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Abe K, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, Ieki K, Ikeda M, Kameda J, Kanemura Y, Kaneshima R, Kashiwagi Y, Kataoka Y, Miki S, Mine S, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nakano Y, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Noguchi Y, Okamoto K, Sato K, Sekiya H, Shiba H, Shimizu K, Shiozawa M, Sonoda Y, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takemoto Y, Takenaka A, Tanaka H, Watanabe S, Yano T, Han S, Kajita T, Okumura K, Tashiro T, Tomiya T, Wang X, Xia J, Yoshida S, Megias GD, Fernandez P, Labarga L, Ospina N, Zaldivar B, Pointon BW, Kearns E, Raaf JL, Wan L, Wester T, Bian J, Griskevich NJ, Kropp WR, Locke S, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Takhistov V, Yankelevich A, Hill J, Park RG, Bodur B, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Bernard L, Coffani A, Drapier O, El Hedri S, Giampaolo A, Mueller TA, Santos AD, Paganini P, Quilain B, Ishizuka T, Nakamura T, Jang JS, Learned JG, Choi K, Cao S, Anthony LHV, Martin D, Scott M, Sztuc AA, Uchida Y, Berardi V, Catanesi MG, Radicioni E, Calabria NF, Machado LN, De Rosa G, Collazuol G, Iacob F, Lamoureux M, Mattiazzi M, Ludovici L, Gonin M, Pronost G, Fujisawa C, Maekawa Y, Nishimura Y, Friend M, Hasegawa T, Ishida T, Kobayashi T, Jakkapu M, Matsubara T, Nakadaira T, Nakamura K, Oyama Y, Sakashita K, Sekiguchi T, Tsukamoto T, Boschi T, Di Lodovico F, Gao J, Goldsack A, Katori T, Migenda J, Taani M, Zsoldos S, Kotsar Y, Ozaki H, Suzuki AT, Takeuchi Y, Bronner C, Feng J, Kikawa T, Mori M, Nakaya T, Wendell RA, Yasutome K, Jenkins SJ, McCauley N, Mehta P, Tsui KM, Fukuda Y, Itow Y, Menjo H, Ninomiya K, Lagoda J, Lakshmi SM, Mandal M, Mijakowski P, Prabhu YS, Zalipska J, Jia M, Jiang J, Jung CK, Wilking MJ, Yanagisawa C, Harada M, Ishino H, Ito S, Kitagawa H, Koshio Y, Nakanishi F, Sakai S, Barr G, Barrow D, Cook L, Samani S, Wark D, Nova F, Yang JY, Malek M, McElwee JM, Stone O, Thiesse MD, Thompson LF, Okazawa H, Kim SB, Seo JW, Yu I, Ichikawa AK, Nakamura KD, Tairafune S, Nishijima K, Iwamoto K, Nakagiri K, Nakajima Y, Taniuchi N, Yokoyama M, Martens K, de Perio P, Vagins MR, Kuze M, Izumiyama S, Inomoto M, Ishitsuka M, Ito H, Kinoshita T, Matsumoto R, Ommura Y, Shigeta N, Shinoki M, Suganuma T, Yamauchi K, Martin JF, Tanaka HA, Towstego T, Akutsu R, Gousy-Leblanc V, Hartz M, Konaka A, Prouse NW, Chen S, Xu BD, Zhang B, Posiadala-Zezula M, Hadley D, Nicholson M, O'Flaherty M, Richards B, Ali A, Jamieson B, Marti L, Minamino A, Pintaudi G, Sano S, Suzuki S, Wada K. Erratum: Search for Cosmic-Ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using Recoil Protons at Super-Kamiokande [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 031802 (2023)]. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:159903. [PMID: 37897794 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.159903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/30/2023]
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.031802.
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Tejada MLG, Sano T, Hanyu T, Koppers AAP, Nakanishi M, Miyazaki T, Ishikawa A, Tani K, Shimizu S, Shimizu K, Vaglarov B, Chang Q. New evidence for the Ontong Java Nui hypothesis. Sci Rep 2023; 13:8486. [PMID: 37231104 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33724-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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The formation of the Ontong Java Nui super oceanic plateau (OJN), which is based on the model that the submarine Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), Manihiki Plateau (MP), and Hikurangi Plateau (HP) were once its contiguous fragments, could have been the largest globally consequential volcanic event in Earth's history. This OJN hypothesis has been debated given the paucity of evidence, for example, the differences in crustal thickness, the compositional gap between MP and OJP basalts and the apparent older age of both plateaus relative to HP remain unresolved. Here we investigate the geochemical and 40Ar-39Ar ages of dredged rocks recovered from the OJP's eastern margin. Volcanic rocks having compositions that match the low-Ti MP basalts are reported for the first time on the OJP and new ~ 96-116 Ma and 67-68 Ma 40Ar-39Ar age data bridge the temporal gap between OJP and HP. These results provide new evidence for the Ontong Java Nui hypothesis and a framework for an integrated tectonomagmatic evolution of the OJP, MP, and HP. The isotopic data imply four mantle components in the source of OJN that are also expressed in present-day Pacific hotspots sources, indicating origin from (and longevity of) the Pacific Large Low Shear-wave Velocity Province.
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- M L G Tejada
- Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan.
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- Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, 305-005, Japan
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- Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan
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- College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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- Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, 305-005, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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- Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kochi, 783-8502, Japan
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- Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan
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- Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan
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Newcombe ME, Nielsen SG, Peterson LD, Wang J, Alexander CMO, Sarafian AR, Shimizu K, Nittler LR, Irving AJ. Degassing of early-formed planetesimals restricted water delivery to Earth. Nature 2023; 615:854-857. [PMID: 36922597 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05721-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023]
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The timing of delivery and the types of body that contributed volatiles to the terrestrial planets remain highly debated1,2. For example, it is unknown if differentiated bodies, such as that responsible for the Moon-forming giant impact, could have delivered substantial volatiles3,4 or if smaller, undifferentiated objects were more probable vehicles of water delivery5-7. Here we show that the water contents of minerals in achondrite meteorites (mantles or crusts of differentiated planetesimals) from both the inner and outer portions of the early Solar System are ≤2 μg g-1 H2O. These are among the lowest values ever reported for extraterrestrial minerals. Our results demonstrate that differentiated planetesimals efficiently degassed before or during melting. This finding implies that substantial amounts of water could only have been delivered to Earth by means of unmelted material.
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- NIRVANA Laboratories, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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- Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, USA
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- Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, USA
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- University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, USA
- School Of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Abe K, Hayato Y, Hiraide K, Ieki K, Ikeda M, Kameda J, Kanemura Y, Kaneshima R, Kashiwagi Y, Kataoka Y, Miki S, Mine S, Miura M, Moriyama S, Nakano Y, Nakahata M, Nakayama S, Noguchi Y, Okamoto K, Sato K, Sekiya H, Shiba H, Shimizu K, Shiozawa M, Sonoda Y, Suzuki Y, Takeda A, Takemoto Y, Takenaka A, Tanaka H, Watanabe S, Yano T, Han S, Kajita T, Okumura K, Tashiro T, Tomiya T, Wang X, Xia J, Yoshida S, Megias GD, Fernandez P, Labarga L, Ospina N, Zaldivar B, Pointon BW, Kearns E, Raaf JL, Wan L, Wester T, Bian J, Griskevich NJ, Kropp WR, Locke S, Smy MB, Sobel HW, Takhistov V, Yankelevich A, Hill J, Park RG, Bodur B, Scholberg K, Walter CW, Bernard L, Coffani A, Drapier O, El Hedri S, Giampaolo A, Mueller TA, Santos AD, Paganini P, Quilain B, Ishizuka T, Nakamura T, Jang JS, Learned JG, Choi K, Cao S, Anthony LHV, Martin D, Scott M, Sztuc AA, Uchida Y, Berardi V, Catanesi MG, Radicioni E, Calabria NF, Machado LN, De Rosa G, Collazuol G, Iacob F, Lamoureux M, Mattiazzi M, Ludovici L, Gonin M, Pronost G, Fujisawa C, Maekawa Y, Nishimura Y, Friend M, Hasegawa T, Ishida T, Kobayashi T, Jakkapu M, Matsubara T, Nakadaira T, Nakamura K, Oyama Y, Sakashita K, Sekiguchi T, Tsukamoto T, Boschi T, Di Lodovico F, Gao J, Goldsack A, Katori T, Migenda J, Taani M, Zsoldos S, Kotsar Y, Ozaki H, Suzuki AT, Takeuchi Y, Bronner C, Feng J, Kikawa T, Mori M, Nakaya T, Wendell RA, Yasutome K, Jenkins SJ, McCauley N, Mehta P, Tsui KM, Fukuda Y, Itow Y, Menjo H, Ninomiya K, Lagoda J, Lakshmi SM, Mandal M, Mijakowski P, Prabhu YS, Zalipska J, Jia M, Jiang J, Jung CK, Wilking MJ, Yanagisawa C, Harada M, Ishino H, Ito S, Kitagawa H, Koshio Y, Nakanishi F, Sakai S, Barr G, Barrow D, Cook L, Samani S, Wark D, Nova F, Yang JY, Malek M, McElwee JM, Stone O, Thiesse MD, Thompson LF, Okazawa H, Kim SB, Seo JW, Yu I, Ichikawa AK, Nakamura KD, Tairafune S, Nishijima K, Iwamoto K, Nakagiri K, Nakajima Y, Taniuchi N, Yokoyama M, Martens K, de Perio P, Vagins MR, Kuze M, Izumiyama S, Inomoto M, Ishitsuka M, Ito H, Kinoshita T, Matsumoto R, Ommura Y, Shigeta N, Shinoki M, Suganuma T, Yamauchi K, Martin JF, Tanaka HA, Towstego T, Akutsu R, Gousy-Leblanc V, Hartz M, Konaka A, Prouse NW, Chen S, Xu BD, Zhang B, Posiadala-Zezula M, Hadley D, Nicholson M, O'Flaherty M, Richards B, Ali A, Jamieson B, Marti L, Minamino A, Pintaudi G, Sano S, Suzuki S, Wada K. Search for Cosmic-Ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using Recoil Protons at Super-Kamiokande. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 130:031802. [PMID: 36763398 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.031802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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We report a search for cosmic-ray boosted dark matter with protons using the 0.37 megaton×years data collected at Super-Kamiokande experiment during the 1996-2018 period (SKI-IV phase). We searched for an excess of proton recoils above the atmospheric neutrino background from the vicinity of the Galactic Center. No such excess is observed, and limits are calculated for two reference models of dark matter with either a constant interaction cross section or through a scalar mediator. This is the first experimental search for boosted dark matter with hadrons using directional information. The results present the most stringent limits on cosmic-ray boosted dark matter and exclude the dark matter-nucleon elastic scattering cross section between 10^{-33}cm^{2} and 10^{-27}cm^{2} for dark matter mass from 1 MeV/c^{2} to 300 MeV/c^{2}.
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- K Abe
- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kamioka, Gifu 506-1205, Japan
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- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
- ILANCE, CNRS-University of Tokyo International Research Laboratory, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Research Center for Cosmic Neutrinos, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, University Autonoma Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, University Autonoma Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, University Autonoma Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, University Autonoma Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, British Columbia V5G 3H2, Canada
- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
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- Department of Physics, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
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- Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique, IN2P3-CNRS, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Junior College, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Gifu University, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- GIST College, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 500-712, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
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- Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34126, Korea
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- Institute For Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Education, ICISE, Quy Nhon 55121, Vietnam
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Bari and Università e Politecnico di Bari, I-70125 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Bari and Università e Politecnico di Bari, I-70125 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Bari and Università e Politecnico di Bari, I-70125 Bari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Napoli and Università di Napoli, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Napoli and Università di Napoli, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Napoli and Università di Napoli, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Padova and Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Padova and Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Padova and Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Padova and Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma and Università di Roma "La Sapienza," I-00185, Roma, Italy
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- ILANCE, CNRS-University of Tokyo International Research Laboratory, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- ILANCE, CNRS-University of Tokyo International Research Laboratory, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0845, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
- Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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- National Centre For Nuclear Research, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- National Centre For Nuclear Research, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- National Centre For Nuclear Research, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- National Centre For Nuclear Research, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- National Centre For Nuclear Research, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- National Centre For Nuclear Research, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
- STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, and Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Oxford OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Informatics in Social Welfare, Shizuoka University of Welfare, Yaizu, Shizuoka 425-8611, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-4575, USA
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
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- Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2A3, Canada
- Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba R3J 3L8, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba R3J 3L8, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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Amamoto R, Shimamoto K, Suwa T, Park S, Matsumoto H, Shimizu K, Katto M, Makino H, Matsubara S, Aoyagi Y. Relationships between dietary diversity and gut microbial diversity in the elderly. Benef Microbes 2022; 13:453-464. [PMID: 36377581 DOI: 10.3920/bm2022.0054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Diet is considered as a major driver of gut microbiota composition. However, little is known about the relationship between overall dietary balance and gut microbiota, especially in the elderly. Here, using the Quantitative Index for Dietary Diversity (QUANTIDD), we analysed the relationships between dietary diversity and gut microbiota diversity in 445 Japanese subjects aged 65-90 years. We also examined the effect of age by comparing the young-old group aged 65 to 74 years (<75 years group; n=246) and the old-old group aged 75 years and older (≥75 years group; n=199). QUANTIDD showed significant positive relationships with Pielou's evenness and Shannon indices, two α-diversity indices related to the uniformity of species distribution. This suggests that a more diverse diet is associated with a more uniform abundance of various bacterial groups, rather than a greater variety of gut bacteria. QUANTIDD also showed significant positive associations with the abundance of Anaerostipes, Eubacterium eligens group, and Eubacterium ventriosum group, which produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and are beneficial to health. Negative association was found with the abundance of Ruminococcus gnavus group, which produces inflammatory polysaccharides. Positive associations between QUANTIDD and α-diversity indices or the abundance of specific bacterial groups were identified among all subjects and in the <75 years group, but not in the ≥75 years group. Our results suggest that dietary diversity contributes to the diversity of the gut microbiota and increases the abundance of SCFAs-producing bacteria, but only up to a certain age. These findings help to understand the complex relationship between diet and gut microbiota, and provide hints for specific dietary interventions to promote beneficial gut microbiota in the elderly.
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- R Amamoto
- Food Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, 5-11 Izumi, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan
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- Food Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, 5-11 Izumi, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan
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- Food Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, 5-11 Izumi, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan
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- Exercise Sciences Research Group, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, 35-2 Sakaecho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan
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- Microbiological Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, 5-11 Izumi, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan
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- Basic Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, 5-11 Izumi, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan
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- Basic Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, 5-11 Izumi, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan
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- Food Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, 5-11 Izumi, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan
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- Food Research Department, Yakult Central Institute, 5-11 Izumi, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo 186-8650, Japan
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- Exercise Sciences Research Group, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, 35-2 Sakaecho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan
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Yamaguchi T, Tanaka S, Shimizu K. Trousseau's sign in a patient with Crohn's disease. QJM 2022; 115:627-628. [PMID: 35604106 DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcac127] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- T Yamaguchi
- Primary Care and Advanced Triage Section, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka 534-0021, Japan
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- Primary Care and Advanced Triage Section, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka 534-0021, Japan
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- Primary Care and Advanced Triage Section, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka 534-0021, Japan
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Oka M, Kurose K, Sakaeda K, Fukuda M, Sakai Y, Atarashi Y, Shimizu K, Masuda T, Nakatomi K, Kawase S, Suetsugu T, Mizuno K, Takemoto S, Yamaguchi H, Inoue H, Hattori N, Nakata M, Mukae H, Oga T. EP08.01-064 Serum NY-ESO-1 and XAGE1 Antibodies Predict and Monitor Clinical Responses to Immune Checkpoint Therapy for NSCLC. J Thorac Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.636] [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: 11/28/2022]
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Matsuoka S, Eguchi T, Iwaya M, Ide S, Mishima S, Takeda T, Miura K, Hamanaka K, Shimizu K. P2.12-02 Immune-Cell Distribution Between Tumor Edge and Center Affects Lung Cancer Aggressiveness - Multiplex Immunofluorescence. J Thorac Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.250] [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: 11/26/2022]
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Eguchi T, Matsuoka S, Iwaya M, Uehara T, Kobayashi S, Ide S, Mishima S, Takeda T, Miura K, Hamanaka K, Shimizu K. MA03.07 Accurate Intraoperative Diagnosis of Spread Through Air Spaces (STAS) Using a Cryo Embedding Medium Inflation Method. J Thorac Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.091] [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: 11/30/2022]
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Ishijima M, Nakamura T, Shimizu K, Hayashi K, Kikuchi H, Soen S, Omori G, Yamashita T, Uchio Y, Chiba J, Ideno Y, Kubota M, Kaneko H, Kurosawa H, Kaneko K. Different changes in the biomarker C-terminal telopeptides of type II collagen (CTX-II) following intra-articular injection of high molecular weight hyaluronic acid and oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a multi-center randomized controlled study. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2022; 30:852-861. [PMID: 35331859 DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2022.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVES We previously reported, based on a multicenter randomized-control study, that the efficacy of intra-articular injections of hyaluronic acid (IA-HA) was not inferior to that of oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). However, the molecular effects on the pathophysiology of knee OA remain unclear. C-terminal telopeptides of type II collagen (CTX-II) is reported to primarily originate from the interface between articular cartilage and subchondral bone, which is a site of potential remodeling in OA. We performed a predefined sub-analysis of the previous study to compare the changes of urinary CTX-II (uCTX-II) in response to IA-HA to those in response to NSAID for knee OA. DESIGN A total of 200 knee OA patients were registered from 20 hospitals and randomized to receive IA-HA (2,700 kDa HA, 5 times at 1-week intervals) or NSAID (loxoprofen sodium, 180 mg/day) for 5 weeks. The uCTX-II levels were measured before and after treatment. RESULTS The uCTX-II levels were significantly increased by IA-HA treatment (337.7 ± 193.8 to 370.7 ± 234.8 ng/μmol Cr) and were significantly reduced by NSAID treatment (423.2 ± 257.6 to 370.3 ± 250.9 ng/μmol Cr). The %changes of uCTX-II induced by IA-HA (11.6 ± 29.5%) and NSAID (-9.0 ± 26.7%) was significantly different (between-group difference: 20.6, 95% confidence intervals: 10.6 to 30.6). CONCLUSIONS While both IA-HA and NSAID improved symptoms of knee OA, uCTX-II levels were increased by IA-HA and reduced by NSAIDs treatment, suggesting these treatments may improve symptoms of knee OA through different modes of action.
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- M Ishijima
- Department of Medicine for Orthopaedics and Motor Organ, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Fukuoka, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Gifu University, School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan.
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- Department of Laboratory Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kinki University Sakai Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rheumatology, Nara Hospital, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Ikoma, Japan; Department of Laboratory Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan.
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- Center of Transdisciplinary Research, Institute for Research Promotion, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University School of Medicine, Shimane, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Medical Center East, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Center of Mathematics and Data Sciences, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan.
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- Department of Medicine for Orthopaedics and Motor Organ, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Medicine for Orthopaedics and Motor Organ, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Medicine for Orthopaedics and Motor Organ, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Medicine for Orthopaedics and Motor Organ, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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Yamaguchi T, Shimizu K. Subungual hemorrhage as a sign of infective endocarditis. QJM 2022; 115:179-180. [PMID: 35137211 DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcac034] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- T Yamaguchi
- Primary Care and Advanced Triage Section, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, 534-0021, Japan
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- Primary Care and Advanced Triage Section, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, 534-0021, Japan
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Debessai M, Matsuoka T, Hamlin JJ, Schilling JS, Shimizu K. Retraction: Pressure-Induced Superconducting State of Europium Metal at Low Temperatures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197002 (2009)]. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 127:269902. [PMID: 35029505 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.269902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Retraction of DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.197002.
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Kubo M, Mizutani T, Shimizu K, Matsumoto M, Iizuka K. New methods for determination of the keyhole position in the lateral suboccipital approach to avoid transverse-sigmoid sinus injury: Proposition of the groove line as a new surgical landmark. Neurochirurgie 2021; 67:325-329. [PMID: 33450265 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuchi.2020.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 11/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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PURPOSE The asterion is frequently used as an anatomical landmark to determine the location of a keyhole in the lateral suboccipital approach used in craniotomies. However, the asterion may not be ideal because of large individual differences among patients. We examined a simple and safe method for determining an optimal keyhole position (KP) using the digastric groove as a new landmark in the lateral suboccipital approach. METHODS Thirty-three patients with trigeminal neuralgia who underwent surgery in our institute between April 2014 and December 2018 were included. The groove line (GL) was designed accurately, extending the digastric groove on the surface of the occipital bone, as the x-axis. The y-axis was depicted from the posterior edge of the digastric groove (the groove point: GP) vertical to the GL. The x-y coordinates represented the distances from GP on each axis. The x-y coordinates of median edge of the transverse-sigmoid sinus (TSJ point), asterion, and the intersection of the GL and transverse sinus (the transverse point: TP) were investigated, based on intraoperative findings and recorded videos. RESULTS The x-y coordinated of the TSJ point were (23.9±3.9, 7.2±3.6). In all patients, the TSJ point was located superior to the GL. The x-y coordinates of the asterion were (27.3±6.0, 8.9±4.1), and in 28 of the 33 patients, their coordinates exceeded the TSJ points. The x-coordinate of the TP was 29.5±4.5, and was located behind the TSJ point on the GL in all patients. The shortest distance between the TSJ points and TP was approximately 3mm. According to these measurements, we decided that the optimal KP would be at 20mm from the GP, subjacent to the GL. CONCLUSIONS Our methods of using the GL as a new surgical landmark for setting the optimal KP is simple, safe, and useful.
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- M Kubo
- Department of neurosurgery, Showa university school of medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, 142-8555 Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan.
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- Department of neurosurgery, Showa university school of medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, 142-8555 Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan
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- Department of neurosurgery, Showa university school of medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, 142-8555 Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan
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- Department of neurosurgery, Showa university school of medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, 142-8555 Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan
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- Department of neurosurgery, Showa university school of medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, 142-8555 Tokyo, Shinagawa, Japan
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Umemoto N, Imaoka T, Inoue S, Oshima S, Itou R, Sakakibara T, Shimizu K, Ishii H, Murohara T. Impact of stress myocardial blood flow as an important predictor for major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event in hemodialysis patients, even in patients without myocardial perfusion abnormality. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.0312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
In the clinical setting, ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a major problem not only in general patients but also in regular hemodialysis (HD) patients. Positron emission tomography (PET) is becoming a reliable modality for detecting coronary artery disease. Of course, PET illustrates myocardial perfusion (MP), PET also measures myocardial blood flow (MBF) directly. We have reported stress MBF is an independent predictor in HD population. Although some prior studies show CFR is an independent predictor for their prognosis in patients without MP abnormality, there is limited data about the predictability of stress MBF in HD patients without MP abnormality.
Methods
A total 438 of HD patients who undergone 13NH3PET for suspected IHD were enrolled. All patients were undergone13NH3PET at Nagoya Radiological Diagnosis Foundation. After we excluded patients whose summed stress score (SSS) <4, we identified 182 eligible patients. Patients were divided into two group according to the median value of CFR levels; low stress MBF group (≤2.56) and high stress MBF group (>2.56). We followed up them up to 4.2 years (median 2.4 years) and collected their data. We evaluated their major adverse cardiac cerebrovascular event. We performed Kaplan-Meyer analysis and multivariable cox regression models. Furthermore, we evaluated the incremental value with C-index, net reclassification improvement (NRI) and integrated discrimination improvement (IDI) when CFR added into a model with established risk factors.
Result
There were intergroup difference in baseline characteristics: age, gender, prior CVD and diabetes. Kaplan-Meyer analysis shows statistically intergroup difference [log rank p=0.013, hazard ratio (HR) 0.413, 95% confidential interval (CI) 0.220–0.775]. Multivariable cox regression model for MACCE shows CFR is an independent risk factor (p=0.004, HR 0.311, 95% CI 0.137–0.684). As regarding model discrimination, all of C-index (0.832 vs 0.796, p=0.15), NRI (0.513, p=0.008) and IDI (0.032, p=0.033) were greatest in a predicting model with established risk factors plus stress MBF.
Conclusion
The low stress MBF group has poor prognosis in MACCE comparing to the high stress MBF group. Stress MBF is an independent risk factor for MACCE. Adding stress MBF on conventional risk factors could more accurately predict MACCE in HD patients, even in patients without MP abnormality.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: None
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- N Umemoto
- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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Habara M, Tsuchikane E, Shimizu K, Kawasaki T. Japanese multicenter registry evaluating the antegrade dissection reentry with cardiac computed tomography for chronic coronary total occlusion. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.2568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study was performed to evaluate the efficacy of cardiac computed tomography (CT) for antegrade dissection re-entry (ADR) technique in chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Background
Although PCI of CTO is a rapidly evolving field, procedure success rate remains suboptimal. Recently, ADR with Stingray device for CTO-PCI has also evolved to one of the pillar technique of the hybrid algorithm. Although the success rate of the device could be improved, it also remains not always high especially as first crossing strategy.
Methods
Forty eight patients with total occlusion suitable for revascularization evaluated by baseline coronary angiography and cardiac CT were enrolled in this study from April 2017 to April 2019 from 30 enrolled centers. The primary observation was procedural success. Furthermore, all puncture point with Stingray were analyzed by cardiac CT. In each point, 1) plaques on the isolated myocardial side at distal puncture site (+1 point), 2) any plaques excluded above definition at distal puncture site (+2 points), 3) calcification on both 1 and 2 at distal puncture site (+1 point) were analyzed and calculated the score (Score 0–3) (Figure 1).
Results
Overall procedure success rate was 95.8% (46/48) and antegrade success rate was 91.3% (42/46). Sixteen cases were succeeded with single guidewire escalation and 32 cases were attempted ADR with Stingray system. Within them, 25 cases were succeeded and 7 cases were observed puncture failure. And 3cases were succeeded with IVUS guide and 2 cases were with retrograde appTechnical success rate with stingray was 78.1% (25/32). Cardiac CT was analyzed 60 puncture sites in 32 cases which were attempted ADR with stingray system (1.88 sites/case). CT score at ADR success point was significantly smaller compare to that at ADR failure point (0.68±1.09 vs 1.77±1.09, p<0.0001).
Conclusions
Pre procedure Cardiac CT and CT score might be useful for ADR technique in CTO PCI not only for case selection but also for puncture site selection.
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Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: None
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- M Habara
- Toyohashi Heart Center, Toyohashi, Japan
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- Toyohashi Heart Center, Toyohashi, Japan
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Umemoto N, Imaoka T, Inoue S, Itou R, Oshima S, Sakakibara T, Shimizu K, Ishii H, Murohara T. Diabetes and hemodialysis are important factor for decrease coronary flow reserve even in the patients with normal myocardial perfusion. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.0293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
In clinical setting, patients with traditional coronary risk factors are at high risk for coronary artery disease (CAD). Such patients who complain chest discomfort are usually performed nuclear myocardial perfusion (MP) test. We sometimes find patients whose PET result shows normal MP and abnormal coronary flow reserve (CFR). However, there are limited data about the predictors for decreased CFR. In the view of describe above, we have investigated the parameters for decreased CFR in the patients without MP abnormality.
Methods and results
From 20th April 2013 to 21st December 2018, we performed 2,930 13N- ammonia PET for suspected CAD. After excluding the follows; 966 patients with repeated test, 54 patients with incomplete data, one patient missed, we investigated 1,909 eligible patients' data. We performed least square to identify the factors decreased CFR. Hemodialysis (HD), age, prior revascularization, diabetes (DM) and body mass index (BMI) were independent risk factor for decreased CFR in all population. On the other hand, HD, age, DM, hypertension and BMI were independent risk factor for decreasing CFR in patients without MP abnormality. According to the result of least square methods, we classified all patients into four groups; without DM/ without HD group, with DM/ without HD group, without DM/ with HD group and with DM/ with HD group. The value of CFR in each group were as follows: without DM/ without HD group (median, 1st quartile-3rd quartile; 2.88, 2.21–3.52), with DM/ without HD group (2.65, 2.00–3.38), without DM/ with HD group (2.29, 1.67–2.95) and with DM/ with HD group (1.97, 1.43–2.68). There were statistically significant intergroup differences. The value of CFR in the patients without MP abnormality were as follows: without DM/ without HD group (3.04, 2.47–3.65), with DM/ without HD group (2.98, 2.40–3.61), without DM/ with HD group (2.52, 2.10–3.08) and with DM/ with HD group (2.38, 1.86–2.97). Even in the patients without MP abnormality, there were also statistically significant intergroup differences.
Conclusion
According to our 13N-ammonia PET data analysis, DM and HD were important and independent factors for decreased CFR. Even in the patients without MP abnormality, DM and HD were important factor for decreased CFR.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: None
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- N Umemoto
- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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Shimizu K, Makino T, Shimizu T. Repigmentation within hypopigmented lesions of pigmentary mosaicism. Clin Exp Dermatol 2020; 46:565-567. [PMID: 33007111 DOI: 10.1111/ced.14470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- K Shimizu
- Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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Tetsuno K, Ajimura S, Akutagawa K, Batpurev T, Chan WM, Fushimi K, Hazama R, Iida T, Ikeyama Y, Khai BT, Kishimoto T, Lee KK, Li X, Matsuoka K, Matsuoka K, Mizukoshi K, Mori Y, Nakajima K, Noithong P, Nomachi M, Ogawa I, Ohsumi H, Ozawa K, Shimizu K, Shokati M, Soberi F, Suzuki K, Takemoto Y, Takihira Y, Tamagawa Y, Tozawa M, Trang VTT, Umehara S, Yamamoto K, Yoshida S, Kim I, Kwon DH, Kim HL, Lee HJ, Lee MK, Kim YH. Status of 48Ca double beta decay search and its future prospect in CANDLES. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Morizane C, Okusaka T, Mizusawa J, Katayama H, Ueno M, Ikeda M, Ozaka M, Okano N, Sugimori K, Fukutomi A, Hara H, Mizuno N, Yanagimoto H, Wada K, Tobimatsu K, Yane K, Nakamori S, Yamaguchi H, Asagi A, Yukisawa S, Kojima Y, Kawabe K, Kawamoto Y, Sugimoto R, Iwai T, Nakamura K, Miyakawa H, Yamashita T, Hosokawa A, Ioka T, Kato N, Shioji K, Shimizu K, Nakagohri T, Kamata K, Ishii H, Furuse J. Combination gemcitabine plus S-1 versus gemcitabine plus cisplatin for advanced/recurrent biliary tract cancer: the FUGA-BT (JCOG1113) randomized phase III clinical trial. Ann Oncol 2019; 30:1950-1958. [PMID: 31566666 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Gemcitabine plus cisplatin (GC) is the standard treatment of advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC); however, it causes nausea, vomiting, and anorexia, and requires hydration. Gemcitabine plus S-1 (GS) reportedly has equal to, or better, efficacy and an acceptable toxicity profile. We aimed to confirm the non-inferiority of GS to GC for patients with advanced/recurrent BTC in terms of overall survival (OS). PATIENTS AND METHODS We undertook a phase III randomized trial in 33 institutions in Japan. Eligibility criteria included chemotherapy-naïve patients with recurrent or unresectable BTC, an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status of 0 - 1, and adequate organ function. The calculated sample size was 350 with a one-sided α of 5%, a power of 80%, and non-inferiority margin hazard ratio (HR) of 1.155. The primary end point was OS, while the secondary end points included progression-free survival (PFS), response rate (RR), adverse events (AEs), and clinically significant AEs defined as grade ≥2 fatigue, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, oral mucositis, or diarrhea. RESULTS Between May 2013 and March 2016, 354 patients were enrolled. GS was found to be non-inferior to GC [median OS: 13.4 months with GC and 15.1 months with GS, HR, 0.945; 90% confidence interval (CI), 0.78-1.15; P = 0.046 for non-inferiority]. The median PFS was 5.8 months with GC and 6.8 months with GS (HR 0.86; 95% CI 0.70-1.07). The RR was 32.4% with GC and 29.8% with GS. Both treatments were generally well-tolerated. Clinically significant AEs were observed in 35.1% of patients in the GC arm and 29.9% in the GS arm. CONCLUSIONS GS, which does not require hydration, should be considered a new, convenient standard of care option for patients with advanced/recurrent BTC. CLINICAL TRIAL NUMBER This trial has been registered with the UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr/index.htm), number UMIN000010667.
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- C Morizane
- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, Tokyo.
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, Tokyo
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- JCOG Data Center/Operations Office, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo
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- JCOG Data Center/Operations Office, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Medical Oncology Division, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa
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- Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Medicine Department, Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo
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- Gastroenterological Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama
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- Division of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Cancer Center, Saitama
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya
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- Department of Surgery, Kansai Medical University Hospital, Hirakata
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- Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe
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- Center for Gastroenterology, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, Sapporo
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- Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital, Osaka
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- Department of Clinical Oncology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, National Hospital Organization Shikoku Cancer Center, Matsuyama
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Tochigi Cancer Center, Utsunomiya
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- Department of Gastroenterology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo
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- Department of Medicine and Bioregulatory Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo
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- Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatology, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Kitasato University Hospital, Sagamihara
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Chiba Cancer Center, Chiba
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- Department of Bilio-Pancreatology, Sapporo Kousei General Hospital, Sapporo
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, University of Toyama, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama
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- Department of Cancer Survey and Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba
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- Department of Internal medicine, Niigata Cancer Center Hospital, Niigata
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo
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- Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka
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- Clinical Research Center, Chiba Cancer Center, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo
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Evans R, Tanaka S, Tanaka S, Touno S, Shimizu K, Sakui S, Wu J, Faessel H, Hang Y, Alexander R, Rosen L, Hartman D. A Phase 1 single ascending dose study of a novel orexin 2 receptor agonist, TAK-925, in healthy volunteers (HV) and subjects with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) to assess safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamic outcomes. Sleep Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.11.290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sunagawa Y, Funamoto M, Shimizu K, Shimizu S, Katanasaka Y, Miyazaki Y, Wada H, Kan T, Hasegawa K, Morimoto T. P1618A polymethoxy flavonoid, Nobiletin, Has a therapeutic potency against the development of heart failure through NBP1 activation. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz748.0377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Introduction
Maladaptive hypertrophy is being recognized as a critical event during the development of heart failure. The control of cardiac hypertrophy may be one of the therapeutic strategy for heart failure therapy. In our previous study, we screened natural compound library and found that a natural compound, Nobiletin, could inhibit cardiomyocyte hypertrophy in culture. Nobiletin has various useful effects such as anti-cancer, anti-inflammation, and anti-oxidant and may be applicable to pharmacological therapy for heart failure.
Hypothesis
We thought that nobiletin might prevent the development of heart failure in vivo and investigated the target molecule of Nobiletin in the heart.
Methods and results
In primary cardiomyocytes, Nobiletin significantly inhibited phenylephrine (PE)-induced hypertrophic responses such as increases in cell size and hypertrophic gene transcription, such as ANF and BNP. C57BL6 mice were subjected to sham or transarotic constriction (TAC). Oral administrations of Nobiletin (20 mg/kg/day) or vehicle were repeated for 8 weeks. Nobiletin treatment significantly prevented TAC-induced increases in PWT and systolic dysfunction. Nobiletin also suppressed TAC-induced myocardial cell hypertrophy, perivascular fibrosis, and hypertrophic gene transcriptions. To investigate the target molecule of Nobiletin, Nobiletin-binding proteins were purified from rat heart using biotin-conjugated Nobiletin. We identified 162 novel binding protein of Nobiletin by LC/MS-MS. One of them, Nobiletin-binding protein 1 (NBP1) related to cellular metabolic pathway. Pulldown assay demonstrated that biotin-conjugated Nobiletin, but not biotin, directly interacted with recombinant NBP1. In vitro enzyme assay showed that Nobiletin enhanced NBP1 activity. Although NBP1 knockdown could not affect PE-induced hypertrophic response gene transcriptions and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, NBP1 knockdown failed to exhibit Nobiletin-mediated anti-hypertrophic effects. NBP1-KO mice and WT mice were subjected to sham or TAC and randomly divided into two groups: Nobiletin (20 mg/kg/day) and vehicle. After 8 weeks, Nobiletin significantly improved TAC-induced cardiac hypertrophy and systolic dysfunction in WT mice but not in NBP1-KO mice. Nobiletin also prevented TAC-induced increases in HW/BW rate, myocardial cell hypertrophy, and mRNA levels of ANF and β-MHC in WT mice but not in NBP1-KO mice.
Conclusions
In this study, we demonstrate that Nobiletin inhibits cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and the development of heart failure in vivo. NBP1 activity is required to exhibit therapeutic potency of Nobiletin for heart failure. These finding suggest that a natural compound, nobiletin, might be a candidate for heart failure agent in human.
Acknowledgement/Funding
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant.
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Kyoto Medical Center, Clinical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Kyoto Medical Center, Clinical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
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Shibata N, Sumi T, Umemoto N, Kajiura H, Inoue S, Iio Y, Sugiura T, Taniguchi T, Asai T, Yamada M, Shimizu K, Murohara T. P5410Combination assessment of renal and hepatic dysfunction improves the predictability of prognosis in patients with acute decompensated heart failure. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz746.0368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background
Renal dysfunction is associated with poor mortality in patients with heart failure (HF). Hepatic dysfunction, assessed by Fibrosis-4 (FIB4) index, has also prediction ability in acute decompensated HF (ADHF) patients. We investigated whether the assessment of the combination of FIB4 index and renal dysfunction improves predictability in patients with ADHF.
Methods
We retrospectively enrolled consecutive 758 patients who admitted due to ADHF from January 2011 to February 2018 and followed up for one year. FIB4 index on admission was calculated by the formula: age (yrs) × AST[U/L] / (platelets [103/μL] × (ALT[U/L])1/2). Study subjects were divided into high FIB4 index (>3.25) and low FIB4 index (≤3.25), furthermore each group were classified by the presence/absence of CKD (estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 ml/min/1.73m). We have generated four groups; low FIB4/without CKD (n=154), low FIB4/with CKD (n=294), high FIB4/without CKD (n=56), and high FIB4/with CKD (n=254). The primary outcome was defined as all-cause mortality in one year. We performed Kaplan-Meyer analysis and multivariable Cox regression models. Furthermore, we evaluated the incremental value with C-index, net reclassification improvement (NRI) and integrated discrimination improvement (IDI) when FIB4 index and renal dysfunction added to a baseline model.
Results
In total, 106 patients died in one year. High FIB4 index and CKD showed significantly higher 1-year mortality (high FIB4 index: 19.7% vs 10.3%, p<0.001, CKD: 17.0% vs 6.7%, p<0.001, respectively). Kaplan-Meyer analysis shows that high FIB4 index with CKD showed statistically higher mortality than the others (vs low FIB4/without CKD, p<0.001, vs high FIB4/without CKD, p=0.031, vs low FIB4/with CKD, p<0.001, respectively).
Multivariate Cox regression model revealed that both high FIB4 index and CKD were an independent risk predictor of 1-year mortality (FIB4 index: p<0.001, HR 1.06, 95% CI 1.035–1.087, CKD: p=0.004, HR 1.834, 95% CI 1.213–2.773, respectively) in patients with ADHF.
A baseline model for prediction of 1-year mortality was determined by multivariable logistic regression including age, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, and serum albumin (C-index: 0.688). Adding high FIB4 index and CKD to the baseline model, all of C-index (0.738, p=0.04), NRI (0.122, p=0.067), and IDI (0.024, p=0.004) were improved.
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Conclusions
Combination assessment of renal and hepatic dysfunction could improve the predictability of prognosis in patients with ADHF.
Acknowledgement/Funding
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- N Shibata
- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, Department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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Sumi T, Umemoto N, Kajiura H, Inoue S, Iio Y, Shibata N, Sugiura T, Taniguchi T, Asai T, Yamada M, Shimizu K, Murohara T. P4551Prognostic utility of Palliative Prognostic Index for prediction of 30-day and 1-year outcome in patients with acute decompensated heart failure. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz745.0942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
The prognosis of heart failure remains poor similar to the terminal cancer patients, although recent progress in medical treatment. Palliative Prognostic Index (PPI) is a widely used prognostic index for terminal cancer patients (PPI includes: Palliative Performance Scale, oral intake, oedema, dyspnea at rest and delirium), suggesting the short-term prognostic marker of terminal cancer patients.
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of PPI on 30-day mortality, 1-year mortality and 1-year events (including all-cause mortality, readmission due to heart failure and new onset of cerebral infarction after hospital discharge) among acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) patients.
Method
Study subjects comprised of consecutive 764 patients who admitted due to ADHF and followed up for 1-year. PPI were calculated at the time of hospital admission. Study subjects were divided into two groups based on the PPI: L-PPI (PPI<6) and H-PPI (6≤PPI). We calculated the C-index, net reclassification improvement (NRI) and the integrated discrimination improvement (IDI) to evaluate the improvement of prediction ability on 30-day mortality.
Result
H-PPI showed significantly higher 30-day mortality than L-PPI [7.9% vs 2.0%, log rank p<0.001, Hazard retio (HR): 1.26, 95% confidential interval(CI): 1.14–1.37, p<0.001], 1-year mortality [20.0% vs 12.7%, log rank p=0.022, HR 1.15, 95% CI 1.09–1.21, p<0.001]and 1-year events [45.5% vs 31.1%, log rank p<0.001, HR 1.13, 95% CI 1.09–1.17, p<0.001]. Multivariate cox proportional hazard models adjusted with several covariates revealed that PPI was an independent predictor of 30-day mortality (HR: 1.23, 95% CI: 1.10–1.36, p<0.001), 1-year mortality (HR: 1.10, 95% CI: 1.04–1.16, p<0.001) and 1-year events (HR: 1.11, 95% CI: 1.07–1.15, p<0.001), respectively.
A reference model for prediction of 30-day mortality was determined including left ventricular ejection fraction and serum albumin concentration by multivariable logistic regression analysis. (P<0.05) (C-index: 0.720) Adding PPI to the reference model (C-index: 0.773) significantly improved both NRI (0.458, p=0.038) and IDI (0.046, p=0.007), respectively.
Conclusion
We suggest that assessment of PPI showed good prognostic ability for 30-day and 1-year outcome, while PPI provided additional prognostic information in patients with ADHF.
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- T Sumi
- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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Umemoto N, Ooshima S, Katou M, Kajiura H, Inoue S, Iio Y, Itou R, Sakakibara T, Ishii H, Shimizu K, Murohara T. P6240The impact of stress myocardial blood flow as a very strong predictor for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event in hemodialysis population. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz746.0841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background
In the clinical setting, ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a major problem not only in general patients but also in regular hemodialysis (HD) patients. 13ammonia positron emission tomography (13NH3PET) is an established and excellent diagnostic device for IHD. Although coronary flow reserve is the most important index in IHD diagnosis, there are limited data about stress myocardial blood flow (MBF). We investigated the prognosis predictability of stress MBF in all-cause mortality, cardiovascular (CV) mortality and adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event (MACCE).
Methods and results
A total 438 of HD patients who undergone 13NH3PET for suspected IHD were enrolled. 29 cases were excluded due to revascularization therapy in 60 days. In total we collected 409 eligible cases. All patients were undergone13NH3PET at Nagoya Radiological Diagnosis Foundation. Patients were divided into two group according to the median value of stress MBF levels; low stress MBF group (<2.12) and high stress MBF group (≥2.12). We followed up them up to 4.2 years (median 2.4 years) and collected their data. We evaluated their all-cause mortality, CV mortality and MACCE. Kaplan-Meyer analysis shows that intergroup difference in all-cause mortality (log rank p=0.001, hazard ratio [HR] 0.411, 95% confident interval [CI] 0.261–0.632), CV mortality (log rank p=0.002, HR 0.324, 95% CI 0.157–0.625) and MACCE (log rank p<0.001, HR 0.465, 95% CI 0.324–0.657). Multiple cox analysis that include established risk factors shows CFR is an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality (HR 0.261, 95% CI 0.154–0.442), CV mortality (HR 0.172, 95% CI 0.079–0.374) and MACCE (HR 0.329, 95% CI 0.213–0.503). As a result of the incremental value with C-index, net reclassification improvement (NRI) and integrated discrimination improvement (IDI) when CFR added into a model with established risk factors, each indicator shows adding stress MBF on established risk factors improve the predictability in all-cause mortality, CV mortality and MACCE (all-cause mortality; NRI 0.642, p<0.001, IDI 0.091, p<0.001, CV mortality NRI 0.809, p<0.001, IDI 0.116, p<0.001, MACCE; NRI 0.646, p<0.001, IDI 0.072, p<0.001).
Conclusion
Considering prognosis of HD population, stress MBF is an important and independent predictor for all-cause mortality, CV mortality and MACCE. As a result of our investigation, stress MBF is one of most strong predictors in HD population.
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- N Umemoto
- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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Shimizu S, Sunagawa Y, Hara K, Hishiki A, Katanasaka Y, Miyazaki Y, Funamoto M, Nurmila S, Shimizu K, Wada H, Hasegawa K, Hashimoto H, Morimoto T. P1608Inhibition of GATA4 dimerization suppress hypertrophic responses. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz748.0367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Introduction
Hypertrophic signals eventually reach the nuclei of cardiomyocytes, change patterns of gene expression, and cause the development of heart failure. During the development of heart failure, intrinsic histone acetyltransferase called p300 induce GATA4 acetylation. Acetylated GATA4 increases its DNA binding, up-regulates cardiac hypertrophic response genes, and lead to heart failure. A zinc finger protein, GATA4 is the transcription factor that expression level is high in heart. It has been reported that GATA1, the same GATA family, regulates transcriptional activity through its homo-dimerization. However, GATA4 homo-dimerization and its relationship to hypertrophic responses are still unknown.
Purpose
To clarify the relationship between GATA4 homo-dimerization and transcriptional activity and investigate whether inhibition of this homo-dimerization become therapeutic target for cardiac hypertrophy.
Methods
GST pull-down and DNA pull-down assay were performed using GST fusion full length and deletion mutants of GATA4 and biotin-conjugated ET-1 promoter probe including a GATA element. Recombinant C-zinc finger domain (256–326), including C-zinc finger motif (256–295) and acetylation site (308–326) was cross-linked using glutaraldehyde and subjected to silver staining. An expression plasmid with three GATA4-acetylation site mutant-conjugated with nuclear localization sequence (3xG4D) was constructed. Immunoprecipitation and western blotting were performed using nuclear extract from HEK293T cells expressing p300, GATA4, and 3xG4D. Luciferase assay was using ANF and ET-1 promoter sequences. Neonatal rat cultured cardiomyocyte expressed 3xG4D and then stimulated with phenylephrine (PE) for 48 hours. Next cardiomyocytes stained with α-actinin antibody and measured the cell surface area.
Results
The acetylation site of GATA4 was required for the dimerization of GATA4. But, C-zinc finger motif (256–295) and the acetylation site were required for the DNA binding. Recombinant C-zinc finger domain formed not only a homo-dimer but also a multimer. Co-expression of p300 increased the formation of homo-dimer as well as the acetylation of GATA4 in HEK293T cells. The GATA4 homo-dimer was disrupted by acetyl-deficient GATA4 or HAT-deficient p300 mutant. Overexpression of 3xG4D prevented the dimerization of GATA4, but not acetylation of GATA4. The result of luciferase assay showed that overexpression of 3xG4D prevented p300/GATA-induced ANF and ET-1 promoter activities. Furthermore, overexpression of 3xG4D inhibited phenylephrine-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy.
Conclusions
These results suggest that GATA4 dimerization may play an important role in hypertrophy-response gene activation. Thus, it is likely that inhabitation of GATA4 dimerization become therapeutic target for cardiac hypertrophy.
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- S Shimizu
- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Kyoto Medical Center, Division of Translational Research, Clinical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
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- Kyoto Medical Center, Division of Translational Research, Clinical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
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Sunagawa Y, Funamoto M, Shimizu K, Shimizu S, Katanasaka Y, Miyazaki Y, Wada H, Hasegawa K, Morimoto T. P4998Novel GATA4 binding proteins, RbAp48/46, regulate cardiomyocyte hypertrophy with depending on the phosphorylate State of GATA4. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz746.0176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Introduction
Cardiac hypertrophy is being recognized as a critical event during the development of heart failure. A zinc finger protein GATA4 associates with an intrinsic histone acetyltransferase p300 and regulates myocardial transcriptional activities in response to hypertrophic stimuli. Here, we show that Retinoblastoma protein (Rb)-associated protein 48 and 46 (RbAp48, RbAp46) are novel components of p300/GATA4 complex. Both RbAp48 and 46 form a repressor complex with HDACs and has been implicated in chromatin remodeling and transcriptional repression. However, the precise functional relationships among p300, GATA4, RbAp48, and RbAp46 remain unknown.
Hypothesis
We assessed the hypothesis that RbAp48/46 form a functional complex with p300/GATA4 and regulated hypertrophic responses in cardiomyocytes.
Methods and results
IP-WB using nuclear extract from rat heart demonstrated that GATA4 formed a complex with RbAp48, RbAp46, HDAC1, and HDAC2. GST pull down assay using recombinant proteins showed that GATA4 physically interacted with both RbAp48 and RbAp46 but not HDAC1 and HDAC2. Deletion mutant assay revealed that N-terminal domain of GATA4 interacted with RbAp48/46. In HEK293T cell, overexpression of RbAp48/46 recruited HDAC1/2 to GATA4, inhibited p300-induced GATA4 acetylation and suppressed p300/GATA4-dependent ANF and ET-1 promoter activations. Conversely, the knockdown of RbAp48/46 reversed these changes. Although overexpression of HDAC1/2 did not change p300/GATA4-induced these promoter activities, co-expression of HDAC1 or HDAC2 with RbAp48/46 enhanced RbAp48/46-mediated inhibitory actions. In cardiomyocytes, overexpression of RbAp48/46 significantly inhibited phenylephrine (PE)-induced GATA4 acetylation, activation of ANF and ET-1 promoters, and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. The knockdown of RbAp48/46 reversed these changes. Moreover, the knockdown of HDAC1/2 deteriorated PE-induced hypertrophy-responsive events and did not exhibit RbAp48/46-induced inhibitory actions. Finally, MEK1/ERK-mediated S105 phosphorylation of GATA4 by PE stimulus induced the dissociation of RbAp48/46 with GATA4, the increase of p300-induced GATA4-acetylation, the synergistic activation of ANF and ET-1 promoters with p300/GATA4, and the decrease of RbAp48/46 recruitments onto the GATA element of the ANF promoter. Conversely, PD98059, a MEK1 inhibitor, treatment inhibited GATA4-phosphorylation and these changes.
Conclusion
In this study, we demonstrate that RbAp48/46 mediate the binding between GATA4 and HDAC1/2 and regulate p300/GATA4 axis. The phosphorylation of S105 GATA4 has a critical role on the dissociation of GATA4/RbAp48/46/HDAC repressor complex, the formation of 300/GATA4 activator complex, and the increase of GATA4 acetylation and hypertrophic responses. These findings suggest that RbAp48/46 may regulate hypertrophic responses involved in modulating the posttranslational modification crosstalk of GATA4.
Acknowledgement/Funding
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant.
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Kyoto Medical Center, Clinical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
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- Kyoto Medical Center, Clinical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
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Sumi T, Oguri M, Takahara K, Umemoto N, Shimizu K, Tanaka A, Ishii H, Murohara T. P2527Accumulative impact of poor nutrition and frailty on 1-year mortality among acute decompensated heart failure patients. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz748.0856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Several studies have proved that both poor nutrition (PN) and Frail are associated with poor prognosis among heart failure patients. However, it has not been fully revealed whether PN and frail could have impact on prognosis accumulatively.
Purpose
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the impact of nutritional and Frailty status on 1-year mortality among hospitalized patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).
Methods
Study subjects comprised of 315 hospitalized patients with ADHF. To evaluate the nutritional and Frailty status, we calculated the controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score and the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF) index at hospital admission. PN and Frailty were defined as the CONUT score ≥5 and SOF index ≥2, respectively.
Results
z Sixty-nine subjects (21.9%) were died within 1-year. PN and Frailty were observed in 33.3% and 55.6% of study subjects, respectively. Both PN and Frailty were similarly related to the 1-year mortality by univariate cox regression analysis (Hazard Ratio (HR) 2.43, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.51–3.91, p=0.0003: HR 3.13, 95% CI 1.83–5.66, p<0.0001, respectively).
Study subjects were classified into 4 groups according to the nutritional and frailty status: control (normal nutrition without Frailty, n=110), PN alone (PN without Frailty, n=30), Frailty alone (Frailty without PN, n=100), and PN + Frailty (PN with Frailty, n=75). The Kaplan-Meier event curves for 1-year all-cause mortality illustrated that subjects with PN + Frailty had a significantly higher mortality than in subjects with control, PN alone and Frailty alone (log rank p=0.0001, 0.0180, 0.0070, respectively).
As well as, cox regression analysis revealed that PN + Frailty showed significantly higher mortality than control, PN alone and Frailty alone. (HR 5.33, 95% CI 2.75–11.1, p<0.0001: HR 2.99, 95% CI 1.26–8.78, p=0.011: HR 2.07, 95% CI 1.21–3.61, p=0.008, respectively). Moreover, multivariate cox regression analysis also revealed that PN with Frailty was independently associated with 1-year mortality even after adjustment for age, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, and chronic kidney disease. (HR 3.40, 95% CI 1.69–7.32, adjusted p<0.001)
Kaplan-Meier curve for 1year mortality
Conclusions
The combination assessment consisted with nutrition and frailty could identify poor prognosis patients with ADHF.
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- T Sumi
- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Kasugai Municipal Hospital, Cardiology, Kasugai, Japan
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- Kasugai Municipal Hospital, Cardiology, Kasugai, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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Shimizu K, Nakazawa S, Numajiri K, Kawabata N, Obayashi K, Ibe T, Yajima T, Shirabe K. P2.05-09 FDG-PET for Predicting Acute Exacerbation of Interstitial Pneumonia After Lung Cancer Surgery. J Thorac Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2019.08.1608] [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: 10/25/2022]
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Funamoto M, Sunagawa Y, Katanasaka Y, Shimizu K, Ebe A, Sugiyama Y, Miyazaki Y, Wada H, Hasegawa K, Morimoto T. P1607Epigenetic modifications via histone acetylation by p300 are changed during the transition from cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz748.0366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
An intrinsic histone acetyltransferase (HAT), p300, is required for acetylation and the transcriptional activity of GATA4, as well as pathological left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and the development of heart failure (HF) in vivo. Recently, studies of histone modification have been performed within the flexible tails, such as H3K9 and H3K14. Although most previously studied histone modifications are within the flexible tails of histones, H3K122 is reportedly a novel site of the histone globular domain acetylated by p300, and its acetylation activates gene transcriptions by destabilizing histone-DNA binding and increasing the accessibility of transactional factors to DNA. However, little is known about the extent histone modifications directly affect LVH and HF.
Hypothesis
We hypothesized that p300 could induce epigenetic changes by acetylation of the globular domain as well as tail domain of histone during the development of LVH and HF.
Methods
First, to investigate whether the acetylation of H3K122 in the globular domain of histones as well as those of H3K9 and H3K14 in the tail domain of histones increased in cardiomyocytes hypertrophy, western blotting and chromatin-immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays were performed using neonatal rat cultured cardiomyocytes with phenylephrine (PE) stimulus. Second, neonatal rat cultured cardiomyocytes were treated with p300 knockdown by siRNA or curcumin, a p300-specific HAT inhibitor. Third, to investigate the role of p300 HAT activity in histone acetylation in vivo, we utilized mice overexpressing p300 in the heart, which induced LVH. Final, to investigate whether these acetylation changes during the development of LVH and HF, in vivo ChIP assay was performed using hypertensive heart disease model of Dahl salt-sensitive rats.
Results
Western blotting indicated that treatment with PE increased the acetylation of H3K122 as well as those of H3K9 and H3K14 in cardiomyocytes hypertrophy. ChIP assay demonstrated that PE increased the recruitment of acetylated H3K122 and H3K9 onto ANF and BNP promoters containing the GATA element and peaks of acetylation of these domains were 4 hours after PE stimulation. Next, these acetylations were significantly inhibited by p300 knockdown by siRNA or treatment with curcumin. Conversely, in vivo ChIP assays in mice overexpressing p300 indicated that p300 overexpression increased recruitment of acetylated H3K122 and H3K9 onto ANF and BNP promoters containing the GATA element. Next, in hypertensive heart disease model of Dahl salt-sensitive rats, in vivo ChIP assays reviled that acetylation of H3K9 was increased around ANF and BNP promoters containing the GATA element at the LVH stage but that of H3K122 was increased at the HF stage.
Conclusion
Our data indicate that acetylation of H3K122 in globular domain of histones by p300 is the key event of the transition from LVH to HF.
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- M Funamoto
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Shizuoka, Division of Molecular Medicine, shizuoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Shizuoka, Division of Molecular Medicine, shizuoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Shizuoka, Division of Molecular Medicine, shizuoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Shizuoka, Division of Molecular Medicine, shizuoka, Japan
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- University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Shizuoka, Division of Molecular Medicine, shizuoka, Japan
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- Kyoto Medical Center, Clinical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
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- Kyoto Medical Center, Clinical Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Shizuoka, Division of Molecular Medicine, shizuoka, Japan
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Ehara M, Shibata K, Kameshima M, Fujiyama H, Terai M, Shimizu K, Matsui Y, Higashida Y, Watanabe M, Shimada A, Ohkawa Y, Yamada S. P2528Responsiveness to nutritional intervention would impact on future cardiovascular prognosis in poor fitness patients. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz748.0857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Nutritional improvement has been proposed for long-term cardiovascular prognosis as well as fitness recovery. We aimed to examine whether “responsiveness” to nutritional and exercise interventions would impact patients' cardiovascular prognosis even patients in low baseline fitness level.
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We included 254 consecutive patients who participated in the phase II comprehensive cardiovascular rehabilitation (CCR) for at least three months. All patients underwent cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPX) at the initial and completion phases of CCR. Nutritional guidance was periodically performed individually during CCR. Peak oxygen uptake (PVO2) was measured through CPX to evaluate the fitness level, whereas nutritional status was evaluated using the geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI). Patients were divided into “low fitness” and “normal fitness” groups based on the median of baseline PVO2. Each group was further classified into four categories according to the changes in VO2 and GNRI during CCR: “Both NOT improved”, “Only GNRI improved”, “Only PVO2 improved”, and “Both improved”.
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Cox proportional regression analysis showed that the category of “both NOT improved” was an independent predictor for cardiovascular risk among the baseline low fitness group (Hazard ratio: 4.5, p=0.007); whereas no significant difference among the normal fitness group. Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed that the event-free survival rate was significantly lower in the “both NOT improved” category (log rank p=0.002) among the baseline low fitness group (figure); whereas no significant difference among the normal fitness group.
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Responsiveness to nutritional and exercise intervention could be a predictive factor of cardiovascular prognosis even in low fitness patients.
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- Nagoya Heart Center, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya Heart Center, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya Heart Center, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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Okita R, Shimizu K, Nojima Y, Saisho S, Nakata M. JAK-STAT inhibitor overcomes interferon γ-reduced, NK cell-mediated cytotoxicity in non-small-cell lung cancer cells. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz269.011] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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Umemoto N, Hasegawa K, Iio Y, Inoue I, Sumi T, Sugiura T, Taniguchi T, Asai T, Yamada M, Ishii H, Murohara T, Shimizu K. P2434Digital zoom decreases radiation exposure dose up to 30% in percutaneous coronary intervention. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz748.0766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background
Interventional cardiology is gaining greater popularity worldwide with each passing year. Reduction of exposure dose is a very imminent and an important issue in cardiology procedure. Although a newer radiation reduction technique, device and procedure are very valuable and expected, we should consider about therapy technique, radiation technique, devices, and the way to protection. Digital zoom digitally enlarges images in real time by up to 2.5-fold at lower doses than those used with traditional field of view changes. In our phantom examination the average dose reduction of digital zoom was 27%.
Methods and results
This study is designated as single-center, retrospective, not-randomized, observation study. 2101 eligible cases were collected. We assigned the cases of PCI without the use of Digital zoom to the Conventional group and those involving the use of Digital zoom to the Digital zoom group. There were 806 patients in the Conventional group and 1195 in the Digital zoom group. Because we had begun using Digital zoom from January 2015 onwards, all patients in the Conventional group had undergone PCI from January 2013 to December 2014 and all patients in the Digital zoom group had undergone PCI from January 2015 to December 2016. In addition, we calculated the RAK/minute and DAP/minute for an accurate assessment. To minimize the difference of characteristics between two groups, propensity score including all baseline variables was performed. Furthermore, Predictors of radiation exposure were investigated using multivariable least square methods. Inter group differences were observed in DAP, RAK, DAP/min, and RAK/min (Digital zoom group vs conventional group: DAP, 16000 cGy cm2 [from 1st quartile to 3rd quartile; 10300–24400] vs 20700 [13400–29500], p<0.001; DAP/min, 557 cGy cm2/min [392–737] vs 782 [571–1010], p<0.01; RAK, 1590 Gy [990–2410] vs 1850 [1220–2720], p<0.01; RAK/min, 54.7 Gy/min [38.5–73.2] vs 71.2 [51.5–93.0], p<0.01). Even after propensity score matching, intergroup differences in DAP (810 cases), DAP/min (811 cases), RAK (746 cases), and RAK/min (744 cases) persisted. Furthermore, the least squares method showed that Digital zoom is an important predictor of DAP (β=0.17, p<0.01) and RAK (β=0.12, p<0.01).
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Digital zoom is an old and cost-free technique, but one of most powerful reduction of exposure method. Propensity score adjustment and least square methods show that digital zoom is one of independent effective method.
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- N Umemoto
- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Radiology, ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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Umemoto N, Ooshima S, Ooshima S, Itou R, Itou R, Iio Y, Iio Y, Kajiura H, Kajiura H, Shimizu K, Shimizu K, Sakakibara T, Sakakibara T, Ishii H, Ishii H, Murohara T, Murohara T. P6243Impact of coronary flow reserve as an important predictor for major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event in hemodialysis patients even in patients without myocardial perfusion abnormality. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz746.0844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In the clinical setting, ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a major problem not only in general patients but also in regular hemodialysis (HD) patients. 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography (13NH3PET) is an established and excellent diagnostic test for IHD. We have reported about the predictability of coronary flow reserve (CFR) in poor prognosis in HD population. Some prior studies show that low CFR predicts poor prognosis for not only cardiovascular event but also all-cause mortality. Although it is well-known that CFR is an important predictor, there are limited data about CFR of patients without myocardial perfusion (MP) abnormality. We investigated the prognostic predictability of adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event (MACCE) in HD patients without MP abnormality.
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A total 438 of HD patients who underwent 13NH3PET for suspected IHD were enrolled. All patients were underwent 13NH3PET at our facility. After we excluded patients whose summed stress score (SSS) >3, we identified 182 eligible patients. Patients were divided into two group according to the median value of CFR; low CFR group (≤2.405) and high CFR group (>2.405). We followed up them up to 4.2 years (median 2.4 years) and collected their data. We evaluated their major adverse cardiac cerebrovascular event. We performed Kaplan-Meyer analysis and multivariable cox regression models. Furthermore, we evaluated the incremental value with C-index, net reclassification improvement (NRI) and integrated discrimination improvement (IDI) when CFR added into a model with established risk factors.
Results
There were intergroup difference in baseline characteristics: age, gender, prior CVD and diabetes. Kaplan-Meyer analysis shows statistically intergroup difference [log rank p=0.04, hazard ratio (HR) 0.54, 95% confidential interval (CI) 0.30–0.97]. Multivariable cox regression model for MACCE shows CFR is an independent risk factor (p=0.04, HR 0.54, 95% CI 0.30–0.97). As regarding model discrimination, all of C-index (0.82 vs 0.80, p=0.23), NRI (0.51, p<0.01) and IDI (0.03, p=0.03) were greatest in a predicting model with established risk factors plus CFR.
Conclusions
The low CFR group had poor prognosis in MACCE comparing to the high CFR group. CFR would be an independent risk factor for MACCE. Adding CFR on conventional risk factors could more accurately predict MACCE in HD patients, even in patients without MP abnormality.
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- N Umemoto
- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Ichinomiya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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Matsuoka T, Fujihisa H, Hirao N, Ohishi Y, Mitsui T, Masuda R, Seto M, Yoda Y, Shimizu K, Machida A, Aoki K. Erratum: Structural and Valence Changes of Europium Hydride Induced by Application of High-Pressure H_{2} [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 025501 (2011)]. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 122:179901. [PMID: 31107077 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.179901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.025501.
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Kim S, Noda Y, Samezima Y, Kanai T, Tamura K, Nishida T, Shimizu K, Umakoshi T, Morishita H, Matsuoka H, Kashiwa Y. A CASE OF PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS TREATED WITH SEGMENTAL BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE IN THE ICU. Chest 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.02.095] [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: 11/15/2022] Open
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Seki H, Sakurai T, Shimizu K, Mizuno S, Tokuda T, Kaburagi T, Seki M, Karahashi T, Nakajima K. Abstract P2-14-09: A novel nipple aleolar complex involvement predictive index (NACPI) for indicating nipple sparing mastectomy in breast cancer patients. Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs18-p2-14-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: While Preservation of NAC is concerned to increase the risk of local recurrences in the retroareolar glandular tissue, nipple sparing mastectomy (NSM) is increasing in patients with breast cancer and has been shown to result in better cosmetic outcome and the benefit for quality-of-life. It is necessary to predict accurately NAC involvement in order to select which patients may be candidates to NSM. The distance from the nipple to the tumor (DNT) is proposed as one of the best criteria to select the patient. The purpose of this study is to identify the predictors of NAC involvement retrospectively and to develop a clinical predictive model to select the patients who can be offered preservation of NAC.Methods: A total of 168 patients with primary operable breast cancer who received subcutaneous mastectomy for breast reconstruction at Saitama Medical Center during July 2013 to December 2017 were selected from the hospital's surgical database. NAC involvement was defined by the presence of invasive carcinoma and/or ductal carcinoma in situ at the subareolar margin.
Results: Of the 148 patients who were preserved NAC, 89.9% (133/148) were NAC involvement negative and 10.1% (15/148) were positive in permanent pathological specimens. Of the 20 patients who were resected NAC, NAC involvement positivity was only 50.0% (10/20). This revealed that NAC involvement with a sensitivity (SN) of 40.0%, a specificity (SP) of 93.0%, a positive predictive value (PPV) of 50.0% and a negative predictive value (NPV) of 89.9% (AUC=0.665, 95%CI: 0.5345-0.796). In 140 patients who were performed intraoperative sub-nipple frozen section biopsy, the findings was significantly associated with NAC involvement (P<0.001), and which predict the NAC involvement with a SN of 93.3%, a SP of 89.6%, a PPV of 51.9%, and a NPV of 99.1% (AUC=0.915, 95%CI: 0.835-0.994). In the concordance rate between frozen section findings and definitive pathologic results, DCIS was 53% (9/17), atypical cell was 50% (2/4) and invasive ductal carcinoma was 100% (3/3). Correlation between NAC involvement and clinicopathological factors, tumor size ≥4cm (P<0.001), DNT <1cm by MMG (P=0.002), DNT <1cm by MRI (P<0.001), nipple contrast findings by MRI (P<0.001), tumor in central portion (P<0.001), multicentirc/focal lesion (P<0.001), c(N) positive (P=0.014) were significant relation with NAC involvement. Each predictors were scored 0 or 1, and the total score of 0-3 points was defined as low risk, 4 points as intermediate risk, and 5-7 points as high risk. Depending on this categorized classification, the NAC involvement rate was 3.5% (5/142) in low risk, 68.7% (11/16) in intermediate risk, 90.0% (9/10) in high risk and there was a significant correlation between the risk group and NAC involvement (P <0.001). Notably, assuming that NAC is preserved for low risk patients and is resected for intermediate and high risk patients, NACPI contributes to improve the accuracy of selecting the surgical procedures (SN 80.0%, SP 95.8%, PPV 76.9%, NPV 96.5% (AUC=0.879, 95%CI: 0.784-0.974)).Conclusion: This study suggests that NACPI can help us indicating subcutaneous mastectomy for the breast cancer patients who request preserve NAC with more oncological safety.
Citation Format: Seki H, Sakurai T, Shimizu K, Mizuno S, Tokuda T, Kaburagi T, Seki M, Karahashi T, Nakajima K. A novel nipple aleolar complex involvement predictive index (NACPI) for indicating nipple sparing mastectomy in breast cancer patients [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2018 Dec 4-8; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P2-14-09.
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- H Seki
- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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- Saitama Medical Center, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan; Division of Pathology, 4-9-3 Kitaurawa, Urawa City, Saitama, Japan
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Miyagi S, Nakanishi C, Hara Y, Nakanishi W, Tokodai K, Shimizu K, Uematsu S, Kumata H, Kakizaki Y, Goto M, Kamei T, Unno M, Satomi S. Correlation Between Splenectomy and Portal Vein Complications in Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Transplant Proc 2018; 50:2611-2613. [PMID: 30401361 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.03.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVES In adults undergoing living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), the transplanted livers are partial grafts, and the portal venous pressure is higher than that observed with whole liver grafts. In patients undergoing LDLT concomitant with splenomegaly, portal venous flow is often diverted to collateral vessels, leading to a high risk of portal vein thrombosis. In such cases, occlusion of the collateral veins is important; however, complete occlusion of all collaterals without blocking the blood flow through the splenic artery causes portal hypertension and liver failure. We aimed to examine the effect of performing a splenectomy concomitant with LDLT to reduce portal vein complications. METHODS Between 1991 and 2017, we performed 170 LDLT operations, including 83 in adults. For this cohort study, adult cases were divided into 2 groups. Group I was those who underwent LDLT without splenectomy (n = 60); Group II was those who underwent LDLT with splenectomy for the reduction of portal hypertension (n = 23). We investigated the incident rates of complications, including blood loss, lethal portal vein thrombosis (intrahepatic thrombosis), acute rejection, and so on. We also investigated the survival rates in both groups. RESULTS The incident rate of lethal portal vein thrombosis in Group II was significantly lower than that observed in Group I (4.4% vs 21.7%, respectively, P = .0363). There were no statistically significant differences observed between the groups with respect to blood loss, survival rates, and other such parameters. CONCLUSION LDLT concomitant with splenectomy might effectively reduce the occurrence of portal vein complications in adults.
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- S Miyagi
- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Miyazawa K, Miyagi S, Nakanishi C, Hara Y, Tokodai K, Nakanishi W, Uematsu S, Shimizu K, Goto M, Kamei T, Unno M. Effect of Middle Hepatic Vein Tributaries Preserving Technique Until Just Before Graft Retrieval on Donors' Surgical Outcomes in Living Donor Liver Transplantation. Transplant Proc 2018; 50:2636-2639. [PMID: 30401365 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.03.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2018] [Accepted: 03/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND The technique of preserving the major tributaries of the middle hepatic vein (MHV) (V5 and V8) until just before graft retrieval is beneficial to minimize congestion time of the graft. However, it remains unclear whether this technique exerts a burden on donors in terms of operative time, blood loss, and postoperative hepatic dysfunction. In this study we investigated adverse effects of the MHV tributaries preserving technique until immediately before graft retrieval on donors' surgical outcomes. METHODS Data from 71 donors who underwent right hepatectomy without MHV for a liver transplantation at our hospital from January 2002 to August 2016 were retrospectively reviewed. Donors were divided into 3 groups as follows: group 1 (n = 12), no MHV tributary reconstruction; group 2 (n = 33), single MHV tributary reconstruction; group 3 (n = 26), 2 or 3 MHV tributaries reconstruction. Donor operation time, blood loss, proportion of the remnant liver, maximum postoperative total bilirubin, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine transaminase, minimum platelets, prothrombin time, albumin level, number of days in hospital from surgery to discharge, and surgical complications were compared. RESULTS Compared with groups 2 and 3, group 1 exhibited shorter average operational time and less average blood loss, but the difference was not significant. Comparisons of all other factors indicated no significant differences. CONCLUSION The technique of preserving the major tributaries of the MHV until just immediately before graft retrieval does not appear to impose an apparent burden on donors.
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- K Miyazawa
- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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Seki H, Sakurai T, Shimizu K. A novel nipple aleolar complex involvement predictive index (NACPI) for indicating nipple sparing mastectomy in breast cancer. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy426.009] [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: 11/15/2022] Open
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Nakata M, Nojima Y, Nanba K, Saisho S, Shimizu K. P2.16-36 Adjuvant Chemotherapy is Effective for Completely Resected Stage IB Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2018.08.1511] [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: 11/28/2022]
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Mitsuyama Y, Shimizu K, Ebihara T, Ogura H, Shimazu T. Severe hypoglycemia on admission is a predictor for poor prognosis in patients with sepsis. Clin Nutr 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2018.06.1149] [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]
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Kajiyama T, Yasuda T, Yamanaka T, Shimizu K, Shimizu T, Takahashi E, Ujiie A, Yamamoto K, Koike T, Nishitani Y. Effect of Addition of Styrene-Ethylene/Butylene-Styrene and the Type of Mica on the Mechanical Properties of Mica-Filled Polyethylene/Polypropylene Blends. INT POLYM PROC 2018. [DOI: 10.3139/217.3568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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AbstractThe mechanical properties of polyethylene (PE)/polypropylene (PP)/styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS)/mica composites were investigated as a model composition. Four types of mica with different particle sizes and different aspect ratios were used. These composites were extruded by a twin-screw extruder and subsequently injection molded, and their mechanical properties, including their tensile, bending, and impact properties were evaluated. The addition of mica to PE/PP/SEBS effectively improved its mechanical properties; the addition of SEBS as a compatibilizer likewise enhanced the mechanical properties compared with those of PE/PP composites without SEBS. The use of larger average particle size and higher aspect ratio mica, such as M-35, M-27, and P-33, effectively increased the tensile and bending properties of the PE/PP/SEBS/mica composites. The morphologies of the composites with an added mica as observed by scanning electron microscopy, showed good dispersion between the matrix polymer and the mica.
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- 1Jonan Branch, Regional Technology Support Division, Commercialization Support Department, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- 2Surface Coating and Chemical Technology Group, Division II, Research and Development Department, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- 3Administration Planning Section, Management and Planning Department, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- 4Advanced Materials Department Sector, Technological Development Support Division, Commercialization Support Department, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- 5Miraijushi Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
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- 6Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
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- 6Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
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- 6Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
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Umemoto N, Shibata N, Itou R, Sakakibara T, Kamoi D, Aoyama T, Asai T, Takahashi H, Shimizu K, Ishii H, Murohara T. P6596Paroxysmal/persistent atrial fibrillation and/or atrial flutter is an independent predictor for all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients. Eur Heart J 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy566.p6596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- N Umemoto
- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Caardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Caardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Caardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, Department of Caardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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Umemoto N, Oshima S, Sakakibara T, Ishii H, Shibata N, Shimizu K, Murohara T, Shibata N. P3516Impact of stress myocardial blood flow as an important prognostic predictor for all-cause mortality in hemodialysis patients. Eur Heart J 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy563.p3516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- N Umemoto
- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of caardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Kyoritsu Hospital, department of caardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, department of cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Ichinomiya municipal hospital, department of cardiology, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
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Mizutani T, Umemoto N, Taniguchi T, Ishii H, Murohara T, Shimizu K. P4664Lactate clearance is one of the most powerful prognostic indicators in extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Eur Heart J 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy563.p4664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- T Mizutani
- ichinomiya municipal hospital, department of cardiology, ichinomiya, Japan
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- ichinomiya municipal hospital, department of cardiology, ichinomiya, Japan
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- ichinomiya municipal hospital, department of cardiology, ichinomiya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
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- Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
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- ichinomiya municipal hospital, department of cardiology, ichinomiya, Japan
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Kimura H, Konno S, Makita H, Taniguchi N, Shimizu K, Suzuki M, Kimura H, Goudarzi H, Nakamaru Y, Ono J, Ohta S, Izuhara K, Ito YM, Wenzel SE, Nishimura M. Prospective predictors of exacerbation status in severe asthma over a 3-year follow-up. Clin Exp Allergy 2018; 48:1137-1146. [PMID: 29781543 DOI: 10.1111/cea.13170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Revised: 03/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND A predisposition to exacerbations is being recognized as a distinct phenotype with "previous exacerbations" representing the strongest clinical factor associated with future exacerbation. Thus, to identify additional novel biomarkers associated with asthma exacerbations, "past exacerbation status" must be included as a confounding factor. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to characterize the clinical and biomarker features associated with asthma exacerbations in severe asthma. METHODS We evaluated clinical parameters from 105 severe asthmatics yearly for 3 years, as well as their exacerbation status. We classified the subjects into 3 groups: (i) consistent non-exacerbators (CNE, subjects who did not experience any exacerbation over the 3-year period); (ii) consistent frequent exacerbators (CFE, subjects with frequent exacerbation, defined as those who had 2 or more exacerbations within 1 year, throughout the 3-year period); and (iii) intermittent exacerbators (IE). We conducted multivariate analysis for comparisons among the groups for multiple factors, including several Th2-related biomarkers, in addition to the "past exacerbation status." RESULTS Thirty-nine subjects were classified as CNE, 15 as CFE, and 51 as IE. Frequent exacerbations in the previous year predicted exacerbations for the following year (P < .001). Among the several Th2-related biomarkers, only FeNO was associated with exacerbation status. When we analysed the data after the second visit, the impact of FeNO on predicting future exacerbation remained significant, even after considering the exacerbation status during the first year (P < .05). CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Measurement of FeNO has a significant potential to predict future asthma exacerbation, which is independent of the "past exacerbation history."
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- H Kimura
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Shino-Test Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Division of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan
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- Division of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute at UPMC/University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Kawauchi H, Aoi N, Morikura I, Fuchiwaki T, Shimizu Y, Shimizu K, Hotta Y, Infei Q, Yamada T, Prokopakis E. Oxatomide inhibits Interleukin-8 release from respiratory epithelial cells. RHINOL 2018. [DOI: 10.4193/rhinol/18.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Amin M, Bakhtiar A, Subarjo M, Aksono EB, Widiyanti P, Shimizu K, Mori Y. Screening for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus among febrile Indonesian Hajj pilgrims: A study on 28,197 returning pilgrims. J Infect Prev 2018; 19:236-239. [PMID: 30159042 DOI: 10.1177/1757177418765634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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There were 211,000 Indonesian Hajj pilgrims going to Mecca through 11 main airports in 2015 who were at risk of contracting the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). We aimed to find out whether there was any occurrence of MERS-CoV by performing screening on 28,197 returning pilgrims. Those with a body temperature of > 38 °C and respiratory symptoms were sent to the airport clinic to have an oropharyngeal swab and a bacterial culture. Fifteen pilgrims had fever (> 38 °C) accompanied by respiratory symptoms; of these, 12 patients were diagnosed with upper and lower respiratory tract infections and three patients with pneumonia. However, none of them were found to be infected with MERS-CoV. The bacterial cultures showed evidence of normal flora growth.
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- Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Airlangga Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia
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- Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Airlangga Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia
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- Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Airlangga Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia
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- Tropical Disease Diagnostic Center, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
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- Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga and Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Airlangga
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- Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (CRC-ERID), Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia - Kobe University, Japan
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- Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (CRC-ERID), Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia - Kobe University, Japan
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Wataya-Kaneda M, Ohno Y, Fujita Y, Yokozeki H, Niizeki H, Ogai M, Fukai K, Nagai H, Yoshida Y, Hamada I, Hio T, Shimizu K, Murota H. 1054 Sirolimus gel treatment for tuberous sclerosis complex involving facial angiofibromas and cephalic plaques: A multicenter randomized controlled trial. J Invest Dermatol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2018.03.1067] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Shimizu K, Ohba T. Extremely permeable porous graphene with high H 2/CO 2 separation ability achieved by graphene surface rejection. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:18201-18207. [PMID: 28675236 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp03270f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Fabrication of a graphene separation sheet is difficult because of the necessity for leakage-free graphene transfer onto a substrate. In this study, porous graphene sheets with thicknesses of one, two, and four layers were directly fabricated on stainless-steel mesh substrates and demonstrated to display high separation ability for H2, CO2, and CH4. The single-layer graphene sample exhibited higher permeance for these molecules than double- and four-layer graphene and displayed similar high selectivity to that of other porous materials. Permeance was proportional to molecular velocity and inversely proportional to interaction strength with graphene; molecular size-dependent permeance was not seen. Molecules that interacted strongly with graphene were attracted to the graphene surface, which hindered permeation. Such graphene surface rejection allowed graphene containing larger pores than the molecular size to provide both high molecular permeance and selectivity. The relationship between the permeance of porous graphene for H2 and H2/CO2 with selectivity suggested that its permeance was higher than that of other materials with high separation performance. Therefore, the porous graphene samples separated molecules with extremely high permeance by graphene surface rejection.
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- K Shimizu
- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
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