The infinite possible growth ambients that support single-wall carbon nanotube forest growth.

abstract：:The malaria vaccine BK-SE36 is a recombinant protein (SE36) based on the Honduras 1 serine repeat antigen-5 of Plasmodium falciparum, adsorbed to aluminium hydroxide gel. The phase Ib trial in Uganda demonstrated the safety and immunogenicity of BK-SE36. Ancillary analysis in the follow-up study of 6-20 year-old volun...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yagi M,Palacpac NM,Ito K,Oishi Y,Itagaki S,Balikagala B,Ntege EH,Yeka A,Kanoi BN,Katuro O,Shirai H,Fukushima W,Hirota Y,Egwang TG,Horii T

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is associated with a high risk of limb amputation. It has been shown that cell therapy is safe and has beneficial effects on ischemic clinical symptoms in patients with CLI. The aim of this study was to further investigate the outcomes of intramuscular injection of autologous bone-marrow m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yusoff FM,Kajikawa M,Matsui S,Hashimoto H,Kishimoto S,Maruhashi T,Chowdhury M,Noma K,Nakashima A,Kihara Y,Sueda T,Higashi Y

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The elastic modulus of ZnO nanowires was measured using a resonance method based on laser Doppler effect and their fracture strains were determined via two-point bending with the aid of optical nanomanipulation. The elastic moduli of ZnO nanowires with diameters of 78 to 310 nm vary from 123 to 154 GPa, which are clos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Roy A,Mead J,Wang S,Huang H

更新日期：2017-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer (PC), as the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, is one of the deadliest tumors with a very low 5-year survival rate. Therefore, it is urgent to seek new biomarkers of PC for more accurate and reliable treatments. To identify the differentially expressed miRNAs (DEM) in PC tissues, we performed ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang HL,Zhou R,Liu J,Chang Y,Liu S,Wang XB,Huang MF,Zhao Q

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The macroscopically ordered structure of rod-like nanoapatites within the collagen matrix is of great significance for the mechanical performance of bones and teeth. However, the synthesis of macroscopically ordered nanoapatite remains a challenge. Inspired by the effect of citrate molecules on apatite crystals in nat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan J,Jin X,Chen M

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the development of crystal engineering, it remains a great challenge to predict the crystal structure even for the simplest molecules, and a clear link between molecular and crystal symmetry is missing in general. Here we demonstrate that the two-dimensional (2D) crystallization of heterocirculenes on a Au(111...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xiao WD,Zhang YY,Tao L,Aït-Mansour K,Chernichenko KY,Nenajdenko VG,Ruffieux P,Du SX,Gao HJ,Fasel R

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-read sequencing technologies such as Pacific Biosciences and Oxford Nanopore MinION are capable of producing long sequencing reads with average fragment lengths of over 10,000 base-pairs and maximum lengths reaching 100,000 base- pairs. Compared with short reads, the assemblies obtained from long-read sequencing ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Giordano F,Aigrain L,Quail MA,Coupland P,Bonfield JK,Davies RM,Tischler G,Jackson DK,Keane TM,Li J,Yue JX,Liti G,Durbin R,Ning Z

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The exopeptidases of family S46 are exceptional, as the closest homologs of these enzymes are the endopeptidases of clan PA. The three-dimensional structure of S46 enzymes is unknown and only one of the catalytic residues, the serine, has been identified. The catalytic histidine and aspartate residues are not experime...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Suzuki Y,Sakamoto Y,Tanaka N,Okada H,Morikawa Y,Ogasawara W

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Flotation of small solid objects and liquid droplets on water is critical to natural and industrial activities. This paper reports the floating mechanism of liquid marbles, or liquid droplets coated with hydrophobic microparticles. We used X-ray computed tomography (XCT) to acquire cross-sectional images of the floati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ooi CH,Plackowski C,Nguyen AV,Vadivelu RK,St John JA,Dao DV,Nguyen NT

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Contest behaviour, and in particular the propensity to attack an unfamiliar conspecific, is influenced by an individual's aggressiveness, as well as by experience of winning and losing (so called 'winner-loser effects'). Individuals vary in aggressiveness and susceptibility to winner-loser effects but the relationship...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oldham L,Camerlink I,Arnott G,Doeschl-Wilson A,Farish M,Turner SP

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperdisulfide-constrained peptides are distinguished by their high stability and diverse functions. Thus far, these peptides have been reported from animals only but their occurrence in plants are rare. Here, we report the discovery, synthesis and characterization of a hyperdisulfide-constrained peptides family of ap...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wong KH,Tan WL,Xiao T,Tam JP

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of extensive efforts over decades an experimentally-derived structure of full-length eukaryotic pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs) is still lacking. These pharmaceutically highly-relevant channels contain structurally well-conserved and characterized extracellular and transmembrane domains. The int...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pandhare A,Grozdanov PN,Jansen M

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The microRNA (miR)-183/96/182 cluster plays important roles in the development and functions of sensory organs, including the inner ear. Point-mutations in the seed sequence of miR-96 result in non-syndromic hearing loss in both mice and humans. However, the lack of a functionally null mutant has hampered the evaluati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Geng R,Furness DN,Muraleedharan CK,Zhang J,Dabdoub A,Lin V,Xu S

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that the sodium potassium adenosine triphosphatase (Na/K-ATPase) can effect the amplification of reactive oxygen species. In this study, we examined whether attenuation of oxidant stress by antagonism of Na/K-ATPase oxidant amplification might ameliorate experimental uremic cardiomyopathy i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu J,Tian J,Chaudhry M,Maxwell K,Yan Y,Wang X,Shah PT,Khawaja AA,Martin R,Robinette TJ,El-Hamdani A,Dodrill MW,Sodhi K,Drummond CA,Haller ST,Kennedy DJ,Abraham NG,Xie Z,Shapiro JI

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The considerable range of genetic variation in human populations may partly reflect distinctive processes of adaptation to variable environmental conditions. However, the adaptive genomic signatures remain to be completely elucidated. This research explores candidate loci under selection at the population level by cha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fujikura K

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In large random networks, each eigenvector of the Laplacian matrix tends to localize on a subset of network nodes having similar numbers of edges, namely, the components of each Laplacian eigenvector take relatively large values only on a particular subset of nodes whose degrees are close. Although this localization p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hata S,Nakao H

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:SNPs, abundant in human genome with lower mutation rate, are attractive to genetic application like forensic, anthropological and evolutionary studies. Universal SNPs showing little allelic frequency variation among populations while remaining highly informative for human identification were obtained from previous stu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang S,Bian Y,Zhang Z,Zheng H,Wang Z,Zha L,Cai J,Gao Y,Ji C,Hou Y,Li C

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling light propagation intentionally through turbid media such as ground glass or biological tissue has been demonstrated for many useful applications. Due to random scattering effect, one of the important goals is to draw a desired shape behind turbid media with a swift and precise method. Feedback wavefront s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tran V,Sahoo SK,Dang C

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Small for gestational age (SGA) is an established risk factor for cerebral palsy (CP) in term infants. However, there is conflicting data on the association between SGA and CP in moderate to late preterm infants. The aim of the article was to explore the relationship between SGA and CP in the moderate to late preterm ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao M,Dai H,Deng Y,Zhao L

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:SiO2 is the most significantly used insulator layer in semiconductor devices. Its functionality was recently extended to resistance switching random access memory, where the defective SiO2 played an active role as the resistance switching (RS) layer. In this report, the bias-polarity-dependent RS behaviours in the top...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang H,Li XY,Chen R,Shao XL,Yoon JH,Hu X,Hwang CS,Zhao J

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Using symbiotic farming methods [cover crops and chicken grazing (+ C)] in a winter fallow field, we found that the soil organic matter and total nitrogen of the + C treatment were 5.2% and 26.6% higher, respectively, than those of a treatment with cover crops and no chicken grazing (- C). The annual rice grain yield ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng H,Zhou L,Wei J,Tang Q,Zou Y,Tang J,Xu H

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of materials defined as ZrSiX (X = S, Se, Te) has been established as Dirac node-line semimetals, and subsequent study is urgent to exploit the promising applications of unusual magnetoresistance (MR) properties. Herein, we systematically investigated the anisotropic MR in the newly-discovered Dirac node-li...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pan H,Tong B,Yu J,Wang J,Fu D,Zhang S,Wu B,Wan X,Zhang C,Wang X,Song F

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of pathogens arising from humans, livestock and wild animals can be enhanced by genome-based investigation. Phylogenetically classifying and optimal construction of these genomes using short sequence reads are key to this process. We examined the mammal-infecting unicellular parasite Leishmania adleri belongin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Coughlan S,Mulhair P,Sanders M,Schonian G,Cotton JA,Downing T

更新日期：2017-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres, the protective, terminal parts of the chromosomes erode during cell division and as a result of oxidative damage by reactive oxygen species (ROS). Ectotherms rely on the ambient temperature for maintaining temperature-dependent metabolic rate, regulated through behavioural thermoregulation. Their temperatur...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Axelsson J,Wapstra E,Miller E,Rollings N,Olsson M

更新日期：2020-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a low cost and scalable method to synthesize solar selective nanofluids from 'used engine oil'. The as-prepared nanofluids exhibit excellent long-term stability (presently tested up to 6 months under undisturbed stagnant conditions at room temperature) and photo-thermal conversion efficiency. Moreover, these...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Singh N,Khullar V

更新日期：2019-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Although recent studies focused on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the treatment of refractory schizophrenia have reported that it may be beneficial, there is still lack of convincing evidence and critical meta-analytic work regarding its effectiveness as an adjunctive therapy. Therefore, we performed a meta-an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wei YY,Lin WF,Zhang TH,Tang YX,Wang JJ,Zhong MF

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced age is associated with a decline in cognitive function, likely caused by a combination of modifiable and non-modifiable factors such as genetics and lifestyle choices. Mounting evidence suggests that humanin and other mitochondrial derived peptides play a role in several age-related conditions including neuro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yen K,Wan J,Mehta HH,Miller B,Christensen A,Levine ME,Salomon MP,Brandhorst S,Xiao J,Kim SJ,Navarrete G,Campo D,Harry GJ,Longo V,Pike CJ,Mack WJ,Hodis HN,Crimmins EM,Cohen P

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a plasma cell treatment device called Plasma-on-Chip that enables the real-time monitoring of a single cell culture during plasma treatment. The device consists of three parts: 1) microwells for cell culture, 2) a microplasma device for generating reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) for use i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oh JS,Kojima S,Sasaki M,Hatta A,Kumagai S

更新日期：2017-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Human CD4+FoxP3+T-cells are heterogeneous in function and include not only suppressive cells (Tregs), but also effector cells that transiently express FoxP3 upon activation. Previous studies in Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA-)patients have demonstrated an increase in FoxP3+T-cells with impaired suppressive capa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Reijnders TDY,Stegeman CA,Huitema MG,Rutgers A,Heeringa P,Abdulahad WH

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics studies of diseases associated with chronic alcohol consumption provide compelling evidence of several perturbed metabolic pathways. Moreover, the holistic approach of such studies gives insights into the pathophysiological risk factors associated with chronic alcohol-induced disability, morbidity and mor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Irwin C,Mienie LJ,Wevers RA,Mason S,Westerhuis JA,van Reenen M,Reinecke CJ

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00