Published December, 2011
By Shigeo Niwa, John P. Paul and Sumiki Yamamoto
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In this symposium, cemented total knee replacement (TKR), noncemented TKR, design considerations of total knee prostheses, problems concerning the patello femoral joint, and the newly developed total knee prosthesis were the main topics discussed.

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Published December, 2011
By Kin-ichi Nabeya, Tateo Hanaoka and Hiroshi Nogami
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The International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus was inaugurated by Professor Komei Nakayama in 1979 and since that time it has actively contributed to the exchange of information regarding these diseases and has made endeavors in bringing about advancement in the struggle against diseases of the esophagus in every way possible.

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Published December, 2011
By Koreaki Mori, M. Kurisaka, A. Moriki and A. Sawada
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In the past, CT was the first choice among diagnostic measures for neurological diseases, and MRI was con- sidered to be a supplementary test. However, with the introduction of an ever increasing number of devices, MRI is being used routinely, and it is possible that eventually CT will become supplementary to MRI.

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Published December, 2011
By Masamichi Kojiro, Takayoshi Tobe, Haruo Kameda, Masahiko Okudaira, Masao Ohto, Yasuo Endo, Michio Mito, Eizo Okamoto and Kyuichi Tanikawa
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Published December, 2011
By Kazuo Tabuchi
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Growth activity of brain tumors, metabolism of brain tumors, brain tumors and cytokines, drug resistance of brain tumors, oncogenes and anti-oncogenes, basic studies in brain tumor biology and therapy are presented in this book.

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Published December, 2011
By Naoyuki Taniguchi, Michio Mori, Michihiro C. Yoshida and Noritoshi Takeichi
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The LEC strain of rats, which spontaneously develop acute hepatitis as sociated with jaundice, chronic hepatitis, and ultimately hepatocellular carcinomas, was established by scientists in Sapporo, Japan.

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Published December, 2011
By Kenji Tasaka
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Recent research has given great insight into the physiological and pharmaceutical effects of histamine on the central nervous system and especially on the brain. Also featured are the mechanisms of histamine release in bone marrow and mast cells and the role of histamine in neutrophil differentiation.

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Published November, 2011
By Shinsuke Inuki
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Based on these methodologies, enantioselective total syntheses of bioactive natural products, pachastrissamine (26% overall yield in seven steps), lysergic acid (4.0% overall yield in fifteen steps), lysergol (3.6% overall yield in fifteen steps) and isolysergol (8.2% overall yield in eleven steps) have been achieved.

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Published November, 2011
By Kazushi Hirohata, Kosaku Mizuno and Tsukasa Matsubara
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However, since then, surprising progress has been made in medicine, and through the limitless avenues for research orthopedics is now divided into many subspecialities, with terms such as orthopedic pathology, orthopedic oncology, orthopedic rheumatology, and orthopedic traumatology becoming commonplace.

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Published October, 2011
By Shintaro Funahashi
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Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions.

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