Lipid indices as simple and clinically useful surrogate markers for insulin resistance in the U.S. population.

abstract：:Accurately predicting the response of a cancer patient to a therapeutic agent is a core goal of precision medicine. Existing approaches were mainly relied primarily on genomic alterations in cancer cells that have been treated with different drugs. Here we focus on predicting drug response based on integration of the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang Y,Fang J,Chen S

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Paeonia ostii, a member of tree peony, is an emerging oil crop with important medical and oil uses and widely cultivated in China. Dissolving the genetic diversity and domestication history of this species is important for further genetic improvements and deployments. We firstly selected 29 simple sequence repeats (SS...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Peng LP,Cai CF,Zhong Y,Xu XX,Xian HL,Cheng FY,Mao JF

更新日期：2017-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioactive gibberellins (GAs) are essential phytohormones involved in the regulation of many aspects of plant development. GA receptors are crucial in GA signal transduction in plants. The GA receptor GoGID1 promotes plant elongation and improves biomass production when ectopically expressed in tobacco. Here, we discov...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Wang X,Li J,Ban L,Wu Y,Wu X,Wang Y,Wen H,Chapurin V,Dzyubenko N,Li Z,Wang Z,Gao H

更新日期：2017-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:CdTe/CdS core/shell quantum dots (QDs) are formed in aqueous synthesis via the partial decomposition of hydrophilic thiols, used as surface ligands. In this work, we investigate the influence of the chemical nature (functional group and chain length) of the used surface ligands on the shell formation. Four different s...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vale BRC,Mourão RS,Bettini J,Sousa JCL,Ferrari JL,Reiss P,Aldakov D,Schiavon MA

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrandrine (Tet) could enhance the antitumor effect of Paclitaxel (Ptx) by increasing intracellular Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) levels, which leads to the possibility of co-delivery of both drugs for synergistic antitumor effect. In the current study, we reported an efficient, local therapeutic strategy employing e...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhang H,Tian Y,Zhu Z,Xu H,Li X,Zheng D,Sun W

更新日期：2016-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Si and Ge nanocrystals in oxides are of a large interest for photo-effect applications due to the fine-tuning of the optical bandgap by quantum confinement in nanocrystals. In this work, dense Ge nanocrystals suitable for enhanced photoconduction were fabricated from 60% Ge in TiO2 amorphous layers by low temperature ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lepadatu AM,Slav A,Palade C,Dascalescu I,Enculescu M,Iftimie S,Lazanu S,Teodorescu VS,Ciurea ML,Stoica T

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although various surgical procedures have been developed for chronic rotator cuff tear repair, the re-tear rate remains high with severe fat infiltration. However, little is known about the molecular regulation of this process. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the intra-muscular space are origin of ectopic fat cells i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Lee D,Taniguchi N,Sato K,Choijookhuu N,Hishikawa Y,Kataoka H,Morinaga H,Lotz M,Chosa E

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Overweight and stress are both related to brain structural abnormalities. The allostatic load model states that frequent disruption of homeostasis is inherently linked to oxidative stress and inflammatory responses that in turn can damage the brain. However, the effects of the allostatic load on the central nervous sy...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Ottino-González J,Jurado MA,García-García I,Segura B,Marqués-Iturria I,Sender-Palacios MJ,Tor E,Prats-Soteras X,Caldú X,Junqué C,Pasternak O,Garolera M

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An isolated black yeast-like strain was obtained from radiation-polluted soil collected from Xinjiang province in northwest China. On the basis of ITS and LSU rDNA sequence analysis, in combination with the colony morphology and phenotypic properties, the isolated strain was revealed to represent a novel variety of Au...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Liu T,Zhu L,Zhang Z,Huang H,Zhang Z,Jiang L

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Unusual protein-like, partially reversible associative behaviour has recently been observed in solutions of the water soluble carbohydrates known as 6-deoxy-6-(ω-aminoalkyl)aminocelluloses, which produce controllable self-assembling films for enzyme immobilisation and other biotechnological applications. Now, for the ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nikolajski M,Adams GG,Gillis RB,Besong DT,Rowe AJ,Heinze T,Harding SE

更新日期：2014-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed a scheme and presented the first experimental demonstration of acoustic illusion, by using anisotropic metamaterials to manipulate the acoustic field near boundaries of arbitrary curved geometry. Numerical simulations and experimental results show that in the presence of an illusion cloak, any object ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Kan W,Liang B,Zhu X,Li R,Zou X,Wu H,Yang J,Cheng J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades, AC powered atmospheric dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) in air with a liquid electrode have been proposed as a promising plasma technology with versatile applicability in medicine, agriculture and water treatment. The fundamental features of the micro-discharge filaments that make up this type...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Vanraes P,Nikiforov A,Bogaerts A,Leys C

更新日期：2018-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a widely conserved signaling molecule that in animals has been adapted as a neurotransmitter. GABA is synthesized from the amino acid glutamate by the action of glutamate decarboxylases (GADs). Two vertebrate genes, GAD1 and GAD2, encode distinct GAD proteins: GAD67 and GAD65, respect...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Grone BP,Maruska KP

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Bee-pollinated plants face a dilemma in that bees both passively transport pollen grains among conspecific flowers and actively collect pollen to feed their larvae. Therefore, mechanisms that reduce pollen collection by bees have evolved in melittophilous plants. Malvaceae pollen is uncollectable for corbiculate bees ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Konzmann S,Koethe S,Lunau K

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the space in which scientific, technological and economic activities interplay with each other can be mathematically shaped using techniques from statistical physics of networks. We build a holistic view of the innovation system as the tri-layered network of interactions among these many activities (scien...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Pugliese E,Cimini G,Patelli A,Zaccaria A,Pietronero L,Gabrielli A

更新日期：2019-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to examine the prospective association between first trimester HbA1c and gestational diabetes (GDM) and explore the utility of HbA1c for prediction of GDM. We used data from a case-control study within the prospective NICHD Fetal Growth Studies-Singleton Cohort (2009-2013), which enrolled 2,802 women at 12 U....

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Hinkle SN,Tsai MY,Rawal S,Albert PS,Zhang C

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid foams are classified into a dry foam and a wet foam, empirically judging from the liquid fraction or the shape of the gas bubbles. It is known that physical properties such as elasticity and diffusion are different between the dry foam and the wet foam. Nevertheless, definitions of those states have been vague ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Furuta Y,Oikawa N,Kurita R

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, slow earthquakes (slow EQ) have received much attention relative to understanding the mechanisms underlying large earthquakes and to detecting their precursors. Low-frequency earthquakes (LFE) are a specific type of slow EQ. In the present paper, we reveal the relevance of LFEs to the 11 March 2011 Great Toh...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tokuda T,Shimada H

更新日期：2019-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mullite nanowhiskers are prepared by a facile technique at low temperature using mica and AlF3 as raw material. Mica acts as reactant as well as substrate. By controlling the reaction temperature and holding time, the mullite nanowhisker array with uniform morphology is obtained. The nanowhisker array possesses Al-ric...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang T,Wang E,Wang F,Chou K,Hou X

更新日期：2015-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodophiala bifida (R. bifida) is a representative of the Amaryllidaceae plant family and is rich in montanine, an alkaloid with high pharmaceutical potential. Despite the interest in these compounds, many steps of the biosynthetic pathway have not been elucidated. In this study, we identified the alkaloids produced i...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Reis A,Magne K,Massot S,Tallini LR,Scopel M,Bastida J,Ratet P,Zuanazzi JAS

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptionally silent heterochromatin is associated with repetitive DNA. It is poorly understood whether and how heterochromatin differs between different organisms and whether its structure can be remodelled in response to environmental signals. Here, we address this question by analysing the chromatin state assoc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Freire-Benéitez V,Price RJ,Tarrant D,Berman J,Buscaino A

更新日期：2016-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Catharanthus roseus is a commercial source for anti-cancer terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs: vincristine and vinblastine). Inherent levels of these TIAs are very low, hence research studies need to focus on enhancing their levels in planta. Since primary metabolism provides precursors for specialized-metabolism, eleva...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Nishanth MJ,Sheshadri SA,Rathore SS,Srinidhi S,Simon B

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species can successfully colonize new areas despite their propagules having low genetic variation. We assessed whether the decreased genetic diversity could result in temporal fluctuations of genetic parameters of the new populations of an invasive species, western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis, using...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Yang XM,Lou H,Sun JT,Zhu YM,Xue XF,Hong XY

更新日期：2015-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial infarction (MI) can result in sympathetic nerve loss in the infarct region. However, the contribution of hypo-innervation to electrophysiological remodeling, independent from MI-induced ischemia and fibrosis, has not been comprehensively investigated. We present a novel mouse model of regional cardiac sympa...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Tapa S,Wang L,Francis Stuart SD,Wang Z,Jiang Y,Habecker BA,Ripplinger CM

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:At ambient pressure, the hydrogen bond in materials such as ice, hydrates, and hydrous minerals that compose the Earth and icy planets generally takes an asymmetric O-H···O configuration. Pressure significantly affects this configuration, and it is predicted to become symmetric, such that the hydrogen is centered betw...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Sano-Furukawa A,Hattori T,Komatsu K,Kagi H,Nagai T,Molaison JJ,Dos Santos AM,Tulk CA

更新日期：2018-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of much work on topological insulators (TIs), systematic experiments for TI/TI heterostructures remain absent. We grow a high quality heterostructure containing single quintuple layer (QL) of Bi2Se3 on 19 QLs of Bi2Te3 and compare its transport properties with 20 QLs Bi2Se3 and 20 QLs Bi2Te3. All three films ...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zhao Y,Chang CZ,Jiang Y,DaSilva A,Sun Y,Wang H,Xing Y,Wang Y,He K,Ma X,Xue QK,Wang J

更新日期：2013-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene oxide-iron oxide (GO-Fe3O4) nanocomposites were synthesised by co-precipitating iron salts onto GO sheets in basic solution. The results showed that formation of two distinct structures was dependent upon the GO loading. The first structure corresponds to a low GO loading up to 10 wt%, associated with the ben...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Zubir NA,Yacou C,Motuzas J,Zhang X,Diniz da Costa JC

更新日期：2014-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconstructing diet is critical to understanding hominin adaptations. Isotopic and functional morphological analyses of early hominins are compatible with consumption of hard foods, such as mechanically-protected seeds, but dental microwear analyses are not. The protective shells surrounding seeds are thought to induc...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： van Casteren A,Strait DS,Swain MV,Michael S,Thai LA,Philip SM,Saji S,Al-Fadhalah K,Almusallam AS,Shekeban A,McGraw WS,Kane EE,Wright BW,Lucas PW

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) contributes to glioma initiation. However, the expression of miRNAs in tumour tissue or blood of spinal cord glioma (SCG) patients, particularly in high-grade spinal gliomas (Grade IV) known as glioblastoma (GBM), remains largely unknown. In this study we aimed to determine di...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： An T,Fan T,Zhang XQ,Liu YF,Huang J,Liang C,Lv BH,Wang YQ,Zhao XG,Liu JX,Fu YH,Jiang GJ

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The connection between structure and stability of ecological networks has been widely studied in the last fifty years. A challenge that scientists continue to face is that in-depth mathematical model analysis is often difficult, unless the considered systems are specifically constrained. This makes it challenging to g...

journal_title：Scientific reports

authors： Fischer SM,Huth A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00