Consumer and environmental safety decisions are based on exposure and hazard data, interpreted using risk assessment approaches. The adverse outcome pathway (AOP) conceptual framework has been presented as a logical sequence of events or processes within biological systems which can be used to understand adverse effects and refine current risk assessment practices in ecotoxicology. This framewo...

Background: Compare the survival rate, post-operative complications and long-term life quality in esophageal cancer patients underwent different surgical procedures. Methods: We followed up 401 cases from 433 cases (92.6%) of esophageal cancer patients. According to the surgical procedures, patients were divided into six groups to compare its effects. Results: The 3 and 5-year survival rates we...

Kentaro Machida, Hiromasa Inoue, Koichiro Matsumoto, Miyuki Tsuda, Satoru Fukuyama, Hiroshi Koto, Hisamichi Aizawa, Yasuko Kureishi, Nobuyuki Hara, and Yoichi Nakanishi Research Institute for Diseases of the Chest, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka; First Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka; and First Department of Interna...

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as applied to detection of a foreign DNA in clinical specimens could provide a sensitive instrument for rapid detection of viral DNA persisting in tissues of patients suspected of latent infection. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) DNA was found in arterial plaques of patients with atherosclerotic lesions using a PCR assay with nested primer oligonucleotides ...

BACKGROUND Subjects who do not pass ventilator weaning parameters but whose ambient air oxyhemoglobin saturation can be normalized by mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MIE) can be extubated to continuous noninvasive ventilatory support (CNVS) with MIE used to maintain extubation. Our aim was to study MIE-associated changes in breathing tolerance, pulse oximetry, and vital capacity (VC) for ...

The promoter of the major immediate-early (MIE) genes of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), also referred to as the CMV promoter, possesses a cis-acting element positioned downstream of the TATA box between positions -14 and -1 relative to the transcription start site (+1). We determined the role of the cis-acting element in viral replication by comparing recombinant viruses with the cis-acting elem...

1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan 2Oncology Service, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK 3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA 4Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chiba Cancer Center, Chiba, Japan 5Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Fukuoka University Graduate School of Medicine, ...

We observed -4.9 nsec negative group delay in the optical wave-packet propagation through a fiber taper coupled with a single Mie sphere. The observed fast light under the Mie scattering process agrees excellently with the anomalous dispersion calculated on the basis of a directional coupling theory on the undercoupling condition, which also predicts a positive group delay on the overcoupling c...

The polynomial solution of the N -dimensional space Schrödinger equation for a special case of Mie potential is obtained for any arbitrary l-state. The exact bound-state energy eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenfunctions are calculated for diatomic molecular systems in the Mie-type potential.

Tenascin-C and proleferative arteriosclerosis in flexor tenosynovium of idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome Masaya Tsujii1, Hitoshi Hirata2, Masahiro Hasegawa1, Koji Akeda1, Kyoko Imanaka-Yoshida3, Toshimichi Yoshida3, Atsumasa Uchida1 1Orthopaedic Surgery, Mie University, Tsu, Japan; 2Hand Surgery, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; 3Pathology, Mie University, Tsu, Japan [email protected]...