Improved grazing management may increase soil carbon sequestration in temperate steppe.

abstract：:There were significant differences in response and pharmacokinetic characteristics to the peginterferon α2a treatment among Chronic Hepatitis B (CHB) patients. The aim of this study is to identify factors which could significantly impact the peginterferon α2a pharmacokinetic characteristics in CHB patients. There were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bi J,Li X,Liu J,Chen D,Li S,Hou J,Zhou Y,Zhu S,Zhao Z,Qin E,Wei Z

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike individual, free-floating planktonic bacteria, biofilms are surface-attached communities of slow- or non-replicating bacteria encased within a protective extracellular polymeric matrix enabling persistent bacterial populations to tolerate high concentrations of antimicrobials. Our current antibacterial arsenal ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang H,Abouelhassan Y,Burch GM,Kallifidas D,Huang G,Yousaf H,Jin S,Luesch H,Huigens RW

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, the shikimate pathway generally occurs in plastids and leads to the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids. Chorismate synthase (CS) catalyses the last step of the conversion of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate 3-phosphate (EPSP) to chorismate, but the role of CS in the metabolism of higher plants has not been reported...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhong S,Chen Z,Han J,Zhao H,Liu J,Yu Y

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital cataract is the most frequent inherited ocular disorder and the most leading cause of lifelong visual loss. The screening of pathogenic mutations can be very challenging in some cases, for congenital cataracts are clinically and genetically heterogeneous diseases. The aim of this study is to investigate the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhai Y,Li J,Yu W,Zhu S,Yu Y,Wu M,Sun G,Gong X,Yao K

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed sensitive detection of cancer biomarker vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) using the p-n heterojunction comprised of p-type BiOI nanoflakes (NFs) array and n-type TiO2 nanotubes (NTs) array. Due to the unique arrayed structure and the synergy effect of photoelectrochemistry in the formed p-n j...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao WW,Liu Z,Shan S,Zhang WW,Wang J,Ma ZY,Xu JJ,Chen HY

更新日期：2014-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：ABSRACT:Vegetation cover is crucial to controlling aeolian erosion but highly efficient vegetation is critical. How this efficiency is influenced by vegetation response to airflow is not clear. Here we evaluate the responses of Cosmos bipinnatus and Ligustrum lucidum Ait to a range of wind speeds in a wind tunnel. For ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Miri A,Dragovich D,Dong Z

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we reported a new technique based on laser speckle flowgraphy to record the ocular blood flow in rabbits under deep anesthesia, and proposed parameters to characterize retinal ischemia. We applied the proposed technique to study the correlation of blood flow between the eyes of normal non-anesthetized a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bhatti MS,Tang TB,Chen HC

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of drugs are administered on different mucosal surfaces. However, due to the poor mucoadhesion of the current formulations, their bioavailability is often very low. The development of efficient mucoadhesive drug delivery systems is thus crucial for improving the performance of these drugs. The mucoadhes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ouellette M,Masse F,Lefebvre-Demers M,Maestracci Q,Grenier P,Millar R,Bertrand N,Prieto M,Boisselier É

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel bicomponent alkyd system was designed to decrease the usage of Cobalt-based drier due to its latent carcinogensis. The system was polymerized using a Cobalt-salt complex as an air-sensitive drier and an isopropylthioxanthone photoinitiator as a light-sensitive accelerator, as well as using irradiation in the f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou H,Song D,Zhong C,Ye G

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) is considered a common cause of pneumonia, causing about 15-20% of adult community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and up to 40% of cases in children. It has often been observed that MP epidemics last approximately 1-2 years and occur every 3-7 years, with the dominant strains alternating between e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang XS,Zhao H,Vynnycky E,Chalker V

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to affective stimuli could enhance perception and facilitate attention via increasing alertness, vigilance, and by decreasing attentional thresholds. However, evidence on the impact of affective sounds on perception and attention is scant. Here, a novel aspect of affective facilitation of attention is studied...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Asutay E,Västfjäll D

更新日期：2017-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial rhodopsin is a photoreceptor protein found in various bacteria and archaea, and it is considered to be a light-utilization device unique to heterotrophs. Recent studies have shown that several cyanobacterial genomes also include genes that encode rhodopsins, indicating that these auxiliary light-utilizing pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hasegawa M,Hosaka T,Kojima K,Nishimura Y,Nakajima Y,Kimura-Someya T,Shirouzu M,Sudo Y,Yoshizawa S

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have documented that decompression led to endothelial dysfunction with controversial results. This study aimed to clarify the relationship between endothelial dysfunction, bubble formation and decompression rate. Rats were subjected to simulated air dives with one of four decompression rates: one slow...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang K,Wang D,Jiang Z,Ning X,Buzzacott P,Xu W

更新日期：2016-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Trastuzumab combined with chemotherapy is standard of care for HER2 positive advanced gastro-esophageal cancers. The reported prevalence of HER2 discordance between primary tumors and corresponding metastases varies, hampering uniform patient selection for HER2 targeted therapy. This meta-analysis explores the influen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Creemers A,Ter Veer E,de Waal L,Lodder P,Hooijer GKJ,van Grieken NCT,Bijlsma MF,Meijer SL,van Oijen MGH,van Laarhoven HWM

更新日期：2017-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption has been shown to cause dysbiosis, but the mechanism involved in it is unknown. Recurrent colitis is known to induce expression of α-defensins in the colon, but the effect of alcohol consumption on it is not known. We investigated the effect of ethanol on α-defensin expression in the small intestin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shukla PK,Meena AS,Rao V,Rao RG,Balazs L,Rao R

更新日期：2018-11-02 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：:We explored the potential relevance of aqueous lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and autotaxin (ATX) levels on postoperative outcomes of trabeculectomy, and the effects of ATX on fibrotic response in cultured human conjunctiva fibroblast (HCF) cells. We enrolled 70 glaucomatous eyes which underwent trabeculectomy, and quant...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Igarashi N,Honjo M,Kurano M,Yatomi Y,Igarashi K,Kano K,Aoki J,Aihara M

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we analysed the acoustic properties and presence of haddock calls in the Arctic fjord Kongsfjorden (79° N-12° E, Svalbard Islands, Norway) in one year. Data were collected with three autonomous acoustic recorders located in the inner, middle, and outer parts of the fjord. The fjord is characterized by a ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Buscaino G,Picciulin M,Canale DE,Papale E,Ceraulo M,Grammauta R,Mazzola S

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivation of pathogens in liquids has broad applications, ranging from water disinfection to food pasteurization. However, common cell inactivation methods (e.g., chlorination, ultraviolet radiation and thermal treatment) have significant drawbacks such as carcinogenic byproduct formation, energy intensiveness ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huo ZY,Li GQ,Yu T,Feng C,Lu Y,Wu YH,Yu C,Xie X,Hu HY

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is characterized as the excessive accumulation of body fat and has a complex genetic foundation in humans including monogenic high-risk mutations and polygenic contributions. Domestic pigs represent a valuable model on an obesity-promoting high-caloric diet while constantly evaluated for body characteristics. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Reyer H,Varley PF,Murani E,Ponsuksili S,Wimmers K

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney dysfunction, a deleterious effect of obesity, is now recognized as a relevant health risk. Chemokine (C-C Motif) Ligand 2 (CCL2) is one of the critical chemokines that play a vital role in the development of obesity-related metabolic disease. We aim to measure the changes in urinary CCL2 in our patients before ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Said SB,Loo GH,Kosai NR,Rajan R,Mohd R,Wahab AA,Shah SA

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the initiative by WHO and other international organizations to eliminate HCV in the medium term, hepatitis C infection is still a major public health problem. Even non-injecting drugs users who engage in harmful or addictive drug use are at greater risk of acquiring the infection, when compared to the general ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Coutinho C,Bastos LS,da Mota JC,Toledo L,Costa K,Bertoni N,Bastos FI

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoter CpG methylation is a fundamental regulatory process of gene expression. TET proteins are active CpG demethylases converting 5-methylcytosine to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, with loss of 5 hmC as an epigenetic hallmark of cancers, indicating critical roles of TET proteins in epigenetic tumorigenesis. Through analy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li L,Li C,Mao H,Du Z,Chan WY,Murray P,Luo B,Chan AT,Mok TS,Chan FK,Ambinder RF,Tao Q

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the key motivations in producing 3D structures has always been the realization of metamaterials with effective constituent properties that can be tuned in all propagation directions at various frequencies. Here, we report the investigation of spatially oriented "Nanograter" structures with orientation-dependent...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Z,Cui A,Gong Z,Li H,Xia X,Shen TH,Li J,Yang H,Li W,Gu C

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The westerly wind burst (WWB) is an important triggering mechanism of El Niño and typically occurs in the western Pacific Ocean. The Fourier spectrum of the wind field over the western tropical Pacific is characterised by a large variety of peaks distributed from intra-seasonal to decadal time scales, suggesting that ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sullivan A,Zhong W,Borzelli GLE,Geng T,Mackallah C,Ng B,Hong CC,Cai W,Huang AY,Bodman R

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenotransplantation of human cancers into immunodeficient mice is a very useful approach for studying human tumor biology. However, the occasional occurrence of lymphomagenesis in some mice can spoil the model and must be investigated in detail. We found that a high percentage (32.5%, 26/80) of cancer patient-derived ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Liu Y,Wang X,Tang Z,Li S,Hu Y,Zong X,Wu X,Bu Z,Wu A,Li Z,Li Z,Huang X,Jia L,Kang Q,Liu Y,Sutton D,Wang L,Luo L,Ji J

更新日期：2015-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by motor abnormalities. Many non-demented patients with PD have cognitive impairment especially in executive functions. Using magnetoencephalographic (MEG) recording combined with event-related desynchronisation/synchronisation (ERD/ERS) analysis, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu HM,Hsiao FJ,Chen RS,Shan DE,Hsu WY,Chiang MC,Lin YY

更新日期：2019-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is essential in tumor biology and is regulated by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) ligands and receptors. Here we aimed to discover genetic variants associated with levels of circulating angiogenic proteins in cancer patients. Plasma was collected at baseline in 216 pancreatic and 114 colorectal ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Innocenti F,Jiang C,Sibley AB,Etheridge AS,Hatch AJ,Denning S,Niedzwiecki D,Shterev ID,Lin J,Furukawa Y,Kubo M,Kindler HL,Auman JT,Venook AP,Hurwitz HI,McLeod HL,Ratain MJ,Gordan R,Nixon AB,Owzar K

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The controllability of a network is a theoretical problem of relevance in a variety of contexts ranging from financial markets to the brain. Until now, network controllability has been characterized only on isolated networks, while the vast majority of complex systems are formed by multilayer networks. Here we build a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Menichetti G,Dall'Asta L,Bianconi G

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol sedation has been applied during esophagogastroduodenoscopy procedures, but whether topical pharyngeal anesthesia should be administered at the same time has rarely been reported. Our study examined the role of topical pharyngeal anesthesia in sedated endoscopies in a randomized controlled double-blinded clin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun X,Xu Y,Zhang X,Li A,Zhang H,Yang T,Liu Y

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00