Dietary reference intake for military operations: a scoping review.

Background: Reports that collect and organize dietary reference intake (DRI) data for military operations in different countries and regions worldwide are limited.This scoping review aimed to collect and organize information on the status of formulating a DRI for military operations in each country.

Methodology: For the information search, we queried PubMed and Google for literature and reports on the DRI for military operations and summarized the content of the adopted literature and reports.

Identification of Factors Necessary for Enabling Technology-Based Dietary Record Surveys: A Qualitative Focus Group Interview with Japanese Dietitians.

Weighed food records together with an in-person interview approach constitute the most basic methods used to estimate energy and nutrient intakes in dietary surveys. In the background of the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic, the need for non-face-to-face dietary surveys using information and communication technology (ICT) is increasing. We aimed to evaluate ICT-based dietary record surveys and identify factors that may enable this survey method to become more widely used in the future.

Incidence of spontaneous lymphomas in non-experimental NOD/Shi-scid, IL-2Rγ (NOG) mice.

Severely immunodeficient NOD/Shi-scid, IL-2Rγ (NOG) mice provide an in vivo model for human cell/tissue transplantation studies. NOG mice were established by combining interleukin-2 receptor-γ chain knockout mice and NOD/Shi-scid mice. They exhibit a high incidence of thymic lymphomas and immunoglobulin (Ig) leakiness.

Early Tumor-Infiltrating Dendritic Cells Change their Characteristics Drastically in Association with Murine Melanoma Progression.

Dendritic cells (DCs) have a critical effect on the outcome of adaptive immune responses against growing tumors. Tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells (TIDCs) play diverse roles in the regulation of tumor regression or growth, but the characteristics that distinguish those effects are obscure. In this study, we investigated the frequency, phenotype, and function of TIDCs over time from early stages of melanoma growth in mice.

High prevalence of amantadine-resistance influenza a (H3N2) in six prefectures, Japan, in the 2005-2006 season.

Substantial increase in amantadine-resistant influenza A (H3N2) was reported in Asia and North America in 2005. In this study the frequency and genetic characteristics of amantadine-resistant influenza A, circulated in Japan in 2005-2006 season, were investigated. Isolates were tested by amantadine susceptibility test (TCID(50)/0.