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Potent bystander effect and tumor tropism in suicide gene therapy using stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth
Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSVTK)/ganciclovir (GCV) suicide gene therapy has a long history of treating malignant gliomas. Recently, stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED), which a...
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Open AccessInhibition of microRNA-33b specifically ameliorates abdominal aortic aneurysm formation via suppression of inflammatory pathways
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a lethal disease, but no beneficial therapeutic agents have been established to date. Previously, we found that AAA formation is suppressed in microRNA (miR)-33-deficient mic...
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Open AccessmicroRNA-33 maintains adaptive thermogenesis via enhanced sympathetic nerve activity
Adaptive thermogenesis is essential for survival, and therefore is tightly regulated by a central neural circuit. Here, we show that microRNA (miR)-33 in the brain is indispensable for adaptive thermogenesis. ...
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Open AccessIDH1 mutations induce organelle defects via dysregulated phospholipids
Infiltrating gliomas are devastating and incurable tumors. Amongst all gliomas, those harboring a mutation in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 mutation (IDH1mut) acquire a different tumor biology and clinical manifesta...
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Anaplastic changes of diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor with polar spongioblastoma pattern
Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor (DLGNT) is a rare glioneuronal neoplasm with oligodendroglioma-like cells confined in the subarachnoid spaces. A great majority of DLGNT are histologically low grade. ...
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Impact of revascularization of coronary chronic total occlusion on left ventricular function and electrical stability: analysis by speckle tracking echocardiography and signal-averaged electrocardiogram
The present study aimed to assess the mechanisms of effects of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusion (CTO) from two different aspects: left ventricular (LV) systolic function ass...
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Chronic total occlusion treated with coronary intervention by three-dimensional guidewire manipulation: an experimental study and clinical experience
Three-dimensional (3D) wiring is one method for accurate guidewire control in chronic total occlusion (CTO) lesions during manipulation of CTO-specific stiff guidewires. However, the construction of a mental ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pattern-Based Semantic Tagging for Ontology Population
Ontology population has emerged as an increasingly important problem in semantic web services. In this paper, we propose a method using named entity recognition that extracts keywords from Web pages in order t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementation of Telematics Services with Context-Aware Agent Framework
With the development of a car-mounted navigation system and an in-car network, improved information services for creating drive plans automatically have been realized. We propose a method of developing telemat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Analysis of Absorbing Times of Quantum Walks
Quantum walks are expected to provide useful algorithmic tools for quantum computation. This paper introduces absorbing prob- ability and time of quantum walks and gives both numerical simulation results and t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quantum versus Deterministic Counter Automata
This paper focuses on quantum analogues of various models of counter automata, and almost completely proves the relation between the classes of languages recognizable by bounded error quantum ones and classica...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
One-Way Probabilistic Reversible and Quantum One-Counter Automata
Kravtsev introduced 1-way quantum 1-counter automata (1Q1CAs), and showed that several non-context-free languages can be recognized by bounded error 1Q1CAs. In this paper, we first show that all of these non-c...
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Flaw Detection in Steel Wires by Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers
Since wires are used to suspend heavy components in the structure, such as bridges, the flaw detection method is strongly required to be established. One of the promising techniques is ultrasonics. Especially,...
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Nondestructive Stress Measurement in Steel using Magnetostriction
Nondestructive measurement of residual stress plays an important role in assuring the structural safety. Several methods, such as ultrasonics and X-ray diffraction, have been studied to improve the accuracy of...
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Nondestructive Stress Measurement Using Frequency Dependence of Magnetoacoustic Interaction
Since residual stress often causes a failure at applied stresses lower than the strength, the nondestructive measurement of the residual stresses is very important in assuring the structural safety. Acoustoela...