Publications by authors named "H Miyagawa"

Article Synopsis
  • * It involved 312 PAC samples and 315 renin samples, finding that PAC values from CLEIA and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) were highly correlated, while RIA showed more false positives.
  • * The results indicate that using PAC from CLEIA improves PA detection rates and that weak mineralocorticoids affect PAC measurements, notably in the traditional RIA method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Introduction: This study aimed to determine whether massage pressure on the target muscles (biceps brachii muscle [BB] and the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle [MG]) is related to the massage effect (reducing muscle stiffness).

Method: Nine healthy participants participated in this study. A physiotherapist massaged the upper arms and lower legs of participants on a rigid desk in a laboratory.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Few studies have reported the clinical features of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who were treated with biologics for severe asthma (SA).

Objective: We sought to elucidate the clinical features and mutual interaction between COVID-19 and SA in terms of disease severity during the Omicron epidemic.

Methods: A retrospective study among patients with SA who received any biologic therapy from January 2022 to February 2023 at Jikei University Hospital (Tokyo, Japan) was performed.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Crystal growth methods that do not require high temperatures are highly needed for the facile growth of oxide single crystals with melting points of several thousand degrees Celsius. This paper represents the first report of a method for the low-temperature growth of ruby crystals (chromium-doped AlO) at 750 °C, which is one-third of the conventionally required temperature (2050 °C). In solution-based crystal growth, the target crystal is grown at a temperature considerably lower than its melting point.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Spiral roots are induced in germinated rice seeds through treatment with nanomolar brassinosteroids (BRs) but not with other plant hormones. Here, we determined the minimum effective concentration (MEC) of various BRs to induce spiral roots in germinated rice seeds. The reciprocal logarithm of MEC, pMEC, was used as the BL-like activity index, which was linearly correlated with the reciprocal logarithm of a 50% effective dose (pED) as evaluated in the rice lamina inclination assay.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF