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Neuropeptide VGF-Derived Peptide LQEQ-19 has Neuroprotective Effects in an In Vitro Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe neurodegenerative disease caused by the loss of upper and lower motor neurons resulting in muscle weakness and paralysis. Recently, VGF, a neuropeptide that is a...
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The use of soil cooling for growing temperate crops under tropical climate
Global climate changes have been reported to be affecting the already stressed agricultural ecosystem, especially temperate agriculture which is highly dependent on low soil temperature for optimum growth perf...
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Polarization Calibration of the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter for a 0.1% Polarization Sensitivity in the VUV Range. Part II: In-Flight Calibration
The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter is a sounding rocket instrument designed to measure for the first time the linear polarization of the hydrogen Lyman-
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Polarization Calibration of the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter for a 0.1 % Polarization Sensitivity in the VUV Range. Part I: Pre-flight Calibration
The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP) is a sounding rocket experiment designed to measure for the first time the linear polarization of the hydrogen Lyman-
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A Study of the Coronal Non-thermal Velocity in Polar Regions During the Rise from Solar Minimum to Solar Maximum in Cycle 24
We explore the changes in coronal non-thermal velocity (V nt) measurements at the poles from solar minimum to solar maximum using Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer data. We find that althoug...
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Open AccessFluvoxamine alleviates ER stress via induction of Sigma-1 receptor
We recently demonstrated that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress induces sigma-1 receptor (Sig-1R) expression through the PERK pathway, which is one of the cell’s responses to ER stress. In addition, it has bee...
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Superconductivity in Fe1+d Te0.9Se0.1 Induced by Deintercalation of Excess Fe Using Alcoholic Beverage Treatment
Superconductivity in polycrystalline Fe1+d Te0.9Se0.1 was enhanced by heating in alcoholic beverages. We found that part of the excess Fe was deintercalated from the interlayer sites by th...
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Abrasive wear resistance of spheroidal vanadium carbide cast irons
The effect of the chemical composition and heat treatment on the microstructure and abrasive wear resistance of V-Mn, V-Ni-Cr, and V-Mo spheroidal vanadium carbide cast irons (18–23 vol %) has been studied. Th...
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Dual-Energy CT Composition Images for Visualization of Acute Cerebral Stroke in Emergency
Traditionally, it has been difficult to visualize acute cerebral infarction from images produced by X-ray computed tomography (CT). This study proposed to visualize acute cerebral infarction using dual-energy ...
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Production of High-Temperature Plasmas During the Early Phases of a C9.7 Flare. II. Bi-directional Flows Suggestive of Reconnection in a Pre-flare Brightening Region
The 6 June 2007 16:55 UT flare was well observed with high time-cadence sparse raster scans by the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board the Hinode spacecraft. The observation covers an active region area of 24...
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Negative predictors of clinical response to triptans in patients with migraine
Moderate to severe migraine attacks are treated with triptans. However, about 25% of migraineurs fail to respond to triptans. We investigated the involvement of gene polymorphisms, personality traits and chara...
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In vivo delivery of interferon-α gene enhances tumor immunity and suppresses immunotolerance in reconstituted lymphopenic hosts
T cells recognize tumor-associated antigens under the condition of lymphopenia-induced homeostatic proliferation (HP); however, HP-driven antitumor responses gradually decay in association with tumor growth. T...
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Coronal-Temperature-Diagnostic Capability of the Hinode/X-Ray Telescope Based on Self-Consistent Calibration
The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Hinode satellite is an X-ray imager that observes the solar corona with unprecedentedly high angular resolution (consistent with its 1″ pixel size). XRT has nine X-ray analys...
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Modeling of EIS Spectrum Drift from Instrumental Temperatures
An empirical model has been developed to reproduce the drift of the spectrum recorded by the EIS on Hinode using instrumental temperatures and relative motion of the spacecraft. The EIS spectrum shows an artifici...
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Response of the Solar Atmosphere to the Emergence of ‘Serpentine’ Magnetic Field
Active region magnetic flux that emerges to the photosphere from below will show complexity in the structure, with many small-scale fragmented features appearing in between the main bipole and then disappearin...
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Simultaneous magneto-optical trap** of lithium and ytterbium atoms towards production of ultracold polar molecules
We have successfully implemented the first simultaneous magneto-optical trap** (MOT) of lithium (6Li) and ytterbium (174Yb) atoms towards production of ultracold polar molecules of LiYb. For this purpose, we de...
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Comparison of Nitrogen Dry Deposition on Cedar and Oak Leaves in the Tama Hills Using Foliar Rinsing Method
Amount of nitrogen (N) dry deposition on the leaf surface of oak and cedar was compared using throughfall method and foliar rinsing method. The study was conducted at FM Tamakyuryo, located at the northeast ed...
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Oncolytic virus therapy for pancreatic cancer using the adenovirus library displaying random peptides on the fiber knob
A conditionally replicative adenovirus is a novel anticancer agent designed to replicate selectively in tumor cells. However, a leak of the virus into systemic circulation from the tumors often causes ectopic ...
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Open AccessEIS/Hinode Observations of Doppler Flow Seen through the 40-Arcsec Wide-Slit
The Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode is the first solar telescope to obtain wide-slit spectral images that can be used for detecting Doppler flows in transition region and coronal lin...
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The Solar Optical Telescope of Solar-B (Hinode): The Optical Telescope Assembly
The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard the Solar-B satellite (Hinode) is designed to perform high-precision photometric and polarimetric observations of the Sun in visible light spectra (388 – 668 nm) with a sp...
