Spittlebugs produce foam as a thermoregulatory adaptation.

abstract：:Alternatives to antibiotics for improving productivity and maintaining the health of livestock health are urgently needed. The scope of this research was conducted to investigate the effects of two alternatives (Bacillus licheniformis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae) to monensin on growth performance, antioxidant capacit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jia P,Cui K,Ma T,Wan F,Wang W,Yang D,Wang Y,Guo B,Zhao L,Diao Q

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine sponges are early-branching, filter-feeding metazoans that usually host complex microbiomes comprised of several, currently uncultivatable symbiotic lineages. Here, we use a low-carbon based strategy to cultivate low-abundance bacteria from Spongia officinalis. This approach favoured the growth of Alphaproteoba...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Karimi E,Keller-Costa T,Slaby BM,Cox CJ,da Rocha UN,Hentschel U,Costa R

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A large volcanic sulfate increase observed in ice core records around 1450 C.E. has been attributed in previous studies to a volcanic eruption from the submarine Kuwae caldera in Vanuatu. Both EPMA-WDS (electron microprobe analysis using a wavelength dispersive spectrometer) and SEM-EDS (scanning electron microscopy a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hartman LH,Kurbatov AV,Winski DA,Cruz-Uribe AM,Davies SM,Dunbar NW,Iverson NA,Aydin M,Fegyveresi JM,Ferris DG,Fudge TJ,Osterberg EC,Hargreaves GM,Yates MG

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinorhizal plants are ecologically and economically important. Symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria allows these woody dicotyledonous plants to colonise soils under nitrogen deficiency, water-stress or other extreme conditions. However, proteins involved in xerotolerance of symbiotic microorganisms have yet to be...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ghedira K,Harigua-Souiai E,Ben Hamda C,Fournier P,Pujic P,Guesmi S,Guizani I,Miotello G,Armengaud J,Normand P,Sghaier H

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositides play important roles in numerous intracellular membrane pathways. Little is known about the regulation or function of these lipids in rod photoreceptor cells, which have highly active membrane dynamics. Using new assays with femtomole sensitivity, we determined that whereas levels of phosphatidylinos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He F,Agosto MA,Anastassov IA,Tse DY,Wu SM,Wensel TG

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective hepatic autophagy is observed in obesity and diabetes, whereas autophagy is inhibited by insulin in hepatocytes. Insulin-induced anti-autophagy is mediated by non-canonical Gαi3 signaling via an unknown mechanism. Previously, we identified the anti-autophagic activity of Tnfaip8 via activation of mammalian t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim JS,Park J,Kim MS,Ha JY,Jang YW,Shin DH,Son JH

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption has been shown to cause dysbiosis, but the mechanism involved in it is unknown. Recurrent colitis is known to induce expression of α-defensins in the colon, but the effect of alcohol consumption on it is not known. We investigated the effect of ethanol on α-defensin expression in the small intestin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shukla PK,Meena AS,Rao V,Rao RG,Balazs L,Rao R

更新日期：2018-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer in young women is typically with higher proportion of adverse pathological features. Breast cancer with BRCA1 mutation is often early-onset, and is usually associated with triple negative phenotpe. In this study, we aim to analyze the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis in young breast canc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wei JT,Huang WH,Du CW,Qiu SQ,Wei XL,Liu J,Zhang GJ

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of entropy connects the number of possible configurations with the number of variables in large stochastic systems. Independent or weakly interacting variables render the number of configurations scale exponentially with the number of variables, making the Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon entropy extensive. In syst...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Balogh SG,Palla G,Pollner P,Czégel D

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a lethal progressive neurological disorder affecting the memory. Recently, US Food and Drug Administration mitigated the standard for drug approval, allowing symptomatic drugs that only improve cognitive deficits to be allowed to accelerate on to clinical trials. Our study focuses on taurin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim HY,Kim HV,Yoon JH,Kang BR,Cho SM,Lee S,Kim JY,Kim JW,Cho Y,Woo J,Kim Y

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral aneurysms are abnormal focal dilatations of arterial vessel walls with pathological vessel structure alterations. Sudden rupture can lead to a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which is associated with a high mortality. Therefore, the origin of cerebral aneurysms as well as the progression to the point of rupture need...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sehm T,Uckermann O,Galli R,Meinhardt M,Rickelt E,Krex D,Schackert G,Kirsch M

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pulmonary inflammation (CPI) gives rise to serious lung injuries in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of RA-associated CPI remains little understood. Here we established a novel tree shrew-based collagen-induced arthritis (TsCIA) model to study RA-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao B,Lin J,Jiang Z,Yang Z,Yu H,Ding L,Yu M,Cui Q,Dunavin N,Zhang M,Li M

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradysia odoriphaga and Bradysia difformis are devastating pests of vegetable, ornamental crops and edible mushrooms causing significant losses. Temperature may be an important factor restricting their population abundance in the summer. To determine the effects of short-term heat shock on adults, their survival, long...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu G,Xue M,Luo Y,Ji G,Liu F,Zhao H,Sun X

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Petunia × hybrida cv 'Mitchell Diploid' floral volatile benzenoid/phenylpropanoid (FVBP) biosynthesis ultimately produces floral volatiles derived sequentially from phenylalanine, cinnamic acid, and p-coumaric acid. In an attempt to better understand biochemical steps after p-coumaric acid production, we cloned and ch...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim JY,Swanson RT,Alvarez MI,Johnson TS,Cho KH,Clark DG,Colquhoun TA

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the initiative by WHO and other international organizations to eliminate HCV in the medium term, hepatitis C infection is still a major public health problem. Even non-injecting drugs users who engage in harmful or addictive drug use are at greater risk of acquiring the infection, when compared to the general ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Coutinho C,Bastos LS,da Mota JC,Toledo L,Costa K,Bertoni N,Bastos FI

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone (PTH) regulate mineral metabolism and are required to maintain calcium levels. Vitamin D deficiency is common, particularly during pregnancy, and has been associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. We sought to determine whether maternal 25(OH)D, PTH and calcium concentratio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Santorelli G,Whitelaw D,Farrar D,West J,Lawlor DA

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) produces five leucine-derived hydroxynitrile glucosides, potentially involved in alleviating pathogen and environmental stresses. These compounds include the cyanogenic glucoside epiheterodendrin. The biosynthetic genes are clustered. Total hydroxynitrile glucoside contents were previously ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ehlert M,Jagd LM,Braumann I,Dockter C,Crocoll C,Motawia MS,Møller BL,Lyngkjær MF

更新日期：2019-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsatillae radix is a conventional traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with common name Baitouweng, and has notable effects on inflammation and dysentery. Pulsatilla chinensis (Bge.) Regel is the only source plant of Baitouweng recorded in Chinese Pharmacopoeia, but its adulteration often occurs in the market that pos...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi Y,Zhao M,Yao H,Yang P,Xin T,Li B,Sun W,Chen S

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic solar cells (OSCs) are promising alternatives to the conventional inorganic solar cells due to their low-cost processing and compatibility with flexible substrates. The development of low band-gap polymer, e.g., poly-[[4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl] [3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moritomo Y,Yonezawa K,Yasuda T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) progresses to end-stage renal failure via renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis. Malnutrition, inflammation, and arteriosclerosis interact to exacerbate the poor prognosis of CKD, and their effective management is thus essential. The traditional Japanese medicine Rikkunshito (RKT) exerts appet...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wakui H,Yamaji T,Azushima K,Uneda K,Haruhara K,Nakamura A,Ohki K,Kinguchi S,Kobayashi R,Urate S,Suzuki T,Kamimura D,Minegishi S,Ishigami T,Kanaoka T,Matsuo K,Miyazaki T,Fujikawa T,Yamashita A,Tamura K

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is highly heritable, but the specific genes influencing obesity related traits are largely unknown. Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) could influence adipocyte differentiation. However, the association of FGF2 polymorphisms and obesity remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the associations of both t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hao RH,Guo Y,Dong SS,Weng GZ,Yan H,Zhu DL,Chen XF,Chen JB,Yang TL

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:After its recent rediscovery, the Hula painted frog (Latonia nigriventer) has remained one of the world's rarest and least understood amphibian species. Together with its apparently low dispersal capability and highly disturbed niche, the low abundance of this living fossil calls for urgent conservation measures. We u...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Perl RGB,Geffen E,Malka Y,Barocas A,Renan S,Vences M,Gafny S

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolding of translated proteins occurs in all domains of life. In most cells, misfolded proteins coalesce in discrete aggregates at distinct cellular locations. In many bacteria, including mycobacteria, protein aggregates are located at the cellular pole. Yet the mechanism by which aggregates are sorted to the mycob...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang YW,Zhu JH,Wang ZQ,Wu Y,Meng X,Zheng X,Javid B

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The repressive activity of ancestral histone-like proteins helps integrate transcription of foreign genes with discrepant AT content into existing regulatory networks. Our investigations indicate that the AT-rich discriminator region located between the -10 promoter element and the transcription start site of the regu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tapscott T,Kim JS,Crawford MA,Fitzsimmons L,Liu L,Jones-Carson J,Vázquez-Torres A

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years, the meteoric development of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSC) astonished the community. The efficiency has already reached the level needed for commercialization; however, the instability hinders its deployment on the market. Here, we report a mechanism to chemically stabiliz...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： El-Mellouhi F,Bentria el T,Rashkeev SN,Kais S,Alharbi FH

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of environment on individuals is particularly critical. In evolutionary games, adopting the strategy of the neighbor who performs better is nontrivial for the survival and maintenance of cooperation, in that such an action may help the agents to obtain higher benefit and more obvious evolutionary advantages...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Y,Zhang S,Zhang Z

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of the experiments which were performed using the optical biopsy system specially developed for in vivo tissue classification during the percutaneous needle biopsy (PNB) of the liver. The proposed system includes an optical probe of small diameter acceptable for use in the PNB of the li...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dremin V,Potapova E,Zherebtsov E,Kandurova K,Shupletsov V,Alekseyev A,Mamoshin A,Dunaev A

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is an emerging, minimally invasive technique for solid tumors ablation, under clinical investigation for cancer therapy. IRE affects only the cell membrane, killing cells while preserving the extracellular matrix structure. Current reports indicate tumors recurrence rate after IRE av...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Golberg A,Bruinsma BG,Uygun BE,Yarmush ML

更新日期：2015-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Generally confinement size is considered to determine the dimensionality of nanostructures. While the exciton Bohr radius is used as a criterion to define either weak or strong confinement in optical experiments, the binding energy of confined excitons is difficult to measure experimentally. One alternative is to use ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim H,Lee W,Park S,Kyhm K,Je K,Taylor RA,Nogues G,Dang LS,Song JD

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of linked color imaging (LCI) in improving the visibility of superficial non-ampullary duodenal epithelial tumors (SNADETs). We prospectively evaluated 44 consecutive patients diagnosed with SNADETs. Three trainees and three experts assessed the visibility scores of whi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Okimoto K,Maruoka D,Matsumura T,Tokunaga M,Kaneko T,Oura H,Akizue N,Ohta Y,Saito K,Arai M,Kato J,Kato N

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00