Lipolysis-stimulated lipoprotein receptor promote lipid uptake and fatty acid oxidation in gastric cancer.

Background: Lipolysis-stimulated lipoprotein receptor (LSR), a lipid receptor, is associated with cancer progression. However, detailed effects on intracellular metabolism are unclear. We aimed to elucidate the mechanism of LSR-mediated lipid metabolism in gastric cancer.

Clinical effectiveness of a new scope warmer/cleaner for laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery.

In laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery, maintaining clear visualization is crucial for safe and efficient operation. We have developed a new scope warmer/cleaner (Lapahot®) based on "hot-pack" technology. We used our device in 20 consecutive laparoscopic and thoracoscopic cases and compared it with the conventional warm saline method.

The role of anterior gastropexy in elderly Japanese hiatal hernia patients.

Purpose: As Japanese society ages, the number of surgeries performed in elderly patients with hiatal hernia (HH) is increasing. In this study, we examined the feasibility, safety, and potential effectiveness of the addition of anterior gastropexy to hiatoplasty with or without mesh repair and/or fundoplication in elderly Japanese HH patients.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 39 patients who underwent laparoscopic HH repair between 2010 and 2021.

Coexistence of Quantum-Spin-Hall and Quantum-Hall-Topological-Insulating States in Graphene/hBN on SrTiO Substrate.

SrTiO (STO) substrate, a perovskite oxide material known for its high dielectric constant (ɛ), facilitates the observation of various (high-temperature) quantum phenomena. A quantum Hall topological insulating (QHTI) state, comprising two copies of QH states with antiparallel two ferromagnetic edge-spin overlap protected by the U(1) axial rotation symmetry of spin polarization, has recently been achieved in low magnetic field (B) even as high as ≈100 K in a monolayer graphene/thin hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) spacer placed on an STO substrate, thanks to the high ɛ of STO. Despite the use of the heavy STO substrate, however, proximity-induced quantum spin Hall (QSH) states in 2D TI phases, featuring a topologically protected helical edge spin phase within time-reversal-symmetry, is not confirmed.

Giant Magnetochiral Anisotropy in Weyl Semimetal WTe_{2} Induced by Diverging Berry Curvature.

The concept of Berry curvature is essential for various transport phenomena. However, an effect of the Berry curvature on magnetochiral anisotropy, i.e.

Trapping and manipulating skyrmions in two-dimensional films by surface acoustic waves.

Skyrmions, topologically stable spin structures with particle-like properties, are promising for spintronics applications such as skyrmion racetrack memory. Though reliable control of skyrmion motion is essential for the operation of spintronics devices, the straight motion of skyrmions along the driving force is in general difficult due to an inevitable transverse force originating from their topology. Here, we propose a method of precise manipulation of skyrmions based on surface acoustic waves (SAWs) propagating in two dimensions.

A successful operation for giant intra-abdominal desmoid tumors associated with familial adenomatous polyposis: A case report.

Desmoid tumors are benign proliferations of spindle cells originating in fibro-aponeurotic tissue. Many patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) die from desmoid tumors, which can arise spontaneously but often appear to be surgically induced by prophylactic colectomy. Desmoid tumors are the second most common cause of death in patients with FAP, second to colorectal cancer.

Reconfigurable single-material Peltier effect using magnetic-phase junctions.

Peltier effects, which produce a heat flux at the junction of two different materials, have been an important technology for heating and cooling by electrical means. Whereas Peltier devices have advantages such as cleanliness, silence, compactness, flexibility, reliability, and efficiency, relatively complicated modular structures are unavoidable, leading to a higher cost than that of commonly used refrigeration technology. Here, we provide a concept of a Peltier device composed of a single magnetic material exhibiting a first-order magnetic transition.

Emergent electromagnetic induction beyond room temperature.

Emergent electromagnetic induction based on electrodynamics of noncollinear spin states may enable dramatic miniaturization of inductor elements widely used in electric circuits, yet the research is still in its infancy and many issues must be resolved toward its application. One such problem is how to increase working temperature to room temperature, and possible thermal agitation effects on the quantum process of the emergent induction are unknown. We report here large emergent electromagnetic induction achieved around and above room temperature, making use of a few tens of micrometer-sized devices based on the high-temperature (up to 330 K) and short-period (≤ 3 nm) spin-spiral states of a metallic helimagnet.

Yokukansankachimpihange Is Useful to Treat Behavioral/Psychological Symptoms of Dementia.

Yokukansankachimpihange is a Japanese herbal medicine reported to benefit anxiety and sleep disorders, and it has recently been introduced to treat behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. There are no multicenter studies of its effectiveness regarding dementia in Japan, and this study's main objective was to clarify the effects of Yokukansankachimpihange on behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in a sample of patients from multiple healthcare centers. Nine facilities affiliated with Osaka Association of Psychiatric Clinics participated in November 2013 through April 2015 and provided 32 Alzheimer's disease patients to whom Yokukansankachimpihange was orally administered for 8 weeks.

Particle-size dependent structural transformation of skyrmion lattice.

Magnetic skyrmion is a topologically protected particle-like object in magnetic materials, appearing as a nanometric swirling spin texture. The size and shape of skyrmion particles can be flexibly controlled by external stimuli, which suggests unique features of their crystallization and lattice transformation process. Here, we investigated the detailed mechanism of structural transition of skyrmion lattice (SkL) in a prototype chiral cubic magnet CuOSeO, by combining resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSXS) experiment and micromagnetic simulation.

Emergent electromagnetic induction in a helical-spin magnet.

An inductor, one of the most fundamental circuit elements in modern electronic devices, generates a voltage proportional to the time derivative of the input current. Conventional inductors typically consist of a helical coil and induce a voltage as a counteraction to time-varying magnetic flux penetrating the coil, following Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction. The magnitude of this conventional inductance is proportional to the volume of the inductor's coil, which hinders the miniaturization of inductors.

Creation of magnetic skyrmions by surface acoustic waves.

Non-collinear and non-coplanar spin textures, such as chiral domain walls and helical or triangular spin structures, bring about diverse functionalities. Among them, magnetic skyrmions, particle-like non-coplanar topological spin structures characterized by a non-zero integer topological charge called the skyrmion number (N), have great potential for various spintronic applications, such as energy-saving, non-volatile memory and non-von Neumann devices. Current pulses can initiate skyrmion creation in thin-film samples but require relatively large current densities, which probably causes Joule heating.

Current-induced dynamics of skyrmion strings.

Dynamics of string-like objects is an important issue in a broad range of physical systems, including vortex lines in superconductors, viscoelastic polymers, and superstrings in elementary particle physics. In noncentrosymmetric magnets, string forms of magnetic skyrmions are present as topological spin objects, and their current-induced dynamics has recently attracted intense interest. We show in the chiral magnet MnSi that the current-induced deformation dynamics of skyrmion strings results in transport response associated with the real-space Berry phase.

Electrical magnetochiral effect induced by chiral spin fluctuations.

Chirality of matter can produce unique responses in optics, electricity and magnetism. In particular, magnetic crystals transmit their handedness to the magnetism via antisymmetric exchange interaction of relativistic origin, producing helical spin orders as well as their fluctuations. Here we report for a chiral magnet MnSi that chiral spin fluctuations manifest themselves in the electrical magnetochiral effect, i.

Incidences of Feto-Fetal Transfusion Syndrome and Perinatal Outcomes in Triplet Gestations with Monochorionic Placentation.

Introduction: This study aimed to determine the incidences of feto-fetal transfusion syndrome (FFTS) and perinatal outcomes in triplet gestations with monochorionic placentation.

Materials And Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, we evaluated the incidences of FFTS and perinatal outcomes at 28 days of age in cases of triplet gestations with monochorionic placentation who visited our centers before 16 weeks of gestation and delivered over a period of 11 years.

Results: In 41 triplet gestations (17 monochorionic triamniotic, 22 dichorionic triamniotic, 1 dichorionic diamniotic, and 1 monochorionic monoamniotic), the incidence of FFTS was 17.

Effects of intraoperative high-dose vs low-dose remifentanil for postoperative epidural analgesia after gynecological abdominal surgery: a randomized clinical trial.

Study Objectives: To evaluate whether intraoperative high-dose remifentanil infusion increased local anesthetic consumption in postoperative epidural analgesia and postoperative pain scores compared with low-dose remifentanil infusion.

Design: Prospective, randomized controlled study.

Setting: Operating room, university hospital.

Incidence of spontaneous twin anemia-polycythemia sequence in monochorionic-diamniotic twin pregnancies: Single-center prospective study.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to prospectively estimate the incidence of spontaneous twin anemia-polycythemia sequence (TAPS) in monochorionic-diamniotic twin pregnancies.

Methods: We prospectively examined umbilical cord hemoglobin (Hb) and reticulocyte count of consecutive monochorionic-diamniotic twin pregnancies delivered at Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital from December 2006 to September 2013. We excluded cases of twin-twin transfusion syndrome, intrauterine fetal demise, and missing data (Hb and reticulocyte count missing from the medical record).

Prophylactic intra-arterial administration of fasudil hydrochloride for vasospasm following subarachnoid haemorrhage.

Purpose: We evaluated patients treated with prophylactic intra-arterial administration of fasudil hydrochloride (IAF) after subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH).

Materials And Methods: Between August 1998 and December 2012, 92 patients with aneurysmal SAH were treated with IAF for angiographic vasospasm without ischemic symptoms after their follow-up angiography. Patients comprised 50 women and 42 men, aged 24-83 (mean 56.

[Experience of mismatched blood transfusion for an rh negative patient and reconsideration of emergency blood transfusion manual in the hospital].

We report a B Rh negative patient undergoing total pelvic exenteration, who received both ABO and Rh incompatible packed red blood cells in an emergency situation. After this experience, we revised the manual of emergency blood transfusion. We defined level of severity to share information with surgeon, nurses, anesthesiologists and the member of the blood center.

Why people play: artificial lives acquiring play instinct to stabilize productivity.

We propose a model to generate a group of artificial lives capable of coping with various environments which is equivalent to a set of requested task, and likely to show that the plays or hobbies are necessary for the group of individuals to maintain the coping capability with various changes of the environment as a whole. This may be an another side of saying that the wide variety of the abilities in the group is necessary, and if the variety in a species decreased, its species will be extinguished. Thus, we show some simulation results, for example, in the world where more variety of abilities are requested in the plays, performance of the whole world becomes stable and improved in spite of being calculated only from job tasks, and can avoid the risk of extinction of the species.