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Combination of magnetic hyperthermia and immunomodulators to drive complete tumor regression of poorly immunogenic melanoma
Hyperthermia using magnetic nanoparticles enables tumor-specific heating and can destroy tumor tissues. This approach works as in situ vaccination with tumor antigens released from dying tumor cells. However, ...
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Chronic cold agglutinin disease after a third COVID-19 mRNA vaccination
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have been approved in many countries, and have been administered since 2020. Recent reports of mRNA vaccination exacerbating autoimmune hemato...
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Open AccessSerum cortisol and insulin-like growth factor 1 levels in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia
The pathophysiology underlying major depressive disorder (MDD) and schizophrenia is related to endocrine system functions and includes changes in the blood levels of cortisol and insulin-like growth factor 1 (...
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Open AccessSimultaneous Enhancement of iron Deficiency Tolerance and Iron Accumulation in Rice by Combining the Knockdown of OsHRZ Ubiquitin Ligases with the Introduction of Engineered Ferric-chelate Reductase
Iron is an essential micronutrient for living organisms, but its solubility is extremely low under alkaline conditions. Plants often suffer from iron deficiency chlorosis in calcareous soils, which consist of ...
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Open AccessRole of insulin-like growth factor 1, sex and corticosteroid hormones in male major depressive disorder
Hormones of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG), hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA), and hypothalamic–pituitary–somatotropic (HPS) axes are potentially involved in major depressive disorder (MDD), but t...
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Label cleaning and propagation for improved segmentation performance using fully convolutional networks
In recent years, fully convolutional networks (FCNs) have been applied to various medical image segmentation tasks. However, it is difficult to generate a large amount of high-quality annotation data to train ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
FGFlick: Augmenting Single-Finger Input Vocabulary for Smartphones with Simultaneous Finger and Gaze Flicks
FGFlick is an interactive technique featuring simultaneous single-finger operation and a gaze. The user flicks a smartphone and moves their gaze linearly. FGFlick thus augments the single-finger input vocabulary....
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Suction-fixing surgical device for assisting liver manipulation with laparoscopic forceps
Noninvasiveness and stability are significant issues in laparoscopic liver resection. Inappropriate gras** force can cause damage or serious bleeding to the liver. In addition, instability of gras** can re...
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Correction to: Awake fiberoptic intubation with an epidural catheter in a morbidly obese patient
In the original publication of the article, the acknowledgment section was not included and provided in this correction.
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Awake fiberoptic intubation with an epidural catheter in a morbidly obese patient
We report successful awake intubation in a morbidly obese patient (body mass index of 61.2) using an epidural catheter inserted through the external forceps channel of the fiberscope for delivery of local anes...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Mouth Gesture Interface Featuring a Mutual-Capacitance Sensor Embedded in a Surgical Mask
We developed a mouth gesture interface featuring a mutual-capacitance sensor embedded in a surgical mask. This wearable hands-free interface recognizes non-verbal mouth gestures; others cannot eavesdrop on any...
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Histological transformation of MALT lymphoma to plasma cell leukemia after rituximab-containing therapy
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Open AccessHigh-density lipoprotein-cholesterol and antipsychotic medication in overweight inpatients with schizophrenia: post-hoc analysis of a Japanese nationwide survey
Patients with schizophrenia have an increased prevalence of metabolic disturbances compared with the general population. However, the mechanisms underlying the metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are unkn...
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Sequential development of monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis-derived small lymphocytic lymphoma and plasma cell leukemia
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Measurements of Negative Joint Probabilities in Optical Quantum System
Quantum information science is based on the superposition principle and the non-local quantum correlation of quantum states. These non-classical properties are still mysterious and inadequately understood as p...
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Open AccessEstimating the molecular evolutionary rates of mitochondrial genes referring to Quaternary ice age events with inferred population expansions and dispersals in Japanese Apodemus
Determining reliable evolutionary rates of molecular markers is essential in illustrating historical episodes with phylogenetic inferences. Although emerging evidence has suggested a high evolutionary rate for...
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Lipid Effects of Psychiatric Medications
People with schizophrenia have higher rates of medical illness and mortality than the general population. Cardiovascular disease is a major contributor to premature death in patients with schizophrenia. There ...
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Male mate choice and male–male competition in the hermit crab Pagurus nigrofascia: importance of female quality
Male mate choice has recently been reported in some animals with male–male competition. In the laboratory, we examined whether males choose their mates based on female quality that was indicated by body size a...
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Function of the major cheliped in male–male competition in the hermit crab Pagurus nigrofascia
Functions of the major cheliped in pagurid hermit crabs have been studied in fights for shells. The major cheliped often shows sexual size dimorphism, suggesting that sexual selection favors the development of...
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Polymorphisms in the 5-Hydroxytryptamine 2A Receptor and CytochromeP4502D6 Genes Synergistically Predict Fluvoxamine-Induced Side Effects in Japanese Depressed Patients
5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptors are thought to be associated with the gastrointestinal side effects induced by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. CytochromeP450 (CYP) 2D6 may also be associated with th...
