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J Hayashi

Publications and source records attributed to J Hayashi.

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The changes in pattern of myocardial shortening by reduction of regional coronary blood flow.

The relationship between the grade of a decrease in the regional coronary blood flow and the movement of ventricular myocardium of that region was investigated in open chest dog. Blood flow in left anterior descending artery (FLAD) was reduced by stepwise constriction of LAD with ligature. Ventricular segment length was measured in a circumferential plane on the endocardial surface by ultrasonic dimension system. For the elimination of the noise caused by ultrasonic dimension system, the synchronizer was inserted between sample clock of the dimension system and the trigger circuit of the electromagnetic flowmeter. A 20% reduction of FLAD affected the pattern of ischemic myocardial shortening very little. Discontinuance of shortening to the end of systole was occurred by a 20 to 60% reduction in FLAD. Early and/or late systolic bulging was induced by a 60% reduction of FLAD. Systolic bulging with early diastolic shortening was seen in the cases with a 60 to 80% reduction in FLAD. Frank systolic bulging which was always seen by complete occlusion of LAD was produced by a 60 to 90% reduction of FLAD in few cases.

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The functional characteristics conserved in tropomyosins.

1. Tropomyosin, one of the regulatory proteins in muscle contraction, was prepared from chickens, rabbits, frogs, shrimps, and shellfish, and conserved characteristics were studied using an enzymological technique. 2. All tropomyosins tested, irrespective of their sources, were found to have the ability to mediate the inhibitory activity of rabbit troponin toward rabbit Mg2+-activated actomyosin ATPase (Mg2+-ATPase) activity in the absence of Ca2+ ions. 3. The effect of tropomyosin on the Mg2+-ATPase activity in the presence of Ca2+ ions varied, depending on the source, and this variation appeared to reflect the evolutionary course of this protein. 4. Tropomyosin from shellfish adductor muscle had the ability to bind to rabbit skeletal muscle troponin and actin. This ability is also considered to be a basic characteristic of tropomyosin which has been conserved during evolution.

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On the heterogeneity and organ specificity of chicken tropomyosins.

1. Tropomyosins from chicken cardiac, skeletal, and gizzard muscles were each resolved into two subunits by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in a system containing sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS), urea and sodium borate, and were designated C1 C2, S1 S2, and G1 G2, respectively, in descending order of mobility on electrophoresis. S1, S2, G1, and G2 were prepared as pure samples by electrophoresis. 2. The apparent molecular weights of C (C1 + C2), S1, S2, G1, and G2 were calculated to be 36,000, 36,000, 37,500, 36,000, and 40,000, respectively, based on SDS gel electrophoretic mobility according to the method of Weber and Osborn. C and S1 showed nearly the same mobility in all electrophoretic systems tried. S1 and G1, which comigrated in an SDS-sodium borate system, showed different mobilities upon addition of 5 M urea to the system. 3. Immunological evidence presented indicates that each subunit has a specific antigenic site(s) in addition to an identical one(s) in common with the others. 4. As each tropomyosin subunit formed two precipitin lines with the homologous antiserum, as many as ten kinds of subunits may exist in chicken muscles.

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