Publications by authors named "D Y Okada"

This study investigated the anti-inflammatory effects of water-dispersible hesperetin (WD-Hpt) in an endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU) rat model. The rats were orally administered 10, 25, or 50 mg/kg WD-Hpt immediately after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection at the concentration of 200 μg. Clinical scores, cellular inflammation, the aqueous humor (ApH) protein concentration, as well as the levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 and inducible NO synthase (iNOS) in AqH, and histopathological grades were assessed.

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Low-dimensional hybrid metal halides (LDHMHs) have emerged as a highly promising class of functional materials for a wide range of optoelectronic applications. Their exceptional structural tunability, facilitated by the hybridization of metal halides with organic compounds, enables the formation of three-, two-, one-, or zero-dimensional structures. This flexibility in structural design also allows the incorporation of chirality into the crystalline lattice, giving rise to novel LDHMH materials that are capable of selectively interacting with the spin angular momentum of electrons and photons.

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  • The study focuses on the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on kidney transplant (KTx) recipients, highlighting limited data on their treatment and prognosis during the pandemic.
  • Out of 282 KTx patients infected with the virus, 6.7% experienced severe outcomes, with certain underlying health conditions increasing the risk of complications.
  • Treatment strategies evolved over time in response to new variants, with antiviral drugs being administered as they gained approval.
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Comparing transcriptome profiling between younger and older samples reveals genes related to aging and provides insight into the biological functions affected by aging. Recent research has identified sex, tissue, and cell type-specific age-related changes in gene expression. This study reports the overall picture of the opposite aging effect, in which aging increases gene expression in one cell subset and decreases it in another cell subset.

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This study presents a safety analysis of infusion reactions (IRs) in gastric cancer patients who switched from reference trastuzumab to its biosimilar, trastuzumab-NK, at the Saitama Cancer Center in Japan from April 2018 to March 2022. IRs were identified if patients developed symptoms such as fever, chills, infusion-related reactions, hypersensitivity, rash, pruritus, urticaria, systemic disorders, or immune system disorders on the day of administration or the following day. The incidence of IRs was 14% in the reference trastuzumab group, 33% in the trastuzumab-NK group, and 33% in the switching group.

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