… Kenji Kishimoto started his research works on liquid-crystalline materials under the supervision
of Prof. Kato at the University of Tokyo in 1999 and received his PhD in 2005. He was a …

Fat tissue produces a variety of secreted proteins (adipocytokines) with important roles in
metabolism. We isolated a newly identified adipocytokine, visfatin, that is highly enriched in the …

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a proinflammatory cytokine that has several effects in the inflammation
process. When it binds to its cell-surface receptor, IL-1 initiates a signalling cascade that …

Maximize efficiency and minimize pollution: the breakthrough technology of high temperature
air combustion (HiTAC) holds the potential to overcome the limitations of conventional …

… This suggests that the Kishimoto et al. protocol 21 generates more ventral respiratory
mesenchyme, whereas the protocol here produced more medial respiratory mesenchyme, …

… 2 (hMATE2-K), has been isolated from the human kidney. The hMATE2-K cDNA had an open
reading … Reverse transcriptase–PCR revealed that hMATE2-K mRNA but not hMATE2 was …

Angiogenin is an angiogenic protein that undergoes nuclear translocation in endothelial
cells where it accumulates in the nucleolus and stimulates rRNA transcription, a rate-limiting …

Green leaf volatiles (GLVs) are commonly emitted by green plants, and their production is
drastically enhanced when they are under biotic stress. To clarify the ecological function of …

Recent data have shown that a group of cell surface proteins, originally studied independently
as lymphocyte homing receptors or as activation-induced surface proteins of platelets and/…

The path independent integral, J ̂ , is presented as the rate of energy flux during crack
extension. This integral is an extension of the J-integral proposed by Rice and includes the …