Publications by authors named "Kenichi Oga"

Rationale: Since the precise mechanisms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remain unknown, effective treatment interventions have not yet been established. Impaired extinction of fear memory (EFM) is one of the core symptoms of PTSD and is associated with stress-induced epigenetic change in gene expression.

Objectives: In this study, we examined whether the involvement of histone H3 lysine 9 dimethylation (H3K9me2) in EFM is mediated through brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression in the hippocampus, and whether BIX01294, a selective G9a and GLP histone methyltransferase inhibitor, could be treatment for impaired EFM in an animal model of PTSD.

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Objective: : Environmental deprivation, a type of childhood maltreatment, has been reported to constrain the cognitive developmental processes such as associative learning and implicit learning, which may lead to functional and morphological changes in the ventral pallidum (VP) and pessimism, a well-known cognitive feature of major depression. We examined whether neonatal isolation (NI) could influence the incidence of learned helplessness (LH) in a rat model mimicking the pessimism, and the number of vesicular glutamate transporter 2 (VGLUT2)-expressing VP cells and Penk-expressing VP cells.

Methods: : The number of escape failures from foot-shocks in the LH test was measured to examine stress-induced depression-like behavior in rats.

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  • A 61-year-old woman was hospitalized due to a productive cough and fever, leading to CT scans that showed abnormal lung opacities and a lesion in the gallbladder.
  • A lung biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with lymphatic spread, known as lymphangitis carcinomatosa.
  • The patient was deemed too unwell for chemotherapy and unfortunately passed away from respiratory failure 30 days later, with autopsy confirming gallbladder cancer as the root cause.
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