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The classical organ culture method, in which tissue is placed at the gas‒liquid interphase, is effective at inducing mouse spermatogenesis. However, due to reginal variations in the supply of oxygen and nutrie...
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Open AccessGeneration of rat offspring using spermatids produced through in vitro spermatogenesis
An in vitro spermatogenesis method using mouse testicular tissue to produce fertile sperm was established more than a decade ago. Although this culture method has generally not been effective in other animal s...
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Long-term functional outcome after untethering surgery for a tethered spinal cord in patients with anorectal malformations
Anorectal malformation (ARM) is associated with a tethered spinal cord (TSC). Long-term functional outcome of untethering surgery for TSC in patients with ARM has not been well evaluated.
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Parsing human skeletons in an operating room
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Thoracoscopic repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia with countermeasures against reported complications for safe outcomes comparable to laparotomy
Thoracoscopic repair is the preferred treatment for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH); however, several complications, including visceral injury, hypercapnia, and a high incidence of recurrence, have been ...
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Extended Co-occurrence HOG with Dense Trajectories for Fine-Grained Activity Recognition
In this paper we propose a novel feature descriptor Extended Co-occurrence HOG (ECoHOG) and integrate it with dense point trajectories demonstrating its usefulness in fine grained activity recognition. This fe...
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Self-reported assessment of health-related quality of life in children who underwent restorative proctocolectomy with ileal J-pouch anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis
To clarify health-related quality of life (HRQOL) by self-evaluation after restorative proctocolectomy with ileal J-pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA) in children with ulcerative colitis, a questionnaire using the ...
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Aiming at improvements of both stability of slider flying and magnetic-recording performance under a low-clearance condition, a “narrow-grooved slider” was constructed and demonstrated at drive level. The prop...
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The 13-year-old boy underwent tumor enucleation for pancreatic head insulinoma close to the pancreatic main duct after a preoperative endoscopic pancreatic stent placed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancre...
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HsMAD2 mRNA expression may be a predictor of sensitivity to paclitaxel and survival in neuroblastoma
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Study of fatigue crack nucleation processes by crystalline FE analysis
In order to accumulate knowledge about how material compositions and manufacturing methods affect fatigue strength, this paper investigates the relationship between the swiftness of the changes in the macrosc...
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Five familial hypercholesterolemic kindreds in Japan with novel mutations of the LDL receptor gene
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We study thermally induced meridional circulations of a Boussinesq fluid between two horizontal rotating disks which have axisymmetric temperature distributions and mutually slightly different angular velociti...
