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Small hepatocellular carcinoma: high dose internal radiation therapy with superselective intra-arterial injection of I-131-labeled Lipiodol
The aim of the present study was to deliver a high internal radiation dose to small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) lesions in an attempt to treat this disease. A total of 18 patients with HCC lesions measuring...
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Cloning of Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus CD3 cDNA and gene, and analysis of its expression
Two distinct CD3 homologue cDNAs, CD3-1 and CD3-2, were isolated from a Japanese flounder leukocyte cDNA library. CD3-1 consisted of 961 bp encoding 178 amino acid residues, and CD3-2 consisted of 927 bp encodin...
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Characterization and expression of a CD40 homolog gene in Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus
A CD40 homolog cDNA encoding 300 amino acid residues was isolated from a Japanese flounder leukocyte cDNA library. The amino acid sequence identities of Japanese flounder CD40 and previously reported CD40s of ...
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Vibration from a shaft-bearing-plate system due to an axial excitation of helical gears
In this paper, a simplified model is studied to predict analytically the vibration from the helical gear system due to an axial excitation of helical gears. The simplified model describes gear, shaft, bearing,...
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Multi-objective optimization of the tooth surface in helical gears using design of experiment and the response surface method
The design of tooth surface for low gear noise under various load conditions is very important, and gear noise is highly related to transmission error. Optimal tooth surface for reduction of transmission error...
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Expression analysis of lipopolysaccharide-and/or concanavalin A/phorbol myristate acetate-stimulated black rockfish peripheral blood leukocytes using a cDNA microarray to identify up-regulated genes
The responses of peripheral blood leucocytes (PBLs) from the black rockfish Sebastes schlegelii stimulated with lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and/or concanavalin A/phorbol myristate acetate (Con A/PMA) were investiga...
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A pilot investigation on laser annealing for thin-film solar cells: Crystallinity and optical properties of laser-annealed CdTe thin films by using an 808-nm diode laser
Compared to conventional furnace and rapid thermal annealing, laser annealing for heterojunctioned thin-film solar cells has several advantages including excellent annealing selectivity to the under-layers wit...
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Bacterial Classification of Fish-Pathogenic Mycobacterium Species by Multigene Phylogenetic Analyses and MALDI Biotyper Identification System
Mycobacterium marinum is difficult to distinguish from other species of Mycobacterium isolated from fish using biochemical methods. Here, we used genetic and proteomic analyses to distinguish thr...
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Microarray analysis of gene expression in peripheral blood leucocytes from rock bream (Oplegnathus fasciatus) after stimulation by LPS, ConA/PMA, and poly I:C
The responses of peripheral blood leucocytes (PBLs) from the rock bream Oplegnathus fasciatus stimulated with lipopolysaccharides (LPS), concanavalin A/phorbol myristate acetate (Con A/PMA), and/or polyriboinosin...
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Microstructure, stress and optical properties of CdTe thin films laser-annealed by using an 808-nm diode laser: Effect of the laser scanning velocity
A continuous wave 808-nm diode laser was used for the laser annealing process of CdTe thin films at various laser scanning velocities by using a galvanometric mirror. The grains in the laserannealed CdTe thin ...
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Combined Effects of Iranian Heavy Crude Oil and Bacterial Challenge (Streptococcus iniae) on Biotransformation and Innate Immune Responses in Rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli)
To clarify the effects of spilled crude oil on fish bacterial disease resistance, rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli) were exposed to Iranian Heavy crude oil (IHCO) and Streptomyces iniae in combination. Hepatic biotra...
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Molecular cloning, characterisation and expression of the translationally controlled tumor protein gene in rock bream (Oplegnathus fasciatus)
Translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP) is an important immune regulator that has been implicated in a number of cellular processes, including cell growth, cell cycle progression, apoptosis regulation ...
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Open AccessConcomitant calcaneo-cuboid-cuneiform osteotomies and the modified Kidner procedure for severe flatfoot associated with symptomatic accessory navicular in children and adolescents
Accessory navicular can become symptomatic in childhood, and in some cases, the condition is associated with progressive flattening of the longitudinal arch. Moreover, some severe, rigid flatfoot deformities a...
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Barceloneic acid C, a new polyketide from an endophytic fungus Phoma sp. JS752 and its antibacterial activities
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Characteristics of noise generated by axial excitation of helical gears in shaft-bearing-plate system
This work investigated the noise characteristics of a simplified gear system through the axial excitation of helical gears. The simplified gear system was modeled as a shaft-bearing-plate with helical gears. F...
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Prognostic factors in distractive extension injuries of the subaxial cervical spine
The subaxial spine has high risk of fatal damage by trauma and thereby requires more accurate and aggressive treatment. For the proper treatment and predicting the prognosis, the evaluation to reveal the risk ...
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Epidemiological cut-off values for disc diffusion data generated by standard test protocols from Edwardsiella tarda and Vibrio harveyi
The susceptibility of 52 isolates of Edwardsiella tarda and 54 isolates of Vibrio harveyi to 12 antibiotics was established using internationally standardised disc diffusion protocols. Normalised resistance inter...
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Cooperation of erythrocytes with leukocytes in immune response of a teleost Oplegnathus fasciatus
The most abundant cell type in the blood of mammals and fish is erythrocyte. Unlike mammalian erythrocyte, fish erythrocyte is nucleated. The functional differentiation of teleost erythrocyte is insufficient c...
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Detection of LINE RT elements in the olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) genome and expression analysis after infection with S. parauberis
Long interspersed nuclear elements (LINEs) are widely distributed in the vertebrate genome, and can be either beneficial or detrimental to the host genome. Here we identified three members of LINE RT elements ...
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Rapid laser annealing of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin films by using a continuous wave Nd:YAG laser (λ0= 532 nm)
Rapid laser annealing of a Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin film absorber was proposed and demonstrated using a continuous 532-nm Nd:YAG laser, following sputtering with Cu0.9In0.7Ga0.3Se2 target, because the conventiona...
