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3 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

JoVE Journal

Observation and Analysis of Blinking Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering

¹Department of Chemistry, Kwansei Gakuin University

This protocol describes the analysis of blinking surface-enhanced Raman scattering due to the random walk of a single molecule on a silver surface using power laws.

Immunology and Infection

Identification of Mouse and Human Antibody Repertoires by Next-Generation Sequencing

Lin Sun¹, Naoko Kono², Hiroyuki Toh³, Hanbing Xue¹, Kaori Sano^4,5, Tadaki Suzuki⁴, Akira Ainai⁴, Yasuko Orba⁶, Junya Yamagishi^7,8, Hideki Hasegawa^4,5, Yoshimasa Takahashi⁹, Shigeyuki Itamura², Kazuo Ohnishi^9,10

¹Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, ²Center for Influenza Virus Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, ³School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, ⁴Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, ⁵Division of Infectious Diseases Pathology, Department of Global Infectious Diseases, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, ⁶Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, ⁷Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, ⁸Global Station for Zoonosis Control, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University, ⁹Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, ¹⁰Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Here, we describe protocols for the analysis and visualization of the structure and constitution of whole antibody repertoires. This involves the acquisition of vast sequences of antibody RNA using next-generation sequencing.

Behavior

Observing the Transformation of Bodily Self-consciousness in the Squeeze-machine Experiment

Mai Minoura¹, Iori Tani², Takahiro Ishii³, Yukio- Pegio Gunji¹

¹Department of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda University, ²Research Center for Kansei Value Creation, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, ³Department of Occupational Therapy, Teikyo University of Science

The squeeze machine, a V-shaped device that provides pressure along the whole body is used in therapy especially for people with autism. Here, we focus on its possible use in experiments to capture the typical transformations of bodily self-consciousness with peri-personal space measurement.