Temporal characteristics of facial ensemble in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: examination from arousal and attentional allocation.

Introduction: Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) show atypical recognition of facial emotions, which has been suggested to stem from arousal and attention allocation. Recent studies have focused on the ability to perceive an average expression from multiple spatially different expressions. This study investigated the effect of autistic traits on temporal ensemble, that is, the perception of the average expression from multiple changing expressions.

Osteopontin expression in the invasive front stroma of colorectal adenocarcinoma is associated with tumor budding and prognosis.

Background: Tumor budding (TB) is an important prognostic factor in colorectal carcinoma (CRC). Osteopontin (OPN) functions in various processes such as immune response, migration and invasion, angiogenesis, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and metastasis. However, the involvement of OPN and CD44v6, which is a receptor for OPN, in TB has not been clarified.

IL-10 -592A/C polymorphism is associated with severity of Hashimoto's disease.

The genetic producibilities of T helper type 1 (Th1) and T helper type 2 (Th2) cytokines are associated with the prognosis of autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs). Interleukin (IL)-10 is considered to be a Th2 cytokine that can exhibit an anti-inflammatory role. Furthermore, IL-10 may be associated with the development of IgG4-related diseases, because IL-10 promotes IgG4 production by B cells.

Relationship between listening difficulty rating and objective measures in reverberant and noisy sound fields for young adults and elderly persons.

Listening difficulty ratings [Morimoto et al., J. Acoust.

Relationship between listening difficulty and acoustical objective measures in reverberant sound fields.

The previous work [Morimoto et al., J. Acoust.

Synthesis of monoglucosylated high-mannose-type dodecasaccharide, a putative ligand for molecular chaperone, calnexin, and calreticulin.

Convergent and stereoselective synthetic routes to Man9GlcNAc2 (1b), alpha-Glc1M9GlcNAc2 (2b), and its stereoisomer beta-Glc1M9GlcNAc2 (3) were established. Interaction analysis of 2b with CRT was measured by 1H NMR spectroscopy, and the first NMR-based evidence for the specific binding of CRT to 2b was obtained.

Application of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to the quantification of bisphenol A in human semen.

The potential risks to human health and reproduction from the xenoestrogen bisphenol A (BPA) have not been well established. This is due in part to the absence of accurate analytical methods to quantify BPA in biological samples. In this study we establish an accurate, sensitive and selective analytical method for the quantification of BPA in human semen.