Autoimmune-associated hemophagocytic syndrome

S Kumakura, H Ishikura, M Kondo, Y Murakawa… - Modern …, 2004 - Springer
Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is a clinicopathological condition characterized by the
activation of histiocytes with prominent hemophagocytosis in bone marrow and other …

Extensive diversity of Ig-superfamily proteins in the immune system of insects

FL Watson, R Püttmann-Holgado, F Thomas… - Science, 2005 - science.org
The extensive somatic diversification of immune receptors is a hallmark of higher
vertebrates. However, whether molecular diversity contributes to immune protection in …

[HTML][HTML] Homophilic Dscam interactions control complex dendrite morphogenesis

ME Hughes, R Bortnick, A Tsubouchi, P Bäumer… - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
Alternative splicing of the Drosophila gene Dscam results in up to 38,016 different receptor
isoforms proposed to interact by isoform-specific homophilic binding. We report that Dscam …

Improvement of stability in moving particle semi‐implicit method

M Kondo, S Koshizuka - International Journal for Numerical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Moving particle semi‐implicit (MPS) method is one of the particle methods, which can be
used to analyze incompressible free surface flow without surface tracking by a mesh or a …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular diversity of Dscam is functionally required for neuronal wiring specificity in Drosophila

BE Chen, M Kondo, A Garnier, FL Watson… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Alternative splicing of Dscam generates an enormous molecular diversity with maximally
38,016 different receptors. Whether this large diversity is required in vivo is currently unclear …

Astroglia in medullary dorsal horn (trigeminal spinal subnucleus caudalis) are involved in trigeminal neuropathic pain mechanisms

A Okada-Ogawa, I Suzuki, BJ Sessle… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
The aim of this study was to investigate whether astroglia in the medullary dorsal horn
(trigeminal spinal subnucleus caudalis; Vc) may be involved in orofacial neuropathic pain …

La@C82 Anion. An Unusually Stable Metallofullerene

T Akasaka, T Wakahara, S Nagase… - Journal of the …, 2000 - ACS Publications
Endohedral metallofullerenes have attracted special interest since their first proposal in
1985. 1 Smalley and co-workers showed in 1991 that several lanthanum-containing …

The JAK inhibitor, tofacitinib, reduces the T cell stimulatory capacity of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells

S Kubo, K Yamaoka, M Kondo, K Yamagata… - Annals of the …, 2014 - ard.bmj.com
Objective Tofacitinib, which is a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, has shown clinical effects in
the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. JAKs are important kinases in lymphocyte …

Surface tension model using inter-particle force in particle method

M Kondo, S Koshizuka… - Fluids …, 2007 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method is widely used for the free surface flow analysis.
In small scale problems, the surface tension is dominant. There are two approaches to …

Development of the NAIST-Hand with vision-based tactile fingertip sensor

J Ueda, Y Ishida, M Kondo… - Proceedings of the 2005 …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a multifingered robotic hand eNAIST-Handf and a grip force control by
slip margin feedback. The developed prototype finger of the NAIST-hand has a new …