A broadband terahertz ultrathin multi-focus lens.

abstract：:c-FLIP (cellular FLICE-inhibitory protein) is the pivotal regulator of TRAIL resistance in cancer cells, It is a short-lived protein degraded through the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. The discovery of factors and mechanisms regulating its protein stability is important for the comprehension of TRAIL resistance by tumo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao X,Feng J,He Y,Xu F,Fan X,Huang W,Xiong H,Liu Q,Liu W,Liu X,Sun X,He QY,Zhang Q,Liu L

更新日期：2016-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative blood volume (RBV) monitoring is frequently used in haemodialysis patients to help guide fluid management and improve cardiovascular stability. RBV changes are typically estimated based on online measurements of certain haemoconcentration markers, such as haematocrit (HCT), haemoglobin (HGB) or total blood pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pstras L,Waniewski J,Wojcik-Zaluska A,Zaluska W

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) contributes to glioma initiation. However, the expression of miRNAs in tumour tissue or blood of spinal cord glioma (SCG) patients, particularly in high-grade spinal gliomas (Grade IV) known as glioblastoma (GBM), remains largely unknown. In this study we aimed to determine di...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： An T,Fan T,Zhang XQ,Liu YF,Huang J,Liang C,Lv BH,Wang YQ,Zhao XG,Liu JX,Fu YH,Jiang GJ

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been found to play important roles in various biological processes; however, many of their functions remain unclear. In this study, we present a novel approach to identify the lncRNA-associated protein-protein interaction (PPI) modules and ascertain their functions in human lung squ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu CH,Hsu CL,Lu PC,Lin WC,Juan HF,Huang HC

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pt/K2CO3/MgAlOx-reduced graphene oxide (Pt/K/MgAlOx-rGO) hybrids were synthesized, characterized and tested as a promising NOx storage and reduction (NSR) catalyst. Mg-Al layered double hydroxides (LDHs) were grown on rGO via in situ hydrothermal crystallization. The structure and morphology of samples were thoroughly...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mei X,Yan Q,Lu P,Wang J,Cui Y,Nie Y,Umar A,Wang Q

更新日期：2017-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, there has been a debate whether implicit Theory of Mind can be reliably measured using anticipatory looking tasks. Previous anticipatory looking paradigms used video stimuli to measure implicit Theory of Mind; however, numerous replications of these paradigms were unsuccessful. This lack of replications may ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kulke L,Hinrichs MAB

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A microwave domain characterization approach is proposed to determine the properties of high quality factor optical resonators. This approach features a very high precision in frequency and aims to acquire a full knowledge of the complex transfer function (amplitude and phase) characterizing an optical resonator using...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abdallah Z,Boucher YG,Fernandez A,Balac S,Llopis O

更新日期：2016-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report lateral heterojunction formation in as-exfoliated MoS2 flakes by thickness modulation. Kelvin probe force microscopy is used to map the surface potential at the monolayer-multilayer heterojunction, and consequently the conduction band offset is extracted. Scanning photocurrent microscopy is per...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tosun M,Fu D,Desai SB,Ko C,Kang JS,Lien DH,Najmzadeh M,Tongay S,Wu J,Javey A

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus can cause different types of diseases from mild skin infections to life-threatening sepsis worldwide. Owing to the emergence and transmission of multidrug-resistant strains, developing an impactful immunotherapy especially vaccine control approach against S. aureus infections is increasingly enco...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu W,Yao D,Yu S,Wang X,Li X,Wang M,Liu S,Feng Z,Chen X,Li W,Wang L,Liu W,Ma J,Yu L,Tong C,Song B,Cui Y

更新日期：2018-02-26 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： Lee DB,Kim JM,Seok JH,Lee JH,Jo JD,Mun JY,Conrad C,Coe J,Nelson G,Hogue B,White TA,Zatsepin N,Weierstall U,Barty A,Chapman H,Fromme P,Spence J,Chung MS,Oh CH,Kim KH

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ga-68 Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT is a new tool for the assessment of prostate cancer. Standard imaging time is 60 minutes post injection of radiotracer. At 60 minutes, there is physiologic accumulation of radiotracer in the urinary bladder which may cause some lesions in its vicinity to be obscured. Our...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Barakat A,Yacoub B,Homsi ME,Saad Aldine A,El Hajj A,Haidar MB

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The protective effects of statins against stenosis for permanent hemodialysis access have been repeatedly demonstrated in animal studies, but remain controversial in human studies. This study aims to evaluate the association between statin use and permanent hemodialysis access patency using a nationwide hemodialysis c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chang HH,Chang YK,Lu CW,Huang CT,Chien CT,Hung KY,Huang KC,Hsu CC

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronaviruses may exert severely negative effects on the mortality and morbidity of birds and mammals including humans and domestic animals. Most recently CoVID-19 has killed about half million people (27th of June, 2020). Susceptibility to this disease appears to differ markedly across different societies but the fac...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jankowiak Ł,Rozsa L,Tryjanowski P,Møller AP

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of microCT has made it possible to show that the terminal bronchioles are narrowed and destroyed before the onset of emphysematous destruction in COPD. This report extends those observations to the cellular and molecular level in the centrilobular phenotype of emphysematous destruction in lungs donate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Suzuki M,Sze MA,Campbell JD,Brothers JF 2nd,Lenburg ME,McDonough JE,Elliott WM,Cooper JD,Spira A,Hogg JC

更新日期：2017-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:As we move, perceptual stability is crucial to successfully interact with our environment. Notably, the brain must update the locations of objects in space using extra-retinal signals. The vestibular system is a strong candidate as a source of information for spatial updating as it senses head motion. The ability to u...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mackrous I,Carriot J,Simoneau M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse communities can adjust their trait composition to altered environmental conditions, which may strongly influence their dynamics. Previous studies of trait-based models mainly considered only one or two trophic levels, whereas most natural system are at least tritrophic. Therefore, we investigated how the addit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ceulemans R,Gaedke U,Klauschies T,Guill C

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Several proteins and peptides in saliva were shown to stimulate gingival wound repair, but the role of salivary metabolites in this process remains unexplored. In vitro gingival re-epithelialization kinetics were determined using unstimulated saliva samples from healthy individuals collected during an experimental gin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fernandez-Gutierrez MM,Imangaliyev S,Prodan A,Loos BG,Keijser BJF,Kleerebezem M

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately establishing the state of large-scale quantum systems is an important tool in quantum information science; however, the large number of unknown parameters hinders the rapid characterisation of such states, and reconstruction procedures can become prohibitively time-consuming. Compressive sensing, a procedur...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tonolini F,Chan S,Agnew M,Lindsay A,Leach J

更新日期：2014-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex-dependent effects of mismatched prenatal-postnatal maternal conditions are predicted by combining two evolutionary hypotheses: that foetal conditions provide a forecast of likely postnatal environments (Predictive Adaptive Response), and that the female foetus is better adapted than the male to maternal adversity ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hill J,Pickles A,Wright N,Braithwaite E,Sharp H

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis plays a key role in several diseases including cancer, ischemic vascular disease, and Alzheimer's disease. Chemical genetic screening of endothelial tube formation provides a robust approach for identifying signalling components that impact microvascular network morphology as well as endothelial cell biol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sailem HZ,Al Haj Zen A

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased filaggrin expression was found to be correlated with severity scores in chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU); however, the role of filaggrin breakdown products (FBPs) in CSU has not been studied. We collected stratum corneum (SC) specimens from the volar forearms of 10 CSU patients, 10 AD patients, and 10 hea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pham DL,Lim KM,Joo KM,Park HS,Leung DYM,Ye YM

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of elevated seawater temperatures on deep-water benthos has been poorly studied, despite reports of increased seawater temperature (up to 4 °C over 24 hrs) coinciding with mass mortality events of the sponge Geodia barretti at Tisler Reef, Norway. While the mechanisms driving these mortality events are unclear...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Strand R,Whalan S,Webster NS,Kutti T,Fang JKH,Luter HM,Bannister RJ

更新日期：2017-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies on the associations between dietary antioxidant vitamins and the risk of cervical cancer remain inconsistent, and little evidence is available for serum antioxidant vitamins, which provide more accurate measurements of these nutrients. We conducted a case-control study of 458 incident cases with invas...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo L,Zhu H,Lin C,Che J,Tian X,Han S,Zhao H,Zhu Y,Mao D

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Microwave absorbers have important applications in various areas including stealth, camouflage, and antenna. Here, we have designed an ultra-broadband light absorber by integrating two different-sized tapered hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) waveguides, each of which has wide but different absorption bands due to broadba...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yin X,Long C,Li J,Zhu H,Chen L,Guan J,Li X

更新日期：2015-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropometric indices determine important risk factors for many chronic diseases. However, to date, no study has simultaneously analyzed the capabilities of trunk circumference and width indices to identify hypertension and type 2 diabetes in a large-scale screening study. The objectives of this study were to examine...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee BJ,Ku B

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fuel substrate supply and oxidative phosphorylation are key determinants of muscle performance. Numerous studies of mammalian mitochondria are carried out (i) with substrate supply that limits electron flow, and (ii) far below physiological temperature. To analyze potentially implicated biases, we studied mitochondria...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lemieux H,Blier PU,Gnaiger E

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Early fruit development is crucial for crop production in tomato. After fertilization, the ovary undergoes cell division and cell expansion before maturation. Although the roles of regulatory signals such as hormone and carbohydrate during early fruit development have been studied, the spatial distribution and the seq...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang S,Xu M,Qiu Z,Wang K,Du Y,Gu L,Cui X

更新日期：2016-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies have a variety of applications in research and medicine. Here, we report development of a new method for production of monoclonal antibodies. Our method relies on in vivo RNA transfection rather than peptide vaccination. We took advantage of RNA transcripts complexed with DOTMA and DOPE lipids to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Romani B,Kavyanifard A,Allahbakhshi E

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-t-butyl-6(1,1,7,7-tetramethyljulolidyl-9-enyl)-4H-pyran (DCJTB) has been used in interface modification of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) with combined effects of retarding charge recombination and Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET). DCJTB interface modification significan...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao R,Cui Y,Liu X,Wang L

更新日期：2014-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review and meta-analysis was designed to investigate whether maternal psychological stress and recent life events are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage. A literature search was conducted to identify studies reporting miscarriage in women with and without history of exposure to psychologi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qu F,Wu Y,Zhu YH,Barry J,Ding T,Baio G,Muscat R,Todd BK,Wang FF,Hardiman PJ

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00