Tailoring self-organized nanostructured morphologies in kilometer-long polymer fiber.

abstract：:The global loss of biodiversity can be attributed to numerous threats. While pioneer studies have investigated their relative importance, the majority of those studies are restricted to specific geographic regions and/or taxonomic groups and only consider a small subset of threats, generally in isolation despite their...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Leclerc C,Courchamp F,Bellard C

更新日期：2018-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:KIBRA has been suggested as a key regulator of the hippo pathway, regulating organ size, cell contact inhibition as well as tissue regeneration and tumorigenesis. Recently, alterations of KIBRA expression caused by promotor methylation have been reported for several types of cancer. Our current study aimed to design a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schelleckes K,Schmitz B,Lenders M,Mewes M,Brand SM,Brand E

更新日期：2018-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been a long-standing puzzle why buckled dimers of the Si(001) surface appeared symmetric below ~20 K in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments. Although such symmetric dimer images were concluded to be due to an artifact induced by STM measurements, its underlying mechanism is still veiled. Here, we de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ren XY,Kim HJ,Niu CY,Jia Y,Cho JH

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood indices of systemic inflammation such as the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) have been shown to be prognostic in various cancers. We aim to investigate the clinical significance of these indices in patients with soft tissue sarcoma (STS). Seven hundred and twelve patients with available blood counts...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chan JY,Zhang Z,Chew W,Tan GF,Lim CL,Zhou L,Goh WL,Poon E,Somasundaram N,Selvarajan S,Sittampalam K,Chin F,Teh J,Tan MH,Soo KC,Teo M,Farid M,Quek R

更新日期：2018-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) are responsible for most of the fast excitatory communication between neurons in our brain. The GluD2 receptor is a puzzling member of the iGluR family: It is involved in synaptic plasticity, plays a role in human diseases, e.g. ataxia, binds glycine and D-serine with low affini...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tapken D,Steffensen TB,Leth R,Kristensen LB,Gerbola A,Gajhede M,Jørgensen FS,Olsen L,Kastrup JS

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) is a distinctive type of neovascular age-related macular degeneration prevalent in many Asian countries. However, there is still some controversy in how the subtypes of PCV are classified. This post-hoc study redefined the branching vascular network (BVN) and PCV subtypes throug...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yeung L,Lai CC,Chen SN,Cheng CK,Yang CM,Hsieh YT,Tsai A,Yang CH

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell sorting via flow cytometry is a powerful tool to select subpopulations of cells in many biological fields. Selection of fertilisation-prone sperm is a critical step to ensure a stable and high fertilisation rate in in vitro fertilisation (IVF). However, a combination of conventional cell sorting and IVF system ha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nakao S,Takeo T,Watanabe H,Kondoh G,Nakagata N

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stony corals form the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Their phylogeny is characterized by a deep evolutionary divergence that separates corals into a robust and complex clade dating back to at least 245 mya. However, the genomic consequences and clade-specific evolution remain unexplored. In this study we have pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Voolstra CR,Li Y,Liew YJ,Baumgarten S,Zoccola D,Flot JF,Tambutté S,Allemand D,Aranda M

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy becomes increasingly used in biosensors for its capacity to detect and identify single molecules. In practice, a large number of SERS spectra are acquired and reliable ranking methods are thus essential for analysing all these data. Supervised classification strate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Leray A,Brulé T,Buret M,Colas des Francs G,Bouhelier A,Dereux A,Finot E

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides, including neonicotinoids, typically target pest insects by being neurotoxic. Inadvertent exposure to foraging insect pollinators is usually sub-lethal, but may affect cognition. One cognitive trait, spatial working memory, may be important in avoiding previously-visited flowers and other spatial tasks such...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Samuelson EE,Chen-Wishart ZP,Gill RJ,Leadbeater E

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep understanding of the effects of precipitation on carbon budgets is essential to assess the carbon balance accurately and can help predict potential variation within the global change context. Therefore, we addressed this issue by analyzing twelve years (2003-2014) of observations of carbon fluxes and their corres...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu M,Wang H,Wen X,Zhang T,Di Y,Wang Y,Wang J,Cheng C,Zhang W

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Air-core magnetometers are amongst the most commonly used magnetic field detectors in biomedical instruments. They offer excellent sensitivity, low fabrication complexity and a robust, cost-effective solution. However, air-core magnetometers must be tailored to the specific application to achieve high sensitivity, whi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pellicer-Guridi R,Vogel MW,Reutens DC,Vegh V

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the relationship between the heterogeneity of HCC on preoperative non-contrast-enhanced CT and patient prognosis. The heterogeneity of CT images from 122 patients was assessed and texture feature parameters such as mean, standard deviation (SD), entropy, mean of the positive pixels (MPP), skewness, and kur...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kiryu S,Akai H,Nojima M,Hasegawa K,Shinkawa H,Kokudo N,Yasaka K,Ohtomo K

更新日期：2017-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Most ice polymorphs have order-disorder "pairs" in terms of hydrogen positions, which contributes to the rich variety of ice polymorphs; in fact, three recently discovered polymorphs- ices XIII, XIV, and XV-are ordered counter forms to already identified disordered phases. Despite the considerable effort to understand...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Komatsu K,Noritake F,Machida S,Sano-Furukawa A,Hattori T,Yamane R,Kagi H

更新日期：2016-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcified marine organisms typically experience increased oxidative stress and changes in mineralization in response to ocean acidification and warming conditions. These effects could hinder the potency of animal weapons, such as the mantis shrimp's raptorial appendage. The mechanical properties of this calcified weap...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： deVries MS,Webb SJ,Tu J,Cory E,Morgan V,Sah RL,Deheyn DD,Taylor JR

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudooxynicotine amine oxidase (Pnao) is essential to the pyrrolidine pathway of nicotine degradation of Pseudomonas putida strain S16, which is significant for the detoxification of nicotine, through removing the CH3NH2 group. However, little is known about biochemical mechanism of this enzyme. Here, we characterize...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu H,Wang W,Tang H,Xu P

更新日期：2015-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The global DNA methylation degree may be a ubiquitous and early biomarker to distinguish cancer cells from benign cells. However, its usefulness in clinical diagnosis was scarcely demonstrated, because the cancer cells isolated from patients were usually very rare. Even if 10 mL of peripheral blood was sampled from a ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Si X,Zhao Y,Yang C,Zhang S,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Inversely tapered silicon photonic resonators on silicon substrates were shown to host multiple high-Q whispering gallery modes and constitute versatile building blocks for CMOS compatible solid state lighting, optical sensing and modulator devices. So far, numerical analyses by the finite difference time domain metho...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schmitt SW,Schwarzburg K,Dubourdieu C

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We reveal an outstanding potential of water as an inexpensive, abundant and bio-friendly high-refractive-index material for creating tunable all-dielectric photonic structures and metamaterials. Specifically, we demonstrate thermal, mechanical and gravitational tunability of magnetic and electric resonances in a metam...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Andryieuski A,Kuznetsova SM,Zhukovsky SV,Kivshar YS,Lavrinenko AV

更新日期：2015-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we describe a new strategy that allows the rapid and efficient engineering of mono and multispecific trivalent antibodies. By fusing single-domain antibodies from camelid heavy-chain-only immunoglobulins (VHHs) to the N-terminus of a human collagen XVIII trimerization domain (TIE(XVIII)) we produced monospecific...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alvarez-Cienfuegos A,Nuñez-Prado N,Compte M,Cuesta AM,Blanco-Toribio A,Harwood SL,Villate M,Merino N,Bonet J,Navarro R,Muñoz-Briones C,Sørensen KM,Mølgaard K,Oliva B,Sanz L,Blanco FJ,Alvarez-Vallina L

更新日期：2016-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins, a diverse class of heterodimeric cell surface receptors, are key regulators of cell structure and behaviour, affecting cell morphology, proliferation, survival and differentiation. Consequently, mutations in specific integrins, or their deregulated expression, are associated with a variety of diseases. In t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kapp TG,Rechenmacher F,Neubauer S,Maltsev OV,Cavalcanti-Adam EA,Zarka R,Reuning U,Notni J,Wester HJ,Mas-Moruno C,Spatz J,Geiger B,Kessler H

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding coupling of ferroic properties over grain boundaries and within clusters of grains in polycrystalline materials is hindered due to a lack of direct experimental methods to probe the behaviour of individual grains in the bulk of a material. Here, a variant of three-dimensional X-ray diffraction (3D-XRD) i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Daniels JE,Majkut M,Cao Q,Schmidt S,Wright J,Jo W,Oddershede J

更新日期：2016-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The renin-angiotensin system is known to regulate blood pressure as well as water- and electrolyte balance. An activated RAS is involved in the development of hypertension and hypertension-related organ damage. Thus, inhibitors of the RAS are protective and markedly increasing the life span of patients. In contrast, r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wanka H,Lutze P,Staar D,Bracke K,Golchert J,Peters J

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim is to design a patient-specific instrument (PSI) for multilevel cervical pedicle screw placement from C2 to C7, as well as verifying reliability and reproducibility. Computed tomography (CT) scans were obtained from 7 cadaveric cervical spines. Using Mimics software, semiautomatic segmentation was performed fo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sallent A,Ramírez M,Catalá J,Rodríguez-Baeza A,Bagó J,de Albert M,Vélez R

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Electronic textiles have garnered significant attention as smart technology for next-generation wearable electronic devices. The existing power sources lack compatibility with wearable devices due to their limited flexibility, high cost, and environment unfriendliness. In this work, we demonstrate bamboo fabric as a s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sundriyal P,Bhattacharya S

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and early diagnostic test to identify the encephalopathic babies at risk of adverse outcome may accelerate the development of neuroprotectants. We examined if a whole blood transcriptomic signature measured soon after birth, predicts adverse neurodevelopmental outcome eighteen months after neonatal encephalopa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Montaldo P,Cunnington A,Oliveira V,Swamy R,Bandya P,Pant S,Lally PJ,Ivain P,Mendoza J,Atreja G,Padmesh V,Baburaj M,Sebastian M,Yasashwi I,Kamalarathnam C,Chandramohan R,Mangalabharathi S,Kumaraswami K,Kumar S,Benaka

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ancestry informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can identify biogeographic ancestry (BGA); however, population substructure and relatively recent admixture can make differentiation difficult in heterogeneous Hispanic populations. Utilizing unrelated individuals from the Genomic Origins and Admixture in Lat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Setser CH,Planz JV,Barber RC,Phillips NR,Chakraborty R,Cross DS

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It is challenging task to detect and measure genuine multipartite entanglement. We investigate the problem by considering the average based positive partial transposition(PPT) criterion and the realignment criterion. Sufficient conditions for detecting genuine tripartite entanglement are presented. We also derive lowe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li M,Wang J,Shen S,Chen Z,Fei SM

更新日期：2017-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multi-potent cells that are self-renewable and possess the potential to differentiate into multiple lineages. Several studies demonstrated that MSCs could regulate a Th17/Treg balance and could be a potential therapeutic target for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). A20 is highly expressed in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng Z,Zhai Y,Zheng Z,Yang L,Luo X,Dong X,Han Q,Jin J,Chen ZN,Zhu P

更新日期：2018-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize rough dwarf virus (MRDV) is one of the main yield-limiting factors of maize in the Mediterranean. However, knowledge about the interactions between the agroecosystem and the virus-vector-host relationship continues to be limited. We used multi-model inference to test a landscape-scale approach together with vari...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Clemente-Orta G,Albajes R,Batuecas I,Achon MA

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00