Evolution and functional divergence of MADS-box genes in Pyrus.

abstract：:Rhythmically bedded cherts are observed in both pelagic marine and lacustrine deposits, but the formation mechanism in the latter remains highly uncertain. Our study of alternating chert-dolomite beds in the Eocene Green River Formation, Utah, USA reveals dense accumulations of organic-matter spheres (30-50 μm diamete...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kuma R,Hasegawa H,Yamamoto K,Yoshida H,Whiteside JH,Katsuta N,Ikeda M

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal animal models are increasingly employed in order to unravel age-specific disease mechanisms. Appropriate tools objectifying the clinical condition of murine neonates are lacking. In this study, we tested a scoring system specifically designed for newborn mice that relies on clinical observation and examinatio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fehlhaber B,Heinemann AS,Rübensam K,Willers M,Völlger L,Pfeifer S,von Köckritz-Blickwede M,Viemann D

更新日期：2019-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was to assess the safety and efficacy of artificial ascitetes in assisting CT-guided cryoablation of hepatic tumors adjacent to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. A total of 84 patients with peripheral hepatic tumors adjacent to the GI tract, who were treated cryoablation, were included in this retrospective ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li B,Liu C,Xu XX,Li Y,Du Y,Zhang C,Zheng HJ,Yang HF

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Functions of septin cytoskeletal polymers in tumorigenesis are still poorly defined. Their role in the regulation of cytokinesis and cell migration were proposed to contribute to cancer associated aneuploidy and metastasis. Overexpression of Septin 9 (Sept9) promotes migration of cancer cell lines. SEPT9 mRNA and prot...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Verdier-Pinard P,Salaun D,Bouguenina H,Shimada S,Pophillat M,Audebert S,Agavnian E,Coslet S,Charafe-Jauffret E,Tachibana T,Badache A

更新日期：2017-03-24 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

abstract：:Neural responses to incentives are altered in chronic pain and by opioid use. To understand how opioid use modulates the neural response to reward/value in chronic pain, we compared brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses to a monetary incentive delay (MID) task in patients with fibromyalgia takin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Martucci KT,MacNiven KH,Borg N,Knutson B,Mackey SC

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The competitive multi-armed bandit (CMAB) problem is related to social issues such as maximizing total social benefits while preserving equality among individuals by overcoming conflicts between individual decisions, which could seriously decrease social benefits. The study described herein provides experimental evide...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chauvet N,Jegouso D,Boulanger B,Saigo H,Okamura K,Hori H,Drezet A,Huant S,Bachelier G,Naruse M

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human visual system, different attributes of an object, such as shape and color, are separately processed in different modules and then integrated to elicit a specific response. In this process, different attributes are thought to be temporarily "bound" together by focusing attention on the object; however, how...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ishizaki T,Morita H,Morita M

更新日期：2015-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients experience heightened levels of anxiety and depression. Stress from dealing with chronic disease and rigorous treatment regimens certainly are primary contributors to these outcomes. We previously have demonstrated that microtubule alterations in CF are linked to a number of CF phenotypes...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Corey DA,Rymut SM,Kelley TJ

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical model required for the evolution of regular dislocation pattern should simultaneously take into account both static distribution and dynamic evolution of dislocation pattern. In principle, there exists a stable uniformly moving dislocation with both core and far field advancing at the same constant velocit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li P,Zhang ZF

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from live cell imaging of fluorescently tagged Cellulose Synthase (CESA) proteins in Cellulose Synthesis Complexes (CSCs) have enhanced our understanding of cellulose biosynthesis, including the mechanisms of action of cellulose synthesis inhibitors. However, this method has been applied only in Arabidopsis th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tran ML,McCarthy TW,Sun H,Wu SZ,Norris JH,Bezanilla M,Vidali L,Anderson CT,Roberts AW

更新日期：2018-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction have been associated with metabolic and age-related diseases. Thus, the prevention of mitochondrial oxidative damage is nowadays a recognized pharmacological strategy to delay disease progression. Epidemiological studies suggested an association between the consumption of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Teixeira J,Oliveira C,Amorim R,Cagide F,Garrido J,Ribeiro JA,Pereira CM,Silva AF,Andrade PB,Oliveira PJ,Borges F

更新日期：2017-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperentangled Bell-state analysis (HBSA) is an essential method in high-capacity quantum communication and quantum information processing. Here by replacing the two-qubit controlled-phase gate with the two-qubit SWAP gate, we propose a scheme to distinguish the 16 hyperentangled Bell states completely in both the pol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang TJ,Wang C

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers and is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Approximately 40% of global gastric cancer cases occur in China, with peritoneal metastasis being the prevalent form of recurrence and metastasis in advanced disease. Currently, there are limited clinical ap...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang J,Huang JY,Chen YN,Yuan F,Zhang H,Yan FH,Wang MJ,Wang G,Su M,Lu G,Huang Y,Dai H,Ji J,Zhang J,Zhang JN,Jiang YN,Chen SJ,Zhu ZG,Yu YY

更新日期：2015-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a major cause of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in mammals. We have previously established a zebrafish model of diet-induced obesity (DIO zebrafish) by overfeeding Artemia. Here we created DIO zebrafish using a different method to induce T2DM. Zebrafish were overfed a commercially available fish food using...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zang L,Shimada Y,Nishimura N

更新日期：2017-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the level of amyloid beta (Aβ) in nasal secretions of patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD) using interdigitated microelectrode (IME) biosensors and determined the predictive value of Aβ in nasal secretions for ADD diagnosis. Nasal secretions were obtained from 35 patients with ADD, 18 with ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim YH,Lee SM,Cho S,Kang JH,Minn YK,Park H,Choi SH

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastery over the structure of nanoparticles might be an effective way to enhance their performance for a given application. Herein we demonstrate the design of cage-bell nanostructures to enhance the methanol tolerance of platinum (Pt) nanoparticles while remaining their catalytic activity for oxygen reduction reactio...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng Y,Ye F,Liu H,Yang J

更新日期：2015-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferons, particularly interferon-alpha (IFN-α), play a vital role in the host's anti-viral defenses by interfering with viral replication. However, the virus rapidly evolves to exploit the IFN-α response for its replication, spread, and pathogenic function. In this study, we attempted to determine IFN-α sus...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ashokkumar M,Sonawane A,Sperk M,Tripathy SP,Neogi U,Hanna LE

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed a scheme and presented the first experimental demonstration of acoustic illusion, by using anisotropic metamaterials to manipulate the acoustic field near boundaries of arbitrary curved geometry. Numerical simulations and experimental results show that in the presence of an illusion cloak, any object ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kan W,Liang B,Zhu X,Li R,Zou X,Wu H,Yang J,Cheng J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of loci or genes under natural selection is important for both understanding the genetic basis of local adaptation and practical applications, and genome scans provide a powerful means for such identification purposes. In this study, genome-wide simple sequence repeats markers (SSRs) were used to scan f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Song Z,Zhang M,Li F,Weng Q,Zhou C,Li M,Li J,Huang H,Mo X,Gan S

更新日期：2016-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to discover novel associations between leptin and circulating proteins which could link leptin to the development of cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). In a discovery phase, we investigated associations between 88 plasma proteins, assessed with a proximity extension assay, and pla...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vavruch C,Nowak C,Feldreich T,Östgren CJ,Sundström J,Söderberg S,Lind L,Nyström F,Ärnlöv J

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with high risk of recurrence could help identify patients who would receive additional benefit from adjuvant therapy. In this work, we present a computational histomorphometric image classifier using nuclear orientation, texture, shape, and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Janowczyk A,Zhou Y,Thawani R,Fu P,Schalper K,Velcheti V,Madabhushi A

更新日期：2017-10-19 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：:The sensitivity of many ion channels to phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) levels in the cell membrane suggests that PIP2 fluctuations are important and general signals modulating neuronal excitability. Yet the PIP2 dynamics of central neurons in their native environment remained largely unexplored. Here, we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hackelberg S,Oliver D

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplicon based metabarcoding promises rapid and cost-efficient analyses of species composition. However, it is disputed whether abundance estimates can be derived from metabarcoding due to taxon specific PCR amplification biases. PCR-free approaches have been suggested to mitigate this problem, but come with considera...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Krehenwinkel H,Wolf M,Lim JY,Rominger AJ,Simison WB,Gillespie RG

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, a catalyst-free physical vapour deposition method is used to synthesize high yield of Bi2Se3 nanoribbons. By replacing standard glass or quartz substrates with aluminium covered with ultrathin porous anodized aluminium oxide (AAO), the number of synthesized nanoribbons per unit area can be increas...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kunakova G,Meija R,Andzane J,Malinovskis U,Petersons G,Baitimirova M,Bechelany M,Bauch T,Lombardi F,Erts D

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The anisotropic hole and electron mobilities in N,N'-3,4,9,10-perylenediimide-1,7-phenoxy (PDIB-2OPh) and N,N'-3,4,9,10-perylenediimide (PDIB) were theoretically predicted using the Marcus-Hush theory. The substituent effect of phenoxy on their mobility rates, absorption spectra, electron affinities, and ionization po...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Song P,Guan B,Zhou Q,Zhao M,Huang J,Ma F

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles have particular properties distinct from those of bulk gold crystals, and such nanoparticles are used in various applications in optics, catalysis, and drug delivery. Many reports on microbial synthesis of gold nanoparticles have appeared. However, the molecular details (reduction and dispersion) of...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kikuchi F,Kato Y,Furihata K,Kogure T,Imura Y,Yoshimura E,Suzuki M

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sub-gap density of states (DOS) is a key parameter to impact the electrical characteristics of semiconductor materials-based transistors in integrated circuits. Previously, spectroscopy methodologies for DOS extractions include the static methods, temperature dependent spectroscopy and photonic spectroscopy. However, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dai M,Khan K,Zhang S,Jiang K,Zhang X,Wang W,Liang L,Cao H,Wang P,Wang P,Miao L,Qin H,Jiang J,Xue L,Chu J

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathological mechanism of Kashin-Beck disease (KBD), an endemic osteoarthritic disease, remains to be poorly understood. This study was designed to identify signaling pathways and crucial proteins involved in the pathological mechanism of KBD compared with osteoarthritis (OA). The knee cartilage samples were colle...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lei J,Amhare AF,Wang L,Lv Y,Deng H,Gao H,Guo X,Han J,Lammi MJ

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00