Metadynamic metainference: Enhanced sampling of the metainference ensemble using metadynamics.

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：:Forest conservation includes stemming deforestation as well as preserving its vegetation condition. Traditional Protected Area (PA) effectiveness evaluations have assessed changes in forest extent but have mostly ignored vegetation condition. Tiger Reserves (TRs) are India's PAs with highest protection and management ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Koulgi PS,Clinton N,Karanth KK

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine CCL3 is frequently overexpressed in malignancies and overexpression leads to microenvironmental dysfunction. In murine models of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), CCL3 is critical for the maintenance of a leukemia stem cell population, and leukemia progression. With CCL3 implicated as a potentially via...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Staversky RJ,Byun DK,Georger MA,Zaffuto BJ,Goodman A,Becker MW,Calvi LM,Frisch BJ

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Salix matsudana is a deciduous, rapidly growing willow species commonly cultivated in China, which can tolerate drought, salt, and heavy metal stress conditions. Selection of suitable reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR is important for normalizing the expression of the key genes associated with various str...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Han X,Chen S,Zheng L,He X,Liu M,Qiao G,Wang Y,Zhuo R

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice paddies are a major source of anthropogenic nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, especially under alternate wetting-drying irrigation and high N input. Increasing photosynthate allocation to the grain in rice (Oryza sativa L.) has been identified as an effective strategy of genetic and agronomic innovation for yield en...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang Y,Huang X,Zhang X,Zhang X,Zhang Y,Zheng C,Deng A,Zhang J,Wu L,Hu S,Zhang W

更新日期：2016-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:MITF is a known gene underlying autosomal dominant hearing loss, Waardenburg syndrome (WS). Biallelic MITF mutations have been found associated with a rare hearing loss syndrome consisting eye abnormalities and albinism; and a more severe type of WS whose heterozygous parents were affected with classic WS in both case...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Thongpradit S,Jinawath N,Javed A,Noojarern S,Khongkraparn A,Tim-Aroon T,Lertsukprasert K,Suktitipat B,Jensen LT,Wattanasirichaigoon D

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the effects of temperature on an InGaP (GaInP) 55Fe X-ray photovoltaic cell prototype for a radioisotope microbattery (also called a nuclear microbattery). An In0.5Ga0.5P p-i-n (5 μm i-layer) mesa photodiode was illuminated by a standard 206 MBq 55Fe radioisotope X-ray source and characterised ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Butera S,Whitaker MDC,Krysa AB,Barnett AM

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Noise stress is a common environmental pollutant whose adverse effect on offspring performance has been less studied. This study was novel in terms of using "noise" as a prenatal stress compared with physical stress to explore the effect of stress during gestation on HPA axis activation, cognitive performance, and mot...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jafari Z,Mehla J,Kolb BE,Mohajerani MH

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent parallel studies clearly indicated that Merkel cells and the mechanosensitive piezo2 ion channel play critical roles in the light-touch somatosensation. Moreover, piezo2 was suggested to be a light-touch sensing ion channel without a role in pain sensing in mammals. However, biophysical characteristics of piezo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shin KC,Park HJ,Kim JG,Lee IH,Cho H,Park C,Sung TS,Koh SD,Park SW,Bae YM

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial stringent response is a key regulator of bacterial virulence, biofilm formation and antibiotic tolerance, and is a promising target for the development of new antibacterial compounds. The intracellular nucleotide (p)ppGpp acts as a messenger orchestrating the stringent response. A synthetic peptide 1018 ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Andresen L,Tenson T,Hauryliuk V

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural Bacillus isolates generate limited amounts of surfactin (<10% of their biomass), which functions as an antibiotic or signalling molecule in inter-/intra-specific interactions. However, overproduction of surfactin in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens MT45 was observed at a titre of 2.93 g/l, which is equivalent to hal...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhi Y,Wu Q,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to clarify the effects of 15-lipoxygenase/15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid in angiogenesis and neurological functional recovery after cerebral ischaemic stroke in mice. In vivo, we performed behavioural tests to determine functional recovery after stroke. Double immunofluorescence staining of CD31 and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang D,Liu Y,Chen L,Li P,Qu Y,Zhu Y,Zhu Y

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 45816; published online: 06 April 2017; updated: 16 May 2017. The original version of this Article contained an error in Affiliation 2, which was incorrectly given as: 'Department of Biophysics, School of Life Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal, 567014, India'. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mazumder N,Xiang LY,Qiu J,Kao FJ

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Memristive systems have gained considerable attention in the field of neuromorphic engineering, because they allow the emulation of synaptic functionality in solid state nano-physical systems. In this study, we show that memristive behavior provides a broad working framework for the phenomenological modelling of cellu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Diederich N,Bartsch T,Kohlstedt H,Ziegler M

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural materials used for safety critical applications require high strength and simultaneously high resistance against crack growth, referred to as damage tolerance. However, the two properties typically exclude each other and research efforts towards ever stronger materials are hampered by drastic loss of fractu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hohenwarter A,Völker B,Kapp MW,Li Y,Goto S,Raabe D,Pippan R

更新日期：2016-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Miscarriage affects ~20% of pregnancies and maternal infections account for ~15% of early miscarriages. Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) has been associated with miscarriage but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Successful implantation requires endometrial stromal cell (ESC) decidualisation. Maintenance of pregnancy re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Giakoumelou S,Wheelhouse N,Brown J,Wade J,Simitsidellis I,Gibson D,Saunders PTK,Horner P,Entrican G,Howie SEM,Horne AW

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmembrane-4-L-six-family-1(TM4SF1), a four-transmembrane L6 family member, is highly expressed in various pancreatic cancer cell lines and promotes cancer cells metastasis. However, the TM4SF1-associated signaling network in metastasis remains unknown. In the present study, we found that TM4SF1 affected the format...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang JC,Zhang Y,He SJ,Li MM,Cai XL,Wang H,Xu LM,Cao J

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider an optimal quantum key distribution setup based on minimal number of measurement bases with binary yields used by parties against an eavesdropper limited only by the no-signaling principle. We note that in general, the maximal key rate can be achieved by determining the optimal tradeoff between measurement...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kamaruddin S,Shaari JS

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene selection is an attractive and important task in cancer survival analysis. Most existing supervised learning methods can only use the labeled biological data, while the censored data (weakly labeled data) far more than the labeled data are ignored in model building. Trying to utilize such information in the censo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chai H,Li ZN,Meng DY,Xia LY,Liang Y

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:V-domain immunoglobulin (Ig) suppressor of T cell activation (VISTA) is an immune checkpoint that maintains peripheral T cell quiescence and inhibits anti-tumor immune responses. VISTA functions by dampening the interaction between myeloid cells and T cells, orthogonal to PD-1 and other checkpoints of the tumor-T cell...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mehta N,Maddineni S,Kelly RL,Lee RB,Hunter SA,Silberstein JL,Parra Sperberg RA,Miller CL,Rabe A,Labanieh L,Cochran JR

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-stage partial nitritation and anammox process (PN/A) has been a promising microbial process to remove ammonia from wastewater especially with low carbon/nitrogen ratio. The main breakdown was the deterioration caused by overgrowth of nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) resulting effluent nitrate build-up in the P...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Gao D

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the eyeblink conditioning paradigm, cerebellar Purkinje cells learn to respond to the conditional stimulus with an adaptively timed pause in its spontaneous firing. Evidence suggests that the pause is elicited by glutamate released from parallel fibers and acting on metabotropic receptors (mGluR7) which initiates a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Johansson F,Hesslow G

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize streak virus disease (MSVD), caused by Maize streak virus (MSV; genus Mastrevirus), is one of the most severe and widespread viral diseases that adversely reduces maize yield and threatens food security in Africa. An effective control and management of MSVD requires robust and sensitive diagnostic tests capable ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tembo M,Adediji AO,Bouvaine S,Chikoti PC,Seal SE,Silva G

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Superior cervical ganglion neurons (SCGN) are often used to investigate neurotransmitter release mechanisms. In this study, we optimized the dissociation and culture conditions of rat SCGN cultures for dual patch clamp recordings. Two weeks in vitro are sufficient to achieve a significant CNTF-induced cholinergic swit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Amendola J,Boumedine N,Sangiardi M,El Far O

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental pollutants as non-heritable factors are now recognized as triggers for multiple human inflammatory diseases involving T cells. We postulated that lipid antigen presentation mediated by cluster of differentiation 1 (CD1) proteins for T cell activation is susceptible to lipophilic environmental pollutants....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sharma M,Zhang X,Zhang S,Niu L,Ho SM,Chen A,Huang S

更新日期：2017-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell sorting via flow cytometry is a powerful tool to select subpopulations of cells in many biological fields. Selection of fertilisation-prone sperm is a critical step to ensure a stable and high fertilisation rate in in vitro fertilisation (IVF). However, a combination of conventional cell sorting and IVF system ha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nakao S,Takeo T,Watanabe H,Kondoh G,Nakagata N

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-generalist pathogens sporadically infect naive hosts, potentially triggering epizootics. The waterborne fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is linked to declines of hundreds of amphibian species with aquatic larvae. Although several population declines and extinctions attributed to Bd have been reported am...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mesquita AFC,Lambertini C,Lyra M,Malagoli LR,James TY,Toledo LF,Haddad CFB,Becker CG

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite advances in diabetic wound care, the significant number of amputations that occur every year demands more effective therapeutics. Herein, we offer an aminated polyethersulfone nanofiber-expanded human umbilical cord blood-derived CD34+ cells (henceforth CD34+ cells) effective therapy, tested in cutaneous wound...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kanji S,Das M,Joseph M,Aggarwal R,Sharma SM,Ostrowski M,Pompili VJ,Mao HQ,Das H

更新日期：2019-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation and growth of tumour-initiating cells with stem-like properties in distant organs characterize colorectal cancer (CRC) growth and metastasis. Thus, inhibition of colon cancer stem cell (CCSC) growth holds promise for CRC growth and metastasis prevention. We and others have shown that farnesyl dimethyl c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Husain K,Coppola D,Yang CS,Malafa MP

更新日期：2021-01-26 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： Righi S,Takács K

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00