Tsuyoshi Shimada, Nobuhiko Hiramatsu, Kunihiro Hayakawa, Shuhei Takahashi, Ayumi Kasai, Yasuhiro Tagawa, Mai Mukai, Jian Yao, Yoshiaki Fujii-Kuriyama, and Masanori Kitamura Department of Molecular Signaling, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi; and The Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Tennod...

BACKGROUND Control of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in the Democratic Republic of Congo is based on mass population active screening by mobile teams. Although generally considered a successful strategy, the community participation rates in these screening activities and ensuing treatment remain low in the Kasai-Oriental province. A better understanding of the reasons behind ...

BACKGROUND In patients with biliary atresia (BA), liver fibrosis and cirrhosis commonly occur even after Kasai hepatoportoenterostomy. Although liver biopsy is the gold standard to evaluate liver fibrosis, it is invasive and may result in life-threatening complications. The aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) is a safe and simple method to assess liver fibrosis in patients...

Citation: Hirai J, Katakura S, Kasai H and Nagai S (2017) Cryptic Zooplankton Diversity Revealed by a Metagenetic Approach to Monitoring Metazoan Communities in the Coastal Waters of the Okhotsk Sea, Northeastern Hokkaido. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:379. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00379 Cryptic Zooplankton Diversity Revealed by a Metagenetic Approach to Monitoring Metazoan Communities in the Coastal Water...

Masanori Matsuzaki, Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies, and Haruo Kasai Division of Biophysics, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, and Center for NanoBio Integration, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo; Precursory Research Organization for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan; and Department of Pharmacology and P...

A. Kagawa, Y. Kasai, N. B. Jones, M. Yamamori, K. Seki, F. Murcray, Y. Murayama, K. Mizutani, and T. Itabe Fujitsu FIP Corporation, Tokyo, Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan Wollongong University, Wollongong, Australia Tsuru University, Yamanashi, Japan Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan University of Denver, Denver, USA National In...

A halotolerant cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica thrives in extreme salinity with accumulation of a potent osmoprotectant glycine betaine. Recently, this cyanobacterium was shown to accumulate sunscreen molecule mycosporine-2-glycine significantly at high salinity. In this study, we investigated effects of nitrate and amino acid provision on the accumulation of glycine betaine and mycospor...