Creating a switchable optical cavity with controllable quantum-state mapping between two modes.

abstract：:Etomoxir (ETO) is a widely used small-molecule inhibitor of fatty acid oxidation (FAO) through its irreversible inhibitory effects on the carnitine palmitoyl-transferase 1a (CPT1a). We used this compound to evaluate the role of fatty acid oxidation in rapidly proliferating T cells following costimulation through the C...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： O'Connor RS,Guo L,Ghassemi S,Snyder NW,Worth AJ,Weng L,Kam Y,Philipson B,Trefely S,Nunez-Cruz S,Blair IA,June CH,Milone MC

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice bacterial blight caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is one of the most destructive rice diseases worldwide. Therefore, in addition to breeding disease-resistant rice cultivars, it is desirable to develop effective biocontrol agents against Xoo. Here, we report that a soil bacterium Pseudomonas taiwanen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen WJ,Kuo TY,Hsieh FC,Chen PY,Wang CS,Shih YL,Lai YM,Liu JR,Yang YL,Shih MC

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) can be applied to induce the feeling of directional virtual head motion by stimulating the vestibular organs electrically. Conventional studies used a two-pole GVS, in which electrodes are placed behind each ear, or a three-pole GVS, in which an additional electrode is placed on t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Aoyama K,Iizuka H,Ando H,Maeda T

更新日期：2015-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy remains persistently endemic in several low- or middle income countries. Transmission is still ongoing as indicated by the unabated rate of leprosy new case detection, illustrating the insufficiency of current prevention methods. Therefore, low-complexity tools suitable for large scale screening efforts to spe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： van Hooij A,Tjon Kon Fat EM,Batista da Silva M,Carvalho Bouth R,Cunha Messias AC,Gobbo AR,Lema T,Bobosha K,Li J,Weng X,Salgado CG,Spencer JS,Corstjens PLAM,Geluk A

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocytes/macrophages have been found to be an important component of colitis. However, the key chemokine that initiates the CCR2+ monocytes migration from circulation to colitis tissue remains to be undiscovered. PC3-secreted microprotein (PSMP) is a novel chemokine whose receptor is CCR2. The physiological and patho...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pei X,Zheng D,She S,Ma J,Guo C,Mo X,Zhang Y,Song Q,Zhang Y,Ma D,Wang Y

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The dispensing of tiny droplets is a basic and crucial process in a myriad of applications, such as DNA/protein microarray, cell cultures, chemical synthesis of microparticles, and digital microfluidics. This work systematically demonstrates droplet dispensing into immiscible fluids through electric charge concentrati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Um T,Hong J,Im do J,Lee SJ,Kang IS

更新日期：2016-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are arising as the next generation of diagnostic and therapeutic tools for gene silencing. Studies demonstrated that the miR-29 expression is decreased in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients displaying high levels of human β-secretase (hBACE1). Recent advances toward an effective therapy for AD intend to emplo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pereira PA,Tomás JF,Queiroz JA,Figueiras AR,Sousa F

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We design a novel long-range hybrid wedge plasmonic (LRHWP) waveguide composed of two identical dielectric nanowires symmetrically placed on two opposed wedges of a diamond shaped metal wire. With strong coupling between the dielectric nanowire mode and long-range surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode, both deep subwav...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Z,Wang J

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a model assisted strategy is developed to control the distribution of colloids in porous media in the framework of nanoremediation, an innovative environmental nanotechnology aimed at reclaiming contaminated aquifers. This approach is exemplified by the delivery of humic acid-stabilized iron oxide nanop...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bianco C,Patiño Higuita JE,Tosco T,Tiraferri A,Sethi R

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, biological roles of extracellular vesicles (which include among others exosomes, microvesicles and apoptotic bodies) have attracted substantial attention in various fields of biomedicine. Here we investigated the impact of sustained exposure of cells to the fluoroquinolone antibiotic ciprofloxacin on the rel...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Németh A,Orgovan N,Sódar BW,Osteikoetxea X,Pálóczi K,Szabó-Taylor KÉ,Vukman KV,Kittel Á,Turiák L,Wiener Z,Tóth S,Drahos L,Vékey K,Horvath R,Buzás EI

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There are still lot of controversies whether aberrant left hepatic artery (ALHA) originating from left gastric artery should be ligated or preserved during gastric cancer (GC) surgery. We aimed to investigate this issue. We reviewed ALHA cases who had laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer at Seoul National Unive...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ang RRG,Lee HJ,Bae JS,Zhu CC,Berlth F,Kim TH,Park SH,Suh YS,Kong SH,Kim SH,Yang HK

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria increase in number by the fission of existing mitochondria. Mitochondrial fission is needed to provide mitochondria to daughter cells during cell division. In Arabidopsis thaliana, four kinds of genes have been reported to be involved in mitochondrial fission. Two of them, DRP3 (dynamin-related protein3) ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nagaoka N,Yamashita A,Kurisu R,Watari Y,Ishizuna F,Tsutsumi N,Ishizaki K,Kohchi T,Arimura SI

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle differentiation is a complex process in which muscle progenitor cells undergo determination and eventually cellular fusion. This process is heavily regulated by such master transcription factors as MYOD and members of the MEF2 family. Here, we show that the transcription factor ZNF148 plays a direct role in hum...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bakke J,Wright WC,Zamora AE,Ong SS,Wang YM,Hoyer JD,Brewer CT,Thomas PG,Chen T

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary gluten causes severe disorders like celiac disease in gluten-intolerant humans. However, currently understanding of its impact in tolerant individuals is limited. Our objective was to test whether gliadin, one of the detrimental parts of gluten, would impact the metabolic effects of an obesogenic diet. Mice we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Andersen D,Roager HM,Bahl MI,Hansen CH,Danneskiold-Samsøe NB,Kristiansen K,Radulescu ID,Sina C,Frandsen HL,Hansen AK,Brix S,Hellgren LI,Licht TR

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the association between impulsivity related traits and BMI at the observational and genetic epidemiology level in a cross-sectional population of healthy young American-European adults. We studied 998 students and university staff of European ancestry recruited from Chicago (Illinois) and Athens (Georg...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Meyre D,Mohamed S,Gray JC,Weafer J,MacKillop J,de Wit H

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN) diagnosis is based on IgA-dominant glomerular deposits and histological scoring is done on formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissue (FFPE) sections using the Oxford classification. Our aim was to use this underexploited resource to extract RNA and identify genes that characterize active (...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cox SN,Chiurlia S,Divella C,Rossini M,Serino G,Bonomini M,Sirolli V,Aiello FB,Zaza G,Squarzoni I,Gangemi C,Stangou M,Papagianni A,Haas M,Schena FP

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins are usually activated by the guanine-nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) activity of GPCRs. However, some non-receptor proteins are also GEFs. GIV (a.k.a Girdin) was the first non-receptor protein for which the GEF activity was ascribed to a well-defined protein sequence that directly binds Gαi....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： DiGiacomo V,de Opakua AI,Papakonstantinou MP,Nguyen LT,Merino N,Blanco-Canosa JB,Blanco FJ,Garcia-Marcos M

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruthenium(II) complexes with 6-methyl-2-thiouracil cis-[Ru(6m2tu)2(PPh3)2] (1) and [Ru(6m2tu)2(dppb)] (2) (where PPh3 = triphenylphosphine; dppb = 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane; and 6m2tu = 6-methyl-2-thiouracil) are potent cytotoxic agents and able to bind DNA. The aim of this study was to evaluate in vitro cellul...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bomfim LM,de Araujo FA,Dias RB,Sales CBS,Rocha CAG,Correa RS,Soares MBP,Batista AA,Bezerra DP

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheromones are odoriferous volatile chemical cues produced by animals for communication among conspecifics so as to regulate their social behaviors. In general, the odor compounds are recognized by receptors in the nasal cavity. Odorant-binding protein (OBP), a lipocalin family protein, mediates the air-borne odor cue...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Muthukumar S,Rajesh D,Selvam RM,Saibaba G,Suvaithenamudhan S,Akbarsha MA,Padmanabhan P,Gulyas B,Archunan G

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Many drugs commonly prescribed during pregnancy lack a fetal safety recommendation - called FDA 'category C' drugs. This study aims to classify these drugs into harmful and safe categories using knowledge gained from chemoinformatics (i.e., pharmacological similarity with drugs of known fetal effect) and empirical dat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Boland MR,Polubriaginof F,Tatonetti NP

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress-induced viscous flow is the characteristic of atomic movements during plastic deformation of metallic glasses in the absence of substantial temperature increase, which suggests that stress state plays an important role in mechanically induced crystallization in a metallic glass. However, it is poorly understood...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yan Z,Song K,Hu Y,Dai F,Chu Z,Eckert J

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe sepsis and septic shock are life-threatening conditions, with Gram-negative organisms responsible for most sepsis mortality. Systemic administration of compounds that block the action of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a constituent of the Gram-negative outer cell membrane, is hampered by their hydrophobicity and cat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cho EJ,Doh KO,Park J,Hyun H,Wilson EM,Snyder PW,Tsifansky MD,Yeo Y

更新日期：2016-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There are at least two different principles of how ADP-ribose (ADPR) induces activation of TRPM2 channels. In human TRPM2, gating requires the C-terminal NUDT9H domain as ADPR-binding module, whereas in sea anemone, NUDT9H is dispensable and binding of ADPR occurs N-terminally. Zebrafish TRPM2 needs both, the N-termin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kühn FJP,Ehrlich W,Barth D,Kühn C,Lückhoff A

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress plays a role in the progression of chronic heart failure (CHF). We investigated whether systemic oxidative stress is linked to exercise intolerance and skeletal muscle abnormalities in patients with CHF. We recruited 30 males: 17 CHF patients, 13 healthy controls. All participants underwent blood test...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yokota T,Kinugawa S,Hirabayashi K,Yamato M,Takada S,Suga T,Nakano I,Fukushima A,Matsushima S,Okita K,Tsutsui H

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the universal structure predictor algorithm, we proposed that two-dimensional MnB structures with p4mmm (α-MnB) and pmma (β-MnB) symmetries could be synthesized. This finding was verified by calculating the dynamical stability, molecular dynamics, and mechanical properties. The α-MnB had an in-plane stiffness Y ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Farooq MU,Hashmi A,Khan I,Hong J

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A facile carbothermal route was adopted to obtain niobium carbide nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in carbon network from Nb2O5 to study photocatalytic behavior. Optimization of synthesis parameters to obtain single phase NbC NPs has been successfully done. The phase identification, morphology and nature of carbon were de...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gupta A,Mittal M,Singh MK,Suib SL,Pandey OP

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the variation characteristics of micro-topography during successive erosive stages of water erosion: splash erosion (SpE), sheet erosion (ShE), and rill erosion (RE). Micro-topography was quantified using surface elevation change, soil roughness (SR) and multifractal model. Results showed that ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Luo J,Zheng Z,Li T,He S

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of proper sensory afferent connections during development is essential for brain function. Activity-based competition is believed to drive ocular dominance columns (ODC) in mammals and in experimentally-generated three-eyed frogs. ODC formation is thus a compromise of activity differences between two eye...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Elliott KL,Houston DW,Fritzsch B

更新日期：2015-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, mesoporous carbon nitride (MCN) has aroused extensive interest for its potential applications in organocatalysis, photo- and electrochemistry and CO2 capture. However, further surface functionalization of MCN for advanced nanomaterials and catalysis still remains very challenging. Here we show that acidic ca...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhong L,Anand C,Lakhi KS,Lawrence G,Vinu A

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells play a major role in anti-viral immunity as first line defense during hepatitis B infection, particularly in untreated patients whose T cells functions are profoundly impaired. Cytokine interferon (IFN)-γ and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α produced by NK cells are important anti-viral factors....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Gu Y,Guo X,Gu L,Zhou L,Wu X,Wang X,Stamataki Z,Huang Y

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00