Volume 59, Number 1,2
CONTENTS
February 2012

Reviews

Diagnostic imaging in patients with retinitis pigmentosa 1
Yoshinori Mitamura, Sayaka Mitamura-Aizawa, Toshihiko Nagasawa, Takashi Katome, Hiroshi Eguchi,
Takeshi Naito
Androgen in postmenopausal women 12
Toshiyuki Yasui, Sumika Matsui, Anna Tani, Kotaro Kunimi, Satoshi Yamamoto, Minoru Irahara
Simulation-based medical education in clinical skills laboratory 28
Masashi Akaike, Miki Fukutomi, Masami Nagamune, Akiko Fujimoto, Akiko Tsuji, Kazuko Ishida,
Takashi Iwata
Originals

Hydrogen peroxide inhibits insulin-induced ATP-sensitive potassium channel activation independent of insulin signaling pathway in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells 36
Sonoko Yasui, Kazuaki Mawatari, Ran Morizumi, Hiroko Furukawa, Takaaki Shimohata, Nagakatsu Harada,
Akira Takahashi, Yutaka Nakaya
Multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy reveals reduced prefrontal activation in schizophrenia patients during performance of the kana Stroop task 45
Kyoko Taniguchi, Satsuki Sumitani, Yukina Watanabe, Mai Akiyama, Tetsuro Ohmori
Sterilization effect of UV light on Bacillus spores using TiO2 films depends on wavelength 53
Le Thi Tuyet Nhung, Hirofumi Nagata, Akira Takahashi, Mutsumi Aihara, Toshihiro Okamoto,
Takaaki Shimohata, Kazuaki Mawatari, Masatake Akutagawa, Yhosuke Kinouchi, Masanobu Haraguchi
Dissection of morphological and metabolic differentiation of ameloblasts via ectopic SP6 expression 59
Taro Muto, Keiko Miyoshi, Taigo Horiguchi, Takafumi Noma
Twenty five-gauge sutureless vitrectomy versus 20-gauge vitrectomy in epiretinal membrane surgery 69
Khulood Mohammed Sayed, Takeshi Naito, Mahmoud Mohamed Farouk, Toshihiko Nagasawa,
Takashi Katome, Ismail Mousa Abd El-Latif, Ahmad Mostafa Abdallah,Usama Ali Mohamed,
Yoshinori Mitamura
Characterization of a gene cluster for sialoglycoconjugate utilization in Bacteroides fragilis 79
Haruyuki Nakayama-Imaohji, Minoru Ichimura, Tomoya Iwasa, Natsumi Okada, Yoshinari Ohnishi,
Tomomi Kuwahara
Decreased expression of MHC class II and cathepsin E in dendritic cells might contribute to impaired induction of antigen-specific T cell response in NC/Nga mice 95
Tohru Sakai, Emi Shuto, Tomoyo Taki, Honami Imamura, Miku Kioka, Akiko Nakamoto, Seiji Mizoguchi,
Shouko Amano, Yukari Kawano, Mariko Nakamoto, Rie Tsutumi, Toshio Hosaka
Electrolyte-carbohydrate beverage prevents water loss in the early stage of high altitude training 102
Kae Yanagisawa, Osamu Ito, Satsuki Nagai, Shohei Onishi
Study on the necessary survey days for energy intake in school children assessed by 7 day survey 111
Atsuko Yamaguchi, Nobuko Tanaka, Yoko Eguchi, Kazue Kuno, Noriko Wakikawa, Nobuko Sarukura,
Mina Fukinbara, Shigeru Yamamoto
Identification and functional analysis of a splice variant of mouse sodium-dependent phosphate transporter Npt2c 116
Shoji Kuwahara, Fumito Aranami, Hiroko Segawa, Akemi Onitsuka, Naoko Honda, Rieko Tominaga,
Etsuyo Hanabusa, Ichiro Kaneko, Setsuko Yamanaka, Shohei Sasaki, Akiko Ohi, Kengo Nomura,
Sawako Tatsumi, Shinsuke Kido, Mikiko Ito, Ken-ichi Miyamoto
Interventional study for improvement of lung cancer screening rate 127
Midori Yoshida, Kazuya Kondo, Chieko Nakanishi, ToshikoTada
Efficacy of the Quickert procedure for involutional entropion : the first case series in Asia 136
Tatsuro Miyamoto, Hiroshi Eguchi, Takashi Katome, Toshihiko Nagasawa, Yoshinori Mitamura,
Geoffrey Crawford, FRANZCO, FRACS
The evaluation of histo-blood group ABO typing by flow cytometric and PCR-amplification of specific alleles analyses and their application in clinical laboratories 143
Kensaku Aki, Azusa Izumi, Eiji Hosoi
Early postoperative evaluation of secondary bone grafting into the alveolar cleft and its effects on subsequent orthodontic treatment 152
Takuya Seike, Ichiro Hashimoto, Kazuya Matsumoto, Eiji Tanaka, Hideki Nakanishi
Effectiveness of metformin and lifestyle interventions as an initial treatment in Japanese patients with newly diagnosed
type 2 diabetes : a prospective observational study
166
Satoru Sumitani, Shinya Morita, Yoshihiko Utsu, Kosuke Mukai, Shunji Miki, Bunzo Sato,
Hideji Nakamura, Soji Kasayama
Epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (gefitinib) augments pneumonitis, but attenuates lung fibrosis
in response to radiation injury in rats
174
Keiko Miyake, Kenji Tani, Soji Kakiuchi, Chiyuki Suzuka, Yuko Toyoda, Jun Kishi, Toshifumi Tezuka,
Shino Yuasa, Masaki Hanibuchi, Yoshinori Aono, Yasuhiko Nishioka, Saburo Sone
Simvastatin represses translocation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa across Madin-Darby canine kidney cell monolayers 186
Hirofumi Shibata, Noriko Nishitani, Sayuri Yaohara, Naokatu Arakaki, Tomihiko Higuti,
Kazuyoshi Kawazoe, Kazuo Minakuchi
Health behavior of elderly people engaged in agriculture in conjunction with information communication technology 192
Chieko Fujii, Reiko Okahisa, Yasuko Matsushita, Toshiko Tada
The effects measurement of hand massage by the autonomic activity and psychological indicators 206
Hiroko Kunikata, Kumi Watanabe, Makoto Miyoshi, Tetsuya Tanioka
Case reports

Using ultrasonography in evaluating the intramuscular injection techniques used for administering drug treatments to schizophrenic patients in Japan 213
Yuko Yasuhara, Eri Hirai, Sakiko Sakamaki, Tetsuya Tanioka, Kazushi Motoki, Kensaku Takase,
Rozzano Locsin, Chiemi Kawanishi, Tatsuya Inui, Chie Watari, Kouichi Makiguchi
Torsion of an accessory spleen with situs inversus in a child 220
Hiroki Ishibashi, Takehito Oshio, Tomoko Sogami, Akira Nii,Hiroki Mori, Mitsuo Shimada

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