The incidence of blood-borne viral diseases has decreased over the last several years, but the risk of blood-borne bacterial diseases has remained the same. Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates (PCs) is a longstanding problem in transfusion medicine. The reported incidence of clinically relevant reactions to contaminated ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Number 4 (2015) pp. 805-812 http://ww...

1Division of Pathology and Bacteriology, Fukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences, Fukuoka 818-0135; 2Kaho and Kurate Office for Health, Human Services and Environmental Issues, Fukuoka 820-0004; 3Fukuoka Prefecture Government, Fukuoka 812-8577; 4Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment, Oita 870-1117; and 5Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious...

Polycystin-2 (PC-2) is a non-selective cation channel that, when mutated, results in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. In an effort to understand the regulation of this channel, we investigated the role of protein phosphorylation in PC-2 function. We demonstrated the direct incorporation of phosphate into PC-2 in cells and tissues and found that this constitutive phosphorylation occ...

Kosuke Kajitani,1 Hiroo Yamaguchi,1 Yukihiko Dan,1 Masato Furuichi,1,2 Dongchon Kang,3 and Yusaku Nakabeppu1 1Division of Neurofunctional Genomics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, 2Radioisotope Center, Kyushu University, and 3Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu U...

Faculty of Engineering Yokohama National University, 79–5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240–8501, Japan, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79–7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240–8501, Japan, and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3–1–1 Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka 812–8582, Japan (Received March 15, 2002; Acc...

Yoshimitsu Kakuta1,2, Nozomu Okino2, Hitomi Kajiwara3, Masako Ichikawa3, Yoshimitsu Takakura3, Makoto Ito2, and Takeshi Yamamoto1,3 2Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, 6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan; and 3Glycotechnology Business Unit, Japan Tobacco Inc., 700 Higashibara, Iwata, Shiz...

Research Institute of Life Science,Snow Brand Milk Products Co.,Ltd.,a Ishihashi , Shimotsugagun,Tochigi 329-05,Japan,Department of Bacteriology,National Defence Medical College,b Namiki,Tokorosawa,Saitama 359,Japan, Department of Microbial Chemistry,Tokyo College of Pharmacy,` Hachioji,Tokyo 192-03,Japan and Department of Immunology. Medical Institute for Bioregulation,Kyushu University,d Maid...

Naoyuki Kawahara1,2∗ and Jun Nishimura1,3† High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan Department of Particle and Nuclear Physics, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan (Dated: May, 2005; preprint: KEK-TH-1018, KYUSH...

Methods We retrospectively analyzed 812 consecutive patients treated with DES implantation for STEMI. Intracoronary thrombus burden was angiographically estimated and categorized as large thrombus burden (LTB), defined as thrombus burden 2 vessel diameters, and small thrombus burden (STB) to predict clinical outcomes. Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were defined as death, repeat myocardial ...

Human echovirus 20 (E-20) belongs to the Human enterovirus B (HEV-B) species and is often detected in nonpolio enterovirus cases of acute flaccid paralysis. We determined the complete genome of strain 812/YN/CHN/2010, isolated from a child with severe hand-foot-and-mouth disease in Yunnan, China, in 2010.