Rhodamine-immobilized optical hydrogels with shape deformation and Hg2+-sensitive fluorescence behaviors.

abstract：:Lactobacillus species are the predominant vaginal microbiota found in healthy women of reproductive age and help to prevent pathogen infection by producing lactic acid, H2O2 and anti-microbial compounds. Identification of novel vaginal Lactobacillus isolates that exhibit efficient colonisation and secrete anti-Candida...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jang SJ,Lee K,Kwon B,You HJ,Ko G

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative oxidase (AOX) is a mitochondrial inner-membrane oxidase that accepts electrons directly from ubiquinol and reduces oxygen to water without involving cytochrome-linked electron transport chain. It is highly conserved in many non-vertebrate taxa and may protect cells against hypoxia and oxidative stress. We ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu M,Guo X

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review and meta-analysis was designed to investigate whether maternal psychological stress and recent life events are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage. A literature search was conducted to identify studies reporting miscarriage in women with and without history of exposure to psychologi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Qu F,Wu Y,Zhu YH,Barry J,Ding T,Baio G,Muscat R,Todd BK,Wang FF,Hardiman PJ

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are of interest in nano-bio electronic devices due to their versatile structures, exquisite functionality and specificity. However, quantum transport measurements produce conflicting results due to technical limitations whereby it is difficult to precisely determine molecular orientation, the nature of the mo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sheu SY,Yang DY

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common malignancy in males. We undertook a meta-analysis to compare the efficacy and safety of conventional laparoscopic radical prostatectomy with a transperitoneal (TLRP) approach, versus that of an extraperitoneal (ELRP) approach, for treatment of localized PCa. A...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： De Hong C,Liang Ren L,Qiang W,Jia W,Ying Chun H,Lu Y,Zheng Hua L,Heng Ping L,Shi Bing Y,Yun Xiang L

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Detrimental impacts of extreme heats on the U.S. crop yields have been well-documented by a number of empirical studies. However, less have focused on within-growing season weather variation and the interaction between temperature and precipitation. The objective of this study is to emphasize the importance of disaggr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yu J,Goh G

更新日期：2019-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:When trying to conceive 1% of couples have recurrent miscarriages, defined as three or more consecutive pregnancy losses. This is not accounted for by the known incidence of chromosomal aneuploidy in miscarriage, and it has been suggested that there is an immunological aetiology. The endometrial mucosa is populated by...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Southcombe JH,Mounce G,McGee K,Elghajiji A,Brosens J,Quenby S,Child T,Granne I

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we measured the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) copy number in both tissue and plasma samples of gastric cancer patients by using droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) method. Eighty gastric cancer patients were enrolled and both formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kim B,Nam SK,Seo SH,Park KU,Ahn SH,Park DJ,Kim HH,Kim WH,Lee HS

更新日期：2020-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive or misdirected artificial light at night (ALAN) produces light pollution that influences several aspects of the biology and ecology of birds, including disruption of circadian rhythms and disorientation during flight. Many migrating birds traverse large expanses of land twice every year at night when ALAN il...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cabrera-Cruz SA,Smolinsky JA,Buler JJ

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty alcohols have been identified as promising organic phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage, because of their suitable temperature range, nontoxicity and can be obtained from both natural and synthetic sources. Like all other organic PCMs, octadecanol (OD) as PCM suffers from low thermal conducti...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al-Ahmed A,Sarı A,Mazumder MAJ,Hekimoğlu G,Al-Sulaiman FA,Inamuddin

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated a proof-of-principle experiment of reference-frame-independent phase coding quantum key distribution (RFI-QKD) over an 80-km optical fiber. After considering the finite-key bound, we still achieve a distance of 50 km. In this scenario, the phases of the basis states are related by a slowly time-va...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liang WY,Wang S,Li HW,Yin ZQ,Chen W,Yao Y,Huang JZ,Guo GC,Han ZF

更新日期：2014-01-09 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：:Inhibition of programmed death 1 (PD-1), expressed on activated T cells, can break through immune resistance and elicit durable responses in human melanoma as well as other types of cancers. Canine oral malignant melanoma is one of the most aggressive tumors bearing poor prognosis due to its high metastatic potency. H...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Igase M,Nemoto Y,Itamoto K,Tani K,Nakaichi M,Sakurai M,Sakai Y,Noguchi S,Kato M,Tsukui T,Mizuno T

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:One quarter of individuals with Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm) will develop airflow obstruction, but there are no established methods to identify these individuals. We examined the utility of FVC/TLC in identifying features of obstructive lung disease. The ratio of post-bronchodilator FVC and TLCCT from c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fortis S,Comellas A,Kim V,Casaburi R,Hokanson JE,Crapo JD,Silverman EK,Wan ES

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:BEST1 is a Ca2+-activated Cl- channel predominantly expressed in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), and over 250 genetic mutations in the BEST1 gene have been identified to cause retinal degenerative disorders generally known as bestrophinopathies. As most BEST1 mutations are autosomal dominant, it is of great biomedic...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ji C,Li Y,Kittredge A,Hopiavuori A,Ward N,Yao P,Fukuda Y,Zhang Y,Tsang SH,Yang T

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating tumor cells (CTC) have been studied extensively in various tumor types and are a well-established prognosticator in colorectal cancer (CRC). This is the first study to isolate CTC directly from the tumor outflow in secondary lung tumors. For this purpose in 24 patients with CRC who underwent pulmonary meta...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Le UT,Bronsert P,Picardo F,Riethdorf S,Haager B,Rylski B,Czerny M,Beyersdorf F,Wiesemann S,Pantel K,Passlick B,Kaifi JT,Schmid S

更新日期：2018-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Nano-flowers reported so far were mostly constituted of inorganic or hybrid materials. We have synthesized and crystallized a new organic compound, 1, 2-bis(tritylthio)ethane forming an organic nano-flower consisting of single crystalline petals. Crystal structure at nano and micro level indicates that π-π stacking in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sasidharan S,P C S,Chaudhary N,Ramakrishnan V

更新日期：2017-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Fat deposition of beef cattle varies between breeds. However, the regulation mechanism is still not elucidated completely at molecular level. In the present study, we comparatively analyzed transcriptome of subcutaneous adipose tissue between Wagyu and Holstein cattle with a significant difference in fat deposition to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang W,Guo Y,Du W,Zhang X,Li A,Miao X

更新日期：2017-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic and glutamatergic dysfunction in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are thought to be the core pathophysiological mechanisms of schizophrenia. Recently, we have established a method to index these functions from the DLPFC using the paired transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) paradigms of short int...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Noda Y,Barr MS,Zomorrodi R,Cash RFH,Farzan F,Rajji TK,Chen R,Daskalakis ZJ,Blumberger DM

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The cysteine-rich PLAC8 domain of unknown function occurs in proteins found in most Eukaryotes. PLAC8-proteins play important yet diverse roles in different organisms, such as control of cell proliferation in animals and plants or heavy metal resistance in plants and fungi. Mammalian Onzin can be either pro-proliferat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Daghino S,Di Vietro L,Petiti L,Martino E,Dallabona C,Lodi T,Perotto S

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistant infections are a serious public health threat worldwide. Whole genome sequencing approaches to rapidly identify pathogens and predict antibiotic resistance phenotypes are becoming more feasible and may offer a way to reduce clinical test turnaround times compared to conventional culture-based m...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen M,Brettin T,Long SW,Musser JM,Olsen RJ,Olson R,Shukla M,Stevens RL,Xia F,Yoo H,Davis JJ

更新日期：2018-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic potential of nonthermal plasma for cancer treatment has been reported recently. The heterogeneity of cancer cells need to be addressed to design effective anticancer treatments. Here, we show that treatment with nonthermal atmospheric-pressure plasma dissolved in a liquid (liquid plasma) induces oxidat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen NH,Park HJ,Yang SS,Choi KS,Lee JS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsic disorder occurs when (part of) a protein remains unfolded during normal functioning. Intrinsically-disordered regions can contain segments that 'fold on binding' to another molecule. Here, we perform bioinformatical parsing of human 'folding-on-binding' (FB) proteins, into four subsets: Ordered regions, FB r...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Narasumani M,Harrison PM

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) is a multifunctional protein that controls the cellular response to oxidative stress and possesses DNA-repair functions. It has important roles in the progression and outcomes of various diseases; however, its function and therapeutic prospects with respect to kidney injury ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maruyama K,Nakagawa N,Aonuma T,Saito Y,Hayasaka T,Kano K,Horiuchi K,Takehara N,Kawabe JI,Hasebe N

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies are widely used for the detection of specific molecules such as peptides, proteins, and chemical compounds. The specificity of an antibody is therefore its most important feature. However, it is very difficult to confirm antibody specificity. Recently, we made a human protein array consisting of 19,712 kind...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Morishita R,Sugiyama S,Denda M,Tokunaga S,Kido K,Shioya R,Ozawa S,Sawasaki T

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated Staphylococcus aureus carriage in patients with microbial keratitis (MK). 215 patients with MK, 60 healthy controls and 35 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were included. Corneal scrapes were collected from patients with MK. Conjunctival, nasal and throat swabs were collected from the no...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Somerville TF,Shankar J,Aldwinckle S,Sueke H,Neal T,Horsburgh MJ,Kaye SB

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important first-line drug in all existing and new tuberculosis (TB) treatment regimens. PZA-resistance in M. tuberculosis is increasing, especially among M/XDR cases. Noted issues with PZA Drug Susceptibility Testing (DST) have driven the search for alternative tests. This study provides a com...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ramirez-Busby SM,Rodwell TC,Fink L,Catanzaro D,Jackson RL,Pettigrove M,Catanzaro A,Valafar F

更新日期：2017-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Myopia is the commonest eye disorder in the world. High myopes are predisposed to ocular pathologies. The vasoactive intestinal peptide receptor 2 (VIPR2) gene was identified as a myopia susceptibility locus by our group and another group. We continued to fine-map this locus. A case-control study was performed in 4 se...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Leung KH,Luo S,Kwarteng R,Chen SG,Yap MKH,Huang CL,Yip SP

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Current investigation was endeavoured to overcome problem of poor palatability and bioavailability of centrally acting analgesic, tapentadol (TAP) by formulating controlled release drug-resin complexes (DRCs). The technology encompassed in preparation of DRCs involved chemisorption of TAP to weak cationic resins (Kyro...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sharma M,Soni R

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Burley tobacco (Nicotiana Tabacum) is a chlorophyll-deficiency mutant. Nitrate is one precursor of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) and is largely accumulated in burley tobacco. To decrease nitrate accumulation in burley tobacco, glycerol, a polyhydric alcohol compound and physiological regulating material, was s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Y,Chang D,Yang H,Wang J,Shi H

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00