Publications by authors named "T Shirokawa"

Numerous studies have investigated the various cellular responses against genotoxic stress, including those mediated by focal adhesions. We here identified a novel type of focal adhesion remodelling that occurs under genotoxic stress conditions, which involves the replacement of active focal adhesion kinase (FAK) with FAK-related non-kinase (FRNK). FRNK stabilized focal adhesions, leading to strong cell-matrix adhesion, and FRNK-depleted cells were easily detached from extracellular matrix upon genotoxic stress.

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Over the last decade, nanoneedle-based systems have demonstrated to be extremely useful in cell biology. They can be used as nanotools for drug delivery, biosensing or biomolecular recognition inside cells; or they can be employed to select and sort in parallel a large number of living cells. When using these nanoprobes, the most important requirement is to minimize the cell damage, reducing the forces and indentation lengths needed to penetrate the cell membrane.

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  • The study explores how children aged 4 to 6 develop the ability to manage multiple rules for adapting to their environment, which is crucial for personal behavior.
  • Researchers conducted tests with 322 children and 57 adults to see how well different age groups could handle multiple rules simultaneously.
  • Findings indicate that children struggle with managing multiple rules until around age 6, while they reach adult-level performance for single rules by age 5, highlighting a key developmental phase before age 7.
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A 52-year-old Japanese man with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) presented with mild dizziness. On admission, the physical examination only revealed tachycardia and right sided cervical lymphadenopathy. On the fifth day of admission, his mental status slightly worsened.

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An 84-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with bloody sputum. He was found to have a right lower lobe wedge-shaped nodular lesion with chest X-ray and computed tomography of the chest. Ceftriaxone and minocycline were started empirically based on a working diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia.

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