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Sakamoto A, Kurosaki M, Tsuchiya K, Abe T, Ogawa C, Soda T, Kimura H, Kondo M, Tsuji K, Koichiro F, Shigeno M, Jyoko K, Narita R, Uchida Y, Yoshida H, Akahane T, Kobashi H, Mitsuda A, Marusawa H, Izumi N. The efficacy and safety of lenvatinib in patients who did not meet the inclusion criteria of the phase III trial (REFLECT trial) and those with BCLC Stage B hepatocellular carcinoma: A nationwide multicenter study in Japan. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz247.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Sato T, Akahane T, Amano K, Hyodo R, Yanase K, Ogura T. Scattering and Spectroscopic Study on the Hydration and Phase Behavior of Aqueous Alcohol Ethoxylate and Methyl Ester Ethoxylate: Effects of Terminal Groups in Hydrophilic Chains. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:5444-54. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b04275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Takaaki Sato
- Department
of Chemistry and Materials, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano 386-8567, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry and Materials, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano 386-8567, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry and Materials, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano 386-8567, Japan
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- Functional Materials Science Research Laboratories, R&D, Lion Corporation, Tokyo 132-0035, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry and Materials, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Ueda, Nagano 386-8567, Japan
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- Functional Materials Science Research Laboratories, R&D, Lion Corporation, Tokyo 132-0035, Japan
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Kito M, Yoshimura Y, Isobe K, Aoki K, Momose T, Suzuki S, Tanaka A, Sano K, Akahane T, Kato H. Clinical outcome of deep-seated atypical lipomatous tumor of the extremities with median-term follow-up study. Eur J Surg Oncol 2014; 41:400-6. [PMID: 25498358 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2014.11.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Revised: 11/12/2014] [Accepted: 11/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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AIMS There is no consensus on the best surgical treatment for deep-seated atypical lipomatous tumor (ALT) of the extremities; furthermore, the appropriate duration for follow-up observation remains unclear. We investigated clinical and functional median-term outcomes in the primary operations for ALT of the extremities in order to find its best treatment methods and observation periods. METHODS From 1996 to 2009, we diagnosed 41 patients with deep-seated ALT of the extremities. Wide resection was performed on 11 patients and marginal resection was performed on 30 patients. The minimum follow-up was 5 years (median, 8.5; range, 5-17.4). Patients were evaluated for their local recurrence, dedifferentiation, and post-operative function using the ISOLS/MSTS scoring system. RESULTS Recurrence and dedifferentiation rates were both 0% for the wide resection group, while the rates were 23% (7/30) and 3% (1/30) for the marginal resection group, respectively. Median duration before recurrence was 7.2 years (range, 4.0-14.2). Local recurrence-free survival rate was significantly higher in the wide resection group (P = 0.013). In the marginal resection group, 10% (3/30) of the cases showed residual tumor. The localization of these tumors was all intermuscular. The ISOLS/MSTS scores were 98% (range, 90-100) for wide resection and 99% (range, 93-100) for marginal resection, with no statistical difference (P = 0.694). No ALT-related deaths occurred during the observation period. CONCLUSIONS In addition to long-term (at least 8 years) of continuous observation, a wide resection is necessary in order to prevent recurrence, dedifferentiation, and residual tumor.
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- M Kito
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu Ueda Medical Center, 1-27-21 Midorigaoka, Ueda, Nagano 386-8610, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
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Ishihara S, Watanabe T, Fukushima Y, Akahane T, Horiuchi A, Shimada R, Nakamura K, Hayama T, Yamada H, Nozawa K, Matsuda K, Hashiguchi Y. Safety and factors contributing to the difficulty of laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer treated with preoperative chemoradiotherapy. Tech Coloproctol 2013; 18:247-55. [DOI: 10.1007/s10151-013-1048-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Accepted: 07/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Hirasawa A, Masuda K, Akahane T, Tsuruta T, Banno K, Makita K, Susumu N, Jinno H, Kitagawa Y, Sugano K, Kosaki K, Aoki D. Experience of Risk-reducing Salpingo-oophorectomy for a BRCA1 Mutation Carrier and Establishment of a System Performing a Preventive Surgery for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome in Japan: Our Challenges for the Future. Jpn J Clin Oncol 2013; 43:515-9. [DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyt036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Hirasawa A, Akahane T, Tsuruta T, Kobayashi Y, Masuda K, Banno K, Fujii T, Susumu N, Itsubo T, Kameyama K, Sugano K, Aoki D. Lobular endocervical glandular hyperplasia and peritoneal pigmentation associated with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome due to a germline mutation of STK11. Ann Oncol 2012; 23:2990-2992. [PMID: 23038761 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mds492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- A Hirasawa
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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- Oncogene Research Unit, Cancer Prevention Unit, Tochigi Cancer Center Research Institute, Tochigi
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- Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Oncogene Research Unit, Cancer Prevention Unit, Tochigi Cancer Center Research Institute, Tochigi
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo
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Akahane T, Nagata M, Matsumoto T, Murayama T, Isaka A, Kameda T, Fujita M, Oana K, Kawakami Y. A case of wound dual infection with Pasteurella dagmatis and Pasteurella canis resulting from a dog bite -- limitations of Vitek-2 system in exact identification of Pasteurella species. Eur J Med Res 2012; 16:531-6. [PMID: 22112359 PMCID: PMC3351896 DOI: 10.1186/2047-783x-16-12-531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Pasteurella species, widely known as indigenous orgganisms in the oral and gastrointestinal floras of many wild and domestic animals, are important pathogens in both animals and humans. Human infections due to Pasteurella species are in most cases associated with infected injuries following animal bites. We encountered a rare case of dual infections caused by different two Pasteurella species occurred in a previously healthy 25-year-old female sustaining injury by a dog-bite. Methodology Exudates from the open wound of her dog-bite site, together with the saliva of the dog were submitted for bacteriological examination. Predominantly appearing grayish-white smooth colonies with almost the same colonial properties but slightly different glistening grown on chocolate and sheep blood agar plates were characterized morphologically by Gram's stain, biochemically by automated instrument using Vitek 2 system using GN cards together with commercially available kit system, ID-Test HN-20 rapid panels, and genetically by sequencing the 16S rRNA genes of the organism using a Taq DyeDeoxy Terminator Cycle Sequencing and a model 3100 DNA sequencer instrument. Results The causative isolates from the dog-bite site were finally identified as P. canis and P. dagmatis from the findings of the morphological, cultural, and biochemical properties together with the comparative sequences of the 16S rRNA genes. Both the isolates were highly susceptible to many antibiotics and the patient was successfully treated with the administration of so-called the first generation cephalosporin, cefazolin followed by so-called the third generation cephalosporin, cefcapene pivoxil. The isolate from the dog was subsequently identified as P. canis, the same species as the isolate from the patient. Conclusions To the best of our knowledge, this was the second report of a dual infection with Pasteurella species consisting of P. dagmatis and P. canis resulting from a dog-bite, followed by the first report of dual infections due to P. dagmatis and P. multocida in 1988. Our isolate finally identified as P. dagmatis was misidentified as P. pneumotripica by means of the Vitek 2 system. The species name "P. dagmatis" was not included in the database of the system. It is also important for routine clinical microbiology laboratories to know the limitation of the automated Vitek 2 system for the accurate identification of Pasteurella species especially P. dagmatis. It should be emphasized that there still exists much room for improvement in Vitek 2 system. Significant improvement of Vitek 2 system especially in the identification of Pasteurella species is urgently desired.
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- T Akahane
- Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Clinical Laboratories, Azumino Red Cross Hospital, Japan
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Yamada H, Matsuda K, Akahane T, Shimada R, Horiuchi A, Shibuya H, Aoyagi Y, Nakamura K, Hayama T, Iinuma H, Nozawa K, Ishihara S, Watanabe T. A case of fulminant amebic colitis with multiple large intestinal perforations. Int Surg 2010; 95:356-359. [PMID: 21309421] [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: 05/30/2023] Open
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Amebic colitis normally causes mucous and bloody diarrhea stool as predominant symptoms, thus leading to a course of chronic colitis. However, though rare, there exists a fulminating type that causes intestinal perforations due to wide necrosis of the large intestine. We encountered a case of fulminant amebic colitis that lead to death due to multiple large intestinal perforations. The patient was a 72-year-old female. The patient was admitted to our hospital with symptoms of fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. She continued to have a fever of over 38 degrees C and increased left abdominal pain. An abdominal computed tomography scan revealed free gas on the abdominal side of the kidney. Therefore, gastrointestinal perforations were diagnosed and surgery was performed. In surgery, many perforated parts were observed from the appendix to the descending colon, and subtotal colectomy was performed. However, sepsis and disseminated intravascular coagulation occurred, and the patient died on the eighth postoperative day.
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- H Yamada
- Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Akahane T, Kuriyama S, Matsumoto M, Kikuchi E, Kikukawa M, Yoshiji H, Masui K, Fukui H. Pancreatic pleural effusion with a pancreaticopleural fistula diagnosed by magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and cured by somatostatin analogue treatment. Abdom Imaging 2003; 28:92-5. [PMID: 12483394 DOI: 10.1007/s00261-001-0144-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A 69-year-old man with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis developed a left-sided massive pleural effusion. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography clearly demonstrated the pancreatic cyst and the fistula connecting the cyst with the left pleural cavity, resulting in the diagnosis of pancreatic pleural effusion with a pancreaticopleural fistula. Conservative somatostatin analogue treatment completely eradicated the pancreatic pleural effusion and closed the pancreaticopleural fistula.
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- T Akahane
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522, Japan
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Akahane M, Kuriyama S, Ohgushi H, Akahane T, Kawamura K, Watanabe S, Funakoshi F, Yoshiji H, Ikenaka K, Takakura Y. Enhancing and suppressing effects of dexamethasone on transgene expression in vitro. Int J Mol Med 2002. [DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.10.1.107] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Nagai Y, Chiba T, Tang Z, Akahane T, Kanai T, Hasegawa M, Takenaka M, Kuramoto E. Fermi surface of nanocrystalline embedded particles in materials: bcc Cu in Fe. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 87:176402. [PMID: 11690288 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.176402] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We report that a positron can act as a probe to directly reveal electronic structures of nanocrystalline embedded particles in materials. The Fermi surface (FS) of "bcc" Cu nanoparticles in an Fe matrix is observed as the first example. A two-dimensional angular correlation of the positron annihilation radiation (2D-ACAR) method is used to measure the momentum distribution which reflects the FS topology. The obtained 2D-ACAR spectra show strong and characteristic anisotropy associated with the necks of the FS around the [110] Brillouin zone boundaries of the bcc Cu, which are well reproduced by full-potential linearized argumented plane-wave calculations.
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- Y Nagai
- The Oarai Branch, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Oarai, Ibaraki 311-1313, Japan
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On January 17, 2001, a 39-year old female with sudden abdominal pain was admitted to her neighboring outpatient clinic and diagnosed as suspicious of infectious enteritis. However, on the next day (January 18, 2001) she was soon transferred to Toyoshina Red Cross Hospital with the chief complaint of severe abdominal pain, high fever, and of conspicuous leucocytosis. Laboratory data on her admission demonstrated apparent signs of inflammation and she was soon undergone an emergency operation. Neisseria gonorrhoeae was recovered from her ascetic fluid, otherwise Chlamydia EIA was negative. The antibiotic chemotherapy of minocycline (200 mg/day) was continued for the first 9 days and sulbactam/cefoperazone (2 g/day) had been administered for the first 5 days. Her symptoms were discontinued on her 10th hospital day, and she was discharged on the 14th hospital day. There have been few reported cases in Japan of bacterial peritonitis due to N. gonorrhoeae. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first reported case of N. gonorrhoeae peritonitis in Japan.
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- T Akahane
- Bacteriological Division, Central Clinical Laboratories, Toyoshina Red Cross Hospital
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Tsujinoue H, Kuriyama S, Nakatani T, Yoshiji H, Akahane T, Toyokawa Y, Fukui H, Yoshimatsu T, Ikenaka K. Amelioration of retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Int J Oncol 2001; 18:801-7. [PMID: 11251177] [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: 02/19/2023] Open
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Recombinant retroviruses are by far the most frequently used vehicle in clinical gene therapy. No serious side-effects have been reported so far in clinical gene therapy trials using recombinant retroviral systems. Low titers of recombinant retroviruses, however, have limited the usefulness of recombinant retroviruses. To improve the efficiency of retrovirus-mediated gene transfer, we previously introduced the polyomavirus early region into amphotropic PA317 cells and established a modified retroviral packaging cell line, PAMP51. We demonstrate here that recombinant retroviruses produced by PAMP51-derived retroviral producing cells have approximately 10-fold higher titers compared with those produced by conventional PA317-derived retroviral producing cells. Importantly, recombinant retroviruses produced by PAMP-derived retroviral producing cells could infect hepatocellular carcinoma cells much more efficiently and could induce much stronger expression of a lacZ reporter gene in HCC cells compared with those produced by PA317-derived ones. These results indicate that recombinant retroviruses prepared from PAMP51-derived retroviral producing cells are much more useful than those prepared from PA317-derived ones and that the use of PAMP51 retroviral packaging cells may open up new avenues for the treatment of various types of cancer including hepatocellular carcinoma.
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- H Tsujinoue
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, 840 Shijo-cho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522, Japan
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Tsujinoue H, Kuriyama S, Nakatani T, Yoshiji H, Akahane T, Toyokawa Y, Fukui H, Yoshimatsu T, Ikenaka K. Amelioration of retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Int J Oncol 2001. [DOI: 10.3892/ijo.18.4.801] [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: 11/05/2022] Open
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Tsujinoue H, Kuriyama S, Tominaga K, Okuda H, Nakatani T, Yoshiji H, Tsujimoto T, Akahane T, Asada K, Fukui H. Intravenous readministration of an adenoviral vector performed long after the initial administration failed to induce re-expression of the original transgene in rats. Int J Oncol 2001; 18:575-80. [PMID: 11179489 DOI: 10.3892/ijo.18.3.575] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Although most humans have been exposed to wild-type adenoviruses in their childhood, titers of neutralizing antibodies against viruses decrease with the passage of time. In the present study, we infused adenoviruses carrying the lacZ gene into the tail vein of rats, and re-infused the same adenoviruses long after the initial administration. However, development of neutralizing antibodies against adenovirus and proliferation of adenovirus-specific T cells were elicited profoundly by adenoviral readministration, and transgene expression was not induced in rats. Our results may have important implications for efficacy considerations when adenoviral vectors are employed in clinical settings for the treatment of cancer.
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- H Tsujinoue
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara 634-8522, Japan
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Tanaka T, Akahane T, Bannai E, Kawai S, Tsuda N, Ishizawa Y. Role of polar optical phonon scattering in electrical resistivities of LaB6and ReO3(metallic conduction). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1088/0022-3719/9/7/014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Akahane T, Kurokawa Y, Chiba R, Yaegashi H, Takahashi T, Satomi S. Effects of Nd:YAG laser irradiation on morphometry and lung function in elastase-induced emphysema in rats. Lasers Surg Med Suppl 2000; 23:204-12. [PMID: 9829431 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9101(1998)23:4<204::aid-lsm3>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Although thoracoscopic laser ablation therapy has been hailed as an effective surgical treatment for diffuse emphysema, no one has as yet made an in-depth study of the efficacy of this treatment. This investigation was undertaken to research the effects of laser pneumoplasty on an animal model of emphysema. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight weeks after elastase treatment, the rats' left lungs were irradiated using contact Nd:YAG laser. Pulmonary function tests were performed 4 weeks after irradiation and the lungs were prepared for histologic examination. RESULTS Dense fibrous scars beneath the pleura were observed at 4 weeks after irradiation. Although mean linear intercept values of irradiated lungs were not much lower than those in the non-irradiated elastase-treated group, laser irradiation caused a significant decrease in lung volume. While there was no significant difference in quasistatic compliance, elastic recoil pressure of the lung increased to control levels at total lung capacity volume. CONCLUSION We conclude that laser therapy does not cause normalization of compliance, or improvement in the deeper part of the emphysematous lung, but rather a peripheral volume reduction and "encasement effect" on the lungs as a result of fibrotic scars.
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- T Akahane
- Second Department of Surgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Tanabe N, Ishii M, Sato Y, Akahane T, Kobayashi N, Gama H, Iwasaki T, Toyota T. Effects of collateral vessel occlusion on oral glucose tolerance test in liver cirrhosis. Dig Dis Sci 2000; 45:581-6. [PMID: 10749336 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005461611262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Alterations in carbohydrate metabolism associated with liver cirrhosis are characterized by a high serum insulin level and prolonged hyperglycemia on oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). We measured plasma glucose, immunoreactive insulin (IRI), and C-peptide immunoreactivity (CPR) levels during a 75-g OGTT before and after varices obliteration in 10 cirrhotic patients with gastric varices. After obliteration, the indocyanine green retention rate was decreased and the portal flow velocity was increased. A significant decline in plasma glucose and IRI levels was also noted on OGTT. Moreover, the plasma glucose and IRI levels declined at 90 and 120 min in OGTT while they increased progressively by 120 min before obliteration. The levels of CPR were similar before and after treatment. These results indicate that decreased portal flow due to extrahepatic shunt and consequent impairment of insulin metabolism play a role in glucose intolerance observed in cirrhotic patients and that shunt occlusion improves glucose metabolism.
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- N Tanabe
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Kawakami Y, Akahane T, Yamaguchi M, Oana K, Takahashi Y, Okimura Y, Okabe T, Gotoh A, Katsuyama T. In vitro activities of rabeprazole, a novel proton pump inhibitor, and its thioether derivative alone and in combination with other antimicrobials against recent clinical isolates of Helicobacter pylori. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2000; 44:458-61. [PMID: 10639386 PMCID: PMC89707 DOI: 10.1128/aac.44.2.458-461.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The MICs of rabeprazole sodium (RPZ), a newly developed benzimidazole proton pump inhibitor (PPI), against 133 clinical Helicobacter pylori strains revealed a higher degree of activity than the another two PPIs, lansoprazole and omeprazole. Time-kill curve assays of RPZ, when combined with amoxicillin, clarithromycin, or metronidazole, disclosed that synergistic effects were demonstrated in combination with each antibiotic examined. Moreover, no apparent antagonistic effect appeared among all of the strains tested.
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- Y Kawakami
- Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Medical Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
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Kuriyama S, Kikukawa M, Masui K, Okuda H, Nakatani T, Akahane T, Mitoro A, Tominaga K, Tsujinoue H, Yoshiji H, Okamoto S, Fukui H, Ikenaka K. Cancer gene therapy with HSV-tk/GCV system depends on T-cell-mediated immune responses and causes apoptotic death of tumor cells in vivo. Int J Cancer 1999; 83:374-80. [PMID: 10495430 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19991029)83:3<374::aid-ijc13>3.0.co;2-#] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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To examine the immunological mechanisms involved in cancer gene therapy using the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) gene and ganciclovir (GCV), murine hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells, BNL1ME A.7R.1, were transduced retrovirally with the HSV-tk gene. HSV-tk-transduced cells exhibited a more than 2,000-fold higher sensitivity to GCV compared with untransduced parental cells. When HSV-tk-transduced HCC cells were mixed with parental cells at a 50% ratio and implanted subcutaneously into immunocompetent syngeneic mice, complete inhibition of tumor formation was achieved by GCV treatment. Conversely, no significant inhibitory effects on tumor formation were observed in athymic nude mice. When established solid tumors in immunocompetent mice containing HSV-tk-transduced cells at an only 5% ratio were treated with GCV, marked infiltration by lymphocytes including CD4(+) and CD8(+) ones, and apoptotic death of tumor cells were induced, and significant reduction or even complete regression of tumors was achieved. Furthermore, such cured mice rejected rechallenge with parental HCC cells into the contraflank regions. Our results indicate that cancer gene therapy with the HSV-tk/GCV system can indeed induce efficient antitumor effects and protective immunity in immunocompetent mice but not in nude mice, indicating that T-cell-mediated immune responses may be a critical factor for achieving successful gene therapy against cancer using the HSV-tk/GCV system.
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- S Kuriyama
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan.
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Kuriyama S, Mitoro A, Yamazaki M, Tsujinoue H, Nakatani T, Akahane T, Toyokawa Y, Kojima H, Okamoto S, Fukui H. Comparison of gene therapy with the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene and the bacterial cytosine deaminase gene for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Scand J Gastroenterol 1999; 34:1033-41. [PMID: 10563675 DOI: 10.1080/003655299750025156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Bystander effects induced by suicide gene/prodrug systems play an essential role in achieving successful antitumor effects. Although it has been shown in several in vitro studies that the bacterial cytosine deaminase (CD) gene/5-fluorocytosine (5-FC) system is superior to the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-TK) gene/ganciclovir (GCV) system, we examined here which suicide gene system was more promising in vivo for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS BNL1ME A.7R.1 murine HCC cells were retrovirally transduced with the HSV-TK or CD gene, and bystander effects caused by the appropriate prodrug treatment were examined not only in vitro but also in vivo. RESULTS The CD/5-FC system was superior to the HSV-TK/GCV system in HCC cell elimination in vitro. The bystander effect of the HSV-TK/GCV was shown to be substantially dependent on cell-to-cell contact, whereas that of the CD/5-FC was not. However, antitumor effects on HCC and tumor immunity to parental HCC induced by the HSV-TK/GCV system were not inferior and even superior to those induced by the CD/5-FC system. Bystander effects induced by the suicide gene/prodrug systems in immunocompetent syngeneic mice were much more profound than those induced in vitro. However, significant bystander effects were not observed in athymic nude mice. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that both HSV-TK/GCV and CD/5-FC systems are useful for the treatment of HCC. The results also suggest that T-cell-mediated immune responses elicited by the suicide gene/prodrug systems play a substantial role in antitumor effects in vivo.
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- S Kuriyama
- Third Dept. of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan
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Kakimoto M, Hyodo T, Chiba T, Akahane T, Chang TB. Observation of triplet-singlet conversion of positronium via inelastic scattering by oxygen. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1088/0022-3700/20/3/007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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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Akahane T, Ishii M, Ohtani H, Nagura H, Toyota T. Stromal expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) is associated with invasive growth in primary liver cancer. Liver 1998; 18:414-9. [PMID: 9869396 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0676.1998.tb00826.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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AIMS/BACKGROUND Expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) was studied in 25 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) and seven cholangiocellular carcinomas (CCCs) by immunohistochemistry. METHODS AND RESULTS uPAR was expressed mostly by host cells distributed along the tumour-host interface in all cases of HCC and CCC, and its expression was higher in CCC. These uPAR-positive cells were identified as macrophages by observation of serial sections stained for CD68, a marker for macrophages. Cancer cells were positive for uPAR in only one case of poorly differentiated HCC with sarcomatous changes and in three cases of CCC. Hepatocellular carcinomas were classified into two types: those with a fibrous capsule (expansive type) and those without a fibrous capsule (invasive type). Invasive-type HCCs showed more prominent expression of uPAR by macrophages than expansive HCCs (p<0.001), to approximately the same degree as that of CCC. Extrahepatic metastasis was observed in two of 16 expansive HCCs, five of nine invasive HCCs and six of seven CCCs. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that uPAR expression mainly by macrophages is associated with invasive growth of cancer cells into the surrounding tissue in primary carcinoma of the liver.
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- T Akahane
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University of School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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PURPOSE To assess the arterial supply to hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) by inferior phrenic arteries (IPA). MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 126 consecutive cases of HCC were studied by contract-enhanced CT and conventional arteriography. Blood supply from an IPA was suspected when the size of the HCC mass as seen on contrast-enhanced CT did not match the size of the tumor mass as seen on hepatic arteriography. Inferior phrenic arteriography was employed to confirm these findings. HCCs fed by the IPA were analyzed in terms of size, location, and history of prior treatment. RESULTS In 14 (11%) of the 126 cases, the tumor was found to have a blood supply from an IPA. Eleven of these tumors were located in segments 2 and 7. Three tumors, which had not been treated previously, had a blood supply from an IPA. Six tumors were almost exclusively fed by an IPA and were located in segments 1, 1, and 4. CONCLUSION HCCs located in segments which form the bare area of the liver (S1, S2, S7) can be supplied by an IPA. This should be suspected when a lesion or part of a lesion is identified on contrast-enhanced CT but not on hepatic arteriography.
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- N Tanabe
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan
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Akahane T, Kurokawa Y, Yaegashi H, Satomi S, Takahashi T. Experimental ablation of emphysematous rat lung with Nd: YAG laser: lung changes studied by histopathology and SEM. TOHOKU J EXP MED 1998; 185:119-29. [PMID: 9747651 DOI: 10.1620/tjem.185.119] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Laser ablation has been employed as a therapeutic measure for chronic pulmonary emphysema. As yet, however, its effect is not understood on firm pathological basis. We aimed to study, both histopathologically and using Scanning Electric Microscopy (SEM), the changes produced by irradiation with contact Neodymium-yttrium aluminum garnet laser (Nd: YAG laser) in rat lungs with experimentally induced emphysema. Emphysema was produced in 34 rats by instilling elastase via airways. Eight weeks after the instillation, the emphysematous left lung was irradiated under thoracotomy with contact Nd: YAG laser at a power of 5 watts. The animals were sacrificed in acute as well as chronic phase for histopathological observation of lung and scanning electron microscopy. Laser caused necrotic and inflammatory changes in the subpleural zone of lung. Immediately after irradiation, the alveolar septa were destroyed as visualized by SEM, only leaving the elastic skeleton. In a chronic phase, the necrotic zone was collapsed and replaced with a thick fibrous scar which seemed to serve more or less to keep the organ from being excessively inflated. In this model, irradiation induces subpleural dense scarring, which, by "encasing" an emphysematous lung, is expected to more or less normalize the excessive compliance.
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- T Akahane
- Department of Pathology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Tanabe N, Iwasaki T, Chida N, Suzuki S, Akahane T, Kobayashi N, Ishii M, Toyota T. Hepatocellular carcinomas supplied by inferior phrenic arteries. Acta Radiol 1998. [DOI: 10.3109/02841859809172461] [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: 11/13/2022]
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Kawakami Y, Akahane T, Gotoh A, Okimura Y, Oana K, Katsuyama T. Successful development of air-dried microplates (HP-Plates) for susceptibility testing against Helicobacter pylori isolates. Microbiol Immunol 1997; 41:703-8. [PMID: 9343821 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1997.tb01914.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We have successfully developed and evaluated a new susceptibility testing procedure against Helicobacter pylori strains using air-dried microplates "HP-Plates" containing eight serially-diluted anti-H. pylori agents. HP-Plate wells were reconstituted by the inoculation of 100 microliters of H. pylori cell suspensions. After incubation at 37 C for 48 hr under humidified microaerophilic conditions, HP-Plates were read visually with a circular mirror. We investigated the within-day reproducibility tests of HP-Plates using the six quality control (QC) strains we proposed. Of the 20 testings, determining the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of all the QC strains fell within +/- 1 log2 dilution ranges. When 200 clinical isolates were tested with HP-Plates and compared with the results obtained with the modified broth macrodilution method of NCCLS, more than 90% of the MICs also fell within +/- 1 log2 dilution ranges. We concluded that the HP-Plate susceptibility test method is a practical and easily applicable alternative of susceptibility testing for clinical microbiology laboratories in determining the MICs of H. pylori isolates.
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- Y Kawakami
- Department of Medical Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan.
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Uchiyama T, Suzuki M, Fukuhara K, Unno M, Matsuno S, Iwasaki T, Akahane T, Endoh M. [A case of poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma with extremely rapid growth: an immunohistochemical study with monoclonal antibody MIB-1]. Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi 1997; 94:622-6. [PMID: 9311242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- T Uchiyama
- First Department of Surgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine
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Akahane T, Yaegashi H, Kurokawa Y, Satomi S, Takahashi T. Systemic-to-pulmonary vascular malformation of lung visualized by computer-assisted 3-D reconstruction. Histopathology 1997; 31:252-7. [PMID: 9354895 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2559.1997.2470857.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [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: 02/05/2023]
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AIMS While a growing number of cases with pulmonary arteriovenous malformation (PAVM) have been reported, detailed analysis has yet to be found on the relation of abnormal vessels with the whole lung vasculature and airways. To gain more insight into the structure-function interrelation of this disease, we attempted to visualize the vessels in and around the arteriovenous malformation, resorting to computer-aided 3-D reconstruction. METHODS AND RESULTS The material was the upper lobe of the right lung from a 44-year-old man resected for recurrent haemoptysis. On pre-surgical selective angiography, an arteriovenous communication was suggested to exist between a tributary of the right 3rd intercostal artery and pulmonary vein. Semi-serial sections were prepared from the material and submitted to 3-D reconstruction of blood vessels and airways. In 3-D images, branches of the 3rd intercostal artery proved to be forming a plexus of abnormally dilated, thin-walled vessels in the subepithelial layer of a membranous bronchiole, a situation clearly explaining the mechanism of haemoptysis. There was no capillary bed interventing between the afferent arteries and draining vessels leading to the pulmonary vein. CONCLUSIONS This presents the first overall visualization of PAVM, allowing comparison of 2-D microscopy with the corresponding 3-D morphology.
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- T Akahane
- Department of Pathology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Akahane T, Iwasaki T, Kobayashi N, Tanabe N, Takahashi N, Gama H, Ishii M, Toyota T. Changes in liver function parameters after occlusion of gastrorenal shunts with balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration. Am J Gastroenterol 1997; 92:1026-30. [PMID: 9177524] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE AND METHODS To evaluate the effects of portal blood flow on liver function, this pilot study investigated the correlation between changes in portal blood flow as measured by image-directed Doppler ultrasonography and liver function tests in nine patients with cirrhosis who were treated with balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration. All patients had large gastric varices and prominent gastrorenal shunts. RESULTS Treatment caused a significant increase (p < 0.01) in portal blood flow; we documented reversion from hepatofugal to hepatopetal portal flow in one patient and increases in hepatopetal flow from 5.4 +/- 1.1 to 7.85 +/- 1.4 cm/s (mean +/- SD) in eight patients. All patients showed decreases in gastric variceal size. However, portal pressure rose significantly in all patients after treatment from 25.4 +/- 7.6 to 30.7 +/- 5.8 mmH2O (n = 7, mean +/- SD), and two of nine patients had worsening of esophageal varices. All nine patients showed improvement in the 15-min retention rate of indocyanine green from 31.8 +/- 16.1 to 21.8 +/- 12.4% (mean +/- SD, p < 0.01), whereas seven patients showed increased serum albumin levels after treatment. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration increases hepatic portal blood flow, which may be accompanied by improvements in liver function.
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- T Akahane
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan
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Gotoh A, Kawakami Y, Akahane T, Akamatsu T, Shimizu T, Kiyosawa K, Katsuyama T. Susceptibility of Helicobacter pylori isolates against agents commonly administered for eradication therapy and the efficacy of chemotherapy. Microbiol Immunol 1997; 41:7-12. [PMID: 9087962 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1997.tb01166.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Although chemotherapy has been documented to be effective in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis and gastroduodenal ulcers, some cases are known to have been unsuccessful in the attempt to eradicate this species. In this study, we examined the relation between the susceptibility of H. pylori isolates and the efficacy of chemotherapy. We utilized the modified agar plate dilution method to determine the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of 63 H. pylori strains isolated before treatment with several drugs routinely used during eradication chemotherapy. Among the drugs tested, amoxicillin (AMPC) and clarithromycin (CAM) demonstrated high degrees of activity with MIC99, 0.39 and 0.2 micrograms/ml, respectively. No highly resistant strain against AMPC was detected among the strains examined, while for CAM and metronidazole (MTZ), 9.5% and 7.9% of the strains, respectively, were resistant before treatment. It should be noted that all of the MICs of the strains from patients with successful therapy were lower than those from patients with unsuccessful therapy. These findings indicate that susceptibility tests should be carried out prior to the commencement of drug administration in order to provide safer and more effective chemotherapy.
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- 2nd Department of Internal medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Nagano, Japan
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Akahane T, Kurokawa Y, Takahashi T, Satomi S, Sasaki H. [A case of systemic artery to pulmonary vessel fistula]. Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi 1996; 44:2196-9. [PMID: 8990896] [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: 02/03/2023]
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A case of systemic artery to pulmonary vessel fistula was reported in this paper. A 44-year-old male who complained recurrent hemoptysis was admitted to our hospital. The angiography revealed an abnormal vascular network in the peripheral part of the 3rd intercostal artery. In this study, two isolated small aneurysms were also recognized in the right bronchial artery. For the purpose of surgical resection for them, video assisted right upper lobectomy was performed. Pathological study on resected specimen showed an artery came from extrapleural space penetrated the pleura and go deeper into the lung parenchyma the artery joined the arteriovenenous plexus which was located just beneath the thinned wall of the bronchiole. It is supposed that recurrent bleeding from the plexus perforated the thinned bronchial wall and caused intrabronchial hemorrhage.
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- T Akahane
- Second Department of Surgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Iwasaki T, Akahane T, Takahashi N, Suzuki S, Kobayashi N, Gama H, Tanabe N, Sugiyama K, Moriyama S, Sekine H. [A case of giant gastric varices successfully treated by arranged balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration]. Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi 1995; 92:1178-82. [PMID: 7563925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- T Iwasaki
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine
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Nagashima Y, Kakimoto M, Hyodo T, Fujiwara K, Ichimura A, Chang T, Deng J, Akahane T, Chiba T, Suzuki K, McKee BT, Stewart AT. Thermalization of free positronium atoms by collisions with silica-powder grains, aerogel grains, and gas molecules. Phys Rev A 1995; 52:258-265. [PMID: 9912243 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.52.258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Iwasaki T, Chida N, Suzuki S, Akahane T, Kobayashi N, Ishii M, Toyota T. Injection of ethanolamine oleate into a segmental portal branch for pharmacologic hepatic segmentectomy in dogs. Acad Radiol 1995; 2:507-14. [PMID: 9419598 DOI: 10.1016/s1076-6332(05)80408-8] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Currently available treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma are not satisfactory in terms of recurrence rates. In this study, we injected ethanolamine oleate (EO) into a portal branch in an attempt to cause necrosis of a liver segment in which hepatocellular carcinoma might be located. METHODS Nine dogs received EO injections via a balloon catheter into a segmental portal branch of the liver. RESULTS Immediately after injection, 80-100% of the liver cells in the EO-injected segment underwent coagulative necrosis. After 1 week, the EO-injected segment had become completely necrotic in two dogs. Only a few viable hepatocytes were still observed around the arteries and beneath the liver capsule in another dog. No pathologic changes were observed in the lungs, kidneys, or heart of any dog. There was a correlation between the EO dosages and the volume of the EO-injected liver tissue. CONCLUSION EO injection into a portal branch results in the pharmacologic destruction of the corresponding liver segment. This procedure may be beneficial in the treatment of hepatic malignancies.
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- T Iwasaki
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Kawakami Y, Furuwatari C, Akahane T, Okimura Y, Furihata K, Katsuyama T, Matsumoto H. In vitro activity of arbekacin against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a hospital. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 1994; 47:507-9. [PMID: 8195054 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.47.507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Y Kawakami
- Central Clinical Laboratories, Shinshu University Hospital, Matsumoto, Japan
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Fujimori A, Kimizuka N, Akahane T, Chiba T, Kimura S, Minami F, Siratori K, Taniguchi M, Ogawa S, Suga S. Electronic structure of MnO. Phys Rev B Condens Matter 1990; 42:7580-7586. [PMID: 9994905 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.42.7580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Akahane T, Chiba T, Shiotani N, Tanigawa S, Mikado T, Suzuki R, Chiwaki M, Yamazaki T, Tomimasu T. Stretching of slow positron pulses generated with an electron linac. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00324279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [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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Freeze inactivation of LDH, MDH, ADH, G-6-PDH, and PK and its prevention with additives such as sodium glutamate and albumin were studied. LDH, MDH, ADH, G-6-PDH, and PK, each lost their activity during frozen storage at -20 degrees C. The speed of the inactivation differed in each. The stability of the enzymes increased with the increase of the enzyme concentration. Sodium glutamate and albumin prevented the freeze inactivation. While the activity of the LDH solution frozen without additives was almost lost during a day of frozen storage, those frozen with either glutamate (0.2 M) or albumin (0.1%) added decreased less quickly. The residual activity after 1 day was 50% the initial prefreeze value for the former and 10% for the latter, respectively. Combined use of glutamate and albumin prevented the inactivation the best and maintained the initial activity almost completely over 6 weeks. The enzymes tested lost some part of their activity when their solutions were diluted by the media. This inactivation was prevented to a significant extent by the addition of sodium glutamate and/or albumin to the diluting media.
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Two cases of lightning injury which occurred while mountain climbing and took different clinical courses are reported. One case with lightning marks on the abdomen was treated as a crush injury because of myoglobinuria and elevation of serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, lactic dehydrogenase and creatine phosphokinase. The other case had lightning burns and complained of abdominal pain. He was treated with fluid transfusion resulting from superficial and deep dermal burns estimated at 55 per cent of the body surface and received a skin graft. The subsequent three-year follow-up has revealed no residual deformity in either case.
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Haseda Y, Akahane T, Tsukada S. Epidermolysis bullosa hereditaria dystrophica dominant with extensive skin defect at birth. Chir Plastica 1983. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00571704] [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: 10/26/2022]
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The absorption and distribution of silver has been studied in 8 burned patients treated with silver sulphadiazine cream by electron-microscopic examination. Biopsies were taken from the burn wounds and from epithelized areas surrounding wounds. Only 1 to 2 patients treated for 12 days was observed to have silver deposits in the cytoplasm of both the epidermal cells and sweat glands. The silver deposits appeared as roughly round and oval bodies of varied size. The results indicated that very little of the silver moiety in silver sulphadiazine cream penetrated the body through the wound.
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