The Tokyo Guidelines 2013 (TG13) for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis were globally
disseminated and various clinical studies about the management of acute cholecystitis were …

We propose a new flowchart for the treatment of acute cholecystitis ( AC ) in the Tokyo
Guidelines 2018 (TG18). Grade III AC was not indicated for straightforward laparoscopic …

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is an established nucleic acid amplification
method offering rapid, accurate, and cost-effective diagnosis of infectious diseases. This …

Adiponectin is an adipocyte-derived hormone. Recent genome-wide scans have mapped a
susceptibility locus for type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome to chromosome 3q27, where …

Superconductivity—one of the best understood many-body problems in physics—has again
become a challenge following the discovery of unconventional superconducting materials: …

Although the properties of most superconducting materials are well described by the theory
1 of Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (BCS), considerable effort has been devoted to the …

Background We aimed to examine whether stereotactic radiosurgery without whole-brain
radiotherapy (WBRT) as the initial treatment for patients with five to ten brain metastases is non-…

… and Nakamura, Y. Germ-line mutations of the APC gene in 53 familial adenomatous … and
Nakamura, Y. Allelotype of breast cancer: cumulative allele losses promote tumor progression …

Troglitazone (CS-045) is one of the thiazolidinediones that activate the peroxisome
proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma), which is expressed primarily in adipose …

An adipocyte-derived peptide, adiponectin (also known as GBP28), is decreased in subjects
with type 2 diabetes. Recent genome-wide scans have mapped a diabetes susceptibility …