Publications by authors named "Mayu Nishino"
Avoidance of sunlight and self-restraint due to the COVID-19 pandemic may contribute to reduced vitamin D status. This study provides comparable data on vitamin D status in Japanese young women and assesses the effect of lifestyle, including changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, on vitamin D status. In study 1, 39 young healthy Japanese women aged 21-25 y were recruited from May 2016-June 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Breast milk is considered the optimal source of nutrition during infancy. Although the vitamin D concentration in human breast milk is generally considered poor for infants, vitamin D in breast milk is an important source for exclusively breastfed infants. Increases in vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency in lactating mothers may reduce vitamin D concentrations in breast milk.
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- Late male-killing is a phenomenon in the oriental tea tortrix where males die after hatching, suspected to be caused by an RNA virus.
- Researchers successfully isolated and identified the virus as Osugoroshi viruses (OGVs), which are related to a group of segmented double-stranded RNA viruses called Partitiviridae.
- The study is groundbreaking as it reveals the first instance of isolating a partiti-like virus in insects linked to late male-killing, although the complete viral genomic contents remain unidentified.