Background Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common comorbidity in patients undergoing
hemodialysis, but clinical factors predictive of RLS risk and severity have not been identified…

Four novel Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-carrying T-cell lines, designated SIS, AIK-T8, AIK-T4,
and SKN, were established from peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of patients with severe …

Vesiculo-globular bodies, 40 nm in diameter, are present in melanosomes. The mode of their
involvement in melanosomal differentiation was studied by ultrastructural comparison of eu…

Objective This study examined how the effects of botulinum toxin therapy changed over time
by sequential evaluation of clinical improvements in spasticity and contracture in 24 chronic-…

Exposure of healthy people to lipopolysaccharide (LPS; endotoxin) produces a pro-inflammatory
response, subjective symptoms, and decreased heart rate variability (HRV). Given the …

This article provides an overview of the history of the Japanese Society of Biofeedback
Research (JSBR) and presents some of its recent advances. Most of the research papers …

A wide variety of enzymatic pathways that produce specialized metabolites in bacteria, fungi
and plants are known to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Information about these …

We conducted preregistered replications of 28 classic and contemporary published findings,
with protocols that were peer reviewed in advance, to examine variation in effect …

Methoxybenzyl protecting groups of alcohols were readily and efficiently removed with DDQ
in CH 2 Cl 2 -H 2 O at room temperature. Under these neutral conditions, other usual …

Aim. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is expressed in the kidney and may be a
renoprotective enzyme since it converts angiotensin (Ang) II to Ang-(1–7). In addition, ACE2 has …