Background: Sedation with anesthetic medication is often required to perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans in young children. However, sedation involves risks, particularly respiratory depression. Therefore, it is crucial to explore methods enabling young children to undergo MRI scans without sedation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe generated soybean mutants related to two ß-amyrin synthase genes using DNA-free site-directed mutagenesis system. Our results suggested that one of the genes is predominant in the soyasaponin biosynthesis. Soyasaponins, which are triterpenoid saponins contained in soybean [Glycine max (L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Meconium peritonitis is a noninfectious chemical peritonitis that occurs following fetal intestinal perforation and leakage of meconium into the abdominal cavity. Because of the lack of appropriate animal models, its pathophysiology has not yet been elucidated. We aimed to create a neonatal mouse model of meconium peritonitis using human meconium slurry (MS).
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April 2022
In this study, we analyzed the complete sequence of the chloroplast genome of Matsum. et Koidz., 1910, a diploid disciform capitula species of endemic to Japan, formerly classified as (Matsum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cervical lymphadenitis (CL) cannot be easily distinguished from Kawasaki disease (KD). We therefore explored whether brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are useful in this context.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 14 children with CL and 177 children with KD.
Adv Otorhinolaryngol
January 2012