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Open AccessClinical significance of p53 protein expression and TP53 variation status in colorectal cancer
In human colorectal cancer (CRC), TP53 is one of the most important driver genes. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) has been used most often to assess the variational status of TP53. Recently, next-generation sequencing...
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Open AccessFAM83H and Nectin1 expression are related with survival and relapse of bladder urothelial carcinoma patients
FAM83H was originally reported to be essential for dental enamel formation. However, FAM83H has recently been implicated in tumorigenesis and tumor progression. Analysis of a publicly available gene expression...
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Open AccessDiagnostic pitfall of thyroid fine-needle aspiration induced fibrosis: follicular adenoma mimicking medullary thyroid carcinoma in frozen section
Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a frequently utilized method for the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. Although the technique has clear advantages, the injury caused by the aspiration needle can induce various his...
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Open AccessFAM83H is involved in stabilization of β-catenin and progression of osteosarcomas
FAM83H was initially identified as a protein essential for dental enamel formation. Recent reports have shown that FAM83H is also involved in the progression of human cancers in conjunction with tumor-associat...
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Open AccessExpression of oxidized protein tyrosine phosphatase and γH2AX predicts poor survival of gastric carcinoma patients
Oxidative stress induces various intracellular damage, which might be correlated with tumorigenesis. Accumulated oxidative stresses might inactivate protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) by oxidizing it, and indu...
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Open AccessThe PARP inhibitor olaparib potentiates the effect of the DNA damaging agent doxorubicin in osteosarcoma
PARP1 facilitates the recovery of DNA-damaged cells by recruiting DNA damage response molecules such as γH2AX and BRCA1/2, and plays a role in resistance to antitumor therapies. Therefore, PARP inhibition bein...
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Open AccessFAM83H is involved in the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma and is regulated by MYC
Recently, the roles of FAM83H in tumorigenesis have been interested and increased expression of FAM83H and MYC in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have been reported. Therefore, we investigated the expression an...
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Virtual pheromone map building and a utilization method for a multi-purpose swarm robot system
Swarm robotics is an approach to realizing an intelligent system using swarm intelligence that emerges from complex interactions among individual robots. To implement a swarm robot system requires an efficient...
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Open AccessDBC1/CCAR2 is involved in the stabilization of androgen receptor and the progression of osteosarcoma
Deleted in breast cancer 1 (DBC1/CCAR2) is a protein of interest because of its diverse roles in tumorigenesis and its possible role as an androgen receptor (AR) co-activator. However, there are limited studie...
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Open AccessThe expression of DBC1/CCAR2 is associated with poor prognosis of ovarian carcinoma
Recent reports have shown that deleted in breast cancer 1 (DBC1/CCAR2) is an indicator of poor prognosis of various human cancers. However, its expression in ovarian carcinoma has not been reported.
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Open AccessExpression of nerve growth factor and heme oxygenase-1 predict poor survival of breast carcinoma patients
Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a neurotrophin and has been suggested to induce heme oxygenase-1 (HO1) expression. Although the role of HO1 in tumorigenesis remains controversial, recent evidence suggests NGF and...
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Positioning of a mobile robot based on odometry and a new ultrasonic LPS
Odometry is a method that calculates the position and heading angle of a mobile robot using encoders attached to the wheels of the robot. Errors in the position and heading angle in odometry continuously incre...
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A dead reckoning localization system for mobile robots using inertial sensors and wheel revolution encoding
Inertial navigation systems (INS) are composed of inertial sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. An INS updates its orientation and position automatically; it has an acceptable stability over the sho...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Position Estimation Using Time Difference of Flight of the Multi-coded Ultrasonic
The environment where mobile robots move is modeled as 2-dimensional space. Three ultrasonic receivers are in a line. The transmitters attached to the mobile robots transmit ultrasonic signals which contain di...
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A multi-robot positioning system using a multi-code ultrasonic sensor network and a Kalman filter
In multi-robot systems, each robot needs to have the position and pose information of itself and that of the other cooperative robots. This paper presents a synchronous distributed positioning system that uses...
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Expression profile of nine novel genes differentially expressed in hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinomas
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is known to be one of the major causes in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), although the biomolecular mechanism(s) involved remain unclear. To identif...
