Spatial pattern of plutonium and radiocaesium contamination released during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster.

abstract：:Knowledge of brain correlates of postural control is limited by the technical difficulties in performing controlled experiments with currently available neuroimaging methods. Here we present a system that allows the measurement of anticipatory postural adjustment of human legs to be synchronized with the acquisition o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： de Lima-Pardini AC,de Azevedo Neto RM,Coelho DB,Boffino CC,Shergill SS,de Oliveira Souza C,Brant R,Barbosa ER,Cardoso EF,Teixeira LA,Cohen RG,Horak FB,Amaro E Jr

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of arbovirus infections vectored by invasive Aedes albopictus have already occurred and are predicted to become increasingly frequent in Southern Europe. We present a probabilistic model to assess risk of arbovirus outbreaks based on incident cases worldwide, on the probability of arrival of infected travele...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Solimini AG,Manica M,Rosà R,Della Torre A,Caputo B

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerosol particles emitted from various human activities deteriorate air quality and are suggested to increase public health risk. Numerous studies have emphasized the relationship between the mass and/or number concentration of aerosols (or commonly known as particulate matter (PM)) in the atmosphere and the incidence...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ching J,Kajino M

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a persistent and unexplained pathological state characterized by exertional and severely debilitating fatigue, with/without infectious or neuropsychiatric symptoms, lasting at least 6 consecutive months. Its pathogenesis remains incompletely understood. Here, we performed comprehensiv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yamano E,Sugimoto M,Hirayama A,Kume S,Yamato M,Jin G,Tajima S,Goda N,Iwai K,Fukuda S,Yamaguti K,Kuratsune H,Soga T,Watanabe Y,Kataoka Y

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing life expectancy and a growing share of older people around the world spotlight the issue of health during additional years of life. Research on trends of proportions of older people with activity limitations for low and middle income countries is sparse. We use data from the World Health Survey and the UN W...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Weber D,Scherbov S

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanostructure arrays such as nanowire, nanopillar, and nanocone arrays have been proposed to be promising antireflection structures for photovoltaic applications due to their great light trapping ability. In this paper, the optical properties of Si nanopillar and nanocone arrays in visible and infrared region were stu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang ZY,Zhang RJ,Wang SY,Lu M,Chen X,Zheng YX,Chen LY,Ye Z,Wang CZ,Ho KM

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:With the development of next generation sequencing, more and more common inherited diseases have been reported. However, accurate and convenient molecular diagnosis cannot be achieved easily because of the enormous size of disease causing mutations. In this study, we introduced a new single-step method for the genetic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun Y,Man J,Wan Y,Pan G,Du L,Li L,Yang Y,Qiu L,Gao Q,Dan H,Mao L,Cheng Z,Fan C,Yu J,Lin M,Kristiansen K,Shen Y,Wei X

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) signaling has been considered a key regulator of plant developmental processes and defenses. In this study, we demonstrate that high levels of H2S inhibit auxin transport and lead to alterations in root system development. H2S inhibits auxin transport by altering the polar subcellular distributi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jia H,Hu Y,Fan T,Li J

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Superresolution microscopy offers the advantage of imaging biological structures within cells at the nano-scale. Here we apply two superresolution microscopy techniques, specifically 3D structured illumination microscopy (3D-SIM) and direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM), a type of single molecu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sudhaharan T,Hariharan S,Lim JSY,Liu JZ,Koon YL,Wright GD,Chiam KH,Ahmed S

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main azole-resistance mechanisms in Candida pathogens is the upregulation of drug efflux pumps, which compromises the efficacy of azoles and results in treatment failure. The combination of azole-antifungal agents with efflux pump inhibitors represents a promising strategy to combat fungal infection. High-t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xie F,Chang W,Zhang M,Li Y,Li W,Shi H,Zheng S,Lou H

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic degenerative disease of the retina. Recent reports have highlighted the potential role of mucosal surface microbes in the pathogenesis of AMD. In this case-control study, the composition of the nasal and oral microbiota in newly diagnosed neovascular age-related macu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rullo J,Far PM,Quinn M,Sharma N,Bae S,Irrcher I,Sharma S

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported that the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus onnurineus NA1 could grow on formate and produce H2. Formate conversion to hydrogen was mediated by a formate-hydrogen lyase complex and was indeed a part of chemiosmotic coupling to ATP generation. In this study, we employed an adaptation approa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jung HC,Lee SH,Lee SM,An YJ,Lee JH,Lee HS,Kang SG

更新日期：2017-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional enhancers are non-coding segments of DNA that play a central role in the spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression programs. However, systematically and precisely predicting enhancers remain a major challenge. Although existing methods have achieved some success in enhancer prediction, they still su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu F,Li H,Ren C,Bo X,Shu W

更新日期：2016-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:NLRP3 inflammasomes recognize non-microbial danger signals and induce release of proinflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-1β, leading to sterile inflammation in cardiovascular disease. Because sterile inflammation is involved in doxorubicin (Dox)-induced cardiotoxicity, we investigated the role of NLRP3 inflammasomes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kobayashi M,Usui F,Karasawa T,Kawashima A,Kimura H,Mizushina Y,Shirasuna K,Mizukami H,Kasahara T,Hasebe N,Takahashi M

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence of polyphagous herbivorous insects entails significant adaptation to recognize, detoxify and digest a variety of host-plants. Despite of its biological and practical importance - since insects eat 20% of crops - no exhaustive analysis of gene repertoires required for adaptations in generalist insect herbivor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gouin A,Bretaudeau A,Nam K,Gimenez S,Aury JM,Duvic B,Hilliou F,Durand N,Montagné N,Darboux I,Kuwar S,Chertemps T,Siaussat D,Bretschneider A,Moné Y,Ahn SJ,Hänniger S,Grenet AG,Neunemann D,Maumus F,Luyten I,Labadi

更新日期：2017-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian influenza viruses (AIV) are classified into 16 hemagglutinin (HA; H1-H16) and 9 neuraminidase (NA; N1-N9) subtypes. All AIV are low pathogenic (LP) in birds, but subtypes H5 and H7 AIV can evolve into highly pathogenic (HP) forms. In the last two decades evolution of HPAIV H7 from LPAIV has been frequently repor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Scheibner D,Ulrich R,Fatola OI,Graaf A,Gischke M,Salaheldin AH,Harder TC,Veits J,Mettenleiter TC,Abdelwhab EM

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional imaging has become an important tool in oncology because it not only provides information about the size and localization of the tumour, but also about the pathophysiological features of the tumoural cells. One of the characteristic features of some tumour types is that their fast growth leads to deficient ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Iglesias P,Penas C,Barral-Cagiao L,Pazos E,Costoya JA

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous activity found in neural networks usually results in a reduction of computational performance. As a consequence, artificial neural networks are often operated at the edge of chaos, where the network is stable yet highly susceptible to input information. Surprisingly, regular spontaneous dynamics in Neural ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Marquez BA,Larger L,Jacquot M,Chembo YK,Brunner D

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulose is the major component of cell wall materials. A 300 bp specific fragment from the cDNA fragment was chosen to insert into vector pFGC1008 at forward and reverse orientations to construct the recombinant RNAi vector. Knockdown of BoiCesA caused "dwarf" phenotype with smaller leaves and a loss of the content ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li S,Zhang L,Wang Y,Xu F,Liu M,Lin P,Ren S,Ma R,Guo YD

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis of malignancies has improved in recent years, subsequent primary cancers (SPCs) have become more frequent. This study investigates the patterns of lung cancer involved multiple primary cancers. We enrolled 206,619 primary lung cancer patients and 2,071,922 patients with other primary malignancies from Su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mao R,Chen T,Zhou F,Jiang W,Yang X,Ai Z,Li M,Qin L,Wang L,Fei K,Chen C

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is expected to accelerate age-related ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GC-IPL) loss, but there is limited information on the rate of reduction in GC-IPL thicknesses. We aimed to evaluate the reduction rate of GC-IPL thickness in diabetic patients, and to compare the rates between patients without and with...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lim HB,Shin YI,Lee MW,Koo H,Lee WH,Kim JY

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Local drug delivery systems (DDS) have become a favourable approach for the treatment of numerous diseases. Biomedical imaging techniques such as ultrahigh field magnetic resonance imaging (UHF-MRI) offer unique insight into DDS biodegradation in vivo. We describe the establishment of a 7 Tesla MRI routine for longitu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kopp F,Eickner T,Polei S,Falke K,Witt M,Grabow N,Stachs O,Guthoff RF,Lindner T

更新日期：2017-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Testosterone is involved in male sexual, parental and aggressive behaviors through the androgen receptor (AR) and estrogen receptor (ER) α expressed in the brain. Although several studies have demonstrated that ERα and AR in the medial preoptic area (MPOA) are required for exhibiting sexual and aggressive behaviors of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tsuneoka Y,Yoshida S,Takase K,Oda S,Kuroda M,Funato H

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Indium tin oxide (ITO) is one of the most widely used transparent conductors in optoelectronic device applications. We investigated the optical properties of ITO thin films at high temperatures up to 800 °C using spectroscopic ellipsometry. As temperature increases, amorphous ITO thin films undergo a phase transition ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim J,Shrestha S,Souri M,Connell JG,Park S,Seo A

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Meniscal tears have a poor healing capacity, and damage to the meniscus is associated with significant pain, disability, and progressive degenerative changes in the knee joint that lead to osteoarthritis. Therefore, strategies to promote meniscus repair and improve meniscus function are needed. The objective of this s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ruprecht JC,Waanders TD,Rowland CR,Nishimuta JF,Glass KA,Stencel J,DeFrate LE,Guilak F,Weinberg JB,McNulty AL

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:How chromosomes fold into 3D structures and how genome functions are affected or even controlled by their spatial organization remain challenging questions. Hi-C experiment has provided important structural insights for chromosome, and Hi-C data are used here to construct the 3D chromatin structure which are character...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xie WJ,Meng L,Liu S,Zhang L,Cai X,Gao YQ

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an ultracompact tunable device for power splitting and switching by tuning the Fermi energy level of monolayer patternless graphene underneath a slotted multimode interference (MMI) coupler operating in the mid-infrared, λ = 9-11 μm. By introducing a high-index silicon slot in the central region of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang CC,Sun TC

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine blue holes are precious geological heritages with high scientific research values. Their physical and chemical characteristics are unique because of the steep-walled structure and isolated water column which create isolated ecosystems in geographically restricted areas. The Sansha Yongle Blue Hole (SYBH) is the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Q,Lei Y,Morard R,Li T,Wang B

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Colistin remains one of the few antibiotics effective against multi-drug resistant (MDR) hospital pathogens, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae. Yet resistance to this last-line drug is rapidly increasing. Characterized mechanisms of colR in K. pneumoniae are largely due to chromosomal mutations in two-component regulators...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cain AK,Boinett CJ,Barquist L,Dordel J,Fookes M,Mayho M,Ellington MJ,Goulding D,Pickard D,Wick RR,Holt KE,Parkhill J,Thomson NR

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor microbial communities play an important role in everyday human health, especially in the intensive care units (ICUs) of hospitals. We used amplicon pyrosequencing to study the ICU microbiome and were able to detect diverse sequences, in comparison to the currently used standard cultivation technique that only d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oberauner L,Zachow C,Lackner S,Högenauer C,Smolle KH,Berg G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00