Publications by authors named "Maiko Kaizu"
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- The study aimed to improve patient experiences with self-injection for those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by examining various barriers including demographic, physical, and psychological factors.
- Researchers assessed patient experiences using a questionnaire and evaluated upper limb function across different daily activities, employing structural equation modeling to analyze the data.
- Findings indicated that older patients, females, and those with upper limb difficulties faced more challenges with self-injection, emphasizing the need for healthcare workers to consider individual characteristics and pre-existing perceptions when providing education on self-injection.
Accumulating evidence demonstrates that cilia play important roles in a variety of processes in embryogenesis. For functional survey of larval cilia at the cellular level, we exploited the simple cell organization of tadpole larvae in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Immunofluorescent microscopy showed distribution of cilia not only in previously described tissues but also in a subpopulation of ependymal cells in the sensory vesicle, gut primordium, papillae, apical trunk epidermal neurons, and the endodermal strand.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe previously identified a 66 kDa axonemal protein (Ci-Axp66.0) in sperm of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Here we found that Ci-Axp66.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeparation of proteins by two-dimensional electrophoresis and following mass spectrometry (MS) is now a conventional technique for proteomic analysis. For proteomic analysis of a certain tissue with a limited information of primary structures of proteins, we have developed an analytical system for peptide mass fingerprinting in gene products in the testis of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Ciona sperm proteins were separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and the tryptic fragments were subjected to MALDI-TOF/MS.
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