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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shingo Inaguma, Chengbo Wang, Sunao Ito, Akane Ueki, Jerzy Lasota, Piotr Czapiewski, Renata Langfort, Janusz Rys, Joanna Szpor, Piotr Waloszczyk, Krzysztof Okoń, Wojciech Biernat, Shuji Takiguchi, David S Schrump, Markku Miettinen, Satoru Takahashi
INTRODUCTION: Over the past decade, classifications using immune cell infiltration have been applied to many types of tumors; however, mesotheliomas have been less frequently evaluated. METHODS: In this study, 60 well-characterized pleural mesotheliomas (PMs) were evaluated immunohistochemically for the characteristics of immune cells within tumor microenvironment (TME) using 10 immunohistochemical markers CD3, CD4, CD8, CD56, CD68, CD163, FOXP3, CD27, PD-1 and TIM-3...
March 25, 2024: Pathobiology: Journal of Immunopathology, Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Satoru Tada, Yuta Kaito, Akihiro Watanabe, Yukio Sugiyama, Akira Nishigaichi, Takashi Miwa, Kotaro Watanabe, Takanori Hazama, Daisuke Takahashi
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV), known for causing chickenpox, establishes latent infections in neural tissues. Reactivation of VZV can lead to herpes zoster (HZ) and various neurological complications. In this report, we present four cases of VZV meningitis and myelitis following amenamevir treatment for HZ dermatitis with positive VZV DNA in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) revealed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Three of them were considered immunocompromised hosts given the fact that two of these patients were taking immunosuppressive drugs for rheumatoid arthritis, and one patient had a history of sigmoid colon cancer (four months after resection)...
February 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kazuki Miyazaki, Hiroshi Kanno, Sachiko Yamada, Yuuki Sagehashi, Shutaro Matsumoto, Satoru Takahashi, Yongson Kim, Keiko Namiki, Satoshi Fujii
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In December 2019, COVID-19 spread rapidly across the globe. Throughout the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 repeatedly mutated, transitioning from the alpha variant to the omicron variant. The severity and mortality of COVID-19 have been linked to age, sex, and the presence of underlying diseases (respiratory, cerebrovascular, cardiovascular, metabolic, and immune diseases, as well as cancer). The clinical features of patients infected with COVID-19 following a stroke, however, are fully unknown...
February 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manoj Kumar Yadav, Megumi Ishida, Natalia Gogoleva, Ching-Wei Liao, Filiani Natalia Salim, Maho Kanai, Akihiro Kuno, Takuto Hayashi, Zeynab Javanfekr Shahri, Kaushalya Kulathunga, Omar Samir, Wenxin Lyu, Olivia Olivia, Evaristus C Mbanefo, Satoru Takahashi, Michito Hamada
Transcription factor MAFB regulates various homeostatic functions of macrophages. This study explores the role of MAFB in brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis using macrophage-specific Mafb-deficient (Mafbf/f ::LysM-Cre) mice. We find that Mafb deficiency in macrophages reduces thermogenesis, energy expenditure, and sympathetic neuron (SN) density in BAT under cold conditions. This phenotype features a proinflammatory environment that is characterized by macrophage/granulocyte accumulation, increases in interleukin-6 (IL-6) production, and IL-6 trans-signaling, which lead to decreases in nerve growth factor (NGF) expression and reduction in SN density in BAT...
March 22, 2024: Cell Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuto Takahashi, Satoru Ito, Jungfeng Wang, Jeonghyun Kim, Takeo Matsumoto, Eijiro Maeda
Pulmonary alveoli are functional units in gas exchange in the lung, and their dysfunctions in lung diseases such as interstitial pneumonia are accompanied by fibrotic changes in structure, elevating the stiffness of extracellular matrix components. The present study aimed to test the hypothesis that such changes in alveoli stiffness induce functional alteration of epithelial cell functions, exacerbating lung diseases. For this, we have developed a novel method of culturing alveolar epithelial cells on polyacrylamide gel with different elastic modulus at an air-liquid interface...
March 15, 2024: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hisashi Akiyama, Ryo Okubo, Atsuhito Toyomaki, Akane Miyazaki, Sachiko Hattori, Mariko Nohara, Yohei Sasaki, Ryotaro Kubota, Hiroki Okano, Kanami Takahashi, Yumi Hasegawa, Izumi Wada, Takashi Uchino, Kazuyoshi Takeda, Satoru Ikezawa, Takahiro Nemoto, Yoichi M Ito, Naoki Hashimoto
AIM: Patients with schizophrenia can have significant subjective difficulties in social cognition, but few undergo testing or treatment for social cognition. The Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation (SCOPE) study recommends six social cognitive measures; however, the reliability and validity of these measures in different cultural and linguistic areas has not been adequately examined. We examined the psychometric properties of nine social cognitive measures and the relationship to social function, with the aim of determining the level of recommendation for social cognitive measures in clinical practice in Japan...
March 11, 2024: Asian Journal of Psychiatry
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REVIEW
Hiroyuki Hisada, Yosuke Tsuji, Hikaru Kuribara, Ryohei Miyata, Kaori Oshio, Satoru Mizutani, Hideki Nakagawa, Rina Cho, Nobuyuki Sakuma, Yuko Miura, Hiroya Mizutani, Daisuke Ohki, Seiichi Yakabi, Yu Takahashi, Yoshiki Sakaguchi, Naomi Kakushima, Nobutake Yamamichi, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro
With increasing global life expectancy, the significance of geriatric assessment parameters has increased. Sarcopenia is a crucial assessment parameter and is defined as the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength. Sarcopenia is widely acknowledged as a risk factor for postoperative complications in diverse advanced malignancies and has a detrimental effect on the long-term prognosis. While most studies have primarily concentrated on the correlation between sarcopenia and advanced cancer, more recent investigations have focused on the relationship between sarcopenia and early-stage cancer...
March 22, 2024: Clinical Endoscopy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Takahiko Mitsui, Noritoshi Sekido, Naoya Masumori, Nobuhiro Haga, Kenji Omae, Motoaki Saito, Yasue Kubota, Ryuji Sakakibara, Mikako Yoshida, Satoru Takahashi
OBJECTIVES: A large-scale nationwide epidemiological survey of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) was conducted via the Internet in 2023 to clarify the current prevalence of LUTS and evaluate its impact on daily life in Japan. METHODS: The survey was conducted among individuals aged 20-99 years old who had anonymously registered with a Japanese online research company. The survey consisted of 48 questions related to LUTS and daily life. RESULTS: A total of 6210 participants (3088 females and 3122 males), who were selected by probability sampling based on the composition of the Japanese population (age range: 20-99), were recruited...
March 21, 2024: International Journal of Urology: Official Journal of the Japanese Urological Association
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Landscape of driver mutations and their clinical effects on Down syndrome-related myeloid neoplasms.
Tomohiko Sato, Kenichi Yoshida, Tsutomu Toki, Rika Kanezaki, Kiminori Terui, Ryunosuke Saiki, Masami Ojima, Yotaro Ochi, Seiya Mizuno, Masaharu Yoshihara, Tamayo Uechi, Naoya Kenmochi, Shiro Tanaka, Jun Matsubayashi, Kenta Kisai, Ko Kudo, Kentaro Yuzawa, Yuka Takahashi, Tatsuhiko Tanaka, Yohei Yamamoto, Akie Kobayashi, Takuya Kamio, Shinya Sasaki, Yuichi Shiraishi, Kenichi Chiba, Hiroko Tanaka, Hideki Muramatsu, Asahito Hama, Daisuke Hasegawa, Atsushi Sato, Katsuyoshi Koh, Shuhei Karakawa, Masao Kobayashi, Junichi Hara, Yuichi Taneyama, Chihaya Imai, Daiichiro Hasegawa, Naoto Fujita, Masahiro Yoshitomi, Shotaro Iwamoto, Genki Yamato, Satoshi Saida, Nobutaka Kiyokawa, Takao Deguchi, Masafumi Ito, Hidemasa Matsuo, Souichi Adachi, Yasuhide Hayashi, Takashi Taga, Akiko Moriya Saito, Keizo Horibe, Kenichiro Watanabe, Daisuke Tomizawa, Satoru Miyano, Satoru Takahashi, Seishi Ogawa, Etsuro Ito
Transient abnormal myelopoiesis (TAM) is a common complication in newborns with Down syndrome (DS). It commonly progresses to myeloid leukemia (ML-DS) after spontaneous regression. In contrast to the favorable prognosis of primary ML-DS, patients with refractory/relapsed ML-DS have poor outcomes. However, the molecular basis for refractoriness and relapse, and the full spectrum of driver mutations in ML-DS remain largely unknown. We conducted a genomic profiling study of 143 TAM, 204 ML-DS, and 34 non-DS acute megakaryoblastic leukemia cases, including 39 ML-DS cases analyzed by exome sequencing...
March 21, 2024: Blood
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xiangduo Kong, Nam Viet Nguyen, Yumeng Li, Jasmine Shaaban Sakr, Kate Williams, Sheila Sharifi, Jonathan Chau, Altay Bayrakci, Seiya Mizuno, Satoru Takahashi, Tohru Kiyono, Rabi Tawil, Ali Mortazavi, Kyoko Yokomori
Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is linked to contraction of D4Z4 repeats on chromosome 4q with SMCHD1 mutations acting as a disease modifier. D4Z4 heterochromatin disruption and abnormal upregulation of the transcription factor DUX4, encoded in the D4Z4 repeat, are the hallmarks of FSHD. However, defining the precise effect of D4Z4 contraction has been difficult because D4Z4 repeats are primate-specific and DUX4 expression is very rare in highly heterogeneous patient myocytes. We generated isogenic mutant cell lines harboring D4Z4 and/or SMCHD1 mutations in a healthy human skeletal myoblast line...
April 19, 2024: IScience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xue Zhang, Kenichi Nakajima, Atsushi Mizokami, Hiroyuki Horikoshi, Koshiro Nishimoto, Katsuyoshi Hashine, Hideyasu Matsuyama, Satoru Takahashi, Hiroshi Wakabayashi, Seigo Kinuya
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the prognostic value of the flare phenomenon in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) using the bone scan index (BSI) derived from 99m Tc-methylenediphosphonate (MDP) bone scintigraphy images. METHODS: We categorized 72 patients from the PROSTAT-BSI registry with mCRPC who were followed-up for 2 years after starting docetaxel chemotherapy to groups based on pre-chemotherapy BSI values of < 1, 1-4, and > 4...
March 13, 2024: Annals of Nuclear Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tetsuya Ohira, Masanori Nagao, Fumikazu Hayashi, Hiroki Shimura, Satoru Suzuki, Seiji Yasumura, Hideto Takahashi, Satoshi Suzuki, Manabu Iwadate, Mitsuaki Hosoya, Akira Sakai, Tetsuo Ishikawa, Fumihiko Furuya, Shinichi Suzuki, Susumu Yokoya, Hitoshi Ohto, Kenji Kamiya
CONTEXT: Examining how overweight/obesity impacts thyroid nodule development in children and adolescents by sex and age can speculate on the mechanism. OBJECTIVE: We examined whether overweight in children and adolescents are associated with thyroid nodule development by sex and age. DESIGN: Approximately 300,000 participants who underwent thyroid ultrasonography in the Fukushima Health Management Survey after a nuclear accident were enrolled...
March 13, 2024: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Masayuki Komura, Chengbo Wang, Sunao Ito, Shunsuke Kato, Akane Ueki, Masahide Ebi, Naotaka Ogasawara, Toyonori Tsuzuki, Kenji Kasai, Kunio Kasugai, Shuji Takiguchi, Satoru Takahashi, Shingo Inaguma
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common gastrointestinal cancers worldwide, with high morbidity and mortality rates. The evidence for the tumor-supporting capacities of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) that modulate cancer cell proliferation, invasion, metastasis, and tumor immunity, including in CRC, has been attracting attention. The present study examined the expression status of CD70 and POSTN in CRC and analyzed their association with clinicopathological features and clinical outcomes. In the present study, in total 15% (40/269) and 44% (119/269) of cases exhibited CD70 and POSTN expression on CAFs, respectively...
February 22, 2024: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kenji Masuda, Michi Kubota, Yuto Nakazawa, Chigusa Iwama, Kazuhiko Watanabe, Naoto Ishikawa, Yumiko Tanabe, Satoru Kono, Hiroki Tanemura, Shinichi Takahashi, Tomohiro Makino, Takeshi Okumura, Takayuki Horiuchi, Koichi Nonaka, Sei Murakami, Masamichi Kamihira, Takeshi Omasa
Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are widely used as a host for producing recombinant therapeutic proteins due to advantages such as human-like post-translational modification, correct protein folding, higher productivity, and a proven track record in biopharmaceutical development. Much effort has been made to improve the process of recombinant protein production, in terms of its yield and productivity, using conventional CHO cell lines. However, to the best of our knowledge, no attempts have been made to acquire new CHO cell lines from Chinese hamster ovary...
March 11, 2024: Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Atsuko Hata, Waki Imoto, Shigeki Kakuno, Wataru Shibata, Koichi Yamada, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Norihiro Sakurai, Toshikazu Ito, Kazuya Uenoyama, Tamotsu Takahashi, Satoru Ueda, Toshiro Katayama, Masahide Onoue, Hiroshi Kakeya
Factors involved in the susceptibility of third-generation cephalosporins (3GCs) to bacteremia caused by Citrobacter freundii complex, Enterobacter cloacae complex, and Klebsiella aerogenes were investigated based on a case-case-control design. Antimicrobial therapy administered 30 days prior to bacteremia and hospitalization within 90 days were common risk factors for the 3GC susceptible and 3GC non-susceptible groups, while hospitalization from an institution or another hospital was a specific risk factor for the 3GC non-susceptible group...
March 7, 2024: Journal of Chemotherapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ayumu Suzuki, Kousuke Uranishi, Masazumi Nishimoto, Yosuke Mizuno, Seiya Mizuno, Satoru Takahashi, Robert N Eisenman, Akihiko Okuda
Meiosis is a specialized type of cell division that occurs physiologically only in germ cells. We previously demonstrated that MYC-associated factor X (MAX) blocks the ectopic onset of meiosis in embryonic and germline stem cells in culture systems. Here, we investigated the Max gene's role in mouse primordial germ cells. Although Max is generally ubiquitously expressed, we revealed that sexually undifferentiated male and female germ cells had abundant MAX protein because of their higher Max gene expression than somatic cells...
March 4, 2024: Scientific Reports
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REVIEW
Rio Uehara, Daisuke Obinata, Sho Hashimoto, Ken Nakahara, Hideaki Uchida, Tsuyoshi Yoshizawa, Junichi Mochida, Kenya Yamaguchi, Masakuni Sakaguchi, Yoshinari Ozawa, Fumi Mori, Katsuhiro Miura, Toshiyuki Ishige, Shinobu Masuda, Tomohiro Nakayama, Satoru Takahashi
BACKGROUND: A new subtype of prostate cancer called treatment-related neuroendocrine prostate carcinoma (t-NEPC) was added to the revised World Health Organization classification of prostate cancer in 2022. t-NEPC cases are increasing, and there is no established standard treatment. METHODS: A 49-year-old male patient was referred to our department for dysuria. A rectal examination and a prostate biopsy revealed stony hardness and prostate adenocarcinoma, respectively...
March 1, 2024: Medicine (Baltimore)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Takuya Takayama, Satoru Inoda, Hidenori Takahashi, Rika Tsukii, Hana Yoshida, Yuka Kasuya, Kosuke Nagaoka, Ryota Takahashi, Yusuke Arai, Hidetoshi Kawashima
BACKGROUND: This study reports the first cases of scleritis following intravitreal brolucizumab (IVBr) injection for nAMD, emphasizing the need to be aware of the possibility of scleritis following IVBr injections. CASE PRESENTATION: Case 1. A 74-year-old Japanese man with nAMD complained of conjunctivitis and decreased vision in the right eye 8 days after his eighth IVBr injection. Examination revealed scleritis without anterior inflammation. Topical 0.1% betamethasone and 0...
February 29, 2024: Journal of Medical Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Akiko Hashiguchi, Makoto Asashima, Satoru Takahashi
BACKGROUND: Documenting the grant acquisition characteristics of a highly selective group of researchers could provide insights into the research and faculty development of talented individuals, and the insights gained to foster such researchers will help university management strengthen their research capacity. OBJECTIVE: This study examines the role of human connections in the success of biomedical researchers in Japanese universities. METHODS: This study used grant data from the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (GIA) program, the largest competitive research funding program in Japan, to collect information on projects and their implementation systems obtained throughout the participants' careers...
February 28, 2024: JMIR Formative Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mai Yamazaki, Haruna Kawano, Miho Miyoshi, Tomoki Kimura, Keiji Takahashi, Satoru Muto, Shigeo Horie
Tolvaptan, an oral vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist, reduces renal volume expansion and loss of renal function in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Data for predictive factors indicating patients more likely to benefit from long-term tolvaptan are lacking. Data were retrospectively collected from 55 patients on tolvaptan for 6 years. Changes in renal function, progression of renal dysfunction (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR], 1-year change in eGFR [ΔeGFR/year]), and renal volume (total kidney volume [TKV], percentage 1-year change in TKV [ΔTKV%/year]) were evaluated at 3-years pre-tolvaptan, at baseline, and at 6 years...
February 8, 2024: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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