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    イキル シンタイ ノ キョウイク ブジュツカ コウノ ヨシノリ トノ タイワ カラ 2 イキル コト ノ リスク オ コエテ

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    In recent years the mind-sets called 'Risk Management' spread out rapidly not only to the business world but also to the general public. Against this trend we want to ask "Isn't the life always the inevitable risk?" The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has promoted "Zest for living / Power to live" in the school education for this decade,but the teachers have lost sight of how to manage it. By this report,that follows the report (1),we cite some instances about the communication skill or the passion of the child,and successively consider radical problems in Japan from the ang1e of the education of "body-transforming"

    イキル シンタイ ノ キョウイク ブジュツカ コウノ ヨシノリ トノ タイワ カラ 1 レキシ モノガタリ トシテノ シンタイ

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    This report is the joint work with the Japanese martial artist,Yoshinori Kono, from point of view the education of "body-transforming". Hirota has participated in Kono' s martial arts lesson and continued interchanging of the thoughts about body. As the result of long-term joint work,in this report we lodge a radical protest to the recent trend of educational reform to raise "the education to bring up the Zest for living" and "the boundary-crossing human sciences".Moreover we exploit the wisdom of educational philosophy through the Japanese martial arts (BUJYUTSU) and describe the essence of education,in order to bequeath the oral history of body,in the modern time when the life completely has become estranged from the body

    Comparison of 2D-and 3D-culture models as drug-testing platforms in breast cancer

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    markdownabstract__Abstract__ Multinomial choices of individuals are likely to be correlated. Nonetheless, econometric models for this phenomenon are scarce. A problem of multivariate multinomial choice models is that the number of potential outcomes can become very large which makes parameter interpretation and inference difficult. We propose a novel Multivariate Multinomial Logit specification, where (i) the number of parameters stays limited; (ii) there is a clear interpretation of the parameters in terms of odds ratios; (iii) zero restrictions on parameters result in independence between the multinomial choices and; (iv) parameter inference is feasible using a composite likelihood approach even if the multivariate dimension is large. Finally, these nice properties are also valid in a fixed-effects panel version of the model

    Clinical practice guideline for drug-induced kidney injury in Japan 2016: digest version

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    Approximately one in eight adults has chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Japan, and the prevalence rate is expected to rise steeply due to the aging of the population in this country. In patients with CKD, quite a few medications require the dosage reduction or discontinuation because of their reduced urinary excretion and the increased risk of further renal impairment. Therefore, CKD patients are often treated by insufficient amounts of the medications, even though they may suffer from various complications. Moreover, it is empirically known that drug-induced kidney injury (DKI) accelerates the progression of renal failure, while it is not superficially ranked as a primary cause of kidney disease.In this context, the early detection, prevention, and treatment of DKI are very important issue in preventing the progression of CKD and the development of renal failure. However, there are no comprehensive and practical guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of DKI for CKD patients and on dosage adjustments for these patients.In response to this need, a clinical practice guideline for DKI was developed with the support of a Health and Labour Science Research Grant from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW) and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) for Practical Research Project for Renal Diseases, “Early detection and treatment of drug-induced kidney injury that aggravate chronic kidney disease.” This guideline was established by doing a clinical survey on DKIs, evaluating clinicopathological factors, investigating the methods of the early detection of the disease, and analyzing animal models. The present article represents a Committee of Clinical Practice Guideline for DKI. We collected supportive evidence and analyzed data, focusing on several clinical questions that have practical importance

    An attenuated vaccinia vaccine encoding the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 spike protein elicits broad and durable immune responses, and protects cynomolgus macaques and human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 transgenic mice from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 and its variants

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    As long as the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues, new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) with altered antigenicity will emerge. The development of vaccines that elicit robust, broad, and durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants is urgently required. We have developed a vaccine consisting of the attenuated vaccinia virus Dairen-I (DIs) strain platform carrying the SARS-CoV-2 S gene (rDIs-S). rDIs-S induced neutralizing antibody and T-lymphocyte responses in cynomolgus macaques and human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) transgenic mice, and the mouse model showed broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 isolates ranging from the early-pandemic strain (WK-521) to the recent Omicron BA.1 variant (TY38-873). Using a tandem mass tag (TMT)-based quantitative proteomic analysis of lung homogenates from hACE2 transgenic mice, we found that, among mice subjected to challenge infection with WK-521, vaccination with rDIs-S prevented protein expression related to the severe pathogenic effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection (tissue destruction, inflammation, coagulation, fibrosis, and angiogenesis) and restored protein expression related to immune responses (antigen presentation and cellular response to stress). Furthermore, long-term studies in mice showed that vaccination with rDIs-S maintains S protein-specific antibody titers for at least 6 months after a first vaccination. Thus, rDIs-S appears to provide broad and durable protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2, including current variants such as Omicron BA.1 and possibly future variants

    DOCK2 is involved in the host genetics and biology of severe COVID-19

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    「コロナ制圧タスクフォース」COVID-19疾患感受性遺伝子DOCK2の重症化機序を解明 --アジア最大のバイオレポジトリーでCOVID-19の治療標的を発見--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2022-08-10.Identifying the host genetic factors underlying severe COVID-19 is an emerging challenge. Here we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) involving 2, 393 cases of COVID-19 in a cohort of Japanese individuals collected during the initial waves of the pandemic, with 3, 289 unaffected controls. We identified a variant on chromosome 5 at 5q35 (rs60200309-A), close to the dedicator of cytokinesis 2 gene (DOCK2), which was associated with severe COVID-19 in patients less than 65 years of age. This risk allele was prevalent in East Asian individuals but rare in Europeans, highlighting the value of genome-wide association studies in non-European populations. RNA-sequencing analysis of 473 bulk peripheral blood samples identified decreased expression of DOCK2 associated with the risk allele in these younger patients. DOCK2 expression was suppressed in patients with severe cases of COVID-19. Single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis (n = 61 individuals) identified cell-type-specific downregulation of DOCK2 and a COVID-19-specific decreasing effect of the risk allele on DOCK2 expression in non-classical monocytes. Immunohistochemistry of lung specimens from patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia showed suppressed DOCK2 expression. Moreover, inhibition of DOCK2 function with CPYPP increased the severity of pneumonia in a Syrian hamster model of SARS-CoV-2 infection, characterized by weight loss, lung oedema, enhanced viral loads, impaired macrophage recruitment and dysregulated type I interferon responses. We conclude that DOCK2 has an important role in the host immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the development of severe COVID-19, and could be further explored as a potential biomarker and/or therapeutic target
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