Volume 52, Number 1,2
CONTENTS
February2005

Reviews

Involvement of cathepsins in the invasion, metastasis and proliferation of cancer cells 1
Toshiyuki Nomura, Nobuhiko Katunuma
Background exposure to PCDDs/PCDFs/PCBs and its potential health effects : a review of epidemiologic studiesT 10
Kokichi Arisawa, Hideo Takeda, Hiroaki Mikasa
Living-donor liver transplantation : present status and future perspective 22
Mitsuo Shimada, Masahiko Fujii, Yuji Morine, Satoru Imura, Tetsuya Ikemoto, Hiroki Ishibashi
Originals

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
Resistance to topoisomerase II inhibitors in human glioma cell lines overexpressing multidrug resistant associated protein (MRP) 2 41
Yoshihito Matsumoto, Takashi Tamiya, Seigo Nagao
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
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
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
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
The Tottori-Ken Seibu earthquake and exacerbation of asthma in adults 80
Katsuyuki Tomita, Yasuyuki Hasegawa, MasanariWatanabe, Hiroyuki Sano, Yutaka Hitsuda, Ehiji Shimizu
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
Case reports

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
A case of sarcoidosis accompanying squamous cell carcinoma in the mandibular gingiva 118
Masaki Hanibuchi, Yuka Matsumori, Yasuhiko Nishioka, and Saburo Sone
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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