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Leonardo Miyashita

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E-cigarette vapour enhances pneumococcal adherence to airway epithelial cells

L Miyashita, R Suri, E Dearing, I Mudway… - European …, 2018 - Eur Respiratory Soc
E-cigarette vapour contains free radicals with the potential to induce oxidative stress. Since
oxidative stress in airway cells increases platelet-activating factor receptor (PAFR) expression…

Evidence for the presence of air pollution nanoparticles in placental tissue cells

NM Liu, L Miyashita, BA Maher, G McPhail… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Inhaled particulate matter (PM) from combustion- and friction-sourced air pollution adversely
affects organs distant from the lung. A putative mechanism for the remote effect of inhaled …

4.9 A 1ms high-speed vision chip with 3D-stacked 140GOPS column-parallel PEs for spatio-temporal image processing

…, Y Hisamatsu, S Matsumoto, L Miyashita… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-speed vision systems that combine high-frame-rate imaging and highly parallel signal
processing enable instantaneous visual feedback to rapidly control machines over human-…

Midas projection: Markerless and modelless dynamic projection mapping for material representation

L Miyashita, Y Watanabe, M Ishikawa - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
The visual appearance of an object can be disguised by projecting virtual shading as if
overwriting the material. However, conventional projection-mapping methods depend on markers …

Estuarine and oceanic influences on copepod abundance and production of a subtropical coastal area

LK Miyashita, M de Melo Jśnior… - Journal of Plankton …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We investigated the influence of nutrient-rich oceanic waters in comparison to the estuarine
outflow from Santos Bay (SE Brazil) on copepod abundance and production on the adjacent …

[HTML][HTML] Exposure to diesel exhaust particles increases susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal disease

RK Shears, LC Jacques, G Naylor, L Miyashita… - Journal of allergy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The World Health Organization estimates that air pollution is responsible for 7
million deaths per annum, with 7% of these attributable to pneumonia. Many of these fatalities …

[HTML][HTML] Use of cleaner-burning biomass stoves and airway macrophage black carbon in Malawian women

AL Whitehouse, L Miyashita, NM Liu, M Lesosky… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Exposure to particulate matter (PM) from burning of biomass for cooking is associated with
adverse health effects. It is unknown whether or not cleaner burning biomass-fuelled …

[HTML][HTML] Underground railway particulate matter and susceptibility to pneumococcal infection

L Miyashita, R Shears, G Foley, S Semple… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Concentrations of particulate matter less than 10 microns (PM 10 ) on
underground railways are higher than those near urban roads. Traffic-related PM 10 increases …

Diversity of gelatinous zooplankton (Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Chaetognatha and Tunicata) from a subtropical estuarine system, southeast Brazil

…, TA Martinez, FP Brandini, LK Miyashita - Marine Biodiversity, 2019 - Springer
… 1) were sampled every second month during daytime (see Miyashita and Calliari 2016
for more details on sampling procedures and hydrographic conditions). On some occasions, …

Traffic-derived particulate matter and angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 expression in human airway epithelial cells

L Miyashita, G Foley, S Semple, J Grigg - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Background The mechanism for the association between traffic-derived particulate matter
less than 10 microns (PM 10 ) and cases of COVID-19 disease reported in epidemiological …