Distribution of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia is closely associated with HPV status and uterine position.

Although cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) lesions are considered to be not randomly distributed across the cervix, but predominantly in the anterior wall, the clinicopathological etiology remains unknown. Herein, we aimed to elucidate the relationship between quantitatively measured area of CIN2/3 and cervical cancer associated factors by retrospective cohort study. We analyzed 235 consecutive therapeutic conization specimens dissected as a single intact section to determine CIN2/3 area and its correlation with both clinical risk factors including human papillomavirus (HPV) status (single or multiple infection) and uterine position defined by transvaginal ultrasound.

Perinatal Management in a Pregnant Woman with Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction: Case Report and Literature Review.

Although giant hydronephrosis (GH) associated with ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) is extremely rarely detected in pregnant women, diagnostic methods, therapeutic approaches, and perinatal management have not been established. A 31-year-old Japanese primipara had a 15 cm × 12 cm multi-cystic mass in the right abdomen detected by transabdominal ultrasound at gestational week 26. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed that the mass was right renal GH.

Identification of a Novel Copy Number Variation of EYA4 Causing Autosomal Dominant Non-syndromic Hearing Loss.

Objective: Eyes absent 4 (EYA4) is the causative gene of autosomal dominant non-syndromic hereditary hearing loss, DFNA10. We aimed to identify a copy number variation of EYA4 in a non-syndromic sensory neural hearing loss pedigree.

Family And Clinical Evaluation: A Japanese family showing late-onset and progressive hearing loss was evaluated.

A liquid culture cancer spheroid model reveals low PI3K/Akt pathway activity and low adhesiveness to the extracellular matrix.

Three-dimensional (3D) cultures of cancer cells in liquid without extracellular matrix (ECM) offer in vitro models for metastasising conditions such as those in vessels and effusion. However, liquid culturing is often hindered by cell adhesiveness, which causes large cell clumps. We previously described a liquid culture material, LA717, which prevents nonclonal cell adhesion and subsequent clumping, thus allowing clonal growth of spheroids in an anchorage-independent manner.

Cyclosporine protects from intestinal epithelial injury by modulating butyrate uptake via upregulation of membrane monocarboxylate transporter 1 levels.

Background And Aims: A relationship between treatment outcomes and intestinal microbiota in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases has been demonstrated. Cyclosporine treatment leads to rapid improvement in severe ulcerative colitis. We hypothesized that the potent effects of cyclosporine would be exerted through relationships between intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) and the host microbiota.

Cell adhesion control by photoinduced LCST shift of PNIPAAm-based brush scaffolds.

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm)-brush substrates are one of the most successful dynamic scaffolds for thermally controlling cell adhesion. Endowing substrates with photocontrollability promises further development and applications in the biomedical and bioengineering fields. In this study, we developed photoresponsive PNIPAAm copolymers by incorporation of spiropyran into the polymer chain, enabling the photoinduced shift of the lower critical solution temperatures.

Diagnostic approach for patients with unidentified fever according to the classical criteria of fever of unknown origin in the field of autoimmune disorders.

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is caused by various diseases, making differential diagnosis difficult. This study aimed to determine the clinical features of patients with FUO for use in daily medical practice. Medical records of patients who first visited our department for FUO between January 2008 and December 2017 were reviewed.

Long-term maintenance of the mucosal healing induced by azacitidine therapy in a patient with intestinal Behçet's-like disease accompanied with myelodysplastic syndrome involving trisomy 8.

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) are a group of myeloid neoplasms characterized by blood cell deformation and dysfunction, and MDS with trisomy 8 is closely linked with intestinal Behçet's-like diseases. Intestinal Behçet's-like disease is refractory to conventional therapies, including prednisolone, immunomodulators, and anti-tumor necrosis factor α agents. Here, we describe a 56-year-old woman with intestinal Behçet's-like disease ascribed to MDS with trisomy 8 who had multiple intractable intestinal ulcers.

A case of celiac disease with type I enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma in a Japanese male patient.

A 45-year-old Japanese male patient who was diagnosed with celiac disease (CeD) developed type I enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL). In 2013, the patient was admitted to our hospital with worsening of diarrhea and weight loss. Pathological examination of biopsy specimens from the duodenum and ileum led to a diagnosis of suspected EATL.

Genome Sequences of Cluster K Mycobacteriophages Deby, LaterM, LilPharaoh, Paola, SgtBeansprout, and Sulley.

Mycobacteriophages Deby, LaterM, LilPharaoh, Paola, SgtBeansprout, and Sulley were isolated from soil using Mycobacterium smegmatis mc155. Genomic analysis indicated that they belong to subclusters K1 and K5. Their genomic architectures are typical of cluster K mycobacteriophages, with most variability occurring on the right end of the genome sequence.

Gastric Focal Neutrophil Infiltration and Wide Duodenal Gastric Foveolar Metaplasia Are Histologic Discriminative Markers for Crohn's Disease and Behçet's Disease.

Background/aims: Behçet's disease (BD) with intestinal lesions and Crohn's disease (CD) share clinical features. However, no report has compared the 2 diseases with regard to lesions of the upper gastrointestinal tract (UGT). We aimed to evaluate endoscopic and histologic findings of UGT in CD and BD.

Stressor interaction networks suggest antibiotic resistance co-opted from stress responses to temperature.

Environmental factors like temperature, pressure, and pH partly shaped the evolution of life. As life progressed, new stressors (e.g.

Time-course microarrays reveal early activation of the immune transcriptome in a choline-deficient mouse model of liver injury.

Aims: Choline-deficient diet is extensively used as a model of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In this study, we explored genes in the liver for which the expression changed in response to the choline-deficient (CD) diet.

Main Methods: Male CD-1 mice were divided into two groups and fed a CD diet with or without 0.

Successful adalimumab treatment and usefulness of capsule endoscopy for gut inflammation concomitant with ankylosing spondylitis.

Here we describe a 20-year-old man with ankylosing spondylitis and gut inflammation, who was successfully treated with adalimumab. Capsule endoscopy and ileocolonoscopy showed multiple erosions and aphthoid ulcers in the ileum and the ileocecal valve. Immunohistochemical analysis of the terminal ileum demonstrated that the number of IL-23p19 expressing macrophages was increased.