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    Contamination Status of Seven Elements in Hooded Cranes Wintering in South-West Kyushu, Japan: Comparison with Red-Crowned Cranes in Hokkaido, Japan

    The hooded crane is designated as an endangered species. The cranes breed primarily in wetlands in southeast Russia and China in summer. Most of the hooded crane population winters in the Izumi plain in Japan....

    Hiroki Teraoka, Hasumi Miyagi in Archives of Environmental Contamination an… (2018)

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    Protective effect of Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharide against carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatic damage in precision-cut carp liver slices

    The aim of the present study was to investigate the protective effects of Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharide (GLPS) against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatotoxicity in vitro in common carp. Precision-cut ...

    Yingjuan Liu, Chunyun Zhang, **liang Du, Rui Jia in Fish Physiology and Biochemistry (2017)

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    Regulation of Heart Contractility by M2 and M3 Muscarinic Receptors: Functional Studies Using Muscarinic Receptor Knockout Mouse

    To investigate the functional roles of M2 and M3 muscarinic receptors in mouse atria, wild-type mice, muscarinic M2 or M3 single receptor knockout mice (M2KO, M3KO), and M2 and M3 muscarinic receptor double knock...

    Takio Kitazawa, Hiroki Teraoka, Nao Harada in Muscarinic Receptor: From Structure to Ani… (2016)

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    Changes of Mercury Contamination in Red-Crowned Cranes, Grus japonensis, in East Hokkaido, Japan

    Red-crowned cranes (Grus japonensis) are native to eastern Hokkaido (island population), in contrast to the mainland, which migrates between the Amur River basin and eastern China–Korea peninsula. During the 1990...

    Hiroki Teraoka, Yukari Tagami, Moe Kudo in Archives of Environmental Contamination an… (2012)

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    Heavy Metal Accumulation in Lake Sediments, Fish (Oreochromis niloticus and Serranochromis thumbergi), and Crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) in Lake Itezhi-tezhi and Lake Kariba, Zambia

    We measured the level of heavy metal accumulation in lake sediments, herbivorous (Oreochromis niloticus) and carnivorous (Serranochromis thumbergi) fish, and crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) from Lake Itezhi-tez...

    Shouta M. M. Nakayama, Yoshinori Ikenaka in Archives of Environmental Contamination an… (2010)

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    Myeloid sarcoma in essential thrombocythemia that transformed into acute myeloid leukemia

    A 72-year-old man was diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia (ET) and was treated with hydroxyurea for approximately 5 years. He was well until April 2007. In May 2007, a slight fall in hemoglobin levels was...

    Hisaharu Shikata, Takuya Matumoto, Hiroki Teraoka in International Journal of Hematology (2009)

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    Muscarinic receptor subtypes involved in carbachol-induced contraction of mouse uterine smooth muscle

    Functional muscarinic acetylcholine receptors present in the mouse uterus were characterized by pharmacological and molecular biological studies using control (DDY and wild-type) mice, muscarinic M2 or M3 single ...

    Takio Kitazawa, Ryuichi Hirama in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmaco… (2008)