Gender and Child Behavior Problems in Rural Nepal: Differential Expectations and Responses.

abstract：:Prunella vulgaris L, a perennial herb widely used in Asia in the treatment of various diseases including cancer. In vitro studies have demonstrated the therapeutic effect of Prunella vulgaris L. against breast cancer through multiple pathways. However, the nature of the biological mechanisms remains unclear. In this s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang X,Shen T,Zhou X,Tang X,Gao R,Xu L,Wang L,Zhou Z,Lin J,Hu Y

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Male moths efficiently recognize conspecific sex pheromones thanks to their highly accurate and specific olfactory system. The Heliothis/Helicoverpa species are regarded as good models for studying the perception of sex pheromones. In this study, we performed a series of experiments to investigate the peripheral mecha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chang H,Guo M,Wang B,Liu Y,Dong S,Wang G

更新日期：2016-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) may be effective in removing toxic lead and mercury ions (Pb(II) and Hg(II)) from wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater through anaerobic sulfite reduction. To confirm this hypothesis, a sulfite-reducing up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor was set up to treat FGD...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Lin X,Wang J,Jiang F,Wei L,Chen G,Hao X

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a key technology that provides direct insight into cell metabolism, cell dynamics and protein activity. However, determining the lifetimes of different fluorescent proteins requires the detection of a relatively large number of photons, hence slowing down total acquis...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zickus V,Wu ML,Morimoto K,Kapitany V,Fatima A,Turpin A,Insall R,Whitelaw J,Machesky L,Bruschini C,Faccio D,Charbon E

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of new and emerging tobacco products has raised public health concern worldwide. This study aimed to assess the association between tobacco product use and the risk of allergic diseases. We used cross-sectional data of 58,336 students aged 12-18 years from the 2018 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee A,Lee SY,Lee KS

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the occurrence mechanism of drug-induced side effects (SEs) is critical for design of drug target and new drug development. The expression of genes in biological processes is regulated by transcription factors(TFs) and/or microRNAs. Most of previous studies were focused on a single level of gene or gene se...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jia X,Jin Q,Liu X,Bian X,Wang Y,Liu L,Ma H,Tan F,Gu M,Chen X

更新日期：2017-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaculture has become imperative to cover the demands for dietary animal protein. Simultaneously, it has to overcome prejudices from excessive use of antibiotics and environmental impacts. Natural supplements are traditionally applied orally. In this study, we demonstrated another pathway: the gills. Humic substances...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lieke T,Steinberg CEW,Pan B,Perminova IV,Meinelt T,Knopf K,Kloas W

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We summarized published data on the associations of apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene ε2/ε3/ε4 polymorphism with both cancer risk and circulating lipid profiles, aiming to examine the causal relevance between lipids and cancer risk. Article identification and data abstraction were conducted in duplicate and independently b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang C,Tian G,Mi J,Wei X,Li X,Li X,Wang W,Wang B

更新日期：2015-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychopathic traits of conduct disorder (CD) have a core callous-unemotional (CU) component and an impulsive-antisocial component. Previous task-driven fMRI studies have suggested that psychopathic traits are associated with dysfunction of several brain areas involved in different cognitive functions (e.g., empathy, r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pu W,Luo Q,Jiang Y,Gao Y,Ming Q,Yao S

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, sex steroid membrane receptors garnered world-wide attention because they may be related to sex hormone-mediated unknown rapid non-genomic action that cannot be currently explained by their genomic action via nuclear receptors. Progesterone affects cell proliferation and survival via non-genomic effects. In ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kasubuchi M,Watanabe K,Hirano K,Inoue D,Li X,Terasawa K,Konishi M,Itoh N,Kimura I

更新日期：2017-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty in the form of risk or ambiguity can arise from the interaction with nature and other players, while strategic uncertainty arises only in interactions with others. Here, we systematically compare binary decisions between a safe option and a potentially higher paying but uncertain option in four experimenta...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chierchia G,Nagel R,Coricelli G

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanometric biocompatible Metal-Organic Frameworks (nanoMOFs) are promising candidates for drug delivery. Up to now, most studies have targeted the intravenous route, related to pain and severe complications; whereas nanoMOFs for oral administration, a commonly used non-invasive and simpler route, remains however unexp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hidalgo T,Giménez-Marqués M,Bellido E,Avila J,Asensio MC,Salles F,Lozano MV,Guillevic M,Simón-Vázquez R,González-Fernández A,Serre C,Alonso MJ,Horcajada P

更新日期：2017-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) susceptibility is associated with EGLN1 polymorphisms, we hypothesized that HAPE-susceptible (HAPE-S, had HAPE episode in past) subjects may exhibit abnormal HIF1α levels in normoxic conditions. We measured HIF1α levels in HAPE-S and HAPE resistant (HAPE-R, no HAPE episode) individ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Soree P,Gupta RK,Singh K,Desiraju K,Agrawal A,Vats P,Bharadwaj A,Baburaj TP,Chaudhary P,Singh VK,Verma S,Bajaj AC,Singh SB

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that an age-related loss of cognitive function might be driven by atherosclerotic effects associated with altered lipid patterns. However, the relationship between Lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] and healthy cognitive aging has not yet been sufficiently investigated. For the current analysis we used the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Röhr F,Bucholtz N,Toepfer S,Norman K,Spira D,Steinhagen-Thiessen E,Lill CM,Bertram L,Demuth I,Buchmann N,Düzel S

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a theoretical and experimental study of the aggregation kinetics of oppositely charged nanoparticles. Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations are performed for symmetric, charge-asymmetric and size-asymmetric systems of oppositely charged nanoparticles. Simulation results show that both the weight and number average...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Singh K,Raghav A,Jha PK,Satapathi S

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with equal-strength Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling sustains persistent helical spin-wave states, which have remarkably long lifetimes. In the presence of an in-plane magnetic field, there exist single-particle excitations that have the character of propagating helical ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Karimi S,Ullrich CA,D'Amico I,Perez F

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The high failure strain of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) is a very desirable feature for rechargeable Li-ion batteries by improving the lifetime of high specific capacity anode materials that undergo mechanical fractures induced by large volume variations. In this work, poly(styrene-b-2-hydroxyethyl acrylate) called...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tesfaye AT,Dumur F,Gigmes D,Maria S,Monconduit L,Djenizian T

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein glycosylation has been described as the most abundant and complex post-translational modification occurring in nature. Recent studies have enhanced our view of how this modification occurs in bacteria highlighting the role of protein glycosylation in various processes such as biofilm formation, virulence and h...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Avilés-Reyes A,Freires IA,Besingi R,Purushotham S,Deivanayagam C,Brady LJ,Abranches J,Lemos JA

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomodels made of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) are demanded because they can represent the geometries and mechanical properties of human tissues realistically. Injecting and molding, commonly used in three-dimensional (3D) modeling, help to represent the blood vessels accurately. However, these techniques sometimes requi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shimizu Y,Tanabe T,Yoshida H,Kasuya M,Matsunaga T,Haga Y,Kurihara K,Ohta M

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Corline Heparin Conjugate (CHC), a compound of multiple unfractionated heparin chains, coats cells with a glycocalyx-like layer and may inhibit (xeno)transplant-associated activation of the plasma cascade systems. Here, we investigated the use of CHC to protect WT and genetically modified (GTKO.hCD46.hTBM) pig aortic ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bongoni AK,Salvaris E,Nordling S,Klymiuk N,Wolf E,Ayares DL,Rieben R,Magnusson PU,Cowan PJ

更新日期：2017-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute physical exercise improves memory functions by increasing neural plasticity in the hippocampus. In animals, a single session of physical exercise has been shown to boost anandamide (AEA), an endocannabinoid known to promote hippocampal plasticity. Hippocampal neuronal networks encode episodic memory representati...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Marin Bosch B,Bringard A,Logrieco MG,Lauer E,Imobersteg N,Thomas A,Ferretti G,Schwartz S,Igloi K

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV (PLH). Preventive tuberculosis therapy reduces mortality in PLH, especially in those with a positive tuberculin skin test (TST). New, more specific technologies for detecting latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) are now commercially available. We ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Steffen RE,Pinto M,Kritski A,Trajman A

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are expected to be both a revolutionary cell source for regenerative medicine and a powerful tool to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying human cell development in vitro. In the present study, we tried to elucidate the steroidogenic differentiation processes usi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Matsuo K,Sone M,Honda-Kohmo K,Toyohara T,Sonoyama T,Taura D,Kojima K,Fukuda Y,Ohno Y,Inoue M,Ohta A,Osafune K,Nakao K,Inagaki N

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant height (PH) is a key factor in maize (Zea mays L.) yield, biomass, and plant architecture. We investigated the PH of diverse maize inbred lines (117 temperate lines, 135 tropical lines) at four growth stages using unmanned aerial vehicle high-throughput phenotypic platforms (UAV-HTPPs). We extracted PH data usin...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Zhang R,Song W,Han L,Liu X,Sun X,Luo M,Chen K,Zhang Y,Yang H,Yang G,Zhao Y,Zhao J

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin, a highly effective and widely used chemotherapeutic agent, has a major limitation for its nephrotoxicity. We recently identified a novel strategy for attenuating its nephrotoxicity in chemotherapy by an effective adjuvant via epigenetic modification through targeting HDAC2. Molecular docking and SPR assay f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ma T,Huang C,Meng X,Li X,Zhang Y,Ji S,Li J,Ye M,Liang H

更新日期：2016-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergence of multiple drug resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria calls for new initiatives to combat infectious diseases. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), because of their non-toxic nature and size/shape dependent optical properties, offer interesting possibility. Here we report the antibacterial efficacy of AuNPs of di...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chatterjee T,Chatterjee BK,Chakrabarti P

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis) is one of the dominant grass species present on typical steppes of the Inner Mongolia Plateau. However, L. chinensis has developed a dwarfing phenotype in response to the stressful habitat in grasslands that are severely degraded due to heavy grazing. The lack of transcriptomic and genomi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ren W,Hou X,Wu Z,Kong L,Guo H,Hu N,Wan D,Zhang J

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Most members of the poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase family, PARP family, have a catalytic activity that involves the transfer of ADP-ribose from a beta-NAD+-molecule to protein acceptors. It was recently discovered by Talhaoui et al. that DNA-dependent PARP1 and PARP2 can also modify DNA. Here, we demonstrate that DNA-depe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Belousova EA,Ishchenko АA,Lavrik OI

更新日期：2018-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue damage induces rapid recruitment of leukocytes and changes in the transcriptional landscape that influence wound healing. However, the cell-type specific transcriptional changes that influence leukocyte function and tissue repair have not been well characterized. Here, we employed translating ribosome affinity ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Houseright RA,Rosowski EE,Lam PY,Tauzin SJM,Mulvaney O,Dewey CN,Huttenlocher A

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a common cause of health care associated infections worldwide. A. pittii is an opportunistic pathogen also frequently isolated from Acinetobacter infections other than those from A. baumannii. Knowledge of Acinetobacter virulence factors and their role in pathogenesis is scarce. Also, there ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lázaro-Díez M,Chapartegui-González I,Redondo-Salvo S,Leigh C,Merino D,Segundo DS,Fernández A,Navas J,Icardo JM,Acosta F,Ocampo-Sosa A,Martínez-Martínez L,Ramos-Vivas J

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00