Neogene Echinoids from Ishikawa and Toyama Prefecture

New triterpenoid saponins from fruit specimens of Panax japonicus collected in Toyama prefecture and Hokkaido (2).

Four new dammarane-type triterpenoid saponins, chikusetsusaponin FT(1) (1), chikusetsusaponin FT(2) (2), chikusetsusaponin FT(3) (3), chikusetsusaponin FT(4) (4), and six known triterpenoid saponins, chikusetsusaponin FK(4) (8), chikusetsusaponin FK(5) (9), chikusetsusaponin FK(2) (10), chikusetsusaponin FK(3) (11), chikusetsusaponin LN(4) (12), and chikusetsusaponin IVa (14), were isolated fro...

Detection of a novel recombinant norovirus from sewage water in toyama prefecture, Japan.

Recently, the recombination event of norovirus (NoV) has been reported with high frequency, suggesting that RNA recombination is a major driving force in NoV evolution. To assess the incidence of NoV recombination in a residential area, we conducted a molecular biological survey of NoVs existing in sewage water in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Although GII/4 was predominantly detected in sewage wat...

Assessment of poliovirus eradication in Japan: genomic analysis of polioviruses isolated from river water and sewage in toyama prefecture.

Seventy-eight poliovirus strains isolated from river water and sewage in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, during 1993 to 1995 were characterized by the PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) method and by partially sequencing the VP3 and VP1 regions of the viral genome. Of these isolates, 36 were identified as Sabin vaccine strains, and 42 were identified as vaccine variant strains that h...

Clinical and magnetic resonance imaging features of multiple sclerosis with autoreactive antibodies in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

Previous reports of multiple sclerosis (MS) with autoantibodies might include neuromyelitis optica (NMO). We investigated the frequency of autoreactive antibodies (AR) in both MS and NMO. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)-associated autoantibodies such as anti-Sm antibodies, anti-single stranded DNA antibodies and lupus anticoagulants were only identified in MS, whereas SLE itself is more comm...

An Anthropological Positioning of Human Skeletal Remains from Tomari Cave in Himi City,Toyama Prefecture from a Viewpoint of Tooth Size