Volume 52, Number 3,4
CONTENTS
August2005

Reviews

Dynamics of nucleotide metabolism as a supporter of life phenomena 127
Takafumi Noma
Gene expression profiling in peripheral blood leukocytes as a new approach for assessment
of human stress response
137
Kazuhito Rokutan, Kyoko Morita, Kiyoshi Masuda, Kumiko Tominaga, Michiyo Shikishima,
Shigetada Teshima-Kondo, Tetsuro Omori, Atsuo Sekiyama
Originals

Antimutagenicity and DT-diaphorase inducing activity of Gynostemma pentaphyllum Makino
extract
145
Chollada Kulwat, Nirush Lertprasertsuke, Pranee Leechanachai, Prachya Kongtawelert,
Usanee Vinitketkumnuen
Matrix metalloproteinase 2 and 9 expression correlated with cavernous sinus invasion of
pituitary adenomas
151
Weiping Liu, Yoshihito Matsumoto, Masaki Okada, Keisuke Miyake, Katsuzo Kunishio,
Nobuyuki Kawai, Takashi Tamiya, Seigo Nagao
Postprandial blood glucose and insulin responses to pre-germinated brown rice in healthy
subjects
159
Yukihiko Ito, Aya Mizukuchi, Mitsuo Kise, Hiromichi Aoto, Shigeru Yamamoto, Rie Yoshihara,
Jyunichi Yokoyama
Relationship between the type of urinary incontinence and falls among frail elderly women
in Japan
165
Kotaro Takazawa, Kokichi Arisawa
Effect of anti-immunoglobulin antibodies provides new insights into immune response to HCV
172
Medhat Haroun
Minute distance obtained from pulmonary venous flow velocity using transesophageal pulsed
Doppler echocardiography is related to cardiac output during cardiovascular surgery
178
Mikiko Inatsugi, Katsuya Tanaka, Hiroshi Kitahata, Junpei Nozaki, Shinji Kawahito, Shuzo Oshita
Regional changes of fractional anisotropy with normal aging using Statistical Parametric
Mapping (SPM)
186
Kaori Furutani, Masafumi Harada, Masako Minato, Naomi Morita, Hiromu Nishitani
Histological and immunohistochemical study of composite neuroendocrine-exocrine carcinomas
of the stomach
191
Nasim Rayhan, Toshiaki Sano, Zhi Rong Qian, Abdul Kader Obari, Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa
Case reports

A patient with adult extrahepatic portal obstruction, of which distinction from intrahepatic
cholangiocarcinoma was difficult
203
Takahiro Horie, Ichiro Shimizu, MichiyoOkazaki, Kensuke Fujiwara, Soichiro Fujiwara, Koji Yamamoto,
Arata Iuchi, Akihito Tanagami, Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa, Susumu Ito
Photodynamic therapy for submucosal tumor of the central bronchus 208
Kazuya Kondo, Takanori Miyoshi, Hiromitsu Takizawa, Koichiro Kenzaki, Shoji Sakiyama,
Akira Tangoku
Balloon occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration and percutaneous transhepatic
obliteration for ruptured duodenal varices after operation for rectal cancer with multiple
liver metastasis
212
Kazuhito Takamura, Hidenori Miyake, Hiroki Mori, Yoshiyasu Terashima, Tsutomu Ando,
Masahiko Fujii, Seiki Tashiro, Mitsuo Shimada
Multiple hepatic angiomyolipomas with a solitary omental angiomyolipoma 218
Kazuhito Takamura, Hidenori Miyake, Masahiko Fujii, Masaharu Nishi, Seiki Tashiro,
Mitsuo Shimada

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