Yoshioka, T, Miyamoto, M, Cho, Y, Ishikawa, K, Tsuchikawa, T, Kadoya, M, ...
CD4/8 status has been previously reported to be a critical factor in the prognosis of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). In the current study, we investigated the effect of regulatory T...
This paper will be divided into four main sections. The first section will briefly describe the Populist/People's Party. The second section presents some empirical predictions for policy...
Evaluation of Gigabit Ethernet with Java/HORB (2007)
Y. Yasuy, H. Fujii, Y. Igarashi, E. Inoue, H. Kodama, A. Manabe, ...
. Wehaveevaluated a high speed network, Gigabit Ethernet(GbE), with Java/HORB, which means Java and Java-based Distributed Object Technology(DOT). Next generation of data acquisition(DAQ) needs high...
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
Hyaline vascular-type Castleman's disease in the hepatoduodenal ligament : Report of a case (2006)
Sato, N, Kondo, S, Saito, K, Hirano, S, Hara, T, Tanaka, E, ...
Castleman's disease is an uncommon lymphoproliferative disorder, which occurs most commonly in the mediastinum. Sporadic reports of its occurrence in the hepatoduodenal ligament and other...
Hyaline vascular-type Castleman's disease in the hepatoduodenal ligament: Report of a case (2006)
Sato, N, Kondo, S, Saito, K, Hirano, S, Hara, T, Tanaka, E, ...
Castleman's disease is an uncommon lymphoproliferative disorder, which occurs most commonly in the mediastinum. Sporadic reports of its occurrence in the hepatoduodenal ligament and other...
Hyaline vascular-type Castleman's disease in the hepatoduodenal ligament: Report of a case (2006)
Sato, N, Kondo, S, Saito, K, Hirano, S, Hara, T, Tanaka, E, ...
Castleman's disease is an uncommon lymphoproliferative disorder, which occurs most commonly in the mediastinum. Sporadic reports of its occurrence in the hepatoduodenal ligament and other...
Accumulation and toxicity of monophenyl arsenicals in rat endothelial cells (2005)
Hirano, S., Kobayashi, Y., Hayakawa, T., Cui, X., Yamamoto, M., Kanno, S., ...
Clark 1 (diphenylarsine chloride) and Clark 2 ( diphenylarsine cyanide) were used as chemical weapon agents (CWA), and the soil contamination by these CWA and their degraded products, diphenyl and...
Accumulation and toxicity of monophenyl arsenicals in rat endothelial cells (2005)
Hirano, S., Kobayashi, Y., Hayakawa, T., Cui, X., Yamamoto, M., Kanno, S., ...
Clark 1 (diphenylarsine chloride) and Clark 2 ( diphenylarsine cyanide) were used as chemical weapon agents (CWA), and the soil contamination by these CWA and their degraded products, diphenyl and...
Kondo, S., Hirano, S., Ambo, Y., Tanaka, E., Kubota, T., Katoh, H.
Background: Portal vein and hepatic artery resection and reconstruction may be required in radical surgery for biliary cancer. Microvascular reconstruction requires special equipment and training,...
Kondo, S., Hirano, S., Ambo, Y., Tanaka, E., Kubota, T., Katoh, H.
Background: Portal vein and hepatic artery resection and reconstruction may be required in radical surgery for biliary cancer. Microvascular reconstruction requires special equipment and training,...
Kondo, S., Hirano, S., Ambo, Y., Tanaka, E., Kubota, T., Katoh, H.
Background: Portal vein and hepatic artery resection and reconstruction may be required in radical surgery for biliary cancer. Microvascular reconstruction requires special equipment and training,...
Hirano, S., Rees, Riley S., Yancy, S.L., Welsh, M.J., Remick, Daniel G., Yamada, T., ...
Lung edema during sepsis is triggered by formation of gaps between endothelial cells followed by macrophage infiltration. Endothelial gap formation has been proposed to involve changes in the...
Cui, X., Li, S., Shraim, A., Kobayashi, Y., Hayakawa, T., Kanno, S., ...
Although arsenic exposure causes liver disease and/or hepatoma, little is known about molecular mechanisms of arsenic-induced liver toxicity or carcinogenesis. We investigated the effects of arsenic...
Kondo, S., Katoh, H., Hirano, S., Ambo, Y., Tanaka, E., Okushiba, S.
Background: Hepatobiliary cancer invading the hilar bile duct often involves the portal bifurcation. Portal vein resection and reconstruction is usually performed after completion of the hepatectomy....
Kondo, S., Katoh, H., Hirano, S., Ambo, Y., Tanaka, E., Okushiba, S.
Background:
Kondo, S., Katoh, H., Hirano, S., Ambo, Y., Tanaka, E., Okushiba, S.
Background:
Shraim, A, Cui, X, Li, S, Ng, JC, Wang, HP, Jin, YL, ...
The extent of exposure of residents of Changqing (Guizhou, PR China) to arsenic through coal-burning was investigated. Despite the low coal-arsenic content (56.3 +/- 42.5 mg As kg(-1)) when compared...
Shraim, A, Cui, X, Li, S, Ng, JC, Wang, HP, Jin, YL, ...
The extent of exposure of residents of Changqing (Guizhou, PR China) to arsenic through coal-burning was investigated. Despite the low coal-arsenic content (56.3 +/- 42.5 mg As kg(-1)) when compared...
Kawamura, H., Hirano, S., Nishimuta, M.
Ingestion and excretion of environmental 99Tc was measured in an adult male who ingested 'hijiki' food in his diet that contained a sub-bequerel activity per kg, and which was prepared from a marine...
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...
Thermal and rotational responses of a neutron star to the glitch and frictional instabilities (1999)
Tachyon Condensation and Graviton Production in Matrix Theory (1999)
Awata, H., Hirano, S., Hyakutake, Y.
We study a membrane -- anti-membrane system in Matrix theory. It in fact exhibits the tachyon instability. By suitably representing this configuration, we obtain a (2+1)-dimensional U(2) gauge theory...
Evaluation of Gigabit Ethernet with Java/HORB (1999)
Yasu, Y, Fujii, H, Igarashi, Y, Inoue, E, Kodama, H, Manabe, A, ...
Extra Low Carbon Age-Hardenable Alloys for Tubular Application in Oil and Gas Industry. (1998)
Hirano, S., Yamamoto, E., Okamoto, H., Oka, Y., Igarashi, M.
This paper concerned metals in some important way and contained information about, utilized, or discussed these subjects: basic topics: experimental materials and material types:...
Spraying of TiN by a Combined Laser and Low Pressure Plasma Spray System. (1998)
Ohmori, A., Hirano, S., Kamada, K.
An examination was done on the formation of tin-ti composite coating by thermal spraying of ti powder with laser processing of the subsequent coating in a low pressure n(sub 2) atmosphere. a thermal...
Sol-Gel Processing of Pb(Mg,Nb)O3 Dielectrics. (1998)
Kikuta, K., Sakamoto, W., Hirano, S.
Perovskite Pb(Mg,Nb)O3(PMN) sintered bodies could be prepared without using the Columbite method by controlling the reactivity of the nutrient powders and the amount of excess PbO in order to...
Formation of Plate-Like Lanthanum-Beta-Aluminate Crystal in Ce-TZP Matrix. (1998)
Miura, M., Hongoh, H., Yogo, T., Hirano, S., Fujii, T.
The reaction route and morphology of lanthanum-beta-aluminate (LBA) crystals formed in Ce-TZP matrix were studied by examining the crystal phase changes and the microstructures in relation to the...
To establish normal values for flash visual evoked potentials (VEPs) in the preterm period, we analyzed 356 records from 63 neurologically normal infants (26-35 weeks gestation) followed...
Cyclic variation pattern of cerebral blood flow velocity and postconceptional age (1994)
Zernikow, B, Steck, J, Kohlmann, G, Von Siebenthal, K, Hirano, S, ...
In preterm neonates, the risk for intracerebral haemorrhage is linked to immaturity of cerebral autoregulation. The preterm's 2-5/min cyclic variation pattern of cerebral blood flow velocity is...
Exact Operator Quantization of a Model of Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity (1993)
Hirano, S., Kazama, Y., Satoh, Y.
Exact operator quantization is perfomed of a model of two-dimensional dilaton gravity in Lorentzian spacetime, classically equivalent to the one proposed by Callan, Giddings, Harvey and Strominger,...
THE EFFECT OF GRAIN BOUNDARY PRECIPITATION ON THE SUPERPLASTICITY OF Al-Li ALLOYS (1987)
Yoshida, H., Hirano, S., Baba, Y., Tsuzuku, T., Takahashi, A.
The conditions of thermomechanical treatment to obtain superplasticity at high strain rate,~ 10-3 s-1 in 8090 ( Al-Li-Cu-Mg-Zr) and 2090 (Al-Li-Cu-Zr) alloys were investigated and the mechanism of...
THE EFFECT OF GRAIN BOUNDARY PRECIPITATION ON THE SUPERPLASTICITY OF Al-Li ALLOYS (1987)
Yoshida, H., Hirano, S., Baba, Y., Tsuzuku, T., Takahashi, A.
The conditions of thermomechanical treatment to obtain superplasticity at high strain rate,~ 10-3 s-1 in 8090 ( Al-Li-Cu-Mg-Zr) and 2090 (Al-Li-Cu-Zr) alloys were investigated and the mechanism of...
THE EFFECT OF GRAIN BOUNDARY PRECIPITATION ON THE SUPERPLASTICITY OF Al-Li ALLOYS (1987)
Yoshida, H., Hirano, S., Baba, Y., Tsuzuku, T., Takahashi, A.
The conditions of thermomechanical treatment to obtain superplasticity at high strain rate,~ 10-3 s-1 in 8090 ( Al-Li-Cu-Mg-Zr) and 2090 (Al-Li-Cu-Zr) alloys were investigated and the mechanism of...
Pharmacokinetics of cefotetan in normal subjects and patients with impaired renal function.
Ohkawa, M, Hirano, S, Tokunaga, S, Motoi, I, Shoda, R, Ikeda, A, ...
The elimination kinetics of cefotetan (YM09330), a new parenteral semisynthetic cephamycin derivative, were studied in eight healthy volunteers and 41 patients with renal insufficiency after the...
Masuda, N, Oda, H, Hirano, S, Masuda, M, Tanaka, H
7 alpha-Dehydroxylation of cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid by whole cells of strain c-25, a Eubacterium lentum-like intestinal anaerobe, was studied. 7 alpha-Dehydroxylase activity was observed...
Hirano, S, Nakama, R, Tamaki, M, Masuda, N, Oda, H
Thirteen anaerobic bacteria capable of performing the 7 alpha-dehydroxylation of both cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid were isolated from human feces and also from sewage. Ten organisms from...
Transformation of bile acids by Clostridium perfringens.
Hirano, S, Masuda, N, Oda, H, Mukai, H
Thirty-five strains of Clostridium perfringens were examined for their ability to transform bile acids, both in growing cultures and by washed whole cells. All of the strains oxidized the 3...
Transformation of bile acids by Eubacterium lentum.
A group of fecal isolates identified as Eubacterium lentum elaborated 3 alpha-, 7 alpha-, and 12 alpha-dehydrogenases and also an epimerizing enzyme(s) for the 3 alpha-hydroxy group. The activities...
Peptostreptococcus productus strain b-52 (a human fecal isolate) and Eubacterium aerofaciens ATCC 25986 were found to contain NADP-dependent 7 beta-hydroxysteriod dehydrogenase activity. The enzyme...
Exposure, metabolism, and toxicity of rare earths and related compounds.
For the past three decades, most attention in heavy metal toxicology has been paid to cadmium, mercury, lead, chromium, nickel, vanadium, and tin because these metals widely polluted the environment....
Pharmacokinetics of cefotetan in normal subjects and patients with impaired renal function.
Ohkawa, M, Hirano, S, Tokunaga, S, Motoi, I, Shoda, R, Ikeda, A, ...
The elimination kinetics of cefotetan (YM09330), a new parenteral semisynthetic cephamycin derivative, were studied in eight healthy volunteers and 41 patients with renal insufficiency after the...
Masuda, N, Oda, H, Hirano, S, Masuda, M, Tanaka, H
7 alpha-Dehydroxylation of cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid by whole cells of strain c-25, a Eubacterium lentum-like intestinal anaerobe, was studied. 7 alpha-Dehydroxylase activity was observed...
Hirano, S, Nakama, R, Tamaki, M, Masuda, N, Oda, H
Thirteen anaerobic bacteria capable of performing the 7 alpha-dehydroxylation of both cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid were isolated from human feces and also from sewage. Ten organisms from...
Transformation of bile acids by Clostridium perfringens.
Hirano, S, Masuda, N, Oda, H, Mukai, H
Thirty-five strains of Clostridium perfringens were examined for their ability to transform bile acids, both in growing cultures and by washed whole cells. All of the strains oxidized the 3...
Transformation of bile acids by Eubacterium lentum.
A group of fecal isolates identified as Eubacterium lentum elaborated 3 alpha-, 7 alpha-, and 12 alpha-dehydrogenases and also an epimerizing enzyme(s) for the 3 alpha-hydroxy group. The activities...
Peptostreptococcus productus strain b-52 (a human fecal isolate) and Eubacterium aerofaciens ATCC 25986 were found to contain NADP-dependent 7 beta-hydroxysteriod dehydrogenase activity. The enzyme...
Exposure, metabolism, and toxicity of rare earths and related compounds.
For the past three decades, most attention in heavy metal toxicology has been paid to cadmium, mercury, lead, chromium, nickel, vanadium, and tin because these metals widely polluted the environment....
It is known that murine macrophages produce nitric oxide (NO) when stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), and NO mediates the tumoricidal activity of activated...
KATOH, N, HIRANO, S, KISHIMOTO, S, YASUNO, H
Since Langerhans cells (LC) are the principal antigen-presenting cells among epidermal cells, treatments suppressing LC function may inhibit CHR. Although calcium channel blockers (CCB) have been...
Soluble CD30 is more relevant to disease activity of atopic dermatitis than soluble CD26
Katoh, N, Hirano, S, Suehiro, M, Ikenaga, K, Yamashita, T, Sugawara, N, ...
It is suggested that CD30 and CD26 are surface molecules expressed on activated Th2 and Th1 cells, respectively. We examined plasma levels of soluble CD26 (sCD26) and sCD30 in patients with atopic...
KATOH, N, HIRANO, S, SUEHIRO, M, IKENAGA, K, YASUNO, H
Matrix metalloproteinases and their specific inhibitors, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs), contribute to inflammation-induced tissue destruction and subsequent remodeling for...
Adhesion is associated with tyrosine phosphorylation in many types of cells. Although macrophages are known to adhere and phagocytose foreign particles, the signal transduction pathway of macrophages...
Morphoregulatory activities of E-cadherin and beta-1 integrins in colorectal tumour cells.
Pignatelli, M., Liu, D., Nasim, M. M., Stamp, G. W., Hirano, S., Takeichi, M.
The cadherin family of adhesion molecules are prime mediators of cell-cell interactions while the integrins predominantly mediate cell-matrix and to a lesser extent cell-cell binding specificity. We...
Altered expression of E-cadherin in gastric cancer tissues and carcinomatous fluid.
Matsuura, K., Kawanishi, J., Fujii, S., Imamura, M., Hirano, S., Takeichi, M., ...
Expression of E-cadherin in 21 patients with various histological types of gastric carcinomas was studied by immunoperoxidase staining. Intercellular boundaries of almost all cancer cells in well and...
Okada, M., Kudo, S., Miyazaki, O., Saino, T., Ekimoto, H., Iguchi, H., ...
To improve the efficiency of hepatic intra-arterial (h.i.a.) chemotherapy, we selected pirarubicin (THP) because it shows good properties for h.i.a. chemotherapy, such as fast and efficient cellular...
Yoshioka, T, Miyamoto, M, Cho, Y, Ishikawa, K, Tsuchikawa, T, Kadoya, M, ...
CD4/8 status has been previously reported to be a critical factor in the prognosis of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). In the current study, we investigated the effect of regulatory T...