Comparison of Immunoperoxidase Plaque Staining and Neutralizing Tests for Canine Distemper Virus     

Soma  T.  Ishii  H.  Hara  M.  Yamamoto  S.  Yoshida  T.  Kinoshita  T.  Nomura  K. 《Veterinary research communications》2001,25(4):311-325

The use of immunoperoxidase plaque staining (IP) in the antibody test for canine distemper virus (CDV) and its diagnostic value were investigated. Antibody titres by the IP test and neutralizing test (NT) against CDV were compared in 114 specific pathogen-free (SPF) dogs, including 84 CDV-vaccinated and 30 unimmunized dogs. All of the unimmunized dogs, which had negative NT titres, also showed negative IP titres, and all of the CDV-vaccinated dogs, which had positive NT titres, showed positive IP titres. Furthermore, the IP titres showed similar changes with time after vaccination to the NT titres in five CDV-vaccinated SPF dogs. These findings indicate that the IP test has similar specificity to the NT.Next, the IP and NT titres were compared in 190 clinically suspected cases of canine distemper (CD), including 107 dogs with neurological signs and 83 dogs without neurological signs, and also in 50 clinically healthy dogs. Among the suspected cases of CD, of 46 dogs with neurological signs and 29 dogs without neurological signs, and which had negative NT titres, 33 (72%) and 19 (66%), respectively, showed positive IP titres. Many suspected cases of CD showed a high IP titre despite a low NT titre. In contrast, among healthy dogs, none of 9 NT-negative dogs showed positive IP titres.The difference in the IP and NT titres (log₁₀ [reciprocal of IP titre] – log₁₀ [reciprocal of NT titre]) was measured to investigate the agreement between IP test and NT. The differences were 1.488±0.867, 1.245±0.833, 0.595±0.351 and 0.594±0.372, respectively, in the suspected cases of CD with neurological signs, the suspected cases of CD without neurological signs, the healthy dogs and the SPF dogs. The differences in the suspected cases of CD were significantly high compared to those for the SPF dogs (p<0.001).Furthermore, in 8 dogs diagnosed as cases of CD from their paired sera, whose initial sera showed a markedly low NT titre compared to the IP titre, 5 dogs without neurological signs developed neurological signs later.These findings suggest that the IP test can detect CD during its early phases and in dogs with low antibody levels, undetectable by NT, and so would be useful for serological diagnosis.  相似文献   

In vitro techniques for genomic alteration in rice plants     

T. Kinoshita  K. Mori 《Euphytica》2001,120(3):367-372

Because of the explosive increase in world population, a sufficient food supply must be achieved by varietal improvement in the major cereal crops including rice. It is expected that new in vitro techniques incombination with conventional breeding methods may effectively raise the yield potential. On the other hand, there are many environmental problems to be solved world-wide such as, global warming, environmental pollution, ecological destruction, reduction in water supplies and so on. Therefore, it is necessary to rapidly develop new varieties for the future combining of higher yield potential with excellent grain quality, and resistance to both biotic and abiotic stresses for the promotion of sustainable agriculture. Although many efforts have been made to introduce useful traits from wild species to cultivated rice via hybridization, it is still difficult to overcome breeding barriers such as cross incompatibility and hybrid sterility and inviability in practical breeding. Now in vitro techniques are going to make it possible to use genetic manipulation and cell culture and fusion techniques to speed up the breeding process. For sustainable agriculture, it is important to utilize the useful genes from alien species. For this purpose, asymmetric protoplast fusions have already been used successfully to transfer disease resistance in Brassica napus. In this experiment, a high level of resistance to the rice blast disease was transferred from wild species through asymmetric fusions. It is also noted that manipulation of cytoplasmic genomes is possible through asymmetric fusions as shown in the induction of new cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS). This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Enzymatic formation of ether linkage producing shoyuflavones from genistein and (+/-)-trans-epoxysuccinic acid     

Kinoshita E  Murakami S  Aishima T 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2000,48(6):2149-2154

The production mechanism of shoyuflavones, conjugated ethers of isoflavones with tartaric acid and isolated from fermented soy sauce, was studied. In the high molecular weight fraction of the culture extract of Aspergillus oryzae, genistein was transformed into shoyuflavone B in the presence of (+/-)-trans-epoxysuccinic acid but not in the low molecular one. Asp. sojae and Asp. tamarii showed high activity similar to Asp. oryzae but none of Asp. niger, Rhizopus oligosporus, and Mucor praini did. The contents of epoxysuccinic acids in the starting materials of soy sauce and the cultures of various Asp. fungi were determined as dimethyl 2-chloro-3-hydroxysuccinate derivatives by GC-MS. Although epoxysuccinic acids were contained in Asp. oryzae, Asp. sojae, and Asp. tamarii cultures, they were not found in soybeans and wheat. A possible producing mechanism for shoyuflavones by enzymatically conjugating isoflavones to (+/-)-trans-epoxysuccinic acid with ether linkage was suggested.  相似文献   

Topnotch, targeted research propels national university     

Kinoshita J 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1995,268(5211):633-634

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Spatial and temporal controls on post-fire hydrologic recovery in Southern California watersheds     

Alicia M. Kinoshita  Terri S. Hogue 《CATENA》2011

The current study investigates the spatial and temporal dynamics of post-fire vegetation and the subsequent influence on seasonal and annual hydrologic responses in chaparral-dominated watersheds. Post-fire climatology, burn severity, slope aspect, and vegetation behavior are evaluated for two basins burned during the 2003 Old Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California. Climate and discharge data are used to evaluate seasonal and annual variability of post-fire hydrologic fluxes. Data obtained from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) are used to estimate Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR). A Savitzky–Golay filtering technique and an integrated EVI annual fraction are utilized to assess vegetation recovery under a range of potential controls. Vegetation recovery is highly variable in both watersheds and is related to slope aspect (solar and water availability), initial biomass levels, and burn severity. South and west facing slopes show higher pre-fire EVI (biomass) and significant loss of vegetation cover after fire. Vegetation in both watersheds responds to an extreme wet season during the second post-fire year, however recovery rates are not sustained. North and east aspects show the quickest biomass gain relative to pre-fire conditions by the end of the study period (WY 2010), while the west and south slopes show lower biomass recovery. High burn severity areas show the slowest recovery across all slope aspects, with these regions just approaching 90% of pre-fire biomass by the end of the seven-year post-fire period. The variable rate of vegetation recovery across the watersheds results in significant changes in annual and seasonal discharge throughout the post-fire period. Runoff ratios remain elevated in both systems and there is increased dry season flow for much of the study period, indicating that plant water consumption and flowpaths are not back to pre-fire behavior by the end of WY 2010.  相似文献   

Development. p73--guilt by association?     

Morrison RS  Kinoshita Y 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2000,289(5477):257-258

It has been assumed that the new members of the p53 protein family, p63 and p73, would have the same job as p53, namely, forcing cells to die if they or their DNA is damaged. Now, as Morrison and Kinoshita explain in their Perspective, one particular form of p73 has been found to be a survival factor rather than a death factor for sympathetic neurons during development (Pozniak et al.).  相似文献   

Retinal capillaries: basement membrane thickening by galactosemia prevented with aldose reductase inhibitor   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

W G Robison  P F Kador  J H Kinoshita 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1983,221(4616):1177-1179

A twofold thickening of capillary basement membranes of rat retinas resulting from dietary galactose was prevented by sorbinil, an inhibitor of aldose reductase. Since the basement membrane thickening was ultrastructurally similar to that typical of diabetic retinopathy, it may indicate changes in vessel permeability and susceptibility to hemorrhage. Galactosemic rats should be useful models for studying basement membrane-related complications of diabetes and for examining the potential biochemical regulation of basement membrane synthesis by aldose reductase inhibitors.  相似文献   

A Science Odyssey PROFILE     

Kinoshita J 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1993,262(5132):354

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Kilauea volcano: the 1967-68 summit eruption     

Kinoshita WT  Koyanagi RY  Wright TL  Fiske RS 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1969,166(3904):459-468

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Genome sequence of Theileria parva, a bovine pathogen that transforms lymphocytes     

Gardner MJ  Bishop R  Shah T  de Villiers EP  Carlton JM  Hall N  Ren Q  Paulsen IT  Pain A  Berriman M  Wilson RJ  Sato S  Ralph SA  Mann DJ  Xiong Z  Shallom SJ  Weidman J  Jiang L  Lynn J  Weaver B  Shoaibi A  Domingo AR  Wasawo D  Crabtree J  Wortman JR  Haas B  Angiuoli SV  Creasy TH  Lu C  Suh B  Silva JC  Utterback TR  Feldblyum TV  Pertea M  Allen J  Nierman WC  Taracha EL  Salzberg SL  White OR  Fitzhugh HA  Morzaria S  Venter JC  Fraser CM  Nene V 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,309(5731):134-137

We report the genome sequence of Theileria parva, an apicomplexan pathogen causing economic losses to smallholder farmers in Africa. The parasite chromosomes exhibit limited conservation of gene synteny with Plasmodium falciparum, and its plastid-like genome represents the first example where all apicoplast genes are encoded on one DNA strand. We tentatively identify proteins that facilitate parasite segregation during host cell cytokinesis and contribute to persistent infection of transformed host cells. Several biosynthetic pathways are incomplete or absent, suggesting substantial metabolic dependence on the host cell. One protein family that may generate parasite antigenic diversity is not telomere-associated.  相似文献