Volume 55, Number 1,2
CONTENTS
February 2008

Reviews

Vitamin A and sleep regulation 1
Hiroyoshi Sei
Regulation of epithelial cell adhesion and repulsion : roleof endocytic recycling 9
Noriyuki Nishimura and Takuya Sasaki
Optimal therapy for thymoma 17
Kazuya Kondo
Originals

Longitudinal analysis of low-molecular weight fluorophores in type 1 diabetes mellitus 29
Andrzej S Januszewski, Merlin C Thomas, Connie S Karschimkus,Jasmine S Chung, Kevin G Rowley,
Craig L Nelson, David N O’Neal,George Dragicevic, Colin A Harper, James D Best, and Alicia J Jenkins
Effect of mediastinal lymph nodes sampling in patientswith clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer 37
Hiromitsu Takizawa, Kazuya Kondo, Hisashi Matsuoka, Koh Uyama,Hiroaki Toba, Koichiro Kenzaki,
Shoji Sakiyama, Akira Tangoku,Kazumasa Miura, Kiyoshi Yoshizawa, and Junji Morita
Determination of the side-separated pulmonary right-to-left shunt volume 44
Thomas Lesser, Harald Schubert, and Stephan Klinzing
Transconjunctival sutureless 25-gauge vitrectomy with newly designed microcannulas 51
Takeshi Naito
Thymidine phosphorylase and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase are predictive factors of therapeutic efficacy of capecitabine monotherapy for breast cancer-preliminary results 54
Junko Honda, Mitsunori Sasa, Takuya Moriya, Yoshimi Bando, Toshiyuki Hirose, Masako Takahashi,
Taeko Nagao, and Akira Tangoku
NO-1886, a lipoprotein lipase activator, attenuates contraction of rat intestinal ring preparations cells 61
Qishisan Wu, Nagakatsu Harada, Aki Nakamura, Masaki Yoshida, Kazuaki Mawatari,
Atsushi Hattori, Qinkai Li, Takaaki Shimohata, Yinhua, Xin Lian, Masayuki Nakano, Toshio Hosaka,
Akira Takahashi, and Yutaka Nakaya
Effects of lifestyle habits and eating meals together with the family on the prevalence of obesity among school children in Tokushima, Japan : a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey 71
Kyoko Yuasa, Masako Sei, Eiji Takeda, Ashraf A. Ewis, Hokuma Munakata, Chiemi Onishi,
and Yutaka Nakahori
Prognostic significance of HIF-2 expression on tumor infiltrating macrophages in patients with uterine cervical cancer undergoing radiotherapy 78
Takashi Kawanaka, Akiko Kubo, Hitoshi Ikushima, Toshiaki Sano, Yoshihiro Takegawa,
and Hiromu Nishitani
Sp6 downregulation of follistatin gene expression in ameloblasts 87
Intan Ruspita, Keiko Miyoshi, Taro Muto, Kaori Abe, Taigo Horiguchi, andTakafumi Noma
Can Kampo therapy prolong the life of cancer patients? 99
Yoshihiro Takegawa, Hitoshi Ikushima, Kyousuke Ozaki, Shunsuke Furutani,
Takashi Kawanaka, Takaharu Kudoh, and Masafumi Harada
Prognostic significance of serum hepatocyte growth factor in clear cell renal cell carcinoma : comparison with serum vascular endothelial growth factor activity 106
Shuji Tanimoto, Tomoharu Fukumori, Gad El-Moula, Avirmed Shiirevnyamba,
Shinichiro Kinouchi, Takahiro Koizumi, Ryoichi Nakanishi, Yasuyo Yamamoto, Ryuichi Taue,
KunihisaYamaguchi, Hiroyoshi Nakatsuji, Tomoteru Kishimoto, Hirofumi Izaki, Natsuo Oka,
Masayuki Takahashi, and Hiro-omi Kanayama
Observations on the occurrence of exacerbations in clinical course of systemic lupus erythematosus 112
Reiko Tomioka, Kenji Tani, Keiko Sato, Chiyuki Suzuka, Yuko Toyoda, Jun Kishi, and Saburo Sone
Analyses of the characteristics of potential and cross-talk at each electrode in electro-oculogram 120
Kayo Shinomiya, Nobuyuki Itsuki, Masanori Kubo, and Hiroshi Shiota
Serum level of galectin-3 in human bladder cancer 127
Manabu Sakaki, Natsuo Oka, Ryoichi Nakanishi, Kunihisa Yamaguchi, Tomoharu Fukumori,
and Hiro-omi Kanayama
Opposing effects of estradiol and progesterone on the oxidative stress-induced production of chemokine and proinflammatory cytokines in murine peritoneal macrophages 133
Huiwei Huang, Jianghong He, Ying Yuan, Eriko Aoyagi, Hidetaka Takenaka, Tatuzo Itagaki,
Katsutaka Sannomiya, Katsuyoshi Tamaki, Nagakatsu Harada, Masayuki Shono, Ichiro Shimizu*,
and Tetsuji Takayama
Case reports

An autopsy case of rapid progressive atypical carcinoid of the lung discovered with multiple nodular shadows 142
Yoshio Okano, Mami Inayama, Nobuo Hatakeyama, Hiroyuki Hino, Yoshito Iwahara, Tokuji Motoki,
Keishi Naruse, Yoshio Yokota, and Fumitaka Ogushi
Laparoscopy and intersex : report of 5 cases of male pseudohermaphroditism 147
Mohamed Gad El-Moula, Hirofumi Izaki, Fathy El-Anany, Alaa Abd El-Moneim,
Abd El-Moneim El-Haggagy, Yasser Abdelsalam, Ahmad Abolyosr, Tomoteru Kishimoto, Natsuo Oka,
Masayuki Takahashi, Tomoharu Fukumori, and Hiro-omi Kanayama
A rare case of choroidal hemorrhage complicated with hypertension due to chronic renal failure 151
Tomoyuki Tajika, Hideaki Yokozeki, Katsuo Ishimaru, Takeshi Naito, and Hiroshi Shiota
Problems in three Japanese drug users with Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection 156
Takeshi Kuwahara, Takahiro Nakakura, Sachiko Oda, Masahiko Mori, Tomoko Uehira,
Gaku Okamoto, Munehiro Yoshino, Atsushi Sasakawa, Keishiro Yajima, Aiko Umemoto,
Kiyonori Takada, Toshio Makie, and Yoshihiko Yamamoto
Cholangiolocellular carcinoma containing hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocellular carcinoma, extremely rare tumor of the liver : a case report 161
Mami Kanamoto, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Toru Ikegami, Satoru Imura, Yuji Morine,
Tetsuya Ikemoto, Nobuya Sano, and Mitsuo Shimada

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