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  1. Article ; Online: Profile of uterine flush lipid mediators in cows with subclinical endometritis: pilot study.

    Maehara, Toko / Osawa, Takeshi / Kitahara, Go / Satoh, Hiroshi / Murata, Takahisa

    The Journal of veterinary medical science

    2024  

    Abstract: Subclinical endometritis affects reproductive outcomes and causes economic losses in dairy cows, thus, it is important to understand disease progression mechanisms and develop diagnostic procedures for better disease management. We measured the levels of ...

    Abstract Subclinical endometritis affects reproductive outcomes and causes economic losses in dairy cows, thus, it is important to understand disease progression mechanisms and develop diagnostic procedures for better disease management. We measured the levels of 146 lipid mediators in uterine flush samples using lipid chromatography-mass spectrometry. We detected 25 lipid mediators in the uterine flush of both the control and subclinical endometritis cows; 15 of the 25 lipid mediators were AA-derived metabolites. Among the AA-derived metabolites, cyclooxygenase (COX)-generated mediators were the most abundant. Specifically, levels of 11β-13,14-dihydro-15-keto prostaglandin (PG)F
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-25
    Publishing country Japan
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1071753-5
    ISSN 1347-7439 ; 0916-7250
    ISSN (online) 1347-7439
    ISSN 0916-7250
    DOI 10.1292/jvms.23-0450
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  2. Article: The Present State of Existential Interventions Within Palliative Care.

    Terao, Takeshi / Satoh, Moriaki

    Frontiers in psychiatry

    2022  Volume 12, Page(s) 811612

    Abstract: Existential psychotherapy is rooted in the European tradition of existential philosophy. Existential philosophers include Husserl and Heidegger, who were German, and Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Merleau-Ponty, who were French. Their works contain ... ...

    Abstract Existential psychotherapy is rooted in the European tradition of existential philosophy. Existential philosophers include Husserl and Heidegger, who were German, and Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Merleau-Ponty, who were French. Their works contain existentially ultimate themes such as death, freedom, meaninglessness, and isolation. Based on their knowledge of existential philosophy, Binswanger, Frankl, and Boss developed the earlier existential psychotherapies such as Dasein-analysis and Logotherapy, while May, Laing, Yalom, May, and Wong started later existential psychotherapies in the British and American culture. Focusing on patients with advanced cancer and/or terminal care, we found nine types of existential psychotherapies which were investigated using randomized controlled trials (RCTs): Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP), Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (IMCP), Meaning-Making intervention (MMi), Meaning of Life Intervention, Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM), Hope Intervention, Cognitive and Existential Intervention, Dignity Therapy, and Life-Review Interviews, from 19 relevant RCTs. All deal with death, meaninglessness, isolation, and freedom. Particularly, MCGP, IMCP, MMi, Meaning of Life intervention, and CALM emphasize finding and/or making meaning in the individual's life. The effects on existential or spiritual well-being were confirmed in MCGP, IMCP, Meaning of Life intervention, and Life-Review intervention although the number of studies were very few. In the other interventions, there were heterogenous findings and again the number of studies was very small. Further studies are required to investigate the effects of existential psychotherapy on patients with advanced cancer.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-13
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2564218-2
    ISSN 1664-0640
    ISSN 1664-0640
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.811612
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  3. Article ; Online: Infective Endocarditis Caused by Streptococcus sanguinis Resulting in Stroke, Ruptured Infected Pseudoaneurysm of Superior Mesenteric Artery, and Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis.

    Takahashi, Go / Watanabe, Tomoyuki / Satoh, Takeshi

    Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)

    2023  Volume 63, Issue 3, Page(s) 413–417

    Abstract: A 71-year-old-man was admitted to our hospital with a cerebral embolism and diagnosed with infective endocarditis (IE) caused by Streptococcus sanguinis. Mitral valve replacement was performed. About one month later, he experienced sudden abdominal pain ... ...

    Abstract A 71-year-old-man was admitted to our hospital with a cerebral embolism and diagnosed with infective endocarditis (IE) caused by Streptococcus sanguinis. Mitral valve replacement was performed. About one month later, he experienced sudden abdominal pain and shock due to a ruptured infected mesenteric artery pseudoaneurysm. Forty-four days after abdominal surgery, he presented with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies. He was treated with plasma exchange and prednisolone, and his renal function gradually improved. Since postoperative complications often occur within a few years after surgery for IE, careful follow-up is important, even after antimicrobial therapy and valve surgery.
    MeSH term(s) Male ; Humans ; Aged ; Streptococcus sanguis ; Mesenteric Artery, Superior/diagnostic imaging ; Aneurysm, False/complications ; Aneurysm, False/diagnostic imaging ; Endocarditis, Bacterial/complications ; Endocarditis, Bacterial/surgery ; Endocarditis/complications ; Nephritis ; Glomerulonephritis/complications ; Stroke/complications
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-21
    Publishing country Japan
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 32371-8
    ISSN 1349-7235 ; 0021-5120 ; 0918-2918
    ISSN (online) 1349-7235
    ISSN 0021-5120 ; 0918-2918
    DOI 10.2169/internalmedicine.2017-23
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  4. Article ; Online: Augmented Reality in Stereotactic Neurosurgery: Current Status and Issues.

    Satoh, Makoto / Nakajima, Takeshi / Watanabe, Eiju / Kawai, Kensuke

    Neurologia medico-chirurgica

    2023  Volume 63, Issue 4, Page(s) 137–140

    Abstract: Stereotactic neurosurgery is an established technique, but it has several limitations. In frame-based stereotaxy using a stereotactic frame, frame setting errors may decrease the accuracy of the procedure. Frameless stereotaxy using neuronavigation ... ...

    Abstract Stereotactic neurosurgery is an established technique, but it has several limitations. In frame-based stereotaxy using a stereotactic frame, frame setting errors may decrease the accuracy of the procedure. Frameless stereotaxy using neuronavigation requires surgeons to shift their view from the surgical field to the navigation display and to advance the needle while assuming a physically uncomfortable position. To overcome these limitations, several researchers have applied augmented reality in stereotactic neurosurgery. Augmented reality enables surgeons to visualize the information regarding the target and preplanned trajectory superimposed over the actual surgical field. In frame-based stereotaxy, a researcher applies tablet computer-based augmented reality to check for the setting errors of the stereotactic frame, thereby improving the safety of the procedure. Several researchers have reported performing frameless stereotaxy guided by head-mounted-display-based augmented reality that enables surgeons to advance the needle at a more natural posture. These studies have shown that augmented reality can address the limitations of stereotactic neurosurgery. Conversely, they have also revealed the limited accuracy of current augmented reality systems for small targets, which indicates that further development of augmented reality systems is needed.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Augmented Reality ; Neurosurgery ; Neurosurgical Procedures/methods ; Neuronavigation/methods ; Surgery, Computer-Assisted/methods ; Stereotaxic Techniques
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-20
    Publishing country Japan
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 604061-5
    ISSN 1349-8029 ; 0470-8105
    ISSN (online) 1349-8029
    ISSN 0470-8105
    DOI 10.2176/jns-nmc.2022-0278
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  5. Article ; Online: Proximity Estimation and Quantification of Ionizing Radiation-induced DNA Lesions in Aqueous Media using Fluorescence Spectroscopy.

    Akamatsu, Ken / Satoh, Katsuya / Shikazono, Naoya / Saito, Takeshi

    Radiation research

    2023  Volume 201, Issue 2, Page(s) 150–159

    Abstract: Clustered DNA damage (cluster) or a multiply damaged site, which is a region with two or more lesions within one or two helical turns, has a high mutagenic potential and causes cell death. We quantified fluorophore-labeled lesions and estimated their ... ...

    Abstract Clustered DNA damage (cluster) or a multiply damaged site, which is a region with two or more lesions within one or two helical turns, has a high mutagenic potential and causes cell death. We quantified fluorophore-labeled lesions and estimated their proximity through fluorescence anisotropy measurements depending on Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) among the fluorophores close to each other. pUC19 plasmid DNA (2,686 base pairs) dissolved in water or 0.2 M Tris-HCl buffer at a concentration of 10 μg/μL was irradiated by several ionizing radiations with varying linear energy transfers (LET, 0.2-1890 keV/μm). Electrophilic carbonyls (aldehydes and ketones) at abasic sites (APs) produced in DNA were labeled with Alexa Fluor 488 fluorescent dyes with an O-amino functional group. Regardless of the presence or absence of the buffer, AP yields (the number of APs/base pair/Gy) tended to decrease with increasing LET, and the ratio of the AP yield (in 0.2 M Tris-HCl/in water) was less than 0.1 in the LET range of 0.2-200 keV/μm. However, in a higher LET range, the ratios were greater than 0.1. At a low dose, fluorescence anisotropy decreased with increasing LET in 0.2 M Tris-HCl, whereas, in water, this LET dependence was almost insignificant. These findings suggest that 1. the damage distribution on a DNA molecule formed by indirect effects (e.g., by hydroxyl radicals) does not depend on radiation quality and 2. greater LET radiation is more likely to produce a cluster and/or to produce a cluster with shorter distances between lesions by direct effects. This FRET-based proximity estimation of DNA lesions will contribute not only to the identification of clusters and their complexity in a whole genome, but also to the study of their repair mechanism by single-molecular level fluorescence microscopy.
    MeSH term(s) Spectrometry, Fluorescence ; Radiation, Ionizing ; DNA Damage ; DNA/genetics ; DNA/radiation effects ; Fluorescent Dyes ; Water
    Chemical Substances DNA (9007-49-2) ; Fluorescent Dyes ; Water (059QF0KO0R)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-26
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 80322-4
    ISSN 1938-5404 ; 0033-7587
    ISSN (online) 1938-5404
    ISSN 0033-7587
    DOI 10.1667/RADE-23-00145.1
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  6. Article ; Online: Development and evaluation of a simple predictive model for falls in acute care setting.

    Satoh, Masae / Miura, Takeshi / Shimada, Tomoko

    Journal of clinical nursing

    2023  Volume 32, Issue 17-18, Page(s) 6474–6484

    Abstract: Aims and objectives: To develop a simple and reliable assessment tool for predicting falls in acute care settings.: Background: Falling injures patients, lengthens hospital stay and leads to the wastage of financial and medical resources. Although ... ...

    Abstract Aims and objectives: To develop a simple and reliable assessment tool for predicting falls in acute care settings.
    Background: Falling injures patients, lengthens hospital stay and leads to the wastage of financial and medical resources. Although there are many potential predictors for falls, a simple and reliable assessment tool is practically necessary in acute care settings.
    Design: A retrospective cohort study.
    Methods: The current study was conducted for participants who were admitted to a teaching hospital in Japan. Fall risk was assessed by the modified Japanese Nursing Association Fall Risk Assessment Tool consisting of 50 variables. To create a more convenient model, variables were first limited to 26 variables and then selected by stepwise logistic regression analysis. Models were derived and validated by dividing the whole dataset into a 7:3 ratio. Sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve for the receiver-operating characteristic curve were evaluated. This study was conducted according to the STROBE guideline.
    Results: Six variables including age > 65 years, impaired extremities, muscle weakness, requiring mobility assistance, unstable gait and psychotropics were chosen in a stepwise selection. A model using these six variables with a cut-off point of 2 with one point for each item, was developed. Sensitivity and specificity >70% and area under the curve >.78 were observed in the validation dataset.
    Conclusions: We developed a simple and reliable six-item model to predict patients at high risk of falling in acute care settings.
    Relevance to clinical practice: The model has also been verified to perform well with non-random partitioning by time and future research is expected to make it useful in acute care settings and clinical practice.
    Patient or public contribution: Patients participated in the study on an opt-out basis, contributing to the development of a simple predictive model for fall prevention during hospitalisation that can be shared with medical staff and patients in the future.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Aged ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Assessment ; Hospitalization ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Length of Stay
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-10
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1159483-4
    ISSN 1365-2702 ; 0962-1067 ; 1752-9816
    ISSN (online) 1365-2702
    ISSN 0962-1067 ; 1752-9816
    DOI 10.1111/jocn.16680
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  7. Article ; Online: Left-Right Reversal Recurrently Evolved Regardless of Diaphanous-Related Formin Gene Duplication or Loss in Snails.

    Noda, Takeshi / Satoh, Noriyuki / Gittenberger, Edmund / Asami, Takahiro

    Journal of molecular evolution

    2023  Volume 91, Issue 5, Page(s) 721–729

    Abstract: Bilateria exhibit whole-body handedness in internal structure. This left-right polarity is evolutionarily conserved with virtually no reversed extant lineage, except in molluscan Gastropoda. Phylogenetically independent snail groups contain both ... ...

    Abstract Bilateria exhibit whole-body handedness in internal structure. This left-right polarity is evolutionarily conserved with virtually no reversed extant lineage, except in molluscan Gastropoda. Phylogenetically independent snail groups contain both clockwise-coiled (dextral) and counterclockwise-coiled (sinistral) taxa that are reversed from each other in bilateral handedness as well as in coiling direction. Within freshwater Hygrophila, Lymnaea with derived dextrality have diaphanous related formin (diaph) gene duplicates, while basal sinistral groups possess one diaph gene. In terrestrial Stylommatophora, dextral Bradybaena also have diaph duplicates. Defective maternal expression of one of those duplicates gives rise to sinistral hatchlings in Lymnaea and handedness-mixed broods in Bradybaena, through polarity change in spiral cleavage of embryos. These findings led to the hypothesis that diaph duplication was crucial for the evolution of dextrality by reversal. The present study discovered that diaph duplication independently occurred four times and its duplicate became lost twice in gastropods. The dextrality of Bradybaena represents the ancestral handedness conserved across gastropods, unlike the derived dextrality of Lymnaea. Sinistral lineages recurrently evolved by reversal regardless of whether diaph had been duplicated. Amongst the seven formin gene subfamilies, diaph has most thoroughly been conserved across eukaryotes of the 14 metazoan phyla and choanoflagellate. Severe embryonic mortalities resulting from insufficient expression of the duplicate in both of Bradybaena and Lymnaea also support that diaph duplicates bare general roles for cytoskeletal dynamics other than controlling spiralian handedness. Our study rules out the possibility that diaph duplication or loss played a primary role for reversal evolution.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Formins/genetics ; Formins/metabolism ; Gene Duplication ; Snails/genetics ; Lymnaea/genetics ; Lymnaea/metabolism ; Eukaryota
    Chemical Substances Formins
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-25
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 120148-7
    ISSN 1432-1432 ; 0022-2844
    ISSN (online) 1432-1432
    ISSN 0022-2844
    DOI 10.1007/s00239-023-10130-3
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  8. Article ; Online: Risk stratification for early and late falls in acute care settings.

    Satoh, Masae / Miura, Takeshi / Shimada, Tomoko / Hamazaki, Toyoko

    Journal of clinical nursing

    2022  Volume 32, Issue 3-4, Page(s) 494–505

    Abstract: Background and aims: Falling generally injures patients, lengthens hospital stays and leads to the wastage of financial and medical resources. Although falls can occur at any stage after hospital admission, there are no studies that characterise falls ... ...

    Abstract Background and aims: Falling generally injures patients, lengthens hospital stays and leads to the wastage of financial and medical resources. Although falls can occur at any stage after hospital admission, there are no studies that characterise falls with length of hospital stay in acute care settings. This study aims to clarify risk stratification of early and late falls in acute care settings.
    Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted for participants who were admitted to a teaching hospital in Japan. Patients' falls were divided into two groups based on the median of the fall date (day 10). Considering a 70/30 split, the logistic regression model was used to extract independent predictors for early and late falls for nine risk variables based on exploratory analysis among 26 items selected from the modified Japanese Nursing Association Fall Risk Assessment Tool, and risk models were validated. This study was conducted according to the STROBE guideline.
    Results: Of the 10,975 patients admitted, 87 and 90 with early and late falls, respectively, were identified. The five significant risk factors extracted for early falls were fall history, muscle weakness, impaired understanding, use of psychotropics and the personality trait of 'doing everything on one's own'; risk factors identified for late falls were being older than 65 years, impaired extremities and unstable gait, in addition to muscle weakness. Using these variables for early and late falls in the validation cohort, the concordance indices of the risk models were both over 0.80.
    Conclusions: By separately extracting risk factors for early and late falls in an acute care hospital setting, this study shed light on the characteristics of the respective types of falls.
    Relevant to clinical practice: As the risk factors of falls vary according to the length of hospitalisation, specific preventive care can be implemented to avoid fall incidents.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors ; Risk Assessment ; Hospitalization
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1159483-4
    ISSN 1365-2702 ; 0962-1067 ; 1752-9816
    ISSN (online) 1365-2702
    ISSN 0962-1067 ; 1752-9816
    DOI 10.1111/jocn.16267
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  9. Article: EGFR Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Complicated by Cancer Associated Ischemic Stroke.

    Taguchi, Manato / Kawakami, Takeshi / Hasegawa, Sachie / Okauchi, Shinichiro / Ohara, Gen / Satoh, Hiroaki / Hizawa, Nubuyuki

    Maedica

    2023  Volume 18, Issue 3, Page(s) 515–518

    Abstract: We describe herein two patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who developed cancer-associated ischemic stroke (CAIS), infarction caused by thromboembolism in the central nervous system. Case 1 was ...

    Abstract We describe herein two patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who developed cancer-associated ischemic stroke (CAIS), infarction caused by thromboembolism in the central nervous system. Case 1 was a 63-year-old man with Exon 19 deletion type EGFR mutated lung adenocarcinoma presenting with CAIS. Case 2 was a 71-year-old woman with Exon 21 L858R type EGFR mutated lung adenocarcinoma who developed CAIS during chemotherapy after EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) resistance. Although there was no recurrence of CAIS in these patients, anticancer therapy could be hampered by the comorbidity of CAIS. This can develop anytime from before clinical manifestations of NSCLC to the next treatment after EGFR-TKI resistance. The development of CAIS should be noted in patients with EGFR mutated NSCLC, who have a promising long-term prognosis. Anticancer and anticoagulant therapies as well as rehabilitation are important for patients who develop CAIS. Establishment of measurement tests to detect CAIS before onset is desired.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-16
    Publishing country Romania
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 2399972-X
    ISSN 2069-6116 ; 1841-9038
    ISSN (online) 2069-6116
    ISSN 1841-9038
    DOI 10.26574/maedica.2023.18.3.515
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  10. Article ; Online: Patient Age and

    Maezawa, Yosuke / Taguchi, Manato / Kawakami, Takeshi / Inui, Toshihide / Okauchi, Shinichiro / Numata, Takeshi / Shiozawa, Toshihiro / Miyazaki, Kunihiko / Nakamura, Ryota / Iguchi, Kesato / Endo, Takeo / Sakamoto, Tohru / Satoh, Hiroaki / Hizawa, Nobuyuki

    Anticancer research

    2024  Volume 44, Issue 4, Page(s) 1751–1757

    Abstract: Background/aim: The median age of subjects in many clinical trials of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitor conducted to date has been approximately 60 years. However, it is not uncommon to encounter EGFR gene-positive ... ...

    Abstract Background/aim: The median age of subjects in many clinical trials of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitor conducted to date has been approximately 60 years. However, it is not uncommon to encounter EGFR gene-positive patients in their 70s or 80s. Based on information obtained from these clinical trials, EGFR gene-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients are considered to be younger than EGFR-negative patients. In this study, we analyzed clinical data to identify whether this assumption is true.
    Patients and methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of NSCLC patients diagnosed in a multicenter clinical practice from 2009 to 2023. Patients included all cases of non-advanced and advanced NSCLC.
    Results: Information on 2,540 patients, including 605 EGFR gene-positive patients, was collected. The median age of EGFR-positive and EGFR-negative patients was 72 years and 71 years, respectively, and there was no significant difference in the age of patients between these two groups (p=0.7887). The most common age in these two groups was 70 years. Among the EGFR gene subtypes, the frequency of exon 19 deletion decreased with age, whereas that of EGFR L858R increased.
    Conclusion: Patients in their 70s and 80s with non-small cell lung cancer were relatively frequently EGFR gene-positive. To avoid missing out on treatment opportunities, EGFR gene testing should also be performed on patients in this age group.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Aged ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/drug therapy ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/genetics ; Retrospective Studies ; Lung Neoplasms/genetics ; Lung Neoplasms/drug therapy ; Protein Kinase Inhibitors/therapeutic use ; Mutation ; ErbB Receptors
    Chemical Substances Protein Kinase Inhibitors ; ErbB Receptors (EC 2.7.10.1) ; EGFR protein, human (EC 2.7.10.1)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-25
    Publishing country Greece
    Document type Multicenter Study ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 604549-2
    ISSN 1791-7530 ; 0250-7005
    ISSN (online) 1791-7530
    ISSN 0250-7005
    DOI 10.21873/anticanres.16974
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