Published June, 2008
By Nobuo Masataka
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Developments in cognitive science indicate that human and nonhuman primates share a range of behavioral and physiological characteristics that speak to the issue of language origins.

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Published June, 2008
By Morikazu Onji, Sk. Md. Fazle Akbar and Fazle Akbar
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Great advances have taken place in basic research and the clinical usefulness of dendritic cells (DCs). Researchers in the field are optimistic that DCs, already in use for treating patients with cancers, soon can be used therapeutically for patients with chronic infections, autoimmune diseases, and allergic manifestations.

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Published May, 2008
By Y. Ikeda, K. Tanaka, Earl W. Davie, S. Iwanaga, H. Saito, S. Katsuo and E.W. Davie
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The dramatic advances in knowledge of thrombosis/hemostasis and vascular biology since the first publication of Recent Advances in Thrombosis and Fibrinolysis, edited with Japanese colleagues, in 1991, have required extensive revision in order to highlight and review recent progress in the field.

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Published April, 2008
By Ryoichi Oyasu, Ximing J. Yang and Osamu Yoshida
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The principal role of the diagnostic surgical pathologist is to serve a patient by assisting the clinician in charge of the patient's care. It has been shown that a prostate needle core biopsy can generate much information that is immediately useful in predicting the extent of cancer in the prostate and, consequently, the outcome for the patient.

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Published February, 2008
By Kenneth J. Gergen, Toshio Sugiman, Wolfgang Wagner and Yoko Yamada
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Within the natural range of variation of capacities and armed with biologically conditioned learning mechanisms we live out lives of meaning - in which we hold some things to be real, rational, valuable or morally right, and others not.

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Published February, 2008
By K. Sasaki, O. Suzuki, N. Takahashi, M. Watanabe, Osamu Okuno, Makoto Watanabe and O. Okuno
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Since 2002, the Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry has proposed "Interface Oral Health Science" as a major theme for next-generation dental research.

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Published February, 2008
By Akira Miyazaki and Michio Imawari
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It is my great pleasure to publish New Frontiers in Lifestyle-Related Dis eases, the proceedings of the Showa University International Symposium for Life Sciences, 3rd Annual Meeting, held at Showa University on Sep tember 13, 2006.

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Published December, 2007
By Susumu Seino, Graeme Bell and Graeme I. Bell
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The beta cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans are the only cells in the body that produce and secrete insulin. This book provides a comprehensive review of the beta cell in health and disease.

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Published December, 2007
By Minoru Onozuka and Yen Chen-Tung
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With the development of neural science, knowledge of the molecules and neurons that comprise the brain has increased exponentially in the past two decades. In this book, leading neuroscientists from Japan and Taiwan describe the latest and most relevant research in brain science, including state-of-the-art brain-imaging technologies.

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Published December, 2007
By Y. Watanabe, Brigitta Evengard, Benjamin H. Natelson, L.A. Jason, Hirohiko Kuratsune, Yasuyoshi Watanabe, B. Evengard, B.H. Natelson and H. Kuratsune
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To provide a forum for discussion, the International Conference on Fatigue Science was organized, the first being held in 2002 in Sandhamn, Sweden, and the second in 2005 in Karuizawa, Japan.

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