Volume 54, Number 1,2
CONTENTS
February2007

Review

Current status of sentinel lymph node navigation surgery in breast and gastrointestinal tract 1
Akira Tangoku, Junichi Seike, Kiichiro Nakano, Taeko Nagao, Junko Honda, Takahiro Yoshida, Hiromichi Yamai, Hisashi Matsuoka, Kou Uyama, Masakazu Goto, Takanori Miyoshi,Tadaoki Morimoto
Originals

Angiotensin II inhibits insulin-induced actin stress fiber formation and glucose uptake via ERK 1/2 19
Hossein Nazari, Akira Takahashi, Nagakatsu Harada, Kazuaki Mawatari, Masayuki Nakano, Kazuhiro Kishi, Yousuke Ebina, Yutaka Nakaya
Double radiofrequency ablation is more extensive with a spherical zone shape compared to single ablation in a pig liver model 28
Atsuo Oshio, Katsuyoshi Tamaki, Ichiro Shimizu, Hiroshi Fukuno, Mari Urata, Susumu Ito, Nobuya Sano
Differences of therapeutic effects on regional bone mineral density and markers of bone mineral metabolism between alendronate and alfacalcidol in Japanese osteoporotic women 35
Shinjiro Takata, Aziz Abbaspour, Hiroshi Yonezu, Natsuo Yasui
Relationship between mucin expression and preoperative bile juice cytology in biliary tract carcinoma 41
Yoshitaka Imoto, Naoki Muguruma, Tetsuo Kimura, Eriko Aoyagi, Koichi Okamoto, Seisuke Okamura, Susumu Ito, Nobuya Sano, Mitsuo Shimada
Influence of an artificial pleural effusion technique on cardio-pulmonary function and autonomic activity 48
Hiroshi Fukuno, Katsuyoshi Tamaki, Mari Urata, Nao Kohno, Ichiro Shimizu, Masahiro Nomura, Susumu Ito, Ken Saito
Target-organ specificity of autoimmunity is modified by thymic stroma and bone marrowderived cells 54
Hongwei Han
Evaluation of serum amylase and gabexate mesilate with endoscopic papillary balloon dilatation 65
Yasunori Sato, Seisuke Okamura, Masahiko Nakasono, Rika Aoki, Jiro Nakamoto, Naoki Muguruma, Susumu Ito A. Satter
Accurate estimation of regional and global cardiac function in old myocardial infarction patients by multidetector-row computed tomography 72
Koji Yamaguchi, Masahiro Nomura, Tetsuya Tsujikawa, Kunihiko Koshiba, Susumu Ito
Gastric mucosal levels of prostaglandins and leukotrienes in patients with gastric ulcer after treatment with rabeprazole in comparison to treatment with ranitidine 83
Michiyo Okazaki, Ichiro Shimizu, Momoko Ishikawa, Soichiro Fujiwara, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Tatsuhiko Shiraishi, Takahiro Horie, Arata Iuchi, Susumu Ito
Effects of single administration of Rokumi-gan (TJ-87) on serum amino acid concentration of 6 healthy Japanese male volunteers 91
Hideo Takahashi, Reiko Nakao, Katsuya Hirasaka, Kyoichi Kishi, Takeshi Nikawa
Clinicopathological evaluation of biological behavior of submucosal invasive gastric carcinomas : relationship among lymph node metastasis, mucin phenotype and proliferative activity 99
Jiro Nakamoto, Ryusuke Torisu, Rika Aoki, Yoshitaka Kimura, Mitsugi Yasuda, Kunihiko Shiota, Yousuke Yamamoto, Susumu Ito
Mechanism of ST segment depression during exercise tests in patients with liver cirrhosis 109
Toshifumi Mori, Masahiro Nomura, Ayuko Hori, Noriyasu Kondo, Shigenobu Bando, Susumu Ito
Visualization of cardiac dipole using a current density map : detection of cardiac current undetectable by electrocardiography using magnetocardiography 116
Hiroyuki Ikefuji, Masahiro Nomura, Yutaka Nakaya, Toshifumi Mori, Noriyasu Kondo, Kiyoshi Ieishi, Sayuri Fujimoto, Susumu Ito
Historical changes of hospitalization in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma considering for clinical path preparation 124
Hirohiko Shinomiya, Hiroshi Shibata, Katuyoshi Tamaki, Hiroshi Fukuno, Akemi Tsutsui, Ichiro Shimizu, Susumu Ito
Correlation of month and season of birth with height, weight and degree of obesity of rural Japanese children 133
Hisako Tanaka, Masako Sei, Tran Quang Binh, Hokuma Munakata, Kyoko Yuasa, Yutaka Nakahori
Evaluation of stress reactions during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in elderly patients : assessment of mental stress using chromogranin A 140
Sayuri Fujimoto, Masahiro Nomura, Miyako Niki, Hideki Motoba, Kiyoshi Ieishi, Toshifumi Mori, Hiroyuki Ikefuji, Susumu Ito
Levels of soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 are elevated in the exudative pleural effusions 146
Hideki Tomimoto, Seiji Yano, Hiroaki Muguruma, Soji Kakiuchi, Saburo Sone
Generation and characterization of APOBEC3G-positive 293T cells for HIV-1 Vif study 154
Ahmad Piroozmand, Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Boonruang Khamsri, Mikako Fujita, Tsuneo Uchiyama, Akio Adachi
Relationship between lymph node metastasis and E-cadherin expression in submucosal invasive gastric carcinomas with gastric-phenotype 159
Rika Aoki, Mitsugi Yasuda, Ryusuke Torisu, Jiro Nakamoto, Yosuke Yamamoto, Susumu Ito
Relationships between insulin resistance, blood glucose levels and gastric motility : an electrogastrography and external ultrasonography study 168
Masako Kaji, Masahiro Nomura, Yoshiyuki Tamura, Susumu Ito
The effect of G-CSF in a myocardial ischemia reperfusion model rat 177
Kiyoshi Ieishi, Masahiro Nomura, Tomohito Kawano, Sayuri Fujimoto, Hiroyuki Ikefuji, Yoshiko Noda, Akiyoshi Nishikado, Susumu Ito
Case reports

A successful transatrial repair in redo surgery of postinfarction inferoposterior ventricular septal rupture 184
Takashi Tominaga, Hirotsugu Kurobe, Tamotsu Kanbara, Takeyuki Kanemura, Takashi Kitaichi, Tetsuya Kitagawa
Two cases of bronchogenic cyst with severe adhesion to the trachea 187
Mitsuteru Yoshida, Kazuya Kondo, Hiroaki Toba, Koichirou Kenzaki, Shoji Sakiyama, Akira Tangoku
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Rie Tanioka, Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Mio Sakai, Toshio Makie, Masahiko Mori, Tomoko Uehira, Takuma Shirasaka

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