Volume 58, Number 3,4
CONTENTS
August 2011

Review

Quality of life and its predictors in people with schizophrenia 167
Masahito Tomotake
Originals

Using the MDCT thick slab MinIP method for the follow-up of pulmonary emphysema 175
Hai Lan, Hiromu Nishitani, Sadamitsu Nishihara, Junji Ueno, Shoichiro Takao, Seiji Iwamoto, Takashi Kawanaka,
Mawlan Mahmut, Si Qingge
Skipping of an alternative intron in the srsf1 3' untranslated region increases transcript stability 180
Yoko Akaike, Ken Kurokawa, Keisuke Kajita, Yuki Kuwano, Kiyoshi Masuda, Kensei Nishida, Seung Wan Kang,
Toshihito Tanahashi, Kazuhito Rokutan
CCN6 as a profibrotic mediator that stimulates the proliferation of lung fibroblasts via the integrin 1/focal adhesion
kinase pathway
188
Rentsenkhand Batmunkh, Yasuhiko Nishioka, Yoshinori Aono, Momoyo Azuma, Katsuhiro Kinoshita, Jun Kishi,
Hideki Makino, Masami Kishi, Akio Takezaki, Saburo Sone
Mineral to matrix ratio determines biomaterial and biomechanical properties of rat femur -application of Fourier
transform infrared spectroscopy-
197
Shinjiro Takata, Hiroshi Yonezu, Akira Shibata, Tetsuya Enishi, Nori Sato, Mitsuhiko Takahashi, Shigetaka Nakao,
Koji Komatsu, Natsuo Yasui
Dietary zinc intake and its effects on zinc nutrition in healthy Japanese living in the central area of Japan 203
Nobuko Sarukura, Miho Kogirima, Shinji Takai, Yoshiaki Kitamura, Bukasa Kalubi, Shigeru Yamamoto,
Noriaki Takeda
Characterization of compound missense mutation and deletion of carnitine palmitoyltransferase II in a patient with
adenovirus-associated encephalopathy
210
Dengbing Yao, Min Yao, Miyoko Yamaguchi, Junji Chida, Hiroshi Kido
Investigation of the outpatient chemotherapy for lung cancer patients in Tokushima University Hospital 219
Hisatsugu Goto, Masaki Hanibuchi, Satoshi Sakaguchi, Takanori Kanematsu, Soji Kakiuchi, Hideki Tomimoto,
Masahiko Azuma, Toshifumi Tezuka, Hiroya Tada, Yukiyo Miki, Toshimi Nakamura, Saburo Sone,
Yasuhiko Nishioka
Long-term outcome of severe stroke patients : Is the ADL status at discharge from a stroke center indicative of the
long-term outcome?
227
Michiharu Kashihara, Shigetaka Nakao, Jun Kawasaki, Shinjiro Takata, Shinji Nagahiro, Ryuji Kaji,
Natsuo Yasui
Effects of fermented brown rice on the intestinal environments in healthy adult 235
Hideyuki Nemoto, Kazue Ikata, Hideki Arimochi, Teruaki Iwasaki, Yoshinari Ohnishi, Tomomi Kuwahara,
Keiko Kataoka
Neurokinin-1 receptor antagonism, aprepitant, effectively diminishes post-operative nausea and vomiting while
increasing analgesic tolerance in laparoscopic gynecological procedures
246
Nami Kakuta, Yasuo M. Tsutsumi, Yousuke T. Horikawa, Hiroaki Kawano, Michiko Kinoshita, Katsuya Tanaka,
Shuzo Oshita
Case reports

Acute abdomen caused by both acute appendicitis and epididymitis 252
Hajime Nakatani, Shinichi Hamada, Toyotake Okanoue, Akihiro Kawamura, Yuichiro Inoue, Shinya Yamamoto,
Takashi Chikai, Makoto Hiroi, Kazuhiro Hanazaki
Fournier's gangrene in elderly patient : report of a case 255
Hajime Nakatani, Shinichi Hamada, Toyotake Okanoue, Akihiro Kawamura, Takashi Chikai, Shinya Yamamoto,
Yuichiro Inoue, Kazuhiro Hanazaki
Three dimensional motion analyses for rehabilitation version of Awa Odori exercise and the expectancy of physical
effects
259
Shigetaka Nakao, Shinjiro Takata, Koji Komatsu, Toshio Tanaka, Eiji Tamura, Michiharu Kashihara,
Toshifumi Osawa, Yuki Masuda, Koji Nishikawa, Megumi Yamada, Yoshimi Ogata, Yuka Nakamura,
Natsuo Yasui
Gait and posture assessments of a patient treated with deep brain stimulation in dystonia using three-dimensional
motion analysis systems
264
Shigetaka Nakao, Koji Komatsu, Waka Sakai, Michiharu Kashihara, Yuki Masuda, Koji Nishikawa,
Tetsuya Okahisa, Shin Kondo, Toshifumi Osawa, Ryuji Kaji, Satoshi Gotoh, Shinji Nagahiro, Shinjiro Takata,
Natsuo Yasui
General anesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy with Brugada electrocardiograph pattern 273
Yasuo M. Tsutsumi, Yoshinobu Tomiyama, Yousuke T. Horikawa, Yoko Sakai, Naohiro Ohshita,
Katsuya Tanaka, Shuzo Oshita

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