45 research outputs found
Letter from Hideko Wakita to Mrs. Margaret Waegell, December 10, 1942
No full textHandwritten correspondence from Hideko Wakita to Margaret Waegell.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
E-Rosette Inhibitory Factor in Sera from Patients with Mycosis Fungoides
No full textPeripheral blood lymphocytes from some of patients with mycosis fungoides disease showed decreased ability to form rosettes with sheep erythrocytes. This decreased percentage of E-rosette forming cells could be normalized when those cells were incubated in culture for 20hr. Since these data led us to considering a possible inhibitory factor present in patients' sera, we tested their ability to inhibit E-rosetting by T lymphocytes from normal donors, and found that sera from mycosis fungoides patients with low levels of E-rosetting blood lymphocytes showed greater inhibitory effect on E-rosette formation by normal T cells when compared to those either from normal donors or from mycosis patients who had almost normal levels of E-rosetting blood lymphocyte number. The E-rosette inhibitory factor was sensitive to 2-mercaptoethanol treatment and was copurified with serum IgM by ammonium sulfate precipitation and by sequential gel filtrations, suggesting that it might be an anti-T lymphocyte antibody naturally occurring during the disease process
Modern girls, shining stars, the skies of Tokyo 5 Japanese women
No full textIn this work, the author presents biographical portraits of actresses Matsui Sumako and Takamine Hideko, of painter Takamura Chieko, of poet Yanagiwara Byakuren, and of novelist Uno Chiyo
Sociology essay
No full textSociology essay written by Hideko Yogi for a class assignment at Tri-State High School at Tule Lake incarceration camp. Covers discrimination against minority groups and democracy.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Assessing the clinical utility of measuring Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Proteins in tissues and sera of melanoma patients
No full textAbstract Background Different Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Proteins (IGFBPs) have been investigated as potential biomarkers in several types of tumors. In this study, we examined both IGFBP-3 and -4 levels in tissues and sera of melanoma patients representing different stages of melanoma progression. Methods The study cohort consisted of 132 melanoma patients (primary, n = 72; metastatic, n = 60; 64 Male, 68 Female; Median Age = 56) prospectively enrolled in the New York University School of Medicine Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group (NYU IMCG) between August 2002 and December 2006. We assessed tumor-expression and circulating sera levels of IGFBP-3 and -4 using immunohistochemistry and ELISA assays. Correlations with clinicopathologic parameters were examined using Wilcoxon rank-sum tests and Spearman-rank correlation coefficients. Results Median IGFBP-4 tumor expression was significantly greater in primary versus metastatic patients (70% versus 10%, p = 0.01) A trend for greater median IGFBP-3 sera concentration was observed in metastatic versus primary patients (4.9 μg/ml vs. 3.4 μg/ml, respectively, p = 0.09). However, sera levels fell within a normal range for IGFBP-3. Neither IGFBP-3 nor -4 correlated with survival in this subset of patients. Conclusion Decreased IGFBP-4 tumor expression might be a step in the progression from primary to metastatic melanoma. Our data lend support to a recently-described novel tumor suppressor role of secreting IGFBPs in melanoma. However, data do not support the clinical utility of measuring levels of IGFBP-3 and -4 in sera of melanoma patients.</p
わたしのくすり箱 絵本の窓から眺めたこと
No full textapplication/pdfMore than forty picturebooks were brought to the author while she was in hospital for treatment of cancer. The paper tells how picturebooks supported her in the struggle with fear caused by the disease, and talks about the medicinal effect picturebooks may have. The picturebooks referred to in the paper include Errol Le Cain’s Mr Mistoffelees with Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, Margaret Wise Brown’s Good Night, Moon, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, Verma Aardema’s Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, and so on, along with works by Japanese artists, such as Mitsumasa Anno, Ryusuke Saito, Heijiro Taki, and Hideko Ise.departmental bulletin pape
Association of Adolescent Smoking with Maternal Smoking.
No full textObjective: To determine the effect of family smoking habits on adolescent smoking experience for information for anti-smoking strategies. Subjects and Methods: We analyzed data from 4776 junior high school students and 5047 high school students responding to the “Survey on Prevention of Life-Style Related Diseases of Children” conducted in Nara Prefecture of Japan in 2004. The chi-square test determined the odds ratios (ORs) for smoking experience rates of the two groups of students according to the smoking habits of their fathers, mothers, older brothers, and older sisters. Logistic regression analysis was also performed for smoking experience according to school year, sex, and family smoking habit. Results: The OR for smoking in junior high school students with a father as the only smoking family member against all other cases was 0.60, and the OR with a mother as the only smoking family member was 2.50. The OR with a smoking father against cases with no smoking family members was 1.23, and the OR with a smoking mother against cases with no smoking family members was 3.50. The OR for smoking in high school students with a father as the only smoking family member against all other cases was 0.76, and the OR with a mother as the only smoking family member was 2.66. The OR with a smoking father against cases with no smoking family members was 1.59, and the OR with a smoking mother against cases with no smoking family member was 3.26. All these ORs showed significance. Conclusion: Maternal smoking was associated with a particularly high risk of smoking experience in junior high and high school students. Prevention of maternal smoking should be given high priority to reduce smoking rates in adolescents.博士（医学）・甲第624号・平成26年12月3日© 2014 Morikawa Hideko et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.identifier:Open Journal of Preventive Medicine Vol.4 No.5 p.347-353identifier:21622477identifier:http://ginmu.naramed-u.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10564/2747identifier:Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 4(5): 347-35
思春期の喫煙と母親の喫煙の関係
No full textObjective: To determine the effect of family smoking habits on adolescent smoking experience for information for anti-smoking strategies. Subjects and Methods: We analyzed data from 4776 junior high school students and 5047 high school students responding to the “Survey on Prevention of Life-Style Related Diseases of Children” conducted in Nara Prefecture of Japan in 2004. The chi-square test determined the odds ratios (ORs) for smoking experience rates of the two groups of students according to the smoking habits of their fathers, mothers, older brothers, and older sisters. Logistic regression analysis was also performed for smoking experience according to school year, sex, and family smoking habit. Results: The OR for smoking in junior high school students with a father as the only smoking family member against all other cases was 0.60, and the OR with a mother as the only smoking family member was 2.50. The OR with a smoking father against cases with no smoking family members was 1.23, and the OR with a smoking mother against cases with no smoking family members was 3.50. The OR for smoking in high school students with a father as the only smoking family member against all other cases was 0.76, and the OR with a mother as the only smoking family member was 2.66. The OR with a smoking father against cases with no smoking family members was 1.59, and the OR with a smoking mother against cases with no smoking family member was 3.26. All these ORs showed significance. Conclusion: Maternal smoking was associated with a particularly high risk of smoking experience in junior high and high school students. Prevention of maternal smoking should be given high priority to reduce smoking rates in adolescents.博士（医学）・甲第624号・平成26年12月3日© 2014 Morikawa Hideko et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
