Synthesis Method for Ternary Logic Function Based on Nand-Type Polypheck, (9999)
Yanagita,M., Fukuda,N., Miyoshi,Y., Nakashima,K., Yamato,K.
This paper studies the synthesis of ternary logic functions based on a NAND-type polypheck. The size of term is the arithmetic sum of its truth values over all assignments of variable values. It...
Multi-epoch VERA Observations of H2O masers in OH 43.8-0.1 (2005)
Honma, M., Bushimata, T., Choi, Y. K., Fujii, T., Hirota, T., Horiai, K., ...
We report on the multi-epoch observations of H2O maser emission in star forming region OH 43.8-0.1 carried out with VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). The large-scale maser distributions...
VERA Observation of the W49N H2O Maser Outburst in 2003 October (2004)
Honma, M., Choi, Y. K., Bushimata, T., Fujii, T., Hirota, T., Horiai, K., ...
We report on a strong outburst of the W49N H2O maser observed with VERA. Single-dish monitoring with VERA 20 m telescopes detected a strong outburst of the maser feature at V_LSR = -30.7 km/s in 2003...
First Fringe Detection with VERA's Dual-Beam System and its Phase Referencing Capability (2003)
Honma, M., Fujii, T., Hirota, T., Horiai, K., Iwadate, K., Jike, T., ...
We present the results of first dual-beam observations with VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry). The first dual-beam observations of a pair of H2O maser sources W49N and OH43.8-0.1 have been...
Nakashima, K., Horita, Z., Nemoto, M., Langdon, T.G.
A multi-pass facility was fabricated for equal-channel angular (ECA) pressing which gave a total strain of approximately 5 on a single passage through the die. Experiments on high purity aluminum...
Coordination Chemistry of SCS PdII Pincer Systems (2000)
Nakashima, K., Shinkai, Prof. S., Kooijman, H., Spek, A.L., ...
Coordination Chemistry of SCS PdII Pincer Systems (2000)
Manen Van, H.J., Nakashima, K., Shinkai, S., Kooijman, H., Spek, A.L., ...
Changes in insulation of wetsuits during repetitive exposure to pressure (1989)
K. Monji, K. Nakashima, Y. Sogabe, K. Miki, F. Tajima, K. Shiraki
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc. (http://www.uhms.org )
Nakashima, K, Nobuhisa, I, Deshimaru, M, Nakai, M, Ogawa, T, Shimohigashi, Y, ...
The nucleotide sequences of four genes encoding Trimeresurus gramineus (green habu snake, crotalinae) venom gland phospholipase A2 (PLA2; phosphatidylcholine 2-acylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.4) isozymes...
Wakasugi, T, Tsudzuki, J, Ito, S, Nakashima, K, Tsudzuki, T, Sugiura, M
The complete nucleotide sequence (119,707 bp) of the black pine (Pinus thunbergii) chloroplast genome has been determined. It contains 4 rRNA genes and 32 tRNA genes. To our knowledge, the tRNAPro...
Accelerated evolution of Trimeresurus flavoviridis venom gland phospholipase A2 isozymes.
Nakashima, K, Ogawa, T, Oda, N, Hattori, M, Sakaki, Y, Kihara, H, ...
Six Trimeresurus flavoviridis (Habu snake) venom gland phospholipase A2 (PLA2) isozyme genes were found to consist of four exons and three introns and to encode proteins of 138 amino acid residues,...
Ogawa, T, Oda, N, Nakashima, K, Sasaki, H, Hattori, M, Sakaki, Y, ...
As a step toward understanding the structure and function of phospholipases A2 (PLA2s), we isolated and sequenced several cDNAs encoding Trimeresurus flavoviridis venom PLA2 isozymes including two...
Kato, Y, Shimazu, A, Iwamoto, M, Nakashima, K, Koike, T, Suzuki, F, ...
The effects of vitamin D metabolites on alkaline phosphatase [ALPase; orthophosphoric-monoester phosphohydrolase (alkaline optimum), EC 3.1.3.1] activity, a marker of terminal differentiation, in...
Senda, K, Arakawa, Y, Nakashima, K, Ito, H, Ichiyama, S, Shimokata, K, ...
A total of 3,700 Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were collected from 17 general hospitals in Japan from 1992 to 1994. Of these isolates, 132 carbapenem-resistant strains were subjected to DNA...
Yamaguchi, N, Kawasaki, M, Yamashita, Y, Nakashima, K, Koga, T
Serotype b-specific polysaccharide antigen (SPA) of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 consists of D-fucose and L-rhamnose. To clarify the role of SPA in phagocytosis of the organism by human...
Califano, J V, Gunsolley, J C, Nakashima, K, Schenkein, H A, Wilson, M E, Tew, J G
The objective of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between antibody reactive with the Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans serotype b lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and severity of...
Nakashima, K, Schenkein, H A, Califano, J V, Tew, J G
The serotype b-specific carbohydrate antigen (SbAg) of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 is reported to be the O antigen of lipopolysaccharide, and the highest titers of serum antibody reactive...
A novel member of the cspA family of genes that is induced by cold shock in Escherichia coli.
Nakashima, K, Kanamaru, K, Mizuno, T, Horikoshi, K
Escherichia coli contains a major cold shock protein, CspA (or CS7.4), whose production is predominantly induced at low temperatures. This bacterium is known to possess five additional genes, each...
Trehalose levels and survival ratio of freeze-tolerant versus freeze-sensitive yeasts.
Hino, A, Mihara, K, Nakashima, K, Takano, H
Five freeze-tolerant yeast strains suitable for frozen dough were compared with ordinary commercial bakers' yeast. Kluyveromyces thermotolerans FRI 501 cells showed high survival ability after...
Kirby, A C, Meghji, S, Nair, S P, White, P, Reddi, K, Nishihara, T, ...
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is a Gram-negative bacterium implicated in the pathology of localized juvenile periodontitis, a condition involving rapid destruction of alveolar bone. We have...
Mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs) and distinguish them from other MLOs.
Nakashima, K, Kato, S, Iwanami, S, Murata, N
DNA of 10 lines of rice yellow dwarf (RYD) mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs) from Japan, the Phillippines, and Thailand hybridized with four probes containing chromosomal and six probes containing...
ACTIVATION OF RABBIT LIVER FRUCTOSE DIPHOSPHATASE BY COENZYME A AND ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN*
Nakashima, K., Pontremoli, S., Horecker, B. L.
The catalytic activity of rabbit liver fructose diphosphatase is enhanced more than fourfold by treatment with coenzyme A or acyl carrier protein. Other sulfhydryl compounds, such as glutathione or...
Senda, K, Arakawa, Y, Ichiyama, S, Nakashima, K, Ito, H, Ohsuka, S, ...
We applied PCR to the rapid detection of the metallo-beta-lactamase gene, blaIMP, in clinically isolated gram-negative rods. A total of 54 high-level ceftazidime-resistant strains (MICs, > 128...
Kato, Y, Nakashima, K, Iwamoto, M, Murakami, H, Hiranuma, H, Koike, T, ...
The effect of IL-1 on expression of the mineralization-related phenotype by chondrocytes was examined. In cultures of rabbit growth plate chondrocytes, IL-1 beta at 0.1 ng/ml caused 95% decreases in...
Koike, T, Iwamoto, M, Shimazu, A, Nakashima, K, Suzuki, F, Kato, Y
The effect of PTH on chondrocyte proliferation as a function of cartilage age was examined. PTH[1-34] induced a 12- to 15-fold increase in the efficiency of colony formation in soft agar by...
Comparison of structure and function of human erythrocyte and human muscle actin.
Human erythrocyte actin and human skeletal muscle actin were purified by acetone powder extraction and gel filtration. Pure human erythrocyte actin resembles muscle actin in its polymerization and...
Effect of anti-spectrin antibody and ATP on deformability of resealed erythrocyte membranes.
Deformability of resealed erythrocyte membranes was measured by using an ektacytometer. Divalent anti-spectrin antibody, but not monovalent anti-spectrin Fab fragments, decreased membrane...
Nakashima, K, Chanda, P K, Deutsch, V, Banerjee, A K, Shatkin, A J
Irradiation of purified influenza virus and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) with long-wavelength UV light in the presence of 4'-substituted psoralens inactivated the virion-associated RNA polymerase...
Horseman, N D, Zhao, W, Montecino-Rodriguez, E, Tanaka, M, Nakashima, K, Engle, S J, ...
Prolactin (PRL) has been implicated in numerous physiological and developmental processes. The mouse PRL gene was disrupted by homologous recombination. The mutation caused infertility in female...
Kamiya, A, Kinoshita, T, Ito, Y, Matsui, T, Morikawa, Y, Senba, E, ...
Fetal liver, the major site of hematopoiesis during embryonic development, acquires additional various metabolic functions near birth. Although liver development has been characterized biologically...
Chijiwa, T, Deshimaru, M, Nobuhisa, I, Nakai, M, Ogawa, T, Oda, N, ...
Conventional chromatographic analysis showed that phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) isoenzymes of the venom of Trimeresurus flavoviridis (Habu snake) of Okinawa island are profoundly different in...
Echo-Doppler evaluation of reverse flow sign in the intrahepatic portal branches after surgery.
Nishihara, K, Yagyu, T, Sakata, K, Nakashima, K, Suzuki, T
OBJECTIVE: The author's evaluated the clinical significance of the development of reversed portal flow after abdominal surgery other than portosystemic shunt procedure. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: There...
Rothwell, J C, Day, B L, Dressler, D, Nakashima, K, Thompson, P D, ...
1. Reflexes were elicited in the first dorsal interosseous muscle of seven normal subjects by electrical stimulation of the digital nerves of the index finger at 3 times perceptual threshold while...
Cutaneous effects on presynaptic inhibition of flexor Ia afferents in the human forearm.
Nakashima, K, Rothwell, J C, Day, B L, Thompson, P D, Marsden, C D
1. In six subjects, H reflexes obtained in the flexor muscles in the forearm were inhibited by single motor threshold shocks to the radial nerve in the spiral groove. The first two phases of the...
Day, B L, Dressler, D, Marsden, C D, Nakashima, K, Rothwell, J C, ...
1. The effects of different forms of brain stimulation on the discharge pattern of single motor units were examined using the post-stimulus time histogram (PSTH) technique and by recording the...
Tokiwa, H, Sera, N, Nakashima, A, Nakashima, K, Nakanishi, Y, Shigematu, N
Studies of genotoxicity and carcinogenicity of nitro aromatic hydrocarbons focus on their high mutagenicity for bacteria and mammalian cells. Nitrobenzo[a]pyrenes (NBPs) and related nitroazaarenes...
A new pyruvate kinase variant (PK Osaka) demonstrated by partial purification and condensation.
Shinohara, K, Miwa, S, Nakashima, K, Oda, E, Kageoka, T
A qualitative variant of erythrocyte and liver pyruvate kinases (PK Osaka) was detected in a family in which two siblings have extremely low PK activity by semipurification with DEAE cellulose...
G6PD Ube, a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variant found in four unrelated Japanese families.
Nakashima, K, Ono, J, Abe, S, Miwa, S, Yoshida, A
A total of 6,120 Japanese males were screened for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD). Five cases with the deficiency were discovered. Two of them and an additional two cases have the...
Nakashima, K, Nobuhisa, I, Deshimaru, M, Nakai, M, Ogawa, T, Shimohigashi, Y, ...
The nucleotide sequences of four genes encoding Trimeresurus gramineus (green habu snake, crotalinae) venom gland phospholipase A2 (PLA2; phosphatidylcholine 2-acylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.4) isozymes...
Wakasugi, T, Tsudzuki, J, Ito, S, Nakashima, K, Tsudzuki, T, Sugiura, M
The complete nucleotide sequence (119,707 bp) of the black pine (Pinus thunbergii) chloroplast genome has been determined. It contains 4 rRNA genes and 32 tRNA genes. To our knowledge, the tRNAPro...
Accelerated evolution of Trimeresurus flavoviridis venom gland phospholipase A2 isozymes.
Nakashima, K, Ogawa, T, Oda, N, Hattori, M, Sakaki, Y, Kihara, H, ...
Six Trimeresurus flavoviridis (Habu snake) venom gland phospholipase A2 (PLA2) isozyme genes were found to consist of four exons and three introns and to encode proteins of 138 amino acid residues,...
Ogawa, T, Oda, N, Nakashima, K, Sasaki, H, Hattori, M, Sakaki, Y, ...
As a step toward understanding the structure and function of phospholipases A2 (PLA2s), we isolated and sequenced several cDNAs encoding Trimeresurus flavoviridis venom PLA2 isozymes including two...
Kato, Y, Shimazu, A, Iwamoto, M, Nakashima, K, Koike, T, Suzuki, F, ...
The effects of vitamin D metabolites on alkaline phosphatase [ALPase; orthophosphoric-monoester phosphohydrolase (alkaline optimum), EC 3.1.3.1] activity, a marker of terminal differentiation, in...
Senda, K, Arakawa, Y, Nakashima, K, Ito, H, Ichiyama, S, Shimokata, K, ...
A total of 3,700 Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were collected from 17 general hospitals in Japan from 1992 to 1994. Of these isolates, 132 carbapenem-resistant strains were subjected to DNA...
Yamaguchi, N, Kawasaki, M, Yamashita, Y, Nakashima, K, Koga, T
Serotype b-specific polysaccharide antigen (SPA) of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 consists of D-fucose and L-rhamnose. To clarify the role of SPA in phagocytosis of the organism by human...
Califano, J V, Gunsolley, J C, Nakashima, K, Schenkein, H A, Wilson, M E, Tew, J G
The objective of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between antibody reactive with the Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans serotype b lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and severity of...
Nakashima, K, Schenkein, H A, Califano, J V, Tew, J G
The serotype b-specific carbohydrate antigen (SbAg) of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans Y4 is reported to be the O antigen of lipopolysaccharide, and the highest titers of serum antibody reactive...
A novel member of the cspA family of genes that is induced by cold shock in Escherichia coli.
Nakashima, K, Kanamaru, K, Mizuno, T, Horikoshi, K
Escherichia coli contains a major cold shock protein, CspA (or CS7.4), whose production is predominantly induced at low temperatures. This bacterium is known to possess five additional genes, each...
Trehalose levels and survival ratio of freeze-tolerant versus freeze-sensitive yeasts.
Hino, A, Mihara, K, Nakashima, K, Takano, H
Five freeze-tolerant yeast strains suitable for frozen dough were compared with ordinary commercial bakers' yeast. Kluyveromyces thermotolerans FRI 501 cells showed high survival ability after...
Kirby, A C, Meghji, S, Nair, S P, White, P, Reddi, K, Nishihara, T, ...
Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is a Gram-negative bacterium implicated in the pathology of localized juvenile periodontitis, a condition involving rapid destruction of alveolar bone. We have...
Mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs) and distinguish them from other MLOs.
Nakashima, K, Kato, S, Iwanami, S, Murata, N
DNA of 10 lines of rice yellow dwarf (RYD) mycoplasmalike organisms (MLOs) from Japan, the Phillippines, and Thailand hybridized with four probes containing chromosomal and six probes containing...
ACTIVATION OF RABBIT LIVER FRUCTOSE DIPHOSPHATASE BY COENZYME A AND ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN*
Nakashima, K., Pontremoli, S., Horecker, B. L.
The catalytic activity of rabbit liver fructose diphosphatase is enhanced more than fourfold by treatment with coenzyme A or acyl carrier protein. Other sulfhydryl compounds, such as glutathione or...
Senda, K, Arakawa, Y, Ichiyama, S, Nakashima, K, Ito, H, Ohsuka, S, ...
We applied PCR to the rapid detection of the metallo-beta-lactamase gene, blaIMP, in clinically isolated gram-negative rods. A total of 54 high-level ceftazidime-resistant strains (MICs, > 128...
Kato, Y, Nakashima, K, Iwamoto, M, Murakami, H, Hiranuma, H, Koike, T, ...
The effect of IL-1 on expression of the mineralization-related phenotype by chondrocytes was examined. In cultures of rabbit growth plate chondrocytes, IL-1 beta at 0.1 ng/ml caused 95% decreases in...
Koike, T, Iwamoto, M, Shimazu, A, Nakashima, K, Suzuki, F, Kato, Y
The effect of PTH on chondrocyte proliferation as a function of cartilage age was examined. PTH[1-34] induced a 12- to 15-fold increase in the efficiency of colony formation in soft agar by...
Comparison of structure and function of human erythrocyte and human muscle actin.
Human erythrocyte actin and human skeletal muscle actin were purified by acetone powder extraction and gel filtration. Pure human erythrocyte actin resembles muscle actin in its polymerization and...
Effect of anti-spectrin antibody and ATP on deformability of resealed erythrocyte membranes.
Deformability of resealed erythrocyte membranes was measured by using an ektacytometer. Divalent anti-spectrin antibody, but not monovalent anti-spectrin Fab fragments, decreased membrane...
Nakashima, K, Chanda, P K, Deutsch, V, Banerjee, A K, Shatkin, A J
Irradiation of purified influenza virus and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) with long-wavelength UV light in the presence of 4'-substituted psoralens inactivated the virion-associated RNA polymerase...
Horseman, N D, Zhao, W, Montecino-Rodriguez, E, Tanaka, M, Nakashima, K, Engle, S J, ...
Prolactin (PRL) has been implicated in numerous physiological and developmental processes. The mouse PRL gene was disrupted by homologous recombination. The mutation caused infertility in female...
Kamiya, A, Kinoshita, T, Ito, Y, Matsui, T, Morikawa, Y, Senba, E, ...
Fetal liver, the major site of hematopoiesis during embryonic development, acquires additional various metabolic functions near birth. Although liver development has been characterized biologically...
Rothwell, J C, Day, B L, Dressler, D, Nakashima, K, Thompson, P D, ...
1. Reflexes were elicited in the first dorsal interosseous muscle of seven normal subjects by electrical stimulation of the digital nerves of the index finger at 3 times perceptual threshold while...