Volume 44, Number 1,2
CONTENTS
February 1997

Reviews

Follistatin and its role as an activin-binding protein 1
Hiromu Sugino, Kishiko ugino, Osamu Hashimoto, Hiroki Shoji and Takanori Nakamura
Tumor suppressor genes in human lung cancer 15
Eiji Shimizu and Saburo Sone
Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; an update 25
Tsutomu Watanabe, Yoichi Takaue and Yoshifumi Kawano
Originals

Cathepsin B-inhibitor promotes the development of Th1type protective T cells in mice infected with Leishmania major 33
Yoichi Maekawa, Kunisuke Himeno and Nobuhiko Katunuma
Visual evoked potential and electroencephalogram of healthy females during the menstrual cycle 41
Yasuhiro Kaneda, Takumi Ikuta, Hiroshi Nakayama, Kouichi Kagawa and Noriko Furuta
Bile-induced DNA strand breaks and biochemical analysis of bile acids in
an experimental model of anomalous arrangement of the pancreaticobiliary ducts
47
Katsuhiro Masamune, Kazufumi Kunitomo, Kenji Sasaki, Keiko Yagi,
Nobuhiko Komi and Seiki Tashiro
Interleukin-8in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of patients with diffuse panbronchiolitis or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis 53
Fumitaka Ogushi, Kenji Tani, Koji Maniwa, Waka Ichikawa, Hiroya Tada,
Tetsuya Kawano and Saburo Sone
Thrombin stimulates platelet-derived growth factor release by alveolar macrophages
in rats -significance in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis-
59
Kenji Tani, Fumitaka Ogushi, Hiroko Takahashi, Tetsuya Kawano,
Takeshi Endo and Saburo Sone
Comparison of energy metabolism in Insulin-Dependent and Non-Insulin-Dependent diabetes mellitus 67
Kazumi Takata, Noriko Chiba, Mariko Tawara, Hisami Yamanaka,
Emi Syuto, Ken-ichi Miyamoto, Ichiro Yokota, Junko Matsuda,
Yasuhiro Kuroda and Eiji Takeda
Effect of K+ channel openers on K+ channel in cultured human dermal papilla cells 73
Hiroyasu Hamaoka, Kazuo Minakuchi, Hirokazu Miyoshi, Seiji Arase,
Chun-He Chen and Yutaka Nakaya
Effect of evodiamine on catecholamine secretion from bovine adrenal medulla 79
Masanori Yoshizumi, Hitoshi Houchi, Yasuko Ishimura, Masao Hirose,
Tetsuya Kitagawa, Koichiro Tsuchiya, Kazuo Minakuchi, and Toshiaki Tamaki
Estimation of free calcium levels after thyroidectomy 83
Hitoshi Miki, Hiroyuki Inoue, Masayo Kitaichi, Eitaro Masuda,
Kansei Komaki and Yasumasa Monden
Age-related increase of autoantibodies to interleukin1 α in healthy Japanese blood donors 89
Yasukazu Ohmoto, Fumitaka Ogushi, Masahiro Muraguchi,
Mayumi Yamakawa and Saburo Sone
Case reports

Two siblings with vitamin B6-nonresponsive cystathionine β-synthase deficiency and differing blood
methionine levels during the neonatal period
95
Toshiyuki Watanabe, Michinori Ito, Etsuo Naito, Ichiro Yokota,
Junko Matsuda and Yasuhiro Kuroda
Immunological functions of adult T cell leukemia cells of a patient complicated with synchronous
double primary gynecologic cancer
99
Takeshi Kato, Hiroyuki Furumoto, Masaharu Kamada, Masato Nishimura,
Masumi Katsura, Minoru Irahara and Toshihiro Aono
A case of episodic angioedema associated with eosinophilia 103
Takanori Shikiji, Yoshio Urano, Hirotsugu Takiwaki and Seiji Arase

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