Genome-wide characterisation and expression profile of the grapevine ATL ubiquitin ligase family reveal biotic and abiotic stress-responsive and development-related members.

abstract：:Increasing population has posed insurmountable challenges to agriculture in the provision of future food security, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where biophysical conditions are not well-suited for agriculture. Iran, as a major agricultural country in the MENA region, has long been in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mesgaran MB,Madani K,Hashemi H,Azadi P

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) is a key enzyme interlinking carbon and nitrogen metabolism. Recent discoveries of the GDH specific role in breast cancer, hyperinsulinism/hyperammonemia (HI/HA) syndrome, and neurodegenerative diseases have reinvigorated interest on GDH regulation, which remains poorly understood despite...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bera S,Rashid M,Medvinsky AB,Sun GQ,Li BL,Acquisti C,Sljoka A,Chakraborty A

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft tissue prostheses such as artificial ear, eye and nose are widely used in the maxillofacial rehabilitation. In this report we demonstrate how to fabricate soft prostheses mold with a low cost desktop 3D printer. The fabrication method used is referred to as Scanning Printing Polishing Casting (SPPC). Firstly the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He Y,Xue GH,Fu JZ

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic solar cells (OSCs) are promising alternatives to the conventional inorganic solar cells due to their low-cost processing and compatibility with flexible substrates. The development of low band-gap polymer, e.g., poly-[[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl] [3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moritomo Y,Yonezawa K,Yasuda T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allelic differential expression (ADE) is common in diploid organisms, and is often the key reason for specific phenotype variations. Thus, ADE detection is important for identification of major genes and causal mutations. To date, sensitive and simple methods to detect ADE are still lacking. In this study, we have dev...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao C,Xie S,Wu H,Luan Y,Hu S,Ni J,Lin R,Zhao S,Zhang D,Li X

更新日期：2019-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the response of lichen elemental compositions to road traffic and species difference in the context of high dust input and anthropogenic emissions, two foliose epiphytic lichens (Phaeophyscia hirtuosa, PHh; Candelaria fibrosa, CAf) were sampled near a road adjacent to Dolon Nor Town (Duolun County, Inner Mon...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu HJ,Wang JG,Xia Y,Yang MJ,Liu SW,Zhao LC,Guo XP,Jiang YJ,Li X,Wu QF,Fang SB

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear receptor, farnesoid X receptor (FXR), has been recently considered as a tumor suppressor in HCC. IL-6/Janus kinase 2 (Jak-2)/signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) pathway has been implicated as a key player in many cancer types. This study aimed at investigating the potential effect of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Attia YM,Tawfiq RA,Ali AA,Elmazar MM

更新日期：2017-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites and pathogens of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) are key factors underlying colony losses, which are threatening the beekeeping industry and agriculture as a whole. To control the spread and development of pathogen infections within the colony, honey bees use plant resins with antibiotic activity, but little ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Annoscia D,Zanni V,Galbraith D,Quirici A,Grozinger C,Bortolomeazzi R,Nazzi F

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Both disc hemorrhages (DH) and focal lamina cribrosa (LC) defects are recently considered as a progression factor in glaucoma. However, the clinical relevance of the presence of LC findings at the site of the DH has not yet been determined. We conducted a prospective study enrolling a total of 98 glaucoma eyes with DH...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Park HL,Lee J,Jung Y,Park CK

更新日期：2017-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy (DN) in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients is minimally understood. We compared untargeted high-resolution accurate mass (HRAM) orbitrap-based plasma metabolomic profiles of 31 T2D-DN (with estimated glomerular filtration rate ≤80 mL/min/1.73 m2), 29 T2D and 30 normal glucose to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Devi S,Nongkhlaw B,Limesh M,Pasanna RM,Thomas T,Kuriyan R,Kurpad AV,Mukhopadhyay A

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of dibutyl phthalate (DBP) to pregnant rats causes reproductive disorders in male offspring, resulting from suppression of intratesticular testosterone, and is used as a model for human testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS). DBP exposure in pregnancy induces focal dysgenetic areas in fetal testes that ap...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lara NLM,van den Driesche S,Macpherson S,França LR,Sharpe RM

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to use functional neuroimaging to investigate whether oxytocin modulates the neural response to visual food cues in brain regions involved in the control of food intake. Twenty-four normal weight volunteers received intranasal oxytocin (24 IU) or placebo in a double-blind, randomized crossove...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： van der Klaauw AA,Ziauddeen H,Keogh JM,Henning E,Dachi S,Fletcher PC,Farooqi IS

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The macroscopically ordered structure of rod-like nanoapatites within the collagen matrix is of great significance for the mechanical performance of bones and teeth. However, the synthesis of macroscopically ordered nanoapatite remains a challenge. Inspired by the effect of citrate molecules on apatite crystals in nat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan J,Jin X,Chen M

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Acclimation and adaptation, which are key to species survival in a changing climate, can be observed in terms of membrane lipid composition. Remodelling membrane lipids, via homeoviscous adaptation (HVA), counteracts membrane dysfunction due to temperature in poikilotherms. In order to assess the potential for acclima...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Muir AP,Nunes FL,Dubois SF,Pernet F

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost half of the groundwater in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) contains salt water originally derived from paleo-seawater due to the Holocene transgression, which then generates intense physicochemical gradients in the mixing zone between freshwater and saltwater. Although some studies have been conducted on the hydrol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sang S,Zhang X,Dai H,Hu BX,Ou H,Sun L

更新日期：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A high specificity aptamer-ligand biorecognition and binding system to monitor of dexamethasone (DXN) was developed. The detection principle was based on a label-free electrochemical aptasensor. The selection of the aptamer was successfully performed by the systematic evolution of ligands through exponential enrichmen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mehennaoui S,Poorahong S,Jimenez GC,Siaj M

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomimetic scales provide a convenient template to tailor the bending stiffness of the underlying slender substrate due to their mutual sliding after engagement. Scale stiffness can therefore directly impact the substrate behavior, opening a potential avenue for substrate stiffness tunability. Here, we have developed ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tatari M,Kamrava S,Ghosh R,Nayeb-Hashemi H,Vaziri A

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Boolean multiplex (multilevel) networks (BMNs) are currently receiving considerable attention as theoretical arguments for modeling of biological systems and system level analysis. Studying control-related problems in BMNs may not only provide new views into the intrinsic control in complex biological systems, but als...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Y,Xu J,Sun XM,Wang W

更新日期：2017-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the imaging findings of macular telangiectasia (MacTel) type 2 in Korea using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and investigated their relationship with visual acuity and clinical stages. A retrospective multicentre cross-sectional study was conducted in six tertiary hospitals in Korea ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim YH,Chung YR,Oh J,Kim SW,Lee CS,Yun C,Lee B,Ahn SM,Choi EY,Jang S,Lee K

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The values of physiological indices and the enzymes activities involved in the overwintering stage were studied in D. armandi larvae in each month from October 2014 to March 2015. The sorbitol, trehalose and glycerol values initially tended to increase as the ambient temperature decreased, before declining until the e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang J,Zhang RR,Gao GQ,Ma MY,Chen H

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV) B radiation is a dangerous environmental stressor, which can lead to photoaging, inflammation, immune suppression and tumour formation. A recent report has shown the transcriptional activation of several skin-specific genes including matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) in response to UV irradiation. Here, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ujfaludi Z,Tuzesi A,Majoros H,Rothler B,Pankotai T,Boros IM

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildfires burn large parts of the tropics every year, shaping ecosystem structure and functioning. Yet the complex interplay between climate, vegetation and human factors that drives fire dynamics is still poorly understood. Here we show that on all continents, except Australia, tropical fire regimes change drasticall...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hantson S,Scheffer M,Pueyo S,Xu C,Lasslop G,van Nes EH,Holmgren M,Mendelsohn J

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) is a major rice pest that harbors an endosymbiont ascomycete fungus, Entomomyces delphacidicola str. NLU (also known as yeast-like symbiont, YLS). Driving by demand of novel population management tactics (e.g. RNAi), the importance of YLS has been studied and revealed...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wan PJ,Tang YH,Yuan SY,He JC,Wang WX,Lai FX,Fu Q

更新日期：2017-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroporation (EP), the increase of cell membrane permeability due to the application of electric pulses, is a universal phenomenon with a broad range of applications. In medicine, some of the foremost EP-based tumor treatments are electrochemotherapy (ECT), irreversible electroporation, and gene electrotransfer (GE...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Marino M,Luján E,Mocskos E,Marshall G

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Great Amazon Reef (GARS) is an extensive mesophotic reef ecosystem between Brazil and the Caribbean. Despite being considered as one of the most important mesophotic reef ecosystems of the South Atlantic, recent criticism on the existence of a living reef in the Amazon River mouth was raised by some scientists and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Mahiques MM,Siegle E,Francini-Filho RB,Thompson FL,de Rezende CE,Gomes JD,Asp NE

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:For augmentation or reconstruction of urinary bladder after cystectomy, bladder urothelium derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) has recently received focus. However, previous studies have only shown the emergence of cells expressing some urothelial markers among derivatives of hiPSCs, and no repo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Suzuki K,Koyanagi-Aoi M,Uehara K,Hinata N,Fujisawa M,Aoi T

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative processes are preceded by neuronal dysfunction and synaptic disconnection. Disconnection between spinal motoneuron (MN) soma and synaptic target leads either to a retrograde degenerative process or to a regenerative reaction, depending injury proximity among other factors. Distinguished key events as...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Casas C,Isus L,Herrando-Grabulosa M,Mancuso FM,Borrás E,Sabidó E,Forés J,Aloy P

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous pattern formation in a variety of spatially extended nonlinear systems always occurs through a modulation instability, sometimes called Turing instability: the homogeneous state of the system becomes unstable with respect to growing modulation modes. Therefore, the manipulation of the modulation instabilit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kumar S,Herrero R,Botey M,Staliunas K

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered death receptor signaling and resistance to subsequent apoptosis is an important clinical resistance mechanism. Here, we investigated the role of death receptor resistance in breast cancer progression. Resistance of the estrogen receptor alpha (ER)-positive, chemosensitive MCF7 breast cancer cell line to tumor ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Antoon JW,Lai R,Struckhoff AP,Nitschke AM,Elliott S,Martin EC,Rhodes LV,Yoon NS,Salvo VA,Shan B,Beckman BS,Nephew KP,Burow ME

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide studies on high-altitude adaptation have received increased attention as a classical case of organismal evolution under extreme environment. However, the current genetic understanding of high-altitude adaptation emanated mainly from autosomal analyses. Only a few earlier genomic studies paid attention to t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu H,Liu YH,Wang GD,Yang CT,Otecko NO,Liu F,Wu SF,Wang L,Yu L,Zhang YP

更新日期：2016-10-07 00:00:00