Shinya Saito

Specific Removal of Monocytes from Peripheral Blood of Septic Patients by Polymyxin B-immobilized Filter Column (2009)

Nishibori, Masahiro, Takahashi, Hide K., Katayama, Hiroshi, Mori, Shuji, Saito, Shinya, Iwagaki, Hiromi, ...

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the major causes of septic shock. The polymyxin B-immobilized filter column (PMX) was developed for the adsorption of endotoxin by direct hemoperfusion and has been...

Stationary rotating strings as relativistic particle mechanics (2008)

Kouji, Ogawa, Ishihara, Hideki, Kozaki, Horishi, Nakano, Hiroyuki, Saito, Shinya

Also archived in arXiv:0803.4072 v2 Jun 23, 2008. Publisher's version can be found here:...

Preoperative oral administration of pentoxifylline ameliorates respiratory index after cardiopulmonary bypass through decreased production of IL-6 (2008)

Otani, Satoru, Kuinose, Masahiko, Murakami, Takashi, Saito, Shinya, Iwagaki, Hiromi, Tanaka, Noriaki, ...

Activation of inflammatory response during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) may lead to considerable post-operative mortality. Recently, pentoxifylline (PTX), a methylxanthine derivative, has been...

Stationary Rotating Strings as Relativistic Particle Mechanics (2008)

Ogawa, Kouji, Ishihara, Hideki, Kozaki, Hiroshi, Nakano, Hiroyuki, Saito, Shinya

Stationary rotating strings can be viewed as geodesic motions in appropriate metrics on a two-dimensional space. We obtain all solutions describing stationary rotating strings in flat spacetime as an...

Unresponsiveness of antidonor cytotoxic T cells in a long-term stable renal transplant recipient. (2007)

Fujiwara, Takuzo, Sakagami, Kenichi, Saito, Shinya, Uda, Masashi, Orita, Kunzo

The antidonor immune response was examined in a one haplotype-mismatched renal transplant recipient with an allograft that had been well-functioning for more than 10 years. Although the relative...

Cancer cachexia and depressive states: a neuro-endocrine-immunological disease? (2007)

Iwagaki, Hiromi, Hizuta, Akio, Uomoto, Masashi, Takeuchi, Yoshiaki, Saito, Shinya, Tanaka, Noriaki

Plasma 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin), tryptophan, neopterin and cortisol levels were measured in patients with depressive cancer cachexia and in healthy controls during the same time period....

Successful pregnancy in renal transplant recipients. (2007)

Saito, Shinya, Sakagami, Kenichi, Fujiwara, Takuzo, Matsuno, Tsuyoshi, Orita, Kunzo, Hiramatsu, Yuji, ...

Three cases of successful pregnancies in renal transplant recipients who had undergone transplantation in the Okayama University Medical School Hospital are reported. Two of the women had received an...

The impact of triple drug immunosuppression on clinical results of cadaveric kidney transplantation: a comparison of conventional immunosuppression. (2007)

Sakagami, Kenichi, Saito, Shinya, Shiozaki, Shigehiro, Takasu, Shinji, Matsuno, Tsuyoshi, Fujiwara, Takuzo, ...

A retrospective study was carried out in 110 cadaveric kidney transplant recipients to compare the effects of low doses of cyclosporine (CsA), azathioprine (AZP) and steroids (triple-drug therapy)...

Renal transplantation from HLA-haploidentical living-related donors: the effects of donor-specific blood transfusions and different immunosuppressive regimens. (2007)

Sakagami, Kenichi, Saito, Shinya, Shiozaki, Shigehiro, Fujiwara, Takuzo, Haisa, Minoru, Niguma, Takefumi, ...

One-hundred-nine HLA-haploidentical living related renal transplants have been retrospectively analysed to compare the effect of donor-specific blood transfusion (DST) and different immunosuppressive...

Artificial liver support for postoperative hepatic failure with anion exchange resin (BR-601). (2007)

Sakagami, Kenichi, Miyazaki, Masashi, Matsuoka, Junji, Shiozaki, Shigehiro, Saito, Shinya, Orita, Kunzo

An artificial liver support system for plasma exchange and plasma perfusion through BR-601 resin using a membrane separator was applied to 5 patients with postoperative liver failure. Percent...

Can POSSUM, a Scoring System for Perioperative Surgical Risk, Predict Postoperative Clinical Course ? (2007)

Gotohda, Naoto, Iwagaki, Hiromi, Itano, Satoshi, Horiki, Sadayuki, Fujiwara, Toshiya, Saito, Shinya, ...

POSSUM, a Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enUmeration of Mortality and morbidity, is a scoring system which assesses perioperative surgical risks (Copeland GP et al.: Br J Surg,...

Evidence-Based Risk Factors for Seroma Formation in Breast Surgery (2006)

Kuroi, Katsumasa, Shimozuma, Kojiro, Taguchi, Tetsuya, Imai, Hirohisa, Yamashiro, Hiroyasu, Ohsumi, Shozo, ...

Background: Seroma is a common problem in breast surgery. The aim of this systematic review was to identify risk factors for seroma formation. Methods: Articles published in English were obtained...

The role of nucleosome positioning in repression by the yeast {alpha}2/Mcm1p repressor (2002)

Saito, Shinya, Miura, Shigeki, Yamamoto, Yuichi, Shindo, Heisaburo, Shimizu, Mitsuhiro

In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, α2/Mcm1p represses a-cell specific genes. Previous studies indicated that repression by α2/Mcm1p is associated with organization of positioned nucleosomes in...

Effect of Ciprofloxacin-Induced Prostaglandin E2 on Interleukin-18-Treated Monocytes

Takahashi, Hideo Kohka, Iwagaki, Hiromi, Xue, Dong, Katsuno, Goutarou, Sugita, Sachi, Mizuno, Kenji, ...

Ciprofloxacin, a fluorinated 4-quinolone, is useful for the clinical treatment of infections due to its antibacterial properties and also modulates the immune response of monocytes isolated from...

Effect of Ciprofloxacin-Induced Prostaglandin E2 on Interleukin-18-Treated Monocytes

Takahashi, Hideo Kohka, Iwagaki, Hiromi, Xue, Dong, Katsuno, Goutarou, Sugita, Sachi, Mizuno, Kenji, ...

Ciprofloxacin, a fluorinated 4-quinolone, is useful for the clinical treatment of infections due to its antibacterial properties and also modulates the immune response of monocytes isolated from...