Publications by authors named "H Okudera"
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- Fluoride, while beneficial in many applications, can be toxic in higher concentrations, impacting human health, particularly concerning blood cells like platelets.
- A study was conducted on healthy male adults using sodium fluoride (NaF) to examine its effects on platelet energy metabolism, function, and viability over three days.
- Results indicated that NaF at 1 mM reduced platelet viability and function by decreasing mitochondrial energy production and increasing reactive oxygen species (ROS), with similar but less pronounced effects at 0.5 mM.
Introduction: An enteroatmospheric fistula forms when the exposed bowel is perforated with chronic enteric fistula formation. Currently, there is no established preventative method for this condition. Hyperdry (HD) amniotic membrane (AM) can promote early granulation tissue formation on the exposed viscera and is suitable for dressing intractable wounds as it possesses anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and immunomodulatory properties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Our aim was to inform a new definition of wrong-patient errors, obtained through an analysis of incident reports related to medication errors.
Methods: We investigated wrong-patient medication errors in incident reports voluntarily reported by medical staff using a web-based incident reporting system from 2015 to 2016 at a university hospital in Japan. Incident report content was separately evaluated by four evaluators using investigational methods for clinical incidents from the Clinical Risk Unit and the Association of Litigation and Risk Management.
Purpose: Many points concerning the structure of osseointegration and the surrounding jaw bone remain unclear, and its optimal histological form has yet to be identified. The aim of this study was to clarify the structural characteristics of peri-implant jaw bone on the micro- and nano-scales by quantitatively evaluating bone quality.
Methods: Five samples of human mandibular bone containing dental implants and one dentate sample that had been in place for some years while the donors were still alive were collected.
Amnion membrane studies related to miscarriage have been conducted in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. However, the distribution of stem cells within the amnion and the differences in the properties of each type of stem cells are still not well understood. We address this gap in knowledge in the present study where we morphologically classified the amnion membrane, and we clarified the distribution of stem cells here to identify functionally different amniotic membrane-derived stem cells.
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