ConferenceIEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2023
Intratumoral immunotherapy is a promising cancer treatment approach that can initiate durable anti-tumor responses and avoid potential off-target toxicities. However, direct intratumoral injection remains challenging owing to elevated solid stress and inte ...
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ConferenceIEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ius · January 1, 2022
Ultrasound (US) has been recently demonstrated promising in cancer immunotherapy. By virtue of microbubble-mediated cavitation, US can induce temporary pores in the cell membrane to enhance drug/gene delivery and this process is termed sonoporation. Curren ...
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ConferenceBlood · November 5, 2020
Pathologic activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway is an oncogenic driver for many malignancies, including lymphomas1. Although validated as a therapeutic oncologic target, the PI3K signaling pathway is also imp ...
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ConferenceCancer Research · July 1, 2019
AbstractBackground: Previous studies have reported that tumor debris and inflammation made by high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy induced the antitumor immune response, however, HIFU as a monoth ...
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ConferenceCancer Research · July 1, 2019
AbstractBackground: Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an effective local anti-cancer modality applied for the treatment of early stage disease and palliation of advanced disease, and could be used in managing ...
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ConferenceCancer Research · February 15, 2019
AbstractBackground: Immune-based therapy for metastatic breast cancer has had limited success. Strategies to augment adaptive immunity include vaccines targeting genomic amplifications like Human Epidermal G ...
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ConferenceCancer Research · July 1, 2017
AbstractBackground: Early diagnosis of Invasive lobular carcinomas (ILCs) is clinically challenging due to its histopathologic features making it difficult to detect using mammography. Because of the diffuse ...
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ConferenceCancer Research · July 1, 2017
AbstractBackground: Immunotherapy has become an emerging anti-cancer therapy, as immune checkpoint blockade with PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibition have been active against multiple cancer types. Nonetheless, there re ...
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ConferenceCancer Immunology Research · March 1, 2017
AbstractBackground and Hypothesis: While immune checkpoint blockade, in particular PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibition, has revolutionized cancer immunotherapy, a significant number of patients with solid tumors fail t ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of low volume aerobic exercise training on muscle O2 dynamics during exercise in early post-angina pectoris (AP) patients, as a pilot study. Seven AP patients (age: 72 ± 6 years) participated in aerobic e ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2016
The purpose of this study was to elucidate the time course of muscle deoxygenation and its heterogeneity changes through endurance training. Nine healthy untrained male participated in this study. The subjects performed a ramp incremental cycle exercise pr ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2016
Muscle O2 dynamics during ramp cycling exercise were compared between angina pectoris patients (AP; n = 7, age: 73 ± 6 years) after coronary artery bypass grafting and age-, height-, and body weight-matched elderly control subjects (CON; n = 7, age: 74 ± 8 ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2016
An increase in the incidence rate of cardiovascular disease is attributed to high daily sitting time, while a drop in risk of cardiovascular disease comes from a decrease in daily sitting time, rather than an increase in physical activity levels. Although ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2016
Aging enhances muscle desaturation responses due to reduced O2 supply. Even though aerobic training enhances muscle desaturation responses in young subjects, it is unclear whether the same is true in elderly subjects. Ten elderly women (age: 62±4 years) pa ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2016
Muscle O2 dynamics during ramp cycling exercise were compared between aerobic capacity-matched elderly men (n=8, age 65±2 years) and women (n=8, age 66±3 years). Muscle O2 saturation (SmO2) and relative change in deoxygenated (Δdeoxy-Hb) and total hemoglob ...
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ConferenceMolecular Cancer Therapeutics · November 1, 2013
AbstractHsp90 inhibitors have demonstrated unusual selectivity for tumor cells despite its ubiquitous expression. This phenomenon has remained unexplained but could be influenced by ectopically expressed Hsp ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2013
Recently, deoxygenated hemoglobin (HHb) has been used as one of the most popular indicators of muscle O2 extraction during exercise in the field of exercise physiology. However, HHb may not sufficiently represent muscle O2 extraction, as total hemoglobin ( ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2013
We compared muscle oxygen saturation (SmO2) responses in several leg muscles and within a single muscle during ramp cycling exercise between elderly men (n = 8; age, 65 ± 3 years; ELD) and young men (n = 10; age, 23 ± 3 years; YNG). SmO2 was monitored at t ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2013
To examine the hypothesis that the relationship between minute ventilation (VE) and deoxygenation from the intercostal space (IC) would be steady regardless of exercise protocols, if an increase in O2 consumption of the accessory respiratory muscles with a ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · February 1, 2011
429 Background: Genomic profiling has improved our understanding of the underlying biology of tumors, accuracy of diagnosing disease, predictions of the courses of disease, and ability to determine the therapeutic agents that wil ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2010
We evaluated arterial blood flow, muscle tissue oxygenation and muscle metabolism in the non-exercising limb during leg cycling exercise. Ten healthy male volunteers performed a graded leg cycling exercise at 0, 40, 80, 120 and 160 watts (W) for 5 min each ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in muscle oxygen saturation (SmO(2)) level and its heterogeneity after 6 weeks of endurance training using multi-channel near infrared spatially resolved spectroscopy (NIR(SRS)). Nine healthy subjects pa ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2010
This study investigated heterogeneity of muscle O(2) consumption (diffusive m-VO(2)) and muscle oxygenation difference (m-O(2) difference) within the forearm flexor muscles using multi-optical fibers near-infrared continuous wave spectroscopy (NIRcws) duri ...
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ConferenceJapanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine · January 1, 2006
The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects of bicycle ergometer training and prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) for patients with intermittent claudication. Subjects were divided into four groups: the medication group (M), the PGE ...
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ConferenceJapanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine · January 1, 2006
We evaluated regional differences of muscle O2 dynamics between distal and proximal sites in the vastus lateralis (VL) muscle using near infrared spatial resolved spectroscopy (NIRSRS). forty-one male subjects performed a 30 W ramp in ...
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ConferenceJapanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine · January 1, 2006
The purpose of this study was to determine the age and habitual physical activity on re-oxygenation time in working muscles following maximal cycling exercise (CycEXmax). Twelve sedentary middle-aged (50±6), 13 sedentary elderly (66±3), 13 active middle-ag ...
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ConferenceJapanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine · January 1, 2006
The aim of the present study is to clarify the improvement of peripheral muscle oxygen consumption after successful renal transplantation. We investigated change of forearm (brachioradial muscle) muscular oxygen consumption in chronic renal failure childre ...
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ConferenceOptical Review · January 1, 2003
The forearm muscles of five healthy males were monitored for changes in microvessel hemoglobin saturation (SO2TRS) by near infrared time-resolved spectroscopy (NIRTRS) and changes in phosphorus metabolites by magnetic resonance spectr ...
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ConferenceAdv Exp Med Biol · 2003
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the reoxygenation rate (Reoxy-rate) immediately after static exercise at various submaximal intensities would be related to muscle oxidative capacity. Seven healthy male subjects performed isometric handgr ...
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ConferenceProceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · December 1, 1997
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between histochemical characteristics obtained from the gastrocnemius and changes in muscle energetics. Muscle oxygenation was determined by near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), and phosphocreatine (P ...
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