Action mechanism of corticosteroids to aggravate Guillain-Barré syndrome.

abstract：:Detection of visible blind UV radiation is not only interesting but also of technologically important. Herein, we demonstrate the efficient detection of UV radiation by using cluster like ZnS quantum dot solid nanostructures prepared by simple reflux condensation technique. The short-chain ligand 3-mercaptopropionic a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Premkumar S,Nataraj D,Bharathi G,Ramya S,Thangadurai TD

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a systematic investigation on the dynamic behavior of conduction filaments (CFs) in WO₃-x-based devices. It was found that the electric forming produced an electric structure consisted of a conductive channel (virtual cathode) started from cathode and an insulating band surrounding anode. Both the virtual...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hong DS,Chen YS,Li Y,Yang HW,Wei LL,Shen BG,Sun JR

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:AKT is an important signal transduction protein that plays a crucial role in cancer development. Therefore, we evaluated associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the AKT promoter region and gastric cancer (GCa) risk in a case-control study of 1,110 GCa patients and 1,114 matched cancer-free contr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang MY,He J,Zhu ML,Teng XY,Li QX,Sun MH,Wang XF,Yang YJ,Wang JC,Jin L,Wang YN,Wei QY

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is an endangered species with a declining global population. The South Ari Atoll Marine Protected Area (SAMPA), Maldives, is one of few locations globally where year-long residency of individuals occurs. This SAMPA aggregation appears to consist almost exclusively of immature males. D...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Harvey-Carroll J,Stewart JD,Carroll D,Mohamed B,Shameel I,Zareer IH,Araujo G,Rees R

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidases (Nox) are an important family of catalytic enzymes that generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), which mediate the regulation of diverse cellular functions. Although phagocyte Nox2/gp91phox is closely associated with the activation of host innate immune respo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim JH,Lee J,Bae SJ,Kim Y,Park BJ,Choi JW,Kwon J,Cha GH,Yoo HJ,Jo EK,Bae YS,Lee YH,Yuk JM

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Spirometry is required to confirm a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis, but it is difficult to perform in resource-limited settings. This study aimed to evaluate symptom-based questions for screening of individuals with COPD among Chinese populations. We recruited 3969 adult subjects from the First...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Q,Wang M,Li X,Wang H,Wang J

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 5-10 years, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) have been individually applied to monitor the morphological and mechanical properties of various single-species biofilms respectively. This investigation looked to combine OCT and AFM as a multi-scale approach to understand ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pattem J,Davrandi M,Aguayo S,Allan E,Spratt D,Bozec L

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavivirus-mediated inflammation causes neuronal death, but whether the infected neurons can evoke an innate immune response to elicit their own protection, is unknown. In an earlier study we have shown that neuronal RIG-I, play a significant role in inducing production and release of molecules that are related to inf...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nazmi A,Mukhopadhyay R,Dutta K,Basu A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles, are nano-sized membrane vesicles containing proteins and nucleic acids, which act as intercellular messengers. They play an important role in a variety of physiological processes, as well as in pathological situations such as inflammation or cancer. H...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bonjoch L,Gironella M,Iovanna JL,Closa D

更新日期：2017-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In some fibroblasts, casein kinase 1α (CK1α) is localized to nuclear speckles, which are sub-nuclear compartments supplying splicing factors, whereas it is recruited on keratin filaments in colorectal cancer cells such as DLD1 cells. In order to obtain a deeper understanding of why CK1α is localized to these different...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kuga T,Kume H,Adachi J,Kawasaki N,Shimizu M,Hoshino I,Matsubara H,Saito Y,Nakayama Y,Tomonaga T

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of return (IOR), typically explored in cueing paradigms, is a performance cost associated with previously attended locations and has been suggested as a crucial attentional mechanism that biases orientation towards novelty. In their seminal IOR paper, Posner and Cohen (1984) showed that IOR is coded in spat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He T,Ding Y,Wang Z

更新日期：2015-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term monitoring of host-parasite interactions is important for understanding the consequences of infection on host fitness and population dynamics. In an eight-year survey of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) population nesting in Cabo Verde, we determined the spatiotemporal variation of Ozobranchus mar...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lockley EC,Fouda L,Correia SM,Taxonera A,Nash LN,Fairweather K,Reischig T,Durão J,Dinis H,Roque SM,Lomba JP,Dos Passos L,Cameron SJK,Stiebens VA,Eizaguirre C

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Lath martensite is the dominant microstructural feature in quenched low-carbon Fe-C alloys. Its formation mechanism is not clear, despite extensive research. The microstructure of an Fe-0.05 C (wt.%) alloy water-quenched at various austenitizing temperatures has been investigated using transmission electron microscopy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ping DH,Guo SQ,Imura M,Liu X,Ohmura T,Ohnuma M,Lu X,Abe T,Onodera H

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of seed shattering has been regarded as a key step during crop domestication. Mutagenesis contributes to the development of novel crop cultivars with a desired seed-shattering habit in a relatively short period of time, but also to uncovering the genetic architecture of seed shattering. 'Minamiyutaka', a non-shat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li F,Komatsu A,Ohtake M,Eun H,Shimizu A,Kato H

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus production in the deep-sea environment has been found to be high, and viruses have been suggested to play significant roles in the overall functioning of this ecosystem. Nevertheless, little is known about these viruses, including the mechanisms that control their production, which makes them one of the least un...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jian H,Xiong L,Xu G,Xiao X,Wang F

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Forest cutting is a major anthropogenic disturbance that affects forest carbon (C) storage and fluxes. Yet its characteristics and impacts on C cycling are poorly understood over large areas. Using recent annualized forest inventory data, we estimated cutting-related loss of live biomass in the eastern United States w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou D,Liu S,Oeding J,Zhao S

更新日期：2013-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:During interpersonal interactions, people perform actions with different forms of vitality, communicating their positive or negative attitude toward others. For example, a handshake can be "soft" or "vigorous", a caress can be 'kind' or 'rushed'. While previous studies have shown that the dorso-central insula is a key...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Di Cesare G,Vannucci F,Rea F,Sciutti A,Sandini G

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine whether shorter leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with more rapid pulmonary function decline in a longitudinal study of World Trade Center (WTC) responders. WTC responders (N = 284) participating in a monitoring study underwent blood sampling and were followed pro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Clouston SAP,Edelman NH,Aviv A,Stewart C,Luft BJ

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of environmentally friendly plant protection products (PPPs), including pesticides, is a challenge nowadays. A commercial herbicide combining terbuthylazine and nicosulfuron as active substances (a.s.) was selected as a model PPP. The suitability of manipulating the ratio between a.s. towards alternati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Queirós L,Vidal T,Nogueira AJA,Gonçalves FJM,Pereira JL

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic application of newly developed oximes is limited due to their adverse effects on different tissues. Within this article, it has been investigated which morphological changes could be observed in Wistar rats after the treatment with increasing doses of selected acetyl cholinesterase reactivators - asoxime, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jaćević V,Nepovimova E,Kuča K

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the health hazards of PM2.5 exposure is to induce pulmonary inflammatory responses. In our previous study, we demonstrated that exposing both the immortalized and primary human bronchial epithelial cells to PM2.5 results in a significant upregulation of VEGF production, a typical signaling event to trigger chro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu H,Xu X,Wang H,Qimuge A,Liu S,Chen Y,Zhang C,Hu M,Song L

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term potentiation (LTP) is the persistent increase in the strength of the synapses. However, the neural networks would become saturated if there is only synaptic strenghthening. Synaptic weakening could be facilitated by active processes like long-term depression (LTD). Molecular mechanisms that facilitate the we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Navakkode S,Chew KCM,Tay SJN,Lin Q,Behnisch T,Soong TW

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal skeletal muscle development genetically determines postnatal muscle characteristics such as growth and meat quality in pigs. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying prenatal skeletal muscle development remain unclear. Here, we performed the first genome-wide analysis of chimeric RNAs, single nuclear poly...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang Y,Tang Z,Fan X,Xu K,Mu Y,Zhou R,Li K

更新日期：2016-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In the recent years, new molecular methods have been proposed to discriminate multicentric hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) from intrahepatic metastases. Some of these methods utilize sequencing data to assess similarities between cancer genomes, whilst other achieved the same results with transcriptome and methylome d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lackner C,Quagliata L,Cross W,Ribi S,Heinimann K,Paradiso V,Quintavalle C,Kovacova M,Baumhoer D,Piscuoglio S,Terracciano L,Kovac M

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In dentistry, the wet-bonding approach relies on water to maintain demineralized collagen expanded for proper resin infiltration; nevertheless, hydrolytic instability of the resin-dentin interface is inevitable with current bonding techniques. Considering dimethyl sulfoxide's (DMSO) ability to "biomodify" collagen and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stape THS,Seseogullari-Dirihan R,Tjäderhane L,Abuna G,Martins LRM,Tezvergil-Mutluay A

更新日期：2018-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem cell (ESC) derived tissue is a promising tool to be used in different clinical, preclinical and also scientific settings, for example as in vivo biological pacemaker, preclinical drug safety screening tool or ultimately as part of a cell replacement therapy. However, before ESC derived tissue can be use...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Niehoff J,Matzkies M,Nguemo F,Hescheler J,Reppel M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flagellar motor is a unique supramolecular complex which converts ion flow into rotational force. Many biological devices mainly use two types of ions, proton and sodium ion. This is probably because of the fact that life originated in seawater, which is rich in protons and sodium ions. The polar flagell...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Onoue Y,Iwaki M,Shinobu A,Nishihara Y,Iwatsuki H,Terashima H,Kitao A,Kandori H,Homma M

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of the crude herbal extract from Uncaria tomentosa (UT) on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in two models of obesity: high fat diet (HFD) and genetically obese (ob/ob) mice. Both obese mouse models were insulin resistant and exhibited an abundance of lipid droplets in the hepatocyte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Araujo LCC,Feitosa KB,Murata GM,Furigo IC,Teixeira SA,Lucena CF,Ribeiro LM,Muscará MN,Costa SKP,Donato J Jr,Bordin S,Curi R,Carvalho CRO

更新日期：2018-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondrichthyes - sharks, rays, skates, and chimeras, are among the most threatened and data deficient vertebrate species. Global demand for shark and ray derived products, drives unregulated and exploitative fishing practices, which are in turn facilitated by the lack of ecological data required for effective conserva...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Johri S,Solanki J,Cantu VA,Fellows SR,Edwards RA,Moreno I,Vyas A,Dinsdale EA

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In this manuscript, we studied the thermal properties of hundred-watt fiber laser oscillator by real-time in-situ distributed temperature measurement. Optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) was introduced to measure the temperature distribution of gain fiber core. The fiber laser oscillator operated at 1080 nm ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lou Z,Yang B,Han K,Wang X,Zhang H,Xi X,Liu Z

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00