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    Relationship between peripheral airway function and patient-reported outcomes in COPD: a cross-sectional study

    Health status, dyspnea and psychological status are important clinical outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) measured by spirometry, the ...

    Akane Haruna, Toru Oga, Shigeo Muro, Tadashi Ohara, Susumu Sato in BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2010)

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    New double-stapling technique for esophagojejunostomy and esophagogastrostomy in gastric cancer surgery, using a peroral intraluminal approach with a digital stapling system

    In the abdominal-transhiatal approach for resection of adenocarcinoma of the cardia or subcardia, and in laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy (LATG), the use of a circular stapling device has potential probl...

    Hironori Ohdaira, Takuji Noro, Hiroshi Terada, **-ichi Kameyama in Gastric Cancer (2009)

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    Confirmation of the antispasmodic effect of shakuyaku-kanzo-to (TJ-68), a Chinese herbal medicine, on the duodenal wall by direct spraying during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography

    The purpose of the study was to evaluate the suppressive effect of TJ-68 on duodenal spasms during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). At the point when the duodenal papilla was confirmed af...

    Yuji Sakai, Toshio Tsuyuguchi, Takeshi Ishihara in Journal of Natural Medicines (2009)

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    Serum Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 Levels Indicate Blood–CSF Barrier Damage in Patients with Infectious Meningitis

    Protein components in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are maintained at a specific concentration by a dynamic gradient between the capillary and intrathecal spaces via the blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCB) in ...

    Yuhsaku Kanoh, Tadashi Ohara, Motonari Kanoh, Tohru Akahoshi in Inflammation (2008)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Changes of Hepatic Microcirculation in Acute Cholestasis

    The hepatic blood flow decreases with the decrease of blood cell velocity in the sinusoids and portal blood flow in acute cholestasis. This microcirculatory change precedes the biochemical and histological cha...

    Takashi Osada, Tetsuo Morishita, Eiichi Sekizuka, Kouji Miyazaki in Organ Microcirculation (2005)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Role of Perforin and Granzyme B of Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte in the Onset of Peptic Ulcer Formation

    Tadashi Ohara, Tetsuo Morishita, Hidekazu Suzuki in Organ Microcirculation (2005)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Duodenal Blood Flow in Acute Portal Hypertension

    Eisuke Iwasaki, Tetsuo Morishita, Eiichi Sekizuka, Kouji Miyazaki in Organ Microcirculation (2005)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Examination of Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte-Mediated Apoptosis Pathway in Peptic Ulcer Formation with or without H. pylori Infection

    Perforin/granzyme and Fas/Fas ligand (Fas L) pathways are two known major pathways of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated apoptosis. We clinically studied whether CTL-mediated apoptosis associated with pepti...

    Tadashi Ohara, Yuhsaku Kanoh, Takaomi Mashiko in Trends in Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2001)

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    Clarithromycin-susceptible Helicobacter pylori with mutation in 23S rRNA gene by PCR-RFLP method

    Shigeru Fujimura, Takeshi Kawamura, Tadashi Ohara in Journal of Gastroenterology (2000)

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    Lansoprazole Decreases Peripheral Blood Monocytes and Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1-Positive Mononuclear Cells

    We examined the effects of lansoprazole, aproton-pump inhibitor, on peripheral blood mononuclearcells in healthy subjects in comparison with ranitidine.Ten healthy volunteers were randomly divided into two gro...

    Tadashi Ohara, Tetsuo Arakawa in Digestive Diseases and Sciences (1999)