Zhongmei Liu   Nobuyuki Kanzawa   Shoichiro Ono   
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 286(39) 34051-34059 2011年9月 [査読有り]
The gelsolin family of actin regulatory proteins is activated by Ca(2+) to sever and cap actin filaments. Gelsolin has six homologous gelsolin-like domains (G1-G6), and Ca(2+)-dependent conformational changes regulate its accessibility to actin. C...
BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 75(1) 20-25 2011年1月 [査読有り]
To understand better the host defense mechanisms of mollusks against pathogens, we examined the antimicrobial activity of mucus from the giant African snail Achatina fulica. Hemagglutination activity of the mucus secreted by the integument of snai...
JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 47(1) 6-10 2011年 [査読有り]
To apply biodegradable calcium-phosphate microspheres as a carrier for drug delivery system (DDS), the hollow HAp and TCP microspheres were prepared by the ultrasonic spray-pyrolysis (USSP) technique. In the present work, we prepared the hollow bi...
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A 94A(3) 937-944 2010年9月
A variety of calcium phosphates have been used for bone tissue-engineering applications. We developed porous hydroxyapatite (HAP) ceramics by firing green compacts consisting of spherical carbon beads and HAP fiber. The apatite-fiber scaffold (AFS...