Publications by authors named "A Minami"
Background: Mongolian grasslands, including the Gobi Desert, have been exposed to drought conditions with few rains. In such harsh environments, plants with highly resistant abilities against drought stress survive over long periods. We hypothesized that these plants could harbor novel and valuable genes for enhancing drought stress resistance.
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- Alzheimer's disease (AD) not only affects memory but also impairments in visuospatial cognitive functions, with early-stage patients often receiving insufficient attention.
- A study involving 57 AD patients and 22 cognitively normal (CN) individuals investigated the relationship between myelin integrity (measured using T1w/T2w ratios) and visuospatial abilities through the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Copy Test.
- Results revealed that lower myelin integrity in specific brain areas (right middle temporal gyrus and right praecuneus) was significantly linked to visuospatial cognitive deficits in AD patients, highlighting the importance of myelin health in cognitive function.
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- - The study aimed to assess how well various AI models, specifically different types of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), could distinguish between benign and malignant breast tumors using diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), and compared these results to evaluations made by radiologists.
- - Data was collected from 334 breast lesions scanned between May 2019 and March 2022, and results indicated that a small 2D CNN model outperformed a 3D CNN and matched or exceeded radiologists in diagnostic accuracy for identifying tumors.
- - The findings suggested that AI models, especially the small 2D CNN using data augmentation techniques, performed comparably to radiologists in both sensitivity and specificity, making them a viable tool in radiological
Background/objectives: In Southeast Asia, the traditional use of young coconut ( L.) juice (YCJ) by women to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms suggests potential estrogenic properties. However, few studies explore the impact of YCJ on pathologies associated with estrogen deficiency in postmenopausal animal models.
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