Diversity and predictive metabolic pathways of the prokaryotic microbial community along a groundwater salinity gradient of the Pearl River Delta, China.

abstract：:Both CC and CXC-class chemokines drive inflammatory disease. Tick salivary chemokine-binding proteins (CKBPs), or evasins, specifically bind subsets of CC- or CXC-chemokines, and could precisely target disease-relevant chemokines. Here we have used yeast surface display to identify two tick evasins: a CC-CKBP, P1243 f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alenazi Y,Singh K,Davies G,Eaton JRO,Elders P,Kawamura A,Bhattacharya S

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The stria vascularis (SV) in the cochlea generates and maintains the endocochlear potential, thereby playing a pivotal role in normal hearing. Knowing transcriptional profiles and gene regulatory networks of SV cell types establishes a basis for studying the mechanism underlying SV-related hearing loss. While we have ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gu S,Olszewski R,Taukulis I,Wei Z,Martin D,Morell RJ,Hoa M

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonids show a high degree of phenotypic plasticity that can differ among genotypes, and this variation is one of the major factors contributing to uncertainty in extrapolating laboratory-based risk assessment data to nature. Many studies have examined the relative growth and survival of transgenic and non-transgeni...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vandersteen WE,Leggatt R,Sundström LF,Devlin RH

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The central challenge in realizing non-volatile, E-field manipulation of magnetism lies in finding an energy efficient means to switch between the distinct magnetic states in a stable and reversible manner. In this work, we demonstrate using electrical polarization-induced charge screening to change the ground state o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou Z,Howe BM,Liu M,Nan T,Chen X,Mahalingam K,Sun NX,Brown GJ

更新日期：2015-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) are known to induce cytotoxicity in various cancer cell lines through the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, the studies on its potential to induce toxicity in normal cell lines and in vivo system are limited and ambiguity still exists. Additionally, small molecules ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ansari MO,Parveen N,Ahmad MF,Wani AL,Afrin S,Rahman Y,Jameel S,Khan YA,Siddique HR,Tabish M,Shadab GGHA

更新日期：2019-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:When estimating national PM2.5 concentrations, the results of traditional interpolation algorithms are unreliable due to a lack of monitoring sites and heterogeneous spatial distributions. PM2.5 spatial distribution is strongly correlated to elevation, and the information diffusion algorithm has been shown to be highl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma L,Gao Y,Fu T,Cheng L,Chen Z,Li M

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In community ecology, it is important to understand the distribution of communities along environmental and spatial gradients. However, it is common for the residuals of models investigating those relationships to be very high (> 50%). It is believed that species' intrinsic characteristics such as rarity can contribut...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Brasil LS,Vieira TB,Andrade AFA,Bastos RC,Montag LFA,Juen L

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor symptoms are defining traits in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). A crucial component in motor function is the integration of afferent proprioceptive sensory feedback. Previous studies have indicated abnormal movement-related cortical oscillatory activity in PD, but the role of the proprioceptive affere...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vinding MC,Tsitsi P,Piitulainen H,Waldthaler J,Jousmäki V,Ingvar M,Svenningsson P,Lundqvist D

更新日期：2019-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotips made of metal and semiconductor have been widely utilized in versatile applications to strengthen the electric field through lightning rod effect and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect. Here, we present the utilization of ferroelectric nanotips to assist photoreduction of silver nanostructures ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang TJ,Chang HW,Chen JS,Chiang HP

更新日期：2019-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Verteporfin (VP), a light-activated drug used in photodynamic therapy for the treatment of choroidal neovascular membranes, has also been shown to be an effective inhibitor of malignant cells. Recently, studies have demonstrated that, even without photo-activation, VP may still inhibit certain tumor cell lines, includ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al-Moujahed A,Brodowska K,Stryjewski TP,Efstathiou NE,Vasilikos I,Cichy J,Miller JW,Gragoudas E,Vavvas DG

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Other than hard bones and shells, it is rare for soft tissues to fossilize, but occasionally they are well-preserved in amber. Here, we focus on both modern and fossilized species of the land snail superfamily Cyclophoroidea. Phylogenetic relationships within the Cyclophoroidea were previously studied using extant spe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hirano T,Asato K,Yamamoto S,Takahashi Y,Chiba S

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspired by adhesive mussel proteins, nanospherical self-assemblies were prepared from bolaamphiphiles containing 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) moieties, and a suspension of the bolaamphiphile assemblies was used for the preparation of a patterned surface that enhanced cell adhesion and viability. The abundant sur...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee C,Kim SH,Jang JH,Lee SY

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:It well-known that mental training improves skill performance. Here, we evaluated skill acquisition and consolidation after physical or motor imagery practice, by means of an arm pointing task requiring speed-accuracy trade-off. In the main experiment, we showed a significant enhancement of skill after both practices ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ruffino C,Truong C,Dupont W,Bouguila F,Michel C,Lebon F,Papaxanthis C

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell therapy that can restore function to damaged tissue, avoid host rejection and reduce inflammation throughout body without use of immunosuppressive drugs. The established methods were used to identify and to isolate specific stem cell markers by FACS or by immunomagnetic cell separation. The procedures for di...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim MS,Lee MH,Kwon BJ,Kim D,Koo MA,Seon GM,Park JC

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing prevalence of resistance to antibiotics motivates the search for new antibacterial agents. Antimicrobial peptides are a diverse class of well-studied membrane-active peptides which function as part of the innate host defence system, and form a promising avenue in antibiotic drug research. Some antimicrobia...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Timmons PB,Hewage CM

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) could be diagnosed via spirometry and chest computed tomography (CT); however, these tests are limited in infants. We aimed to evaluate the utility of lung clearance index (LCI) and air-trapping lung volume from chest CT in infants. This prospective study included 20 infan...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim YH,Shin HJ,Sol IS,Kim SY,Kim JD,Yoon H,Kim KW,Kim MJ,Lee MJ,Sohn MH

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity describes the ability of a given genotype to produce distinct phenotypes in different environments. We use the temperature sensitivity of abdominal pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster females as a model to analyse the effect of the environment on development. We reported previously that therm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gibert JM,Mouchel-Vielh E,Peronnet F

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron-hole exchange interaction in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) splits the band-edge exciton manifold into optically active ("bright") and passive ("dark") states, leading to a complicated exciton fine structure. In the present work, we resolve by atomistic million-atom many-body pseudopotential calculations th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baskoutas S,Zeng Z,Garoufalis CS,Bester G

更新日期：2017-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the effects of different feeding frequencies on the growth and the expression of genes in the GH/IGF axis were assessed in juvenile Chinese sturgeon. The newly hatched Chinese sturgeons were bred for 38 days at three different feeding frequencies groups (feeding frequency of two times a day, TWD; three ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hu Y,Xiao K,Yang J,Liu X,Wang B,Zeng Q,Du H

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer-aided image analysis (CAI) can help objectively quantify morphologic features of hematoxylin-eosin (HE) histopathology images and provide potentially useful prognostic information on breast cancer. We performed a CAI workflow on 1,150 HE images from 230 patients with invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) of the bre...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen JM,Qu AP,Wang LW,Yuan JP,Yang F,Xiang QM,Maskey N,Yang GF,Liu J,Li Y

更新日期：2015-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is characterized by airway inflammation, mucus secretion, remodeling and hyperresponsiveness (AHR). Recent research has established the bronchodilatory effect of bitter taste receptor (TAS2R) agonists in various models. Comprehensive pre-clinical studies aimed at establishing effectiveness of TAS2R agonists in ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sharma P,Yi R,Nayak AP,Wang N,Tang F,Knight MJ,Pan S,Oliver B,Deshpande DA

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids (GC) display pleiotropic effects on the immune system. Macrophages are a major target for GC action. Here we show that dexamethasone (DEX), a synthetic GC, decreased viability of naïve bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM), involving an apoptotic mechanism. Administration of DEX together with lipopoly...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Haim YO,Unger ND,Souroujon MC,Mittelman M,Neumann D

更新日期：2014-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite well-established sex differences for cognition, audition, and somatosensation, few studies have investigated whether there are also sex differences in visual perception. We report the results of fifteen perceptual measures (such as visual acuity, visual backward masking, contrast detection threshold or motion ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shaqiri A,Roinishvili M,Grzeczkowski L,Chkonia E,Pilz K,Mohr C,Brand A,Kunchulia M,Herzog MH

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, increasing awareness of environment and fossil fuels protection stimulates intensive research on clean and renewable sources of energy. Production of hydrogen from water through solar-driven splitting reactions is one of the most promising approaches in the field of photoelectrochemistry (PEC). In this work ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zare M,Solaymani S,Shafiekhani A,Kulesza S,Ţălu Ş,Bramowicz M

更新日期：2018-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The FGFR4-388Arg variant has been related to poor prognosis in several types of cancer, including lung cancer. The mechanism underlying this association has not been addressed in detail in patients with this pathology. Here, we report that this FGFR4 variant induces MAPK and STAT3 activation and causes pro-oncogenic e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Quintanal-Villalonga Á,Ojeda-Márquez L,Marrugal Á,Yagüe P,Ponce-Aix S,Salinas A,Carnero A,Ferrer I,Molina-Pinelo S,Paz-Ares L

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of psychological phenomena in which dramatic emotional responses are evoked by seemingly innocuous perceptual stimuli. A well known example is the 'uncanny valley' effect whereby a near human-looking artifact can trigger feelings of eeriness and repulsion. Although such phenomena are reasonably well...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moore RK

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) have proven to be highly immunogenic and induced an immune response against bacterial infection in human clinics and animal models. We sought to investigate whether engineered OMVs can be a feasible antigen-delivery platform for efficiently inducing specific antibody responses. In this s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang W,Wang S,Yao Y,Xia Y,Yang X,Li K,Sun P,Liu C,Sun W,Bai H,Chu X,Li Y,Ma Y

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 Tat plays an important role in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) by disrupting neurotransmission including dopamine uptake by human dopamine transporter (hDAT). Previous studies have demonstrated that HIV-1 Tat directly binds to hDAT and some amino-acid mutations that attenuate the hDAT-Tat binding ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yuan Y,Quizon PM,Sun WL,Yao J,Zhu J,Zhan CG

更新日期：2016-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A major issue in human olfaction research is to characterize the main dimensions that organize the space of odors. The present study examines this question and shows that, beside pleasantness, trigeminal sensations, and particularly irritation, play an important role. These results were consistent along two different ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Licon CC,Manesse C,Dantec M,Fournel A,Bensafi M

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Wooden shipwrecks are a significant part of the underwater cultural heritage. In 2007, the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck was salvaged from the seabed and moved into the Marine Silk Road Museum, where it is still stored in a water tank. We analysed the microbial communities colonizing the hull surface of the Nanhai No. 1 ship...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Z,Fu T,Hu C,Shen D,Macchioni N,Sozzi L,Chen Y,Liu J,Tian X,Ge Q,Feng Z,Liu H,Zhang Z,Pan J

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00