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Abbasi RU, Allen MG, Arimura R, Belz JW, Bergman DR, Blake SA, Shin BK, Buckland IJ, Cheon BG, Fujii T, Fujisue K, Fujita K, Fukushima M, Furlich GD, Gerber ZR, Globus N, Hibino K, Higuchi R, Honda K, Ikeda D, Ito H, Iwasaki A, Jeong S, Jeong HM, Jui CH, Kadota K, Kakimoto F, Kalashev OE, Kasahara K, Kawata K, Kharuk I, Kido E, Kim SW, Kim HB, Kim JH, Kim JH, Komae I, Kubota Y, Kuznetsov MY, Lee KH, Lubsandorzhiev BK, Lundquist JP, Matthews JN, Nagataki S, Nakamura T, Nakazawa A, Nonaka T, Ogio S, Ono M, Oshima H, Park IH, Potts M, Pshirkov S, Remington JR, Rodriguez DC, Rott C, Rubtsov GI, Ryu D, Sagawa H, Sakaki N, Sako T, Sakurai N, Shin H, Smith JD, Sokolsky P, Stokes BT, Stroman TS, Takahashi K, Takeda M, Taketa A, Tameda Y, Thomas S, Thomson GB, Tinyakov PG, Tkachev I, Tomida T, Troitsky SV, Tsunesada Y, Udo S, Urban FR, Wong T, Yamazaki K, Yuma Y, Zhezher YV, Zundel Z. An extremely energetic cosmic ray observed by a surface detector array. Science 2023; 382:903-907. [PMID: 37995237 DOI: 10.1126/science.abo5095] [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: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
Abstract
Cosmic rays are energetic charged particles from extraterrestrial sources, with the highest-energy events thought to come from extragalactic sources. Their arrival is infrequent, so detection requires instruments with large collecting areas. In this work, we report the detection of an extremely energetic particle recorded by the surface detector array of the Telescope Array experiment. We calculate the particle's energy as [Formula: see text] (~40 joules). Its arrival direction points back to a void in the large-scale structure of the Universe. Possible explanations include a large deflection by the foreground magnetic field, an unidentified source in the local extragalactic neighborhood, or an incomplete knowledge of particle physics.
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- R U Abbasi
- Physics Department, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Stellar Science, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 44919, Ulsan, Korea
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Physics and The Research Institute of Natural Science, Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Korea
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan
- Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
- Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1 Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
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- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- University of Yamanashi, Kofu, 400-8510, Japan
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- Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1 Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
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- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan
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- Department of Physics, SungKyunKwan University, Jang-an-gu, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Department of Physics, SungKyunKwan University, Jang-an-gu, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Tokyo City University, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8557, Japan
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- Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1 Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Shibauta Institute of Technology and Sicence, Fukasaku 307, Minuma-ku, Saitama, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- Department of Physics, SungKyunKwan University, Jang-an-gu, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Department of Physics and The Research Institute of Natural Science, Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, Korea
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan
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- Academic Assembly School of Science and Technology Institute of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Department of Physics, SungKyunKwan University, Jang-an-gu, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- Academic Assembly School of Science and Technology Institute of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan
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- Academic Assembly School of Science and Technology Institute of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Department of Physics, SungKyunKwan University, Jang-an-gu, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Martin Road, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Physics, SungKyunKwan University, Jang-an-gu, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 44919, Ulsan, Korea
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Faculty of Design Technology, 3-1-1 Nakagaito, Daito City, Osaka, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan
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- Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan
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- Department of Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Neyagawa-shi, Osaka 572-8530, Japan
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, bvd du Triomphe CP225, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Academic Assembly School of Science and Technology Institute of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan
- Nambu Yoichiro Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan
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- Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1 Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
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- The Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- College of Engineering, Chubu University, 1200 Matsumoto, Kasugai, Aichi 487-8501, Japan
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- Academic Assembly School of Science and Technology Institute of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
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- High Energy Astrophysics Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Nagakubo Y, Hirotsu Y, Amemiya K, Mochizuki H, Tsutsui T, Kakizaki Y, Miyashita Y, Higuchi R, Nakagomi T, Goto T, Oyama T, Omata M. Nucleic Acid Quality Assessment is Critical to the Success of the Oncomine Dx Target Test for Lung Cancer. Mol Diagn Ther 2023; 27:513-523. [PMID: 37198423 DOI: 10.1007/s40291-023-00653-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The Oncomine Dx Target Test (ODxTT) has been used as a companion diagnostic test for lung cancer. Here, we evaluated whether the amount of nucleic acid and the degree of RNA degradation are related to the success of the ODxTT. METHODS This study included 223 samples from 218 patients with lung cancer. For all samples, DNA and RNA concentrations were quantified using Qubit, and the degree of RNA degradation was evaluated using the Bioanalyzer. RESULTS Of the 223 samples, 219 samples were successfully analyzed in the ODxTT and four were not. DNA analysis failed in two samples, which were attributed to low DNA concentrations and both were cytology specimens. Meanwhile, RNA analysis failed in the other two samples. These samples had sufficient amounts of RNA, but it was highly degraded with DV200 (the percentage of RNA fragments > 200 base pairs) less than 30. Compared with RNA samples with DV200 ≥ 30, analysis of RNA with DV200 < 30 yielded significantly fewer reads for the internal control genes. This test showed actionable mutations were identified in 38% (83/218) of all patients and in 46.6% (76/163) of patients with lung adenocarcinoma. CONCLUSIONS DNA concentration and degree of RNA degradation are key factors determining the success of diagnostic testing by the ODxTT.
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- Yuki Nagakubo
- Division of Genetics and Clinical Laboratory, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan.
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- Division of Genetics and Clinical Laboratory, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
- Central Clinical Laboratory, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
- Department of Gastroenterology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Laboratory Department, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, 1-1-1 Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
- The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Miyata T, Higuchi R, Yokobori K, Seki S, Ishioka K. Assessment of feline hospitalization environment using a one-way mirror. Pol J Vet Sci 2023; 26:307-309. [PMID: 37389419 DOI: 10.24425/pjvs.2023.145026] [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: 07/01/2023]
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A separate, cat-specific hospitalization room away from dogs is recommended to reduce stress in cats; however, this can be difficult for some hospitals to provide. In such cases, measures are undertaken to reduce the cat's stress by providing a place to hide. However, inability to observe the cat's condition may be an obstacle to providing veterinary care. The use of a one-way mirror to create a sheltered environment while allowing observation of the cats was assessed. Five healthy cats were assessed using the Cat Stress Score (CSS) while in a cage with either a transparent panel or a one-way mirror. No significant differences in the CSS between the transparent panel and one-way mirror were observed. Variations in the CSS scores depended on the cat's personality, with friendlier and more sociable cats showing a lower CSS with the one-way mirror. A one-way mirror may be useful to reduce stress in hospitalized cats.
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- T Miyata
- School of Veterinary Nursing and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, 1-7-1 Kyonan-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan
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- School of Veterinary Nursing and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, 1-7-1 Kyonan-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan
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- School of Veterinary Nursing and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, 1-7-1 Kyonan-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan
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- School of Veterinary Nursing and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, 1-7-1 Kyonan-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan
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- School of Veterinary Nursing and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, 1-7-1 Kyonan-cho, Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180-8602, Japan
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Higuchi R, Lilak S, Sillin HO, Tsuruoka T, Kunitake M, Nakayama T, Gimzewski JK, Stieg AZ. Metal doped polyaniline as neuromorphic circuit elements for in-materia computing. Sci Technol Adv Mater 2023; 24:2178815. [PMID: 36872943 PMCID: PMC9980013 DOI: 10.1080/14686996.2023.2178815] [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] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Polyaniline-based atomic switches are material building blocks whose nanoscale structure and resultant neuromorphic character provide a new physical substrate for the development next-generation, nanoarchitectonic-enabled computing systems. Metal ion-doped devices consisting of a Ag/metal ion doped polyaniline/Pt sandwich structure were fabricated using an in situ wet process. The devices exhibited repeatable resistive switching between high (ON) and low (OFF) conductance states in both Ag+ and Cu2+ ion-doped devices. The threshold voltage for switching was>0.8 V and average ON/OFF conductance ratios (30 cycles for 3 samples) were 13 and 16 for Ag+ and Cu2+ devices, respectively. The ON state duration was determined by the decay to an OFF state after pulsed voltages of differing amplitude and frequency. The switching behaviour is analagous to short-term (STM) and long-term (LTM) memories of biological synapses. Memristive behaviour and evidence of quantized conductance were also observed and interpreted in terms of metal filament formation bridging the metal doped polymer layer. The successful realization of these properties within physical material systems indicate polyaniline frameworks as suitable neuromorphic substrates for in materia computing.
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- R. Higuchi
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
- California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Amemiya K, Hirotsu Y, Mochizuki H, Higuchi R, Nakagomi T, Goto T, Oyama T, Kondo T, Omata M. Deep targeted sequencing of cytological tumor cells using whole genome amplification. Cancer Cytopathol 2023; 131:58-68. [PMID: 36219530 DOI: 10.1002/cncy.22653] [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] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Genomic profiling in lung cancer is essential for precision medicine. Cytological specimens provide an alternative to formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples for comprehensive genomic analysis. However, this approach remains challenging when a limited number of tumor cells are available. We applied whole genome amplification (WGA) to cytology specimens to overcome this limitation. METHODS Using a lung cancer panel targeting 58 genes, we performed next-generation sequencing of whole genome-amplified DNA extracted from cytological specimens containing 10-20 tumor cells (cyto-WGA) and DNA from corresponding FFPE tumor tissue. We compared sequencing data from cyto-WGA and FFPE samples to examine the detection accuracy of copy number variations and oncogenic and drug-matched variants. RESULTS The DNA quality and quantity from cyto-WGA were higher than those from FFPE samples (p < .0005 and p < .05, respectively). Sequencing metrics of cyto-WGA and FFPE tissues showed no difference in the number of mapped reads and mean coverage depth, but there were significant differences in the on-target rate (p < .05) and uniformity (p < .0005). Copy number variations in cyto-WGA samples (n = 211) were higher than in FFPE samples (n = 9) (p < .0001). Fourty nine oncogenic variants were detected in cyto-WGA and 39 in FFPE. Of these variants, 34 (63%) were present in both samples. In addition, all 16 drug-matched variants were detected in FFPE and cyto-WGA samples with 100% concordance. CONCLUSION Cyto-WGA can be a feasible and alternative method to detect oncogenic and drug-matched variants.
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- Kenji Amemiya
- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan.,Division of Genetics and Clinical Laboratory, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan.,Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Laboratory Department, Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan.,The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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di Matteo A, Anchordoqui L, Bister T, de Almeida R, Deligny O, Deval L, Farrar G, Giaccari U, Golup G, Higuchi R, Kim J, Kuznetsov M, Mariş I, Rubtsov G, Tinyakov P, Urban F. UHECR results of combined analyses of TA and Auger experiments. EPJ Web Conf 2023. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202328004001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/22/2023] Open
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The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) is still unknown. Their sources are believed to be within the local universe (a few hundred megaparsecs), but deflections by intergalactic and Galactic magnetic fields prevent us from straightforwardly associating UHECRs to their sources based on their arrival directions, making their angular distribution mostly isotropic. At higher energies, the number of potential source candidates and the magnetic deflections are both expected to be smaller, but so is the available amount of statistics. Hence, it is interesting to perform searches for anisotropies using several different energy thresholds. With a threshold of 8 EeV a dipole modulation has been discovered, and with higher thresholds evidence is mounting for correlations with certain nearby galaxies. Neither of the two main UHECR detectors, the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array project, has full-sky coverage. Full-sky searches require combining the datasets of both, and a working group with members of both collaborations has been tasked with this. We present an overview of the challenges encountered in such analyses, recent results from the working group, possible ways of interpreting them, and an outlook for the near future.
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Balakrishnan A, Jah A, Lesurtel M, Andersson B, Gibbs P, Harper SJF, Huguet EL, Kosmoliaptsis V, Liau SS, Praseedom RK, Ramia JM, Branes A, Lendoire J, Maithel S, Serrablo A, Achalandabaso M, Adham M, Ahmet A, Al-Sarireh B, Albiol Quer M, Alconchel F, Alejandro R, Alsammani M, Alseidi A, Anand A, Anselmo A, Antonakis P, Arabadzhieva E, de Aretxabala X, Aroori S, Ashley S, Ausania F, Banerjee A, Barabino M, Bartlett A, Bartsch F, Belli A, Beristain-Hernandez J, Berrevoet F, Bhatti A, Bhojwani R, Bjornsson B, Blaz T, Byrne M, Calvo M, Castellanos J, Castro M, Cavallucci D, Chang D, Christodoulis G, Ciacio O, Clavien P, Coker A, Conde-Rodriguez M, D'Amico F, D'Hondt M, Daams F, Dasari B, De Beillis M, de Meijer V, Dede K, Deiro G, Delgado F, Desai G, Di Gioia A, Di Martino M, Dixon M, Dorovinis P, Dumitrascu T, Ebata T, Eilard M, Erdmann J, Erkan M, Famularo S, Felli E, Fergadi M, Fernandez G, Fox A, Galodha S, Galun D, Ganandha S, Garcia R, Gemenetzis G, Giannone F, Gil L, Giorgakis E, Giovinazzo F, Giuffrida M, Giuliani T, Giuliante F, Gkekas I, Goel M, Goh B, Gomes A, Gruenberger T, Guevara O, Gulla A, Gupta A, Gupta R, Hakeem A, Hamid H, Heinrich S, Helton S, Heumann A, Higuchi R, Hughes D, Inarejos B, Ivanecz A, Iwao Y, Iype S, Jaen I, Jie M, Jones R, Kacirek K, Kalayarasan R, Kaldarov A, Kaman L, Kanhere H, Kapoor V, Karanicolas P, Karayiannakis A, Kausar A, Khan Z, Kim DS, Klose J, Knowles B, Koh P, Kolodziejczyk P, Komorowski A, Koong J, Kozyrin I, Krishna A, Kron P, Kumar N, van Laarhoven S, Lakhey P, Lanari J, Laurenzi A, Leow V, Limbu Y, Liu YB, Lob S, Lolis E, Lopez-Lopez V, Lozano R, Lundgren L, Machairas M, Magouliotis D, Mahamid A, Malde D, Malek A, Malik H, Malleo G, Marino M, Mayo S, Mazzola M, Memeo R, Menon K, Menzulin R, Mohan R, Morgul H, Moris D, Mulita F, Muttillo E, Nahm C, Nandasena M, Nashidengo P, Nickkholgh A, Nikov A, Noel C, O'Reilly D, O'Rourke T, Ohtsuka M, Omoshoro-Jones J, Pandanaboyana S, Pararas N, Patel R, Patkar S, Peng J, Perfecto A, Perinel J, Perivoliotis K, Perra T, Phan M, Piccolo G, Porcu A, Primavesi F, Primrose J, Pueyo-Periz E, Radenkovic D, Rammohan A, Rowcroft A, Sakata J, Saladino E, Schena C, Scholer A, Schwarz C, Serrano P, Silva M, Soreide K, Sparrelid E, Stattner S, Sturesson C, Sugiura T, Sumo M, Sutcliffe R, Teh C, Teo J, Tepetes K, Thapa P, Thepbunchonchai A, Torres J, Torres O, Torzili G, Tovikkai C, Troncoso A, Tsoulfas G, Tuzuher A, Tzimas G, Umar G, Urbani L, Vanagas T, Varga, Velayutham V, Vigano L, Wakai T, Yang Z, Yip V, Zacharoulis D, Zakharov E, Zimmitti G. Heterogeneity of management practices surrounding operable gallbladder cancer - results of the OMEGA-S international HPB surgical survey. HPB (Oxford) 2022; 24:2006-2012. [PMID: 35922277 DOI: 10.1016/j.hpb.2022.06.014] [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] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is an aggressive, uncommon malignancy, with variation in operative approaches adopted across centres and few large-scale studies to guide practice. We aimed to identify the extent of heterogeneity in GBC internationally to better inform the need for future multicentre studies. METHODS A 34-question online survey was disseminated to members of the European-African Hepatopancreatobiliary Association (EAHPBA), American Hepatopancreatobiliary Association (AHPBA) and Asia-Pacific Hepatopancreatobiliary Association (A-PHPBA) regarding practices around diagnostic workup, operative approach, utilization of neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapies and surveillance strategies. RESULTS Two hundred and three surgeons responded from 51 countries. High liver resection volume units (>50 resections/year) organised HPB multidisciplinary team discussion of GBCs more commonly than those with low volumes (p < 0.0001). Management practices exhibited areas of heterogeneity, particularly around operative extent. Contrary to consensus guidelines, anatomical liver resections were favoured over non-anatomical resections for T3 tumours and above, lymphadenectomy extent was lower than recommended, and a minority of respondents still routinely excised the common bile duct or port sites. CONCLUSION Our findings suggest some similarities in the management of GBC internationally, but also specific areas of practice which differed from published guidelines. Transcontinental collaborative studies on GBC are necessary to establish evidence-based practice to minimise variation and optimise outcomes.
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- Anita Balakrishnan
- Department of HPB Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom.
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Beaujon Hospital, University of Paris Cité, 100 Bd du Général Leclerc, 92110, Clichy, France
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- Department of Surgery, Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Surgery, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Avenida Pintor Baeza, 12 03010 Alicante, Spain
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Hospital Sotero del Rio, Av. Concha y Toro 3459, Puente Alto, Región Metropolitana, Chile
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- Department of Surgery, University of Buenos Aires, Hospital Dr Cosme Argerich, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322 USA
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- Department of HPB Surgery, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain
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Otake S, Goto T, Higuchi R, Nakagomi T, Hirotsu Y, Amemiya K, Oyama T, Mochizuki H, Omata M. The Diagnostic Utility of Cell-Free DNA from Ex Vivo Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid in Lung Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14:cancers14071764. [PMID: 35406535 PMCID: PMC8996852 DOI: 10.3390/cancers14071764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2022] [Revised: 03/19/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Simple Summary This study aims to detect cell-free DNA released from lung cancer cells into the airway using the ex vivo BAL model of our own establishing. We finally demonstrated that cell-free DNA released from lung cancer cells is more abundant in the airway than in the blood, and the efficient collection of cell-free DNA derived from lung cancer in the airway by BAL and its genomic analysis could allow the accurate diagnosis of lung cancer. We believe that this approach will possibly make a breakthrough in the currently unsatisfactory diagnostic yield for lung cancer, since it is a new and constitutive diagnostic focusing on the gene mutations of lung cancer and their release into the airway in the form of cell-free DNA. Abstract Although bronchoscopy is generally performed to diagnose lung cancer, its diagnostic yield remains unsatisfactory. Assuming that lung cancer cells release cell-free DNA into the epithelial lining fluid, we hypothesized that lung cancer could be diagnosed by analyzing gene mutations in cell-free DNA in this fluid. This study included 32 patients with lung cancer who underwent surgery at our hospital. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was performed on the resected lung samples (ex vivo BAL model) after lobectomy. Each DNA sample (i.e., BAL fluid, primary lesion, and plasma) underwent deep targeted sequencing. Gene mutation analyses in the BAL fluid samples identified mutations identical to those in the primary lesions in 30 (93.8%) of 32 patients. In contrast, the microscopic cytology of the same BAL fluid samples yielded a diagnosis of lung cancer in only one of 32 patients, and the analysis of plasma samples revealed gene mutations identical to those in the primary lesions in only one of 32 patients. In conclusion, cell-free DNA released from lung cancer cells exists more abundantly in the airway than in the blood. The collection and analysis of the BAL fluid containing cell-free DNA derived from lung cancer can thus allow lung cancer diagnosis and the screening of driver mutations.
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- Sotaro Otake
- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (S.O.); (R.H.); (T.N.)
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (S.O.); (R.H.); (T.N.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +81-55-253-71111
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (S.O.); (R.H.); (T.N.)
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (S.O.); (R.H.); (T.N.)
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (Y.H.); (K.A.); (H.M.); (M.O.)
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (Y.H.); (K.A.); (H.M.); (M.O.)
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan;
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (Y.H.); (K.A.); (H.M.); (M.O.)
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (Y.H.); (K.A.); (H.M.); (M.O.)
- Department of Gastroenterology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
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Nakagomi T, Goto T, Hirotsu Y, Higuchi R, Tsutsui T, Amemiya K, Oyama T, Mochizuki H, Omata M. Lung Cancer Surgery with Persistent COVID-19 Infection. Ann Thorac Surg 2021; 114:e79-e81. [PMID: 34902297 PMCID: PMC8660662 DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.11.015] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A 71-year-old man with a history of drug-induced interstitial pneumonia was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection and simultaneously found to have a pulmonary mass, suggesting a coexisting lung cancer. Approximately 1 month after COVID-19 pneumonia resolved, the patient electively underwent right upper lobectomy. Postoperatively, acute exacerbation of interstitial pneumonia occurred and the patient died on the fifteenth postoperative day. By quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, high levels of COVID-19-derived RNA were detected in the specimen of lung parenchyma. Despite resolved COVID-19 infection, it may persist locally in the lungs, with the risk of acute exacerbation of interstitial pneumonia due to secondary stressors including surgery.
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- Takahiro Nakagomi
- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan.
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan; University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Higuchi R, Goto T, Nakagomi T, Hirotsu Y, Oyama T, Amemiya K, Mochizuki H, Omata M. Discrimination Between Primary Lung Cancer and Lung Metastases by Genomic Profiling. JTO Clin Res Rep 2021; 2:100255. [PMID: 34877557 PMCID: PMC8633675 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtocrr.2021.100255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2021] [Revised: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Introduction In cases of lung tumors that occur after treatment for malignancies in other organs, the tumor may represent either a primary lung cancer or a solitary pulmonary metastasis from the other tumor. Because some lung tumors are difficult to differentiate on the basis of imaging and pathologic findings, treatment selection is often difficult. In this study, we attempted to make a genomic diagnosis of primary and metastatic lung tumors by analyzing tumor samples using next-generation sequencing and evaluated the efficacy and validity of the genomic diagnosis. Methods A total of 24 patients with a solitary lung nodule and a history of other malignancies were enrolled in this study. Tumor cells were selected from tissue samples using laser capture microdissection. DNA was extracted from those cells and subjected to targeted deep sequencing of 53 genes. Results The driver mutation profiles of the primary lung tumors were discordant from those of the primary tumors in other sites, whereas the mutation profiles of pulmonary metastases and previous malignancies were concordant. In all 24 patients, we could diagnose either primary lung cancer (six patients) or lung metastases (18 patients) on the basis of whether gene mutation profiles were concordant or discordant. In 12 patients (50.0%), discrepancies were observed between the genomic and clinical or histopathologic diagnoses. Conclusions In patients with a solitary lung lesion and a history of cancer, tumor-specific mutations can serve as clonal markers, affording a more accurate understanding of the pathological condition and thus possibly improving both treatment selection and patient outcome.
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- Rumi Higuchi
- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Amemiya K, Hirotsu Y, Nagakubo Y, Mochizuki H, Higuchi R, Tsutsui T, Kakizaki Y, Miyashita Y, Oyama T, Omata M. Actionable driver DNA variants and fusion genes can be detected in archived cytological specimens with the Oncomine Dx Target Test Multi-CDx system in lung cancer. Cancer Cytopathol 2021; 129:729-738. [PMID: 33872472 DOI: 10.1002/cncy.22434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [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: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Molecular testing is critical for identifying actionable variants in lung cancer for precision medicine. When tumor tissue samples are unavailable, archived cytological specimens (ACSs) can be used. The authors examined whether oncogenic variants could be accurately detected in ACSs versus paired formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor tissues with in vitro diagnostic tests. METHODS The authors collected 18 ACSs and 15 FFPE tissues from 15 patients with lung cancer and investigated genomic profiles with the Oncomine Dx Target Test Multi-CDx system, which is an integrated next-generation sequencing platform that comprehensively examines 4 companion diagnostic target genes (epidermal growth factor receptor [EGFR]; B-Raf proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase [BRAF]; anaplastic lymphoma kinase [ALK]; and ROS proto-oncogene 1, receptor tyrosine kinase [ROS1]). They compared the quantity and quality of extracted nucleic acids, the sequencing quality control (QC), and the detected variants between ACSs and FFPE tissues. RESULTS The total amount of DNA and RNA obtained from 1 slide was higher in FFPE tissues than ACSs. The RNA integrity number was higher in ACSs. There were no differences in sequencing QC between ACSs and FFPE tissues. A total of 21 variants, including EGFR mutations and ALK and ROS1 fusion genes, were detected in both ACSs and FFPE tissues with 100% concordance. CONCLUSIONS ACSs can be a feasible alternative with which to identify actionable mutations and fusion genes via the Oncomine Dx Target Test Multi-CDx system.
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- Kenji Amemiya
- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan.,Division of Genetics and Clinical Laboratory, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan
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- Division of Genetics and Clinical Laboratory, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan
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- Pathology Division, Laboratory Department, Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Kofu, Japan.,Department of Gastroenterology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Higuchi R, Goto T, Hirotsu Y, Otake S, Oyama T, Amemiya K, Mochizuki H, Omata M. Streptococcus australis and Ralstonia pickettii as Major Microbiota in Mesotheliomas. J Pers Med 2021; 11:jpm11040297. [PMID: 33919754 PMCID: PMC8070724 DOI: 10.3390/jpm11040297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The microbiota has been reported to be correlated with carcinogenesis and cancer progression. However, its involvement in the pathology of mesothelioma remains unknown. In this study, we aimed to identify mesothelioma-specific microbiota using resected or biopsied mesothelioma samples. Eight mesothelioma tissue samples were analyzed via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The operational taxonomic units (OTUs) of the effective tags were analyzed in order to determine the taxon composition of each sample. For the three patients who underwent extra pleural pneumonectomy, normal peripheral lung tissues adjacent to the tumor were also included, and the same analysis was performed. In total, 61 OTUs were identified in the tumor and lung tissues, which were classified into 36 species. Streptococcus australis and Ralstonia pickettii were identified as abundant species in almost all tumor and lung samples. Streptococcus australis and Ralstonia pickettii were found to comprise mesothelioma-specific microbiota involved in tumor progression; thus, they could serve as targets for the prevention of mesothelioma.
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- Rumi Higuchi
- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (R.H.); (S.O.)
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (R.H.); (S.O.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +81-55-253-7111
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (Y.H.); (K.A.); (H.M.); (M.O.)
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (R.H.); (S.O.)
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan;
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (Y.H.); (K.A.); (H.M.); (M.O.)
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (Y.H.); (K.A.); (H.M.); (M.O.)
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan; (Y.H.); (K.A.); (H.M.); (M.O.)
- Department of Gastroenterology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
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Tezuka T, Higuchi R, Hagiya K, Saji M, Takamisawa I, Shimizu J, Iguchi N, Takanashi S, Doi S, Okazaki S, Sato K, Tamura H, Takayama M. The effect of underweight on mid-term outcome following transcatheter aortic valve implantation: an insight from multicenter registry. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.1942] [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
Obesity has the adverse prognostic impact in the general population, whereas paradoxical effect of obesity has been reported in patients with heart failure. Several studies have suggested the same obesity paradox in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), however, they included limited number of underweight patients.
Purpose
The aim of this study was to clarify the effect of underweight on outcome following TAVI.
Methods
We retrospectively analyzed consecutive 1,027 patients undergoing TAVI between April 2010 and June 2019. The patients were categorized according to body mass index (BMI) as follows: underweight (<18.5 kg/m2, n=150), normal weight (18.5 to 25 kg/m2, n=657), and overweight (>25 kg/m2, n=220). BMI was defined as body weight (kg) divided by the square of body height (m) measured at the hospital admission. We compared the short- and mid-term outcome after TAVI among three groups, and all clinical events were accordance with Valve Academic Research Consortium-2 criteria.
Results
Underweight patients were more often female, and had a higher prevalence of hypertension, dyslipidemia, peripheral artery disease, anemia, and hypoalbuminemia. They also presented lower ejection fraction, smaller aortic valve area, and higher surgical risk score. In procedural findings, device unsuccess and major vascular complication more occurred in underweight patients, but 30-day mortality was equivalent among three groups. The mid-term survival of the underweight was inferior to the other two groups (figure).In the multivariate analysis, female (hazard ratio [HR] 0.52, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.37–0.73, P=0.0002), atrial fibrillation (HR 2.22, 95% CI 1.56–3.17, P<0.0001), albumin value (HR 0.37 per 1-g/dl increase, 95% CI 0.25–0.55, P<0.0001), Society of Thoracic Surgeons score (HR 1.06 per 1% increase, 95% CI 1.02–1.06, P=0.0039), 30-day combined endpoint (HR 2.12, 95% CI 1.33–3.38, P=0.0017), and underweight (HR 1.59, 95% CI 1.04–2.37, P=0.026) were associated with the survival after TAVI.
Conclusion
The underweight had a worse mid-term prognosis, representing the obesity paradox in the TAVI population.
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Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: None
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- T Tezuka
- Sakakibara heart institute, Fucyu Tokyo, Japan
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- Sakakibara heart institute, Fucyu Tokyo, Japan
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- Sakakibara heart institute, Fucyu Tokyo, Japan
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- Sakakibara heart institute, Fucyu Tokyo, Japan
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- Sakakibara heart institute, Fucyu Tokyo, Japan
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- Sakakibara heart institute, Fucyu Tokyo, Japan
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- Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital, Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki City, Japan
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- Juntendo university graduate school of medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, bunkyo-ku, Japan
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- Juntendo university graduate school of medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, bunkyo-ku, Japan
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- Mie university hospital, Cardiology, Tsu, Japan
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- Yamagata University, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Nephrology, Yamagata, Japan
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- Sakakibara heart institute, Fucyu Tokyo, Japan
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Nakagomi T, Higuchi R, Yokoyama Y, Goto T. Double Dumon Stents for Persistent Tracheoesophageal Fistula. Ann Thorac Surg 2020; 110:e251. [PMID: 32485149 DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.04.043] [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] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Takahiro Nakagomi
- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan.
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Kunimasa K, Hirotsu Y, Amemiya K, Nagakubo Y, Goto T, Miyashita Y, Kakizaki Y, Tsutsui T, Otake S, Kobayashi H, Higuchi R, Inomata K, Kumagai T, Mochizuki H, Nakamura H, Nakatsuka SI, Nishino K, Imamura F, Kumagai T, Oyama T, Omata M. Genome analysis of peeling archival cytology samples detects driver mutations in lung cancer. Cancer Med 2020; 9:4501-4511. [PMID: 32351019 PMCID: PMC7333826 DOI: 10.1002/cam4.3089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2020] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTIONS When tumor tissue samples are unavailable to search for actionable driver mutations, archival cytology samples can be useful. We investigate whether archival cytology samples can yield reliable genomic information compared to corresponding formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor samples. PATIENTS AND METHODS Pretreatment class V archival cytology samples with adequate tumor cells were selected from 172 lung cancer patients. The genomic profiles of the primary lung tumors have been analyzed through whole-exome regions of 53 genes. We compared the genomic profiles based on the oncogenicity and variant allele frequency (VAF) between the archival cytology and the corresponding primary tumors. We also analyzed the genomic profiles of serial cytological samples during the treatment of EGFR-TKI. RESULTS A total of 43 patients were analyzed with the paired samples for DNA mutations and other three patients were analyzed for their fusion genes. A total of 672 mutations were detected. Of those, 106 mutations (15.8%) were shared with both samples. Sixty of seventy-seven (77.9%) shared mutations were oncogenic or likely oncogenic mutations with VAF ≧10%. As high as 90% (9/10) actionable driver mutations and ALK and ROS1 fusion genes were successfully detected from archival cytology samples. Sequential analysis revealed the dynamic changes in EGFR-TKI-resistant mutation (EGFR p.T790M) during the course of treatment. CONCLUSION Archival cytology sample with adequate tumor cells can yield genetic information compared to the primary tumors. If tumor tissue samples are unavailable, we can use archival cytology samples to search for actionable driver mutations.
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- Kei Kunimasa
- Department of Thoracic Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan.,Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.,Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostic Pathology and Cytology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostic Pathology and Cytology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan.,The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Furuichi Y, Shimizu J, Higuchi R. P112 Early respiratory changes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehz872.052] [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
Abstract
Abstract
Funding Acknowledgements
Sakakibara heart Institute
Introduction
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is an alternative treatment for inoperative or high-risk patients requiring surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). In previous studies, the vital capacity falls to about 50% immediately after SAVR. Although the vital capacity recovers to about 60-70% in one week, it does not recover to preoperative levels at 3 months following SAVR 1)2). TAVR is expected to preserve respiratory function because TAVR does not require a sternotomy.
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to investigate early stage respiratory function after a TAVR. We assumed that respiratory function is not reduced after a TAVR.
Methods
This prospective study was approved by the local ethics committee of our Institute. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. The subjects were patients who underwent TAVI at our Institute from July 2017 to March 2019. Exclusion criteria included patients who refused to provide informed consent, emergent cases, NYHA (New York Heart Association) Class IV patients, patients receiving inotropes, patients under mechanical ventilation, patients enrolled in other studies, or patients for whom conducting pulmonary function tests were judged to be difficult. The pulmonary function test was conducted once a day until one week after the TAVR procedure.
Results
The target number was 100, and we ceased registration when informed consent was obtained from 100 patients. TAVR was conducted for 142 cases in this period and 42 cases were excluded. After informed consent was obtained, 17 cases were excluded because they met the exclusion criteria, and the analysis was conducted with 83 cases. The vital capacity and % of vital capacity were significantly reduced from the first day to the sixth day and recovered to preoperative levels at the seventh day after TAVR. The forced expiratory volume was significantly reduced from the first day to the fifth day, and recovered to preoperative levels at the sixth day after TAVR. The percentage of forced expiratory volume at one second was not significantly reduced.
Conclusions
The respiratory function was reduced in the early stages after TAVR. The respiratory function was reduced mostly on the first day after TAVR and recovered to preoperative levels on the seventh day after TAVR. After TAVR, the respiratory function recovered earlier than after SAVR. We believe that TAVR is more suitable for patients with reduced respiratory function.
Abstract P112 Figure. respiratory function after TAVR
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- Y Furuichi
- Sakakibara Heart Institute, Department of Anesthesiology, Fuchu Tokyo, Japan
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- Sakakibara Heart Institute, Department of Anesthesiology, Fuchu Tokyo, Japan
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- Sakakibara Heart Institute, Department of Cardiology, Fuchu Tokyo, Japan
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Nakagomi T, Hirotsu Y, Goto T, Shikata D, Yokoyama Y, Higuchi R, Otake S, Amemiya K, Oyama T, Mochizuki H, Omata M. Clinical Implications of Noncoding Indels in the Surfactant-Encoding Genes in Lung Cancer. Cancers (Basel) 2019; 11:cancers11040552. [PMID: 30999697 PMCID: PMC6520783 DOI: 10.3390/cancers11040552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Revised: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Lung cancer arises from the accumulation of genetic mutations, usually in exons. A recent study identified indel mutations in the noncoding region of surfactant-encoding genes in lung adenocarcinoma cases. In this study, we recruited 94 patients with 113 lung cancers (88 adenocarcinomas, 16 squamous cell carcinomas, and nine other histologies) who had undergone surgery in our department. A cancer panel was designed in-house for analyzing the noncoding regions, and targeted sequencing was performed. Indels in the noncoding region of surfactant-encoding genes were identified in 29/113 (25.7%) cases and represent the precise cell of origin for the lung cancer, irrespective of histological type and/or disease stage. In clinical practice, these indels may be used as clonal markers in patients with multiple cancers and to determine the origin of cancer of unknown primary site.
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- Takahiro Nakagomi
- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
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- Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
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- Genome Analysis Center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi 400-8506, Japan.
- Department of Gastroenterology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
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Higuchi R, Nakagomi T, Shikata D, Yokoyama Y, Oyama T, Goto T. Lingular segmentectomy and left lower lobectomy via unique bronchial dissection. J Thorac Dis 2018; 10:E420-E425. [PMID: 30069396 DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2018.05.146] [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] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Rumi Higuchi
- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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A 22-year-old woman presented with a feeling of chest tightness. Chest computed tomography showed a dendritic shadow in the left segment 1 + 2c, surrounded by hyperlucent emphysematous changes. Bronchoscopy revealed loss of the orifice of bronchus 1 + 2c. Thus a diagnosis of bronchial atresia was made, and a left upper division segmentectomy was performed. Bronchial atresia should be considered in the differential diagnosis of young patients with an abnormal chest shadow. It can be diagnosed based on the characteristic imaging and bronchoscopic findings. Surgery is indicated for symptomatic bronchial atresia and can provide complete amelioration of the condition.
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- Rumi Higuchi
- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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Shikata D, Nakagomi T, Higuchi R, Yokoyama Y, Oyama T, Goto T. Lymph node cancer of the mediastinum with a putative necrotic primary lesion in the lung: a case report. World J Surg Oncol 2018; 16:73. [PMID: 29606126 PMCID: PMC5880060 DOI: 10.1186/s12957-018-1373-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Although mediastinal lymph node cancer is presumed to originate in the lung, the primary site is usually unidentified, so the pathological course remains unclear. We recently encountered a case of mediastinal lymph node cancer having a putative primary lesion remaining in the lung as a necrotic focus. Case presentation The patient was a 56-year-old man who visited our department because computed tomography screening had revealed a nodular shadow in the lingular segment. However, on positron emission tomography, fluorine-18 deoxyglucose accumulation was detected in a subcarinal lymph node and not in the nodule in the lingular segment. Biopsy of the lung tumor and the lymph node was performed via minimal thoracotomy. Intraoperative pathologic examination showed necrosis alone and no malignant findings in the lung tumor. By contrast, carcinoma was detected in the lymph node. Additional subcarinal lymph node dissection was performed. Results of postoperative histopathologic examination indicated poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the subcarinal lymph node. Meanwhile, the nodule in the lingular segment was speculated to be a spontaneously resolved primary focus of lung cancer. Conclusions In this case, the primary lung cancer focus resolved spontaneously after lymph node metastasis, explaining the pathogenesis underlying mediastinal lymph node cancer of unknown primary site. For similar cases of malignancy, aggressive treatment, including surgery, is effective.
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- Daichi Shikata
- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan.
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Yokoyama Y, Nakagomi T, Shikata D, Higuchi R, Oyama T, Goto T. Surgical treatment for mediastinal abscess induced by endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration: a case report and literature review. World J Surg Oncol 2017; 15:130. [PMID: 28709438 PMCID: PMC5513248 DOI: 10.1186/s12957-017-1206-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a useful and less invasive procedure for the definitive diagnosis of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes. However, infectious complications can occur after EBUS-TBNA, although they are extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION A 66-year-old man with necrotic and swollen lower paratracheal lymph nodes underwent EBUS-TBNA. A mediastinal abscess developed 9 days post-procedure. Surgical drainage and debridement of the abscess were performed along with lymph node biopsy followed by daily washing of the thoracic cavity. Surgical treatment was effective, leading to remission of the abscess. Biopsy revealed that the tumor was squamous cell carcinoma with no radiologically detected cancer elsewhere in the body. Mediastinal lung cancer was thus confirmed. Subsequent chemoradiotherapy led to the remission of the tumor. CONCLUSIONS Mediastinitis after EBUS-TBNA is rare but should be considered, particularly if the target lymph nodes are necrotic. Mediastinitis can lead to serious and rapid deterioration of the patient's condition, for which surgical intervention is the treatment of choice.
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- Yujiro Yokoyama
- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, Japan
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- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Yamanashi, 400-8506, Japan.
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Higuchi R, Iguchi N, Utanohara Y, Inoue K, Umemura J, Sumiyoshi T, Tomoike H. Detection of myocardial metabolic dysfunction caused by the right ventricular apical pacing using thallium 201/iodine 123-labeled beta-methyl iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid SPECT. Eur Heart J 2013. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht308.p1134] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Higuchi R, Tada H, Okaniwa H, Nakajima T, Takemura N, Fuke E, Sato C, Hayashi T, Miki Y, Sakamoto T, Fukasawa R, Kumagai K, Naito S, Oshima S. Utility and Validation of Corrected Left Ventricular Filling Time for Determining the Optimal AV Delay in Patients Receiving Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. J Arrhythm 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/s1880-4276(11)80019-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Bentley G, Higuchi R, Hoglund B, Goodridge D, Sayer D, Trachtenberg EA, Erlich HA. High-resolution, high-throughput HLA genotyping by next-generation sequencing. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 74:393-403. [PMID: 19845894 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2009.01345.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and class II loci are the most polymorphic genes in the human genome. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation requires allele-level HLA typing at multiple loci to select the best matched unrelated donors for recipient patients. In current methods for HLA typing, both alleles of a heterozygote are amplified and typed or sequenced simultaneously, often making it difficult to unambiguously determine the sequence of the two alleles. Next-generation sequencing methods clonally propagate in parallel millions of single DNA molecules, which are then also sequenced in parallel. Recently, the read lengths obtainable by one such next-generation sequencing method (454 Life Sciences, Inc.) have increased to >250 nucleotides. These clonal read lengths make possible setting the phase of the linked polymorphisms within an exon and thus the unambiguous determination of the sequence of each HLA allele. Here we demonstrate this capacity as well as show that the throughput of the system is sufficiently high to enable a complete, 7-locus HLA class I and II typing for 24 or 48 individual DNAs in a single GS FLX sequencing run. Highly multiplexed amplicon sequencing is facilitated by the use of sample-specific internal sequence tags (multiplex identification tags or MIDs) in the primers that allow pooling of samples yet maintain the ability to assign sequences to specific individuals. We have incorporated an HLA typing software application developed by Conexio Genomics (Freemantle, Australia) that assigns HLA genotypes for these 7 loci (HLA-A, -B, -C, DRB1, DQA1, DQB1, DPB1), as well as for DRB3, DRB4, and DRB5 from 454 sequence data. The potential of this HLA sequencing system to analyze chimeric mixtures is demonstrated here by the detection of a rare HLA-B allele in a mixture of two homozygous cell lines (1/100), as well as by the detection of the rare nontransmitted maternal allele present in the blood of a severe combined immunodeficiency disease syndrome (SCIDS) patient.
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- G Bentley
- Department of Human Genetics, Roche Molecular Systems Inc, Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA
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Higuchi R, Minami S, Yagi S, Otani T, Kioka N, Hiramatsu C, Sugimoto T. Gestational thyrotoxicosis during a triplet pregnancy. J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2009; 28:444-5. [DOI: 10.1080/01443610802164318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 10/21/2022]
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Kawamura J, Higuchi R, Shimosaka A, Shirakawa, Y, Hidaka J, Mio H. Effect of Toner Charge on Developing Behavior in Two-Component Electrophotographic System by Discrete Element Method. J Imaging Sci Technol 2009. [DOI: 10.2352/j.imagingsci.technol.(2009)53:1(010505)] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 11/01/2022]
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Higuchi R, Sugimoto T, Hiramatsu C, Kumagai T, Okutani T, Yagi S, Matsuoka T, Yata C, Minami S. Neonatal pseudo-Bartter syndrome due to maternal eating disorder. J Perinatol 2008; 28:646-8. [PMID: 18756276 DOI: 10.1038/jp.2008.68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 11/09/2022]
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A total of 4 of 153 low birth weight infants at our hospital were found to have pseudo-Bartter syndrome in 2005 and 2006. The neonates (two of whom were twins; light for gestational age 2, appropriate for gestational age 1 and small for gestational age 1) showed symptoms of apnea and/or poor feeding or patent ductus arteriosus, which disappeared by day 4. Hypokalemia, hypochloremia and metabolic alkalosis normalized by day 8. The mothers had repeatedly rushed to the restroom after eating while in hospital, and were lighter at delivery than before pregnancy; however, vomiting was not observed. The mothers had several stress factors related to pregnancy, and all recovered from the eating disorder after delivery. Urinary Cl/creatinine (mequiv. mg(-1)) and serum Mg in the infants were <0.1 and 1.6 to 2.3 mg per 100 ml, respectively. Eating disorder during pregnancy may have caused Bartter-like syndrome and weight loss, and led to the same syndrome and intrauterine growth retardation in the offspring. Therefore, a hidden maternal eating disorder may underlie neonatal pseudo-Bartter syndrome.
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- R Higuchi
- Department of Perinatal Medicine, Perinatal Medical Center for Mother and Child, Wakayama Medical University Hospital, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Japan.
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Takamatsu H, Tada H, Okaniwa H, Toide H, Maruyama H, Higuchi R, Kaseno K, Naito S, Kurabayashi M, Oshima S, Taniguchi K. Right Bundle Branch Block and Impaired Left Ventricular Function as Evidence of a Left Ventricular Conduction Delay. Circ J 2008; 72:120-6. [DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 11/09/2022]
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- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center
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- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center
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- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center
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- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center
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- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center
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- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center
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- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center
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- Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Biological Science
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- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center
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Tada H, Toide H, Okaniwa H, Higuchi R, Nakajima T, Utsugi R, Hashimoto T, Miyaji K, Kaseno K, Tadokoro K, Naito S, Nogami A, Oshima S, Taniguchi K. Maximum ventricular dyssynchrony predicts clinical improvement and reverse remodeling during cardiac resynchronization therapy. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2007; 30 Suppl 1:S13-8. [PMID: 17302689 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00596.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Tissue synchronization imaging (TSI) and tissue tracking imaging (TTI) might facilitate the evaluation of ventricular dyssynchrony. METHODS In 22 patients, TSI and TTI were performed before and < 1 month after onset of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). With TSI guidance, maximum left ventricular (LV) intraventricular conduction delay (IVCDmax) was the greatest difference in time-to-peak velocity between septum and lateral wall. IVCD between the basal septum and lateral wall (IVCDbase) was also measured. Using TTI, the mean peak myocardial displacement of the basal septal and lateral walls (PMDbase), and the temporal coefficient of variation of the PMD in six LV regions (CV-PMDLV) were measured. The patients were divided into responders (whose LV end-systolic volume decreased by >/= 15% during a 27 +/- 9 months follow-up) and nonresponders. RESULTS Before CRT, IVCDbase was similar in both groups, and remained unchanged within the 1st month of CRT in both groups. However, before CRT, IVCDmax was greater in responders than in nonresponders (P < 0.05), and decreased only in the responders during CRT (P < 0.05). No significant difference was observed in PMDbase or CV-PMDLV between the two groups, before or during CRT. CONCLUSIONS TSI was useful to measure IVCDmax. A greater IVCDmax before CRT that decreased shortly after onset of CRT may predict long-term clinical improvement in CRT recipients.
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- Hiroshi Tada
- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.
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BACKGROUND There have been only a few reports on the renin-angiotensin system in low birthweight infants; in particular, plasma angiotensin II concentrations have not been studied. AIM To investigate plasma angiotensin II concentrations in early neonatal infants including low birthweight infants. METHODS Forty six patients were studied, of whom 14 weighed not less than 2500 g (normal birth weight), 16 weighed less than 2500 g but not less than 1500 g (moderately low birth weight), and 16 weighed less than 1500 g (very low birth weight). Blood samples were collected twice, on day 0 and day 7. Angiotensin II concentration was assayed using an enzyme immunoassay kit with a microplate. RESULTS Geometric means of angiotensin II concentrations on day 7 were 19 pg/ml in the normal birthweight group, 28 pg/ml in the moderately low birthweight group, and 76 pg/ml in the very low birthweight group. The concentrations on day 7 in the very low birthweight group were significantly higher than those in the normal birthweight and moderately low birthweight groups (p = 0.005, p = 0.031). There were significant correlations between angiotensin II concentration on day 7 and gestational age (r(s) = -0.4, p = 0.007) and birth weight (r(s) = -0.36, p = 0.016). CONCLUSIONS Specific physiological conditions associated with a very low birth weight are thought to be responsible for the increased concentration of angiotensin II on day 7. It is necessary to measure angiotensin II concentration for a longer period after birth and study the factors that could influence it.
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- M Miyawaki
- Wakayama Medical University, 811-1 Kimiidera, Wakayama City, Wakayama 641-8509, Japan.
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Kobayashi K, Ikeda H, Higuchi R, Nozaki M, Yamamoto Y, Urabe M, Shimazaki S, Sugamata A, Aikawa N, Ninomiya N, Sakurai H, Hamabe Y, Yahagi N, Nakazawa H. Epidemiological and outcome characteristics of major burns in Tokyo. Burns 2005; 31 Suppl 1:S3-S11. [PMID: 15649614 DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The Tokyo Burn Unit Association (TBUA) was established in 1983 funded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is organized by 13 burn units in Tokyo. TBUA covers more than 90% of severe burn patients occurring in Tokyo, and all of the cases are registered according to the burn injury registration format. The purpose of this study is to analyze the registered data and to elucidate epidemiological and outcome characteristics of major burn injuries in Tokyo. The total of 6988 hospitalized patients had data for epidemiological analysis, and 6401 patients had complete data for outcome analysis as well, and were included in this study. The characteristic profiles for the analysis included age, sex, cause of burns, inhalation injury, %BSA, burn index (BI), length of burn unit stay, and outcome, and were analyzed by age groups. The mean age of the patients was 40.4 years, and 63% of them were male. It was noteworthy that 25% of the total patients were elderly patients over 60 years of age. Flame was the most common cause making up 45.6% followed by scalding (32.0%). The overall mortality rate was 15.4%. Inhalation injury was accompanied in 27.3% of burn patients. The mortality rate was 34.6% with inhalation injury, and 8.2% without inhalation injury. Causes of death showed that multiple organ failure made up 36.9% of total mortality, followed by sepsis 25.2 and shock 19.0%. The burn size (%BSA and BI) and inhalation injury were the factors for high mortality rate in all age groups whereas age was a predictor for high mortality in the patients older than 16 years of age. Gender was not a factor for high mortality in any age group. The mortality rate showed mildly decreasing tendency since 1995 for which implementation of skin bank was thought to be responsible.
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- K Kobayashi
- The Tokyo Burn Unit Association, Department of Trauma and Critical Care Center, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8606, Japan.
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Tada H, Toide H, Naito S, Kurosaki K, Ito S, Miyaji K, Yamada M, Okaniwa H, Kobayashi Y, Maruyama H, Higuchi R, Nogami A, Oshima S, Taniguchi K. Tissue Doppler Imaging and Strain Doppler Imaging as Modalities for Predicting Clinical Improvement in Patients Receiving Biventricular Pacing. Circ J 2005; 69:194-200. [PMID: 15671612 DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the utility and efficacy of tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) and strain Doppler imaging (SDI) for evaluating ventricular synchrony and function, and for predicting the long-term clinical improvement in patients undergoing biventricular pacing (BVP). METHODS AND RESULTS TDI and SDI were performed before and <1 month after initiating BVP in 17 patients with advanced heart failure. An intraventricular conduction delay between the left ventricular (LV) septal and lateral walls was measured by TDI. The average LV strain (LV-strain) was calculated from data obtained at the center of 6 regions of the LV (base and mid-point between the basal and apical portions, and the mid-point between these 2 points on the septal and lateral walls). During a 23+/-7 month follow-up period, 12 patients improved clinically and did not require re-hospitalization for heart failure (responder group), but the remaining 5 did not improve (nonresponder group). Before BVP, the intraventricular conduction delay was greater in the responder group than in the nonresponder group (p<0.01), but after BVP, it did not differ between the 2 groups. LV-strain improved after BVP in the responder group but not in the nonresponder group (p<0.05). CONCLUSION A high intraventricular conduction delay before BVP and decreased strain shortly after BVP may predict long-term clinical improvement in patients undergoing this treatment.
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- Hiroshi Tada
- Division of Cardiology, Gunma Prefectural Cardiovascular Center, Maebashi, Japan.
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von Wurmb-Schwark N, Higuchi R, Fenech AP, Elfstroem C, Meissner C, Oehmichen M, Cortopassi GA. Quantification of human mitochondrial DNA in a real time PCR. Forensic Sci Int 2002; 126:34-9. [PMID: 11955829 DOI: 10.1016/s0379-0738(02)00026-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recently, a moderately priced machine for real-time quantitative PCR has become available, the Perkin Elmer 5700. The rapid and quantitative assay of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number is potentially useful in a variety of molecular, evolutionary and forensic fields. Using this new tool, we have evaluated the precision and reliability of the real time PCR to quantify undeleted mitochondrial genome copy number, and to determine the frequency of an age-associated deletion of 4977 base pairs in length, in 42 human iliopsoas muscle DNA samples from persons of known age. We have evaluated the accuracy with which age can be predicted, knowing only the frequency of this common 4977 bp deletion, and derived a statistical formula which describes the confidence with which the 4977 bp frequency predicts age. The results indicate that the mutation frequency could be used to distinguish between tissue from young and old individuals. However in this data set, while there was considerable agreement of 4977 bp frequency among replicates from the same individual sample, there was substantial diversity of mean mutation frequency between individuals of the same or similar ages. The simplest interpretation of these results is that there are biological modifiers of 4977 bp frequency that are age-independent, which are potentially interesting but may limit the usefulness of this deletion frequency alone as a "molecular forensic clock."
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- N von Wurmb-Schwark
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, 24105, Kiel, Germany
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Inagaki M, Shibai M, Isobe R, Higuchi R. Constituents of ophiuroidea. 1. Isolation and structure of three ganglioside molecular species from the brittle star Ophiocoma scolopendrina. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo) 2001; 49:1521-5. [PMID: 11767069 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.49.1521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Three ganglioside molecular species, OSG-0 (1), OSG-1 (2), and OSG-2 (3) have been obtained from the polar lipid fraction of the chloroform/methanol extract of the brittle star Ophiocoma scolopendrina. The structures of these gangliosides have been determined on the basis of chemical and spectroscopic evidence as 1-O-[(N-glycolyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-(2-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]-ceramide (1), 1-O-[8-O-sulfo-(N-acetyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-(2-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyll-ceramide (2) and 1-O-[(N-glycolyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-(2-->8)-(N-acetyl- and N-glycolyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-(2-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]-ceramide (3). The ceramide moieties were composed of heterogeneous unsubstituted fatty acid, 2-hydroxy fatty acid and phytosphingosine units. Compounds 2 and 3 represent new ganglioside molecular species.
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- M Inagaki
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Experimental murine genetic models of complex human disease show great potential for understanding human disease pathogenesis. To reduce the time required for analysis of such models from many months down to milliseconds, a computational method for predicting chromosomal regions regulating phenotypic traits and a murine database of single nucleotide polymorphisms were developed. After entry of phenotypic information obtained from inbred mouse strains, the phenotypic and genotypic information is analyzed in silico to predict the chromosomal regions regulating the phenotypic trait.
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- A Grupe
- Department of Genetics and Genomics, Roche Bioscience, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA
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Arao K, Inagaki M, Higuchi R. Constituents of crinoidea. 2. Isolation and structure of the novel type gangliosides from the feather star Comanthus japonica. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo) 2001; 49:695-8. [PMID: 11411518 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.49.695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Two novel type gangliosides CJP2 and CJP3 have been obtained from the feather star Comanthus japonica. On the basis of methylation linkage analysis combined with ammonolysis and other chemical and spectroscopic evidence, the chemical structures of CJP2 and CJP3 were determined to be alpha-9-O-Me-NeuGc-(2-->3)-inositolphosphoceramide and alpha-9-O-Me-NeuGc-(2-->11)-alpha-9-O-Me-NeuGc-(2-->3)-inositolphosphoceramide, respectively. These gangliosides are unique in that they are inositolphosphoceramide derivatives possessing sialic acid; such gangliosides have not previously been identified. The presence of 9-O-methyl-N-glycolyl-neuraminosyl residues is also unique in naturally occurring gangliosides.
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- K Arao
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Higuchi R, Kumagai T, Kobayashi M, Minami T, Koyama H, Ishii Y. Short-term hyperthyroidism followed by transient pituitary hypothyroidism in a very low birth weight infant born to a mother with uncontrolled Graves' disease. Pediatrics 2001; 107:E57. [PMID: 11335778 DOI: 10.1542/peds.107.4.e57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Transient hypothyroxinemia in infants born to mothers with poorly controlled Graves' disease was first reported in 1988. We report that short-term hyperthyroidism followed by hypothyroidism with low basal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels developed in a very low birth weight infant born at 27 weeks of gestation to a noncompliant mother with thyrotoxicosis attributable to Graves' disease. We performed serial thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) tests in this infant and demonstrated that TSH unresponsiveness to TRH disappeared at 6.5 months of age. The maternal thyroid function was free triiodothyronine (FT(3)), 21.1 pg/mL; free thyroxine (FT(4)), 8.1 ng/dL; TSH, <0.03 microU/mL; thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibody, 52% (normal: <15%); thyroid-stimulating antibody, 294% (normal: <180%); and thyroid-stimulation blocking antibody, 9% (normal: <25%) on the day of delivery. A nonstress test revealed fetal tachycardia >200 beats per minute, and a male infant weighing 1152 g was born by emergency cesarean section. Thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibody was 16% and thyroid-stimulating antibody was 370% in the cord blood. We administered 10 mg/kg per day of oral propylthiouracil from day 1. Tachycardia along with elevated FT(4) and FT(3) levels in the infant decreased from 200/minute to 170/minute, 4.7 ng/dL to 2.9 ng/dL, 7.0 pg/mL to 4.8 pg/mL, respectively, in the first 33 hours. At 5 days, FT(4) and FT(3) were 1.1 ng/dL and 2.9 pg/mL, respectively, and we stopped propylthiouracil administration. Although FT(4) decreased to 0.4 ng/dL, TSH was quite low and did not respond to intravenous TRH by 14 days of age. We began daily levothyroxine 5-micro/kg supplementation. The responsiveness of TSH to TRH did not become significant until 4 months old and normalized at 6.5 months old. At this time, levothyroxine was stopped. We conclude that placental transfer of thyroid hormones may cause hyperthyroidism in the fetal and early neonatal periods and lead to transient pituitary hypothyroidism in an infant born to a mother with uncontrolled Graves' disease.
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- R Higuchi
- Department of Perinatal Medicine, Wakayama Medical College, Wakayama City, 641-0012, Japan.
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Yamada K, Matsubara R, Kaneko M, Miyamoto T, Higuchi R. Constituents of holothuroidea. 10. Isolation and structure of a biologically active ganglioside molecular species from the sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo) 2001; 49:447-52. [PMID: 11310672 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.49.447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Three ganglioside molecular species, HLG-1 (1), HLG-2 (2), and HLG-3 (3) have been obtained from the lipid fraction of the chloroform/methanol extract of the sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota. The structures of these gangliosides have been determined, on the basis of chemical and spectroscopic evidence, as 1-O-[(N-glycolyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-(2-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]-ceramide (1), 1-O-[(N-glycolyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-(2-->4)-(N-acetyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-(2-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]-ceramide (2) and 1-O-[alpha-L-fucopyranosyl-(1-->11)-(N-glycolyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-neuraminosyl)-(2-->4)-(N-aetyl-alpha-D-neuraminosyl)-(2-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]-ceramide (3). The ceramide moieties were composed of heterogeneous phytosphingosine, sphingosine and 2-hydroxy fatty acid units. Compounds 2 and 3 represent new ganglioside molecular species. These three ganglioside molecular species showed neuritogenic activity toward the rat pheochromocytoma cell line, PC-12 cell, in the presence of NGF (nerve growth factor).
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- K Yamada
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Yamaguchi N, Togari H, Takase M, Hattori S, Yamanami S, Hasegawa H, Hoshino R, Tamura M, Mimura S, Suzuki S, Futamura M, Aotani H, Sumi K, Kusuda S, Ichiba H, Yong-Kye L, Uetani Y, Nakao H, Higuchi R. A prospective clinical study on inhaled nitric oxide therapy for neonates in Japan. Pediatr Int 2001; 43:20-5. [PMID: 11207994 DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200x.2001.01334.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND This is the first report about a prospective clinical investigation to study the efficacy and safety of nitric oxide (NO) inhalation in infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) in Japan. METHODS Patients in the present study had to meet the following entry criteria: (i) they had to be younger than 7 days of age; (ii) they had to have evidence of PPHN as defined by echocardiograph; (iii) they had to have severe systemic hypoxemia under mechanical ventilation at 100% oxygen supplementation; and (iv) they had to have a failure to respond to conventional therapies. Patients were excluded from this trial if they had any of the following: hypoplastic lung, structural cardiac lesions or severe multiple anomalies. RESULTS Nitric oxide inhalation therapy was performed in 68 infants who had severe PPHN at 18 hospitals between May 1995 and May 1997. At birth, 21 of 68 infants (31%) weighed less than 1,500 g and 39 infants weighed more than 2,500 g. The diagnoses associated with PPHN were as follows: 27 infants had meconium aspiration syndrome, 15 infants had dry lung syndrome, nine infants had congenital diaphragmatic hernia, six infants had respiratory distress syndrome, three infants had pneumonia and eight infants had other diagnoses. The mean oxygenation index (OI) before NO inhalation therapy in 68 infants was 43.2; 55 infants (81%) had good responses. CONCLUSIONS These results may be valuable for further randomized controlled and double-blind trials in Japan to evaluate whether NO inhalation therapy is more effective than conventional therapy in infants with severe PPHN.
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- N Yamaguchi
- Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan.
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Higuchi R, Yamaguchi Y, Shoji T, Wakasugi S, Takahashi H, Fujita R. A mediastinal hemangioma, associated with perirenal hemangioma and congenital anomaly of the inferior vena cava. Intern Med 2000; 39:1083-7. [PMID: 11197796 DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.1083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In a 40-year-old man, a mediastinal hemangioma was discovered intially as a compression of the esophagus by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Furthermore, perirenal hemangioma and inferior vena cava (IVC) malformation were stimultaneously found. Hemangiomas, which occur in the mediastinal and perirenal area, are extremely uncommon and congenital IVC malformation, like the present case, has not been reported. We review the literature of these vascular abnormalities.
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- R Higuchi
- Department of Gastroenterology, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa
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Baranzini SE, Elfstrom C, Chang SY, Butunoi C, Murray R, Higuchi R, Oksenberg JR. Transcriptional analysis of multiple sclerosis brain lesions reveals a complex pattern of cytokine expression. J Immunol 2000; 165:6576-82. [PMID: 11086101 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.11.6576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common and severe neurological disorder associated with an autoimmune response directed against myelin components within the CNS. Lymphocyte activation, extravasation, and recruitment, as well as effector function, involves the turning on and off of a number of genes, thus triggering specific transcriptional pathways. The characterization of the transcriptome in MS lesions should provide a better understanding of the mechanisms that generate and sustain the pathogenic immune response in this disease. Here we performed transcriptional profiling of 56 relevant genes in brain specimens from eight MS patients and eight normal controls by kinetic RT-PCR. Results showed a high transcriptional activity for the gene coding for myelin basic protein (MBP); however, it was not differentially expressed in MS samples, suggesting that remyelination is an active process also in the noninflammatory brain. CD4 and HLA-DRalpha transcripts were dramatically increased in MS as compared with controls. This reveals a robust MHC class II up-regulation and suggests that Ag is being presented locally to activated T cells. Although analysis of cytokine and cytokine receptor genes expression showed predominantly increased levels of several Th1 molecules (TGF-ss, RANTES, and macrophage-inflammatory protein (MIP)-1alpha) in MS samples, some Th2 genes (IL-3, IL-5, and IL-6/IL-6R) were found to be up-regulated as well. Similarly, both proinflammatory type (CCR1, CCR5) and immunomodulatory type (CCR4, CCR8) chemokine receptors were differentially expressed in the MS brain. Overall, our data suggest a complex regulation of the inflammatory response in human autoimmune demyelination.
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- S E Baranzini
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Aggarwal MM, Agnihotri A, Ahammed Z, Angelis AL, Antonenko V, Arefiev V, Astakhov V, Avdeitchikov V, Awes TC, Baba PV, Badyal SK, Barlag C, Bathe S, Batiounia B, Bernier T, Bhalla KB, Bhatia VS, Blume C, Bock R, Bohne EM, Böröcz Z, Bucher D, Buijs A, Büsching H, Carlen L, Chalyshev V, Chattopadhyay S, Cherbatchev R, Chujo T, Claussen A, Das AC, Decowski MP, Delagrange H, Djordjadze V, Donni P, Doubovik I, Dutt S, Dutta Majumdar MR, El Chenawi K, Eliseev S, Enosawa K, Foka P, Fokin S, Ganti MS, Garpman S, Gavrishchuk O, Geurts FJ, Ghosh TK, Glasow R, Gupta SK, Guskov B, Gustafsson HA, Gutbrod HH, Higuchi R, Hrivnacova I, Ippolitov M, Kalechofsky H, Kamermans R, Kampert KH, Karadjev K, Karpio K, Kato S, Kees S, Klein-Bösing C, Knoche S, Kolb BW, Kosarev I, Koutcheryaev I, Krümpel T, Kugler A, Kulinich P, Kurata M, Kurita K, Kuzmin N, Langbein I, Lebedev A, Lee YY, Löhner H, Luquin L, Mahapatra DP, Manko V, Martin M, Martínez G, Maximov A, Mgebrichvili G, Miake Y, Mir MF, Mishra GC, Miyamoto Y, Mohanty B, Mora MJ, Morrison D, Mukhopadhyay DS, Naef H, Nandi BK, Nayak SK, Nayak TK, Neumaier S, Nianine A, Nikitine V, Nikolaev S, Nilsson P, Nishimura S, Nomokonov P, Nystrand J, Obenshain FE, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Pachr M, Pavliouk S, Peitzmann T, Petracek V, Pinganaud W, Plasil F, von Poblotzki U, Purschke ML, Rak J, Raniwala R, Raniwala S, Ramamurthy VS, Rao NK, Retiere F, Reygers K, Roland G, Rosselet L, Roufanov I, Roy C, Rubio JM, Sako H, Sambyal SS, Santo R, Sato S, Schlagheck H, Schmidt HR, Schutz Y, Shabratova G, Shah TH, Sibiriak I, Siemiarczuk T, Silvermyr D, Sinha BC, Slavine N, Söderström K, Solomey N, Sørensen SP, Stankus P, Stefanek G, Steinberg P, Stenlund E, Stüken D, Sumbera M, Svensson T, Trivedi MD, Tsvetkov A, Tykarski L, Urbahn J, Pijll EC, Eijndhoven N, Nieuwenhuizen GJ, Vinogradov A, Viyogi YP, Vodopianov A, Vörös S, Wysłouch B, Yagi K, Yokota Y, Young GR. Three-pion interferometry results from central Pb+Pb collisions at 158A GeV/c. Phys Rev Lett 2000; 85:2895-2899. [PMID: 11005962 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.85.2895] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Three-particle correlations have been measured for identified pi(-) from central 158A GeV Pb+Pb collisions by the WA98 experiment at CERN. A substantial contribution of the genuine three-body correlation has been found as expected for a mainly chaotic and symmetric source.
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Watanabe F, Honda S, Kubota H, Higuchi R, Sugimoto K, Iwasaki H, Yoshino G, Kanamaru H, Hanai H, Yoshii S, Kaneko E. Preoperative diagnosis of ileal lipoma by endoscopic ultrasonography probe. J Clin Gastroenterol 2000; 31:245-7. [PMID: 11034008 DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200010000-00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The occurrence of tumor in the small intestine is relatively rare. It has been demonstrated that lipoma of the ileum is a cause of intussusception. We report a 59-year-old man admitted to our hospital for lower abdominal pain. Diagnosis of intussusception was made by abdominal x-ray and ultrasonography. Enema contrast studies revealed ileocolic intussusception. Colonoscopy revealed a tumor with an submucosal tumor (SMT)-like head and coil-spring appearance in the ascending colon. Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) revealed a hyperechoic submucosal lesion with features compatible with lipoma. Subsequently, this was confirmed histopathologically after resection. To our knowledge, this is the first report of preoperative diagnosis of ileal lipoma by EUS.
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- F Watanabe
- Department of Gastroenterology, Fujieda Municipal Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
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Kobayashi S, Maruta A, Yamamoto T, Katayama N, Higuchi R, Sakano Y, Fujita H, Koharazawa H, Tomita N, Taguchi J, Kodama F, Nakamura Y, Shimizu A. Human parvovirus B19 capsid antigen in granulocytes in parvovirus-B19-induced pancytopenia after bone marrow transplantation. Acta Haematol 2000; 100:195-9. [PMID: 9973642 DOI: 10.1159/000040903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A patient with refractory anemia with an excess of blasts in transformation developed pancytopenia and a concurrent interstitial pneumonia 110 days after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Bone marrow examination showed 0.4% giant proerythroblasts and 86.2% granulocytes, some of them large with a bizarre configuration and the others of normal size. Serum folate level was found low, 0.6 ng/ml. Immunocytochemistry with a B19-specific monoclonal antibody MAB8292 revealed B19 capsid antigen only in erythroblasts and large, bizarre granulocytes, but not in granulocytes of normal size. In situ hybridization of bone marrow cells using digoxigenin-labeled DNA probes detecting parvovirus B19 also demonstrated positive signals in 8.5% of marrow cells. Parvovirus B19 DNA was isolated from the serum and the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of this patient by the polymerase chain reaction. These findings suggest that neutropenia may be caused by an involvement with parvovirus B19 though a deficiency of folic acid may have in part contributed to the genesis of neutropenia in the patient. The relevance of parvovirus B19 to the interstitial pneumonia remains unclear.
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- S Kobayashi
- Division of Clinical Laboratory, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan
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Kang TH, Jeong SJ, Kim NY, Higuchi R, Kim YC. Sedative activity of two flavonol glycosides isolated from the flowers of Albizzia julibrissin Durazz. J Ethnopharmacol 2000; 71:321-323. [PMID: 10904180 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-8741(99)00202-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The flowers of Albizzia julibrissin are used as a sedative in oriental traditional medicine. The phytochemical study of this plant allowed the isolation of two flavonol glycosides, quercitrin (1) and isoquercitrin (2). The sedative activity of these compounds was evaluated, and both compounds 1 and 2 increased pentobarbital-induced sleeping time in dose-dependent manner in mice. These results support the use of the flowers of this plant as a sedative agent.
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- T H Kang
- College of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University, 570-749, Iksan, South Korea
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Jeong SJ, Miyamoto T, Inagaki M, Kim YC, Higuchi R. Rotundines A-C, three novel sesquiterpene alkaloids from Cyperus rotundus. J Nat Prod 2000; 63:673-675. [PMID: 10843585 DOI: 10.1021/np990588r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Rotundines A (1), B (2), and C (3), three novel sesquiterpene alkaloids with an unprecedented carbon skeleton, were isolated from the rhizomes of Cyperus rotundus. The structures of 1-3 were elucidated by spectral and chemical methods.
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- S J Jeong
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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Kang TH, Jeong SJ, Ko WG, Kim NY, Lee BH, Inagaki M, Miyamoto T, Higuchi R, Kim YC. Cytotoxic lavandulyl flavanones from Sophora flavescens. J Nat Prod 2000; 63:680-681. [PMID: 10843587 DOI: 10.1021/np990567x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Two new lavandulylated flavanones, (2S)-2'-methoxykurarinone (1) and (-)-kurarinone (2), were isolated from the root of Sophora flavescens, together with two known lavandulyl flavanones, sophoraflavanone G (3) and leachianone A (4), and two known isoflavonoids, formononetin and l-maakiain. The structures of 1 and 2 were determined on the basis of optical rotation and spectral evidence and by comparison with known compounds. Compounds 1-4 exhibited cytotoxic activity against human myeloid leukemia HL-60 cells.
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- T H Kang
- College of Pharmacy, Wonkwang University, Iksan, 570-749, Korea
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Higuchi R, Watanabe F, Horio Y, Kageoka M, Iwasaki H, Sugimoto K, Honda S, Koda K. [A case of nonfunctioning minute malignant pancreatic endocrine tumor, showing regional stenosis of the main pancreatic duct]. Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi 2000; 97:358-61. [PMID: 10741163] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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- R Higuchi
- Department of Gastroenterology, Fujieda Municipal General Hospital
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As the aqueous sphere has been proposed to be an important source medium for the virus infection of land animals, the glycolipids of some aquatic organisms were examined for human influenza A virus-binding activity. Active compounds were not found among the eight echinoderm gangliosides, but two active non-sialylated glycoglycerolipids were isolated from an aquatic bacterium, Corynebacterium aquaticum. The structural formula of one of them, H632A, was elucidated to be 1-14-methyl-hexadecanoyl-3-alpha-D-galactopyranosyl-(1-->3)-6-(12-met hyl-tetradecanoyl)-1-alpha-D-mannopyranosyl]-sn-glycerol. The latter together with reported one elsewhere, S365A, 1-14-methyl-hexadecanoyl-3-[alpha-D-mannopyranosyl-(1-->3)-6-(12-meth yl-tetradecanoyl)-1-alpha-D-mannopyranosyl]-sn-glycerol, apparently bound to three human influenza viruses, A/PR/8/34 (H1N1), A/Aichi/2/68 (H3N2), and A/Memphis/1/71 (H3N2), exhibiting 7-12% (H632A) and 10-22% (S365A) of the activities of the control substances (Neu5Acalpha2-3-paragloboside and Neu5Acalpha2-6- paragloboside). Additionally, these glycolipids were assumed to have virus-neutralizing activities for the following two reasons: (i) The hemagglutination and hemolysis activities of the viruses were inhibited by the glycolipid. (ii) The leakage of a cytosolic enzyme (lactate dehydrogenase) from Madin-Darby canine kidney cells on virus infection was prevented by the glycolipids to nearly the same extent as by fetuin. This is the first evidence of the binding- and neutralizing-abilities of native glycoglycerolipids as to influenza viruses.
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- K Nakata
- Central Research Laboratories, Mercian Corporation, Johnan, Fujisawa 251-0057, Japan.
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Germer S, Holland MJ, Higuchi R. High-throughput SNP allele-frequency determination in pooled DNA samples by kinetic PCR. Genome Res 2000; 10:258-66. [PMID: 10673283 PMCID: PMC310828 DOI: 10.1101/gr.10.2.258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 322] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/1999] [Accepted: 12/07/1999] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We have developed an accurate, yet inexpensive and high-throughput, method for determining the allele frequency of biallelic polymorphisms in pools of DNA samples. The assay combines kinetic (real-time quantitative) PCR with allele-specific amplification and requires no post-PCR processing. The relative amounts of each allele in a sample are quantified. This is performed by dividing equal aliquots of the pooled DNA between two separate PCR reactions, each of which contains a primer pair specific to one or the other allelic SNP variant. For pools with equal amounts of the two alleles, the two amplifications should reach a detectable level of fluorescence at the same cycle number. For pools that contain unequal ratios of the two alleles, the difference in cycle number between the two amplification reactions can be used to calculate the relative allele amounts. We demonstrate the accuracy and reliability of the assay on samples with known predetermined SNP allele frequencies from 5% to 95%, including pools of both human and mouse DNAs using eight different SNPs altogether. The accuracy of measuring known allele frequencies is very high, with the strength of correlation between measured and known frequencies having an r(2) = 0.997. The loss of sensitivity as a result of measurement error is typically minimal, compared with that due to sampling error alone, for population samples up to 1000. We believe that by providing a means for SNP genotyping up to thousands of samples simultaneously, inexpensively, and reproducibly, this method is a powerful strategy for detecting meaningful polymorphic differences in candidate gene association studies and genome-wide linkage disequilibrium scans.
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- S Germer
- Roche Molecular Systems, Alameda, California 94501 USA.
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