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The stability of epigenetic factor ASXL1 is regulated through ubiquitination and USP7-mediated deubiquitination
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C-reactive protein predicts incident fracture in community-dwelling elderly Japanese women: the Muramatsu study
In a 6-year cohort study of 751 community-dwelling elderly Japanese women, we found that C-reactive protein (CRP) is a significant predictor of osteoporotic fracture in elderly Asian women, who have significan...
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Vitamin D sufficiency is associated with low incidence of limb and vertebral fractures in community-dwelling elderly Japanese women: the Muramatsu Study
Data on the association between vitamin D status and osteoporotic fracture in Asians are sparse. We conducted a 6-year cohort study of 773 community-dwelling elderly Japanese women and found that serum 25-hydr...
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Prior nonhip limb fracture predicts subsequent hip fracture in institutionalized elderly people
This 1-year cohort study of nursing home residents revealed that historical fractures of upper limbs or nonhip lower limbs were associated with hip fracture (hazard ratio = 2.14), independent of activities of ...
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Fracture incidence in nursing homes in Japan
We conducted the first study to determine fracture incidence in institutionalized elderly people in East Asia. Fracture incidence was generally higher than in the general population but was not for all fractur...
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Lymphoid blast crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia occurring more than 11 years after receiving an allogeneic bone marrow transplant for chronic myelogenous leukemia in myeloid blast crisis at onset
A 25-year-old male developed lymphoid blast crisis (BC) of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) more than 11 years after receiving an allogeneic bone marrow transplant (alloBMT) for CML with myeloid BC at presen...
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Identification of the proto-oncogene c-fos in areas of periprosthetic osteolysis around loosened hip prostheses
Expression of the proto-oncogene c-fos was investigated by in situ hybridization and a study of the immunohistochemistry of the interfacial membranes surrounding the femoral component of failed cementless tot...
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Prevalence of dry eye in Japanese eye centers
• Background: The purpose of the investigation was to ascertain the prevalence of dry eye in new outpatients. • Methods: A total of 2127 consecutive new outpatients seen in eight Japanese centers from April 19...
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Canal-expansive laminoplasty in 83 patients with cervical myelopathy
We have reviewed 83 patients who had undergone canal-expansive laminoplasty for the treatment of cervical myelopathy between 1982 and 1991. The procedures used for laminoplasty were a Z-plasty in 35 patients, ...
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Anterior cervical fusion with the Caspar instrumentation system
We reviewed 106 consecutive patients who had undergone anterior cervical fusion with the Caspar instrumentation system between 1984 and 1989. Preoperative diagnoses were cervical spondylosis in 73 patients, a ...