Genomic epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil.

abstract：:The present study evaluated the physiological, molecular and hormonal parameters from scion/rootstock interaction of citrus plants during recurrent water deficit. Responses of the Valencia (VO) scion variety grafted on two rootstocks with different soil water extraction capacities, Rangpur Lime (RL) and Sunki Maravilh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Neves DM,Almeida LADH,Santana-Vieira DDS,Freschi L,Ferreira CF,Soares Filho WDS,Costa MGC,Micheli F,Coelho Filho MA,Gesteira ADS

更新日期：2017-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:3β-Hydroxysteroid-Δ24 reductase (DHCR24), the final enzyme of the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway, has been associated with urogenital neoplasms. However, the function of DHCR24 in endometrial cancer (EC) remains largely elusive. Here, we analyzed the expression profile of DHCR24 and the progesterone receptor (PGR) i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dai M,Zhu XL,Liu F,Xu QY,Ge QL,Jiang SH,Yang XM,Li J,Wang YH,Wu QK,Ai ZH,Teng YC,Zhang ZG

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of brain circuit disorders has been proposed for a variety of neuropsychiatric diseases, characterized by pathological disturbances of neuronal networks including changes in oscillatory signaling of re-entrant cortico-subcortical loops in the basal ganglia system. Parts of this circuitry play a pivotal rol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Maurer L,Tang H,Haumesser JK,Altschüler J,Kühn AA,Spranger J,van Riesen C

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-surface ozone is enhanced under particular chemical reactions and physical processes. This study showed the seasonal variation of near-surface ozone in Nicosia, Cyprus and focused in summers when the highest ozone levels were noted using a seven year hourly dataset from 2007 to 2014. The originality of this study...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pyrgou A,Hadjinicolaou P,Santamouris M

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CaWRKY40 is a positive regulator of pepper (Capsicum annum) response to Ralstonia solanacearum inoculation (RSI), but the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we functionally characterize CaCDPK15 in the defense signaling mediated by CaWRKY40. Pathogen-responsive TGA, W, and ERE boxes were identified in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shen L,Yang S,Yang T,Liang J,Cheng W,Wen J,Liu Y,Li J,Shi L,Tang Q,Shi W,Hu J,Liu C,Zhang Y,Mou S,Liu Z,Cai H,He L,Guan D,Wu Y,He S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enamel proteins form a scaffold for growing hydroxyapatite crystals during enamel formation. They are then almost completely degraded during enamel maturation, resulting in a protein content of only 1% (w/v) in mature enamel. Nevertheless, this small amount of remaining proteins has important effects on the mechanical...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Baumann T,Carvalho TS,Lussi A

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coating of VO2-based thin film has been extensively studied for fabricating energy-saving smart windows. One of the most efficient ways for fabricating high performance films is to create multi-nanolayered structure. However, it has been highly challenge to make such layers in the VO2-based films using conventional me...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun G,Cao X,Yue Y,Gao X,Long S,Li N,Li R,Luo H,Jin P

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cassava is an important staple crop in tropical and sub-tropical areas. As a common farming practice, cassava is usually cultivated intercropping with other crops and subjected to various degrees of shading, which causes reduced productivity. Herein, a comparative transcriptomic analysis was performed on a series of d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ding Z,Zhang Y,Xiao Y,Liu F,Wang M,Zhu X,Liu P,Sun Q,Wang W,Peng M,Brutnell T,Li P

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid increase in the number of genetically modified (GM) varieties has led to a demand for high-throughput methods to detect genetically modified organisms (GMOs). We describe a new dynamic array-based high throughput method to simultaneously detect 48 targets in 48 samples on a Fludigm system. The test targets i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li X,Wu Y,Li J,Li Y,Long L,Li F,Wu G

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is clear that lipids are responsible for insulin resistance, it is poorly understood what types of lipids are involved. In this study, we verified the characteristic lipid species in skeletal muscle of a chronic exercise training model and a high-fat induced-obesity model. Three different lipidomics analys...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Goto-Inoue N,Yamada K,Inagaki A,Furuichi Y,Ogino S,Manabe Y,Setou M,Fujii NL

更新日期：2013-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) is an important mechanism of action for many therapeutic antibodies. A therapeutic immunoglobulin (Ig) G1 monoclonal antibody lost more than half of its ADCC activity after heat stress at 40 °C for 4 months. Size-exclusion and ion-exchange chromatography were used t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu X,Machiesky LA,De Mel N,Du Q,Xu W,Washabaugh M,Jiang XR,Wang J

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of photoluminescence of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide two-dimensional materials is critical for their integration in optoelectronic and photonic device applications. By coupling with different plasmonic array geometries, we have shown that the photoluminescence intensity can be enhanced an...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mukherjee B,Kaushik N,Tripathi RP,Joseph AM,Mohapatra PK,Dhar S,Singh BP,Kumar GV,Simsek E,Lodha S

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the relative importance of photosynthetic versus morphological adaptations of submersed macrophytes to low light intensity in lakes, rapid light curves (RLCs), morphological parameters, relative growth rate (RGR), clonal reproduction and abundance of two submersed macrophytes (Potamogeton maackianus and Va...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen J,Cao T,Zhang X,Xi Y,Ni L,Jeppesen E

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Giardia is a worldwide spread protozoan parasite colonizing in small intestines of vertebrates, causing Giardiasis. The controversy about whether it is an extremely primitive eukaryote or just a highly evolved parasite has become a fetter to its uses as a model for both evolutionary and parasitological studies for yea...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ye Q,Tian H,Chen B,Shao J,Qin Y,Wen J

更新日期：2017-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a new technique was developed for non-catalytically mixing microdroplets. In this method, an alternating-current (AC) electric field is used to promote the antigen-antibody reaction within the microdroplet. Previously, this technique has only been applied to histological examinations of flat structures, such...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shirasawa H,Kumagai J,Sato E,Kabashima K,Kumazawa Y,Sato W,Miura H,Nakamura R,Nanjo H,Minamiya Y,Akagami Y,Terada Y

更新日期：2015-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental understanding of guest gas replacement in hydrate reservoirs is crucial for the enhanced recovery of natural gas and carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration. To gain physical insight into this exchange process, this work aims at developing and validating a clathrate hydrate model for gas replacement. Most of th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Palodkar AV,Jana AK

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed fisheries are the dominant type of fishery worldwide. Overexploitation in mixed fisheries occurs when catches continue for available quota species while low quota species are discarded. As EU fisheries management moves to count all fish caught against quota (the "landing obligation"), the challenge is to catch a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dolder PJ,Thorson JT,Minto C

更新日期：2018-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate features of the denatured state ensembles that exist in equilibrium with the native state under physiological conditions, we performed 1.4-μs molecular dynamics (MD) simulations at 400 K and 450 K using the monomer subunits of three CutA1 mutants from Escherichia coli: an SH-free mutant (Ec0SH) w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yutani K,Matsuura Y,Naitow H,Joti Y

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this work is to make a case for epidemiological models with fractional exponent in the contribution of sub-populations to the incidence rate. More specifically, we question the standard assumption in the literature on epidemiological models, where the incidence rate dictating propagation of infections i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Taghvaei A,Georgiou TT,Norton L,Tannenbaum A

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) protein is essential for neuronal development. Val66Met (rs6265) is a functional polymorphism at codon 66 of the BDNF gene that affects neuroplasticity and has been associated with cognition, brain structure and function. The aim of this study was to clarify the relationshi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Roy N,Barry RJ,Fernandez FE,Lim CK,Al-Dabbas MA,Karamacoska D,Broyd SJ,Solowij N,Chiu CL,Steiner GZ

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time Precise Point Positioning (PPP) technique is being widely applied for providing precise positioning services with the significant improvement on satellite precise products accuracy. With the rapid development of the multi-constellation Global Navigation Satellite Systems (multi-GNSS), currently, about 80 nav...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao Z,Shen W,Zhang H,Niu X,Ge M

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between heterospecific individuals has been documented as playing a direct role in promoting paternal leakage and mitochondrial heteroplasmy in both natural populations and laboratory conditions, by relaxing the egg-sperm recognition mechanisms. Here, we tested the hypothesis that hybridization can lead ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mastrantonio V,Urbanelli S,Porretta D

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) regulates plant growth and development as well as responses to stress that enhanced its endogenous production. Arabidopsis plants exposed to a pulse of exogenous NO gas were used for untargeted global metabolomic analyses thus allowing the identification of metabolic processes affected by NO. At earl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： León J,Costa Á,Castillo MC

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cancers, incidence, treatment efficacy and overall prognosis vary between geographic populations. Studies disentangling the contributing factors may help in both understanding cancer biology and tailoring therapeutic interventions. Ancestry estimation in such studies should preferably be driven by genomic data...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang Q,Baudis M

更新日期：2020-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on motor cortical excitability are highly variable between individuals. Inter-individual differences in the electric fields generated in the brain by tDCS might play a role in the variability. Here, we explored whether these fields are related to excitabili...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Laakso I,Mikkonen M,Koyama S,Hirata A,Tanaka S

更新日期：2019-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases (ICKs) are key regulators of cyclin-dependent kinase activities and cell division. Herein, we identified eight ICKs in maize, which we named Zeama;ICKs (ZmICKs). Primary sequencing and phylogenetic analyses were used to divide the ZmICK family into two classes: group B and group ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xiao Q,Zhang C,Li H,Wei B,Wang Y,Huang H,Li Y,Yu G,Liu H,Zhang J,Liu Y,Hu Y,Huang Y

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ku-jin tea (KJT) is a health beverage prepared from the leaves of the plant Acer tataricum subsp. ginnala that has been consumed in some regions of China for thousands of years. KJT contains high levels of anti-inflammatory and antioxidative compounds such as ginnalins, but little is known about the chemopreventive ef...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bi W,Liu H,Shen J,Zhang LH,Li P,Peng B,Cao L,Zhang P,He C,Xiao P

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) levels were detected in mitochondrial disease patient cells harboring nuclear gene mutations in structural subunits of complex I, using a metabolomics screening approach. The increased levels of this principal inflammation mediator normalized following exposure of KH176m, an active re...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang X,Renkema H,Pennings B,Pecheritsyna S,Schoeman JC,Hankemeier T,Smeitink J,Beyrath J

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a persistent and unexplained pathological state characterized by exertional and severely debilitating fatigue, with/without infectious or neuropsychiatric symptoms, lasting at least 6 consecutive months. Its pathogenesis remains incompletely understood. Here, we performed comprehensiv...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yamano E,Sugimoto M,Hirayama A,Kume S,Yamato M,Jin G,Tajima S,Goda N,Iwai K,Fukuda S,Yamaguti K,Kuratsune H,Soga T,Watanabe Y,Kataoka Y

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that induction of the adipocyte-specific gene adiponectin (Adipoq) during 3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation is closely associated with epigenetic memory histone H3 acetylation on the transcribed region of the gene. We used 3T3-L1 adipocytes and Brd4 heterozygous mice to investigate whether the in...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sakurai N,Inamochi Y,Inoue T,Hariya N,Kawamura M,Yamada M,Dey A,Nishiyama A,Kubota T,Ozato K,Goda T,Mochizuki K

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00