Volume 47, Number 3,4
CONTENTS
August 2000

Reviews

Genetic and molecular pathogenesis of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia 81
Hiroyuki Azuma
Current status of surgical treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma 91
Shiro Yogita and Seiki Tashiro
Molecular mechanisms of fragile X syndrome 101
Shunsuke B. Inoue, Mikiko C. Siomi and Haruhiko Siomi
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1:from bedside to benchside 108
Katsuhiko Yoshimoto
Secondary hyperparathyroidism and phosphate sensing in parathyroid glands 118
Ken-ichi Miyamoto, Mikiko Ito, Hiroko Segawa and Masashi Kuwahata
Originals

Practice of electroconvulsive therapy at University Hospital, The University of
Tokushima School of Medicine from 1975 to 1997
123
Yasuhito Ishimoto, Akira Imakura and Hiroshi Nakayama
Effect of amino acid mixtures on nasal allergic responses induced by toluene diisocyanate in mice 128
Tzu-Hsiu Chen, Keiko Takeshita, Kentaro Sakai Tatsushi Komatsu,
Yasuo Kishino and Shigeru Yamamoto
Comparison between short-term food restriction and exercise on whole body glucose disposal in high-fat fed rats 138
Sadaichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Muto, Masashi Yokota, Noriko Ishimura,
Yasuharu Niwa, Nagakatsu Harada, Kazuko Okada and Yutaka Nakaya
Case reports

An incident involving blood sucking by a tick in a suburb in Japan 145
Ichiro Shimizu, Hiroaki Mitani, Masayuki Shono, Toshihiro Omoya,
Yoko Musashi, Katsutaka Sannomiya, Masaharu Suzuki, Takahiro Horie,
Hirohito Honda and Susumu Ito
Ovarian fibrothecoma with massive edema 148
Mika Sakaki, Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa, Hidehisa Horiguchi, Shingo Wakatsuki,
Toshiaki Sano and Yoshihiko Izumi
Diffuse intervertebral disk calcification in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis 152
Michihiro Nakamura, Satoshi Shiokawa, Yoshitaka Miyazaki,
Hiroto Kita, Keigo Setoguchi, Kimito Kawahata, Yoshikata Misaki,
Kazuhiko Yamamoto and Junji Nishimura
Hepatocellular carcinoma with extension into the right atrium : report of a successful liver resection
by hepatic vascular exclusion using cardiopulmonary bypass
155
Shiro Yogita, Seiki Tashiro, Masamitsu Harada, Tetsuya Kitagawa and Itsuo Kato
Human pulmonary dirofilariasis presenting as a small nodule with a cavity 161
Takanori Sako, Naoto Burioka, Hisashi Suyama, Youichi Kinugasa,
Masanari Watanabe, Kazumitsu Hirai and Eiji Shimizu
Hepatopulmonary syndrome-discussion of cardiopulmonary parameters 164
Keisuke Miki, Tsutomu Shinohara, Fumitaka Ogushi, Saburo Sone,
Hirotsugu Yamada, Yoshifumi Oishi, Tetsuzo Wakatsuki, Susumu Ito,
Shiro Yogita and Seiki Tashiro

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