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ABC Proteins Protect the Human Body and Maintain Optimal Health
Human MDR1, a multi-drug transporter gene, was isolated as the first of the eukaryote ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) proteins from a multidrug-resistant carcinoma cell line in 1986. To date, over 25 years, many ABC proteins have been found to play important physiological roles by transporting hydrophobic compounds. Defects in their functions cause various diseases, indicating that endogenous hydrophobic compounds, as well as water-soluble compounds, are properly transported by transmembrane proteins. MDR1 transports a large number of structurally unrelated drugs and is involved in their pharmacokinetics, and thus is a key factor in drug interaction. ABCA1, an ABC protein, eliminates excess cholesterol in peripheral cells by generating HDL. Because ABCA1 is a key molecule in cholesterol homeostasis, its function and expression are highly regulated. Eukaryote ABC proteins function on the body surface facing the outside and in organ pathways to adapt to the extracellular environment and protect the body to maintain optimal health
Advances in the Study of Stem-Cell-Enriched Hair Follicle Bulge Cells: A Review Featuring Characterization and Isolation of Human Bulge Cells
A new search for the and decays
We searched for the CP-violating rare decay of the neutral kaon, KL→π0νν¯, in data from the first 100 hours of physics running in 2013 of the J-PARC KOTO experiment. One candidate event was observed while 0.34±0.16 background events were expected. We set an upper limit of 5.1×10−8 for the branching fraction at the 90% confidence level (C.L.). An upper limit of 3.7×10−8 at the 90% C.L. for the KL→π0X0 decay was also set for the first time, where X0 is an invisible particle with a mass of 135 MeV/c2.We searched for the -violating rare decay of neutral kaon, , in data from the first 100 hours of physics running in 2013 of the J-PARC KOTO experiment. One candidate event was observed while background events were expected. We set an upper limit of for the branching fraction at the 90\% confidence level (C.L.). An upper limit of at the 90\% C.L. for the decay was also set for the first time, where is an invisible particle with a mass of 135 MeV/
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Study of the KL→π0νν¯ Decay at the J-PARC KOTO Experiment
The rare decay K_{L}→π^{0}νν[over ¯] was studied with the dataset taken at the J-PARC KOTO experiment in 2016, 2017, and 2018. With a single event sensitivity of (7.20±0.05_{stat}±0.66_{syst})×10^{-10}, three candidate events were observed in the signal region. After unveiling them, contaminations from K^{±} and scattered K_{L} decays were studied, and the total number of background events was estimated to be 1.22±0.26. We conclude that the number of observed events is statistically consistent with the background expectation. For this dataset, we set an upper limit of 4.9×10^{-9} on the branching fraction of K_{L}→π^{0}νν[over ¯] at the 90% confidence level