Nicotine enhances alcohol intake and dopaminergic responses through β2* and β4* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

abstract：:We examined the physical and mechanical properties of wood in Siberian larch (Larix sibirica) trees that grow naturally in five Mongolian provenances (Khentii, Arkhangai, Zavkhan, Khuvsgul, and Selenge) and the geographic variations between them. Five trees with stem diameters of 20 to 30 cm at 1.3 m above ground were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tumenjargal B,Ishiguri F,Aiso H,Takahashi Y,Nezu I,Takashima Y,Baasan B,Chultem G,Ohshima J,Yokota S

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella spp., emerging from multiple origins of Escherichia coli, poses a significant health threat as a causative agent of bacillary dysentery. While multiple serotypes of four different species have evolved via independent lineages, Shigella spp. are designated as a single pathotype, primarily because of their comm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Thomas AK,Preetha S,Omanakuttan A,Vidyullata L,Ashokan A,Rajachandran V,Chattopadhyay S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) is an important target of tuna fisheries in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The commercial catch of albacore is the highest globally among all temperate tuna species, contributing around 6% in weight to global tuna catches over the last decade. The accurate assessment and management of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nikolic N,Montes I,Lalire M,Puech A,Bodin N,Arnaud-Haond S,Kerwath S,Corse E,Gaspar P,Hollanda S,Bourjea J,West W,Bonhommeau S

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanofluids using nanoencapsulated Phase Change Materials (nePCM) allow increments in both the thermal conductivity and heat capacity of the base fluid. Incremented heat capacity is produced by the melting enthalpy of the nanoparticles core. In this work two important advances in this nanofluid type are proposed and ex...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Navarrete N,Gimeno-Furio A,Mondragon R,Hernandez L,Cabedo L,Cordoncillo E,Julia JE

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Boehmeria tricuspis includes sexually reproducing diploid and apomictic triploid individuals. Previously, we established that triploid B. tricuspis reproduces through obligate diplospory. To understand the molecular basis of apomictic development in B. tricuspis, we sequenced and compared transcriptomic profiles of th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tang Q,Zang G,Cheng C,Luan M,Dai Z,Xu Y,Yang Z,Zhao L,Su J

更新日期：2017-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Acoustic Complexity Index (ACI) is increasingly applied to the study of biodiversity in aquatic habitats. However, it remains unknown which types of acoustic information are highlighted by this index in underwater environments. This study explored the robustness of the ACI to fine variations in fish sound abundanc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bolgan M,Amorim MCP,Fonseca PJ,Di Iorio L,Parmentier E

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The subjective experience of thermal pain follows the detection and encoding of noxious stimuli by primary afferent neurons called nociceptors. However, nociceptor morphology has been hard to access and the mechanisms of signal transduction remain unresolved. In order to understand how heat transducers in nociceptors ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dezhdar T,Moshourab RA,Fründ I,Lewin GR,Schmuker M

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving the affinity of protein-protein interactions is a challenging problem that is particularly important in the development of antibodies for diagnostic and clinical use. Here, we used structure-based computational methods to optimize the binding affinity of VHNAC1, a single-domain intracellular antibody (intrab...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mahajan SP,Meksiriporn B,Waraho-Zhmayev D,Weyant KB,Kocer I,Butler DC,Messer A,Escobedo FA,DeLisa MP

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoluminescence (PL) was used to estimate the concentration of carbon in GaN grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). The PL data were compared with profiles of the impurities obtained from secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) measurements. Comparison of PL and SIMS data has revealed that apparently high conce...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Reshchikov MA,Vorobiov M,Andrieiev O,Ding K,Izyumskaya N,Avrutin V,Usikov A,Helava H,Makarov Y

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Shape memory alloys are typical temperature-sensitive metallic functional materials due to superelasticity and shape recovery characteristics. The conventional shape memory effect involves the formation and deformation of thermally induced martensite and its reverse transformation. The shape recovery process usually t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang S,Omori T,Wang C,Liu Y,Nagasako M,Ruan J,Kainuma R,Ishida K,Liu X

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:During maternal recognition of pregnancy (MRP), a conceptus-derived signal leads to the persistence of the corpus luteum and the maintenance of gestation. In the horse, the nature of this signal remains to be elucidated. Several studies have focused on the changes in gene expression during MRP, but little information ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Smits K,Willems S,Van Steendam K,Van De Velde M,De Lange V,Ververs C,Roels K,Govaere J,Van Nieuwerburgh F,Peelman L,Deforce D,Van Soom A

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The root system displays a remarkable plasticity that enables plants to adapt to changing environmental conditions. This plasticity is tightly linked to the activity of root apical meristems (RAMs) and to the formation of lateral roots, both controlled by related hormonal crosstalks. In Arabidopsis thaliana, gibberell...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fonouni-Farde C,Miassod A,Laffont C,Morin H,Bendahmane A,Diet A,Frugier F

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we investigate the stabilization of saddle fixed points in coupled oscillators where individual oscillators exhibit the saddle fixed points. The coupled oscillators may have two structurally different types of suppressed states, namely amplitude death and oscillation death. The stabilization of saddle ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rakshit S,Bera BK,Majhi S,Hens C,Ghosh D

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Until now, the only kind of practical quantum private query (QPQ), quantum-key-distribution (QKD)-based QPQ, focuses on the retrieval of a single bit. In fact, meaningful message is generally composed of multiple adjacent bits (i.e., a multi-bit block). To obtain a message a1a2···al from database, the user Alice has t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wei CY,Gao F,Wen QY,Wang TY

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Composite materials have become widely used in engineering applications, in order to reduce the overall weight of structures while retaining their required strength. In this work, a composite material consisting of discontinuous glass fibers in a polypropylene matrix is studied at the microstructural level through cou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hanhan I,Agyei RF,Xiao X,Sangid MD

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective cohort study investigated the association between in-hospital survival and two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography within 24 hours after the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in patients who underwent in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ICPR) after in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest (IHC...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Song IA,Cha JK,Oh TK,Jo YH,Yoon YE

更新日期：2020-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse myocardial fibrosis is a key pathophysiologic feature in heart failure and can be quantified by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) T1 mapping. However, increases in myocardial free water also prolong native T1 times and may impact fibrosis quantification. Thus far, the impact of systemic patient volume status re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Antlanger M,Aschauer S,Kammerlander AA,Duca F,Säemann MD,Bonderman D,Mascherbauer J

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of patients on automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) is increasing worldwide and may be guided by clinical characteristics, financial issues and patient option. Whether socioeconomic factors at the patient level may influence the decision for the initial peritoneal dialysis (PD) modality is unknown. This ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pecoits-Filho R,Ribeiro SC,Kirk A,da Silva HS,Pille A,Falavinha RS Jr,Filho SS,Figueiredo AE,Barretti P,de Moraes TP

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A major issue in human olfaction research is to characterize the main dimensions that organize the space of odors. The present study examines this question and shows that, beside pleasantness, trigeminal sensations, and particularly irritation, play an important role. These results were consistent along two different ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Licon CC,Manesse C,Dantec M,Fournel A,Bensafi M

更新日期：2018-05-31 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： Seki H,Ogihara N,Kokubo T,Suda Y,Ishii K,Nagura T

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:High throughput genomics technologies are applied widely to microbiomes in humans, animals, soil and water, to detect changes in bacterial communities or the genes they carry, between different environments or treatments. We describe a method to test the statistical significance of differences in bacterial population ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shaw LM,Blanchard A,Chen Q,An X,Davies P,Tötemeyer S,Zhu YG,Stekel DJ

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Stored-product psocids (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae) are cosmopolitan storage pests that can damage stored products and cause serious economic loss. However, because of the body size (~1 mm) of eggs, nymphs, and adults, morphological identification of most stored-product psocids is difficult and hampers effective ident...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu LJ,Pang AH,Feng SQ,Cui BY,Zhao ZH,Kučerová Z,Stejskal V,Opit G,Aulicky R,Cao Y,Li FJ,Wu Y,Zhang T,Li ZH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of digital breast tomosynthesis-guided vacuum assisted breast biopsy (DBT-VABB) of screening detected suspicious mammographic abnormalities comprising of calcifications, asymmetric densities, architectural distortions and spiculated masses. In this institutionally ap...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bohan S,Ramli Hamid MT,Chan WY,Vijayananthan A,Ramli N,Kaur S,Rahmat K

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorite-structured oxides find widespread use for applications spanning nuclear energy and waste containment, energy conversion, and sensing. In such applications the host tetravalent cation is often partially substituted by trivalent cations, with an associated formation of charge-compensating oxygen vacancies. The ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Solomon JM,Shamblin J,Lang M,Navrotsky A,Asta M

更新日期：2016-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac damage associated with iron overload is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis, but the precise mechanisms leading to disease progression are largely unexplored. Here we investigated the effects of iron overload and age on cardiac hypertrophy using 1-, 5- a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sukumaran A,Chang J,Han M,Mintri S,Khaw BA,Kim J

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, flying occurs soon after the last imaginal molt and precedes the mating behavior in natural conditions. Here, we tested the hypothesis that flying may improve subsequent behavioral performance in a novel environment in female crickets. We developed a behavioral set-up to test female...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mezheritskiy M,Vorontsov D,Lapshin D,Dyakonova V

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is a highly aggressive disease and novel treatments are required. Thyroid hormones binding to αvβ3 integrin produced growth-promoting activities in ovarian cancer and we hypothesized that natural thyroid hormone derivatives may antagonize these actions. The effect of three antagonists, tetraiodoacetic a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shinderman-Maman E,Cohen K,Moskovich D,Hercbergs A,Werner H,Davis PJ,Ellis M,Ashur-Fabian O

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil microorganisms play a crucial role in the biogeochemical cycling of nutrient elements and maintaining soil health. We aimed to investigate the response of bacteria communities to organic farming over different crops (rice, tea and vegetable) along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River of China. Compar...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang W,Wang H,Feng Y,Wang L,Xiao X,Xi Y,Luo X,Sun R,Ye X,Huang Y,Zhang Z,Cui Z

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescent alcohol exposure may increase anxiety-like behaviors by altering central monoaminergic functions and other important neuronal pathways. The present study was designed to investigate the anxiolytic effect of 0.5% γ-oryzanol (GORZ) and its neurochemical and molecular mechanisms under chronic 10% ethanol consu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Akter S,Uddin KR,Sasaki H,Lyu Y,Shibata S

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We discovered a technical solution of such outstanding importance that it can trigger new approaches in silicon wet etching processing and, in particular, photovoltaic cell manufacturing. The so called inverted pyramid arrays, outperforming conventional pyramid textures and black silicon because of their superior ligh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Yang L,Liu Y,Mei Z,Chen W,Li J,Liang H,Kuznetsov A,Xiaolong D

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00