Preparation and characterization of diatomite and hydroxyapatite reinforced porous polyurethane foam biocomposites.

abstract：:The present study applied the PacBio single molecule, real-time sequencing technology (SMRT) in evaluating the quality of silage production. Specifically, we produced four types of Medicago sativa silages by using four different lactic acid bacteria-based additives (AD-I, AD-II, AD-III and AD-IV). We monitored the cha...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bao W,Mi Z,Xu H,Zheng Y,Kwok LY,Zhang H,Zhang W

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is one of the most aggressive skin cancers and is well known for its high metastatic rate. Studies have shown that epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) is essential for melanoma cell metastasis. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying EMT are still not fully understood. We have shown that IRGM1, a mem...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tian L,Li L,Xing W,Li R,Pei C,Dong X,Fu Y,Gu C,Guo X,Jia Y,Wang G,Wang J,Li B,Ren H,Xu H

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoustic energy transfer is a promising energy harvesting technology candidate for implantable biomedical devices. However, it does not show competitive strength for enabling self-powered implantable biomedical devices due to two issues - large size of bulk piezoelectric ultrasound transducers and output power fluctua...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shi Q,Wang T,Lee C

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to obtain three-dimensional (3-D) information about morphologies of nanostructures elucidates many interesting properties of materials in both physical and biological sciences. Here we demonstrate a novel method in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) that gives a fast and reliable assessment o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oveisi E,Letouzey A,Alexander DTL,Jeangros Q,Schäublin R,Lucas G,Fua P,Hébert C

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Marek's disease virus (MDV) is a highly cell-associated alphaherpesvirus that causes deadly lymphomas in chickens. While vaccination protects against clinical symptoms, MDV field strains can still circulate in vaccinated flocks and continuously evolve towards greater virulence. MDV vaccines do not provide sterilizing ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hagag IT,Wight DJ,Bartsch D,Sid H,Jordan I,Bertzbach LD,Schusser B,Kaufer BB

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:SHH Medulloblastoma (SHH-MB) is a pediatric brain tumor characterized by an inappropriate activation of the developmental Hedgehog (Hh) signaling. SHH-MB patients treated with the FDA-approved vismodegib, an Hh inhibitor that targets the transmembrane activator Smoothened (Smo), have shown the rapid development of dru...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Coni S,Mancuso AB,Di Magno L,Sdruscia G,Manni S,Serrao SM,Rotili D,Spiombi E,Bufalieri F,Petroni M,Kusio-Kobialka M,De Smaele E,Ferretti E,Capalbo C,Mai A,Niewiadomski P,Screpanti I,Di Marcotullio L,Canettieri G

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Rare individuals remain cognitively intact despite the presence of neuropathology usually associated with fully symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AD), which we refer to as Non-Demented with Alzheimer's disease Neuropathology (NDAN). Understanding the involved mechanism(s) of their cognitive resistance may reveal novel ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Briley D,Ghirardi V,Woltjer R,Renck A,Zolochevska O,Taglialatela G,Micci MA

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen representing a global health concern. It has been linked to fetal microcephaly and other birth defects and neurological disorders in adults. Sanofi Pasteur has engaged in the development of an inactivated ZIKV vaccine, as well as a live chimeric vaccine candidat...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Giel-Moloney M,Goncalvez AP,Catalan J,Lecouturier V,Girerd-Chambaz Y,Diaz F,Maldonado-Arocho F,Gomila RC,Bernard MC,Oomen R,Delagrave S,Burdin N,Kleanthous H,Jackson N,Heinrichs J,Pugachev KV

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical spreading depolarisation (CSD), the neural mechanism underlying migraine aura, may cause headache by sensitising the trigeminal system. Photophobia, the most bothersome accompanying symptom during migraine attacks, is more prevalent in migraine with aura than in migraine without aura. Whether CSD plays a role...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tang C,Unekawa M,Kitagawa S,Takizawa T,Kayama Y,Nakahara J,Shibata M

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-related gene (HRG) expression is associated with survival outcomes of colorectal cancer (CRC). Our aim was developing a nomogram predicting CRC overall survival (OS) with HRGs and clinicopathological factors. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database was used as discovery cohort and two Gene Expression Omnibus d...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee JH,Jung S,Park WS,Choe EK,Kim E,Shin R,Heo SC,Lee JH,Kim K,Chai YJ

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Seed size is a major determinant of seed yield but few is known about the genetics controlling of seed size in plants. Phytohormones cytokinin and brassinosteroid were known to be involved in the regulation of herbaceous plant seed development. Here we identified a homolog of Auxin Response Factor 19 (JcARF19) from a ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun Y,Wang C,Wang N,Jiang X,Mao H,Zhu C,Wen F,Wang X,Lu Z,Yue G,Xu Z,Ye J

更新日期：2017-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are a double-edged regulator of the immune system. Aberrations of Tregs correlate with pathogenesis of inflammatory, autoimmune and neoplastic disorders. Phenotypically and functionally distinct subsets of Tregs have been identified in humans and mice on the basis of their extensive portfoli...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wu Y,Chang YM,Stell AJ,Priestnall SL,Sharma E,Goulart MR,Gribben J,Xia D,Garden OA

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The β5 subunit of the proteasome has been shown in worms and in human cell lines to be regulatory. In these models, β5 overexpression results in upregulation of the entire proteasome complex which is sufficient to increase proteotoxic stress resistance, improve metabolic parameters, and increase longevity. However, fu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen NN,Rana A,Goldman C,Moore R,Tai J,Hong Y,Shen J,Walker DW,Hur JH

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigeon pea is an important legume infested by a plethora of insect pests amongst which gram pod borer Helicoverpa armigera is very prominent. Imparting resistance to this insect herbivore is of global importance in attaining food security. Expression of insecticidal crystal proteins (ICP) in diverse crops has led to i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Singh S,Kumar NR,Maniraj R,Lakshmikanth R,Rao KYS,Muralimohan N,Arulprakash T,Karthik K,Shashibhushan NB,Vinutha T,Pattanayak D,Dash PK,Kumar PA,Sreevathsa R

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms contributing to collective attention in humans remain unclear. Research indicates that pedestrians utilise the gaze direction of others nearby to acquire environmentally relevant information, but it is not known which, if any, additional social cues influence this transmission. Extending upon previous f...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gallup AC,Chong A,Kacelnik A,Krebs JR,Couzin ID

更新日期：2014-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein is an essential component of PML nuclear bodies (PML NBs) frequently lost in cancer. PML NBs coordinate chromosomal regions via modification of nuclear proteins that in turn may regulate genes in the vicinity of these bodies. However, few PML NB-associated genes have been ident...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Salsman J,Stathakis A,Parker E,Chung D,Anthes LE,Koskowich KL,Lahsaee S,Gaston D,Kukurba KR,Smith KS,Chute IC,Léger D,Frost LD,Montgomery SB,Lewis SM,Eskiw C,Dellaire G

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a designed interaction between two isolated cell populations of Euglena gracilis and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, separately confined in two 25-square micro-aquariums of lab-on-chip size. The interaction was realized by interlinking two identical optical feedback systems, which measured the cell distribut...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ozasa K,Won J,Song S,Maeda M

更新日期：2016-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Associated with global warming, drought has destructive influences on agriculture and ecosystems, especially in the fragile Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). This study investigated spatial-temporal patterns of meteorological drought in the QTP and its surrounding areas and made an attempt to explore the relationship betwe...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Feng W,Lu H,Yao T,Yu Q

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Werner syndrome (WS) is the canonical adult human progeroid ('premature aging') syndrome. Patients with this autosomal recessive Mendelian disorder display constitutional genomic instability and an elevated risk of important age-associated diseases including cancer. Remarkably few analyses of WS patient tissue and tum...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tokita M,Kennedy SR,Risques RA,Chun SG,Pritchard C,Oshima J,Liu Y,Bryant-Greenwood PK,Welcsh P,Monnat RJ

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mumps incidence in mainland China remains at a high level. Genotype F has been the predominant genotype of mumps virus (MuV) in the last 20 years in mainland China. To better understand the genetic characteristics of MuV in China, the sequences of the Small Hydrophobic (SH), Hemagglutinin-Neuraminidase (HN) and Fusion...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cui A,Rivailler P,Zhu Z,Deng X,Hu Y,Wang Y,Li F,Sun Z,He J,Si Y,Tian X,Zhou S,Lei Y,Zheng H,Rota PA,Xu W

更新日期：2017-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Online gambling sites offer many different gambling games. In this work we analyse the gambling logs of numerous solely probability-based gambling games and extract the wager and odds distributions. We find that the log-normal distribution describes the wager distribution at the aggregate level. Viewing the gamblers' ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Pleimling M

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Scrophularia striata, commonly known as figwort, is one of the most important medicinal plants that mainly grows in cold regions of the Zagros Mountains (West of Iran). Although the chemical composition of this plant species has not yet been explored, people living in Ilam province (W Iran) have used it for many years...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zargoosh Z,Ghavam M,Bacchetta G,Tavili A

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During value-based decision making, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is thought to support choices by tracking the expected gain from different outcomes via a competition-based process. Using a computational neurostimulation approach we asked how perturbing this region might alter this competition and resulting ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hämmerer D,Bonaiuto J,Klein-Flügge M,Bikson M,Bestmann S

更新日期：2016-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical associations and correlations with other virulence factors such as cag pathogenicity island (PAI) of the Integrating Conjugative Elements Helicobacter pylori TFSS (ICEHptfs), a new type IV secretion system (TFSS) in H. pylori has not been described. Among 103 studied strains from Indonesia, almost all str...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Waskito LA,Miftahussurur M,Lusida MI,Syam AF,Suzuki R,Subsomwong P,Uchida T,Hamdan M,Nasronudin,Yamaoka Y

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been thought that incretin signaling prevents arteriosclerosis, and very recently anti-arteriosclerotic effects through GLP-1 receptor were finally demonstrated in clinical human study. The purpose of this study was to investigate how vascular GLP-1 receptor expression is influenced in human subjects. First, we...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kimura T,Obata A,Shimoda M,Shimizu I,da Silva Xavier G,Okauchi S,Hirukawa H,Kohara K,Mune T,Moriuchi S,Hiraoka A,Tamura K,Chikazawa G,Ishida A,Yoshitaka H,Rutter GA,Kaku K,Kaneto H

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) exhibits a species-specific communication sound called the "coo call" to locate group members and maintain within-group contact. Monkeys have been demonstrated to be capable of discriminating between individuals based only on their voices, but there is still debate regarding how t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Furuyama T,Kobayasi KI,Riquimaroux H

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a large number of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as important regulators of many biological processes in animals and plants. However, how lncRNAs function during plant DNA virus infection is largely unknown. We performed strand-specific paired-end RNA sequencing of tomato samples infected with To...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang J,Yu W,Yang Y,Li X,Chen T,Liu T,Ma N,Yang X,Liu R,Zhang B

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the most common nonhuman animals that interact with humans are domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) and cats (Felis catus). In contrast to dogs, the ability of domestic cats to communicate with humans has not been explored thoroughly. We used a habituation-dishabituation method to investigate whether domestic cats ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Saito A,Shinozuka K,Ito Y,Hasegawa T

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulating the polarization states of electromagnetic (EM) waves, a fundamental issue in optics, attracted intensive attention recently. However, most of the devices realized so far are either too bulky in size, and/or are passive with only specific functionalities. Here we combine theory and experiment to demonstra...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu HX,Sun S,Tang S,Ma S,He Q,Wang GM,Cai T,Li HP,Zhou L

更新日期：2016-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The knee joint center of rotation is altered in the absence of the anterior cruciate ligament, which leads to substantially higher variance in kinematic patterns. To overcome this, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) designs with a high congruency in the lateral compartment have been proposed. The purpose of this study was ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Moewis P,Hommel H,Trepczynski A,Krahl L,von Roth P,Duda GN

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00