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Serum triglyceride levels and incidence of hypertension in a general Japanese population: ISSA-CKD study
The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between fasting and nonfasting serum triglyceride (TG) levels and the incidence of hypertension in a general Japanese population. We conducted a population...
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Analyses of the Posttranscriptional Regulation of CCN Genes: Approach to Multiple Steps of CCN2 Gene Expression
Cells generally control the concentration of mRNA via transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation, so the separate contributions of synthesis and degradation (decay) cannot be discriminated by the quant...
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Open AccessInduction of potassium channel regulator KCNE4 in a submandibular lymph node metastasis model
Cancer cells often metastasize to the lymph nodes (LNs) before disseminating throughout the body. Clinically, LN metastasis correlates with poor prognosis and influences treatment options. Many studies have sh...
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Open AccessCCN2-induced lymphangiogenesis is mediated by the integrin αvβ5–ERK pathway and regulated by DUSP6
Lymphangiogenesis is essential for the development of the lymphatic system and is important for physiological processes such as homeostasis, metabolism and immunity. Cellular communication network factor 2 (CC...
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Eating before bed and new-onset hypertension in a Japanese population: the Iki city epidemiological study of atherosclerosis and chronic kidney disease
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between eating before bed and the development of hypertension in a general Japanese population. We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort stud...
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Development of Resident Participation-Type Slope Measurement/Monitoring System in Mountain Region
In this paper, the authors proposed the “resident participation-type slope measurement and monitoring system” to detect the premonitory symptoms of sediment disasters in the mountainous area (Takasu Town, Fuku...
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Continuous lenalidomide treatment after bortezomib-melphalan-prednisolone therapy for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma
These are the results of phase II study of bortezomib-melphalan-prednisolone (VMP) induction therapy followed by lenalidomide-dexamethasone (Rd) consolidation and lenalidomide maintenance in transplant-ineligi...
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LSTM Neural Network for Fine-Granularity Estimation on Baseline Load of Fast Demand Response
In the future power system called Smart Grid, power generators using renewable energies will be widely introduced to the power grid and required to balance supply and demand on the grid quickly. Therefore, fas...
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LSTM Prediction on Sudden Occurrence of Maintenance Operation of Air-Conditioners in Real-Time Pricing Adaptive Control
Predicting the occurrence of embedded maintenance operations in building multi-type air-conditioners is desirable during the Real-Time Pricing (RTP) scheme in the future smart grid. The maintenance operation i...
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Contemporary Societies and Risk
We plan our safety measures under economic, personnel and time constraints. The extent of how far we take these measures depends on our acknowledgement of risk of whether we “stop because it is risky” or we “c...
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Risk Communication and Disaster Information
This chapter explains who needs to communicate about disaster risks and how. It also discusses what the critical information are especially in response to disasters and further how to educate people in prepara...
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Government Systems for Disaster Management
This chapter gives an overview of disaster prevention and mitigation, i.e., disaster management, activities by the government. Such activities by the central government involve a number of tasks including main...
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Analysis of Posttranscriptional Regulation of CCN Genes
Cells generally control the concentration of mRNA by transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation, so the separate contributions of synthesis and degradation (“decay”) cannot be discriminated by the quan...
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Factors prognostic of eligibility for allogeneic HCT among older patients with AML-CR1 and adverse- or intermediate-risk cytogenetics
The introduction of reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens has made possible allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, the optim...
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UGT1A1 *6 polymorphism predicts outcome in elderly patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with carboplatin, dexamethasone, etoposide and irinotecan
The uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) gene 1A1*6 polymorphism, which affects irinotecan metabolism, has been associated with improved survival in lymphoma patients treated with of carboplatin, ...
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Open AccessPotential anti-osteoporotic effects of herbal extracts on osteoclasts, osteoblasts and chondrocytes in vitro
Osteoporosis (OP) is one of the most serious diseases in the modern world, and OP patients frequently suffer from fragility fractures in the hip, spine and wrist, resulting in a limited quality of life. Althou...
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Retropharyngeal dissection: a case report of cervicofacial subcutaneous emphysema and mediastinal emphysema during attempted nasotracheal intubation
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Tumor protein D54 is a negative regulator of extracellular matrix-dependent migration and attachment in oral squamous cell carcinoma-derived cell lines
Tumor protein D54 (TPD54) belongs to the TPD52 family of proteins and is expressed in several types of cancer, including oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Here, we investigated relationships between various...
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Mature T/NK-cell lymphoproliferative disease and Epstein–Barr virus infection are more frequent in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with methotrexate
We retrospectively analyzed in 54 consecutively enrolled Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and lymphoproliferative disease (LPD) relevant clinicopathological characteristics, in particular payin...
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How do “numbers” construct social reality in disaster-stricken areas?: a case of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China
This article focuses on the dynamics of using numbers to construct an image of social reality in disaster areas. Numbers are neither objective nor value-neutral but are rather generated, transmitted and shared...
