Nonreciprocal Transverse Photonic Spin and Magnetization-Induced Electromagnetic Spin-Orbit Coupling.

abstract：:We investigated the molecular mechanism(s) by which insulin prevents Bcl2-modifying factor (Bmf)-induced renal proximal tubular cell (RPTC) apoptosis and loss in diabetic mice. Transgenic mice (Tg) mice specifically overexpressing human BMF in RPTCs and non-Tg littermates were studied at 10 to 20 weeks of age. Non-dia...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ghosh A,Zhao S,Lo CS,Maachi H,Chenier I,Lateef MA,Abdo S,Filep JG,Ingelfinger JR,Zhang SL,Chan JSD

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorine-19 (19F) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of injected perfluorocarbons (PFCs) can be used for the quantification and monitoring of inflammation in diseases such as atherosclerosis. To advance the translation of this technique to the clinical setting, we aimed to 1) demonstrate the feasibility of quantitative ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Darçot E,Colotti R,Pellegrin M,Wilson A,Siegert S,Bouzourene K,Yerly J,Mazzolai L,Stuber M,van Heeswijk RB

更新日期：2019-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluripotency can be induced in vitro from adult somatic mammalian cells by enforced expression of defined transcription factors regulating and initiating the pluripotency network. Despite the substantial advances over the last decade to improve the efficiency of direct reprogramming, exact mechanisms underlying the co...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raab S,Klingenstein M,Möller A,Illing A,Tosic J,Breunig M,Kuales G,Linta L,Seufferlein T,Arnold SJ,Kleger A,Liebau S

更新日期：2017-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the space in which scientific, technological and economic activities interplay with each other can be mathematically shaped using techniques from statistical physics of networks. We build a holistic view of the innovation system as the tri-layered network of interactions among these many activities (scien...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pugliese E,Cimini G,Patelli A,Zaccaria A,Pietronero L,Gabrielli A

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) caused by Fusarium graminearum pathogens constitutes a major threat to agricultural production because it frequently reduces the yield and quality of the crop. The disease severity is predicted to increase in various regions owing to climate change. Integrated management where biocontrol pla...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Timmusk S,Copolovici D,Copolovici L,Teder T,Nevo E,Behers L

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous exchange bias (SEB) discovered by Wang et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 077203.] after zero-field cooling (ZFC) has attracted recent attention due to its interesting physics. In this letter, we report a giant SEB tuned by Sb-doping in Ni50Mn38Ga12-xSbx Heusler alloys. Such an SEB was switched on below...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tian F,Cao K,Zhang Y,Zeng Y,Zhang R,Chang T,Zhou C,Xu M,Song X,Yang S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of serious lower respiratory tract disease in infants. Several studies have shown evidence pointing to the genome of the host as an important factor determining susceptibility to respiratory disease caused by RSV. We sequenced the complete exomes of 54 patients i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Salas A,Pardo-Seco J,Cebey-López M,Gómez-Carballa A,Obando-Pacheco P,Rivero-Calle I,Currás-Tuala MJ,Amigo J,Gómez-Rial J,Martinón-Torres F,GENDRES network.

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) has been shown to be a novel therapy for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). However, previous studies did not examine the diverse effects of different-session ESWT for different-grades CTS. Thus, we conducted a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled study. Sixty-nine...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ke MJ,Chen LC,Chou YC,Li TY,Chu HY,Tsai CK,Wu YT

更新日期：2016-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Phlebotonics' effects were evaluated to reduce time-to-stop bleeding and anal irritation in 130 patients who complained of hemorrhoidal disease (HD); bleeding and pain after hemorrhoidectomy (31 patients) and hemorrhoidal thrombosis (34 patients) in the short time. Sixty patients were randomized to receive the routine...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chiaretti M,Fegatelli DA,Pappalardo G,Venti MDS,Chiaretti AI

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hysteresis, which is the history dependence of physical systems, is one of the most important topics in physics. Interestingly, bi-stability of plasma with a huge hysteresis loop has been observed in inductive plasma discharges. Despite long plasma research, how this plasma hysteresis occurs remains an unresolved ques...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee HC,Chung CW

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In a short nanobearing system made from carbon nanotubes, the rotor with high rotational frequency may escape from the stator, which may cause a stability problem to the system of a nanodevice with such a nanobearing. In the present work, nanobearings with tri-walled nanotubes are investigated to reveal the conditions...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi J,Liu LN,Cai K,Qin QH

更新日期：2017-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathies comprise a heterogeneous and complex group of disorders caused by loss-of-function mutations in a multitude of genes that disrupt the glycobiology of α-dystroglycan, thereby affecting its ability to function as a receptor for extracellular matrix proteins. Of the various genes i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vannoy CH,Leroy V,Broniowska K,Lu QL

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays efficient down conversion for white light emission is mainly based on rare-earth doped phosphors or cadmium-containing quantum dots. Although they exhibit high luminescence efficiency, the rare-earth mining and cadmium pollution have so far led to extremely high environmental cost, which conflicts the origina...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shen PC,Lin MS,Lin CF

更新日期：2014-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor clonal heterogeneity drives treatment resistance. But robust models are lacking that permit eavesdropping on the basic interaction network of tumor clones. We developed an in vitro, functional model of clonal cooperation using U87MG glioblastoma cells, which isolates fundamental clonal interactions. In this mode...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Davis JB,Krishna SS,Abi Jomaa R,Duong CT,Espina V,Liotta LA,Mueller C

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial infection and sepsis are common complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD). A vicious cycle of increased gut permeability, endotoxemia, inadequate activation of the innate immune system and resulting innate immune dysfunction is hypothesized. We assessed endotoxemia, neutrophil function and its relation t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lemesch S,Ribitsch W,Schilcher G,Spindelböck W,Hafner-Gießauf H,Marsche G,Pasterk L,Payerl D,Schmerböck B,Tawdrous M,Rosenkranz AR,Stiegler P,Kager G,Hallström S,Oettl K,Eberhard K,Horvath A,Leber B,Stadlbauer V

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Orexins are originally characterized as orexigenic hypothalamic neuropeptides in mammals. Subsequent studies found orexin to be expressed and perform pleiotropic functions in multiple tissues in mammals. In avian (non-mammalian) species, however, orexin seemed to not affect feeding behavior and its physiological roles...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Greene ES,Zampiga M,Sirri F,Ohkubo T,Dridi S

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been known that some traumatic macular holes can close spontaneously. However, knowledge about the types of macular hole that can close spontaneously is limited. In this retrospective study, we investigated patients with traumatic macular hole who were followed-up for at least 6 months without any surgical inte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen H,Chen W,Zheng K,Peng K,Xia H,Zhu L

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:New urease and nitrification inhibitors and polymer coatings were introduced in recent years, but their effects on N loss and plant N nutrition were scarcely examined in agronomic no-tillage production systems. A field experiment of urea treated with efficiency enhancers was conducted on no-tillage corn (Zea mays L.) ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu S,Wang X,Yin X,Savoy HJ,McClure A,Essington ME

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a severe and chronic mental disorder, affecting about 322 million individuals worldwide. A recent study showed that diterpene ginkgolides (DG) have antidepressant-like effects on baseline behaviours in mice. Here, we examined the effects of DG and venlafaxine (VLX) in a chronic social defeat stress model...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bai S,Zhang X,Chen Z,Wang W,Hu Q,Liang Z,Shen P,Gui S,Zeng L,Liu Z,Chen J,Xie X,Huang H,Han Y,Wang H,Xie P

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mustard aphid, also known as turnip aphid (Lipaphis erysimi) is a major insect pest of rapeseed-mustard group of crops. Tremendous economic significance has led to substantial basic research involving gene-expression studies in this insect species. In qRT-PCR analysis of gene-expression, normalization of data against ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Koramutla MK,Aminedi R,Bhattacharya R

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolding and aggregation of prion protein (PrP) causes neurodegenerative diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie. Besides the consensus that spontaneous conversion of normal cellular PrPC into misfolded and aggregating PrPSc is the central event in prion disease, an alternative hypothesis suggests ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Czech A,Konarev PV,Goebel I,Svergun DI,Wills PR,Ignatova Z

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is generally considered a characteristic of malignant tumors. Herein, we describe a patient with more than one hundred discrete Spitz nevi scattered all over her skin. Molecular analysis from three of the lesions identified a ROS1 fusion oncogene with identical genomic breakpoints, indicating that the nevi ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raghavan SS,Kapler ES,Dinges MM,Bastian BC,Yeh I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species are chronically exposed to ionizing radiation, a natural phenomenon which can be enhanced by human activities. The induced toxicity mechanisms still remain unclear and seem depending on the mode of exposure, i.e. acute and chronic. To better understand these phenomena, studies need to be conducted both at the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dubois C,Lecomte C,Ruys SPD,Kuzmic M,Della-Vedova C,Dubourg N,Galas S,Frelon S

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Building resilience into today's complex infrastructures is critical to the daily functioning of society and its ability to withstand and recover from natural disasters, epidemics, and cyber-threats. This study proposes quantitative measures that capture and implement the definition of engineering resilience advanced ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ganin AA,Massaro E,Gutfraind A,Steen N,Keisler JM,Kott A,Mangoubi R,Linkov I

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venom is a natural substance that contains numerous bioactive proteins and peptides, nearly all of which have been identified over the last several decades. In this study, we subjected snake venom to enzymatic hydrolysis to identify previously unreported bioactive peptides. The novel peptide ACH-11 with the sequ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen M,Ye X,Ming X,Chen Y,Wang Y,Su X,Su W,Kong Y

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) is a robust tool to study gene functions as well as potential for insect pest control. Finding suitable target genes is the key step in the development of an efficient RNAi-mediated pest control technique. Based on the transcriptome of Chilo suppressalis, 24 unigenes which putatively associated...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu J,Dong YC,Li P,Niu CY

更新日期：2016-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermolt crustacean Y-organ (YO) maintains a basal state mediated by pulsatile release of molt inhibiting hormone (MIH), a neuropeptide produced in the eyestalk ganglia, inhibiting YO ecdysteroidogenesis. Reduction of MIH results in YO activation and the animal enters premolt. In the crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shyamal S,Das S,Guruacharya A,Mykles DL,Durica DS

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of Candida albicans ABC transporters identified conserved related α-helical sequence motifs immediately C-terminal of each Walker A sequence. Despite the occurrence of these motifs in ABC subfamilies of other yeasts and higher eukaryotes, their roles in protein function remained unexplored. In this study w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rawal MK,Banerjee A,Shah AH,Khan MF,Sen S,Saxena AK,Monk BC,Cannon RD,Bhatnagar R,Mondal AK,Prasad R

更新日期：2016-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Landau-Zener (LZ) transition has received renewed interest as an alternative approach to control single-qubit states. An LZ transition occurs when a system passes through an avoided crossing that arises from quantum mechanical coupling of two levels, taking the system to a coherent superposition of the two states. The...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ota T,Hitachi K,Muraki K

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-junction (MJ) solar cells are one of the most promising technologies achieving high sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency. Resistive losses constitute one of the main underlying mechanisms limiting their efficiency under high illumination. In this paper, we study, by numerical modeling, the extent to whi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zeitouny J,Katz EA,Dollet A,Vossier A

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00