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Open AccessIdentification and bioinformatics analysis of genes associated with pyroptosis in spinal cord injury of rat and mouse
The mechanism of spinal cord injury (SCI) is highly complex, and an increasing number of studies have indicated the involvement of pyroptosis in the physiological and pathological processes of secondary SCI. H...
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Open AccessAssessment of thoracic aorta in different cardiac phases in patients with non-aorta diseases using cardiac CT
The aim was to evaluate the thoracic aorta in different cardiac phases to obtain the correct cardiac phase for measuring the maximum diameter required to predict aortic disease. Cardiac CT was performed on 97 ...
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Publisher Correction: A vaccine targeting the RBD of the S protein of SARS-CoV-2 induces protective immunity
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-020-03108-4.
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A vaccine targeting the RBD of the S protein of SARS-CoV-2 induces protective immunity
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes a respiratory disease called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the spread of which has led to a pandemic. An effective preventive vaccine ...
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Open AccessMaize productivity and soil properties in the Loess Plateau in response to ridge-furrow cultivation with polyethylene and straw mulch
Ridge-furrow with full film mulching (RFFM) is widely used in the Loess Plateau (LP) to increase maize yield. However, continuous RFFM application may cause excessive depletion of soil organic carbon (SOC) and...
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Open AccessStructure of Schlafen13 reveals a new class of tRNA/rRNA- targeting RNase engaged in translational control
Cleavage of transfer (t)RNA and ribosomal (r)RNA are critical and conserved steps of translational control for cells to overcome varied environmental stresses. However, enzymes that are responsible for this ev...
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Open AccessStromal C-type lectin receptor COLEC12 integrates H. pylori, PGE2-EP2/4 axis and innate immunity in gastric diseases
Tissue stroma is known to be important in regulating Hp-mediated inflammation, but its interaction with Hp and dendritic cells (DCs) remains to be determined. To this end, the potential crosstalk between H. pylor...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a chimeric Zika vaccine using a licensed live-attenuated flavivirus vaccine as backbone
The global spread of Zika virus (ZIKV) and its unexpected association with congenital defects necessitates the rapid development of a safe and effective vaccine. Here we report the development and characteriza...
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Open AccessIntranasal infection and contact transmission of Zika virus in guinea pigs
Zika virus (ZIKV) is primarily transmitted to humans through mosquito bites or sexual contact. The excretion and persistence of contagious ZIKV in various body fluids have been well documented in ZIKV patients...
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Open AccessHarvesting more grain zinc of wheat for human health
Increasing grain zinc (Zn) concentration of cereals for minimizing Zn malnutrition in two billion people represents an important global humanitarian challenge. Grain Zn in field-grown wheat at the global scale...
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Open AccessGeneral hyperconcentration of photonic polarization-time-bin hyperentanglement assisted by nitrogen-vacancy centers coupled to resonators
Entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) is used to extract the maximally entangled states from less entangled pure states. Here we present a general hyperconcentration protocol for two-photon systems in part...
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Open AccessProposal for probing energy transfer pathway by single-molecule pump-dump experiment
The structure of Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) light-harvesting complex had long been recognized as containing seven bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) molecules. Recently, an additional BChl molecule was discovered in t...
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Open AccessDengue Specific Immunoglobulin A Antibody is Present in Urine and Associated with Disease Severity
The kinetics of dengue virus (DENV)-specific IgA antibody in urine and the potential correlation with disease severity remain elusive. In this study, 262 serial urine samples from 78 laboratory-confirmed patie...
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Open AccessUniversal quantum gates for photon-atom hybrid systems assisted by bad cavities
We present two deterministic schemes for constructing a CNOT gate and a Toffoli gate on photon-atom and photon-atom-atom hybrid quantum systems assisted by bad cavities, respectively. They are achieved by cavi...
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Open AccessComplete nondestructive analysis of two-photon six-qubit hyperentangled Bell states assisted by cross-Kerr nonlinearity
Hyperentanglement, the entanglement in several degrees of freedom (DOFs) of a quantum system, has attracted much attention as it can be used to increase both the channel capacity of quantum communication and i...
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Open AccessQuantum state transfer and controlled-phase gate on one-dimensional superconducting resonators assisted by a quantum bus
We propose a quantum processor for the scalable quantum computation on microwave photons in distant one-dimensional superconducting resonators. It is composed of a common resonator R acting as a quantum bus and s...
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Open AccessDeterministic error correction for nonlocal spatial-polarization hyperentanglement
Hyperentanglement is an effective quantum source for quantum communication network due to its high capacity, low loss rate and its unusual character in teleportation of quantum particle fully. Here we present ...
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Open AccessQuantum Zeno and Zeno-like effects in nitrogen vacancy centers
We present a proposal to realize the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and quantum Zeno-like effect (QZLE) in a proximal 13C nuclear spin by controlling a proximal electron spin of a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center. The mea...
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Open AccessSelective distillation phenomenon in two-species Bose-Einstein condensates in open boundary optical lattices
We investigate the formation of discrete breathers (DBs) and the dynamics of the mixture of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in open boundary optical lattices using the discrete nonlinear Schröding...
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Open AccessHeralded high-efficiency quantum repeater with atomic ensembles assisted by faithful single-photon transmission
Quantum repeater is one of the important building blocks for long distance quantum communication network. The previous quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optical elements can only be perfor...