Molecular MR imaging of fibrosis in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer.

abstract：:Horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance determinants contributes to dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Such transfer of resistance genes within the human gut has been documented in some in vivo studies. The present study investigated seven bla CTX-M-1-carrying Escherichia coli isolates from three consecutive...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Knudsen PK,Gammelsrud KW,Alfsnes K,Steinbakk M,Abrahamsen TG,Müller F,Bohlin J

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we proposed a novel architectural design of a ternary MnO2-based electrode - a hierarchical Co3O4@Pt@MnO2 core-shell-shell structure, where the complemental features of the three key components (a well-defined Co3O4 nanowire array on the conductive Ti substrate, an ultrathin layer of small Pt nanoparticles, and a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xia H,Zhu D,Luo Z,Yu Y,Shi X,Yuan G,Xie J

更新日期：2013-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are host to a multitude of microorganisms that rapidly populate the body at birth, subject to a complex interplay that is dependent on host genetics, lifestyle, and environment. The host-associated microbiome, including the oral microbiome, presents itself in a complex ecosystem important to health and disease....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Freire M,Moustafa A,Harkins DM,Torralba MG,Zhang Y,Leong P,Saffery R,Bockmann M,Kuelbs C,Hughes T,Craig JM,Nelson KE

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the obesity epidemic, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a prevalent liver disease, characterized by fat accumulation and inflammation of the liver. However, due to a lack of mechanistic insight, diagnostic and therapeutic options for NASH are poor. Recent evidence has indicated cathepsin D (CTSD), a lysos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Houben T,Oligschlaeger Y,Hendrikx T,Bitorina AV,Walenbergh SMA,van Gorp PJ,Gijbels MJJ,Friedrichs S,Plat J,Schaap FG,Lütjohann D,Hofker MH,Shiri-Sverdlov R

更新日期：2017-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival of many species, from insects and birds to human and non-human mammals, requires synchronized activity. Among humans, synchrony occurs even at the level of autonomic functioning; people interacting often show mutual, simultaneous changes in activity of the sympathetic or parasympathetic branches of the autono...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Danyluck C,Page-Gould E

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant magnetoresistive (GMR) biosensors consisting of many rectangular stripes are being developed for high sensitivity medical diagnostics of diseases at early stages, but many aspects of the sensing mechanism remain to be clarified. Using e-beam patterned masks on the sensors, we showed that the magnetic nanoparticl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee JR,Sato N,Bechstein DJ,Osterfeld SJ,Wang J,Gani AW,Hall DA,Wang SX

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was aimed to evaluate the performance of a newly developed non-invasive and non-contact bilirubin measurement device (AJO-Neo) as an alternative to the conventional invasive biochemical method of total serum bilirubin (TSB) estimation in preterm and term neonates suffering from hyperbilirubinemia associated ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Halder A,Adhikari A,Ghosh R,Singh S,Banerjee A,Ghosh N,Bhattacharya AM,Mandal S,Chakrabarti P,Bhattacharyya D,Altass HM,Morad M,Ahmed SA,Mallick AK,Pal SK

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustainable wastewater treatment has been attracting increasing attentions over the past decades. However, the production of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent GHG, from the energy-efficient granule-based autotrophic nitrogen removal is largely unknown. This study applied a previously established N2O model, which incorpora...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng L,Sun J,Liu Y,Dai X,Ni BJ

更新日期：2017-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Bed bugs are pests of public health importance due to their relentless biting habits that can lead to allergies, secondary infections and mental health issues. When not feeding on human blood bed bugs aggregate in refuges close to human hosts. This aggregation behaviour could be exploited to lure bed bugs into traps f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Weeks ENI,Logan JG,Birkett MA,Caulfield JC,Gezan SA,Welham SJ,Brugman VA,Pickett JA,Cameron MM

更新日期：2020-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) is a powerful tool to isolate and study gene expression pattern of desired and less accessible cells or tissues from a heterogeneous population. Existing LCM-based methods fail to obtain high quality RNA including small RNAs from small microdissected plant tissue and therefore, are ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gautam V,Singh A,Singh S,Sarkar AK

更新日期：2016-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by homozygous mutation of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. Disease severity inversely correlates to the amount of SMN protein produced from the homologous SMN2 gene. We show that SMN protein is naturally released in exosomes from all cell types examined. Fibroblasts from...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nash LA,McFall ER,Perozzo AM,Turner M,Poulin KL,De Repentigny Y,Burns JK,McMillan HJ,Warman Chardon J,Burger D,Kothary R,Parks RJ

更新日期：2017-10-24 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： Sahani RM,Kumari C,Pandya A,Dixit A

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile acids (BAs) are key mediators of the glycemic control after bariatric surgeries. Cholecystectomy modifies the kinetics of BAs, and whether this procedure influences the BAs pool and its metabolic response to bariatric surgeries is not known. We used targeted and untargeted metabolomics to assess whether cholecyst...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Machado NM,Cardinelli CS,Shen T,Santo MA,Torrinhas RS,Waitzberg DL

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In absence of soil erosion plots for determination of erodibility index (K) for erosion models like Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) or Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) to estimate soil erosion, empirical relations are used. In the present study, soil erodibility index was determined for entire Ri-bhoi ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Olaniya M,Bora PK,Das S,Chanu PH

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomics has emerged as a powerful approach to comprehensively interrogate cellular biochemistry. As such, we applied an untargeted liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry metabolomic strategy to elucidate metabolome changes in the anthracnose-causing hemibiotrophic sorghum pathogen, Colletotrichum sublineolum. An...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tugizimana F,Djami-Tchatchou AT,Fahrmann JF,Steenkamp PA,Piater LA,Dubery IA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of five NLR family genes (NOD1, NOD2, NLRP1, NLRP3 and CIITA) are associated with Behcet's disease (BD) in a Chinese Han population. The study was carried out in 950 BD patients and 1440 controls for 19 SNPs in the selected NLR genes. In th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li L,Yu H,Jiang Y,Deng B,Bai L,Kijlstra A,Yang P

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the unique climate characteristics, the runoff law in mid-temperate zone is very different from other regions in spring. Accurate runoff simulation and forecasting is of great importance to spring flood control and efficient use of water resources. Baishan reservoir is located in the upper Second Songhua Ri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tian L,Li H,Li F,Li X,Du X,Ye X

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Enamel proteins form a scaffold for growing hydroxyapatite crystals during enamel formation. They are then almost completely degraded during enamel maturation, resulting in a protein content of only 1% (w/v) in mature enamel. Nevertheless, this small amount of remaining proteins has important effects on the mechanical...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baumann T,Carvalho TS,Lussi A

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of all aspects of fluoride metabolism is critical to identify its biological effects and avoid fluoride toxicity in humans. Fluoride metabolism and subsequently its body retention may be affected by physiological responses to acute exercise. This pilot study investigated the effect of exercise on plas...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： V Zohoori F,Innerd A,Azevedo LB,Whitford GM,Maguire A

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence of resistant Plasmodium species makes drug efficacy testing a crucial part of malaria control. Here we describe a novel assay for sensitive, fast and simple drug screening via the magneto-optical detection of hemozoin, a natural biomarker formed during the hemoglobin metabolism of Plasmodium species. By quan...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Molnár P,Orbán Á,Izrael R,Babai R,Marton L,Butykai Á,Karl S,Vértessy BG,Kézsmárki I

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastic represents 60-80% of litter in the ocean. Degradation of plastic to small fragments leads to the formation of microplastics (MPs <5 mm) and nanoplastics (NPs <1 µm). One of the most widely used and representative plastics found in the ocean is polystyrene (PS). Among marine organisms, the immune system of biva...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sendra M,Carrasco-Braganza MI,Yeste PM,Vila M,Blasco J

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A practical quantum computer must be capable of performing high fidelity quantum gates on a set of quantum bits (qubits). In the presence of noise, the realization of such gates poses daunting challenges. Geometric phases, which possess intrinsic noise-tolerant features, hold the promise for performing robust quantum ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang J,Kyaw TH,Tong DM,Sjöqvist E,Kwek LC

更新日期：2015-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, the SecA ATPase provides the driving force for protein secretion via the SecYEG translocon. While the dynamic interplay between SecA and SecYEG in translocation is widely appreciated, it is not clear how SecA associates with the translocon in the crowded cellular environment. We use super-resolution micro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Seinen AB,Spakman D,van Oijen AM,Driessen AJM

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:CCN2/Connective tissue growth factor seems to be involved in development of cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis, but a possible cardioprotective role in left ventricular (LV) remodelling following myocardial infarction has also been suggested. The main objectives of the study were therefore to investigate whether circula...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ritschel V,Shetelig C,Seljeflot I,Limalanathan S,Hoffmann P,Halvorsen S,Arnesen H,Eritsland J,Andersen GØ

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogeneously distributed zinc nanoparticles (NPs) on the glass substrate were investigated for the transmittance, mechanical durability, and antibacterial effect. The buffered Ti NPs between Zn NPs and glass substrate were studied for an enhancement of the transmittance and mechanical endurance. The Ti NPs buffered Z...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Choi HJ,Choi JS,Park BJ,Eom JH,Heo SY,Jung MW,An KS,Yoon SG

更新日期：2014-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Printing techniques are becoming increasingly prevalent in modern manufacturing. However, its biggest drawback is the limit in printing resolution. In this paper, we present solvodynamic printing as a novel printing system which aims to improve print resolution by incorporating an additional immiscible carrier solvent...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu WC,Watt AAR

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals use sounds produced by conspecifics for mate identification. Female insects and anuran amphibians, for instance, use acoustic cues to localize, orient toward and approach conspecific males prior to mating. Here we present a novel technique that utilizes multiple, distributed sound-indication devices and a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Aihara I,Bishop PJ,Ohmer MEB,Awano H,Mizumoto T,Okuno HG,Narins PM,Hero JM

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:River ecosystem health assessments provide the foundation for river ecological protection and integrated management. To evaluate the aquatic ecosystem health of the Fan River basin, benthic macroinvertebrate indices (the Multimeric Macroinvertebrates Index Flanders (MMIF) and Family Biotic Index (FBI)), a habitat inde...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen J,Wang Y,Li F,Liu Z

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:That stalks reorient after flowering to face upwards is a common phenomenon in many flowering plants, indicating the potential importance of fruit orientation on seed dispersal. But this idea has not been subject to an empirical test. We examined this hypothesis by analysing the evolutionary correlation between fruit ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Niu Y,Zhou Z,Sha W,Sun H

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Species and populations are disappearing at an alarming rate as a direct result of human activities. Loss of genetic diversity associated with population decline directly impacts species' long-term survival. Therefore, preserving genetic diversity is of considerable conservation importance. However, to assist in conse...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： van der Valk T,Sandoval-Castellanos E,Caillaud D,Ngobobo U,Binyinyi E,Nishuli R,Stoinski T,Gilissen E,Sonet G,Semal P,Kalthoff DC,Dalén L,Guschanski K

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00