Clinical and endoscopic characteristics of eosinophilic esophagitis in Japan: a case-control study.

Background: Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an allergy-associated clinicopathologic condition gaining an increasing amount of recognition in various areas of the world. While the clinical definition and characteristics may differ depending on country and region, sufficient studies have not yet been performed in Japan.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of EoE among the Japanese population and the clinical features associated with the disease.

Dietary ribonucleic acid suppresses inflammation of adipose tissue and improves glucose intolerance that is mediated by immune cells in C57BL/6 mice fed a high-fat diet.

Recent evidence suggests that immune cells play an important role in differentiation of inflammatory macrophages in adipose tissue, which contributes to systemic chronic inflammation. Dietary ribonucleic acid (RNA) has been shown to modulate immune function. We hypothesized that RNA affects immune cell function in adipose tissue and then improves inflammatory response in adipose tissue.

Variation in displacement energies due to isospin-nonconserving forces.

For mirror nuclei with masses A=42-95, the effects of isospin-nonconserving nuclear forces are studied with the nuclear shell model using the Coulomb displacement energy and triplet displacement energy as probes. It is shown that the characteristic behavior of the displacement energies can be well reproduced if the isovector and isotensor nuclear interactions with J=0 and T=1 are introduced into the f(7/2) shell. These forces, with their strengths being found consistent with the nucleon-nucleon scattering data, tend to modify nuclear binding energies near the N=Z line.

Coulomb energy difference as a probe of isospin-symmetry breaking in the upper f p-shell nuclei.

The anomaly in Coulomb energy differences (CEDs) between the isospin T=1 states in the odd-odd N=Z nucleus 70Br and the analogue states in its even-even partner 70Se has remained a puzzle. This is a direct manifestation of isospin-symmetry breaking in effective nuclear interactions. Here, we perform large-scale shell-model calculations for nuclei with A=66 to 78 using the new filter diagonalization method based on the Sakurai-Sugiura algorithm.

Sporadic fundic gland polyp-related adenomas occurred in non-atrophic gastric mucosa without helicobacter pylori infection.

We report three cases of adenoma associated with sporadic fundic gland polyp (FGP) in the non-atrophic fundic gland mucosa without Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection, which was verified with both serological and histopathological examinations. Gastric tubular adenoma (flat adenoma) is common and focal cancers occurring in the hyperplastic polyp of foveolar cell type are also sometimes experienced. However, adenomas occurring in sporadic FGP are valuable, as they are very rare, in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.