[Effects of Dexamethasone Reduction on Chemotherapy Prophylactic Antiemetic Therapy for Gastrointestinal Cancer under Dexamethasone Supply Difficulties during COVID-19].

Due to supply difficulties and other factors associated with COVID-19, oral dexamethasone became less readily available. To address this limitation, we investigated the effect of adjusting prophylactic antiemetic therapy on the efficacy of anticancer drug treatment. This study included patients in the gastrointestinal oncology unit of our hospital who received a regimen containing moderately emetogenic risk anticancer drugs between September 2021 and August 2022.

Liver-type of tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase is induced during mouse bone and tooth cell differentiation.

Background And Objective: Tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP) contains two types-bone- and liver-type-which are produced from the same gene due to differences in splicing. These two differ in their promoter, but the amino acid sequences of the mature proteins are identical. In this study, we examined the relationship between the two types of TNSALP expression and osteoblast differentiation.

Spatially Selective, High-Density Placement of Polyfluorene-Sorted Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes in Organic Solvents.

High-performance logic based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) requires high-density arrays of selectively placed semiconducting CNTs. Although polymer-wrapping methods can allow CNTs to be sorted to a >99.9% semiconducting purity, patterning these polymer-wrapped CNTs is an outstanding problem.

High-speed logic integrated circuits with solution-processed self-assembled carbon nanotubes.

As conventional monolithic silicon technology struggles to meet the requirements for the 7-nm technology node, there has been tremendous progress in demonstrating the scalability of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors down to the size that satisfies the 3-nm node and beyond. However, to date, circuits built with carbon nanotubes have overlooked key aspects of a practical logic technology and have stalled at simple functionality demonstrations. Here, we report high-performance complementary carbon nanotube ring oscillators using fully manufacturable processes, with a stage switching frequency of 2.

Interleukin-4 released from human gingival fibroblasts reduces osteoclastogenesis.

Objective: Human gingival epithelium is continuously exposed to bacteria and acts as the first line of defense in periodontal tissues. It is crucial to maintain healthy, non-inflamed gingival tissue to avoid gingivitis and periodontitis. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of IL-4 in human gingival fibroblasts (hGF) on the activation of osteoclasts.