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Chen**g Zhu
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Olfactory perception and behavioral effects of sex pheromone gland components in Helicoverpa armigera and Helicoverpa assulta
Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 22998; Published online: 15 March 2016; Updated: 29 April 2016 This Article contains typographical errors in the Acknowledgements section. “This work was supported by Nati...
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Open AccessConfined SnO2 quantum-dot clusters in graphene sheets as high-performance anodes for lithium-ion batteries
Construction of metal oxide nanoparticles as anodes is of special interest for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. The main challenge lies in their rapid capacity fading caused by the structural degradation...
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Open AccessEffect of CLU genetic variants on cerebrospinal fluid and neuroimaging markers in healthy, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease cohorts
The Clusterin (CLU) gene, also known as apolipoprotein J (ApoJ), is currently the third most associated late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD) risk gene. However, little was known about the possible effect of CLU ...
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Open AccessShape-morphing composites with designed micro-architectures
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are attractive materials due to their unique mechanical properties, including high deformation capacity and shape recovery. SMPs are easier to process, lightweight, and inexpensive...
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Open AccessQuantitative and compositional responses of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to long-term field fertilization
Archaeal (AOA) and bacterial (AOB) ammonia-oxidizer responses to long-term field fertilization in a Mollisol soil were assessed through pyrosequencing of amoA genes. Long-term fertilization treatments including c...
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Correction: Corrigendum: CEACAM1 regulates TIM-3-mediated tolerance and exhaustion
Nature 517, 386–390 (2015); doi:10.1038/nature13848 In this Letter, we published the crystal structure of a heterodimer of the human (h)CEACAM1 IgV domain and hTIM-3 IgV domain (Protein Data Bank (PDB) accessi...
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Open AccessA new avenue for obtaining insight into the functional characteristics of long noncoding RNAs associated with estrogen receptor signaling
Estrogen receptor signalling plays important regulatory roles in multiple mammalian physiological processes. Dysregulation of estrogen receptor (ER) expression and/or its associated signalling pathway is stron...
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Open AccessPalladium-catalyzed direct arylation and cyclization of o-iodobiaryls to a library of tetraphenylenes
Aryl–aryl bond formation constitutes one of the most important subjects in organic synthesis. The recent developments in direct arylation reactions forming aryl–aryl bond have emerged as very attractive altern...
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Open AccessDivergent Effects of Nitrogen Addition on Soil Respiration in a Semiarid Grassland
Nitrogen (N) deposition has been steadily increasing for decades, with consequences for soil respiration. However, we have a limited understanding of how soil respiration responds to N availability. Here, we i...
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Open AccessExposure to HT-2 toxin causes oxidative stress induced apoptosis/autophagy in porcine oocytes
T-2 toxin is a main type A trichothecene mycotoxin which is the most toxic trichothecence. T-2 toxin has posed various toxic effects on human and animals in vigorous cell proliferation tissues like lymphoid, h...
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Open AccessIdentification and testing of oviposition attractant chemical compounds for Musca domestica
Oviposition attractants for the house fly Musca domestica have been investigated using electrophysiological tests, behavioural assays and field tests. Volatiles were collected via head space absorption method fro...
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Open AccessCoffee and cancer risk: A meta-analysis of prospective observational studies
Meta-analyses on coffee and cancer incidence mainly restricted to limited cancers. We carried out a more comprehensive meta-analysis of cohort studies to explore association between coffee and most cancer type...
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Open AccessRegulation of actin catch-slip bonds with a RhoA-formin module
The dynamic turnover of the actin cytoskeleton is regulated cooperatively by force and biochemical signaling. We previously demonstrated that actin depolymerization under force is governed by catch-slip bonds ...
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Open AccessHypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha promotes the proliferation of human placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells through the MAPK/ERK signaling pathway
Human placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hPMSCs) reside in a physiologically low-oxygen microenvironment. Hypoxia influences a variety of stem cell cellular activities, frequently involving hypoxia-induc...
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Open AccessA model for cyclic mechanical reinforcement
Mechanical force regulates a broad range of molecular interactions in biology. Three types of counterintuitive mechanical regulation of receptor–ligand dissociation have been described. Catch bonds are strengt...
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Open AccessSmectic phase in suspensions of gapped DNA duplexes
Smectic ordering in aqueous solutions of monodisperse stiff double-stranded DNA fragments is known not to occur, despite the fact that these systems exhibit both chiral nematic and columnar mesophases. Here, w...
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Open AccessModulation of mRNA and lncRNA expression dynamics by the Set2–Rpd3S pathway
H3K36 methylation by Set2 targets Rpd3S histone deacetylase to transcribed regions of mRNA genes, repressing internal cryptic promoters and slowing elongation. Here we explore the function of this pathway by a...
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Open AccessProliferation and osteogenic differentiation of rat BMSCs on a novel Ti/SiC metal matrix nanocomposite modified by friction stir processing
The aims of this study were to fabricate a novel titanium/silicon carbide (Ti/SiC) metal matrix nanocomposite (MMNC) by friction stir processing (FSP) and to investigate its microstructure and mechanical prope...
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Open AccessA novel approach to improve poly-γ-glutamic acid production by NADPH Regeneration in Bacillus licheniformis WX-02
Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is an important biochemical product with a variety of applications. This work reports a novel approach to improve γ-PGA through over expression of key enzymes in cofactor NADPH gen...
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Open Access3D-Printing of Meso-structurally Ordered Carbon Fiber/Polymer Composites with Unprecedented Orthotropic Physical Properties
Here we report the first example of a class of additively manufactured carbon fiber reinforced composite (AMCFRC) materials which have been achieved through the use of a latent thermal cured aromatic thermoset...
