Insights into the structures and electronic properties of Cun+1μ and CunS μ (n = 1-12; μ = 0, ±1) clusters.

abstract：:Here we report the discovery and partial characterization of a novel herpesvirus tentatively named Bufonid herpesvirus 1 (BfHV1) from severe dermatitis in free ranging common toads (Bufo bufo) in Switzerland. The disease has been observed in toads every year since 2014, in spring, during the mating season, at differen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Origgi FC,Schmidt BR,Lohmann P,Otten P,Meier RK,Pisano SRR,Moore-Jones G,Tecilla M,Sattler U,Wahli T,Gaschen V,Stoffel MH

更新日期：2018-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with septic shock is associated with high mortality, but the appropriate timing for initiating continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is controversial. We retrospectively enrolled 158 septic shock patients with AKI in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) from July 2016 to Ap...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yoon BR,Leem AY,Park MS,Kim YS,Chung KS

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs of abuse represent a growing public health crisis. Accumulating evidence indicates that gabapentin (GBP), a prescription drug, is prone to misuse, abuse, withdrawal, and dependence. Commonly, drugs of abuse modulate the dopaminergic system to induce addiction. In this study, we used the conditioned place prefere...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Althobaiti YS,Alghorabi A,Alshehri FS,Baothman B,Almalki AH,Alsaab HO,Alsanie W,Gaber A,Almalki H,Alghamdi AS,Basfer A,Althobaiti S,Hardy AMG,Shah ZA

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic stellate cells (HSC) play a key role in the development of chronic liver disease (CLD). Liraglutide, well-established in type 2 diabetes, showed anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. We evaluated the effects of liraglutide on HSC phenotype and hepatic microvascular function using diverse pre-clinical ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Mesquita FC,Guixé-Muntet S,Fernández-Iglesias A,Maeso-Díaz R,Vila S,Hide D,Ortega-Ribera M,Rosa JL,García-Pagán JC,Bosch J,de Oliveira JR,Gracia-Sancho J

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An encapsulated formulation of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) was produced by the Pickering emulsion technique to improve its activity and stability under UV-A radiation. In this technique latex particles, GO nanosheets, olive oil, ethanol, and water were used to encapsulate Bt in colloidosomes. The protective efficacy o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jalali E,Maghsoudi S,Noroozian E

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of ancient Roman orichalcum coins, i.e., a copper-zinc alloy, minted under the reigns from Caesar to Domitianus, have been characterised using scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) and electron microprobe analysis (EMPA). We studied, for the first time, coins emitted by Romans after the reforms of August...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Di Fazio M,Felici AC,Catalli F,De Vito C

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor protein D52 (TPD52) is amplified and overexpressed in breast and prostate cancers which are frequently characterised by dysregulated lipid storage and metabolism. TPD52 expression increases lipid storage in mouse 3T3 fibroblasts, and co-distributes with the Golgi marker GM130 and lipid droplets (LDs). We examine...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Y,Frost S,Khushi M,Cantrill LC,Yu H,Arthur JW,Bright RK,Groblewski GE,Byrne JA

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of bone tissue quantity and quality in contact with the surface of orthopedic and dental implants is a strong determinant of the surgical outcome but remains difficult to be assessed quantitatively. The aim of this study was to investigate the performance of a quantitative ultrasound (QUS) method to meas...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fraulob M,Vayron R,Le Cann S,Lecuelle B,Hériveaux Y,Albini Lomami H,Flouzat Lachaniette CH,Haïat G

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of questionnaires often involves representing the high-dimensional responses in a low-dimensional space (e.g., PCA, MCA, or t-SNE). However questionnaire data often contains categorical variables and common statistical model assumptions rarely hold. Here we present a non-parametric approach based on Fishe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Har-Shemesh O,Quax R,Lansing JS,Sloot PMA

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum is one of the most severe diseases of Hevea brasiliensis. However, research on the diversity and geographical distribution of Colletotrichum remains limited in China. In this study, we investigated the phylogenetic diversity of Colletotrichum isolates associated with symptomatic ti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu X,Li B,Cai J,Zheng X,Feng Y,Huang G

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that motor performance improves when individuals direct attention to movement outcome (external focus, EF) rather than to body movement itself (internal focus, IF). However, our previous study found that an optimal individual attentional strategy depended on motor imagery ability. We explored whether th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sakurada T,Nakajima T,Morita M,Hirai M,Watanabe E

更新日期：2017-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We report highly efficient continuous-wave terahertz (THz) photoconductive antenna based photomixer employing nano-gap electrodes in the active region. The tip-to-tip nano-gap electrode structure provides strong THz field enhancement and acts as a nano-antenna to radiate the THz wave generated in the active region of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tanoto H,Teng JH,Wu QY,Sun M,Chen ZN,Maier SA,Wang B,Chum CC,Si GY,Danner AJ,Chua SJ

更新日期：2013-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Liposomes or biological vesicles can be created from cholesterol, phospholipid, and water. Their stability is affected by their phospholipid composition which can influence disease treatment and drug delivery efficacy. In this study, the effect of phospholipid type on the formation and stability of liposomes using coa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hashemzadeh H,Javadi H,Darvishi MH

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have been used as ultrasensitive magnetometers to perform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of statistically polarized samples at 1-100 nm length scales. However, the spectral linewidth is typically limited to the kHz level, both by the NV sensor coherence time and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schwartz I,Rosskopf J,Schmitt S,Tratzmiller B,Chen Q,McGuinness LP,Jelezko F,Plenio MB

更新日期：2019-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Meaningful, reliable and valid mRNA expression analyses by real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) can only be achieved, if suitable reference genes are chosen for normalization and if appropriate RT-qPCR quality standards are met. Human periodontal ligament (hPDL) fibroblasts play a major mediating role in orthodontic t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kirschneck C,Batschkus S,Proff P,Köstler J,Spanier G,Schröder A

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common health problem during pregnancy and its prevalence is increasing globally, especially in China. The aim of this study was to investigate socioeconomic, environmental and lifestyle factors associated with GDM in Chinese women. A matched pair case-control study was conduct...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Carroll X,Liang X,Zhang W,Zhang W,Liu G,Turner N,Leeper-Woodford S

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:It is estimated from twin studies that heritable factors account for at-least half of asthma-risk, of which genetic variants identified through population studies explain only a small fraction. Multi-generation large families with high asthma prevalence can serve as a model to identify highly penetrant genetic variant...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chakraborty S,Dakle P,Sinha A,Vishweswaraiah S,Nagori A,Salimath S,Prakash YS,Lodha R,Kabra SK,Ghosh B,Faruq M,Mahesh PA,Agrawal A

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrence risk stratification of patients undergoing primary surgical resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an area of active investigation, and several staging systems have been proposed to optimize treatment strategies. However, as many as 70% of patients still experience tumor recurrence at 5 years post-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yamashita R,Long J,Saleem A,Rubin DL,Shen J

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to mammals, adult fish display a remarkable ability to fully regenerate central nervous system (CNS) axons, enabling functional recovery from CNS injury. Both fish and mammals normally undergo a developmental downregulation of axon growth activity as neurons mature. Fish are able to undergo damage-induced ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dhara SP,Rau A,Flister MJ,Recka NM,Laiosa MD,Auer PL,Udvadia AJ

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine whether formyl peptide receptors (FPRs) regulated the differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs). FPRs promote the migration of NSCs both in vitro and in vivo. However, the role of FPRs during differentiation of NSCs is unknown. Analysis by Western blot showed significantly increased exp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Wang G,Chen X,Xue X,Guo Q,Liu M,Zhao J

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Work stress is a risk factor for cardio-metabolic diseases, but few large-scale studies have examined the clinical profile of individuals with work stress. To address this limitation, we conducted a cross-sectional study including 43,593 working adults from a French population-based sample aged 18-72 years (the CONSTA...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Magnusson Hanson LL,Westerlund H,Goldberg M,Zins M,Vahtera J,Hulvej Rod N,Stenholm S,Steptoe A,Kivimäki M

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia tracheiphila is a bacterial plant pathogen that causes a fatal wilt infection in some cucurbit crop plants. Wilt symptoms are thought to be caused by systemic bacterial colonization through xylem that impedes sap flow. However, the genetic determinants of within-plant movement are unknown for this pathogen spe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rocha J,Shapiro LR,Kolter R

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A new, composite plasmonic waveguide based electromagnetic cloaking scheme is proposed with Si nano-spacer. Here we show, that the scattering fields of an object located on the cloak do not interact with the evanescent field, resulting in object's invisibility. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) numerical calculatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Galutin Y,Falek E,Karabchevsky A

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid pace of conversion of natural areas to agricultural systems is highly concerning, and the consequences for conservation and pest management are not yet fully understood. We examined mitochondrial (COI and Cytb) and nuclear (ITS1) gene regions of 21 populations of the stink bug Euschistus heros, to investigat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Soares PL,Cordeiro EMG,Santos FNS,Omoto C,Correa AS

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of structural and functional neuroimaging data using graph theory has increasingly become a popular approach for visualising and understanding anatomical and functional relationships between different cerebral areas. In this work we applied a network-based approach for brain PET studies using population-b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Veronese M,Moro L,Arcolin M,Dipasquale O,Rizzo G,Expert P,Khan W,Fisher PM,Svarer C,Bertoldo A,Howes O,Turkheimer FE

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is the major intracellular degradation system by which cytoplasmic materials are delivered to and degraded in the vacuole/lysosome in eukaryotic cells. MoAtg14 in M. oryzae, a hitherto uncharacterized protein, is the highly divergent homolog of the yeast Atg14 and the mammal BARKOR. The MoATG14 deletion muta...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu XH,Zhao YH,Zhu XM,Zeng XQ,Huang LY,Dong B,Su ZZ,Wang Y,Lu JP,Lin FC

更新日期：2017-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Broadband acoustic absorbers with thin thickness are highly desired in practical situations such as architectural acoustics, yet it is still challenging to achieve high absorption by using structure with limited thickness. Here we report the theoretical optimal design, numerical simulation and experimental demonstrati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao YX,Lin YP,Zhu YF,Liang B,Yang J,Yang J,Cheng JC

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, making use of real gait force profiles of healthy and patient groups with Parkinson disease which have different disease severity in terms of Hoehn-Yahr stage, we calculate various heuristic complexity measures of the recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). Using this technique, we are able to evince...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Afsar O,Tirnakli U,Marwan N

更新日期：2018-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A high prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been reported in Down syndrome (DS) owing to the coexistence of multiple predisposing factors related to its genetic abnormality, posing a challenge for the management of OSA. We hypothesized that DS mice recapitulate craniofacial abnormalities and upper airway ob...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takahashi T,Sakai N,Iwasaki T,Doyle TC,Mobley WC,Nishino S

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of a mechanical oscillator with the operation actions and environment fields will give rise to the splitting of normal modes. In this study, we investigate the normal mode splitting behaviour of a moving-particles-pumped single-span clamped-hinged elastic homogeneous beam based on the proposed multi-oc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun Z

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00