OBJECTIVES We sought to elucidate the long-term prognostic importance of angiographic
no-reflow phenomenon after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) for …

The standard lymph node dissection for advanced gastric cancer is a D2 dissection.
Although D2 laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy with distal pancreatosplenectomy has …

We recently reported that angiotensin II (Ang II) induced IL-6 mRNA expression in cardiac
fibroblasts, which played an important role in Ang II–induced cardiac hypertrophy in …

Magnesium oxide is an efficient catalyst for the cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to epoxides
under mild conditions; the reaction of carbon dioxide with (R)-styrene oxide in the presence …

A national collaborative study was conducted in Japan to evaluate the clinical course and
the sequelae of patients with hydatidiform mole coexistent with twin live fetus (HMTF) …

Background—gp130, a signal transducer of the IL-6–related cytokines, is expressed
ubiquitously, including in the heart. The activation of gp130 in cardiac myocytes was …

Phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase is known to be activated by cytokine stimulation through
different types of receptors to transduce intracellular responses. We have previously …

It is widely known that pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM), an anomalous arrangement of
the pancreaticobiliary ductal system, is frequently associated with biliary tract cancer in …

Carvedilol (CAR) is a vasodilating β-blocker which also has antioxidant properties. CAR
produces dose-related reduction in mortality in patients with congestive heart failure. In the …

The standard lymph node dissection for advanced gastric cancer is a D2 dissection,
performed in accordance with the new Japanese classification of gastric carcinoma (13th …