Skip to main content

3 Result(s)

within Akiko Takaki Remove this filter

and

  1. Article

    Open Access

    Evaluation of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in Japan

    Performance of interferon-γ (IFN-γ) release assays still needs to be improved. The data on the performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus), a new-generation of QFT assay are limited. This study evaluate...

    Lina Yi, Yuka Sasaki, Hideaki Nagai, Satoru Ishikawa, Mikio Takamori… in Scientific Reports (2016)

    Download PDF (527 KB) View Article

  2. Article

    Open Access

    Spatio-temporal processing of tactile stimuli in autistic children

    Altered multisensory integration has been reported in autism; however, little is known concerning how the autistic brain processes spatio-temporal information concerning tactile stimuli. We report a study in w...

    Makoto Wada, Mayuko Suzuki, Akiko Takaki, Masutomo Miyao… in Scientific Reports (2014)

    Download PDF (712 KB) View Article

  3. No Access

    Article

    Positive selection of Toll-like receptor 2 polymorphisms in two closely related old world monkey species, rhesus and Japanese macaques

    Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) plays an important role in the recognition of a variety of pathogenic microbes. In the present study, we compared polymorphisms of TLR2 locus in two closely related old world monkey sp...

    Akiko Takaki, Akiko Yamazaki, Tomoyuki Maekawa, Hiroki Shibata… in Immunogenetics (2012)