Comparing blood pressure measurements between a photoplethysmography-based and a standard cuff-based manometry device.

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates the association between obesity and lung function. However, no previous study has examined whether obesity affects lung function in normal weight participants with high body fat. We hypothesized that subjects with normal weight obesity (NWO) were inversely associated with lung function ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen YY,Kao TW,Fang WH,Wang CC,Chang YW,Yang HF,Wu CJ,Sun YS,Chen WL

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In a haptic search task, one has to detect the presence of a target among distractors using the sense of touch. A salient target can be detected faster than a non-salient target. However, little is known about the exploration strategies that are used, especially in 3D search tasks where items are held in the hand. In ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： van Polanen V,Bergmann Tiest WM,Kappers AM

更新日期：2014-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) demonstrated that screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is associated with a 20% reduction in lung cancer mortality. One potential limitation of LDCT screening is overdiagnosis of slow growing and indolent cancers. In this study, peritumoral and intratumoral radiom...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pérez-Morales J,Tunali I,Stringfield O,Eschrich SA,Balagurunathan Y,Gillies RJ,Schabath MB

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) is a biopharmaceutical drug given to patients who have a low hemoglobin related to chronic kidney disease, cancer or anemia. However, some patients repeatedly receiving rHuEPO develop anti-rHuEPO neutralizing antibodies leading to the development of pure red cell aplasia (PRCA...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Susantad T,Fuangthong M,Tharakaraman K,Tit-Oon P,Ruchirawat M,Sasisekharan R

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the CACNA1C gene are associated with ventricular tachycardia (VT). Although the CACNA1C mutations were well identified in patients with cardiac arrhythmias, mechanisms by which cardiac arrhythmias are generated in such genetic mutation conditions remain unclear. In this study, we identified a novel mechan...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bai J,Wang K,Li Q,Yuan Y,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is a highly controlled biological process characterized by a progressive deterioration of various cellular activities. One of several hallmarks of aging describes a link to transcriptional alteration, suggesting that it may impact the steady-state mRNA levels. We analyzed the mRNA steady-state levels of polyCAG-...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Adamla F,Ignatova Z

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis Tóxicos en Levadura (ATL) protein family is a class of E3 ubiquitin ligases with a characteristic RING-H2 Zn-finger structure that mediates diverse physiological processes and stress responses in plants. We carried out a genome-wide survey of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) ATL genes and retrieved 96 seq...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ariani P,Regaiolo A,Lovato A,Giorgetti A,Porceddu A,Camiolo S,Wong D,Castellarin S,Vandelle E,Polverari A

更新日期：2016-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) is widely used to estimate particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5) mass concentrations. Polar orbiting satellite retrieval 1-2 times each day is frequently affected by cloud, snow cover or misclassification of heavy pollution. Novel methods are therefore requi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fu D,Xia X,Wang J,Zhang X,Li X,Liu J

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-modal three dimensional (3D) optical imaging combining both structural sensitivity and molecular specificity is highly desirable in biomedical research. In this paper, we present a method termed oblique scanning laser microscopy (OSLM) to combine optical coherence tomography (OCT), for simultaneously volumetric ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang L,Capilla A,Song W,Mostoslavsky G,Yi J

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Tail-anchored (TA) proteins are post-translationally inserted into membranes. The TRC40 pathway targets TA proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum via a receptor comprised of WRB and CAML. TRC40 pathway clients have been identified using in vitro assays, however, the relevance of the TRC40 pathway in vivo remains unknow...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rivera-Monroy J,Musiol L,Unthan-Fechner K,Farkas Á,Clancy A,Coy-Vergara J,Weill U,Gockel S,Lin SY,Corey DP,Kohl T,Ströbel P,Schuldiner M,Schwappach B,Vilardi F

更新日期：2016-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:After spinal cord injury (SCI) chronic inflammation hampers regeneration. Influencing the local microenvironment after SCI may provide a strategy to modulate inflammation and the immune response. The objectives of this work were to determine whether bone or spinal cord derived ECM hydrogels can deliver human mesenchym...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tatic N,Rose FRAJ,des Rieux A,White LJ

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:c-FLIP (cellular FLICE-inhibitory protein) is the pivotal regulator of TRAIL resistance in cancer cells, It is a short-lived protein degraded through the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. The discovery of factors and mechanisms regulating its protein stability is important for the comprehension of TRAIL resistance by tumo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gao X,Feng J,He Y,Xu F,Fan X,Huang W,Xiong H,Liu Q,Liu W,Liu X,Sun X,He QY,Zhang Q,Liu L

更新日期：2016-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel suite of instrumentation for the characterisation of materials held inside an air-tight tube furnace operated up to 250 °C has been developed. Real-time detection of released gases (volatile organic compounds (VOCs), CO2, NO, NO2, SO2, CO and O2) was achieved combining commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) gas senso...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lourenço C,Bergin S,Hodgkinson J,Francis D,Staines SE,Saffell JR,Walton C,Tatam RP

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebellar involvement in cognition, as well as in sensorimotor control, is increasingly recognized and is thought to depend on connections with the cerebral cortex. Anatomical investigations in animals and post-mortem humans have established that cerebro-cerebellar connections are contralateral to each other and incl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Palesi F,De Rinaldis A,Castellazzi G,Calamante F,Muhlert N,Chard D,Tournier JD,Magenes G,D'Angelo E,Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott CAM

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrathin SmCo5 nanoflakes with average thickness smaller than 50 nm are prepared by a novel method of solid particle (NaCl) and surfactant co-assisted ball milling. The as-prepared nanoflakes exhibit a narrower thickness distribution of 10-50 nm and high coercivity of 23 kOe. The possible formation mechanism of n...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zuo WL,Zhao X,Zhao TY,Hu FX,Sun JR,Shen BG

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cells tend to behave differently in response to immune selective conditions. Contrary to those in therapeutic antitumor conditions, tumor cells in prophylactic antitumor conditions lose antigen expression for antitumor immune escape. Here, using a CT26/HER2 tumor model, we investigate the underlying mechanism(s)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Han BS,Ji S,Woo S,Lee JH,Sin JI

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphenol A (BPA) is widely used in the manufacture of plastics and epoxy resins and is prevalent in the aquatic environment. BPA disrupts endocrine pathways in fish, but the long-term developmental implications are unknown. We demonstrate that BPA deposition in the eggs of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), an ecol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sadoul B,Birceanu O,Aluru N,Thomas JK,Vijayan MM

更新日期：2017-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we propose a new strategy of maskless lithographic approach to fabricate micro/nano-porous structures by phase separation of polystyrene (PS)/Polyethylene glycol (PEG) immiscible polymer blend. Its simple process only involves a spin coating of polymer blend followed by a development with deionized water rinse...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guo X,Liu L,Zhuang Z,Chen X,Ni M,Li Y,Cui Y,Zhan P,Yuan C,Ge H,Wang Z,Chen Y

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult zebrafish have the ability to regenerate cells of the central nervous system. However, few neuronal regeneration studies in adult zebrafish addressed their ability to regenerate specific types of neurons following cell specific ablation. We show here that treatment of transgenic Tg(dat:CFP-NTR) adult zebrafish w...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Godoy R,Hua K,Kalyn M,Cusson VM,Anisman H,Ekker M

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Calpain activation and tau hyperphosphorylation have been implicated in both TBI and AD. However, the link between calpain and tau phosphorylation has not been fully identified. We recently discovered that the two major calpain isoforms in th...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Hall RA,Lee M,Kamgar-Parsi A,Bi X,Baudry M

更新日期：2017-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether an infectious disease threat to wildlife arises from pathogen introduction or the increased incidence of an already-present agent informs mitigation policy and actions. The prior absence of a pathogen can be difficult to establish, particularly in free-living wildlife. Subsequent to the epidemic emergence of t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cunningham AA,Smith F,McKinley TJ,Perkins MW,Fitzpatrick LD,Wright ON,Lawson B

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual information can alter auditory perception. This is clearly illustrated by the well-known McGurk illusion, where an auditory/aba/ and a visual /aga/ are merged to the percept of 'ada'. It is less clear however whether such a change in perception may recalibrate subsequent perception. Here we asked whether the al...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lüttke CS,Ekman M,van Gerven MA,de Lange FP

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV-2) is a virus characterized by a high evolutionary rate, promoting the potential emergence of different genotypes and strains. Despite the likely relevance in the emergence of new PCV-2 variants, the subtle evolutionary patterns of PCV-2 at the individual-host level or over short transmission...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Correa-Fiz F,Franzo G,Llorens A,Segalés J,Kekarainen T

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The influenza A virus RNA polymerase cleaves the 5' end of host pre-mRNAs and uses the capped RNA fragments as primers for viral mRNA synthesis. We performed deep sequencing of the 5' ends of viral mRNAs from all genome segments transcribed in both human (A549) and mouse (M-1) cells infected with the influenza A/HongK...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sikora D,Rocheleau L,Brown EG,Pelchat M

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoiesis is regulated by the erythropoietin receptor (EpoR) binding to its ligand. The transmembrane domain (TMD) and the juxtamembrane (JM) regions of the EpoR are important for signal transduction across the cell membrane. We report a solution NMR study of the mouse erythropoietin receptor (mEpoR) comprising t...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li Q,Wong YL,Yueqi Lee M,Li Y,Kang C

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Sludge bulking is a major problem that restricts the development of the activated sludge process. The microbial community responsible for sludge bulking varies depending on water quality and operational conditions. This study analysed the microbial community of bulking sludge in oxidation ditch with ultra-low sludge l...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang M,Yao J,Wang X,Hong Y,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hurst effect plays an important role in many areas such as physics, climate and finance. It describes the anomalous growth of range and constrains the behavior and predictability of these systems. The Hurst effect is frequently taken to be synonymous with Long-Range Dependence (LRD) and is typically assumed to be ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Franzke CL,Osprey SM,Davini P,Watkins NW

更新日期：2015-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress preconditioning protects cells against methylmercury (MeHg) cytotoxicity by inducing integrated stress responses such as eIF2α phosphorylation, ATF4 accumulation, and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) suppression. Here we demonstrated that ER stress preconditioning results in the upr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Usuki F,Fujimura M,Yamashita A

更新日期：2017-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals that experience situations likely to induce negative emotions show changes in judgment associated with pessimism. Few studies have focused on whether animals express stable differences in pessimism and whether these differences are related to personality traits. The first aim of this study was to explore if da...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lecorps B,Weary DM,von Keyserlingk MAG

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding coupling of ferroic properties over grain boundaries and within clusters of grains in polycrystalline materials is hindered due to a lack of direct experimental methods to probe the behaviour of individual grains in the bulk of a material. Here, a variant of three-dimensional X-ray diffraction (3D-XRD) i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Daniels JE,Majkut M,Cao Q,Schmidt S,Wright J,Jo W,Oddershede J

更新日期：2016-03-09 00:00:00