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Effects of the Sri Lankan medicinal plant, Salacia reticulata, in rheumatoid arthritis
Salacia reticulata is a native plant of Sri Lanka. In the traditional medicine of Sri Lanka and India, Salacia reticulata bark is considered orally effective in the treatment of rheumatism, gonorrhea, skin diseas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DNA Microarray Technology Evaluation of Effect of Dietary Intake of Crude Rice Glycosphingolipids in Mice
To determine the dietary effects of intake of crude rice glycosphingolipids (RG) extracted from rice bran, mice were fed a diet containing 0.5% RG for 2 weeks. Thereafter, we examined the gene expression patte...
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A non-contact vital sign monitoring system for ambulances using dual-frequency microwave radars
We developed a novel non-contact monitoring system to measure the vital signs of casualties inside a moving ambulance. This system was designed to prevent exposure of patients to infectious organisms under bio...
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Polymyositis associated with focal mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis with depositions of immune complexes
A 58-year-old man concurrently developed polymyositis (PM), interstitial lung disease, and nephrotic-range proteinuria. Renal biopsy revealed focal mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (mesPGN) with depo...
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Maskless Lateral Epitaxial Growth of Gallium Nitride Using Dimethylhydrazine as a Nitrogen Precursor
Lateral epitaxial growth (LEG) is a key technology to improve the lifetime of III-V nitride-based laser diodes (LDs) by reducing the dislocation density in the materials. To increase the area of low dislocatio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visual Feedback Control of a Micro Lathe
Micromachining progresses rapidly in recent years. In this research, a micro lathe which is installable and operational inside SEM vacuum chamber has been designed and developed. As a first step, visually guid...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Path Control Scheme for Vision Guided Micro Manipulation System
Cloning is new and growing industry. However, the cell manipulation like enucleating and injection are manually done by skilled operators with the aid of a microscope, and thus tedious and time consuming. Thus...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on Subsurface Damage Generated in Ground Si Wafer
In this paper, we study and evaluate the subsurface damage of the ground wafers to understand the effect of residual stress on the wafer deflection. The experimental results show that two indexes of depth of t...
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Abstracts from the 6th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport, 10–14 July 2006, Olympic Hall, Munich, Germany
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Creating the SMART system—A Database for Sports Movement
The authors built a database for sports movement, called the SMART system—Sports Movement Archiving and Requesting Technology system. The main characteristics of the system are: (1) Features sports oriented st...
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Overexpression of heat shock proteins in pallido-nigral axonal spheroids of nonhuman aged primates
The occurrence of spheroids has been described in the globus pallidus (GP) and substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) of aged rhesus monkeys. Opinions vary as to the origin of spheroids. Ultrastructural and im...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with five octapeptide repeat insert
A pedigree of familial CJD with five octapeptide repeat insert (50RI) is reported. In this family seven out of nine members from one generation had dementia. Three showed slowly progressive course, two with ty...
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Stimulation of CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells through GITR breaks immunological self-tolerance
CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells in normal animals are engaged in the maintenance of immunological self-tolerance. We show here that glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor family–related gene (GITR, al...
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Dependence of Atomic-scale Stick-slip Phenomenon upon Probe Tip Shape
This study intends to clarify the generation mechanism of the atomic-scale stick-slip phenomenon just like observed through the surface observation process using the atomic force microscope (AFM). This paper r...
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Simulation on High Integrity Surface Generation of φ300 Si Wafer with Fixedabrasive Solution
This study is done as one part of Regional Consortium Project of “Development of Transcendent Machine Tool and Core Technologies for φ300 Si Wafer”, which aims to replace the conventional lap**, etching and pol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Breaking Immunological Tolerance to Tumor Cells as a Novel Immunotherapy for Cancer
The mechanisms that are responsible for maintaining immunological tolerance to self-constituents may also act to impede immunity against autologous tumor cells. This review shows that one aspect of immunologic...
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Dried green leaf powders of Jew's mellow (Corchorus), persimmon (Diosphyros kaki) and sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas poir) lower hepatic cholesterol concentration and increase fecal bile acid excretion in rats fed a cholesterol-free diet
A cholesterol-free diet containing dried powder of Jew's mellow leaves, persimmon leaves or sweet potato leaves respectively at 5% level as dietary fiber was fed to male Sprague-Dawley rats for about one month...
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Developmental Changes in the NGF Content in the Brain of Young, Growing, Low-Birth-Weight Rats
The NGF content in each region of the brain of four-week-old rats was ranked in the decreasing order of cerebral cortex, hippocampus, cerebellum, midbrain/diencephalon, and pons/medulla ob-longata, and the NGF...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dietary Fiber and Fecal Characteristics in Humans and Animals
We reviewed studies on the quantity and quality of feces related to the onset of various diseases including colorectal cancer, with particular emphasis on our experimental results. We attempted to determine th...
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Tumor-immunotherapy with the use of tumor-antigen-pulsed antigen-presenting cells
Our previous study demonstrated that the administration of antigen-presenting cells (APC) pulsed with tumor cell membrane fraction to naive syngeneic mice results in effective induction of tumor-specific prote...
