Publications by authors named "Yurika Kikkawa"
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- Heart failure's complexity arises from multiple underlying factors, making early diagnosis crucial for effective treatment, particularly in relation to aging and its impact on the heart.
- Researchers conducted a study using advanced techniques to examine how glycans in heart tissue change over time, focusing on differences between regions of the left ventricle in normal mice.
- Results showed distinct glycan profiles linked to aging, including specific changes in the medial region, indicating potential spatiotemporal variations in microvessels, which could be useful for developing markers for early signs of heart failure.
Mammalian X and Y chromosomes evolved from a pair of autosomes. Although most ancestral genes have been lost from the Y chromosome, a small number of ancestral X-Y gene pairs are still present on the sex chromosomes. The KDM5C and KDM5D genes, which encode H3K4 histone demethylases, are a surviving ancestral gene pair located on the X and Y chromosomes, respectively.
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