Olfactory receptors are expressed in pancreatic β-cells and promote glucose-stimulated insulin secretion.

abstract：:Sex-dependent effects of mismatched prenatal-postnatal maternal conditions are predicted by combining two evolutionary hypotheses: that foetal conditions provide a forecast of likely postnatal environments (Predictive Adaptive Response), and that the female foetus is better adapted than the male to maternal adversity ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hill J,Pickles A,Wright N,Braithwaite E,Sharp H

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:IgLONs are members of the immunoglobulin superfamily of cell adhesion proteins implicated in the process of neuronal outgrowth, cell adhesion and subdomain target recognition. IgLONs form homophilic and heterophilic complexes on the cell surface that repress or promote growth depending on the neuronal population, the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sanz RL,Ferraro GB,Girouard MP,Fournier AE

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the rhizodeposited carbon (C) dynamics of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), is crucial for soil fertility and C sequestration. Pot-grown winter wheat was pulse labelled with 14CO2 at the key growth stages. 14C in the shoots, roots and soil was measured at 5 or 2 days after 14C-labelling (DAL 5/2) at e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun Z,Chen Q,Han X,Bol R,Qu B,Meng F

更新日期：2018-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus (DM) during pregnancy can result in fetal overgrowth, likely due to placental dysfunction, which has health consequences for the infant. Here we test our prediction from previous work using a placental cell line that high glucose concentrations affect placental lipid metabolism. Placentas from women ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hulme CH,Nicolaou A,Murphy SA,Heazell AEP,Myers JE,Westwood M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the change in magnetisation with paramagnetic Al addition in the CoFeNi0.5Cr0.5-Alx (x: 0, 0.5, 1, and 1.5) complex concentrated alloy. The compositions were developed utilising the Mulliken electronegativity and d-electron/atom ratio. Spherical FeCr rich nanoprecipitates are observed for X: 1.0 and 1.5 in an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morley NA,Lim B,Xi J,Quintana-Nedelcos A,Leong Z

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment) method has been used successfully since 1990, but work is still required to obtain highly specific aptamers. Here, we present a novel approach called 'Competitive non-SELEX' (and termed as 'SELCOS' (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by COmpetitive Sel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kushwaha A,Takamura Y,Nishigaki K,Biyani M

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The floral phenology, pollination ecology and breeding systems of two sympatric early-divergent angiosperms, Goniothalamus tapisoides and G. suaveolens (Annonaceae) are compared. The flowers are protogynous and morphologically similar, with anthesis over 23-25 h. Both species are predominantly xenogamous and pollinate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lau JY,Pang CC,Ramsden L,Saunders RM

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In "classic" biomedical research, diseases have usually been studied individually. The pioneering human disease network (HDN) studies jointly consider a large number of diseases, analyse their interconnections, and provide a more comprehensive description of diseases. However, most of the existing HDN studies are base...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang Y,Ma S,Shia BC,Lee TS

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphids are important agricultural pests causing major yield losses worldwide. Since aphids can rapidly develop resistance to chemical insecticides there is an urgent need to find alternative aphid pest management strategies. Despite the economic importance of bluegreen aphid (Acyrthosiphon kondoi), very few genetic re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jacques S,Reidy-Crofts J,Sperschneider J,Kamphuis LG,Gao LL,Edwards OR,Singh KB

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A lack of exercise leads to being overweight or obese affecting regional brain structure and functional connectivity associated with impaired cognitive function and dementia. In recent decades, several studies of healthy individuals suggest that adiposity may also produce negative independent effects on the brain. We ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cárdenas D,Madinabeitia I,Vera J,de Teresa C,Alarcón F,Jiménez R,Catena A

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum merozoite invasion into erythrocytes is an essential step of the blood-stage cycle, survival of parasites, and malaria pathogenesis. P. falciparum merozoite Rh5 interacting protein (PfRipr) forms a complex with Rh5 and CyRPA in sequential molecular events leading to erythrocyte invasion. Recently...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nagaoka H,Kanoi BN,Ntege EH,Aoki M,Fukushima A,Tsuboi T,Takashima E

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Most tropical evergreen rain forests are characterised by varying degrees of precipitation seasonality that influence plant phenology and litterfall dynamics. Soil microbes are sensitive to soil water:air ratio and to nutrient availability. We studied if within-year seasonality in precipitation and litterfall-derived ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Buscardo E,Geml J,Schmidt SK,Freitas H,da Cunha HB,Nagy L

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice black-streaked dwarf disease, caused by rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV), is transmitted by small brown planthoppers (Laodelphax striatellus Fallén, SBPH) and causes severe yield loss in epidemic years in China and other East Asian countries. Breeding for resistance to RBSDV is a promising strategy to cont...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou T,Du L,Wang L,Wang Y,Gao C,Lan Y,Sun F,Fan Y,Wang G,Zhou Y

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a complex condition with unclear pathophysiology. Molecular disruptions within limbic brain regions and the periphery contribute to depression symptomatology and a more complete understanding the diversity of molecular changes that occur in these tissues may guide the development of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hamilton PJ,Chen EY,Tolstikov V,Peña CJ,Picone JA,Shah P,Panagopoulos K,Strat AN,Walker DM,Lorsch ZS,Robinson HL,Mervosh NL,Kiraly DD,Sarangarajan R,Narain NR,Kiebish MA,Nestler EJ

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear of predation can induce profound changes in the behaviour and physiology of prey species even if predator encounters are infrequent. For echolocating toothed whales, the use of sound to forage exposes them to detection by eavesdropping predators, but while some species exploit social defences or produce cryptic a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Aguilar de Soto N,Visser F,Tyack PL,Alcazar J,Ruxton G,Arranz P,Madsen PT,Johnson M

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Gayal (Bos frontalis) is a semi-wild and endangered bovine species that differs from domestic cattle (Bos taurus and Bos indicus), and its genetic background remains unclear. Here, we performed whole-genome sequencing of one Gayal for the first time, with one Red Angus cattle and one Japanese Black cattle as controls....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mei C,Wang H,Zhu W,Wang H,Cheng G,Qu K,Guang X,Li A,Zhao C,Yang W,Wang C,Xin Y,Zan L

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dodecyl amine edge functionalized few-layer graphene oxide quantum dots were synthesized in good yields. The covalent functionalization was demonstrated with NMR and AFM-IR. The resulting structure and particle size was measured with AFM and HRTEM. The thermal stability of the compound was investigated and showed a st...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wolk A,Rosenthal M,Neuhaus S,Huber K,Brassat K,Lindner JKN,Grothe R,Grundmeier G,Bremser W,Wilhelm R

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Several proteins and peptides in saliva were shown to stimulate gingival wound repair, but the role of salivary metabolites in this process remains unexplored. In vitro gingival re-epithelialization kinetics were determined using unstimulated saliva samples from healthy individuals collected during an experimental gin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fernandez-Gutierrez MM,Imangaliyev S,Prodan A,Loos BG,Keijser BJF,Kleerebezem M

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we investigate the unified bound of quantum speed limit time in open systems based on the modified Bures angle. This bound is applied to the damped Jaynes-Cummings model and the dephasing model, and the analytical quantum speed limit time is obtained for both models. As an example, the maximum coherent ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu SX,Yu CS

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In non-growing teeth, such as mouse and human molars, primary odontoblasts are long-lived post-mitotic cells that secrete dentine throughout the life of the tooth. New odontoblast-like cells are only produced in response to a damage or trauma. Little is known about the molecular events that initiate mesenchymal stem c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Babb R,Chandrasekaran D,Carvalho Moreno Neves V,Sharpe PT

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To attach reliably on various inclined rough surfaces, many insects have evolved both claws and adhesive pads on their feet. However, the interaction between these organs still remains unclear. Here we designed an artificial attachment device, which mimics the structure and function of claws and adhesive pads, and tes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Song Y,Dai Z,Wang Z,Ji A,Gorb SN

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is a globally significant aquaculture species rapidly gaining status as a farmed commodity. In West Africa, wild Nile tilapia genetic resources are abundant yet knowledge of fine-scale population structure and patterns of natural genetic variation are limited. Coinciding with this ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lind CE,Agyakwah SK,Attipoe FY,Nugent C,Crooijmans RPMA,Toguyeni A

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of radon in active fault zones is a sustained radioactive pollution source of the atmospheric environment. The species, concentration and flux of radon emitted in soil gas in active fault zones in the Capital of China were investigated by in-situ field measurements. Two main species of radon discharging fr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Z,Li Y,Liu Z,Wang J,Zhou X,Du J

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposition mutagenesis is a powerful tool to identify the function of genes, reveal essential genes and generally to unravel the genetic basis of living organisms. However, transposon-mediated mutagenesis has only been successfully applied to a limited number of archaeal species and has never been reported in Therm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guschinskaya N,Brunel R,Tourte M,Lipscomb GL,Adams MWW,Oger P,Charpentier X

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:SLC7A10 (Asc-1) is a sodium-independent amino acid transporter known to facilitate transport of a number of amino acids including glycine, L-serine, L-alanine, and L-cysteine, as well as their D-enantiomers. It has been described as a neuronal transporter with a primary role related to modulation of excitatory glutama...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ehmsen JT,Liu Y,Wang Y,Paladugu N,Johnson AE,Rothstein JD,du Lac S,Mattson MP,Höke A

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 is an intracellular parasite that recognizes its host via its tail and tail fiber proteins, known as receptor-binding proteins (RBPs). The RBPs attach to specific lipopolysaccharide (LPS) features on the host. Various studies have shown expansion of the phage's host range via mutations in the genes en...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Holtzman T,Globus R,Molshanski-Mor S,Ben-Shem A,Yosef I,Qimron U

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Silver has long been employed as an electrically conductive component, and morphology-dependent properties have been actively investigated. Here we present a novel scalable synthesis method of flower-shaped silver nanoparticles (silver nanoflowers, Ag NFs). The preferential affinity of citrate molecules on (111) surfa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： C MA,K P F,Singh S,Baik S

更新日期：2016-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Umami taste perception indicates the presence of amino acids, which are essential nutrients. Although the physiology of umami perception has been described in mammals, how insects detect amino acids remains unknown except in Drosophila melanogaster. We functionally characterized a gustatory receptor responding to L-am...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lim S,Jung J,Yunusbaev U,Ilyasov R,Kwon HW

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common liver disease. Previous studies on the association between Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection and NAFLD are inconsistent. Our study was aimed to find out the relationship between HP infection and NAFLD. We performed a large cross-sectional study in northern Chinese...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang T,Chen X,Xia C,Liu H,Yan H,Wang G,Wu Z

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence indicates that astronauts experience significant bone loss in space. We previously showed that simulated microgravity (μXg) using the NASA developed rotary cell culture system (RCCS) enhanced bone resorbing osteoclast (OCL) differentiation. However, the mechanism by which μXg increases OCL formation is unclea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sambandam Y,Baird KL,Stroebel M,Kowal E,Balasubramanian S,Reddy SV

更新日期：2016-05-04 00:00:00