Discrimination of geographical origin of cultivated Polygala tenuifolia based on multi-element fingerprinting by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

abstract：:Detecting communities or clusters in a real-world, networked system is of considerable interest in various fields such as sociology, biology, physics, engineering science, and interdisciplinary subjects, with significant efforts devoted in recent years. Many existing algorithms are only designed to identify the compos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Y,Zhao P,Li P,Zhang K,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent emergence of metasurfaces has enabled the development of ultra-thin flat optical components through different wavefront shaping techniques at various wavelengths. However, due to the non-adaptive nature of conventional metasurfaces, the focal point of the resulting optics needs to be fixed at the design stage, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hosseininejad SE,Rouhi K,Neshat M,Faraji-Dana R,Cabellos-Aparicio A,Abadal S,Alarcón E

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Poorer liver function is positively associated with diabetes in Mendelian randomization (MR) studies. Observationally, adiposity is associated with poorer liver function. To clarify the etiology, we assessed the association of liver enzymes with adiposity observationally and using two-sample MR for validation. In the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu J,Au Yeung SL,Kwok MK,Leung JYY,Lin SL,Hui LL,Leung GM,Schooling CM

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-type saturable absorber has been demonstrated by filling the single mode photonic crystal fiber (SMPCF) with tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanosheets. The modulation depth, saturable intensity, and non-saturable loss of this SA are measured to be 3.53%, 159 MW/cm(2) and 23.2%, respectively. Based on this SA, a passi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yan P,Liu A,Chen Y,Wang J,Ruan S,Chen H,Ding J

更新日期：2015-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperdisulfide-constrained peptides are distinguished by their high stability and diverse functions. Thus far, these peptides have been reported from animals only but their occurrence in plants are rare. Here, we report the discovery, synthesis and characterization of a hyperdisulfide-constrained peptides family of ap...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wong KH,Tan WL,Xiao T,Tam JP

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In most species, fertilization induces Ca2+ transients in the egg. In mammals, the Ca2+ rises are triggered by phospholipase Cζ (PLCζ) released from the sperm; IP3 generated by PLCζ induces Ca2+ release from the intracellular Ca2+ store through IP3 receptor, termed IP3-induced Ca2+ release. Here, we developed new fluo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matsu-Ura T,Shirakawa H,Suzuki KGN,Miyamoto A,Sugiura K,Michikawa T,Kusumi A,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether the clinical trial treatment effect of urate-lowering therapy (ULT) in patient with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is generalizable to real-word settings is unclear. This study aimed to compare febuxostat with allopurinol for uric acid reduction and renal protection in patients with CKD. Adult CKD patients newly...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng YL,Tain YL,Lee CT,Yang YH,Huang YB,Wen YH,Hsu CN

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nacre, the gold standard for biomimicry, provides an excellent example and guideline for assembling high-performance composites. Inspired by the layered structure and extraordinary strength and toughness of natural nacre, nacre-like nanolignocellulose/poly (vinyl alcohol)/TiO2 composites possessed the similar layered ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Y,Wang H,Dang B,Xiong Y,Yao Q,Wang C,Sun Q,Jin C

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we derive an effective Hamiltonian for the surface states of a hollow topological insulator (TI) nanotube with finite width walls. Unlike a solid TI cylinder, a TI nanotube possesses both an inner as well as outer surface on which the states localized at each surface are coupled together. The curvature al...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Siu ZB,Tan SG,Jalil MB

更新日期：2017-04-03 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：:Glioblastoma multiforme has a poor prognosis and is highly chemoresistant. In this study, we implanted biodegradable 1,3-bis[2-chloroethyl]-1-nitroso-urea-, irinotecan-, and cisplatin-eluting poly[(d,l)-lactide-co-glycolide] (BIC/PLGA) and virgin nanofibrous membranes on the brain surface of C6 glioma-bearing rats in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tseng YY,Huang YC,Yang TC,Yang ST,Liu SC,Chang TM,Kau YC,Liu SJ

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural responses to incentives are altered in chronic pain and by opioid use. To understand how opioid use modulates the neural response to reward/value in chronic pain, we compared brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses to a monetary incentive delay (MID) task in patients with fibromyalgia takin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Martucci KT,MacNiven KH,Borg N,Knutson B,Mackey SC

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to optimize the applicability of an immunoliposome-based immunomagnetic concentration and separation assay to facilitate rapid detection of Cronobacter sakazakii in powdered infant formula (PIF). To determine the detection limit, specificity, and pre-enrichment incubation time (0, 4, 6, and 8 h), assa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shukla S,Lee G,Song X,Park JH,Cho H,Lee EJ,Kim M

更新日期：2016-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to measure biomolecular dynamics within cells and tissues is very important to understand fundamental physiological processes including cell adhesion, signalling, movement, division or metabolism. Usually, such information is obtained using particle tracking methods or single point fluctuation spectroscopy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hedde PN,Stakic M,Gratton E

更新日期：2014-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly synthesized mitochondrial precursor proteins have to become unfolded to cross the mitochondrial membranes. This unfolding is achieved primarily by mitochondrial Hsp70 (mtHsp70) for presequence-containing precursor proteins. However, the membrane potential across the inner membrane (ΔΨ) could also contribute to u...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sato TK,Kawano S,Endo T

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:III-nitride materials have been linked with a vast number of exciting applications from power electronics to solar cells. Herein, polycrystalline InN, GaN and systematically controlled InxGa1-xN composite thin films are fabricated on FTO glass by a facile, low-cost and scalable aerosol assisted chemical vapor depositi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： McInnes A,Sagu JS,Mehta D,Wijayantha KGU

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Flux balance analysis is the only modelling approach that is capable of producing genome-wide predictions of gene essentiality that may aid to unveil metabolic liabilities in cancer. Nevertheless, a systemic validation of gene essentiality predictions by flux balance analysis is currently missing. Here, we critically ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gatto F,Miess H,Schulze A,Nielsen J

更新日期：2015-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide is the third and most recently discovered gaseous signaling molecule following nitric oxide and carbon monoxide, playing important roles both in normal physiological conditions and disease progression. The trimethylsulfonium ion (TMS) can result from successive methylation reactions of hydrogen sulfid...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lajin B,Francesconi KA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major virulence factors of Clostridium difficile are toxins A and B. These toxins are encoded by tcdA and tcdB genes, which form a pathogenicity locus (PaLoc) together with three additional genes that have been implicated in regulation (tcdR and tcdC) and secretion (tcdE). To date, the PaLoc has always been found ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Monot M,Eckert C,Lemire A,Hamiot A,Dubois T,Tessier C,Dumoulard B,Hamel B,Petit A,Lalande V,Ma L,Bouchier C,Barbut F,Dupuy B

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Deforestation and forest degradation around the world endanger the functioning of ecosystems, climate stability, and conservation of biodiversity. We assessed the spatial and temporal dynamics of forest cover in Myanmar's Hkakabo Razi Landscape (HRL) to determine its integrity based on forest change and fragmentation ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Suarez-Rubio M,Connette G,Aung T,Kyaw M,Renner SC

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput screening facilities do not generally support biosafety level 3 organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. To discover not only antibacterials, but also virulence inhibitors with either bacterial or host cell targets, an assay monitoring lung fibroblast survival upon infection was developed and opti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tükenmez H,Edström I,Ummanni R,Fick SB,Sundin C,Elofsson M,Larsson C

更新日期：2019-01-10 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：:Tetrastatin, a 230 amino acid sequence from collagen IV, was previously demonstrated to inhibit melanoma progression. In the present paper, we identified the minimal active sequence (QKISRCQVCVKYS: QS-13) that reproduced the anti-tumor effects of whole Tetrastatin in vivo and in vitro on melanoma cell proliferation, m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lambert E,Fuselier E,Ramont L,Brassart B,Dukic S,Oudart JB,Dupont-Deshorgue A,Sellier C,Machado C,Dauchez M,Monboisse JC,Maquart FX,Baud S,Brassart-Pasco S

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Private Set Intersection Cardinality (PSI-CA) and Private Set Union Cardinality (PSU-CA) are two cryptographic primitives whereby two or more parties are able to obtain the cardinalities of the intersection and the union of their respective private sets, and the privacy of their sets is preserved. In this paper, we pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang C,Long Y,Sun Z,Li Q,Huang Q

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolution of cooperation requires some mechanism that reduces the risk of exploitation for cooperative individuals. Recent studies have shown that men with wide faces are anti-social, and they are perceived that way by others. This suggests that people could use facial width to identify anti-social men and thus li...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Efferson C,Vogt S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the unique selection rule, hyper-Raman scattering (HRS) can provide spectral information that linear Raman and infrared spectroscopy cannot obtain. However, the weak signal is the key bottleneck that restricts the application of HRS technique in study of the molecular structure, surface or interface behavio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu S,Fan C,Ding P,Liang E,Hou H,Wu Y

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone homeostasis is maintained by the balance of osteoblasts (OBs) and osteoclasts (OCs). Increased activity of OCs not only contributes to pathological bone resorption, such as osteoporosis and periodontitis, but also is responsible for physiological conditions like orthodontic tooth movement (OTM). However, the deta...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo T,Zhang L,Konermann A,Zhou H,Jin F,Liu W

更新日期：2015-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are mainly used for recombinant protein production. However, the unstable transgene expression and lower transgene copy numbers are the major issues need to be resolved. Here, eleven internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements from viral and cellular IRES were evaluated for foreign g...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chai YR,Ge MM,Wei TT,Jia YL,Guo X,Wang TY

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication-incompetent adenovirus (Ad) vector is one of the most promising vectors for gene therapy; however, systemic administration of Ad vectors results in severe hepatotoxicities, partly due to the leaky expression of Ad genes in the liver. Here we show that nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) mediates the leaky e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Machitani M,Sakurai F,Wakabayashi K,Nakatani K,Shimizu K,Tachibana M,Mizuguchi H

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous past studies have investigated neurophysiological correlates of music-syntactic processing. However, only little is known about how prior knowledge about an upcoming syntactically irregular event modulates brain correlates of music-syntactic processing. Two versions of a short chord sequence were presented re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo S,Koelsch S

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00