Publications by authors named "Masashi Kurokawa"
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- Neonates and infants experience significant changes in their skin properties after birth, which are linked to conditions like atopic dermatitis.
- The study measured the skin's water content and other physiological factors in infants at different ages (0, 1, and 6 months), finding that newborns had the lowest water content and thickest stratum corneum.
- This research, the first to use confocal Raman spectroscopy to measure ceramide in infant skin, provides a baseline for future studies on their skin properties over time.
An axially ligated Co(tmp) (tmp = 5,10,15,20-tetramethylporphyrinato) anion, [Co(tmp)(CN)], has been prepared and subjected to electrochemical oxidation to obtain the open shell tmp π-ligand. With acetone as the solvent, solvent-free neutral radical crystals of Co(tmp)(CN) are obtained, whereas solvent-inclusive crystals of Co(tmp)(CN)·2CHCN are obtained with CHCN as the solvent. In both crystals, the open shell tmp ring deforms into a ruffled form, which makes the π-π interactions in the crystal weak.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study was to reduce misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment of laryngeal tuberculosis.
Methods: Between April 2009 and March 2013, 1660 inpatients with tuberculosis were treated at the Osaka Prefectural Medical Center for Respiratory and Allergic Diseases. Seventeen of these patients were diagnosed with laryngeal tuberculosis.
Unlabelled: OBJECTIVE; The COBAS TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay (TaqMan assay) is a well-accepted and widely distributed molecular-based diagnostic test for tuberculosis. In the present study, we evaluated the efficacy of the LAMP assay (loopamp MTBC detection kit) as an alternative molecular-based diagnostic kit for tuberculosis, through comparison with the TaqMan assay. STUDY PERIOD AND METHODS: This study was conducted over a period of approximately 2 months, between May and July 2012.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, we present a new approach to variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) analysis using the QIAxcel capillary electrophoresis system and a software-integrated peak calling function. Allelic ladders representing 15 mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU)-VNTR loci were used to define peak calling tables thereby enabling high precision Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain identification.
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