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Solitary juvenile polyp of the rectum with intramucosal adenocarcinoma
We describe a case of solitary juvenile polyp of the rectum with intramucosal adenocarcinoma. A 55-year-old man presented to our hospital for evaluation after a positive fecal occult blood test. Colonoscopy re...
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Solitary extrahepatic hepatocellular carcinoma in vertebrae without a primary lesion in the liver might originate from bone marrow: a case report and new hypothesis based on a review of the literature and the latest findings
Solitary extrahepatic hepatocellular carcinoma without a primary lesion in the liver is rare and unique. In such patients, in addition to hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoid adenocarcinoma, hepatoid teratoma, a...
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Open AccessSurgical implantation of human adipose derived stem cells attenuates experimentally induced hepatic fibrosis in rats
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent stromal cells and could exert hepatoprotective effects against acute liver injury, steatohepatitis, and fibrogenesis. Here, we evaluated the effects of human adipo...
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Complete remission after concurrent single-agent S-1 chemoradiotherapy for stage IIIB esophageal cancer: an autopsy case report
Chemoradiotherapy regimens for patients with esophageal cancer intolerant to standard therapies remain to be established. The standard therapy for patients with stage II–III esophageal squamous cell carcinoma,...
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Pusz–Woronowicz Functional Calculus and Extended Operator Convex Perspectives
In this article, we first study, in the framework of operator theory, Pusz and Woronowicz’s functional calculus for pairs of bounded positive operators on Hilbert spaces associated with a homogeneous two-varia...
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Pusz–Woronowicz’s functional calculus revisited
This note is a complement to Pusz–Woronowicz’s works on functional calculus for two positive forms from the viewpoint of operator theory. Based on an elementary, self-contained and purely Hilbert space operato...
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Open AccessPrimary pulmonary T-cell lymphoma with lung adenocarcinoma: a case report
Primary pulmonary T-cell lymphoma is an extremely rare disease that is characterized by neoplastic proliferation of T-cell lymphocytes in the lung.
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Matrix Liberation Process I: Large Deviation Upper Bound and Almost Sure Convergence
We introduce the concept of matrix liberation process, a random matrix counterpart of the liberation process in free probability, and prove a large deviation upper bound for its empirical distribution and seve...
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Open AccessAngiogenesis after administration of basic fibroblast growth factor induces proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in elastic perichondrium in an in vivo model: mini review of three sequential republication-abridged reports
To date, studies on mesenchymal tissue stem cells (MSCs) in the perichondrium have focused on in vitro analysis, and the dynamics of cartilage regeneration from the perichondrium in vivo remain largely unknown...
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Open AccessFDG-PET/CT and diffusion-weighted imaging for resected lung cancer: correlation of maximum standardized uptake value and apparent diffusion coefficient value with prognostic factors
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is useful for detecting malignant tumors and the assessment of lymph nodes, as FDG-PET/CT is. But it is not clear how DWI influences the prognosis of lung ca...
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Open AccessPrevention of glucocorticoid-associated osteonecrosis by intravenous administration of mesenchymal stem cells in a rabbit model
Glucocorticoid-associated osteonecrosis is an intractable condition, making the establishment of preventative strategies of particular importance. Recently various studies using mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) ha...
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High FDG uptake on PET is associated with negative cell-to-cell adhesion molecule E-cadherin expression in lung adenocarcinoma
E-cadherin is a main cell-to-cell adhesion molecule. A negative expression of E-cadherin correlates with distant metastasis in lung cancer. Recently, it was reported that there is an association between FDG up...
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A remark on orbital free entropy
A lower estimate of the orbital free entropy \(\chi _\mathrm {orb}\) ...
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Correlation of HIF-1α/HIF-2α expression with FDG uptake in lung adenocarcinoma
Hypoxia is a key element involved in the development and progression of tumors. HIF-1α may transiently induce and mediate the response to acute and severe hypoxia, while HIF-2α may induce a longer response and...
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Osteocytic cell necrosis is caused by a combination of glucocorticoid-induced Dickkopf-1 and hypoxia
Osteonecrosis is a major glucocorticoid-induced complication in the orthopedics field. Despite the extensive researches, mechanisms underlining the glucocorticoid-induced osteonecrosis are largely unknown. Her...
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Orbital Free Pressure and Its Legendre Transform
Orbital counterparts of the free pressure and its Legendre transform (or η- entropy) are introduced and studied in comparison with other entropy quantities in free probability theory and in relation to random mul...
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On the geometry of von Neumann algebra preduals
Let \(M\) M be ...
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Open AccessRelationship between vascular reactivity and expression of HMGB1 in a rat model of septic aorta
High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), a ubiquitous nuclear protein, induces several inflammatory diseases and functions as a fatal factor when released extracellularly. The effect of HMGB1 on vascular reactivity ...
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Establishment of an animal model for delayed-onset muscle soreness after high-intensity eccentric exercise and its application for investigating the efficacy of low-load eccentric training
Delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) occurs after unaccustomed exercise and is particularly associated with eccentric exercise. Previous studies have proposed the use of a single bout of eccentric exercise to ...
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VEGF-A and its isoform VEGF121 mRNA expression measured by quantitative real-time RT-PCR: correlation with F-18 FDG uptake and aggressiveness of lung adenocarcinoma: preliminary study
To investigate the correlation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) A and its isoform VEGF 121 mRNA expression with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake and aggressiveness in lung adenocarcinoma.
