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Chapter and Conference Paper
Flow patterns in the carotid artery bifurcation of patients with cerebrovascular disease on phase-contrast MR angiography
To measure blood flow patterns in carotid arteries of patients with cerebrovascular diseases and healthy volunteers, we used two-dimensional phase-contrast magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). For 5 healthy v...
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Effect of interferon-β on in vitro production of the liver specific idiotype-bearing antibody in patients with chronic hepatitis B
Recently interferon (IFN) has been used for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis (CH) B. It is known that IFN-β has an anti-viral effect, but clinical effect of IFN-β is limited. In Japanese cases ...
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Ammonium and α-mannosidase are key factors determining natural killer (NK) activity in patients with liver cirrhosis
Natural killer (NK) cells are a group of lymphocytes which destroy in vitro a variety of tumor cells in a nonselective way. The serum α-mannosidase activity was significantly higher in patients with liver cirrhos...
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Cellular cytotoxicity induced by liver specific idiotype-bearing antibody against Chang liver cells
Liver-specific idiotype-bearing antibody (LSIA) was capable of being purified from the sera of patients with chronic hepatitis by affinity chromatography. It was demonstrated that LSIA bound to Chang liver cel...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Intracellular pH Regulation of Normal Rat Brain: 31P-MRS Study
Intracellular pH changes in rat brain tissue were investigated during low or high extracellular pH induced by acetazolamide or sodium bicarbonate, respectively. Intracellular pH was measured by 31P-MRS in the bra...
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Estimation of the Transfer Coefficients of Oxygen and Carbon Monoxide in the Boundary of Human and Chicken Red Blood Cells by a Microphotometric Method
A microphotometric method to measure the reaction rates of O2 and CO was developed by Mochizuki et al. (1973) for the purpose of measurements in a single red blood cell (RBC). To date, the rates of oxygenation, d...
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A Method for Estimating Contact Time of Red Cells in Lung Capillaries from O2 and CO2 Concentrations in Rebreathing Air in Man
In a previous paper (Mochizuki et al., 1986) we described the relation between alveolar- and venous-Pco2 and the contact time (tc). However, at that time, Pco2-dependency of the arterio-venous difference in O2 co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Measurement of Transient Flow Pattern by High Speed Scanning X-Ray Void Fraction Meter
In order to measure void distributions across pipe flow and to determine the transient flow pattern during blowdown from a high pressure water vessel to atmosphere, we have developed a high-speed scanning X-ra...
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Estimation of the Rate of CO2 Diffusion Into the Red Cell Through the Bohr Shift
When the reactions of the red blood cell with O2 and CO2 are observed in a reaction chamber of a micro-photometric apparatus, the plasma layer around the cell tends to be superfluously thick and usually becomes h...
