Electrically Controllable Microparticle Synthesis and Digital Microfluidic Manipulation by Electric-Field-Induced Droplet Dispensing into Immiscible Fluids.

abstract：:The TMPRSS2:ERG gene fusion is one of a series of highly promising prostate cancer (PCa) biomarker alternatives to the controversial serum PSA. Current methods for detecting TMPRSS2:ERG are limited in terms of long processing time, high cost and the need for specialized equipment. Thus, there is an unmet need for less...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Koo KM,Wee EJ,Mainwaring PN,Trau M

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis and subsequent genomic integration of DNA that is complementary to the genomes of non-retroviral RNA viruses are rarely observed. However, upon infection of various human cell lines and primary fibroblasts with the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), we detected DNA complementary to the VSV RNA. The VSV DN...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shimizu A,Nakatani Y,Nakamura T,Jinno-Oue A,Ishikawa O,Boeke JD,Takeuchi Y,Hoshino H

更新日期：2014-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the Chinese version of the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10) for identifying illicit drug use during pregnancy among Chinese population. Chinese pregnant women attending their first antenatal visit or their first unbooked visit to the maternity ward were recruited during a 4-month study period in 2011. T...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lam LP,Leung WC,Ip P,Chow CB,Chan MF,Ng JW,Sing C,Lam YH,Mak WL,Chow KM,Chin RK

更新日期：2015-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing grain zinc (Zn) concentration of cereals for minimizing Zn malnutrition in two billion people represents an important global humanitarian challenge. Grain Zn in field-grown wheat at the global scale ranges from 20.4 to 30.5 mg kg-1, showing a solid gap to the biofortification target for human health (40 mg ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen XP,Zhang YQ,Tong YP,Xue YF,Liu DY,Zhang W,Deng Y,Meng QF,Yue SC,Yan P,Cui ZL,Shi XJ,Guo SW,Sun YX,Ye YL,Wang ZH,Jia LL,Ma WQ,He MR,Zhang XY,Kou CL,Li YT,Tan DS,Cakmak I,Zhang FS,Zou CQ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many molecular system biology approaches recognize various interactions and functional associations of proteins that occur in cellular processing. Further understanding of the characterization technique reveals noteworthy information. These types of known and predicted interactions, gained through multiple resources, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaushik AC,Mehmood A,Dai X,Wei DQ

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer survivors display altered inflammatory responses to immune challenges relative to cancer-naive controls likely due to previous cancer treatments, stress associated with cancer, and/or tumor physiology. Proper inflammatory responses are necessary for adaptive sickness behaviors (e.g., fatigue, anorexia, a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Santos JC,Bever SR,Pereira-da-Silva G,Pyter LM

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a uniformly fatal condition of striated muscle wasting resulting in premature death from respiratory and/or cardiac failure. Symptomatic therapy has prolonged survival by limiting deaths resulting from respiratory insufficiency, but there is currently no effective therapy for most ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fischer KD,Heitzman JA,Townsend D

更新日期：2019-08-23 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

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu J,Huang W,Ren C,Wen Q,Liu W,Yang X,Wang L,Zhu B,Zeng L,Feng X,Zhang C,Chen H,Jia W,Zhang L,Xia X,Chen Y

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In applications involving large tissue specimens that have been sectioned into smaller tissue fragments, manual reconstruction of a "pseudo whole-mount" histological section (PWMHS) can facilitate (a) pathological disease annotation, and (b) image registration and correlation with radiological images. We have previous...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Penzias G,Janowczyk A,Singanamalli A,Rusu M,Shih N,Feldman M,Stricker PD,Delprado W,Tiwari S,Böhm M,Haynes AM,Ponsky L,Viswanath S,Madabhushi A

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Our study aimed to compare the ability of anthropometric obesity indices to predict MetS and to determine the sex-specific optimal cut-off values for MetS among Malaysian vegetarians. Body weight, height, waist circumference (WC), blood pressure (BP), fasting venous blood sample were collected from 273 vegetarians in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ching YK,Chin YS,Appukutty M,Gan WY,Chan YM

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:It is of paramount importance to improve the control over large area growth of high quality molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and other types of 2D dichalcogenides. Such atomically thin materials have great potential for use in electronics, and are thought to make possible the first real applications of spintronics. Here in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ionescu R,Campbell B,Wu R,Aytan E,Patalano A,Ruiz I,Howell SW,McDonald AE,Beechem TE,Mkhoyan KA,Ozkan M,Ozkan CS

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of resistant Candida isolates, especially Candida albicans, has increased continuously. To overcome the resistance, research on antifungal agent sensitizers has attracted considerable attention. Omeprazole and lansoprazole were found to inhibit the growth of sensitive C. albicans and hyphae formation in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu M,Yan H,Yu C,Yuan L,Sun S

更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrestins desensitize G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and act as mediators of signalling. Here we investigated the interactions of arrestin-1 with two functionally distinct forms of the dim-light photoreceptor rhodopsin. Using unbiased scanning mutagenesis we probed the individual contribution of each arrestin res...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peterhans C,Lally CC,Ostermaier MK,Sommer ME,Standfuss J

更新日期：2016-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the current study was to develop an asymmetric guided bone regeneration (GBR) membrane benefiting from curcumin and aspirin. The membrane was prepared using electrospinning technique and then was physic-chemically characterized by the conventional methods. The release profile of aspirin from the prepared m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ghavimi MA,Bani Shahabadi A,Jarolmasjed S,Memar MY,Maleki Dizaj S,Sharifi S

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs) are present in extra-oral tissues, including gut endocrine cells. This study explored the presence and mechanism of action of TAS2R agonists on gut smooth muscle in vitro and investigated functional effects of intra-gastric administration of TAS2R agonists on gastric motility and satiat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Avau B,Rotondo A,Thijs T,Andrews CN,Janssen P,Tack J,Depoortere I

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich-repeat-containing family member X1 (NLRX1), located in mitochondria, can recognize cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptors and is tightly related to reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, mitochondrial function, apoptosis and inflammation. The present study was designed ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yin H,Sun G,Yang Q,Chen C,Qi Q,Wang H,Li J

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common respiratory diseases. Yihuo Huatan Formula (YHF), as a proven Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM), has been verified to be effective in the treatment of stable COPD through years' of practice. Nevertheless, its working mechanism is still unclear. We soug...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang XW,Liu W,Jiang HL,Mao B

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered neural mechanisms are well-acknowledged in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a disorder of brain-gut-communication highly comorbid with anxiety and depression. As a key hub in corticolimbic inhibition, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) may be involved in disturbed emotion regulation in IBS. However, aberrant mPFC ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Icenhour A,Tapper S,Bednarska O,Witt ST,Tisell A,Lundberg P,Elsenbruch S,Walter S

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a prospective cohort study among HIV-negative MSM aged 18 years or older between 2007 and 2012 in Beijing, China to measure the rates of incident HIV and identify risk factors for infection. Among 5,800 participants evaluated at enrollment, we identified 486 prevalent cases of HIV (8.4%). Among the 3,625 ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jia Z,Huang X,Wu H,Zhang T,Li N,Ding P,Sun Y,Liu Z,Wei F,Zhang H,Jiao Y,Ji Y,Zhang Y,Guo C,Li W,Mou D,Xia W,Li Z,Chen D,Yan H,Chen X,Zhao J,Meyers K,Cohen T,Mayer K,Salomon JA,Lu Z,Dye C

更新日期：2015-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) potentiate immune responses, however, their role in mediating adaptive immunity in cancer has not been assessed. Here, we report that mice genetically lacking ILC2s have significantly increased tumour growth rates and conspicuously higher frequency of circulating tumour cells (CTCs)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saranchova I,Han J,Zaman R,Arora H,Huang H,Fenninger F,Choi KB,Munro L,Pfeifer CG,Welch I,Takei F,Jefferies WA

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:People mimic each other's actions and postures during everyday interactions. It is widely believed this mimicry acts as a social glue, leading to increased rapport. We present two studies using virtual reality to rigorously test this hypothesis. In Study 1, 50 participants interacted with two avatars who either mimick...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hale J,Hamilton AF

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the phonon and magnetic properties of various well-stabilized Co3O4 nanoparticles. The net valence in cobalt (II)/(III) cation can be obtained by subtracting the Co2+ ions in tetrahedral interstices and Co3+ ions in the octahedral interstices, respectively, which will possess spatial inhomogeneity of its mag...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gawali SR,Gandhi AC,Gaikwad SS,Pant J,Chan TS,Cheng CL,Ma YR,Wu SY

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:BiFeO3 is one of the most promising multiferroic materials but undergoes two major drawbacks: low dielectric susceptibility and high dielectric loss. Here we report high in-plane dielectric permittivity (ε' ∼2500) and low dielectric loss (tan δ < 0.01) obtained on Bi0.95Y0.05FeO3 films epitaxially grown on SrTiO3 (001...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scarisoreanu ND,Craciun F,Birjega R,Ion V,Teodorescu VS,Ghica C,Negrea R,Dinescu M

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) known as "master producers" and macrophages as "master regulators", are the key cell types that strongly contribute to the progression of liver fibrosis. Since Notch signaling regulates multiple cellular processes, we aimed to study the role of Notch signaling in HSCs differentiation and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bansal R,van Baarlen J,Storm G,Prakash J

更新日期：2015-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses in individuals infected with diverse HIV-1 strains is necessary to reveal the novel targets for regional preventive and therapeutic strategies development. We evaluated the prevalence, breadth, and potency of NAb responses in 98 CRF07_BC-infected individuals using a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu X,Hu Y,Zhao C,Gao H,Greene KM,Ren L,Ma L,Ruan Y,Sarzotti-Kelsoe M,Montefiori DC,Hong K,Shao Y

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metals are environmental pollutants affect the integrity and distribution of living organisms in the ecosystem and also humans across the food chain. The study targeted the removal of copper (Cu2+) from aqueous solutions, depending on the biosorption process. The bacterial candidate was identified using 16S rRNA...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ghoniem AA,El-Naggar NE,Saber WIA,El-Hersh MS,El-Khateeb AY

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a scheme of designing polygonal rotator with homogenous materials by using linear coordinate transformation. Our strategy is available for both time-harmonic electromagnetic field case and static field case. In particular, we found that only one anisotropic material is needed in static field case, and the d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao W,Wang H,Yu F

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Quick inhibition of approach tendencies in response to signals of potential threats is thought to promote survival. However, little is known about the effect of viewing fearful expressions on the early dynamics of the human motor system. We used the high temporal resolution of single-pulse and paired-pulse transcrania...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Borgomaneri S,Vitale F,Avenanti A

更新日期：2015-09-21 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