Masato Tanaka

Surgical treatment of metastatic vertebral tumors (2009)

Tanaka, Masato, Nakahara, Shinnosuke, Ito, Yasuo, Kunisada, Toshiyuki, Misawa, Haruo, Koshimune, Koichiro, ...

Surgical treatment of metastatic spinal cord compression is controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of our current surgical treatments and the use of spinal...

Time-lapse observation of cellular function with fluorescent probe reveals novel CTL-target cell interactions (2009)

Tomura, Michio, Mori, Yoshiko Saito, Watanabe, Ryousuke, Tanaka, Masato, Miyawaki, Atsushi, Kanagawa, Osami

Fluorescent protein that detects caspase-3 activation was used for the time-lapse observation of CTL–target cell interaction. In the target cells transfected with SCAT3.1 (caspase-3-sensitive...

Advances in the Optimization and Form-finding of Tensegrity Structures (2008)

Tibert, Gunnar, Skelton, Robert, De Oliveura, Mauricio, Micheletti, Andrea, Pandia Raj, R., Guest, Simon D, ...

IASS-IACM 2008 Session: Advances in the Optimization and Form-finding of Tensegrity Structures Session Organizer: Gunnar TIBERT (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) -- Keynote Lecture: "Optimal...

Posterior cervical spine arthrodesis with laminar screws: a report of two cases (2007)

Nakanishi, Kazuo, Tanaka, Masato, Sugimoto, Yoshihisa, Ozaki, Toshifumi

We performed fixation using laminar screws in 2 patients in whom lateral mass screws, pedicle screws or transarticular screws could not be inserted. One was a 56-year-old woman who had anterior...

Construction of an open-access database that integrates cross-reference information from the transcriptome and proteome of immune cells (2007)

Hijikata, Atsushi, Kitamura, Hiroshi, Kimura, Yayoi, Yokoyama, Ryo, Aiba, Yuichi, Bao, Yanyuan, ...

Motivation: Although a huge amount of mammalian genomic data does become publicly available, there are still hurdles for biologists to overcome before such data can be fully exploited. One of the...

Surgical results of sacral perineural (Tarlov) cysts. (2006)

Tanaka, Masato, Nakahara, Shinnosuke, Ito, Yauo, Nakanishi, Kazuo, Sugimoto, Yoshihisa, Ikuma, Hisanori, ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the surgical outcomes and to determine indicators of the necessity of surgical intervention. Twelve consecutive patients harboring symptomatic sacral...

Epitope Distribution of Randomly Established Monoclonal Antibodies against Human Type II DNA Topoisomerases (2002)

Sakaguchi, Ayako, Miyaike, Mitsuko, Kuroda, Kazufumi, Nozaki, Naohito, Tanaka, Masato, Hibino, Makoto, ...

The epitopes of about 100 monoclonal antibodies against human type II DNA topoi-somerase were mapped along the enzyme molecules. Although they were randomly and independently established, epitope...

Human Fas ligand: gene structure, chromosomal location and species specificity (1994)

Takahashi, Tomohiro, Tanaka, Masato, Inazawa, Johji, Abe, Tatsuo, Suda, Takashi, Nagata, Shigekazu

Fas ligand (FasL) is a 40 kDa type II membrane protein belonging to the tumor necrosis factor family, which induces apoptosis by binding to its receptor, Fas. in this report, we isolated the...

A Three-Dimensional Analysis of Thermohydrodynamic Performance of Sector-Shaped, Tilting-Pad Thrust Bearings (1983)

Kim, Kyung Woong, Tanaka, Masato, Hori, Yukio

The thermohydrodynamic performance of the bearing is analyzed, taking into account the three-dimensional variation of lubricant viscosity and density. The effect of pivot position and operating and...

Heterogeneity of hydroxyproline-containing glycoproteins in protoplasts from a Vinca rosea suspension culture (1979)

Tanaka, Masato, Uchida, Tsuneko

Protoplasts prepared from a Vinca rosea suspension culture regenerated cell walk in culture within 24 hr. Glycoproteins containing hydroxyproline were isolated from the protoplasts prior to...

An auxiliary mode of apoptotic DNA fragmentation provided by phagocytes

McIlroy, Dorian, Tanaka, Masato, Sakahira, Hideki, Fukuyama, Hidehiro, Suzuki, Misao, Yamamura, Ken-ichi, ...

CAD (caspase-activated DNase) can cause DNA fragmentation in apoptotic cells. Transgenic mice that ubiquitously express a caspase-resistant form of the CAD inhibitor (ICAD) were generated. Thymocytes...

An auxiliary mode of apoptotic DNA fragmentation provided by phagocytes

McIlroy, Dorian, Tanaka, Masato, Sakahira, Hideki, Fukuyama, Hidehiro, Suzuki, Misao, Yamamura, Ken-ichi, ...

CAD (caspase-activated DNase) can cause DNA fragmentation in apoptotic cells. Transgenic mice that ubiquitously express a caspase-resistant form of the CAD inhibitor (ICAD) were generated. Thymocytes...

Critical role of macrophages in the marginal zone in the suppression of immune responses to apoptotic cell–associated antigens

Miyake, Yasunobu, Asano, Kenichi, Kaise, Hitomi, Uemura, Miho, Nakayama, Manabu, Tanaka, Masato

Injection of apoptotic cells can induce suppression of immune responses to cell-associated antigens. Here, we show that intravenous injection of apoptotic cells expressing a fragment of myelin...

Multinuclear palladium compounds containing palladium centers ligated by five silicon atoms

Shimada, Shigeru, Li, Yong-Hua, Choe, Yoong-Kee, Tanaka, Masato, Bao, Ming, Uchimaru, Tadafumi

Palladium (Pd) generally prefers low oxidation states. So far, no stable Pd compound with a +5 oxidation state is known. Here, we report two multinuclear Pd compounds containing Pd centers ligated by...

Masking of Phosphatidylserine Inhibits Apoptotic Cell Engulfment and Induces Autoantibody Production in Mice

Asano, Kenichi, Miwa, Miyu, Miwa, Keiko, Hanayama, Rikinari, Nagase, Hiroko, Nagata, Shigekazu, ...

Apoptotic cells are rapidly phagocytosed by professional phagocytes, such as macrophages and dendritic cells. This process prevents the release of potentially noxious or immunogenic intracellular...

Membrane Fas Ligand Kills Human Peripheral Blood T Lymphocytes, and Soluble Fas Ligand Blocks the Killing

Suda, Takashi, Hashimoto, Hideo, Tanaka, Masato, Ochi, Takahiro, Nagata, Shigekazu

It has been believed that the Fas expressed on human peripheral blood T cells (PBT) is nonfunctional, because these cells are insensitive to agonistic anti-Fas/Apo-1 mAbs that efficiently kill in...

SAPHO syndrome with rapidly progressing destructive spondylitis: two cases treated surgically

Takigawa, Tomoyuki, Tanaka, Masato, Nakahara, Shinnosuke, Sugimoto, Yoshihisa, Ozaki, Toshifumi

The authors present two cases of synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome with rapidly progressing destructive spondylitis treated surgically. The spinal lesions in SAPHO...

Spinal cord herniation into pseudomeningocele after traumatic nerve root avulsion: case report and review of the literature

Tanaka, Masato, Ikuma, Hisanori, Nakanishi, Kazuo, Sugimoto, Yoshihisa, Misawa, Haruo, Takigawa, Tomoaki, ...

We present an extremely rare case of traumatic spinal cord herniation due to a brachial plexus avulsion injury and provide a review of the literature of spinal cord herniation. Spinal cord herniation...

SAPHO syndrome associated spondylitis

Takigawa, Tomoyuki, Tanaka, Masato, Nakanishi, Kazuo, Misawa, Haruo, Sugimoto, Yoshihisa, Takahata, Tomohiro, ...

The concept of synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome has been well clarified, after Chamot et al. suggested this peculiar disorder in 1987. The most commonly affected...