Grain boundary oxidation of proton-irradiated nuclear grade stainless steel in simulated primary water of pressurized water reactor.

abstract：:Wooden shipwrecks are a significant part of the underwater cultural heritage. In 2007, the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck was salvaged from the seabed and moved into the Marine Silk Road Museum, where it is still stored in a water tank. We analysed the microbial communities colonizing the hull surface of the Nanhai No. 1 ship...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu Z,Fu T,Hu C,Shen D,Macchioni N,Sozzi L,Chen Y,Liu J,Tian X,Ge Q,Feng Z,Liu H,Zhang Z,Pan J

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Allosteric modulation of G protein-coupled receptors represent a promising mechanism of pharmacological intervention. Dramatic developments witnessed in the structural biology of membrane proteins continue to reveal that the binding sites of allosteric modulators are widely distributed, including along protein surface...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wakefield AE,Mason JS,Vajda S,Keserű GM

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the high susceptibility of several clinical isolates of Propionibacterium acnes from different sources (skin, bone, wound exudates, abscess or blood contamination) to the head-to-tail cyclized bacteriocin AS-48. This peptide is a feasible candidate for further pharmacological development against this bacteri...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Cebrián R,Arévalo S,Rubiño S,Arias-Santiago S,Rojo MD,Montalbán-López M,Martínez-Bueno M,Valdivia E,Maqueda M

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the interleukin-34 (IL-34) level in sera from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Blood tests, including assays to determine C-reactive protein (CRP), complement (C) 3, C4, immunoglobulin (Ig) A, IgG, IgM...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xie HH,Shen H,Zhang L,Cui MY,Xia LP,Lu J

更新日期：2018-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomass waste treatment and detrimental dye adsorption are two of the crucial environmental issues nowadays. In this study, we investigate to simultaneously resolve the aforementioned issues by synthesizing chitosan sponges as adsorbents toward rose bengal (RB) dye adsorption. Through a temperature-controlled freeze-c...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang M,Ma Y,Sun Y,Hong SY,Lee SK,Yoon B,Chen L,Ci L,Nam JD,Chen X,Suhr J

更新日期：2017-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (LNC) regulate numerous biological processes. In contrast to human, the identification of LNC in farm species, like chicken, is still lacunar. We propose a catalogue of 52,075 chicken genes enriched in LNC ( http://www.fragencode.org/ ), built from the Ensembl reference extended using novel LNC mo...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jehl F,Muret K,Bernard M,Boutin M,Lagoutte L,Désert C,Dehais P,Esquerré D,Acloque H,Giuffra E,Djebali S,Foissac S,Derrien T,Pitel F,Zerjal T,Klopp C,Lagarrigue S

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Novelty seeking (NS) is a personality trait reflecting excitement in response to novel stimuli. High NS is usually a predictor of risky behaviour such as drug abuse. However, the relationships between NS and risk-related cognitive processes, including individual risk preference and the brain activation associated with...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Liu Y,Yang L,Gu F,Li X,Zha R,Wei Z,Pei Y,Zhang P,Zhou Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which chronic metabolic acidosis (CMA) regulates sodium (Na(+))-chloride (Cl(-)) cotransporter (NCC) in the renal distal convoluted tubules remains unexplored. We examined the role of STE20/SPS1-related proline/alanine-rich kinase (SPAK) and with-no-lysine kinase 4 (WNK4) on expression of NCC in mouse...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fang YW,Yang SS,Cheng CJ,Tseng MH,Hsu HM,Lin SH

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Osthole, an active coumarin isolated from Cnidium monnieri (L.) Cusson, has long been used in China as an antipruritic herbal medicine; however, the antipruitic mechanism of osthole is unknown. We studied the molecular mechanism of osthole in histamine-dependent itch by behavioral test, Ca(2+) imaging, and electrophys...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang NN,Shi H,Yu G,Wang CM,Zhu C,Yang Y,Yuan XL,Tang M,Wang ZL,Gegen T,He Q,Tang K,Lan L,Wu GY,Tang ZX

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We design a novel long-range hybrid wedge plasmonic (LRHWP) waveguide composed of two identical dielectric nanowires symmetrically placed on two opposed wedges of a diamond shaped metal wire. With strong coupling between the dielectric nanowire mode and long-range surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode, both deep subwav...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang Z,Wang J

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:E-cadherin is a key Ca-dependent cell adhesion molecule, which is expressed on many cell surfaces and involved in cell morphogenesis, embryonic development, EMT, etc. The fusion protein E-cad-Fc consists of the extracellular domain of E-cadherin and the IgG Fc domain. On plates coated with this chimeric protein, ES/iP...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shibata-Seki T,Nagaoka M,Goto M,Kobatake E,Akaike T

更新日期：2020-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniaturised optical coherence tomography (OCT) fibre-optic probes have enabled high-resolution cross-sectional imaging deep within the body. However, existing OCT fibre-optic probe fabrication methods cannot generate miniaturised freeform optics, which limits our ability to fabricate probes with both complex optical ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li J,Fejes P,Lorenser D,Quirk BC,Noble PB,Kirk RW,Orth A,Wood FM,Gibson BC,Sampson DD,McLaughlin RA

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The atomic-scale response of dielectrics/ferroelectrics to electric fields is central to their functionality. Here we introduce an in situ characterization method that reveals changes in the local atomic structure in polycrystalline materials under fields. The method employs atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs), ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Usher TM,Levin I,Daniels JE,Jones JL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intravenous, intramuscular or intraperitoneal administration of water solubilized graphene nanoparticles for biomedical applications will result in their interaction with the hematological components and vasculature. Herein, we have investigated the effects of dextran functionalized graphene nanoplatelets (GNP-Dex...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chowdhury SM,Kanakia S,Toussaint JD,Frame MD,Dewar AM,Shroyer KR,Moore W,Sitharaman B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolipids had received increasing attention because of their uses in various industries like cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food and machinery manufacture. Microalgae were competitive organisms to accumulate metabolic substance. However, using microalgae to produce glycolipid was rare at present. In this study, glycoli...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Shen Z,Miao X

更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer in young women is typically with higher proportion of adverse pathological features. Breast cancer with BRCA1 mutation is often early-onset, and is usually associated with triple negative phenotpe. In this study, we aim to analyze the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis in young breast canc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wei JT,Huang WH,Du CW,Qiu SQ,Wei XL,Liu J,Zhang GJ

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative autoimmune disease, where chronic inflammation plays an essential role in its pathology. A feature of MS is the production of autoantibodies stimulated by an altered-peptide-ligand response and epitope spreading, resulting in loss of tolerance for self-proteins. The invol...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mørkholt AS,Kastaniegaard K,Trabjerg MS,Gopalasingam G,Niganze W,Larsen A,Stensballe A,Nielsen S,Nieland JD

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During Antarctic isolation personnel are exposed to extreme photoperiods. A frequent observation is a sleep onset phase delay during winter. It is not known if, as a result, daytime sleeping in the form of naps increases. We sought to assess sleep patterns - with focus on daytime sleeping - and alertness in a Latin Am...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Folgueira A,Simonelli G,Plano S,Tortello C,Cuiuli JM,Blanchard A,Patagua A,Brager AJ,Capaldi VF,Aubert AE,Barbarito M,Golombek DA,Vigo DE

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of the biologically potent octapeptide angiotensin Ang II-(1-8) is mediated by the activities of several peptidases. The conversion of Ang II to the septapeptide Ang-(1-7) is of particular interest as the latter also confers organ protection. The conversion is catalyzed by angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu P,Wysocki J,Serfozo P,Ye M,Souma T,Batlle D,Jin J

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed death-1 (PD-1) is an immunosuppressive receptor functionally bound with programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), which has been reported in various malignancies. However, only a few studies are available for the clinical significance of PD-1/PD-L1 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). In this study, we aim to invest...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhou Y,Shi D,Miao J,Wu H,Chen J,Zhou X,Hu D,Zhao C,Deng W,Xie C

更新日期：2017-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the interaction between localized vibrational modes and propagating phonons in graphene nanoribbons with different types of localized internal and edge defects. We analyze discrete eigenmodes of the nanoribbons with defects and also employ direct numerical simulations of the ballistic phonon and heat transpor...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Savin AV,Kivshar YS

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The sustainable use of common pool resources has become a significant global challenge. It is now widely accepted that specific mechanisms such as community-based management strategies, institutional responses such as resource privatization, information availability and emergent social norms can be used to constrain i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Osten FBV,Kirley M,Miller T

更新日期：2017-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise temporal coding is necessary for proper acoustic analysis. However, at cortical level, forward suppression appears to limit the ability of neurons to extract temporal information from natural sound sequences. Here we studied how temporal processing can be maintained in the bats' cortex in the presence of suppr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Beetz MJ,Hechavarría JC,Kössl M

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:When a distractor is presented in close spatial proximity to a target, a saccade tends to land in between the two objects rather than on the target. This robust phenomenon (also referred to as the global effect) is thought to reflect unresolved competition between target and distractor. It is unclear whether this land...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Arkesteijn K,Smeets JBJ,Donk M,Belopolsky AV

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Harmful algal blooms caused by Phaeocystis globosa have resulted in staggering losses to coastal countries because of their world-wide distribution. Bacteria have been studied for years to control the blooms of harmful alga, however, the action mechanism of them against harmful algal cells is still not well defined. H...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Guan C,Guo X,Li Y,Zhang H,Lei X,Cai G,Guo J,Yu Z,Zheng T

更新日期：2015-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:That stalks reorient after flowering to face upwards is a common phenomenon in many flowering plants, indicating the potential importance of fruit orientation on seed dispersal. But this idea has not been subject to an empirical test. We examined this hypothesis by analysing the evolutionary correlation between fruit ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Niu Y,Zhou Z,Sha W,Sun H

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Two essential key events in acrylamide (ACR) acute neurotoxicity are the formation of adducts with nucleophilic sulfhydryl groups on cysteine residues of selected proteins in the synaptic terminals and the depletion of the glutathione (GSx) stores in neural tissue. The use of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has been recently p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Faria M,Prats E,Gómez-Canela C,Hsu CY,Arick MA 2nd,Bedrossiantz J,Orozco M,Garcia-Reyero N,Ziv T,Ben-Lulu S,Admon A,Gómez-Oliván LM,Raldúa D

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the new insight into the dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) induced inactivation of Microcystis aeruginosa, the dominant algae which caused harmful cyanobacterial blooms in many developing countries. In contrast with the previous work, we employed flow cytometry to examine the algal cells, so that we could a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li L,Zhang H,Huang Q

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing levels of human activity threaten wildlife populations through direct mortality, habitat degradation, and habitat fragmentation. Area closures can improve habitat quality for wildlife, but may be difficult to achieve where tourism or other economic drivers are a priority. Temporal closures that limit human ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Whittington J,Low P,Hunt B

更新日期：2019-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A high specificity aptamer-ligand biorecognition and binding system to monitor of dexamethasone (DXN) was developed. The detection principle was based on a label-free electrochemical aptasensor. The selection of the aptamer was successfully performed by the systematic evolution of ligands through exponential enrichmen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Mehennaoui S,Poorahong S,Jimenez GC,Siaj M

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00