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Yasuyuki Kusaka

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Comparative toxicity of standard nickel and ultrafine nickel in lung after intratracheal instillation

Q Zhang, Y Kusaka, X Zhu, K Sato, Y Mo… - Journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… 24) QW Zhang, Y Kusaka, K Sato, DW Wang and K Donaldson: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha
release from rats pulmonary leukocytes exposed to ultrafine cobalt: in vivo and in vitro …

The endocrine disruptive effects of mercury

X Zhu, Y Kusaka, K Sato, Q Zhang - Environmental health and preventive …, 2000 - Springer
… Summal'y The effects of mercury on the human endocrine system are extremely limited.
According to the results of these limited studies, the present environmental and occupational …

[HTML][HTML] Wide-band quantum interface for visible-to-telecommunication wavelength conversion

R Ikuta, Y Kusaka, T Kitano, H Kato… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Although near-infrared photons in telecommunication bands are required for long-distance
quantum communication, various quantum information tasks have been performed by using …

[HTML][HTML] Defect in human myocardial long-chain fatty acid uptake is caused by FAT/CD36 mutations

…, T Nakata, T Oka, T Ogawa, F Okamoto, Y Kusaka… - Journal of lipid …, 2001 - ASBMB
Because of the importance of long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) as a myocardial energy substrate,
myocardial LCFA metabolism has been of particular interest for the understanding of …

Recent advances in reverse offset printing: an emerging process for high-resolution printed electronics

Y Kusaka, N Fukuda, H Ushijima - Japanese journal of applied …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Mechanisms, materials, and processes of high-resolution printing techniques dedicated to
printed electronics are reviewed. Advanced printing methods, including reverse offset printing …

[HTML][HTML] A Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein with selective cytocidal action to human cells

A Ito, Y Sasaguri, S Kitada, Y Kusaka, K Kuwano… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
Bacillus thuringiensis crystal proteins, well known to be toxic to certain insects but not
pathogenic to mammals, are used as insecticidal proteins in agriculture and forest management. …

Metal-enhanced fluorescence platforms based on plasmonic ordered copper arrays: wavelength dependence of quenching and enhancement effects

…, D Yamaguchi, T Akiyama, J Otsuki, Y Kusaka… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Ordered arrays of copper nanostructures were fabricated and modified with porphyrin
molecules in order to evaluate fluorescence enhancement due to the localized surface plasmon …

Healthy lifestyles are associated with higher natural killer cell activity

Y Kusaka, H Kondou, K Morimoto - Preventive Medicine, 1992 - Elsevier
Background. To investigate the association of individual lifestyle with immune response
against tumors, we assayed peripheral blood lymphocytes of 62 healthy males ranging in age …

Historical and geographical aspects of the increasing perfluorooctanoate and perfluorooctane sulfonate contamination in human serum in Japan

…, S Fujii, N Hachiya, I Hirosawa, S Koda, Y Kusaka… - Chemosphere, 2007 - Elsevier
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) have recently received
attention due to their widespread contamination in the environment, as well as in wildlife and …