'Candidatus Cochliophilus cryoturris' (Coxiellaceae), a symbiont of the testate amoeba Cochliopodium minus.

abstract：:Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is an autoimmune liver disease characterized by the destruction of interlobular biliary ductules, which progressively leads to cholestasis, hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis, and eventually liver failure. Several mouse models have been used to clarify the pathogenesis of PBC and are general...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma WT,Liu QZ,Yang JB,Yang YQ,Zhao ZB,Ma HD,Gershwin ME,Lian ZX

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is a public health issue in Iran. The study aimed to estimate the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, and to explore their determinants among 10,040 Kurdish adults from Ravansar Non-Communicable Disease (RaNCD) cohort study in Iran. Univariate, and multivariate analyses were use...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rajati F,Hamzeh B,Pasdar Y,Safari R,Moradinazar M,Shakiba E,Bazargan-Hejazi S,Karim H,Najafi F

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Gentamicin may cause acute kidney injury. The pathogenesis of gentamicin nephrotoxicity is unclear. Autophagy is a highly conserved physiological process involved in removing damaged or aged biological macromolecules and organelles from the cytoplasm. The role of autophagy in the pathogenesis of gentamicin nephrotoxic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cui J,Bai XY,Sun X,Cai G,Hong Q,Ding R,Chen X

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer represents a major cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Although various tactics and anti-tumor drugs have been used to improve curative effects, five-year survival rate of lung cancer patients remains poor. In this study, we investigated the action and underlying mechanisms of our recently optimized C...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng T,Que Z,Jiao L,Kang Y,Gong Y,Yao J,Ma C,Bi L,Dong Q,Zhao X,Xu L

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:After domestication in the Near East around 10,000 years ago several founder crops, flax included, spread to European latitudes. On reaching northerly latitudes the architecture of domesticated flax became more suitable to fiber production over oil, with longer stems, smaller seeds and fewer axillary branches. Latitud...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gutaker RM,Zaidem M,Fu YB,Diederichsen A,Smith O,Ware R,Allaby RG

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of novel small molecule inhibitors of the cancer-associated tropomyosin 3.1 (Tpm3.1) provides the ability to examine the metabolic function of specific actin filament populations. We have determined the ability of these anti-Tpm (ATM) compounds to regulate glucose metabolism in mice. Acute treatment (1...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kee AJ,Chagan J,Chan JY,Bryce NS,Lucas CA,Zeng J,Hook J,Treutlein H,Laybutt DR,Stehn JR,Gunning PW,Hardeman EC

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of cluster radioactivity (CR) of the neutron-deficient nuclei in the trans-tin region is explored by using the effective liquid drop model (ELDM), generalized liquid drop model (GLDM), and several sets of analytic formulas. It is found that the minimal half-lives are at Nd = 50 (Nd is the neutron numbe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao Y,Cui J,Wang Y,Gu J

更新日期：2020-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence is widespread in marine organisms but uncommon in terrestrial tetrapods. We here show that many chameleon species have bony tubercles protruding from the skull that are visible through their scales, and fluoresce under UV light. Tubercles arising from bones of the skull displace all dermal layers other th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Prötzel D,Heß M,Scherz MD,Schwager M,Padje AV,Glaw F

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:LL37 exerts a dual pathogenic role in psoriasis. Bound to self-DNA/RNA, LL37 licenses autoreactivity by stimulating plasmacytoid dendritic cells-(pDCs)-Type I interferon (IFN-I) and acts as autoantigen for pathogenic Th17-cells. In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), LL37 also triggers IFN-I in pDCs and is target of p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lande R,Palazzo R,Gestermann N,Jandus C,Falchi M,Spadaro F,Riccieri V,James EA,Butera A,Boirivant M,Feldmeyer L,Surbeck I,Di Lucca J,Stuber F,Spinelli FR,Botti E,Marinari B,Bianchi L,Pica R,Cerbelli B,Giannakakis

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:One century of oceanographic measurements has evidenced gradual increases in temperature and salinity of western Mediterranean water masses, even though the vertical stratification has basically remained unchanged. Starting in 2005, the basic structure of the intermediate and deep layers abruptly changed. We report he...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schroeder K,Chiggiato J,Bryden HL,Borghini M,Ben Ismail S

更新日期：2016-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterocyclic amine 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) is considered as a human carcinogenic or mutagenic compound that is produced from the co-condensation of creatinine and amino acids as meats cook at high temperatures. The cooking of meats at high temperatures produces fumes, and these fumes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Poudel BK,Choi J,Park JH,Doh KO,Byeon JH

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Crops have different strategies to acquire poorly-available soil phosphorus (P) which are dependent on their architectural, morphological, and physiological root traits, but their capacity to enhance P acquisition varies with the type of fertilizer applied. The objective of this study was to examine how P-acquisition ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nobile C,Houben D,Michel E,Firmin S,Lambers H,Kandeler E,Faucon MP

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It is possible to accurately and economically predict change in protein-protein interaction energy upon mutation (ΔΔG), when a high-resolution structure of the complex is available. This is of growing usefulness for design of high-affinity or otherwise modified binding proteins for therapeutic, diagnostic, industrial,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dourado DF,Flores SC

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER) are used to diagnose and classify the severity of chronic kidney disease. Total adiponectin (T-AN) and high molecular weight adiponectin (H-AN) assays were developed using the fully automated immunoassay system, HI-1000 and their significance o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Watanabe T,Fujimoto Y,Morimoto A,Nishiyama M,Kawai A,Okada S,Aiba M,Kawano T,Kawahigashi M,Ishizu M,Mori H,Matsuhisa M,Hata A,Funaki M,Hashida S

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we advance a cutting-edge methodology for the study of the dynamics of plant movements of nutation. Our approach, unlike customary kinematic analyses of shape, period, or amplitude, is based on three typical signatures of adaptively controlled processes and motions, as reported in the biological and be...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raja V,Silva PL,Holghoomi R,Calvo P

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropathology of Parkinson's disease (PD) involves the frontal-subcortical circuit, an area responsible for processing affective theory of mind (ToM). Patients with PD are expected to experience deficits in the affective ToM. This study aims to investigate whether the ability to infer emotion in others is affecte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu RL,Chen PS,Tu SC,Tsao WC,Tan CH

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Sealed-bid auction is an important tool in modern economic especially concerned with networks. However, the bidders still lack the privacy protection in previously proposed sealed-bid auction schemes. In this paper, we focus on how to further protect the privacy of the bidders, especially the non-winning bidders. We f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi RH,Zhang M

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:New plant protection strategies focus on minimizing chemical pesticide use and increasing their compatibility with biological control agents. The objective was to evaluate the side-effects of glyphosate, diflubenzuron, malathion, tebuconazole and triflumuron (at 720, 45, 400, 150 and 20 g ai ha-1, respectively), pesti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cruz RA,Zanuncio JC,Lacerda MC,Wilcken CF,Fernandes FL,Tavares WS,Soares MA,Sediyama CS

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we describe a new methodology to physically probe individual complexes formed between proteins and DNA. By combining nanoscale, high speed physical force measurement with sensitive fluorescence imaging we investigate the complex formed between the prokaryotic DNA repair protein UvrA2 and DNA. This approa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Simons M,Pollard MR,Hughes CD,Ward AD,Van Houten B,Towrie M,Botchway SW,Parker AW,Kad NM

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Plutonium isotopes have primarily been injected to the stratosphere by the atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and the burn-up of the SNAP-9A satellite. Here we show by using published data that the stratospheric plutonium exponentially decreased with apparent residence time of 1.5 ± 0.5 years, and that the temporal vari...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hirose K,Povinec PP

更新日期：2015-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanosensitive ion channels are pore-forming transmembrane proteins that allow ions to move down their electrochemical gradient in response to mechanical stimuli. They participate in many plant developmental processes including the maintenance of plastid shape, pollen tube growth, etc. Herein, a total of 11, 10, 6, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kaur A,Taneja M,Tyagi S,Sharma A,Singh K,Upadhyay SK

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the relevance of complex root microbial communities for plant health, growth and productivity, the molecular basis of these plant-microbe interactions is not well understood. Verrucomicrobia are cosmopolitans in the rhizosphere, nevertheless their adaptations and functions are enigmatic since the proportion of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bünger W,Jiang X,Müller J,Hurek T,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplexes (G4s) are nucleic acids secondary structures, epigenetic regulators in cells and viruses. In herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1)-infected cells, G4s are massively present during viral replication. We here aimed at investigating the possibility to target the HSV-1 G4s by a core extended naphtalene diimide (c-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Callegaro S,Perrone R,Scalabrin M,Doria F,Palù G,Richter SN

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Launay H,Schramm A,Lebrun R,Gontero B

更新日期：2018-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Elymus nutans is an herbaceous plant that can be used to restore degraded alpine and subalpine ecosystems. Here, we evaluated how sowing density affects soil reinforcement and slope stabilization properties of vegetation-concrete structures. To investigate the optimal sowing density of E. nutans in vegetation-concrete...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan X,Huang Y,Xiong D,Lv K,Chen F

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals perceive the wor(l)d hierarchically. Firsty, the global visual scene is processed by the right hemisphere, and later, the local features are perceived by the left hemisphere. Based on this hierarchical analysis, humans evolved unique communication ability: reading. However, for about 10% of people reading ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Franceschini S,Bertoni S,Gianesini T,Gori S,Facoetti A

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing levels of human activity threaten wildlife populations through direct mortality, habitat degradation, and habitat fragmentation. Area closures can improve habitat quality for wildlife, but may be difficult to achieve where tourism or other economic drivers are a priority. Temporal closures that limit human ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Whittington J,Low P,Hunt B

更新日期：2019-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological regulation of blood flow in bone marrow is important to maintain oxygen and glucose supplies but also the physiological hypoxic state of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche. However, regulatory mechanisms underlying microcirculation in the bone marrow (BM) niche remain unclear. Here, we identify vess...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morikawa T,Tamaki S,Fujita S,Suematsu M,Takubo K

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to compare patients with and without mastalgia and to analyze the factors affecting mastalgia and its severity. The patient's age, height, weight, educational status, marital status, and occupation were recorded in all subjects. In addition, the women were asked about the presence of any risk ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Çomçalı B,Kocaoz S,Özdemir BA,Parlak Ö,Korukluoğlu B

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to differentiate into skeletal muscle cells is an important criterion in using them as a cell source to ameliorate skeletal muscle impairments. However, differentiation of hESCs into skeletal muscle cells still remains a challenge, often requiring introduction of trans...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hwang Y,Suk S,Shih YR,Seo T,Du B,Xie Y,Li Z,Varghese S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00