Author Correction: Matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity and a downregulated Hedgehog pathway impair blood-brain barrier function in an in vitro model of CNS tuberculosis.

abstract：:Anatase TiO2 has been suggested as a potential sodium anode material, but the low electrical conductivity of TiO2 often limits the rate capability, resulting in poor electrochemical properties. To address this limitation, we propose graphene-wrapped anatase TiO2 nanofibers (rGO@TiO2 NFs) through an effective wrapping ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yeo Y,Jung JW,Park K,Kim ID

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Meishan boars are known for their early sexual maturity. However, they exhibit a significantly smaller testicular size and a reduced proportion of Sertoli cells and daily sperm production compared with Duroc boars. The testes of Duroc and Meishan boars at 20, 75 and 270 days of age were used for histological and trans...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ding H,Luo Y,Liu M,Huang J,Xu D

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding and mitigating decoherence is a key challenge for quantum science and technology. The main source of decoherence for solid-state spin systems is the uncontrolled spin bath environment. Here, we demonstrate quantum control of a mesoscopic spin bath in diamond at room temperature that is composed of electr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Lange G,van der Sar T,Blok M,Wang ZH,Dobrovitski V,Hanson R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A physically active lifestyle is associated with better health in body and mind, and it is urgent that supporting agents for such lifestyles be developed. In rodents, voluntary locomotor activity as an active physical behavior may be mediated by dopaminergic neurons (DNs). Thiamine phosphate esters can stimulate DNs, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saiki M,Matsui T,Soya M,Kashibe T,Shima T,Shimizu T,Naruto T,Kitayoshi T,Akimoto K,Ninomiya S,Soya H

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that make major contributions to the production of the oxygen in the Earth atmosphere. The photosynthetic machinery in cyanobacterial cells is housed in flattened membrane structures called thylakoids. The structural organization of cyanobacterial cells and the arrangement ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Stingaciu LR,O'Neill H,Liberton M,Urban VS,Pakrasi HB,Ohl M

更新日期：2016-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, long-term effects on body weight and reproductive performance have been demonstrated in the chicken model of prenatal protein undernutrition by albumen removal. Introduction of such persistent alterations in phenotype suggests stable changes in gene expression. Therefore, a genome-wide screening of the hep...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Willems E,Guerrero-Bosagna C,Decuypere E,Janssens S,Buyse J,Buys N,Jensen P,Everaert N

更新日期：2016-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia characterized by the formation of amyloid plaques (Aβ). Over the last decade, the important role of the innate immune system for the disease development has been established. Chronic activation of microglial cells creates a proinflammatory environment, which...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Boza-Serrano A,Yang Y,Paulus A,Deierborg T

更新日期：2018-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid foams are classified into a dry foam and a wet foam, empirically judging from the liquid fraction or the shape of the gas bubbles. It is known that physical properties such as elasticity and diffusion are different between the dry foam and the wet foam. Nevertheless, definitions of those states have been vague ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Furuta Y,Oikawa N,Kurita R

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is the predominant causative pathogen of hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD). Contrary to other HFMD-causing enterovirus, EV71 can lead to severe neurological complications, even death. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that constitute the largest family of gene regulators participating...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zheng C,Zheng Z,Sun J,Zhang Y,Wei C,Ke X,Liu Y,Deng L,Wang H

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanosomes (melanin-bearing organelles) are common in the fossil record occurring as dense packs of globular microbodies. The organic component comprising the melanosome, melanin, is often preserved in fossils, allowing identification of the chemical nature of the constituent pigment. In present-day vertebrates, mela...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pinheiro FL,Prado G,Ito S,Simon JD,Wakamatsu K,Anelli LE,Andrade JAF,Glass K

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenome studies are becoming increasingly widespread, yielding important insights into microbial communities covering diverse environments from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to human skin and gut. With the advent of high-throughput sequencing platforms, the use of large scale shotgun sequencing approaches is n...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lindgreen S,Adair KL,Gardner PP

更新日期：2016-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing black carbon (BC), i.e. soot, in the atmosphere is a potential mitigation measure for climate change before revealing the effect of reducing anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) because BC with shorter lifetime than CO2 absorbs solar and infrared radiation. BC has a strong positive radiative forcing in the atmo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Takemura T,Suzuki K

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophages are an important component of the innate immune response. Priming and activation of macrophages is stimulated by cytokines (i.e IFNγ). However, growth hormone (GH) can also stimulate macrophage activation. Based on these observations, the goal of this work was to 1) to compare the transcriptome profile of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schneider A,Wood HN,Geden S,Greene CJ,Yates RM,Masternak MM,Rohde KH

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The immature phenotype of human induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) is a major limitation to the use of these valuable cells for pre-clinical toxicity testing and for disease modeling. Here we tested the hypothesis that human perinatal stem cell derived extracellular matrix (ECM) promotes ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Block T,Creech J,da Rocha AM,Marinkovic M,Ponce-Balbuena D,Jiménez-Vázquez EN,Griffey S,Herron TJ

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) and antigenic peptide in complex with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules is a crucial step in T cell activation. The relative contributions of TCR:peptide and TCR:MHC contacts to the overall binding energy remain unclear. This has important implic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang H,Lim HS,Knapp B,Deane CM,Aleksic M,Dushek O,van der Merwe PA

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the diffusible signal factor (DSF) family are a novel class of quorum sensing (QS) signals in diverse Gram-negative bacteria. Although previous studies have identified RpfF as a key enzyme for the biosynthesis of DSF family signals, many questions in their biosynthesis remain to be addressed. In this study ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou L,Yu Y,Chen X,Diab AA,Ruan L,He J,Wang H,He YW

更新日期：2015-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the mechanisms of male sterility in cotton (Gossypium spp.), combined histological, biochemical and transcription analysis using RNA-Seq was carried out in the anther of the single-gene recessive genic male sterility system of male sterile line 1355A and male fertile line 1355B, which are near-isogenic l...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Y,Min L,Wu Z,Yang L,Zhu L,Yang X,Yuan D,Guo X,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphibian oocytes have been extensively used for heterologous expression of membrane proteins for studying their biochemical and biophysical properties. So far, Xenopus laevis is the main amphibian used as oocytes source to express aquaglyceroporins in order to assess water and solutes permeability. However, this well...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rojas V,Ortiz YY,Rodríguez S,Araque V,Rodríguez-Acosta A,Figarella K,Uzcátegui NL

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant species of the genus Cecropia (Urticaceae) are used as traditional medicine in Latin-America, and are commercially available as food supplements. The aim of this study was to characterize and compare the phytochemical constituents of four Cecropia species collected in Panama. The structures of 11 compounds isola...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rivera-Mondragón A,Bijttebier S,Tuenter E,Custers D,Ortíz OO,Pieters L,Caballero-George C,Apers S,Foubert K

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive motor Cortex Stimulation (iMCS) was introduced in the 1990's for the treatment of chronic neuropathic orofacial pain (CNOP), although its effectiveness remains doubtful. However, CNOP is known to be a heterogeneous group of orofacial pain disorders, which can lead to different responses to iMCS. Therefore, th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Henssen D,Kurt E,van Walsum AVC,Kozicz T,van Dongen R,Bartels R

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological field potential dynamics have been widely used to investigate brain functions and related psychiatric disorders. Considering recent demand for its applicability to freely moving subjects, especially for animals in a group and socially interacting with each other, here we propose a new method based...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Inagaki S,Agetsuma M,Ohara S,Iijima T,Yokota H,Wazawa T,Arai Y,Nagai T

更新日期：2019-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the magnitude of submarine fresh groundwater discharge (SFGD) and associated nutrient inputs to Jocheon harbor, on Jeju Island, Korea, during four sampling periods, in order to determine the link between SFGD and Ulva sp. green tide development. Good correlations among salinity, 222Rn, and dissolved inorga...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kwon HK,Kang H,Oh YH,Park SR,Kim G

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wolpe N,Zhang J,Nombela C,Ingram JN,Wolpert DM,Cam-CAN.,Rowe JB

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of 10,129 singleton SNPs of known genomic location in tetraploid cotton provided unique opportunities to characterize genome-wide diversity among 440 Gossypium hirsutum and 219 G. barbadense cultivars and landrace accessions of widespread origin. Using the SNPs distributed genome-wide, we examined genetic diversit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Reddy UK,Nimmakayala P,Abburi VL,Reddy CV,Saminathan T,Percy RG,Yu JZ,Frelichowski J,Udall JA,Page JT,Zhang D,Shehzad T,Paterson AH

更新日期：2017-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous study suggested that microtubule network alteration affects the process of glycolysis in cardiomyocytes (CMs) via the regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α during the early stages of hypoxia. However, little is known regarding the underlying mechanisms of microtubule network alteration-induced c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang X,Zhang D,Zhang H,Huang Y,Teng M

更新日期：2015-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress is one of major factors that cause sleep problems. Hypocretin represents a stress-related neuropeptide and is well known in maintaining physiological wakefulness. The hypocretinergic neurons originate in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) and transmit to several brain regions, including the median raphe nuclei...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hsiao YT,Lo Y,Yi PL,Chang FC

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. The use of alpha fetoprotein (AFP) alone was not an accurate biomarker for HCC despite its high specificity. Therefore, we assessed the possible role of serum biomarkers that have been mentioned briefly in previous studie...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： N Zekri AR,El Kassas M,Salam ESE,Hassan RM,Mohanad M,Gabr RM,M Lotfy M,Abdel-Zaher RAT,Bahnassy AA,Ahmed OS

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a heterogeneous syndrome with two main clinical subtypes, amnestic (aMCI) and non-amnestic (naMCI). The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) is a tool to assess autonomic function. Cognitive and autonomic processes are linked via the central autonomic network. Autonomic dysfuncti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nicolini P,Mari D,Abbate C,Inglese S,Bertagnoli L,Tomasini E,Rossi PD,Lombardi F

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum cryptography is commonly used to generate fresh secure keys with quantum signal transmission for instant use between two parties. However, research shows that the relatively low key generation rate hinders its practical use where a symmetric cryptography component consumes the shared key. That is, the security...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lai H,Luo MX,Pieprzyk J,Zhang J,Pan L,Li S,Orgun MA

更新日期：2017-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils are an important source of nitrogen in many of the world's cropping systems. Especially in low-input production systems, nitrogen release from soil organic matter turn-over is the major part of the crop's nitrogen supply and research suggests that this process is significantly affected by changes in climate. The...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nendel C,Melzer D,Thorburn PJ

更新日期：2019-04-10 00:00:00