Krisztina Gerő, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi,
... study examined survey data from 3594 residents of Iwanuma City, Japan, aged 65 years or older. Data were obtained from the Iwanuma Study—part of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, ... 2010—approximately 7 months before the disaster. All Iwanuma City residents age 65 years or older (8576 ... 9, 2020. Exposures The number of temporarily relocated Iwanuma City survivors within 100 m and 250 m ... SD] age, 76.5 [6.2] years) of Iwanuma City included in the analytic sample, multivariable-adjusted ...
Tópico(s): Disaster Management and Resilience
2020 - American Medical Association | JAMA Network Open
... was extracted from Kodonbaru and Kuriyagawa surface soils, Iwanuma peat, and straw with 0.1 M Na4P2O7- ... humification progressed, and increased in the order: Straw<Iwanuma<Kuriyagawa<Kodonbaru. An equilibrium of cation exchange for ...
Tópico(s): Clay minerals and soil interactions
1975 - Taylor & Francis | Soil Science & Plant Nutrition
... Great East Japan Earthquake. The author focuses on Iwanuma, a city in Miyagi Prefecture in which community- ...
Tópico(s): Disaster Management and Resilience
2015 - Fuji Technology Press Ltd. | Journal of Disaster Research
Toru Tsuboya, Jun Aida, Hiroyuki Hikichi, S. V. Subramanian, Katsunori Kondo, Ken Osaka, Ichiro Kawachi,
... conducted in 2013. This study was conducted in Iwanuma, which was directly struck by tsunami. Our sample comprised community-dwelling aged survivors in Iwanuma who responded to questions about personal circumstances and ...
Tópico(s): Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
2017 - Elsevier BV | Social Science & Medicine
Xiaoyu Li, Jun Aida, Hiroyuki Hikichi, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi,
... data were retrieved from older Japanese adults in Iwanuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, which was directly affected by ... to every citizen 65 years or older in Iwanuma City. Mortality data were obtained through March 4, ...
Tópico(s): Disaster Response and Management
2019 - American Medical Association | JAMA Network Open
Shiho Kino, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi,
... from 2781 participants in 3 waves of the Iwanuma Study (2010, 2013, and 2016), a cohort of ... older adults (≥65 years in August 2010) in Iwanuma, Japan, who were directly affected by the 2011 ...
Tópico(s): Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
2020 - American Medical Association | JAMA Network Open
Yuri Sasaki, Taishi Tsuji, Shihoko Koyama, Yukako Tani, Tami Saito, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi, Jun Aida,
... were 3567 individuals aged ≥65 years living in Iwanuma city who had responded to questionnaires by the ...
Tópico(s): Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Kentaro Imai, Kenji Harada, Osamu Watanabe, Takuji ESASHI, Naoki SHIMANUKI, Tomonori Yagi, Fumihiko Imamura,
... and effect of coastal forest. In this study, Iwanuma-Natori coast in Sendai Bay was selected as ...
Tópico(s): Earthquake and Tsunami Effects
2009 - | Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B2 (Coastal Engineering)
Shiho Kino, Jun Aida, Katsunori Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi,
... were directly affected by the 2011 disaster (the Iwanuma Study) and municipalities that were not directly affected (the JAGES parent cohort excluding Iwanuma city). The Iwanuma Study gathered pre-disaster information from participants in ... change in health disparities in the "exposed" city (Iwanuma) compared to "control" cities. We found clear pre- ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change and Health Impacts
2023 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
... induced by isometric plantar flexion at different intensitiesSoichiro Iwanuma, Ryota Akagi, Toshiyuki Kurihara, Shigeki Ikegawa, Hiroaki Kanehisa, ...
Tópico(s): Sports Performance and Training
1967 - American Physiological Society | American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content
Noritaka Sakai, Yoshiaki Kajiyama, Yoshimi Iwanuma, N. Tomita, Takayuki Amano, Fuyumi Isayama, Kazutomo Ouchi, Masahiko Tsurumaru,
Squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus (ESCC) has a poor prognosis among digestive tract cancers. Lymph node metastasis and distant metastasis are the major factors determining its prognosis. We used comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to evaluate primary tumor lymph nodes and metastatic areas from ESCC patients in order to determine the relationship between abnormal chromosome regions and outcome. Tumor tissues and lymph nodes were collected from 51 patients with ESCC, and abnormal chromosome ...
Tópico(s): Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
2009 - Oxford University Press | Diseases of the Esophagus
Shinichi Abe, Sunki Rhee, Osamu Iwanuma, Emi Hiroki, Nobuaki Yanagisawa, Kazuo Sakiyama, Yoshinobu Ide,
We examined expression of four important members of myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs) in the myoblasts both at mRNA and protein levels, which were subjected to mechanical stretching in in vitro condition. Our results showed that MyoD expression existed both in the stretch and in the control group at all time periods of the mechanical stimulus. Myf-5 expressed only at early stage of the stretch group. Although mRNA and protein expressions of myogenin and MRF4 were detected both in the stretch and ...
Tópico(s): Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
2009 - Wiley | Anatomia Histologia Embryologia
Shinichi Abe, Masakazu Soejima, Osamu Iwanuma, Hideki Saka, Satoru Matsunaga, Koji Sakiyama, Yoshinobu Ide,
Follistatin is a functional antagonist of several members of the TGF-β family of secreted signaling factors, including myostatin, the most powerful inhibitor of muscle growth characterized to date. Myostatin inhibition offers a novel therapeutic strategy for muscular dystrophy by restoring skeletal muscle mass and suppressing the progression of muscle degeneration. To assess the potential benefits of follistatin in treating muscle degenerative diseases, we examined the expression of myostatin and ...
Tópico(s): Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
2009 - Zoological Society of Japan | ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE
In this paper, we study minimal and/or conditional answer computing and its related problems. At first, we study some features of minimal answers, and show a non-finiteness property of minimal answers with no function symbols. Next, we show that SOL, which is a modelelimination- like calculus extended with Skip operation, is complete for computing not only correct answers, but also minimal answers. Unfortunately, SOL sometimes produces non-minimal answers. Thus, we next investigate another computational ...
Tópico(s): Semantic Web and Ontologies
2002 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Hidetomo Nabeshima, Koji Iwanuma, Katsumi Inoue,
SOLAR is an efficient first-order consequence finding system based on a connection tableau format with Skip operation. Consequence finding 1,2,3,4 is a generalization of refutation finding or theorem proving, and is useful for many reasoning tasks such as knowledge compilation, inductive logic programming, abduction. One of the most significant calculus of consequence finding is SOL 2. SOL is complete for consequence finding and can find all minimal-length consequences with respect to subsumption. ...
Tópico(s): Semantic Web and Ontologies
2003 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
Hidetomo Nabeshima, Koji Iwanuma, Katsumi Inoue, Oliver Ray,
SOLAR (SOL for Advanced Reasoning) is a first-order clausal consequence finding system based on the SOL (Skip Ordered Linear) tableau calculus. The ability to find non-trivial consequences of an axiom set is useful in many applications of Artificial Intelligence such as theorem proving, query answering and nonmonotonic reasoning. SOL is a connection tableau calculus which is complete for finding the non-subsumed consequences of a clausal theory. SOLAR is an efficient implementation of SOL that employs ...
Tópico(s): Logic, programming, and type systems
2010 - IOS Press | AI Communications
Atsuro Honda, Shinichi Abe, Emi Hiroki, Hideo Honda, Osamu Iwanuma, Nobuaki Yanagisawa, Yoshinobu Ide,
The mdx mouse, a model of muscular dystrophy, lacks dystrophin, a cell membrane protein. It is known that the lack of dystrophin causes muscle fiber necrosis from 2 weeks after birth, and the majority of necrotic muscle fibers are replaced by regenerated muscle fibers by 4 weeks after birth. A recent study indicated the possibility that mitochondria-mediated intracellular stress, a phenomenon similar to apoptosis, may be produced during muscle fiber necrosis, but did not analyze endoplasmic reticulum- ...
Tópico(s): Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
2007 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
Emi Hiroki, Shinichi Abe, Osamu Iwanuma, Koji Sakiyama, Nobuaki Yanagisawa, Kazunari Shiozaki, Yoshinobu Ide,
Tópico(s): Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Anatomical Science International
... damaged by the earthquake are Iwaki, Minamisohma, Sohma, Iwanuma, Natori, Sendai, Higashiatsushima, Ishinomaki, Kesennuma, Rikuzentakada, Ofunato, Kamaishi, ...
Tópico(s): Disaster Response and Management
2011 - Wiley | Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Soichiro Iwanuma, Ryota Akagi, Satoru Hashizume, Hiroaki Kanehisa, Toshimasa Yanai, Yasuo Kawakami,
The purpose of this study was to clarify how foot deformation affects the relationship between triceps surae muscle–tendon unit (MTU) length and ankle joint angle. For six women and six men a series of sagittal magnetic resonance (MR) images of the right foot were taken, and changes in MTU length (the displacement of the calcaneal tuberosity), foot arch angle, and ankle joint angle were measured. In the passive session, each subject's ankle joint was secured at 10° dorsiflexed position, neutral position ( ...
Tópico(s): Tendon Structure and Treatment
2011 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Biomechanics
Soichiro Iwanuma, Ryota Akagi, Toshiyuki Kurihara, Shigeki Ikegawa, Hiroaki Kanehisa, Tetsuo Fukunaga, Yasuo Kawakami,
The present study determined in vivo deformation of the entire Achilles tendon in the longitudinal and transverse directions during isometric plantar flexions. Twelve young women and men performed isometric plantar flexions at 0% (rest), 30%, and 60% of the maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) while a series of oblique longitudinal and cross-sectional magnetic resonance (MR) images of the Achilles tendon were taken. At the distal end of the soleus muscle belly, the Achilles tendon was divided into the ...
Tópico(s): Muscle activation and electromyography studies
2011 - American Physiological Society | Journal of Applied Physiology
Yoshimi Iwanuma, Natsumi Tomita, Takayuki Amano, Fuyumi Isayama, Masahiko Tsurumaru, Takuo Hayashi, Yoshiaki Kajiyama,
Tópico(s): Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Gastroenterology
Satoru Hashizume, Soichiro Iwanuma, Ryota Akagi, Hiroaki Kanehisa, Yasuo Kawakami, Toshimasa Yanai,
Two-dimensional methods have been applied to determine the Achilles tendon moment arm in previous studies, although the talocrural joint rotates in three-dimension. The purpose of this study was to develop a method for determining the Achilles tendon moment arm in three-dimensions (3DMA). A series of sagittal ankle images were obtained at ankle positions of −20°, −10° (dorsiflexed position), 0° (neutral position), +10°, +20°, and +30° (plantarflexed position). The talocrural joint axis was determined as ...
Tópico(s): Muscle activation and electromyography studies
2011 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Biomechanics
Yoshiaki Kajiyama, Yoshimi Iwanuma, Natsumi Tomita, Takayuki Amano, Fuyumi Isayama, Toshiharu Matsumoto, Masahiko Tsurumaru,
Tópico(s): Esophageal and GI Pathology
2006 - Springer Science+Business Media | Esophagus
Kentaro P. Suzuki, Shinichi Abe, Hyung Jun Kim, Atsushi Usami, Osamu Iwanuma, Hiroyuki Okubo, Yoshinobu Ide,
Summary To clarify changes in the muscle fibre properties of the temporal muscle related to the start of masticatory movement, we immunohistochemically investigated myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoform protein expression using pre‐weaning and post‐weaning mice. In addition, we examined the expression of a gene coding for those MyHC proteins. Immediately after weaning, isoforms with fast and potent contractility were frequent. This suggests that the temporal muscle plays an important role in a marked ...
Tópico(s): Connective tissue disorders research
2006 - Wiley | Anatomia Histologia Embryologia
Nejat K. Egilmez, Yoshimi Iwanuma, Richard B. Bankert,
Five commonly used cationic liposome formulations were tested for their ability to deliver DNA to established subcutaneous human tumor xenografts in SCID mice. Liposomes were complexed with a mammalian expression plasmid containing the bacterial β-galactosidase gene and delivered to tumors by direct injection. The optimal lipid to DNA ratiosin vivowere markedly different than those observedin vitrofor each liposome formulation. Tumor size at the time of inoculation also effected transfection efficiency ...
Tópico(s): Virus-based gene therapy research
1996 - Elsevier BV | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Kiyosi Kuribayashi, Yoshito Fujita, Hideyuki Isige, Takaya Iwanuma,
Abstract Pt–Ir and their oxides mixture thin films were prepared on Si(1 0 0) substrates at temperatures 500 and 600 °C by reactive rf magnetron sputtering with Pt–20 mass% Ir target and Ir chips set on the target. X-ray fluorescence analysis revealed that deposited films had a composition from Pt–20 mass% Ir to Pt–60 mass% Ir. Further Increase in Ir contents in the films resulted in a delamination of films from Si substrate. Deposition atmosphere was varied with O 2 /Ar flow ratio from 0 to 20%. ...
Tópico(s): Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
2004 - Elsevier BV | Materials Science and Engineering B
Shinsuke Sato, Yoshiaki Kajiyama, M Sugano, Yoshimi Iwanuma, Masahiko Tsurumaru,
Flavopiridol is a synthetic flavone that has shown an antitumor effect against several cancers. Here, we investigated the in vitro effect of flavopiridol alone and the combined effect of low-dose flavopiridol plus radiation on esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell lines. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell lines (TE8, TE9 and KE4) were exposed to flavopiridol (0.05–400 nmol/L) for 48 h. Growth inhibition was evaluated by MTT assay, cell cycle distribution was determined by flow cytometry, and ...
Tópico(s): DNA Repair Mechanisms
2004 - Oxford University Press | Diseases of the Esophagus
Shinsuke Sato, Yoshiaki Kajiyama, Masahiko Sugano, Yoshimi Iwanuma, Hiroshi Sonoue, Toshiharu Matsumoto, Keisuke Sasai, Masahiko Tsurumaru,
Tópico(s): Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
2004 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
Shihoko Koyama, Jun Aida, Ichiro Kawachi, Naoki Kondo, S. V. Subramanian, Kanade Ito, Gén Kobashi, Kanako Masuno, Katsunori Kondo, Ken Osaka,
... tsunami and were living in temporary housing in Iwanuma city. Psychological distress of the victims was assessed ...
Tópico(s): Disaster Management and Resilience
2014 - Tohoku University | The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine