Excitonic structure and pumping power dependent emission blue-shift of type-II quantum dots.

abstract：:In chickens, the sensory organs for taste are the taste buds in the oral cavity, of which there are ~240-360 in total number as estimated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). There is not an easy way to visualize all taste buds in chickens. Here, we report a highly efficient method for labeling chicken taste buds in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rajapaksha P,Wang Z,Venkatesan N,Tehrani KF,Payne J,Swetenburg RL,Kawabata F,Tabata S,Mortensen LJ,Stice SL,Beckstead R,Liu HX

更新日期：2016-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of osteoarthritis patients is increasing with the rise in the number of elderly people in developed countries. Osteoarthritis, which causes joint pain and deformity leading to loss of activities of daily living, is often treated surgically. Here we show that mechanical stress promotes accumulation of reacti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaneko Y,Tanigawa N,Sato Y,Kobayashi T,Nakamura S,Ito E,Soma T,Miyamoto K,Kobayashi S,Harato K,Matsumoto M,Nakamura M,Niki Y,Miyamoto T

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel amorphous iron hydrides (AIHs) are synthesized for the first time under ambient conditions by employing novel "quiescent reaction", without stirring for mixing solutions, during a conventional aqueous reduction-precipitation process. The kind and morphology of AIHs are dependent on the processing condition, wher...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Taguchi K,Shinozaki K,Okumura H,Michioka C,Yoshimura K,Ishihara KN

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjective refraction is the gold-standard for prescribing refractive correction, but its accuracy is limited by patient's subjective judgment about their clarity of vision. We asked if an involuntary eye movement, optokinetic nystagmus (OKN), could serve as an objective measure of visual-clarity, specifically measuri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Doustkouhi SM,Turnbull PRK,Dakin SC

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine binding proteins (AChBPs) are unique spatial homologs of the ligand-binding domains of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), and they reproduce some pharmacological properties of nAChRs. X-ray crystal structures of AСhBP in complex with α-conotoxins provide important insights into the interactions ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lin B,Xu M,Zhu X,Wu Y,Liu X,Zhangsun D,Hu Y,Xiang SH,Kasheverov IE,Tsetlin VI,Wang X,Luo S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of the gene expression profile of genes encoding Ion Channels and Transporters (ICT-GEP) represents a novel and attracting aspect in cancer. We determined the ICT-GEP of Follicular Lymphoma (FL), and compared it with that of the more aggressive Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL). cDNA microarray data...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Magi A,Masselli M,Sala C,Guerriero A,Laise P,Puccini B,Rigacci L,Breschi C,Crociani O,Pillozzi S,Arcangeli A

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In South American societies, domesticated camelids were of great cultural importance and subject to trade and translocation. South American camelids were even found on remote and hard to reach islands, emphasizing their importance to historic and pre-historic South American populations. Isla Mocha, a volcanic island 3...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Westbury M,Prost S,Seelenfreund A,Ramírez JM,Matisoo-Smith EA,Knapp M

更新日期：2016-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Human CD4+ T cells play an important role in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). However, little is known about the spectratyping characteristics of the CD4+ T-cell receptor (TCR) α- and β-chains CDR3 region in tuberculosis (TB) patients. We sorted MTB peptide E7-bound CD4+ T cells by using E7/HLA...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gan Y,Wang C,Fang Y,Yao Y,Tu X,Wang J,Huang X,Tan Y,Chen T,Zhang K,Shen Y,Zhou L,Liu J,Lai X

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO2 reduces pH and saturation state of calcium carbonate materials of seawater, which could reduce the calcification rate of some marine organisms, triggering a negative feedback on the growth of atmospheric CO2. We quantify the effect of this CO2-calcification feedback by conducting a se...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang H,Cao L

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphosphonates have benefits in breast cancer and multiple myeloma patients and have been used with adoptive immunotherapy with γδ T cells expressing Vγ2 Vδ2 TCRs. Although treatment with γδ T cells is safe, it has shown limited efficacy. Present bisphosphonates stimulate γδ T cells but were designed to inhibit bone ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tanaka Y,Iwasaki M,Murata-Hirai K,Matsumoto K,Hayashi K,Okamura H,Sugie T,Minato N,Morita CT,Toi M

更新日期：2017-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Dentin sialoprotein (DSP) is a dentin extracellular matrix protein. It is involved in dental mesenchymal cell lineages and dentin formation through regulation of its target gene expression. DSP mutations cause dentin genetic diseases. However, mechanisms of DSP in controlling dental mesenchymal cell differentiation ar...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li W,Chen L,Chen Z,Wu L,Feng J,Wang F,Shoff L,Li X,Donly KJ,MacDougall M,Chen S

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarization sensitive and insensitive color filters have important applications in the area of nano-spectroscopy and CCD imaging applications. Metallic nanostructures provide an efficient way to design and engineer ultrathin color filters. These nanostructures have capability to split the white light into fundamental...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vashistha V,Vaidya G,Gruszecki P,Serebryannikov AE,Krawczyk M

更新日期：2017-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Contest behaviour, and in particular the propensity to attack an unfamiliar conspecific, is influenced by an individual's aggressiveness, as well as by experience of winning and losing (so called 'winner-loser effects'). Individuals vary in aggressiveness and susceptibility to winner-loser effects but the relationship...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oldham L,Camerlink I,Arnott G,Doeschl-Wilson A,Farish M,Turner SP

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains challenging to date. Characteristic metabolic deregulations of HCC may enable novel biomarkers discovery for early diagnosis. A capillary electrophoresis-time of flight mass spectrometry (CE-TOF/MS)-based metabolomics approach was performed to discover and vali...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zeng J,Huang X,Zhou L,Tan Y,Hu C,Wang X,Niu J,Wang H,Lin X,Yin P

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1), a vasoconstrictor, has recently been used to induce focal ischemia in rodents and marmoset monkeys. The rhesus monkey, however, has numerous advantages to the rodent and marmoset that make it a superior and irreplaceable animal model for studying stroke in the brain. In the present study, after ma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dai P,Huang H,Zhang L,He J,Zhao X,Yang F,Zhao N,Yang J,Ge L,Lin Y,Yu H,Wang J

更新日期：2017-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The close proximity of esophagus to the left atrial posterior wall predisposes esophagus to thermal injury during catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF). In this retrospective study, we aimed to investigate risk factors of esophageal injury (EI) caused by catheter ablation for AF. Patients who underwent first-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang P,Zhang YY,Ye Q,Jiang RH,Liu Q,Ye Y,Wu JG,Sheng X,Fu GS,Cha YM,Jiang CY

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is an emerging pathogen in the Enterovirus A species group. EV-A71 causes hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), with virulent variants exhibiting polio-like acute flaccid paralysis and other central nervous system manifestations. We analysed all enterovirus A71 complete genomes with collection ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Roberts R,Yee PTI,Mujawar S,Lahiri C,Poh CL,Gatherer D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major task of episodic memory is to create unique, distinguishable representations of highly overlapping perceptual inputs. Several studies on this basic function have shown that it is based on the intact functioning of certain subregions of the hippocampus and is among the most sensitive behavioral indicators of mi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pajkossy P,Szőllősi Á,Racsmány M

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossmodal studies have reported not only facilitatory but also inhibitory perceptual interactions. For instance, tactile stimulation to the index finger of a hand leads to the degradation of visual discrimination performance (touch-induced visual suppression, TIVS). It has been suggested that the magnitude of TIVS de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hidaka S,Suzuishi Y,Ide M,Wada M

更新日期：2018-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of periodic and transient motions of large woodpeckers are considered. A drumming woodpecker may be modeled as a harmonic oscillator with a periodic forcing function. The transient behavior that occurs after the forcing is turned off suggests that the double knocks of Campephilus woodpeckers may be modeled i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Collins MD

更新日期：2017-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipidised analgesic peptide prodrugs self-assemble into peptide nanofibers; with the nanofiber morphology protecting the peptide from plasma degradation and improving therapeutic efficacy. Extending this learning, we hypothesised that a self-assembling lipidized peptide arginine vasopressin (AVP) receptor agonist, tha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Patel S,Volpe AB,Awwad S,Schätzlein AG,Haider S,Liu B,Uchegbu IF

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify novel phenotypic associations related to Cytochrome P450 Family 2 Subfamily A Member 6 (CYP2A6), we investigated the human phenome in a total of 11,271 individuals. Initially, we conducted a phenome-wide association study in 3,401 nicotine-exposed elderly subjects considering 358 phenotypic traits. We iden...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Polimanti R,Jensen KP,Gelernter J

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of nonlinear large-scale dynamical networks, e.g., collective behavior of agents interacting via a scale-free connection topology, is a central problem in many scientific and engineering fields. For the linear version of this problem, the so-called controllability Gramian has played an important role to quanti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kashima K

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation plays central roles in the immune response. Inflammatory response normally requires higher energy and therefore is associated with glucose metabolism. Our recent study demonstrates that lncRNA HOTAIR plays key roles in NF-kB activation, cytokine expression, and inflammation. Here, we investigated if HOTAI...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Obaid M,Udden SMN,Alluri P,Mandal SS

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with scirrhous gastric cancer (SGC) frequently develop peritoneal dissemination, which leads to poor prognosis. The secreted protein angiopoietin-like-4 (ANGPTL4), which is induced by hypoxia, exerts diverse effects on cancer progression. Here, we aimed to determine the biological function of ANGPTL4 in SGC c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baba K,Kitajima Y,Miyake S,Nakamura J,Wakiyama K,Sato H,Okuyama K,Kitagawa H,Tanaka T,Hiraki M,Yanagihara K,Noshiro H

更新日期：2017-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent-margin basins (CMBs) are commonly associated with active arcs, and hence are rich in detrital zircon (DZ) whose ages closely reflect the timing of deposition. Consequently, maximum depositional ages (MDA) from DZ geochronology can be employed to resolve the stratigraphy and evolution of CMBs. Herein, we use...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang C,Dashtgard SE,Kent BAP,Gibson HD,Matthews WA

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Large sediment fluxes from mountain belts have the potential to cause megafans to prograde into the neighbouring sedimentary basins. These mechanisms have been documented based from numerical modelling and stratigraphic records. However, little attention has been focused on inferring temporal changes in the concentrat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Garefalakis P,Schlunegger F

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragmentation is a major driver of ecosystem degradation, reducing the capacity of habitats to provide many important ecosystem services. Mangrove ecosystem services, such as erosion prevention, shoreline protection and mitigation of climate change (through carbon sequestration), depend on the size and arrangement of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bryan-Brown DN,Connolly RM,Richards DR,Adame F,Friess DA,Brown CJ

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of endplate junction failure in a smaller cohort of Danish patients with lumbar disk herniation and compare this to the previously published data from India. Consecutive patients seen in a large regional hospital spine-care unit, with a clinical presentation...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： O'Neill SFD,Fidelman JM,Haarup LS,Lund C,Konner MB

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We show a hybrid structure consisting of Si film with photonic crystal surface and random triangular gold grooves reflector at the bottom, which is capable of realizing efficient, broad-band, wide-angle optical absorption. It is numerically demonstrated that the enhanced absorption in a broad wavelength range (0.3-9.9...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen ZH,Qiao N,Yang Y,Ye H,Liu S,Wang W,Wang Y

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00