Cold tolerance and silencing of three cold-tolerance genes of overwintering Chinese white pine larvae.

abstract：:Aspergillus flavus is a pathogenic fungus infecting maize and producing aflatoxins that are health hazards to humans and animals. Characterizing host defense mechanism and prioritizing candidate resistance genes are important to the development of resistant maize germplasm. We investigated methods amenable for the ana...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Asters MC,Williams WP,Perkins AD,Mylroie JE,Windham GL,Shan X

更新日期：2014-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean seeds are an important source of vegetable oil and biomaterials. The content of individual triacylglycerol species (TAG) in soybean seeds is difficult to quantify in an accurate and rapid way. The present study establishes an approach to quantify TAG species in soybean seeds utilizing an electrospray ionizatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li M,Butka E,Wang X

更新日期：2014-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The late Ediacaran witnessed an increase in metazoan diversity and ecological complexity, marking the inception of the Cambrian Explosion. To constrain the drivers of this diversification, we combine redox and nutrient data for two shelf transects, with an inventory of biotic diversity and distribution from the Nama G...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bowyer FT,Shore AJ,Wood RA,Alcott LJ,Thomas AL,Butler IB,Curtis A,Hainanan S,Curtis-Walcott S,Penny AM,Poulton SW

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive responses to hypoxia regulate hepatic lipid metabolism, but their consequences in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are largely unknown. Here, we show that hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), a key determinant of hypoxic adaptations, prevents excessive hepatic lipid accumulation in the progression of N...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arai T,Tanaka M,Goda N

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetoelectric (ME) thin film composites consisting of sputtered piezoelectric (PE) and magnetostrictive (MS) layers enable for measurements of magnetic fields passively, i.e. an AC magnetic field directly generates an ME voltage by mechanical coupling of the MS deformation to the PE phase. In order to achieve high f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hayes P,Jovičević Klug M,Toxværd S,Durdaut P,Schell V,Teplyuk A,Burdin D,Winkler A,Weser R,Fetisov Y,Höft M,Knöchel R,McCord J,Quandt E

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that ATM kinase inhibition using AZ31 prior to 9 or 9.25 Gy total body irradiation (TBI) reduced median time to moribund in mice to 8 days. ATR kinase inhibition using AZD6738 prior to TBI did not reduce median time to moribund. The striking finding associated with ATM inhibition prior to TBI was increased cry...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vendetti FP,Leibowitz BJ,Barnes J,Schamus S,Kiesel BF,Abberbock S,Conrads T,Clump DA,Cadogan E,O'Connor MJ,Yu J,Beumer JH,Bakkenist CJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal delivery with obstetrical trauma is a risk factor for pelvic organ prolapse later in life. Loss of fibulin-5 (FBLN5), an elastogenesis-promoting cellular matrix protein, results in prolapse in mice. Here, we evaluated effects of pregnancy, parturition, and obstetrical injury on FBLN5 content, elastic fibers, b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hamner J,Florian-Rodriguez M,Acevedo J,Shi H,Word RA

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins AtSEOR1 and AtSEOR2 occur as conjugates in the form of filaments in sieve elements of Arabidopsis thaliana. A reduced phytoplasma titre found in infected defective-mutant Atseor1ko plants in previous work raised the speculation that non-conjugated SEOR2 is involved in the phytohormone-mediated suppression...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bernardini C,Pagliari L,De Rosa V,Almeida-Trapp M,Santi S,Martini M,Buoso S,Loschi A,Loi N,Chiesa F,Mithöfer A,van Bel AJE,Musetti R

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Predation plays a central role in the lives of most organisms. Predators must find and subdue prey to survive and reproduce, whereas prey must avoid predators to do the same. The resultant antagonistic coevolution often leads to extreme adaptations in both parties. Few examples capture the imagination like a rapid str...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Higham TE,Clark RW,Collins CE,Whitford MD,Freymiller GA

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloromethane (CH3Cl) is a toxic gas mainly produced naturally, in particular by plants, and its emissions contribute to ozone destruction in the stratosphere. Conversely, CH3Cl can be degraded and used as the sole carbon and energy source by specialised methylotrophic bacteria, isolated from a variety of environments...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Farhan Ul Haque M,Besaury L,Nadalig T,Bringel F,Mutterer J,Schaller H,Vuilleumier S

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria swim in sequences of straight runs that are interrupted by turning events. They drive their swimming locomotion with the help of rotating helical flagella. Depending on the number of flagella and their arrangement across the cell body, different run-and-turn patterns can be observed. Here, we present fluoresc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hintsche M,Waljor V,Großmann R,Kühn MJ,Thormann KM,Peruani F,Beta C

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyschloremia is common in critically ill patients. However, little is known about the effects of dyschloremia on renal function in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). A total of 483 patients who received CRRT for AKI were selected and divided into three groups...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kee YK,Jeon HJ,Oh J,Shin DH

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an optimized protocol for plasma targeted mRNA sequencing in our previous study. Here, we performed plasma targeted mRNA sequencing for 40 colorectal adenoma patients and 39 colonoscopy-proven normal controls in order to find potential circulating mRNA markers for colorectal adenoma. Results showed t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xue VW,Cheung MT,Chan PT,Luk LLY,Lee VH,Au TC,Yu AC,Cho WCS,Tsang HFA,Chan AK,Wong SCC

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Root damage due to aluminum (Al) toxicity restricts crop production on acidic soils, which are extensive in the tropics. The sorghum root Al-activated citrate transporter, SbMATE, underlies the Al tolerance locus, AltSB, and increases grain yield under Al toxicity. Here, AltSB loci associated with Al tolerance were co...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hufnagel B,Guimaraes CT,Craft EJ,Shaff JE,Schaffert RE,Kochian LV,Magalhaes JV

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological research requires wide-field optical imaging techniques with resolution down to the nanometer scale to study the biological process in a sub-cell or single molecular level. To meet this requirement, wide-field structured illumination method (WFSIM) has been extensively studied. The resolution of WFSIM is de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cao S,Wang T,Yang J,Hu B,Levy U,Yu W

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing the possible biological effects of exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation (IR) is one of the prime challenges in radiation protection, especially in medical imaging. Today, radiobiological data on cone beam CT (CBCT) related biological effects are scarce. In children and adults, the induction of DNA dou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Belmans N,Gilles L,Vermeesen R,Virag P,Hedesiu M,Salmon B,Baatout S,Lucas S,Lambrichts I,Jacobs R,Moreels M,DIMITRA Research Group.

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium regulation plays a central role in cardiac function. Several variants in the calcium channel Cav1.2 have been implicated in arrhythmic syndromes. We screened patients with Brugada syndrome, short QT syndrome, early repolarisation syndrome, and idiopathic ventricular fibrillation to determine the frequency and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Blancard M,Debbiche A,Kato K,Cardin C,Sabrina G,Gandjbakhch E,Probst V,Haissaguerre M,Extramiana F,Hocini M,Olivier G,Leenhardt A,Guicheney P,Rougier JS

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Crotoxin (CTX) is the primary toxin of South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus venom. CTX reduces tumour mass, and tumour cell proliferation and these effects seem to involve the formation of new vessels. Angiogenesis has a key role in tumour growth and progression and is regulated by macrophage secret...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Araújo Pimenta L,de Almeida MES,Bretones ML,Cirillo MC,Curi R,Sampaio SC

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An empirical approach was taken to screen a novel synthetic compound library designed to be active against Gram-positive bacteria. We obtained five compounds that were active against spores from the model organism Bacillus subtilis and the food-borne pathogen Bacillus cereus during our population based experiments. Us...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Omardien S,Ter Beek A,Vischer N,Montijn R,Schuren F,Brul S

更新日期：2018-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This work demonstrates an anisotropic increase in resistivity with decreasing width in single crystal tungsten (W) nanowires having a height of 21 nm. Nanowire-widths were in the range of 15-451 nm, with the anisotropy observed for widths below 50 nm. The longitudinal directions of the nanowires coincided with the <10...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choi D,Moneck M,Liu X,Oh SJ,Kagan CR,Coffey KR,Barmak K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is one of the leading causes of end stage renal disease. Despite recent therapies, mortality due to DKD and resources spent on healthcare are important problems. Thus, appropriate markers are needed to predict renal outcomes. Therefore, we investigated the role of peripheral perfusion as ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Okada H,Tanaka M,Yasuda T,Okada Y,Norikae H,Fujita T,Nishi T,Oyamada H,Yamane T,Fukui M

更新日期：2020-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial breast cancer is estimated to account for 15-20% of all cases of breast cancer. Surveillance for familial breast cancer is well-established world-wide. However, this service does not exist in Jordan, due to the scarcity of information with regard to the genetic profiling of these patients, and therefore lack ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abu-Helalah M,Azab B,Mubaidin R,Ali D,Jafar H,Alshraideh H,Drou N,Awidi A

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes of balance control mechanism caused by lumbar disc herniation (LDH) has not been well understood. This study aimed to investigate the effects of LDH on the balance control during standing on sloped surfaces. Ten patients with LDH and 10 gender- and age-matched healthy subjects were instructed to stand quie...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J,Zhang Y,Song S,Hou Y,Hong Y,Yue S,Li K

更新日期：2020-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction has been published and is appended to both the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Crollen V,Albouy G,Lepore F,Collignon O

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that it is possible to nutritionally program gilthead seabream offspring through fish oil (FO) replacement by vegetable oils (VO) in the broodstock diet, to improve their ability to grow fast when fed low fish meal (FM) and FO diets during grow-out phase. However, in those studies broodstoc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ferosekhan S,Xu H,Turkmen S,Gómez A,Afonso JM,Fontanillas R,Rosenlund G,Kaushik S,Izquierdo M

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilevel severe compressive myelopathy is a challenging disorder for the surgeons, the aim of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of a newly designed ultrasonic burr as an assistant tool to the ultrasonic scalpel in laminectomy for this disease. This is a retrospective comparative study, the included sub...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Y,Chang Z,Yu X,Song R,Huang W

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomics brings in new discoveries and insights into the uncultured microbial world. One fundamental task in metagenomics analysis is to determine the taxonomy of raw sequence fragments. Modern sequencing technologies produce relatively short fragments and greatly increase the number of fragments, and thus make th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang Y,Wang J,Xia D,Yu G

更新日期：2017-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The rectifying properties of α,ω-dithiol terminated oligo(phenylene ethynylene) molecules sandwiched between heterometallic electrodes, including the molecular length and side group effects, are theoretically investigated using the fully self-consistent nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with density func...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fu XX,Zhang RQ,Zhang GP,Li ZL

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that R-spondin 2 (Rspo2), a secreted activator of Wnt/β-catenin signaling, promotes acetylcholine receptor (AChR) clustering and neuromuscular junction (NMJ) formation via its receptor, Lgr5. Rspo2 is expressed highly in spinal motor neurons (SMNs) and marginally in the skeletal muscle, but the or...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J,Ito M,Ohkawara B,Masuda A,Ohno K

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A particular type of miniature ceramic vessel locally known as "veneneras" is occasionally found during archaeological excavations in the Maya Area. To date, only one study of a collection of such containers successfully identified organic residues through coupled chromatography-mass spectrometry methods. That study i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zimmermann M,Brownstein KJ,Pantoja Díaz L,Ancona Aragón I,Hutson S,Kidder B,Tushingham S,Gang DR

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00