Makoto Ubukata

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of guidelines for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macro-autophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, an assay for the Maillard reaction has been developed to screen efficiently inhibitors from natural resources such as extracts of plants, where fluorometric analysis of fluorescent material based on advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) was applied to measurement of an inhibitory index of the maillard reaction to detect all the inhibitors at each step of the complicated reaction.

TL;DR: A novel phospholipid antibiotic is found which accumulates within (or associates with) the cells of Bacillus subtilis 168 and the structure was determined by nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry analyses, which demonstrated antimicrobial activity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Maillard reaction inhibitor is characterized by containing the extract of a plant selected from the group consisting of Thujopsis dolabrata, Uncaria gambir Roxburgh, Reynoutria japonica, Pyrola japanica Klenze, Prunus armeniaca, Celosia cristata L., Mucuna birdwoodiana Tutcher, Betula pendula L., Crataegus oxyacantha L., Achilleamillefolium L., Ilex latifolia Thunb, H