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SuperKEKB operation using crab waist collision scheme
SuperKEKB is an electron–positron asymmetric-energy double-ring collider, which was built in Japan. It has been operated to explore new phenomena in B-meson decays. Hence, extremely higher luminosity is requir...
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Open AccessThe Physics of the B Factories
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Photoinduced reaction of methylpolyynes H(C≡C)nCH3 (n = 5-7) and polyyne H(C≡C)5H with I2 molecules
Methylpolyynes, H(C≡C) n CH3 (n = 5-7), were photo-irradiated under the presence of iodine molecules in hexane to confirm the formation of a series of molecular complexes, H(C≡C...
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The possibility of the classification about Ht values using the AR model
There are various blood purifications. Plasma Exchange(PE) is one of them. It is very important for medical workers to classify the changing Hematocrit(Ht) values during PE. Ht values have been obtained by CLI...
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Investigation of a Classification about Time Series Signal Using SOM
There are various blood purifications. Plasma Exchange(PE) is one of the blood purifications. A patient’s circulating blood volume is changing during the PE. Hence, the medical workers must treat to stabilize ...
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Rock Block Identification and 3D Simplex Integration
The rock masses are, by nature, discontinuous material that contains many discontinuities such as fractures, joints, faults, shear planes and shear zones. A large number of rock blocks with complex geometry ar...
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Fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus observed in insulin receptor substrate 2 deficient mice
The objective of this study was to characterise the fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) accompanying abrupt hyperglycaemia and ketonuria observed in insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS2)-deficient mice. IRS2...
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EC-IC bypass using the distal stump of the superficial temporal artery as an additional collateral source of blood flow in patients with Moyamoya disease
Background. To establish multiple bypass flow in an adult Moyamoya disease patient, the distal stump of the parietal superficial temporal artery (dsPSTA) was used as an additional donor.
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Induction of apoptosis and cellular senescence in mice lacking transcription elongation factor, Elongin A
Elongin A is a transcription elongation factor that increases the overall rate of mRNA chain elongation by RNA polymerase II. To gain more insight into the physiological functions of Elongin A, we generated El...
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Possibility of predicting Ht values during a plasma exchange therapy using back propagation neural network
There is a sickness that is called Guillain-Barre Syndrome(GBS). The GBS has a disorder of peripheral nerve and the muscle is paralyzed. There is a plasma exchange therapy in one of the effective therapy metho...
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Erratum: A functional variant in FCRL3, encoding Fc receptor-like 3, is associated with rheumatoid arthritis and several autoimmunities
Nat. Genet. 37, 478–485 (2005). In the replication study confirming the association between fcrl3_3 (−169C→T) and rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility, the allele frequency of fcrl3_3 in controls is 0.36.
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Prospective Analysis of Percutaneous Central Venous Catheterization in Infants <4.0 kg Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
Our previous study showed that the success rate of cannulation of the internal jugular vein (IJV) was significantly decreased in infants weighing less than 4.0 kg. We prospectively evaluated results of central...
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Open AccessBetulinic acid augments the inhibitory effects of vincristine on growth and lung metastasis of B16F10 melanoma cells in mice
We examined the antitumour effect of a combination of betulinic acid (BA) and vincristine (VCR) on murine melanoma B16F10 cells in vitro and in vivo. Betulinic acid, a pentacyclic triterpene, showed a synergistic...
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Antibodies to type II collagen and their association with HLA DR1 alleles in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis
To investigate whether immunological responses to type II collagen (CII) play an important role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the presence of anti-CII antibodies was examined by enzyme imm...
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Erratum: Functional SNPs in the lymphotoxin-α gene that are associated with susceptibility to myocardial infarction
Nature Genet. 32, 650–654 (2002). Published online 11 November 2002; doi:10.1038/ng1047 A typographical error in the third sentence of the abstract resulted in the P value for the association being incorrectly...
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Gene-based SNP discovery as part of the Japanese Millennium Genome Project: identification of 190 562 genetic variations in the human genome
To construct an infrastructure for genome-wide association studies of common diseases or drug sensitivities, we have been systematically exploring common variants by resequencing genomic regions containing ge...
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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the class II region of the major histocompatibility complex in Japanese patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy
Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is a form of chronic glomerulonephritis of unknown etiology and pathogenesis. Immunogenetic studies have not conclusively indicated that human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is in...
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Electron microscopic study of monkey retina after photodynamic treatment
The purpose of this histological study was to determine the effects of photodynamic treatment, using a hematoporphyrin derivative and argon laser, on normal retinas of monkeys. Ten cynomolgus monkeys were tre...
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Structural features of a wheat plastome as revealed by complete sequencing of chloroplast DNA
Structural features of the wheat plastome were clarified by comparison of the complete sequence of wheat chloroplast DNA with those of rice and maize chloroplast genomes. The wheat plastome consists of a 134,...
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High-density single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) map in the 96-kb region containing the entire human DiGeorge syndrome critical region 2 (DGCR2) gene at 22q11.2
We constructed a high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) map in the 96-kb region containing the DiGeorge syndrome critical region 2 (DGCR2) gene at chromosome 22q11.2, a human counterpart of mouse seiz...
