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                  | Reviews 
 
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                  | Involvement of cathepsins in the invasion, metastasis and proliferation of cancer cells | 1 |   
                  | Toshiyuki Nomura, Nobuhiko Katunuma |   
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                  | Background exposure to PCDDs/PCDFs/PCBs and its potential health effects : a review of
epidemiologic studiesT | 10 |   
                  | Kokichi Arisawa, Hideo Takeda, Hiroaki Mikasa |   
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                  | Living-donor liver transplantation : present status and future perspective | 22 |   
                  | Mitsuo Shimada, Masahiko Fujii, Yuji Morine, Satoru Imura, Tetsuya Ikemoto, Hiroki Ishibashi |   
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                  | Originals 
 
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                  | Overweight is associated with allergy in school children of Taiwan and Vietnam but not Japan | 33 |   
                  | Amalia Veronica Irei, Yuki Sato, Tzu-Li Lin, Ming-FuWang, Yin-Ching Chan, Nguyen Thi KimHung,
Daisuke Kunii, Tohru Sakai, Masayo Kaneda, Shigeru Yamamo |   
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                  | Resistance to topoisomerase II inhibitors in human glioma cell lines overexpressing multidrug
resistant associated protein (MRP) 2 | 41 |   
                  | Yoshihito Matsumoto, Takashi Tamiya, Seigo Nagao |   
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                  | Findings of brain 99mTc-ECD SPECT in high-functioning autism - 3-dimensional stereotactic
ROI template analysis of brain SPECT - | 49 |   
                  | Hiromichi Ito, Kenji Mori, Toshiaki Hashimoto, Masahito Miyazaki, Ayuko Hori, Shoji Kagami,
Yasuhiro Kuroda |   
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                  | No association of the Trp 64 Arg mutation of theβ3-adrenergic receptor gene with obesity, type 2
diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension in Japanese patients with schizophrenia | 57 |   
                  | Takamasa Nagano, Yukihiko Matsuda, Tetsuya Tanioka, Takaoki Yoshioka, Tadashi Hiroi,
Kenichi Yoshikawa, Ken-ichiro Okabe, Kyoko Osaka, Isao Nagamine, Yoichiro Takasaka |   
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                  | Inhibitory effects of asiatic acid and CPT-11 on growth of HT-29 cells | 65 |   
                  | Piyawan Bunpo, Keiko Kataoka, Hideki Arimochi, Haruyuki Nakayama, Tomomi Kuwahara,
Usanee Vinitketkumnuen, Yoshinari Ohnishi |   
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                  | Lower axillary dissection in breast cancer surgery may be candidate for cases with early
breast cancer | 74 |   
                  | Masatsugu Takehisa, Taeko Nagao, Mitsuteru Yoshida, Toshiyuki Hirose, Aiichiro Kajikawa,
Mitsunori Sasa, Akira Tangoku |   
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                  | The Tottori-Ken Seibu earthquake and exacerbation of asthma in adults | 80 |   
                  | Katsuyuki Tomita, Yasuyuki Hasegawa, MasanariWatanabe, Hiroyuki Sano, Yutaka Hitsuda,
Ehiji Shimizu |   
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                  | Elevation of macrophage-derived chemokine in eosinophilic pneumonia : a role of alveolar
macrophages | 85 |   
                  | Kazuyoshi Manabe, Yasuhiko Nishioka, Jun Kishi,Mami Inayama, Yoshinori Aono, Yoichi Nakamura,
Fumitaka Ogushi, Hiroyasu Bando, Kenji Tani, Saburo Sone |   
                  |  |  The significance of cathepsins, thrombin and aminopeptidase in diffuse interstitial lung diseases | 93 |  
                  | Makoto Kimura, Kenji Tani, Junya Miyata, Keiko Sato, Akihito Hayashi, Shinsaku Otsuka,
Tomoyuki Urata, Saburo Sone |   
                  |  |  Simultaneous detection of Bacteroides fragilis group species by leuB -directed PCR | 101 |  
                  | Tsuyoshi Miki, Tomomi Kuwahara, Haruyuki Nakayama, Natsumi Okada, Keiko Kataoka,
Hideki Arimochi, Yoshinari Ohnishi |   
                  |  |  Fine mapping of the hyperglycemic and obesity QTL by congenic strains suggests multiple
loci on rat chromosome 14 | 109 |  
                  | Masuda Akhi, Hiroyuki Kose, Kozo Matsumoto |   
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                  | Case reports 
 
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                  | Two cases of retroperitoneal hematoma caused by combination of anticoagulant therapy and
5-fluorouracil | 114 |   
                  | Naomi Morita, Kennichi Kashihara, Hiroshi Tagashira, Hideki Otsuka, Kazuhide Yoneda,
Tomoya Murase, Tetsuya Tsujikawa, Syunnsuke Furutani, Kaori Furutani, Masako Minato,
Hiromu Nishitani |   
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                  | A case of sarcoidosis accompanying squamous cell carcinoma in the mandibular gingiva | 118 |   
                  | Masaki Hanibuchi, Yuka Matsumori, Yasuhiko Nishioka, and Saburo Sone |   
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                  | A patient with octopus pot-shaped cardial cancer that metastasized to multiple organs | 122 |   
                  | Tatsuhiko Shiraishi, Ichiro Shimizu, Takahiro Horie, Michiyo Okazaki, Momoko Teraoka,
Kazunori Takeichi, Kouzou Uehara, Kensuke Fujiwara, Soichiro Fujiwara, Hirofumi Yamamoto,
Arata Iuchi, Shingo Wakatsuki, Susumu Ito |   
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