Plasmon excitations with a semi-integer angular momentum.

abstract：:With the development of ultra-intense laser technology, MeV ions can be obtained from laser-foil interactions in the laboratory. These energetic ion beams can be applied in fast ignition for inertial confinement fusion, medical therapy, and proton imaging. However, these ions are mainly accelerated in the laser propag...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang W,Shen B,Zhang X,Zhang L,Shi Y,Xu Z

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive and accurate characterization of brain metabolome is fundamental to brain science, but has been hindered by technical limitations. We profiled the brain metabolome in male Wistar rats at different ages (day 1 to week 111) using high-sensitivity and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Totally 380 metabolit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng X,Chen T,Zhao A,Wang X,Xie G,Huang F,Liu J,Zhao Q,Wang S,Wang C,Zhou M,Panee J,He Z,Jia W

更新日期：2016-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous essential metal elements (EMEs) are necessary to maintain the proper function of human body. In this case-control study, we investigated the associations of 11 EMEs [Calcium (Ca), potassium (K), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na), manganese (Mn), selenium (Se), cobalt (Co), Molybdenum (Mo), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma J,Yan L,Guo T,Yang S,Liu Y,Xie Q,Ni D,Wang J

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:New monosaccharide-based lipid A analogues were rationally designed through MD-2 docking studies. A panel of compounds with two carboxylate groups as phosphates bioisosteres, was synthesized with the same glucosamine-bis-succinyl core linked to different unsaturated and saturated fatty acid chains. The binding of the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cochet F,Facchini FA,Zaffaroni L,Billod JM,Coelho H,Holgado A,Braun H,Beyaert R,Jerala R,Jimenez-Barbero J,Martin-Santamaria S,Peri F

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic asthma and obesity are major public health problems in the world. Recent Meta-analysis studies implicated a positive relationship between serum leptin, which is elevated in obese individuals, and the risk of asthma. However, it is not well understood how obesity-associated elevation of leptin increases the ri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng H,Wu D,Wu X,Zhang X,Zhou Q,Luo Y,Yang X,Chock CJ,Liu M,Yang XO

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate changes in the size of the population of patients who are receiving long-term, active treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This retrospective, observational study included 18,165 patients who received anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injections (3,974 eyes). The injec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baek SK,Kim JH,Kim JW,Kim CG

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) applying flow cytometry to separate cells on a molecular basis is a widespread method. We demonstrate that both fluorescent and unlabeled live cells in a Petri dish observed with a microscope can be automatically recognized by computer vision and picked up by a computer-contr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Környei Z,Beke S,Mihálffy T,Jelitai M,Kovács KJ,Szabó Z,Szabó B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer patients often use dietary supplements while on therapy, but little is known about interactions of supplements with cancer chemotherapy. Black raspberries (BRB) have anti-cancer effects, but have not been evaluated for interference with chemotherapy for castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Here we studied...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Eskra JN,Schlicht MJ,Bosland MC

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The high theoretical capacity and low discharge potential of silicon have attracted much attention on Si-based anodes. Herein, hollow porous SiO2 nanocubes have been prepared via a two-step hard-template process and evaluated as electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries. The hollow porous SiO2 nanocubes exhibited ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yan N,Wang F,Zhong H,Li Y,Wang Y,Hu L,Chen Q

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare pulmonary disease in which the abnormalities in alveolar surfactant accumulation are caused by impairments of GM-CSF pathway attributing to defects in a variety of genes. However, hereditary PAP is extremely uncommon and a detailed understanding in the genetic inheritance...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chiu CY,Su SC,Fan WL,Lai SH,Tsai MH,Chen SH,Wong KS,Chung WH

更新日期：2017-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The late Ediacaran witnessed an increase in metazoan diversity and ecological complexity, marking the inception of the Cambrian Explosion. To constrain the drivers of this diversification, we combine redox and nutrient data for two shelf transects, with an inventory of biotic diversity and distribution from the Nama G...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bowyer FT,Shore AJ,Wood RA,Alcott LJ,Thomas AL,Butler IB,Curtis A,Hainanan S,Curtis-Walcott S,Penny AM,Poulton SW

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to reprogram adult somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and the subsequent development of protocols for their differentiation into disease-relevant cell types have enabled in-depth molecular analyses of multiple disease states as hitherto impossible. Neurons differentiated from patient...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Heman-Ackah SM,Bassett AR,Wood MJ

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a common human malignancy with a high incidence rate and poor prognosis. Although astrocyte elevated gene 1 (AEG-1) expression is up-regulated in various human cancers and plays an important role in carcinogenesis and tumour progression, the impact of AEG-1 on the development and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Wang T,Sun Y,Sun W,Wang X

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) levels are observed in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, and this increase is associated with poor prognosis. Increased synthesis of PGE2 in CRC has been shown to occur through COX-2-dependent mechanisms; however, loss of the PGE2-catabolizing enzyme, 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Monteleone NJ,Moore AE,Iacona JR,Lutz CS,Dixon DA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cancers, the establishment of a patient's future treatment regime often relies on histopathological assessment of tumor tissue specimens in order to determine the extent of the 'pathological response' to a given therapy. However, histopathological assessment of pathological response remains subjective. Here we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Patterson NH,Alabdulkarim B,Lazaris A,Thomas A,Marcinkiewicz MM,Gao ZH,Vermeulen PB,Chaurand P,Metrakos P

更新日期：2016-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of aquatic carbon cycles by temperature is a significant uncertainty in our understanding of how watersheds will respond to climate change. Aquatic ecosystems transport substantial quantities of carbon to the atmosphere and ocean, yet we have limited understanding of how temperature modifies aquatic eco...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jankowski KJ,Schindler DE

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the pro-drug principle, aspirin and eugenol were used to synthesize aspirin eugenol ester (AEE) by esterification reaction. In present study, the anti-atherosclerosis effects of AEE were investigated in hamsters with the utilization of metabonomic approach based on UPLC-Q-TOF/MS. Biochemical parameters and hi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma N,Yang Y,Liu X,Kong X,Li S,Qin Z,Jiao Z,Li J

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The same prebiotics have produced inconsistent effects on microbiota when evaluated in different batch fermentation studies. To understand the reasons behind these discrepancies, we compared impact of one prebiotic formula on the same inoculated fecal microbiota in two frequently used batch systems: phosphate-buffered...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Long W,Xue Z,Zhang Q,Feng Z,Bridgewater L,Wang L,Zhao L,Pang X

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the excited-state dynamics in perovskite photovoltaics is necessary for progress in these materials, but changes in dynamics depending on the fabrication processes used for perovskite photoactive layers remain poorly characterised. Here we report a comparative study on femtosecond transient absorption (T...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim IS,Jo C,Kang R,Kim DY,Son SJ,Hwang IW,Ko DK

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanostructured (NS) and ultrafine-grained (UFG) materials have high strength and relatively low ductility. Their toughness has not been comprehensively investigated. Here we report the Charpy impact behavior and the corresponding microstructural evolutions in UFG Cu with equi-axed and elongated grains which were prepa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liang N,Zhao Y,Wang J,Zhu Y

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence indicated that human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are responsive not only to biochemical but also to physical cues, such as substrate topography and stiffness. To simulate the dynamic structures of extracellular environments of the marrow in vivo, we designed a novel surrogate substrate for marrow ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Frank V,Kaufmann S,Wright R,Horn P,Yoshikawa HY,Wuchter P,Madsen J,Lewis AL,Armes SP,Ho AD,Tanaka M

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite well-established sex differences for cognition, audition, and somatosensation, few studies have investigated whether there are also sex differences in visual perception. We report the results of fifteen perceptual measures (such as visual acuity, visual backward masking, contrast detection threshold or motion ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shaqiri A,Roinishvili M,Grzeczkowski L,Chkonia E,Pilz K,Mohr C,Brand A,Kunchulia M,Herzog MH

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamics is a branch of science blessed by an unparalleled combination of generality of scope and formal simplicity. Based on few natural assumptions together with the four laws, it sets the boundaries between possible and impossible in macroscopic aggregates of matter. This triggered groundbreaking achievements...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Correa LA,Palao JP,Alonso D,Adesso G

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual field (VF) testing has usually been performed with the central gaze as a fixed point. Recent publications indicated optic nerve head deformations induced by optic nerve traction force can promote the progression of optic neuropathies, including glaucoma. We generated a new static test protocol that adds 6° addu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shoji T,Mine I,Kumagai T,Kosaka A,Yoshikawa Y,Shinoda K

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The human β-defensin-1 (HBD1) is an antimicrobial peptide constitutively expressed by epithelial cells at mucosal surfaces. In addition to its microbicidal properties, the loss of HBD1 expression in several cancers suggests that it may also have an anti-tumor activity. Here, we investigated the link between HBD1 expre...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bonamy C,Sechet E,Amiot A,Alam A,Mourez M,Fraisse L,Sansonetti PJ,Sperandio B

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared effects of five hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) prolyl hydroxylases (PHD) inhibitors on PC12 cells and primary rat neurons following oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD). At 100 µM, the PHD inhibitors did not cause cytotoxicity and apoptosis. MTT activity was only significantly reduced by FG4592 or Baye...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Singh A,Wilson JW,Schofield CJ,Chen R

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The early diverged Magnoliaceae shows a historical temperate-tropical distribution among lineages indicating divergent evolution, yet which ecophysiological traits are phylogenetically conserved, and whether these traits are involved in correlated evolution remain unclear. Integrating phylogeny and 20 ecophysiological...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu H,Xu Q,He P,Santiago LS,Yang K,Ye Q

更新日期：2015-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin 5-HT2C receptor is a G-protein coupled excitatory receptor that regulates several biochemical pathways and has been implicated in obesity, mental state, sleep cycles, autism, neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. The activity of 5-HT2CR is regulated via alternative splicing and A to I ed...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raabe CA,Voss R,Kummerfeld DM,Brosius J,Galiveti CR,Wolters A,Seggewiss J,Huge A,Skryabin BV,Rozhdestvensky TS

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery that human noroviruses (huNoVs) recognize sialic acids (SAs) in addition to histo-blood group antigens (HBGAs) pointed to a new direction in studying virus-host interactions during calicivirus infection. HuNoVs remain difficult to study due to the lack of an effective cell culture model. In this s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan M,Wei C,Huang P,Fan Q,Quigley C,Xia M,Fang H,Zhang X,Zhong W,Klassen JS,Jiang X

更新日期：2015-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation energy of the β → α/ω phase transformation increased monotonously with the application of a continuous heating process to a Ti-15Mo-2.7Nb-3Al-0.2Si alloy. Precipitation behaviour of the alloy aged at different temperatures were analysed with scanning electron microscopy, electron backscattered diffracti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu T,Zhang S,Liang S,Cui N,Cao L,Wan Y

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00