Case report: Postoperative abdominal recurrence of pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma showed a dramatic response to S-1 after pembrolizumab.

The patient was an 80-year-old woman with combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema. She was diagnosed with pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma in the right upper lobe, which relapsed 18 months after the operation. Computed tomography showed a mass in contact with the posterior wall of the lower part of the stomach.

Investigation on the spontaneous combustion of refuse-derived fuels during storage using a chemiluminescence technique.

Refuse-derived fuel (RDF), a high-caloric material, is used by various combustion processes, such as power plants, as alternative fuel. Several explosion accidents, however, possibly initiated by the spontaneous combustion of stored RDF, have been reported in Japan. Therefore the spontaneous combustion of RDF prepared from domestic garbage was investigated using chemiluminescence.

Low density lipoproteins bind more to type I and III collagens by negative charge-dependent mechanisms than to type IV and V collagens.

The accumulation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) in the arterial intima is an important characteristic of atherosclerosis. We investigated the mechanisms by which LDL binds to different types of collagen. The binding activities of 125I-labeled human native LDL (nLDL) and copper-oxidized LDL (oxLDL) with different collagen gels prepared in type I collagen-based mixtures with types I, III, IV and V (I+I, I+III, I+IV and I+V, respectively) were examined.