Publications by authors named "N Maekawa"
Article Synopsis
- Poultry red mites (PRMs), tropical fowl mites (TFMs), and northern fowl mites (NFMs) are blood-feeding pests that seriously affect poultry welfare and production worldwide.
- The study focuses on histamine release factor (HRF), a promising vaccine antigen, and its effectiveness across different types of avian mites.
- Researchers found that antibodies against HRFs from TFMs, NFMs, and PRMs showed cross-reactivity, leading to higher mortality in PRM nymphs when exposed to immune plasma, indicating potential for a universal vaccine against these mites.
, a genus in , , is a versatile fungus that lives as a wood decomposer, a potential pathogen of standing trees, and an orchid mycobiont. We previously reported that some species inhabiting wet wood in aquatic environments such as streams and waterfalls form synnema-like structures (SSs) bearing acanthophyses at their apices, and that they produce acanthophyses on vegetative hyphae when cultured on agar media. In this study, we investigated the acanthophysis-forming ability in and allied genera, and experimentally demonstrated the function of SSs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Whether serum concentration of procalcitonin (PCT), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and albumin (Alb) have an association with the outcome of hospitalized older patients is unclear. We investigated clinical outcomes and any predictive factors in hospitalized Japanese older patients with a risk of infection.
Methods: In the retrospective study, 820 Japanese patients were followed up for 30 days or until death.
Poultry red mites (, PRMs), tropical fowl mites (, TFMs), and northern fowl mites ( NFMs) are blood-feeding pests that debilitate poultry worldwide. Glutathione S-transferase (GST) plays an important role in the detoxification and drug metabolism of mites. However, research on avian mite GSTs as vaccine antigens is still lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a member of the family Retroviridae that causes enzootic bovine leukemia (EBL). However, the association between BLV infection and EBL development remains unclear. In this study, we identified a BLV/SMAD3 chimeric provirus within CC2D2A intron 30 in monoclonal expanded malignant cells from a cow with EBL.
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