Zinc-modified titanium surface enhances osteoblast differentiation of dental pulp stem cells in vitro.

abstract：:Type 2 C protein phosphatases (PP2Cs) represent the major group of protein phosphatases in plants and play important roles in various plant processes. In this study, 94 MtPP2C genes were identified from Medicago truncatula and further phylogenetically classified into 13 subfamilies, as supported by exon-intron organiz...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang Q,Liu K,Niu X,Wang Q,Wan Y,Yang F,Li G,Wang Y,Wang R

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Burgeoning availability of genome-wide association study (GWAS) results and national biobank data has led to growing interest in performing multi-trait genetic analyses. Numerous multi-trait GWAS methods that exploit either summary statistics or individual-level data have been developed, but their relative performance...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Porter HF,O'Reilly PF

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Phlebotomine sand flies are remarkable vectors of several etiologic agents (virus, bacterial, trypanosomatid Leishmania), posing a heavy health burden for human populations mainly located at developing countries. Their intestinal microbiota is involved in a wide range of biological and physiological processes, and cou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vivero RJ,Villegas-Plazas M,Cadavid-Restrepo GE,Herrera CXM,Uribe SI,Junca H

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dairy cows are often fed a high-concentrate (HC) diet to meet lactation demands; however, long-term concentrate feeding is unhealthy and decreases milk fat. Therefore, we investigated the effects of liver lipid metabolism on milk fat synthesis. Ten lactating Holstein cows were assigned randomly into HC and LC (low-con...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li L,Cao Y,Xie Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Undulator based synchrotron light sources and Free Electron Lasers (FELs) are valuable modern probes of matter with high temporal and spatial resolution. Laser Plasma Accelerators (LPAs), delivering GeV electron beams in few centimeters, are good candidates for future compact light sources. However the barriers set by...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ghaith A,Oumbarek D,Roussel E,Corde S,Labat M,André T,Loulergue A,Andriyash IA,Chubar O,Kononenko O,Smartsev S,Marcouillé O,Kitégi C,Marteau F,Valléau M,Thaury C,Gautier J,Sebban S,Tafzi A,Blache F,Briquez F,Tav

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Triazophos (TAP) is a widely used phosphorus pesticide in China that possesses a potential risk for water pollution. We have studied the removal efficiency of TAP using pilot-scale horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands (HSCWs) as well as the contribution of plants, substrates and other pathways to its remova...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu J,Li Z,Wu L,Zhong F,Cui N,Dai Y,Cheng S

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study used 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to assess the impact on salivary microbiome of different grades of dental and periodontal disease and the combination of both (hereinafter referred to as oral disease), in terms of bacterial diversity, co-occurrence network patterns and predictive models. Our sc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Relvas M,Regueira-Iglesias A,Balsa-Castro C,Salazar F,Pacheco JJ,Cabral C,Henriques C,Tomás I

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that make major contributions to the production of the oxygen in the Earth atmosphere. The photosynthetic machinery in cyanobacterial cells is housed in flattened membrane structures called thylakoids. The structural organization of cyanobacterial cells and the arrangement ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stingaciu LR,O'Neill H,Liberton M,Urban VS,Pakrasi HB,Ohl M

更新日期：2016-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of proteins do not form functional interactions in physiological conditions. We have considered several sets of protein pairs from S. cerevisiae with no functional interaction reported, denoted as non-interacting pairs, and compared their 3D structures to available experimental complexes. We identifi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Launay G,Ceres N,Martin J

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis treatment includes broad-spectrum antibiotics such as rifampicin, streptomycin and fluoroquinolones, which are also used against other pathogenic bacteria. We developed Drug Resistance Associated Genes database (DRAGdb), a manually curated repository of mutational data of drug resistance associated genes ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ghosh A,N S,Saha S

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Multisensory integration is a powerful mechanism for constructing body awareness and key for the sense of selfhood. Recent evidence has shown that the specialised C tactile modality that gives rise to feelings of pleasant, affective touch, can enhance the experience of body ownership during multisensory integration. N...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Panagiotopoulou E,Filippetti ML,Tsakiris M,Fotopoulou A

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory (neuro)peptide galanin and its three receptors (GAL1-3R) are involved in immunity and inflammation. Galanin alleviated inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in rats. However, studies on the galanin receptors involved are lacking. We aimed to determine galanin receptor expression in IBD patients and to evalua...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Brunner SM,Reichmann F,Leitner J,Wölfl S,Bereswill S,Farzi A,Schneider AM,Klieser E,Neureiter D,Emberger M,Heimesaat MM,Weghuber D,Lang R,Holzer P,Kofler B

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-component icosahedral quasicrystals with compositions in the range Al68-73Fe11-16Cu10-12Cr1-4Ni1-2 were recently recovered after shocking metallic CuAl5 and (Mg0.75Fe0.25)2SiO4 olivine in a stainless steel 304 chamber, intended to replicate a natural shock that affected the Khatyrka meteorite. The iron in those q...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oppenheim J,Ma C,Hu J,Bindi L,Steinhardt PJ,Asimow PD

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and selective chemiluminescence (CL) sensor based on the peroxidase-like activity of copper nanoclusters was established for the detection of cholesterol. Copper nanoclusters catalyse the CL reaction between luminol and H2O2. Because H2O2 is the oxidative product of cholesterol in the presence of cholester...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu S,Wang Y,Zhou D,Kuang M,Fang D,Yang W,Wei S,Ma L

更新日期：2016-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoustic manipulation by an ultrasonic phased array provides an entirely new approach to processes such as coalescence, mixing, separation, and evaporation occurring in the generation of new materials, physical property measurement, the biomedical industry, etc. However, to date, ultrasonic phased arrays have not been...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Watanabe A,Hasegawa K,Abe Y

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Statins present many beneficial effects in chronic liver disease, but concerns about safety exist. We evaluated the hepatic effects of a nitric oxide-releasing atorvastatin (NCX 6560) compared to conventional statins. Simvastatin, atorvastatin and NCX 6560 were evaluated in four-week bile duct-ligated rats (BDL) simul...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rodríguez S,Raurell I,Torres-Arauz M,García-Lezana T,Genescà J,Martell M

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Competition between simultaneously presented visual stimuli lengthens reaction time and reduces both the BOLD response and neural firing. In contrast, conditions of sequential presentation have been assumed to be free from competition. Here we manipulated the spatial proximity of stimuli (Near versus Far conditions) t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ahmad J,Swan G,Bowman H,Wyble B,Nobre AC,Shapiro KL,McNab F

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Biclustering algorithms, which aim to provide an effective and efficient way to analyze gene expression data by finding a group of genes with trend-preserving expression patterns under certain conditions, have been widely developed since Morgan et al. pioneered a work about partitioning a data matrix into submatrices ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Z,Li G,Robinson RW,Huang X

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of purinergic P2 receptors (P2Rs) for extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) are poorly understood. Here, for the first time, we show that activation of P2Rs in an important arousal region, the basal forebrain (BF), promotes wakefulness, whereas inhibition of P2Rs promotes sleep. Infusion of a non-hy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang C,Larin A,McKenna JT,Jacobson KA,Winston S,Strecker RE,Kalinchuk A,Basheer R,Brown RE

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Precision Medicine in Oncology requires tailoring of therapeutic strategies to individual cancer patients. Due to the limited quantity of tumor samples, this proves to be difficult, especially for early stage cancer patients whose tumors are small. In this study, we exploited a 2.4 × 2.4 centimeters polydimethylsiloxa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wong AH,Li H,Jia Y,Mak PI,Martins RPDS,Liu Y,Vong CM,Wong HC,Wong PK,Wang H,Sun H,Deng CX

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Entanglement is at the heart of many unusual and counterintuitive features of quantum mechanics. Once two quantum subsystems have become entangled, it is no longer possible to ascribe an independent state to either; instead, the subsystems are completely described only as part of a greater, composite system. As a cons...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bouchard F,Harris J,Mand H,Bent N,Santamato E,Boyd RW,Karimi E

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The anisotropic shape of DNA molecules allows them to form lyotropic liquid crystals (LCs) at high concentrations. This liquid crystalline arrangement is also found in vivo (e.g., in bacteriophage capsids, bacteria or human sperm nuclei). However, the role of DNA liquid crystalline organization in living organisms sti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Brach K,Hatakeyama A,Nogues C,Olesiak-Banska J,Buckle M,Matczyszyn K

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, microbial cholesterol oxidases have gained great attention due to its widespread use in medical applications for serum cholesterol determination. Streptomyces aegyptia strain NEAE-102 exhibited high level of extracellular cholesterol oxidase production using a minimum medium containing cholesterol as ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： El-Naggar NE,Soliman HM,El-Shweihy NM

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical populations, olfactory abilities parallel executive function, implicating shared neuroanatomical substrates within the ventral prefrontal cortex. In healthy individuals, the relationship between olfaction and personality traits or certain cognitive and behavioural characteristics remains unexplored. We the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Herman AM,Critchley H,Duka T

更新日期：2018-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustainable wastewater treatment has been attracting increasing attentions over the past decades. However, the production of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent GHG, from the energy-efficient granule-based autotrophic nitrogen removal is largely unknown. This study applied a previously established N2O model, which incorpora...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng L,Sun J,Liu Y,Dai X,Ni BJ

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Postsynaptic density protein-95 (PSD-95) is a major regulator in the maturation of excitatory synapses by interacting and trafficking N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptors (NMDAR) and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isox-azoleproprionic acid receptors (AMPAR) to the postsynaptic membrane. PSD-95 disruption has recently been...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Coley AA,Gao WJ

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, autoimmune and neurodegenerative disease affecting multiple functional systems and resulting in motor impairments associated with muscle weakness and lack of movement coordination. We quantified upper limb motor deficits with a robot-based assessment including behavioral and muscle syn...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pellegrino L,Coscia M,Muller M,Solaro C,Casadio M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population of hepatitis B combined with a number of metabolic disorders is increasing significantly. Resveratrol (RSV) has been used as a preclinical drug for the treatment of the metabolic disorders. However, the impact of RSV on HBV replication remains unknown. In this study, the HBV-expressing hepatocelluar car...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi Y,Li Y,Huang C,Ying L,Xue J,Wu H,Chen Z,Yang Z

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbubble contrast agents are widely used in ultrasound imaging and therapy, typically with transmission center frequencies in the MHz range. Currently, an ultrasound center frequency near 250 kHz is proposed for clinical trials in which ultrasound combined with microbubble contrast agents is applied to open the blo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ilovitsh T,Ilovitsh A,Foiret J,Caskey CF,Kusunose J,Fite BZ,Zhang H,Mahakian LM,Tam S,Butts-Pauly K,Qin S,Ferrara KW

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mid-infrared sensors detect infrared radiation emitted from objects, and are actually widely used for monitoring gases and moisture as well as for imaging objects at or above room temperature. Infrared photodetectors offer fast detection, but many devices cannot provide high responsivity at room temperature. Here we d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Murata T,Asahi S,Sanguinetti S,Kita T

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00