AlGaN/GaN HEMTs With Thin InGaN Cap Layer for Normally Off Operation (2007)
Mizutani, T., Ito, M., Kishimoto, S., Nakamura, F.
AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with a thin InGaN cap layer have been proposed to implement the normally off HEMTs. The key idea is to employ the polarization-induced field in the InGaN cap layer, by which the...
Synthesis of carbon nanotube peapods directly on Si substrates (2005)
Ohno, Y., Kurokawa, Y., Kishimoto, S., Mizutani, T., Shimada, T., Ishida, M., ...
Carbon nanotubes encapsulating fullerenes, peapods, have been synthesized directly on Si substrates. High-density and high-quality singe-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were grown on a SiO_2/Si...
Ambipolar field-effect transistor behavior of Gd@C_{82} metallofullerene peapods (2002)
Shimada, T., Okazaki, T., Taniguchi, R., Sugai, T., Shinohara, H., Suenaga, K., ...
Transport properties of C_60 fullerene peapods and Gd@C_82 metallofullerene peapods are investigated by using the field effect in a gated structure. The results show that C_60 peapods exhibit...
Ohno, Y., Asaoka, K., Kishimoto, S., Maezawa, K., Mizutani, T.
The resonant tunneling through single InAs quantum dots embedded in an n-GaAs/i-Al_0.38Ga_0.62As/n-GaAs diode has been studied by using microscopic electrophotoluminescence spectroscopy. Many sharp...
Interlayer Coherence in the $\nu=1$ and $\nu=2$ Bilayer Quantum Hall States (1998)
Sawada, A., Ezawa, Z. F., Ohno, H., Horikoshi, Y., Urayama, A., Ohno, Y., ...
We have measured the Hall-plateau width and the activation energy of the bilayer quantum Hall (BLQH) states at the Landau-level filling factor $\nu=1$ and 2 by tilting the sample and simultaneously...
Phase Transition in \nu=2 Bilayer Quantum Hall State (1998)
Sawada, A., Ezawa, Z. F., Ohno, H., Horikoshi, Y., Ohno, Y., Kishimoto, S., ...
The Hall-plateau width and the activation energy were measured in the bilayer quantum Hall state at filling factor \nu=2, 1 and 2/3, by changing the total electron density and the density ratio in...
Anomalous Stability of nu=1 Bilayer Quantum Hall State (1997)
Sawada, A., Ezawa, Z. F., Ohno, H., Horikoshi, Y., Sugie, O., Kishimoto, S., ...
We have studied the fractional and integer quantum Hall (QH) effects in a high-mobility double-layer two-dimensional electron system. We have compared the "stability" of the QH state in balanced and...
Machida, A, Ohnuma, H, Tsuda, F, Yoshikawa, A, Hoshi, Y, Tanaka, T, ...
The capsid protein of hepatitis B virus (p21c) is made of 183 amino acids coded for by the C gene. By using p21c isolated from Dane particles (hepatitis B virus) as an immunogen, a monoclonal...
Tsuyuguchi, I, Kawasumi, H, Ueta, C, Yano, I, Kishimoto, S
Cord blood T lymphocytes proliferated in vitro in response to mycobacterial organisms but did not proliferate in the presence of tuberculin purified protein derivative. Components recognized by cord...
Tsuyuguchi, I, Kawasumi, H, Takashima, T, Tsuyuguchi, T, Kishimoto, S
Heat-killed whole Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare complex (MAC) and its lipid component impaired the capacity of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to proliferate in vitro in...
Hayashi, S, Masuno, T, Hosoe, S, Kawase, I, Sakatani, M, Ogura, T, ...
C3H/HeN mice subcutaneously injected repeatedly with Nocardia rubra cell wall skeleton (N-CWS) acquired cellular immunity against N-CWS. In these N-CWS-immunized mice, the serum colony-stimulating...
Ueta, C, Tsuyuguchi, I, Kawasumi, H, Takashima, T, Toba, H, Kishimoto, S
gamma/delta T cells are likely to participate in the immune response to tuberculous infection in humans. In this study, we carried out an investigation to characterize the responsiveness of...
Tanaka, T, Saiki, O, Doi, S, Suemura, M, Negoro, S, Kishimoto, S
Expressions and functional roles of novel IL-2 binding molecules (p70, 75) in the differentiation of B cells into Ig secreting cells were explored by using human several B cell lines and tonsillar B...
Production of tumor necrosis factor alpha by monocytes from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
Takashima, T, Ueta, C, Tsuyuguchi, I, Kishimoto, S
We studied the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) by peripheral blood monocytes taken from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and from healthy controls. It was found that the...
Bile acid synthesis by long-term cultured cell line established from human hepatoblastoma.
Amuro, Y, Tanaka, M, Higashino, K, Hayashi, E, Endo, T, Kishimoto, S, ...
Bile acids in the spent medium for the cell culture were analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography and gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to determine whether human hepatoblastoma cell line...
Saiki, O, Saeki, Y, Kishimoto, S
In an analysis of lymphocyte functions of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, B cell abnormalities such as a lack of mitogen-responsive B cells and a predominance of spontaneous...
The expression of c-sis proto-oncogene in bronchoalveolar mononuclear cells was studied in seven patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis. By means of nuclear run on transcription assay, the...
Izumi, T, Kishimoto, S, Takano, T, Nakamura, M, Miyabe, Y, Nakata, M, ...
Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is a potent lipid mediator of allergic inflammation through its interaction with eosinophils. Expression of the PAF receptor is modulated by many agents, including...
Machida, A, Ohnuma, H, Tsuda, F, Yoshikawa, A, Hoshi, Y, Tanaka, T, ...
The capsid protein of hepatitis B virus (p21c) is made of 183 amino acids coded for by the C gene. By using p21c isolated from Dane particles (hepatitis B virus) as an immunogen, a monoclonal...
Tsuyuguchi, I, Kawasumi, H, Ueta, C, Yano, I, Kishimoto, S
Cord blood T lymphocytes proliferated in vitro in response to mycobacterial organisms but did not proliferate in the presence of tuberculin purified protein derivative. Components recognized by cord...
Tsuyuguchi, I, Kawasumi, H, Takashima, T, Tsuyuguchi, T, Kishimoto, S
Heat-killed whole Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare complex (MAC) and its lipid component impaired the capacity of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells to proliferate in vitro in...
Hayashi, S, Masuno, T, Hosoe, S, Kawase, I, Sakatani, M, Ogura, T, ...
C3H/HeN mice subcutaneously injected repeatedly with Nocardia rubra cell wall skeleton (N-CWS) acquired cellular immunity against N-CWS. In these N-CWS-immunized mice, the serum colony-stimulating...
Ueta, C, Tsuyuguchi, I, Kawasumi, H, Takashima, T, Toba, H, Kishimoto, S
gamma/delta T cells are likely to participate in the immune response to tuberculous infection in humans. In this study, we carried out an investigation to characterize the responsiveness of...
Tanaka, T, Saiki, O, Doi, S, Suemura, M, Negoro, S, Kishimoto, S
Expressions and functional roles of novel IL-2 binding molecules (p70, 75) in the differentiation of B cells into Ig secreting cells were explored by using human several B cell lines and tonsillar B...
Production of tumor necrosis factor alpha by monocytes from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
Takashima, T, Ueta, C, Tsuyuguchi, I, Kishimoto, S
We studied the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) by peripheral blood monocytes taken from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and from healthy controls. It was found that the...
Bile acid synthesis by long-term cultured cell line established from human hepatoblastoma.
Amuro, Y, Tanaka, M, Higashino, K, Hayashi, E, Endo, T, Kishimoto, S, ...
Bile acids in the spent medium for the cell culture were analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography and gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to determine whether human hepatoblastoma cell line...
Saiki, O, Saeki, Y, Kishimoto, S
In an analysis of lymphocyte functions of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, B cell abnormalities such as a lack of mitogen-responsive B cells and a predominance of spontaneous...
The expression of c-sis proto-oncogene in bronchoalveolar mononuclear cells was studied in seven patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis. By means of nuclear run on transcription assay, the...
Izumi, T, Kishimoto, S, Takano, T, Nakamura, M, Miyabe, Y, Nakata, M, ...
Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is a potent lipid mediator of allergic inflammation through its interaction with eosinophils. Expression of the PAF receptor is modulated by many agents, including...
Minami, Y, Sakato, N, Komori, T, Kishimoto, S, Sugiyama, H
To raise monoclonal antibodies that specifically recognize the heavy chain variable region of MOPC141 myeloma protein (VH141), which belongs to VHQ52 family, rats were immunized with Fd'-conjugated...
Release of a suppressor cell-inducing factor by monocytes from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
Fujiwara, H, Ohnishi, K, Kishimoto, S, Ellner, J J, Tsuyuguchi, I
We observed that blood monocytes from tuberculous patients secreted a factor which induced suppressor cells. Monocyte-enriched adherent cells were prepared from peripheral blood mononuclear cells...
Sugiyama, H, Minami, Y, Komori, T, Sakato, N, Kishimoto, S
We raised anti-VH315 antibodies by immunization of rabbits with VH315 fragments, the variable portions of the immunoglobulin heavy chains of MOPC315 myeloma protein. Inhibition radioimmunoassay using...
Igarashi, T, Okada, M, Kishimoto, S, Yamamura, Y
The relationship between T cells involved in cell-mediated immunity and antibody response of C57Bl/6J mice towards DBA/2 mastocytoma cells was investigated. Spleen cells primed with viable...
Negoro, S, Takashima, T, Toba, H, Kishimoto, S
Female F1 mice (BDF1: C57BL/6 x DBA/2, BCF1: C57BL/6 x C3H/HeN, BBF1: C57BL/6 x BALB/c) were preimmunized with rat erythrocytes and then received splenic T cells from parental female C57BL/6 mice...
Suppressors for both delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) and the humoral immune response could be simultaneously induced in the spleens of mice by immunization with a high dose of SRBC. Normal...
The spontaneous increase in the transcription of the heat shock protein (hsp 70) gene in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is shown by...
Elevated transcription of heat shock protein gene in scleroderma fibroblasts.
Deguchi, Y, Shibata, N, Kishimoto, S
Scleroderma is a systemic disorder characterized by fibrosis, which affects skin, lung, kidney and other organs. Heat shock protein (hsp) (70 kD) has been implicated as an essential element of cell...
Deguchi, Y, Shibata, N, Kishimoto, S
The expression of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) gene in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with systemic vasculitis, periarteritis nodosa and Wegener's granulomatosis, has...
The role of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in the development of autoimmune pulmonary inflammation has been investigated in lupus-prone mice. An increase in TNF-alpha mRNA level from whole...
Decreased suppressor T cell activity in patients with hepatic cirrhosis (HC).
Tomino, S, Fujiwara, H, Kagimoto, T, Mitsuya, H, Nishimura, H, Kishimoto, S
Hypergammaglobulinaemia (HGG) is frequently found in patients with hepatic cirrhosis (HC). Using an assay system of in vitro PWM-stimulated immunoglobulin (Ig) production, the amounts of IgG, IgA,...
Deguchi, Y, Negoro, S, Kishimoto, S
This study examined the phosphorylation of cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. The cytoplasmic and nuclear...
Deguchi, Y, Negoro, S, Hosokawa, T, Kishimoto, S
We characterized the nuclear proteins with specific binding ability against c-myc gene by gel-shift assay in cell extracts of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from SLE patients and SLE-prone...
Baba, K, Ise, I, Aihara, S, Kishimoto, S, Tsuda, F, Tachibana, K, ...
Serum samples containing hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) were subjected to electrophoresis in agarose, and fast-migrating 'small' HBeAg and slow-migrating 'large' IgG-associated HBeAg were pooled...
Kishimoto, S., Tsuyuguchi, I., Yamamura, Yuichi
In the C57BL strain of mice an immune response to sheep red cells was markedly reduced, whereas the response to a bacterial α-amylase was not changed with ageing. This reduction in an immune...
The depressed immune response to sheep erythrocytes in young syngeneic irradiated recipients, adoptively restored with splenic cells from old donor mice, was used as an index of the changes in the...
The role of interleukin-16 in murine contact hypersensitivity
Masuda, K, Katoh, N, Soga, F, Kishimoto, S
Contact hypersensitivity (CHS) is a T-cell-mediated skin inflammatory response. It is controversial whether CD4+ T cells play an enhancing or regulatory role in the pathogenesis of CHS. Because...
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...
Effect of serotonin on the differentiation of human monocytes into dendritic cells
Katoh, N, Soga, F, Nara, T, Tamagawa-Mineoka, R, Nin, M, Kotani, H, ...
The local cytokine environment and presence of stimulatory signals determine whether monocytes acquire dendritic cell (DC) or macrophage characteristics and functions. Because enhanced platelet...