Sequentially hetero-functional, topological polymers by step-growth thiol-yne approach.

abstract：:Hookworms are one of the most prevalent and important parasites, infecting ~500 million people worldwide. Hookworm disease is among the leading causes of iron-deficiency anemia in the developing world and is associated with significant growth stunting and malnutrition. In humans, hookworms appear to impair memory and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pan SC,Ward DV,Yin Y,Hu Y,Elfawal MA,Clark RE,Aroian RV

更新日期：2019-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of the genes encoding the KIR receptors and their HLA ligands in the susceptibility of ocular toxoplasmosis. A total of 297 patients serologically-diagnosed with toxoplasmosis were selected and stratified according to the presence (n = 148) or absence (n = 1...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ayo CM,Frederico FB,Siqueira RC,Brandão de Mattos CC,Previato M,Barbosa AP,Murata FH,Silveira-Carvalho AP,de Mattos LC

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain bacteria produce iron oxide material assembled with nanoparticles (NPs) that are doped with silicon (Fe:Si ~ 3:1) in ambient environment. Such biogenous iron oxides (BIOX) proved to be an excellent electrode material for lithium-ion batteries, but underlying atomistic mechanisms remain elusive. Here, quantum m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Misawa M,Hashimoto H,Kalia RK,Matsumoto S,Nakano A,Shimojo F,Takada J,Tiwari S,Tsuruta K,Vashishta P

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The coal fires, a global catastrophe for hundreds of years, have been proved extremely difficult to control, and hit almost every coal-bearing area globally. Meanwhile, underground coal fires contain tremendous reservoir of geothermal energy. Approximately one billion tons of coal burns underground annually in the wor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi B,Su H,Li J,Qi H,Zhou F,Torero JL,Chen Z

更新日期：2017-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionotropic activation of NMDA receptors (NMDARs) requires agonist glutamate and co-agonist glycine. Here we show that glycine enhances the activation of cell survival-promoting kinase Akt in cultured cortical neurons in which both the channel activity of NMDARs and the glycine receptors are pre-inhibited. The effect o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu R,Chen J,Lujan B,Lei R,Zhang M,Wang Z,Liao M,Li Z,Wan Y,Liu F,Feng H,Wan Q

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide-band and tunable Q-switched erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser operating at 1560.5 nm with a tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) saturable absorber (SA) is demonstrated. The semi-metallic nature of WTe2 as well as its small band gap and excellent nonlinear optical properties make it an excellent SA material. The laser cavi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ahmad H,Albaqawi HS,Yusoff N,Yi CW

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Microscopic swimming devices hold promise for radically new applications in lab-on-a-chip and microfluidic technology, diagnostics and drug delivery etc. In this paper, we demonstrate the experimental verification of a new class of autonomous ferromagnetic swimming devices, actuated and controlled solely by an oscilla...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hamilton JK,Petrov PG,Winlove CP,Gilbert AD,Bryan MT,Ogrin FY

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Multifocal multiphoton microscopy (MMM) achieves fast imaging by simultaneously scanning multiple foci across different regions of specimen. The use of imaging detectors in MMM, such as CCD or CMOS, results in degradation of image signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) due to the scattering of emitted photons. SNR can be partly ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cha JW,Singh VR,Kim KH,Subramanian J,Peng Q,Yu H,Nedivi E,So PT

更新日期：2014-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A tool to predict peritonitis-associated treatment failure among peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients has not yet been established. We conducted a multicentre, retrospective cohort study among 1,025 PD patients between 2006 and 2016 in Thailand to develop and internally validate such a tool. Treatment failure was defined...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nochaiwong S,Ruengorn C,Koyratkoson K,Thavorn K,Awiphan R,Chaisai C,Phatthanasobhon S,Noppakun K,Suteeka Y,Panyathong S,Dandecha P,Chongruksut W,Nanta S,Thai Renal Outcomes Research (THOR) Investigators.

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase-15 (ADAM15) is a transmembrane protein involved in protein ectodomain shedding, cell adhesion and signalling. We previously cloned and characterised alternatively spliced variants of ADAM15 that differ in their intracellular domains and demonstrated correlation of the expression of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mattern J,Roghi CS,Hurtz M,Knäuper V,Edwards DR,Poghosyan Z

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding factors associated with tie strength in social networks is essential in a wide variety of settings. With the internet and cellular phones providing additional avenues of communication, measuring and inferring tie strength has become much more complex. We introduce the social bow tie framework, which cons...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mattie H,Engø-Monsen K,Ling R,Onnela JP

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we introduce a novel and facile method of exfoliating large-area, single-layer graphene oxide using a shearing stress. The shearing stress reactor consists of two concentric cylinders, where the inner cylinder rotates at controlled speed while the outer cylinder is kept stationary. We found that the form...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Park WK,Yoon Y,Song YH,Choi SY,Kim S,Do Y,Lee J,Park H,Yoon DH,Yang WS

更新日期：2017-11-27 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： An T,Fan T,Zhang XQ,Liu YF,Huang J,Liang C,Lv BH,Wang YQ,Zhao XG,Liu JX,Fu YH,Jiang GJ

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of a species' ecology, including its movement in time and space, is key for many questions in biology and conservation. While numerous tools for tracking larger animals are available, millimetre-sized insects are averse to standard tracking and labelling procedures. Here, we evaluated the applicability of ul...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arthofer W,Decristoforo C,Schlick-Steiner BC,Steiner FM

更新日期：2016-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotenoids are anti-oxidative agents. Human skin and eyes contain specific carotenoid species known to prevent various pathologies caused by oxidative stress. We quantified skin and eye carotenoid levels and investigated their potential correlation in a population including 985 Japanese patients and staff members of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Obana A,Gohto Y,Gellermann W,Ermakov IV,Sasano H,Seto T,Bernstein PS

更新日期：2019-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Attraction to infants is a common feature of non-human primates. Frequent affiliative male-infant interactions have been observed in many multimale, multifemale groups of macaques, including a behaviour termed 'bridging' in which two male macaques simultaneously lift an infant. This behaviour has been suggested to ser...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang D,Xia DP,Wang X,Zhang QX,Sun BH,Li JH

更新日期：2018-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction have been associated with metabolic and age-related diseases. Thus, the prevention of mitochondrial oxidative damage is nowadays a recognized pharmacological strategy to delay disease progression. Epidemiological studies suggested an association between the consumption of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Teixeira J,Oliveira C,Amorim R,Cagide F,Garrido J,Ribeiro JA,Pereira CM,Silva AF,Andrade PB,Oliveira PJ,Borges F

更新日期：2017-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of hexagonal phase NaYF4:Er(3+) nanorods synthesized by hydrothermal method changed greatly after a continuing calcination, along with a phase transformation to cubic phase. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra indicated that mid-infrared (MIR) emission was obtained in both hexagonal and cubic phase NaYF4:Er(...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang D,Chen D,He H,Pan Q,Xiao Q,Qiu J,Dong G

更新日期：2016-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterisation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) relies on the availability of a toolbox of ligands that selectively modulate different functional states of the receptors. To uncover such molecules, we explored a unique strategy for ligand discovery that takes advantage of the evolutionary conservation of the 60...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Di Giglio MG,Muttenthaler M,Harpsøe K,Liutkeviciute Z,Keov P,Eder T,Rattei T,Arrowsmith S,Wray S,Marek A,Elbert T,Alewood PF,Gloriam DE,Gruber CW

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:miR1444s are functionally significant miRNAs targeting polyphenol oxidase (PPO) genes for cleavage. MIR1444 genes were reported only in Populus trichocarpa. Through the computational analysis of 215 RNA-seq data, four whole genome sequences of Salicaceae species and deep sequencing of six P. trichocarpa small RNA libr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang M,Li C,Lu S

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, we aimed to investigate whether NADPH oxidase, a major ROS-producing enzyme, was involved in the antioxidant effect of acupuncture on cognitive impairment after cerebral ischaemia. The cognitive function, infract size, neuron cell loss, level of superoxide anion and expression of NADPH oxidase su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi GX,Wang XR,Yan CQ,He T,Yang JW,Zeng XH,Xu Q,Zhu W,Du SQ,Liu CZ

更新日期：2015-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell competition is a cell-cell interaction by which a cell compares its fitness to that of neighboring cells. The cell with the relatively lower fitness level is the "loser" and actively eliminated, while the cell with the relatively higher fitness level is the "winner" and survives. Recent studies have shown that ce...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chiba T,Ishihara E,Miyamura N,Narumi R,Kajita M,Fujita Y,Suzuki A,Ogawa Y,Nishina H

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus colonizes the skin of atopic dermatitis (AD) individuals, but the impact of its enterotoxins on the chronic activation of CD4+ T cells demands further analysis. We aimed to analyze the CD4+ T cell anergy profile and their phenotypic and functional features through differential expression of cellu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Orfali RL,Yoshikawa FSY,Oliveira LMDS,Pereira NZ,de Lima JF,Ramos YÁL,Duarte AJDS,Sato MN,Aoki V

更新日期：2019-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The low-temperature heat capacity of (U1-yThy)O2 and 238Pu-doped UO2 samples were determined using hybrid adiabatic relaxation calorimetry. Results of the investigated systems revealed the presence of the magnetic transition specific for UO2 in all three intermediate compositions of the uranium-thorium dioxide (y = 0....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vălu SO,De Bona E,Popa K,Griveau JC,Colineau E,Konings RJM

更新日期：2019-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Turin Shroud is traditionally considered to be the burial cloth in which the body of Jesus Christ was wrapped after his death approximately 2000 years ago. Here, we report the main findings from the analysis of genomic DNA extracted from dust particles vacuumed from parts of the body image and the lateral edge use...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Barcaccia G,Galla G,Achilli A,Olivieri A,Torroni A

更新日期：2015-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although stenting of non-branched arterial segments has acceptable clinical outcomes, in-stent restenosis (ISR) and stent thrombosis remain clinically significant issues for vascular bifurcations (15-28% restenosis). Local fluid and solid stresses appear to play an important role in restenosis and thrombosis. The comb...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen HY,Chatzizisis YS,Louvard Y,Kassab GS

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the growth conditions of multilayer CdTe/ZnTe quantum dots (QDs) on Si substrate upon their carrier dynamics is studied using intensity integration and broadening photoluminescence. The unusual temperature dependence of the line broadening is explained using a model for interband transitions that invo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Man MT,Lee HS

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to convert photons of different wavelengths directly into mechanical motion is of significant interest in many energy conversion and reconfigurable technologies. Here, using few layer 2H-MoS2 nanosheets, layer by layer process of nanocomposite fabrication, and strain engineering, we demonstrate a reversibl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rahneshin V,Khosravi F,Ziolkowska DA,Jasinski JB,Panchapakesan B

更新日期：2016-10-07 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： Lopeman RC,Harrison J,Rathbone DL,Desai M,Lambert PA,Cox JAG

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction of Sb2S3 up to 53 GPa reveals two phase transitions at 5 GPa and 15 GPa. The first transition is evidenced by noticeable compressibility changes in distinct Raman-active modes, in the lattice parameter axial ratios, the unit cell volume, as well as in specific int...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Efthimiopoulos I,Buchan C,Wang Y

更新日期：2016-04-06 00:00:00