Incorporation and antimicrobial activity of nisin Z within carrageenan/chitosan multilayers.

abstract：:Temporal binding of urea to lysozyme was examined using X-ray diffraction of single crystals of urea/lysozyme complexes prepared by soaking native lysozyme crystals in solutions containing 9 M urea. Four different soak times of 2, 4, 7 and 10 hours were used. The five crystal structures (including the native lysozyme)...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Raskar T,Khavnekar S,Hosur M

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we tested whether the volatile metabolome was altered by mutations of the Alzheimer's disease (AD)-implicated amyloid precursor protein gene (APP) and comprehensively examined urinary volatiles that may potentially serve as candidate biomarkers of AD. Establishing additional biomarkers in screeni...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kimball BA,Wilson DA,Wesson DW

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:SiO2 is the most significantly used insulator layer in semiconductor devices. Its functionality was recently extended to resistance switching random access memory, where the defective SiO2 played an active role as the resistance switching (RS) layer. In this report, the bias-polarity-dependent RS behaviours in the top...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Jiang H,Li XY,Chen R,Shao XL,Yoon JH,Hu X,Hwang CS,Zhao J

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:3D printing has produced many beneficial applications for surgery. The technique´s applicability in replicating nasal cavity anatomy for clinical use has not been studied. Our aim was to determine whether 3D printing could realistically replicate the nasal cavities and the airflow passing through them from a clinical ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Valtonen O,Ormiskangas J,Kivekäs I,Rantanen V,Dean M,Poe D,Järnstedt J,Lekkala J,Saarenrinne P,Rautiainen M

更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells act as sensors in innate immunity and as effector cells in adaptive immune reactions. Here we demonstrate that SLC10A4, also referred to as the vesicular aminergic-associated transporter, VAAT, modifies mast cell degranulation. Strikingly, Slc10a4 -/- bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMCs) had a significant...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pettersson H,Zarnegar B,Westin A,Persson V,Peuckert C,Jonsson J,Hallgren J,Kullander K

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Plasmodium life cycle within the mosquito involves the gamete, zygote, motile ookinete, and the oocyst stage that supports sporogony and sporozoite formation. We mapped the P. falciparum transcriptome as the parasite progresses through the oocyst stage of development on days 2, 4, 6, and 8 post-P. falciparum infec...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Oakley MS,Verma N,Myers TG,Zheng H,Locke E,Morin MJ,Tripathi AK,Mlambo G,Kumar S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red mud as a waste material is produced in large quantities by the aluminum industry. Heat activation has been used to enhance sorption capacity of red mud for its beneficial reuse as an effective sorbent. In this study, heat-activated red mud (HARM) was investigated for its Cd(II) sorption capacity under various proc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang T,Sheng L,Wang Y,Wyckoff KN,He C,He Q

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual magnocellular system is thought to play a crucial role in learning to read. Here therefore, we examined whether magnocellular based training could improve reading in children with visual reading problems. The participants were 24 male primary school students aged between 9-11 (Mean = 9.76, SD = 0.59) with s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ebrahimi L,Pouretemad H,Khatibi A,Stein J

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The stickiness of cooked rice is important for eating quality and consumer acceptance. The first molecular understanding of stickiness is obtained from leaching and molecular structural characteristics during cooking. Starch is a highly branched glucose polymer. We find (i) the molecular size of leached amylopectin is...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Li H,Fitzgerald MA,Prakash S,Nicholson TM,Gilbert RG

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Chefaoui RM,Duarte CM,Serrão EA

更新日期：2020-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease worldwide. We prospectively evaluated endothelial function by assessing flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) of the brachial artery in patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD. This prospective study included 139 patients (50 healthy controls, 47 patients wi...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Al-Hamoudi W,Alsadoon A,Hassanian M,Alkhalidi H,Abdo A,Nour M,Halwani R,Sanai F,Alsharaabi A,Alswat K,Hersi A,Albenmousa A,Alsaif F

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate a novel route to achieving highly efficient and strongly confined spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) waveguides at subwavelength scale enabled by planar staggered plasmonic waveguides (PSPWs). The structure of these new waveguides consists of an ultrathin metallic strip with periodic subwavelength ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ye L,Xiao Y,Liu Y,Zhang L,Cai G,Liu QH

更新日期：2016-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the interaction between bovine serum albumin (BSA) and the cationic 1,2-dioleoyl-3-trimethylammonium-propane (DOTAP) at the air-buffer interface was investigated at different subphase's pH values (pH = 3, 5 and 10). Surface pressure measurements (π - A) and penetration kinetics process (π - t) were ca...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Xu G,Hao C,Zhang L,Sun R

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclei detection is often a critical initial step in the development of computer aided diagnosis and prognosis schemes in the context of digital pathology images. While over the last few years, a number of nuclei detection methods have been proposed, most of these approaches make idealistic assumptions about the stain...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lu C,Xu H,Xu J,Gilmore H,Mandal M,Madabhushi A

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper. ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee SH,Ryu S,Lee JY,Seo DC,Kim BJ,Sung KC

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR), in St. Petersburg, Russia, houses a unique genebank, with historical collections of landraces. When they were collected, the geographical distribution and genetic diversity of most crops closely reflected their historical patterns of cultivation established over ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Plekhanova E,Vishnyakova MA,Bulyntsev S,Chang PL,Carrasquilla-Garcia N,Negash K,Wettberg EV,Noujdina N,Cook DR,Samsonova MG,Nuzhdin SV

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Melting is considered to be one of the most fundamental problems in physical science. Generally, dimensionality plays an important role in melting. In three-dimension, it's well known that a crystal melts directly into a liquid via a first-order transition. In two-dimension (2D), however, the melting process has been ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sun X,Li Y,Ma Y,Zhang Z

更新日期：2016-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Flooding is one of the major constraints for rice production in rainfed lowlands, especially in years and areas of high rainfall. Incorporating the Sub1 (Submergence1) gene into high yielding popular varieties has proven to be the most feasible approach to sustain rice production in submergence-prone areas. Introgress...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Dar MH,Zaidi NW,Waza SA,Verulkar SB,Ahmed T,Singh PK,Roy SKB,Chaudhary B,Yadav R,Islam MM,Iftekharuddaula KM,Roy JK,Kathiresan RM,Singh BN,Singh US,Ismail AM

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteopontin (OPN) is involved in cell proliferation, migration, inflammation, and tumor progression in various tissues. OPN induces stemness by interacting with CD44, but the functional relevance of OPN-mediated interferon (IFN) signaling and hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication in stem cell populations remains unclear...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Shirasaki T,Honda M,Yamashita T,Nio K,Shimakami T,Shimizu R,Nakasyo S,Murai K,Shirasaki N,Okada H,Sakai Y,Sato T,Suzuki T,Yoshioka K,Kaneko S

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) are implicated in plant regulatory mechanisms of abiotic stresses tolerance and, despite their antinutritional proprieties in grain legumes, little information is available about the enzymes involved in RFO metabolism in Fabaceae species. In the present study, the systematic su...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vinson CC,Mota APZ,Porto BN,Oliveira TN,Sampaio I,Lacerda AL,Danchin EGJ,Guimaraes PM,Williams TCR,Brasileiro ACM

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that low-level visual features (i.e., low-level visual saliency) as well as socially relevant information predict gaze allocation in free viewing conditions. However, these studies mainly used static and highly controlled stimulus material, thus revealing little about the robustness of atte...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Rubo M,Gamer M

更新日期：2018-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:TBX21 recode T-bet which is an important transcription factor that drives the Th1 immune response primarily by promoting expression of the interferon-gamma (IFNG) gene. Recent studies have shown that genetic variants in TBX21 and IFNG are connected with risk of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The aim of the presen...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Leng RX,Pan HF,Liu J,Yang XK,Zhang C,Tao SS,Wang DG,Li XM,Li XP,Yang W,Ye DQ

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid cells of Nicotiana suaveolens x N. tabacum grow normally at 36 °C, but immediately express lethality due to probable autoimmune response when transferred from 36 to 28 °C. Our recent study showed that the temperature-sensitive lethality of these hybrid cells occurs through autolytic programmed cell death (PCD)....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ueno N,Kashiwagi M,Kanekatsu M,Marubashi W,Yamada T

更新日期：2019-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing central nervous system (CNS), oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) migrate along blood vessels and are widely distributed in the CNS. Meanwhile, OPCs require survival factors from the extracellular microenvironment. In other tissues, laminins, heterotrimetric (αβγ) extracellular matrix proteins, pr...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Suzuki N,Hyodo M,Hayashi C,Mabuchi Y,Sekimoto K,Onchi C,Sekiguchi K,Akazawa C

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Constrained layer dampers (CLD) are in widespread use for passive vibration damping, in applications including aerospace structures. However, the introducing of the damping layer can reduce the stiffness of the sandwich structures. A viscoelastic material filling (VMF) is chosen to balance structural and vibrational p...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang R,Shang J,Li X,Luo Z,Wu W

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Stevia is a natural source of commercially important steviol glycosides (SGs), which share biosynthesis route with gibberellic acids (GAs) through plastidal MEP and cytosolic MVA pathways. Ontogeny-dependent deviation in SGs biosynthesis is one of the key factor for global cultivation of Stevia, has not been studied a...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Singh G,Singh G,Singh P,Parmar R,Paul N,Vashist R,Swarnkar MK,Kumar A,Singh S,Singh AK,Kumar S,Sharma RK

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective application of whole-cell devices in synthetic biology and biocatalysis will always require consideration of the uptake of molecules of interest into the cell. Here we demonstrate that the AlkL protein from Pseudomonas putida GPo1 is an alkane import protein capable of industrially relevant rates of uptake o...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Grant C,Deszcz D,Wei YC,Martínez-Torres RJ,Morris P,Folliard T,Sreenivasan R,Ward J,Dalby P,Woodley JM,Baganz F

更新日期：2014-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common inflammatory diseases resulting from habitual smoking. Impaired clearance of apoptotic cell by airway macrophages contributes to lung inflammation. Milk fat globule-EGF factor 8 (MFG-E8), as a link between apoptotic cells and phagocytes, facilitate...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Luo G,Chen J,Jiang R,Zhu J,Hu N,Huang W,Cheng G,Jia M,Su B,Zhang N,Cui T

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is one of the most endangered primate species found in China, exhibiting multilevel society consisting of several one-male-females together with their offspring units (OMU), and all-male units (AMU). Female dispersal patterns of the species within herd have been well ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Huang ZP,Bian K,Liu Y,Pan RL,Qi XG,Li BG

更新日期：2017-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the temperature dependence of the dielectric function ε = ε1 + iε2 and critical point (CP) energies of biaxial α-SnS in the spectral energy region from 0.74 to 6.42 eV and temperatures from 27 to 350 K using spectroscopic ellipsometry. Bulk SnS was grown by temperature gradient method. Dielectric response fu...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nguyen HT,Le VL,Nguyen TMH,Kim TJ,Nguyen XA,Kim B,Kim K,Lee W,Cho S,Kim YD

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00