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Takatani-Nakase T, Katayama M, Matsui C, Hanaoka K, van der Vlies AJ, Takahashi K, Nakase I, Hasegawa U. Hydrogen sulfide donor micelles protect cardiomyocytes from ischemic cell death. Mol Biosyst 2018; 13:1705-1708. [PMID: 28681875 DOI: 10.1039/c7mb00191f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Hydrogen sulfide, an important gaseous signaling molecule in the human body, is known to protect cardiomyocytes from ischemia, a condition characterized by insufficient oxygen supply to the cells. Here we show that a nanosized H2S donor micelle releases H2S intracellularly and prevents cardiomyocyte apoptosis in an in vitro ischemia model.
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- T Takatani-Nakase
- School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mukogawa Women's University, 11-68, Koshien Kyuban-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8179, Japan.
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Yamamoto N, Sakai C, Sakai C, Bessyo K, Matsui C, Ishida H, Sakamoto R, Yanagi H, Wada T. Joints angle, moment and muscle activity during Nordic Walking compared to walking. J Sci Med Sport 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2012.11.024] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Sekine K, Takebe T, Enomura M, Matsui C, Tanaka H, Taniguchi H. Regenerative Medicine Approach as an Alternative Treatment to Islet Transplantation. Transplant Proc 2012; 44:1104-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2012.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Endo M, Zoltick PW, Radu A, Qiujie J, Matsui C, Marinkovich PM, McGrath J, Tamai K, Uitto J, Flake AW. Early intra-amniotic gene transfer using lentiviral vector improves skin blistering phenotype in a murine model of Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa. Gene Ther 2012; 19:561-9. [PMID: 21938019 PMCID: PMC6541916 DOI: 10.1038/gt.2011.135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2011] [Revised: 08/02/2011] [Accepted: 08/08/2011] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Mutations of the LAMB3 gene cause a lethal form of junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB). We hypothesized that early intra-amniotic gene transfer in a severe murine model of JEB would improve or correct the skin phenotype. Time-dated fetuses from heterozygous LAMB3(IAP) breeding pairs underwent ultrasound guided intra-amniotic injection of lentiviral vector encoding the murine LAMB3 gene at embryonic day 8 (E8). Gene expression was monitored by immunohistochemistry. The transgenic laminin-β3 chain was shown to assemble with its endogenous partner chains, resulting in detectable amounts of laminin-332 in the basement membrane zone of skin and mucosa. Ultrastructually, the restoration of ∼60% of hemidesmosomal structures was also noted. Although we could correct the skin phenotype in 11.9% of homozygous LAMB3(IAP) mice, none survived beyond 48 h. However, skin transplants from treated E18 homozygous LAMB3(IAP) fetuses maintained normal appearance for 6 months with persistence of normal assembly of laminin-332. These results demonstrate for the first time long-term phenotypic correction of the skin pathology in a severe model of JEB by in vivo prenatal gene transfer. Although survival remained limited due to the limitations of this mouse model, this study supports the potential for treatment of JEB by prenatal gene transfer.
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- M Endo
- Department of Surgery, The Children’s Center for Fetal Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Abramson Research Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, The Children’s Center for Fetal Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Abramson Research Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, The Children’s Center for Fetal Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Abramson Research Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- Department of Medical Dermatology, Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Genetic Skin Disease Group, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, The Guy’s, King’s College, and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, London, UK
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- Division of Gene Therapy Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, The Children’s Center for Fetal Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Abramson Research Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Endo M, Zoltick PW, Radu A, Jiang Q, Matsui C, Marinkovich PM, McGrath J, Tamai K, Uitto J, Flake AW. Erratum: Early intra-amniotic gene transfer using lentiviral vector improves skin blistering phenotype in a murine model of Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa. Gene Ther 2011. [DOI: 10.1038/gt.2011.174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Albertsson AC, Donaruma LG, Salamone A, Matsui C, Konishi H, Wada K, Yoshida S, Vogl O. Functional Polymers. XXI. Activity of Low Molecular Weight and Polymeric Salicylic Acid Derivatives. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/00222338408065907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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: 10/23/2022]
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Matsushima H, Utani A, Endo H, Matsuura H, Kakuta M, Nakamura Y, Matsuyoshi N, Matsui C, Nakanishi H, Takai Y, Shinkai H. The expression of nectin-1alpha in normal human skin and various skin tumours. Br J Dermatol 2003; 148:755-62. [PMID: 12752135 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2003.05225.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND A novel cell-cell adhesion system that consists of nectin and afadin has been identified at cadherin-based cell-cell adherens junctions. Nectin is a Ca2+-independent homophilic and heterophilic cell adhesion molecule that belongs to the immunoglobulin superfamily. Nectin has recently been shown to serve as an alpha-herpesvirus entry and cell-cell spread mediator. In spite of the ubiquitous expression of nectin-1alpha, its detailed localization in human skin has not been examined so far. OBJECTIVES To investigate the localization of nectin-1alpha in normal human skin and the alteration of its expression in malignant skin tumours. METHODS Immunohistochemistry was employed to determine the expression of nectin-1alpha and other adhesion molecules. RESULTS We detected nectin-1alpha in normal human epidermis, follicles and eccrine ducts. Nectin-1alpha was colocalized with E-cadherin at cell-cell adherens junctions of the epidermis. The concentration of the nectin-afadin system at cell-cell adherens junctions was reduced in the early stage of malignant transformation of keratinocytes, such as in basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas, where the cadherin-catenin system was preserved. Nectin-1alpha at cell-cell adherens junctions was reduced in human epithelial cancer cells located at the advancing border of the tumour. CONCLUSIONS Our results showed that nectin-1alpha is located at cell-cell adherens junctions in human skin and that reduction of nectin-1alpha at cell-cell adherens junctions may be involved in the invasion of squamous cell tumours.
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- H Matsushima
- Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana-cho, Chuou-ku, Chiba 260-8677, Japan
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Kagoura M, Toyoda M, Matsui C, Higaki S, Morohashi M. An ultrastructural study of pigmented purpuric dermatitis with special reference to fibrous long-spacing collagen. Med Electron Microsc 2002; 33:39-43. [PMID: 11810456 DOI: 10.1007/s007950000006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2000] [Accepted: 05/24/2000] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A case of pigmented purpuric dermatitis (PPD) in a Japanese man aged 59 years is reported with an interesting ultrastructural finding. Clinically, the lesions, which consisted of telangiectatic puncta and pigmentation, were irregular in shape and occurred predominantly on the lower legs without pruritus. Histologically, lymphocytic perivascular infiltrates and extravasation of red blood cells were observed in the papillary dermis. Ultrastructurally, endothelial cells with ovoid nuclei showed swelling and the lumen of the capillary became narrowed. Several banded structures, so-called fibrous long-spacing collagen (FLSC), were observed in the cytoplasm. They were spindle shaped, about 5 microm in length, and showed crossbands of 300-nm-wide intervals with fine intraperiodic bands. These structures were not observed in dermal connective tissue and fibroblasts. These results suggested that FLSC was synthesized in endothelial cells rather than being phagocytosed by endothelial cells, which might be helpful in investigating the etiology of PPD.
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- M Kagoura
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.
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Onuma H, Matsui C, Inoue K, Uezato H, Nonaka S, Hashiguchi Y, Morohashi M. A case of mucosal leishmaniasis: beneficial usage of polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis. Int J Dermatol 2001; 40:765-7. [PMID: 11903673 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.2001.01332.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- H Onuma
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama-shi, Toyama-ken, Japan
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BACKGROUND Nitric oxide (NO) is synthesized from the amino acid L-arginine by NO synthase (NOS). Experimental evidence suggests that increased express of inducible NOS (iNOS), which is an NOS isoform and calcium independent, is related to various pathological processes, such as inflammation and cancer. METHODS In this study, we used immunohistochemistry to investigate iNOS expression in a series of basal cell carcinomas (BCC), Bowen's disease, squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), extramammary Paget's disease (EPD) and metastatic tumors of the skin. RESULTS Only 1 of 16 BCC cases was positive for iNOS and the intensity of staining was weak. In most of the 10 cases of Bowen's disease, iNOS was weakly expressed and there was a wide range in the percentage of positive tumor cells. Twelve of the 16 cases of SCC were positive for iNOS and the extent of positivity was greater than in Bowen's disease. Two of the 7 cases of EPD were positive for iNOS, and 12 of the 15 cases of metastatic cancer were positive. Well-differentiated adenocarcinomas were diffusely positive, whereas poorly-differentiated ones showed strong and heterogeneous staining. CONCLUSIONS These results indicated that the expression of iNOS may reflect the proliferation of tumor cells and that a heterogeneous distribution of iNOS may correlate with a wide variety of biological behavior of tumor cells.
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- M Kagoura
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan.
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BACKGROUND Cyclooxygenase (COX), also known as prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase, catalyses the conversion of arachidonic acid to prostanoids. There are two different isoforms of COX, referred to as COX-1 and COX-2. Overexpression of COX-2 has been demonstrated in various neoplasms, such as experimentally promoted tumors, gastrointestinal cancers and breast tumors. METHODS In this study, we used immunohistochemistry to investigate COX-2 expression in a series of basal cell epitheliomas (BCE), Bowen's disease, squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) and metastatic tumors of the skin. RESULTS Four of 16 BCE showed a positive reaction for COX-2 and the adenoid type of BCE was the most strongly positive. In Bowen's disease, the extent of positive staining for COX-2 was even higher than that in BCE. Eleven of 15 SCC showed a positive reaction for COX-2 and the pattern of staining was heterogeneous with more intense staining in the center of the tumor nests. In metastatic tumors, the percentage of COX-2-positive tumor cells and the intensity of their staining was low compared with Bowen's disease and SCC. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that the intensity of COX-2 staining and its heterogeneous distribution are related to the degree of cellular differentiation and the various phenotypes of tumor cells, but the extent of COX-2 staining did not correlate with the degree of malignancy.
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- M Kagoura
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan.
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Kagoura M, Toyoda M, Matsui C, Higaki S, Morohashi M. An ultrastructural study of lipodystrophia centrifugalis abdominalis infantilis, with special reference to fibrous long-spacing collagen. Pediatr Dermatol 2001; 18:13-6. [PMID: 11207963 DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1470.2001.018001013.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Lipodystrophia centrifugalis abdominalis infantilis (LCAI) in a 2.5-year-old Japanese girl is reported. Clinically she had a curved cutaneous depression with a slightly elevated erythematous border on the left abdomen beyond the left groin. The regional lymph node was palpable. Histologic examination showed a decrease of the fat, an inflammatory infiltrate mainly composed of lymphocytes, and septal fibrosis in the subcutaneous tissue. Immunohistochemical analysis found that infiltrating lymphocytes were mainly positive against CD4. Ultrastructurally nuclei in the adipocytes were crescent shaped and located toward the periphery of the cell. Some banded structures with a periodicity of 150 nm, and with intraperiodic bands, referred to as fibrous long-spacing collagen (FLSC), were observed in the septal area of the fatty tissue. These results indicated that FLSC was correlated with the breakdown of fibrillar collagens in LCAI.
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- M Kagoura
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan.
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BACKGROUND Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) plays an important role in the biosynthesis of polyamines. Induction of ODC and polyamine synthesis has been demonstrated in neoplastic tumors and is thought to be related to the degree of malignancy. METHODS In this study, we investigated a series of basal cell epitheliomas (BCE), Bowen's disease, squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), and metastatic tumors of the skin using an antibody against ODC for immunohistochemistry. RESULTS Eight of 12 cases of BCE failed to show a positive reaction for ODC. In Bowen's disease, 5 of 13 cases diffusely showed positive reaction for ODC. Fourteen of 15 cases of SCC showed ODC expression, the intensity of which was decreased in the peripheral layer. At higher magnification, the distribution of ODC in the positive SCC cases showed granular and heterogenous patterns. Ten of 14 cases of metastatic skin tumors exhibited positive reactions, and well-differentiated adenocarcinomas tended to show more strongly positive than poorly-differentiated ones. CONCLUSIONS These results support the conclusion that the intensity and the incidence of positive immunohistochemical staining for ODC correlate with the degree of cellular differentiation, and furthermore, that heterogenous distribution of ODC staining may be associated with heterogeneity of tumor cells.
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- M Kagoura
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sugitani, Japan.
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Uchiyama K, Yamamoto Y, Taniuchi K, Matsui C, Fushida Y, Shirao Y. Remission of antiepiligrin (laminin-5) cicatricial pemphigoid after excision of gastric carcinoma. Cornea 2000; 19:564-6. [PMID: 10928780 DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200007000-00033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [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: 12/13/2022]
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PURPOSE To describe a case of antiepiligrin cicatricial pemphigoid with unusual ocular manifestations and its remission after surgical removal of gastric carcinoma. METHODS We describe a 61-year-old Japanese man with antiepiligrin cicatricial pemphigoid. RESULTS He presented with conjunctival injection and discharge preceded by a 6-month period of erosive lesions in the oral mucosa and the truncal skin. An advanced gastric carcinoma was found and his serum immunoprecipitated laminin-5. Despite topical treatment with betamethasone, ofloxacin, and artificial tear solutions, serious symblepharon along the Meibomian line developed with little shortening of the inferior conjunctival sac. Following radical gastrectomy, the ocular and cutaneous lesions turned completely quiet. CONCLUSION The present case differed from past cases by lacking inferior conjunctival sac shortening and by showing erosive lesions solely at the mucocutaneous junctions. The ocular involvement in this case correlated very well with the severity of gastric carcinoma.
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- K Uchiyama
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Ishikawa, Japan
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Masunaga T, Shimizu H, Matsui C, Aozaki R, Morohashi M, Yasumoto S, Nishikawa T. LAMB3 gene transfection into SV40-transformed keratinocytes from patient with Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa. Arch Dermatol Res 2000; 292:195-7. [PMID: 10836613 DOI: 10.1007/s004030050477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- T Masunaga
- Department of Dermatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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Onuma H, Matsui C, Morokashi M. Enhanced expression of SCF in the dermis is a prognostic factor for the regression of urticaria pigmentosa. Eur J Dermatol 1999; 9:629-32. [PMID: 10586131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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Urticaria pigmentosa (UP) is a disorder of mast cell proliferation that occurs in cutaneous tissue. Most patients whose skin manifestations appear in infancy or childhood, experience a resolution of the disease by adolescence. In order to elucidate the relationship between mast cell character and UP prognosis, we used an immunohistochemical approach to examine the expression of stem cell factor (SCF) and c-Kit in the skin of patients with UP. The results revealed intercellular SCF expression throughout the dermis in improving cases. On the other hand, in cases with a tendency to worsen, dermal SCF was recognized only partially or not at all. Regardless of the clinical course, intracellular SCF immunoreactivity of the entire epidermis increased in cases of child onset UP. The c-Kit expression of mast cells in all UP patients showed no relation to clinical features. These findings suggest that SCF in the dermis promotes the differentiation of mast cells infiltrating in UP, and might be an attractive candidate to induce the remission of UP.
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- H Onuma
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama-shi, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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Toyoda M, Luo Y, Makino T, Matsui C, Morohashi M. Calcitonin gene-related peptide upregulates melanogenesis and enhances melanocyte dendricity via induction of keratinocyte-derived melanotrophic factors. J Investig Dermatol Symp Proc 1999; 4:116-25. [PMID: 10536985 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jidsp.5640194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [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: 04/13/2023]
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It has recently been shown that cutaneous axon terminals and epidermal melanocytes make contact via chemical synapses in human skin and that calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) induces melanocyte proliferation. To further clarify the effect of neuropeptides on the biology and morphology of melanocytes, especially with respect to melanogenesis and melanocyte dendricity, organ cultures of normal human skin and cultured melanocytes were exposed to various neuropeptides present in intraepidermal nerve endings. Of the neuropeptides examined, skin exposed to CGRP in organ culture showed increases in melanocyte number, epidermal melanin content, melanosome number, and degree of melanization. CGRP alone had no significant effect on melanogenesis of cultured melanocytes, whereas the addition of medium conditioned by CGRP-stimulated keratinocytes (CGRP-KCM) induced melanogenesis as indicated by biochemical assays of tyrosinase activity and melanin content. Furthermore, CGRP-KCM significantly enhanced melanocyte dendricity, a crucial factor affecting epidermal pigmentation. These findings suggest that keratinocytes produce and secrete some melanotrophic factors following stimulation with CGRP, which modulate growth, melanin synthesis, and dendricity of melanocytes. These data demonstrate intimate interactions between the cutaneous nervous system and melanocytes within the epidermal environment.
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- M Toyoda
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
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Taniuchi K, Takata M, Matsui C, Fushida Y, Uchiyama K, Mori T, Kawara S, Yancey KB, Takehara K. Antiepiligrin (laminin 5) cicatricial pemphigoid associated with an underlying gastric carcinoma producing laminin 5. Br J Dermatol 1999; 140:696-700. [PMID: 10233324 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1999.02773.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Although bullous pemphigoid and cicatricial pemphigoid are sometimes associated with malignancy, it remains uncertain whether such an association is pathogenetically related or just a coincidence attributable to the advanced age of the patients. We report a 61-year-old patient with antiepiligrin (laminin 5) cicatricial pemphigoid (AeCP) associated with an advanced gastric carcinoma. The gastric carcinoma cells in this patient were shown to produce laminin 5 by immunofluorescence microscopy, and the patient's serum contained autoantibodies directed against laminin 5 on immunoprecipitation. Furthermore, the blistering symptoms and the titre of antibasement membrane zone antibodies coordinately changed with the resection and subsequent relapse of the gastric cancer. These observations suggest that the gastric carcinoma producing laminin 5 may have induced the production of autoantibodies to this laminin, which were pathogenic to the skin and mucous membranes in this patient. This report demonstrates a link between this autoimmune subepithelial blistering disease and malignancy. It is of interest and potential great importance to examine other cases of AeCP for such a potential association.
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- K Taniuchi
- Department of Dermatology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, 13-1 Takari-machi Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan.
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Phytol is a branched, long-chain aliphatic alcohol which has various biological effects. In this study, we examined phytol as a tumor promoter in a mouse skin initiation-promotion model, and compared its promotion activity with that of 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA). Female ICR mice, 7 weeks of age, were initiated with 100 microg of 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene, and were then topically promoted twice a week for 16 weeks with 100 mg of phytol or with 2.5 microg of TPA. In this model 95% of animals treated with phytol developed skin tumors within 16 weeks. The average number of lesions per mouse treated with phytol was significantly lower than that in mice treated with TPA, and this significant difference continued up to 16 weeks after the end of promotion treatment. Characterization of hyperplasia 48 h after topical application of agents showed that epidermal thickness and vertical thickness following topical application of phytol were significantly increased compared with vehicle controls, but were significantly smaller than in animals treated with TPA. Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity following topical application of phytol was increased in a dose-dependent manner and showed a weak, delayed induction (which was maximal 11-12 h after treatment) as compared with the case of TPA. The specific binding of [3H]phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate (PDBU) by JB6 cells was not inhibited by phytol at concentrations up to 1 mM. These results indicate that phytol has a weak tumor promoter activity compared to TPA and is a non-TPA-type tumor promoter in this model of mouse skin carcinogenesis.
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- M Kagoura
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University.
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Kajisawa C, Matsui C, Morohashi M. A specific cutaneous lesion revealing myelodysplastic syndrome. Eur J Dermatol 1998; 8:517-8. [PMID: 9854168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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We report on an 86-year-old man with an ulcerated nodule on his left lower leg. Peripheral blood examination and bone marrow findings were compatible with the refractory anemia with an excess of blasts in transformation (RAEB-T) which is typical of the myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Because histological examination showed an infiltration of atypical cells of myeloid origin, this lesion was diagnosed as a specific lesion of MDS. Sometimes, only a subjective symptom, such as a skin lesion, precedes the diagnosis of MDS.
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- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Anemia, Refractory/complications
- Anemia, Refractory/pathology
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts/complications
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts/drug therapy
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts/pathology
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use
- Biopsy, Needle
- Bone Marrow/pathology
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Fatal Outcome
- Humans
- Leg Ulcer/etiology
- Leg Ulcer/pathology
- Male
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- C Kajisawa
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194 Japan.
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Matsui C, Pereira P, Wang CK, Nelson CF, Kutzkey T, Lanigan C, Woodley D, Morohashi M, Welsh EA, Hoeffler WK. Extent of laminin-5 assembly and secretion effect junctional epidermolysis bullosa phenotype. J Exp Med 1998; 187:1273-83. [PMID: 9547338 PMCID: PMC2212220 DOI: 10.1084/jem.187.8.1273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/1997] [Revised: 02/05/1998] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) is an autosomal recessive skin blistering disease with both lethal and nonlethal forms, with most patients shown to have defects in laminin-5. We analyzed the location of mutations, gene expression levels, and protein chain assembly of the laminin-5 heterotrimer in six JEB patients to determine how the type of genetic lesion influences the pathophysiology of JEB. Mutations within laminin-5 genes were diversely located, with the most severe forms of JEB correlating best with premature termination codons, rather than mapping to any particular protein domain. In all six JEB patients, the laminin-5 assembly intermediates we observed were as predicted by our previous work indicating that the alpha3beta3gamma2 heterotrimer assembles intracellularly via a beta3gamma2 heterodimer intermediate. Since assembly precedes secretion, mutations that disrupt protein-protein interactions needed for assembly are predicted to limit the secretion of laminin-5, and likely to interfere with function. However, our data indicate that typically the most severe mutations diminish mRNA stability, and serve as functional null alleles that block chain assembly by resulting in either a deficiency (in the nonlethal mitis variety) or a complete absence (in lethal Herlitz-JEB) of one of the chains needed for laminin-5 heterotrimer assembly.
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- C Matsui
- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Matsui C, Kitagawa T, Qhtsuyama M, Morohashi M. 048 Autoantibodies from patients with cicatricial pemphigoid recognize laminin α3 chain monomer. J Dermatol Sci 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0923-1811(97)81745-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Herlitz junctional epidermolysis bullosa is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by generalized blistering at the lamina lucida of the cutaneous basement membrane. The monoclonal antibody GB3 has been used as a diagnostic probe because of its lack of reactivity in patient skin. The antigen recognized by GB3 has been identified as laminin-5, a glycoprotein consisting of three subunits (alpha 3, beta 3 and gamma 2). To identify the laminin-5 protein chain that contains the epitope recognized by GB3 and to determine if chain assembly is required for antibody recognition, we expressed a gamma 2 protein constructed from a full-length gamma 2 cDNA. Radioimmunoprecipitation of the culture medium from 293 cells revealed that both GB3 and anti-gamma 2 polyclonal antibodies were capable of directly precipitating recombinant gamma 2 without coprecipitation of other proteins. In immunodepletion experiments, each antibody removed most of the protein that was reactive with the other antibody. The epitope recognized by GB3 is present only when the complex is in the native conformation because GB3 reacted only with the non-reduced laminin-5, but not the reduced laminin-5 in immunoblots. Moreover, because GB3 reacted with laminin-5 of SCC25 cells (gamma 2 in the heterotrimer) but not recombinant gamma 2 in 293 cells (gamma 2 alone) during indirect immunofluorescence staining, this epitope may be dependent upon a less stable conformation of gamma 2. We conclude that GB3 recognizes the gamma 2 chain of laminin-5 and that the epitope is entirely contained in the native form of the gamma 2 chain.
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- C Matsui
- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA
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Laminin-5 is a heterotrimer composed of alpha 3, beta 3, and gamma 2 chains, produced by keratinocytes and the human squamous cell carcinoma line (SCC-25), and is one of the candidate proteins for the genetic lesion in junctional epidermolysis bullosa. Two-dimensional SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (first dimension, nonreducing conditions; second dimension, reducing conditions) revealed that the immunoprecipitated laminin-5 from a SCC-25 cell fraction consisted of alpha 3, beta 3, and gamma 2 monomers, a beta 3 gamma 2 heterodimer, and an alpha 3 beta 3 gamma 2 heterotrimer. The presence of the beta 3 gamma 2 heterodimer, but not heterodimers containing an alpha 3 chain and any of the other chains, was suggestive of assembly of laminin-5 proceeding from a beta 3 gamma 2 heterodimer to an alpha 3 beta 3 gamma 2 heterotrimer. We showed, by cotransfection experiments using full-length recombinant beta 3 and gamma 2 chains in a human cell line devoid of endogenous laminin-5, that stable heterodimers can be formed in the absence of alpha 3 chain expression. In the SCC-25 cell fraction, the alpha 3 monomer pool was the smallest of the monomers. Pulse-chase experiments using the cell fraction also indicated that the heterotrimer was assembled after a 10-min pulse and was nearly absent after a 24-h chase. These results are consistent with the synthesis of alpha 3 being limiting for heterotrimer assembly, with rapid association of the alpha 3 chain with beta 3 gamma 2 heterodimers to form complete heterotrimers. Treatment with tunicamycin reduced the size of each of the laminin-5 subunits, indicating that all chains are glycosylated, but that N-linked glycosylation is not necessary for chain assembly and secretion.
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- C Matsui
- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA
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BACKGROUND Persistent pruritus is the most common symptom in hemodialysis patients. Its causes are poorly understood and there is no effective treatment. We have studied the effect of azelastin HCL on the plasma histamine concentrations and pruritus in maintenance dialysis patients with or without erythropoietin therapy. PATIENTS Twenty-eight hemodialysis patients were divided into four groups according to the presence or absence of pruritus and whether or not they received erythropoietin therapy. RESULTS Histamine concentrations in the patient groups were significantly higher than in healthy volunteers, but a significant difference could not be found among the four groups. The patients with pruritus showed no change in their histamine concentration during treatment with azelastin HCL, but their pruritus scores decreased remarkably. CONCLUSIONS The present data do not support the thesis that the increased plasma histamine concentration is causally related to pruritus in hemodialysis patients or that the antiallergic drug, azelastin HCL, alleviates the pruritus of dialysis patients by decreasing plasma histamine levels. The possible role of the increased tissue levels of histamine remains to be studied.
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- C Matsui
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan
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Matsui C, Koyata H, Hiraga K. The development-associated increase in the hepatic levels of the intrinsic components of the chicken glycine cleavage system. Arch Biochem Biophys 1993; 300:69-74. [PMID: 8424692 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1993.1010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The hepatic glycine cleavage system in the chicken was examined at different stages of development to study regulation of its biosynthesis. Embryonic levels of polypeptide and mRNA for glycine decarboxylase, one of the three intrinsic components of this enzyme system, were approximately 10% of their adult levels and were rapidly increased following hatching. Those of H-protein, another intrinsic component, were somewhat higher and were more slowly increased throughout the course of development. The change in activities of the two components went with the increase in their polypeptide levels. Moreover, both relative levels of mRNAs for the two components and relative efficiencies of transcription of their genes were not constant during development. T-protein biosynthesis appeared to follow a course similar to that of H-protein. These observations imply that during development, the production of H-protein and T-protein is regulated by similar mechanisms. Further, it is likely that the same mechanisms do not direct the regulatory processes in the biosynthesis of glycine decarboxylase and that embryo and adult livers possess different regulatory modes regarding the biosynthesis of this enzyme system. The shift to the adult mode appeared to occur at birth. The glycine cleavage activity that was three times higher than that in 12-day-old embryo was observed in adult liver mitochondria.
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- C Matsui
- Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Japan
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Yamamoto M, Koyata H, Matsui C, Hiraga K. The glycine cleavage system. Occurrence of two types of chicken H-protein mRNAs presumably formed by the alternative use of the polyadenylation consensus sequences in a single exon. J Biol Chem 1991; 266:3317-22. [PMID: 1993703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Several cDNAs encoding H-protein, a constituent of the glycine cleavage system, were cloned from chicken liver cDNA libraries with an antibody raised against rat H-protein or with a nick-translated cDNA of an immunoreactive clone. The structure of the H-protein cDNA consisting of 910 base pairs was determined using clones with an apparent overlap in the nucleotide sequence. The cDNA encodes the precursor form of H-protein that is comprised of 39 amino acid residues for a mitochondrial presequence and 125 amino acid residues for the mature protein, following a 5' untranslated region of 13 base pairs. There are two genuine consensus sequences for the cleavage/polyadenylation of the precursor H-protein mRNA in the 3' untranslated region of the cDNA sequence. We showed by comparison with the delta-aminolevulinate synthase gene that only one copy of the H-protein cDNA occurs in the haploid genome of the chicken. Nevertheless, two types of H-protein mRNAs, which differ by the length of their 3' untranslated region, are produced in liver. The chicken H-protein gene extends over 8 kilobase pairs on the genome and includes 5 exons that encode the entire cDNA sequence. Two AATAAA motifs are coded in the last exon of this gene, suggesting that the differently size H-protein mRNAs are produced by the alternative use of these motifs.
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- M Yamamoto
- Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Japan
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Hiraga K, Koyata H, Sakakibara T, Ishiguro Y, Matsui C. Non-ketotic hyperglycinemia: an aim of the second generation of studies on pathogenesis. Mol Biol Med 1991; 8:65-79. [PMID: 1943691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Non-ketotic hyperglycinemia is caused by a molecular lesion involved in the glycine cleavage system and shows striking features representing the impaired central nervous system. For the study on molecular genetics of non-ketotic hyperglycinemia, we have isolated several cDNA clones, each encoding human glycine decarboxylase of H-protein, two of the four component enzymes of the glycine cleavage system. Although one of eight patients with this disease resulting from a lesion of glycine decarboxylase had the glycine decarboxylase gene deleted at a 5' region, they showed no common aberration detectable by glycine decarboxylase cDNA. Using the H-protein cDNA, we have demonstrated the rearranged structures, identified by one of the undetectable 5.0 and 5.5 kb SacI fragments, in the genomes of patients in whom there was an impaired expression of H-protein or glycine decarboxylase. The aberration of the 5.5 kb SacI fragment was associated with a defect of the 5.2 kb EcoRI fragment. Multiple genomic lesions are suggested for non-ketotic hyperglycinemia, and their implications in pathogenesis are discussed.
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- K Hiraga
- Department of Biochemistry, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University School of Medicine, Japan
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Noda T, Tanaka N, Mano Y, Nabeshima S, Ohkawa H, Matsui C. Regeneration of horseradish hairy roots incited by Agrobacterium rhizogenes infection. Plant Cell Rep 1987; 6:283-286. [PMID: 24248760 DOI: 10.1007/bf00271999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/1986] [Revised: 04/25/1987] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Surface-sterilized leaf disks of horse-radish (Armoracia lapathifolia) were immersed in a suspension of Agrobacterium rhizogenes harboring the root-inducing plasmid (pRi) and cultured on a solid medium. Within about 10 days after inoculation, adventitious roots (hairy roots) emerged from the leaf disks. No roots emerged from the uninoculated leaf disks. The excised hairy roots grew vigorously in the dark and exhibited extensive lateral branches in the absence of phytohormones. When the hairy roots were moved into the light, numerous adventitious buds thrust out of the roots within about 10 days, and they developed into complete plants (R0 generation). R0 plants revealed leaf wrinkle. Root masses of cultured R0 plants were of two types. One had fibrous roots only and the other had both fibrous and tuberous roots Leaf disks of the R0 plants proliferated adventitious roots (R1 generation) on a solid medium after 1-2 weeks of culture. Phenotypical characters of the R1 roots were the same as those observed with the initial hairy roots. The T-DNA sequences of pRi were detected within DNA isolated from the hairy roots and their regenerants.
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- T Noda
- Plant Pathology Laboratory, School of Agriculture, Nagoya University, 464, Nagoya, Japan
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Kawachi S, Hanaki C, Kawaguchi R, Yamamoto M, Inoue K, Matsui C, Nomura M. [The effect of preoperative starvation on the levels of blood glucose concentrations and on urinary ketone bodies]. Masui 1986; 35:943-8. [PMID: 3773242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) RNA was introduced directly into mesophyll cells of Nicotiana tabacum var. Samsun using electric-field pulses (electroinjection). The injected gene was successfully expressed in the recipient cells as judged by the assay for the virus coat protein using immunofluorescence and by the virus infectivity assay of the homogenate of the electroinjected cells for local lesions on tobacco leaves. As much as 50% of the cells that survived 24 days after electroinjection showed immunofluorescent specks.
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Tanaka N, Hayakawa M, Mano Y, Ohkawa H, Matsui C. Infection of turnip and radish storage roots with Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Plant Cell Rep 1985; 4:74-77. [PMID: 24253688 DOI: 10.1007/bf00269210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/1984] [Revised: 02/20/1985] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Within about 10 days after inoculation with Agrobacterium rhizogenes, the vascular bundles of storage root disks of turnip or radish developed small outgrowths with numerous root hairs. Thereafter, adventitious roots (hairy roots) emerged extensively from these outgrowths. The hairy roots which emerged fully supported the growth of host plants, though they lacked geotropism. An excised hairy root could be subcultured as an axenic root culture in the absence of phytohormones. Hairy root cultures with extensive lateral branches grew much more rapidly than those with few lateral branches or ordinary roots. Calli were induced from hairy root cultures in the presence of 2,4-D, and root proliferation from these calli occurred in the absence of 2,4-D. Both the primary hairy roots and the roots which grew from them synthesized agropine and mannopine.
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- N Tanaka
- Plant Pathology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, 464, Nagoya, Japan
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Tanaka N, Fukunaga Y, Hasezawa S, Syono K, Matsui C. Endocytic uptake of Escherichia coli spheroplasts by Neurospora crassa slime cells. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 1984. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00251854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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: 10/26/2022]
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A one-step procedure using a mixture of glutaraldehyde and osmium tetroxide was devised to fix in situ large unilamellar liposomes of phosphatidylserine for transmission electron microscopy (TEM), since the conventional fixation method was found to be inadequate in this respect. The new fixation procedure enabled us to visualize the sequence of events in the interaction of liposomes with protoplasts from Vinca rosea suspension cultures in the presence of polyethylene glycol. Liposomes were thus found adhering to the surface of protoplasts, in association with invaginating plasmalemma, and within intracellular vesicles. These observations showed that liposomes enter plant protoplasts via endocytosis. Ultrastructural profiles indicating fusion of liposomes with protoplasts were not observed.
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Matsui C, Hasezawa S, Tanaka N, Syono K. Introduction of Escherichia coli cells and spheroplasts into Vinca protoplasts. Plant Cell Rep 1983; 2:30-32. [PMID: 24257851 DOI: 10.1007/bf00269230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/1982] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In the presence of 10% polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), Escherichia coli cells or spheroplasts can be easily introduced into Vinca protoplasts by endocytosis. Uptake proceeded quite rapidly; bacterial cells or spheroplasts were found within the cytoplasm of Vinca protoplasts after 10 min of incubation with PVA.
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- C Matsui
- Plant Pathology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Nagoya
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Kajita S, Matsui C. [Effects of high molecular weight polycation and polyanion in the mechanical inoculation of tobacco mosaic virus (author's transl)]. Uirusu 1981; 31:33-9. [PMID: 6173955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Kajita S, Matsui C, Syono K, Suzuki M, Nagata T. Fine Structure of Fusion Bodies Formed between Pea Root Nodule and Tobacco Mesophyll Protoplasts. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/s0044-328x(80)80075-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 10/25/2022]
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Bunno K, Matsui C, Suzuki T, Miura E. [Specificity of nursing in surgical cases of brain tumor - with special reference to cognition disorders. A discussion]. Kango Gijutsu 1978; 24:113-21. [PMID: 246055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Kajita S, Matsui C. [Reaction of tobacco mosaic virus and its RNA with bisulfite (author's transl)]. Uirusu 1974; 24:170-4. [PMID: 4471523 DOI: 10.2222/jsv.24.170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Takebe I, Otsuki Y, Honda Y, Nishio T, Matsui C. Fine structure of isolated mesophyll protoplasts of tobacco. Planta 1973; 113:21-27. [PMID: 24468842 DOI: 10.1007/bf00385185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/1973] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Protoplasts of palisade cells isolated enzymatically from mature leaves of tobacco were studied with the electron microscope. A cell wall was completely absent, and the chloroplasts contained large inclusion bodies which were believed to be a crystalline form of fraction I protein. The fine structure of the protoplasts was otherwise that of healthy mesophyll cells, indicating that they are in a good physiological state. Some protoplasts were multinucleate as a result of fusion during the isolation process.
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- Institute for Plant Virus Research, 959 Aobacho, 280, Chiba, Japan
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Rubio-Huertos M, Castro S, Fujisawa I, Matsui C. Electron Microscopy of the Formation of Carnation Etched Ring Virus Intracellular Inclusion Bodies. J Gen Virol 1972. [DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-15-3-257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [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: 11/18/2022] Open
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