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Letter dated 21 March 1968 from Lorenzo A. Richards to Dr. Hitoshi Fukuda
No full textLetter dated 21 March 1968 from Lorenzo A. Richards to Dr. Hitoshi Fukuda at Tokyo, Japan, thanking him for recent post cards, and noting he may be attending a conference in Adelaide in August, and may visit JapanMarch 21, 1968 Dr. Hitoshi Pukuda 3-60 Nakamura Nerima Tokyo, Japan Dear Dr. PukudaJ I wish to thank you for the beautiful holiday postcards you have sent with their greetings and good wishes. This has been most kind of you to remember me. Mrs. Richards and I are thinking now of attending the 9th International Congress of Soil Science at Adelaide this coming August. I hope ycu may be able to attend this meeting because it would be very pleasant visiting with you there. It is just possible that we may return to California by way of Japan. If this plan materializes I shall let you know with the hope that we can meet there. I retired from the staff of the U.S. Salinity Laboratory in May 1966. I have numerous hobby interests, mainly in soil science, so I have had no trouble adjusting to this new phase of my life. I have had automatic irrigation as a long time hobby and I have gone back to some of the devices and systems to see if I cannot improve them. Mrs. Richards and I enjoy gardening and Camellia Japonioa is our special favorite. Ve have numerous varieties growing in pota undo? automatic irrigation and they seem to like it. Again I wish to thank you for your many thoughtful messages and good wishes. Sincerely, Lorenzo A. Richards Physicist LAR ig
sj-docx-1-tae-10.1177_20420188221099349 – Supplemental material for Perioperative glycemic status is linked to postoperative complications in non-intensive care unit patients with type-2 diabetes: a retrospective study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tae-10.1177_20420188221099349 for Perioperative glycemic status is linked to postoperative complications in non-intensive care unit patients with type-2 diabetes: a retrospective study by Takeshi Oba, Mototsugu Nagao, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Yuji Yamaguchi, Tomoko Nagamine, Kyoko Tanimura-Inagaki, Izumi Fukuda and Hitoshi Sugihara in Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism</p
The virtues of Fukuda laboratory of crystal growth
No full textAbstractThe author, dealing with crystal growth of II–VI, IV–VI and III–V compounds for more than 25 years, describes his impressions on the state of art of the basic research in the field of bulk growth of electronic materials in Japan, obtained during his stay from 1993 to 1994 as invited professor at the laboratory of Professor Tsuguo Fukuda at the Institute for Materials Research of Tohoku University in Sendai. He learned that the future generations of electronic and optical devices require original ideas and unconventional steps towards new bulk crystal growth technologies combined with a close teamwork between academic laboratories and industry
Impact of Fatigue on Quality of Life in People With Parkinson’s Disease
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
The symptom of fatigue was shown to be an effector for quality of life (QOL) in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) independently from motor function–related PD symptoms. Intervention to improve specific aspects of fatigue is recommended to promote better QOL for people with PD.
Primary Author and Speaker: Kayoko Takahashi
Contributing Authors: Naoto Kamide, Michinari Fukuda</jats:p
Making it Just in Time: Author-Creator Matsumoto Taiyō
No full textTranslated by Jon Holt and Teppei Fukuda
The first time I can remember encountering Matsumoto Taiyō’s work was probably when he released his short story collection, Blue Spring (Aoi haru - Matsumoto Taiyō tanpenshū [stories published from 1990 to 1993; Shōgakukan, 1993]). All of the stories concern a bunch of young dudes -- full of desires, frustrations, and violent tendencies -- and no chance they can ever get past those things. I thought to myself at that time, “Ah, I bet this stuff means a lot to readers in their teens, but they don’t really do anything for me.” After all, I was a man in my forties, so this stuff wasn’t on my radar as I was busy becoming a grown-up. Keep in mind that Taiyō himself was just in his early twenties. So, it really wasn’t that unnatural for him to write about life like that
Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells integrate microbial signals to promote post‐inflammation gut tissue repair
No full textBone marrow (BM)-resident hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) are often activated following bacterial insults to replenish the host hemato-immune system, but how they integrate the associated tissue damage signals to initiate distal tissue repair is largely unknown. Here, we show that acute gut inflammation expands HSPCs in the BM and directs them to inflamed mesenteric lymph nodes through GM-CSFR activation for further expansion and potential differentiation into Ly6C(+)/G(+) myeloid cells specialized in gut tissue repair. We identified this process to be mediated by Bacteroides, a commensal gram-negative bacteria that activates innate immune signaling. These findings establish cross-organ communication between the BM and distant inflamed sites, whereby a certain subset of multipotent progenitors is specified to respond to imminent hematopoietic demands and to alleviate inflammatory symptoms.
Plasma xanthine oxidoreductase activity in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes across hospitalized treatment
No full textYusuke Kawachi; Yuya Fujishima; Hitoshi Nishizawa; Hirofumi Nagao; Takashi Nakamura; Seigo Akari; Takayo Murase; Naohiro Taya; Kazuo Omori; Akimitsu Miyake; Shiro Fukuda; Mitsuyoshi Takahara; Shunbun Kita; Naoto Katakami; Norikazu Maeda; Iichiro Shimomura. Plasma xanthine oxidoreductase activity in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes across hospitalized treatment. J Diabetes Investig. 2020.Aims/Introduction: Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) is an enzyme that catalyzes hypoxanthine and xanthine to xanthine and uric acid, respectively. Plasma XOR activity has recently been measured in humans. However, limited information is known about plasma XOR activity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and its changes after short-term glycemic control treatment. Materials and Methods: We enrolled 28 Japanese patients (10 men/18 women) with type 2 diabetes mellitus who were hospitalized to undergo medical treatment for diabetes. Plasma XOR activity, quantified using triple quadrupole mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography, and other clinical parameters were examined at admission and 2 weeks after treatment during hospitalization. Changes in plasma XOR activity after treatment during hospitalization and associated clinical parameters were assessed. Results: At the time of admission, the median plasma XOR activity was 83.1 pmol/h/mL, with a wide range of 14.4–1150 pmol/h/mL. Multiple regression analysis identified serum aspartate transaminase and alanine transaminase levels as significant and independent factors correlating with the baseline plasma XOR. Two weeks of treatment during hospitalization was associated with a significant decrease in plasma XOR activity. Changes in serum aspartate transaminase were also the only significant and independent factor correlating with changes in plasma XOR activity. Conclusions: A close relationship was observed between plasma XOR activity and liver transaminases in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, cross-sectionally, and also across treatment during hospitalization
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