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    Ecological Functions of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Agriculture

    Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi can form a mutually beneficial symbiotic system with most crops, which plays an important role in maintaining farmland ecosystem functions and contributes to sustainable devel...

    Lingbo Meng, Shumin Li, Yufei Meng in Innovation for Environmentally-friendly Fo… (2023)

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    Taurine Administration Mitigates Cisplatin Induced Acute Nephrotoxicity by Decreasing DNA Damage and Inflammation: An Immunocytochemical Study

    Cisplatin (CDDP) is one of the most effective chemotherapeutic agent used in the treatment of many kind of solid tumors. Its primary side effect is nephrotoxicity. The aim of this study to investigate the effe...

    Masahiro Tsunekawa, Shumin Wang, Toshihiro Kato, Takenori Yamashita in Taurine 10 (2017)

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    Effect of Radiation on the Expression of Taurine Transporter in the Intestine of Mouse

    There has been a growing interest on the effects of radiation since the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident of 2011. Taurine has been reported to have a radioprotective effect in irradiated mice. However, t...

    Takenori Yamashita, Toshihiro Kato, Masahiro Tunekawa, Yeunhwa Gu in Taurine 10 (2017)

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    Effect of Taurine on iNOS-Mediated DNA Damage in Drug-Induced Renal Injury

    Owing to an outstanding wide antitumor spectrum and excellent anti-tumor effect cisplatin has been used in chemotherapy for malignant tumor. However, cisplatin has strong side effects such as renal injury. Tau...

    Toshihiro Kato, Masahiro Tsunekawa, Shumin Wang, Takenori Yamashita in Taurine 10 (2017)

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    The Effects of Taurine Administration Against Inflammation in Heavily Exercised Skeletal Muscle of Rats

    Taurine protects against tissue damage in a variety of models that share inflammation as a common pathogenic feature. Heavy exercise has been shown to cause inflammation and oxidative stress and to damage musc...

    Toshihiro Kato, Shinya Okita, Shumin Wang, Masahiro Tsunekawa in Taurine 9 (2015)

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    Contribution of Taurine Signatures in the Detached Cat Retina

    Taurine is generally critical for photoreceptor development and acts as a cyto-protectant against stress-related neuronal damage and other pathological conditions in the retina. The present study investigates ...

    Ning Ma M.D., Ph.D., Shumin Wang, Shinya Okita, Toshihiro Kato, Shiwen Huang in Taurine 9 (2015)

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    Anatomical Variations in the Woody Plants of Arid Areas

    Variations in secondary xylem characteristics in 13 xerophytic species growing in an arid sandy region in China are described and compared in detail from an ecological perspective. All species showed similar w...

    Shumin Yang, Ikuo Furukawa, Zehui Jiang in Desert Plants (2010)

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    The Short Message Management System Based on J2ME

    In order to apply Java to mobile communication device and embedded device, the J2ME is issued by SUN. It is also be used on 3G mobile multiplication service by telecommunication company. The paper introduces t...

    Shumin Zhou, Guoyun Zhong, Tiantai Zhang in Computer And Computing Technologies In Agr… (2008)