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Abe Y, Fujii T, Miyawaki Y, Sugihara T, Uchida HA, Maejima Y, Watanabe Y, Hashimoto T, Miyamae T, Nakaoka Y, Harigai M, Tamura N. The real-world clinical decisions of physicians in the management of Takayasu arteritis and giant cell arteritis in Japan: A cross-sectional web-questionnaire survey. Mod Rheumatol 2024:roae034. [PMID: 38590042 DOI: 10.1093/mr/roae034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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OBJECTIVES To access the real-world clinical management of physicians who treat Takayasu arteritis (TAK) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) after the publication of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) 2017 Guidelines for the Management of Vasculitis Syndrome. METHODS This descriptive, cross-sectional study utilized self-administered electronic questionnaires, which were answered in February 2022 by physicians treating TAK or GCA and registered with Macromill Inc. RESULTS The 329 survey respondents comprised 110 cardiologists, 110 rheumatologists, 34 cardiovascular surgeons, 24 surgeons, 35 internal medicine physicians, 13 nephrologists, and 7 pediatricians. The 2017 JCS Guidelines were the most commonly referenced information source for resolving clinical questions, accessed by 70% of respondents. Ophthalmoscopy was performed in only 50% of patients with TAK, and in 70% for GCA. The median percentages of patients who underwent 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography for TAK and GCA patients were 23% and 20% at diagnosis, respectively, and 10% each at follow-up within 12 months. Tocilizumab was the most frequently used medication in combination with glucocorticoids for both TAK and GCA, especially in remission induction therapy for relapsed patients. CONCLUSIONS The majority of physician treating TAK and GCA referred to the 2017 JCS guidelines. This report clarified the current clinical practice for large vessel vasculitis in Japan, providing information for the next revision of the guidelines.
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- Yoshiyuki Abe
- Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Okayama University Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Okayama University Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
- Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of General Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Sugihara T, Yoshifuji H, Uchida HA, Maejima Y, Watanabe Y, Tanemoto K, Umezawa N, Manabe Y, Ishizaki J, Shirai T, Nagafuchi H, Hasegawa H, Niiro H, Ishii T, Nakaoka Y, Harigai M. Establishing clinical remission criteria for giant cell arteritis: Results of a Delphi exercise carried out by an expert panel of the Japan Research Committee of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare for Intractable Vasculitis. Mod Rheumatol 2024; 34:568-575. [PMID: 37225423 DOI: 10.1093/mr/road046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To develop a proposal for giant cell arteritis remission criteria in order to implement a treat-to-target algorithm. METHODS A task force consisting of 10 rheumatologists, 3 cardiologists, 1 nephrologist, and 1 cardiac surgeon was established in the Large-vessel Vasculitis Group of the Japanese Research Committee of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for Intractable Vasculitis to conduct a Delphi survey of remission criteria for giant cell arteritis. The survey was circulated among the members over four reiterations with four face-to-face meetings. Items with a mean score of ≥4 were extracted as items for defining remission criteria. RESULTS An initial literature review yielded a total of 117 candidate items for disease activity domains and treatment/comorbidity domains of remission criteria, of which 35 were extracted as disease activity domains (systematic symptoms, signs and symptoms of cranial and large-vessel area, inflammatory markers, and imaging findings). For the treatment/comorbidity domain, ≤5 mg/day of prednisolone 1 year after starting glucocorticoids was extracted. The definition of achievement of remission was the disappearance of active disease in the disease activity domain, normalization of inflammatory markers, and ≤5 mg/day of prednisolone. CONCLUSION We developed proposals for remission criteria to guide the implementation of a treat-to-target algorithm for giant cell arteritis.
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- Takahiko Sugihara
- Department of Lifetime Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
- Division of Rheumatology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- First Department of Physiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Clinical Research, Innovation and Education Center, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Watanabe Y, Shimizu Y, Hashimoto T, Iwahashi T, Shigematsu K, Nakaoka Y, Harigai M. Demographic Traits, Clinical Status, and Comorbidities of Patients With Thromboangiitis Obliterans in Japan. Circ J 2024; 88:319-328. [PMID: 37423757 DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-23-0211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND The latest demographics, clinical and living conditions, and comorbidities of patients with thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) in Japan are unknown.Methods and Results: We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional survey using the annual database of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare medical support system for patients with TAO between April 2013 and March 2014. This study included 3,220 patients (87.6% male), with current age ≥60 years in 2,155 patients (66.9%), including 306 (9.5%) patients aged ≥80 years. Overall, 546 (17.0%) had undergone extremity amputation. The median interval from onset to amputation was 3 years. Compared with never smokers (n=400), 2,715 patients with a smoking history had a higher amputation rate (17.7% vs. 13.0%, P=0.02, odds ratio [OR]=1.437, 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.058-1.953). A lower proportion of workers and students was seen among patients after amputation than among amputation-free patients (37.9% vs. 53.0%, P<0.0001, OR=0.542, 95% CI=0.449-0.654). Comorbidities, including arteriosclerosis-related diseases, were found even in patients in their 20-30 s. CONCLUSIONS This large survey confirmed that TAO is not a life-threatening but an extremity-threatening disease that threatens patients' professional lives. Smoking history worsens patients' condition and extremity prognosis. Long-term total health support is required, including care of extremities and arteriosclerosis-related diseases, social life support, and smoking cessation.
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- Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical University
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare, Mita Hospital
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- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine
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Yoshifuji H, Nakaoka Y, Uchida HA, Sugihara T, Watanabe Y, Funakoshi S, Isobe M, Harigai M. Organ Damage and Quality of Life in Takayasu Arteritis - Evidence From a National Registry Analysis. Circ J 2024; 88:285-294. [PMID: 38123296 DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-23-0656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Takayasu arteritis, affecting primarily young women, damages large arteries and organs. We examined the impact of disease duration and sex on organ damage and quality of life using Japan's Intractable Disease Registry.Methods and Results: After refining data, 2,013 of 2,795 patients were included in the study. Longer disease duration was related to a lower prevalence of disease activity symptoms, a higher prevalence of organ damage, and a higher proportion of patients requiring nursing care. Compared with men, women tended to have an earlier onset age, exhibiting longer disease duration. A higher proportion of women had aortic regurgitation and required nursing care. The proportion of female patients in employment was lower than that of the general female population, whereas no difference was observed between male patients and the general male population. Logistic regression analysis revealed that age at surveillance, brain ischemia, visual impairment/loss, and ischemic heart disease were significant factors associated with high nursing care needs (Level ≥2, with daily activity limitations). CONCLUSIONS Early diagnosis and effective treatment, particularly to prevent brain ischemia, visual impairment, and ischemic heart disease, may improve the quality of life of patients with Takayasu arteritis, especially women.
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- Hajime Yoshifuji
- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
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- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
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- Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine
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Matsushita Y, Watanabe Y, Shirahase R, Yamazaki Y. Relationship between Body Mass Index and Sarcopenia with Oral Function Decline in Older Japanese Patients Who Regularly Attend a General Dental Clinic. J Frailty Aging 2024; 13:21-30. [PMID: 38305439 DOI: 10.14283/jfa.2024.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE This study examined the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and sarcopenia with oral function decline in older patients as well as whether a combination of underweight BMI and sarcopenia was associated with decreased oral function in individuals with conservative restorative and prosthetic treatment for masticatory disorders. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study included 290 older Japanese patients who regularly attended a general dental clinic. A detailed examination of oral function, sarcopenia, and BMI according to the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia 2019 criteria was conducted for patients aged 65 years. This study used odds ratios as an epidemiological measure in the cross-sectional survey. RESULTS Multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that the number of remaining teeth and tongue pressure was associated with both ideal and overweight BMI in individuals with sarcopenia when compared to healthy individuals. The underweight BMI plus sarcopenia group was associated with tongue and lip motor function [ka] sound test, swallowing function, and the presence of oral hypofunction. DISCUSSION Our findings indicated that various aspects of oral function were impaired in community-dwelling older adult Japanese patients with sarcopenia and underweight BMI. Notably, among older adults with sarcopenia, both obese and thin patients exist, suggesting that distinct pathophysiological mechanisms influence oral function. CONCLUSION The above findings support the hypothesis that the coexistence of sarcopenia and underweight BMI is associated with poor oral function. Regular oral function assessments and weight measurements in general dental practice can aid the prompt identification of sarcopenia and reduced swallowing function and can facilitate early intervention. The presence of sarcopenia and impaired swallowing function should be considered in patients with underweight BMI, reduced [ka] sound, and low tongue pressure following a thorough oral function examination.
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- Y Matsushita
- Prof. Yutaka Watanabe, D.D.S., Ph. D, Gerodontology, Department of Oral Health Science, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8586, Japan, Phone: +81 (0)11-706-4582, Fax number: +81-(0)11-706-4919, E-mail:
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Yasaka K, Sato C, Hirakawa H, Fujita N, Kurokawa M, Watanabe Y, Kubo T, Abe O. Impact of deep learning on radiologists and radiology residents in detecting breast cancer on CT: a cross-vendor test study. Clin Radiol 2024; 79:e41-e47. [PMID: 37872026 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2023.09.022] [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] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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AIM To investigate the effect of deep learning on the diagnostic performance of radiologists and radiology residents in detecting breast cancers on computed tomography (CT). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective study, patients undergoing contrast-enhanced chest CT between January 2010 and December 2020 using equipment from two vendors were included. Patients with confirmed breast cancer were categorised as the training (n=201) and validation (n=26) group and the testing group (n=30) using processed CT images from either vendor. The trained deep-learning model was applied to test group patients with (30 females; mean age = 59.2 ± 15.8 years) and without (19 males, 21 females; mean age = 64 ± 15.9 years) breast cancer. Image-based diagnostic performance of the deep-learning model was evaluated with the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). Two radiologists and three radiology residents were asked to detect malignant lesions by recording a four-point diagnostic confidence score before and after referring to the result from the deep-learning model, and their diagnostic performance was evaluated using jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic analysis by calculating the figure of merit (FOM). RESULTS The AUCs of the trained deep-learning model on the validation and test data were 0.976 and 0.967, respectively. After referencing with the result of the deep learning model, the FOMs of readers significantly improved (reader 1/2/3/4/5: from 0.933/0.962/0.883/0.944/0.867 to 0.958/0.968/0.917/0.947/0.900; p=0.038). CONCLUSION Deep learning can help radiologists and radiology residents detect breast cancer on CT.
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- K Yasaka
- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan.
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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Kuwada N, Akagi D, Watanabe Y, Kanaoka Y, Tanemoto K. Endovascular Stent Graft Placement and Coil Embolization for Splenic Artery Aneurysm with an Anatomical Variant. Int J Angiol 2023; 32:273-276. [PMID: 37927835 PMCID: PMC10624522 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1742588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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A 62-year-old woman with abdominal pain was diagnosed with a splenic artery aneurysm (SAA) and an anatomical variant in the splenic artery (SA) arising from the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) as its first branch. To treat the SAA, the draining artery and a small branch of the SAA were embolized, and then small-diameter stent grafts were deployed from SMA orifice, covering the aberrant origin of the SA and preserving the second branch of SMA. Intraoperative angiography confirmed successful exclusion of the SAA without endoleak or arterial dissection. The stent graft was patent and the aneurysm had shrunk 3.5 years after the operation.
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- Noriaki Kuwada
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- First Department of Physiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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Kawahara D, Jensen A, Yuan J, Nagata Y, Watanabe Y. Predicting the BRAF mutation with pretreatment MRI radiomics features for melanoma brain metastases receiving Gamma Knife radiosurgery. Clin Radiol 2023; 78:e934-e940. [PMID: 37690975 DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2023.08.012] [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] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
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AIM To develop a model using radiomics features extracted from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) to predict the BRAF mutation in patients with melanoma brain metastases (MBM). MATERIALS AND METHODS Data of 220 tumours were classified into two groups. One was a group whose BRAF mutation was identified, and the other group whose BRAF mutation was not identified. We extracted 1,962 radiomics features from gadolinium contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI treatment-planning images. Synthetic Minority Over-sampling TEchnique (SMOTE) was performed to address the unbalanced data-related issues. A single-layer neural network (NN) was used to build predictive models with radiomics features. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and the area under the curve (AUC) were evaluated to assess the model performance. RESULTS The prediction performance for the final evaluation without the SMOTE had an accuracy of 77.14%, a specificity of 82.44%, a sensitivity of 81.85%, and an AUC of 0.79. The application of SMOTE improved the prediction model to an accuracy of 83.1%, a specificity of 87.07%, a sensitivity of 78.82%, and an AUC of 0.82. CONCLUSION The current study showed the feasibility of generating a highly accurate NN model for the BRAF mutation prediction. The prediction performance improved with SMOTE. The model assists physicians to obtain more accurate expectations of the treatment outcome without a genetic test.
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- D Kawahara
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Ozaki S, Ishigami G, Otsuki M, Miyamoto H, Wada K, Watanabe Y, Nishino T, Kojima H, Soda K, Nakao Y, Sutoh M, Maeda T, Kobayashi T. Publisher Correction: Granular flow experiment using artificial gravity generator at International Space Station. NPJ Microgravity 2023; 9:79. [PMID: 37739962 PMCID: PMC10517004 DOI: 10.1038/s41526-023-00325-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/24/2023] Open
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- S Ozaki
- Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.
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- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan
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- Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
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Ozaki S, Ishigami G, Otsuki M, Miyamoto H, Wada K, Watanabe Y, Nishino T, Kojima H, Soda K, Nakao Y, Sutoh M, Maeda T, Kobayashi T. Granular flow experiment using artificial gravity generator at International Space Station. NPJ Microgravity 2023; 9:61. [PMID: 37553360 PMCID: PMC10409782 DOI: 10.1038/s41526-023-00308-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
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Studying the gravity-dependent characteristics of regolith, fine-grained granular media covering extra-terrestrial bodies is essential for the reliable design and analysis of landers and rovers for space exploration. In this study, we propose an experimental approach to examine a granular flow under stable artificial gravity conditions for a long duration generated by a centrifuge at the International Space Station. We also perform a discrete element simulation of the granular flow in both artificial and natural gravity environments. The simulation results verify that the granular flows in artificial and natural gravity are consistent. Further, regression analysis of the experimental results reveals that the mass flow rate of granular flow quantitatively follows a well-known physics-based law with some deviations under low-gravity conditions, implying that the bulk density of the granular media decreases with gravity. This insight also indicates that the bulk density considered in simulation studies of space probes under low-gravity conditions needs to be tuned for their reliable design and analysis.
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- S Ozaki
- Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.
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- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan
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- Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan
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Lin KY, Yang HY, Yang SC, Chen YL, Watanabe Y, Chen JR. Caulerpa lentillifera improves ethanol-induced liver injury and modulates the gut microbiota in rats. Curr Res Food Sci 2023; 7:100546. [PMID: 37483276 PMCID: PMC10362798 DOI: 10.1016/j.crfs.2023.100546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Revised: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Caulerpa lentillifera (CL), also called sea grape, is a type of edible green alga which was reported to have antioxidative and immunomodulatory potential. This study aimed to investigate the hepatoprotective effects of CL in a rat model of chronic ethanol exposure. Wistar rats were assigned to four groups and supplied with an isocaloric control liquid diet (group C), an ethanol liquid diet (group E), a control liquid diet supplemented with 5% CL (group CC), or an ethanol liquid diet supplemented with 5% CL (group EC) for a 12-week experimental period. Ethanol feeding induced steatosis, inflammation, and changes in the gut microbiota by the end of the study, whereas CL supplementation significantly improved liver injuries and decreased circulatory endotoxin levels. Moreover, we also found that CL reversed ethanol-induced elevation of hepatic toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), MyD88 protein expression, the phosphorylated-nuclear factor (NF)-κB-to-NF-κB ratio, and proinflammatory cytokine concentrations. Additionally, CL also increased the abundance of Akkermansia and tight junction proteins and diminished the Firmicutes-to-Bacteroidetes ratio. Dietary CL inhibited the progression of alcoholic liver disease, and some of the possible mechanisms may be strengthening the intestinal barrier function, alleviating dysbiosis, and modulating the TLR4 pathway.
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- Kuan-Yu Lin
- School of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Nutritional Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- School of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- School of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- General Health Medical Center, Yokohama University of Pharmacy, Yokohama, Japan
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- School of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Nutrition Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Abdulameer NJ, Acharya U, Adare A, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Akimoto R, Alfred M, Apadula N, Aramaki Y, Asano H, Atomssa ET, Awes TC, Azmoun B, Babintsev V, Bai M, Bandara NS, Bannier B, Barish KN, Bathe S, Bazilevsky A, Beaumier M, Beckman S, Belmont R, Berdnikov A, Berdnikov Y, Bichon L, Black D, Blankenship B, Bok JS, Borisov V, Boyle K, Brooks ML, Bryslawskyj J, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Campbell S, Canoa Roman V, Chen CH, Chiu M, Chi CY, Choi IJ, Choi JB, Chujo T, Citron Z, Connors M, Corliss R, Corrales Morales Y, Csanád M, Csörgő T, Datta A, Daugherity MS, David G, Dean CT, DeBlasio K, Dehmelt K, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Ding L, Dion A, Doomra V, Do JH, Drees A, Drees KA, Durham JM, Durum A, En'yo H, Enokizono A, Esha R, Fadem B, Fan W, Feege N, Fields DE, Finger M, Finger M, Firak D, Fitzgerald D, Fokin SL, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Gallus P, Gal C, Garg P, Ge H, Giles M, Giordano F, Glenn A, Goto Y, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Gunji T, Guragain H, Gu Y, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hahn KI, Hamagaki H, Hanks J, Han SY, Harvey M, Hasegawa S, Hemmick TK, He X, Hill JC, Hodges A, Hollis RS, Homma K, Hong B, Hoshino T, Huang J, Ikeda Y, Imai K, Imazu Y, Inaba M, Iordanova A, Isenhower D, Ivanishchev D, Jacak BV, Jeon SJ, Jezghani M, Jiang X, Ji Z, Johnson BM, Joo E, Joo KS, Jouan D, Jumper DS, Kang JH, Kang JS, Kawall D, Kazantsev AV, Key JA, Khachatryan V, Khanzadeev A, Khatiwada A, Kihara K, Kim C, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim EJ, Kim HJ, Kim M, Kim T, Kim YK, Kincses D, Kingan A, Kistenev E, Klatsky J, Kleinjan D, Kline P, Koblesky T, Kofarago M, Koster J, Kotov D, Kovacs L, Kurgyis B, Kurita K, Kurosawa M, Kwon Y, Lajoie JG, Larionova D, Lebedev A, Lee KB, Lee SH, Leitch MJ, Leitgab M, Lewis NA, Lim SH, Liu MX, Li X, Loomis DA, Lynch D, Lökös S, Majoros T, Makdisi YI, Makek M, Manion A, Manko VI, Mannel E, McCumber M, McGaughey PL, McGlinchey D, McKinney C, Meles A, Mendoza M, Meredith B, Miake Y, Mignerey AC, Miller AJ, Milov A, Mishra DK, Mitchell JT, Mitrankova M, Mitrankov I, Miyasaka S, Mizuno S, Mondal MM, Montuenga P, Moon T, Morrison DP, Moukhanova TV, Muhammad A, Mulilo B, Murakami T, Murata J, Mwai A, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nagy MI, Nakagawa I, Nakagomi H, Nakano K, Nattrass C, Nelson S, Netrakanti PK, Nihashi M, Niida T, Nouicer R, Novitzky N, Nukazuka G, Nyanin AS, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Oh J, Orjuela Koop JD, Orosz M, Osborn JD, Oskarsson A, Ozawa K, Pak R, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park JS, Park S, Patel L, Patel M, Pate SF, Peng JC, Peng W, Perepelitsa DV, Perera GDN, Peressounko DY, PerezLara CE, Perry J, Petti R, Pinkenburg C, Pinson R, Pisani RP, Potekhin M, Pun A, Purschke ML, Radzevich PV, Rak J, Ramasubramanian N, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reynolds D, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Richford D, Riveli N, Roach D, Rolnick SD, Rosati M, Rowan Z, Rubin JG, Runchey J, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sako H, Samsonov V, Sarsour M, Sato S, Sawada S, Schaefer B, Schmoll BK, Sedgwick K, Seele J, Seidl R, Sen A, Seto R, Sett P, Sexton A, Sharma D, Shein I, Shibata M, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Shi Z, Shukla P, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Singh BK, Singh CP, Singh V, Slunečka M, Smith KL, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Stankus PW, Stepanov M, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sukhanov A, Sumita T, Sun J, Sun Z, Sziklai J, Takahama R, Takahara A, Taketani A, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarafdar S, Taranenko A, Timilsina A, Todoroki T, Tomášek M, Torii H, Towell M, Towell R, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Ueda Y, Ujvari B, van Hecke HW, Vargyas M, Velkovska J, Virius M, Vrba V, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Wang Z, Watanabe D, Watanabe Y, Watanabe YS, Wei F, Whitaker S, Wolin S, Wong CP, Woody CL, Wysocki M, Xia B, Xue L, Yalcin S, Yamaguchi YL, Yanovich A, Yoon I, Younus I, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zelenski A, Zou L. Measurement of Direct-Photon Cross Section and Double-Helicity Asymmetry at sqrt[s]=510 GeV in p[over →]+p[over →] Collisions. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 130:251901. [PMID: 37418716 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.251901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/09/2023]
Abstract
We present measurements of the cross section and double-helicity asymmetry A_{LL} of direct-photon production in p[over →]+p[over →] collisions at sqrt[s]=510 GeV. The measurements have been performed at midrapidity (|η|<0.25) with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. At relativistic energies, direct photons are dominantly produced from the initial quark-gluon hard scattering and do not interact via the strong force at leading order. Therefore, at sqrt[s]=510 GeV, where leading-order-effects dominate, these measurements provide clean and direct access to the gluon helicity in the polarized proton in the gluon-momentum-fraction range 0.02<x<0.08, with direct sensitivity to the sign of the gluon contribution.
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- N J Abdulameer
- Debrecen University, H-4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary
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- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
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- Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
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- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059, USA
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- Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- IHEP Protvino, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, New York 10010, USA
- RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
- Physics and Astronomy Department, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27412, USA
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- Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg 195251 Russia
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- Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg 195251 Russia
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- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
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- Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg 195251 Russia
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- RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, New York 10010, USA
- University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- IHEP Protvino, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533, USA
- Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533, USA
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Korea
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- Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
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- Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Hungary
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- MATE, Laboratory of Femtoscopy, Károly Róbert Campus, H-3200 Gyöngyös, Mátraiút 36, Hungary
- Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Wigner RCP, RMKI) H-1525 Budapest 114, P.O. Box 49, Budapest, Hungary
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- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- IHEP Protvino, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Yonsei University, IPAP, Seoul 120-749, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- IHEP Protvino, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino 142281, Russia
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- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Physics Department, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104-5586, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 180 00 Troja, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 180 00 Troja, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Debrecen University, H-4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
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- National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow 123098, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Czech Technical University, Zikova 4, 166 36 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Department of Physics, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57197, USA
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- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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- Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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- Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
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- Nara Women's University, Kita-uoya Nishi-machi Nara 630-8506, Japan
- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
- Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
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- Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas 77004, USA
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata Shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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- Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
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- Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata Shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan
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- RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
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- University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA
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- PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad region 188300, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Myongji University, Yongin, Kyonggido 449-728, Korea
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- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
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- Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
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- Myongji University, Yongin, Kyonggido 449-728, Korea
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- IPN-Orsay, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, BP1, F-91406 Orsay, France
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Yonsei University, IPAP, Seoul 120-749, Korea
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-792, Korea
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- Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337, USA
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- National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute," Moscow 123098, Russia
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- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad region 188300, Russia
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
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- Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
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- Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics and University of Jyväskylä, P.O.Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Korea
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- Yonsei University, IPAP, Seoul 120-749, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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- Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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- Hanyang University, Seoul 133-792, Korea
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Hungary
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Hungary
- Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Wigner RCP, RMKI) H-1525 Budapest 114, P.O. Box 49, Budapest, Hungary
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- RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad region 188300, Russia
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Kato T, Sato M, Takamura C, Ito J, Ito M, Watanabe Y, Terashima M. Transverse and Longitudinal Right Ventricular Fractional Parameters Derived from Four-Chamber Cine Mri are Associated with Right Ventricular Dysfunction Etiology. J Heart Lung Transplant 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.02.514] [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: 04/05/2023] Open
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Watanabe D, Yoshida T, Nanri H, Watanabe Y, Itoi A, Goto C, Ishikawa-Takata K, Yamada Y, Fujita H, Miyachi M, Kimura M. Dose-Response Relationships between Diet Quality and Mortality among Frail and Non-Frail Older Adults: A Population-Based Kyoto-Kameoka Prospective Cohort Study. J Nutr Health Aging 2023; 27:1228-1237. [PMID: 38151874 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-023-2041-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Although better diet quality is inversely associated with mortality risk, the association between diet quality and mortality remains unclear in frail and non-frail older adults. Thus, we aimed to examine this association in older Japanese adults. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS We used the data of 8,051 Japanese older adults aged ≥65 years in the Kyoto-Kameoka study. MESUREMENTS Dietary intake was estimated using a validated food frequency questionnaire. Diet quality was evaluated by calculating the adherence scores to the Japanese Food Guide Spinning Top (range, 0 [worst] to 80 [best]), which were stratified into quartiles. Frailty status was assessed using the validated self-administered Kihon Checklist (KCL) and the Fried phenotype (FP) model. Survival data were collected between February 15, 2012 and November 30, 2016. Statistical analysis was performed using the multivariate Cox proportional hazard analysis and the spline model. RESULTS During the median 4.75-year follow-up (36,552 person-years), we recorded 661 deaths. After adjusting for confounders, compared with the bottom adherence score quartile, the top quartile was associated with lower hazard ratio (HR) of mortality in frailty (HR, 0.73; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.54-1.00) and non-frailty, as defined by the KCL (HR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.52-1.01). In the spline model, regardless of frailty status defined by the KCL and FP model, adherence score showed a strongly dose-dependent inverse association with mortality up to approximately 55 points; however, no significant differences were observed thereafter. This association was similar to the results obtained in individuals with physical, cognitive, and depression as domains of KCL in the spline model. CONCLUSIONS Our findings demonstrate an L-shaped association between diet quality and mortality in both frail and non-frail individuals. This study may provide important knowledge for improving poor diet quality in older individuals with frailty or domains of frailty.
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- D Watanabe
- Daiki Watanabe, RD, PhD, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-city, Saitama 359-1192, Japan. Tel.: +81-4-2947-6936. E-mail:
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Fujima T, Saito D, Shibuta H, Ogihara R, Morikubo H, Ozaki R, Tokunaga S, Minowa S, Mitsui T, Miura M, Hayashida M, Watanabe Y, Miyoshi J, Matsuura M, Shibahara J, Ukiyama E, Hisamatsu T. Endoscopic Treatment of Colo-Colonic Intussusception in a Patient with Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome. Case Rep Gastroenterol 2023; 17:339-345. [PMID: 38020466 PMCID: PMC10656115 DOI: 10.1159/000534201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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A 19-year-old man with a history of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) and two previous partial small bowel resections because of intussusception presented with lower abdominal pain. Computed tomography (CT) showed concentric multilayer and cord-like structures in the transverse colon. Colo-colonic intussusception was suspected and he was hospitalized. After two therapeutic enemas were unsuccessful, a colonoscopy was performed. The intussusception was reduced and a 40-mm transverse colon polyp with a thick stalk was resected. After the procedure, his abdominal pain was relieved and he was discharged on the sixth hospital day. This case and several previous reports suggest that PJS polyps with tumor diameter exceeding 30 mm and location in the transverse or sigmoid colon can cause intussusception. Endoscopic treatment should be considered for these lesions.
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- Takeshi Fujima
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Watanabe T, Watanabe Y, Ikeda N, Aihara M, Yamaguchi Y. 107 Serum levels of C-C motif chemokine ligand 2 and interleukin-8 as possible biomarkers in patients with toxic epidermal necrolysis accompanied by acute respiratory distress syndrome. J Invest Dermatol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2022.09.117] [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: 11/19/2022]
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Koide Y, Shimizu H, Aoyama T, Kitagawa T, Miyauchi R, Watanabe Y, Tachibana H, Kodaira T. Preoperative Spirometry and BMI are Early Predictive Factors of the Cardiac and Lung Dose in Deep Inspiration Breath-Hold Radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.877] [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: 11/24/2022]
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Hamaya R, Yonetsu T, Aoyama N, Watanabe Y, Tashiro A, Niida T, Isobe M, Maejima Y, Iwata T, Sasano T. Contribution of dental health in cardiovascular secondary prevention. Eur Heart J 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Backgrounds
Previous studies have suggested that periodontitis is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), partly through exaggerated systematic inflammation through pathogens breaking into the bloodstream and their metabolic products. However, the clinical evidence in the cardiovascular secondary prevention is limited. In addition, there is a paucity of data about the contribution of comprehensively assessed dental health, including dental caries or teeth loss, to CVD incidence. Consequently, current ESC guideline for CVD prevention just briefly refers the contribution of dental health [1].
Objective
To investigate the associations between teeth loss, periodontitis, and dental caries and incident major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with existing CVD.
Methods
Patients with known CVD who were admitted to the Department of Cardiology between May 2012 and August 2015 were prospectively, consecutively enrolled. Patients underwent comprehensive dental examinations, including counts of lost teeth, dental caries, and periodontal measurements of clinical attachment loss (CAL), periodontal probing pocket depth (PPD), and bleeding on probing (BOP) by trained periodontists during the hospital stay. We assessed the associations between these dental measures and MACE, defined as a composite of cardiac death, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and hospital re-admission for worsened congestive heart failure, using multivariate COX proportional hazard models and restricted mean survival time (RMST) analyses. P-values were adjusted by Bonferroni methods.
Results
Among 888 patients included for the present analyses, the mean age was 63.9 (SD: 13.1) years and there were 242 (27.3%) women. During a median follow-up of 4.6 (IQR: 1.4, 6.7) years, incident MACE was confirmed in 142 patients. In multivariate COX proportional hazard models, one more tooth loss was associated with 3 (95% CI: 1, 5) % higher hazard of MACE (adjusted p=0.020). Kaplan-Meier curves showing survival from MACE according to the quartiles of teeth loss were described in Figure 1. Compared with patients with 0 to ≤4 lost teeth, periods free from MACE (95% CI) by 5-years of follow-up were on average shorter by 0.17 (−0.04, 0.37) years, 0.26 (0.04, 0.49) years, and 0.59 (0.34, 0.85) years in patients with 5 to ≤7, 8 to ≤13, and >13 lost teeth, respectively. The RMST differences with varied cutoff years were shown in Figure 2. There were no significant associations between the number of dental caries, CAL, PPD, and BOP and MACE incidence.
Conclusion
In hospitalized patients due to existing cardiovascular diseases, total number of lost teeth was associated with incident MACE. Given that teeth loss is an ultimate consequence of periodontitis or dental caries, the present findings imply that efforts to prevent losing teeth by maintaining dental health would be effective measures for cardiovascular secondary prevention.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: None.
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- R Hamaya
- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston , United States of America
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- Tokyo Medical and Dental University , Tokyo , Japan
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- Kanagawa Dental University , Kanagawa , Japan
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- Tokyo Medical and Dental University , Tokyo , Japan
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- Tokyo Medical and Dental University , Tokyo , Japan
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- Tokyo Medical and Dental University , Tokyo , Japan
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- Sakakibara Memorial Hospital , Tokyo , Japan
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- Tokyo Medical and Dental University , Tokyo , Japan
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- Tokyo Medical and Dental University , Tokyo , Japan
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- Tokyo Medical and Dental University , Tokyo , Japan
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Muro K, Kato K, Chin K, Nishino K, Satouchi M, Watanabe Y, Kawakami H, Tsushima T, Hirai H, Chisamore M, Kojima T. 1241P Phase Ib study of futibatinib plus pembrolizumab in patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors: Tolerability results and antitumor activity in esophageal carcinoma. Ann Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2022.07.1359] [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: 11/01/2022] Open
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Balogun JB, Adewale B, Balogun SU, Lawan A, Haladu IS, Dogara MM, Aminu AU, Caffrey CR, De Koning HP, Watanabe Y, Balogun EO. Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Urinary Schistosomiasis among Primary School Pupils in the Jidawa and Zobiya Communities of Jigawa State, Nigeria. Ann Glob Health 2022; 88:71. [PMID: 36062044 PMCID: PMC9389954 DOI: 10.5334/aogh.3704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Urogenital schistosomiasis (UgS) is a parasitic disease caused by Schistosoma haematobium and can lead to chronic ill-health. Nigeria is endemic for schistosomiasis, but epidemiology of UgS has not been studied in most states. This study was conceived with the aim to contribute towards an accurate national picture of UgS in Nigeria. The prevalence of UgS and the associated risk factors were for the first time investigated among primary school pupils in Jidawa and Zobiya communities of the Dutse Local Government Area (LGAs) of Jigawa State, Nigeria. Method Focus group discussions with teachers and parents were conducted. After obtaining written consent from parents, questionnaires were administered to pupils to obtain socio-demographic data and information on water contact activities. Urine samples (279) were collected and processed by the urine filtration technique to evaluate haematuria and the presence of S. haematobium eggs. Results Prevalences of 65.7% (90/137) and 69.0% (98/142) were recorded in the Jidawa and Zobiya communities, respectively. In both communities, there was a significant association between gender and UgS: 63.3% of the infected pupils were males as compared to 36.7% females (χ2 = 5.42, p = 0.020). Grade 5 students had a significantly higher prevalence (χ2 = 17.919, p = 0.001) (80.0%) compared to those in grades 2, 3, 4, and 6 (63.8%, 66.7%, 61.5%, and 64.6%, respectively). Water contact activities showed that pupils involved in fishing, irrigation, and swimming were at greater risk of becoming infected in Jidawa and Zobiya, with odds ratios (risk factors) of 5.4 (0.994-28.862) and 4.1 (1.709-9.862), respectively (p = 0.05). Conclusion Both the Jidawa and Zobiya communities of the Dutse LGAs of Jigawa State are hyperendemic for UgS. In collaboration with the State Ministry of Health, mass administration of praziquantel was carried out in the Jidawa and Zobiya communities after this study.
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- J. B. Balogun
- Department of Biological Sciences, Federal University Dutse, P.M.B. 7156, Jigawa State, NG
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- Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Nigerian Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Lagos State, NG
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- Department of Human Anatomy, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Federal University Dutse, P.M.B. 7156, Jigawa State, NG
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Federal University Dutse, P.M.B. 7156, Jigawa State, NG
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Federal University Dutse, P.M.B. 7156, Jigawa State, NG
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Federal University Dutse, P.M.B. 7156, Jigawa State, NG
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- Jigawa State Ministry of Health, Block B, New Complex Secretariat, Takur Dutse, Jigawa State, NG
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- Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, JP
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- Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, JP
- Department of Biochemistry, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria 2222, Kaduna State, NG
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Koide Y, Shimizu H, Miyauchi R, Haimoto S, Tanaka H, Watanabe Y, Adachi S, Kato D, Aoyama T, Kitagawa T, Tachibana H, Kodaira T. PO-1681 Fully automated rigid image registration versus human registration in postoperative spine SBRT. Radiother Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(22)03645-3] [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: 11/17/2022]
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Takahashi M, Okada K, Ouch R, Konno T, Usui K, Suzuki H, Satoh M, Kogure T, Satoh K, Watanabe Y, Nakamura H, Murai Y. Fibronectin plays a major role in hypoxia-induced lenvatinib resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma PLC/PRF/5 cells. Pharmazie 2021; 76:594-601. [PMID: 34986955 DOI: 10.1691/ph.2021.1854] [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: 06/14/2023]
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Resistance to lenvatinib mesylate (LEN), a systemic chemotherapy that can be administered orally, has been a major issue for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although HCC is the tumor that most exhibits intratumoral hypoxia, which has been shown to be involved in the development of treatment resistance, there are no reports of LEN resistance in HCC treatment under hypoxia. The purpose of our study was to elucidate the mechanism of treatment resistance to LEN under hypoxia using HCC cell lines. We confirmed LEN resistance under hypoxic conditions in HCC cell lines. There was a significant increase in the IC50 value of PLC/PRF/5 cells from 13.0±0.8 μM in normoxia to 21.3±1.1 μM in hypoxia, but in HepG2 cells, the increase was not significant. To elucidate the LEN resistance mechanism of PLC/PRF/5 cells under hypoxia, we performed microarray analysis and extracted genes that are thought to be related to this mechanism. Furthermore, in-silico analysis confirmed significant changes in the extracellular matrix, and among them, FN1 encoding fibronectin was determined as the hub of the gene cluster. The expression of fibronectin in PLC/PRF/5 cells examined with immunofluorescence staining was significantly elevated in and outside of cells under hypoxia, and tended to decrease when cells were exposed to LEN under normoxia. Furthermore, the fibronectin concentration in the culture solution of PLC/PRF/5 cells examined by ELISA was 2.3 times higher under hypoxia than under normoxia under LEN(-) conditions, and 1.6 times higher under hypoxia than under normoxia under LEN(+) conditions. It is assumed that in PLC/PRF/5 cells, fibronectin is probably suppressed as an indirect effect of LEN under normoxia, but transcription factors such as HIF-1α are induced under hypoxia, thus enhancing the production of fibronectin and attenuating the effect of LEN, resulting in drug resistance. This behavior of fibronectin with LEN exposure under hypoxia is probably specific to PLC/PRF/5 cells. Further studies should verify the combined effective inhibition of fibronectin and the MAPK pathway as a promising therapeutic strategy to enhance the value of LEN in HCC treatment.
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- M Takahashi
- Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan; Department of Pharmacy, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan; Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan;,
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan; Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan; Department of Pharmacy, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan; Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan; Department of Pharmacy, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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- Division of Clinical Pharmaceutics, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University; Miyagi, Japan
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Sugihara T, Nakaoka Y, Uchida HA, Yoshifuji H, Maejima Y, Watanabe Y, Amiya E, Tanemoto K, Miyata T, Umezawa N, Manabe Y, Ishizaki J, Shirai T, Nagafuchi H, Hasegawa H, Miyamae T, Niiro H, Ito S, Ishii T, Isobe M, Harigai M. Establishing Clinical Remission Criteria and the Framework of a Treat-To-Target Algorithm for Takayasu arteritis: Results of a Delphi Exercise Carried out by an Expert Panel of the Japan Research Committee of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare for intractable vasculitis. Mod Rheumatol 2021; 32:930-937. [PMID: 34850081 DOI: 10.1093/mr/roab081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 09/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To develop a proposal for remission criteria and a framework for a treat-to-target (T2T) algorithm for Takayasu arteritis (TAK). METHODS A study group of the large-vessel vasculitis group of the Japanese Research Committee of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare for Intractable Vasculitis (JPVAS) consists of 10 rheumatologists, 5 cardiologists, 1 nephrologist, 1 vascular surgeon, 1 cardiac surgeon, and 2 pediatric rheumatologists. A Delphi survey of remission criteria items was circulated among the study group over 4 reiterations. To develop the T2T algorithm, the study group conducted four face-to-face meetings and two rounds of Delphi together with 3 patients. RESULTS Initial literature review resulted in a list of 117 candidate items for remission criteria, of which 56 items with a mean score of ≥4 (0-5) were extracted including disease activity domains and treatment/comorbidity domains. The study group provided six overarching principles for the T2T algorithm, two recommendations on treatment goals, five on evaluation of disease activity and imaging findings including PET-CT, and two on treatment intensification. CONCLUSIONS We developed a T2T algorithm and proposals for standardized remission criteria by means of a Delphi exercise. These will guide future evaluation of different TAK treatment regimens.
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- Takahiko Sugihara
- Department of Lifetime Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.,Division of Rheumatology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan.,Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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- Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- First Department of Physiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Therapeutic Strategy for Heart Failure, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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- Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan.,Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
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- Pediatric Rheumatology, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Medical Education, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Clinical Research, Innovation and Education Center, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Ishii Y, Aiba N, Ando M, Asakura N, Bierwage A, Cara P, Dzitko H, Edao Y, Gex D, Hasegawa K, Hayashi T, Hiwatari R, Hoshino T, Ikeda Y, Ishida S, Isobe K, Iwai Y, Jokinen A, Kasugai A, Kawamura Y, Kim JH, Kondo K, Kwon S, Lorenzo SC, Masuda K, Matsuyama A, Miyato N, Morishita K, Nakajima M, Nakajima N, Nakamichi M, Nozawa T, Ochiai K, Ohta M, Oyaidzu M, Ozeki T, Sakamoto K, Sakamoto Y, Sato S, Seto H, Shiroto T, Someya Y, Sugimoto M, Tanigawa H, Tokunaga S, Utoh H, Wang W, Watanabe Y, Yagi M. R&D Activities for Fusion DEMO in the QST Rokkasho Fusion Institute. Fusion Science and Technology 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/15361055.2021.1925030] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Y. Ishii
- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Naka Fusion Institute, Naka City, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Naka Fusion Institute, Naka City, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Naka Fusion Institute, Naka City, Japan
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- IFMIF/EVEDA Project Team, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- Fusion for Energy, Broader Approach, Garching, Germany
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- Fusion for Energy, Broader Approach, Garching, Germany
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- IFMIF/EVEDA Project Team, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- Fusion for Energy, Broader Approach, Barcelona, Spain
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- Kyoto University, Institute of Advanced Energy, Uji, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institute for Fusion Science, Department of Helical Plasma Research Rokkasho Research Center, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- NAT Corporation, Tohoku Branch Office, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- NAT Corporation, Tohoku Branch Office, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Rokkasho Fusion Institute, Rokkasho-Vill., Japan
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Fujii S, Tahara J, Zhang F, Koike M, Ohta Y, Watanabe Y. Motion control of deep sea vehicle ‘OTOHIME’: modeling with neural network. Adv Robot 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2021.1985606] [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: 10/20/2022]
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- Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Marine Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Marine Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Marine Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Marine Technology and Engineering Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
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- Marine Technology and Engineering Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
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Magata F, Sone A, Watanabe Y, Deguchi Y, Aoki T, Haneda S, Ishii M. Prevention of retained fetal membranes and improvement in subsequent fertility with oxytocin administration in cows with assisted calving. Theriogenology 2021; 176:200-205. [PMID: 34627050 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2021.09.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Revised: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In dairy cows, the efficacy of oxytocin treatment for preventing retained fetal membranes (RFM) is controversial. The physiological condition of cows associated with the calving process may affect the action of oxytocin. This study aimed to elucidate the difference in the efficacy of exogenous oxytocin treatment immediately after calving among cows that received various obstetric interventions. The calving ease was recorded using a score of 1-5, and assisted birth was defined as a score of 2 or more. Cows that required calving assistance (assisted, n = 28) due to delayed calving progression had a prolonged time from calving to expulsion of the fetal membrane (P < 0.01), and impaired reproductive performance compared to cows that did not receive calving assistance (unassisted, n = 78). The effect of oxytocin treatment was determined using cows that did not expel their fetal membrane within 3 h after calving. Cows were randomly divided into the control (unassisted, n = 41; assisted, n = 22) or oxytocin group (unassisted, n = 33; assisted, n = 10). Oxytocin (50 IU) was administered intramuscularly to the cows in the oxytocin group between 3 and 6 h after calving, while no treatment was administered in the control group. In cows with assisted birth, oxytocin administration accelerated placental expulsion (P < 0.05) and improved several reproductive parameters, such as the number of services until conception (P < 0.05) and the calving to conception intervals (P < 0.05) compared to the control group. On the other hand, oxytocin administration slightly accelerated placental expulsion (P < 0.05), but failed to improve fertility in cows with unassisted birth. The results indicate that the action of oxytocin varies depending on the calving situation of the cows. Oxytocin administration during the early postpartum period could prevent RFM and improve the decline in reproductive performance associated with calving assistance.
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Ishii Veterinary Support Services Inc., Shintoku-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Department of Livestock Medicine, Japan Agricultural Cooperatives-Shihoro, Shihoro-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Ishii Veterinary Support Services Inc., Shintoku-cho, Hokkaido, Japan
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Watanabe T, Adachi O, Watanabe Y, Hirama T, Matsuda Y, Noda M, Niikawa H, Oishi H, Suzuki Y, Ejima Y, Toyama H, Kondo T, Saiki Y. Lung Transplantation with Pulmonary Artery Reconstruction Using Donor Aorta for Pulmonary Hypertension with Giant Pulmonary Arterial Aneurysm: Intermediate-Term Result. J Heart Lung Transplant 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2021.01.1895] [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: 10/21/2022] Open
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Kato Y, Watanabe Y, Yamane Y, Mizutani H, Kurimoto F, Yamamoto G, Akagi K, Sakai H. P85.03 PD-L1 Expression and Efficacy of Immunotherapy in Japanese Patients with NSCLC Harboring MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutation. J Thorac Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2021.01.1225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Honda T, Kanaoka Y, Furukawa H, Tamura T, Kuwada N, Yamasawa T, Watanabe Y, Yunoki Y, Tabuchi A, Tanemoto K. Intraoperative collection of autologous platelet-rich plasma from the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit upon initiation of extracorporeal circulation. J Cardiothorac Surg 2021; 16:17. [PMID: 33546696 PMCID: PMC7863431 DOI: 10.1186/s13019-020-01388-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Accepted: 12/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Objectives The aim of this study is to evaluate the possibility of the autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) collection from the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) circuit and to evaluate its effect on the aggregative function. Methods For seventy-two patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB, an autologous PRP was prepared using the Haemonetics Component Collection System® by drawing blood from the CPB circuit immediately after CPB was established. The blood samples were taken at three points for examination, A: beginning of surgery, B: immediately after heparin reversal with protamine following discontinuation of CPB, C: after the collected autologous PRP was returned to the patient. Platelet count and platelet aggregation ability were analyzed. Results The mean platelet count in autologous PRP was 5.5 (range: 3–14) units. Platelet count decreased by 115.0 (±27.3) × 1000/μl from A to B and increased by 27.3 ± 17.2 (× 1000/μl) from B to C. When platelet aggregation was measured by Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP) 3.0 μM, it decreased by 42.6% ± 12.1% from A to B and increased by 8.7% ± 7.4% from B to C. Conclusions Autologous PRP can be safely collected by drawing blood from the CPB circuit, platelet count and aggregation ability significantly decreased after CPB including autologous PRP collection. Some improvement was detected in the number of the platelets count and platelet aggregation ability by administrating an autologous PRP even if autologous PRP is collected from CPB circuit. Trial registration UMI-CTR, UMIN000023776. Registered 1 October 2016.
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan.
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Hoshino D, Hirano H, Edahiro A, Motokawa K, Shirobe M, Watanabe Y, Motohashi Y, Ohara Y, Iwasaki M, Maruoka Y, Yokoyama Y, Narita M, Taniguchi Y, Shinkai S, Kitamura A. Association between Oral Frailty and Dietary Variety among Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Nutr Health Aging 2021; 25:361-368. [PMID: 33575729 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-020-1538-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the association between the severity of oral frailty (OF), which is one of the comprehensive oral functions evaluated, and dietary variety in community-dwelling older persons. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Community-based. PARTICIPANTS A total of 769 community-dwelling older persons aged 65 and over. INTERVENTIONS We examined basic demographic information, functional status, cognitive status, depressive symptoms, medical history, and oral functions of the participants. MEASUREMENTS OF was defined by 1-2 and 3 or more of 6 items of oral function evaluation in the pre-oral frailty and oral frailty groups, respectively. Dietary variety was assessed using the dietary variety score (DVS). The participants were categorized into 3 groups for evaluation: those with a low score (0-2), medium score (3-5), and high score (≥6). Ordinal logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the association between OF and DVS. RESULTS The rate of OF in the participants was 21.6%, and its severity was significantly associated with DVS after adjusting for potential confounders (Pre-OF; adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 1.687, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.219-2.335, OF; adjusted OR = 2.857, 95% CI = 1.489-5.484). CONCLUSION The severity of OF was significantly associated with DVS in community-dwelling older persons. This suggests that DVS may be useful in understanding the effects of OF on the nutritional status. Further longitudinal studies are needed to elucidate the association between OF and DVS.
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- Daichi Hoshino, Department of Special Needs Dentistry, Division of Community Based Comprehensive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Showa University, Tokyo 145-8515, Japan, Phone: +81 337 87 1151, Fax: +81 337 85 6403,
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Zushi M, Hashimoto N, Hamaguchi D, Watanabe Y, Tanigawa H. Helium effect on the sink strength of grain boundaries in F82H. Nuclear Materials and Energy 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nme.2020.100788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Nampei Y, Toyomasu Y, Ochiai S, Mase T, Watanabe Y, Kawamura T, Takada A, Yamashita Y, Ii N, Sakuma H, Nomoto Y. PO-1071: Prognostic value of CA19-9 in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma after chemoradiotherapy. Radiother Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(21)01088-4] [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: 10/22/2022]
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Takada A, Nakamura S, Toyomasu Y, Kitagawa K, Ichikawa Y, Kawamura T, Watanabe Y, Nanpei Y, Mase T, Sakuma H, Nomoto Y. Reduced Left Ventricular Myocardial Blood Flow After Radiation Therapy For Thoracic Esophagus Cancer: A Study Using Stress Dynamic Perfusion CT. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.07.1929] [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: 10/23/2022]
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Watanabe Y, Nara Y, Hioki H, Kawashima H, Kataoka A, Nakashima M, Nishihata Y, Hayashida K, Yamamoto M, Tanaka J, Mizutani K, Jujo K, Nakazawa G, Izumo M, Kozuma K. Short-term effects of low-dose tolvaptan in acute decompensated heart failure patients with severe aortic stenosis: the LOHAS registry. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.1226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
Tolvaptan exerts potent diuretic effects in heart failure patients without hemodynamic instability. Nonetheless, its clinical efficacy for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) due to severe aortic stenosis (AS) remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of tolvaptan in ADHF patients with severe AS.
Methods
The LOw-Dose Tolvaptan (7.5 mg) in Decompensated Heart Failure Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis (LOHAS) registry is a multicenter (7 centers) prospective registry that assessed the short-term effects of tolvaptan in subjects hospitalized for ADHF with severe AS. A total of 59 subjects were enrolled between September 2014 and December 2017. The primary endpoints were changes in body weight and fluid balance measured daily from baseline up to 4 days.
Results
The median [interquartile range] patient age and aortic valve area were 85.0 [81.0–89.0] years and 0.58 [0.42–0.74] cm2, respectively. Body weight continuously decreased, and fluid balance was maintained from baseline to day 4 (p<0.001, p=0.194, respectively). Median serum B-type natriuretic peptide concentration significantly decreased from 910.5 to 740.0 pg/mL by day 4 (p=0.002). However, systolic blood pressure and heart rate were non-significantly changed (p=0.250, p=0.656, respectively). Hypernatremia (>150 mEq/L) and worsening renal function occurred in 2 (3.4%) and 4 (6.8%) patients, respectively.
Conclusions
Short-term treatment with low-dose tolvaptan is safe and effective, providing stable hemodynamic parameters in patients with ADHF and severe AS.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: Private company. Main funding source(s): This research was supported by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
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- Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- St. Luke's International Hospital, Cardiology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Nagoya Heart Center, Cardiology, Nagoya, Japan
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- Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Cardiology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Cardiology, Osaka, Japan
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- Nishiarai Heart Center, Cardiology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Tokai University School of Medicine, Cardiology, Kanagawa, Japan
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- St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Cardiology, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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Katayama T, Yokoyama N, Hirofumi H, Kataoka A, Watanabe Y, Kozuma K. Blood coagulation status after transcatheter aortic valve implantation between the patients with vitamin k antagonist and direct oral anticoagulants. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
Ischemic stroke after transchatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was recognized. Previous study showed that the median time of a stroke was 2.0 days (IQR, 1.0–5.0) after TAVI. One of the main mechanisms for ischemic stroke after TAVI was hyper-coagulation activity associated with TAVI procedure. However, the change of coagulation status in patients with oral anticoagulant (OAC) therapy was not investigated fully.
Purpose
We investigated the difference of blood coagulation parameters between the patients with vitamin K antagonist (VKA) and those with direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC).
Methods
We enrolled 253 patients underwent transfemoral TAVI between February 2017 and March 2019 in our hospital. Of 253 patients, 71 patients (age: 85, male: 20%) took OAC therapy (VKA: 21 patients, DOAC: 50 patients). Patients who took apixaban was 32 patients, rivaroxaban was 7, edoxaban was 11. Prothrombin activation fragment 1+2 (F1+2) as a molecular marker of thrombin generation, thrombin-anti-thrombin complex (TAT) as a marker of thrombin neutralization, soluble fibrin monomer complex (SFMC) as a marker of thrombophilia and fibrin/fibrinogen degradation product (FDP) as a marker of fibrinolysis were measured before and immediately after TAVI, and on 1 and 2 day postoperatively. We also assessed ischemic stroke after TAVI between 2 groups according to BARC-2 criteria.
Results
In patients with VKA, the value of PT-INR the day before TVAI was 1.2 (1.1–1.4). The level of F1+2 in patients with VKA was significantly greater on day 0 postoperatively than those with DOAC [855 pmol/l (595–1135) vs 614 pmol/l (452–774) P=0.003]. The level of SFMC in patients with VKA was significantly greater on day 0 postoperatively than those with DOAC [37.4 μg/ml (17.3–64.5) vs. 15.7 μg/ml (8.8–27.3) P=0.002]. The level of FDP in patients with VKA was significantly greater on day 0 postoperatively than those with DOAC [VKA: 5.8 μg/ml (3.8–7.9), DOAC: 4.0 μg/ml (3.1–5.3) P=0.023]. There were no patients with ischemic stroke among 2 groups.
Conclusion
This study revealed that coagulation activity was increased after TAVI. Furthermore, the coagulation activity in patients with VKA was significantly higher than that with DOAC at especially immediately after TAVI. Careful attention should be paid to hyper-coagulation status after TAVI in patients with VKA.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: None
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Yoshihara K, Enomoto T, Aoki D, Watanabe Y, Kigawa J, Takeshima N, Inomata H, Hattori K, Tsuda H, Sugiyama T. The first study evaluating the distribution of gBRCA1/2 variants within the ovarian cancer cluster region in Japanese ovarian cancer patients. Gynecol Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.05.632] [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: 11/24/2022]
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Watanabe Y, Miyata T, Shigematsu K, Tanemoto K, Nakaoka Y, Harigai M. Current Trends in Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Thromboangiitis Obliterans in Japan - A Nationwide Survey Using the Medical Support System Database. Circ J 2020; 84:1786-1796. [PMID: 32879220 DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-19-1165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND The epidemiology and clinical features of thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) in Japan have not been updated extensively.Methods and Results:This retrospective study used the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (JMHLW) medical support system database and associated health insurance data. The number of medical financial support recipients registered as TAO patients and estimated prevalence of TAO decreased from fiscal year (FY) 2000 (10,089 and 7.95 [95% confidence interval, CI: 7.79-8.10] per 100,000 population) to FY 2010 (7,147 and 5.58 [95% Cl: 5.45-5.71] per 100,000) and leveled off until 2014. The prevalence of TAO among patients with peripheral arterial occlusive diseases declined from 7.15% (95% Cl: 7.00-7.31) in FY 2008 to 6.12% (95% Cl: 5.98-6.26) in FY 2014. Clinicodemographic features were obtained from 89 new recipients in FY 2013 and 2014: 12 (13%) women, 36 (40%) aged ≥50 years, 26 (29%) had probable onset age ≥50 years, 7 (8%) were non-smokers, and 12 (13%) had arteriosclerosis-related comorbidities. The symptoms were similar regardless of registration age, smoking history, or sex. Although 40 (45%) had digit ulcers, only 12 (13%) fulfilled Shionoya's criteria. They rarely had infrapopliteal lesions combined with upper extremity involvement or phlebitis. CONCLUSIONS The prevalence of TAO has decreased in Japan. In the current diagnosis of TAO, various clinical characteristics including late onset, arteriosclerotic factors, non-smoking, or mild symptoms should be considered.
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- Vascular Center, Sanno Hospital and Sanno Medical Center
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare, Mita Hospital
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School
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- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
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- Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine
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Nishiuchi M, Sakaki H, Dover NP, Miyahara T, Shiokawa K, Manabe S, Miyatake T, Kondo K, Kondo K, Iwata Y, Watanabe Y, Kondo K. Ion species discrimination method by linear energy transfer measurement in Fujifilm BAS-SR imaging plate. Rev Sci Instrum 2020; 91:093305. [PMID: 33003787 DOI: 10.1063/5.0016515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We have developed a novel discrimination methodology to identify ions in multispecies beams with similar charge-to-mass ratios, but different atomic numbers. After an initial separation by charge-to-mass ratios using co-linear electric and magnetic fields, individual ions can be discriminated by considering the linear energy transfer of ions irradiating a stimulable phosphor plate (Fujifilm imaging plate) by comparison with the Monte Carlo calculation. We apply the method to energetic multispecies laser-driven ion beams and use it to identify silver ions produced by the interaction between a high contrast, high intensity laser pulse; and a sub-micrometer silver foil target. We also show that this method can be used to calibrate the imaging plate for arbitrary ion species in the range of Z ≥ 6 with dE/dx > 0.1 MeV/μm without requiring individual calibration.
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- M Nishiuchi
- Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Research Group for Radiation Materials Engineering, Nuclear Science and Engineering Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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Adare A, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Akimoto R, Al-Ta'ani H, Alexander J, Angerami A, Aoki K, Apadula N, Aramaki Y, Asano H, Aschenauer EC, Atomssa ET, Awes TC, Azmoun B, Babintsev V, Bai M, Bannier B, Barish KN, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Baublis V, Baumgart S, Bazilevsky A, Belmont R, Berdnikov A, Berdnikov Y, Bing X, Blau DS, Boyle K, Brooks ML, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Butsyk S, Campbell S, Castera P, Chen CH, Chi CY, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi JB, Choi S, Choudhury RK, Christiansen P, Chujo T, Chvala O, Cianciolo V, Citron Z, Cole BA, Connors M, Csanád M, Csörgő T, Dairaku S, Datta A, Daugherity MS, David G, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Dharmawardane KV, Dietzsch O, Ding L, Dion A, Donadelli M, Drapier O, Drees A, Drees KA, Durham JM, Durum A, D'Orazio L, Edwards S, Efremenko YV, Engelmore T, Enokizono A, Esumi S, Eyser KO, Fadem B, Fields DE, Finger M, Finger M, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fusayasu T, Gainey K, Gal C, Garishvili A, Garishvili I, Glenn A, Gong X, Gonin M, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Gunji T, Guo L, Gustafsson HÅ, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hahn KI, Hamagaki H, Hanks J, Hashimoto K, Haslum E, Hayano R, He X, Hemmick TK, Hester T, Hill JC, Hollis RS, Homma K, Hong B, Horaguchi T, Hori Y, Huang S, Ichihara T, Iinuma H, Ikeda Y, Imrek J, Inaba M, Iordanova A, Isenhower D, Issah M, Isupov A, Ivanischev D, Jacak BV, Javani M, Jia J, Jiang X, Johnson BM, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kamin J, Kaneti S, Kang BH, Kang JH, Kang JS, Kapustinsky J, Karatsu K, Kasai M, Kawall D, Kazantsev AV, Kempel T, Khanzadeev A, Kijima KM, Kim BI, Kim C, Kim DJ, Kim EJ, Kim HJ, Kim KB, Kim YJ, Kim YK, Kinney E, Kiss Á, Kistenev E, Klatsky J, Kleinjan D, Kline P, Komatsu Y, Komkov B, Koster J, Kotchetkov D, Kotov D, Král A, Krizek F, Kunde GJ, Kurita K, Kurosawa M, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Lai YS, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Lee B, Lee DM, Lee J, Lee KB, Lee KS, Lee SH, Lee SR, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Leitgab M, Lewis B, Lim SH, Linden Levy LA, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Love B, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Makek M, Malakhov A, Manion A, Manko VI, Mannel E, Masumoto S, McCumber M, McGaughey PL, McGlinchey D, McKinney C, Mendoza M, Meredith B, Miake Y, Mibe T, Mignerey AC, Milov A, Mishra DK, Mitchell JT, Miyachi Y, Miyasaka S, Mohanty AK, Moon HJ, Morrison DP, Motschwiller S, Moukhanova TV, Murakami T, Murata J, Nagae T, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nagy MI, Nakagawa I, Nakamiya Y, Nakamura KR, Nakamura T, Nakano K, Nattrass C, Nederlof A, Nihashi M, Nouicer R, Novitzky N, Nyanin AS, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Okada K, Oskarsson A, Ouchida M, Ozawa K, Pak R, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park BH, Park IH, Park SK, Pate SF, Patel L, Pei H, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Peressounko DY, Petti R, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Proissl M, Purschke ML, Qu H, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reynolds R, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Richardson E, Roach D, Roche G, Rolnick SD, Rosati M, Rukoyatkin P, Sahlmueller B, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Samsonov V, Sano M, Sarsour M, Sawada S, Sedgwick K, Seidl R, Sen A, Seto R, Sharma D, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Shoji K, Shukla P, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh BK, Singh CP, Singh V, Slunečka M, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Soumya M, Sourikova IV, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sukhanov A, Sun J, Sziklai J, Takagui EM, Takahara A, Taketani A, Tanaka Y, Taneja S, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarafdar S, Taranenko A, Tennant E, Themann H, Todoroki T, Tomášek L, Tomášek M, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tsuji T, Vale C, van Hecke HW, Vargyas M, Vazquez-Zambrano E, Veicht A, Velkovska J, Vértesi R, Virius M, Vossen A, Vrba V, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe D, Watanabe K, Watanabe Y, Watanabe YS, Wei F, Wei R, White SN, Winter D, Wolin S, Woody CL, Wysocki M, Yamaguchi YL, Yang R, Yanovich A, Ying J, Yokkaichi S, You Z, Younus I, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zelenski A, Zolin L. Erratum: Evolution of π^{0} Suppression in Au+Au Collisions from sqrt[s_{NN}]=39 to 200 GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 152301 (2012)]. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 125:049901. [PMID: 32794791 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.049901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.152301.
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Watanabe T, Yamaguchi Y, Watanabe Y, Takamura N, Aihara M. 026 Increased levels of high mobility group box-1 in the serum and skin in patients with generalized pustular psoriasis. J Invest Dermatol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2020.03.028] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Adachi T, Koba S, Hanyu A, Kato M, Morita M, Kawamoto T, Ida H, Watanabe Y, Shinke T. 0590 Reliability of Simple Sleep Evaluation Device at Split-Night Polysomnography. Sleep 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsaa056.587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Introduction
Watch-PAT is a sleep evaluation device that measures the peripheral blood volume continuously with a probe attached to a fingertip and does not use an electroencephalogram or a nasal cannula. There has been no report on the usefulness of watch-PAT to determine the apnea diagnosis and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) use effects in split-night sleep study.
Methods
The consent of the study was obtained. Watch-PAT was simultaneously worn on a patient admitted for split-night polysomnography. The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) obtained from PSG and the pAHI gained from the watch-PAT were measured when not using CPAP and when using CPAP respectively. And also we examined whether the reduction rates of AHI and pAHI could be correlated.
Results
38 subjects (32 men, age 55 ± 13 years old). BMI 28.3 ± 5.7 kg / m2. When CPAP was not used, AHI was 57.2 ± 23.3 / h and pAHI was 50.8 ± 20.3 / h (r = 0.93, p < 0.0001), when CPAP was used, AHI was 5.2 ± 4.5 /h and pAHI was 6.2 ± 4.5 h (r = 0.82, p < 0.0001), AHI reduction rate was 90.4 ± 8.0% and pAHI reduction rate was 85.4 ± 14.6% (r = 0.76, p < 0.0001).
Conclusion
It was suggested that Watch-PAT had a good correlation with AHI at split night-sleep study.
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- T Adachi
- Sleep Medicine Center, Showa University East Hospital, Tokyo, JAPAN
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN
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- Sleep Medicine Center, Showa University East Hospital, Tokyo, JAPAN
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- Sleep Medicine Center, Showa University East Hospital, Tokyo, JAPAN
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- Sleep Medicine Center, Showa University East Hospital, Tokyo, JAPAN
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- Sleep Medicine Center, Showa University East Hospital, Tokyo, JAPAN
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- Sleep Medicine Center, Showa University East Hospital, Tokyo, JAPAN
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- Sleep Medicine Center, Showa University East Hospital, Tokyo, JAPAN
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JAPAN
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Watanabe Y, Yamaguchi Y, Takamura N, Komitsu N, Aihara M. Leptin induces interleukin-6 production in keratinocytes via decreased expression of caveolin-1: a possible link between obesity and psoriatic inflammation. Br J Dermatol 2020; 183:768-770. [PMID: 32294231 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.19133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Y Watanabe
- Department of Environmental Immuno-Dermatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Immuno-Dermatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Immuno-Dermatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Immuno-Dermatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Immuno-Dermatology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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Sugihara T, Hasegawa H, Uchida HA, Yoshifuji H, Watanabe Y, Amiya E, Maejima Y, Konishi M, Murakawa Y, Ogawa N, Furuta S, Katsumata Y, Komagata Y, Naniwa T, Okazaki T, Tanaka Y, Takeuchi T, Nakaoka Y, Arimura Y, Harigai M, Isobe M. Associated factors of poor treatment outcomes in patients with giant cell arteritis: clinical implication of large vessel lesions. Arthritis Res Ther 2020; 22:72. [PMID: 32264967 PMCID: PMC7137303 DOI: 10.1186/s13075-020-02171-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Background Relapses frequently occur in giant cell arteritis (GCA), and long-term glucocorticoid therapy is required. The identification of associated factors with poor treatment outcomes is important to decide the treatment algorithm of GCA. Methods We enrolled 139 newly diagnosed GCA patients treated with glucocorticoids between 2007 and 2014 in a retrospective, multi-center registry. Patients were diagnosed with temporal artery biopsy, 1990 American College of Rheumatology classification criteria, or large vessel lesions (LVLs) detected by imaging based on the modified classification criteria. Poor treatment outcomes (non-achievement of clinical remission by week 24 or relapse during 52 weeks) were evaluated. Clinical remission was defined as the absence of clinical signs and symptoms in cranial and large vessel areas, polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), and elevation of C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. A patient was determined to have a relapse if he/she had either one of the signs and symptoms that newly appeared or worsened after achieving clinical remission. Re-elevation of CRP without clinical manifestations was considered as a relapse if other causes such as infection were excluded and the treatment was intensified. Associated factors with poor treatment outcomes were analyzed by using the Cox proportional hazard model. Results Cranial lesions, PMR, and LVLs were detected in 77.7%, 41.7%, and 52.5% of the enrolled patients, respectively. Treatment outcomes were evaluated in 119 newly diagnosed patients who were observed for 24 weeks or longer. The mean initial dose of prednisolone was 0.76 mg/kg/day, and 29.4% received any concomitant immunosuppressive drugs at baseline. Overall, 41 (34.5%) of the 119 patients had poor treatment outcomes; 13 did not achieve clinical remission by week 24, and 28 had a relapse after achieving clinical remission. Cumulative rates of the events of poor treatment outcomes in patients with and without LVLs were 47.5% and 17.7%, respectively. A multivariable model showed the presence of LVLs at baseline was significantly associated with poor treatment outcomes (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 3.54, 95% CI 1.52–8.24, p = 0.003). Cranial lesions and PMR did not increase the risk of poor treatment outcomes. Conclusion The initial treatment intensity in the treatment algorithm of GCA could be determined based upon the presence or absence of LVLs detected by imaging at baseline.
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- Takahiko Sugihara
- Department of Lifetime Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan. .,Department of Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan. .,Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- First Department of Physiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Therapeutic Strategy for Heart Failure, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine 3, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya City University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.,Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology & Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan.,National Hospital Organization, Shizuoka Medical Center, Shimizu, Japan
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- The First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.,Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.,Kichijoji Asahi Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.,Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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Scattering Studies with Low-Energy Kaon-Proton Femtoscopy in Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:092301. [PMID: 32202883 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.092301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
The study of the strength and behavior of the antikaon-nucleon (K[over ¯]N) interaction constitutes one of the key focuses of the strangeness sector in low-energy quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this Letter a unique high-precision measurement of the strong interaction between kaons and protons, close and above the kinematic threshold, is presented. The femtoscopic measurements of the correlation function at low pair-frame relative momentum of (K^{+}p⊕K^{-}p[over ¯]) and (K^{-}p⊕K^{+}p[over ¯]) pairs measured in pp collisions at sqrt[s]=5, 7, and 13 TeV are reported. A structure observed around a relative momentum of 58 MeV/c in the measured correlation function of (K^{-}p⊕K^{+}p[over ¯]) with a significance of 4.4σ constitutes the first experimental evidence for the opening of the (K[over ¯]^{0}n⊕K^{0}n[over ¯]) isospin breaking channel due to the mass difference between charged and neutral kaons. The measured correlation functions have been compared to Jülich and Kyoto models in addition to the Coulomb potential. The high-precision data at low relative momenta presented in this work prove femtoscopy to be a powerful complementary tool to scattering experiments and provide new constraints above the K[over ¯]N threshold for low-energy QCD chiral models.
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
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- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
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- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Catania, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Munich, Germany
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics, Kolkata, India
- Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- Bose Institute, Department of Physics, Kolkata, India
- Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin', Bari, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
- Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Bufalino
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - O Bugnon
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - P Buhler
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - P Buncic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - O Busch
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - Z Buthelezi
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - J B Butt
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - J T Buxton
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - D Caffarri
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A Caliva
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - E Calvo Villar
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - R S Camacho
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - P Camerini
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Trieste, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - A A Capon
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - F Carnesecchi
- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
| | - J Castillo Castellanos
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - A J Castro
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - F Catalano
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - P Chakraborty
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Chandra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Chang
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - W Chang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Chapeland
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Chartier
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Chattopadhyay
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Chauvin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Cagliari, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - C Cheshkov
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - B Cheynis
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | | | - D D Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - S Cho
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - P Chochula
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Chowdhury
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - P Christakoglou
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C H Christensen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - P Christiansen
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - T Chujo
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - C Cicalo
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Cifarelli
- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - F Cindolo
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - J Cleymans
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | | | | | - A Collu
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Colocci
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - M Concas
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - G Conesa Balbastre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - Z Conesa Del Valle
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - G Contin
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - J G Contreras
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - T M Cormier
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - Y Corrales Morales
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - P Cortese
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
| | | | - F Costa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Costanza
- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - J Crkovská
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - P Crochet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E Cuautle
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - L Cunqueiro
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - D Dabrowski
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - T Dahms
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Munich, Germany
| | - A Dainese
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - F P A Damas
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - S Dani
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - M C Danisch
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Danu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - D Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - I Das
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Das
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics, Kolkata, India
- Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - A Dash
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - S Dash
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A Dashi
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - S De
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - A De Caro
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università, Salerno, Italy
- Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | | | - C de Conti
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - J de Cuveland
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A De Falco
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Cagliari, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - D De Gruttola
- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
| | | | - S De Pasquale
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università, Salerno, Italy
- Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - R D De Souza
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - S Deb
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - A Deisting
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K R Deja
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Deloff
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S Delsanto
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - P Dhankher
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - D Di Bari
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin', Bari, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - A Di Mauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R A Diaz
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - T Dietel
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - P Dillenseger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Ding
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Divià
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Ø Djuvsland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - U Dmitrieva
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Dobrin
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - B Dönigus
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - O Dordic
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - A K Dubey
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Dubla
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Dudi
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A K Duggal
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - M Dukhishyam
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - P Dupieux
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - R J Ehlers
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - D Elia
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - H Engel
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Epple
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - B Erazmus
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - F Erhardt
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - A Erokhin
- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - M R Ersdal
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Espagnon
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - G Eulisse
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Eum
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - D Evans
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Evdokimov
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - L Fabbietti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Munich, Germany
| | - M Faggin
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - J Faivre
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Fantoni
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - M Fasel
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Fecchio
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - L Feldkamp
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | | | - G Feofilov
- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - A Fernández Téllez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Ferrero
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - A Ferretti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Festanti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V J G Feuillard
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Figiel
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Filchagin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - D Finogeev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - F M Fionda
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | | | - F Flor
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - S Foertsch
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - P Foka
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Fokin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - A Francisco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - U Frankenfeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G G Fronze
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - U Fuchs
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Furget
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Furs
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Fusco Girard
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università, Salerno, Italy
- Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - J J Gaardhøje
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Gagliardi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A M Gago
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - A Gal
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - C D Galvan
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | - P Ganoti
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
| | - C Garabatos
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - K Garg
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Catania, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Gargiulo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Garner
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - P Gasik
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Munich, Germany
| | - E F Gauger
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M B Gay Ducati
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - M Germain
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - J Ghosh
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - P Ghosh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S K Ghosh
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics, Kolkata, India
- Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - P Gianotti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - P Giubellino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P Giubilato
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - P Glässel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D M Goméz Coral
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Gomez Ramirez
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - V Gonzalez
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - P González-Zamora
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Gorbunov
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Görlich
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - S Gotovac
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - V Grabski
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - K L Graham
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - L Greiner
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - A Grelli
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Grigoras
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Grigoriev
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Grigoryan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - S Grigoryan
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - O S Groettvik
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - J M Gronefeld
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - F Grosa
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - R Grosso
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - R Guernane
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - B Guerzoni
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - M Guittiere
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - K Gulbrandsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - T Gunji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - A Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - R Gupta
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - I B Guzman
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - R Haake
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - M K Habib
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Hadjidakis
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - H Hamagaki
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - G Hamar
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M Hamid
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J C Hamon
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - R Hannigan
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M R Haque
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A Harlenderova
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J W Harris
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Harton
- Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - H Hassan
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - D Hatzifotiadou
- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Hauer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | | | - S T Heckel
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Hellbär
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - H Helstrup
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - A Herghelegiu
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - E G Hernandez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Herrera Corral
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Mérida, Mexico
| | - F Herrmann
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - K F Hetland
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - T E Hilden
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - H Hillemanns
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Hills
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - B Hippolyte
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - B Hohlweger
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D Horak
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - S Hornung
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - P Hristov
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Huang
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - C Hughes
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Huhn
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - H Hushnud
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - L A Husova
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - N Hussain
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - S A Hussain
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - T Hussain
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - D Hutter
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - D S Hwang
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J P Iddon
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - R Ilkaev
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - M Inaba
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - M Ippolitov
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - M S Islam
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - M Ivanov
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - V Ivanov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - V Izucheev
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - B Jacak
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - N Jacazio
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | - P M Jacobs
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M B Jadhav
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Jadlovska
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J Jadlovsky
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - S Jaelani
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - C Jahnke
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | | | - M A Janik
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - M Jercic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - O Jevons
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - R T Jimenez Bustamante
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Jin
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - F Jonas
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - P G Jones
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Jusko
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - P Kalinak
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Kalweit
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J H Kang
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - V Kaplin
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Kar
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | | | - O Karavichev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - T Karavicheva
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - P Karczmarczyk
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - E Karpechev
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - U Kebschull
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Keidel
- Hochschule Worms, Zentrum für Technologietransfer und Telekommunikation (ZTT), Worms, Germany
| | - M Keil
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - B Ketzer
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Z Khabanova
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - A M Khan
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - S Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - S A Khan
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - A Khanzadeev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - Y Kharlov
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - A Khatun
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - A Khuntia
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - B Kileng
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - B Kim
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - B Kim
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - D Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - D J Kim
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - E J Kim
- Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - H Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J S Kim
- Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - J Kim
- Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
| | - M Kim
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Kim
- Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - T Kim
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - K Kindra
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kirsch
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - I Kisel
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S Kiselev
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Kisiel
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - J L Klay
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
| | - C Klein
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Klein
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - S Klein
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - C Klein-Bösing
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S Klewin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Kluge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M L Knichel
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A G Knospe
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - C Kobdaj
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - M K Köhler
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - T Kollegger
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Kondratyev
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - N Kondratyeva
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - P J Konopka
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - L Koska
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - O Kovalenko
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - V Kovalenko
- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - M Kowalski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - I Králik
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - A Kravčáková
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - L Kreis
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Krivda
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - F Krizek
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - K Krizkova Gajdosova
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Krüger
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - E Kryshen
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - M Krzewicki
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A M Kubera
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - V Kučera
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - C Kuhn
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - P G Kuijer
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - L Kumar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - S Kumar
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Kundu
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - P Kurashvili
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A B Kurepin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Kushpil
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - J Kvapil
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - M J Kweon
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | - Y Kwon
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - S L La Pointe
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P La Rocca
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Catania, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - Y S Lai
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - R Langoy
- University College of Southeast Norway, Tonsberg, Norway
| | - K Lapidus
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - A Lardeux
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - P Larionov
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Laudi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Lavicka
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - T Lazareva
- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - R Lea
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Trieste, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - L Leardini
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - S Lee
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - F Lehas
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - S Lehner
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - J Lehrbach
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R C Lemmon
- Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
| | | | - E D Lesser
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Lettrich
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - P Lévai
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - X Li
- China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
| | - X L Li
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Lien
- University College of Southeast Norway, Tonsberg, Norway
| | - R Lietava
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - B Lim
- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
| | - S Lindal
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - V Lindenstruth
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - S W Lindsay
- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
| | - C Lippmann
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M A Lisa
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | | | - A Liu
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - S Liu
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - H M Ljunggren
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - W J Llope
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - I M Lofnes
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - V Loginov
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - C Loizides
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - P Loncar
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - X Lopez
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - E López Torres
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - P Luettig
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J R Luhder
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - M Lunardon
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | | | - M Lupi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Maevskaya
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Mager
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S M Mahmood
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - T Mahmoud
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - A Maire
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - R D Majka
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - M Malaev
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - Q W Malik
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - L Malinina
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - D Mal'Kevich
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - P Malzacher
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - A Mamonov
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - V Manko
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - F Manso
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | | | - Y Mao
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - M Marchisone
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - J Mareš
- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G V Margagliotti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Trieste, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - A Margotti
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - J Margutti
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A Marín
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C Markert
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - M Marquard
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N A Martin
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - P Martinengo
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | | | - M I Martínez
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Martínez García
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | | | - S Masciocchi
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - M Masera
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - A Masoni
- INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - L Massacrier
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - E Masson
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Mastroserio
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
| | - A M Mathis
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Munich, Germany
| | | | - A Matyja
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - C Mayer
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - M Mazzilli
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin', Bari, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | | | - A F Mechler
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Meddi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
| | - Y Melikyan
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Menchaca-Rocha
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - E Meninno
- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università, Salerno, Italy
- Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
| | - M Meres
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - S Mhlanga
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Y Miake
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - L Micheletti
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | | | - D L Mihaylov
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - K Mikhaylov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - A Mischke
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - A N Mishra
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - D Miśkowiec
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - C M Mitu
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - N Mohammadi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A P Mohanty
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - B Mohanty
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - M Mohisin Khan
- Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
| | - M Mondal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - M M Mondal
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - C Mordasini
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - D A Moreira De Godoy
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - L A P Moreno
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - S Moretto
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - A Morreale
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - A Morsch
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - T Mrnjavac
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Muccifora
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E Mudnic
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - D Mühlheim
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S Muhuri
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - J D Mulligan
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - M G Munhoz
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | - K Münning
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - R H Munzer
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - S Murray
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - L Musa
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - J Musinsky
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovakia
| | - C J Myers
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - J W Myrcha
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B Naik
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nair
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - B K Nandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - R Nania
- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - E Nappi
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - M U Naru
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - A F Nassirpour
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | | | - C Nattrass
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - R Nayak
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - T K Nayak
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Nazarenko
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - R A Negrao De Oliveira
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - L Nellen
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - S V Nesbo
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - G Neskovic
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - B S Nielsen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - S Nikolaev
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - S Nikulin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - V Nikulin
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - F Noferini
- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - P Nomokonov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - G Nooren
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - J Norman
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | | | - A Nyanin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - J Nystrand
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - M Ogino
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - A Ohlson
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - J Oleniacz
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - M H Oliver
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - J Onderwaater
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | | | - R Orava
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - A Ortiz Velasquez
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Oskarsson
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - J Otwinowski
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - K Oyama
- Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
| | - Y Pachmayer
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Pacik
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - D Pagano
- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
| | - G Paić
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Palni
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - J Pan
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - A K Pandey
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Panebianco
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - V Papikyan
- A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
| | - P Pareek
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - J Park
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
| | | | - S Parmar
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A Passfeld
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | - S P Pathak
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - R N Patra
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Paul
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - H Pei
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - T Peitzmann
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - X Peng
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - L G Pereira
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - H Pereira Da Costa
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - D Peresunko
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - G M Perez
- Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
| | - E Perez Lezama
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - V Peskov
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Y Pestov
- Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - V Petráček
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Petrovici
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R P Pezzi
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
| | - S Piano
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
| | - M Pikna
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - P Pillot
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - L O D L Pimentel
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - O Pinazza
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - L Pinsky
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - S Pisano
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | | | - M Płoskoń
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - M Planinic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - F Pliquett
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Pluta
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - S Pochybova
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M G Poghosyan
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - N Poljak
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - W Poonsawat
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - A Pop
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - H Poppenborg
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
| | | | - V Pozdniakov
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - S K Prasad
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics, Kolkata, India
- Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | | | - F Prino
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - C A Pruneau
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - I Pshenichnov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Puccio
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - V Punin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - K Puranapanda
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - J Putschke
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | | | - S Ragoni
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - S Raha
- Bose Institute, Department of Physics, Kolkata, India
- Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
| | - S Rajput
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - J Rak
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - A Rakotozafindrabe
- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
| | - L Ramello
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
| | - F Rami
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - R Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S Raniwala
- Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
| | - S S Räsänen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - B T Rascanu
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - R Rath
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - V Ratza
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - I Ravasenga
- Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - K F Read
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - K Redlich
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - A Rehman
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Reichelt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - F Reidt
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - X Ren
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
| | - R Renfordt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - A Reshetin
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - J-P Revol
- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
| | - K Reygers
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - V Riabov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - T Richert
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Richter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - P Riedler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Riegler
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - F Riggi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Catania, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - C Ristea
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - S P Rode
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | | | - K Røed
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - R Rogalev
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - E Rogochaya
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - D Rohr
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Röhrich
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - P S Rokita
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - F Ronchetti
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - E D Rosas
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - K Roslon
- Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
| | - P Rosnet
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - A Rossi
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - A Rotondi
- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - F Roukoutakis
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
| | - A Roy
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - P Roy
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - O V Rueda
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - R Rui
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Trieste, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
| | - B Rumyantsev
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
| | - A Rustamov
- National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
| | - E Ryabinkin
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - Y Ryabov
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - A Rybicki
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - H Rytkonen
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - S Saarinen
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
| | - S Sadhu
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Sadovsky
- NRC Kurchatov Institute IHEP, Protvino, Russia
| | - K Šafařík
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - S K Saha
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - P Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - R Sahoo
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Sahoo
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - P K Sahu
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - J Saini
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - S Sakai
- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - S Sambyal
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - V Samsonov
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
| | - A Sandoval
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - A Sarkar
- iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
| | - D Sarkar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
| | - N Sarkar
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - P Sarma
- Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
| | - V M Sarti
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - M H P Sas
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - B Schaefer
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - J Schambach
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - H S Scheid
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Schiaua
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - R Schicker
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - A Schmah
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - C Schmidt
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - H R Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - M O Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M Schmidt
- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - N V Schmidt
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | - A R Schmier
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - J Schukraft
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - K Schwarz
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - K Schweda
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - G Scioli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
| | | | - M Šefčík
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - J E Seger
- Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | | | | | - I Selyuzhenkov
- NRNU Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - S Senyukov
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
| | - E Serradilla
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - P Sett
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - A Sevcenco
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Shabanov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - A Shabetai
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - R Shahoyan
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - W Shaikh
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | | | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - M Sharma
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - N Sharma
- Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - A I Sheikh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - K Shigaki
- Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | - S Shirinkin
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - Q Shou
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai, China
| | - Y Sibiriak
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - T Siemiarczuk
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
| | - D Silvermyr
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - G Simatovic
- Nikhef, National institute for subatomic physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - G Simonetti
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - R Singh
- National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
| | - R Singh
- Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
| | - V K Singh
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - V Singhal
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - T Sinha
- Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - B Sitar
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - M Sitta
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale and INFN Sezione di Torino, Alessandria, Italy
| | - T B Skaali
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - M Slupecki
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - N Smirnov
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - R J M Snellings
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - J Sochan
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - C Soncco
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
| | - J Song
- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - A Songmoolnak
- Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
| | - F Soramel
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - S Sorensen
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| | - I Sputowska
- The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
| | - J Stachel
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - I Stan
- Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
| | - P Stankus
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
| | | | - E Stenlund
- Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
| | - D Stocco
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - M M Storetvedt
- Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
| | - P Strmen
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - A A P Suaide
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
| | | | - C Suire
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3/CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - M Suleymanov
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - M Suljic
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - R Sultanov
- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Šumbera
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež u Prahy, Czech Republic
| | - S Sumowidagdo
- Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
| | - K Suzuki
- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
| | - S Swain
- Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - A Szabo
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - I Szarka
- Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - U Tabassam
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - G Taillepied
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - J Takahashi
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
| | - G J Tambave
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - S Tang
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
| | - M Tarhini
- SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Université de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
| | - M G Tarzila
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Tauro
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - G Tejeda Muñoz
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Telesca
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - C Terrevoli
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - D Thakur
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - S Thakur
- Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
| | - D Thomas
- The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
| | - F Thoresen
- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - R Tieulent
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - A Tikhonov
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | | | - A Toia
- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - N Topilskaya
- Institute for Nuclear Research, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
| | - M Toppi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
| | - F Torales-Acosta
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
| | - S R Torres
- Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
| | - S Tripathy
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
| | - T Tripathy
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - S Trogolo
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Padova, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Padova, Italy
| | - G Trombetta
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin', Bari, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
| | - L Tropp
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
| | - V Trubnikov
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
| | | | | | - B A Trzeciak
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - T Tsuji
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - A Tumkin
- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
| | - R Turrisi
- INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - T S Tveter
- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - K Ullaland
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - E N Umaka
- University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - A Uras
- Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - G L Usai
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Cagliari, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
| | - A Utrobicic
- Physics department, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - M Vala
- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
| | - N Valle
- Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
| | - S Vallero
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - N van der Kolk
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - L V R van Doremalen
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - M van Leeuwen
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - P Vande Vyvre
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
| | - D Varga
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - M Varga-Kofarago
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - A Vargas
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - M Vargyas
- University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
| | - R Varma
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
| | - M Vasileiou
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
| | - A Vasiliev
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
| | - O Vázquez Doce
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Munich, Germany
| | - V Vechernin
- St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - A M Veen
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - E Vercellin
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Turin, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
| | - S Vergara Limón
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - L Vermunt
- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - R Vernet
- Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
| | - R Vértesi
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
| | - L Vickovic
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | | | - Z Vilakazi
- University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - O Villalobos Baillie
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
| | - A Villatoro Tello
- High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - G Vino
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
| | - A Vinogradov
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica 'E.R. Caianiello' dell'Università, Salerno, Italy
- Gruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica 'M. Merlin', Bari, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Technische Universität München, Excellence Cluster 'Universe', Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
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- Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
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- Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- University of Science and Techonology of China, Hefei, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- KTO Karatay University, Konya, Turkey
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Université Paris-Saclay Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Institute for Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
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- Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, Trieste, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF), Sarov, Russia
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "Enrico Fermi', Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università, Bologna, Italy
- Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Watanabe Y, Ukiyama E, Abe N, Takeuchi H, Ohki A. Extraction of buried and covered foreign body in esophagus using endoscopic submucosal dissection devices. Pediatr Int 2020; 62:401-402. [PMID: 32246566 DOI: 10.1111/ped.14118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Revised: 09/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Yoshiko Watanabe
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyorin University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Dover NP, Nishiuchi M, Sakaki H, Kondo K, Alkhimova MA, Faenov AY, Hata M, Iwata N, Kiriyama H, Koga JK, Miyahara T, Pikuz TA, Pirozhkov AS, Sagisaka A, Sentoku Y, Watanabe Y, Kando M, Kondo K. Effect of Small Focus on Electron Heating and Proton Acceleration in Ultrarelativistic Laser-Solid Interactions. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:084802. [PMID: 32167312 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.084802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Acceleration of particles from the interaction of ultraintense laser pulses up to 5×10^{21} W cm^{-2} with thin foils is investigated experimentally. The electron beam parameters varied with decreasing spot size, not just laser intensity, resulting in reduced temperatures and divergence. In particular, the temperature saturated due to insufficient acceleration length in the tightly focused spot. These dependencies affected the sheath-accelerated protons, which showed poorer spot-size scaling than widely used scaling laws. It is therefore shown that maximizing laser intensity by using very small foci has reducing returns for some applications.
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- N P Dover
- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 125412, Russia
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 125412, Russia
- Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiative, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
- Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
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- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 125412, Russia
- Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiative, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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- Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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Isobe M, Amano K, Arimura Y, Ishizu A, Ito S, Kaname S, Kobayashi S, Komagata Y, Komuro I, Komori K, Takahashi K, Tanemoto K, Hasegawa H, Harigai M, Fujimoto S, Miyazaki T, Miyata T, Yamada H, Yoshida A, Wada T, Inoue Y, Uchida HA, Ota H, Okazaki T, Onimaru M, Kawakami T, Kinouchi R, Kurata A, Kosuge H, Sada KE, Shigematsu K, Suematsu E, Sueyoshi E, Sugihara T, Sugiyama H, Takeno M, Tamura N, Tsutsumino M, Dobashi H, Nakaoka Y, Nagasaka K, Maejima Y, Yoshifuji H, Watanabe Y, Ozaki S, Kimura T, Shigematsu H, Yamauchi-Takihara K, Murohara T, Momomura SI. JCS 2017 Guideline on Management of Vasculitis Syndrome - Digest Version. Circ J 2020; 84:299-359. [PMID: 31956163 DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-19-0773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University
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- Department of Rheumatology and Nephrology, Kyorin University School of Medicine.,Internal Medicine, Kichijoji Asahi Hospital
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University
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- Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University
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- Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine
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- Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Kyorin University School of Medicine
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine
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- Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
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- Department of Pathology, Toho University Ohashi Medical Center
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School
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- Department of Hematology, Clinical Immunology, and Infectious Diseases, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine
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- Department of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University
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- Department of Hemovascular Medicine and Artificial Organs, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki
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- Vascular Center, Sanno Hospital and Sanno Medical Center
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- Medical Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Seirei Yokohama Hospital
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- Department of Nephrology and Laboratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University
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- Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Department of Advanced MRI Collaboration Research, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
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- Vice-Director, Shizuoka Medical Center, National Hospital Organization
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- Division of Pathophysiological and Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
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- Division of Dermatology, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
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- Medicine and Engineering Combined Research Institute, Asahikawa Medical University.,Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tokyo Medical University
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- Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital
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- Division of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, National Hospital Organization, Kyushu Medical Center
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- Department of Radiological Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
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- Department of Lifetime Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
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- Department of Human Resource Development of Dialysis Therapy for Kidney Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine
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- Division of Hematology, Rheumatology and Respiratory Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University
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- Department of Vascular Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
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- Department of Rheumatology, Ome Municipal General Hospital
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
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- Division of Rheumatology and Allergology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
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- Clinical Research Center for Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare
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- Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
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Yamamoto K, Motokawa K, Yoshizaki T, Yano T, Hirano H, Ohara Y, Shirobe M, Inagaki H, Awata S, Shinkai S, Watanabe Y. Association of Dietary Variety and Appetite with Sleep Quality in Urban-Dwelling Older Japanese Adults. J Nutr Health Aging 2020; 24:152-159. [PMID: 32003404 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-019-1297-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Although it has been shown that specific foods and nutrients are associated with sleep quality, few studies have examined the association of dietary variety and appetite with sleep quality in older adults. DESIGN AND SETTING A cross-sectional study was conducted that examined the association of dietary variety and appetite with sleep quality in Japanese adults aged ≥70 years who resided in the metropolitan area of Tokyo, Japan. PARTICIPANTS Data were collected in two steps: a mailed interview survey and an on-site survey. Those who responded to the surveys and met the inclusion criteria were included. MEASUREMENTS Dietary variety, appetite, and sleep quality were assessed using a Dietary Variety Score (DVS), Council on Nutrition Appetite Questionnaire (CNAQ) score, and sleep efficiency, respectively. The sleep efficiency is the ratio of sleep duration to total time in bed (retiring time-awakening time). We defined the individuals with a sleep efficiency less than 75% as having poor sleep quality. RESULTS Mean DVS and CNAQ score were 3.8 and 29.6 points, respectively. The rate of individuals with poor sleep quality was 11.7%. In the fully adjusted model, the odds ratios (OR) for low sleep efficiency in the middle and highest group categories of the DVS were 0.83 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.54-1.29) and 0.50 (95% CI, 0.28-0.90), respectively, in reference to the lowest group category (p for trend = 0.023). The OR for low sleep efficiency in the middle and highest group categories of the CNAQ score were 0.73 (95% CI, 0.47-1.14) and 0.54 (95% CI, 0.30-0.96), respectively, in reference to the lowest group category (p for trend = 0.031). CONCLUSIONS The higher DVS and CNAQ scores were significantly associated with higher sleep efficiency. Thus, dietary variety and good appetite might help maintain good sleep quality in urban-dwelling older Japanese adults.
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- K Yamamoto
- Keiko Motokawa, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, 35-2, Sakae-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan; Tel: +81-3-3964-1141 (ext. 4213); Fax: +81-3-3964-2316; E-mail:
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Ida H, Adachi T, Kawamoto T, Watanabe Y, Endo T, Shinke T, Sagara H. A case of excessive daytime sleepiness without sleep Apnea in obese boy with Prader-Willi syndrome. Sleep Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.11.457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Furukawa H, Yamane N, Tamura T, Honda T, Kuwada N, Yamasawa T, Watanabe Y, Yunoki Y, Tabuchi A, Kanaoka Y, Tanemoto K. [Initial Clinical Experience of the Herbal Medicine Inchinkoto for Refractory Hyperbilirubinemia Following Open-heart Surgery]. Kyobu Geka 2019; 72:1049-1052. [PMID: 31879377] [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: 06/10/2023]
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We retrospectively assessed our initial clinical experience of the herbal medicine Inchinkoto for refractory hyperbilirubinemia following open-heart surgery. Six patients developed hyperbilirubinemia in an acute phase after surgery and their maximum total bilirubin levels were 6.4~26.4 mg/dl( mean:13.1± 8.2 mg/dl). They were initially treated with ursodeoxycholic acid and/or Stronger Neo-Minophagen C containing monoammonium glycyrrhizinate, glycine, aminoacetic acid, and L-cysteine hydrochloride hydrate. These treatments, however, were ineffective, and Inchinkoto was introduced at 5~34 day (mean:13.3±11.3 days) after surgery. Hyperbilirubinemia improved in all patients after the introduction of Inchinkoto:1 day after in 1 case, 2 days after in 2 cases, 3 days after in 2 cases, and 4 days after in 1 case. These results indicate the potential of Inchinkoto to attenuate refractory hyperbilirubinemia following cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.
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- Hiroshi Furukawa
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan
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