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08 April 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Biological Sciences               Evolutionary Origin of Asymptotically Stable Consensus ▶     Chang-Bing Tang, Bin Wu, Jian-Bo Wang et al.     Consensus is widely observed in nature as well as in society. Up to now, many works have focused on what kind of (and how) isolated single structures lead to consensus, while the …             Towards a mathematical theory of meaningful communication ▶     Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Jordi Fortuny, Ricard V. Sol     Meaning has been left outside most theoretical approaches to information in biology. Functional responses based on an appropriate interpretation of signals have been replaced by a …             A reusable evanescent wave immunosensor for highly sensitive detection of bisphenol A in water samples ▶     Zhou Xiao-hong, Liu Lan-hua, Xu Wei-qi et al.     This paper proposed a compact and portable planar waveguide evanescent wave immunosensor (EWI) for highly sensitive detection of BPA. The incident light is coupled into the planar …             CORRIGENDUM: Interplay between distribution of live cells and growth dynamics of solid tumours ▶     Edoardo Milotti, Vladislav Vyshemirsky, Michela Sega et al.                 Synaptotagmin 1 and Ca2+ drive trans SNARE zippering ▶     Ying Lai, Xiaochu Lou, Chuqi Wang et al.     Synaptotagmin 1 (Syt1) is a major Ca2-sensor that evokes neurotransmitter release. Here we used site-specific fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) assay to investigate …             ATP and potassium ions: a deadly combination for astrocytes ▶     David G. Jackson, Junjie Wang, Robert W. Keane et al.     The ATP release channel Pannexin1 (Panx1) is self-regulated, i.e. the permeant ATP inhibits the channel from the extracellular space. The affinity of the ATP binding site is lower …             miR-34c attenuates epithelial-mesenchymal transition and kidney fibrosis with ureteral obstruction ▶     Ryuji Morizane, Shizuka Fujii, Toshiaki Monkawa et al.     micro RNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that act as posttranscriptional repressors by binding to the 3-UTR of target mRNAs. On the other hand, mesenchymal-epithelial …             PFOS induced lipid metabolism disturbances in BALB/c mice through inhibition of low density lipoproteins excretion ▶     Ling Wang, Yu Wang, Yong Liang et al.     Male BALB/c mice fed with either a regular or high fat diet were exposed to 0, 5 or 20 mg/kg perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) for 14 days. Increased body weight, serum glucose, …             FALCON: fast and unbiased reconstruction of high-density super-resolution microscopy data ▶     Junhong Min, Cdric Vonesch, Hagai Kirshner et al.     Super resolution microscopy such as STORM and (F)PALM is now a well known method for biological studies at the nanometer scale. However, conventional imaging schemes based on …             E-cadherindownregulation and RECK-upregulation are coupled in the non-malignant epithelial cell line MCF10A but not in multiple carcinoma-derived cell lines ▶     Kanako Yuki, Yoko Yoshida, Ryosaku Inagaki et al.     Expression of a mesenchymal phenotype is often associated with invasive/metastatic behaviors of carcinoma cells. Acquisition of a mesenchymal phenotype by a carcinoma cell is …             Dual roles for the telomeric repeats in chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus-6 ▶     Tamae Ohye, Hidehito Inagaki, Masaru Ihira et al.     Approximately 1 percent of healthy individuals carry human herpesvirus-6 within a host chromosome. This is referred to as chromosomally integrated herpesvirus-6 (CIHHV-6). In this …             Suppression of Elongation and Growth of Tomato Seedlings by Auxin Biosynthesis Inhibitors and Modeling of the Growth and Environmental Response ▶     Tadahisa Higashide, Megumi Narukawa, Yukihisa Shimada et al.     To develop a growth inhibitor, the effects of auxin inhibitors were investigated. Application of 30M L--aminooxy--phenylpropionic acid (AOPP) or (S)-methyl …             Differential MSC activation leads to distinct mononuclear leukocyte binding mechanisms ▶     Daniel J. Kota, Bryan DiCarlo, Robert A. Hetz et al.     Advances in the field of Multipotent Mesenchymal Stromal cell (MSC) biology have demonstrated that MSCs can improve disease outcome when activated to exert immunomodulatory …             Transcription Factor ZBED6 Mediates IGF2 Gene Expression by Regulating Promoter Activity and DNA Methylation in Myoblasts ▶     Yong-Zhen Huang, Liang-Zhi Zhang, Xin-Sheng Lai et al.     Zinc finger, BED-type containing 6 (ZBED6) is an important transcription factor in placental mammals, affecting development, cell proliferation and growth. In this study, we found …             Collective enhancement of numerical acuity by meritocratic leadership in fish ▶     Angelo Bisazza, Brian Butterworth, Laura Piffer et al.     It has been known for more than a century that interacting people can generally achieve more accurate decisions than single individuals. Here we show that interacting guppy fish (…             Screening for Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Interacting Peptides ▶     Er Meng, Tian-Fu Cai, Hui Zhang et al.     The voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) interacting peptide is of special interest for both basic research and pharmaceutical purposes. In this study, we established a …             Salicylic acid antagonizes abscisic acid inhibition of shoot growth and cell cycle progression in rice ▶     Ayano Meguro, Yutaka Sato     We analysed effects of abscisic acid (ABA, a negative regulatory hormone), alone and in combination with positive or neutral hormones, including salicylic acid (SA), on rice …             Reduced plant nutrition under elevated CO2 depresses the immunocompetence of cotton bollworm against its endoparasite ▶     Jin Yin, Yucheng Sun, Feng Ge     Estimating the immunocompetence of herbivore insects under elevated CO2 is an important step in understanding the effects of elevated CO2 on crop-herbivore-natural enemy …             Slow modulations of high-frequency activity (40140Hz) discriminate preictal changes in human focal epilepsy ▶     C. Alvarado-Rojas, M. Valderrama, A. Fouad-Ahmed et al.     Recent evidence suggests that some seizures are preceded by preictal changes that start from minutes to hours before an ictal event. Nevertheless an adequate statistical …             Stearoyl-CoA desaturase inhibition blocks formation of hepatitis C virus-induced specialized membranes ▶     Rodney K. Lyn, Ragunath Singaravelu, Stacia Kargman et al.     Hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication is dependent on the formation of specialized membrane structures; however, the host factor requirements for the formation of these HCV …             Xanthine Oxidase Inhibition by Febuxostat Attenuates Experimental Atherosclerosis in Mice ▶     Johji Nomura, Nathalie Busso, Annette Ives et al.     Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease due to lipid deposition in the arterial wall. Multiple mechanisms participate in the inflammatory process, including oxidative …             Random allocation of pies promotes the evolution of fairness in the Ultimatum Game ▶     Xiaofeng Wang, Xiaojie Chen, Long Wang     In the Ultimatum Game, two players are offered a chance to win a pie. The proposer suggests how to split the pie. The responder can either accept or reject the deal. If an …             Crash and rebound of indigenous populations in lowland South America ▶     Marcus J. Hamilton, Robert S. Walker, Dylan C. Kesler     Lowland South America has long been a battle-ground between European colonization and indigenous survival. Initial waves of European colonization brought disease epidemics, …             Multiple functional polymorphisms in a single disease resistance gene in rice enhance durable resistance to blast ▶     Shuichi Fukuoka, Shin-Ichi Yamamoto, Ritsuko Mizobuchi et al.     The improvement of resistance to blast, a devastating fungal disease of rice, would support the sustainable production of one of the world's staple foods, yet the identification …             FRET ratiometric probes reveal the chiral-sensitive cysteine-dependent H2S production and regulation in living cells ▶     Lv Wei, Long Yi, Fanbo Song et al.     Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an endogenously produced gaseous signalling molecule with multiple biological functions. In order to visualize and quantify the endogenous in situ …             Upregulation of colonic luminal polyamines produced by intestinal microbiota delays senescence in mice ▶     Ryoko Kibe, Shin Kurihara, Yumi Sakai et al.     Prevention of quality of life (QOL) deterioration is associated with the inhibition of geriatric diseases and the regulation of brain function. However, no substance is known that …             Revealing the Hidden Language of Complex Networks ▶     Ömer Nebil Yaveroğlu, Noël Malod-Dognin, Darren Davis et al.     Sophisticated methods for analysing complex networks promise to be of great benefit to almost all scientific disciplines, yet they elude us. 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