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abstract：:Hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) pathway is associated with many vascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, arterial aneurysms, pulmonary hypertension and chronic venous diseases. Significant HIF-1α expression could be found at the rupture edge at human abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) tissues. While our initial...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tsai SH,Huang PH,Hsu YJ,Peng YJ,Lee CH,Wang JC,Chen JW,Lin SJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Bidens species (Bidens pilosa and B. bipinnata) that originate from America have been introduced widely in pan-tropics, with the former regarded as a noxious invasive weed whereas the latter naturalized as a plant resource. Whether the two species exhibit different effects on the belowground system remains rarely ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wei H,Yan W,Quan G,Zhang J,Liang K

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (SST)-positive interneurons in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) play important roles in neuronal diseases, memory and cognitive functions. However, their development in the ACC remains unclear. Using postnatal day 3 (P3) to P45 GIN mice, we found that most of the intrinsic membrane properties of SST in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pan G,Yang JM,Hu XY,Li XM

更新日期：2016-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraquat (PQ) is a non-selective contact herbicide, and acute PQ poisoning has a high mortality. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the prognostic value of hematological parameters in patients with acute PQ poisoning. We retrospectively reviewed the records of patients with acute PQ poisoning from January 201...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou DC,Zhang H,Luo ZM,Zhu QX,Zhou CF

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in litterfall dynamics and soil properties due to anthropogenic or natural perturbations have important implications to soil carbon (C) and nutrient cycling via microbial pathway. Here we determine soil microbial responses to contrasting types of litter inputs (leaf vs. fine woody litter) and nitrogen (N) depo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun XL,Zhao J,You YM,Jianxin Sun O

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies focusing on biofilm assembly in deep-sea environments are rarely conducted. To examine the effects of substrate type on microbial community assembly, biofilms were developed on different substrates for different durations at two locations in the Red Sea: in a brine pool and in nearby bottom water (NBW) adjacen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang WP,Wang Y,Tian RM,Bougouffa S,Yang B,Cao HL,Zhang G,Wong YH,Xu W,Batang Z,Al-Suwailem A,Zhang XX,Qian PY

更新日期：2014-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We report measurements of the thermal conductance of a structure made from commercial Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) modules, known as LEGO® blocks, in the temperature range from 70 mK to 1.8 K. A power law for the sample's thermal conductivity κ = (8.7 ± 0.3) × 10-5 T 1.75±0.02 WK-1 m-1 was determined. We conc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chawner JMA,Jones AT,Noble MT,Pickett GR,Tsepelin V,Zmeev DE

更新日期：2019-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A direct, simultaneous calculation of properties of a liquid using an ab initio electron-correlated theory has long been unthinkable. Here we present structural, dynamical, and response properties of liquid water calculated by ab initio molecular dynamics using the embedded-fragment spin-component-scaled second-order ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Willow SY,Salim MA,Kim KS,Hirata S

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation of CO2 from other gasses offers environmental benefits since CO2 gas is the main contributor to global warming. Recently, graphene oxide (GO) based gas separation membranes are of interest due to their selective barrier properties. However, maintaining selectivity without sacrificing permeance is still chal...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Heo J,Choi M,Chang J,Ji D,Kang SW,Hong J

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The gradient relationship between mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mortality due to ischemic vascular disease has not been researched using a large-scale population-based study. This study evaluated the association between MCV and death attributable to cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and cardiovascular disease (CAD) in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu TH,Fann JC,Chen SL,Yen AM,Wen CJ,Lu YR,Chen HH,Chiu SY,Liou HH

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Both chronic calorie restriction (CCR) and intermittent calorie restriction (ICR) have shown anticancer effects. However, the direct evidence comparing ICR to CCR with respect to cancer prevention is controversial and inconclusive. PubMed and Web of Science were searched on November 25, 2015. The relative risk (RR) [9...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen Y,Ling L,Su G,Han M,Fan X,Xun P,Xu G

更新日期：2016-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The bronchoscopy, though usually safe, is occasionally associated with complications, such as pneumonia. However, the use of prophylactic antibiotics is not recommended by the guidelines of the British Thoracic Society. Thus far there are few reports of the risk factors for post-bronchoscopy pneumonia; the purpose of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sato Y,Murata K,Yamamoto M,Ishiwata T,Kitazono-Saitoh M,Wada A,Takamori M

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine carcinosarcomas (UCSs) are highly aggressive malignancies associated with poor prognoses and limited treatment options. These tumors are hypothesized to develop from the endometrial adenocarcinoma (EAC) through epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). We test this long-standing hypothesis by depleting miR-200,...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tseng JH,Bisogna M,Hoang LN,Olvera N,Rodriguez-Aguayo C,Lopez-Berestein G,Sood AK,Levine DA,Jelinic P

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations affecting the transcription factor FOXP2 cause a rare form of severe speech and language disorder. Although it is clear that sufficient FOXP2 expression is crucial for normal brain development, little is known about how this transcription factor is regulated. To investigate post-translational mechanisms for ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Estruch SB,Graham SA,Deriziotis P,Fisher SE

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the infiltration of pro-inflammatory macrophages into a lipid-laden plaque. ITCH is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that has been shown to polarize macrophages to an anti-inflammatory phenotype. We therefore investigated the effect of ITCH deficiency on the dev...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stöhr R,Mavilio M,Marino A,Casagrande V,Kappel B,Möllmann J,Menghini R,Melino G,Federici M

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-VEGF drugs are as the first-line therapies for diabetic macular edema (DME). In this study, we investigated the association between hyperreflective foci in the outer retinal layers and functional efficacy in DME patients who received intravitreal ranibizumab (IVR) injections. We retrospectively reviewed 77 eyes o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yoshitake T,Murakami T,Suzuma K,Dodo Y,Fujimoto M,Tsujikawa A

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new method to extend the path length tunability of rotary delay-lines. This method was shown to achieve a duty cycle of >80% and repetition rates of over 40 kHz. The new method relies on a new multi-segmented micro-machined mirror and serial injection of a single reflection onto separate segments of this ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fleddermann R,Lee WM,Huang K,Campbell GT,Lam PK,Chow JH

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:High-performance locally resonant metamaterials represent the next frontier in materials technology due to their extraordinary properties obtained through materials design, enabling a variety of potential applications. The most exceptional feature of locally resonant metamaterials is the subwavelength size of their un...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zega V,Silva PB,Geers MGD,Kouznetsova VG

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a hybrid pumping method consisting of a 1150 nm continuous-wave pump source and a 1950 nm pulsed pump source, we demonstrate a power controllable gain-switched fiber laser in dual wavebands at ~ 3 μm and ~ 2.1 μm. Different pumping schemes for pumping a Ho3+-doped ZBLAN fiber are studied. Using only the 1950 ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi Y,Li J,Lai C,Peng H,Zhu C,Liu Y

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate the use of accelerated reactions with desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) as a tool for predicting the outcome of microfluidic reactions. DESI-MS was employed as a high throughput experimentation tool to provide qualitative predictions of reaction outcomes, so that vast region...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Loren BP,Ewan HS,Avramova L,Ferreira CR,Sobreira TJP,Yammine K,Liao H,Cooks RG,Thompson DH

更新日期：2019-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids, due to their pharmacological attributes, have recently become target molecules for metabolic engineering in commonly consumed food crops. Strategies including expression of single genes and gene pyramiding have provided only limited success, due principally to the highly branched and complex biosynthetic p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pandey A,Misra P,Bhambhani S,Bhatia C,Trivedi PK

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of a lateral periodic potential modulation, two-dimensional electrons may exhibit interesting phenomena, such as a graphene-like energy-momentum dispersion, Bloch oscillations, or the Hofstadter butterfly band structure. To create a sufficiently strong potential modulation using conventional semiconduc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu TM,Laroche D,Huang SH,Chuang Y,Li JY,Liu CW

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional dyspepsia (FD) is one of the most prevalent functional gastrointestinal disorders, and more and more multicomponent drugs represented by traditional Chinese medicines have provided a favorable therapeutic effect in its treatment. However, their precise localization in the clinic, as well as corresponding me...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wei J,Man Q,Guo F,Xian M,Wang T,Tang C,Zhang Y,Li D,Tang D,Yang H,Huang L

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Body contouring achieved via subcutaneous adipose tissue reduction has notably advanced over the past century, from suction assisted lipectomy to techniques with reduced degrees of invasiveness including laser, radiofrequency, high frequency focused ultrasound, cryolipolysis, and drug-based injection approaches. These...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pham TT,Stokolosa AM,Borden PA,Hansen KD,Hong EM,Krasieva TB,Sivoraphonh RH,Moy WJ,Heidari AE,Lee LH,Kim EH,Sun CH,Jia W,Mo J-,Kim S,Hill MG,Wong BJF

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastomas are highly malignant brain tumors. Knowledge of growth rates and growth patterns is useful for understanding tumor biology and planning treatment logistics. Based on untreated human glioblastoma data collected in Trondheim, Norway, we first fit the average growth to a Gompertz curve, then find a best fit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma Z,Niu B,Phan TA,Stensjøen AL,Ene C,Woodiwiss T,Wang T,Maini PK,Holland EC,Tian JP

更新日期：2020-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The bulk-insulating topological insulators with tunable surface states are necessary for applications in spintronics and quantum computation. Here we present theoretical evidence for modulating the topological surface states and achieving the insulating bulk states in solid-solution (Bi(1-x)Sb(x))(2)Te(3). Our results...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Niu C,Dai Y,Zhu Y,Ma Y,Yu L,Han S,Huang B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-motor impairment (FMI) is progressively expressed in early Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients and is now known to be evident in the immediate prodromal stage of the condition. The clinical techniques for detecting FMI may not be robust enough and here, we show that the subtle FMI of early PD patients can be effect...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Iakovakis D,Chaudhuri KR,Klingelhoefer L,Bostantjopoulou S,Katsarou Z,Trivedi D,Reichmann H,Hadjidimitriou S,Charisis V,Hadjileontiadis LJ

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying communities in complex networks is an effective means for analyzing complex systems, with applications in diverse areas such as social science, engineering, biology and medicine. Finding communities of nodes and finding communities of links are two popular schemes for network analysis. These schemes, howev...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： He D,Jin D,Chen Z,Zhang W

更新日期：2015-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The LC8 family of small ~8 kD proteins are highly conserved and interact with multiple protein partners in eukaryotic cells. LC8-binding modulates target protein activity, often through induced dimerization via LC8:LC8 homodimers. Although many LC8-interactors have roles in signaling cascades, LC8's role in developing...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Barron DA,Moberg K

更新日期：2016-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of cation ordering is closely related to certain physical properties of complex oxides, which necessitates the search of underlying structure-property relationship at atomic resolution. Here we study the superlattices within reduced calcium titanate single crystal micro-pillars, which are unexpected fro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li L,Hu X,Jiang F,Jing W,Guo C,Jia S,Gao Y,Wang J

更新日期：2017-11-03 00:00:00