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Prolonged Anti-Inflammatory Action of DL-Lactide/Glycolide Copolymer Nanospheres Containing Betamethasone Sodium Phosphate for an Intra-Articular Delivery System in Antigen-Induced Arthritic Rabbit
Purpose. The objective of the present study was to develop prolonged anti-inflammatory action of DL-lactide/glycolide copolymer (PLGA) nanosphere incorporating a water-soluble corticosteroid (betamethasone sodiu...
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The semantic effect on retrieval of radicals in logographic characters
This study examined the semantic effect on retrieval of radicals ofJapanese kanji. In the retrieval task, a stimulus word written inhiragana (Japanese syllabary) was presented one by one on a display, andparti...
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p53 regulates ceramide formation by neutral sphingomyelinase through reactive oxygen species in human glioma cells
The present study was designed to elucidate the relationship between p53 and ceramide, both of which are involved in apoptotic signaling. Treatment of human glioma cells with etoposide caused apoptosis only in...
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Involvement of Nitric Oxide in the 5-Ht1A Autoreceptor-Mediated Hyperphagia in Rats
Effects of nitric oxide synthase(NOS) inhibitors on 8-hydroxy-2-di-n-(propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT)-induced hyperphagia which is mediated by the 5-HT autoreceptor were investigated. The non-selective NOS in...
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The Consistency of Multiple-Pronunciation Effects in Reading: The Case of Japanese Logographs
Naming latencies were measured for single- and multiple-reading (pronunciation) kanji words with two frequency levels in Experiment 1. Results showed that multiple-reading kanji are named much sl...
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The time course of semantic and phonological access in naming kanji and kana words
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the time course of semantic and phonological access in naming kanji and kana words. Japanese adults quickly named single words written in kanji and the same words ...
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Asymmetries Between Reading and Writing for Japanese Children
Recent research suggests that learning to read and spell in English is more or less asymmetrical, i.e., can be unrelated to one another. Spelling disability exists along with apparently normal reading ability ...
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Evidence for and characteristics of Dyslexia among Japanese children
In an attempt to determine the extent of developmental dyslexia in Japan, an oral reading test and a modified Bangor Dyslexia Test were administered to 125 fourth graders (69 boys and 56 girls). In this sample...
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Inhibitory effects of tryptamine on tolbutamide-induced hypoglycemia in mice: Mediation by 5-HT receptors
Effects of tryptamine on tolbutamide-induced hypoglycemia were investigated in mice. Tryptamine significantly inhibited hypoglycemia elicited by tolbutamide. The inhibitory effects of tryptamine were strongly ...
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Effects of tryptamine on plasma glucagon levels in mice
Our previous study indicated that tryptamine induces a dose-related incresae in plasma glucagon levels of mice and that this effect is mediated by the peripheral serotonin2 (5-HT2) receptor. The present paper fur...
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Asymmetries of reading and writing kanji by Japanese children
The present study aims at investigating the nature of kanji learning by focusing on various types of relationships between reading (naming) and writing of isolated kanji. Prominent asymmetries were found in no...
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Kanji words are easier to identify than katakana words
The effects of script (kanji and katakana), lexicality (word and nonword), and string length (1, 2, and 4 characters) on the identification of briefly exposed kanji and katakana strings were examined. It was f...
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The discrimination learning of the liquids /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers
The discrimination learning of the /r/ and /l/ sounds in a single 1-h session by Japanese college students who had received little or no English conversation training was examined. About half of the subjects e...
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Radiation Transport in Porous or Fibrous Media
This paper dealt with the radiation transport in porous or fibrous media. The first half of this paper shows the fundamentals of radiative transfer in a dispersed medium and a brief review of radiation scatter...
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Tryptophan metabolism in D-galactosamine-induced liver injury
We have reported that in rats with D-galactosamine-induced liver injury, the serum level of indoleacetic acid (IAA), a metabolite of tryptophan (TRP), increases before the increase in serum transaminase activi...
