Formation process of olivine–clinopyroxene cumulates inferred from Takashima xenoliths, Southwest Japan arc

Incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Takashima, Shiga, Japan.

BACKGROUND The incidence and mortality from ischemic heart disease (IHD) in Japan seem to be among the lowest of all the industrialized countries, but there are few reliable registers of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS AND RESULTS To assess the incidence of AMI in Takashima County, Shiga, Japan, from 1988 to 1998 and compare the data with similar registers in the world, cases of AM...

Neotectonic Intra-Arc Basins Within Southwest Japan — Conspicuous Basin-Forming Process Related to Differential Motion of Crustal Blocks

Melt-mantle interactions beneath the Kamchatka arc: Evidence from ultramafic xenoliths from Shiveluch volcano

[1] Ultramafic xenoliths of spinel dunite, harzburgite, lherzolite, amphibole/phlogopite-bearing pyroxenite, and clinopyroxenite occur in andesitic pyroclastic debris from the 1964 eruption of Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka. Peridotites have coarse/protogranular, porphyroclastic, and granuloblastic textures, abundant kink-banded olivine, and refractory mineral compositions with forsteritic olivin...

Similarities between Archean high MgO eclogites and Phanerozoic arc-eclogite cumulates and the role of arcs in Archean continent formation

Some insights into the origin of cratonic mantle can be gained from “eclogite” (loosely defined here as an assemblage containing garnet and any pyroxene) xenoliths hosted in kimberlites erupted through Archean (~2.5­3.5 Gy) cratons. One subset of Archean eclogite xenoliths, the low MgO Archean xenoliths, is presently believed to represent metamorphosed fragments of ancient altered oceanic crust...

Takashima 7_9

The prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer remains poor. TNM classification is not sufficient to predict their prognosis, and novel predictive markers of the prognosis of esophageal cancer patients are therefore needed. Poly A binding protein, cytoplasmic 1 (PABPC1) plays a role in post-transcriptional control of mRNA and may be involved in tumorigenesis. PABPC1 expression has not been st...