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mtDNA polymorphism in East Asian Populations, with special reference to the peopling of Japan.
Nucleotide sequences of the major noncoding (D-loop) region of human mtDNA from five East Asian populations including mainland Japanese, Ainu, Ryukyuans, Koreans, and Chinese were analyzed. On the basis of a comparison of 482-bp sequences in 293 East Asians, 207 different sequence types were observe...
Work and society : labour and human resources in East Asia
This is a memorial volume which pays tribute to the late Professor Keith Thurley. It collects a number of critical and insightful essays which discuss some of the key issues affecting corporate management, human resource development and the workplace in the current context of East Asian societies, t...
The tidy environment in Hirogawara
Hirogawara is a village with a long lasting tradition of forestry located in a mountain area of Kyoto prefecture, and is one of the typical under populated villages in the Japanese rural region. Although there are various elements which distinguish the village and urban area, one of the main element...
The tidy environment in Hirogawara
Hirogawara is a village with a long lasting tradition of forestry located in a mountain area of Kyoto prefecture, and is one of the typical under populated villages in the Japanese rural region. Although there are various elements which distinguish the village and urban area, one of the main element...
The structure of the excurrent ducts of the testis of the guinea-fowl (Numida meleagris).
The epididymal region of the guinea-fowl was studied in sexually mature birds. The structure of the epididymal region was generally similar to that already described for the domestic fowl, turkey and Japanese quail. Well formed, intratesticular tubuli recti was seen connecting the seminiferous tubul...
The bacterial flora of the gastro intestinal (GI) tract may be involved in chronic inflammation and colon cancer and affected by antibiotics, cytotoxic drugs and radiotherapy, trauma and intensive care therapy. It is important to map the mucosa-associated flora in healthy individuals to clarify the ...
The ductuli efferentes of the epididymal region of birds.
Ultrastructural studies were undertaken on the efferent ductules of the testis of the domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus), Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) and guinea-fowl (Numida meleagris). Four cell types were identified and described: ciliated cells which were found in the epithelium of...
The control of preoptic aromatase activity by afferent inputs in Japanese quail
This review summarizes current knowledge on the mechanisms that control aromatase activity in the quail preoptic area, a brain region that plays a key role in the control of reproduction. Aromatase and aromatase mRNA synthesis in the preoptic area are enhanced by testosterone and its metabolite estr...
The Political economy of Sino-American relations : a greater China perspective
In the post-Cold War world, the United States and China together forms one of the most significant relationships in the Asian Pacific region. However, this relationship cannot be considered in isolation from the dynamic economic integration of China with Hong Kong and Taiwan into what is now called ...
Recently, a new locus (PARK8) for autosomal dominant parkinsonism has been identified in one large Japanese family. Linkage has been shown to a 16-cM centromeric region of chromosome 12, between markers D12S1631 and D12S339. We tested 21 white families with Parkinson disease and an inheritance patte...
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and human glandular kallikrein 2 (hK2) are secreted by the prostate into seminal plasma and through leakage into blood. This leakage increases rapidly in prostate disease, and PSA is used worldwide as a marker of prostate cancer. PSA is activated in vitro by hK2, and ...
The delta-globin genes of a normal Japanese and a Japanese patient with homozygous delta-thalassemia were cloned, and the nucleotide sequence of a region including the gene was determined. Comparison of the nucleotide sequences of these two individuals with that of pH delta 1, delta-globin clone fro...
A chimeric yellow fever (YF) virus/Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus vaccine (ChimeriVax-JE) was constructed by insertion of the prM-E genes from the attenuated JE virus SA14-14-2 vaccine strain into a full-length cDNA clone of YF 17D virus. Passage in fetal rhesus lung (FRhL) cells led to the emerge...
Observations on the bony bridging of the jugular foramen in man.
The anatomical nature and pattern of incidence of bony bridging of the jugular foramen was investigated using 64 fetal crania aged nine months to term and 222 adult crania of Japanese. In addition, the region of the jugular foramen of an adult cadaver was carefully dissected in order to clarify the ...
Neuroanatomical specificity of sex differences in expression of aromatase mRNA in the quail brain
In birds and mammals, aromatase activity in the preoptic-hypothalamic region (HPOA) is usually higher in males than in females. It is, however, not known whether the enzymatic sex difference reflects the differential activation of aromatase transcription or some other control mechanism. Although sex...
Mov34 Protein from Mouse Brain Interacts with the 3′ Noncoding Region of Japanese Encephalitis Virus
The plus-sense RNA genome of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) contains noncoding regions (NCRs) of 95 and 585 bases at its 5′ and 3′ ends, respectively. The last 83 nucleotides of the 3′-NCR are predicted to form stable stem-loop (SL) structures. The shape of this 3′-SL structure is highly conserve...
Un modèle de croissance en grosseur (circonférence) de type arbre indépendant des distances a été construit pour les peuplements purs et équiennes de mélèze (Larix sp.) croissant en Région wallonne. Ce modèle s’appuie sur un échantillon de 2578 mélèzes (mélèzes du Japon, d’Europe et hybride) issus d...
Japanese clam and hollow oyster spats have been pre-grown under intensive conditions in hatcheries using underground seawater as thermal resource and as source of nutritional salts for forage seaweed production. The main parameters of this environment have been followed up and raising conditions hav...
Micro-stereological study of the avian epididymal region.
Morphometric studies of the epididymal region of three avian species (Gallus domesticus, Coturnix coturnix japonica, Japanese quail, and Numida meleagris, guinea-fowl) were performed using a stereological compensating eyepiece graticule. The proportions of the volume of the region made up of rete te...
Machado-Joseph Disease in Pedigrees of Azorean descent is Linked to Chromosome 14
A locus for Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) has recently been mapped to a 30-cM region of chromosome 14q in five pedigrees of Japanese descent. MJD is a clinically pleomorphic neurodegenerative disease that was originally described in subjects of Azorean descent. In light of the nonallelic heterogeneit...
Japanese sand shrimp (Penaeus japonicus) breeding started in 1984 in Charentes and in the Loire region. It is an activity that is still experimental, as much from a technical point of view as biological and commercial. Although the number of farmers and the surface area farmed are increasing rapidly...
Japanese: Baltic Sea Region film co-production; Japanese views
Japan is the second-largest movie market in the world, after the United States. For this and other reasons, there is interest from other countries in co-operating with Japanese filmmakers. This report covers the contemporary Japanese film production and distribution scene, detailing the special feat...
During dissection of the gluteal region and the posterior thigh, an aberrant digastric muscle was observed on the right side of a 77-y-old Japanese male cadaver. This originated from the sacrotuberous ligament and inserted into the lateral surface of the long head of biceps femoris. Based on its inn...
The formation of the flavivirus prM-E complex is an important step for the biogenesis of immature virions, which is followed by a subsequent cleavage of prM to M protein through cellular protease to result in the production and release of mature virions. In this study, the intracellular formation of...
Heterogeneity and evolution rates of delta virus RNA sequences.
To investigate the geographical divergence of delta virus RNA sequences, 868 nucleotides (nt), including the delta antigen-coding region, were determined in isolates from two Japanese patients, M and S, by polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing and compared with three previously reported nu...
HLA Has Strongest Association with IgA Nephropathy in Genome-Wide Analysis
Demographic and family studies support the existence of a genetic contribution to the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy, but results from genetic association studies of candidate genes are inconsistent. To systematically survey common genetic variation in this disease, we performed a genome-wide analy...
The Japanese common broad-headed bugs Riptortus clavatus and Leptocorisa chinensis possess a number of crypts in the posterior region of the midgut, whose lumen contains a copious amount of bacterial cells. We characterized the gut symbiotic bacteria by using molecular phylogenetic analysis, light a...
The Stanway cylinder was tested in the bay of Arcachon from September 1989 to August 1991. Trials were mainly performed on the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas in a wind-exposed area. The seed, spat, 18 month old oysters development and fattening of 2 year old oysters were studied. Compared to plas...
Genetic studies of IgA nephropathy
IgA nephropathy is the commonest form of glomerulonephritis worldwide, but we still know relatively little about its pathogenesis. Potentially, genetic studies might provide new insights and suggest novel therapeutic approaches to this important cause of chronic kidney disease. Two approaches that a...
Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis was performed on the direct repeat (DR) regions of 14 strains of Mycobacterium bovis BCG. With AluI-digested DNA, BCG Japanese, Russian, and Mexican had differing RFLP patterns but 11 strains, including Pasteur, Glaxo, and Tice, had an identic...
Further polymorphism of the MICA gene
The MHC class I chain-related (MIC) gene family constitutes an interesting genetic group that is related to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes and is located within the MHC. The MIC gene products, MICA and MICB, have similar structures to HLA class I molecules. So far over 50 MICA ...
Further polymorphism of the MICA gene
The MHC class I chain-related (MIC) gene family constitutes an interesting genetic group that is related to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes and is located within the MHC. The MIC gene products, MICA and MICB, have similar structures to HLA class I molecules. So far over 50 MICA ...
Des modèles prédictifs de la proportion de duramen et d’écorce à 1,3 m de hauteur ont été développés pour les peuplements de mélèze du Japon (Larix kaempferi (Lambert) Carr.) plantés en Région wallonne (Belgique). Ces modèles sont testés pour évaluer dans quelle mesure ils peuvent être appliqués aux...
If clam growth is no longer an issue during the pre-growth phase in the Bourgneuf bay region, the two year growth phase shows several problems: in the south bay area, the growth of Ruditapes phi¿lippinarum clams is inconsistent and depends on oyster and mussel stocks. In fattening ponds raising stan...
For a few years, we have witnessed the rapid development of Japanese clam Ruditapes philippinarum (Adams & Reeve) culture on the Atlantic coast, and especially in the Charente Maritime region. However, a number of unknown variables still exist in order to optimize oyster farms and improve their bene...
Comparative genomic analysis of two avian (quail and chicken) MHC regions
We mapped two different quail Mhc haplotypes and sequenced one of them (haplotype A) for comparative genomic analysis with a previously sequenced haplotype of the chicken Mhc. The quail haplotype A spans 180 kb of genomic sequence, encoding a total of 41 genes compared with only 19 genes within the ...
Bone turnover markers and prediction of bone loss in elderly women
Around 70,000 osteoporosis-related fractures occur in Sweden annually and approximately half of the women in western world will sustain a fragility fracture after the age of 50 years. Fracture preventive efforts require the identification of individuals who are at high risk. Biochemical markers of b...
Recent association studies suggest that polymorphisms in the promoter and exon 1 upstream region of the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) gene play a functional role in the development of common psychiatric illnesses, although there are also conflicting results. In this study, we re-sequenced this region ...
Apolipoprotein C-III gene variation and dyslipidaemia
Within the apolipoprotein A-I-C-III-A-IV gene cluster, the Sstl polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of the apolipoprotein C-III gene is the variant site most consistently and strongly associated with raised plasma triglyceride levels and coronary artery disease, To date the molecular mechanis...
A new view of the Sun from the Hinode space mission
The Japanese/US/UK space mission, Hinode, was launched successfully in September 2006. Now, more than a year after the commissioning of the spacecraft and instruments, Hinode is unveiling a new view of the Sun. Hinode's goal is to help us to understand solar activity, and to link activity on ( and b...
This report introduces two of the most successful industrial development models of the modern time the Japanese as a leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the industrialization process in these two economies which have served as a model for development in many newly...
Background: Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) acts primarily as a cardiac hormone; it is produced by the ventricle and has both vasodilatory and natriuretic actions. Therefore, the BNP gene is thought to be a candidate gene for essential hypertension (EH). The present study identified variants in the ...
This thesis investigates Sino-Japanese relations and the post-Cold War security order in Northeast Asia. In particular, it asks whether a ‘security regime’ now exists in the region. Security analysis of Northeast Asia has often focussed upon the likely effects of changes in material power. This has ...
'Regional variations in missionary Christianity within the British Empire, 1763-1900'
Third Japanese-Korean Conference of British History: Region, Interchange and Culture
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