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Open AccessMulticenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study of mogamulizumab with open-label extension study in a minimum number of patients with human T-cell leukemia virus type-1-associated myelopathy
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease. This multicenter, randomized phase 3 study evaluated the efficac...
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Dramatic improvement in refractory myasthenia gravis with eculizumab treatment: a case report
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Open AccessSystematic reduction of gray matter volume in anorexia nervosa, but relative enlargement with clinical symptoms in the prefrontal and posterior insular cortices: a multicenter neuroimaging study
Although brain morphological abnormalities have been reported in anorexia nervosa (AN), the reliability and reproducibility of previous studies were limited due to insufficient sample sizes, which prevented ex...
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Superior cerebellar peduncle atrophy of progressive supranuclear palsy on phase difference enhanced imaging: a comparison with Parkinson’s disease
Phase difference enhanced (PADRE) imaging can enhance myelin density and delineate the superior cerebellar peduncle (SCP). We aimed to determine if SCP atrophy was distinguishable on PADRE imaging and evaluate...
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Open AccessOptic radiation atrophy in Lewy body disease with visual hallucination on phase difference enhanced magnetic resonance images
Visual hallucinations (VH) occur commonly in Lewy body disease (LBD), including Parkinson’s disease (PD), PD with dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies. We aimed to use phase difference enhanced imaging (PAD...
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Open AccessRapid and comprehensive diagnostic method for repeat expansion diseases using nanopore sequencing
We developed a diagnostic method for repeat expansion diseases using a long-read sequencer to improve currently available, low throughput diagnostic methods. We employed the real-time target enrichment system ...
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Open AccessCSF GAP-43 as a biomarker of synaptic dysfunction is associated with tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease
To test whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) growth-associated protein 43 (GAP-43) concentration is elevated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia and its associations with other hallmarks of AD, we examined the C...
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Effects of pulse duration on laser-induced crystallization of urea from 300 to 1200 fs: impact of cavitation bubbles on crystal nucleation
The dependence of pulse duration on crystal nucleation of urea induced by laser ablation of liquid was studied. The focused irradiation with laser pulses with all the duration conditions in this study (from 30...
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A complex resistance locus in Solanum americanum recognizes a conserved Phytophthora effector
Late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans greatly constrains potato production. Many Resistance (R) genes were cloned from wild Solanum species and/or introduced into potato cultivars by breeding. However, ind...
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Hippocampal sclerosis without visually detectable hippocampal MRI abnormalities: automated subfield volumetric analysis
This study aims to investigate hippocampal subfield volumes in patients with hippocampal sclerosis (HS) without visually detectable MRI abnormalities and to determine the diagnostic accuracy using hippocampal ...
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Potential usefulness of signal intensity of cerebral gyri on quantitative susceptibility map** for discriminating corticobasal degeneration from progressive supranuclear palsy and Parkinson’s disease
The typical MRI findings in corticobasal degeneration (CBD), which have been described in previous reports, may be non-specific. We evaluated cerebral gyri (CG) using quantitative susceptibility map** (QSM) ...
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Open AccessSrc inhibition attenuates polyglutamine-mediated neuromuscular degeneration in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the androgen receptor (AR) gene. Here, we perform a comprehensive analysis of signaling pathways in a mo...
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A resistosome-activated ‘death switch’
Pathogen perception triggers a monomeric nucleotide-binding leucine-rich plant immune receptor to form a pentameric wheel-like complex termed a resistosome, with the N-terminal α helices forming a funnel-shape...
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Open AccessTandem-genotypes: robust detection of tandem repeat expansions from long DNA reads
Tandemly repeated DNA is highly mutable and causes at least 31 diseases, but it is hard to detect pathogenic repeat expansions genome-wide. Here, we report robust detection of human repeat expansions from care...
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Open AccessNeural correlates of body comparison and weight estimation in weight-recovered anorexia nervosa: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study
The neural mechanisms underlying body dissatisfaction and emotional problems evoked by social comparisons in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) are currently unclear. Here, we elucidate patterns of brain acti...
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Open AccessSystemic overexpression of SQSTM1/p62 accelerates disease onset in a SOD1H46R-expressing ALS mouse model
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by a selective loss of upper and lower motor neurons. Recent studies have shown that mutations in SQSTM1 are linked to ...
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Promotion of protein crystal growth by actively switching crystal growth mode via femtosecond laser ablation
The protein crystal growth mechanism can be changed from planar 2D nucleation growth to spiral growth by femtosecond laser ablation. By using this method, the growth rate of a hen egg-white lysozyme crystal in...
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Zebra sign of precentral gyri in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A novel finding using phase difference enhanced (PADRE) imaging-initial results
We compared the precentral gyri (PG) on the PADRE of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and healthy subjects (HSs) in order to determine whether it is possible to discriminate between ALS patien...
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Open AccessFUS/TLS acts as an aggregation-dependent modifier of polyglutamine disease model mice
FUS/TLS is an RNA/DNA-binding protein associated with neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Previously, we found that a prion-like domain in ...
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In Vivo Phosphorylation of WRKY Transcription Factor by MAPK
Plants activate signaling networks in response to diverse pathogen-derived signals, facilitating transcriptional reprogramming through mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades. Identification of phosph...
