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Correction to: Association between expanded criteria for living kidney donors and renal biopsy findings
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Association between expanded criteria for living kidney donors and renal biopsy findings
There are certain criteria for selecting living kidney donors. However, the association between clinical characteristics of these criteria and kidney biopsy findings in living kidney donors have not yet been e...
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Open AccessEffects of antirejection therapies for early subclinical acute rejection in renal transplant protocol biopsies
Although recently strengthened immunosuppression protocols have decreased the incidence of clinical acute rejection of renal transplants, subclinical acute rejection and borderline changes remain problematic. ...
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Open AccessAcromegaly presenting with myelopathy due to ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament: a case report
Acromegaly is a rare disease caused by high serum levels of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), often originating from a pituitary adenoma. Spinal and peripheral joint abnormalities a...
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Open AccessSuccessful management of severe asthma in a young boy with eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis who received omalizumab: a case report
The incidence of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps has recently increased in Japan and other East Asian countries, and this disease is called eosinophilic chronic sinusitis (ECRS) in Japan. ECRS usually...
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Open AccessComparative study between colonic metallic stent and anal tube decompression for Japanese patients with left-sided malignant large bowel obstruction
Surgical management of malignant bowel obstruction carries with high morbidity and mortality. Placement of a trans-anal decompression tube (TDT) has traditionally been used for malignant bowel obstruction as a...
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Open AccessCell-permeable p38 MAP kinase promotes migration of adult neural stem/progenitor cells
Endogenous neural stem/progenitor cells (NPCs) can migrate toward sites of injury, but the migration activity of NPCs is insufficient to regenerate damaged brain tissue. In this study, we showed that p38 MAP k...
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Two male sterility-inducing cytoplasms of beet (Beta vulgaris) are genetically distinct but have closely related mitochondrial genomes: implication of a substoichiometric mitochondrial DNA molecule in their evolution
I-12CMS(2) and I-12CMS(3) are sugar beet lines with different sources of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) derived from wild beets in Turkey and Pakistan, respectively. We established that I-12CMS(2) has a gene...
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ERRATUM TO: Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris L.)
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Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris L.)
Creating transgenic plants is invaluable for the genetic analysis of sugar beet and will be increasingly important as sugar beet genomic technologies progress. A protocol for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation...
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Open AccessMolecular map** of restorer-of-fertility 2 gene identified from a sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L. ssp. vulgaris) homozygous for the non-restoring restorer-of-fertility 1 allele
By genetically eliminating the major restorer - of - fertility gene ( ...
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Open AccessLoss of DARPP-32 and calbindin in multiple system atrophy
We evaluated the immunohistochemical intensities of α-synuclein, phosphorylated α-synuclein (p-syn), dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein of 32 kDa (DARPP-32), calbindin-D 28k, calpain-cleaved carboxy-t...
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Open AccessIdentification of the predominant nonrestoring allele for Owen-type cytoplasmic male sterility in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.): development of molecular markers for the maintainer genotype
Hybrid seed production in sugar beet relies on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS). As time-consuming and laborious test crosses with a CMS tester are necessary to identify maintainer lines, development of a mark...
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Polymorphic minisatellites in the mitochondrial DNAs of Oryza and Brassica
Polymorphic analyses of angiosperm mitochondrial DNA are rare in comparison with chloroplast DNA, because few target sequences in angiosperm mitochondrial DNA are known. Minisatellites, a tandem array of repea...
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Map** of the genes for dioecism and monoecism in Spinacia oleracea L.: evidence that both genes are closely linked
Spinach is basically a dioecious species, with occasional monoecious plants in some populations. Sexual dimorphism in dioecious spinach plants is controlled by an allelic pair termed X and Y located on the short ...
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Mitochondrial genome diversity in Beta vulgaris L. ssp. vulgaris (Leaf and Garden Beet Groups) and its implications concerning the dissemination of the crop
Four mitochondrial minisatellites were used to study cytoplasmic diversity in leaf and garden beet germplasm resources. Eleven multi-locus haplotypes were identified, of which one (named mitochondrial minisatelli...
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Large 3′ UTR of sugar beet rps3 is truncated in cytoplasmic male-sterile mitochondria
Genomic alteration near or within mitochondrial gene is often associated with cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS). Its influence on the expression of the mitochondrial gene was proposed as one of the possible cau...
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Molecular map** of a gene conferring resistance to Aphanomyces root rot (black root) in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)
Caused by Aphanomyces cochlioides Drechsler, Aphanomyces root rot is a serious disease of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), for which sources of resistance are scarce. To identify the segregation pattern of the rare...
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Quantitative trait locus responsible for resistance to Aphanomyces root rot (black root) caused by Aphanomyces cochlioides Drechs. in sugar beet
Aphanomyces root rot, caused by Aphanomyces cochlioides Drechs., is one of the most serious diseases of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.). Identification and characterization of resistance genes is a major task in su...
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The distribution of normal and male-sterile cytoplasms in Chinese sugar-beet germplasm
Forty-two Chinese sugar-beet breeding lines were evaluated for the presence of normal and male-sterile (Owen) cytoplasms using polymorphisms in the chloroplast petG-psbE region as well as in the mitochondrial min...
