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Open AccessPlasma d-asparagine and the d/l-serine ratio reflect chronic kidney diseases in children regardless of physique
Biomarkers that accurately reflect renal function are essential in management of chronic kidney diseases (CKD). However, in children, age/physique and medication often alter established renal biomarkers. We st...
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Open AccessViral entry and translation in brain endothelia provoke influenza-associated encephalopathy
Influenza-associated encephalopathy (IAE) is extremely acute in onset, with high lethality and morbidity within a few days, while the direct pathogenesis by influenza virus in this acute phase in the brain is ...
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Open Accessd-Serine as a sensor and effector of the kidney
d-Serine, a rare enantiomer of serine, is a biomarker of kidney disease and function. The level of d-serine in the human body is precisely regulated through the urinary clearance of the kidney, and its clearance ...
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Open AccessUtility of an image fusion system for 3D preoperative planning and fluoroscopy in the osteosynthesis of distal radius fractures
Recently, computerized virtual surgery planning has been increasingly applied in various orthopedic procedures. In this study, we developed an image fusion system for 3D preoperative planning and fluoroscopy f...
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Open AccessDynamics of d-serine reflected the recovery course of a patient with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
We experienced a case of a 36-year-old female with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) due to anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated nephritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) n...
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Open AccessD-Serine reflects kidney function and diseases
D-Amino acids, long-term undetected enantiomers of L-amino acids, are now emerging as potential biomarkers, especially for kidney diseases. Management of chronic kidney disease (CKD), a global problem with its hi...
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Open AccessEncapsulating peritoneal sclerosis in a patient after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a case report
Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is a chronic clinical syndrome of acute or subacute gastrointestinal obstruction seen mainly in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. Although there are a few report...
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Open AccessReverberant speech recognition combining deep neural networks and deep autoencoders augmented with a phone-class feature
We propose an approach to reverberant speech recognition adopting deep learning in the front-end as well as b a c k-e n d o f a r e v e r b e r a n t s p e e c h r e c o g n i t i o n s y s t e m, a n d a n o ...
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Percutaneous autologous concentrated bone marrow grafting in the treatment for nonunion
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical and radiographic treatment effects of percutaneous autologous concentrated bone marrow grafting in nonunion cases and to evaluate the effectiveness of th...
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Osteomalacia due to Fanconi’s syndrome and renal failure caused by long-term low-dose adefovir dipivoxil
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Reaction Pathway Analysis of Homogeneous Dislocation Nucleation in a Perfect Molybdenum Crystal
Reaction pathway analysis was carried out for homogeneous dislocation nucleation in perfect crystal Mo. The reaction sampling method employed was based on the Nudged Elastic Band algorithm and other extended s...
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Open AccessConcentrated autologous bone marrow aspirate transplantation treatment for corticosteroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head in systemic lupus erythematosus
The purpose of this study was to evaluate concentrated autologous bone marrow aspirate transplantation (CABMAT) treatment for corticosteroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) in systemic lupus e...
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Development of a tightly-regulated tetracycline-dependent transcriptional activator and repressor co-expression system for the strong induction of transgene expression
The teteracycline (Tc)-dependent and -inducible transcriptional activator (rtTA) system has been used to express regulated transgene expression in vitro and in vivo. However, previous reports have demonstrated...
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Effectiveness of bone marrow transplantation for revitalizing a severely necrotic small bone: experimental rabbit model
Although treating Kienböck disease is controversial, we previously applied a new method that was less invasive and comprised drilling, bone marrow (BM) transplantation, external fixation, and radiating low-int...
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Transition Pathway Analysis of Homogeneous Dislocation Nucleation in a Perfect Silicon Crystal
Transition pathway sampling was carried out for homogeneous dislocation nucleation in perfect crystal Si. The sampling algorithm employed was Nudged Elastic Band method. Results obtained were compared with cor...
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Simulations of an Interface Crack Nucleation During Nanoindentaion : Molecular Dynamics and Finite Element Coupling Approach
We carried out the nanoindentation simulations for the Ru (superlayer) / Cu (film) / SiO2 (substrate) system using the finite temperature MD-FEM coupling method. The calculations are performed for the differen...
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Elastic Properties of the Surfaces and Interfaces of Crystal and Amorphous Silicon
We propose a method to calculate well-relaxed interface/surface properties by using order-parameters to evaluate interface/surface microstructures. Structural relaxation greatly influences the energies of the ...
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Formulation of sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment using a perturbation method
In this paper, a new method for the efficient sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment is proposed. Introduction of a perturbation method to matrix-based life cycle assessment will enable one to evaluate...
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On Reliability and Strength of Structural Components against Seismic Excitation
In the aseismatic design of important structural components in a nuclear power plant and some chemical plants, the related design code demands not only the maximum stress to be suppressed below the plastic col...
