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Effect of Seasonality on Rates of Gregarine Infection in Workers of a Social Wasp Polybia Paulista (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)
Social insects face strong selection from parasites because the conditions of group living often favor the transmission of infection among nestmates. However, there is little detailed information on the effect...
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Open AccessCharge-Stripe Order and Superconductivity in Ir1−xPtxTe2
A combined resistivity and hard x-ray diffraction study of superconductivity and charge ordering in Ir Ir1−xPtxTe2, as a function of Pt substitution and externally applied hydrostatic pressure, is presented. Expe...
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Unrelated cord blood transplantation in aplastic anemia: is anti-thymocyte globulin indispensable for conditioning?
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Open AccessTemperature dependent local atomic displacements in ammonia intercalated iron selenide superconductor
Recently, ammonia-thermal reaction has been used for molecular intercalation in layered FeSe, resulting a new Lix(NH3)yFe2Se2 superconductor with Tc ~ 45 K. Here, we have used temperature dependent extended x-ray...
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Open AccessObservation of momentum-resolved charge fluctuations proximate to the charge-order phase using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
In strongly correlated electron systems, enhanced fluctuations in the proximity of the ordered states of electronic degrees of freedom often induce anomalous electronic properties such as unconventional superc...
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Second allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children with severe aplastic anemia
The outcome of 55 children with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) who received a second hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) was retrospectively analyzed using the registration data of the Japanese Societ...
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Impaired hematopoietic differentiation of RUNX1-mutated induced pluripotent stem cells derived from FPD/AML patients
Somatic mutation of RUNX1 is implicated in various hematological malignancies, including myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and previous studies using mouse models disclosed its critical r...
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Excess treatment reduction including anthracyclines results in higher incidence of relapse in core binding factor acute myeloid leukemia in children
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Long-term outcome of childhood aplastic anemia patients who underwent allogeneic hematopoietic SCT from an HLA-matched sibling donor in Japan
We report long-term outcomes of 329 childhood severe aplastic anemia (SAA) patients who underwent hematopoietic SCT (HSCT) from an HLA-matched sibling donor in the Japanese Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation R...
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Estimates of Genetic Relatedness Among Males in a Polygynous Wasp
Cyclical oligogyny is considered to be the mechanism that is most likely to be responsible for stabilizing cooperation in polygynous, epiponine wasps, in which single-queen colonies produce new queens and mult...
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Inhibition of Gli1 results in altered c-Jun activation, inhibition of cisplatin-induced upregulation of ERCC1, XPD and XRCC1, and inhibition of platinum–DNA adduct repair
The transcription of ERCC1 and other nucleotide excision repair (NER) genes is strongly influenced by c-jun. C-jun is transcriptionally regulated by Gli proteins of the Hedgehog pathway. We therefore studied t...
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Orbital Degeneracy, Jahn–Teller Effect, and Superconductivity in Transition-Metal Chalcogenides
We have studied the electronic structure of FeSe1−x Te x and Ir1−x Pt x Te2 using photoemission spectroscopy. F...
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Application of Microsatellite Primers Developed for Polistes in the Independent-Founding Wasp Polists satan Bequaert (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)
Microsatellite primers developed for a given species are sometimes useful for another in the same genus and in other genera within the same family, making possible to search for pre-existing suitable primers i...
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Effect of food availability on larval cannibalism by foundresses of the paper wasp Polistes chinensis antennalis
Cannibalism is a behavioral trait seen in a number of species and can be favored when the fitness gain outweighs the cost. In social wasps, field studies have suggested that food limitation causes larval canni...
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Open AccessPhase I study of irinotecan and gefitinib in patients with gefitinib treatment failure for non-small cell lung cancer
Currently, no effective treatments exist for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after failure of gefitinib therapy. Pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that gefitinib-resistant NSCLC cells are more sensitiv...
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Open AccessActivin A inhibits vascular endothelial cell growth and suppresses tumour angiogenesis in gastric cancer
Activin A is a multi-functional cytokine belonging to the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) superfamily; however, the effect of activin A on angiogenesis remains largely unclear. We found that inhibin β A subu...
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Voriconazole for both successful treatment of disseminated Trichosporon asahii infection and subsequent cord blood transplantation in an infant with acute myelogenous leukemia
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Open AccessSocioeconomic impact relating to clinical condition on Pandemic (H1N1) Influenza
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Comparison of matched-sibling donor BMT and unrelated donor BMT in children and adolescent with acquired severe aplastic anemia
From January 1991 to March 2007, 61 children and adolescent with acquired severe aplastic anemia received BMT in our institutions. We retrospectively compared the outcome of 30 cases of matched-sibling donor B...
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Improved outcome of refractory Langerhans cell histiocytosis in children with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Japan
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) that is refractory to conventional chemotherapy has a poor outcome. Hematopoietic stem cell transplanta tion (SCT) is a promising approach for refractory LCH because of its ...
