SpringerPlusPub Date : 2016-12-29DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3781-1
B. Hanif, N. Jamil, M. Shah
{"title":"Surface topological differences of phage infected uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) strains, revealed by atomic force microscopy","authors":"B. Hanif, N. Jamil, M. Shah","doi":"10.1186/s40064-016-3781-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3781-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21923,"journal":{"name":"SpringerPlus","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40064-016-3781-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65822119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correlations of microRNA-124a and microRNA-30d with clinicopathological features of breast cancer patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus","authors":"Yuling Han, Xian-E Cao, Juxun Wang, Chun-Ling Dong, Hong-tao Chen","doi":"10.1186/s40064-016-3786-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3786-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21923,"journal":{"name":"SpringerPlus","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40064-016-3786-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65822547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpringerPlusPub Date : 2016-12-22DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3729-5
H. A. E. Babiker, T. Saito, Y. Nakatsu, S. Takasuga, M. Morita, Y. Sugimoto, J. Ueda, T. Watanabe
{"title":"Molecular cloning, polymorphism, and functional activity of the bovine and water buffalo Mx2 gene promoter region","authors":"H. A. E. Babiker, T. Saito, Y. Nakatsu, S. Takasuga, M. Morita, Y. Sugimoto, J. Ueda, T. Watanabe","doi":"10.1186/s40064-016-3729-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3729-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21923,"journal":{"name":"SpringerPlus","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40064-016-3729-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65821661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpringerPlusPub Date : 2016-12-20DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3784-y
R. K. Senapati, P. Prasad, Gandharba Swain, T. Shankar
{"title":"Volumetric medical image compression using 3D listless embedded block partitioning","authors":"R. K. Senapati, P. Prasad, Gandharba Swain, T. Shankar","doi":"10.1186/s40064-016-3784-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3784-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21923,"journal":{"name":"SpringerPlus","volume":"176 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40064-016-3784-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65822988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpringerPlusPub Date : 2016-12-20DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3771-3
S. Sabbar, Daiwon Hyun
{"title":"What makes it likeable? A study on the reactions to messages in a digital social network: the case of Facebook in Farsi","authors":"S. Sabbar, Daiwon Hyun","doi":"10.1186/s40064-016-3771-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3771-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21923,"journal":{"name":"SpringerPlus","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40064-016-3771-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65822327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phenolics profile and anti-proliferative activity of <i>Cyphomandra Betacea</i> fruit in breast and liver cancer cells.","authors":"Maisarah Abdul Mutalib, Faisal Ali, Fauziah Othman, Rajesh Ramasamy, Asmah Rahmat","doi":"10.1186/s40064-016-3777-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40064-016-3777-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong><i>Cyphomandra betacea</i> (C. <i>betacea</i>) belongs to the Solanaceae family. This study was aimed to evaluate the anti-proliferative of <i>C.betacea</i> crude extract against selected cancer cell lines (breast and liver cancer) and to identify the polyphenolics profile (phenolic acids and flavonoids) of <i>C</i>. <i>betacea</i> fruits. Anti-proliferative effect of the extracts was examined using MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay, followed by cell morphology analysis using acridine orange and propidium iodide double staining.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The phenolics profile was characterized using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). <i>C</i>. <i>betacea</i> extract showed a high cytotoxic effect against liver and breast cancer cell lines with the IC<sub>50</sub> value of 30 and 80 µg/ml, respectively. Phenolics profiling showed that <i>C</i>. <i>betacea</i> extract has a wide variety of polyphenolic compounds which are the responsible substances underlying the cytotoxic activity. The microscopic examination analysed by acridine orange and propidium iodide double staining showed that viable cells of the liver and breast cells were well rounded, large and intact green nuclei compared with the treated cells that characterized by apoptotic features (shrunken nuclei with a less quantity of cytoplasm).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The present study demonstrated that the anti-proliferative properties of <i>C</i>. <i>betacea</i> fruits were partially attributed to the rich phenolics content. It supports the hypothesis that <i>C</i>. <i>betacea</i> fruits have potential as an effective agent in cancer therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":21923,"journal":{"name":"SpringerPlus","volume":"5 1","pages":"2105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5174009/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65822492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpringerPlusPub Date : 2016-12-20DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3728-6
Fang Yang, K. Ning, Xiaowei Zeng, Qian Zhou, Xiaoquan Su, Xiao Yuan
{"title":"Characterization of saliva microbiota’s functional feature based on metagenomic sequencing","authors":"Fang Yang, K. Ning, Xiaowei Zeng, Qian Zhou, Xiaoquan Su, Xiao Yuan","doi":"10.1186/s40064-016-3728-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-3728-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21923,"journal":{"name":"SpringerPlus","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40064-016-3728-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65821616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpringerPlusPub Date : 2016-12-20eCollection Date: 2016-01-01DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3783-z
Ganesh Ghorai, Madhumangal Pal
{"title":"Some isomorphic properties of <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graphs with applications.","authors":"Ganesh Ghorai, Madhumangal Pal","doi":"10.1186/s40064-016-3783-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40064-016-3783-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The theory of graphs are very useful tool in solving the combinatorial problems in different areas of computer science and computational intelligence systems. In this paper, we present a frame work to handle <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy information by combining the theory of <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy sets with graphs. We introduce the notion of weak self complement <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graphs and establish a necessary condition for <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graph to be weak self complement. Some properties of self complement and weak self complement <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graphs are discussed. The order, size, busy vertices and free vertices of an <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graphs are also defined and proved that isomorphic <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graphs have same order, size and degree. Also, we have presented some results of busy vertices in isomorphic and weak isomorphic <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graphs. Finally, a relative study of complement and operations on <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graphs have been made. Applications of <i>m</i>-polar fuzzy graph are also given at the end.</p>","PeriodicalId":21923,"journal":{"name":"SpringerPlus","volume":"5 1","pages":"2104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5174077/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65822095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}