Hedonic sensitivity to low-dose ketamine is modulated by gonadal hormones in a sex-dependent manner.

abstract：:In this study, the term "ultrasonic ureteral crossing sign" is defined, and the diagnostic accuracy of this sign in the rapid localization of ureteral calculi is assessed. Between January 2017 and June 2018, 535 patients underwent ultrasound examination for suspected ureteral calculi. The "ultrasonic ureteral crossing...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xia J,Peng J,Wang G,Zheng T,Xu Q

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Genaro IS,de Almeida FM,Hizume-Kunzler DC,Moriya HT,Silva RA,Cruz JCG,Lopes RB,Righetti RF,de Paula Vieira R,Saiki M,Martins MA,Tibério IFLC,Arantes-Costa FM,Saraiva-Romanholo BM

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromyography (EMG) is the standard technology for monitoring muscle activity in laboratory environments, either using surface electrodes or fine wire electrodes inserted into the muscle. Due to limitations such as cost, complexity, and technical factors, including skin impedance with surface EMG and the invasive n...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Woodward RB,Stokes MJ,Shefelbine SJ,Vaidyanathan R

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of misidentified cell lines contaminated by other cell lines and/or microorganisms has generated much confusion in the scientific literature. Detailed characterization of such contaminations is therefore crucial to avoid misinterpretation and ensure robustness and reproducibility of research. Here we use DNA-s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Loiseau V,Cordaux R,Giraud I,Beby-Defaux A,Lévêque N,Gilbert C

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Osthole, an active coumarin isolated from Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cusson, has long been used in China as an antipruritic herbal medicine; however, the antipruitic mechanism of osthole is unknown. We studied the molecular mechanism of osthole in histamine-dependent itch by behavioral test, Ca(2+) imaging, and electrophys...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang NN,Shi H,Yu G,Wang CM,Zhu C,Yang Y,Yuan XL,Tang M,Wang ZL,Gegen T,He Q,Tang K,Lan L,Wu GY,Tang ZX

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been thought that incretin signaling prevents arteriosclerosis, and very recently anti-arteriosclerotic effects through GLP-1 receptor were finally demonstrated in clinical human study. The purpose of this study was to investigate how vascular GLP-1 receptor expression is influenced in human subjects. First, we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kimura T,Obata A,Shimoda M,Shimizu I,da Silva Xavier G,Okauchi S,Hirukawa H,Kohara K,Mune T,Moriuchi S,Hiraoka A,Tamura K,Chikazawa G,Ishida A,Yoshitaka H,Rutter GA,Kaku K,Kaneto H

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health problem that increases the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and diastolic dysfunction is a common cardiovascular complication of CKD. MicroRNA-212 (m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sárközy M,Gáspár R,Zvara Á,Siska A,Kővári B,Szűcs G,Márványkövi F,Kovács MG,Diószegi P,Bodai L,Zsindely N,Pipicz M,Gömöri K,Kiss K,Bencsik P,Cserni G,Puskás LG,Földesi I,Thum T,Bátkai S,Csont T

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new technique to observe macroautophagy in the brain in vivo, and examined whether fasting induced macroautophagy in neurons and how the induction was different between Alzheimer's disease (AD) model and control mice. Lentivirus for EGFP-LC3 injected into the brain successfully visualized autophagosome ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen X,Kondo K,Motoki K,Homma H,Okazawa H

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-photon emitters with stable and uniform photoluminescence properties are important for quantum technology. However, in many cases, colour centres in diamond exhibit spectral diffusion and photoluminescence intensity fluctuation. It is therefore essential to investigate the dynamics of colour centres at the sing...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Y,Chen G,Rong Y,McGuinness LP,Jelezko F,Tamura S,Tanii T,Teraji T,Onoda S,Ohshima T,Isoya J,Shinada T,Wu E,Zeng H

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Peach is an economically import fruit crop worldwide, and serves as a model species of the Rosaceae family as well. However, peach functional genomics studies are severely hampered due to its recalcitrance to regeneration and stable transformation. Here, we report a fast and efficient Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu S,Lai E,Zhao L,Cai Y,Ogutu C,Cherono S,Han Y,Zheng B

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex ratio at birth (SRB) may be patterned by maternal condition and/or environmental stressors. However, despite decades of research, empirical results from across the social and biological sciences are equivocal on this topic. Using longitudinal individual-level data from a US population during the interwar perio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schacht R,Tharp D,Smith KR

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is known to be implicated in the pathogenesis of Sjögren syndrome (SS), but evidences are limited. We aimed to examine the levels of autophagy markers in tear film and conjunctival epithelial cells from SS dry eye patients, and analyze their correlations with clinical features. Patients with SS dry eye exhib...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Byun YS,Lee HJ,Shin S,Chung SH

更新日期：2017-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The distinguishing of the multiphoton quantum interference effect from the classical one forms one of the most important issues in modern quantum mechanics and experimental quantum optics. For a long time, the two-photon interference (TPI) of correlated photons has been recognized as a pure quantum effect that cannot ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim H,Kwon O,Moon HS

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is a potentially life-threatening infection that occurs in immunocompromised patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate risk factors for PJP in kidney transplantation recipients. We conducted a retrospective analysis of patient data from 500 consecutive kidney transplants pe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee SH,Huh KH,Joo DJ,Kim MS,Kim SI,Lee J,Park MS,Kim YS,Kim SK,Chang J,Kim YS,Kim SY

更新日期：2017-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to examine the effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on stair climbing capacity in individuals with pre-radiographic to mild knee osteoarthritis (OA). This is a secondary analysis of data from a single, participant-blinded, randomized controlled trial with a pre-post design. Par...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Iijima H,Eguchi R,Shimoura K,Yamada K,Aoyama T,Takahashi M

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour growth and metastatic colonization is strongly influenced by the tumour stroma, including cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF). Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are a possible source of CAF following myofibroblastic differentiation, and we have previously shown that MSC support tumour growth. Triggere...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Werner S,Lützkendorf J,Müller T,Müller LP,Posern G

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:FGF10 is a member of fibroblast growth factors (FGFs). We previously showed that FGF10 protects neuron against oxygen-glucose deprivation injury in vitro; however, the effect of FGF10 in ischemic stroke in vivo is unknown. In the present study, we showed that FGF10 was mainly expressed in neurons but not astrocytes, a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li YH,Fu HL,Tian ML,Wang YQ,Chen W,Cai LL,Zhou XH,Yuan HB

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin has a conserved role in regulating animal social behaviour including parental-offspring interactions. Recently an oxytocin-like neuropeptide, nematocin, and its cognate receptors have been identified in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We provide evidence for a pheromone signal produced by C. elegans larv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scott E,Hudson A,Feist E,Calahorro F,Dillon J,de Freitas R,Wand M,Schoofs L,O'Connor V,Holden-Dye L

更新日期：2017-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperate bamboos (tribe Arundinarieae, Poaceae) are strongly supported as monophyly in recent molecular studies, but taxonomic delineation and phylogenetic relationships within the tribe lack resolution. Here, we sampled 39 species (36 temperate bamboos and 3 outgroups) for restriction-site associated DNA sequenc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Ye X,Zhao L,Li D,Guo Z,Zhuang H

更新日期：2017-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:H. pylori-induced chronic inflammation is considered the most important cause of gastric cancer. The actual process how chronic inflammation triggers gastric carcinogenesis is still not clear. In this study, neutrophils and relative markers in gastric cancer development were examined with immunohistochemistry and fluo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fu H,Ma Y,Yang M,Zhang C,Huang H,Xia Y,Lu L,Jin W,Cui D

更新日期：2016-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a comprehensive study of a magnetic sensor system that benefits from a new technique to substantially increase the magnetoelastic coupling of surface acoustic waves (SAW). The device uses shear horizontal acoustic surface waves that are guided by a fused silica layer with an amorphous magnetostrictive FeCoS...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kittmann A,Durdaut P,Zabel S,Reermann J,Schmalz J,Spetzler B,Meyners D,Sun NX,McCord J,Gerken M,Schmidt G,Höft M,Knöchel R,Faupel F,Quandt E

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The canine heart is a robust physiological model for the human heart. Recently, birth month associations have been reported and replicated in humans using clinical health records. While animals respond readily to their environment in the wild, a systematic investigation of birth season dependencies among pets and spec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Boland MR,Kraus MS,Dziuk E,Gelzer AR

更新日期：2018-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia marcescens is one of the important nosocomial pathogens which rely on quorum sensing (QS) to regulate the production of biofilm and several virulence factors. Hence, blocking of QS has become a promising approach to quench the virulence of S. marcescens. For the first time, QS inhibitory (QSI) and antibiofilm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sethupathy S,Ananthi S,Selvaraj A,Shanmuganathan B,Vigneshwari L,Balamurugan K,Mahalingam S,Pandian SK

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Choosing an option increases a person's preference for that option. This phenomenon, called choice-based learning (CBL), has been investigated separately in the contexts of internally guided decision-making (IDM, e.g., preference judgment), for which no objectively correct answer exists, and externally guided decision...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nakao T,Kanayama N,Katahira K,Odani M,Ito Y,Hirata Y,Nasuno R,Ozaki H,Hiramoto R,Miyatani M,Northoff G

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are aggressive tumors with low survival rates and the leading cause of death in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) patients under 40 years old. Surgical resection is the standard of care for MPNSTs, but is often incomplete and can generate loss of function, necessitating t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sweeney EE,Burga RA,Li C,Zhu Y,Fernandes R

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium wilt is one of the major biotic stresses reducing chickpea productivity. The use of wilt-resistant cultivars is the most appropriate means to combat the disease and secure productivity. As a step towards understanding the molecular basis of wilt resistance in chickpea, we investigated the transcriptomes of wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Upasani ML,Limaye BM,Gurjar GS,Kasibhatla SM,Joshi RR,Kadoo NY,Gupta VS

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A single bout of electroacupuncture results in muscle contractions and increased whole body glucose uptake in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Women with PCOS have transcriptional and epigenetic alterations in the adipose tissue and we hypothesized that electroacupuncture induces epigenetic and transcripti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kokosar M,Benrick A,Perfilyev A,Nilsson E,Källman T,Ohlsson C,Ling C,Stener-Victorin E

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence across species and memory domains shows that when an existing memory is reactivated, it becomes susceptible to modifications. However, the potential role of reward signals in these mechanisms underlying human memory dynamics is unknown. Leaning on a wealth of findings on the role of reward in rei...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dayan E,Laor-Maayany R,Censor N

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The outstanding optoelectronics and photovoltaic properties of metal halide perovskites, including high carrier motilities, low carrier recombination rates, and the tunable spectral absorption range are attributed to the unique electronic properties of these materials. While DFT provides reliable structures and stabil...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tao SX,Cao X,Bobbert PA

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplantation of human bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (hBM-MSC) promotes functional recovery after stroke in animal models, but the mechanisms underlying these effects remain incompletely understood. We tested the efficacy of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliant hBM-MSC, injected intravenously 3.5 hou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sammali E,Alia C,Vegliante G,Colombo V,Giordano N,Pischiutta F,Boncoraglio GB,Barilani M,Lazzari L,Caleo M,De Simoni MG,Gaipa G,Citerio G,Zanier ER

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00