Retraction Note: Type IV collagen α1-chain noncollagenous domain blocks MMP-2 activation both in-vitro and in-vivo.

abstract：:Bats of the Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae families, and Pteronotus parnellii, compensate for Doppler shifts generated by their own flight movement. They adjust their call frequency such that the frequency of echoes coming from ahead fall in a specialized frequency range of the hearing system, the auditory fovea, to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Schoeppler D,Schnitzler HU,Denzinger A

更新日期：2018-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular RNA (circRNA) is a newly discovered non-coding RNA, which play significant roles in the function and transcriptional regulation of microRNA. To date, in Chinese cabbage, the functional characteristic of circRNAs in response to calcium deficiency-induced tip-burn have not been reported. In this study, 730 circ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang W,Wang J,Wei Q,Li B,Zhong X,Hu T,Hu H,Bao C

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:N(1)-methyladenosine (m(1)A) is a prominent RNA modification involved in many biological processes. Accurate identification of m(1)A site is invaluable for better understanding the biological functions of m(1)A. However, limitations in experimental methods preclude the progress towards the identification of m(1)A site...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chen W,Feng P,Tang H,Ding H,Lin H

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten-year oncological experience of the University Medical Center Groningen with conventional laparotomy (C-RRRTM) and laparoscopy (L-RRRTM) is described concerning resection of residual retroperitoneal tumor masses (RRTM) in a large series of patients with advanced nonseminomatous testicular germ cell tumors (NSTGCT)....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Öztürk Ç,Been LB,van Ginkel RJ,Gietema JA,Hoekstra HJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss subwavelength-scale semiconductor metal-optic resonators placed on the metal substrate with various top metal plate sizes. Albeit with large optical losses, addition of metal layers converts a leaky semiconductor nano-block into a highly-confined optical cavity. Optically pumped lasing action is observed wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kwon K,You JB,Shim J,Jung Y,Yu K

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin and domestication of cultivated barley have long been under debate. A population-based resequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the single copy of RPB2 gene was used to address barley domestication, to explore genetic differentiation of barley populations on the worldwide scale, and to understand gene-pool...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Ren X,Sun D,Sun G

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (TOAE, Early Jurassic, ~182 Ma ago) was characterised by severe environmental perturbations which led to habitat degradation and extinction of marine species. Warming-induced anoxia is usually identified as main driver, but because marine life was also affected in oxygenated environme...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Piazza V,Ullmann CV,Aberhan M

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Craniosynostosis must often be corrected using surgery, by which the affected bone tissue is remodeled. Nowadays, surgical reconstruction relies mostly on the subjective judgement of the surgeon to best restore normal skull shape, since remodeled bone is manually placed and fixed. Slight variations can compromise the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： García-Mato D,Ochandiano S,García-Sevilla M,Navarro-Cuéllar C,Darriba-Allés JV,García-Leal R,Calvo-Haro JA,Pérez-Mañanes R,Salmerón JI,Pascau J

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna Delta (GBMD) is a large and complex coastal system whose channel network is vulnerable to morphological changes caused by sea level rise, subsidence, anthropogenic modifications, and changes to water and sediment loads. Locating and characterizing change is particularly challenging becaus...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jarriel T,Isikdogan LF,Bovik A,Passalacqua P

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is a globally significant aquaculture species rapidly gaining status as a farmed commodity. In West Africa, wild Nile tilapia genetic resources are abundant yet knowledge of fine-scale population structure and patterns of natural genetic variation are limited. Coinciding with this ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lind CE,Agyakwah SK,Attipoe FY,Nugent C,Crooijmans RPMA,Toguyeni A

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The aetiology of septic acute kidney injury (AKI) is not completely elucidated. Early identification of AKI in septic patients is considered to improve survival rate since it allows rapid treatment onset. We evaluated clinical, haematological, urinary, B-mode, spectral Doppler, and contrast-enhanced ultrasound variabl...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gasser B,Uscategui RAR,Maronezi MC,Pavan L,Simões APR,Martinato F,Silva P,Crivellenti LZ,Feliciano MAR

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial disorders are among the most prevalent inborn errors of metabolism but largely lack treatments and have poor outcomes. High-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets (KDs) have shown beneficial effects in mouse models of mitochondrial myopathies, with induction of mitochondrial biogenesis as the suggested ma...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Purhonen J,Rajendran J,Mörgelin M,Uusi-Rauva K,Katayama S,Krjutskov K,Einarsdottir E,Velagapudi V,Kere J,Jauhiainen M,Fellman V,Kallijärvi J

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Free-surface vortices have long been studied to develop an understanding of similar rotating flow phenomena observed in nature and technology. However, a complete description of its turbulent three-dimensional flow field still remains elusive. In contrast, the related Taylor-Couette flow system has been well explicate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mulligan S,De Cesare G,Casserly J,Sherlock R

更新日期：2018-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the coherence trapping of a qubit correlated initially with a non-Markovian bath in a pure dephasing channel. By considering the initial qubit-bath correlation and the bath spectral density, we find that the initial qubit-bath correlation can lead to a more efficient coherence trapping than that of the initia...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang YJ,Han W,Xia YJ,Yu YM,Fan H

更新日期：2015-08-25 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：: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：:2-hydroxy-1,4 naphthoquinone (lawsone) is widely used and induces environmental pollutions during its production and application. In the present study, a lawsone-degrading bacterium strain, LH-3 was successfully isolated from the activated sludge. Based on the 16S rRNA gene analysis, the strain LH-3 phylogenetically b...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang L,Cai T,Ding D,Cai T,Jiang C,Li H,Yang Q,Chen L

更新日期：2017-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia can be utilised as an alternative nitrogen source to glutamine to support cell proliferation. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms and whether all cells have this ability is not fully understood. We find that eleven cancer and non-cancerous cell lines have opposite abilities to tolerate and utilise amm...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lie S,Wang T,Forbes B,Proud CG,Petersen J

更新日期：2019-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) are peptides that can be translocated into cells and used as a carrier platform for the intracellular uptake of cargo molecules. Subject to the source of CPP sequences and their positively charged nature, the cytotoxicity and immunogenicity of conventional CPPs needs to be optimized to...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Young Kim H,Young Yum S,Jang G,Ahn DR

更新日期：2015-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we investigate the stabilization of saddle fixed points in coupled oscillators where individual oscillators exhibit the saddle fixed points. The coupled oscillators may have two structurally different types of suppressed states, namely amplitude death and oscillation death. The stabilization of saddle ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rakshit S,Bera BK,Majhi S,Hens C,Ghosh D

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor growth and metastasis are responsible for most cancer patients' deaths. Here, we report that eupolyphaga sinensis walker has an essential role in resisting hepatocellular carcinoma growth and metastasis. Compared with proliferation, colony formation, transwell assay and transplantable tumor in nude mouse in vitr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Y,Zhan Y,Zhang D,Dai B,Ma W,Qi J,Liu R,He L

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article a new spent catalyst sample preparation method was implemented for the purpose of molybdenum leaching in a single step. Further molybdenum and vanadium in the leach liquor were separated and their concentrations were enriched using the solvent extraction and stripping techniques. The impervious sulfur ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pradhan D,Kim DJ,Sukla LB,Pattanaik A,Lee SW

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:SNPs may restrict cell detoxification activity and be a potential risk factor for cancer chemosensitivity. We evaluated the predictive value of these polymorphisms on the sensitivity of bladder cancer patients to epirubicin and mitomycin chemotherapy instillation as well as their toxicities. SNPs were analyzed by TaqM...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Deng X,Yang X,Cheng Y,Liu X,Li X,Zhao R,Qin C,Lu Q,Yin C

更新日期：2015-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) still presents complications: paravalvular leakage (PVL) and onset of conduction abnormalities leading to permanent pacemaker implantation. Our aim was testing a validated patient-specific computational framework for prediction of TAVI outcomes and possible complications....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bosi GM,Capelli C,Cheang MH,Delahunty N,Mullen M,Taylor AM,Schievano S

更新日期：2020-06-18 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：:Anti-EGFR antibodies are effective in therapies for late-stage colorectal cancer (CRC); however, many tumours are unresponsive or develop resistance. We performed genomic analysis of intrinsic and acquired resistance to anti-EGFR therapy in prospectively collected tumour samples from 25 CRC patients receiving cetuxima...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Bray SM,Lee J,Kim ST,Hur JY,Ebert PJ,Calley JN,Wulur IH,Gopalappa T,Wong SS,Qian HR,Ting JC,Liu J,Willard MD,Novosiadly RD,Park YS,Park JO,Lim HY,Kang WK,Aggarwal A,Kim HC,Reinhard C

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymers have appealing optical, biochemical, and mechanical qualities, including broadband transparency, ease of functionalization, and biocompatibility. However, their low refractive indices have precluded wavelength-scale optical confinement and nanophotonic applications in polymers. Here, we introduce a suspended ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Gan X,Clevenson H,Tsai CC,Li L,Englund D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a distinct pathology characterized by early emergence of diastolic dysfunction. Increased cardiovascular risk associated with diabetes is more marked for women, but an understanding of the role of diastolic dysfunction in female susceptibility to diabetic cardiomyopathy is lacking. To invest...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chandramouli C,Reichelt ME,Curl CL,Varma U,Bienvenu LA,Koutsifeli P,Raaijmakers AJA,De Blasio MJ,Qin CX,Jenkins AJ,Ritchie RH,Mellor KM,Delbridge LMD

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Confident characterization of the microheterogeneity of protein glycosylation through identification of intact glycopeptides remains one of the toughest analytical challenges for glycoproteomics. Recently proposed mass spectrometry (MS)-based methods still have some defects such as lack of the false discovery rate (FD...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zeng WF,Liu MQ,Zhang Y,Wu JQ,Fang P,Peng C,Nie A,Yan G,Cao W,Liu C,Chi H,Sun RX,Wong CC,He SM,Yang P

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple parasitic arthropods of medical importance depend on symbiotic bacteria. While the link between scabies and secondary bacterial infections causing post infective complications of Group A streptococcal and staphylococcal pyoderma is increasingly recognized, very little is known about the microbiota of Sarcopte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Swe PM,Zakrzewski M,Waddell R,Sriprakash KS,Fischer K

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00