Hitomi X-ray studies of Giant Radio Pulses from the Crab pulsar.

To search for giant X-ray pulses correlated with the giant radio pulses (GRPs) from the Crab pulsar, we performed a simultaneous observation of the Crab pulsar with the X-ray satellite Hitomi in the 2 - 300 keV band and the Kashima NICT radio observatory in the 1.4 - 1.7 GHz band with a net exposure of about 2 ks on 25 March 2016, just before the loss of the Hitomi mission.

Methylprednisolone pulse therapy and intravenous cyclophosphamide therapy combined with cocktail therapy in severe pediatric Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis patient.

Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is a common self-limited vasculitis in children. The long-term prognosis depends on renal involvement. In severe Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis (HSPN) patients, >50 % have crescent formation and nephrotic syndrome that are important predicted outcomes.

Early treatment with methylprednisolone pulse therapy combined with tonsillectomy for heavy proteinuric henoch-schönlein purpura nephritis in children.

Background: There is no clear consensus as to which patients with Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis (HSPN) at risk of a poor outcome should be treated and what therapeutic regimen should be used.

Methods: Nine children with heavy proteinuric HSPN received prompt initiation of methylprednisolone pulse therapy (MPT) combined with tonsillectomy in a prospective study.

Results: At presentation, the mean values for the patients' urine protein excretion (early-morning urinary protein/creatinine ratio), serum IgA, activity index (AI), and chronicity index (CI) were 5.

Relative peripheral refraction in patients with horizontal strabismus.

Purpose: To determine whether relative peripheral refraction (RPR) in strabismic children is different from that in normal children.

Methods: We recruited 25 consecutive patients with comitant horizontal strabismus (mean ± SD age, 10.1 ± 2.

Two cases of corneal perforation after oral administration of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: oral NSAID-induced corneal damage.

Purpose: To report 2 cases of corneal perforation associated with the use of oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

Methods: In a 62-year-old woman and a 79-year-old woman, corneal perforation occurred after 7 days and 5 months of oral NSAIDs administration, respectively.

Results: After NSAIDs were discontinued, the cornea epithelialized and the anterior chamber formed within 14 and 10 days, respectively.

Remarkable stabilization of a psychrotrophic RNase HI by a combination of thermostabilizing mutations identified by the suppressor mutation method.

Ribonuclease HI from the psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (So-RNase HI) is much less stable than Escherichia coli RNase HI (Ec-RNase HI) by 22.4 degrees C in T m and 12.5 kJ mol (-1) in Delta G(H 2O), despite their high degrees of structural and functional similarity.