著者
Satoshi Iwata Shinya Murata Shi Rong Han Akira Wakana Miyuki Sawata Yoshiyuki Tanaka
出版者
国立感染症研究所 Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 編集委員会
雑誌
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.JJID.2016.299, (Released:2016-12-22)
参考文献数
23
被引用文献数
10

A 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV 6/11/16/18/31/33/45/52/58) virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine (9vHPV) has been proven highly efficacious in preventing anogenital disease related with vaccine HPV types in a pivotal Phase III study in women aged 16 to 26 years. We report here the results of an open-label phase III study conducted to bridge the findings in women age 16 to 26 years to Japanese girls aged 9 to 15 years. All subjects (n = 100) received a 3-dose regimen of 9vHPV vaccine at day 1, month 2 and month 6. Anti-HPV serologic assays were performed at day 1, month 7, month 12, month 24 and month 30. At month 7 (4 weeks after dose 3), 100% of subjects seroconverted for each vaccine HPV type. Increases in geometric mean titers of anti-HPV 6/11/16/18/31/33/45/52/58 in girls were similar to those in Japanese women aged 16 to 26 years in the pivotal phase III study. Persistence of anti-HPV responses was observed through 2 years after dose 3. In addition, administration of 9vHPV vaccine was generally well tolerated in Japanese girls.
著者
Satoshi Iwata Shinya Murata Shi Rong Han Akira Wakana Miyuki Sawata Yoshiyuki Tanaka
出版者
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases Editorial Committee
雑誌
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.70, no.4, pp.368-373, 2017 (Released:2017-07-24)
参考文献数
23
被引用文献数
6 10

A 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV 6/11/16/18/31/33/45/52/58) virus-like particle vaccine (9vHPV) has been proven highly efficacious in preventing anogenital diseases related to HPV, in a pivotal phase III study for women aged 16-26 years. Here, we report the results of an open-label phase III study conducted to bridge the gap between the findings in women aged 16-26 years and Japanese girls aged 9-15 years. All subjects (n = 100) received a 3-dose regimen of 9vHPV vaccine on day 1 and at months 2 and 6. Anti-HPV serological assays were performed on day 1 and at months 7, 12, 24, and 30. At month 7 (4 weeks after the third dose), 100% of the subjects exhibited seroconversion for each type of HPV. Increases in geometric mean of the titers for anti-HPV 6/11/16/18/31/33/45/52/58 in the subjects were similar to those in Japanese women aged 16-26 years in a previous phase III study. Persistence of the anti-HPV response was observed for 2 years after administration of the third dose. In addition, administration of the 9vHPV vaccine was generally well-tolerated in Japanese girls.
著者
Shinya Murata Yuzuru Takeuchi Kou Yamanaka Jun Hayakawa Masashige Yoshida Ruriko Yokokawa Akira Wakana Miyuki Sawata Yoshiyuki Tanaka
出版者
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases Editorial Committee
雑誌
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.72, no.5, pp.299-305, 2019 (Released:2019-09-19)
参考文献数
30
被引用文献数
3

Human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated disease is common among men with HPV infection. A quadrivalent HPV (qHPV) vaccine has demonstrated 85.9% efficacy against HPV6/11/16/18-related, persistent (≥ 6 month) infection in a study of Japanese men aged 16–26 years old. Here, we report the results of an open-label study of the immunogenicity and tolerability of the qHPV vaccine (NCT02576054), conducted to bridge findings from Japanese men to Japanese boys aged 9–15 years old. A total of 100 boys completed a three-vaccination regimen (Day 1, and Months 2 and 6), and 99 boys were included in the primary analysis population. The rate of seroconversion at one month after vaccine Dose 3 (Month 7) was high for each type of HPV (anti-HPV6/11/16/18 seroconversion rates [95% CI]: 94.9% [85.5%, 98.3%], 99.0% [94.4%, 100.0%], 99.0% [94.5%, 100.0%], and 99.0% [94.4%, 100.0%], respectively). Moreover, anti-HPV6/11/16/18 geometric mean titers were 482.9 mMU/mL, 1052.8 mMU/mL, 3878.3 mMU/mL, and 1114.5 mMU/mL, respectively. Immune responses to the qHPV vaccine were non-inferior among Japanese boys included in the current study and compared with young Japanese men from a separate study. Injection-site reactions were the most common adverse events, and administration of the vaccine was well tolerated in Japanese boys.
著者
Yang Yang Sho Ohno Yoshiyuki Tanaka Motoaki Doi
出版者
The Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
雑誌
The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.QH-069, (Released:2023-08-23)

Generally, Asteraceae flowers such as chrysanthemums and gerberas, are low ethylene-sensitive and do not exhibit petal wilting and abscission. However, previous research found that the flowers of dahlia, an Asteraceae member belonging to the tribe Coreopsideae, are ethylene-sensitive and show abscission layer development in petal-ovary boundaries. In this study, we investigated the ethylene sensitivity of 17 ornamental Asteraceae species belonging to different tribes by measuring the petal drawing resistance and vase life after 1–3 μL·L−1 ethylene exposure for 20 h. Although more than half of the tested species did not respond to ethylene, several species showed ethylene-sensitive petal wilting and abscission of fresh ray florets. Ethylene-sensitive petal wilting occurred in only two species (Calendula officinalis L. and Osteospermum L.) of the tribe Calenduleae, while ethylene-sensitive petal abscission occurred mainly in six species (Bidens ferulifolia D.C., Coreopsis lanceolata L., Cosmos atrosanguineus (Hook) Voss., Cosmos bipinnatus Cav., Cosmos sulphureus Cav. and Dahlia Cav.) of tribe Coreopsideae and one species (Helianthus annuus L.) of the tribe Heliantheae. In these species, abscission petals maintained their turgidity, and this process could be detected by measuring the petal drawing resistance of the ray florets. The reduction in petal drawing resistance, associated with abscission layer development in the petal-ovary boundaries, was observed only in these ethylene-sensitive species. The results of this study suggest that the ethylene sensitivity and petal senescing patterns in Asteraceae flowers may be associated with the phylogenetic classification at the tribe level.
著者
Yang Yang Sho Ohno Yoshiyuki Tanaka Motoaki Doi
出版者
The Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
雑誌
The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.UTD-367, (Released:2022-08-02)

Cut dahlia (Dahlia Cav.) flowers have recently become popular, but their marketability has been limited due to their poor vase life. The purposes of this study were to clarify the roles of leaves and inflorescences in the senescence of cut dahlias and to discuss the sink-source relationship between vegetative organs and inflorescences. The leaf life was maintained much longer (16.7 days) than the inflorescence life (7.4 days). The inflorescence life was not affected by removal of leaves, while leaf life was prolonged (19.6 days) by removal of inflorescences. Sucrose, glucose, fructose and small quantities of myo-inositol were detected in florets, and in addition to these sugars, nystose and 1-kestose were detected in stems and leaves. Total sugar levels of the middle florets (14.5 mg·g−1 FW on day 0) declined rapidly before their senescence. Total sugar levels of leaves (20.5 mg·g−1 FW on day 0) and stems (19.0–22.5 mg·g−1 FW on day 0) also decreased gradually during the postharvest period, but the levels decreased more slowly in deflowered cut stems. Sugar leakage from stem bases into vase water occurred during the initial few days. Removal of inflorescences increased sugar leakage significantly and promoted callus formation on the stem base. From these results, the inflorescence is considered to be a strong sink for carbohydrates, and stems and leaves serve as source organs. Heat girdling applied to the flower necks and petioles, also increased sugar concentrations of stem bases, thus resulting in higher sugar leakage and callus formation, although both heat girdling treatments shortened the leaf life. The sharp decrease in sugar levels of florets and an insufficient sugar supply are considered to be responsible for the short vase life of cut dahlias. It is suggested that these effects might be partly due to the blockage of sugar flows into petals through abscission layer development in the petal-ovary boundaries. Based on these results, we illustrate the senescing process of cut dahlia flowers in relation to sugar dynamism.
著者
Ken-ichiro YASUBA Hidehito KUROSAKI Takehiko HOSHI Takashi OKAYASU Yoshiyuki TANAKA Tanjuro GOTO Yuichi YOSHIDA
出版者
Japanese Society of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Engineers and Scientists
雑誌
Environmental Control in Biology (ISSN:1880554X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.56, no.3, pp.107-112, 2018 (Released:2018-07-20)
参考文献数
17

A program library for use on open-source hardware was developed in order to construct a low-cost environmental control system for greenhouses. The library facilitated the development of environmental sensing and control devices that conform to the protocols of the Ubiquitous Environment Control System (UECS). The open-source hardware used was the "Arduino Ethernet" and the "Arduino Mega 2560 with Ethernet Shield" microcontroller boards. UECS is a system for controlling greenhouse environments that communicates information via a local area network, and devices utilizing the library that we developed can perform the UECS defined communication tasks automatically. With the help of this library, device developers no longer need to program the communications aspects of the device and can concentrate on programming setting and control logic of the device. The library occupies about 29 kilobytes of the read only memory area of the target board. The library and associated open-source microcontroller boards are powerful tools for developing low-cost environmental control systems.
著者
田中 芳幸 外川 あゆみ 津田 彰 Yoshiyuki Tanaka
出版者
久留米大学大学院心理学研究科
雑誌
久留米大学心理学研究 = Kurume University psychological research (ISSN:13481029)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.10, pp.128-149, 2011-03-31

本論文では,主観的ウェルビーイングによる健康や長寿への影響性に関する欧米での研究成果を概観し,ポジティブ健康心理学の研究にとっての今後の課題について論考した。各研究の方法論や対象に基づき,(1)長期にわたる縦断的研究,(2)主観的ウェルビーイングと生理指標との日常での関連性についての研究,(3)実験的な感情操作に伴う生理指標の研究,(4)動物を対象とした研究,(5)自然発生的な出来事と健康関連要因に関する実験的-フィールド研究,(6)主観的ウェルビーイングの変化を健康関連要因によって評価した介入研究,(7)患者の痛みやQOL と主観的ウェルビーイングとの関連性の研究の7 種類の研究に分類して整理した。その結果,様々な種類の研究成果より,主観的ウェルビーイングやそれを構成するポジティブ感情などが,健康や長寿にとって有益であることや,免疫系や心臓血管系の機能と関連することは明らかであった。ただし,もともと健康であった人々においてこの関連性は明確であるが,ガンなどの疾患を有する人々を対象とした場合には様々に錯綜した報告があり関連が明確であるとは言い難い。また,過度に活性化したポジティブ感情や躁的なポジティブ感情は健康にとって有害であることを示唆した研究も存在した。効果量や効果の変動性,統計的な調整に基づく妥当性などの問題が考えられた。以上の欧米研究のレビューを踏まえて,本邦の心理学研究,特にポジティブ健康心理学研究の今後の展開にあたって,主観的ウェルビーイングの(1)定義の再考と(2)測定尺度の検討,および,(3)主観的ウェルビーイングと健康や長寿との因果関係の方向性の検討を行うことの必要性を考察した。
著者
Shinya Murata Yuzuru Takeuchi Kou Yamanaka Jun Hayakawa Masashige Yoshida Ruriko Yokokawa Akira Wakana Miyuki Sawata Yoshiyuki Tanaka
出版者
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases Editorial Committee
雑誌
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.JJID.2018.448, (Released:2019-05-31)
参考文献数
30
被引用文献数
3

Human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated disease is common among men with HPV infection. A quadrivalent HPV (qHPV) vaccine has demonstrated 85.9% efficacy against HPV6/11/16/18-related persistent (≥6 month) infection in a study of Japanese men aged 16–26 yr. Here, we report results of an open-label study of the immunogenicity and tolerability of the qHPV vaccine (NCT02576054), conducted to bridge findings in Japanese men to Japanese boys aged 9–15 yr. A total of 100 boys completed a three-vaccination regimen (Day 1, Months 2, and 6), and 99 boys were included in the primary analysis population. The rate of seroconversion at 1 month after vaccine Dose 3 (Month 7) was high for each vaccine HPV type (anti-HPV6/11/16/18 seroconversion rates [95% CI]: 94.9% [85.5%, 98.3%], 99.0% [94.4%, 100.0%], 99.0% [94.5%, 100.0%], and 99.0% [94.4%, 100.0%], respectively) and anti-HPV6/11/16/18 geometric mean titers were 482.9 mMU/mL, 1052.8 mMU/mL, 3878.3 mMU/mL, and 1114.5 mMU/mL, respectively. Immune responses to qHPV vaccine were non-inferior among Japanese boys included in the current study compared with young Japanese men in a separate study. Injection-site reactions were the most common adverse events, and administration of the vaccine was well tolerated in Japanese boys.
著者
Tran Duy Vinh Yuichi Yoshida Mitsuo Ooyama Tanjuro Goto Ken-ichiro Yasuba Yoshiyuki Tanaka
出版者
一般社団法人 園芸学会
雑誌
The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.OKD-114, (Released:2017-11-17)
被引用文献数
14

Blossom-end rot (BER) in tomato has been generally reported as a calcium (Ca)-related physiological disorder influenced by cultivar and environmental factors. In our previous works, we found that different fruit-sized cultivars could share a similar threshold value of water-soluble Ca. In addition, seasonal susceptibility to BER was closely related to fruit growth rate. This study aimed to clarify the effect of fruit growth rate as a dominant factor determining the susceptibility in different fruit-sized tomato cultivars. A large-sized cultivar, ‘Momotaro Fight’, and medium-sized ‘Cindy Sweet’, with different susceptibility to BER disorder, were hydroponically grown with modified Hoagland nutrient solutions consisting of a range of Ca:K (potassium) ratios in four cropping seasons. In spring and summer, BER incidence was more than 60 and 10% in ‘Momotaro Fight’ and ‘Cindy Sweet’, respectively, when plants were fed with low Ca. BER was rarely observed when water-soluble Ca exceeded 0.30 μmol·g−1 FW, and the rate of BER incidence increased with a decrease in water-soluble Ca concentration in both cultivars. Fruit growth rate was much more vigorous in ‘Momotaro Fight’ than ‘Cindy Sweet’, especially in summer. It was significantly favored by the increased temperature and solar radiation in both cultivars. The multiple regression analyses detected a significant effect of fruit growth rate on BER incidence, exclusively in ‘Momotaro Fight’. Together with water-soluble Ca, fruit growth rate explained over 50% of the variation of BER incidence. A vigorous rate of fruit growth can play a more important role in decreasing water-soluble Ca in ‘Momotaro Fight’, and result in severe and frequent BER incidence, compared to ‘Cindy Sweet’. Thus the cultivar difference in the susceptibility to BER is likely explained by the difference in the growth rate of young fruit affecting water-soluble Ca in the distal part of tomato fruit.
著者
Yoshiyuki Tanaka Shiho Fukuta Sota Koeda Tanjuro Goto Yuichi Yoshida Ken‑ichiro Yasuba
出版者
一般社団法人 園芸学会
雑誌
The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.OKD-115, (Released:2017-10-28)
被引用文献数
14

Capsinoids are low-pungent capsaicinoid analogues in chili pepper fruits. They exhibit various bioactivities in humans similar to capsaicinoids, but do not produce a nasty burning sensation, encouraging their application in foods and supplements. Previous reports demonstrated that loss-of-function of putative aminotransferase (pAMT) leads to low-pungency and capsinoid accumulation. Therefore, the pamt allele is a useful gene in chili pepper breeding programs to enhance health-promoting properties. Eight loss-of-function alleles have been identified in the Capsicum genus, but the variation in pamt alleles remains to be fully elucidated. In this study, we identified one novel loss-of-function allele from the analysis of low-pungent chili pepper ‘No. 4034’ (C. chinense). ‘No. 4034’ contained mainly capsinoid with an undetectable level of capsaicinoid. A genetic complementation test was conducted by crossing ‘No. 4034’ with other accessions. The results indicated that ‘No. 4034’ possessed a loss-of-function pamt allele. Sequence analysis showed that the novel mutant allele contained a 7-bp insertion (TCGGTAC) in the 16th exon region, which we designated as pamt9. The insertion caused a frameshift mutation and resulted in a truncated protein. Gene expression analysis showed that the expression level of pAMT specifically decreased among biosynthetic genes tested here in ‘No. 4034’, compared with that of pungent accession. pamt9 will be useful for low-pungency and capsinoid breeding, and will provide additional information for variations in pAMT mutants.
著者
Erasmus Kirii Tanjuro Goto Yuichi Yoshida Ken-ichiro Yasuba Yoshiyuki Tanaka
出版者
一般社団法人 園芸学会
雑誌
The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.MI-148, (Released:2016-05-27)
被引用文献数
1 20

Pungency in peppers is due to the presence of the alkaloid capsaicin and its analogues, collectively known as capsaicinoids. These compounds are only produced in the Capsicum genus and function as deterrents to mammals from consuming the pepper fruits. Pungency in pepper is qualitatively controlled by the Pun1 locus, which encodes a putative acyltransferase enzyme. Mutations in the Pun1 gene result in a loss of pungency, and several Pun1 loss-of-function alleles have been identified in sweet peppers to date (pun11–3). However, variations in pun1 alleles have not been completely elucidated. In the present study, we report a new type of loss-of-function pun1 allele, named pun14, in a Japanese sweet pepper cultivar, ‘Nara Murasaki’ (C. annuum). Sequence analysis at the Pun1 locus revealed that this type of Pun1 allele is caused by a single adenine nucleotide insertion in the second exon region. This insertion is unique to ‘Nara Murasaki’ and is not present in wild-type Pun1. This insertion causes a frameshift mutation and a change in the amino acid sequence, resulting in a truncated protein. The results of gene expression analysis indicated that the expression of Pun1 in ‘Nara Murasaki’ was hardly detectable, while the transcripts of this gene were strongly expressed in a pungent cultivar. In a co-segregation test, the pun14 genotype perfectly co-segregated with non-pungency in 103 F2 population plants of a cross between ‘Nara Murasaki’ and a pungent cultivar. ‘Nara Murasaki’ and a DNA marker to distinguish the pun14 allele will be informative for understanding the domestication process of sweet peppers.
著者
Kohji OHTA Yoshiyuki TANAKA Isao KAWATE Toshio TSUJI
出版者
一般社団法人 日本機械学会
雑誌
Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering (ISSN:18809863)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.14-00207, (Released:2014-09-16)
参考文献数
16
被引用文献数
6

Human can realize flexible and skillful movements by controlling his/her musculoskeletal system and the interactive force with environments appropriately. However it still exist many uncertain biological motor characteristics in human movements even for a simple task. This paper aims to analyze and evaluate acceleration characteristics of the human hand during quick arm motion. First, the dynamic manipulability of end-point via muscle forces, called Human Muscular Mobility Ellipsoid (HMME), is newly defined. Next, the direction-dependent acceleration characteristic of the human hand motion is examined and analyzed its geometrical properties with an approximation ellipses of measured data. It is also discussed the problem that the conventional measures relative to the performance of end-point acceleration cannot represent the geometrical properties of human generated hand acceleration in good agreement with the measured data. Finally, the merits of HMME compared with the conventional measures is then demonstrated with a set of experimental results and computed results: HMME can be utilized in representing the geometric properties of human hand acceleration.
著者
Yuichi Yoshida Nobuyuki Irie Tran Duy Vinh Mitsuo Ooyama Yoshiyuki Tanaka Ken-ichiro Yasuba Tanjuro Goto
出版者
園芸学会
雑誌
Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science (ISSN:18823351)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CH-107, (Released:2014-07-04)
被引用文献数
2 14

To understand the factors affecting the incidence of blossom-end rot (BER), the effect of the Ca/K ratio (4/12–12/4, in me·L–1) in nutrient solutions and Ca concentration in fractions in the distal part of young tomato fruits immediately before BER symptoms appear were investigated for three seasons. The rate of BER incidence increased with a decrease in the Ca/K ratio in the supplied solutions in the summer and spring, but little difference was observed in the winter. Ca concentration was highest in winter and lowest in summer, and the concentration in fractions decreased with a decrease in the Ca/K ratio of the solutions. When the results of all three experiments were pooled, among the fractions, water-soluble Ca concentration was found to have the highest significance in the relationship to BER incidence. The risk of BER incidence in rapidly growing tomato increased to a critical level when water-soluble Ca in the distal part of the fresh fruit decreased to less than 0.20 μmol·g–1 FW. Multiple-regression analysis revealed that the concentration of water-soluble Ca, which is predominantly recovering apoplastic or cytoplasmic Ca2+, and total Ca, which has been translocated during fruit development, are significantly affected by solar radiation and Ca concentration in the supplied solution rather than air temperature.
著者
Sota Koeda Kosuke Sato Kenichi Tomi Yoshiyuki Tanaka Rihito Takisawa Munetaka Hosokawa Motoaki Doi Tetsuya Nakazaki Akira Kitajima
出版者
園芸学会
雑誌
Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science (ISSN:18823351)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CH-105, (Released:2014-05-10)
被引用文献数
3 17

‘No.80’ (Capsicum chinense) from the Caribbean is a valuable genetic source from the aspect of its non-pungent and highly aromatic traits. In the present study, the non-pungency, volatile components, and phylogenetic origin of ‘No.80’ were analyzed with another C. chinense cultivar, ‘No.2’ from Brazil, which is also non-pungent but less aromatic. Expressions and deduced amino acid sequences of acyltransferase (Pun1) of ‘No.80’ and ‘No.2’ were normal compared with a pungent cultivar, ‘Habanero’. Insertions of 7-bp and 8-bp resulting in frameshift mutations were found in the coding regions of putative aminotransferase (p-AMT) of ‘No.80’ and ‘No.2’, respectively. Co-segregation of these insertions with the non-pungent phenotypes in F1 and F2 populations obtained from crossing ‘No.80’ or ‘No.2’ with ‘Habanero’ suggested that non-pungency in these cultivars arose from genetic mutations of p-AMT that occurred independently. Moreover, molecular phylogenetic analysis suggested that ‘No.80’, a close relative of ‘No.2’, originates from capsicums migrated from the South American mainland. In addition to pungency, we assessed the volatile components of the highly aromatic ‘No.80’, the less aromatic ‘No.2’, and their F1 hybrid using gas chromatography. ‘No.80’ contained higher levels of aroma-contributing volatiles than ‘No.2’, which correlated with the stronger and weaker aromas of two cultivars. Further, the fruit of F1 progenies emitted a number of volatile compounds between or higher than their corresponding parents. Based on these results, the approaches for breeding highly aromatic non-pungent cultivars are discussed.