Disorder and defects are not intrinsic to boron carbide.

abstract：:Individuals with lower limb amputation need a secure suspension system for their prosthetic devices. A new coupling system was developed that is capable of suspending the prosthesis. The system's safety is ensured through an acoustic alarm system. This article explains how the system works and provides an in vivo eval...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eshraghi A,Osman NA,Gholizadeh H,Ahmadian J,Rahmati B,Abas WA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about circulating biomarkers of vascular injury in relation to cardiovascular disease risk. Thus, we evaluated associations between six novel markers (E-Selectin, P-Selectin, thrombomodulin, thrombopoietin, intercellular adhesion molecule 3 and GPIIb/IIIa) and established cardiovascular risk factors as...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pletsch-Borba L,Grafetstätter M,Hüsing A,González Maldonado S,Kloss M,Groß ML,Johnson T,Sookthai D,Bugert P,Kaaks R,Kühn T

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of homogenous glycans in quantitative yields represents a major bottleneck to the production of molecular tools for glycoscience, such as glycan microarrays, affinity resins, and reference standards. Here, we describe a combined biological/enzymatic synthesis that is capable of efficiently converting microbi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hamilton BS,Wilson JD,Shumakovich MA,Fisher AC,Brooks JC,Pontes A,Naran R,Heiss C,Gao C,Kardish R,Heimburg-Molinaro J,Azadi P,Cummings RD,Merritt JH,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon is a pancreatic hormone and increases the blood glucose levels. It may be incorporated in a dual hormone artificial pancreas, a device to automatically and continuously control blood glucose levels of individuals with diabetes. Artificial pancreas systems have been developed for use in the subcutaneous tissue...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Åm MK,Dirnena-Fusini I,Fougner AL,Carlsen SM,Christiansen SC

更新日期：2020-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex systems performing spiking dynamics are widespread in Nature. They cover from earthquakes, to neurons, variable stars, social networks, or stock markets. Understanding and characterizing their dynamics is relevant in order to detect transitions, or to predict unwanted extreme events. Here we study, under an or...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Colet M,Aragoneses A

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:STIM1 and Orai1 are the main components of a widely conserved Calcium influx pathway known as store-operated calcium entry (SOCE). STIM1 is a calcium sensor, which oligomerizes and activates Orai channels when calcium levels drop inside the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The series of molecular rearrangements that STIM1 ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pacheco J,Dominguez L,Bohórquez-Hernández A,Asanov A,Vaca L

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In photodynamic therapy (PDT), cells are impregnated with a photosensitizing agent that is activated by light irradiation, thereby photochemically generating reactive oxygen species (ROS). The amounts of ROS produced depends on the PDT dose and the nature of the photosensitizer. Although high levels of ROS are cytotox...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kushibiki T,Tu Y,Abu-Yousif AO,Hasan T

更新日期：2015-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes that encode for enzymes that can degrade petroleum hydrocarbons (PHs) are critical for the ability of microorganisms to bioremediate soils contaminated with PHs. Distributions of two petroleum-degrading genes AlkB and Nah in soils collected from three zones of the Dagang Oilfield, Tianjin, China were investigate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Q,Tang J,Bai Z,Hecker M,Giesy JP

更新日期：2015-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In most organisms, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) contributes to >85% of total RNA. Thus, to obtain useful information from RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analyses at reasonable sequencing depth, typically, mature polyadenylated transcripts are enriched or rRNA molecules are depleted. Targeted depletion of rRNA is particularly useful...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kraus AJ,Brink BG,Siegel TN

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptochromes (CRYs) are an ubiquitously occurring class of photoreceptors, which are important for regulating the circadian rhythm of animals via a time-delayed transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL). Due to their protein architecture and common FAD chromophore, they belong to the same superfamily as photolya...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Franz-Badur S,Penner A,Straß S,von Horsten S,Linne U,Essen LO

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ measurements by the Curiosity rover provide a unique opportunity for studying the effects of dust on assets placed at the surface of Mars. Here we use in situ measurements of solar UV radiation to quantify the seasonal and interannual variability of dust accumulation on the sensor on the rover deck. We show th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vicente-Retortillo Á,Martínez GM,Renno N,Newman CE,Ordonez-Etxeberria I,Lemmon MT,Richardson MI,Hueso R,Sánchez-Lavega A

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Piwi-like proteins are essential for stem-cell maintenance and self-renewal in multicellular organisms. We analyzed the expression of Piwi-like 1 and Piwi-like 2 by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in 95 muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) samples using tissue microarray. Application of an immunoreactive score (IRS) revea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eckstein M,Jung R,Weigelt K,Sikic D,Stöhr R,Geppert C,Agaimy A,Lieb V,Hartmann A,Wullich B,Wach S,Taubert H

更新日期：2018-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that in the ergodic regime, the temperature dependence of Young's modulus is solely determined by the magnetic properties of a material. For the large class of materials with paramagnetic or diamagnetic response, simple functional forms of the temperature derivative of Young's modulus are derived and compa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Binek C

更新日期：2017-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphenol A (BPA), a member of the environmental endocrine disruptors (EDCs), has recently received increased attention because of its effects on brain insulin resistance. Available data have indicated that brain insulin resistance may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases. However, the associated mechanisms that u...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang T,Xie C,Yu P,Fang F,Zhu J,Cheng J,Gu A,Wang J,Xiao H

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Liraglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonist, is widely used to treat diabetes. However, its effect on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is unknown. In this study, we investigated its effects on rats with monocrotaline (MCT)-induced PAH and mechanisms on rat pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee MY,Tsai KB,Hsu JH,Shin SJ,Wu JR,Yeh JL

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The push for a semiconductor-based quantum information technology has renewed interest in the spin states and optical transitions of shallow donors in silicon, including the donor bound exciton transitions in the near-infrared and the Rydberg, or hydrogenic, transitions in the mid-infrared. The deepest group V donor i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saeedi K,Szech M,Dluhy P,Salvail JZ,Morse KJ,Riemann H,Abrosimov NV,Nötzel N,Litvinenko KL,Murdin BN,Thewalt ML

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of bacteria's heat resistance is essential for developing effective thermal treatments. Choosing an appropriate test method is important to accurately determine bacteria's heat resistances. Although being a major factor to influence the thermo-tolerance of bacteria, the heating rate in samples cannot be cont...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kou XX,Li R,Hou LX,Huang Z,Ling B,Wang SJ

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac trabeculae are mesh-like muscular structures within ventricular walls. Subtle perturbations in trabeculation are associated with many congenital heart diseases (CHDs), and complete failure to form trabeculae leads to embryonic lethality. Despite the severe consequence of an absence of trabecular formation, the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fleming ND,Samsa LA,Hassel D,Qian L,Liu J

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrification in coastal sediments can provide resilience to eutrophication in estuarine ecosystems, but this key ecosystem function is impacted directly and indirectly by increasing stressors. The erosion and loading of fine sediments from land, resulting in sedimentation and elevated sediment muddiness, presents a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Douglas EJ,Lohrer AM,Pilditch CA

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The cation diffusion facilitator (CDF) is a conserved family of divalent d-block metal cation transporters that extrude these cations selectively from the cytoplasm. CDF proteins are composed of two domains: the transmembrane domain, through which the cations are transported, and a regulatory cytoplasmic C-terminal do...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Barber-Zucker S,Shahar A,Kolusheva S,Zarivach R

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene overexpression through the targeting of transcription activation domains to regulatory DNA via catalytically defective Cas9 (dCas9) represents a powerful approach to investigate gene function as well as the mechanisms of gene control. To date, the most efficient dCas9-based activator is the Synergistic Activation...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sajwan S,Mannervik M

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cholecystectomy has been reported to be associated with increased risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the association between cholecystectomy and prognosis of HCC patients underwent curative resection has never been examined. Through retrospective analysis of the data of 3933 patients underwent...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li T,Wang SK,Zhi XT,Zhou J,Dong ZR,Zhang ZL,Sun HC,Ye QH,Fan J

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate measurements of autonomic nerve regulation in heart failure (HF) were unresolved. The discriminating performance of deceleration and acceleration capacities of heart rate in HF was evaluated in 130 HF patients and 212 controls. Acceleration capacity and deceleration capacity were independent risk factors for ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu W,Jin X,Zhang P,Yu Q,Yin G,Lu Y,Xiao H,Chen Y,Zhang D

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new indolizidine alkaloids crepidatumines A (1) and B (2) together with the stereoisomer of dendrocrepidine B (3) and known analog dendrocrepine (4) were isolated from D. crepidatum. Their structures were determined by HR-ESI-MS, NMR, and Electronic Circular Dichroism (ECD) experiments together with comparison of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu X,Chen X,Yang R,Li Z,Zhou H,Bai Y,Yu M,Li B,Ding G

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a simple technique was developed for the electrochemical detection of anionic analytes in weakly supported media. This was conducted by the use of electrochemical paper-based analytical devices (ePADs). A sensing platform was modified with nereistoxin and used to determine nitrite as a case study. The e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Khoshroo A,Fattahi A

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:While considered an extracellular pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been reported to be engulfed by macrophages in cellular and animal models. However, the role of macrophages in P. aeruginosa clearance in vivo remains poorly studied. The major outer membrane porin OprF has been recently shown to be involved in P. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moussouni M,Berry L,Sipka T,Nguyen-Chi M,Blanc-Potard AB

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic test accuracy of the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for culture proven tuberculosis is unclear. We searched electronic databases for both cohort and case-control studies that provided data to calculate sensitivity and specificity. The index test was any LAMP assay including both commerc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nagai K,Horita N,Yamamoto M,Tsukahara T,Nagakura H,Tashiro K,Shibata Y,Watanabe H,Nakashima K,Ushio R,Ikeda M,Narita A,Kanai A,Sato T,Kaneko T

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A micro-boat self-propelled by a camphor engine, carrying seed crystals of FeCl3, promoted the evolution of chemical gardens when placed on the surface of aqueous solutions of potassium hexacyanoferrate. Inverse chemical gardens (growing from the top downward) were observed. The growth of the "inverse" chemical garden...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Frenkel M,Multanen V,Grynyov R,Musin A,Bormashenko Y,Bormashenko E

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been a long-standing puzzle why buckled dimers of the Si(001) surface appeared symmetric below ~20 K in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments. Although such symmetric dimer images were concluded to be due to an artifact induced by STM measurements, its underlying mechanism is still veiled. Here, we de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ren XY,Kim HJ,Niu CY,Jia Y,Cho JH

更新日期：2016-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the chemical and physical properties of metal/graphene oxide (M/GO) interfaces is important when GO is used in electronic and electrochemical devices because the metal layer must be firmly attached to GO. Here, permeation of metal from the surface into GO paper bulk at the M/GO interface was observed at ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ogata C,Koinuma M,Hatakeyama K,Tateishi H,Asrori MZ,Taniguchi T,Funatsu A,Matsumoto Y

更新日期：2014-01-13 00:00:00