Sarcoidosis is a systemic disorder of unknown cause with a wide variety of clinical and
radiologic manifestations. The diagnosis is usually made on the basis of these manifestations …

Typical appearances of uterine leiomyoma at magnetic resonance (MR) imaging are well
established, and diagnosis is usually easy. However, cases that are extremely difficult to …

Chiral alcohols are useful intermediates for many pharmaceuticals and chemicals.
Enzymatic asymmetric reduction of prochiral carbonyl compounds is a promising method for …

Macrophage type-I and type-II class-A scavenger receptors (MSR-A) are implicated in the
pathological deposition of cholesterol during atherogenesis as a result of receptor-mediated …

Mesenchymal stem cells are multipotent cells that can differentiate into cardiomyocytes and
vascular endothelial cells. Here we show, using cell sheet technology, that monolayered …

The effects of various experimental conditions on in vitro drug permeability to Caco-2 monolayers
were investigated to determine the optimized conditions for the prediction of intestinal …

Human hepatocytes were transplanted into urokinase-type plasminogen activator-transgenic
SCID mice (uPA/SCID mice), which are immunodeficient and undergo liver failure. The …

Background— Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension leads to pulmonary
hypertension and right-sided heart failure. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy …

Single-electron circuits of the future, consisting of a network of quantum dots, will require a
mechanism to transport electrons from one functional part of the circuit to another. For …

Rationale: Cardiomyocytes in adult mammalian hearts are terminally differentiated cells that
have exited from the cell cycle and lost most of their proliferative capacity. Death of mature …