Publications by authors named "A Okazawa"
Purpose: This study investigated the breast lesion conspicuity and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) reliability for three different diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) protocols: spatiotemporal encoding (SPEN), single-shot echo-planar imaging (SS-EPI), and readout segmentation of long variable echo-trains (RESOLVE).
Methods: Sixty-five women suspected of having breast tumors were included in this study, with 44 lesions (36 malignant, 8 benign) analyzed further. Breast MRI was performed on a 3 Tesla (3T) system (MAGNETOM Prisma, Siemens) equipped with a dedicated 18-channel breast array coil for a phantom and patients.
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- - The study focuses on an Arabidopsis mutant that has a defect in the sterolmethyltransferase2 (SMT2) enzyme, leading to significant growth issues and a loss of specific sterols, indicating the unique function of C-24 ethyl sterols in growth.
- - Fluorescent labeling of sterol biosynthetic enzymes showed that SMT2-GFP is located in the endoplasmic reticulum during interphase but relocates to the division plane during cell division, revealing that this movement is not linked to the transport of cytokinetic vesicles.
- - The abnormal division processes are accompanied by poor cytoskeletal organization and a failure to establish proper cell wall structures in daughter cells, suggesting that C-24
Strigolactones (SLs) are plant apocarotenoids with diverse roles and structures. Canonical SLs, widespread and characterized by structural variations in their tricyclic lactone (ABC-ring), are classified into two types based on C-ring configurations. The steric C-ring configuration emerges during the BC-ring closure, downstream of the biosynthetic intermediate, carlactonoic acid (CLA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnable to move on their own, plants have acquired the ability to produce a wide variety of low molecular weight compounds to survive against various stresses. It is estimated that there are as many as one million different kinds. Plants also have the ability to accumulate high levels of proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrection for 'Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy and high-pressure structural analysis for the mechanism of pressure-induced unique magnetic behaviour in (cation)[FeFe(dto)] (cation = PhP and PrPhP; dto = 1,2-dithiooxalato)' by Ryosuke Taniai , , 2023, , 8368-8375.
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