Endangered vascular plants in Japan--present status and a proposal for conservation [0.03%]
日本维管束植物的现状及保护建议
Kunio Iwatsuki
Kunio Iwatsuki
The history of the Red List of Japanese vascular plants is briefly reviewed for editing and research. Especially on the results of recent monitoring, the present status of information and conservation activities on the endangered plants in ...
Yoshinori Akaishi,Khin Swe Myint,Toshimitsu Yamazaki
Yoshinori Akaishi
The formation spectra of model KN and KNN systems formed by (K(-),n) reactions are investigated in order to obtain a theoretical basis for a proper interpretation of experimental data concerning kaonic nuclear quasi-bound states. It has bee...
Glycine cleavage system: reaction mechanism, physiological significance, and hyperglycinemia [0.03%]
甘氨酸裂解系统：反应机制、生理意义及高血氨症
Goro Kikuchi,Yutaro Motokawa,Tadashi Yoshida et al.
Goro Kikuchi et al.
The glycine cleavage system catalyzes the following reversible reaction: Glycine + H(4)folate + NAD(+) 5,10-methylene-H(4)folate + CO(2) + NH(3) + NADH + H(+)The glycine cleavage system is widely distributed in animals, plants and bacteria...
Nipponium as a new element (Z=75) separated by the Japanese chemist, Masataka Ogawa: a scientific and science historical re-evaluation [0.03%]
关于日本化学家小川正孝分离的第75号新元素 nipponium 的科学及科技史再评价
H Kenji Yoshihara
H Kenji Yoshihara
This review article deals with a new element 'nipponium' reported by Masataka Ogawa in 1908, and with its scientific and science historical background. Ogawa positioned nipponium between molybdenum and ruthenium in the periodic table. From ...
Experimental researches on quantum transport in semiconductor two-dimensional electron systems [0.03%]
半导体二维电子系统的量子输运实验研究
Shinji Kawaji
Shinji Kawaji
The author reviews contribution of Gakushuin University group to the progress of the quantum transport in semiconductor two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) for forty years from the birth of the 2DES in middle of the 1960s till the findi...
Takashi Tsuruo,Naoya Fujita
Takashi Tsuruo
Metastasis is the major cause of death from cancer, yet the optimal strategy against it remains uncertain. The pathogenesis of hematogenous metastasis is dynamic and consists of the following steps: 1) detachment of tumor cells from the pri...
Shozo Takayama,Unnur P Thorgeirsson,Richard H Adamson
Shozo Takayama
This review covers chemical carcinogenesis studies in nonhuman primates performed by the National Cancer Institute, USA, to provide hitherto unavailable information on their susceptibility to compounds producing carcinogenic effects in rode...
Kenji Ohmori
Kenji Ohmori
Coherent control is based on optical manipulation of the amplitudes and phases of wave functions. It is expected to be a key technique to develop novel quantum technologies such as bond-selective chemistry and quantum computing, and to bett...
Reverse genetic studies of mitochondrial DNA-based diseases using a mouse model [0.03%]
基于线粒体DNA引起疾病的小鼠模型的反向遗传学研究
Kazuto Nakada,Akitsugu Sato,Jun-Ichi Hayashi
Kazuto Nakada
In the situation that it would not be able to produce model animals for mitochondrial diseases caused by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) with pathogenic mutations, we succeeded in generating mice with pathogenic deletion mutant mtDNA (DeltamtDNA)...
Toshio Narahashi
Toshio Narahashi
Tetrodotoxin (TTX), contained in puffer, has become an extremely popular chemical tool in the physiological and pharmacological laboratories since our discovery of its channel blocking action in the early 1960s. This brief review describes ...