The good match of the type Ia supernova (SNIa) Hubble Diagram to the prediction of a not-unreasonable cosmological world model shows that measurements of standard stars and their comparison with point sources down to m = 25 mag is good to better than ±0.5 mag over an 11 mag range. It also shows that the true spectral energy distribution (SED) shapes of standard stars are known to better than ±0...

By the use of a rat IgG monoclonal antibody (mab), a mouse mab and human serum containing an IgM mab, all of which react with isolated human myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) on immunoblots and bind only to proteins with relative mobilities identical to MAG and dMAG on immunoblots of homogenates of adult human spinal cord, we demonstrated the following: in homogenates of central nervous syst...

Myelin and oligodendrocyte disruption may be a core feature of schizophrenia pathophysiology. The purpose of the present study was to localize the effects of previously identified risk variants in the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) gene on brain morphometry in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls. Forty-five schizophrenia patients and 47 matched healthy controls underwent clinical,...

The aim of this study was to develop an efficient enzymatic glycerolysis system together with physical fractionation operation for the production of monoacylglycerols (MAG) containing polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), especially, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) from tuna oil. The enzymatic glycerolysis system at 40-70 °C is unfortunately a multiple-phase system, whi...

Polyneuropathy associated with IgM monoclonal gammopathy and anti-myelin associated glycoprotein (MAG) antibodies is an immune-mediated demyelinating neuropathy. The pathophysiology of this condition is likely to involve anti-MAG antibody deposition on myelin sheaths of the peripheral nerves and it is supposed to be distinct from chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy (CIDP), another imm...

We demonstrate that magnetic mesocellular carbon foams (Mag-MCF-C) can be effectively used for enrichment and desalting of protein digests or peptides in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS). The large mesocellular pores and surface area of Mag-MCF-C are likely to mainly contribute to high efficiency in enrichment and desalting of protein digests. The magneti...

We have identified a novel human malignancy-associated gene (MAG) expressed in various malignant tumors including glioblastomas and hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) and in tumor preexisting conditions such as hepatitis C virus- and hepatitis B virus-induced liver cirrhosis. The expression of MAG was characterized using reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR), rapid amplification of cDNA ends PCR, RN...