Monday, 1 July 2013

Scientific Reports Biology Table of Contents e-alert: July 2013

  01 July 2013   
 
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Kui Yang, Yunsheng Liu, Zhixiong Liu et al.
 
  The objective of this study was to confirm the biological role of p38γ in human gliomas. The expression profiles of p38γ and hTERT in human glioma samples were detected by Western …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Erik Keimpema, Alán Alpár, Fiona Howell et al.
 
  Endocannabinoids are small signaling lipids, with 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) implicated in modulating axonal growth and synaptic plasticity. The concept of short-range …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Jun Sugimoto, Makiko Sugimoto, Helene Bernstein et al.
 
   
 
 
 
 
   
 
Zufeng Ding, Shijie Liu, Changqing Sun et al.
 
  Here we demonstrate that “concentration polarization” of ox-LDL enhances LOX-1 expression and ox-LDL uptake. It damages cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG) and …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Kevin D'Ostilio, Julien Cremers, Valérie Delvaux et al.
 
  While it is increasingly recognized that voluntary movements are produced by an interaction between conscious and unconscious processes, the role of the latter in Parkinson's …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Carole Gauron, Christine Rampon, Mohamed Bouzaffour et al.
 
  A major issue in regenerative medicine is the role of injury in promoting cell plasticity. Here we explore the function of reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced through lesions in …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Lesley J. Rogers, Elisa Rigosi, Elisa Frasnelli et al.
 
  Sophisticated cognitive abilities have been documented in honeybees, possibly an aspect of their complex sociality. In vertebrates brain asymmetry enhances cognition and …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Hirotaka Nakayama, Atsushi Shiraki, Ryuji Hirayama et al.
 
   
 
 
 
 
   
 
Tae-Rin Lee, Myunghwan Choi, Adrian M. Kopacz et al.
 
  Although most nanofabrication techniques can control nano/micro particle (NMP) size over a wide range, the majority of NMPs for biomedical applications exhibits a diameter of …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Cesar A. López, Alex H. de Vries, Siewert J. Marrink
 
  Beta-cyclodextrins (β-CDs) can form inclusion complexes with cholesterol, and are commonly used to manipulate cholesterol levels of biomembranes. In this work, we have used …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Jakob Dogan, Xin Mu, Åke Engström et al.
 
  Intrinsically disordered proteins are abundant in the eukaryotic proteome, and they are implicated in a range of different diseases. However, there is a paucity of experimental …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Fei Zhu, Xiaobo Zhang
 
  Phagocytosis is crucial for triggering host defenses against invading pathogens in animals. However, the receptors on phagocyte surface required for phagocytosis of virus have not …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Akiko Hida, Shingo Kitamura, Yosuke Ohsawa et al.
 
  Evaluation of circadian phenotypes is crucial for understanding the pathophysiology of diseases associated with disturbed biological rhythms such as circadian rhythm sleep …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Barbara Salani, Cecilia Marini, Alberto Del Rio et al.
 
  The anti-hyperglycaemic drug metformin has important anticancer properties as shown by the direct inhibition of cancer cells proliferation. Tumor cells avidly use glucose as a …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Michael Lierz, Matthias Reinschmidt, Heiner Müller et al.
 
  The paper described a novel technique for semen collection in large psittacines (patent pending), a procedure which was not routinely possible before. For the first time, a large …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Yuting Liu, Wenchao Hu, Yasuhiro Murakawa et al.
 
  The body temperature is considered a universal cue by which the master clock synchronizes the peripheral clocks in mammals, but the mechanism is not fully understood. Here we …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Gaurav Ahuja, Ivan Ivandić, Mehmet Saltürk et al.
 
  Crypt neurons are a third type of olfactory receptor neurons with a highly unusual “one cell type - one receptor” mode of expression, the same receptor being expressed by the …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Cui-Xia Xu, Yu-Xuan Zheng, Xiao-Hui Zheng et al.
 
  A quaternized trigeminal ligand, 4-[4,6-di(4-pyridyl)-1,3,5-(2-triazinyl)]-1-methylpyridine-1-ium hexafluorophosphate (dptmp·PF6), and two derivative V-shaped dinuclear Pt(II) …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Piotr Religa, Renhai Cao, Dorota Religa et al.
 
  The functional impact of amyloid peptides (Aβs) on the vascular system is less understood despite these pathologic peptides are substantially deposited in the brain vasculature of …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Emma Killick, Richard Morgan, Francesca Launchbury et al.
 
  Controversy surrounds the use of PSA as a biomarker for prostate cancer detection, leaving an unmet need for a novel biomarker in this setting; urinary EN2 may identify …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Haiyan Wu, Xiaoqin Mai, Honghong Tang et al.
 
  The embodied view of language processing holds that language comprehension involves the recruitment of sensorimotor information, as evidenced by the somatotopic representation of …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Sabrina Wend, Cristina Dal Bosco, Michael M. Kämpf et al.
 
  Time-resolved quantitative analysis of auxin-mediated processes in plant cells is as of yet limited. By applying a synergistic mammalian and plant synthetic biology approach, we …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Marcel A. Lauterbach, Marc Guillon, Asma Soltani et al.
 
  Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy enables superresolution imaging of fluorescently marked nano-structures in vivo. Biological investigations are often hindered by …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Ryo Nakano, Takuma Takanashi, Annemarie Surlykke et al.
 
  Ultrasonic mating signals in moths are argued to have evolved via exploitation of the receivers' sensory bias towards bat echolocation calls. We have demonstrated that female …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Mathias Linkerhand, Claudius Gros
 
  Coupling local, slowly adapting variables to an attractor network allows to destabilize all attractors, turning them into attractor ruins. The resulting attractor relict network …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
K. E. Plummer, S. Bearhop, D. I. Leech et al.
 
  Supplementation of food to wild birds occurs on an enormous scale worldwide, and is often cited as an exemplar of beneficial human-wildlife interaction. Recently it has been …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Prerna Malaney, Ravi Ramesh Pathak, Bin Xue et al.
 
  IDPs, while structurally poor, are functionally rich by virtue of their flexibility and modularity. However, how mutations in IDPs elicit diseases, remain elusive. Herein, we have …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Qiong Li, Daoxiang Zhang, Yongbin Wang et al.
 
  How TGF-β1-mediated signaling pathways are finely tuned to orchestrate the generation of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) is poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Laura Pancotto, Gabriella De Angelis, Esmeralda Bizzarri et al.
 
  Streptococcus pneumoniae pili contribute to adherence and virulence. The regulation of pilus-1 expression is bistable, thus piliated strains contain a variable proportion of …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
André Gergs, Armin Zenker, Volker Grimm et al.
 
  In addition to natural stressors, populations are increasingly exposed to chemical pollutants released into the environment. We experimentally demonstrate the loss of resilience …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Valentin Hagel, Markus Mateescu, Alexander Southan et al.
 
  We designed bioinspired cross-linkers based on desmosine, the cross-linker in natural elastin, to prepare hydrogels with thiolated hyaluronic acid. These short, rigid …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Yanling Zhang, Feng Fu, Te Wu et al.
 
  Amounts of empirical evidence, ranging from microbial cooperation to collective hunting, suggests public goods produced often nonlinearly depend on the total amount of …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Nobuo Masataka, Leonid Perlovsky
 
  Debates on the origins of consonance and dissonance in music have a long history. While some scientists argue that consonance judgments are an acquired competence based on …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Yuichiro Saito, Jun Takeda, Masahiro Okada et al.
 
  Although RAD52 plays a critical role in the initiation of homologous recombination (HR) by facilitating the replacement of RPA with RAD51, the mechanism controlling RAD52 remains …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
G. Papadakis, A. Tsortos, A. Kordas et al.
 
  Application of PCR to multiplexing assays is not trivial; it requires multiple fluorescent labels for amplicon detection and sophisticated software for data interpretation. …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
A. Lintunen, T. Hölttä, M. Kulmala
 
  Water in the xylem, the water transport system of plants, is vulnerable to freezing and cavitation, i.e. to phase change from liquid to ice or gaseous phase. The former is a …  
 
 
 
 
   
 
Stephanie Cacioppo, Chris Frum, Erik Asp e
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