP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify novel phenotypic associations related to Cytochrome P450 Family 2 Subfamily A Member 6 (CYP2A6), we investigated the human phenome in a total of 11,271 individuals. Initially, we conducted a phenome-wide association study in 3,401 nicotine-exposed elderly subjects considering 358 phenotypic traits. We iden...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Polimanti R,Jensen KP,Gelernter J

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of the severest crisis in the history of life around the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB) remain controversial. Here we report that the latest Permian alluvial plains in Shanxi, North China, went through a rapid transition from meandering rivers to braided rivers and aeolian systems. Soil carbonate carbon is...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu Z,Liu Y,Kuang H,Benton MJ,Newell AJ,Xu H,An W,Ji S,Xu S,Peng N,Zhai Q

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The prion protein (PrP) evolved from the subbranch of ZIP metal ion transporters comprising ZIPs 5, 6 and 10, raising the prospect that the study of these ZIPs may reveal insights relevant for understanding the function of PrP. Building on data which suggested PrP and ZIP6 are critical during epithelial-to-mesenchymal...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Brethour D,Mehrabian M,Williams D,Wang X,Ghodrati F,Ehsani S,Rubie EA,Woodgett JR,Sevalle J,Xi Z,Rogaeva E,Schmitt-Ulms G

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the synthesis and electrical properties of nine new alkylated silane self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) - (EtO)3Si(CH2)nN = CHPhX where n = 3 or 11 and X = 4-CF3, 3,5-CF3, 3-F-4-CF3, 4-F, or 2,3,4,5,6-F, and explore their rectification behavior in relation to their molecular structure. The electrical proper...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lamport ZA,Broadnax AD,Harrison D,Barth KJ,Mendenhall L,Hamilton CT,Guthold M,Thonhauser T,Welker ME,Jurchescu OD

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemonchus contortus is arguably the most injurious helminth parasite for small ruminants. We characterized the impact of H. contortus infection on the caprine abomasal microbiome. Fourteen parasite naive goats were inoculated with 5,000 H. contortus infective larvae and followed for 50 days. Six age-matched naïve goa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li RW,Li W,Sun J,Yu P,Baldwin RL,Urban JF

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We study universal uncertainty relations and present a method called joint probability distribution diagram to improve the majorization bounds constructed independently in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 230401 (2013)] and [J. Phys. A. 46, 272002 (2013)]. The results give rise to state independent uncertainty relations satisfi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li T,Xiao Y,Ma T,Fei SM,Jing N,Li-Jost X,Wang ZX

更新日期：2016-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs) are present in extra-oral tissues, including gut endocrine cells. This study explored the presence and mechanism of action of TAS2R agonists on gut smooth muscle in vitro and investigated functional effects of intra-gastric administration of TAS2R agonists on gastric motility and satiat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Avau B,Rotondo A,Thijs T,Andrews CN,Janssen P,Tack J,Depoortere I

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00