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Seiji Ohtori,Daisuke Nojima,Kazuhide Inage,Yoshihiro Sakuma,Jun Sato,Sumihisa Orita,Kazuyo Yamauchi,Yawara Eguchi,Nobuyasu Ochiai,Kazuki Kuniyoshi,Yasuchika Aoki,Junichi Nakamura,Masayuki Miyagi,Miyak 연세대학교의과대학 2016 Yonsei medical journal Vol.57 No.3
Purpose: The pathophysiology of discogenic low back pain is not fully understood. Tetrodotoxin-sensitive voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels are associated with primary sensory nerve transmission, and the NaV1.7 channel has emerged as an analgesic target. Previously, we found increased NaV1.7 expression in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons innervating injured discs. This study aimed to examine the effect of blocking NaV1.7 on sensory nerves after disc injury. Materials and Methods: Rat DRG neurons innervating the L5/6 disc were labeled with Fluoro-Gold (FG) neurotracer. Twenty-four rats underwent intervertebral disc puncture (puncture group) and 12 rats underwent sham surgery (non-puncture group). The injury group was divided into a saline infusion group (puncture+saline group) and a NaV1.7 inhibition group, injected with anti-NaV1.7 antibody (puncture+anti-NaV1.7 group); n=12 per group. Seven and 14 days post-surgery, L1 to L6 DRGs were harvested and immunostained for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) (an inflammatory pain marker), and the proportion of CGRP-immunoreactive (IR) DRG neurons of all FG-positive neurons was evaluated. Results: The ratio of CGRP-IR DRG neurons to total FG-labeled neurons in the puncture+saline group significantly increased at 7 and 14 days, compared with the non-puncture group, respectively (p<0.05). Application of anti-NaV1.7 into the disc significantly decreased the ratio of CGRP-IR DRG neurons to total FG-labeled neurons after disc puncture at 7 and 14 days (40% and 37%, respectively;p<0.05). Conclusion: NaV1.7 antibody suppressed CGRP expression in disc DRG neurons. Anti-NaV1.7 antibody is a potential therapeutic target for pain control in patients with lumbar disc degeneration.
Keiji Yokoyama,Ryo Yamauchi,Kumiko Shibata,Hiromi Fukuda,Hideo Kunimoto,Kazuhide Takata,Takashi Tanaka,Shinjiro Inomata,Daisuke Morihara,Yasuaki Takeyama,Satoshi Shakado,Shotaro Sakisaka 대한간학회 2019 Clinical and Molecular Hepatology(대한간학회지) Vol.25 No.2
Background/Aims: There is a controversy about the availability of invasive treatment for esophageal/gastric varices in patients with Child-Pugh class C (CP-C) end-stage liver cirrhosis (LC). We have evaluated the validity of invasive treatment with CP-C end-stage LC patients. Methods: The study enrolled 51 patients with CP-C end-stage LC who had undergone invasive treatment. The treatment modalities included endoscopic variceal ligation in 22 patients, endoscopic injection sclerotherapy in 17 patients, and balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) in 12 patients. We have investigated the overall survival (OS) rates and risk factors that contributed to death within one year after treatment. Results: The OS rate in all patients at one, three, and five years was 72.6%, 30.2%, and 15.1%, respectively. The OS rate in patients who received endoscopic treatment and the BRTO group at one, three, and five years was 67.6%, 28.2% and 14.1% and 90.0%, 36.0% and 18.0%, respectively. The average of Child-Pugh scores (CPS) from before treatment to one month after variceal treatment significantly improved from 10.53 to 10.02 (P=0.003). Three significant factors that contributed to death within one year after treatment included the presence of bleeding varices, high CPS (≥11), and high serum total bilirubin levels (≥4.0 mg/dL). Conclusions: The study demonstrated that patients with a CPS of up to 10 and less than 4.0 mg/dL of serum total bilirubin levels may not have a negative impact on prognosis after invasive treatment for esophageal/gastric varices despite their CP-C end-stage LC.
Takahiro Nagata,Sadahiro Funakoshi,Daisuke Morihara,Satoshi Shakado,Keiji Yokoyama,Kazuhide Takata,Takashi Tanaka,Atsushi Fukunaga,Ryo Yamauchi,Hiromi Fukuda,Hiroki Matsuoka,So Imakiire,Hideto Sakisak 대한장연구학회 2023 Intestinal Research Vol.21 No.4
Background/Aims: The frequency and details of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) complications in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remain unclear. This study aimed to clarify characteristics of NAFLD in patients with IBD.Methods: We retrospectively identified and enrolled patients with IBD diagnosed with or without NAFLD by undergoing abdominal computed tomography (CT) at our institution between 2005 and 2020. The primary endpoint was the complication rate of NAFLD in patients with IBD. Secondary endpoints were the clinical characteristics of nonobese patients with IBD and comorbid NAFLD and their association with nutritional and inflammatory parameters.Results: Twenty-one (21.9%) of 96 eligible patients with IBD also had NAFLD. In nonobese patients (defined as patients with a body mass index <25 kg/m<sup>2</sup>), C-reactive protein (CRP; <i>P</i><0.001) and alanine aminotransferase (<i>P</i>=0.018) levels were higher and the albumin level (<i>P</i>=0.005) and prognostic nutritional index (PNI; <i>P</i>=0.002) values were lower in patients with NAFLD than in those without NAFLD. The PNI value was positively correlated (<i>P</i><0.001) and the CRP level was negatively correlated (<i>P</i>=0.001) with the hepatosplenic ratio. However, in the NAFLD combined group, PNI (<i>P</i><0.05) and CRP values (<i>P</i><0.001) were improved over time after CT imaging by continuing IBD treatment.Conclusions: Worsening nutritional and inflammatory status in IBD patients is associated with complications of NAFLD. Diagnosis of NAFLD in IBD patients using CT imaging might be useful not only for early detection of NAFLD but also in assessing the need for therapeutic intervention for IBD.
Yoshiki Toba,SHINKI OYABU,Hideo Matsuhara,DAISUKE ISHIHARA,Matt A. Malkan,Takehiko Wada,YOUICHI OHYAMA,Hirokazu Kataza,SATOSHI TAKITA,Chisato Yamauchi 한국천문학회 2017 天文學論叢 Vol.32 No.1
We demonstrate the luminosity dependence of the covering factor (CF) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), based on AKARI mid-infrared all-sky survey catalog. Combining the AKARI with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic data, we selected 243 galaxies at 9 $\mu$m and 255 galaxies at 18 $\mu$m. We then identified 64 AGNs at 9 $\mu$m and 105 AGNs at 18 $\mu$m by their optical emission lines. Following that, we estimated the CF as the fraction of type 2 AGN in all AGNs. We found that the CF decreased with increasing 18 $\mu$m luminosity, regardless of the choice of type2 AGN classification criteria.
Izumi Yahata,Tetsuaki Kawase,Hiromitsu Miyazaki,Yusuke Takata,Daisuke Yamauchi,Kazuhiro Nomura,Yukio Katori 대한이비인후과학회 2015 Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology Vol.8 No.3
Objectives. To examine the relationship between speech intelligibilities among the similar level of hearing loss and threshold elevation of the auditory brainstem response (ABR). Methods. The relationship between maximum speech intelligibilities among similar levels of hearing loss and relative threshold elevation of the click-evoked ABR (ABR threshold – pure tone average at 2,000 and 4,000 Hz) was retrospectively reviewed in patients with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) other than apparent retrocochlear lesions as auditory neuropathy, vestibular schwannoma and the other brain lesions. Results. Comparison of the speech intelligibilities in subjects with similar levels of hearing loss found that the variation in maximum speech intelligibility was significantly correlated with the threshold elevation of the ABR. Conclusion. The present results appear to support the idea that variation in maximum speech intelligibility in patients with similar levels of SNHL may be related to the different degree of dysfunctions of the inner hair cells and/or cochlear nerves in addition to those of outer hair cells.