Flagellar filament bio-templated inorganic oxide materials - towards an efficient lithium battery anode.

abstract：:Zooplankton provide the key link between primary production and higher levels of the marine food web and they play an important role in mediating carbon sequestration in the ocean. All commercially harvested fish species depend on zooplankton populations. However, spatio-temporal distributions of zooplankton are notor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Basedow SL,McKee D,Lefering I,Gislason A,Daase M,Trudnowska E,Egeland ES,Choquet M,Falk-Petersen S

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition to agriculture was a key event in human history. The extent to which this transition is associated with biological changes in different world regions remains debated. Cultural and osteological records in Lower Nubia throughout the Holocene have been interpreted as a result of in situ differentiation or ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Galland M,Van Gerven DP,Von Cramon-Taubadel N,Pinhasi R

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in fused in sarcoma (FUS), a DNA/RNA binding protein, are associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, little is known about how ALS-causing mutations alter protein-protein and protein-RNA complexes and contribute to neurodegeneration. In this study, we identified protein arginine m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jun MH,Ryu HH,Jun YW,Liu T,Li Y,Lim CS,Lee YS,Kaang BK,Jang DJ,Lee JA

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant height (PH) is a key factor in maize (Zea mays L.) yield, biomass, and plant architecture. We investigated the PH of diverse maize inbred lines (117 temperate lines, 135 tropical lines) at four growth stages using unmanned aerial vehicle high-throughput phenotypic platforms (UAV-HTPPs). We extracted PH data usin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Zhang R,Song W,Han L,Liu X,Sun X,Luo M,Chen K,Zhang Y,Yang H,Yang G,Zhao Y,Zhao J

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a self-cleanable, waterproof, highly transparent, and flexible Ag network covered by a very thin transparent polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) layer using typical magnetron sputtering for multi-functional flexible thin film heaters used in smart windows. By passivation of the self-assembled Ag network with...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee JE,Kim HK

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and genes associated with susceptibility to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection that have been identified by genome-wide association studies explain only a limited portion of the known heritability, indicating more genetic variants remain to be discovered. In this study, we adopted...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang X,Zhang B,Zhao J,Xu Y,Han H,Su K,Tao J,Fan R,Zhao X,Li L,Li MD

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2018, the World Health Organization identified the Zika virus (ZIKV) as a pathogen that should be prioritized for public health research due to its epidemic potential. In this study, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of travel-acquired ZIKV infections was used to examine the limitations of phylogenetic analysis. WGS an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kamelian K,Montoya V,Olmstead A,Dong W,Harrigan R,Morshed M,Joy JB

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold standard quantitative nucleic acid tests for diagnosis of viral diseases are currently limited to implementation in laboratories outside of the clinic. An instrument for conducting nucleic acid testing at the point-of-care (POC) that is easily operable by the clinician would reduce the required number of visits t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shin DJ,Trick AY,Hsieh YH,Thomas DL,Wang TH

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypyrrole complex nitrogen-doped porous carbon matrix (PPy/N-PCM) was synthesized by a simple two-step method. Firstly, graphene oxide was prepared by the modified Hummers method. Secondly, Polypyrrole was compounded on the graphene oxide substrate, and the carbon matrix with a high specific surface area was obtaine...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng M,Lu W,Zhou Y,Zhen R,He H,Wang Y,Li C

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:As a nutritional factor, folic acid can prevent cardiac and neural defects during embryo development. Our previous study showed that arsenic impairs embryo development by down-regulating Dvr1/GDF1 expression in zebrafish. Here, we investigated whether folic acid could protect against arsenic-mediated embryo toxicity. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma Y,Zhang C,Gao XB,Luo HY,Chen Y,Li HH,Ma X,Lu CL

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is to investigate the frequencies of T-helper (Th)22, Th17 and Th1 cells and the levels of related cytokines in subchondral bone marrow in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Bone marrow and peripheral blood samples were collected from RA, osteoarthritis (OA) patients and healthy controls. The frequenc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li S,Yin H,Zhang K,Wang T,Yang Y,Liu X,Chang X,Zhang M,Yan X,Ren Y,Pan W,Zhang L

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Trade in ivory from extant elephant species namely Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) and African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is regulated internationally, while the trade in ivory from extinct species of Elephantidae, including woolly mammoth, is unregulated. This...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ngatia JN,Lan TM,Ma Y,Dinh TD,Wang Z,Dahmer TD,Chun Xu Y

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Overuse of antibiotics has caused serious problems, such as appearance of super bacteria, whose accumulation in the human body through the food chain is a concern. Kanamycin is a common antibiotic used to treat diverse infections; however, residual kanamycin can cause many side effects in humans. Thus, development of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ha NR,Jung IP,La IJ,Jung HS,Yoon MY

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) regulates plant growth and development as well as responses to stress that enhanced its endogenous production. Arabidopsis plants exposed to a pulse of exogenous NO gas were used for untargeted global metabolomic analyses thus allowing the identification of metabolic processes affected by NO. At earl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： León J,Costa Á,Castillo MC

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa has increased progressively and impedes further regression in mortality in burn patients. Such wound infections serve as bacterial reservoir for nosocomial infections and are associated with significant morbidity and costs. Anti-microbial polycationic dendrimers G3KL and G3R...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abdel-Sayed P,Kaeppeli A,Siriwardena T,Darbre T,Perron K,Jafari P,Reymond JL,Pioletti DP,Applegate LA

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a distinct pathology characterized by early emergence of diastolic dysfunction. Increased cardiovascular risk associated with diabetes is more marked for women, but an understanding of the role of diastolic dysfunction in female susceptibility to diabetic cardiomyopathy is lacking. To invest...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chandramouli C,Reichelt ME,Curl CL,Varma U,Bienvenu LA,Koutsifeli P,Raaijmakers AJA,De Blasio MJ,Qin CX,Jenkins AJ,Ritchie RH,Mellor KM,Delbridge LMD

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic nephropathy, the major cause of chronic kidney disease, is associated with progressive renal fibrosis. Recently, accumulation of periostin, an extracellular matrix protein, was shown to augment renal fibrosis. Aptamers have higher binding affinities without developing the common side effects of antibodies. Th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Um JE,Park JT,Nam BY,Lee JP,Jung JH,Kim Y,Kim S,Park J,Wu M,Han SH,Yoo TH,Kang SW

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Misuse of antibiotics in the clinical and agricultural sectors has caused the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae which contributes a threat to human health. In this study, we assessed the feasibility of lavender essential oil (LVO) as an antimicrobial agent in combinatory therapy with meropen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang SK,Yusoff K,Thomas W,Akseer R,Alhosani MS,Abushelaibi A,Lim SH,Lai KS

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The MITF transcription factor is a master regulator of melanocyte development and a critical factor in melanomagenesis. The related transcription factors TFEB and TFE3 regulate lysosomal activity and autophagy processes known to be important in melanoma. Here we show that MITF binds the CLEAR-box element in the promot...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Möller K,Sigurbjornsdottir S,Arnthorsson AO,Pogenberg V,Dilshat R,Fock V,Brynjolfsdottir SH,Bindesboll C,Bessadottir M,Ogmundsdottir HM,Simonsen A,Larue L,Wilmanns M,Thorsson V,Steingrimsson E,Ogmundsdottir MH

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus anginosus is increasingly recognized as an opportunistic pathogen. However, our knowledge about virulence determinants in this species is scarce. One exception is the streptolysin-S (SLS) homologue responsible for the β-hemolytic phenotype of the S. anginosus type strain. In S. anginosus the expression o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bauer R,Mauerer S,Spellerberg B

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:For a number of years nanomaterials have been continuously devised and comprehensively investigated because of the growing demand for them and their multifarious applications, especially in medicine. This paper reports on the properties of SrF2 nanoparticles (NPs) for applications in biomedicine, showing effective way...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Przybylska D,Ekner-Grzyb A,Grześkowiak BF,Grzyb T

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:High-precision radiotherapy (HPR) has established its important role in the treatment of tumors due to its precise dose distribution. Given its more complicated delivery process, HPR commonly requires more fraction delivery time (FDT). However, it is unknown whether it has an identical response of prolonged FDT on dif...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yao Q,Zheng R,Xie G,Liao G,Du S,Ren C,Li R,Lin X,Hu D,Yuan Y

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation is a common adjunct used to promote bone healing; its efficacy, however, remains uncertain. We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized sham-controlled trials to establish the efficacy of electrical stimulation for bone healing. We identified all trials randomizing patients to electrical or sham ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Aleem IS,Aleem I,Evaniew N,Busse JW,Yaszemski M,Agarwal A,Einhorn T,Bhandari M

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans biofilm formation is governed by a regulatory circuit comprising nine transcription factors which control a network of target genes. However, there are still unknown genes contributing to biofilm features. Thus, the GRACE library was screened to identify genes involved in mature biofilm development. T...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Costa ACBP,Omran RP,Correia-Mesquita TO,Dumeaux V,Whiteway M

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophages are known to encode important virulence factors in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae. However, little is known about the occurrence and composition of prophage-encoded traits in environmental vibrios. A database of 5,674 prophage-like elements constructed from 1,874 Vibrio genome sequences, covering sixty-f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Castillo D,Kauffman K,Hussain F,Kalatzis P,Rørbo N,Polz MF,Middelboe M

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNAs lacking 5' untranslated regions (leaderless mRNAs) are molecular relics of an ancient translation initiation pathway. Nevertheless, they still represent a significant portion of transcriptome in some taxons, including a number of eukaryotic species. In bacteria and archaea, the leaderless mRNAs can bind non-diss...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Akulich KA,Andreev DE,Terenin IM,Smirnova VV,Anisimova AS,Makeeva DS,Arkhipova VI,Stolboushkina EA,Garber MB,Prokofjeva MM,Spirin PV,Prassolov VS,Shatsky IN,Dmitriev SE

更新日期：2016-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report two types of defect-induced photoluminescence (PL) blinking behaviors observed in single epitaxial InGaAs quantum dots (QDs). In the first type of PL blinking, the "off" period is caused by the trapping of hot electrons from the higher-lying excited state (absorption state) to the defect site so that it...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu F,Cao Z,Zhang C,Wang X,Xiao M

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum Key Distribution is carving its place among the tools used to secure communications. While a difficult technology, it enjoys benefits that set it apart from the rest, the most prominent is its provable security based on the laws of physics. QKD requires not only the mastering of signals at the quantum level, b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Martinez-Mateo J,Elkouss D,Martin V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracking animal behavior by video is one of the most common tasks in the life sciences. Although commercial software exists for executing this task, they often present enormous cost to the researcher and can entail purchasing hardware that is expensive and lacks adaptability. Additionally, the underlying code is often...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pennington ZT,Dong Z,Feng Y,Vetere LM,Page-Harley L,Shuman T,Cai DJ

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) play a vital role in controlling neuronal excitability. Nav1.6 is the most abundantly expressed VGSCs subtype in the adult central nervous system and has been found to contribute to facilitate the hyperexcitability of neurons after electrical induction of status epilepticus (SE). ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu H,Zhao Y,Wu H,Jiang N,Wang Z,Lin W,Jin J,Ji Y

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00