14-06-2013 | Ekaterina Smirnova et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Ekaterina Smirnova, Riya Shanbhag, Arwa Kurabi, Mehdi Mobli, Jamie J. Kwan, Logan W. Donaldson AIDA1 links persistent chemical signaling events occurring at the neuronal synapse with global changes in gene expression. Consistent with its role as a scaffolding protein, AIDA1 is composed ...

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14-06-2013 | Ian Johnson et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Ian Johnson, Huinan Liu Controlling degradation of magnesium or its alloys in physiological saline solutions is essential for their potential applications in clinically viable implants. Rapid degradation of magnesium-based materials reduces the mechanical properties of implants ...

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07-06-2013 | Fu, Jingying ; Jiang, Dong ; Huang, Yaohuan ; Zhuang, Dafang ; Wang, Yong, Energies, 2013

Solar radiation is an important input for various land-surface energy balance models. Global solar radiation data retrieved from the Japanese Geostationary Meteorological Satellite 5 (GMS-5)/Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer (VISSR) has been widely used in recent years. However, due ...

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07-06-2013 | Hirohito Mori et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Hirohito Mori, Hideki Kobara, Kazi Rafiq, Noriko Nishiyama, Shintaro Fujihara, Makoto Oryu, Tsutomu Masaki Objective The antiseptic effect of gastric irrigation before endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has not yet been reported. The aim of the randomized prospective study is to ...

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06-06-2013 | Sergiy Sylantyev; Dmitri A Rusakov, Nature Protocols, 2013

Nature Protocols 8, 1299 (2013). doi:10.1038/nprot.2013.075 Authors: Sergiy Sylantyev & Dmitri A Rusakov The accurate knowledge of receptor kinetics is crucial to our understanding of cell signal transduction in general and neural function in particular. The classical ...

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04-06-2013 | Chunte Sam Peng; Carlos R. Baiz; Andrei Tokmakoff, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue, 2013

We provide a systematic characterization of the nanosecond ground-state lactam–lactim tautomerization of pyridone derivatives in aqueous solution under ambient conditions using temperature-jump transient 2D IR spectroscopy. Although electronic excited-state tautomerization has been widely ...

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29-05-2013 | Myoung Hwan Oh, Taekyung Yu, Seung-Ho Yu, Byungkwon Lim, Kyung-Tae Ko, Marc-Georg Willinger, Dong-Hwa Seo, Byung Hy ..., Science , 2013

Hollow mixed-metal oxide nanoparticles can be made by replacing the metal cations through redox reactions in solution. [Also see Perspective by Ibáñez and Cabot]

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24-05-2013 | Eliedonna E. Cacao et al., PLoS ONE, 2013

by Eliedonna E. Cacao, Azeem Nasrullah, Tim Sherlock, Steven Kemper, Katerina Kourentzi, Paul Ruchhoeft, Gila E. Stein, Richard C. Willson In this work, a collimated helium beam was used to activate a thiol-poly(ethylene glycol) (SH-PEG) monolayer on gold to selectively capture proteins in ...

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22-05-2013 | Lang, Jianlei ; Cheng, Shuiyuan ; Zhou, Ying ; Zhao, Beibei ; Wang, Haiyan ; Zhang, Shujing, Energies, 2013

The promotion of hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs) has been proposed as one promising solution for reducing transport energy consumption and mitigating vehicular emissions in China. In this study, the energy and environmental impacts of hybrid and EVs during 2010–2020 were evaluated through ...

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22-05-2013 | Wim L. Noorduin, Alison Grinthal, L. Mahadevan, Joanna Aizenberg, Science , 2013

Complex solids are crafted through small changes to the solution conditions in a reaction-diffusion coupled system. [Also see Perspective by Vlieg]

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