Broadband optical absorption by tunable Mie resonances in silicon nanocone arrays.

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease worldwide. We prospectively evaluated endothelial function by assessing flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) of the brachial artery in patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD. This prospective study included 139 patients (50 healthy controls, 47 patients wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al-Hamoudi W,Alsadoon A,Hassanian M,Alkhalidi H,Abdo A,Nour M,Halwani R,Sanai F,Alsharaabi A,Alswat K,Hersi A,Albenmousa A,Alsaif F

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-associated disseminated TB (tuberculosis) has been under-recognised and poorly characterised. Blood culture is the gold-standard diagnostic test, but is expensive, slow, and may under-diagnose TB dissemination. In a cohort of hospitalised HIV patients, we aimed to report the prevalence of TB-blood-culture positivi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kerkhoff AD,Barr DA,Schutz C,Burton R,Nicol MP,Lawn SD,Meintjes G

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report the self-assembled growth of vertically aligned columnar Cu2O + Cu4O3 nanocomposite thin films on glass and silicon substrates by reactive sputtering at room temperature. Microstructure analyses show that each phase in nanocomposite films has the columnar growth along the whole thickness, while...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Ghanbaja J,Bruyère S,Soldera F,Horwat D,Mücklich F,Pierson JF

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing effective treatment strategies for neurodegenerative diseases require an understanding of the underlying cellular pathways that lead to neuronal vulnerability and progressive degeneration. To date, numerous mutations in 147 distinct genes are identified to be "associated" with, "modifier" or "causative" of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dervishi I,Gozutok O,Murnan K,Gautam M,Heller D,Bigio E,Ozdinler PH

更新日期：2018-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are an important component of the innate immune response. Priming and activation of macrophages is stimulated by cytokines (i.e IFNγ). However, growth hormone (GH) can also stimulate macrophage activation. Based on these observations, the goal of this work was to 1) to compare the transcriptome profile of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schneider A,Wood HN,Geden S,Greene CJ,Yates RM,Masternak MM,Rohde KH

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-infrared up-conversion lasing in erbium(Er)-yttrium(Y) chloride silicate nanowires was demonstrated when pumped by 1476 nm laser at room temperature. The emission covers a very wide wavelength range (400-1000 nm). A clear threshold for 985 nm peak was observed at a launched average pump power of approximately 7 m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ye R,Xu C,Wang X,Cui J,Zhou Z

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder involves persistent difficulties in social communication. Although these difficulties affect both verbal and nonverbal communication, there are no quantitative behavioral studies to date investigating the cross-modal coordination of verbal and nonverbal communication in autism. The objective o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sorensen T,Zane E,Feng T,Narayanan S,Grossman R

更新日期：2019-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize (corn) is the dominant grain grown in the world. Total maize production in 2018 equaled 1.12 billion tons. Maize is used primarily as an animal feed in the production of eggs, dairy, pork and chicken. The US produces 32% of the world's maize followed by China at 22% and Brazil at 9% ( https://apps.fas.usda.gov/p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang Z,Liu C,Ganapathysubramanian B,Hayes DJ,Sarkar S

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrous scaffolds are used for bone tissue engineering purposes with great success across a variety of polymers with different physical and chemical properties. It is now evident that the correct degree of curvature promotes increased cytoskeletal tension on osteoprogenitors leading to osteogenic differentiation. Howe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ozdemir T,Bowers DT,Zhan X,Ghosh D,Brown JL

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor tissue mutational burden (TMB) has emerged as a promising predictive biomarker for immune checkpoint therapy. Measuring TMB from circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) found in plasma is attractive in tissue-constrained indications. We compared the performance of two plasma-based commercial TMB assays including the effec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qiu P,Poehlein CH,Marton MJ,Laterza OF,Levitan D

更新日期：2019-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently discovered two-dimensional (2D) semimetal 1 T´-MoTe2 exhibits colossal magnetoresistance and superconductivity, driving a strong research interest in the material's quantum phenomena. Unlike the typical hexagonal structure found in many 2D materials, the 1 T´-MoTe2 lattice has strong in-plane anisotropy. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Song Q,Wang H,Pan X,Xu X,Wang Y,Li Y,Song F,Wan X,Ye Y,Dai L

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Phaseonium is a three-level Λ quantum system, in which a coherent microwave and an optical control (pump) beams can be used to actively modulate the dielectric response. Here we propose a new metamaterial structure comprising of a periodic array of triangular phaseonium metamolecules arranged as a trefoil. We present ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen DM,Soci C,Ooi CH

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:High throughput genomics technologies are applied widely to microbiomes in humans, animals, soil and water, to detect changes in bacterial communities or the genes they carry, between different environments or treatments. We describe a method to test the statistical significance of differences in bacterial population ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shaw LM,Blanchard A,Chen Q,An X,Davies P,Tötemeyer S,Zhu YG,Stekel DJ

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The inconsistent findings on the association between COMT (catecholamine-O-methyl-transferase) and suicidal behaviour gave reason to choose a clear phenotype description of suicidal behaviour and take childhood maltreatment as environmental factor into account. The aim of this candidate-gene-association study was to e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bernegger A,Kienesberger K,Carlberg L,Swoboda P,Ludwig B,Koller R,Inaner M,Zotter M,Kapusta N,Aigner M,Haslacher H,Kasper S,Schosser A

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of ctDNA changes after chemotherapy on the clinical outcomes of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) remains unclear. The present study evaluated the clinical implications of the early change in ctDNA levels as a predictor of objective response and clinical outcome in mCRC patients who received...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Osumi H,Shinozaki E,Yamaguchi K,Zembutsu H

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Incredible accomplishments have been achieved in agricultural production in China, but many demanding challenges for ensuring food security and environmental sustainability remain. Field experiments were conducted from 2011-2013 at three different sites, including Honghu, Shayang, and Jingzhou in China, to determine t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yousaf M,Li J,Lu J,Ren T,Cong R,Fahad S,Li X

更新日期：2017-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite well-established sex differences for cognition, audition, and somatosensation, few studies have investigated whether there are also sex differences in visual perception. We report the results of fifteen perceptual measures (such as visual acuity, visual backward masking, contrast detection threshold or motion ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shaqiri A,Roinishvili M,Grzeczkowski L,Chkonia E,Pilz K,Mohr C,Brand A,Kunchulia M,Herzog MH

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such "monodominant" forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence of monodominance in a massive, basin-wide database of forest-inv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ter Steege H,Henkel TW,Helal N,Marimon BS,Marimon-Junior BH,Huth A,Groeneveld J,Sabatier D,Coelho LS,Filho DAL,Salomão RP,Amaral IL,Matos FDA,Castilho CV,Phillips OL,Guevara JE,Carim MJV,Cárdenas López D,Magnusson WE

更新日期：2019-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels comprise pore-forming α subunits and a multiplicity of regulatory proteins, including the cardiac-expressed and cardiac arrhythmia-linked transmembrane KCNE subunits. After recently uncovering novel, N-terminally extended (L) KCNE3 and KCNE4 isoforms and detecting their transcript...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abbott GW

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral oncoproteins E6/E7 play key oncogenic role in human papillomavirus (HPV)-mediated cervical carcinogenesis in conjunction with aberrant activation of cellular signaling events. GLI-signaling has been implicated in metastasis and tumor recurrence of cervical cancer. However, the interaction of GLI-signaling with H...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vishnoi K,Mahata S,Tyagi A,Pandey A,Verma G,Jadli M,Singh T,Singh SM,Bharti AC

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental approach for the study of cardiometabolic disorders requires the use of animal models fed with commercial diets whose composition differs notably, even between diets used for control groups. While chow diets are usually made of agricultural by-products, purified low-fat diets (LF) contain a higher per...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： González-Blázquez R,Alcalá M,Fernández-Alfonso MS,Villa-Valverde P,Viana M,Gil-Ortega M,Somoza B

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work the chalcopyrite CuIn3Se5-xTex (x = 0~0.5) with space group through isoelectronic substitution of Te for Se have been prepared, and the crystal structure dilation has been observed with increasing Te content. This substitution allows the anion position displacement ∆u = 0.25-u to be zero at x ≈ 0.15. Howe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu Y,Chen S,Wu W,Du Z,Chao Y,Cui J

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The nutritional alarmones ppGpp and pppGpp (collectively: (p)ppGpp) are nucleotide-based second messengers enabling bacteria to respond to environmental and stress conditions. Several bacterial species contain two highly homologous (p)ppGpp synthetases named RelP (SAS2, YwaC) and RelQ (SAS1, YjbM). It is established t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Steinchen W,Vogt MS,Altegoer F,Giammarinaro PI,Horvatek P,Wolz C,Bange G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of climate change on the taste and textural attributes of foods remain largely unknown, despite much public interest. On the basis of 30-40 years of records, we provide evidence that the taste and textural attributes of apples have changed as a result of recent global warming. Decreases in both acid concen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sugiura T,Ogawa H,Fukuda N,Moriguchi T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate is an indispensable neurotransmitter, triggering postsynaptic signals upon recognition by postsynaptic receptors. We questioned the phylogenetic position and the molecular details of when and where glutamate recognition arose in the glutamate-gated chloride channels. Experiments revealed that glutamate recog...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lynagh T,Beech RN,Lalande MJ,Keller K,Cromer BA,Wolstenholme AJ,Laube B

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported that LIM1863 colorectal cancer (CRC) cells secrete three distinct extracellular vesicle subtypes - two subpopulations of exosomes (apical EpCAM-Exos and basolateral A33-Exos) and shed microvesicles (sMVs) - with distinct protein and miRNA signatures. Here, we extend our omics approach to underst...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen M,Xu R,Ji H,Greening DW,Rai A,Izumikawa K,Ishikawa H,Takahashi N,Simpson RJ

更新日期：2016-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:CD47 is overexpressed in many human cancers, its level positively correlates with tumor invasion and metastasis. However, it is largely unknown whether CD47 overexpression drives metastasis and how CD47 lead to tumor metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In this study, we analyzed NSCLC specimens and cell ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao H,Wang J,Kong X,Li E,Liu Y,Du X,Kang Z,Tang Y,Kuang Y,Yang Z,Zhou Y,Wang Q

更新日期：2016-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the development of complete structural AlGaN-based deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes with an aluminum thin layer for increasing light extraction efficiency. A 217% enhancement in peak photoluminescence intensity at 294 nm is observed. Cathodoluminescence measurement demonstrates that the internal quantu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao N,Huang K,Li J,Li S,Yang X,Kang J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterize the changes in chromatin structure, DNA methylation and transcription during and after homologous DNA repair (HR). We find that HR modifies the DNA methylation pattern of the repaired segment. HR also alters local histone H3 methylation as well chromatin structure by inducing DNA-chromatin loops connec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Russo G,Landi R,Pezone A,Morano A,Zuchegna C,Romano A,Muller MT,Gottesman ME,Porcellini A,Avvedimento EV

更新日期：2016-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL, lipocalin 2 or LCN2) is an iron carrier protein whose circulating level is increased by kidney injury, bacterial infection and obesity, but its metabolic consequence remains elusive. To study physiological role of LCN2 in energy homeostasis, we challenged female Lcn2 k...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ishii A,Katsuura G,Imamaki H,Kimura H,Mori KP,Kuwabara T,Kasahara M,Yokoi H,Ohinata K,Kawanishi T,Tsuchida J,Nakamoto Y,Nakao K,Yanagita M,Mukoyama M,Mori K

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00