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Oligonucleotide-targeting periostin ameliorates pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal disease with a median survival of 3–4 years after diagnosis. It is the most frequent form of a group of interstitial pneumonias of unknown etiology. Current avail...
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Thickness Change in Molecularly Thin Lubricant Under Flying Head in Hard Disk Drives
In hard disk drives (HDDs), lubricants on disks are very important material to reduce head and disk wear. Thus, it is necessary to know changes in lubricant thickness to keep lubricant thickness constant on ro...
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Change of crystalline structure of single crystal metals by nano/micro plastic forming
In this paper, plastic deformation properties and recrystallization process of single crystal metallic materials are studied, where the scale of deformation is in the micrometer range. Nano plastic forming tes...
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A lattice Boltzmann method for a two-phase flow containing solid bodies with viscoelastic membranes
A lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for two-phase flows containing solid bodies with viscoelastic membranes is proposed. The method is based on the two-phase LBM, in which one phase is regarded as the solid phase...
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Control of optical transmittance by nano plastic forming
This paper reports a new method to control optical transmittance of a glass plate by means of nano plastic forming. Nano plastic forming is a newly developed process to fabricate nano/micro structures on the s...
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3-D imaging and quantitative comparison of human dentitions and simulated bite marks
This study presents a technique developed for 3-D imaging and quantitative comparison of human dentitions and simulated bite marks. A sample of 42 study models and the corresponding bites, made by the same sub...
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Water uptake and infrared absorption in SrZr0.95M0.05O3-a (M=Ga, Sc, Y and Nd)
Proton concentration in SrZr0.95M0.05O3-α (M=Ga, Sc, Y and Nd) was measured with a thermobalance at different temperatures (T=673-973 K) and water vapor pressures (PH2O=0.9-12.8 kPa). At all the pressures and tem...
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Characterization of single L-type Ca2+ channels in myocytes isolated from the cricket lateral oviduct
The single Ca2+ channel activity was obtained from cell-attached patch recordings with the use of pipettes filled with 100 mM Ba2+ as the charge carrier in myocytes isolated from the lateral oviduct of cricket Gr...
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Effects of diffusion on lubricant distribution under flying headon thin-film disks
Lubricants on thin-film disks have large effects on head–disk interface characteristics. They reduce head and disk wear while thick lubricant film increases friction force between them and lubricant transfer o...
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L-type Ca2+ channel and Ca2+-permeable nonselective cation channel as a Ca2+ conducting pathway in myocytes isolated from the cricket lateral oviduct
The Ca2+-conducting pathway of myocytes isolated from the cricket lateral oviduct was investigated by means of the whole-cell patch clamp technique. In voltage-clamp configuration, two types of whole cell inward ...
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Electrical Conductivity of Cu-Doped ZnO and its Change with Hydrogen Implantation
The do** effects of Cu on the electrical conductivity of ZnO were studied in the simple binary system through the ac impedance spectroscopy. The Cu do** decreased the electrical conductivity of ZnO by seve...
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Laparoscopic hepatectomy for extrahepatic growing tumor
Background: This article describes the operative procedures, varying difficulties, and required instrumentation for performing laparoscopic hepatectomy (LH) on the basis of a lesion's extrahepatic growing (EG)...
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Flow Characteristics of Metal with Phase Transformation and Prediction of Its Microstructure
We propose a flow-stress characteristic of SUS430F steel that takes in account the effects of temperature, strain rate and their deformation history. In the framework of this characteristic, the history effect...
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A new database of mitochondrial DNA hypervariable regions I and II sequences from 162 Japanese individuals
A database of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) hypervariable region 1 (HV1) and region 2 (HV2) sequences of the mtDNA control region was established from 162 unrelated Japanese individuals. The random match probabili...
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Chloride Conductance Determining Membrane Potential of Rabbit Articular Chondrocytes
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Single K+ channels in endocrine cells dispersed from the cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus) corpora allata
Single channel currents were recorded from cell-attached patches of endocrine cells of the adult male cricket corpora allata. Three distinct types of K+ channels were identified; a weak inward rectifier (Type 1)...
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A Na+-dependent electrogenic glutamate transporter current in voltage-clamped cells of corpora allata in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus
Application of L-glutamate (1 mM) to corpora allata cells of the adult male cricket Gryllus bimaculatus caused a membrane depolarization of 5.9±0.3 mV (mean±SE) from a resting potential of –62.2±1.3 mV (n=57). T...
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Mental disturbances during isolation in bone marrow transplant patients with leukemia
The mental status of 39 leukemia patients, who received bone marrow transplants (BMT), was studied during the period of isolation. Mental disorders (diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria) occurred in 16 patie...
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Encapsulation of nitrophenol into AIPO4-5: Effect of isomers on optical second harmonic generations
Three isomers of nitrophenol molecules were loaded in one-dimensional channels of AlPO4-5 by vapor-phase diffusion process. The resulting materials (o-NP/,m-NP/ and p-NP/AlPO4-5) have been characterized by thermo...
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Diagnosis of the first Japanese patient with 3-oxo-Δ4-steroid 5β-reductase deficiency by use of immunoblot analysis
A 3-oxo-Δ4-steroid 5β-reductase (5β-reductase) deficiency is difficult to diagnose because severe liver damage can result in a similar pattern of metabolite excretion. We investigated the usefulness of immunoblot...
