Publisher Correction: Menisci protect chondrocytes from load-induced injury.

abstract：:A delicate balance between proliferating and differentiating signals is necessary to ensure proper growth and neuronal specification. By studying the developing zebrafish brain, we observed a specific and dynamic expression of a microtubule destabilizer gene, stathmin-like 4 (stmn4), in the dorsal midbrain region. The...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lin MJ,Lee SJ

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the genomic variation among different strains of a pathogenic microbial species can help in selecting optimal candidates for diagnostic assays and vaccine development. Pooled sequencing (Pool-seq) is a cost effective approach for population level genetic studies that require large numbers of samples such ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Weldatsadik RG,Wang J,Puhakainen K,Jiao H,Jalava J,Räisänen K,Datta N,Skoog T,Vuopio J,Jokiranta TS,Kere J

更新日期：2017-03-31 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：:The ultrathin SmCo5 nanoflakes with average thickness smaller than 50 nm are prepared by a novel method of solid particle (NaCl) and surfactant co-assisted ball milling. The as-prepared nanoflakes exhibit a narrower thickness distribution of 10-50 nm and high coercivity of 23 kOe. The possible formation mechanism of n...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zuo WL,Zhao X,Zhao TY,Hu FX,Sun JR,Shen BG

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing interest in healthy eating has lead to an increase in the consumption of vegetables, associated with a rising number of bacterial outbreaks related to fresh produce. This is the case of the outbreak in Germany, caused by a O104:H4 enteroaggregative E. coli strain lysogenic for a Stx phage. Temperate Stx phag...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Quirós P,Muniesa M

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Jute fibre is the second most important fibre next to cotton. It is obtained from the bark of plant through microbial retting process. Here we report optimized microbial retting protocol that can lower retting period and produce high fibre quality. A total of 451 bacterial colonies have been isolated from five jute re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hasan R,Aktar N,Kabir SMT,Honi U,Halim A,Islam R,Sarker MDH,Haque MS,Alam MM,Islam MS

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The spread of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), has shortened the useful life of anti-staphylococcal drugs enormously. Two approaches can be followed to address this problem: screening various sources for new leads for antibiotics or finding ways to di...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Abreu AC,Coqueiro A,Sultan AR,Lemmens N,Kim HK,Verpoorte R,van Wamel WJB,Simões M,Choi YH

更新日期：2017-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been reported to be involved in DNA damage response induced by ionizing radiation (IR). c-Myc is reduced when cells treated with IR or other DNA damaging agents. It is unknown whether miRNAs participate in c-Myc downregulation in response to IR. In the present study, we found that miR-449a enha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mao A,Zhao Q,Zhou X,Sun C,Si J,Zhou R,Gan L,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (NKTL) is an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma closely associated with Epstein-Barr virus and characterized by varying degrees of systemic inflammation. We aim to examine the prognostic significance of peripheral blood neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients with N...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tan KM,Chia B,Lim JQ,Khoo LP,Cheng CL,Tan L,Poon E,Somasundaram N,Farid M,Tang TPL,Tao M,Cheah DMZ,Laurensia Y,Pang JWL,Song T,Tan J,Huang D,Kim SJ,Kim WS,Ong CK,Lim ST,Chan JY

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Landau-Zener (LZ) transition has received renewed interest as an alternative approach to control single-qubit states. An LZ transition occurs when a system passes through an avoided crossing that arises from quantum mechanical coupling of two levels, taking the system to a coherent superposition of the two states. The...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ota T,Hitachi K,Muraki K

更新日期：2018-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial life below the seafloor has changed over geological time, but these changes are often not obvious, as they are not recorded in the sediment. Sulphur (S) isotope values in pyrite extracted from a Plio- to Holocene sequence of the Peru Margin (Ocean Drilling Program, ODP, Site 1229) show a down-core pattern th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Meister P,Brunner B,Picard A,Böttcher ME,Jørgensen BB

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Although previous findings identified an association between C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, and impaired cognitive functions in patients with schizophrenia (SZ), little is currently known about the relationship between inflammation, cognition, and sex in SZ. The current study aimed to explore the association between...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dal Santo F,González-Blanco L,García-Álvarez L,de la Fuente-Tomás L,Velasco Á,Álvarez-Vázquez CM,Martínez-Cao C,Sáiz PA,García-Portilla MP,Bobes J

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Thoroughbred horse has played an important role in both sporting and economic aspects of society since the establishment of the breed in the 1700s. The extensive pedigree and phenotypic information available for the Thoroughbred horse population provides a unique opportunity to examine the effects of 300 years of ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Todd ET,Ho SYW,Thomson PC,Ang RA,Velie BD,Hamilton NA

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemiresistive thin film gas sensors with fast response, high sensitivity, low power consumption and mass-produced potency, have been expected for practical application. It requires both sensitive materials, especially exquisite nanomaterials, and efficient substrate chip for heating and electrical addressing. How...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dai Z,Xu L,Duan G,Li T,Zhang H,Li Y,Wang Y,Wang Y,Cai W

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is well known that mean annual rainfall (MAR) and rainfall seasonality have a key role in influencing the distribution of tree and grass cover in African tropical grassy biomes (TGBs), the impact of intra-seasonal rainfall variability on these distributions is less agreed upon. Since the prevalent mechanis...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： D'Onofrio D,Sweeney L,von Hardenberg J,Baudena M

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor aggressiveness is usually associated with metastasis. MDA-MB 231, a triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), is an aggressive type of breast cancer and associated with early metastasis. The Rho/ROCK pathway is a key regulator of cell motility involving cytoskeleton regulation through stabilization of actin filament...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guerra FS,Oliveira RG,Fraga CAM,Mermelstein CDS,Fernandes PD

更新日期：2017-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Papain-like cysteine proteases (PLCPs) are a class of proteolytic enzymes involved in many plant processes. Compared with the extensive research in Arabidopsis thaliana, little is known in castor bean (Ricinus communis) and physic nut (Jatropha curcas), two Euphorbiaceous plants without any recent whole-genome duplica...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zou Z,Huang Q,Xie G,Yang L

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Automated patch clamp (APC) instruments enable efficient evaluation of electrophysiologic effects of drugs on human cardiac currents in heterologous expression systems. Differences in experimental protocols, instruments, and dissimilar site procedures affect the variability of IC50 values characterizing drug block pot...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kramer J,Himmel HM,Lindqvist A,Stoelzle-Feix S,Chaudhary KW,Li D,Bohme GA,Bridgland-Taylor M,Hebeisen S,Fan J,Renganathan M,Imredy J,Humphries ESA,Brinkwirth N,Strassmaier T,Ohtsuki A,Danker T,Vanoye C,Polonchuk L,F

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are intriguing host materials in composite electrolytes due to their ability for tailoring host-guest interactions by chemical tuning of the MOF backbone. Here, we introduce particularly high sodium ion conductivity into the zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-8 by impregnation with the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nozari V,Calahoo C,Tuffnell JM,Adelhelm P,Wondraczek K,Dutton SE,Bennett TD,Wondraczek L

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired immune function contributes to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Disease progression is further exacerbated by pathogen infections due to impaired immune responses. Elimination of infected cells is achieved by cytotoxic CD8(+)  T cells that are activated by MHC I-mediated presen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Keller IE,Vosyka O,Takenaka S,Kloß A,Dahlmann B,Willems LI,Verdoes M,Overkleeft HS,Marcos E,Adnot S,Hauck SM,Ruppert C,Günther A,Herold S,Ohno S,Adler H,Eickelberg O,Meiners S

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing therapeutics that target multiple receptor signaling pathways in tumors is critical as therapies targeting single specific biomarker/pathway have shown limited efficacy in patients with cancer. In this study, we extensively characterized a bi-functional molecule comprising of epidermal growth factor recepto...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhu Y,Bassoff N,Reinshagen C,Bhere D,Nowicki MO,Lawler SE,Roux J,Shah K

更新日期：2017-06-01 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： Mücke T,Hapfelmeier A,Schmidt LH,Fichter AM,Kanatas A,Wolff KD,Ritschl LM

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental caries is an important public health problem worldwide. This study aims to prove how preventive therapies reduce the onset of caries in adult patients, and to identify patients with high or low risk of caries by using Classification and Regression Trees based survival analysis (survival CART). A clinical data s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arino M,Ito A,Fujiki S,Sugiyama S,Hayashi M

更新日期：2016-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Accidental introduction through ballast water and biofouling are currently the main factors responsible for spreading non-indigenous species in the marine realm. In the Southwestern Atlantic, two scleractinian corals, Tubastraea coccinea and T. tagusensis, have been introduced by opportunistic colonization in 1980 and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Capel KCC,Creed J,Kitahara MV,Chen CA,Zilberberg C

更新日期：2019-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin-induced and proteinase-activated receptor 1 (PAR1)-mediated signaling increases ROS production, activates ERK, and promotes inflammation and fibroblast proliferation in bleomycin-induced lung injury. Stanniocalcin-1 (STC1) activates anti-oxidant pathways, inhibits inflammation and provides cytoprotection; hen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang L,Zhang L,Ju H,Li Q,Pan JS,Al-Lawati Z,Sheikh-Hamad D

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the association between visual acuity (VA) and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) has been well reported in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), little is known about how unilateral and bilateral VA affects daily performance in such patients. For this cross-sectional study, patients were recruit...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liao KM,Wu WC,Jang Y,Su FY,Tsai LT

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The TREX complex mediates the passage of bulk cellular mRNA export to the nuclear export factor TAP/NXF1 via the export adaptors ALYREF or UIF, which appear to act in a redundant manner. TREX complex recruitment to nascent RNA is coupled with 5' capping, splicing and polyadenylation. Therefore to facilitate expression...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tunnicliffe RB,Tian X,Storer J,Sandri-Goldin RM,Golovanov AP

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasitic lice (order Phthiraptera) infest birds and mammals. The typical animal mitochondrial (mt) genome organization, which consists of a single chromosome with 37 genes, was found in chewing lice in the suborders Amblycera and Ischnocera. The sucking lice (suborder Anoplura) known, however, have fragmented mt geno...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shao R,Barker SC,Li H,Song S,Poudel S,Su Y

更新日期：2015-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid urbanization is a global phenomenon that has altered many ecosystems, generating ecological risks such as causing a decline in many ecosystem services. In this study, ecosystem service oriented risk assessment combined with PSR were quantifying how urbanization influences the ecosystem services about Beijing-Tia...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kang P,Chen W,Hou Y,Li Y

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing tools have revolutionized the generation of genetically modified animals including livestock. In particular, the domestic pig is a proven model of human physiology and an agriculturally important species. In this study, we utilized the CRISPR/Cas9 system to edit the NANOS2 gene in pig embryos to generat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Park KE,Kaucher AV,Powell A,Waqas MS,Sandmaier SE,Oatley MJ,Park CH,Tibary A,Donovan DM,Blomberg LA,Lillico SG,Whitelaw CB,Mileham A,Telugu BP,Oatley JM

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00