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03 March 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Epigenome Roadmap Nature Publishing Group presents an online portal - the Epigenome Roadmap - which collects key research papers from The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Program, complemented by thematical 'threads' to help the readers mine the wealth of available information. Access the Epigenome Roadmap for FREE at:  nature.com/epigenomeroadmapProduced with exclusive support from Illumina           Health Sciences               Biodegradable Hydrophilic Polyurethane PEGU25 Loading Antimicrobial Peptide Bmap-28: A Sustained-release Membrane Able to Inhibit Bacterial Biofilm Formation in Vitro ▶     Jianzhong Wang, Qinyu Liu, Ye Tian et al.     Catheter-related infection makes up a large part of hospital infection and contributes 80% to all nosocomial urological infection, costing hundreds of millions dollar per year …             Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA on the oral mucosa of tuberculosis patients ▶     Rachel C. Wood, Angelique K. Luabeya, Kris M. Weigel et al.     Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) usually includes laboratory analysis of sputum, a viscous material derived from deep in the airways of patients with active disease. As a …             Quantitative assessment of maternal biomarkers related to one-carbon metabolism and neural tube defects ▶     Ke-Fu Tang, Yao-Long Li, Hong-Yan Wang     Periconceptional supplementation with folic acid reduces the occurrence of neural tube defects (NTDs). The association between maternal abnormalities in homocysteine metabolism …             Cocaine exposure impairs multineage hematopoiesis of human hematopoietic progenitor cells mediated by the sigma-1 receptor ▶     Christopher C. Nixon, Brandon H. Schwartz, Dhaval Dixit et al.     Prenatal exposure to cocaine is a significant source of fetal and neonatal developmental defects. While cocaine associated neurological and cardiac pathologies are …             Differential Effects of AAV.BDNF and AAV.Ntf3 in the Deafened Adult Guinea Pig Ear ▶     Cameron L. Budenz, Hiu Tung Wong, Donald L. Swiderski et al.     Cochlear hair cell loss results in secondary regression of peripheral auditory fibers (PAFs) and loss of spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs). The performance of cochlear implants (CI) …             Extraordinary sensitivity enhancement by metasurfaces in terahertz detection of antibiotics ▶     Lijuan Xie, Weilu Gao, Jie Shu et al.     We have detected trace amounts of molecules of antibiotics (kanamycin sulfate) dispersed on metasurfaces with terahertz (THz) spectroscopy. Utilizing the extraordinary optical …             Mirror neuron therapy for hemispatial neglect patients ▶     Wei Wang, Xin Zhang, Xiangtong Ji et al.     Mirror neuron system(MNS) based therapy has been employed to treat stroke induced movement disorders. However, its potential effects on patients with hemispatial neglect were …             Intravitreal Combination of Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate and Bevacizumab in The Treatment of Exudative AMD ▶     N. Vakalis, G. Echiadis, A. Pervena et al.     The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of intravitreal dexamethasone sodium phosphate (DSP) combined with bevacizumab for the treatment of …             Tonsil-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Ameliorate CCl4–induced Liver Fibrosis in Mice via Autophagy Activation ▶     Minhwa Park, Yu-Hee Kim, So-Youn Woo et al.     Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for chronic liver failure, although it is complicated by donor shortage, surgery-related complications, and immunological …             Rapid preparation of rare ginsenosides by acid transformation and their structure-activity relationships against cancer cells ▶     Kai Quan, Qun Liu, Jin-Yi Wan et al.     The anticancer activities of ginsenosides are widely reported. The structure-activity relationship of ginsenosides against cancer is not well elucidated because of the …             Relieving the Attentional Blink in the Amblyopic Brain with Video Games ▶     Roger W. Li, Charlie V. Ngo, Dennis M. Levi     Video game play induces a generalized recovery of a range of spatial visual functions in the amblyopic brain. Here we ask whether video game play also alters temporal processing …             Phenotypic population screen identifies a new mutation in bovine DGAT1 responsible for unsaturated milk fat ▶     Klaus Lehnert, Hamish Ward, Sarah D. Berry et al.     Selective breeding has strongly reduced the genetic diversity in livestock species, and contemporary breeding practices exclude potentially beneficial rare genetic variation from …             Spouses and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adulthood ▶     Neeti Pradeep, Angelina R. Sutin     Depressive symptoms may co-occur within couples and follow similar trajectories, but relatively little is known about this process in old age. This study thus examined the …             Quantification of the binding potential of cell-surface receptors in fresh excised specimens via dual-probe modeling of SERS nanoparticles ▶     Lagnojita Sinha, Yu Wang, Cynthia Yang et al.     The complete removal of cancerous tissue is a central aim of surgical oncology, but is difficult to achieve in certain cases, especially when the removal of surrounding normal …             Highly Stable and Sensitive Fluorescent Probes (LysoProbes) for Lysosomal Labeling and Tracking ▶     Nazmiye B. Yapici, Yue Bi, Pengfei Li et al.     We report the design, synthesis and application of several new fluorescent probes (LysoProbes I-VI) that facilitate lysosomal pH monitoring and characterization of …             Low-frequency magnetic fields do not aggravate disease in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ▶     Martina P. Liebl, Johannes Windschmitt, Anna S. Besemer et al.     Low-frequency magnetic fields (LF-MF) generated by power lines represent a potential environmental health risk and are classified as possibly carcinogenic by the World Health …             Plasma Metabolite Profiling and Chemometric Analyses of Lung Cancer along with Three Controls through Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry ▶     Syed Ghulam Musharraf, Shumaila Mazhar, Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary et al.     Lung cancer has been the most common death causing cancer in the world for several decades. This study is focused on the metabolite profiling of plasma from lung cancer (LC) …             Establishment and characterization of patient-derived tumor xenograft using gastroscopic biopsies in gastric cancer ▶     Yan Zhu, Tiantian Tian, Zhongwu Li et al.     The patient-derived tumor xenograft (PDTX) model has become the most realistic model for preclinical studies. PDTX models of gastric cancer using surgical tissues are reported …             Expression variations of connective tissue growth factor in pulmonary arteries from smokers with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ▶     Si-jing Zhou, Min Li, Da-xiong Zeng et al.     Cigarette smoking contributes to the development of pulmonary hypertension (PH) complicated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the pulmonary vascular …             Genetic variants in the Hippo pathway predict biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer ▶     Chao-Yuan Huang, Shu-Pin Huang, Victor C. Lin et al.     While localized prostate cancer is potentially curative, many patients still show biochemical recurrence (BCR) after curative treatments such as radical prostatectomy (RP). The …             Associations of Three Well-Characterized Polymorphisms in the IL-6 and IL-10 Genes with Pneumonia: A Meta-Analysis ▶     Hong Chen, Ning Li, Huanying Wan et al.     Published data on the associations between three well-characterized polymorphisms in the interleukin 6 and 10 (IL-6 and IL-10) genes and the risk of pneumonia are inconclusive. A …             The genome of Leishmania panamensis: insights into genomics of the L. (Viannia) subgenus. ▶     Alejandro Llanes, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Gina Del Vecchio et al.     Kinetoplastid parasites of the Leishmania genus cause several forms of leishmaniasis. Leishmania species pathogenic to human are separated into two subgenera, Leishmania (…                   Don't let your data go to waste... Scientific Data helps researchers make the most of their data, offering publication in a peer reviewed open access journal. We welcome data of all sizes, from all areas of science. What's unique? 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