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Kaku N, Shimada T, Nogami R, Tagomori H, Tsumura H. Three Dimensional Architecture of the Acetabular Transverse Ligament and its Connection with the Acetabular Labrum. Muscles Ligaments Tendons J 2020. [DOI: 10.32098/mltj.03.2020.01] [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: 11/05/2022]
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- N. Kaku
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu City, Oita, Japan
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- Oita College of Judo Therapy and Acupuncture-Moxibustion, Oita City, Japan
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- Oita University Graduate School of Medicine, Graduate School of Orthopedic Surgery, Yufu City, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu City, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu City, Oita, Japan
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Tanaka T, Yamada H, Nogami R, Kodama S, Tamura K, Takamatsu Y. Adenovirus-based antibody screening method and EphA2-targeted therapy. Ann Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw392.48] [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: 11/14/2022] Open
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Nogami R, Tam LT, Anh HTL, Quynh HTH, Thom LT, Nhat PV, Thu NTH, Hong DD, Wakisaka M. Growth promotion effect of steelmaking slag onSpirulina platensis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/704/1/012019] [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: 11/11/2022]
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Various methods for evaluating bone mineral in appendicular, and axial bone or in the whole skeleton have recently become available. As bone mineral is one of the major determinants of bone strength, its exact measurement should be useful for the diagnosis of osteoporosis, as well as for the prediction of fracture risk and monitoring of therapeutical response. The aims of this paper are to review the fundamental performance of bone mineral measurements, the improvements in DXA systems, and the progress in site-specific bone mineral instruments for the radius and calcaneus used in Japan, and to introduce diagnostic criteria for primary osteoporosis, and report on annual rates of bone loss in Japanese females.
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- M Fukunaga
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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A 38-year-old Japanese woman with diabetes showed sclerosis of the hands, a short sublingual frenulum, and hypomotility of the esophagus. She had been on insulin therapy for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus since the age of 15. For the previous one year, the proximal interphalangeal joints had become painful and swollen with sclerosis of the hands. Although these findings are also seen in PSS, this case was assumed to be due to diabetes mellitus. The patient had a high serum level of HbA1c, which may reflect a poor control of diabetes and non-enzymatic glycosylation of collagen fibers, resulting in an accumulation of collagen in the dermis.
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- Y Maekawa
- Department of Dermatology, Kumamoto National Hospital, Japan
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Febrile ulceronecrotic Mucha-Habermann's disease (FUMH) was first described by Degos in 1966. In the literature, nine cases of FUMH have been reported in both children and adults. We report a 16-year-old boy with the febrile ulceronecrotic type. A review of the nine cases in the literature showed acute necrotic lesions, as well as rare complications such as fever, superinfected lesions and viral infection which are not as common in pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta. There is no definitive treatment, but systemic corticosteroid, methotrexate, antibiotics (tetracycline, erythromycin), aciclovir, and 4,4-diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS) have been frequently used. The most common histologic feature is mononuclear perivascular infiltrates consisting of T lymphocytes. The etiology is not known, but a hypersensitivity reaction, possibly to an infectious agent, is suggested.
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- Y Maekawa
- Department of Dermatology, Kumamoto National Hospital, Japan
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Maekawa Y, Nojiri K, Nogami R. Fournier's gangrene: report of a case associated with paralytic and mechanical ileus throughout the management of the gangrene. J Dermatol 1993; 20:428-31. [PMID: 8408925 DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1993.tb01312.x] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A 65-year-old Japanese male, who was treated for Fournier's gangrene, developed an enlarged erythema over the right thigh and right lower quadrant. The area was surgically debrided, and he was given antibiotics. However, he complained of abdominal swelling with a metallic bowel sound, pain, and vomiting and was then treated for paralytic ileus. Although his symptoms initially improved, he complained again of the same symptoms and underwent surgery for mechanical ileus occurring at the site of a surgical scar from an appendectomy 43 years earlier. This is a very rare case of Fournier's gangrene which caused mechanical ileus of the small intestine and adherence to a peritoneal scare after paralytic ileus due to inflammation of the abdominal fascia following scrotal gangrene.
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- Y Maekawa
- Department of Dermatology, Kumamoto National Hospital, Japan
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A 53-year-old Japanese male noticed pigmented lesions on his right upper gingiva and hard palate in February of 1986. Histological examination revealed in situ malignant melanoma. Chemotherapy, beta-interferon, and oral BCG were given. However, tumors subsequently developed in the nasal cavity in March of 1989. The patient died in April of 1990 after developing Garcin's syndrome and the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). Autopsy revealed aggressively infiltrating, whitish tumor masses invading the hard palate, the nasal cavity, the paranasal sinuses, the base of the skull, cranial nerves I-X, and the pituitary body, as well as severe necrosis of the soft palate. However, there was no evidence of malignant melanoma. Instead, these oval tumor cells had atypical nuclei and scanty cytoplasm. They contained no melanin granules, were negative for S-100 protein, and were also negative for various melanoma-associated antigens. They were positive for CD2, CD3, and CD8 by avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex immunohistochemistry. It was concluded that the patient had CD8+ non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma (diffuse, large cell type) of the nasopharyngeal region, which was preceded by in situ malignant melanoma of the palate.
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- R Nogami
- Department of Dermatology, National Leprosarium Kikuchi Keifuen, Kumamoto, Japan
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A 50-year-old Japanese female with progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS, CREST syndrome) is reported. During treatment for PSS, she was diagnosed by clinical and laboratory findings as having sarcoidosis, which was confirmed by histological examination of the skin and lymph nodes in July of 1991. She complained of back pain in August of 1991. Reflux esophagitis and Barrett's esophagus, found by endoscopy, progressed into a well-differentiated tubular adenocarcinoma. This is a very rare case of PSS associated with sarcoidosis and esophageal adenocarcinoma developing from Barrett's esophagus.
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- Y Maekawa
- Department of Dermatology, Kumamoto National Hospital, Japan
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An 83-year-old Japanese woman with lepromatous leprosy had been treated in a leprosarium. More than 10 years ago, she developed a dome-like brown tumor on the dorsum of the nose which showed the histology of basal cell carcinoma. The lesion was a well bordered, rounded tumor with tumor cell nests on its periphery extending toward the center as cords of tumor nest and with amyloid depositions between the cords. The tumor nests and amyloid lessened toward the center of the tumor, being replaced by collagen fibers. Amyloidosis showing this peculiar pattern of transition was reported with a review of published cases.
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- K Nojiri
- Department of Dermatology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Japan
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A 69-year-old Japanese woman with erythema, severe edema on the face, Gottron's papules and poikiloderma was diagnosed as having dermatomyositis. She also noticed muscle weakness in her extremities, although her electromyogram showed neurogenic patterns. Her levels of CA19-9 and CEA were elevated and a CT of her abdomen revealed a giant, multilobular, cystic lesion in the pelvis. This tumor was diagnosed as pseudomyxoma peritonei originating from a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the appendix.
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- Y Maekawa
- Department of Dermatology, Kumamoto National Hospital, Japan
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A 70-year-old Japanese female with lepromatous leprosy developed squamous-cell carcinoma within a long standing area showing solar keratoses on her head. Alopecia had been present at least for the preceding 34 years on her forehead and frontal area of the head, and solar keratoses had existed at least for the previous 9 years. Skin smear examination for acid-fast bacilli which had continually been negative for the previous 2 years (during which 8 examinations were done) became positive. We assume that there may be some relationship between the onset of the tumor and the positive skin smear examination, although the exact connection remains unclarified.
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- I Kikuchi
- National Leprosarium Kikuchi Keifuen, Kumamotoken, Japan
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Sugai M, Koike H, Hong YM, Miyake Y, Nogami R, Suginaka H. Purification of a 51 kDa endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase from Staphylococcus aureus. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1989; 52:267-72. [PMID: 2515095 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(89)90209-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A bacteriolytic enzyme obtained from the culture fluid of Staphylococcus aureus FDA 209P was purified to homogeneity utilizing dye-ligand affinity column chromatography, hydrophobic interaction high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and hydroxyapatite HPLC. Subsequent characterizations indicated that the purified enzyme acted as endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase. The molecular weight determined by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) was 51,000 and the isoelectric point was higher than 10. The optimum pH for the enzyme activity on whole cells of Micrococcus luteus as a substrate was 8.0. Some heavy metal cations (Cu2+ and Zn2+) inhibited the enzyme activity at a concentration of 0.1 mM and others (Ba2+, Mg2+ and Co2+) showed a stimulating effect at a concentration of 1 mM.
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- M Sugai
- Department of Microbiology and Oral Bacteriology, Hiroshima University, School of Dentistry, Japan
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The glycosaminoglycan (GAG) content of the extracellular matrix of burn scar in humans has been reported to differ from that of normal skin. In order to investigate whether the GAG content altered as a result of functional changes in fibroblasts, the GAG content was determined in culture media of fibroblasts derived from growing burn scar, mature scar, and normal skin tissue. No statistical differences were observed in the population doubling-times of scar and normal skin. Mature scar showed significantly higher values for all the concentrations of uronic acid, hexosamine, and sulfate measured in the glycosaminoglycan, as compared with normal skin values, and the concentrations from growing scar were slightly higher than those for normal skin. The above results may suggest an increase in glycosaminoglycan sulfate synthesis following the hyperplasia of the matrix in burn scar tissue.
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An autopsy case of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, recessive type, complicated by systemic secondary amyloidosis is described. The patient had developed multiple bullous lesions and erosions from birth, followed by repeated infection. At autopsy, chronic persistent inflammation was observed in the skin and in various visceral organs, accompanied by systemic amyloidosis. By the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) method, amyloid deposits stained positively for anti-AA-protein antiserum. In the present case, we concluded that the systemic amyloidosis was of the AA type, and developed secondarily to the chronic persistent inflammation in the prolonged course of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, recessive type.
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- S Yi
- Second Department of Pathology, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan
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Nogita T, Nogami R, Maekawa Y. [Distribution of fibronectin and laminin in basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma]. Nihon Hifuka Gakkai Zasshi 1985; 95:1547-52. [PMID: 3913784] [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: 01/08/2023]
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Maekawa Y, Nogami R. Glycosaminoglycan synthesis in dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. J Dermatol 1985; 12:479-83. [PMID: 3913685 DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1985.tb02878.x] [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: 01/08/2023]
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Nogami R. [Nursing in social welfare activity. Viewpoints of welfare service providers: volunteers]. Kango 1985; 36:52-5. [PMID: 3850188] [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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Maekawa Y, Hayashibara T, Kito M, Nogami R. [Clinical and histological studies of 6 cases of Werner's syndrome, especially characterization of dermal fibroblasts and glycosaminoglycans in the cultured medium]. Nihon Hifuka Gakkai Zasshi 1984; 94:29-37. [PMID: 6471515] [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: 01/20/2023]
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Nogami R. [Mechanism of penicillin-induced cell lysis of Staphylococcus aureus]. Hiroshima Daigaku Shigaku Zasshi 1983; 15:259-71. [PMID: 6586820] [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: 01/20/2023]
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Fukui K, Kokeguchi S, Kato K, Miyake Y, Nogami R, Moriyama T. Immunochemical properties of glucosyltransferases from Streptococcus mutans. Infect Immun 1983; 39:762-6. [PMID: 6187685 PMCID: PMC348015 DOI: 10.1128/iai.39.2.762-766.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Antiserum against purified mutansynthetase (EC 2.4.1.?) of Streptococcus mutans 6715 (serotype g), which is responsible for the synthesis of water-insoluble glucan (ISG) in the presence of both sucrose and water-soluble glucan, was prepared. The specificity of the antiserum was tested by using crude enzyme preparations (CEPs) of S. mutans strains of various serotypes. On immunodiffusion, the antiserum cross-reacted with CEPs from strains of serotypes a (HS-6 and AHT), d (OMZ176), and g (OMZ65 and KIR), but not with those from strains of serotypes b (BHT and FA-1) and c (GS-5 and Ingbritt). The antiserum inhibited the synthesis of ISG by crude or purified mutansynthetase of S. mutans 6715. The activities of ISG synthesis by CEPs from the strains antigenically related in the foregoing immunodiffusion were inhibited by the antiserum against strain 6715 mutansynthetase. The antiserum, however, also inhibited the enzyme activity of the strains of serotype b. The finding that the antiserum against purified dextransucrase of S. mutans HS-6 inhibited ISG synthesis by a CEP of strain HS-6 and also by CEPs of antigenically related strains suggested that dextransucrase activity is involved in ISG synthesis.
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