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Prediction of pouchitis after ileal pouch–anal anastomosis in patients with ulcerative colitis using artificial intelligence and deep learning
Pouchitis is one of the major postoperative complications of ulcerative colitis (UC), and it is still difficult to predict the development of pouchitis after ileal pouch–anal anastomosis (IPAA) in UC patients....
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Three-year denosumab treatment in postmenopausal Japanese women and men with osteoporosis: results from a 1-year open-label extension of the Denosumab Fracture Intervention Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial (DIRECT)
A 12-month extension phase of DIRECT in Japanese subjects with osteoporosis showed that total 3 years of denosumab treatment in Japanese postmenopausal women and men with osteoporosis was associated with low f...
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Difference in the ratio of high-molecular weight (HMW) to total adiponectin and HMW adiponectin in late post-menopausal women
Objective: High-molecular weight (HMW) isoform level and HMW ratio have been shown to be better predictors of insulin sensitivity and metabolic syndrome than total adiponectin level. We examined ...
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Formation of positive and negative anisotropic holographic gratings depending on recording energy in photoreactive liquid crystalline copolymer films
Anisotropic diffractive gratings formed by birefringent molecular alignment are fabricated by a holographic technique using a photo-cross-linkable liquid crystalline copolymer (PLCCP). Depending on the exposur...
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Identification of an ovarian clear cell carcinoma gene signature that reflects inherent disease biology and the carcinogenic processes
Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) shows unique clinical features including an association with endometriosis and poor prognosis. We previously reported that the contents of endometriotic cysts, especially hi...
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Exercise blood pressure in young adults as a predictor of future blood pressure: a 12-year follow-up of medical school graduates
It has not been fully clarified whether exercise blood pressure (BP) in young adult men and women is useful to predict future BP, especially in Asian people. A long-term prospective study was conducted in grad...
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Global Existence of Two-Dimensional Navier—Stokes Flow with Nondecaying Initial Velocity
A global-in-time unique smooth solution is constructed for the Cauchy problem of the Navier—Stokes equations in the plane when initial velocity field is merely bounded not necessary square-integrable. The pro...
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Analysis of Anionic Polymer Dispersant Behavior in Dense Silicon Nitride and Carbide Suspensions Using an AFM
The paper focuses on the interaction mechanism caused by anionic polymer dispersants in dense silicon nitride and silicon carbide suspensions. An atomic force microscope (AFM) was used to determine the relatio...
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The promotive effect of applying mixtures of (S)-(+)-abscisic acid and gibberellic acid on flowering in long-day plants
Application of mixtures of natural type abscisic acid,(S)-(+)-abscisic acid (SABA), and gibberellic acid (GA3)promoted floral-bud initiation and flowering in the long-day plants, spinach,pansy, primrose and petun...
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Manipulation of an atomic beam by a computer-generated hologram
TECHNIQUES for manipulating neutral atoms are valuable tools for the investigation of surfaces, and hold promise for the fabrication of atomic structures for technological applications. The ability to position...
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Nanolithography Developed Through Electron Beam Induced Surface Reaction
Nanolithography has been studied by using electron beam technology. Ten-nm linewidth PMMA resist patterns have been demonstrated by 50 kV scanning electron beam. The self-develo** properties of a AlF3 doped LiF...
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Isolation of a full-length cDNA clone for human GTP cyclohydrolase I type 1 from pheochromocytoma
Although the existence of three different cDNA forms of human GTP cyclohydrolase I (GCH I) have been reported (Togari et al., 1992), the full-length sequence of any human GCH I cDNA involving poly (A) tail has...
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Effect of epidermal growth factor on cadherin-mediated adhesion in a human oesophageal cancer cell line
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) mediates many pleiotrophic biological effects, one of which is alteration of cellular morphology. In the present study, we examine the possibility that this alteration in cell mor...
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Annual variation in the growth rate of Yoldia notabilis (Bivalvia: Nuculanidae) in Otsuchi Bay, northeastern Japan, analyzed using shell microgrowth patterns
Annual variation in the growth rate of the protobranch bivalve Yoldia notabilis (collected in Otsuchi Bay, northeastern Japan between 1989 and 1991) was determined by measuring shell length at successive growth l...
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Immunohistochemical evaluation of alpha-catenin expression in human gastric cancer
E-cadherin (E-cad) plays a major role in the maintenance of cell-cell adhesion in epithelial tissues, and impaired E-cad expression correlates with tumour invasion and metastasis. Alpha-catenin (α-cat), an und...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Immunohistochemical Evaluation of E-Cadherin and α-Catenin Expression in Human Esophageal Cancer
Tumor metastasis is initiated by disaggregation of invasive cells from the primary tumor - a step that requires a breakdown of intercellular adhesion. To investigate the mechanism of dysfunction in cell-cell a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Immunohistochemical Evaluation of α-Catenin, Cadherin-Associated Intercellular Protein, Expression in Human Gastric Cancer
Immunohistochemical study of α-catenin, cadherin associated intercellular protein, was performed in 36 human gastric cancer tissues. All normal epithelium strongly expressed α-catenin as well as E- cadherin, w...
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Three dimensional ultrasonography of ocular region
A spiral scan is introduced to collect three dimensional (3D) data of the ocular region so that it may give uniformly-spaced echo data with enough resolution and that the cross-sectional image of any specified...
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High-Efeiciency Creep-Feed Grinding of Advanced Ceramics
The application of advanced ceramics for mechanical parts is being increased. The grinding of advanced ceramics is however, quite difficult and inefficient due to their high degree of hardness and brittleness....
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Residual Stress in GaAs Layer Grown on 4°-Off (100)Si by MBE
Residual stress in molecular beam epitaxially (MBE) grown GaAs films on 4°-off (100)Si substrates is investigated with X-ray diffraction technique. It is experimentally confirmed that the GaAs lattice suffers ...
