Correspondence: Yoshinori Fukui, Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan e-mail: [email protected] phone: 81(Japan)-92-642-6828 fax: 81(Japan)-92-632-0150 Blood First Edition Paper, prepublished online January 15, 2008; DOI 10.1182/blood-2007-09-...

[1] We examine the characteristics of the initial stage (IS) in object-initiated lightning derived from current measurements on the Gaisberg tower (100 m, Austria), the Peissenberg tower (160 m, Germany), and the Fukui chimney (200 m, Japan) and their counterparts in rocket-triggered lightning in Florida. All lightning events analyzed here effectively transported negative charge to ground. For ...

1Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; 2Astex Therapeutics Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 3Division of Hematology, Respiratory Medicine, and Oncology, Saga University, Saga, Japan; 4Department of Hematology and Oncology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; and 5Department of Hematology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe U...

1Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan 2Department of Information and Media Studies, Nagoya Bunri University, Maeda 365, Inazawa-cho, Inazawa, Nagoya 492-8620, Japan 3Graduate School of Engineering, Fukui University, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan 4Facility of Home Economics, Kobe Women’s University, 2-1 Aoyama, Higashisuma,...

Chan-Shan Yang, Chia-Jen Lin, Ru-Pin Pan, Christopher T. Que, Kohji Yamamoto, Masahiko Tani, and Ci-Ling Pan Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, China Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30010, China Research Center for Development of Far-Infrared Region, Uni...

1 Department of Cariology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki 852-8588, Japan 2Department of Oral Biology, NC Oral Health Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7455, USA 3Department of Chemistry, Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, Republic of Korea 4Department of Environmental and Biological C...

This investigation examines metal ion adsorption on mesoporous silicate, MCM-41, synthesized from sodium silicate solution and cethyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). MCM-41 has potential as an adsorbent material, with a regular hexagonal pore structure, large specific surface area, and large pore volume. The MCM-41 synthesized for this investigation is characterized using powder X-ray Received...

Kanto Nagai, M.D., Ryosuke Kuroda, M.D., Ph.D., Yuichi Hoshino, M.D., Ph.D., Yuichiro Nishizawa, M.D., Ph.D., Daisuke Araki, M.D., Ph.D, Shinya Oka, M.D., Ph.D., Naoki Nakano, M.D., Takehiko Matsushita, M.D., Ph.D., Tomoyuki Matsumoto, M.D., Ph.D., Koji Takayama, M.D., Ph.D., Kouki Nagamune, Ph.D., Masahiro Kurosaka, M.D., Ph.D.. Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, Kobe Ka...

alpha5beta1 integrin induces the expression of non-cartilaginous procollagen gene expression in articular chondrocytes cultured in monolayers Arthritis Research & Therapy 2013, 15:R127 doi:10.1186/ar4307 Nobuho Tanaka ([email protected]) Yasuko Ikeda ([email protected]) Tetsuo Yamaguchi ([email protected]) Hiroshi Furukawa ([email protected]....

Based on specific sequencing, we found that a Borrelia garinii strain from a rodent in Fukui Prefecture, Japan was highly similar to the unique Borrelia strains (pattern R'/R) isolated in northeastern China and Korea, and to strains from ticks feeding on migratory birds in Fukui Prefecture. These findings indicate that the Borrelia with this unique pattern may be locally naturalized to the epiz...