External Asymmetry and Pectoral Fin Loss in the Bamboo Sole (Heteromycteris japonica): Small-Sized Sole with Potential as a Pleuronectiformes Experimental Model.

Pleuronectiform fish develop marked external asymmetry in eye location and skin color at metamorphosis. The bamboo sole, Heteromycteris japonica, also exhibits loss of the pectoral fins at metamorphosis. Because of its small body size, short generation time, and long spawning season, we focused on the bamboo sole as an experimental model to investigate metamorphic asymmetry and pectoral fin loss during development.

Palliative sequential chemoradiotherapy for pulmonary sulcus tumor: A case report.

Pulmonary sulcus tumors are occasionally encountered in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. If the patients have a good clinical condition, concurrent chemoradiotherapy is indicated. However, palliative chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy for patients exhibiting a poor overall condition have not been reported to date.

The efficacy of an oxygen mask with reservoir bag in patients with respiratory failure.

Background: Oxygen masks with reservoir bags (OMR) are widely used for oxygen therapy in patients with severe respiratory failure. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether OMRs are effectively used in clinical practice.

Methods And Results: In the first phase of the study on the patients with severe respiratory failure, no apparent respiratory motions of the reservoir bag were noted, and the oxygen saturation level as determined by pulseoximetry (SpO2) did not decrease even after shrinkage of the reservoir bag.

Neural crest-derived multipotent cells in the adult mouse iris stroma.

The purpose of this study was to characterize neural crest-derived cells within the adult murine iris. The iris was isolated from P0-Cre/Floxed-EGFP transgenic (TG) mice. The isolated iris cells formed EGFP-positive spheres on non-adhesive culture plates.

Introduction of the Low Vision Evaluator (LoVE) for children.

Purpose: To determine whether the Low Vision Evaluator (LoVE) can grade the visual acuity of young children with light perception and hand movement acuity into finer acuity steps and at what age reliable measurements can be obtained.

Methods: Two hundred twenty children were tested with the LoVE. Each eye was tested separately, and each stimulus magnitude (intensity x duration) was presented three times.

Proteomic analysis of rat liver peroxisome: presence of peroxisome-specific isozyme of Lon protease.

Subcellular proteomics, which includes isolation of subcellular components prior to a proteomic analysis, is advantageous not only in characterizing large macro-molecular complexes such as organelles but also in elucidating mechanisms of protein transport and organelle biosynthesis. Because of the high sensitivity achieved by the present proteomics technology, the purity of samples to be analyzed is important for the interpretation of the results obtained. In the present study, peroxisomes isolated from rat liver by usual cell fractionation were further purified by immunoisolation using a specific antibody raised against a peroxisomal membrane protein, PMP70.