Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between hospital volume
and outcome after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Summary Background Data: Previous …

… been isolated by the same map-based strategy (Y. Takahashi and M. Yano, unpublished data).
… photoperiod response of flowering in rice (Y. Takahashi and M. Yano, unpublished data). …

Intraportal islet transplantation has a long history as a procedure for clinical islet transplantation.
However, many recent studies revealed that the intraportal procedure has some …

The rice species Oryza sativa is considered to be a model plant because of its small genome
size, extensive genetic map, relative ease of transformation and synteny with other cereal …

A series of chimeric promoters for higher-level expression of foreign genes in plants was
constructed as fusions of a gene for rβ-glucuronidase (GUS) with the terminator of a gene for …

Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea, is one of the most serious
diseases of rice. Here we describe the isolation and characterization of Pib, one of the rice …

Background/purpose Hilar cholangiocarcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma involving
the hepatic hilus are defined as “perihilar cholangiocarcinoma”. The principle of surgical …

The Xa1 gene in rice confers resistance to Japanese race 1 of Xanthomonas oryzae pv.
oryzae, the causal pathogen of bacterial blight (BB). We isolated the Xa1 gene by a map-based …

We report, for the first time, the long-awaited detection of diffuse gamma rays with energies
between 100 TeV and 1 PeV in the Galactic disk. Particularly, all gamma rays above 398 TeV …

The intensity of Galactic cosmic rays is nearly isotropic because of the influence of magnetic
fields in the Milky Way. Here, we present two-dimensional high-precision anisotropy …