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Low Iodine Dose is Related with Overestimation of Extracellular Volume Derived from Cardiac CT
Hiroaki Arakawa,Nobuo Tomizawa,Shengpu Chou,Satoshi Matsuoka,Kodai Yamamoto,Shinichi Inoh,Takeshi Nojo,Kanako Kunishima Kumamaru,Shinichiro Fujimoto,Sunao Nakamura 아시아심장혈관영상의학회 2020 Cardiovascular Imaging Asia Vol.4 No.2
Objective: To assess the relationship between the amount of injected contrast medium and the extracellular volume (ECV) value during cardiac CT and to propose a minimum amount of contrast medium necessary to correctly calculate ECV. Materials and Methods: A total of 95 patients who underwent comprehensive cardiac CT were included. Patients first underwent myocardial CT perfusion (CTP) with a contrast medium dose determined by the body weight (<70 kg: 50 mL; 70–89 kg: 55 mL; ≥90 kg: 60 mL). Coronary CT angiography (CTA) scan followed with a contrast medium dose of 0.8×body weight (kg). We defined the ECV value calculated after CTP as ECVCTP, and we used the ECV value calculated after the CTA exam as the reference standard (ECVref). We calculated the difference in ECV values (ECVdiff) as ECVCTP-ECVref. Results: The injected iodine doses during CTP and the entire exam were 284±50 and 559± 69 mg iodine/kg, respectively. There was a weak but significant negative relationship (R2 =0.07, p=0.01) between the injected iodine dose during CTP and ECVdiff. The ECVdiff of patients who received an injected iodine dose of <285 mg iodine/kg during CTP was significantly higher (2.7±4.1 vs. 0.8±3.4%, p=0.02) than that of the remaining patients. Conclusion: ECV derived from cardiac CT might be overestimated when a small amount of contrast medium is injected. Inj
Mechatronics Education Using Robot Competition in Okayama University of Science
Akagi, Tetsuya,Fujimoto, Shinsaku,Kuno, Hiroaki,Araki, Keisuke,Yamada, Satoshi,Dohta, Shujiro Korean Society for Engineering Education 2010 공학교육연구 Vol.13 No.2
Electronics machines make daily human life more convenient and comfortable and try to ease burdens. When designing and manufacturing such mechatronic systems, the engineers need to have a wide range of knowledge. The purpose of our education is for students to learn to use mechatronic techniques. To realize our goal, we regard "an interest in creation" of our student as an important educational method. In this paper, we propose and try an educational method for mechatronics creation using "their interest". The method is to hold robot competitions between 1st and 3rd year students as a regular curriculum. In order to confirm the progress of our students in our engineering course, in the last year, some students entered the Rescue Robot Contest held in Kobe Japan. As a result, our student team got second place, a great honor considering it was our first attempt. We confirm that the robot competition is a useful method to make students study by themselves.
Satoshi Nakamura,Masao Inoue,Hiroaki Fujimoto,Kiyoshi Kasamatsu 한국응용곤충학회 2007 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.10 No.1
A tape formulation of pyriproxyfen was prepared by coating the chemical onto yellow plastic film. We evaluated the transovarial ovicidal activity of the tape formulation against Bemisia tabaci and investigated the optimal application method and efficacy in a greenhouse. The tape formulation showed high ovicidal activity of over 80% mortality against B. tabaci for 4 days by a 30-second compulsory contact test. The formulation controlled the B. tabaci population on tomatoes by both “sideways spreading application” and “vertical hanging application”. “Sideways spreading application” was considered to be more practical, although there was no significant difference in efficacy between the two application methods. In a large-scale greenhouse trial of “sideways spreading application”, the tape formulation suppressed the B. tabaci population for 77 days. The results suggested that the tape formulation is promising as a tool for IPM because of its high efficacy and lower environmental impact.
Nakamura, Satoshi,Inoue, Masao,Fujimoto, Hiroaki,Kasamatsu, Kiyoshi Korean Society of Applied Entomology 2007 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.10 No.1
A tape formulation of pyriproxyfen was pre-pared by coating the chemical onto yellow plastic film. We evaluated the trans ovarial ovicidal activity of the tape formulation against Bemisia tabaci and investigated the optimal application method and efficacy in a greenhouse. The tape formulation showed high ovicidal activity of over 80% mortality against B. tabaci for 4 days by a 30-second compulsory contact test. The formulation controlled the B. tabaci population on tomatoes by both "sideways spreading application" and "vertical hanging application". "Sideways spreading application" was considered to be more practical, although there was no significant difference in efficacy between the two application methods. In a large-scale greenhouse trial of "sideways spreading application", the tape formulation suppressed the B. tabaci population for 77 days. The results suggested that the tape formulation is promising as a tool for IPM because of its high efficacy and lower environmental impact.
Katsuya Mitamura,Takashi Norikane,Yuka Yamamoto,Kengo Fujimoto,Yasukage Takami,Mikiya Kato,Tomohiro Kameda,Hiroaki Dobashi,Yoshihiro Nishiyama 대한핵의학회 2021 핵의학 분자영상 Vol.55 No.1
We present a female in her sixties with mixed connective tissue disease who underwent 99mTc-human serum albumin diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (99mTc-HSA-DTPA) scintigraphy to clarify the cause of generalized edema. Scintigraphy findings directed the diagnosis to protein-losing gastroenteropathy. Various disorders are known to be associated with proteinlosing gastroenteropathy; however, mixed connective tissue disease is a rare cause. 99mTc-HSA-DTPA scintigraphy is helpful in the diagnosis and following the response to therapy of protein-losing gastroenteropathy.
Masahiko Kobayashi,Jian Xu,Kohei Kakino,Akitsu Masuda,Masato Hino,Naoki Fujimoto,Kosuke Minamihata,Noriho Kamiya,Hiroaki Mon,Hiroshi Iida,Masateru Takahashi,Takahiro Kusakabe,이재만 한국응용곤충학회 2020 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.23 No.1
Interleukine-4 (IL-4) is a cytokine that plays an important role in the immune system and recognized as a biological medicine. Therefore, there is a demand for the production of IL-4 with high performance. The expression of a recombinant IL-4 protein in the prokaryotic system usually results in the formation of an inclusion body. To date, the solution to obtain those active products without the refolding process remains to be established. In this study, we tried to acquire a biologically active recombinant Mus musculus IL-4 (rMmIL-4) using a silkworm-baculovirus expression vector system (silkworm-BEVS). We constructed two recombinant baculoviruses coding rMmIL-4 with the distinct location of affinity purification tags and succeeded in the expression and purification of rMmIL-4 proteins directly without the refolding process. Both purified proteins displayed comparable biological activity to the commercial proteins produced by the E. coli expression system. Besides, we performed screening of silkworm strains to seek optimal hosts for the mass-production of rMmIL-4. Intriguingly, we found that some silkworm strains showed significantly higher secretion levels of rMmIL-4 in silkworm sera. Our study provides meaningful insights into the industrial-scale production of rMmIL-4 with high productivity for pharmaceutical applications in the future.
Harunobu Matsumoto,Mototsugu Shimokawa,Kaei Nasu,Ayumi Shikama,Takaya Shiozaki,Masayuki Futagami,Kentaro Kai,Hiroaki Nagano,Taisuke Mori,Mitsutake Yano,Norihiro Sugino,Etsuko Fujimoto,Norihito Yoshiok 대한부인종양학회 2019 Journal of Gynecologic Oncology Vol.30 No.6
Objective: We conducted a retrospective, multi-institutional, collaborative study to accumulate cases of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the endometrium, to clarify its clinicopathologic features, treatment, prognosis and prognostic factors to collate findings to establish future individualized treatment regimens. To our knowledge, this is the largest case study and the first study to statistically analyze the prognosis of this disease. Methods: At medical institutions participating in the Kansai Clinical Oncology Group/Intergroup, cases diagnosed at a central pathologic review as neuroendocrine carcinoma of the endometrium between 1995 and 2014 were enrolled. We retrospectively analyzed the clinicopathologic features, treatment, prognosis and prognostic factors of this disease. Results: A total of 65 cases were registered from 18 medical institutions in Japan. Of these, 42 (64.6%) cases were diagnosed as neuroendocrine carcinoma of the endometrium based on the central pathological review and thus included in the study. Advanced International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stages (stage III and IV) and pure type small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma cases had a significantly worse prognosis. Upon multivariate analysis, only histologic subtypes and surgery were significant prognostic factors. Pure type cases had a significantly worse prognosis compared to mixed type cases and complete surgery cases had a significantly better prognosis compared to cases with no or incomplete surgery. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that complete surgery improves the prognosis of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the endometrium. Even among cases with advanced disease stages, if complete surgery is expected to be achieved, clinicians should consider curative surgery to improve the prognosis of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the endometrium.