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  1. Article ; Online: A case of Candida parapsilosis bioprosthetic valve endocarditis

    Kenji Sakakibara / Hiroyuki Nakajima

    Clinical Case Reports, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp n/a-n/a (2023)

    2023  

    Abstract: Abstract Fungal bioprosthetic valve endocarditis is regarded as a rare, fatal disease. Severe aortic valve stenosis due to vegetation in bioprosthetic valves was also rare. Because biofilm formation is a factor related to persistent infection, the best ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Fungal bioprosthetic valve endocarditis is regarded as a rare, fatal disease. Severe aortic valve stenosis due to vegetation in bioprosthetic valves was also rare. Because biofilm formation is a factor related to persistent infection, the best outcomes for endocarditis are achieved in patients treated surgically with concomitant antifungal medicine.
    Keywords bioprosthetic valve endocarditis ; Candida parapsilosis ; Medicine ; R ; Medicine (General) ; R5-920
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Wiley
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: Mesothelial cyst derived from chest wall pleura growing after thoracic surgery

    Hiroyasu Matsuoka / Hirochika Matsubara / Aya Sugimura / Tsuyoshi Uchida / Tomofumi Ichihara / Tadao Nakazawa / Hiroyuki Nakajima

    Journal of Medical Case Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    a case report

    2019  Volume 5

    Abstract: Abstract Background Intrathoracic mesothelial cysts almost always arise in the mediastinum, and extramediastinal mesothelial cysts are extremely rare. Here we describe a case of mesothelial cyst derived from the chest wall pleura growing after thoracic ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Background Intrathoracic mesothelial cysts almost always arise in the mediastinum, and extramediastinal mesothelial cysts are extremely rare. Here we describe a case of mesothelial cyst derived from the chest wall pleura growing after thoracic surgery. Case presentation A 63-year-old Japanese woman was referred to our department. She had undergone total hysterectomy for cervical carcinoma and two lung wedge resections for metastatic lung cancer on the upper and lower lobes of her right lung and lower lobe of her left lung. After the thoracic surgery, an intrathoracic chest wall mass was found, which grew gradually. Computed tomography demonstrated a 2.0 × 1.8 cm low-density mass without contrast effect. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a low-intensity mass in T1-weighted imaging and a high-intensity mass in T2-weighted imaging. Thoracoscopic excision of the mass was performed. The cystic mass was thought to be derived from her chest wall and was pathologically diagnosed as mesothelial cyst. Five years after the surgery, she has no evidence of recurrence of the cyst or cervical carcinoma. Conclusions The genesis of extramediastinal mesothelial cysts may be related to inflammation. From this perspective, extramediastinal mesothelial cysts may have different characteristics from pericardial cysts and resemble peritoneal inclusion cysts. Although, extramediastinal mesothelial cysts are not established, their characteristics resemble peritoneal inclusion cysts; therefore, such interesting intrathoracic cysts should be carefully resected considering the risk.
    Keywords Chest wall pleura ; Extramediastinal mesothelial cyst ; Peritoneal inclusion cyst ; Postoperative ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher BMC
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Predictors of long-term prognosis in acute kidney injury survivors who require continuous renal replacement therapy after cardiovascular surgery.

    Keita Sueyoshi / Yusuke Watanabe / Tsutomu Inoue / Yoichi Ohno / Hiroyuki Nakajima / Hirokazu Okada

    PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 1, p e

    2019  Volume 0211429

    Abstract: The long-term prognosis of patients with postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) after cardiovascular surgery is unclear. We aimed to investigate long-term renal outcomes and survival in these ... ...

    Abstract The long-term prognosis of patients with postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) after cardiovascular surgery is unclear. We aimed to investigate long-term renal outcomes and survival in these patients to determine the risk factors for negative outcomes. Long-term prognosis was examined in 144 hospital survivors. All patients were independent and on renal replacement therapy at hospital discharge. The median age at operation was 72.0 years, and the median pre-operative estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was 39.5 mL/min/1.73 m2. The median follow-up duration was 1075 days. The endpoints were death, chronic maintenance dialysis dependence, and a composite of death and chronic dialysis. Predictors for death and dialysis were evaluated using Fine and Gray's competing risk analysis. The cumulative incidence of death was 34.9%, and the chronic dialysis rate was 13.3% during the observation period. In the multivariate proportional hazards analysis, eGFR <30 mL/min/1.73 m2 at discharge was associated with the composite endpoint of death and dialysis [hazard ratio (HR), 2.1; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.1-3.8; P = 0.02]. Hypertension (HR 8.7, 95% CI, 2.2-35.4; P = 0.002) and eGFR <30 mL/min/1.73 m2 at discharge (HR 26.4, 95% CI, 2.6-267.1; P = 0.006) were associated with dialysis. Advanced age (≥75 years) was predictive of death. Patients with severe CRRT-requiring AKI after cardiovascular surgery have increased risks of chronic dialysis and death. Patients with eGFR <30 mL/min/1.73 m2 at discharge should be monitored especially carefully by nephrologists due to the risk of chronic dialysis and death.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 610 ; 616
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: Development of a High-Efficacy Reprogramming Method for Generating Human Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells from Pathologic and Senescent Somatic Cells

    Naomichi Tanaka / Hidemasa Kato / Hiromi Tsuda / Yasunori Sato / Toshihiro Muramatsu / Atsushi Iguchi / Hiroyuki Nakajima / Akihiro Yoshitake / Takaaki Senbonmatsu

    International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 21, Iss 6764, p

    2020  Volume 6764

    Abstract: Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are a type of artificial pluripotent stem cell induced by the epigenetic silencing of somatic cells by the Yamanaka factors. Advances in iPS cell reprogramming technology will allow aging or damaged cells to be ... ...

    Abstract Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are a type of artificial pluripotent stem cell induced by the epigenetic silencing of somatic cells by the Yamanaka factors. Advances in iPS cell reprogramming technology will allow aging or damaged cells to be replaced by a patient’s own rejuvenated cells. However, tissue that is senescent or pathologic has a relatively low reprogramming efficiency as compared with juvenile or robust tissue, resulting in incomplete reprogramming; iPS cells generated from such tissue types do not have sufficient differentiation ability and are therefore difficult to apply clinically. Here, we develop a new reprogramming method and examine it using myofibroblasts, which are pathologic somatic cells, from patient skin tissue and from each of the four heart chambers of a recipient heart in heart transplant surgery. By adjusting the type and amount of vectors containing transcriptional factors for iPS cell reprogramming, as well as adjusting the transfection load and culture medium, the efficiency of iPS cell induction from aged patient skin-derived fibroblasts was increased, and we successfully induced iPS cells from myocardial fibroblasts isolated from the pathologic heart of a heart transplant recipient.
    Keywords iPS cell ; myocardial fibroblast ; myofibroblast ; senescence ; pathologic state ; TGF-beta ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5 ; Chemistry ; QD1-999
    Subject code 571 ; 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
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    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  5. Article ; Online: Cardiac forces regulate zebrafish heart valve delamination by modulating Nfat signaling.

    Renee Wei-Yan Chow / Hajime Fukui / Wei Xuan Chan / Kok Soon Justin Tan / Stéphane Roth / Anne-Laure Duchemin / Nadia Messaddeq / Hiroyuki Nakajima / Fei Liu / Nathalie Faggianelli-Conrozier / Andrey S Klymchenko / Yap Choon Hwai / Naoki Mochizuki / Julien Vermot

    PLoS Biology, Vol 20, Iss 1, p e

    2022  Volume 3001505

    Abstract: In the clinic, most cases of congenital heart valve defects are thought to arise through errors that occur after the endothelial-mesenchymal transition (EndoMT) stage of valve development. Although mechanical forces caused by heartbeat are essential ... ...

    Abstract In the clinic, most cases of congenital heart valve defects are thought to arise through errors that occur after the endothelial-mesenchymal transition (EndoMT) stage of valve development. Although mechanical forces caused by heartbeat are essential modulators of cardiovascular development, their role in these later developmental events is poorly understood. To address this question, we used the zebrafish superior atrioventricular valve (AV) as a model. We found that cellularized cushions of the superior atrioventricular canal (AVC) morph into valve leaflets via mesenchymal-endothelial transition (MEndoT) and tissue sheet delamination. Defects in delamination result in thickened, hyperplastic valves, and reduced heart function. Mechanical, chemical, and genetic perturbation of cardiac forces showed that mechanical stimuli are important regulators of valve delamination. Mechanistically, we show that forces modulate Nfatc activity to control delamination. Together, our results establish the cellular and molecular signature of cardiac valve delamination in vivo and demonstrate the continuous regulatory role of mechanical forces and blood flow during valve formation.
    Keywords Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 621
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article ; Online: Activation of PXR, CAR and PPARα by pyrethroid pesticides and the effect of metabolism by rat liver microsomes

    Chieri Fujino / Yoko Watanabe / Seigo Sanoh / Hiroyuki Nakajima / Naoto Uramaru / Hiroyuki Kojima / Kouichi Yoshinari / Shigeru Ohta / Shigeyuki Kitamura

    Heliyon, Vol 5, Iss 9, Pp e02466- (2019)

    2019  

    Abstract: In this study, we used reporter gene assays in COS-1 cells to examine the activation of rat pregnane X receptor (PXR), rat constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) and rat peroxisome-proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)α by pyrethroid pesticides, and to ... ...

    Abstract In this study, we used reporter gene assays in COS-1 cells to examine the activation of rat pregnane X receptor (PXR), rat constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) and rat peroxisome-proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)α by pyrethroid pesticides, and to understand the effects of metabolic modification on their activities. All eight pyrethroids tested in this study showed rat PXR agonistic activity; deltamethrin was the most potent, followed by cis-permethrin and cypermethrin. However, when the pyrethroids were incubated with rat liver microsomes, their rat PXR activities were decreased to various extents. Cis- and trans-permethrin showed weak rat CAR agonistic activity, while the other pyrethroids were inactive. However, fenvalerate showed dose-dependent inverse agonistic activity toward rat CAR, and this activity was reduced after metabolism. None of the pyrethroids showed rat PPARα agonistic activity, but a metabolite of cis-/trans-permethrin and phenothrin, 3-phenoxybenzoic acid, activated rat PPARα. Since PXR, CAR and PPARα regulate various xenobiotic/endobiotic-metabolizing enzymes, activation of these receptors by pyrethroids may result in endocrine disruption due to changes of hormone-metabolizing activities.
    Keywords Environmental health ; Environmental science ; Pesticide ; Toxicology ; CAR ; Liver microsomes ; Science (General) ; Q1-390 ; Social sciences (General) ; H1-99
    Subject code 571
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: Hippo signaling determines the number of venous pole cells that originate from the anterior lateral plate mesoderm in zebrafish

    Hajime Fukui / Takahiro Miyazaki / Renee Wei-Yan Chow / Hiroyuki Ishikawa / Hiroyuki Nakajima / Julien Vermot / Naoki Mochizuki

    eLife, Vol

    2018  Volume 7

    Abstract: The differentiation of the lateral plate mesoderm cells into heart field cells constitutes a critical step in the development of cardiac tissue and the genesis of functional cardiomyocytes. Hippo signaling controls cardiomyocyte proliferation, but the ... ...

    Abstract The differentiation of the lateral plate mesoderm cells into heart field cells constitutes a critical step in the development of cardiac tissue and the genesis of functional cardiomyocytes. Hippo signaling controls cardiomyocyte proliferation, but the role of Hippo signaling during early cardiogenesis remains unclear. Here, we show that Hippo signaling regulates atrial cell number by specifying the developmental potential of cells within the anterior lateral plate mesoderm (ALPM), which are incorporated into the venous pole of the heart tube and ultimately into the atrium of the heart. We demonstrate that Hippo signaling acts through large tumor suppressor kinase 1/2 to modulate BMP signaling and the expression of hand2, a key transcription factor that is involved in the differentiation of atrial cardiomyocytes. Collectively, these results demonstrate that Hippo signaling defines venous pole cardiomyocyte number by modulating both the number and the identity of the ALPM cells that will populate the atrium of the heart.
    Keywords cardiogenesis ; Hippo ; heart field ; islet-1 ; Lats kinase ; Yap ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 572
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
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    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  8. Article ; Online: Marcksl1 modulates endothelial cell mechanoresponse to haemodynamic forces to control blood vessel shape and size

    Igor Kondrychyn / Douglas J. Kelly / Núria Taberner Carretero / Akane Nomori / Kagayaki Kato / Jeronica Chong / Hiroyuki Nakajima / Satoru Okuda / Naoki Mochizuki / Li-Kun Phng

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 18

    Abstract: During lumen formation in blood vessels, endothelial cells become exposed to hemodynamic forces that induce membrane blebbing and changes in cell shape. Here, the authors show endothelial cells develop an actin-based protective mechanism in the cell ... ...

    Abstract During lumen formation in blood vessels, endothelial cells become exposed to hemodynamic forces that induce membrane blebbing and changes in cell shape. Here, the authors show endothelial cells develop an actin-based protective mechanism in the cell cortex that prevents excessive blebbing to control cell shape and vessel diameter.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  9. Article ; Online: Marcksl1 modulates endothelial cell mechanoresponse to haemodynamic forces to control blood vessel shape and size

    Igor Kondrychyn / Douglas J. Kelly / Núria Taberner Carretero / Akane Nomori / Kagayaki Kato / Jeronica Chong / Hiroyuki Nakajima / Satoru Okuda / Naoki Mochizuki / Li-Kun Phng

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 18

    Abstract: During lumen formation in blood vessels, endothelial cells become exposed to hemodynamic forces that induce membrane blebbing and changes in cell shape. Here, the authors show endothelial cells develop an actin-based protective mechanism in the cell ... ...

    Abstract During lumen formation in blood vessels, endothelial cells become exposed to hemodynamic forces that induce membrane blebbing and changes in cell shape. Here, the authors show endothelial cells develop an actin-based protective mechanism in the cell cortex that prevents excessive blebbing to control cell shape and vessel diameter.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  10. Article ; Online: Endothelial Ca2+ oscillations reflect VEGFR signaling-regulated angiogenic capacity in vivo

    Yasuhiro Yokota / Hiroyuki Nakajima / Yuki Wakayama / Akira Muto / Koichi Kawakami / Shigetomo Fukuhara / Naoki Mochizuki

    eLife, Vol

    2015  Volume 4

    Abstract: Sprouting angiogenesis is a well-coordinated process controlled by multiple extracellular inputs, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). However, little is known about when and how individual endothelial cell (EC) responds to angiogenic ... ...

    Abstract Sprouting angiogenesis is a well-coordinated process controlled by multiple extracellular inputs, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). However, little is known about when and how individual endothelial cell (EC) responds to angiogenic inputs in vivo. Here, we visualized endothelial Ca2+ dynamics in zebrafish and found that intracellular Ca2+ oscillations occurred in ECs exhibiting angiogenic behavior. Ca2+ oscillations depended upon VEGF receptor-2 (Vegfr2) and Vegfr3 in ECs budding from the dorsal aorta (DA) and posterior cardinal vein, respectively. Thus, visualizing Ca2+ oscillations allowed us to monitor EC responses to angiogenic cues. Vegfr-dependent Ca2+ oscillations occurred in migrating tip cells as well as stalk cells budding from the DA. We investigated how Dll4/Notch signaling regulates endothelial Ca2+ oscillations and found that it was required for the selection of single stalk cell as well as tip cell. Thus, we captured spatio-temporal Ca2+ dynamics during sprouting angiogenesis, as a result of cellular responses to angiogenic inputs.
    Keywords imaging ; calcium ; angiogenesis ; VEGF ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 570
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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