Search Results - "Mafune, K"

A rapid approach to profiling diverse fungal communities using the MinION™ nanopore sequencer by Mafune, Korena K, Godfrey, Bruce J, Vogt, Daniel J, Vogt, Kristiina A

“…The Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION™ sequencer holds the capability to generate long amplicon reads; however, only a small amount of information is…”
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The expansion of fungal organisms in environmental biotechnology by Mafune, Korena K, Winkler, Mari KH

“…Fungal organisms hold vital roles in ecosystem processes. Despite their intricate entanglement with most life on earth and their powerful metabolic capacities,…”
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See the forest not the trees! Ecosystem-based assessment of response, resilience, and scope for growth of global forests by Klock, Angela M., Vogt, Kristiina A., Vogt, Daniel J., Gordon, John G., Scullion, Jason J., Suntana, Asep S., Mafune, Korena K., Polyakov, Ann Y., Gmur, Stephan J., Gómez de la Rosa, Carrol

“…[Display omitted] •Ecosystem Fit, tNpp are higher in tropical than temperate and boreal forests.•Tropical forests allocate higher % of tNpp to bNpp than…”
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Building blocks toward sustainable biofertilizers: variation in arbuscular mycorrhizal spore germination when immobilized with diazotrophic bacteria in biodegradable hydrogel beads by Mafune, Korena K, Kasson, Matt T, Winkler, Mari-Karoliina H

“…We investigated whether there was interspecies and intraspecies variation in spore germination of 12 strains of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi when co-entrapped…”
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Telomere shortening with aging in human liver by Takubo, K, Nakamura, K, Izumiyama, N, Furugori, E, Sawabe, M, Arai, T, Esaki, Y, Mafune, K, Kammori, M, Fujiwara, M, Kato, M, Oshimura, M, Sasajima, K

“…Progressive telomere shortening with aging was studied in the normal liver tissue of 94 human subjects aged between 0 and 101 years old to determine the rate…”
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Localization of N-myc downstream-regulated gene 1 in gastric cancer tissue by Inagaki, Y, Tang, W, Xu, H.-L, Guo, Q, Mafune, K, Konishi, T, Nakata, M, Sugawara, Y, Kokudo, N

“…Abstract Background and aim N-myc downstream-regulated gene 1 is detected in normal tissue but is down-regulated in cancer tissue. Furthermore, research has…”
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A single institutional non-randomized retrospective comparison between definitive chemoradiotherapy and radical surgery in 82 Japanese patients with resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by Yamashita, H., Nakagawa, K., Yamada, K., Kaminishi, M., Mafune, K., Ohtomo, K.

“…This retrospective study was conducted to compare the treatment results between radical surgery and definitive chemoradiotherapy for resectable squamous cell…”
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Overexpression of MMP-9 correlates with growth of small hepatocellular carcinoma by Sakamoto, Y, Mafune, K, Mori, M, Shiraishi, T, Imamura, H, Takayama, T, Makuuchi, M

“…Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) play an important role in tumor cell invasion and metastasis. We examined the expression of MMPs in hepatocellular carcinoma…”
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Lack of DMBT1 expression in oesophageal, gastric and colon cancers by MORI, M, SHIRAISHI, T, TANAKA, S, YAMAGATA, M, MAFUNE, K, TANAKA, Y, UEO, H, BARNARD, G. F, SUGIMACHI, K

“…Loss of sequences from human chromosome 10q has been reported in several different cancers. Recently, a second candidate tumour-suppressor gene, DMBT1, was…”
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Old-growth Acer macrophyllum trees host a unique suite of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and other root-associated fungal taxa in their canopy soil environment by Mafune, Korena K., Vogt, Daniel J., Vogt, Kristiina A., Cline, EC, Godfrey, Bruce J., Bunn, Rebecca A., Meade, Alec J. S.

“…Canopy soils occur on tree branches throughout the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest Coast and are recognized as a defining characteristic of…”
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Assessment of gastric carcinoma risk associated with Helicobacter pylori may vary depending on the antigen used : CagA specific enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELISA) versus commercially available H. pylori ELISAs by MAEDA, S, YOSHIDA, H, KAWABE, T, SHIRATORI, Y, OMATA, M, OGURA, K, YAMAJI, Y, IKENOUE, T, MITSUSHIMA, T, TAGAWA, H, KAWAGUCHI, R, MORI, K, MAFUNE, K.-I

“…Previous epidemiologic studies produced inconsistent results when examining the relation between Helicobacter pylori infection and the risk of gastric…”
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Primary undifferentiated small cell carcinoma of the esophagus by Takubo, Kaiyo, Nakamura, Ken-Ichi, Sawabe, Motoji, Arai, Tomio, Esaki, Yukiyoshi, Miyashita, Masao, Mafune, Ken-Ichi, Tanaka, Yoichi, Sasajima, Koji

“…We histologically examined undifferentiated small cell carcinoma of the esophagus from 21 patients and used immunohistochemical methods for detection of…”
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Association of histochemical expression of Maackia amurensis leukoagglutinin-positive glycoconjugates with behaviour of human gastric cancer by Tang, W, Mafune, K, Nakata, M, Konishi, T, Kojima, N, Mizuochi, T, Makuuchi, M

“…Aims:  To investigate the relationship between sialylation of glycoconjugates and clinicopathological characteristics of gastric cancer. Methods and results: …”
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Coexpression of Grb7 with epidermal growth factor receptor or Her2/erbB2 in human advanced esophageal carcinoma by TANAKA, S, MORI, M, AKIYOSHI, T, TANAKA, Y, MAFUNE, K.-I, WANDS, J. R, SUGIMACHI, K

“…Growth factor receptors transmit intracellular signals that may be important in carcinogenesis. The Grb7 protein was recently identified as a substrate of the…”
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Expression of pyrimidine nucleoside phosphorylase mRNA plays an important role in the prognosis of patients with oesophageal cancer by YAMAGATA, M, MORI, M, MIMORI, K, MAFUNE, K.-I, TANAKA, Y, UEO, H, AKIYOSHI, T

“…To clarify the significance of the expression of pyrimidine nucleoside phosphorylase (PyNPase) mRNA as a predictive factor for the prognosis of patients with…”
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A dominant negative mutation of transforming growth factor-β receptor type II gene in microsatellite stable oesophageal carcinoma by TANAKA, S, MORI, M, MAFUNE, K.-I, OHNO, S, SUGIMACHI, K

“…Recent investigations revealed microsatellite instability in colon cancers are associated with mutations of the transforming growth factor-beta receptor type…”
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Human esophageal carcinomas frequently express the tumor-rejection antigens of MAGE genes by Inoue, H, Mori, M, Li, J, Mimori, K, Honda, M, Nakashima, H, Mafune, K, Tanaka, Y, Akiyoshi, T

“…The human genes MAGE-1 and -3 encode melanoma peptide antigens that are recognized by autologous cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Tumors expressing MAGE genes are…”
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Deletion of the carboxyl-terminal exons of K-sam/FGFR2 by short homology-mediated recombination, generating preferential expression of specific messenger RNAs by UEDA, T, SASAKI, H, TERADA, M, KUWAHARA, Y, NEZU, M, SHIBUYA, T, SAKAMOTO, H, ISHII, H, YANAGIHARA, K, MAFUNE, K.-I, MAKUUCHI, M

“…The K-sam gene was first identified as an amplified gene from human gastric cancer cell line KATOIII, and its product is identical to fibroblast growth factor…”
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Interleukin-8 production in primary cultures of human gastric epithelial cells induced by Helicobacter pylori by OGURA, K, TAKAHASHI, M, MAEDA, S, IKENOUE, T, KANAI, F, YOSHIDA, H, SHIRATORI, Y, MORI, K, MAFUNE, K.-I, OMATA, M

“…Interleukin-8 (IL-8) production by the gastric mucosa is increased in Helicobacter pylori infection. Previous studies indicated that H. pylori induces IL-8…”
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Elongation factor 1 gamma mRNA expression in oesophageal carcinoma by Mimori, K, Mori, M, Inoue, H, Ueo, H, Mafune, K, Akiyoshi, T, Sugimachi, K

“…Elongation factor 1 gamma (EF1 gamma) is known to be a subunit of EF1, one of the G proteins that mediate the transport of aminoacyl tRNA to 80S ribosomes…”
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