Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension and their determinants: Results from the first cohort of non-communicable diseases in a Kurdish settlement.

abstract：:The roles of multifunctional CD4 T cells in human tuberculosis are not well defined. In this study, we found that patients with tuberculosis had decreased PMA/ionomycin stimulated multifunctional CD4 T cells, and increased Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen-specific multifunctional CD4 T cells, when compared to indivi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qiu Z,Zhang M,Zhu Y,Zheng F,Lu P,Liu H,Graner MW,Zhou B,Chen X

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During locomotion, the human ankle-foot system dynamically alters its gearing, or leverage of the ankle joint on the ground. Shifting ankle-foot gearing regulates speed of plantarflexor (i.e., calf muscle) contraction, which influences economy of force production. Here, we tested the hypothesis that manipulating ankle...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ray SF,Takahashi KZ

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The remineralization mechanism in dental caries lesions is not completely understood. This study reports on ultrastructural and chemical changes observed within arrested caries lesions. Carious human teeth were observed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and focused-ion-beam (FIB)-SEM. The crystals detected in t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yoshihara K,Nagaoka N,Nakamura A,Hara T,Hayakawa S,Yoshida Y,Van Meerbeek B

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation of enantiomers by flows is a promising chiral resolution method using cost-effective microfluidics. Notwithstanding a number of experimental and numerical studies, a fundamental understanding still remains elusive, and an important question as to whether it is possible to specify common physical properties ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ro S,Yi J,Kim YW

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellin is amongst the most abundant proteins in flagellated bacterial species and constitutes the major building block of the flagellar filament. The proteins FliW and FliS serve in the post-transcriptional control of flagellin and guide the protein to the flagellar type III secretion system (fT3SS), respectively. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Altegoer F,Mukherjee S,Steinchen W,Bedrunka P,Linne U,Kearns DB,Bange G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute traumatic intraparenchymal hematoma (tICH) expansion is a devastating neurological complication that is associated with poor outcome after cerebral contusion. This study aimed to develop and validate a novel noncontrast computed tomography (CT) (NCCT) multihematoma fuzzy sign to predict acute tICH expansion. In ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sheng J,Yang J,Cai S,Zhuang D,Li T,Chen X,Wang G,Dai J,Ding F,Tian L,Zheng F,Tian F,Huang M,Li K,Chen W

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Unwanted clots lead to heart attack and stroke that result in a large number of deaths. Currently available anticoagulants have some drawbacks including their non-specific actions. Therefore novel anticoagulants that target specific steps in the coagulation pathway are being sought. Here we describe the identification...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Girish VM,Kini RM

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Random lasers consisting of slab waveguides with two-dimensional disordered wrinkling patterns that act as scattering resonators are reported. As active material 2,2',7,7'-tetraphenyl-9,9'-spirobifluorene is used which is sandwiched between an oxidized silicon wafer and a cladding with higher glass transition temperat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hoinka NM,Ostwald C,Fuhrmann-Lieker T

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) technologies allows us to determine key gene expression signatures that correlate with resistance (and responsiveness) to anti-cancer therapeutics. We have undertaken a transcriptomic and chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) approach to describe differences i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nava M,Dutta P,Farias-Eisner R,Vadgama JV,Wu Y

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological, biochemical and functional differences between oxidative and glycolytic muscles play important roles in human metabolic health and in animal meat quality. To explore these differences, we determined the genome-wide landscape of DNA methylomes and their relationship with the mRNA and miRNA transcript...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shen L,Du J,Xia Y,Tan Z,Fu Y,Yang Q,Li X,Tang G,Jiang Y,Wang J,Li M,Zhang S,Zhu L

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Organochlorine (OC) pesticides and the more persistent polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have well-established dose-dependent toxicities to birds, fish and mammals in experimental studies, but the actual impact of OC pollutants on European marine top predators remains unknown. Here we show that several cetacean species...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jepson PD,Deaville R,Barber JL,Aguilar À,Borrell A,Murphy S,Barry J,Brownlow A,Barnett J,Berrow S,Cunningham AA,Davison NJ,Ten Doeschate M,Esteban R,Ferreira M,Foote AD,Genov T,Giménez J,Loveridge J,Llavona Á,Mart

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Most large carnivore populations currently occur in heterogeneous landscapes, with source populations embedded in a matrix of human-dominated habitats. Understanding changes in distribution of endangered carnivores is critical for prioritizing and implementing conservation strategies. We examined distribution and dyna...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Srivathsa A,Karanth KU,Kumar NS,Oli MK

更新日期：2019-02-28 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：:The structure of metallic glasses is a long-standing question because the lack of long-range order makes diffraction based techniques difficult to be applied. Here, we used scanning tunneling microscopy with large tunneling resistance of 6 GΩ at low temperature in order to minimize forces between probe and sample and ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pawlak R,Marot L,Sadeghi A,Kawai S,Glatzel T,Reimann P,Goedecker S,Güntherodt HJ,Meyer E

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a valuable ancillary test in the diagnosis and management of chorioretinal disease. The evaluation of choroid thickness using OCT has become the focus of clinical applications. We report a linear artifact that acts as a confounding factor in choroidal thickness measurements by enh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zuo C,Mi L,Yang S,Guo X,Xiao H,Liu X

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To overcome drug resistance caused by apoptosis deficiency in patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), there is a need to identify other means of triggering apoptosis-independent cancer cell death. We are the first to report that isogambogenic acid (iso-GNA) can induce apoptosis-independent autophagic cell...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang J,Zhou Y,Cheng X,Fan Y,He S,Li S,Ye H,Xie C,Wu W,Li C,Pei H,Li L,Wei Z,Peng A,Wei Y,Li W,Chen L

更新日期：2015-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural arches, pillars and other exotic sandstone formations have always been attracting attention for their unusual shapes and amazing mechanical balance that leave a strong impression of intelligent design rather than the result of a stochastic process. It has been recently demonstrated that these shapes could have...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ostanin I,Safonov A,Oseledets I

更新日期：2017-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Great interest has been shown in mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy in a wide variety of clinical domains. However, the therapeutic efficiency depends on the proliferation and migration of MSCs. Chemokine receptors are involved in regulating the proliferation and migration to the specific organs of MSCs in different ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu L,Chen JX,Zhang XW,Sun Q,Yang L,Liu A,Hu S,Guo F,Liu S,Huang Y,Yang Y,Qiu HB

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Gluconobacter oxydans sorbitol dehydrogenase (GoSLDH) exhibits a higher catalytic efficiency than other L-sorbose producing enzymes. During the reaction catalysed by GoSLDH, NADP+ is reduced to NADPH and D-sorbitol is oxidized to L-sorbose. However, GoSLDH activity is inhibited by the NADPH (Ki = 100 μM) formed during...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim TS,Gao H,Li J,Kalia VC,Muthusamy K,Sohng JK,Kim IW,Lee JK

更新日期：2019-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this observational study we investigated whether levels of factor XIII (FXIII) and its major polymorphisms affect the outcome of thrombolysis by recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients. Study cohort included 132 consecutive AIS patients undergoing i.v. thrombolysis wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Székely EG,Czuriga-Kovács KR,Bereczky Z,Katona É,Mezei ZA,Nagy A,Tóth NK,Berényi E,Muszbek L,Csiba L,Bagoly Z

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) are theoretically studied using a multiscale simulation flow from the ab initio level to the tight binding (TB) level. The scaling effects of both armchair PNRs (aPNRs) and zigzag PNRs (zPNRs) from material properties to device properties are explored. The much larger effe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lv Y,Chang S,Huang Q,Wang H,He J

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) has been recommended for patients with 4 or more positive lymph nodes, however, its role in patients with 1-3 positive lymph nodes remains unclear. The purpose of this study is to evaluate oncological outcomes for breast cancer patients with T1-2 tumors and 1-3 positi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gilmore RC,Sebai ME,Psoter KJ,Prasath V,Siotos C,Broderick KP,Jacobs LK,Harvey SC,Habibi M

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyses spatially resolved estimates of mass budget and surface velocity of glaciers in the Zanskar Basin of Western Himalaya in the context of varying debris cover, glacier hypsometry and orientation. The regional glacier mass budget for the period of 1999-2014 is -0.38 ± 0.09 m w.e./a. Individual mass bu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bhushan S,Syed TH,Arendt AA,Kulkarni AV,Sinha D

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) standing system for rehabilitation of bone mineral density (BMD) in people with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). BMD recovery offers an increased quality of life for people with SCI by reducing their risk of fractures. The standing system developed comprises an i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zoulias ID,Armengol M,Poulton A,Andrews B,Gibbons R,Harwin WS,Holderbaum W

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hysteresis, which is the history dependence of physical systems, is one of the most important topics in physics. Interestingly, bi-stability of plasma with a huge hysteresis loop has been observed in inductive plasma discharges. Despite long plasma research, how this plasma hysteresis occurs remains an unresolved ques...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee HC,Chung CW

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Balance disorders have been poorly investigated and somewhat neglected in people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, especially in children, whose have intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors that may compromise the balance. To evaluate the foot plantar pressures and the balance in children with acquired immu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： da Silva Pontes L,Callegari B,Magno L,Moraes A,Silva BG,Manso K,Barros B,Araújo AP,Silva MC,Dias GA,Vasconcelos BH,Costa E Silva A,Libonati RM,Souza GS

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils play an important role in the occurrence and development of acute lung injury (ALI). Leukotriene B4 (LTB4), a hydrolysis product of epoxide leukotriene A4 (LTA4) catalyzed by LTA4 hydrolase (LTA4H), is one of the most potent chemoattractants for neutrophil. Bufexamac is a drug widely used as an anti-inflam...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xiao Q,Dong N,Yao X,Wu D,Lu Y,Mao F,Zhu J,Li J,Huang J,Chen A,Huang L,Wang X,Yang G,He G,Xu Y,Lu W

更新日期：2016-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Women who have previously had an induced abortion (IA) before their first birth have been associated with preterm birth (PTB). However, previous studies on the PTB are inconsistent. Therefore, the aim of this study was to clarify the association between IA and PTB and low birth weight (LBW) for first-time mothers. A t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ke L,Lin W,Liu Y,Ou W,Lin Z

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of graphene oxide nanoparticles (nGOx) to reduce or increase As and metals availability in polluted soils was compared with that of zero valent iron nanoparticles (nZVI). The nanomaterials used in this study were characterized by X-ray techniques, CHNS-O analysis, dynamic light scattering, and microscopy ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baragaño D,Forján R,Welte L,Gallego JLR

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlled ovarian stimulation by exogenous gonadotrophins is a key procedure during the in vitro fertilization cycle to obtain a sufficient number of oocytes in humans. Previous studies demonstrated that repeated superovulation had deleterious effects on the ovaries. However, whether repeated superovulation adversely...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xie JK,Wang Q,Zhang TT,Yin S,Zhang CL,Ge ZJ

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00