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Development of prespore vacuoles inDictyostelium cells differentiating in a liquid shake culture
When shaken in a glucose-albumin-cyclic AMP medium, dissociated aggregative cells form small clumps in which prespore cells differentiate fairly synchronously (Okamoto 1981). Formation of prespore vacuoles (PSVs)...
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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 ...
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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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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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In Vitro Biocompatibility Testing of Collagen-Calcium Phosphate Composites Using Human Bone Derived Osteoblasts
Human bone derived osteoblasts were cultured on collagen-calcium phosphate composites. The ability of the substrates to support cell attachment, proliferation and bone formation was assessed using histochemica...
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Retrovirally transduced bone marrow stromal cells isolated from a mouse model of human osteogenesis imperfecta (oim) persist in bone and retain the ability to form cartilage and bone after extended passaging
Bone marrow stromal cells isolated from a model of osteogenesis imperfecta (oim) mice, were transduced with a retrovirus (BAG) carrying the LacZ and neor genes after passage 21. The transduced cells retained the ...
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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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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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Formation of the micro-sized grains under influence of the nanosecond laser pulses
The occurrence of a periodic photo-induced grating having about 3.2-μm period and modulation heights up to 150 nm is discovered here under the irradiation of 10-ns 1,064-nm laser pulses with Ag nano-particles ...
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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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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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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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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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Fluorescent and nonlinear optical features of CdTe quantum dots
The study of photoluminescence and nonlinear optical properties of red (emitted at 650 nm), yellow (emitted at 570 nm) and green (emitted at 530 nm) CdTe quantum dots (QD) spin coated on quartz substrate that ...
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Gold nanoparticles deposited on fluorine-doped tin oxide substrates as materials for laser operated optoelectronic devices
We have discovered occurrence of strong narrow spectral lines in gold nanoparticles deposited on fluorine-doped tin oxide substrates at wavelengths 410, 440 and 550 nm under influence of 808 nm wavelength lase...
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Photoinduced enhancement of optical second harmonic generation in LiB3O5 nanocrystallites embedded between the Ag/ITO electrodes
It is reported that there is substantial enhancement of the optical second harmonic generation (SHG) at 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser wavelength for LiB3O5 nanocrystatllites embedded into the electric field aligned photop...
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δ-BiB3O6:Pr3+: polymer nanocomposites deposited on substrates with silver nanoparticles for nonlinear optics
Composites containing nanocrystallites of novel rare earth doped borate δ-BiB3O6 and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) polymer are reported. Experimental studies of the third-order nonlinear refractive index n2, absorptio...
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The stability of epigenetic factor ASXL1 is regulated through ubiquitination and USP7-mediated deubiquitination
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Open AccessCD73 complexes with emmprin to regulate MMP-2 production from co-cultured sarcoma cells and fibroblasts
Interaction between cancer cells and fibroblasts mediated by extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer (emmprin, CD147) is important in the invasion and proliferation of cancer cells. However, the exact m...
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Flavonoids from Pulicaria vulgaris and Their Antimicrobial Activity