Ultralow-phase-noise millimetre-wave signal generator assisted with an electro-optics-modulator-based optical frequency comb.

abstract：:Prospective observation of hemodynamic changes before and after the formation of atherosclerotic stenosis in the carotid artery is difficult. Thus, a vessel surface repairing method was used for retrospective hemodynamic study before and after atherosclerotic stenosis formation in carotid artery. The three-dimensional...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Sun B,Zhao H,Ge X,Liang F,Li X,Xu J,Liu X

更新日期：2018-04-03 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 been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Y,Li J,Yang J,Zeng H,Guo L,Ren S,Sun W,Chen Z,Cong X,Shi J,Chen L,Du Y,Li J,Wang J,Wu J,Yu J

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonist pleiotropy, where a gene exerts a beneficial effect at early stages and a deleterious effect later on in an animal's life, may explain the evolutionary persistence of devastating genetic diseases such as Huntington's disease (HD). To date, however, there is little direct experimental evidence to support thi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morton AJ,Skillings EA,Wood NI,Zheng Z

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the paradigm of materials informatics for accelerated materials discovery, the choice of feature set (i.e. attributes that capture aspects of structure, chemistry and/or bonding) is critical. Ideally, the feature sets should provide a simple physical basis for extracting major structural and chemical trends and fur...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Balachandran PV,Theiler J,Rondinelli JM,Lookman T

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the association of residual feed intake (RFI) with growth performance, blood metabolic parameters, and body composition factors in growing lambs. Individual body weight (BW) and dry matter intake (DMI) were determined in 137 male Hu lambs that were given a pellet feed four times ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang X,Wang W,Mo F,La Y,Li C,Li F

更新日期：2017-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the behaviour of the recently proposed Quantum PageRank algorithm, in large complex networks. We find that the algorithm is able to univocally reveal the underlying topology of the network and to identify and order the most relevant nodes. Furthermore, it is capable to clearly highlight the structure of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Paparo GD,Müller M,Comellas F,Martin-Delgado MA

更新日期：2013-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput single-stranded DNA sequencing (ssDNA-seq) of cell-free DNA from plasma and other bodily fluids is a powerful method for non-invasive prenatal testing, and diagnosis of cancers and other diseases. Here, we developed a facile ssDNA-seq method, which exploits a novel template-switching activity of thermo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu DC,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a rare form of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, and because of its rareness, there is no standard treatment for CAD patients. We retrospectively analysed the response to rituximab-containing therapy in CAD patients at our hospital. All patients received rituximab-containing therapy for a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jia MN,Qiu Y,Wu YY,Cai H,Zhou DB,Cao XX,Li J

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa has increased progressively and impedes further regression in mortality in burn patients. Such wound infections serve as bacterial reservoir for nosocomial infections and are associated with significant morbidity and costs. Anti-microbial polycationic dendrimers G3KL and G3R...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abdel-Sayed P,Kaeppeli A,Siriwardena T,Darbre T,Perron K,Jafari P,Reymond JL,Pioletti DP,Applegate LA

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingolipids are essential constituents of the plasma membrane (PM) and play an important role in signal transduction by modulating clustering and dynamics of membrane receptors. Changes in lipid composition are therefore likely to influence receptor organisation and function, but how this precisely occurs is difficu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eich C,Manzo C,de Keijzer S,Bakker GJ,Reinieren-Beeren I,García-Parajo MF,Cambi A

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the cuprate pseudogap (Δ(p)) and superconducting gap (Δ(s)) remains an unsolved mystery. Here, we present a temperature- and doping-dependent tunneling study of submicron Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+δ) intrinsic Josephson junctions, which provides a clear evidence that Δ(s) closes at a temperature T(...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ren JK,Zhu XB,Yu HF,Tian Y,Yang HF,Gu CZ,Wang NL,Ren YF,Zhao SP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental neurotoxic compounds impair the developing human nervous system at lower doses than those affecting adults. Standardized test methods for assessing developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) require the use of high numbers of laboratory animals. Here, we use a novel assay that is based on the development of an in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bode K,Nolte L,Kamin H,Desens M,Ulmann A,Bergmann GA,Betker P,Reitmeier J,Ripken T,Stern M,Meyer H,Bicker G

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin is one of the treatments used for PCOS pathology decreasing body weight, plasma androgen, FSH and glucose levels. Unfortunately, there is little known about metformin's effects on lipid metabolism, a crucial process in PCOS pathology. We have employed a lipidomic approach to explore alterations in the plasma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pradas I,Rovira-Llopis S,Naudí A,Bañuls C,Rocha M,Hernandez-Mijares A,Pamplona R,Victor VM,Jové M

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-strain elastic superhydrophobicity is highly desirable for its enhanced use performance and functional reliability in mechanically dynamic environments, but remains challenging to develop. Here we have, for the first time, proven that an elastic fibrous membrane after surface hydrophobization can maintain superh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou H,Wang H,Niu H,Lin T

更新日期：2015-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pneumococcal infection is a serious problem worldwide and has a high mortality rate, the molecular mechanisms underlying the lethality caused by pneumococcus remain elusive. Here, we show that BLT2, a G protein-coupled receptor for leukotriene B4 and 12(S)-hydroxyheptadecatrienoic acid (12-HHT), protects mice...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shigematsu M,Koga T,Ishimori A,Saeki K,Ishii Y,Taketomi Y,Ohba M,Jo-Watanabe A,Okuno T,Harada N,Harayama T,Shindou H,Li JD,Murakami M,Hoka S,Yokomizo T

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis B infection remains a serious public health issue worldwide. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation is commonly reported in patients receiving anticancer therapy, immunosuppressive therapy, or organ and tissue transplantation. However, the precise mechanisms underlying chemotherapeutic agent-related HB...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Pan E,Zhu J,Xu L,Chen X,Li J,Liang L,Hu Y,Xia J,Chen J,Chen W,Hu J,Wang K,Tang N,Huang A

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen in the Earth's deep interior has been thought to exist as a hydroxyl group in high-pressure minerals. We present Muon Spin Rotation experiments on SiO2 stishovite, which is an archetypal high-pressure mineral. Positive muon (which can be considered as a light isotope of proton) implanted in stishovite was fou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Funamori N,Kojima KM,Wakabayashi D,Sato T,Taniguchi T,Nishiyama N,Irifune T,Tomono D,Matsuzaki T,Miyazaki M,Hiraishi M,Koda A,Kadono R

更新日期：2015-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel III-Nitride digital alloy (DA) with ultra-broadband optical gain is proposed. Numerical analysis shows a 50-period InN/GaN DA yields minibands that are densely quantized by numerous confined states. Interband transitions between the conduction and valence minibands create ultra-broadband optical gain spectra w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun W,Tan CK,Wierer JJ Jr,Tansu N

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug repositioning strategies have improved substantially in recent years. At present, two advances are poised to facilitate new strategies. First, the LINCS project can provide rich transcriptome data that reflect the responses of cells upon exposure to various drugs. Second, machine learning algorithms have been app...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xie L,He S,Wen Y,Bo X,Zhang Z

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse magnetic and electronic properties of halogen-adsorbed silicene are investigated by the first-principle theoretical framework, including the adatom-diversified geometric structures, atom-dominated energy bands, spatial spin density distributions, spatial charge density distributions and its variations, and orb...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen DK,Tran NTT,Chiu YH,Lin MF

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloids are highly organized fibril aggregates arise from inappropriately folded form of the protein or polypeptide precursors under both physiological as well as simulated ambience. Amyloid synthesis is a multistep process that involves formation of several metastable intermediates. Among various intermediate specie...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kazmi S,Mujeeb AA,Owais M

更新日期：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancing endogenous cannabinoid (eCB) signaling has been considered as a potential strategy for the treatment of stress-related conditions. Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) represents the primary degradation enzyme of the eCB anandamide (AEA), oleoylethanolamide (OEA) and palmitoylethanolamide (PEA). This study desc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Griebel G,Stemmelin J,Lopez-Grancha M,Fauchey V,Slowinski F,Pichat P,Dargazanli G,Abouabdellah A,Cohen C,Bergis OE

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiology of a hypersaline oil reservoir located in Central Africa was investigated with molecular and culture methods applied to preserved core samples. Here we show that the community structure was partially acquired during sedimentation, as many prokaryotic 16S rRNA gene sequences retrieved from the extracted DN...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gales G,Tsesmetzis N,Neria I,Alazard D,Coulon S,Lomans BP,Morin D,Ollivier B,Borgomano J,Joulian C

更新日期：2016-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion of villous cytotrophoblasts into the multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast is critical for the essential functions of the mammalian placenta. Using RNA-Seq gene expression and quantitative protein expression, we identified genes and their cognate proteins which are coordinately up- or down-regulated in two cel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Azar C,Valentine M,Trausch-Azar J,Druley T,Nelson DM,Schwartz AL

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference has had major advances as a developing tool for pest management. In laboratory experiments, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is often administered to the insect by genetic modification of the crop, or synthesized in vitro and topically applied to the crop. Here, we engineered genetically modified yeast tha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Murphy KA,Tabuloc CA,Cervantes KR,Chiu JC

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection and environmental factors can increase susceptibility to essential hypertension (EH). Although endothelial dysfunction is the initial factor of EH, the epigenetic mechanisms through which HCMV infection induces endothelial cell dysfunction are poorly understo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang X,Tang N,Xi D,Feng Q,Liu Y,Wang L,Tang Y,Zhong H,He F

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report the study of two bioengineered variants of human trace amine-associated receptor 5 (hTAAR5) that were expressed in stable tetracycline-inducible HEK293S cell lines. A systematic detergent screen showed that fos-choline-14 was the optimal detergent to solubilize and subsequently purify the receptors. Mil...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Corin K,Rich C,Zhang S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydration (water loss >2.0% of body weight) has significant negative effects on physical and mental performance. In two studies the effects of minor hypo-hydration (water loss <1.0% of body weight) on CNS function, mood and cardiovascular functioning were measured. Study 1: On two mornings twelve male participants w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Young HA,Cousins A,Johnston S,Fletcher JM,Benton D

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 60 years, our oceans have been a reservoir for exponentially increasing amounts of plastic waste. Plastic has been documented at all levels of the marine food web, from the deepest oceanic trenches to the most far-flung beaches. Here, we present data on the presence of significant quantities of plastic on the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lavers JL,Dicks L,Dicks MR,Finger A

更新日期：2019-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharina japonica is one of the most important marine crops in China, Japan and Korea. Candidate genes associated with blade length and blade width have not yet been reported. Here, based on SLAF-seq, the 7627 resulting SNP loci were selected for genetic linkage mapping to 31 linkage groups with an average spacing o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Chen Z,Li Q,Zhang J,Liu S,Duan D

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00