Development of a Simple Impulse Turbine for Nano Hydropower (2009)
Nakanishi, Y, Iio, S, Takahashi, Y, Kato, A, Ikeda, T
The aim of this work is to provide an impulse type hydraulic turbine to utilize unexploited water resources as nano hydropower in the mountainous area. The turbine is simplified to make cheap energy...
Protective effect of dietary chamomile tea on diabetic compliances (2008)
Kato, A., Minoshima, Y., Yamamoto, J., Adachi, I., Watson, Alison A., Nash, Robert J.
Matricaria chamomilla L., known as “chamomile”, has been used as an herbal tea or supplementary food all over the world. We investigated the effects of chamomile hot water extract and its major...
Kato, A., Nasu, N., Takebayashi, K., Adachi, I., Minami, Y., Sanae, F., ...
Flavonoids are ubiquitous components in vegetables, fruits, tea, and wine. Therefore, they are often consumed in large quantities in our daily diet. Several flavonoids have been shown to have...
Pr-Oxide-Based Dielectric Films on Ge Substrates (2008)
Advanced Gate, Stack Si, Y. Yamamoto, H. Togashi, A. Kato, S. Hasegawa, ...
Real-time monitoring of initial oxidation of Si(110)-16×2 Surface by Si 2p Photoemission spectroscopy
Iminosugars from %IBaphia mitida$I Lodd (2008)
Kato, A., Kato, N., Miyauchi, S., Minoshima, Y., Adachi, I., Ikeda, K., ...
Chromatographic separation of the 50% aqueous EtOH extract of the leaves of the African medicinal tree Baphia nitida resulted in isolation of 10 iminosugars. The plant contained...
A. Kato, H. Ninomiya, M. Hirata, Y. Nii, M. Taniguchi, S. Hirano, ...
synthetic aperture magnetometry
SAM analysis in frontal lobe epilepsy for the surgical strategy (2007)
H. Ninomiya, A. Kato, K. Imai, Y. Nii, M. Taniguchi, M. Hirata, ...
When surgical treatment against intractable frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) is considered, epileptogenic zone is not easy to delineate by scalp EEG. Epileptogenic zone often does not involve
M. Hirata, A. Kato, M. Taniguchi, H. Ninomiya, D. Cheyne, S. E. Robinson, ...
volumetric distribution of somatosensory evoked
Kato, A., Higuchi, Y., Goto, H., Kizu, H., Okamoto, T., Asano, N., ...
Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) continues to be used as an important cooking spice and herbal medicine around the world. Scientific research has gradually verified the antidiabetic effects of...
Photoproduction of $\eta$-mesons off C and Cu nuclei for photon energies below 1.1 GeV (2005)
Kinoshita, T., Yamazaki, H., Fukasawa, H., Hirota, K., Ishikawa, T., Kasagi, J., ...
The $\eta$-meson photoproduction cross sections have been measured on the C and Cu targets for the photon energies between 600 and 1100 MeV to investigate the behavior of the $S_{11}$(1535) resonance...
Distance Dependence of Path Loss for Millimeter Wave Inter-Vehicle Communications (2004)
S. Takahashi, A. Kato, K. Sato, M. Fujise
Millimeter-wave path loss between two cars was measured to obtainthe general applicable distance for inter-vehicle communication systemsin real environments. An abrupt and substantial increase in...
Dai, LY, Lin, XH, Ye, CR, Ise, KZ, Saito, K, Kato, A, ...
This study focused on a Yunnan landrace of rice, Kunmingxiaobaigu, to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling cold tolerance at the reproductive stage using DNA markers. A linkage map...
Selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins via organopalladium porphyrins (2004)
Kato, A., Hartnell, Regan David, Yamashita, M., Miyasaka, H., Sugiura, K., Arnold, D.
The selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins is difficult to achieve and extensive chromatography is required to obtain pure products. A sequence of (i) dibromination, (ii) selective...
Selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins via organopalladium porphyrins (2004)
Kato, A., Hartnell, Regan David, Yamashita, M., Miyasaka, H., Sugiura, K., Arnold, D.
The selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins is difficult to achieve and extensive chromatography is required to obtain pure products. A sequence of (i) dibromination, (ii) selective...
Selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins via organopalladium porphyrins (2004)
Kato, A., Hartnell, Regan David, Yamashita, M., Miyasaka, H., Sugiura, K., Arnold, D.
The selective meso-monobromination of 5,15-diarylporphyrins is difficult to achieve and extensive chromatography is required to obtain pure products. A sequence of (i) dibromination, (ii) selective...
Dai, L. Y., Lin, X. H., Ye, C. R., Ise, K. Z., Saito, K., Kato, A., ...
This study focused on a Yunnan landrace of rice, Kunmingxiaobaigu, to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling cold tolerance at the reproductive stage using DNA markers. A linkage map...
Homer-1a/Vesl-1S enhances hippocampal synaptic transmission. (2003)
Hennou, S, Kato, A, Schneider, E M, Lundstrom, K, Gähwiler, B H, Inokuchi, K, ...
Homer/Vesl proteins are involved in regulating metabotropic glutamate receptors, synaptogenesis, dendritic spine development and axonal pathfinding. We investigated the potential modulation of...
Kato, H., Saito, Y., Kato, A., Watanabe, K., Ohnishi, T., Maekawa, N., ...
Novel alpha-L-fucosidase inhibitors from the bark of Angylocalyx pynaertii (Leguminosae) (2001)
Asano, N., Yasuda, K., Kizu, H., Kato, A., Fan, J-Q., Nash, Robert J., ...
The extract of bark of Angylocalyx pynaertii (Leguminosae) was found to potently inhibit mammalian α- l-fucosidases. A thorough examination of the extract resulted in the discovery of 15...
Dihydroxynortropane alkaloids from calystegine-producing plants (2001)
Asano, N., Yokoyama, K., Sakurai, M., Ikeda, K., Kizu, H., Kato, A., ...
Three dihydroxynortropanes, 2α,7β-dihydroxynortropane, 2α,3β-dihydroxynortropane, and 3α,7β-dihydroxynortropane, were isolated from calystegine-producing plants in the families Convolvulaceae...
Currentodensitogram of SAM virtual sensors compared with simultaneously recorded ECoG (2000)
A. Kato, H. Ninomiya, S. Hirano, Y. Nii, M. Taniguchi, S. Hirano, ...
Introduction Equivalent current dipole (ECD) analysis for magnetoencephalogram (MEG) has been useful in screening the localization of the epileptogenic zone, even though MEG was recorded in the...
Single fertilization in maize (1999)
Single fertilization events were detected in seven maize lines (Zea mays L.) of different genetic background. Detection of single fertilization was achieved by a dual pollination method, that is,...
Superconducting Transition Properties of Nb3Sn Particles-Ag Composite. (1998)
Watari, T., Murakami, M., Kato, A.
This study examines the resistance of nb3sn/ag alloy as a function of heat treatment temperature and ag vol%. the heat treatment temperatures were 600, 930, and 1000 c, each for 30 minutes. the...
Effects of Additives on Sintering of CVD-MgO Powders. (1998)
The effects of a large number of sintering aids for the densification of magnesia were examined. Al2O3, BaO, Fe2O3, P2O5, SiO2, TiO2, Y2O3, and ZrO2 are effective for the sintering of CVD-MgO powders...
Crystal Growth of SiC Whisker from the SiO(g)-CO System. (1998)
Saito, M., Nagashima, S., Kato, A.
Among ceramic whiskers, SiC whisker is most expected to be the reinforcing constituent in ceramic- and metal-matrix composites. There are many papers on the growth of SiC whisker from the SiO2-C or...
Nagai, H., Oshima, Y., Hirano, K., Kato, A.
Aluminum hydroxides with various morphologies were synthesized from aluminum sulphate solutions by a homogeneous precipitation method using urea. The synthesized powders consisted of amorphous...
Topological String, Matrix Integral, and Singularity Theory (1993)
Nakatsu, T., Kato, A., Noumi, M., Takebe, T.
We study the relation between topological string theory and singularity theory using the partition function of $A_{N-1}$ topological string defined by matrix integral of Kontsevich type. Genus...
The nucleotide sequences of two tRNAAsn genes from tobacco chloroplasts (1981)
Kato, A., Shimada, H., Kusuda, Mie, Sugiura, M.
Recombinant plasmids which contain EcoRI fragments of tobacco chloroplast DNA carrying tRNA genes were constructed. Plasmids pTC211 and pTC293 contain the base sequences for tRNAAsn in their 1.4 and...
Eloranta, J J, Kato, A, Teng, M S, Weinzierl, R O
Archaeal RNA polymerases (RNAPs) resemble the eukaryotic nuclear RNAPs in complexity, and many of their subunits display a high degree of sequence similarity to their eukaryotic counterparts. Here we...
Kato, A, Hayashi, M, Kondo, M, Nishimura, M
Glyoxysomal citrate synthase in pumpkin is synthesized as a precursor that has a cleavable presequence at its N-terminal end. To investigate the role of the presequence in the transport of the...
Importance of the cysteine-rich carboxyl-terminal half of V protein for Sendai virus pathogenesis.
Kato, A, Kiyotani, K, Sakai, Y, Yoshida, T, Shioda, T, Nagai, Y
The Sendai virus V protein is a nonstructural trans-frame protein whose cysteine-rich C-terminal half is fused to the acidic N-terminal half of the P protein via mRNA editing. We recently created a...
Topology and subcellular localization of FtsH protein in Escherichia coli.
Tomoyasu, T, Yamanaka, K, Murata, K, Suzaki, T, Bouloc, P, Kato, A, ...
FtsH protein in Escherichia coli is an essential protein of 70.7 kDa (644 amino acid residues) with a putative ATP-binding sequence. Western blots (immunoblots) of proteins from fractionated cell...
Regulation of the Escherichia coli hfq gene encoding the host factor for phage Q beta.
Kajitani, M, Kato, A, Wada, A, Inokuchi, Y, Ishihama, A
The host factor (HF-I) for phage Q beta RNA replication is a small protein of 102 amino acid residues encoded by the hfq gene at 94.8 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome. The synthesis rate of...
Structure of a Ruminococcus albus endo-1,4-beta-glucanase gene.
Ohmiya, K, Kajino, T, Kato, A, Shimizu, S
A chromosomal DNA fragment encoding an endo-1,4-beta-glucanase I (Eg I) gene from Ruminococcus albus cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli with pUC18 was fully sequenced by the dideoxy-chain...
Persistent JC virus (JCV) infection is demonstrated by continuous shedding of the same JCV strains.
Kitamura, T, Sugimoto, C, Kato, A, Ebihara, H, Suzuki, M, Taguchi, F, ...
The polyomavirus JC virus (JCV), the causative agent of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, is ubiquitous in the human population, infecting children asymptomatically. JCV is often detected...
Chang, S P, Hui, G S, Kato, A, Siddiqui, W A
The antibody response to the Plasmodium falciparum major merozoite surface antigen (gp195) of congenic mouse strains differing in H-2 haplotype has been examined. All seven strains of mice were...
Miura, O, Hirosawa, S, Kato, A, Aoki, N
The present study was designed to elucidate the molecular genetic basis of a familial deficiency of alpha 2-plasmin inhibitor (alpha 2PI). Southern blot hybridization analysis with human alpha 2PI...
Sequence analysis of Vicia faba repeated DNA, the FokI repeat element.
Kato, A, Yakura, K, Tanifuji, S
A type of highly repeated DNA sequences present in the genome of Vicia faba was detected by digestion its nuclear DNA with FokI endonuclease and fractionating the digests on polyacrylamide gels. Four...
Deno, H, Kato, A, Shinozaki, K, Sugiura, M
The nucleotide sequences of tobacco chloroplast genes for elongator tRNAMet and tRNAVal (UAC) have been determined. The tRNAVal gene contains a 571 base pairs intron located in the anticodon loop....
The nucleotide sequences of two tRNAAsn genes from tobacco chloroplasts.
Kato, A, Shimada, H, Kusuda, M, Sugiura, M
Recombinant plasmids which contain EcoRI fragments of tobacco chloroplast DNA carrying tRNA genes were constructed. Plasmids pTC211 and pTC293 contain the base sequences for tRNAAsn in their 1.4 and...
Prochiantz, A, Di Porzio, U, Kato, A, Berger, B, Glowinski, J
Long-term survival of mesencephalic and striatal cells from mouse embryos in dissociated primary cultures is described. Catecholaminergic neurons in mesencephalic culutres were identified...
Active reabsorption of urea appears in the initial IMCD (IMCD1) of rats fed a low-protein diet. To determine whether active urea transport also occurs in the deepest IMCD subsegment, the IMCD3, we...
Rat inner medullary collecting ducts (IMCD3s) possess a luminal Na+-dependent, active urea secretory transport process, which is upregulated by water diuresis. In this study of perfused IMCDs...
Shinozaki, K., Ohme, M., Tanaka, M., Wakasugi, T., Hayashida, N., Matsubayashi, T., ...
The complete nucleotide sequence (155 844 bp) of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum var. Bright Yellow 4) chloroplast DNA has been determined. It contains two copies of an identical 25 339 bp inverted...
Kato, A, Kiyotani, K, Sakai, Y, Yoshida, T, Nagai, Y
The Sendai virus (SeV) V protein is characterized by the unique cysteine-rich domain in its carboxy-terminal half which is fused to the amino-terminal half of the P protein, but its function has...
Oda, S., Inada, Y., Kobayashi, A., Kato, A., Matsudomi, N., Ohta, H.
Microbial esterification of citronellol with acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) produced via metabolism of glucose was performed with Hansenula saturnus IFO 0809 in an interface bioreactor by using a...
Eloranta, J J, Kato, A, Teng, M S, Weinzierl, R O
Archaeal RNA polymerases (RNAPs) resemble the eukaryotic nuclear RNAPs in complexity, and many of their subunits display a high degree of sequence similarity to their eukaryotic counterparts. Here we...
Kato, A, Hayashi, M, Kondo, M, Nishimura, M
Glyoxysomal citrate synthase in pumpkin is synthesized as a precursor that has a cleavable presequence at its N-terminal end. To investigate the role of the presequence in the transport of the...
Importance of the cysteine-rich carboxyl-terminal half of V protein for Sendai virus pathogenesis.
Kato, A, Kiyotani, K, Sakai, Y, Yoshida, T, Shioda, T, Nagai, Y
The Sendai virus V protein is a nonstructural trans-frame protein whose cysteine-rich C-terminal half is fused to the acidic N-terminal half of the P protein via mRNA editing. We recently created a...
Topology and subcellular localization of FtsH protein in Escherichia coli.
Tomoyasu, T, Yamanaka, K, Murata, K, Suzaki, T, Bouloc, P, Kato, A, ...
FtsH protein in Escherichia coli is an essential protein of 70.7 kDa (644 amino acid residues) with a putative ATP-binding sequence. Western blots (immunoblots) of proteins from fractionated cell...
Regulation of the Escherichia coli hfq gene encoding the host factor for phage Q beta.
Kajitani, M, Kato, A, Wada, A, Inokuchi, Y, Ishihama, A
The host factor (HF-I) for phage Q beta RNA replication is a small protein of 102 amino acid residues encoded by the hfq gene at 94.8 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome. The synthesis rate of...
Structure of a Ruminococcus albus endo-1,4-beta-glucanase gene.
Ohmiya, K, Kajino, T, Kato, A, Shimizu, S
A chromosomal DNA fragment encoding an endo-1,4-beta-glucanase I (Eg I) gene from Ruminococcus albus cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli with pUC18 was fully sequenced by the dideoxy-chain...
Persistent JC virus (JCV) infection is demonstrated by continuous shedding of the same JCV strains.
Kitamura, T, Sugimoto, C, Kato, A, Ebihara, H, Suzuki, M, Taguchi, F, ...
The polyomavirus JC virus (JCV), the causative agent of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, is ubiquitous in the human population, infecting children asymptomatically. JCV is often detected...
Chang, S P, Hui, G S, Kato, A, Siddiqui, W A
The antibody response to the Plasmodium falciparum major merozoite surface antigen (gp195) of congenic mouse strains differing in H-2 haplotype has been examined. All seven strains of mice were...
Miura, O, Hirosawa, S, Kato, A, Aoki, N
The present study was designed to elucidate the molecular genetic basis of a familial deficiency of alpha 2-plasmin inhibitor (alpha 2PI). Southern blot hybridization analysis with human alpha 2PI...
Sequence analysis of Vicia faba repeated DNA, the FokI repeat element.
Kato, A, Yakura, K, Tanifuji, S
A type of highly repeated DNA sequences present in the genome of Vicia faba was detected by digestion its nuclear DNA with FokI endonuclease and fractionating the digests on polyacrylamide gels. Four...
Deno, H, Kato, A, Shinozaki, K, Sugiura, M
The nucleotide sequences of tobacco chloroplast genes for elongator tRNAMet and tRNAVal (UAC) have been determined. The tRNAVal gene contains a 571 base pairs intron located in the anticodon loop....
The nucleotide sequences of two tRNAAsn genes from tobacco chloroplasts.
Kato, A, Shimada, H, Kusuda, M, Sugiura, M
Recombinant plasmids which contain EcoRI fragments of tobacco chloroplast DNA carrying tRNA genes were constructed. Plasmids pTC211 and pTC293 contain the base sequences for tRNAAsn in their 1.4 and...
Prochiantz, A, Di Porzio, U, Kato, A, Berger, B, Glowinski, J
Long-term survival of mesencephalic and striatal cells from mouse embryos in dissociated primary cultures is described. Catecholaminergic neurons in mesencephalic culutres were identified...
Active reabsorption of urea appears in the initial IMCD (IMCD1) of rats fed a low-protein diet. To determine whether active urea transport also occurs in the deepest IMCD subsegment, the IMCD3, we...
Rat inner medullary collecting ducts (IMCD3s) possess a luminal Na+-dependent, active urea secretory transport process, which is upregulated by water diuresis. In this study of perfused IMCDs...
Shinozaki, K., Ohme, M., Tanaka, M., Wakasugi, T., Hayashida, N., Matsubayashi, T., ...
The complete nucleotide sequence (155 844 bp) of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum var. Bright Yellow 4) chloroplast DNA has been determined. It contains two copies of an identical 25 339 bp inverted...
Kato, A, Kiyotani, K, Sakai, Y, Yoshida, T, Nagai, Y
The Sendai virus (SeV) V protein is characterized by the unique cysteine-rich domain in its carboxy-terminal half which is fused to the amino-terminal half of the P protein, but its function has...
Oda, S., Inada, Y., Kobayashi, A., Kato, A., Matsudomi, N., Ohta, H.
Microbial esterification of citronellol with acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) produced via metabolism of glucose was performed with Hansenula saturnus IFO 0809 in an interface bioreactor by using a...
Feeding behaviour of free-ranging penguins determined by oesophageal temperature.
Charrassin, J B, Kato, A, Handrich, Y, Sato, K, Naito, Y, Ancel, A, ...
Sea birds play a major role in marine food webs, and it is important to determine when and how much they feed at sea. A major advance has been made by using the drop in stomach temperature after...
Kato, A, Thaiss, F, Oite, T, Günther, E, Batsford, S, Vogt, A
The influence of genetic factors on the susceptibility of the rat to cationic antigen-induced in situ immune complex glomerulonephritis was investigated. The levels of proteinuria developing in 11...
Hayakawa, T, Yamada, K, Iwata, Y, Kato, A, Yoshimine, T, Ushio, Y, ...
Changes of regional cortical blood flow (rCBF) was monitored by the heat clearance method during the operation of cervical carotid ligation combined with superficial temporal artery and middle...
Decreased plasma tryptophan associated with deep white matter lesions in elderly subjects
Yao, H, Yuzuriha, T, Koga, H, Fukuda, K, Endo, K, Matsumoto, T, ...
The aim was to identify potentially treatable risk factors for cerebral white matter lesions often found on MRI in elderly persons. findings were assessed on 1.0 T MRI of 178 subjects living in the...
Taniguchi, M, Kato, A, Ninomiya, H, Hirata, M, Cheyne, D, Robinson, S, ...
Objective: Application of spatially filtered magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate changes in the mechanism of cerebral motor control in patients with tumours around the central sulcus.
FGF10/FGFR2 signal induces cell migration and invasion in pancreatic cancer
Nomura, S, Yoshitomi, H, Takano, S, Shida, T, Kobayashi, S, Ohtsuka, M, ...
Pancreatic cancer has one of the highest mortalities among all malignancies and there is an urgent need for new therapy. This might be achieved by resolving the detailed biological mechanism, and in...