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Noda Y, Goshima S, Kaga T, Ando T, Miyoshi T, Kawai N, Kawada H, Tanahashi Y, Matsuo M. Virtual monochromatic image at lower energy level for assessing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in fast kV-switching dual-energy CT. Clin Radiol 2020; 75:320.e17-320.e23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2019.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Noda Y, Goshima S, Suzui N, Miyazaki T, Kajita K, Kawada H, Kawai N, Tanahashi Y, Matsuo M. Pancreatic MRI associated with pancreatic fibrosis and postoperative fistula: comparison between pancreatic cancer and non-pancreatic cancer tissue. Clin Radiol 2019; 74:490.e1-490.e6. [PMID: 30914207 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2019.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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AIM To evaluate the potential value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for predicting postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) in patients with pancreatic cancer (PC) and non-pancreatic cancer (non-PC). MATERIAL AND METHODS This retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board and written informed consent was waived. Forty patients underwent pancreatoduodenectomy due to PC (n=31) and non-PC (n=9). The pancreas-to-muscle signal intensity ratio (SIR) on three-dimensional (3D)- fast field echo (FFE) T1-, in- and opposed-phase T1-, and T2-weighted images, as well as the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value of the pancreas were measured. The frequency of POPF and MRI measurements were compared between patients with PC and non-PC. The MRI measurements were also compared with the grade of pancreatic fibrosis on pathological findings, fat deposition, and interstitial oedema. RESULTS The frequency of POPF was significantly higher in patients with non-PC than in those with PC (p=0.0067), with an odds ratio of 10.4. The SIR on 3D-FFE T1-weighted images was significantly higher in patients with non-PC (p=0.0001) and those with POPF (p=0.017) than in those with PC and those without POPF, respectively. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that the SIR on 3D-FFE T1-weighted image was independently associated with the grade of pancreatic fibrosis (p<0.0001). CONCLUSION The frequency of POPF was significantly higher in patients with non-PC than in those with PC was inversely related to the grade of pancreatic fibrosis. The SIR on 3D-FFE T1-weighted image might be a potential imaging biomarker for predicting POPF.
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- Y Noda
- Department of Radiology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan.
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- Department of Radiology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Gifu University Hospital, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 500-1194, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Gifu University Hospital, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 500-1194, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan
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Noda Y, Goshima S, Nagata S, Miyoshi T, Kawada H, Kawai N, Tanahashi Y, Matsuo M. Right adrenal vein: comparison between adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction and model-based iterative reconstruction. Clin Radiol 2018; 73:594.e1-594.e6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2018.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2017] [Accepted: 01/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Kawada H, Goshima S, Tanahashi Y, Noda Y, Kawai N, Ando T, Matsuo M. Abstract No. 425 A utility of the endovascular treatment for ruptured or unruptured aneurysms of the pancreaticoduodenal arcade. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2018.01.470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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Noda Y, Goshima S, Koyasu H, Shigeyama S, Miyoshi T, Kawada H, Kawai N, Matsuo M. Renovascular CT: comparison between adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction and model-based iterative reconstruction. Clin Radiol 2017; 72:901.e13-901.e19. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2017.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2016] [Revised: 05/30/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Machida S, Onizuka M, Toyosaki M, Aoyama Y, Kawai H, Amaki J, Hara R, Ichiki A, Ogawa Y, Kawada H, Ando K. Danaparoid reduces the incidence of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation-associated thrombotic microangiopathy. Bone Marrow Transplant 2016; 52:307-309. [PMID: 27892947 DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2016.270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- S Machida
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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Tanahashi Y, Kondo H, Osawa M, Yamamoto T, Kawada H, Goshima S, Furui S. Transcatheter arterial embolization for primary postpartum hemorrhage: predictive factors for embolic material conversion of gelatin sponge particles to N-Butyl cyanoacrylate. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2015.12.517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Takagi Y, Kaneda K, Miyaki M, Matsuo K, Kawada H, Hosokawa H. The long-term use of soap does not affect the pH-maintenance mechanism of human skin. Skin Res Technol 2014; 21:144-8. [DOI: 10.1111/srt.12170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Kawada H, Kurita N, Nakamura F, Kawamura J, Hasegawa S, Kotake K, Sugihara K, Fukuhara S, Sakai Y. Incorporation of apical lymph node status into the seventh edition of the TNM classification improves prediction of prognosis in stage III colonic cancer. Br J Surg 2014; 101:1143-52. [DOI: 10.1002/bjs.9548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Background
The node classification outlined in the seventh edition of the TNM classification is based solely on the number of metastasized lymph nodes. This study examined the prognostic value of apical lymph node (ALN) metastasis and the additional value of incorporating ALN status into a risk model based on the seventh edition.
Methods
This was a cohort study of patients with stage III colonic cancer who underwent tumour resection with dissection of regional (including apical) lymph nodes at 71 hospitals across Japan between 2000 and 2002. The main exposure was pathologically confirmed ALN metastasis, and the primary endpoint was cancer-specific death.
Results
ALN metastasis was present in 113 (8·3 per cent) of 1355 patients. During 5356 patient-years of follow-up (median 5·0 years), 221 instances (16·3 per cent) of cancer-specific death were observed. After adjustment for tumour and node classification (as described in the seventh edition of the TNM classification) and other prognostic factors, ALN metastasis was found to be independently associated with cancer-specific death (hazard ratio 2·29, 95 per cent confidence interval (c.i.) 1·49 to 3·52). Incorporation of ALN metastasis into the prognostic model based on the seventh edition of the TNM classification significantly improved discriminative performance for cancer-specific death (difference in concordance index 0·0146, 95 per cent c.i. 0·0030 to 0·0262) and risk reclassification for cancer-specific death at 5 years (category-free net reclassification improvement 19·4 (95 per cent c.i. 5·0 to 33·4) per cent).
Conclusion
Assessment of ALN metastasis provided independent prognostic information beyond that achievable with the seventh edition of the TNM classification in patients with stage III colonic cancer.
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- H Kawada
- Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Centre for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan
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- Department of Public Health, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tochigi Cancer Centre, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Centre for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Itokawa K, Komagata O, Kasai S, Kawada H, Mwatele C, Dida GO, Njenga SM, Mwandawiro C, Tomita T. Global spread and genetic variants of the two CYP9M10 haplotype forms associated with insecticide resistance in Culex quinquefasciatus Say. Heredity (Edinb) 2013; 111:216-26. [PMID: 23632895 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2013.40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2012] [Revised: 03/26/2013] [Accepted: 04/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Insecticide resistance develops as a genetic factor (allele) conferring lower susceptibility to insecticides proliferates within a target insect population under strong positive selection. Intriguingly, a resistance allele pre-existing in a population often bears a series of further adaptive allelic variants through new mutations. This phenomenon occasionally results in replacement of the predominating resistance allele by fitter new derivatives, and consequently, development of greater resistance at the population level. The overexpression of the cytochrome P450 gene CYP9M10 is associated with pyrethroid resistance in the southern house mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus. Previously, we have found two genealogically related overexpressing CYP9M10 haplotypes, which differ in gene copy number (duplicated and non-duplicated). The duplicated haplotype was derived from the non-duplicated overproducer probably recently. In the present study, we investigated allelic series of CYP9M10 involved in three C. quinquefasciatus laboratory colonies recently collected from three different localities. Duplicated and non-duplicated overproducing haplotypes coexisted in African and Asian colonies indicating a global distribution of both haplotype lineages. The duplicated haplotypes both in the Asian and African colonies were associated with higher expression levels and stronger resistance than non-duplicated overproducing haplotypes. There were slight variation in expression level among the non-duplicated overproducing haplotypes. The nucleotide sequences in coding and upstream regions among members of this group also showed a little diversity. Non-duplicated overproducing haplotypes with relatively higher expression were genealogically closer to the duplicated haplotypes than the other non-duplicated overproducing haplotypes, suggesting multiple cis-acting mutations before duplication.
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- K Itokawa
- Department of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Nakamura D, Yoshimitsu M, Kawada H, Inoue H, Kuroki T, Kaieda T, Fujino S, Hamada H, Suzuki S, Matsushita K, Uozumi K, Arima N. Recombinant human soluble thrombomodulin for the treatment of hepatic sinusoidal obstructive syndrome post allogeneic hematopoietic SCT. Bone Marrow Transplant 2011; 47:463-4. [DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2011.103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Maekawa K, Yoshimitsu M, Fujiwara H, Matsushita K, Kawada H, Hamada H, Suzuki S, Uozumi K, Ohtsuka M, Hanada S, Yabe M, Yabe H, Arima N. Successful allo-HSCT with a minimal myeloablative conditioning regimen in an adult patient with Fanconi's anemia. Bone Marrow Transplant 2011; 47:159-60. [PMID: 21383681 DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2011.34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Onizuka M, Kunii N, Toyosaki M, Machida S, Ohgiya D, Ogawa Y, Kawada H, Inoko H, Ando K. Cytochrome P450 genetic polymorphisms influence the serum concentration of calcineurin inhibitors in allogeneic hematopoietic SCT recipients. Bone Marrow Transplant 2010; 46:1113-7. [PMID: 21102498 DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2010.273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Calcineurin inhibitors are necessary as immunosuppressants during hematopoietic SCT (HSCT) to prevent alloreactivity, but have unfortunate toxicities. So, we investigated the association of gene polymorphisms with the initial calcineurin inhibitor concentration and the subsequent drug dose from day 1 to day 28 among patients who underwent HSCT at a single institution. We analyzed 58 serial cases of Japanese patients receiving GVHD prophylaxis with CsA (21 cases) or tacrolimus (37 cases). We investigated eight single-nucleotide polymorphisms: rs4244285 (CYP2C19), rs15524, rs4646450, rs3800959, rs776746 (CYP3A5), rs1128503, rs2032582 and rs1045642 (MDR1). The CsA concentration was significantly higher when the genotype of CYP3A5 rs15524 was T/T (P=0.044) or rs776746 was G/G (P=0.027). The CYP3A5 rs776746 and rs4646450 genotypes were also associated with tacrolimus concentration (P=0.013 and P=0.0058, respectively). The dosage of tacrolimus was remarkably reduced from day -1 to day 28 when the patient had the CYP3A5 rs4646450 C/C and/or rs776746 G/G genotype (P=0.0010 and P=0.0021, respectively). In this study, we show that genetic variation has a predictable effect on the pharmacological responses to calcineurin inhibitors in HSCT patients.
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- M Onizuka
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
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Ohwada J, Ebiike H, Kawada H, Tsukazaki M, Nakamura M, Morikami K, Morita K, Yoshida M, Kondoh O, Shimma N. 108 Discovery of CH5132799, a novel class I PI3K inhibitor. EJC Suppl 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(10)71813-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Temu EA, Minjas JN, Tuno N, Kawada H, Takagi M. Identification of four members of the Anopheles funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) group and their role in Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Bagamoyo coastal Tanzania. Acta Trop 2007; 102:119-25. [PMID: 17537390 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2006] [Revised: 02/21/2007] [Accepted: 04/17/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The role of Anopheles funestus group in malaria transmission was investigated in Bagamoyo coastal Tanzania, in the process of characterizing the area as a malaria vaccine testing site. Mosquitoes were sampled inside houses and multiplex PCR was used to identify 649 specimens. The following species were found: A. funestus s.s. (84.3%), A. leesoni (13.6%), A. rivulorum (1.5%) and A. parensis (0.6%). Multiplex PCR of 147 blood-fed specimens showed that over half (57.1%) of the identifiable blood meals were taken from human hosts, and human blood index in A. funestus and A. leesoni was 55% and 82% respectively. Plasmodium falciparum infection rate determined by nested PCR was 11% in A. funestus s.s. Although the abundance was low, 26 specimens of A. leesoni, two of A. rivolurum and one of A. parensis were found positive for P. falciparum. The presence of four A. funestus species in Tanzania emphasizes the relevance to define precisely their spatial and temporal distribution, specific behaviour, ecology and exact role in malaria transmission.
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- E A Temu
- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
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Mayuzumi N, Ikeda S, Kawada H, Ogawa H. Effects of drugs and anticytokine antibodies on expression of ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 in cultured normal human keratinocytes. Br J Dermatol 2005; 152:920-4. [PMID: 15888147 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06394.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND Darier's disease (DD) and Hailey-Hailey disease (HHD) are skin disorders arising, respectively, from autosomal dominant mutations in ATP2A2, encoding the sacro/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase, and ATP2C1, encoding the Golgi apparatus calcium ATPase. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) B irradiation exacerbates the skin lesions, which can be treated with corticosteroids and retinoids. OBJECTIVES To investigate the molecular basis for DD and HHD. METHODS We used quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reactions to examine the effects of UVB irradiation on ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 mRNA levels in cultured normal keratinocytes. RESULTS We observed that UVB irradiation reduced ATP2A2 and ATP2C mRNA levels. The addition of retinoids or corticosteroids to the cell culture inhibited the UVB-induced suppression of both ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 mRNA levels, and UVB-induced suppression of ATP2C1 mRNA was also inhibited by the addition of ciclosporin, tacrolimus and vitamin D(3). The addition of anti-interleukin (IL)-6 antibody to the cell culture prevented the UVB-induced suppression of ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 mRNA; in contrast, the addition of anti-IL-8 antibody slightly accelerated the suppression. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that drugs effective for DD and HHD act by modulating ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 mRNA expression, respectively, and that the proinflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-8 play important roles in the regulation of ATPA2 and ATP2C1 expression in homeostasis and/or inflammation of the skin.
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- N Mayuzumi
- Department of Dermatology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.
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Mayuzumi N, Ikeda S, Kawada H, Fan PS, Ogawa H. Effects of ultraviolet B irradiation, proinflammatory cytokines and raised extracellular calcium concentration on the expression of ATP2A2 and ATP2C1. Br J Dermatol 2005; 152:697-701. [PMID: 15840101 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06383.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Darier disease (DD) and Hailey-Hailey disease (HHD) are autosomal dominantly inherited skin disorders that histologically share the characteristics of suprabasal separation and acantholysis of epidermal keratinocytes. Various mutations in the DD gene (ATP2A2) and the HHD gene (ATP2C1) (respectively encoding the calcium pumps of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus) have recently been described in multiple families with DD and HHD. Mutations in ATP2A2 or ATP2C1 have been suggested as causing the conditions via the mechanism of haploinsufficiency. Ultraviolet (UV) B irradiation is thought to be an aggravating factor in both diseases. OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of various stimuli on ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 mRNA expression, and to examine the role of calcium pumps during keratinocyte differentiation. METHODS The effects of UVB irradiation, of UVB-inducible inflammatory cytokines produced by keratinocytes and of high-calcium medium (1.8 mmol L(-1) as opposed to 0.08 mmol L(-1) Ca2+) on ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 mRNA expression were quantified in cultured normal human keratinocytes using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS Expression of ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 mRNA was suppressed immediately after exposure to UVB irradiation, and modulation of mRNA expression was achieved in keratinocytes cultured with proinflammatory cytokines. The mRNA expression of both genes was increased significantly after the shift to high extracellular Ca2+ concentration. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that modulation of ATP2A2 and ATP2C1 mRNA expression by UV or cytokines might contribute to the clinical presentations unique to DD and HHD, and that the controlled expression of these genes plays an important role in keratinocyte homeostasis, function and differentiation.
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- N Mayuzumi
- Department of Dermatology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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Tsuboi K, Kishi K, Ohmachi K, Yasuda Y, Shimizu T, Inoue H, Matsumoto M, Hattori K, Yoshiba F, Watanabe S, Ogawa Y, Kawada H, Yabe H, Yabe M, Kato S, Hotta T. Multivariate analysis of risk factors for hemorrhagic cystitis after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 2003; 32:903-7. [PMID: 14561991 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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To establish the most appropriate prophylactic therapy and risk factors for predicting hemorrhagic cystitis (HC) after stem cell transplantation (SCT), we retrospectively analyzed the clinical records of 450 transplant patients treated from 1982 to 2002. In all, 81 patients developed early- and/or late-onset HC (early=29, late=48, both=4). For the incidence of early-onset HC, administration of cyclophosphamide (CY) (p=0.0079, odds ratio (OD)=5.109, 95% confidence interval (CI)=1.533-17.030), busulfan (BU) (p=0.0015, OD=3.336, 95% CI=1.584-7.027), BU+CY (p=0.0001, OD=4.369, 95% CI=2.055-9.292), antithymocyte globulin (p=0.0009, OD=3.368, 95% CI=1.642-6.911), nonradiation (p=0.0163, OD=2.564, 95% CI=0.181-0.841), 2-mercaptoethane sodium sulfonate (Mesna) (p=0.0001, OD=7.519, 95% CI=2.847-19.858), and bladder irrigation (p=0.0001, OD=4.950, 95% CI=2.328-10.523) were risk factors. By Fisher's exact test, the combination of BU and Mesna was a more significant risk factor (P<0.001) than Mesna alone (p=0.008) compared to the administration of neither agent. By multivariate analysis, prophylactic administration of Mesna (p=0.0105, OD=5.301, 95% CI=1.477-19.026) and bladder irrigation (p=0.0001, OD=9.469, 95% CI=3.872-23.156) were significant risk factors of early-onset HC. We conclude that (i). high-dose BU as well as CY is a cause of HC, (ii). protective bladder irrigation has an opposite effect, and (iii). Mesna possibly has a toxic effect on bladder mucosa.
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- K Tsuboi
- Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
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Sueda S, Suzuki J, Watanabe K, Mineoi K, Kondou T, Yano K, Ochi T, Ochi N, Kawada H, Hayashi Y, Uraoka A. Comparative results of coronary intervention in patients with variant angina versus those with non-variant angina. Jpn Heart J 2001; 42:657-67. [PMID: 11933916 DOI: 10.1536/jhj.42.657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Coronary angioplasty is reported to be feasible and safe in patients with coronary spasm and fixed stenosis. However, the long-term results are not positive. We compared the results of coronary angioplasty in 20 patients with variant angina versus 17 patients with non-variant angina among 231 consecutive patients with vasospastic angina. Coronary angioplasty was performed successfully in all 37 patients without any complications. Stenting for coronary dissection or recoil was performed in 8 patients, directional coronary atherectomy was selected for ostial lesion of left anterior descending coronary artery stenosis in 2 patients, and standard balloon angioplasty was performed in 27 patients. There were no clinical differences between the two groups. The restensois rate in patients with variant angina was similar to that in patients with non-variant angina (30% vs 29%, ns). There was no relationship between the provoked spasm and restenosis. During the follow-up period, no major complications were observed in patients with variant angina or those with non-variant angina. In conclusion, full medication with calcium channel antagonists and isosorbide dinitrate, and treatment by coronary angioplasty including the use of new devices, were useful treatments for patients with coronary vasospasm and significant organic stenosis. There was no difference concerning the results of coronary intervention between the patients with variant angina and those with non-variant angina.
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- S Sueda
- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Saijo Hospital, Saijo City, Ehime, Japan
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Fujiwara H, Eizuru Y, Matsumoto T, Kukita T, Imaizumi R, Kawada H, Ohtsubo H, Matsushita K, Arima N, Tei C. The significance of cytomegalovirus infection over the clinical course of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Microbiol Immunol 2001; 45:97-100. [PMID: 11270615 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2001.tb01265.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The significance of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections developed over the clinical course of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) were evaluated in relation to the patient survival rate, ATL activity and immunocompetent cells. ATLL patients with CMV infections on admission exhibited a poor survival rate, while patients with CMV infections at any time after admission survived longer than those not infected with this virus. ATLL patients who exhibited a numbers of CMV infection on admission showed higher ATL activity and had lower numbers of CD8-positive and CD56-positive cells than those who developed CMV infections at any time after admission. Therefore, it appears likely that patients with CMV infections on admission were in an immunosuppressive state due to aggressive ATL activity.
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- H Fujiwara
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
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It has been reported that mononuclear cells harvested from murine skeletal muscle are capable of hematopoietic reconstitution of lethally irradiated mice. First, the nature of the hematopoietic progenitors in the muscle of C57BL/6-Ly-5.1 mice was examined by means of methylcellulose culture. The types and incidences of colonies grown from muscle mononuclear cells were different from those cultured from bone marrow (BM) or peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The next step was to examine the origin of the hematopoietic progenitors and stem cells in the muscle with the use of Ly-5.2 mice that had been made chimeric by transplantation of Ly-5.1 BM cells. The percentages of Ly-5.1 cells cultured from the muscle of the chimeric mice correlated with those cultured from BM, indicating BM origin of hematopoietic progenitors in the muscle. Long-term hematopoietic engrafting cells in the muscle of the chimeric mice were also derived from BM. However, mobilization of progenitors into circulation by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor did not change the population of hematopoietic progenitors in the muscle. It is proposed that hematopoietic progenitors and stem cells in the muscle tissue are of BM origin but their transition from BM to muscle may be a slow process.
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- H Kawada
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA
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Sueda S, Fukuda H, Watanabe K, Ochi N, Kawada H, Hayashi Y, Uraoka T. Clinical characteristics and possible mechanism of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation induced by intracoronary injection of acetylcholine. Am J Cardiol 2001; 88:570-3. [PMID: 11524074 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(01)01744-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- S Sueda
- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Saijo Hospital, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
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Okayama H, Sumimoto T, Morioka N, Yamamoto K, Kawada H. Usefulness of selective myocardial contrast echocardiography in percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation: a case report. Jpn Circ J 2001; 65:842-4. [PMID: 11548888 DOI: 10.1253/jcj.65.842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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A 67-year-old woman with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy that was refractory to medical treatment underwent percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA). The septal branch supplying the myocardium involved in the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction was identified by selective myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE). MCE for the third and largest septal branch opacified the right side of the mid-septal myocardium and MCE for the second septal branch opacified the right side of the basal portion of the septal myocardium. Finally, contrast agent was injected into the first, small branch, which opacificied the myocardium protruding into the LVOT. Subsequently, septal myocardial ablation for this vessel with intracoronary alcohol was performed, followed by a reduction of the LVOT gradient and successful, dramatic improvement in the patient's clinical condition. Selective MCE was very useful to identify the appropriate septal branch for PTSMA and enabled maximal effect of this treatment with minimal myocardial damage.
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- H Okayama
- Department of Cardiology, Kitaishikai Hospital, Ozu, Ehime, Japan.
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Sueda S, Suzuki J, Watanabe K, Ochi N, Hayashi Y, Kawada H, Uraoka T. New non-invasive protocol for detection of coronary spastic angina with significant organic stenosis. Coron Artery Dis 2001; 12:295-303. [PMID: 11428538 DOI: 10.1097/00019501-200106000-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine whether a newly-combined test, accelerated exercise following mild hyperventilation (HV) is more beneficial to detect ischaemic evidence in patients with pharmacology-induced coronary artery spasm (CAS) and luminal narrowing of > 75% than classic methods. METHODS AND RESULTS Forty consecutive patients who all had luminal narrowing of > 75% but < 90% and pharmacology-induced coronary vasospasms of fixed lesions were involved in this study. In these patients, initial HV test, followed by treadmill (TM) exercise test and lastly the newly combined test were performed on three consecutive days. Of the 40 patients, firstly six, secondarily 16 and lastly 32 had positive responses to the HV test, TM exercise test, and newly combined test, respectively. The remaining six patients (15%) had negative results, although the triple sequential tests were performed. Thus, sensitivity of the HV test, the TM exercise test, and the newly combined test was 15% (6/40), 40% (16/40), and 84% (32/38), respectively. Specificity of the three tests were all 100% (46/46). Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia and hypotension were observed in two (5%) patients. However, no serious or irreversible complications were encountered in this study. CONCLUSIONS We recommend the newly combined protocol rather than the classic tests for the detection of ischaemic evidence in patients with coronary spastic angina and fixed stenosis.
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- S Sueda
- Department of Cardiology, Siseikai Saijo Hospital, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
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Hemodialysis patients frequently show associated hypertension, which can lead to a number of cardiovascular complications. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of hypertension on the structure and function of the carotid artery and left ventricle (LV) in hemodialysis patients. In addition, we investigated the contribution of hemodialysis and other risk factors. Fifty-two hemodialysis patients, 71 hypertensive patients (HT group) and 30 normotensive subjects (NT group) were included in this study. Hemodialysis patients were divided into two groups: 35 patients with hypertension (HDHT group), and 17 patients without hypertension (HDNT group). We measured intima-media thickness (IMT), plaque score, end-diastolic diameter, and stiffness index beta of the carotid artery by ultrasonography, and LV mass index (LVMi), endocardial fractional shortening (FS), and midwall FS (MWS) by echocardiography. A multiple stepwise regression analysis including hemodialysis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and other risk factors was also performed. IMT was significantly higher in the HT and HDHT groups than in the NT group. Plaque score and diameter of the carotid artery were higher in the HDHT group than in the other three groups. The stiffness index beta was higher in the HDHT group than in the non-hemodialysis groups. In multivariate analysis, IMT was independently correlated with age and hypertension. Plaque score and stiffness index beta were independently associated with age, hypertension, and hemodialysis. LVMi was higher in HT and hemodialysis-patients groups than in the NT group. Hypertension and hemodialysis were strong and independent predictors of LVMi. FS showed no significant differences among the four groups, but MWS was significantly lower among the hemodialysis patients than in the NT group. MWS was independently correlated with hemodialysis and diabetes. In conclusion, hemodialysis per se advanced both atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis of the carotid artery. Moreover, it increased LVMi and caused cardiac dysfunction. Associated hypertension might thus accelerate the progression of atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis of the carotid artery and the increase of LVMi.
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- H Kawada
- Department of Cardiology, Kitaishikai Hospital, Ehime, Japan.
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We investigated hematopoietic capabilities of murine skeletal muscle using methylcellulose culture and transplantation into lethally irradiated mice. Muscle mononuclear cells (MNC) contained colony-forming cells and long-term engrafting cells. Studies using chimeric mice indicated a bone marrow origin of the hematopoietic cells in the muscle. We then separated muscle MNC by FACS sorting into Ly-5-positive cells and Ly-5-negative cells and analyzed their hematopoietic capability in vitro and in vivo. The hematopoietic progenitors and stem cells were present only in the Ly-5-positive fraction.
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- H Kawada
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 109 Bee Street, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
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Okayama H, Sumimoto T, Morioka N, Yamamoto K, Kawada H. [Coronary blood flow velocity pattern after reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction]. J Cardiol 2001; 37:223-5. [PMID: 11337932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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- H Okayama
- Department of Cardiology, Kitaishikai Hospital, Tokunomori 2632-3, Ozu, Ehime 795-0061
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Sueda S, Fukuda H, Watanabe K, Ochi N, Kawada H, Hayashi Y, Uraoka T. Usefulness of accelerated exercise following mild hyperventilation for the induction of coronary artery spasm : comparison with an acetylcholine Test. Chest 2001; 119:155-62. [PMID: 11157598 DOI: 10.1378/chest.119.1.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES This study was performed to compare the results of accelerated exercise following mild hyperventilation and a standard acetylcholine (ACh) test for the induction of coronary artery spasm in patients with drug-induced coronary artery spasm. METHODS AND RESULTS The subjects were 74 patients with angiographically confirmed coronary artery spasm who were examined using accelerated exercise (ie, exercise that was accelerated every minute according to the protocol of Bruce and Horsten) following mild hyperventilation and who were not receiving any medication. ACh was injected in incremental doses of 20 microg and 50 microg into the right coronary artery and incremental doses of 20 microg, 50 microg, and 100 microg into the left coronary artery. Positive coronary spasm was defined as > or =99% luminal narrowing. Accelerated exercise following a mild hyperventilation test was as useful for detecting evidence of ischemia as was an ACh test (48 patients [64.9%] vs 49 patients [66.2%], respectively; not significant). No difference was observed between ischemic changes on ECG as a result of the newly combined method and the occurrence of ACh-induced spasm. ACh-induced coronary vasospasm occurred in 61 patients (82.4%). In the remaining 13 patients, intracoronary administration of ergonovine provoked coronary spasms. No serious irreversible complications were detected as a result of this newly combined method. CONCLUSIONS The effectiveness of our newly combined procedure is equivalent to that of an ACh test to diagnose patients with coronary artery spasm.
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- S Sueda
- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Saijo Hospital, Saijo City, Japan
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Fujiwara A, Ishii K, Watanuki T, Suematsu H, Nakao H, Ohwada K, Fujii Y, Murakami Y, Mori T, Kawada H, Kikegawa T, Shimomura O, Matsubara T, Hanabusa H, Daicho S, Kitamura S, Katayama C. Synchrotron radiation X-ray powder diffractometer with a cylindrical imaging plate. J Appl Crystallogr 2000. [DOI: 10.1107/s0021889800009286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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A synchrotron radiation X-ray powder diffractometer for samples of very small amount has been developed to collect high-quality diffraction patterns under extreme conditions,i.e.at low temperature and/or high pressure. A new cylindrical imaging plate (CIP) is used as a detector, in addition to a conventional flat-type imaging plate (FIP). By using the CIP system, the diffraction data in a diffraction angle range −44 ≤ 2θ ≤ 122° are collected with a dynamic range of about 106. The alignment of the diffractometer, measurement and analysis are automatically operated by a workstation. A performance test shows that the CIP system has spatial resolution of about 0.07° with a dynamic range of 106. The diffraction pattern of a standard sample of Si measured by the CIP system has high quality; the refinement of the structure reachesRw= 3.68% even in the case of a small amount of sample (about 2 µg) and a short exposure time (60 s). Examples of experiments at low temperatures under ambient and high pressures are also presented.
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Kawada H, Fukuda R, Yoshida M, Kawakami T, Kawada T, Miyachi H, Tsutsumi Y, Yonekura S, Ichikawa Y, Hotta T. A novel variant of B-lymphoid leukemia expressing kappa/lambda light chains. Acta Haematol 2000; 100:54-6. [PMID: 9691148 DOI: 10.1159/000040864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We studied a patient with an indolent leukemia which behaved similarly to chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Leukemic cells, however, showed larger cell diameters and lower nuclear/cytoplasmic ratios than typical CLL cells, and contained numerous cytoplasmic vacuoles. The cells also demonstrated some morphologic characteristics of hairy cell leukemia. Furthermore, flow-cytometric analysis demonstrated a distinct population of kappa/lambda double-positive tumor cells, as well as kappa single and lambda single populations. Southern blot analysis confirmed rearranged bands for both light chains with a monoclonal heavy chain rearrangement. Despite a decision not to treat this asymptomatic patient, disease progression was not observed. This case may represent a unique variant of B lymphoid leukemia. Possible mechanisms of abnormal light chain expression are discussed.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains/immunology
- Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains/immunology
- Immunophenotyping
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/classification
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Male
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- H Kawada
- Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University Hospital, Bohseidai, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
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Sueda S, Ochi T, Yano K, Mineoi K, Kondou T, Ochi N, Hayashi Y, Kukita H, Matsuda S, Kawada H, Tsuruoka T, Uraoka T. New combined spasm provocation test in patients with rest angina: intracoronary injection of acetylcholine after intracoronary administration of ergonovine. Jpn Circ J 2000; 64:559-65. [PMID: 10952150 DOI: 10.1253/jcj.64.559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The incidence of provoked coronary spasm with the standard single spasm provocation test has been relatively low in patients with rest angina. The present study examined the clinical usefulness of a newly designed spasm provocation test, an intracoronary injection of acetylcholine (ACh) following an ergonovine (ER) test, in patients with rest angina who demonstrated low disease activity and atypical chest pain. Triple sequential spasm provocation tests were performed in 24 patients with atypical chest pain who had no ischemia and in 40 patients with rest angina who had distinct ischemia. Initially, an ACh test (20-100 microg) and then an ER test (40-64 microg) were performed and then, if no spasm was provoked, an intracoronary injection of ACh was given after the ER test to evaluate coronary spasm. Coronary spasm was defined as total or subtotal occlusion. In the 24 patients with atypical chest pain, no spasm was provoked by intracoronary injection of either ACh or ER, but coronary spasms were induced in 2 patients using the new method, with the remaining 22 not experiencing spasm (specificity of new method, 92%). In the 40 patients with rest angina, intracoronary injection of ACh induced coronary spasm in 22 patients (group I) and 6 (group II) demonstrated spasm with intracoronary injection of ER. Coronary spasm was not induced by either the ACh test or the ER test in 12 patients (group III). The intracoronary administration of ACh after the ER test provoked spasm in 11 of 12 patients. Diffuse spasms were provoked in 10 of 11 patients. In patients with rest angina, the frequency of chest pain attacks in 1 month experienced by patients in group III (0.8+/-0.8) was significantly lower than that of patients in group I (7.0+/-5.3, p<0.01) or II (3.5+/-2.3, p<0.05). No serious or irreversible complications related to this new combined method were observed. In conclusion, this method was safe and reliable for the induction of coronary spasm in patients with rest angina who may have low disease activity.
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- S Sueda
- Takanoko Hospital, Matsuyama City, Japan
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Tsuji K, Motoji T, Sugawara I, Shiozaki H, Wang YH, Motomura S, Okada M, Yasunami T, Sano F, Takahashi M, Kawada H, Maseki N, Hoshino S, Ishida M, Mizoguchi H. Significance of lung resistance-related protein in the clinical outcome of acute leukaemic patients with reference to P-glycoprotein. Br J Haematol 2000; 110:370-8. [PMID: 10971394 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.02181.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Lung resistance-related protein (LRP) overexpression in leukaemic blast cells from acute leukaemia patients and the effect of LRP or P-glycoprotein (P-gp) on the clinical outcome of acute leukaemia were investigated individually by dividing patients into four groups. The complete remission rate of group I (LRP and P-gp both negative) was 81.7%, group II (only LRP positive) 87.5%, group III (only P-gp positive) 87.1% and group IV (LRP and P-gp both positive) 40.0%. There were no statistical differences between group I and groups II or III, but a significant difference was observed between groups I, II or III and group IV. Median overall survival in group IV was significantly shorter (4.6 months) than in groups I, II or III, although no significant differences were observed between group I and groups II or III (18.9, 20.5 and 31.8 months). There was a tendency for disease-free survival in group III to be longer than that in groups I, II or IV. The reasons for these findings are discussed. Our present results indicate that the co-existence of LRP and P-gp strongly influenced the effectiveness of induction chemotherapy and long-term prognosis, whereas the isolated presence of LRP or P-gp did not.
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- K Tsuji
- Department of Medicine, St. Marianna Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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Shimakura Y, Kawada H, Ando K, Sato T, Nakamura Y, Tsuji T, Kato S, Hotta T. Murine stromal cell line HESS-5 maintains reconstituting ability of Ex vivo-generated hematopoietic stem cells from human bone marrow and cytokine-mobilized peripheral blood. Stem Cells 2000; 18:183-9. [PMID: 10840071 DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.18-3-183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Human bone marrow (BM) or mobilized peripheral blood (mPB) CD34(+) cells have been shown to loose their stem cell quality during culture period more easily than those from cord blood (CB). We previously reported that human umbilical CB stem cells could effectively be expanded in the presence of human recombinant cytokines and a newly established murine bone marrow stromal cell line HESS-5. In this study we assessed the efficacy of this xenogeneic coculture system using human BM and mPB CD34(+) cells as materials. We measured the generation of CD34(+)CD38(-) cells and colony-forming units, and assessed severe-combined immunodeficient mouse-repopulating cell (SRC) activity using cells five days after serum-free cytokine-containing culture in the presence or the absence of a direct contact with HESS-5 cells. As compared with the stroma-free culture, the xenogeneic coculture was significantly superior on expansion of CD34(+)CD38(-) cells and colony-forming cells and on maintenance of SRC activity. The PKH26 study demonstrated that cell division was promoted faster in cells cocultured with HESS-5 cells than in cells cultured without HESS-5 cells. These results indicate that HESS-5 supports rapid generation of primitive progenitor cells (PPC) and maintains reconstituting ability of newly generated stem cells during ex vivo culture irrespective of the source of samples. This xenogeneic coculture system will be useful for ex vivo manipulation such as gene transduction to promote cell division and the generation of PPC and to prevent loss of stem cell quality.
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- Y Shimakura
- Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
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Sasaki T, Tokuyama S, Shimizu H, Kawada H, Soh I, Sueki H, Iijima M, Yamamoto T, Kuroiwa Y. Differential property of antigenic characterization between piroxicam and ampiroxicam in contact hypersensitivity. Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol 2000; 105:147-54. [PMID: 10850378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Piroxicam (PXM; a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) has been reported to induce photosensitivity. In our previous report, however, ultraviolet-A (UVA)-irradiated or non-irradiated PXM did not induce any reactions in the in vivo model of contact hypersensitivity, while positive patch testing was shown by ampiroxicam (APX; a prodrug of PXM). The purpose of the present study was to clarify the influence of protein on the antigenicity of PXM using this model. Animals sensitized by UVA-irradiated 1% APX showed positive patch testing (open application) in UVA-irradiated 1% APX, while they were negative in challenge by UVA-irradiated PXM with or without 5% human serum albumin (HSA). Although animals sensitized by 1% thiosalicylate (TOS), which is thought to be an active hapten of PXM, were cross-reacted with UVA-irradiated 1% APX, they failed to react with UVA-irradiated 1% PXM with or without HSA. On the other hand, intra-dermal testing (intra-dermal application) in UVA-irradiated 0.1% PXM with 5% HSA was positive in animals sensitized by UVA-irradiated 1% APX, while 5% HSA alone, 0.1% PXM with 5% HSA and UVA-irradiated 0.1% PXM did not induce any reactions under this condition. Furthermore, concentration of PXM in the presence of HSA was reduced by UVA-irradiation in a time dependent manner, while the degradation of PXM was not observed in the absence of HSA. Finally, PXM almost disappeared at 120 min after the initiation of UVA-irradiation. The degradation of PXM irradiated by UVA was dependent on the concentration of HSA at the range of 0 to 4%. Hence, these results suggest that the presence of protein is necessary for the induction of the antigenic activity of PXM and the antigenic characterization of PXM is different from that of APX in contact hypersensitivity.
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- T Sasaki
- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Showa University Tokyo, Japan
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Soma T, Takeda Y, Akiyama Y, Suzuki N, Kawada H, Suzuki T, Nasu M, Miwa A, Kudo K. [A case of primary macroglobulinemia with acute pulmonary edema]. Nihon Kokyuki Gakkai Zasshi 2000; 38:518-25. [PMID: 11019565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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A 54-year-old man with acute respiratory failure underwent emergency admission to our hospital. Acute pulmonary edema combined with severe pneumonia was strongly suspected, and treatment with diuretics, antibiotics, and corticosteroids was effective. The diagnosis, primary macroglobulinemia, was made from the following findings: a high level of the lgM 1 type monoclonal protein, and an elevated serum viscosity with characteristic "linked sausage effects" seen in the retinal veins. Lymphoplasmacytoid cells, plasma cells, and small lymphocytes were seen in the bone marrow and lymphoplasmacytoid cells were also seen in the smear of the patient's peripheral blood. The types of malignant cells found in his bone marrow were also seen in both infiltrative lesions in the lung parenchyma and the pleural effusion. We concluded that this was a case of primary macroglobulinemia with acute pulmonary edema, which was caused partly by the hyperviscosity syndrome. The antitumor effect of the corticosteroid might have some effect on the recovery from acute respiratory failure and primary macroglobulinemia. He was transferred to the Department of Hematology to receive suitable chemotherapy.
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- T Soma
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
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Sueda S, Suzuki J, Watanabe K, Mineoi K, Kondou T, Yano K, Ochi T, Ochi N, Hayashi Y, Kukita H, Matsuda S, Kawada H, Tsuruoka T, Uraoka T. Clinical characteristics of female patients with coronary spastic angina: comparison with male patients. Jpn Circ J 2000; 64:416-20. [PMID: 10875731 DOI: 10.1253/jcj.64.416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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There are many patients with vasospastic angina who have minor atherosclerosis, and in Japan the majority of them are male. No data exist concerning sex differences in patients with coronary spastic angina, so the present study sought to clarify the clinical characteristics between male and female patients with vasospastic angina. Between April 1991 and June 1998, 204 consecutive patients were diagnosed with vasospastic angina and of these, 26 (12.7%) were female. An acetylcholine test was performed with incremental doses of 20, 50, and 80 microg injected into the right coronary artery and 20, 50, and 100 microg into the left coronary artery. Ergonovine was injected in a total dose of 40 microg into the right coronary artery and 64 microg into the left coronary artery. Coronary spasm was defined as 99% or more luminal narrowing accompanied by ischemic changes on ECG. Compared with male patients, female patients had less organic stenosis (12 vs 33%, p<0.05), less history of smoking (15 vs 85%, p<0.01), and fewer focal spasms (31 vs 64%, p<0.01). There were no other differences between the 2 groups. In conclusion, Japanese female patients with vasospastic angina had the characteristics of diffuse provoked spasm, less organic stenosis, and less history of smoking, but only 1 in 10 of all patients with vasospastic angina are female.
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- S Sueda
- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Saijo Hospital, Ehime, Japan
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Takahara M, Suzuki T, Toyota E, Kobayashi N, Kawada H, Kudoh K. [A clinical study on pulmonary tuberculosis in younger age groups]. Kekkaku 2000; 75:349-53. [PMID: 10808277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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In 1997, the number of newly registered patients with pulmonary tuberculosis increased, compared with that in 1996, in Japan. The majority of the increase were occupied by elder patients 70 years of age or higher. But in younger group less than 30 years old, a reduction in the incidence of tuberculosis had been slowed down, until 1996. The purpose of this report is to elucidate the characteristics of these younger patients. 139 cases younger than 30 years of age, who were hospitalized in the tuberculous ward of IMCJ from April 1995 to March 1998, were investigated, and were compared with the control group (557 cases), 30-79 years old who were hospitalized during the same period. In the younger group, the proportion of women cases, discovered by health examination, foreigners, and contact with TB patients in the past was significantly higher than in the control group. But there were no difference between the both groups, concerning the proportion of those spending irregular life or living alone. The proportion of sputa smear negative cases was significantly higher in the younger group than in the control. For early diagnosis of TB among younger group, the application of bronchofiberscopy and nucleic acid diagnostic method, are encouraged.
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- M Takahara
- Department of Internal Medicine, National Nishi-Koufu Hospital, Japan
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Photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation was generated by doping a small amount of Co(2+) ions into TiO(2) particles. Nanometer-sized particles with the composition xCoO-(100-x) TiO(2) (xCo/TiO(2); 0</=x</=6.0) were prepared from TiOSO(4).4.5H(2)O and Co(CH(3)COO)(2).4H(2)O in an ethanol-water solution containing NaOH under reflux. The photoreactivity of xCo/TiO(2) was evaluated by the rate of CH(3)CHO degradation. The Co(2+) ion doping (0.01</=x</=0.27) not only enhanced the photocatalytic activity under ultraviolet-visible (lambda>300 nm) light irradiation but also induced the visible light (lambda>400 nm) response. The highest photocatalytic activities were obtained at x=0.03 for both irradiations. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.
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- M Iwasaki
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, 577-8502, Japan
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Okayama H, Kawasaki S, Takagaki Y, Kawada H, Sumimoto T, Hirayama T. Infection of left atrial thrombus associated with mitral stenosis: A case report. Chest 2000; 117:1201-3. [PMID: 10767263 DOI: 10.1378/chest.117.4.1201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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We describe the first reported case of an infected left atrial thrombus. The case of the 65-year-old male patient in this report was associated with mitral stenosis and involved Escherichia coli, and was treated successfully with surgical resection of the infected thrombus. This case suggests that such infection should be considered as a possible complication of intracardiac thrombus when bacteremia is present.
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- H Okayama
- Departments of Cardiology, Kitaishikai Hospital, Ozu, Ehime, Japan
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Sueda S, Saeki H, Otani T, Mineoi K, Kondou T, Yano K, Ochi T, Ochi N, Hayashi Y, Tsuruoka T, Kawada H, Matsuda S, Uraoka T. Major complications during spasm provocation tests with an intracoronary injection of acetylcholine. Am J Cardiol 2000; 85:391-4, A10. [PMID: 11078314 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00754-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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This study sought to clarify major complications associated with acetylcholine testing. Serious major complications, such as sustained ventricular tachycardia, shock, and cardiac tamponade were determined in 4 of 715 patients (0.56%), but no cases of death or irreversible complications occurred. The spasm provocation test using acetylcholine should be performed carefully, although it is considered a safe and reliable method.
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- S Sueda
- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Saijo Hospital, Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
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Gao PS, Kawada H, Kasamatsu T, Mao XQ, Roberts MH, Miyamoto Y, Yoshimura M, Saitoh Y, Yasue H, Nakao K, Adra CN, Kun JF, Moro-oka S, Inoko H, Ho LP, Shirakawa T, Hopkin JM. Variants of NOS1, NOS2, and NOS3 genes in asthmatics. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 267:761-3. [PMID: 10673365 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.2030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) gas concentrations are higher in expired air in asthmatics. NO is synthesized by three isoforms of NO synthase (NOS) encoded by three distinct genes, NOS1, NOS2, and NOS3. Genome-wide searches have identified linkages to asthma on chromosomes 7, 12, and 17 where these three genes are localized. No association study, however, has been reported to date. To test whether variants of NOS1, NOS2, and NOS3 relate to asthma, a genetic association study was conducted in a British population (n = 300). Intragenic microsatellite variants of NOS1 were significantly associated with asthma [odds ratio (OR) = 2.08, 95% CI: 1.20-3.57 (95% CI), P = 0.008 (Pc = 0.048)], but not with IgE levels. Neither NOS2 nor NOS3 variants showed any association with asthma nor IgE levels. These findings suggest that NOS1 variants may be a significant contributor to asthma in a British population.
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- P S Gao
- Experimental Medicine Unit, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom
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Nakamura Y, Ando K, Chargui J, Kawada H, Sato T, Tsuji T, Hotta T, Kato S. Ex vivo generation of CD34(+) cells from CD34(-) hematopoietic cells. Blood 1999; 94:4053-9. [PMID: 10590049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023] Open
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The human Lin(-)CD34(-) cell population contains a newly defined class of hematopoietic stem cells that reconstitute hematopoiesis in xenogeneic transplantation systems. We therefore developed a culture condition in which these cells were maintained and then acquired CD34 expression and the ability to produce colony-forming cells (CFC) and SCID-repopulating cells (SRCs). A murine bone marrow stromal cell line, HESS-5, supports the survival and proliferation of Lin(-)CD34(-) cells in the presence of fetal calf serum and human cytokines thrombopoietin, Flk-2/Flt-3 ligand, stem cell factor, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, interleukin-3, and interleukin-6. Although Lin(-)CD34(-) cells do not initially form any hematopoietic colonies in methylcellulose, they do acquire the colony-forming ability during 7 days of culture, which coincides with their conversion to a CD34(+) phenotype. From 2.2% to 12.1% of the cells became positive for CD34 after culture. The long-term multilineage repopulating ability of these cultured cells was also confirmed by transplantation into irradiated NOD/SCID mice. These results represent the first in vitro demonstration of the precursor of CD34(+) cells in the human CD34(-) cell population. Furthermore, the in vitro system we reported here is expected to open the way to the precise characterization and ex vivo manipulation of Lin(-)CD34(-) hematopoietic stem cells.
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- Y Nakamura
- Research Center for Cell Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, and the Department of Hematology, Tokai University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
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Sueda S, Saeki H, Otani T, Mineoi K, Kondo T, Yano K, Ochi T, Ochi N, Kawada H, Matsuda S, Hayashi Y, Tsuruoka T, Uraoka T. Limited efficacy of magnesium for the treatment of variant angina. J Cardiol 1999; 34:139-47. [PMID: 10500974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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Some patients with variant angina show both ST segment elevation at rest and exercise-induced ST segment elevation. Magnesium deficiency has also been observed in patients with variant angina. This study investigated the correlation between the degree of magnesium deficiency and the efficacy of intravenous administration of magnesium in patients with variant angina. Fifteen patients with angiographically confirmed variant angina were assessed for magnesium deficiency and whether intravenous administration of magnesium (19.2 mEq/l) suppressed exercise-induced ST segment elevation. All 15 patients were studied with a magnesium retention test (0.2 mEq/kg over 4 hr) to analyze magnesium deficiency. In our study, magnesium retention rate in patients with variant angina was not higher than that of controls (57 +/- 24% vs 45 +/- 10%, NS). All 15 patients had anginal attacks during accelerated exercise combined with hyperventilation after placebo infusion, whereas only 8 patients had anginal attacks after magnesium administration. ST segment elevation occurred in 14 patients after placebo infusion, but in only 4 patients after magnesium administration. There were no correlations between disease activity, degree of magnesium deficiency or failure of suppression of ST elevation by the intravenous administration of magnesium. Intravenous administration of magnesium can suppress exercise-induced coronary spasms in some patients with variant angina, but the degree of magnesium deficiency did not correlate with the suppressions of exercise-induced ST elevation after magnesium administration. Intravenous administration of magnesium had limited efficacy in patients with variant angina and exercise-induced ST segment elevation.
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- S Sueda
- Department of Cardiology, Saiseikai Saijo Hospital, Ehime
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Kawada H, Kitayama A, Fukuoka T, Ishii C, Abe T, Kakuta M, Domon H, Ohya S, Utsui Y. [In vitro and in vivo activities of cefpodoxime proxetil against penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae]. Jpn J Antibiot 1999; 52:533-40. [PMID: 10587878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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We evaluated in vitro and in vivo activities of cefpodoxime proxetil (CPDX-PR) in comparison with other oral beta-lactams, cefdinir (CFDN), cefditoren pivoxil (CDTR-PI), and faropenem (FRPM), against penicillin-susceptible and -resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. In vitro activities (MICs) of CPDX, CFDN, CDTR, and FRPM against clinical isolates, penicillin-susceptible S. pneumoniae (PSSP: MIC of penicillin G, < or = 0.063 microgram/ml), penicillin-intermediate S. pneumoniae (PISP: MIC of penicillin G, 0.125-1 microgram/ml), and penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae (PRSP: MIC of penicillin G, > or = 2 micrograms/ml), were tested by an agar dilution method. The MIC80s of CPDX against 27 PSSP strains, 23 PISP strains, and 23 PRSP strains were 0.032, 1, and 8 micrograms/ml, respectively, which were superior to or equal to those of CFDN (0.063, 4, and 8 micrograms/ml) and were inferior to those of CDTR (0.016, 0.5, and 1 microgram/ml) and FRPM (< or = 0.008, 0.25, and 1 microgram/ml). Infection was induced in mice by inoculating with a PRSP clinical isolate, 9605 or 9601 (serotype 6), or 10692 (serotype 19), through the nares of male ddY mice into the lungs. The mice were treated with drugs with doses of 2-50 mg/kg at 18, 26, 42, and 50 hours after the infection. Viable cell numbers in the lungs and blood were assayed at 66 hours after the infection. The efficacy of each drug was dose-dependent. CPDX-PR showed the most potent in vivo efficacy among the drugs tested against the infections caused by the PRSP strains. MICs of the drugs against PRSP 9605, 9601, and 10692 were as follows: CPDX, 4, 4 and 2 micrograms/ml; CFDN, 16, 16, and 4 micrograms/ml; CDTR, 1, 1, and 0.5 microgram/ml; and FRPM, 1, 0.5, and 0.5 microgram/ml, respectively. Thus, CPDX-PR showed a stronger in vivo activity than that expected from the MICs of CPDX. This was probably caused by the pharmacokinetic advantage of CPDX over the other drugs used in this study.
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- H Kawada
- Biological Research Laboratories, SANKYO CO., LTD
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Okayama H, Sumimoto T, Kawada H, Matsuda S, Kawasaki S, Takagaki Y. Angioplasty-bypass surgery combination therapy: case study of an elderly patient with unstable angina and colon cancer. Jpn Circ J 1999; 63:636-9. [PMID: 10478815 DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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An 83-year-old man was admitted with refractory unstable angina and severe anemia. Colonofiberscopy revealed hemorrhagic colon cancer in the transverse colon. Coronary angiography showed total occlusion of the right coronary artery (RCA), diffuse, calcified 90% stenosis of the middle portion of the left anterior descending artery (LAD); and fair collaterals from the LAD to the RCA. Coronary revascularization was considered prior to colectomy, but because of the patient's advanced age and hemorrhagic cancer, conventional coronary aorta bypass grafting (CABG) using extracorporeal circulation, as well as coronary stenting requiring antiplatelet therapy, were regarded as inadvisable. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for the LAD carried the risk of suboptimal coronary stenting. Thus, the patient was first treated with PTCA for the occluded RCA, followed 7 days later by a left internal thoracic artery graft to the LAD on the beating heart without extracorporeal circulation. The patient was stable thereafter. This approach to coronary revascularization may be suitable for patients for whom anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy are contraindicated, or when complete revascularization would be difficult with CABG or PTCA alone.
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- H Okayama
- Department of Cardiology, Kitaishikai Hospital, Ozu, Ehime, Japan
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Ito S, Inoue S, Kawada H, Hara M, Iwasaki M, Tada H. Low-Temperature Synthesis of Nanometer-Sized Crystalline TiO2 Particles and Their Photoinduced Decomposition of Formic Acid. J Colloid Interface Sci 1999; 216:59-64. [PMID: 10395762 DOI: 10.1006/jcis.1999.6275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Anatase TiO2 particles with an average size of 2.7 nm in an as-grown state were obtained below 373 K from an H2O-EtOH mixed solution of TiOSO4 by a facile liquid phase method. The volume ratio of H2O to EtOH was revealed to be the key for crystallinity of the particles. The as-grown particles prepared from the H2O-EtOH solution (H2O/EtOH (mL/mL) = 150/100) showed a high photoreactivity in the TiO2 photoinduced decarboxylation of HCOOH under a deaerated condition. In contrast, under an aerated condition, the rate of the reaction increased with an increase in calcining temperature (Tc) due to the improvement of anatase crystallinity, going through a maximum at Tc = 873 K. Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
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- S Ito
- Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, 3-4-1, Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, 577-8502, Japan
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Adra CN, Mao XQ, Kawada H, Gao PS, Korzycka B, Donate JL, Shaldon SR, Coull P, Dubowitz M, Enomoto T, Ozawa A, Syed SA, Horiuchi T, Khaeraja R, Khan R, Lin SR, Flinter F, Beales P, Hagihara A, Inoko H, Shirakawa T, Hopkin JM. Chromosome 11q13 and atopic asthma. Clin Genet 1999; 55:431-7. [PMID: 10450859 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.1999.550606.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Asthma is a complex syndrome in which bronchial inflammation and smooth muscle hyperactivity lead to labile airflow obstruction. The commonest form of asthma is that due to atopy, which is an immune disorder where production of IgE to inhaled antigens leads to bronchial mucosal inflammation. The ultimate origins of asthma are interactive environmental and genetic factors. The genetics is acknowledged to be heterogeneous, and one chromosomal region of interest and controversy has been 11q13. To clarify the nature of the chromosome 11q13 effect in atopy and asthma, we conducted a genetic association study in subjects with marked atopic asthma and matched controls, which incorporated the study of 13 genetic variants over a distance of 10-12 cM and which took account of detailed immune and clinical phenotyping. Association with high IgE levels was limited to the interval flanked by D11S1335 and CD20 in a 0.8-Mb interval and was greatest for variants of Fc epsilonRIbeta and HTm4; these variants also associated with asthma (recurrent wheeze with labile airflow obstruction and need for regular inhaler treatment). At the more telomeric marker, D11S480, variants associated with asthma, but not with high IgE levels. The data might support the possibility of multiple loci relevant to atopic asthma on chromosome 11q13.
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- C N Adra
- Hematology/Oncology Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Kawada H, Ando K, Tsuji T, Shimakura Y, Nakamura Y, Chargui J, Hagihara M, Itagaki H, Shimizu T, Inokuchi S, Kato S, Hotta T. Rapid ex vivo expansion of human umbilical cord hematopoietic progenitors using a novel culture system. Exp Hematol 1999; 27:904-15. [PMID: 10340407 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-472x(99)00012-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Cell numbers limit the widespread clinical use of cord blood (CB) for gene therapy and marrow replacement in adults; a simple and effective method for ex vivo expansion of CB primitive progenitor cells (PPC) is required. Recently, the combination of thrombopoietin (TPO) and Flk-2/Flt-3 ligand (FL-2) was reported to support slow proliferation of CB-PPC in stroma-free liquid culture. We established a novel culture system in which the murine stromal cell line HESS-5 dramatically supports the rapid expansion of cryopreserved CB-PPC in synergy with TPO/FL-2. Furthermore, while HESS-5 cells directly adhered to human progenitors during culture, the cultured human cells could easily be harvested without contamination by HESS-5 cells. Within 7 days of culture, a 100-fold increase in CD34bright/CD38dim cells was obtained in serum-containing culture. When HESS-5 cells were physically separated from human progenitor cells in the presence of TPO/FL-2, synergy was blocked, suggesting that HESS-5 cells support proliferation of PPC by direct cell-to-cell interaction. The hematopoietic-supportive effects of this xenogeneic coculture system were then assessed in a very short-term (5 days) serum-free culture. Expansion was further enhanced by addition of stem cell factor (SCF) or interleukin-3 (IL-3). As a result, a 50- to 100-fold increase in CD34bright/CD38dim cells was noted. Colony-forming units in culture (CFU-C) and mixed colonies (CFU-GEMM) were enhanced by 10- to 30-fold and 10- to 20-fold, respectively. Moreover, generation of long-term-culture-initiating cells (LTC-IC) from CD34bright/CD38dim cells was amplified by 25-fold. The severe-combined immunodeficient (SCID) mouse-repopulating cell (SRC) assay confirmed extensive ability of the expanded cells to reconstitute long-term hematopoiesis. These results indicate that this xenogeneic coculture system, in combination with human cytokines, can rapidly generate PPC from cryopreserved CB.
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- H Kawada
- Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Cell Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
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Sueda S, Ochi N, Kawada H, Matsuda S, Hayashi Y, Tsuruoka T, Uraoka T. Frequency of provoked coronary vasospasm in patients undergoing coronary arteriography with spasm provocation test of acetylcholine. Am J Cardiol 1999; 83:1186-90. [PMID: 10215281 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)00057-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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This study examines the incidence of spasm by intracoronary injection of acetylcholine in Japanese patients who underwent coronary angiography. The subjects were 685 consecutive patients (477 men, mean age 63.2 +/- 7.5 years) who were studied with an acetylcholine test. Acetylcholine was injected in incremental doses of 20, 50, and 80 microg into the right coronary artery and 20, 50, and 100 microg into the left coronary artery. Spasm was defined as total or subtotal occlusion. Coronary vasospasm was determined in 221 patients (32.3%). Spasm occurred often during effort and rest in patients with angina (25 of 51, 49.0%), exertional angina (25 of 74, 33.8%), recent myocardial infarction (30 of 80, 37.5%), healed myocardial infarction (14 of 37, 37.8%), and especially in patients with rest angina (83 of 124, 66.9%), whereas spasm was relatively uncommon in patients with nonischemic heart disease (23 of 252, 9.1%). Spasm was superimposed on significant atherosclerotic lesions in 35.9% of patients as well as on nonfixed atherosclerotic lesions in 30.8% of patients. We conclude that >9% of Japanese patients may have coronary vasospasm with intracoronary injection of acetylcholine and recommend the provocation test for evaluating coronary vasospasm if coronary angiography is undertaken.
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- S Sueda
- The Department of Cardiology, Kita Medical Association Hospital, Tokunomori, Ozu City, Ehime, Japan
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Toyota E, Kobayashi N, Takahara M, Yoshizawa A, Kawada H, Suzuki T, Kudo K, Inagaki K. [Clinical investigation on endobronchial tuberculosis]. Kekkaku 1999; 74:347-51. [PMID: 10355220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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In order to assess the clinical features and clinical courses of endobronchial tuberculosis, which included trachea to segmental bronchus, we studied 34 cases of patients who were admitted to TB ward of International Medical Center of Japan from 1994 to 1997. We noticed a higher incidence in females and in the main bronchus. Cough was the most common complaint seen in 97% of cases. The duration of symptoms before the initiation of antituberculous chemotherapy was long (on the average 6 months), and they were often treated as bronchial asthma or bronchitis. Bronchoscopic examination is necessary for diagnosis. The scars sometimes gave rise to severe stenosis, especially when the lesion developed to an advanced stage or circumscribed the lumen before treatment. We tried INH inhalation with systemic chemotherapy. Although rapid improvement was suggested by this method, yet no significant difference was seen in the results for the efficacious prevention of stenosis. Five cases required surgical intervension (bronchoplasty and lobectomy) in order to avoid atelectasis or secondary infection. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are most important, and bronchoscopic examination is essential in early diagnosis.
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- E Toyota
- Respiratory Department, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
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