Takeshi Tokudome,Kenji Kangawa
Takeshi Tokudome
Ghrelin, a growth hormone-releasing peptide first discovered in rat stomach in 1999, is a ligand for the growth hormone secretagogue receptor. It participates in the regulation of diverse processes, including energy balance and body weight ...
Yoshiyuki Sakaki
Yoshiyuki Sakaki
The Human Genome Project (HGP) is one of the most important international achievements in life sciences, to which Japanese scientists made remarkable contributions. In the early 1980s, Akiyoshi Wada pioneered the first project for the autom...
Proposal of a 1-ampere-class deuteron single-cell linac for nuclear transmutation [0.03%]
一种用于核嬗变的1安培氘单元直线加速器的概念设计
Hiroki Okuno,Hiroyoshi Sakurai,Yoshiharu Mori et al.
Hiroki Okuno et al.
A 1-ampere-class high-intensity deuteron linac (ImPACT2017 model) is proposed for mitigating long-lived fission products (LLFPs) by nuclear transmutation. This accelerator consists of single-cell rf cavities with magnetic focusing elements ...
Unified variational theory of reversible and irreversible dynamics - Discovery of dissipative Lagrangians weighted in time [0.03%]
统一的可逆和不可逆动力学变分理论-发现加权时间的耗散拉格朗日量
Masuo Suzuki
Masuo Suzuki
Reversible dynamics is well-known to obey variational principles based on the action being the time integral of a Lagrangian with time-reversal symmetry. The purpose of the present paper is to find dissipative Lagrangians giving variational...
Shigetou Namba
Shigetou Namba
Phytoplasmas, a large group of plant-pathogenic, phloem-inhabiting bacteria were discovered by Japanese scientists in 1967. They are transmitted from plant to plant by phloem-feeding insect hosts and cause a variety of symptoms and consider...
Noritada Matsuo
Noritada Matsuo
Pyrethroid insecticides contain natural pyrethrins extracted from pyrethrum flowers, and their synthetic derivatives, pyrethroids. The present article provides an overview of the structure of natural pyrethrins, and the discovery and develo...
Molecular basis of the functions of the mammalian neuronal growth cone revealed using new methods [0.03%]
运用新技术揭示哺乳动物神经生长锥功能的分子机制
Michihiro Igarashi
Michihiro Igarashi
The neuronal growth cone is a highly motile, specialized structure for extending neuronal processes. This structure is essential for nerve growth, axon pathfinding, and accurate synaptogenesis. Growth cones are important not only during dev...
Ying-Jey Guh,Takako K Tamai,Takashi Yoshimura
Ying-Jey Guh
Animals make use of changes in photoperiod to adapt their physiology to the forthcoming breeding season. Comparative studies have contributed to our understanding of the mechanisms of seasonal reproduction in vertebrates. Birds are excellen...
Jun Akimitsu
Jun Akimitsu
New superconductors discovered in the Akimitsu laboratory are reviewed here. These materials can be categorized into two groups:1) Cu-oxide superconductors.1-1 Cu-oxide system having CuO2 planes.1-2 Ladder lattice superconductor.2) Explorat...
Michiko Shirane
Michiko Shirane
Intracellular organelles were long viewed as isolated compartments floating in the cytosol. However, this view has been radically changed within the last decade by the discovery that most organelles communicate with the endoplasmic reticulu...