Maki Tanaka

TL;DR: The CB‐derived PLTs exhibited features quite similar to those from peripheral blood in morphology, as revealed by electron micrographs, and in function, as shown by fibrinogen/ADP aggregation, with the appearance of P‐selectin and activated glycoprotein IIb‐IIIa antigens.

TL;DR: Five clones with different invasiveness, defined by endothelial cell monolayer assay, are established from the human oral SCC cell line SAS by a limiting-dilution method, finding that SAS-H1 exhibited a higher migration ability than SAS-L1 and this pair of clones would be a useful experimental model to help in the study of the invasion and metastasis of human Oral SCC.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the efficacy of extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) gene therapy in murine collagen-induced arthritis and found that mice treated with the transgene exhibited significant suppression of clinical symptoms such as disabling joint swelling, deformity, and hind paw thickness.

TL;DR: The results suggest that IRP-1/IRE interactions, which are supposedly induced after sensing a decrease of the intracellular non-Heme iron levels, play a crucial role on the posttranscriptional regulation of TfR, DMT1, and ferritin mRNAs during differentiation of normal human erythropoietic cells.

TL;DR: An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to detect human anti-mouse antibodies (HAMAs) in routine examinations and a considerable number of HAMA-positive samples, reacting with the heavy chain of mIg, were found.