Interaction torque contributes to planar reaching at slow speed (2008)
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Tagami, Yoshiyuki, Fujisawa, Hiroyuki, Hoshi, Fumihiko, Nagasaki, Hiroshi
Abstract Background How the central nervous system (CNS) organizes the joint dynamics for multi-joint movement is a complex problem, because of the passive interaction among segmental movements....
Taniguchi, Yukinori, Ikehara, Tatsuya, Kamo, Naoki, Watanabe, Yasutaka, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Toyoshima, Yoshinori
The photoreceptor phoborhodopsin (ppR; also called sensory rhodopsin II) forms a complex with its cognate the Halobacterial transducer II (pHtrII) in the membrane, through which changes in the...
Keiichi Mitsuyama, Nobuo Tomiyasu, Kosuke Takaki, Junya Masuda, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Kotaro Kuwaki, ...
Using a specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, IL-10 concentrations were measured in serum from 62 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), 43 with Crohn's disease (CD), 25 with other colitides,...
Dagli, Maria Lúcia Zaidan, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Krutovskikh, Vladimir, Omori, Yasufumi
A growing body of evidence from in vitro studies indicates that gap junction proteins connexins may have a tumor-suppressor function. Our previous double transfection experiments on HeLa cells have...
Avanzo, José Luis, Mesnil, Marc, Hernandez-Blazquez, Francisco Javier, Mackowiak, Ivone Isabel, Mori, Claudia Madalena Cabrera, Da Silva, Tereza Cristina, ...
Gap junction intercellular communication capacity and connexin expression are reportedly decreased in human lung cancer. The mechanisms by which connexins, the gap junction proteins, act as tumor...
Ito, Akihiko, Morita, Nobuyoshi, Miura, Daisaku, Koma, Yu-ichiro, Kataoka, Tatsuki R., Yamasaki, Hiroshi, ...
We reported previously that the abnormally augmented expression of connexin 26 (Cx26) is responsible for the enhanced spontaneous metastasis of mouse BL6 melanoma cells, and that the exogenous...
Avanzo, José Luis, Mesnil, Marc, Hernandez-Blazquez, Francisco Javier, Mackowiak, Ivone Isabel, Mori, Claudia Madalena Cabrera, Da Silva, Tereza Cristina, ...
Gap junction intercellular communication (GJIC) capacity and connexin expression are reportedly decreased in human lung cancer. The mechanisms by which connexins, the gap junction proteins, act as...
Ito, Akihiko, Morita, Nobuyoshi, Miura, Daisaku, Koma, Yu-ichiro, Kataoka, Tatsuki R., Yamasaki, Hiroshi, ...
We previously reported that the abnormally augmented expression of connexin 26 (Cx26) is responsible for the enhanced spontaneous metastasis of mouse BL6 melanoma cells, and that the exogenous...
Hiroshi Yamasaki, Emília Perez
Immunodetection of human IgG anti-Toxocara canis was developed based on ELISA and on the use of polysiloxane/polyvinyl alcohol (POS/PVA) beads. A recombinant antigen was covalently immobilized,...
Yamasaki,Hiroshi, Perez,Emília
Immunodetection of human IgG anti-Toxocara canis was developed based on ELISA and on the use of polysiloxane/polyvinyl alcohol (POS/PVA) beads. A recombinant antigen was covalently immobilized, via...
Nishimura, Makoto, Saito, Tsuyoshi, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Kudo, Ryuichi
Previously, we demonstrated that connexins (Cxs) showed aberrant localization and expression in most endometrial hyperplasia and carcinoma samples, indicating that during endometrial carcinogenesis,...
Dagli, Maria Lúcia Zaidan, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Krutovskikh, Vladimir, Omori, Yasufumi
A growing body of evidence from in vitro studies indicates that gap junction proteins connexins (Cx) may have a tumor-suppressor function. Our previous double transfection experiments on HeLa cells...
Nishimura, Makoto, Saito, Tsuyoshi, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Kudo, Ryuichi
Previously, we demonstrated that connexins (Cxs) showed aberrant localization and expression in most endometrial hyperplasia and carcinoma samples, indicating that during endometrial carcinogenesis,...
Nishimura, Makoto, Saito, Tsuyoshi, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Kudo, Ryuichi
Previously, we demonstrated that connexins (Cxs) showed aberrant localization and expression in most endometrial hyperplasia and carcinoma samples, indicating that during endometrial carcinogenesis,...
Dagli, Maria Lúcia Zaidan, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Krutovskikh, Vladimir, Omori, Yasufumi
A growing body of evidence from in vitro studies indicates that gap junction proteins connexins (Cx) may have a tumor-suppressor function. Our previous double transfection experiments on HeLa cells...
Yano, Tomohiro, Hernandez-Blazquez, Francisco-Javier, Omori, Yasufumi, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
Connexin (Cx) genes have a negative growth effect on tumour cells with certain specificity. However, it is not clear whether each Cx gene can act similarly in growth control. Hepatocytes normally...
Omori, Yasufumi, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
Our laboratory has previously reported that transfection of a connexin26 (Cx26) gene, but not connexin40 nor connexin43 (Cx43), into HeLa cells expressing no detectable level of connexins suppressed...
Cx32 gene mutation in a chemically induced rat liver tumour (1996)
Omori, Yasufumi, Krutovskikh, Vladimir, Mironov, Nicolai, Tsuda, Hiroyuki, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
Cx32 is a major gap junction protein of the liver and is often aberrantly expressed in liver tumours. We have studied mutation of the Cx32 gene during chemically induced hepatocarcinogenesis. DNA...
Tsuda, Hiroyuki, Asamoto, Makoto, Baba, Hiroyasu, Iwahori, Yoshio, Matsumoto, Kazuyuki, Iwase, Teruhiko, ...
The expression of connexin 32 (Cx32), a major liver gap junction protein, after partial hepatectomy (PH) and during development and progression of hepatocarcinogenesis was studlled in the rat. Cx32...
Rivedal, Edgar, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Sanner, Tore
12-O-Tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), trans-retinoic add (RA) and DDT inhibit gap junctional intercellular communication in Syrian hamster embryo (SHE) cells. The inhibition is rapid and takes...
Loktionov, Alexandre, Popovich, Irina, Zabezhinski, Mark, Martel, Nicole, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Tomatis, Lorenzo
Transgeneration transmission of the carcinogenic action of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA) was studied in two generations of mice using transplacental DMBA initiation followed by postnatal skin...
Katoh, Fumitaka, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
BALB/c 3T3 A31-1-13 cells are highly susceptible to chemicalinduced cell transformation and their gap-junctional inter cellular communication (GJIC) is decreased when these cells become confluent. On...
Krutovskikh, Vladimir A., Oyamada, Masahito, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
We have developed a simple method to measure gapjunctional intercellular communication (GJIC), by means of microinjection/dye transfer assay, in liver slices freshly removed from the rat. Using...
Masui, Tsuneo, Fukushima, Shoji, Katoh, Fumitaka, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Ito, Nobuyuki
To study the mechanism of tumor promotion by different classes of urinary bladder promoters, the effect of sodium L-ascorbate, uracil and butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) on junctional intercellular...
Mesnil, Marc, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
To investigate whether a selective intercellular communication exists between transformed epithelial cells and their counterparts, the homologous and heterologous communication capacities of four rat...
Frixen, Uwe, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
Tumour-promoting phorbol esters and diacylglycerols have a variety of biochemical and biological effects in common in a number of cell culture systems; thus, it has been suggested that...
Giroldi, Laurence, Hamel, Elisabeth, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
Recent studies have shown that diacylglycerols mimic several effects of 12–0-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) on cultured cells and suggest that diacylglycerols are the endogenous functional...
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Aguelon-Pegouries, Anne-Marie, Enomoto, Taira, Martel, Nicole, Furstenberger, Gerhard, Marks, Friedrich
The biological activities in vitro of the incomplete (second-stage) tumor promoter, 12-O-retinoyl phorbol-13-acetate (RPA), and the complete tumor promoter, 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate...
Mazzoleni, Giovanna, Ragnotti, Giovanni, Enomoto, Taira, Yamasaki, Hiroshi
The effect of the oncogenic β-blocker DL-1-(2-nitro-3-methyl-phenoxy)-3-tert-butyl-amino-propan-2-ol (DL-ZAMI 1305) on intercellular communication between cultured cells was studied. Intercellular...
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Drevon, Cécile, Martel, Nicole
Specific and saturable binding sites for [20-3H]phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate ([3H]PDBu) were demonstrated in intact Friend erythroleukemia cells (FELC), in which inducible erythroid differentiation is...
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Araki, Kunioki, Lim, Patricia Kim Chooi, Zasmy, Ngah, Mak, Joon Wah, Taib, Radzan, ...
The specificity of the recombinant Toxocara canis antigen developed for the immunodiagnosis of human toxocariasis was compared with that of the excretory-secretory antigen from T. canis second-stage...
Mamuti, Wulamu, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Sako, Yasuhito, Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Nakao, Minoru, Lightowlers, Marshall W., ...
The aim of this work was to assess the usefulness of hydatid cyst fluid (HCF) of Echinococcus granulosus, obtained from mice experimentally infected with hydatid cyst tissue homogenates, for the...
Sako, Yasuhito, Nakao, Minoru, Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Gottstein, Bruno, Lightowers, Marshall W., ...
The Echinococcus multilocularis protein Em18 is one of the most promising antigens for use in serodiagnosis of alveolar echinococcosis in human patients. Here we identify an antigenic relationship...
Dissociable prefrontal brain systems for attention and emotion
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, LaBar, Kevin S., McCarthy, Gregory
The prefrontal cortex has been implicated in a variety of attentional, executive, and mnemonic mental operations, yet its functional organization is still highly debated. The present study used...
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Nakao, Minoru, Sako, Yasuhito, Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Sato, Marcello Otake, Mamuti, Wulamu, ...
For DNA differential diagnosis of human Taenia cestodes, a base excision sequence scanning thymine-base method using the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and cytochrome b genes as targets was used. The...
Ito, Akira, Xiao, Ning, Liance, Martine, Sato, Marcello O., Sako, Yasuhito, Mamuti, Wulamu, ...
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is the most potentially lethal parasitic zoonosis of the nontropical areas in the northern hemisphere, where cystic echinococcosis (CE) is also endemic. Both AE and CE...
Xiao, Ning, Mamuti, Wulamu, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Sako, Yasuhito, Nakao, Minoru, Nakaya, Kazuhiro, ...
To further evaluate recombinant Em18 antigen (rEm18) for immunodiagnosis of human alveolar echinococcosis, 208 serum samples were examined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). To...
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Sanemori, Hiroshi, Yamada, Kazuo, Kawasaki, Takashi
Uptake of 35S-hydroxyethylthiazole (4-methyl-5-hydroxyethylthiazole) by Escherichia coli intact cells was studied. Hydroxyethylthiazole was taken up in the presence and absence of glucose at the same...
A role for heterologous gap junctions between melanoma and endothelial cells in metastasis
Ito, Akihiko, Katoh, Fumitaka, Kataoka, Tatsuki R., Okada, Morihito, Tsubota, Noriaki, Asada, Hideo, ...
F10 and BL6 sublines of B16 mouse melanoma cells are metastatic after intravenous injection, but only BL6 cells are metastatic after subcutaneous injection. We found that connexin (Cx) 26 is...
DNA Differential Diagnosis of Taeniasis and Cysticercosis by Multiplex PCR
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Allan, James C., Sato, Marcello Otake, Nakao, Minoru, Sako, Yasuhito, Nakaya, Kazuhiro, ...
Multiplex PCR was established for differential diagnosis of taeniasis and cysticercosis, including their causative agents. For identification of the parasites, multiplex PCR with cytochrome c oxidase...
Mamuti, Wulamu, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Sako, Yasuhito, Nakao, Minoru, Xiao, Ning, Nakaya, Kazuhiro, ...
Full-length cDNA and genomic DNA encoding an 8-kDa subunit of antigen B from Echinococcus multilocularis (designated EmAgB8/1) were isolated from an E. multilocularis metacestode cDNA library and a...
Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Matsunaga, Shigeo, Yamamura, Koji, Chang, Chia-Cheng, Kawamura, Shunji, Sako, Yasuhito, ...
A Japanese woman presenting with neurologic symptoms was presumptively diagnosed with neurocysticercosis based on imaging findings. Hooklets in the scolex of the resected lesion were not confirmed...
Mitsuyama, Keiichi, Tomiyasu, Nobuo, Takaki, Kosuke, Masuda, Junya, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Kuwaki, Kotaro, ...
Using a specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, IL-10 concentrations were measured in serum from 62 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), 43 with Crohn's disease (CD), 25 with other colitides,...
De Vuyst, Elke, Decrock, Elke, De Bock, Marijke, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Naus, Christian C., Evans, W. Howard, ...
Gap junction (GJ) channels are formed by two hemichannels (connexons), each contributed by the cells taking part in this direct cell–cell communication conduit. Hemichannels that do not interact...