Vascular plant abundance and diversity in an alpine heath under observed and simulated global change.

abstract：:The interest in nanostructures of silicon and its dopants has significantly increased. We report the creation of an ultimately-shallow junction at the surface of n-type silicon with excellent electrical and optical characteristics made by depositing an atomically thin boron layer at a relatively low temperature where ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mohammadi V,Nihtianov S,Fang C

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The adaptation of herbivorous insects to various host plants facilitates the spread and outbreak of many important invasive pests, however, the molecular mechanisms that underneath this process are poorly understood. In the past three decades, two species of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci complex, Middle East-Asia Minor ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xia WQ,Wang XR,Liang Y,Liu SS,Wang XW

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats are effective model animals and have contributed to the development of human medicine and basic research. However, the application of reproductive engineering techniques to rats is not as advanced compared with mice, and genome editing in rats has not been achieved using embryos obtained by in vitro fertilization...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Honda A,Tachibana R,Hamada K,Morita K,Mizuno N,Morita K,Asano M

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence of a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N8 virus in Asia and its spread to Europe and North America has caused great concern for human health. Although the H5N8 virus has been only moderately pathogenic to mammalian hosts, virulence can still increase. We evaluated the pathogenic potential of several...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choi WS,Baek YH,Kwon JJ,Jeong JH,Park SJ,Kim YI,Yoon SW,Hwang J,Kim MH,Kim CJ,Webby RJ,Choi YK,Song MS

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian influenza viruses (AIV) are classified into 16 hemagglutinin (HA; H1-H16) and 9 neuraminidase (NA; N1-N9) subtypes. All AIV are low pathogenic (LP) in birds, but subtypes H5 and H7 AIV can evolve into highly pathogenic (HP) forms. In the last two decades evolution of HPAIV H7 from LPAIV has been frequently repor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scheibner D,Ulrich R,Fatola OI,Graaf A,Gischke M,Salaheldin AH,Harder TC,Veits J,Mettenleiter TC,Abdelwhab EM

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, 5-hydroxymethylcytosine patterning across the tumor genome was considered as a hallmark of cancer development and progression. However, locus-specific difference of hydroxymethylation between colorectal cancer and normal tissue is unknown. In this study, we performed a newly developed method, HMST-seq, to pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li M,Gao F,Xia Y,Tang Y,Zhao W,Jin C,Luo H,Wang J,Li Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of alginate-microencapsulated therapeutic cells is a promising approach for diseases that require a local and constant supply of therapeutic molecules. However most conventional alginate microencapsulation systems are associated with low mechanical stability and protrusion of cells which is associated with...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bhujbal SV,de Haan B,Niclou SP,de Vos P

更新日期：2014-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the potential genetic basis of highland adaptation of fungal pathogenicity, we present here the ~116 Mb de novo assembled high-quality genome of Ophiocordyceps sinensis endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Compared with other plain-dwelling fungi, we find about 3.4-fold inflation of the O. sinensis ge...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xia EH,Yang DR,Jiang JJ,Zhang QJ,Liu Y,Liu YL,Zhang Y,Zhang HB,Shi C,Tong Y,Kim C,Chen H,Peng YQ,Yu Y,Zhang W,Eichler EE,Gao LZ

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural substrates by which speech sounds are perceptually segregated into distinct streams are poorly understood. Here, we recorded high-density scalp event-related potentials (ERPs) while participants were presented with a cyclic pattern of three vowel sounds (/ee/-/ae/-/ee/). Each trial consisted of an adaptatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alain C,Arsenault JS,Garami L,Bidelman GM,Snyder JS

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, electromechanical characteristics of (1-x) Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-xSrTiO3 (ST26, x = 0.26)/(1-y) Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-ySrTiO3 (ST10, y = 0.1) (matrix/seed) composites were studied. The ST26 (high relaxor phase) and ST10 (a relaxor ferroelectric (RF), high ferroelectric phase) composite with large (r-ST26-ST10) and sm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saleem M,Hwan LD,Kim IS,Kim MS,Maqbool A,Nisar U,Pervez SA,Farooq U,Farooq MU,Khalil HMW,Jeong SJ

更新日期：2018-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:With the great development of sequencing technologies and systematic methods, our understanding of evolutionary relationships at deeper levels within the tree of life has greatly improved over the last decade. However, the current taxonomic methodology is insufficient to describe the growing levels of diversity in bot...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu HY,Wang YH,Xie Q,Ke YL,Bu WJ

更新日期：2016-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise temporal coding is necessary for proper acoustic analysis. However, at cortical level, forward suppression appears to limit the ability of neurons to extract temporal information from natural sound sequences. Here we studied how temporal processing can be maintained in the bats' cortex in the presence of suppr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Beetz MJ,Hechavarría JC,Kössl M

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In theory, a few naturally occurring evolutionary changes in the genome of a model organism may have little or no observable impact on its wild type phenotype, and yet still substantially impact the phenotypes of mutant strains through epistasis. To see if this is happening in a model organism, we obtained nine differ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bradley MD,Neu D,Bahar F,Welch RD

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p97 is a highly abundant, homohexameric AAA+ ATPase that performs a variety of essential cellular functions. Characterized as a ubiquitin-selective chaperone, p97 recognizes proteins conjugated to K48-linked polyubiquitin chains and promotes their removal from chromatin and other molecular complexes. Changes in p97 ex...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rycenga HB,Wolfe KB,Yeh ES,Long DT

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation damages plants and decreases their growth and productivity. We previously demonstrated that UVB sensitivity varies widely among Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars and that the activity of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) photolyase, which repairs UVB-induced CPDs, determines UVB sen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mmbando GS,Teranishi M,Hidema J

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary modulation of the gut microbiota impacts human health. Here we investigated the hitherto unknown effects of resistant starch type 4 (RS4) enriched diet on gut microbiota composition and short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) concentrations in parallel with host immunometabolic functions in twenty individuals with signs...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Upadhyaya B,McCormack L,Fardin-Kia AR,Juenemann R,Nichenametla S,Clapper J,Specker B,Dey M

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastic waves are guided along finite structures such as cylinders, plates, or rods through reflection, refraction, and mode conversion at the interfaces. Such wave propagation is ubiquitous in the world around us, and studies of elastic waveguides first emerged in the later part of the 19(th) century. Early work on e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Philippe FD,Murray TW,Prada C

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a time-efficient semi-automated axon quantification method using freeware in human cranial nerve sections stained with paraphenylenediamine (PPD). It was used to analyze a total of 1238 facial and masseteric nerve biopsies. The technique was validated by comparing manual and semi-automated quantification ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Engelmann S,Ruewe M,Geis S,Taeger CD,Kehrer M,Tamm ER,Bleys RLAW,Zeman F,Prantl L,Kehrer A

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (App) is the causative agent of porcine pleuropneumonia. Although App produces several virulence factors, Apx toxins, the primary App virulence factors, have been the focus of numerous studies. However, the host response against the Apx toxins has not been elucidated at the transcriptom...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim S,Oh MW,Bin Park W,Yoo HS

更新日期：2019-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated that memory training may help older people improve cognition. However, evidence regarding who will benefit from such memory trainings has not been fully discovered yet. Understanding the clinical and neural inter-individual differences for predicting cognitive improvement is important f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Park S,Ryu SH,Yoo Y,Yang JJ,Kwon H,Youn JH,Lee JM,Cho SJ,Lee JY

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly designed fentanyl derivative [( ±)-N-(3-fluoro-1-phenethylpiperidine-4-yl)-N-phenyl propionamide] (NFEPP) was recently shown to produce analgesia selectively via peripheral mu-opioid receptors (MOR) at acidic pH in rat inflamed tissues. Here, we examined the pH-dependency of NFEPP binding to brain MOR and it...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baamonde A,Menéndez L,González-Rodríguez S,Lastra A,Seitz V,Stein C,Machelska H

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Accidental introduction through ballast water and biofouling are currently the main factors responsible for spreading non-indigenous species in the marine realm. In the Southwestern Atlantic, two scleractinian corals, Tubastraea coccinea and T. tagusensis, have been introduced by opportunistic colonization in 1980 and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Capel KCC,Creed J,Kitahara MV,Chen CA,Zilberberg C

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufficient tissue oxygenation is required for regular brain function; thus oxygen supply must be tightly regulated to avoid hypoxia and irreversible cell damage. If hypoxia occurs the transcription factor complex hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) will accumulate and coordinate adaptation of cells to hypoxia. However, eve...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kleszka K,Leu T,Quinting T,Jastrow H,Pechlivanis S,Fandrey J,Schreiber T

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:E. coli is the main causative agent of mastitis in dairy cows, but the mechanism of molecular regulation underlying the occurrence and development of mastitis has not yet been fully elucidated. In this study, an E. coli-induced mastitis model was created and RNASeq technology was used to measure the miRNA expression p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Luoreng ZM,Wang XP,Mei CG,Zan LS

更新日期：2018-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins are key elements in cell-mediated processes. In particular, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have attracted increasing interest since they affect cellular signaling. Furthermore, mutations in GPCRs can cause acquired and inheritable diseases. Up to date, there still exist a number of GPCRs that ha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zemella A,Grossmann S,Sachse R,Sonnabend A,Schaefer M,Kubick S

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a highly ordered surface modification layer for polymers based on ambient solution-processed triptycene (Trip) derivatives for high-mobility organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The nested packing of Trip molecules results in the formation of 2D hexagonal arrays, which stack one-dimensionally on the surfa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kondo M,Kajitani T,Uemura T,Noda Y,Ishiwari F,Shoji Y,Araki T,Yoshimoto S,Fukushima T,Sekitani T

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Dystroglycanopathy (α-DGP) is a group of muscular dystrophy characterized by abnormal glycosylation of α-dystroglycan (α-DG), including Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), muscle-eye-brain disease, Walker-Warburg syndrome, and congenital muscular dystrophy type 1D (MDC1D), etc. LARGE, the causative gene f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ohtsuka Y,Kanagawa M,Yu CC,Ito C,Chiyo T,Kobayashi K,Okada T,Takeda S,Toda T

更新日期：2015-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:PDCD4, the protein encoded by the tumor suppressor gene PDCD4 (programmed cell death 4) has been implicated in the control of cellular transcription and translation by modulating the activity of specific transcription factors and suppressing the translation of mRNAs with structured 5'-UTRs. Most studies of human PDCD4...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Haas A,Nilges BS,Leidel SA,Klempnauer KH

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of nanocarriers composed of polyethylene glycol- and polyvinyl alcohol-coated vesicles encapsulating active molecules in place of conventional chemotherapy drugs can reduce many of the chemotherapy-associated challenges because of the increased drug concentration at the diseased area in the body. The present s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ebadi M,Bullo S,Buskara K,Hussein MZ,Fakurazi S,Pastorin G

更新日期：2020-12-09 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