[What impedes discharge support for persons with schizophrenia in psychiatric hospitals?].

Objective: This study examines the factors that may impede discharge support for persons with schizophrenia who are receiving standard psychiatric services in Japan.

Subjects: Two hundred and ninety-two in-patients from nine psychiatric hospitals diagnosed with schizophrenia agreed to participate in this study. The mean duration of hospitalization at the time of the survey was approximately 10 years.

Seroepidemiologic survey of Coxiella burnetii and attempt to detect Coxiella DNA in aged non-laying chickens in a prefecture of Japan where poultry farming prospers.

The indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) revealed seropositivity to Coxiella burnetii in aged non-laying chickens in poultry farms in a prefecture in the central part of Japan. Seropositivity was 7%, and antibody titers ranged from 16 to 64. No DNA fragment specific for C.

Spermosin, a trypsin-like protease from ascidian sperm: cDNA cloning, protein structures and functional analysis.

We have previously reported that two trypsin-like enzymes, acrosin and spermosin, play key roles in sperm penetration through the vitelline coat of the ascidian (Urochordata) Halocynthia roretzi [Sawada et al. (1984), J. Biol.