Publications by authors named "Y Nojiri"
A 20-year-old male patient with ulcerative proctitis presented with a fever and chest pain. He was diagnosed with rubella-associated myopericarditis due to pericardial rub, elevated troponin I, ST elevation, and positive rubella-immunoglobulin M. The patient subsequently developed cardiac tamponade but responded well to pericardial drainage and antiinflammatory therapy.
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- The study focused on the rate of force development (RFD) in older patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) to assess its reliability and validity as a measure of muscle contraction during rehabilitation.
- It involved 30 outpatients and 30 inpatients over the age of 76, measuring quadricep RFD at three different time intervals and evaluating physical performance with the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB).
- Results showed excellent reliability for RFD in older patients and a positive correlation between RFD values and physical function indicators, indicating RFD's potential effectiveness for assessing physical rehabilitation in this population.
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- The BRAF mutation is a key driver gene in malignant melanoma, with targeted therapies like dabrafenib/trametinib primarily focusing on specific mutations such as V600E and V600K.
- A 71-year-old female patient with a rare BRAF-ZKSCAN5 fusion gene was treated with these therapies after her melanoma metastasized and developed resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
- Although her tumors shrank by 22.2% after one month, she experienced severe side effects, leading to treatment discontinuation, highlighting the potential for targeted therapies in similar cases involving BRAF fusion genes.
Ocean acidification (OA) and warming (OW) are major global threats to coral reef ecosystems; however, studies on their combined effects (OA + OW) are scarce. Therefore, we evaluated the effects of OA, OW, and OA + OW in the branching reef corals Acropora digitifera and Montipora digitata, which have been found to respond differently to environmental changes. Our results indicate that OW has a greater impact on A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe non-deterministic behavior of the Duffing oscillator is classically attributed to the coexistence of two steady states in a double-well potential. However, this interpretation fails in the quantum-mechanical perspective which predicts a single unique steady state. Here, we measure the non-equilibrium dynamics of a superconducting Duffing oscillator and experimentally reconcile the classical and quantum descriptions as indicated by the Liouvillian spectral theory.
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