Traumatic Brain Injury Leads to Accelerated Atherosclerosis in Apolipoprotein E Deficient Mice.

abstract：:The effect of initial evenness on the temporal trajectory of synthetic communities in comprehensive, low-volume microcosm studies remains unknown. We used flow cytometric fingerprinting and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to assess the impact of time on community structure in one hundred synthetic ecosystems of fixe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ehsani E,Hernandez-Sanabria E,Kerckhof FM,Props R,Vilchez-Vargas R,Vital M,Pieper DH,Boon N

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction of infection trends, estimating the efficacy of contact tracing, testing or impact of influx of infected are of vital importance for administration during an ongoing epidemic. Most effective methods currently are empirical in nature and their relation to parameters of interest to administrators are not evid...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raghavan M,Sridharan KS,Mandayam Rangayyan Y

更新日期：2020-10-06 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： Nik ME,Malaekeh-Nikouei B,Amin M,Hatamipour M,Teymouri M,Sadeghnia HR,Iranshahi M,Jaafari MR

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Oil spills represent an overwhelming carbon input to the marine environment that immediately impacts the sea surface ecosystem. Microbial communities degrading the oil fraction that eventually sinks to the seafloor must also deal with hydrostatic pressure, which linearly increases with depth. Piezosensitive hydrocarbo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scoma A,Barbato M,Hernandez-Sanabria E,Mapelli F,Daffonchio D,Borin S,Boon N

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Swarming bacteria are an example of a complex, active biological system, where high cell density and super-diffusive cell mobility confer survival advantages to the group as a whole. Previous studies on the dynamics of the swarm have been limited to easily observable regions at the advancing edge of the swarm where ce...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Partridge JD,Ariel G,Schvartz O,Harshey RM,Be'er A

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of human and animal in vitro or in vivo studies have investigated the relationship between dietary choline and betaine and cancer risk, suggesting that choline and betaine consumption may be protective for cancer. There are also a few epidemiologic studies exploring this relationship, however, with inconsiste...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun S,Li X,Ren A,Du M,Du H,Shu Y,Zhu L,Wang W

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:With the surge of GPS-technology, many studies uncovered space use of mobile animals and shed light on the underlying behavioral mechanisms of habitat selection. Habitat selection and variation in either occurrence or strength of functional responses (i.e. how selection changes with availability) have given new insigh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： William G,Jean-Michel G,Sonia S,Christophe B,Atle M,Nicolas M,Maryline P,Clément C

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and demonstrate an on-chip optofluidic device allowing active oscillatory microrheological measurements with sub-μL sample volume, low cost and high flexibility. Thanks to the use of this optofluidic microrheometer it is possible to measure the viscoelastic properties of complex fluids in the frequency rang...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vitali V,Nava G,Zanchetta G,Bragheri F,Crespi A,Osellame R,Bellini T,Cristiani I,Minzioni P

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Maoto, a traditional Japanese Kampo medicine, has been used to treat various respiratory diseases, including respiratory infections and influenza. Ephedrine (EPD), the main ingredient in maoto, is also clinically used to treat respiratory diseases. However, the pharmacokinetics and distribution of EPD in the lungs aft...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matsumoto T,Kushida H,Matsushita S,Oyama Y,Suda T,Watanabe J,Kase Y,Setou M

更新日期：2017-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis Tóxicos en Levadura (ATL) protein family is a class of E3 ubiquitin ligases with a characteristic RING-H2 Zn-finger structure that mediates diverse physiological processes and stress responses in plants. We carried out a genome-wide survey of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) ATL genes and retrieved 96 seq...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ariani P,Regaiolo A,Lovato A,Giorgetti A,Porceddu A,Camiolo S,Wong D,Castellarin S,Vandelle E,Polverari A

更新日期：2016-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tendons must be able to withstand the forces generated by muscles and not fail. Accordingly, a previous comparative analysis across species has shown that tendon strength (i.e., failure stress) increases for larger species. In addition, the elastic modulus increases proportionally to the strength, demonstrating that t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Javidi M,McGowan CP,Schiele NR,Lin DC

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:One fundamental question in prey luring systems is to understand how visual signals are interpreted by the receiver. Predators lure prey by falsely imitating the signal of a model, or may exploit sensory preferences of the receivers, which search for rewarding signals. Crab spiders reflect ultraviolet (UV) light, ambu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vieira C,Ramires EN,Vasconcellos-Neto J,Poppi RJ,Romero GQ

更新日期：2017-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulose is the major component of cell wall materials. A 300 bp specific fragment from the cDNA fragment was chosen to insert into vector pFGC1008 at forward and reverse orientations to construct the recombinant RNAi vector. Knockdown of BoiCesA caused "dwarf" phenotype with smaller leaves and a loss of the content ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li S,Zhang L,Wang Y,Xu F,Liu M,Lin P,Ren S,Ma R,Guo YD

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a novel computational coherent imaging technique for high space-bandwidth product imaging. Mathematically, Fourier ptychographic (FP) reconstruction can be implemented as a phase retrieval optimization process, in which we only obtain low resolution intensity images correspond...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bian L,Suo J,Chung J,Ou X,Yang C,Chen F,Dai Q

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Various important topological properties of healthy brain connectome have recently been identified. However, the manner in which brain lesion changes the functional network topology is unknown. We examined how critical specific brain areas are in the maintenance of network topology using multivariate support vector re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yuan B,Fang Y,Han Z,Song L,He Y,Bi Y

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterodonty is one of the hallmarks of mammals. It has been suggested that, homeobox genes, differentially expressed in the ectomesenchyme of the jaw primordium along the distal-proximal axis, would determine the tooth classes (homeobox code model) based on mouse studies. Because mouse has highly specialized tooth pat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wakamatsu Y,Egawa S,Terashita Y,Kawasaki H,Tamura K,Suzuki K

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated changes in the temporospatial features of hourly precipitation during the warm season over mainland China. The frequency and amount of hourly precipitation displayed latitudinal zonation, especially for light and moderate precipitation, which showed successive downward change over time in northeastern ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Miao C,Sun Q,Borthwick AG,Duan Q

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Insight refers to the sudden conscious shift in the perception of a situation following a period of unconscious processing. The present study aimed to investigate the implicit neural mechanisms underlying insight-based recognition, and to determine the association between these mechanisms and the extent of pupil dilat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Suzuki Y,Minami T,Nakauchi S

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are an important class of membrane-bound structures that have been widely investigated for their roles in intercellular communication in the contexts of tumor progression, vascular function, immunity and regenerative medicine. Much of the current knowledge on the functions of EVs pertains ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baxter AA,Phan TK,Hanssen E,Liem M,Hulett MD,Mathivanan S,Poon IKH

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) represents a rare form of primary liver cancer with increasing incidence but dismal prognosis. Surgical treatment has remained the only potentially curative treatment option, but it remains unclear which patients benefit most from liver surgery, highlighting the need for new preoperative strat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Loosen SH,Roderburg C,Kauertz KL,Koch A,Vucur M,Schneider AT,Binnebösel M,Ulmer TF,Lurje G,Schoening W,Tacke F,Trautwein C,Longerich T,Dejong CH,Neumann UP,Luedde T

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Superior cervical ganglion neurons (SCGN) are often used to investigate neurotransmitter release mechanisms. In this study, we optimized the dissociation and culture conditions of rat SCGN cultures for dual patch clamp recordings. Two weeks in vitro are sufficient to achieve a significant CNTF-induced cholinergic swit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Amendola J,Boumedine N,Sangiardi M,El Far O

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have systematically investigated the influence of oxygen vacancy defects on the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of La(1-x)Sr(x)MnO3 (x = 1/3) film by means of ab initio calculations using bare GGA as well as GGA+U formalism, in the latter of which, the on-site Coulombic repulsion parameter U for Mn 3...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytological and molecular studies have revealed that inversion chromosomal polymorphism is widespread across taxa and that inversions are among the most common structural changes fixed between species. Two major mechanisms have been proposed for the origin of inversions considering that breaks occur at either repetiti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Orengo DJ,Puerma E,Cereijo U,Aguadé M

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiretroviral therapy containing an integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI) plus two NRTIs has become the recommended treatment for antiretroviral-naive HIV-1-infected patients in the updated guidelines. We aimed to determine the prevalence of INSTI-related mutations in Taiwan. Genotypic resistance assays were pe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chang SY,Lin PH,Cheng CL,Chen MY,Sun HY,Hsieh SM,Sheng WH,Su YC,Su LH,Chang SF,Liu WC,Hung CC,Chang SC

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report our study of protein expression in rat peri-infarct tissue, 48 h after the induction of permanent focal cerebral ischemia. Two proteomic approaches, gel electrophoresis with mass spectrometry and combined fractional diagonal chromatography (COFRADIC), were performed using tissue samples from th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Brea D,Agulla J,Staes A,Gevaert K,Campos F,Sobrino T,Blanco M,Dávalos A,Castillo J,Ramos-Cabrer P

更新日期：2015-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid mediator lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) signals via six distinct G protein-coupled receptors to mediate both unique and overlapping biological effects, including cell migration, proliferation and survival. LPA is produced extracellularly by autotaxin (ATX), a secreted lysophospholipase D, from lysophosphatidylc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nishioka T,Arima N,Kano K,Hama K,Itai E,Yukiura H,Kise R,Inoue A,Kim SH,Solnica-Krezel L,Moolenaar WH,Chun J,Aoki J

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, we demonstrated the biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) by highly stable, economic and eco-friendly method using leaf extract of Terminalia arjuna (T. arjuna) and employing as a catalyst for the degradation of methyl orange (MO), methylene blue (MB), congo red (CR) and 4- nitrophenol (4-N...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raj S,Singh H,Trivedi R,Soni V

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of navigation and robotics in spine surgery has the potential to accurately identify and maintain bone entry position and planned trajectory. The goal of this study was to examine the feasibility, accuracy and efficacy of a new robot-guided system for semi-automated, minimally invasive, pedicle screw p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Burström G,Balicki M,Patriciu A,Kyne S,Popovic A,Holthuizen R,Homan R,Skulason H,Persson O,Edström E,Elmi-Terander A

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitters and peptide hormones are secreted into outside the cell by a vesicle fusion process. Although non-coding RNA (ncRNA) that include microRNA (miRNA) regulates gene expression inside the cell where they are transcribed, extracellular miRNA has been recently discovered outside the cells, proposing that m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gümürdü A,Yildiz R,Eren E,Karakülah G,Ünver T,Genç Ş,Park Y

更新日期：2017-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This study proposed a novel method to heal microcrack within Mg alloy tubes using high density eddy current pulse treatment (ECPT). Through electromagnetic induction inside a copper coil connected with a high density pulse power source supply, the high density (greater than 5 × 109 A/m2) and short duration eddy curren...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu W,Yang C,Yu H,Jin X,Guo B,Shan D

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00