Scanning electron microscopy and machine learning reveal heterogeneity in capsular morphotypes of the human pathogen Cryptococcus spp.

abstract：:The serum macrophage inhibitory cytokine-1 (MIC-1) levels are elevated in some inflammatory conditions and cancers. We thus compared the levels of biliary and serum MIC-1 and conventional tumour markers between 23 biliary tract cancer (BTC) patients (malignant group) and 29 benign biliary disease patients (benign grou...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sugimoto M,Takagi T,Konno N,Suzuki R,Asama H,Watanabe K,Nakamura J,Waragai Y,Kikuchi H,Takasumi M,Sato Y,Hikichi T,Ohira H

更新日期：2017-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To realize power efficient solution-processed phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (s-PhOLEDs), the corresponding high driving voltage issue should be well solved. To solve it, efforts have been devoted to the exploitation of novel host or interfacial materials. However, the issues of charge trapping of phosph...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang S,Wang X,Yao B,Zhang B,Ding J,Xie Z,Wang L

更新日期：2015-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence on the association between dietary fiber intake and pancreatic cancer risk has been controversial. Therefore, we carried out this meta-analysis to summarize available evidence from epidemiologic studies on this point. Relevant studies were identified by searching PubMed, Embase and Web of Science databases as...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang CH,Qiao C,Wang RC,Zhou WP

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Channelopathy mutations prove informative on disease causing mechanisms and channel gating dynamics. We have identified a novel heterozygous mutation in the KCNA1 gene of a young proband displaying typical signs and symptoms of Episodic Ataxia type 1 (EA1). This mutation is in the S4 helix of the voltage-sensing domai...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hasan S,Bove C,Silvestri G,Mantuano E,Modoni A,Veneziano L,Macchioni L,Hunter T,Hunter G,Pessia M,D'Adamo MC

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, there has been an increase in the use of herbal remedies including traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). There is a perception that products are natural, safe and effectively regulated, however, regulatory agencies are hampered by a lack of a toolkit to audit ingredient lists, adulterants and constituent activ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Coghlan ML,Maker G,Crighton E,Haile J,Murray DC,White NE,Byard RW,Bellgard MI,Mullaney I,Trengove R,Allcock RJ,Nash C,Hoban C,Jarrett K,Edwards R,Musgrave IF,Bunce M

更新日期：2015-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic skyrmions are topological quasiparticles of great interest for data storage applications because of their small size, high stability, and ease of manipulation via electric current. However, although models exist for some limiting cases, there is no universal theory capable of accurately describing the structu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Büttner F,Lemesh I,Beach GSD

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Light's polarisation contains information about its source and interactions, from distant stars to biological samples. Polarimeters can recover this information, but reliance on birefringent or rotating optical elements limits their wavelength range and stability. Here we present a static, single-shot polarimeter base...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hawley RD,Cork J,Radwell N,Franke-Arnold S

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils - constituting the largest terrestrial carbon pool - are vulnerable to climatic warming. Currently existing uncertainties regarding carbon fluxes within terrestrial systems can be addressed by studies of past carbon cycle dynamics and related climate change recorded in sedimentary successions. Here we show an ex...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pieńkowski G,Hodbod M,Ullmann CV

更新日期：2016-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, CoMoO4@NiMoO4·xH2O core-shell heterostructure electrode is directly grown on carbon fabric (CF) via a feasible hydrothermal procedure with CoMoO4 nanowires (NWs) as the core and NiMoO4 nanosheets (NSs) as the shell. This core-shell heterostructure could provide fast ion and electron transfer, a large num...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang J,Zhang L,Liu X,Zhang X,Tian Y,Liu X,Zhao J,Li Y

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have designed, fabricated and characterized dual-wavelength metasurfaces that function at two assigned terahertz wavelengths with independent phase and amplitude control at each wavelength. Specifically, we have designed a dual-wavelength achromatic metasurface-based deflector deflecting the incident wave to the sa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ding J,Xu N,Ren H,Lin Y,Zhang W,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Parasites comprise a huge part of the biodiversity on earth. However, on a local scale, not much is known about their diversity and community structure. Here, we assess the diversity of larval trematode communities in an interconnected freshwater system of the River Ruhr in Germany and analyse how the parasites are sp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Selbach C,Soldánová M,Feld CK,Kostadinova A,Sures B

更新日期：2020-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia has been reported, especially memory. Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been effective in enhancing this function. We tested the effects of eight sessions of tDCS and cognitive training on immediate and delaye...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Santos VSDSD,Zortea M,Alves RL,Naziazeno CCDS,Saldanha JS,Carvalho SDCR,Leite AJDC,Torres ILDS,Souza A,Calvetti PÜ,Fregni F,Caumo W

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional concentrators with inhomogeneous coating materials that fully enclose the destined region pose great challenges for fabrication. In this paper, we propose to design an EM concentrator with homogeneous materials. Distinguished from conventional ones, the elaborately designed EM concentrator features a conc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Madni HA,Hussain K,Jiang WX,Liu S,Aziz A,Iqbal S,Mahboob A,Cui TJ

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular taxonomy often uncovers cryptic species, reminding us that taxonomic incompleteness is even more severe than previous thought. The importance of cryptic species for conservation is poorly understood. Although some cryptic species may be seriously threatened or otherwise important, they are rarely included in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Delić T,Trontelj P,Rendoš M,Fišer C

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Thomas D,Bagiya MS,Sunil PS,Rolland L,Sunil AS,Mikesell TD,Nayak S,Mangalampalli S,Ramesh DS

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection after renal transplantation remains a major cause of morbidity and death, especially infection from the extensively drug-resistant bacteria, A. baumannii. A total of fourteen A. baumannii isolates were isolated from the donors' preserved fluid from DCD (donation after cardiac death) renal transplantation and...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang H,Cao L,Qu L,Qu T,Liu G,Wang R,Li B,Wang Y,Ying C,Chen M,Lu Y,Feng S,Xiao Y,Wang J,Wu J,Chen J

更新日期：2017-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Using starch as the carbon precursor and different-sized ZnO naoparticles as the hard template, a series of porous carbon materials for electrochemical sensing were prepared. Experiments of scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and Nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms reveal that the parti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cheng Q,Ji L,Wu K,Zhang W

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies showed that better adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) is associated with lower risk of chronic diseases, but limited data are available on bone health. We investigated the association of the MD with bone mineral density (BMD) in Chinese adults. We included 2371 participants aged 40-75 years in t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen GD,Dong XW,Zhu YY,Tian HY,He J,Chen YM

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermal papilla cells (DPCs) are important components of hair follicles and play a critical role in hair follicle development. However, the mechanisms by which DPCs induce hair follicle development remain unclear. In the present study, we identified the mitotic arrest deficient protein MAD2B as a modifier of DPCs. Over...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu N,Song Z,Zhang K,Yang X

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is usually assumed that metabolic constraints restrict deep-sea corals to cold-water habitats, with 'deep-sea' and 'cold-water' corals often used as synonymous. Here we report on the first measurements of biological characters of deep-sea corals from the central Red Sea, where they occur at temperatures exceeding 2...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Roder C,Berumen ML,Bouwmeester J,Papathanassiou E,Al-Suwailem A,Voolstra CR

更新日期：2013-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) related signaling is one of the most important signaling pathways regulating early developmental events. Smad2 and Smad3 are structurally similar and it is mostly considered that they are equally important in mediating TGFβ signals. Here, we show that Smad3 is an insensitive ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu L,Liu X,Ren X,Tian Y,Chen Z,Xu X,Du Y,Jiang C,Fang Y,Liu Z,Fan B,Zhang Q,Jin G,Yang X,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-02-24 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：:Inter-specific emotion recognition is especially adaptive when species spend a long time in close association, like dogs and humans. Here, we comprehensively studied the human ability to recognize facial expressions associated with dog emotions (hereafter, emotions). Participants were presented with pictures of dogs, ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Amici F,Waterman J,Kellermann CM,Karimullah K,Bräuer J

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an important staple crop worldwide, it has been cultivated in the Andean Altiplano under low-input farming practices at high altitudes and under harsh environment for centuries. We analyzed secondary metabolite (SM) gene diversity encoded in the potato rhizosphere microbiome during plant ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Aleti G,Nikolić B,Brader G,Pandey RV,Antonielli L,Pfeiffer S,Oswald A,Sessitsch A

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Editing in microRNAs, particularly in seed can significantly alter the choice of their target genes. We show that out of 13 different human tissues, different regions of brain showed higher adenosine to inosine (A-to-I) editing in mature miRNAs. These events were enriched in seed sequence (73.33%), which was not obser...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Paul D,Sinha AN,Ray A,Lal M,Nayak S,Sharma A,Mehani B,Mukherjee D,Laddha SV,Suri A,Sarkar C,Mukhopadhyay A

更新日期：2017-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This research investigated the association between prolonged disposable diaper (DD) wearing in infancy and primary enuresis (PNE). As a case-control study, we collected data from 376 children with enuresis and 379 healthy children who were sex- and age-matched at three tertiary care institutions in mainland China from...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Wen JG,Shen T,Yang XQ,Peng SX,Wang XZ,Xie H,Wu XD,Du YK

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to develop markedly improved risk prediction models for lung cancer using a prospective cohort of 395,875 participants in Taiwan. Discriminatory accuracy was measured by generation of receiver operator curves and estimation of area under the curve (AUC). In multivariate Cox regression a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu X,Wen CP,Ye Y,Tsai M,Wen C,Roth JA,Pu X,Chow WH,Huff C,Cunningham S,Huang M,Wu S,Tsao CK,Gu J,Lippman SM

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical regulation of bile acid (BA) pool size and composition occurs via an intensive molecular crosstalk between the liver and gut, orchestrated by the combined actions of the nuclear Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) and the enterokine fibroblast growth factor 19 (FGF19) with the final aim of reducing hepatic BA synthesi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gadaleta RM,Scialpi N,Peres C,Cariello M,Ko B,Luo J,Porru E,Roda A,Sabbà C,Moschetta A

更新日期：2018-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of equine electrocardiographic (ECG) recordings is complicated by the absence of agreed abnormality classification criteria. We explore the applicability of several complexity analysis methods for characterization of non-linear aspects of electrocardiographic recordings. We here show that complexity estim...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Alexeenko V,Fraser JA,Dolgoborodov A,Bowen M,Huang CL,Marr CM,Jeevaratnam K

更新日期：2019-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing a high-dimensional entanglement is fundamental in quantum information applications. Here, we propose a theoretical scheme to analyze and characterize the angular momentum hyperentanglement that two photons are entangled simultaneously in spin and orbital angular momentum. Based on the electro-optic samp...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Z,Chen L

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00