Musa Abubakar Kana, YO Tagurum, ZuwairaI Hassan, TolulopeO Afolanranmi, GabrielOfikwu Ogbeyi, JoshuaAbubakar Difa, Peter Okpeh Amede, OlubunmiO Chirdan,
Background: Family planning is an effective intervention for promoting maternal health, but its acceptability and utilization are impeded by many factors in Northern Nigeria. This study aims to assess the prevalence and identify determinants of contraceptive use in a rural setting. Methods: A mixed method cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in Gumau, a rural community of Bauchi State, Northeastern Nigeria. Quantitative data were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire ...
Tópico(s): Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
2016 - Medknow | Annals of Nigerian Medicine
Kana Ishii, Nobuharu Suzuki, Yo Mabuchi, Naoki Ito, Naomi Kikura, So‐ichiro Fukada, Hideyuki Okano, Shin’ichi Takeda, Chihiro Akazawa,
Satellite cells are maintained in an undifferentiated quiescent state, but during muscle regeneration they acquire an activated stage, and initiate to proliferate and differentiate as myoblasts. The transmembrane protein teneurin-4 (Ten-4) is specifically expressed in the quiescent satellite cells; however, its cellular and molecular functions remain unknown. We therefore aimed to elucidate the function of Ten-4 in muscle satellite cells. In the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle of Ten-4-deficient mice, ...
Tópico(s): Mesenchymal stem cell research
2015 - Oxford University Press | Stem Cells
Kana Ishii, Hidetoshi Sakurai, Nobuharu Suzuki, Yo Mabuchi, Ichiro Sekiya, Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi, Chihiro Akazawa,
Highlights•Satellite cells are encapsulated by LMα2–5•LM-E8 promotes proliferation of satellite cells in an undifferentiated state•Satellite cells cultured with LM-E8 enhanced the regeneration of skeletal muscleSummarySatellite cells function as precursor cells in mature skeletal muscle homeostasis and regeneration. In healthy tissue, these cells are maintained in a state of quiescence by a microenvironment formed by myofibers and basement membrane in which LAMININs (LMs) form a major component. ...
Tópico(s): Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
2018 - Elsevier BV | Stem Cell Reports
Shiwei Xu, N. Matsumoto, Kana Yamamoto, S. Kamado, T. Honma, Yo Kojima,
In order to choose the appropriate process parameters for further thermo-mechanical processes, high temperature tensile tests of as-cast Mg–Al–Ca alloys containing 1, 4 and 7% of total amount of Al and Ca (denoted as AX1, AX4 and AX7, respectively), where Al:Ca = 29:26, were examined. During the tensile test, the Mg2Ca and (Mg, Al)2Ca compounds contribute to not only grain refining but also become crack initiation sites and lower the ductility, thus the AX4 alloy exhibits the best deformability. The ...
Tópico(s): Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties
2009 - Elsevier BV | Materials Science and Engineering A
Atsuo Nakamura, Shinji Ohara, Masaomi Shindo, Nobuo Yanagisawa, Kana Maruyama, Yo‐ichi Takei,
Tópico(s): Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes
1999 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Neurology
Yoshihiro Kushida, Yo Oguma, Kana Abe, Taichi Deguchi, Federico Girolamo Barbera, Noriyuki Nishimura, Kazumichi Fujioka, Sota Iwatani, Mari Dezawa,
Abstract Muse cells, identified as cells positive for the pluripotent surface marker SSEA-3, are pluripotent-like endogenous stem cells located in the bone marrow (BM), peripheral blood, and organ connective tissues. The detailed characteristics of SSEA-3(+) cells in extraembryonic tissue, however, are unknown. Here, we demonstrated that similar to human-adult tissue-Muse cells collected from the BM, adipose tissue, and dermis as SSEA-3(+), human-umbilical cord (UC)-SSEA-3(+) cells express pluripotency ...
Tópico(s): Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
2024 - Springer Nature | Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Kana Kobayashi, Chio Okuyama, Takao Kubota, Takako Nakai, Yo Ushuima, Tsunehiko Nishimura,
Tópico(s): Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
2005 - Springer Nature | Annals of Nuclear Medicine
Sumiko Sasanuma, Motonobu Itoh, Yo Kobayashi, Kazuko Mori,
To investigate the nature of the task-stimulus interaction in tachistoscopic recognition of kana and kanji, right-handed normal subjects performed two phonological tasks and two visual tasks. In the phonological tasks, the subjects compared the members of a pair of kana or kanji appearing in the right or left visual field on the basis of phonological identity; while in the visual tasks, they compared the members of a pair of kana or kanji on the basis of visual identity. The results showed a significant ...
Tópico(s): Hearing Impairment and Communication
1980 - Elsevier BV | Brain and Language
Sumiko Sasanuma, Motonobu Itoh, Kazuko Mori, Yo Kobayashi,
The accuracy of recognition of nonsense kana and kanji words tachistoscopically exposed in the left and right visual fields in normal right-handed subjects was investigated. A significant right field superiority for the recognition of kana words and a nonsignificant trend towards the left field superiority for kanji words were shown. The findings are interpreted to support the hypothesis, generated from studies of reading and writing impairment in aphasic patients, that kana and kanji are processed ...
Tópico(s): Visual perception and processing mechanisms
1977 - Elsevier BV | Neuropsychologia
Chio Okuyama, Yo Ushijima, Masayuki Kikkawa, Takuji Yamagami, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Kana Kobayashi, Tatsuya Hirota, Tsunehiko Nishimura,
Iodine-131 uptake was seen in the right upper abdominal quadrant of a patient with postoperative differentiated thyroid cancer that corresponded with a large liver cyst.
Tópico(s): Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
2001 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Eiji Ogawa, Yo Oguma, Yoshihiro Kushida, Shohei Wakao, Kana Okawa, Mari Dezawa,
Multilineage-differentiating stress-enduring (Muse) cells are non-tumorigenic pluripotent-like stem cells that exhibit triploblastic differentiation and self-renewability at the single-cell level, and are collectable as pluripotent surface marker SSEA-3(+) from the bone marrow (BM), peripheral blood, and organ connective tissues. SSEA-3(+) cells from human amniotic membrane mesenchymal stem cells (hAMSCs) were compared with hBM-Muse cells. Similar to hBM-Muse cells, hAMSC-SSEA-3(+) cells expressed ...
Tópico(s): MicroRNA in disease regulation
2022 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Takako Nakai, Chio Okuyama, Takao Kubota, Kana Kobayashi, Yo Ushijima, Tsunehiko Nishimura,
A 49-year-old woman who had undergone a living renal transplantation became aware of a mass in the anterior region of her neck. Because her blood parathyroid hormone level was markedly increased (as high as 6420 pg/dL), she was suspected of having secondary hyperparathyroidism. After the intravenous administration of Tc-99m 2-methoxy isobutyl isonitrile, areas of increased activity were observed in both inferior poles of the thyroid gland and below the left lobe during the early phase of imaging. ...
Tópico(s): Bone health and treatments
2003 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Saori Sugita, Kumiko Watanabe, Kana Hashimoto, Tatsuya Niwa, Eri Uemura, Hideki Taguchi, Yo‐hei Watanabe,
ClpB, a bacterial homologue of heat shock protein 104 (Hsp104), can disentangle aggregated proteins with the help of the DnaK, a bacterial Hsp70, and its co-factors. As a member of the expanded superfamily of ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities (AAA+), ClpB forms a hexameric ring structure, with each protomer containing two AAA+ modules, AAA1 and AAA2. A long coiled-coil middle domain (MD) is present in the C-terminal region of the AAA1 and surrounds the main body of the ring. The MD ...
Tópico(s): Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Biological Chemistry
Kana Aitsuki, Daiki Fukushima, Hiroki Nakahara, Kazumune Yo, Masahito Kodera, Sayuri Okunaka, Hiromasa Tokudome, Takanori Koitaya, Yutaka Hitomi,
Surface-modified TiO 2 generated by the photolysis of tetrabromocatechol showed higher activity than bare TiO 2 in visible-light-induced photocatalytic toluene oxidation.
Tópico(s): TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
2022 - Royal Society of Chemistry | New Journal of Chemistry
Kana Ishii, Nobuharu Suzuki, Yo Mabuchi, Ichiro Sekiya, Chihiro Akazawa,
Muscle satellite cells are resident skeletal muscle stem cells responsible for muscle regeneration. Isolation of satellite cells is a critical process for clinical application such as drug screening and cell transplantation. Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) enables the direct isolation of satellite cells from muscle tissue. During the process used to isolate satellite cells from skeletal muscle, enzymatic digestion is the first step. Therefore, the evaluation and standardization of enzymes ...
Tópico(s): Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
2017 - Elsevier BV | Regenerative Therapy
K. Manoj, Kana M. Sureshan, Rajesh G. Gonnade, M.M. Bhadbhade, Mysore S. Shashidhar,
Diastereomers of 2,4(6)-di-O-benzoyl-6(4)-O-[(1S)-10-camphorsulfonyl]-myo-inositol 1,3,5-orthoformate are linked via short SO···CO contacts ranging from 2.890 to 3.140 Å (sum of the van der Waals radii of O and C atoms 3.22 Å) in all the inclusion complexes formed with organic guest solvents having a C2 symmetry. Although a search for SO···CO interactions in the CSD showed a sizable number of structures, this communication recognizes its significance for the first time in the formation of molecular ...
Tópico(s): Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics
2005 - American Chemical Society | Crystal Growth & Design
Takako Nakai, Chio Okuyama, Takao Kubota, Kana Kobayashi, Takuji Tsubokura, Yo Ushijma, Tsunehiko Nishimura,
Tópico(s): Bone and Joint Diseases
2004 - Springer Nature | Annals of Nuclear Medicine
Takako Sugiura, Arisa Fujiwara, Takasugi Yo, Kana Kashinoura, Chihiro Hayase, Taura Yumiko, Yasuhiro Kawarabayashi, Yasuyuki Hasuo, Shinji Ogawa,
Abstract Background Gaucher disease is an autosomal recessive inborn error of metabolism that causes disorders of blood, bone, and central nervous system as well as hepatosplenomegaly. We present the case of a carrier of Gaucher disease with gestational thrombocytopenia and anemia that required blood transfusion therapy. Case presentation A 24-year-old Nepalese primipara was diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenia at 12 weeks of gestation. Her platelet count had reduced to 30,000/µL at 21 weeks ...
Tópico(s): Cellular transport and secretion
2022 - BioMed Central | Journal of Medical Case Reports
Kana Ishii, Nobuharu Suzuki, Yo Mabuchi, Chihiro Akazawa,
Teneurin‐4 is a novel suppressor of myogenesis K.Ishii, N.Suzuki, Y.Mabuchi, C.Akazawa : Depart. of Biochem. and Biophys., Grad. Sch. of Health Care Sci., TMDU, Tokyo, Japan Muscle satellite cells are maintained in the undifferentiated quiescent state, and initiate to proliferate and differentiate at the activated stage during muscle regeneration. It has been recently reported that the transmembrane protein teneurin‐4 (Ten‐4) is highly expressed in the quiescent satellite cells. However, its cellular ...
Tópico(s): CAR-T cell therapy research
2014 - Wiley | The FASEB Journal
Hiroaki Iwase, Masaaki Shimada, Tomoyuki Tsuzuki, Masayuki Okeya, Kana Kobayashi, Hazuki Watanabe, Yo Hibino, Nobumitsu Ryuge, Hidemi Goto,
15007 Background: Both oral fluoropyrimidine anti-cancer agent (UFT, S-1) and cisplatin can enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy. We previously reported a phase II trial of UFT and cisplatin combined with radiotherapy (Int J Clin Oncol 8 (2003): 305–311) and a phase I trial of S-1 and cisplatin combined with radiotherapy (Jpn J Cancer Chemother 33 (2006): 224–229) for advanced esophageal cancer. The present study analyzes the efficacy of concurrent chemoradiotherapy by using S-1 and cisplatin for ...
Tópico(s): Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
2007 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Journal of Clinical Oncology
Sumiko Sasanuma, Yo Kobayashi,
... who make combined use of two nonalphabetical systems, kana and kanji in their orthography, are comparable to ... findings on the recognition of verbal material including kana and kanji in these subjects. Des sujets japonais ... dans leur orthographe les 2 systèmes non alphabétique Kana et Kanji les types de performances de reconnaissance ... sujets sur la reconnaissance du matériel verbal comprenant Kana et Kanji. Rechts- und linkshändige, weibliche und männliche ... einer kombinierten Schreibweise von zwei nichtalphabetischen Systemen bedienen (kana und kanji) dem Verhalten derjenigen, die alphabetische Sprachen ...
Tópico(s): Engineering Technology and Methodologies
1978 - Elsevier BV | Neuropsychologia
... the Tokugawa period. In his main treatise Man'yō Daishōki 万葉代匠記, relying on his own set of orthographic rules for spelling Japanese in kana (kanazukai 仮名遣い), Keichū tries to prove the inconsistency ...
Tópico(s): Chinese history and philosophy
2024 - Russian Academy of Sciences | Problemy Dalnego Vostoka
Yuto Suetani, Yoshinori Iida, Kosuke Hirose, Kana Shichijo, Satoshi Yamamoto, Tomoki Fukui, M Kuramoto, Yo Arita, Hajime Saeki, Miwa Miyoshi, M Okada, Nobuyuki Ogasawara,
Abstract Background/Purpose Worsening renal function (WRF) can sometimes occur in the patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) and increase the risk of morbidity and mortality (1). In a previous study, it was reported that fractional excretion of sodium (FENa) reflects net sodium reabsorption from nephron segments and predicts WRF during treating ADHF (2). On the other hand, recently the new drugs which approach urine concentration mechanism and affect urine osmolality (U-OSM), such as tolvaptan ...
Tópico(s): Heart Failure Treatment and Management
2022 - Oxford University Press | European Heart Journal
Miwa Miyoshi, Hajime Saeki, Yo Arita, Yoshinori Iida, Tomoki Fukui, Shohei Yamamoto, Kana Shichijo, Yuto Suetani, Kosuke Hirose, M Kuramoto, Nobuyuki Ogasawara,
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is a relatively rare inherited arrhythmic disease that causes sudden cardiac death, and is caused by mutations in the cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2) or sarcoplasmic reticulum protein calsequestrin 2 gene (CASQ2). A 16-year-old man was diagnosed with CPVT and was implanted with a Subcutaneous-implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (S-ICD), but defibrillation electrode detachment occurred early after placement. We suspected that a two-incision ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
2022 - Oxford University Press | Oxford Medical Case Reports
Konrad P. Weber, Caterina Schweier, Veronika Kana, Thomas Guggi, Katarzyna Byber, Klara Landau,
... anti-central nervous system antibodies, including Hu, Ri, Yo, Amphiphysin, CV2, Ta/Ma2, and Ma. A complete ...
Tópico(s): Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders
2015 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology
Kana Mukai, Kenichi Kurita, Atsushi Abe, Atsushi Nakayama, Mitsuo Goto, Yo Mukai,
To evaluate maxillofacial growth and velopharyngeal function in patients with isolated cleft palate who had undergone palatoplasty using a mucosal flap. Measurements from lateral cephalograms taken at age 6 years of 44 patients (mucosal flap group) were obtained and compared with data reported in the literature for approximately age-matched children without cleft palate. We also compared maxillofacial growth in a subgroup analysis based on the anteroposterior length of the palatal bone defect. In ...
Tópico(s): Tracheal and airway disorders
2020 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Medicine and Pathology
... on the historical use of the phonetic script (kana), that research in specifically Japanese phonetics began.2 ... in the Kamakura period, Teika's system of kana usage became the chief authority for poetic composition ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2009 - Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
... period) and wabun (i.e., Japanese written in kana, with or without kanji). To drive this point ... it led in Japan to the development of kana. In other words, Saitō engages in his book ... later. Saitō gives particular attention to Rai San'yō's Nihon gaishi [End Page 379] (Unofficial History ...
Tópico(s): Chinese history and philosophy
2021 - Sophia University | Monumenta Nipponica
... rômaji se glissent çà et là entre les kana et les kanji.Ici, Furui Yoshikichi examine le ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
1996 - | Estudos Japoneses
... its continuities across time. The inclusion of the kana/kanji and the romanized versions is welcome. Each ... no/mono to ya hito no/nagamuran/matsu yo nagara no/ariake no tsuki After his tryst, ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2020 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Japanese Studies