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Circulating extracellular vesicles are associated with pathophysiological condition including metabolic syndrome-related dysmetabolism in children and adolescents with obesity
Obesity of children and adolescents (OCA) is often accompanied by metabolic syndrome (MetS), which often leads to adult obesity and subsequent complications, yet the entire pathophysiological response is not f...
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Electrical and Thermal Conductivity and Conduction Mechanism of Ge2Sb2Te5 Alloy
Ge2Sb2Te5 alloy has drawn much attention due to its application in phase-change random-access memory and potential as a thermoelectric material. Electrical and thermal conductivity are important material properti...
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Desulfurizing Ability of the CaOsatd.-CaCl2-CaF2 Slags
Desulfurizing ability of the CaO-CaCl2-CaF2 slags saturated with CaO has been investigated from the viewpoint of the sulfide capacity and CaO solubility. The CaO-CaCl2-CaF2 slags containing small amounts of Cu2O ...
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Thermal and Electrical Conductivity of Ge1Sb4Te7 Chalcogenide Alloy
The unique properties of the Ge1Sb4Te7 alloy as a chalcogenide make it a good candidate for application in phase-change random access memory as well as thermoelectric materials. The thermal and electrical conduct...
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Factors contributing to the development of overt encephalopathy in liver cirrhosis patients
The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships among psychometric testing results, blood ammonia (NH3) levels, electrolyte abnormalities, and degree of inflammation, and their associations with the develo...
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Effects of CaF2 on the Radiative Heat Transfer in Mould Fluxes for Continuous Steel Casting
Effects of CaF2 additions to mould fluxes have been investigated from the perspective of radiative heat transfer reduction to design mould flux for mild cooling. Glassy and crystallised mould flux samples were pr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reduction of Iron Oxides in Mould Fluxes With Additions of CaSi2
Iron oxides in mould fluxes enhance heat extraction from the molten steel to the mould due to energy absorption by d-d transitions of Fe2+ and re-emission. Thus, the existence of iron oxides is against mild cooli...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Formation of Copper Sulfide Precipitate in Solid Iron
The growth rate of copper sulfide precipitates has been measured in low carbon steel samples such as Fe-0.3mass%Cu-0.03mass%S-0.1mass%C and Fe-0.1mass%Cu-0.01mass%S- 0.1mass%C. Heat-treatment of the samples wa...
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Regional reduction in gray and white matter volume in brains of cirrhotic patients: voxel-based analysis of MRI
Chronic hepatic encephalopathy is a characteristically reversible neuropsychiatric disorder that occurs mainly in patients with liver cirrhosis. The brain regions critically involved in the pathophysiology of ...
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Acute septic shock during pegylated-interferon and ribavirin therapy in a patient with chronic hepatitis C who underwent aortic graft replacement
We report an autopsied case of a 59-year-old woman with acute septic shock from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection during combination therapy with pegylated-interferon-α-2b (PEG-IFNα-2b)...
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Influence of phlebotomy on iron-related gene expression levels in the livers of patients with chronic hepatitis C
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Unidentified virus-like particles are detected in plasmas with elevated ALT levels: are they significant of etiological agent(s) of non-B, non-C hepatitis?
GB virus C (GBV-C) and hepatitis G virus (HGV) have been proposed as new viruses etiologically implicated in non-B, non-C hepatitis, but the morphology of these particular virus particles is still unknown, and...
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Open AccessHepcidin Expression in the Liver: Relatively Low Level in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C
Patients with chronic hepatitis C frequently have serum and hepatic iron overload, but the mechanism is unknown. Recently identified hepcidin, exclusively synthesized in the liver, is thought to be a key regul...
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Iron reduction therapy by phlebotomy reduces lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress in patients with chronic hepatitis C
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Iron content and consumption of health foods by patients with chronic hepatitis C
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Hepatotoxicity associated with Lyophyllum decastes Sing. (Hatakeshimeji)
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Dubin-Johnson-like black liver with normal bilirubin level
Black liver is a common finding in Dubin-Johnson syndrome (DJS), which is caused by the lack of multidrug resistance-associated protein 2 (MRP2). Impaired excretion of epinephrine metabolites is believed to be...
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Recent advances in bilirubin metabolism research: the molecular mechanism of hepatocyte bilirubin transport and its clinical relevance
Bilirubin is taken up from blood into hepatocytes by sinosuidal membrane transporters and then excreted into bile through the bile canalicular membrane mainly as bilirubin glucuronides. (1) Mechanism of bilir...
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Thermodynamics of yttrium and oxygen in molten zirconium
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A model for antiHelicobacter pylori chemotherapy using an experimental murine infection withHelicobacter felis
Colonization ofHelicobacter felis was observed to continue for at least 24 weeks in a BALB/c mouse stomach after oral inoculation of the bacteria. Bacteria were observed on the surface of the gastric mucosa and i...