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    Novel protective effect of the FOXO3 longevity genotype on mechanisms of cellular aging in Okinawans

    The genetic association of FOXO3 genotypes with human longevity is well established, although the mechanism is not fully understood. We now report on the relationship of the FOXO3 longevity variant rs2802292 with...

    Trevor H. Torigoe, D. Craig Willcox, Michio Shimabukuro, Moritake Higa in npj Aging (2024)

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    Efficacy and safety of add-on mirogabalin to conventional therapy for the treatment of peripheral neuropathic pain after thoracic surgery: the multicenter, randomized, open-label ADMIT-NeP study

    For chronic pain after thoracic surgery, optimal timing of its diagnosis and effective treatment remains unresolved, although several treatment options are currently available. We examined the efficacy and saf...

    Takuro Miyazaki, Keitaro Matsumoto, Toshihiko Sato, Isao Sano in BMC Cancer (2024)

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    Molecular Imaging of PD-1 Unveils Unknown Characteristics of PD-1 Itself by Visualizing “PD-1 Microclusters”

    Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) is one of the most famous coinhibitory receptors that are expressed on effector T cells to regulate their function. The PD-1 ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2, are expressed by various ce...

    Wataru Nishi, Ei Wakamatsu in Basic Immunology and Its Clinical Applicat… (2024)

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    Pan-cancer methylome analysis for cancer diagnosis and classification of cancer cell of origin

    The accurate and early diagnosis and classification of cancer origin from either tissue or liquid biopsy is crucial for selecting the appropriate treatment and reducing cancer-related mortality. Here, we estab...

    Dai Shimizu, Kenzui Taniue, Yusuke Matsui, Hiroshi Haeno in Cancer Gene Therapy (2022)

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    A single-arm, phase 2 study of adjuvant chemotherapy with oral tegafur-uracil for pathologically lymphovascular invasion positive stage IA non-small cell lung cancer: LOGIK0602 study

    Lymphovascular invasion (LVI), which includes vascular or lymphatic invasions, is a representative prognostic factor even in patients with resected stage IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Because tegafur-...

    Tomoshi Tsuchiya, Ryotaro Kamohara, Masashi Muraoka, Takeshi Nagayasu in BMC Cancer (2020)

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    LC–MS/MS-based metabolome analysis detected changes in the metabolic profiles of small and large intestinal adenomatous polyps in Apc Min/+ mice

    The adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene is a tumor suppressor gene that is inactivated in the initiation of colorectal neoplasia. Apc Min/+ mice, which ...

    Makoto Suzuki, Shin Nishiumi, Takashi Kobayashi, Takeshi Azuma in Metabolomics (2016)

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    Aberrant methylation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor type 2B (NMDAR2B) in non-small cell carcinoma

    N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDAR) act as tumor suppressors of digestive malignancies. The expression and genetic methylation patterns of NMDAR2B in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are unknown.

    Hajime Tamura, Makoto Suzuki, Yasumitsu Moriya, Hidehisa Hoshino in BMC Cancer (2011)

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    Rice-Arabidopsis FOX line screening with FT-NIR-based fingerprinting for GC-TOF/MS-based metabolite profiling

    The full-length cDNA over-expressing (FOX) gene hunting system is useful for genome-wide gain-of-function analysis. The screening of FOX lines requires a high-throughput metabolomic method that can detect a wi...

    Makoto Suzuki, Miyako Kusano, Hideki Takahashi, Yumiko Nakamura in Metabolomics (2010)

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    Spontaneous regression of bone metastasis from renal cell carcinoma; A case report

    Spontaneous regression of metastatic renal cell carcinoma is rarely observed.

    Takahiro Nakajima, Makoto Suzuki, Soichiro Ando, Tomohiko Iida, Akinobu Araki in BMC Cancer (2006)

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    Modulation of actomyosin motor function by 1-hexanol

    This study examines the effects of 1-hexanol as a perturbing agent on actomyosin ATPase and its related functions in the concentration range between 0 and 20 mM. In this range the denaturation of myosin subfra...

    Hideyuki Komatsu, Taeko Shigeoka, Tetsuo Ohno in Journal of Muscle Research & Cell Motility (2004)

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    A new pseudo-peptide of Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) with inhibitory effect on tumor metastasis and enzymatic degradation of extracellular matrix

    A series of pseudo-peptide analogs of the Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) sequence of fibronectin have been synthe-sized, and their anti-metastatic effects in mice and inhibitory effects on tumor cell invasion in vitro have...

    Hideki Fujii, Naoyuki Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Komazawa in Clinical & Experimental Metastasis (1998)