Hyperspectral near infrared imaging quantifies the heterogeneity of carbon materials.

abstract：:The Great Amazon Reef (GARS) is an extensive mesophotic reef ecosystem between Brazil and the Caribbean. Despite being considered as one of the most important mesophotic reef ecosystems of the South Atlantic, recent criticism on the existence of a living reef in the Amazon River mouth was raised by some scientists and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Mahiques MM,Siegle E,Francini-Filho RB,Thompson FL,de Rezende CE,Gomes JD,Asp NE

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study measured the effects of vitamin D (VD) supplementation on the underlying molecular pathways involved in renal and testicular damage induced by lead (Pb) toxicity. Thirty two adult male Wistar rats were divided equally into four groups that were treated individually or simultaneously, except the negative con...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： BaSalamah MA,Abdelghany AH,El-Boshy M,Ahmad J,Idris S,Refaat B

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylated non-CpGs (mCpH; H means A, C, and T) have emerged as key epigenetic marks in mammalian embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and neurons, regulating cell type-specific functions. In these two cell types, mCpHs show distinct motifs and correlations to transcription that could be a key in understanding the cell type-sp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee JH,Park SJ,Nakai K

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing need for low-cost, portable technologies for the detection of threats to the environment and human health. Here we propose a label-free, optical whole-cell Escherichia coli biosensor for the detection of 3-phenoxybenzoic acid (3-PBA), a biomarker for monitoring human exposure to synthetic pyrethroid...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Riangrungroj P,Bever CS,Hammock BD,Polizzi KM

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Since domestication, a large number of livestock breeds adapted to local conditions have been created by natural and artificial selection, representing one of the most powerful ways in which human groups have constructed niches to meet their need. Although many authors have described local breeds as the result of cult...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Colino-Rabanal VJ,Rodríguez-Díaz R,Blanco-Villegas MJ,Peris SJ,Lizana M

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Micro- and nanoscale surface textures, when optimally designed, present a unique approach to improve surface functionalities. Coupling surface texture with shape memory polymers may generate reversibly tuneable surface properties. A shape memory polyetherurethane is used to prepare various surface textures including 2...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee WL,Low HY

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension is a public health issue in Iran. The study aimed to estimate the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, and to explore their determinants among 10,040 Kurdish adults from Ravansar Non-Communicable Disease (RaNCD) cohort study in Iran. Univariate, and multivariate analyses were use...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rajati F,Hamzeh B,Pasdar Y,Safari R,Moradinazar M,Shakiba E,Bazargan-Hejazi S,Karim H,Najafi F

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient ischemia produces postischemic tingling sensation. Ischemia also produces nerve conduction block that may modulate spinal neural circuits. In the present study, reduced mechanical thresholds for hindpaw-withdrawal reflex were found in mice after transient hindpaw ischemia, which was produced by a high pressu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Watanabe T,Sasaki M,Komagata S,Tsukano H,Hishida R,Kohno T,Baba H,Shibuki K

更新日期：2015-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we assessed the sulfated derivative of the microbial polysaccharide gellan gum and derivatives of λ and κ-carrageenans for their ability to inhibit Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 and Dd2 growth and invasion of red blood cells in vitro. Growth inhibition was assessed by means of flow cytometry after a 96-h exposure to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Recuenco FC,Kobayashi K,Ishiwa A,Enomoto-Rogers Y,Fundador NG,Sugi T,Takemae H,Iwanaga T,Murakoshi F,Gong H,Inomata A,Horimoto T,Iwata T,Kato K

更新日期：2014-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide an explicit model for a spin-1/2 quasi-particle, based on the superposition of plasmon excitations in a quantum plasmas with intrinsic orbital angular momentum. Such quasi-particle solutions can show remarkable similarities with single electrons moving in vacuum: they have spin-1/2, a finite rest mass, and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mendonça JT,Serbeto A,Vieira J

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study tested whether the LPS/TLR4 signal pathway in endometrial stromal cells is essential for the pathogenesis of adenomyosis. We tested the expression of TLR4, MD2 in the endometrium without adenomyosis (CE), the eutopic endometrium with adenomyosis (EuE) and the ectopic endometrium with adenomyosis (EE)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo J,Chen L,Luo N,Li C,Chen R,Qu X,Liu M,Kang L,Cheng Z

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Morris Water Maze is commonly used in behavioural neuroscience for the study of spatial learning with rodents. Over the years, various methods of analysing rodent data collected during this task have been proposed. These methods span from classical performance measurements to more sophisticated categorisation tech...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vouros A,Gehring TV,Szydlowska K,Janusz A,Tu Z,Croucher M,Lukasiuk K,Konopka W,Sandi C,Vasilaki E

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The controllability of a network is a theoretical problem of relevance in a variety of contexts ranging from financial markets to the brain. Until now, network controllability has been characterized only on isolated networks, while the vast majority of complex systems are formed by multilayer networks. Here we build a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Menichetti G,Dall'Asta L,Bianconi G

更新日期：2016-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Driven diffusive systems have been a paradigm for modelling many physical, chemical, and biological transport processes. In the systems, spatial correlation plays an important role in the emergence of a variety of nonequilibrium phenomena and exhibits rich features such as pronounced oscillations. However, the lack of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hao QY,Jiang R,Hu MB,Jia B,Wang WX

更新日期：2016-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterised wool traits, and skin gene expression profiles of fine wool Super Merino (SM) and coarse wool Small Tail Han (STH) sheep. SM sheep had a significantly higher total density of wool follicles, heavier fleeces, finer fibre diameter, and increased crimp frequency, staple length and wool grease (lanolin) p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Sun F,Jin H,Dalrymple BP,Cao Y,Wei T,Vuocolo T,Zhang M,Piao Q,Ingham AB

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergent phases in the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed at the interface between two insulating oxides have attracted great attention in the past decade. We present ab-initio electronic structure calculations for the interface between a Mott insulator GdTiO3 (GTO) and a band insulator SrTiO3 (STO) and compar...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Banerjee H,Banerjee S,Randeria M,Saha-Dasgupta T

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus widely exists in wet natural environment such as soil, water and air, and is often studied as one of representative microorganisms for microbiologically influenced corrosion(MIC) research. In this paper, the growth curve of Bacillus subtilis isolated from marine environment was determined by turbidimetry and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang YS,Liu L,Fu Q,Sun J,An ZY,Ding R,Li Y,Zhao XD

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a leading technology for determining protein structures. Recent advances in this field have allowed for atomic resolution. However, predicting the backbone trace of a protein has remained a challenge on all but the most pristine density maps (<2.5 Å resolution). Here we in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Si D,Moritz SA,Pfab J,Hou J,Cao R,Wang L,Wu T,Cheng J

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofeedback is a strong direct training method for brain function, wherein brain activity patterns are measured and displayed as feedback, and trainees try to stabilize the feedback signal onto certain desirable states to regulate their own mental states. Here, we introduce a novel neurofeedback method, using the mi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chang M,Iizuka H,Naruse Y,Ando H,Maeda T

更新日期：2014-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of subclinical mastitis (SCM) in its initial stage can save great economic losses, improve milk quality and animal welfare. We have developed a semiquantitative lateral flow assay for the detection of SCM in dairy cows targeting myeloperoxidase (MPO) enzyme of milk neutrophils. A competitive immunoassay form...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alhussien MN,Dang AK

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Majority of novel X-ray crystal structures of proteins are currently solved using the anomalous diffraction signal provided by selenium after incorporation of selenomethionine instead of natural methionine by genetic engineering methods. However, selenium can be inserted into protein crystals in the form of selenourea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Luo Z

更新日期：2016-11-14 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： Stringer BW,Day BW,D'Souza RCJ,Jamieson PR,Ensbey KS,Bruce ZC,Lim YC,Goasdoué K,Offenhäuser C,Akgül S,Allan S,Robertson T,Lucas P,Tollesson G,Campbell S,Winter C,Do H,Dobrovic A,Inglis PL,Jeffree RL,Johns TG,Boy

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, CoMoO4@NiMoO4·xH2O core-shell heterostructure electrode is directly grown on carbon fabric (CF) via a feasible hydrothermal procedure with CoMoO4 nanowires (NWs) as the core and NiMoO4 nanosheets (NSs) as the shell. This core-shell heterostructure could provide fast ion and electron transfer, a large num...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang J,Zhang L,Liu X,Zhang X,Tian Y,Liu X,Zhao J,Li Y

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by homozygous mutation of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. Disease severity inversely correlates to the amount of SMN protein produced from the homologous SMN2 gene. We show that SMN protein is naturally released in exosomes from all cell types examined. Fibroblasts from...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nash LA,McFall ER,Perozzo AM,Turner M,Poulin KL,De Repentigny Y,Burns JK,McMillan HJ,Warman Chardon J,Burger D,Kothary R,Parks RJ

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer hair cells in the cochlea have a unique motility in their cell body based on mechanoelectric coupling, with which voltage changes generated by stimuli at their hair bundles drive the cell body and, in turn, it has been assumed, amplifies the signal. In vitro experiments show that the movement of the charges of t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Iwasa KH

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the influence on postoperative endothelial cell density (ECD) caused by preoperative temperature change from 4 °C to room temperature in donor corneas for Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK). This retrospective, case-controlled comparison of 100 eyes that underwent DSAEK using impo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kakisu K,Yamaguchi T,Shimazaki J

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the ocular surface (OS) system modifications after completely successful glaucoma surgery in thirty-eight patients undergoing trabeculectomy (surgical group), using laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) and impression cytology (IC). Twenty-six medically controlled glaucomatous patients served as co...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Agnifili L,Brescia L,Oddone F,Sacchi M,D'Ugo E,Di Marzio G,Perna F,Costagliola C,Mastropasqua R

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-10 (IL-10) plays a central role in regulation of intestinal mucosal homeostasis and prevention of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We previously reported that CD11b(hi) regulatory dendritic cells (DCs) can produce more IL-10, and CD11b can negatively regulate Toll-like receptors (TLRs)-induced inflammator...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu X,Han C,Jin J,Qin K,Zhang H,Li T,Li N,Cao X

更新日期：2016-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining accurate absolute surface energies for polar surfaces of semiconductors has been a great challenge in decades. Here, we propose pseudo-hydrogen passivation to calculate them, using density functional theory approaches. By calculating the energy contribution from pseudo-hydrogen using either a pseudo molecu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Zhang J,Tse K,Wong L,Chan C,Deng B,Zhu J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene interference (CRISPRi) and activation (CRISPRa) approaches hold promise for functional gene studies and genome-wide screens in human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). However, in contrast to CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease approaches, the efficiency of CRISPRi/a depends on continued expression of the dead...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hazelbaker DZ,Beccard A,Angelini G,Mazzucato P,Messana A,Lam D,Eggan K,Barrett LE

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00