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    Crohn’s disease following rituximab treatment in a patient with refractory nephrotic syndrome

    Rituximab (RTX) is increasingly used for the treatment of refractory nephrotic syndrome due to its inhibitory effect on B cells which extends the period of remission, while lowering the dose of steroids needed...

    Keishi Morita, Takayuki Shibano, Kohei Maekawa, Masuji Hattori in CEN Case Reports (2019)

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    Epidemiological survey and clinical investigation of pediatric IgA nephropathy

    Since school urinalysis screening was introduced in 1974, the number of cases requiring initiation of dialysis due to glomerulonephritis has been steadily decreasing and school urinalysis screening has been pr...

    Takayuki Shibano, Nobuaki Takagi, Kohei Maekawa in Clinical and Experimental Nephrology (2016)

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    Genetic heterogeneity among bovine leukemia viruses in Japan and their relationship to leukemogenicity

    Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infection in cattle causes persistent lymphocytosis, and a few percent of infected animals develop lymphoid tumors, namely enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL). In this study, a 440-bp fr...

    Emi Inoue, Keiko Matsumura, Kohei Maekawa, Kenta Nagatsuka in Archives of Virology (2011)