Background. The presence of lymph node metastasis (LNM) is the most important prognostic
factor for patients with early gastric cancer (EGC). A D2 gastrectomy has been the gold …

… Shirai M, Nakamura T, Matsuura A, Ito Y, Kobayashi S. Safer colonoscopic polypectomy
with local submucosal injection of hypertonic saline-epinephrine solution. Am J Gastroenterol …

More than half of differentiating spermatogenic cells undergo apoptosis before maturing into
spermatozoa during mammalian spermatogenesis. These cells are selectively and rapidly …

Gut commensal microbes shape the mucosal immune system by regulating the differentiation
and expansion of several types of T cell 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . Clostridia, a dominant class of …

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) for reactive power and voltage
control (volt/VAr control: VVC) considering voltage security assessment (VSA). VVC can be …

The human gut is colonized with a wide variety of microorganisms, including species, such
as those belonging to the bacterial genus Bifidobacterium, that have beneficial effects on …

Enhancement of the Seebeck coefficient (S ) without reducing the electrical conductivity (σ)
is essential to realize practical thermoelectric materials exhibiting a dimensionless figure of …

… X, Y and Z are details of boxed regions in the upper left panels in a and b. (c, d) Numbers
of neurites per β-tubulin III-positive cell in a and b. More than 150 cells were counted in three …

The decrease in estrogen in menopausal women increases body fat. The present studies
were undertaken to investigate the involvement of estrogen in leptin production in vivo . In the …

Background Recent clinical trials have shown that immune-checkpoint blockade yields a
clinical response in a subset of individuals with advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). …