Egr2-dependent microRNA-138 is dispensable for peripheral nerve myelination.

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： Park J,Wang Q,Wu Q,Mao-Draayer Y,Kim CH

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Both Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 wild type and its mutant ΔomcA/mtrC are capable of transforming Au(III) into Au nanoparticles (AuNPs). Cyclic voltammetry reveals a decrease in redox current after the wild type is exposed to Au(III) but an increase in oxidation current for the mutant. The peak current of the wild type ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu R,Cui L,Chen L,Wang C,Cao C,Sheng G,Yu H,Zhao F

更新日期：2013-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we have fabricated rutile TiO2 nanorod-coupled α-Fe2O3 by a wet-chemical process. It is demonstrated that the visible activities for photoelectrochemical water oxidation and for degrading pollutant of α-Fe2O3 are greatly enhanced after coupling a proper amount of rutile nanorods. The enhanced activity is attri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Luan P,Xie M,Liu D,Fu X,Jing L

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The stratum corneum plays a crucial role in epidermal barrier function. Various changes occur in granular cells at the uppermost stratum granulosum during cornification. To understand the temporal details of this process, we visualized the cell shape and organelles of cornifying keratinocytes in a living human epiderm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ipponjima S,Umino Y,Nagayama M,Denda M

更新日期：2020-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of an auroral substorm on the total electron content (TEC) jumps and cycle slips on Global Positioning System (GPS) at high-latitudes is studied. For the first time, optical data from the all-sky imager, as well as interplanetary magnetic field and magnetometer data are used to complete the analysis of t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chernyshov AA,Miloch WJ,Jin Y,Zakharov VI

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, the environment has been viewed as a passive deposit of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, where bacteria show biological cost for maintenance of these genes. Thus, in the absence of antimicrobial pressure, it is expected that they disappear from environmental bacterial communities. To test this scenar...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chamosa LS,Álvarez VE,Nardelli M,Quiroga MP,Cassini MH,Centrón D

更新日期：2017-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To manage health conditions of farmed fish and other living creatures, a simple method to measure bioelectric signals of the creatures in seawater is expected. A novel method to measure bioelectric signals by utilizing the conductivity of seawater surrounding the entire body of a fish is proposed. As for the proposed ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saiki T,Takizawa Y,Miyahara K,Arima M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant extracts contain many active compounds, which are tremendously fruitful for plant defence against several insect pests. The prime objectives of the present study were to calculate the extraction yield and to evaluate the leaf extracts of Citrullus colocynthis (L.), Cannabis indica (L.) and Artemisia argyi (L.) a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ahmed M,Peiwen Q,Gu Z,Liu Y,Sikandar A,Hussain D,Javeed A,Shafi J,Iqbal MF,An R,Guo H,Du Y,Wang W,Zhang Y,Ji M

更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanopore-based sensing has emerged as a promising candidate for affordable and powerful DNA sequencing technologies. Herein, we demonstrate that nanopores can be successfully fabricated in Mg alloys via focused electron beam (e-beam) technology. Employing in situ high-resolution transmission electron microscopy techni...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng H,Liu Y,Cao F,Wu S,Jia S,Cao A,Zhao D,Wang J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed characterisation of the molecular determinants of membrane binding by α-synuclein (αS), a 140-residue protein whose aggregation is associated with Parkinson's disease, is of fundamental significance to clarify the manner in which the balance between functional and dysfunctional processes are regulated for t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fusco G,De Simone A,Arosio P,Vendruscolo M,Veglia G,Dobson CM

更新日期：2016-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The adipokines chemerin and omentin-1 have been suggested to influence cardiovascular function. The study aimed to investigate the longitudinal association between chemerin, omentin-1 concentrations and risk of incident heart failure (HF), respectively. We conducted a case-cohort study nested within the European Prosp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Menzel J,di Giuseppe R,Biemann R,Wittenbecher C,Aleksandrova K,Eichelmann F,Fritsche A,Schulze MB,Boeing H,Isermann B,Weikert C

更新日期：2017-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A potted experiment with Populus × euramericana 'Neva' was carried out to assess whether there are positive effects of magnetic treatment of saline water (MTSW) on nitrogen metabolism under controlled conditions in a greenhouse. Growth properties, nitrogen contents, enzyme activities and metabolite concentrations were...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu X,Zhu H,Wang L,Bi S,Zhang Z,Meng S,Zhang Y,Wang H,Song C,Ma F

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Central to intrinsic apoptosis signaling is the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria, which depends on the pro-apoptotic effector proteins Bax, Bak or Bok. These pore-forming effector proteins share four Bcl-2 homology (BH) domains, a functionally essential and conserved sequence of hydrophobic amino acids in the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stehle D,Grimm M,Einsele-Scholz S,Ladwig F,Johänning J,Fischer G,Gillissen B,Schulze-Osthoff K,Essmann F

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic regulation of arterial luminal diameter involves intricate network of intercellular communication between the endothelial and smooth muscle cells that is highly dependent on the molecular mediators released by the endothelium. Albeit the well-recognized contribution of nitric oxide (NO) towards vasodilatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Manicam C,Staubitz J,Brochhausen C,Grus FH,Pfeiffer N,Gericke A

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer printing, a two-step process (i.e. picking up and printing) for heterogeneous integration, has been widely exploited for the fabrication of functional electronics system. To ensure a reliable process, strong adhesion for picking up and weak or no adhesion for printing are required. However, it is challenging ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sim K,Chen S,Li Y,Kammoun M,Peng Y,Xu M,Gao Y,Song J,Zhang Y,Ardebili H,Yu C

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen tolerance of selenium-containing [NiFeSe] hydrogenases (Hases) is attributable to the high reducing power of the selenocysteine residue, which sustains the bimetallic Ni-Fe catalytic center in the large subunit. Genes encoding [NiFeSe] Hases are inherited by few sulphate-reducing δ-proteobacteria globally distr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tamura T,Tsunekawa N,Nemoto M,Inagaki K,Hirano T,Sato F

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and experimentally demonstrate real-time locating and speed measurement of fibre fuse by analysing the Doppler shift of reflected light using optical frequency-domain reflectometry (OFDR). Our method can detect the start of a fibre fuse within 200 ms which is equivalent to a propagation distance of about 10...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang S,Ma L,Fan X,Wang B,He Z

更新日期：2016-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain lacks a traditional lymphatic system for metabolite clearance. The existence of a "glymphatic system" where metabolites are removed from the brain's extracellular space by convective exchange between interstitial fluid (ISF) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) along the paravascular spaces (PVS) around cerebral bl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kedarasetti RT,Drew PJ,Costanzo F

更新日期：2020-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The voluntary control of movement is often tested by using the countermanding, or stop-signal task that sporadically requires the suppression of a movement in response to an incoming stop-signal. Neurophysiological recordings in monkeys engaged in the countermanding task have shown that dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) is...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pani P,Giarrocco F,Giamundo M,Montanari R,Brunamonti E,Ferraina S

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice is the most important crop in the world, acting as the staple food for over half of the world's population. The evolutionary relationships of cultivated rice and its wild relatives have remained contentious and inconclusive. Here we report on the use of whole chloroplast sequences to elucidate the evolutionary an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wambugu PW,Brozynska M,Furtado A,Waters DL,Henry RJ

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In southeastern China (SEC), the precipitation amount produced by the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) is almost equivalent to that during the non-summer monsoon (NSM) period, both of them significantly affecting agriculture and socioeconomy. Here, we present a seasonally-resolved stalagmite δ18O record (δ18Os) for th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang H,Cheng H,Spötl C,Cai Y,Sinha A,Tan L,Yi L,Yan H,Kathayat G,Ning Y,Li X,Zhang F,Zhao J,Edwards RL

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair cortisol concentration (HCC) is a promising measure of long-term hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity. Previous research has suggested an association between HCC and psychological variables, and initial studies of inter-individual variance in HCC have implicated genetic factors. However, whether HCC...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rietschel L,Streit F,Zhu G,McAloney K,Frank J,Couvy-Duchesne B,Witt SH,Binz TM,CORtisolNETwork (CORNET) Consortium.,Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC).,McGrath J,Hickie IB,Hansell

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza viruses are among the most common pathogens that threaten the health of humans and animals worldwide. Various anti-viral therapeutic agents are currently used for treatment and prophylaxis of influenza virus, but the targets of these drugs are easily mutated and result in resistance. Therefore, medications t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pang B,Cheung NN,Zhang W,Dai J,Kao RY,Zhang H,Hao Q

更新日期：2016-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The benzodiazepine midazolam is widely used in critical care medicine. Midazolam has a clinically active metabolite, 1-hydroxymidazolam. The contribution of 1-hydroxymidazolam to the effects of midazolam is controversial. The aim of the current study was to compare the actions of midazolam and 1-hydroxymidazolam on ne...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Balk M,Hentschke H,Rudolph U,Antkowiak B,Drexler B

更新日期：2017-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to 40% of congenital diseases present disturbances of brain and craniofacial development resulting in simultaneous alterations of both systems. Currently, the best available method to preclinically visualize the brain and the bones simultaneously is to co-register micro-magnetic resonance (µMR) and micro-computed t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Llambrich S,Wouters J,Himmelreich U,Dierssen M,Sharpe J,Gsell W,Martínez-Abadías N,Vande Velde G

更新日期：2020-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) is well known as a high-priority pollutant. This study explored the impacts of DBP on the metabolic pathways of microbes in black soils in the short term (20 days). The results showed that the microbial communities were changed in black soils with DBP. In nitrogen cycling, the abundances of the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu W,You Y,Wang Z,Chen W,Zeng J,Zhao X,Su Y

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of pure spin current using a nonlocal geometry is a promising method for controlling magnetization in spintronic devices from the viewpoints of increasing freedom in device structure and avoiding problems related to charge current. Here, we report an experimental demonstration of magnetization switching of a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Suto H,Nagasawa T,Kanao T,Yamada K,Mizushima K

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cd3As2 has long been known as a high-mobility semiconductor. The recent finding of a topological semimetal state in this compound has demanded growth of epitaxial films with high crystallinity and controlled thickness. Here we report the structural characterisation of Cd3As2 films grown on SrTiO3 substrates by solid-p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nakazawa Y,Uchida M,Nishihaya S,Kriener M,Kozuka Y,Taguchi Y,Kawasaki M

更新日期：2018-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphite's capacity of intercalating lithium in rechargeable batteries is limited (theoretically, 372 mAh g-1) due to low diffusion within commensurately-stacked graphene layers. Graphene foam with highly enriched incommensurately-stacked layers was grown and applied as an active electrode in rechargeable batteries. A...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Paronyan TM,Thapa AK,Sherehiy A,Jasinski JB,Jangam JS

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphenol A (BPA) is widely used in the manufacture of plastics and epoxy resins and is prevalent in the aquatic environment. BPA disrupts endocrine pathways in fish, but the long-term developmental implications are unknown. We demonstrate that BPA deposition in the eggs of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), an ecol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sadoul B,Birceanu O,Aluru N,Thomas JK,Vijayan MM

更新日期：2017-10-26 00:00:00