We report the first study of sperm whale‐fall ecosystems, based on mass sinking of whale
carcasses at shelf depths in the northwest Pacific. We conducted three observations over a 2‐…

Glomerulosclerosis, a final common lesion of various glomerular diseases, is characterized
by mesangial cell proliferation and extracellular matrix (ECM) expansion. TGF-beta and …

Although dense animal communities at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps rely on symbioses
with chemoautotrophic bacteria [1, 2], knowledge of the mechanisms underlying these …

The “bottom line” of the FDA meeting was that there are insufficient data to infer that any
anesthetic drug poses a unique neurological risk to children. Although such risk may exist, it …

Adaptive radiations present fascinating opportunities for studying the evolutionary process.
Most cases come from isolated lakes or islands, where unoccupied ecological space is filled …

We measured the serum concentration of lidocaine after transversus abdominis plane (TAP)
block with 40 ml of 1% lidocaine in 12 patients under general anesthesia, using a …

Background Since the discovery of deep-sea chemosynthesis-based communities, much
work has been done to clarify their organismal and environmental aspects. However, major …

We have conducted the first phylogenetic study to our knowledge of Zoanthus in the northern
hemisphere by sequencing and analysing the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 …

The bacterial endosymbionts of 3 hydrothermal vent mussels from Japanese waters were
characterized by transmission electron microscopic (TEM) observation and phylogenetic …

Whale carcasses create remarkable habitats in the deep-sea by producing concentrated
sources of organic matter for a food-deprived biota as well as places of evolutionary novelty …