Concept of vulnerable/unstable plaque

AV Finn, M Nakano, J Narula, FD Kolodgie… - … , and vascular biology, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Today’s concept of vulnerable plaque has evolved primarily from the early pioneering work
uncovering the pivotal role of plaque rupture and coronary thrombosis as the major cause of …

Synthetic helical polymers: conformation and function

T Nakano, Y Okamoto - Chemical Reviews, 2001 - ACS Publications
The high functionalities of naturally occurring macromolecules such as proteins and genes
arise from their precisely ordered stereostructures. 1 In such systems, the helix is often found …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in physical reservoir computing: A review

…, N Kanazawa, S Takeda, H Numata, D Nakano… - Neural Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
Reservoir computing is a computational framework suited for temporal/sequential data
processing. It is derived from several recurrent neural network models, including echo state …

Evidence for a Narrow Baryon Resonance in Photoproduction from the Neutron

T Nakano, DS Ahn, JK Ahn, H Akimune, Y Asano… - Physical review …, 2003 - APS
The γ n→ K+ K− n reaction on C 12 has been studied by measuring both K+ and K− at
forward angles. A sharp baryon resonance peak was observed at 1.54±0.01 G e V/c 2 with a …

Hydrogen peroxide is scavenged by ascorbate-specific peroxidase in spinach chloroplasts

Y Nakano, K Asada - Plant and cell physiology, 1981 - academic.oup.com
Intact spinach chloroplasts scavenge hydrogen peroxide with a peroxidase that uses a
photoreductant as the electron donor, but the activity of ruptured chloroplasts is very low [Nakano

Proliferative Activity of Intratumoral CD8+ T-Lymphocytes As a Prognostic Factor in Human Renal Cell Carcinoma: Clinicopathologic Demonstration of Antitumor …

O Nakano, M Sato, Y Naito, K Suzuki, S Orikasa… - Cancer research, 2001 - AACR
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, particularly CD8 + T cells, could be a manifestation of
antitumor immunity. We clinicopathologically analyzed the biological significance of tumor-…

[HTML][HTML] Phosphorylation and activation of myosin by Rho-associated kinase (Rho-kinase)

…, M Ito, K Kimura, Y Fukata, K Chihara, T Nakano… - Journal of Biological …, 1996 - ASBMB
The small GTPase Rho is implicated in physiological functions associated with actin-myosin
filaments such as cytokinesis, cell motility, and smooth muscle contraction. We have recently …

The fat-derived hormone adiponectin reverses insulin resistance associated with both lipoatrophy and obesity

…, H Kagechika, K Shudo, M Yoda, Y Nakano… - Nature medicine, 2001 - nature.com
Adiponectin is an adipocyte-derived hormone. Recent genome-wide scans have mapped a
susceptibility locus for type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome to chromosome 3q27, where …

The transcriptional landscape of the mammalian genome

…, K Morris, S Mottagui-Tabar, N Mulder, N Nakano… - science, 2005 - science.org
This study describes comprehensive polling of transcription start and termination sites and
analysis of previously unidentified full-length complementary DNAs derived from the mouse …

Regulation of myosin phosphatase by Rho and Rho-associated kinase (Rho-kinase)

…, Y Fukata, M Nakafuku, B Yamamori, J Feng, T Nakano… - Science, 1996 - science.org
The small guanosine triphosphatase Rho is implicated in myosin light chain (MLC) phosphorylation,
which results in contraction of smooth muscle and interaction of actin and myosin in …