Controlled electron injection facilitated by nanoparticles for laser wakefield acceleration.

abstract：:Mulching with organic materials is a management practice with long history for weed suppression, soil water conservation and erosion control. Its potential impact on crop pests is less well explored. Here we report its utility for reducing crop damage by the serious pest, sweetpotato weevil (Cylas formicarius). Labora...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rehman M,Liu J,Johnson AC,Dada TE,Gurr GM

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungus-growing termites forage dead plant materials from the field to cultivate symbiotic Termitomyces fungi in the nest. Termite foraging behavior and the entry of symbiotic arthropod inquilines may transfer nematodes into a nest and adversely affect fungus production. To test whether nematodes were transferred to fu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kanzaki N,Liang WR,Chiu CI,Yang CT,Hsueh YP,Li HF

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep, in addition to its brain restorative processes, plays an important role in memory transfer from its temporary store in the hippocampus to the more permanent storage in the neocortex. Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects memory and sleep. The aim of this study was to explore disturbances in global and local synchron...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhurakovskaya E,Ishchenko I,Gureviciene I,Aliev R,Gröhn O,Tanila H

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The fabrication of Ru nanostructures by focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) requires suitable precursor molecules and processes to obtain the pure metal. So far this is problematic because established organometallic Ru precursors contain large organic ligands, such as cyclopentadienyl anions, that tend to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rohdenburg M,Boeckers H,Brewer CR,McElwee-White L,Swiderek P

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Climatic characteristics of Hengduan Mountains region were diverse, and Eothenomys miletus was a native species throughout this region. To investigate adaptive strategies of E. miletus to environmental factors in different locations in this region, five locations were selected, including Deqin (DQ), Xianggelila (XGLL)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang HJ,Wang ZK,Zhu WL

更新日期：2019-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In endometriosis, M2 MΦs are dominant in endometriotic lesions, but the actual role of M2 MΦ is unclear. CD206 positive (+) MΦ is classified in one of M2 type MΦs and are known to produce cytokines and chemokines. In the present study, we used CD206 diphtheria toxin receptor mice, which enable to deplete CD206+ cells ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ono Y,Yoshino O,Hiraoka T,Sato E,Furue A,Nawaz A,Hatta H,Fukushi Y,Wada S,Tobe K,Hirota Y,Osuga Y,Unno N,Saito S

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (cALL) are at higher risk of developing cardiometabolic complications. We aimed at exploring the associations between biomarkers of inflammation, oxidative stress, endothelial function, endotoxemia and cardiometabolic risk factors. We conducted a cross-sectional anal...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morel S,Léveillé P,Samoilenko M,Franco A,England J,Malaquin N,Tu V,Cardin GB,Drouin S,Rodier F,Lippé S,Krajinovic M,Laverdière C,Sinnett D,Lefebvre G,Levy E,Marcil V

更新日期：2020-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine-tuning of gene expression contributes to both basic science and applications. Here, we develop a novel gene expression technology termed CRITGI (CRISPR/Transposon gene integration). CRITGI uses CRISPR/Cas9 to integrate multiple copies of the plasmid pTy1 into Ty1 loci, budding yeast retrotransposons. The pTy1...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hanasaki M,Masumoto H

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The placenta forms a maternal-fetal junction that supports many physiological functions such as the supply of nutrition and exchange of gases and wastes. Establishing an in vitro culture model of human and non-human primate trophoblast stem/progenitor cells is important for investigating the process of early placental...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matsumoto S,Porter CJ,Ogasawara N,Iwatani C,Tsuchiya H,Seita Y,Chang YW,Okamoto I,Saitou M,Ema M,Perkins TJ,Stanford WL,Tanaka S

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) play an important role in the health of an infant as substrate for beneficial gut bacteria. Little is known about the effects of HMO composition and its changes on the morbidity and growth outcomes of infants living in areas with high infection rates. Mother's HMO composition and inf...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Davis JC,Lewis ZT,Krishnan S,Bernstein RM,Moore SE,Prentice AM,Mills DA,Lebrilla CB,Zivkovic AM

更新日期：2017-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocannabinoids are small signaling lipids, with 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) implicated in modulating axonal growth and synaptic plasticity. The concept of short-range extracellular signaling by endocannabinoids is supported by the lack of trans-synaptic 2-AG signaling in mice lacking sn-1-diacylglycerol lipases (D...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Keimpema E,Alpár A,Howell F,Malenczyk K,Hobbs C,Hurd YL,Watanabe M,Sakimura K,Kano M,Doherty P,Harkany T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone metastasis of breast cancer cells is a major concern, as it causes increased morbidity and mortality in patients. Bone tissue-derived CXCL12 preferentially recruits breast cancer cells expressing CXCR4 to bone metastatic sites. Thus, understanding how CXCR4 expression is regulated in breast cancer cells could sug...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Masuda T,Endo M,Yamamoto Y,Odagiri H,Kadomatsu T,Nakamura T,Tanoue H,Ito H,Yugami M,Miyata K,Morinaga J,Horiguchi H,Motokawa I,Terada K,Morioka MS,Manabe I,Iwase H,Mizuta H,Oike Y

更新日期：2015-03-16 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：:Currently, light pollution has become a nonnegligible issue in our daily life. Artificial light sources with high color temperature were deem to be the major pollution source, which could induce several adverse effects on human's health. In our previous research, we have firstly developed an artificial indoor light wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lin J,Ding X,Hong C,Pang Y,Chen L,Liu Q,Zhang X,Xin H,Wang X

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD) worsens CF lung disease leading to early mortality. Loss of beta cell area, even without overt diabetes or pancreatitis is consistently observed. We investigated whether short-term CFTR inhibition was sufficient to impact islet morphology and function in otherwise healthy mice. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Khan D,Kelsey R,Maheshwari RR,Stone VM,Hasib A,Manderson Koivula FN,Watson A,Harkin S,Irwin N,Shaw JA,McClenaghan NH,Venglovecz V,Ébert A,Flodström-Tullberg M,White MG,Kelly C

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of the earliest dogs is challenging because of the absence and/or mosaic pattern of morphological diagnostic features in the initial phases of the domestication process. Furthermore, the natural occurrence of some of these characters in Late Pleistocene wolf populations and the time it took from the...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Boschin F,Bernardini F,Pilli E,Vai S,Zanolli C,Tagliacozzo A,Fico R,Fedi M,Corny J,Dreossi D,Lari M,Modi A,Vergata C,Tuniz C,Moroni A,Boscato P,Caramelli D,Ronchitelli A

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an optimized non-thermal atmospheric plasma (NTAP)-based reaction-discharge system that was applied for a continuous-flow treatment of apple juice (AJ). To optimize this system for a high-throughput production of AJ with ameliorated properties, the effect of several parameters was studied using design of ex...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dzimitrowicz A,Bielawska-Pohl A,Pohl P,Cyganowski P,Motyka-Pomagruk A,Klis T,Policht M,Klimczak A,Jamroz P

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies highlight the winners and losers in fisheries under climate change based on shifts in biomass, species composition and potential catches. Understanding how climate change is likely to alter the fisheries revenues of maritime countries is a crucial next step towards the development of effective socio-e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lam VW,Cheung WW,Reygondeau G,Sumaila UR

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplification and sequencing of 16S amplicons are widely used for profiling the structure of oral microbiota. However, it remains not clear whether and to what degree DNA extraction and targeted 16S rRNA hypervariable regions influence the analysis. Based on a mock community consisting of five oral bacterial species i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Teng F,Darveekaran Nair SS,Zhu P,Li S,Huang S,Li X,Xu J,Yang F

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Food webs in high-latitude oceans are dominated by relatively few species. Future ocean and sea-ice changes affecting the distribution of such species will impact the structure and functioning of whole ecosystems. Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a key species in Southern Ocean food webs, but there is little und...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Murphy EJ,Thorpe SE,Tarling GA,Watkins JL,Fielding S,Underwood P

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the synthesis of new composite materials based on copper nanoparticles (Cu NPs) deposited onto montmorillonite (MK10) and quartz sand, for degradation of atrazine, in the context of an advanced oxidation process (AOP). The synthesis involves a first step in which polyethylenimine (PEI) capped Cu NPs (PEI_Cu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kalidhasan S,Dror I,Berkowitz B

更新日期：2017-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Gefitinib, an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is used as a first-line treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, most NSCLC patients inevitably develop gefitinib resistance, and the mechanisms underlying this resistance are not fully understood. In this study...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cao X,Lai S,Hu F,Li G,Wang G,Luo X,Fu X,Hu J

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms contributing to collective attention in humans remain unclear. Research indicates that pedestrians utilise the gaze direction of others nearby to acquire environmentally relevant information, but it is not known which, if any, additional social cues influence this transmission. Extending upon previous f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gallup AC,Chong A,Kacelnik A,Krebs JR,Couzin ID

更新日期：2014-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, RNA silencing, mediated by small interfering RNAs, is an evolutionarily widespread and versatile silencing mechanism that plays an important role in various biological processes. Increasing evidences suggest that various components of RNA silencing pathway are involved in plant defense machinery against...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Uddin MN,Akhter S,Chakraborty R,Baek JH,Cha JY,Park SJ,Kang H,Kim WY,Lee SY,Mackey D,Kim MG

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive research indicates that inter-sexual selection drives the evolution of complex vocal communication in birds, but parallel lines of evidence are almost entirely absent in mammals. This dearth of evidence, particularly among primates, limits our understanding of the link between sociality and vocal complexity....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gustison ML,Bergman TJ

更新日期：2016-01-21 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： Dainese E,Oddi S,Simonetti M,Sabatucci A,Angelucci CB,Ballone A,Dufrusine B,Fezza F,De Fabritiis G,Maccarrone M

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribociclib is a specific cyclin dependent kinase (Cdk) 4/6 inhibitor that induces G1 arrest by blocking the formation of cyclin D1-Cdk4/6 complex and inhibiting retinoblastoma (RB) phosphorylation. Cyclin D1 is overexpressed in over 90% of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and CCND1 gene activation plays a critical role ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wong CH,Ma BBY,Hui CWC,Lo KW,Hui EP,Chan ATC

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) involves alveolar epithelial injury and abnormal collagen production caused by activated fibroblasts; transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 is implicated in this activation. In this study, we screened for chemicals capable of inhibiting TGF-β1-induced collagen production in cultured f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tanaka KI,Niino T,Ishihara T,Takafuji A,Takayama T,Kanda Y,Sugizaki T,Tamura F,Kurotsu S,Kawahara M,Mizushima T

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fitting Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) models of signal transduction networks (STNs) to experimental data is a challenging problem. Computational parameter fitting algorithms simulate a model many times with different sets of parameter values until the simulated STN behaviour match closely with experimental data...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Santra T

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Metasurfaces, owing to their attractive features, provide a wide range of potential applications. Electromagnetic absorbers based on metasurfaces have significantly improved responses compared to the earlier absorbers made from composite materials. Active metasurfaces, in contrast to the passive designs, can exhibit m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ghosh S,Lim S

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00