… in Ca concentration was prolonged over 10 h. On the other hand, a significantly
prolonged reduction in blood Ca was obtained over 12 h after administration of the chitosan-coated …

Macroautophagy and microautophagy are highly conserved eukaryotic cellular processes
that degrade cytoplasmic material in lysosomes. Both pathways involve characteristic …

The purpose of this review was to examine a remarkable technical advance regarding the
indications for and the technique of endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer. Endoscopic …

Bacillus subtilis is the best-characterized member of the Gram-positive bacteria. Its genome
of 4,214,810 base pairs comprises 4,100 protein-coding genes. Of these protein-coding …

Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with ferromagnetic electrodes possessing a perpendicular
magnetic easy axis are of great interest as they have a potential for realizing next-…

To estimate the minimal gene set required to sustain bacterial life in nutritious conditions, we
carried out a systematic inactivation of Bacillus subtilis genes. Among ≈4,100 genes of the …

… Figure 6 shows the variation in the density and the permanent magnet properties of the
sintered Nd1sBsFe77 alloy annealed at 870 K for 1 h after sintering. Density as high as 98-99% …

… Hajime Yamamoto received his BS and Ph. D. degrees in applied chemistry from the …
Yamamoto serves as a chairperson of the Phosphor Research Society and is an organizing …

Runx3/Pebp2αC null mouse gastric mucosa exhibits hyperplasias due to stimulated
proliferation and suppressed apoptosis in epithelial cells, and the cells are resistant to growth-…

Cancers of the microsatellite mutator phenotype (MMP) show exaggerated genomic instability
at simple repeat sequences. More than 50 percent (21 out of 41) of human MMP + colon …