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Y Kameda

Publications and source records attributed to Y Kameda.

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An anomalous muscle (accessory subscapularis-teres-latissimus muscle) in the axilla penetrating the brachial plexus in man.

An anomalous muscle passing through the brachial plexus was found in 10 cases out of 380 sides of 190 human cadavers in the dissection course. The muscle was designated as 'accessory subscapularis-teres-latissimus muscle'. This muscle arose near the lateral margin of the scapula, either from the surface of the subscapularis muscle or from the border of the quadrangular terminal tendon of the latissimus dorsi or from both of those sources when the muscle was divided into two heads. It ran obliquely upward to fuse with the insertion of the subscapularis. The largest anomaly was 2.5 cm in width and 7 cm in length. This muscle could be classified into three types on the basis of its nerve supply and its relation to the brachial plexus. The type I muscle crossed over the axillary and lower subscapular nerves, behind the radial nerve and was innervated by the lower subscapular nerves. The type II musclepenetrated the brachial plexus separating the radial nerve into two roots; the upper from the posterior division of the upper trunk and the lower from the posterior divisions of the middle and lower trunks. The type II muscle was supplied by a branch of the radial nerve, which originated always at the same level as the origin of the thoracodorsal nerve. The type III muscle passed through the further more ventrocaudal level of the plexus; in one case it divided the radial nerve into an upper root from the posterior divisions of the upper and middle trunks and a lower root from the lower trunk, and, in another case, into an upper main root from all the three trunks and a lower slender root from the lower trunk. The type III muscle was supplied by branches from the radial and in addition from the thoracodorsal nerve in one case. In four out of ten cases, the subscapular or thoracodorsal artery also passed posterior to the anomalous muscle. A discussion was made on the nature of the anomalous muscle.

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Microbial transformation of validamycins.

Alpha- or beta-Glucosidic linkage of validamycin was selectively cleaved by microbial hydrolysis and especially the conversion of validamycin C into validamycin A by the selective hydrolysis of alpha-glucoside linkage has important significance because validamycin C is considerably less active than validamycin A. Semisyntheses of validamycins including a new validamycin, beta-D-galactosyl-validoxylamine A were carried out by microbial transglycosidation using validoxylamine A as a glycosyl acceptor. D-[U-14C]glucose and [14C]validoxylamine A were highly incorporated into validamycin A by validamycin-producing Streptomyces hygroscopicus var. limoneus.

Aminoglycosides↗