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Jun Kawakami

Professor, Hirosaki University
Verified email at hirosaki-u.ac.jp
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Prostatitis and prostate cancer: implications for prostate cancer screening

J Kawakami, DR Siemens, JC Nickel - Urology, 2004 - goldjournal.net
Measurement of serum prostate-specific anti-gen (PSA) levels has become the most
important single clinical test in the screening for prostate cancer. The possibility that prostatic …

A highly regioselective cyanothiolation of alkynes via oxidative addition of thiocyanates to tetrakis (triphenylphosphine) palladium (0) catalyst

I Kamiya, J Kawakami, S Yano, A Nomoto… - …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) catalyzes the highly regioselective addition of
phenyl thiocyanate (PhSCN) to terminal alkynes, which attains the simultaneous introduction of …

Phase II study of nitric oxide donor for men with increasing prostate-specific antigen level after surgery or radiotherapy for prostate cancer

DR Siemens, JPW Heaton, MA Adams, J Kawakami… - Urology, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of low-dose glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) on men with
biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer after primary therapy. Preclinical, proof-of-principle …

Risk factors for tear progression in symptomatic rotator cuff tears: a prospective study of 174 shoulders

N Yamamoto, M Mineta, J Kawakami… - … American journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The risk factors for tear progression in symptomatic rotator cuff tears have not
been clarified yet. It is important for orthopaedic surgeons to know the natural course of tear …

Highly Regioselective Hydrothiocarboxylation of Acetylenes with Carbon Monoxide and Thiols Catalyzed by Pt(PPh3)4

A Ogawa, J Kawakami, M Mihara, T Ikeda… - Journal of the …, 1997 - ACS Publications
For the last two decades, the utility of transition metal catalysts for effecting a wide range of
synthetic transformations using heteroatom compounds such as organic silicon, tin, and …

Androgen‐deprivation therapy as primary treatment for localized prostate cancer: data from Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor (CaPSURE)

J Kawakami, JE Cowan, EP Elkin… - … Journal of the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Prostate cancer is largely an androgen‐sensitive disease. Androgen‐deprivation
therapy (ADT) generally has been used for patients with advanced disease. However, …

Pathological upstaging of clinical T1 to pathological T3a renal cell carcinoma: a multi-institutional analysis of short-term outcomes

…, PC Black, L Lacombe, RH Breau, J Kawakami… - Urology, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To determine the oncological impact of pathological upstaging among patients with
clinical T1 (cT1) disease treated by partial nephrectomy or radical nephrectomy. Methods …

Critical shoulder angle in an East Asian population: correlation to the incidence of rotator cuff tear and glenohumeral osteoarthritis

…, T Hatta, N Yamamoto, J Kawakami… - Journal of Shoulder and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Focus has recently been on the critical shoulder angle (CSA) as a factor related
to rotator cuff tear and osteoarthritis (OA) in the European population. However, whether …

Synthesis and properties of hexakis (6-octyl-2-azulenyl) benzene as a multielectron redox system with liquid crystalline behavior

…, C Kabuto, H Mukai, K Ohta, J Kawakami… - The Journal of …, 2005 - ACS Publications
This paper describes the cyclotrimerization reaction of di(2-azulenyl)acetylenes (2a,b)
catalyzed by Co 2 (CO) 8 to produce hexa(2-azulenyl)benzene derivatives (1a,b). The …

[HTML][HTML] Surgical decision making based on the on-track/off-track concept for anterior shoulder instability: a case-control study

T Hatta, N Yamamoto, K Shinagawa, J Kawakami… - JSES Open Access, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The purpose of this study was to assess the clinical outcomes of patients with
anterior shoulder instability who underwent surgical treatment according to the on-track/off-…